No, there is no such standard written anywhere. Fizban's Treasury of Dragons does have various unpredictable and mysterious things that can happen with the body of a dragon and all its stored magic, though.
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I just go with what feels right for that specific situation, etc. (True story, I had a group that was so focused on getting the horns and scales, etc. from a black dragon that they forgot to look for the dragon's hoard.)
DnD has no rules for harvesting from dragons or other monsters. Whether you can do it and how much you get is upto the DM. That said there are some considerations posted in a couple of places. In saltmarsh there is a leather worker that will pay (at least in theory) 300 GP x the CR of the monster for the skin of any monster with a CR of 3+ IF you make a DC 15 skill check to get the skin - several possible checks are listed. The only 5e magic item actually listed as having a significant part drawn from a harvested monster that I can think of is dragon scale armor. As a DM I do allow some harvesting but I also use the encumbrance rules which allow you to control how much is harvested and carried away. Always keep in mind that an adult dragon in 3e was 85-120 feet long depending on type. Weights would range from 1 to several tons - your average DnD team is not going to carry off much of it no matter what you take. Even a full skin would probably be more than a team could manage. Given how few vials, bottles, etc most parties actually carry taking more than a few vials of blood/bile/other fluids is highly unlikely. When you use encumbrance and the listed size/weights for it s like bags of holding the party is going to have to make choices - coins or parts? How much of the hoard and how much of the body are they going to take with them.
I judge it on party level, wealth and how much it would overpower them, Letting them take an entire dragon hide is cool, but, thats a lot of dragon scales they can now sell for a lot of money in addition to the horde itself.
I also consider the damage caused, and make the character doing the recovery make suitably high DC rolls. Harvesting a dragon should be hard, by the end of the battle the scales will be rent and damaged, organs might be ruined, parts of it might have been disintegrated. If it had not recharged its breath attack that gland may be inert, there are lots of ways you can logically control this without resorting to, you just get X amount of stuff.
Our DM is new, after managing to defeat an ancient white Dragon as part of the rise of Tiamat he allowed us to get 2 potions of healing, a scroll and 8000gp to split between the party.
Trying not to meta game as I have the module myself. I said are you sure that is all, he said yes. (spoiler upcoming )He wouldn't let us keep the books from the library, even though I pointed out I was a wizard or the tablets or any other treasure which the module said.
I asked if I could carve up the Dragon for alchemical and spell components which lead me to this question. It was a way to raise the party funds a bit as we have no chance to get the items needed to take on Tiamat. As I write this the party who consists of 3 players are about to face a flight of dragons (6-20) and their riders. We're level 11 we have a barbarian, a cleric with no healing spells and myself a wizard. I'm pretty sure we're going to get a tpk next session.
You might want to talk to the DM away from the game and explain that you are aware of how things are going and what you are expecting. I agree that just the 3 of you against 6-20 dragons and riders is probably a TPK. Each of you should probably be running 2 PCs and a cleric without healing spells is just a second rate fighter.
Quite honestly, unless you skipped a fairly large portion of that module I'm surprised that a party of only three characters could get that far into it without a TPK.
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"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Believe me we haven't missed any of the modules, it has been a long gruelling campaign. We have lost players due to the dm but it is his first time dming and missed out on hundreds of thousands of gold and treasure. I cant see the group staying together after the campaign but it has gotten to a stage where we just want to get to the end one way or another.
I was just wondering if there is a standard amount of scales, hide, meat and bones you can harvest from various dragon ages?
No, there is no such standard written anywhere. Fizban's Treasury of Dragons does have various unpredictable and mysterious things that can happen with the body of a dragon and all its stored magic, though.
Canto alla vita
alla sua bellezza
ad ogni sua ferita
ogni sua carezza!
I sing to life and to its tragic beauty
To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me
The rise and the fall, I've lived through it all!
Officially? No.
There are some 3rd party supplements on the DMGuild and possibly KoboldPress.
I just go with what feels right for that specific situation, etc. (True story, I had a group that was so focused on getting the horns and scales, etc. from a black dragon that they forgot to look for the dragon's hoard.)
D&D hasn't had rules for harvesting body parts from monsters since 2nd Edition, when they were necessary ingredients for most magic items.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
DnD has no rules for harvesting from dragons or other monsters. Whether you can do it and how much you get is upto the DM. That said there are some considerations posted in a couple of places. In saltmarsh there is a leather worker that will pay (at least in theory) 300 GP x the CR of the monster for the skin of any monster with a CR of 3+ IF you make a DC 15 skill check to get the skin - several possible checks are listed. The only 5e magic item actually listed as having a significant part drawn from a harvested monster that I can think of is dragon scale armor. As a DM I do allow some harvesting but I also use the encumbrance rules which allow you to control how much is harvested and carried away. Always keep in mind that an adult dragon in 3e was 85-120 feet long depending on type. Weights would range from 1 to several tons - your average DnD team is not going to carry off much of it no matter what you take. Even a full skin would probably be more than a team could manage. Given how few vials, bottles, etc most parties actually carry taking more than a few vials of blood/bile/other fluids is highly unlikely. When you use encumbrance and the listed size/weights for it s like bags of holding the party is going to have to make choices - coins or parts? How much of the hoard and how much of the body are they going to take with them.
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I judge it on party level, wealth and how much it would overpower them, Letting them take an entire dragon hide is cool, but, thats a lot of dragon scales they can now sell for a lot of money in addition to the horde itself.
I also consider the damage caused, and make the character doing the recovery make suitably high DC rolls. Harvesting a dragon should be hard, by the end of the battle the scales will be rent and damaged, organs might be ruined, parts of it might have been disintegrated. If it had not recharged its breath attack that gland may be inert, there are lots of ways you can logically control this without resorting to, you just get X amount of stuff.
Our DM is new, after managing to defeat an ancient white Dragon as part of the rise of Tiamat he allowed us to get 2 potions of healing, a scroll and 8000gp to split between the party.
Trying not to meta game as I have the module myself. I said are you sure that is all, he said yes. (spoiler upcoming )He wouldn't let us keep the books from the library, even though I pointed out I was a wizard or the tablets or any other treasure which the module said.
I asked if I could carve up the Dragon for alchemical and spell components which lead me to this question. It was a way to raise the party funds a bit as we have no chance to get the items needed to take on Tiamat. As I write this the party who consists of 3 players are about to face a flight of dragons (6-20) and their riders. We're level 11 we have a barbarian, a cleric with no healing spells and myself a wizard. I'm pretty sure we're going to get a tpk next session.
You might want to talk to the DM away from the game and explain that you are aware of how things are going and what you are expecting. I agree that just the 3 of you against 6-20 dragons and riders is probably a TPK. Each of you should probably be running 2 PCs and a cleric without healing spells is just a second rate fighter.
Wisea$$ DM and Player since 1979.
Quite honestly, unless you skipped a fairly large portion of that module I'm surprised that a party of only three characters could get that far into it without a TPK.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Believe me we haven't missed any of the modules, it has been a long gruelling campaign. We have lost players due to the dm but it is his first time dming and missed out on hundreds of thousands of gold and treasure. I cant see the group staying together after the campaign but it has gotten to a stage where we just want to get to the end one way or another.
That is true, now it is pretty much up to DMs. There IS a thing in the DMs Guide about crafting magic items, and how they could use monster bits.
“Magic is distilled laziness. Put that on my gravestone.”
3rd party book - the Game Master’s Book of Legendary Dragons has rules and uses for harvesting. I found it to be very useful.