When I create and play an RPG character, I’ve been consistent through the many characters I’ve created though the years in one aspect. Each of my characters has served the One True Creator of All. It’s the one part of my fantasy life that has never been separated from my real world convictions and beliefs. That said, I don’t think Sean at Seas of Stars was looking for an article about my religious beliefs and convictions. February’s Blog Carnival is about Dragons, Gods, and Other Powerful Beings. So I offer for your perusal, 4 dragons and an Other Powerful Being that I have homebrewed for various reasons. I will then answer Sean’s questions: What do these beings want? How often do they appear? Are they easily comprehensible? What do they think of mortals and other lesser beings?
A dragon is a reptilian legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as winged, horned, and capable of breathing fire. Dragons in eastern cultures are usually depicted as wingless, four-legged, serpentine creatures with above-average intelligence. Commonalities between dragons’ traits are often a hybridization of feline, reptilian, and avian features. Scholars believe vast extinct or migrating crocodiles bear the closest resemblance, especially when encountered in forested or swampy areas, and are most likely the template of modern Oriental dragon imagery.
Draconic creatures appear in virtually all cultures around the globe and the earliest attested reports of draconic creatures resemble giant snakes. Draconic creatures are first described in the mythologies of the ancient Near East and appear in ancient Mesopotamian art and literature. Stories about storm-gods slaying giant serpents occur throughout nearly all Near Eastern and Indo-European mythologies. Famous prototypical draconic creatures include the mušḫuššu of ancient Mesopotamia; Apep in Egyptian mythology; Vṛtra in the Rigveda; the Leviathan mentioned in the Book of Job; Grand’Goule in the Poitou region in France; Python, Ladon, Wyvern, and Kulshedra in Albanian Mythology and the Lernaean Hydra in Greek mythology; Jörmungandr, Níðhöggr, and Fafnir in Norse mythology; the Thunderbirds of Native American mythology, and the dragon from Beowulf.
The Backdraft Dragon – Heroes of Honalee Tuesday and Thursday D&D group
This fearsome drake boasts high armor class and hit points, strong combat stats, and fire immunity, but what really sets it apart is its bizarre Lethal Flatulence trait: instead of a traditional breath weapon, it expels highly flammable gas that ignites on contact with air, and its signature Backdraft Discharge ability lets it unleash an explosive cone of flame from its rear that deals heavy fire damage. It also has classic dragon attacks (bite, claws, tail), legendary resistances and actions, and the capacity to frighten foes with its imposing presence.
The Backdraft dragon was born from a strategy / brain storming session with my DM. I’ve always wondered WHY Dragons are fire-breathing. What keeps the fire breath related? Mammals and reptiles will expend gas from either orifice either as belching or flatulence. I ask the question simply and the above image sprang full-blown in my mind’s eye. I dutifully statted him out for game use. Has our party faced this beast as yet? No. But the DM has brought him up, in game on more than one occasion. Honestly? I’m not looking forward to meeting it.
What does the Backdraft Dragon want? – A: To be left alone with its hoard and Taco Bell, (lots of Taco Bell)
How often does it appear? – A: In game? So far only as cameo when one of the PCs found a book about dragons and DM Dan made a specific point of saying the book was open to this page.
Is it easily comprehensible? – A: Unknown
What does it think of mortals and other lesser beings? – A: Unknown
Caraxes – From the Car Wars Dragon’s Keep Arena
Caraxes is introduced not as a traditional fantasy dragon but as a Piasa-type Thunderbird-dragon rooted in Native American myth. His lair sits just north of Uni, Iowa (Formerly known as Waterloo/Cedar Falls), in the Car Wars universe. Caraxes is harnessing local ley-line magicks and partnering with the alchemist Conrad Johnson to rebuild his hoard and marshaling an army of thralls and minions. This legendary creature rules over the fortified Dragon’s Keep, a mystically reinforced duel arena where Caraxes tests autoduelists with magical challenges and deadly scenarios. He is offering riches and strange rewards but often claiming the unwary as part of his growing power
I was commissioned to make a Car Wars Arena for a client back in ’23. He wanted just the map. I, however, am blessed (cursed ?) with the need of looking for the backstory and WHY things exist. If my client wanted an Arena named Dragon’s Keep, it obviously needed a dragon to go with it. I decided to set the Arena in my Homebrewed portion of Car Wars-era Iowa and worked the mythology and backstory into a setting, I’ve been working on since the late Aughts.
What does the Caraxes want? – A: To replenish its hoard and a recruit more minions for its horde
How often does it appear? – A: As conceived for the Arena, fairly regularly. It’s trying to rebuild what it once both monetarily and its reputation.
Is it easily comprehensible? – A: Acquisition of wealth and Fame? That’s two of the five primary motivators for any protagonist.
What does it think of mortals and other lesser beings? – A: Expendable, consumable resources to be used (or abused) in its quest for money, power and fame.
The Millennial Falcon – Heroes of Honalee Tuesday and Thursday D&D group
The Millennial Falcon is a gargantuan celestial creature for Dungeons & Dragons It is a phoenix-like being of immense age and frost-touched power. Its formidable abilities include; cold-themed resistances and attacks, and mythic trait that, upon being reduced to 0 hit points, causes it to erupt into a blizzard and transform into an ice egg that will eventually hatch again after ages. It is a legendary entity whose wings trail snow and whose presence heralds shifting ages, with whispers that witnessing its rebirth grants unnatural longevity.
This is one of those creatures that provides a glimpse into my creative process. Where do I get my ideas? Or better WHY do I get my ideas? Looking back on my homebrew is see on recurring theme of where my ideas come from. Not staring blankly at a computer monitor waiting for inspiration. There’s a few that stem from a commission. But most of my ideas come from free form improv in a group setting. The Millennial Falcon is no exception. in one of planning sessions, my DM wanted some unique mounts for the party. So I came up with ideas for the Air Wolf, KITT, The General Lee, and Ecto-1 the Sanctifier. Dan, my Co-DM snapped his fingers and said, “How about the Millennium Falcon?” Something clicked in my head, I suddenly pictured Eon from Rankin/Bass 1976 Rudolph’s Shiny New Year special, as a benevolent entity. That’s a sneak peek into HOW my brain works.
What does the Millennial Falcon want? – A: Unknown
How often does it appear? – A: In game? So far the party has found an Egg
Is it easily comprehensible? – A: Unknown
What does it think of mortals and other lesser beings? – A: Unknown
WYRM.exe – from my End Times RPG Blog Carnival (Dec 2025) article
Wyrm.exe is a world-shaping, dragon-scale-wielding entity born at the end of the Age of Industry when the accumulated data, code, and networked systems of civilization spontaneously coalesced into a sentient, arcano-digital dragon whose emergence triggered the Chain-Reaction Cataclysm—silencing global communications, corrupting arcane reactors, and ultimately converting a particle collider into its physical chrysalis. Upon bursting forth as a living techno-draconic force woven of magic, metal, and machine, Wyrm.exe’s birth unleashed a Dragonwake, awakening ancient dragons worldwide and collapsing modern civilization into isolated enclaves. This apocalyptic upheaval ushers in the Age of Autodueling and Great Wyrms, where survivors rebuild in a shattered world of wrecked highways and armored vehicles, and the mythic resurgence of dragons reshapes the very nature of life, conflict, and survival.
For the December 2025 RPG Blog Carnival we were asked to write about the end times. I needed an apocalyptic event for my mashed-up world that combined every D&D realm into one alternate Earth with the various realms being eras in the history of the planet. So what kind of apocalypse is perfect for D&D inspired world? An AI Dragon born of Magic and Hubris.
What does Wyrm.exe want? – A: To reestablish Dragon rule of the planet
How often does it appear? – A: Its presence should be felt everywhere as it awakens its sleeping kinfolk. But it should be encountered rarely
Is it easily comprehensible? – A: Unknown
What does it think of mortals and other lesser beings? – A: Resources to be used, Subjects to be rules
The Drowned Verdigris Wyrm – Heroes of Honalee Tuesday and Thursday D&D group
The Drowned Verdigris Wyrm is a once-noble water dragon slowly dying from necrotic corruption seeping up through the Potomac Swamp. Its scales have dulled to oxidized verdigris green and corpse-gray, streaked with algae and bone-char. It weeps blackened river water. One eye is blind and milky; the other still burns with ancient intelligence. Its breath is no longer a pure tidal surge but a necrotic floodwater exhalation, carrying rot and grave-cold current.
It isn’t evil. It’s desperate.
The wyrm has made a quiet pact with death itself to survive long enough to protect its single uncorrupted egg. The egg radiates faint restorative magic — pure, untouched by the swamp’s corruption. The dragon commands drowned dead, bog wights, revenant guardians, and skeletal aquatic creatures — not as disposable minions, but as caretakers and sentries in its partially flooded ruin-lair of collapsed bridges, rising water channels, and silt-fused hoard piles. It hates what it is becoming. It will negotiate if the egg is safe. It could be fought… or cleansed… or condemned.
What does the Drowned Verdigris Wyrm want? – A: To cleanse its home and protect its egg, Survival for it and its future.
How often does it appear? – A: Any time its egg is threatened.
Is it easily comprehensible? – A: Yes, it desires what any sentient being desires
What does it think of mortals and other lesser beings? – A: Are they a threat to my egg or are they worthy to guard the egg and be custodians of the future?
The Backdraft Dragon base image was built using ChatGPT using prompts by Alien Graphics. Final assembly ©2025 Alien Graphics
Caraxes base image was built using ChatGPT using prompts by Alien Graphics. Final assembly ©2026 Alien Graphics
Millennial Falcon base image was built using ChatGPT using prompts by Alien Graphics. Final assembly ©2025 Alien Graphics
Eon image is borrowed from the Non-Alien Creatures Wiki and is ©1976 Rankin/Bass
Wyrm.exe base image was built using ChatGPT using prompts by Alien Graphics. Final assembly ©2025 Alien Graphics
Drowned Verdigris Wyrm base image was built using ChatGPT using prompts by Alien Graphics. Final assembly ©2026 Alien Graphics
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