How To Train Your Dragon DND Homebrew Roundup
These homebrew creations will help you play How to Train Your Dragon DnD 5e!
With the release of the live action How To Train Your Dragon movie on June 13th, we’ve been thinking a lot about the world of Berk and the dragons that live in it. And, naturally, that got us wondering about how to do a How To Train Your Dragon D&D campaign. What kinds of homebrew dragons, character builds, and adventures have people come up with? And the internet did not disappoint. We did some digging and found some amazing How To Train Your Dragon 5e creations to share with you all!
How To Train Your Dragon D&D Campaign Ideas
The DMingDad came up with a great How To Train Your Dragon DnD campaign
It can be difficult to start coming up with ideas for a Dungeons & Dragon campaign. Fortunately, a very cool dad who plays D&D with his kids took inspiration from their love for the How To Train Your Dragon movies and created his own adventure. The party is a group of young Viking trainees from the town of Derrikian whose village gets attacked by dragons. Their village chief calls for a dragon hunt; as the party embarks on the hunt, they discover an injured dragon in the forest and must decide what to do with it. If, as most parties do, they decide to help it, they can tame and bond with it (much like Hiccup in the original story). As the game continues, another dragon attacks Derrikian and the party is asked to track the source of the dragon attacks. When they do, the players find that the dragons are being controlled and they must team up with their new dragon friend to free the rest of the dragons and save the Isles! While this takes lots of inspiration from the movies, it gives a great idea of how to use elements of the plot for a D&D campaign: a village in danger, misunderstood dragons, and taming a wild creature. If you want to get a little further away from the conceit of the original movie, Because of Dragons recommends having the party stumble upon a clutch of rare dragon eggs while partaking in a rite of passage. This still gives the player characters a chance to train up dragons of their own, but gives the plot a bit of a twist from the original.
Homebrew Dragons From How To Train Your Dragon
There’s a How To Train Your Dragons DnD homebrew for nearly every dragon in the series
One of the best things to bring into a D&D adventure from the movies are the dragons themselves. Getting to meet wild dragons, tame them, and use their awesome powers (sometimes to fight other dragons!) is a key element of any How To Train Your Dragon D&D campaign. For a simple approach, the DMing Dad averaged all of the dragons into one statblock that can be reflavored as needed. This is great if you need a simple way to get started, but there are plenty of other options as well. If you’d like to use official D&D stats, Because of Dragons recommends taking a Dragon Wyrmling from the Monster Manual for 5th-level characters, then upgrading the stats to the relevant Young Dragon form when the characters reach level 10 and the Adult Dragon form when the characters reach level 15.
Of course, some players will want the full dragon compendium. Luckily for them, plenty of clever D&D players have created exactly that. The DandD Wiki has the key dragons from the series thoroughly statted out with breath weapons, features, and legendary actions like their Monster-Manual counterparts. The HTTYD Fandom Wiki has a much longer list of statblocks. These incorporate “Shot Points,” a mechanic that works a little like Sorcery or Ki Points, in which points can be spent to do special actions unique to each dragon. And DavidThorMoses’ massive homebrew compendium, How To Train Your Dungeons And Dragons not only has NPC stats but also custom player ancestries for each and every one of the over 50 dragons!
Tame The Night Fury in Dungeons & Dragons
This fantastic Night Fury homebrew is a great place to look for DnD campaign ideas
Sure, the Deadly Nadder is intimidating. The Bewilderbeast is powerful. The Monstrous Nightmare is terrifying. But out of all the dragons in the world of How To Train Your Dragon, the Night Fury reigns supreme. And there are plenty of statblocks to choose from to bring one into your D&D campaign. The HTTYD Fandom Wiki’s version includes its plasma blast (along with the ability to ricochet), the plasma-thunder combo, echolocation, and the ability to turn invisible when struck by lightning. The DandD Wiki Night Fury is incredibly dexterous, with the ability to negate opportunity attacks and damage reduced by DEX saves, camouflage, disengage and hide as a bonus action, and deal sneak-attack damage on top of its already-powerful wing attack and plasma blast. But we have to give full marks to both DavidThorMoses and Daimon5hade, intrepid Reddit users who crafted individual statblocks for each stage of a Night Fury’s life: Hatchling, Short Wing, Broad Wing, and Titan Wing. David’s comes with a homebrew ancestry for playing a Night Fury character, while Daimon’s features an expertly-written overview of the Night Fury species’ biology, habits, and growth that looks straight out of an official D&D book!
Create A D&D Character in the How To Train Your Dragon World
This amazing compendium has everything you need to play a DnD homebrew campaign inspired by How To Train Your Dragon
When making a Dungeons & Dragons character for a HTTYD campaign, you could totally stick with the official D&D classes, abilities, and features and still have a great time. But a special campaign calls for special characters, and there are plenty of ways to custom make a homebrew character just for dragon-training. Because of Dragons came up with a few custom feats, like Soul Bond, which lets you know exactly where your dragon is, Dragon Command, which lets your dragon fight alongside you in battle, and Blood Bond, which lets you share Hit Points with your dragon! If you want to go all-in with a homebrew character, though, this is where DavidThorMoses really shines. It has customized backgrounds, feats, subclasses, and an entirely new custom class where you can play as a dragon. We could spend an entire blog post going over all of these, but highlights include the Elemental Breath feat, the Viking background, and, our personal favorite, the Barbarian Path of the Beard.
Play Your Own HTTYD D&D Adventure Online
W love a great pop-culture homebrew around these parts. We even shared some ideas for how to create your own D&D homebrew for superheroes, Gravity Falls, and Star Wars. All of these are inspired by our own D&D games, where we craft epic adventures based on our tween and teen players’ favorite fandoms, from Deltarune to Lord of the Rings. They’re 100% online, so you can play from wherever you are with nifty tools like virtual tabletops and character sheets to bring your stories to life. You can learn more about Young Dragonslayers games by clicking the button below – maybe we’ll see you in the Barbaric Archipelago!
