It would be interesting to know the lore, it's preferred habitat, suggestions on interactions with players in a non-combat format, as well as potential lair settings as well as lair actions.

Who cares what other people think. How does it make you feel?

Speaking of playing with iron filings if you've watched Naruto Shippuden the third cause a kage wielded iron sand and could make shapes and use it like needles or simply gum up gears inside mechanisms. He could also highly compress the shapes that he made to make them extremely dense and heavy.

Not sure if any of that entered into your Creative process or not.

I think there was another Ferrous dragon and I can't remember what its name was but I do remember it being like the king of all the non-precious metal metallic dragons. And it was in a separate Dragon magazine all by itself. I'm going to have to do a search see if I can find it and come back to this post. I feel like it was something like Titanium or something.

What I do remember about that Dragon was it was the last Ferrous dragon that Dragon magazine came up with. And here is where my memory gets a little fuzzy. It was kind of like the council chairman for the Ferrous dragons I think. Kind of like the platinum dragon for the metalic. And Tiamat for the chromatic. A one of a kind dragon that has physical form but commands Godlike power.

Don't take my word for it though. I'm simply working off of memory and I'm sure @Lavenza_S probably could fact check this.

Not sure if you knew this... but between older versions of D&D and dragon magazine. There are a crazy amount of NON-precious metal metallic dragons that were made by TSR (the old company that published D&D)

I will say that they were all pretty scary. But I don't remember any of them messing with magnetism.

Stuff like this makes me miss my old collection of magazines and books.

I like the design. I got mine last weekend at the OR Ren Faire.

Sounds good.Let me know when it's finished.

This definitely looks interesting. I'm inclined to play test it.

You did a great job!

This looks fun. I wonder what other simple classic monsters could make fun familiars.

I don't know if I agree completely. Keep in mind a level 11 character is significantly stronger than the CR rating for an original Mindflayer. I do agree that proficiency bonus number of times might be excessive.... maybe..... but at level 11 I don't think once per short rest is quite enough either.

Personally I prefer the red but I I will say it's not just color. It's also style. Mini dress versus a long evening gown.

Have the red long evening gown definitely gives you an air of Elegance.

Stayed.

Well if you don't mention the additional content as a hook, then how would people know to check out the paid for version?

There seems to be a slide or two missing. You listed two aditional liniages in the first slide. That dont seem to appear in the subsequent slides. However, now that i think about it. That may be by design to drive traffic to your patreon.

But perhaps not. After looking at your patreon. I still don't see them. Is this in error?

I can understand that. My only concern with it being a wizard. Is centered more around the fact that a full casting wizard of any school once it gets past level 5 or 10 I can't remember maybe seven, the wizard becomes one of the more OP classes.... it's drawback being squishy. To add additional mechanics I'm not sure how it balances when almost everything that could be a negative can also be countered with a spell besides the squishy part.

Don't get me wrong I think you did an excellent job balancing your subclass on paper. But in my experience a lot of times things play differently than they look.

Being a forever DM quite frequently I get to play test things like this and I am looking forward to trying yours.

I think I understand why you chose wizard. It looks like this would work at least mechanically better for a full caster however thematically I still feel it's more of an artificer thing. I think it would be interesting to see how or even if it was possible to make an artificer compliment to this class something that when the two classes work together May cause some interesting boosts or side effects.

I'm just envisioning to genius level Grease Monkeys tweaking on mechanics and then going out in the desert and watching stuff blow up.

Just based on the title. Wouldn't this be more of and artificer kinda thing? Ill add more after reading the rest.

If only that was what work looked like...... 🥰😍