D&D General What to Do with a Dragon Corpse?

[Corinnguard]

Dragon burgers!

Has anyone said dragon burgers?

I am sure someone would have said dragon burgers by now.

Cheers

You should know that there is a disclaimer when it comes to eating dragon burgers. They've been known to transform those that consume them into Half-Dragons/Dragonborn.

 

[Distracted DM]

When my players killed the white dragon in Dragon of Icespire Peak, I used this supplement to determine what they could get and what to do with it:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/276213/hamund-s-harvesting-handbook-a-complete-guide-to-harvesting-and-crafting-in-d-d-5e

Oh yeah, HHH is great! For some reason I thought OP was asking for non-mechanical uses.

 

[Charlaquin]

EDIT: realized I should probably spoiler tag this. If you haven’t watched Delicious in Dungeon yet, go watch it. Then come back and read this.

Spoiler

Go through its stomach to find your girlfriend’s bones so you can use forbidden magic to resurrect her, of course.

 

[Distracted DM]

EDIT: realized I should probably spoiler tag this. If you haven’t watched Delicious in Dungeon yet, go watch it. Then come back and read this.

Spoiler

Go through its stomach to find your girlfriend’s bones so you can use forbidden magic to resurrect her, of course.

Spoiler

Wasn't it his sister?

 

[CreamCloud0]

Spoiler

Wasn't it his sister?

Spoiler

they're talking about Marcile not Laios

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

 

[Charlaquin]

Spoiler

Wasn't it his sister?

As CreamCloud said,

Spoiler

Laos’s sister. But Laos didn’t use forbidden magic to bring her back, Marcelle did.

Sorry for the ambiguity, I forget sapphic undertones aren’t as obvious to non-sapphic folks.

 

[GreatestHonor]

Tail Roast, Giant buffalo wings with blue cheese, grind the bones into health potions (or any kind of component for alchemy), scales become armor, hide to make into spell scrolls, transform eyeballs into elemental grenades

 

[Bohandas]

Turn it into guitar picks and drug paraphernalia like the demon from Pick Of Destiny

 

[dave2008]

In my last session, the player characters defeated an adult black dragon and it was a lot of fun. At the end of our session, I told them I'd figure out something fun to do with the corpse. And by fun, I mean let's make some magic items. So think of what parts of the dragon you might use to make a magic item out of. Don't worry about what classes I have in the party or worry about the rules. Just think of this as an exercise in fun.

Armor from its scales?
Something from its horns?
What about it's organs?

Here are some harvesting resources for you:

Adult Dragon Harvesting (Website)
Creature Loot (GM Binder)
from the above:

Hamund's Harvesting Handbook (DM's Guild)
Monster Harvester's Handbook (Fan PDF)
Harvesting & Crafting System 5e (GM Binder)
Monster Loot vol 1 - Monster Manual (DM's Guild) - Bob the World Builder's favorite