Behold their Majesty! Three Brand-New Dragons from WizKids!

Once the pandemic is over and we’re able to play D&D in-person again, you’ll want to have your first game back be one to remember. If you play with maps and minis, there’s no better way to make a session memorable than to plant a gigantic monster miniature on the table and give your players the fight of their lives.

WizKids has just released (or made available for pre-order) a trio of hulking dragon miniatures that will have your players’ characters running for cover! Take a look at some photos of these monsters, and learn how you might be able to use them in your campaign!

Adult White Dragon

The most common of the three new dragon miniatures is the adult white dragon. Clocking in at CR 13, the adult white dragon is an excellent boss monster to challenge adventurers at the high end of tier 2 or the low end of tier 3.

White dragons are the most bestial of the chromatic dragons. They lack the intelligence of their other chromatic kin, but they do possess a certain bestial cunning. It’s easy to imagine an adventuring party being hunted by an adult dragon and their young through an icy wasteland.

An adult white dragon appears not once, but twice in the Tyranny of Dragons saga. The first, Glazhael the Cloudchaser, appears at the end of Hoard of the Dragon Queen. The second, a mighty dragon known as Old White Death, can be found within his iceberg lair in the early chapters of Rise of Tiamat.

This miniature is massive compared to adult white dragon miniatures from previous editions. Its intimidating size is sure to make an impression!

You can pre-order this miniature from WizKids’s website.

Sapphire Dragon

Last year, for D&D’s 45th anniversary (the “sapphire anniversary”), Wizards of the Coast released special statistics for the mighty sapphire dragon.

The sapphire dragon's game statistics were originally bundled with an incredibly expensive commemorative dice set with a real sapphire embedded in the d20! Fortunately, you don't need to shell out hundreds of dollars to get the sapphire dragon’s game statistics on D&D Beyond.

Sapphire dragons are living gemstones imbued with immense psionic power. They are also lawful neutral, meaning that they could be either ally or enemy for a group of adventurers—no matter their alignment.

At CR 15, an adult sapphire dragon could be a truly mighty boss monster for tier 3 adventurers to test their mettle against.

You can buy this miniature on WizKids’s website.

Chardalyn Dragon

Monstrous and enormous beyond any dragon miniature seen since the dawn of fifth edition D&D, the chardalyn dragon is a truly terrifying foe found within the upcoming adventure Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden.

This dragon is a construct crafted from chardalyn, a mysterious substance that is cold as black ice and yet harder than steel. This unsettling magical material can be found scattered across the snowy wastes of Icewind Dale.

The chardalyn dragon is suffused with evil magic, and its malevolence radiates from its icy body to corrupt those around it. If your characters fight this creature in Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, this truly colossal miniature will make a huge impact.

Even though this creature’s size is Gargantuan (it occupies a 4-by-4-square area), its base size is bigger to support its massive size. There’s a white line drawn in a ring in the middle of the dragon’s clear plastic base to show you where its “true” space is. This lets miniatures move onto its base without entering its space, so the fight keeps running smoothly.

You can pre-order this miniature from WizKids’s website.

Get ready for icy adventures in Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden by preordering the digital version on D&D Beyond, and get free preorder bonuses like the Glacial Digital Dice Set. 


  

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James Haeck is the lead writer for D&D Beyond, the co-author of Waterdeep: Dragon HeistBaldur's Gate: Descent into Avernusand the Critical Role Explorer's Guide to Wildemounta member of the Guild Adepts, and a freelance writer for Wizards of the Coast, the D&D Adventurers League, and other RPG companies. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his fiancée Hannah and their animal companions Mei and Marzipan. You can find him wasting time on Twitter at @jamesjhaeck.

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