Tabletop Gaming

On my way to work today I listened to One Shot Podcast and James described a Yuan-Ti as a snake person with the body of a snake and beefy arms so I decided to make a fanart

DM: Ok, roll a D20

Player: I got a 17

You and your party are 1st level, and some 10th-15th level bigshot NPC adventurers have been in town and they killed the dragon that’s been haranguing the area.

But there’s weird noises coming from the dragon’s lair and the bigshots have already moved on, so you go to investigate and find… a baby dragon. The weird noises are the wyrmling (or wyrmlings…) crying for its mommy that the NPC adventurers killed. You may or may not find it curled up under its mom’s arm like in Lion King and just die inside.

And this thing is like, a fresh baby. The Monster Manual defines wyrmlings as like 0-5 years old - this one is maybe a year old. It’s pretty much an infant and it is adorable. So now you have to deal with taking care of this extremely small baby dragon that doesn’t even have teeth yet (and when it teethes it needs solid gold - that’s why dragons like gold is because it reminds them of mommy) and has temper tantrums if you don’t play with it. 

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Alternatively, you’re first level and a messenger comes to you and summons you to the local dragon’s lair, where you meet with a first-time mama dragon who wants you to bring her food because she doesn’t want to leave her eggs OR she wants you to go fetch a hag who’s known for midwifing for dragons because this egg is a different color from the other ones is there something wrong did I do something wrong AAAAAAA. 

(The hag has probably visited this particular dragon six times already and keeps telling her that the egg is probably fine please calm down)