"jordan here, the ph assailant"

@butterflymackay7768

5 жыл бұрын

Stay out of my pool!

@tahunuva4254

4 жыл бұрын

@@butterflymackay7768 it has aids, and stingrays

'The Return to the Tomb of Horrors' was fantastic... and very deadly

"I havent run the TOH but I hope to" inb4 entire party rerolls from dying at the fake entrance

The RL lore of Tomb of Horrors is also interesting. The original S1 module was written by Gary Gygax in response to a party of characters who felt that nothing could challenge them any more. It did its job all too well and provided a template on providing much-needed challenges for high level adventurers.

@michaelgearhart5050

6 жыл бұрын

DM: "You enter and you disappear." PLAYER: "Where did I go?" DM: "You didn't 'GO, you disappeared." PLAYER: "Wait... Wha... What do you mean I disappeared." DM: "You vanished, gone, poof, you DISAPPEARED." The bloody and savage fight which ensued still echoes down the hallways of Dungeon Master lore and legend to this very day.

@BrooklynRedLeg

4 жыл бұрын

Even more interesting is the lich of the Tomb of Horrors wasn't originally named Acererak, but Ra-Hotep (having come from a 5-page manuscript idea by Alan Lucien sent to E. Gary Gygax, to be reorganized into its longer version). This makes sense as you see the Egyptian-themed motifs at various points in the artwork. It was just a tournament module for first Origins Convention in 1975 (only a year and a half after Dungeons & Dragons was first published, and 5 years after Dave Arneson started everything with his Blackmoor variation of the Braunstein game). Heck, the original Sphere of Annihilation was carried by Ra-Hotep as being attached to his sceptre! Imagine getting thwacked by that! Of course, the fact the International Federation of Wargamers' Castles & Crusades Domesday Map of The Great Kingdom & Environs being found sheds light on the fact the names of some nations and such don't match up with the later published World of Greyhawk, such as The Egg of Coot (being not a Blackmoor baddie but also the name of its domain) and the border of Perrunland and the Paynim Kingdoms.

Favorite Forgotten Realms Villain: Artemis Enteri. You should do a video on Elminster or Him

@Jorphdan

6 жыл бұрын

Lots of requests for character videos. I'll have to make this happen :)

@AndyPunisherbass

6 жыл бұрын

Yes. Please make an Artemis video.

@coyotebrown2294

6 жыл бұрын

That would be awesome!

@arthurmarques6191

6 жыл бұрын

Artemis Enteri!

Man, we played this as young teenagers in the very early 80s. Hours on end. Tons of fun. And pizza was the staple we all lived on right?

I imagine each lich has to do something different to gain their phylactery. One lich might have to throw their newborn into a portal to the abyss while another may have to devour the heart of an ancient metallic dragon and so on.

Very cool video. Great images and you Sir are a wonderful historian. Or a Bard, playing your song for us to understand the stories of old and untold!

My favorite Forgotten Realms villains: Karsus, Halaster Blackcloak, Fzoul Chembryl, Manshoon and, of course, the most powerful non-divine being in the Realms: Larloch, the Lich. That been said, you should do a video about the Zentharim. Keep on this great work!

I love forgotten realms but I’m happy that you venture out and do other videos I would like to see more on other settings occasionally. Such as Dragonlance Grayhawk and so on

@Jorphdan

4 жыл бұрын

I've been reading up on Dark Sun! I hope to cover it in a 5-6 video series. :)

Favorite villain: Manshoon. There should be decent amount of information to dig up on it too. Larloch would be nice too, of course - but two liches in a row might be a bit too much. :)

This is exactly what I was needing today. Great job. But now I have even more questions. Lol

Bit late, but oh well. If memory serves, Vecna also became a dark lord in ravenloft

Jorphdan, I love the way you can concentrate a whole lot of research into these small video-pills I can easily swallow. You're great! I must add, however, that I've found some errors in this particular video. First of all, you described Vecna as an Archlich in 1:21 whereas Vecna was never a good guy and the Archlich is a name used for the good liches. Second, You've claimed that Demiliches are more powerful versions of Liches - that was the cane only in 3.5e, where the Demilich was a template for the Lich, making it stronger. Since AD&D up to the 5e (3e excluded) Demiliches were the deteriorated, lesser forms of Liches. And that's all from me. Thank you, once again, for making these videos!

@Jorphdan

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! And thanks for the corrections :D Good info to know!

He’s also really good at Joust.

@Jorphdan

Ай бұрын

Only when he plays on the right 👍

I am running a GOSM campaign in Greyhawk. My Villan is a Necromancer that is attempting to become a Lich eventually so this is great stuff!

Thank you Jorphdan!

This video was great! Maybe a special Halloween video on Vecna next?

He is mentioned briefly in the newest Salvatore novel as giving the succubus malconthet her mirrior of soul trapping so that she would return the souls to feed him. Their have been a lot of crossovers to realmspace. Spelljammers can help explain how some of it occurred as well as portals through sigil or many various planes of existence possibly.

You have some iconic liches in the fr aswell. Larloch, szass tam etc...

@Jorphdan

6 жыл бұрын

Love Szass Tam :)

@ryancol1999

6 жыл бұрын

i agree Larloch and Szass Tam are example of fantastic undead enemies

@ourkeving

4 жыл бұрын

The Witch-King Zhengyi was fun.

My party ran return to the tomb of horrors and it is the most difficult published adventure I’ve ever seen by far. Traps, traps, traps. Undead of course. Party composition is crucial. Good luck if you try

The old Greyhawk novel Tomb of Horrors doesn't say much about Acererak either.

Best dungeon ever in D&D. I played about 40 years. Definitely not your hack slash typical dungeon. A thinking person's dungeon to think your way out all of the deadly traps, for the Tomb of Horrors.

Acererak is an Arch-Lich not a Demi-Lich It says so in the Tomb of annihilation book

@Jorphdan

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the heads up :)

@redrikari

6 жыл бұрын

No problem :)

@punishedsnake6141

6 жыл бұрын

I guess he got a promotion because bro bro used to be str8 demi yo

@ronniejdio9411

5 жыл бұрын

tomb of ann8holation is bullsheet

@VandalAudi

5 жыл бұрын

That term really screws up with the usual meaning of archlich. An archlich is a non evil type of lich who gained their undead state from other non heinous rituals, but for Acererak that seem to mean he’s a leader of a group of liches, kinda like what Larloch is. Why the downgrade though, demiliches are what all power hungry liches strive to be.

One of the most interesting evil monsters I am planning to add to my campaign are Mind Flayers. I'd love to see a video about their society and learn more about things I missed.

@Jorphdan

6 жыл бұрын

I was thinking of doing some History of Monsters in December! November is my month to plan it out.

Great video as usual - a series of Acererak books would be a great idea, maybe WOTC has balked because his life starts in Oerth, not the Forgotten Realms?

An update to Bane and his clergy would be awesome.

I would love to see a video about Larloch the Shadowking. In annotated Elminster, by Ed Greenwood, he said that by around 1374 DR, he was a level 47 lich... It would be AWESOME! Thanks!

if you run tome of horrors with your friends use throw away characters if you want them to keep playing with you.

Something that sounds weird to me is that his Phylactary is supposedly in a demiplane. But from most things I read on D&D liches is that their Phylactary needs to be on their current plain of existence to remain linked to the Lich. Meaning if the Lich tries to send souls to the phylactary while on a different plain, or even died in a different realm, it won't make it back to the phylactary. Meaning technically Acererak would die a permanent death if you slay him in the Tomb of Annihilation, as he soul can't return to the phylactary. Would be nice if Acererak is not the exeption to the rule, and it would be possible for all Liches to have their link to the phylactary remaining intact regardless of the plain though.

I feel that the Archlich deserves a mention here. The reason becoming a Lich is an evil act is due to the fact that process and result are half-assed; resulting in the Necromancer in question having to sustain themselves on the souls of others and likely having evoked fiendish power to do so IE: Orcus. Archliches took their time and got it right mastering the interplay of radiant and necrotic energies needed to sustain their consciousness, tho some are given this state by a deity like the elven Archliches. These guys are extremely rare as only a handful of necromancers are skilled & powerful enough to attempt lichdom let alone actually doing it correctly.

Definitely do Larloch.

Count Strahd Von Zarovich is probably my favorite. Lord Soth and The Azlin being close seconds.

Great vid! Love the channel. I must add though, after listening to Dragon Talk on Acererak, the half-demon bit is no longer canon. It was said in an interview with Chris Perkins and Matt Sernett.

@Jorphdan

6 жыл бұрын

good to know, thanks for the info :D

I'm curious about a couple of things from the Starter Set adventure. I'm wondering if The Black Spider has any history in the Realms before this adventure, or if he was created specifically for this module. They also hinted at the existence of Dragon Cultists, but didn't go too deep on them. I would love to hear more about them.

I don't remember, did you already do Sasz Tam in the Thay episode? Other than that, it would be cool to hear about all those wizards who managed to get iconic spells named after them, such as Larloch, Bigby, Mordekain, Argannazar, Tasha, etc. Maybe you could put all those into one ep, if the lore about them individually isn't exhaustive enough.

Sammaster the Mad; Szass Tam; Matron Mother Yvonnel Baenre, the Eternal; Crenshinibon; Wendigo; Drasek Riven; Rivalen Tanthul! So many villains... and so many of them are, somehow, undying. Liches or the like...

to be fair, he is known to travel the multiverse, setting up dungeons in the same vain of the tomb of horrors and annilation on the prime material worlds he visits, the 5e module being the one he had set up on toril

I would love a whole video about Ravenloft

@Jorphdan

6 жыл бұрын

I'll add it to my list! great idea :)

Is there a place we can go to view previous editions of Dragon and/or Dungeon Magazines....I have quite a few in my collection but would be nice to know if there is a platform for viewing other editions....thanks for the great videos.

Whoop whoop!

Please do more Greyhawk videos, that's my favourite setting

@Arvaniz

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, Acererak is originally from Greyhawk. And I concur, I like much more Greyhawk than Forgotten Realms...

You should do a video on Iggwilv :)

I have Acerack's phylactory in a small dungeon hidden in the Beastlands. Subtle magic turns people away so no-one stumbles on it by mistake. No necromancy at all. Who would think to look for it there?

I guess he got tired of making these videos....Iwas really enjoying them. As a newbie to the game it was really helpful, Maybe he will do others sometime.

Could you do a video on giant culture and history in the realms

@Jorphdan

6 жыл бұрын

Spoke a bit about Giants in this video! A super early video on the channel, but I agree. Since Storm Kings Thunder came out we got lots of new info on Giants. An updated video would be a good idea. I'll add it to my list! The list is ever growing but I go to it when looking for new video topics so eventually :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/c4VotbJmo9itf9Y.html

Aside from the computer games in the 90s, is there any information on Tyranthraxus?

I'd love to see a video about the cult of the dragon and the founder of said cult.

@TheRubicon209

6 жыл бұрын

Do you mean 'cult of the dragon', or 'cult of the earth dragon'?

Great stuff! Can we get less common races? For example I'm newish and I have no idea if Tortles actually exist just as a paid addon money fund raiser or if they actually existed prior to the tortle package.

@Jorphdan

6 жыл бұрын

Yes! I also don't know much about Tortles. I'll add this to my list, I'm hoping to put out some videos every day this December. Sounds like a good topic. Thanks!

My favourite Forgotten Realms villain is Sysquemalyn. She was evil because she was _normal._ She was a Netherese archwizard, after all. Her later insanity is justified. I'm pretty sure she would kill me horribly or curse me eternally if we met. no matter what I think, but still, I can't help but empathise: being forgotten for years in The Nine Hells without even your birthday suit, well it must have been rough.

Guy was a few steps from godhood a few versions ago and now he is several steps back

Acererak is so much cooler then Vecna.

If you're going to do Tomb of Horrors, the REAL 1st edition version, then I recommend you either have your players roll fresh characters they don't care about, maybe two or three each, or run it without consequences or rewards, such that the characters who die in the tomb aren't really dead, but if anyone actually makes it out alive they don't get any treasure either. It can be just a nightmare interlude in a campaign, or use it to point them in a tangentially related direction, or as a warning to avoid villains of this magnitude unless and until they are ready, etc.

Wasn't there a skull in the grim adventures of billy and mandy that resembled Acererak?

Do Artus Cimber, and Drizzt. Maybe a who's who of the Realms? How about ancient Ostoria, for those running SKT?

Do one on Maztica trying to build a mod there in 5e and there doesnt seem to be a lot of info

What was the faint hint of goodness found in the chapel of evil ? Was Acererak ever good like Darth Vader? If not what was the source of good in the chapel of evil?

Where is the Elminster and Drizzt videos?? I love your channel! I'd love to see some of the FR greatest champions highlighted, though!

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

Honestly spooked to do videos on them with how loved they are. I know I'd leave something out, or not go into enough detail. I'm afraid of the community ripping me a new one :x

@justinbrooks6502

5 жыл бұрын

@@Jorphdan I think that there would be an overwhelmingly positive response because those characters are so beloved! Also, your Niche seems to be 5 to 10 minute videos. Don't try to water down such colorful characters into one 10 minute long video. Break them up into a series all their own much like you did the different planes. I think that would be your best bet, giving that it would give you ample time to cover their stories in their entirety and also allow you to brush up on the minutiae of such vivid characters. Just a thought! I enjoyed your video on jarlaxle and was hoping Drizzt would be named dropped as a hint for what was to come. Barring those two cosmically popular characters, I'd also love to see you do the Lords of waterdeep and Artemis entreri!

Acerak is pissed cause Jorphdan compared him to MOTHER FLIPPING TIBALT!!!!

Where would you put the Temple of Elemental Evil in Forgotten Realms?

Son of a fucking balor!? What!?

yo, you should do the tomb of horrors vid. it's been long enough!

@Jorphdan

3 жыл бұрын

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Does anyone know how lich feed souls to phylactery ? Is there some RAW answer ? Does lich need to be near it to feed it ? Or just cast some kind of ritual (or just eat it) and soul would find the way ?

@daanopdebeeck2312

6 жыл бұрын

Check the Monster Manual 5e p. 203 for info about the lich and p. 49 about the demilich and Acererak's Trap Soul ability, unless you're not the DM I would advice you not to spoil yourself or to prevent future metagaming, another option is to find (legitimite) online sources such as www.dandwiki.com/wiki/5e_SRD:Lich if you don't possess a MM (P.S.: Vecna disapproves of this sharing of knowledge)

So, extremely late, but since you went through the trouble to make the video, you should check out Dragon Magazine #26 from 1979, specifically the article called “Blueprint for a Lich” as it outlines one of the more archaic forms of turning oneself into a Lich, though those methods have since been improved upon

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

Ooo thanks for the info!

where is the video about elminster?

What's the difference between grey hawk and forgotten?

So that I never have to say his name (which I pronounce Acer-Eric) I've changed it to Skeletor and now I don't have to create a stat block for the He-Man character and my players get rhe ole chicken skin when he appears.

Nah, rules state that a lich redirects only as long as the phylactory (sorry if spelled wrong) is on the same plane

Well..your right and wrong about Greyhawk and forgotten realms....ALLLLL DnD all setting and all lore take place in Planescape.

can you make an lore video on Mordenkainen the wizard

How to win demilich? Or mayver stop him

Isn't a demilich a kind of lich who transcended evil?

i love liches

Please do one on Vecna :)

@ikusneiv5247

6 жыл бұрын

and if u do, plz go into detail about kas the bloody hand too, he my favorite character

Liches are just magical girls from puella magi madoka magica

no dislikes after almost 6k views. thats pretty great!

@Jorphdan

6 жыл бұрын

😀

I thought demi liches were liches that failed to feed their phalactory and went mad before degrading Into a demi liche?

I had no idea that Vecna was from the Greyhawk setting. I assumed he was homebrewed by Matt Mercer in Critical Role. Unless thats a different Vecna.

@stuartwhyte4274

6 жыл бұрын

Same Vecna, but Matt put his own spin and some Tal'Dorei flair on the character.

@peschgames9651

6 жыл бұрын

Vecna goes way back. My friends and I had encounters with him back in 1st and 2nd AD&D.

@Arvaniz

5 жыл бұрын

Rookies...

I do have one serious question. Demi means half so how does it mean a more powerful lich? No calling you out.... TSR maybe or wizards of the coast.

@Jorphdan

6 жыл бұрын

Apparently Demi Liches were more powerful in DnD 3.5, but in 5e they are weaker than regular Liches. Demi meant half maybe cause they were half way to god hood? Like Vecna. That's just a theory :)

It would be a damn nice pivot to start doing hallmark characters from FR. Dig.

@Jorphdan

6 жыл бұрын

I've been hesitant to do FR Characters, like Elminster etc. Because 1) they are so beloved and I'm not sure I could do a video justice 2) they are so well known I'm bound to miss something 3) it's extensive, there are tons of novels and I haven't read most of them Still not opposed to it, but I need to properly prepare for them or I think I would just make the fans upset :)

@kapittsalt

6 жыл бұрын

Scanning missive. Starts nodding, grunts, nods some more, head bobs, scratches chin, eyebrows up. Nods. Sips. Returns to drawing board.

Would you be able to talk about Mulhorand?

@Jorphdan

6 жыл бұрын

Spoke a bit about them in this video. The Mulan people of Mulhorand, but yes I'll add it to my ever growing list of topics :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/Yp6umJKzadG6e7A.htmlm20s

@retwerd

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, man! I appreciate the response! Great vid as per usual.

@retwerd

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, man! I appreciate the response! Great vid as per usual.

I’m about to face the demilitch my party is a monk, two rogues & a paladin. Recommendations it’s my first time in the tomb of horrors. We just stepped in the demilitches lair.

@tchoupitoulos

4 жыл бұрын

Just walk away, slowly.

forget Acererak, Larloch The shadow king is this the best undead enemy is all d&d in my personal opinion the guy has a plan for everything Forgotten Realms FTW

I thought a Demi Lich was a weaker lich, rather than a stronger one, just by the meaning of the prefix "demi"?

@Arvaniz

4 жыл бұрын

No, it's called "demi" because it's almost a demigod.

Where did all this lore come from?

@Jorphdan

4 жыл бұрын

Novels, Adventures, Stories throughout Dungeons & Dragons over the past 40 years!

@budahbaba7856

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jorphdan Nice job putting it all together! :)

Somewhat... confused. You reference the 4th edition as your information on this work, but it's somewhat wrong. (WotC is pretty wrong about a lot of things TSR made, really, so not surprising.) The most information to be found about Acererak can be found in a 2nd Edition boxed set titled "Return to the Tomb of Horrors." Return is a grand adventure built around the original Tomb of Horrors (so much so they reprint the original Tomb of Horrors product and give it to you to run mid-way through the story). Anyways, Acererak's true workings and motivations are laid bare in that boxed set. Your players work their way through Skull City, the original tomb and forgotten city of Moil to the Fortress of Conclusion in the Negative Energy Plane to discover Acererak has been playing them all along. See, Ace has been working a plan to invest himself in the fabric of the Negative Energy Plane. In time he would _become_ the Negative Energy Plane and through that, _every single undead connected to it at once._ That's right, he wanted to _become the entire plane and every undead that needed it._ To do that, he needed a critical number of pure souls. Souls so strong that they were exemplary... Souls so powerful, that only they could persevere through his myriad of tricks and traps to reach him. Return picks up the story at the point where Ace needs only a few more, the players' will do! It's a good adventure that any good DM should own. Tomb of Annihilation, meh. I did not like it much. It demotes Acererak to the level of "guy who just does shit for giggles" and has no grand plans. It comes off as a module written for some B list villain and someone decided to punch it up by adding a known name to it. How do you go from "investing yourself into the planar fabric of reality" to "messing around making a death god hoping it kills some things (before 200 some FR gods intervenes, surely?)." Perhaps the most infuriating part of it is there's no mention of the time he spent dispersed all over the multiverse (at the end of Return) and the seeming demotion he's had to no being a plain old lich (with a body and everything). It almost makes me suspect some other lich heard of him and figured he'd steal the name.

@Axioanarchist

5 жыл бұрын

This is as good an explanation for me as any. I was wondering why there was no mention of how Acererak was so near to godhood when defeated that he couldn't fully be destroyed and ended up as a vestige. "This isn't really the original Acererak" is probably the most logical way to mend that particular plot hole.

You may remember Vecna because... he is fucking Vecna

@Jorphdan

6 жыл бұрын

lol

accerak is from greyhawk not the forgotten realms

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

Correct! He floats around both though. Thanks for playing!

Yes.... Demi-lich is just a stronger lich. I'm looking at you MM....

@Jorphdan

6 жыл бұрын

yeah you're right, not the case of the 5e Monster Manual. But I believe in 3e it was true that Demi-Liches were more powerful. I couldn't find a Demi-Lich in 3.5 Monster Manuals, but generally the philosophy is that they've ascended past their physical form and become more powerful. But the challenge rating system in 5e proves that to be incorrect. And here we are :) forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Demilich#5e

Strahd

Jarlaxle

why are Demi-litches more powerful than litches while a Demi-god isnt more powerful than a god?

@yansakuya1

5 жыл бұрын

Probably because being a Lich itself is not such a good state of being. So half of a Lich should be better then a full on Lich, while half of a God is not as good as a True God.

I'm pretty sure demiliches are weaker than liches, at least in 5e.

Vecna is a GOD not just a Litch

acererak is not a demi lich in 5e

He is a archlich not a demolich

@Jorphdan

5 жыл бұрын

*demilich

liches are from slavic folk lore not dnd lord of the rings.

Ready player one anybody?

If you're like 70 how are you gonns find someone double your age? Surely not many candidates (this is hypothetical, of course 😉)

Wait, so Acererak became what he was because of Vecna? No, that's mixing lore too much. They are supposed to be two completely disparate legends. Just because two beings are famous and beloved doesn't mean their paths are intertwined. Needs more imagination. Rejected.