In the campaign I'm running, I've made a custom powerful villain who is an ancient blue dragon but is also a level-18 Wild Magic sorcerer, using the new 2024 rules for class features, and the level 18 feature of a Wild Magic Sorcerer "Tamed Surge" says "Immediately after you cast a Sorcerer spell with a spell slot, you can create an effect of your choice from the Wild Magic Surge table instead of rolling on that table. You can choose any effect in the table except for the final row, and if the chosen effect involves a roll, you must make it." In my development of the villain, I believe in the fight the dragon might use the ability in order to use the Reincarnate Wild Magic thing where if they die within the next hour, they're immediately affected by the Reincarnate spell. The spell itself states that any creature can be affected by it, not just humanoids, but I sort of don't want to reduce the Ancient Blue Dragon to a lowly humanoid as the spell's table has listed. I'm wondering what viable options I would have for an Ancient Blue Dragon in the Reincarnate spell, and what y'all would do.
Honestly, this is where being the GM means that you can determine that yourself without having to roll for it. Personally, I'd say to look for a similar CR monster. Or, you could go with a Young dragon of random type.
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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.
In the campaign I'm running, I've made a custom powerful villain who is an ancient blue dragon but is also a level-18 Wild Magic sorcerer, using the new 2024 rules for class features, and the level 18 feature of a Wild Magic Sorcerer "Tamed Surge" says "Immediately after you cast a Sorcerer spell with a spell slot, you can create an effect of your choice from the Wild Magic Surge table instead of rolling on that table. You can choose any effect in the table except for the final row, and if the chosen effect involves a roll, you must make it." In my development of the villain, I believe in the fight the dragon might use the ability in order to use the Reincarnate Wild Magic thing where if they die within the next hour, they're immediately affected by the Reincarnate spell. The spell itself states that any creature can be affected by it, not just humanoids, but I sort of don't want to reduce the Ancient Blue Dragon to a lowly humanoid as the spell's table has listed. I'm wondering what viable options I would have for an Ancient Blue Dragon in the Reincarnate spell, and what y'all would do.
I would simply have it Reincarnate into a random dragon of the same age-type -> i.e. another randomly determined Ancient Dragon. Sure technically it is supposed to be able to change age as well, but if you want it to remain a threat it need to remain the same CR so you want another Ancient Dragon. Optionally you could consider adding the GreatWyrms as options as well if you want to extend the campaign further.
If your goal is for the Dragon to come back there is a much MUCH simpler way to achieve this.
Since you say the dragon is a level 18 Wild Magic Sorcerer, then they have access to the Wish Spell, which allows you to recreated the effects of any spell of 8th level or lower. The 8th level spell Clone is the solution to this issue, since then your Ancient Blue Dragon returns as an Ancient Blue Dragon.
Then if the blue dragon dies again, have it return as if by the reincarnate spell as a humanoid who is just trying to bide the 120 days for their next clone to become ready. So that the there is actually an end to this BBEG. A BBEG that just abuses the Wild Magic table repeatedly to stay alive won't be fulfilling, there needs to be a plan by which the party finally kills the BBEG for good.
Elminster's Contingency. If Elminster is about to die, or if his soul is about to be trapped, he is automatically teleported to a demiplane and the spell heal is cast on him. Once used, Elminster needs 10 days to prepare this spell before using it again.
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In the campaign I'm running, I've made a custom powerful villain who is an ancient blue dragon but is also a level-18 Wild Magic sorcerer, using the new 2024 rules for class features, and the level 18 feature of a Wild Magic Sorcerer "Tamed Surge" says "Immediately after you cast a Sorcerer spell with a spell slot, you can create an effect of your choice from the Wild Magic Surge table instead of rolling on that table. You can choose any effect in the table except for the final row, and if the chosen effect involves a roll, you must make it." In my development of the villain, I believe in the fight the dragon might use the ability in order to use the Reincarnate Wild Magic thing where if they die within the next hour, they're immediately affected by the Reincarnate spell. The spell itself states that any creature can be affected by it, not just humanoids, but I sort of don't want to reduce the Ancient Blue Dragon to a lowly humanoid as the spell's table has listed. I'm wondering what viable options I would have for an Ancient Blue Dragon in the Reincarnate spell, and what y'all would do.
Honestly, this is where being the GM means that you can determine that yourself without having to roll for it. Personally, I'd say to look for a similar CR monster. Or, you could go with a Young dragon of random type.
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.
I would simply have it Reincarnate into a random dragon of the same age-type -> i.e. another randomly determined Ancient Dragon. Sure technically it is supposed to be able to change age as well, but if you want it to remain a threat it need to remain the same CR so you want another Ancient Dragon. Optionally you could consider adding the GreatWyrms as options as well if you want to extend the campaign further.
If your goal is for the Dragon to come back there is a much MUCH simpler way to achieve this.
Since you say the dragon is a level 18 Wild Magic Sorcerer, then they have access to the Wish Spell, which allows you to recreated the effects of any spell of 8th level or lower. The 8th level spell Clone is the solution to this issue, since then your Ancient Blue Dragon returns as an Ancient Blue Dragon.
Then if the blue dragon dies again, have it return as if by the reincarnate spell as a humanoid who is just trying to bide the 120 days for their next clone to become ready. So that the there is actually an end to this BBEG. A BBEG that just abuses the Wild Magic table repeatedly to stay alive won't be fulfilling, there needs to be a plan by which the party finally kills the BBEG for good.
For a certain plot I'm preparing in my current campaign, I came across this homebrew stat block for Elminster a few days ago. It includes an idea I liked, and maybe it can serve as Heroic Inspiration for you, @Magelord_DnD: