I liked some of the lore about Kuo-Toa that was mentioned in Out of the Abyss. Like the fact that, since they have no eyelids, Kuo-Toa look basically the same whether they're awake or asleep, and all Kuo-Toa sleepwalk. So there's a roughly one-in-three chance that any individual Kou-Toa you encounter wandering around in their home town is actually asleep.

@kylestanley7843

4 жыл бұрын

I'm fucking using that.

@ryang6865

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@eric_moore-6126

3 жыл бұрын

My DM didn't touch on that.

@philswiftdestroyerofworlds1988

3 жыл бұрын

@Brixton Joe You're not fooling anyone dumbass. The account that replied to yours was literally made a day before your own. For a scammer you're pretty pathetic, A child could scam better than you.

@Zavakar

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think that's how odds work, but I like your idea

"If they believe something strong enough...." WAAAAAAA- "They can make their own deities." -GHH?

@DemonicEngineer

5 жыл бұрын

Da red ships gos fastah, becoz ah say so.

@soupcake3092

5 жыл бұрын

GORKA MORKA GORKA MORKA GORKA MORKA

@DemonicEngineer

5 жыл бұрын

@@soupcake3092 Gork is brutal but kunnin' and Mork is kunnin' but brutal. What more is there to say? Look at them wrong and they'll kick yer teef in. Whilst Gork smashes you over the head with his huge spiked club, Mork will give you a staggering low blow, demonstrating the kunnin-ness and brutality of the Orkish Gods.

@dok3304

5 жыл бұрын

Nah, nah, Gork wuz cunnin’ly brutal an’ Mork wuz brutally cunnin’, get it roight ya flashgitz.

@soupcake3092

5 жыл бұрын

@@dok3304 DATZ DA SAME THIN' YA GIT!

Zee, you nearly killed us last night. My DM saw this and decided to use it. Our fighter accidentally attacked it while it was still in its larval stage and the Kuo-Toa decided to start a mass suicide in order to increase it's power in order to help it defend itself from us. We had to burn a wish (which the fighter worded kinda poorly) and summoned the Tarrasque to fight it. Our session ended with us running in the Underdark in a mad dash to escape the wrath of the Tarrasque

@zeebashew

5 жыл бұрын

that sounds nuts!

@elbruces

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds more like your fighter nearly killed you last night.

@johntheherbalistg8756

2 жыл бұрын

Never let the fighter live that down. You can't summon a stronger evil monster to mitigate the evil monster that's currently giving you trouble and not be ridiculed for all eternity

@HunterDrone

Жыл бұрын

so... basically you reenacted a Godzilla movie.

@Giganfan2k1

Жыл бұрын

@@HunterDrone that is the plot to at least 5 Godzilla movies off the top of my head.

Do not forget the greatest Kua Toa god of them all: Blibdoolpoolp

@royvf1s

5 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the titty lobster named after the onomatopoeia of bubble bath.

@chriscunningham6401

5 жыл бұрын

Ah, good ol' Lobster Tits

@KrinchCraftHD

4 жыл бұрын

What is this in reference to? Sounds really fun.

@Pyre001

4 жыл бұрын

@@KrinchCraftHD Oh this is from WAY back in the day, Blipdoolpoolp was actually a Kuo-Toa god from like AD&D or something.

@royvf1s

4 жыл бұрын

"Blippy" as my players call her was and still is the Kuo-toa main creator goddess, but the nickname comes from the AD&D artwork of her avatar - a several meters tall human woman from the neck down, but replace her head and neck with a lobster's head, and her forearms with lobster claws.

I love this, I've always avoided using "goofy" monsters like the Kuo-Toa, but this has inspired me to lovingly craft them into something more horrific. Maybe that each god larva they create is twisted, fishy, and covered in tentacles or other fishy bits, through their twisted perspective. Maybe even make the Kuo-Toa the origin of creatures like the Illithid? I like the idea of my players realizing their violence and wrath birthed a new evil entity, one that wears a twisted mockery of their visage. Zee, you da best.

@barrybend7189

5 жыл бұрын

Or they could be the only non forest spirit creature that can see a nymf with no ill effects and worship one. Have a hilarious side effect being that all humanoid villagers and townspeople have unusually high female birthrates due to a god of woman being born from them.

@sylph8005

5 жыл бұрын

"Lovingly craft" Nice. Also, unless my DM was mistaken, the Kuo Toa were, like many in the Forgotten Realms, enslaved by the Mindflayers, and it is due to their experimentation they have their racial madness and psionic abilities. It's possible the Mindflayers are to blame for their god-making powers. So it's not likely the Kuo Toa made the Mindflayers. Unless the Kuo Toa's god-making powers came before the Mindflayers and the Mindflayers turned on their creators, which is actually extremely likely. Besides that, I really like your adventure idea!

@Zombiewithabowtie

4 жыл бұрын

"through their twisted perspective"... What if the god-larvae that they create is horrendeously swollen, shrunken and distorted in bizarre proportions, since the Kua Toa's piscine eyes can't see things in proper focus while out of water and so the gods they create are what they actually see?

@SanjayMerchant

4 жыл бұрын

@@Zombiewithabowtie The party Wizard loses his glasses and suddenly the eldritch, maddening horror just looks like Steve.

@Cerebrum123

Жыл бұрын

@cak01vej Capital punishment for puns? That's sheer madness! You're making mountains out of molehills. Although if you are particularly sadistic I suppose you could make a homebrew spell that reduces a players H.P. to 0 after a certain amount of puns are used.

Having used Kuo Toa in a similar manner, I had them start worshiping one of the PCs to hilarious effect.

@thomasmueller618

5 жыл бұрын

omg.... wow

@sinnerthesinful552

5 жыл бұрын

Funny enought i have a pdf(homebrew probably) called gods and deities, with rules for how to make and play with divine beings

@avocato1180

5 жыл бұрын

Pedro Henrique Leite felix Send link man

@sinnerthesinful552

5 жыл бұрын

@@avocato1180 2 problems: 1 It's not in english 2 the link that i had was from a site that got taken down

@LordBrittish

5 жыл бұрын

I could see the PC being turned into a god... but I could also see a God-version of the player (a separate entity) coming to life and soon deciding that he was better than the player and that he had outgrown him. Then the new god-player-clone disappears or flies away, perhaps appearing later in the campaign to help somehow. (like Superman in the Flash Point movie. 😜)

I was expecting a Stay Puff Marshmellow Man reference.

How about an extremely vain person, who heard about the powers of the Kua Toas and starts slaughtering them, to create a god in his own image, but with each result he is dissatisfied. Could be an interesting adventure hook to actually protect the Kua Toa, so that no more warped gods of the villains image emerge.

@drakogamer1611

4 жыл бұрын

I may use this. That is amazing thank you!

@kylestanley7843

4 жыл бұрын

This... is fucking marvelous.

@Zombiewithabowtie

4 жыл бұрын

Question: How long to the gods of the Kua Toa "live"? Because I can really see the final fight of the BBEG being that they're *really* pissed off that you blocked their attempts at god-making, but as they lack any real powers beyond their own narcissism, they instead opt to release their Failed Gods in an attempt to destroy your party.

@blucky7798

4 жыл бұрын

A neat if somewhat cliche finale to a plot like this is that after the fight is all wrapped up the villain finally gets what he sees as his "Perfect God" and then it kills him before either fighting the players for the real climactic battle or leaving silently.

@Ithtorukk

4 жыл бұрын

I could see it happening with a Kua Toa to start. One kills another, unknowingly starting the godmaker process. They all recognize the new large Kua as a god, but haven't connected the idea to death yet. They kill the murderer, who adds to God Kua's power. This growth feels good, and God Kua now knows it happens when a Kua Toa dies... so begins slaughtering them all. After this initial power grab, its calmed down, and now takes egg tributes from the surviving tribe.

The spell is "Create God" and can only be cast by Kua Toa. It's a ritual casting and the material component is the Kua Toa performing the ritual (of dying). Bam, Animated Spellbok Status: Reinstated.

@beanslinger2

4 жыл бұрын

nice

@Ozhar1

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a spell-like ability

@crowsenpai5625

4 жыл бұрын

If it’s a spell, could I flawlessly cast it with [Wish]? What level is [Create God]

@tigercors3308

4 жыл бұрын

@@crowsenpai5625 considering how powerful it was, and considering that its casting ressembles that of an epic spell I would say anywhere in the range of 9-11 could be second lvl for all i know though

@ZylowHF

4 жыл бұрын

13th level it already exists in lore second sundering anyone no just me

For some reason i though this was a wierd bionicle D&D build....

@valritz1489

5 жыл бұрын

"In the time before time, some freaky-ass fish people imagined a god named Mata Nui, and he was a giant robot universe who also had a brother who was a much smaller robot and also evil probably."

@axazilharper5571

5 жыл бұрын

Woh guys don’t go revealing Wizard’s next adventure book

@Jpteryx

5 жыл бұрын

D&D adventure where the Kuo Toa worship Mata Nui enough to make the Bionicle world a reality

@Primordial_Radiance

5 жыл бұрын

OMG I want a Bionicle D&D so bad!

@burlyfoil1022

5 жыл бұрын

@@Jpteryx wayfinders guide to ebberon introduce warforged who imo are the most bionicle thing in dnd

BREAD FOR THE BREAD GOD!

@ThunderblargZ

5 жыл бұрын

SCONES FOR THE SCONE THRONE!

@Abdega

5 жыл бұрын

ThunderblargZ *MILK FOR THE KHORNE CAKES*

@generalbacon7476

5 жыл бұрын

Abdega COCONUTS FOR THE HORSES!

@bjornironside4674

5 жыл бұрын

@@generalbacon7476 no

@rayanderson5797

5 жыл бұрын

@@generalbacon7476 Yes

I like how the Kuo Toa are on the same level as orks in warhammer, to where things function the way they do because that is what they believe.

@FrostedSapling

5 жыл бұрын

Red ships go faster

@Zombiewithabowtie

4 жыл бұрын

Blue iz lucky Purple iz sneaky

Long story, but one of the most hilarious 'rolling with it' situations I've ever done as a DM involved these monsters in a 'high seas adventure" D&D game earlier this year I was running. The party had to sail to an island to find out why shipping and supplies had stopped from there recently, a quest they had gotten from an alchemist in exchange they would get powerful potions from as some of rarer supplies came from there. Anyway, once there they soon found out the island had been overrun by the Kua Toa. There were several battles, saving random survivors, etc. Eventually they come to the final village on the island where they last of them and captives where. And they Kua Toa were in the middle of a 'summoning spell' per say, the party didn't actually know they were doing this though. They were using the well in the middle of the island village to call forth a god they had created I named Kruspa. And the druid in the party decided he wanted to start the fight by summoning his own giant frogs to help with the battle, and he centered their arrival in the middle of the well. I had one of my DM pause and think moments as I on the spot just warped the situation. Saying that the summoning of the druid interviewed with the summoning of the demon fish monster god being brought forth, and that they somehow combined and merged, creating a giant demon fish with a frog head and tongue. I basically on the spot just combined all the stats and stuff, but to off set things I made the monster bigger, and in doing so was half stuck in the well. But its long tongue helped it grab targets at range so its not like it was totally shut down from melee so they could just range it to death. Since the monster was also much more powerful then I planned, I made the sudden transformation drive it insane, it started by killing some of the Kua Toa near it, which were some of their clerics. The other fish men saw this as some divine judgement of their new god and jumped in on the other clerics, clearly having falling from favor. Since it was a mix of a giant toad and Kruspa, they party named it To-Kruspa, and its been a running joke and source of enjoyment since.

Just tried this with my players. They inadvertently created a giant bird-god-thing named Sohcahtöah. I've never been more proud.

@conorb.1901

5 жыл бұрын

I can see it now: Sohcahtöah, god of trigonometry

@TheRealDayzohn

4 жыл бұрын

@@conorb.1901 *I order you to stop*

@catherinevo6060

4 жыл бұрын

Conor B. I can see it as well

@kylestanley7843

4 жыл бұрын

*OMFG* You know, a while ago my mother suggested we make an educational DnD module aimed toward a younger audience. When I first heard the term "SohCahToa" my mind immediately went to Kuo-Toa.

@dualinfinities5549

4 жыл бұрын

*transformation intensifies*

I literally cannot believe you animated that ending! Who animates a mistake

@CompletelyNewguy

5 жыл бұрын

Pixar.

@professornope4792

5 жыл бұрын

Wambu.

@130nu

5 жыл бұрын

Our great god zee would of course

@BeegtymeRawkstah

5 жыл бұрын

Hanna-Barbera for decades, that's who

@charge2025

5 жыл бұрын

@@CompletelyNewguy Yeah, those outtakes they did were pretty good

One of the players in the game I'm in just moved overseas after a year of playing, and for their farewell game our DM took him on a quest to the Kua toa to create the great god of processed dairy: Cheesus

@lochlainnhealy548

5 жыл бұрын

@Batman Wayne "Cheesus crust!" is a joke my group like to throw around occasionally. Alternatively we say "Cheese-is Crust!".

@xmlash234

5 жыл бұрын

In the name of the Feta, the Sbronzo, and the holy Swiss

@the24thcolossusjustchillin39

5 жыл бұрын

Oh brie that sounds hilarious

@bluephoniex6356

5 жыл бұрын

The Paladin who calls a Crusade of this fake Heretical Religion, "Lactious The intolerant, Defier of The Dairy Gods"

@KaiserAfini

5 жыл бұрын

Fondue his will, brie loyal to attain eternal life in his lunar realm of cheese, mozzarellish his blessings, hone thine weapons to the edge of sharp cheddar and your legacy shall be grate.

So you can kill one and before it dies it sees a puppy and... BEHOLD! The god puppers! It yips and barks and demands petting! Its influence spreads to both land and sea.

@9seed.

5 жыл бұрын

FEAR ITS ADORABLE WRATH!!!

@theapexsurvivor9538

5 жыл бұрын

Cat and dog simultaneously kill the Kuo Toa during a thunderstorm, now it's literally raining cats and dogs. In other news, local wizards refuse to leave towers for fear of what they claim is a blight the most terrifying monsters they've ever seen...

Set up Plato's cave with Kua Toa to manufacture your own personal Gods

@wolfsden6479

5 жыл бұрын

Oh God no, insert lich trying to become a God using the Kua Toa but repeatedly failing.

@chameon378

5 жыл бұрын

@@wolfsden6479 Goblin: "So, we set up a picture of you with shadows in a cave and chained a bunch of baby kua toa up so all they could see was a candle and you in the cave sir." Lich: "Yes, yet I'm not a god. What happened?" Goblin: "They started worshipping the chains as gods." Lich: "...You're kidding me right?" Goblin: "No. There's now chain gods. They're scary, they want words."

@wolfsden6479

5 жыл бұрын

@@chameon378 the great restricting ones, protect us from losing our knowledge, the great restricting ones, won't let them take us away, the great restricting ones, won't let them take our knowledge away, the great restricting ones won't let us become, that guy that they took and he lost his knowledge. HALL HAIL THE GREAT RESTRICTING ONES!

@andresmarrero8666

4 жыл бұрын

@@wolfsden6479 want to add the candle flame to the chains to form a deity of restraint, level headiness, connection, and being down to earth?

Me: Don't let Jocat use fireball!!! WE DON'T NEED TO FIGHT A FULL FLEDGED GOD! Jocat: "FIREBALL FIXES EVERYTHING!" (kills 20 of them, and 40 eggs and then there is a CR 24 encounter) New Demigod is a giant fireball, Jocat bows down and pledges his life to his newfound god.

@Bluecho4

4 жыл бұрын

Just as planned.

@saulquintana9835

4 жыл бұрын

"now you know ho to create gods you're welcome".

@KuariThunderclaw

3 жыл бұрын

And thus... the Warriors of Sunlight are born. \[T]/

@commanderblackheart5856

3 жыл бұрын

it's a GIANT, FIREBALL, MAYBE IT'S FRIENDLY!

@Theroha

3 жыл бұрын

@@commanderblackheart5856 Friendly fireball. Giant fiery friend.

*drastically tries to hide video from his PCs so he can use it in a future campaign*

@KubinWielki

5 жыл бұрын

Why do I get a tingling sensation that the term "drastically hiding (something)" is derived from a D&D session? Your barbarian has "drastically hidden" some evidence by slaughtering all witnesses, eh?

@theapexsurvivor9538

5 жыл бұрын

@@KubinWielki Goliath 'rogue' drastically hides by intimidating everyone nearby.

@alexreese614

5 жыл бұрын

Haha me

@chameon378

5 жыл бұрын

@@theapexsurvivor9538 Dark Heresy: Death Cult Assassin/Moritat Assassin: 'Drastically' hides things by just murdering everyone who was in the area previously. In theory they're supposed to be stealthy. In practice, blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne.

@em__1

3 жыл бұрын

HA! None of my friends even speak english, i've got unlimited content stealing capabilities!

CAMPAIGN IDEA: All Kuo Toa party, on a mission to get their God recognized, and most likely change it half a dozen times whenever someone tells them about their gods.

I love these guys. They literally have such crummy lives they create deities out of nothing just so they can worship them.

@CompletelyNewguy

5 жыл бұрын

Great my players would be doing everything to make their lives easier (cause that's what my players are. ) and the Kua Toa would end up worshiping them. Seriously I can make the Kua Toa eat babies by boiling them alive with no intention of changing their ways and my players would STILL be trying to find an alternative for them to eat instead (if they weren't trying to keep them as pets. Seriously why do my players have an obsession with keeping pets!?)

@HumbleMemeFarmer

5 жыл бұрын

@@CompletelyNewguy live with it. Better than them trying to make friends with anything abyssal.

@CompletelyNewguy

5 жыл бұрын

@@HumbleMemeFarmer That's what I'm afraid of!

@theapexsurvivor9538

5 жыл бұрын

@@HumbleMemeFarmer even then it could be worse, at least there aren't (many) Fey in the abyss. Seriously, I'd rather deal with Asmodeus himself than deal with another Fey (or Elf).

Man, you gotta love scary fish-boiz

@generalbacon7476

5 жыл бұрын

Axazil Harper do you mean....... Murlocks!

@axazilharper5571

5 жыл бұрын

GeneralBacon 74 ah yes they are pretty good to. But remember, Murlocks can’t create evil shoe gods intend on crushing the PCs because they didn’t shine their shoes enough. Speaking from personal experience

I can’t express how unbelievably helpful these vids are to new DMs like myself. Your awesome dude.

@typicaldungeonmaster2771

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah like thanks to your vids I realized I could of ran a million other better campaign ideas than the one I picked.......

More like this : The Animated Beastiary, perhaps. Spotlight an underused, or poorly used creature, and suggest some tactics for use.

@generalbacon7476

5 жыл бұрын

What about The Animated DnDecks (like the pokédecks)

@Babbleplay

5 жыл бұрын

@@generalbacon7476 I am unfamiliar, and curious.

@johnormike811

5 жыл бұрын

Babbleplay I love this idea.

@Babbleplay

5 жыл бұрын

I get good ideas , sometimes. Like a new Arkham game that opens with Batman dropping in on Riddler BEFORE he can scatter those damn stupid trophies all over the place, and leaves his well-punched, tied up, unconscious body atop the pointy, uncomfortable pile of undistributed green trinkets, to await the police.

@recon441

5 жыл бұрын

I love this idea!

My mind is racing. That one proud character refuses to kill his godlike alternate self. The new demigod is a vital of poison. Such strange and fantastic concepts!

I can see the Kua Toa worshiping a player (or seeing that player as a benevolent god) if they helped the Kua Toa immensely and making an image of them combined with some everyday object or weapon or even a familar that follows them. Okay this is actually giving me ideas, thanks for the video!

Da red ones go fasta!!!

In a custom game I participated in... it was a Ferris wheel and it unlodged itself from the metal shackles holding it aloft and it grabbed one of the PC on its way into the ocean. Afterwards we all joked about what to name it... the world(from the tarot) or ouroboros(the tail eating serpent)

@YahyaFalcon

5 жыл бұрын

How about "Wheel of Fortune"

Praise be the Lobster Mom

@commanderblackheart5856

3 жыл бұрын

and may good tidings be yours, friend!

The demi god could start as an infant version of a player, then a toddler, child, teen, and adult as it grows. It could be half Kuo toa half player. Let the player it is copying make checks to realize just why the thing looks so familiar...

In my own headcanon, I'm putting The Bread God in the same continuity as Runesmith's Beholder who's afraid of toast. Because the crazy paranoid lunatic being right in the end is always fun.

I just came up with an Idea for a character for DM's out there to use: Imagine a warlock who carries around the offspring of a god or some god larvae and has to protect it. This character would become increasingly powerfull as the god does and has to get it to some place or just guard it and find ways to make it stronger. It needs some polish but it could make for an interesting NPC or even PC if you have good role-players (I personally imagine the god larvae similar to the one on bloodborne's third ending)

@davidmingle1650

3 жыл бұрын

Noice 👍

Wellllllllllllll My Wizard and our Bard, using a combination of Prestidigitation, Dancing lights and Message kind of *accidentaly* a God. Who knew that could happen :)

What makes them goofy instead of scary are the pupils. Give them black, translucid, unblinking eyes and ta-da!

Step 1: Cast major image in front of gullible fish people Step 2: Make them believe it is a God that grants the players unlimited power Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit as the illusion has become an actual god

"It's the stay puffed marshmallow man isn't it."

Thank you for expanding what you can do with D&D beyond just spells and items. every time you upload a new video I get so many more ideas on what to implement in a new campaign!

Fun Fact (Which I'm sure you know since you've referenced it briefly in a previous video): While the Kuo Toa look like the Deep Ones, they're actually nothing like them in how hey act or their background. The ones who do, the Sea Spawn, more closely resemble the Creature From The Black Lagoon. However, they function like deep ones. In the Torillian equivalent of Innsomoth, Purple Rocks, the new born children are thrown into the ocean, where they are gathered by the kraken Slarkrethel, where they are transformed not just into Sea Spawn, but into his fanatic worshippers. At a young age, a Sea Spawn looks identical to a human, so after their transformation is done, they're returned to the surface where they stay, disguised as just humans, until they reach old age and take on their more fish-like form, when they return to the sea and to their master. This is identical to how the Deep Ones function.

Definately gonna make a campaign where there are 5 groups of kuo toa that are trying to summon 2 god arms 2 god legs and a god head and if they succeed... the world gets OBLITERATED

@ShawnPattonC

5 жыл бұрын

EXODIA'D!

it sounds goofy until you see one running at you from a dark alley in full realism

I absolutely adored this!! Please keep making these monster centred ones as they’re really inspiring!

2:44 Is that a reference to Katamari Damacy? Geez... It's been a while...

@MrDanChandler

5 жыл бұрын

It came out on steam, finally. Maybe the game's fresh in the animator's mind.

I love these things. My favorite D&D monster.

I did not know that Murlocs could create divinities. Oh, well. I guess that's the justification behind all those Murloc Paladins...

@l3l723

4 жыл бұрын

I think in wow they can't create gods, they just worship whatever.

This video inspired my new homebrew story arc! The players are loving it and I just wanted to thank you for inspiring me.

I LITERALLY learned of these guys like, two days ago and I was trying to come up with a way to work them into a homebrew world I'm making. This just makes the idea even more fun. Thank you.

1:38 this is the most cursed image I've ever seen

@alberttrita5858

4 жыл бұрын

not yet enough context to justify the stance has made that exact frame a weapon powerful enough to destroy a gods... and then start being worshipped by kuo-toua.

Kuo toas imagination is quite amazing indeed!

@christophershell7564

5 жыл бұрын

They are like weaker versions of the most powerful God creating race..... the DMs.

I hadn't read shadows over innsmouth before watching this so did not realize how much of this was from the book. Really awesome reference to it and your animation definitely does them justice.

Your posts always make me smile!

This is gonna be about how they can create gods right

@KoreInWonderland.

5 жыл бұрын

no

@jesterssketchbook

5 жыл бұрын

you actually did predict it :D

@spiderhaz_

5 жыл бұрын

no ;)

@LordDragox412

5 жыл бұрын

Uk'otoaaa~

To think of what the Kua Toa will make up simply mix their names and autocorrect. Kuala Toast

@janhutchens2593

5 жыл бұрын

Noooooo

@scouttyra

5 жыл бұрын

ukotoahhhhh

@tanith117

5 жыл бұрын

Mus toa

@tanith117

5 жыл бұрын

Auto correct you had one job and you failedme

@theapexsurvivor9538

5 жыл бұрын

Koala toast? Sounds taste, if a little meaty, but that slight eucalyptus flavour makes it all worthwhile. Goes great with Vegemite...

Dude, that was epic! Totally snookered me in (I always love a good Lovecraftian tale) just, bravo! 👏👏👏👏👏

We got the Kuo Toa, next will be *Uk'Otoaaa*

Darnit, I just finished a shortened version of Out of the Abyss (an official WotC campaign with kuo-toa in it) and I'm not my group's DM anymore, so I can't include this. It'll have to wait until my next campaign...

Thank you for the Animated God-Book.

These remain my favorite video to see in my feed.

Yay! We get an animated Monster Manual episode! Also, I blame The Slayers for how the Kuo Toa are currently portrayed.

holy shit that is amazing, i found my next campaign main plot

You make it sound like something that could be added into a Deathwatch campaign.

Was just binging the series yesterday, great time for a new one.

Such a cool idea for a plot arc! I didnt know they were Lovecraft inspired. Great video as always!

Players: Finally a campaign with no eldritch horrors, just these fish people Me the DM: (Smiles in malicious intent)

@Greywander87

5 жыл бұрын

Honestly at that point they're just being heavily genre-blind. They'd almost have to have never heard of Lovecraft to achieve that level of ignorance. Also, fun fact, but I believe in Mesopotamian mythology, the ocean is associated with Chaos. So the connection between watery things and unknowable eldritch horrors apparently goes quite far back.

@barrybend7189

5 жыл бұрын

Smiles in WAYS NO HUMAN HAS EVER SEEN.

@magiv4205

4 жыл бұрын

@@barrybend7189 uNLIKE ANY SEEN ON EARTH

@magiv4205

4 жыл бұрын

@@Greywander87 Not only that, but Mesopotamian creation myths actually START with the two primordials of water: Abzû, the god of fresh water and bringer of life, and Tiamat, the goddess of salt water, the ocean and primal chaos. They gave birth to the other gods, who then tried and eventually succeeded in killing them. After her husband was slain first, Tiamat transformed into a giant Leviathan, and wreaked havoc on the world, and gave birth to all monsters, including the dragons, before being killed aswell. This is why the godess of chaos and all evil dragons in D&D is named after her.

You wanna see some cool Kuo Toa usage look no further than the *Tales From My D&D Campaign* series by Demonac here on youtube.

The fact that Kuo-Toa are going to be in Baldur's Gate 3 has gotten me pretty excited, mostly because of me having seen this previously. I just hope they're even a fraction of as interesting.

You have inspired me... This sounds perfect!

So using them in my campaign for the port city.

@generalbacon7476

5 жыл бұрын

Better yet make them be in a land locked town and they control the sewers and all water going in and out of the town.

They look more like Murlocs than anything lovecraft.

@Cowcow211

5 жыл бұрын

Murlocs are from the same inspiration.

You're stories are inspiring my friend :)

Love the eggs laid in bloated corpses & cool description!

“How to kill players without trying” Why is this not the title

It's Kuo-Toa, not Kua Toa... That's the Mandela effect for you.

@nexus1g

5 жыл бұрын

It's Steve, not Mandela. That's the Mandela effect for you.

@LordDragox412

5 жыл бұрын

Uk'otoa!

Great content, can't wait to try this idea out.

the music choice is great for this one

I love this guys animations, but more importantly, his great stories.

I’m running a One shot with these this weekend and this video really helped with some storyline ideas!!! :)

Okay, that is a fantastic creature. Definitely going to use them in the future.

I love this. I never pictured them as shadow over innesmouth creatures hahaha yes! As soon as you mentioned the whiteish gold crown it clicked. I can't believe i never made this connection

That psychic creation sounds vaguely ork-like. Boyz! We'z gettin' looted!

NGL "Kuo Toa cult" could be a really cool concept for a Warlock patron. Some shlub stumbles into a Kuo-Toa den, unwittingly impresses them and accidentally ends up becoming kinda sorta a mini demigod by dint of Kuo Toa magic

Loving the tested reference. More ODB's please!

Bahahah! I never knew! Thank you for opening my eyes to the great and weirdness of this monster race!

Everyone, clear your minds and don't think of anything! Ray: I couldn't help it. It just popped in there......

Thanks Zee - I'm using this in the next session!

There was a reddit post just a few weeks ago about a stolen Lighthouse. The players basically wander around following false leads and hearing about fishlike monster people that are scaring the dock workers, until the Lighthouse itself walks right past them while they're exploring along the coast (preferably at night)

your description of Kua Toa reception history really reminded me of the ancient Frog-Giants in the setting we're playing. The DM keeps insisting they are magnificent, Powerfull, eldritch Livathans but all I can think of is "Quaaaaaaaaaaaak"

When I found these fellas in my BG3 playthrough I remembered this video immediately. They were just as goofy in that game too.

One of my favorite animated spellbooks, for sure

Haha I love that you animated the mistake as well. Great video! 👍🎅

Look at you with your DM language skills. Nice!

I am not far into learning D&D lore, but Kuo Toa have struck me as the best thing yet to allow DMs a huge unique/creative outlet into their game that can drastically alter the world and create a unique campaign without deviating from canon lore/adventures! A great boon to any storytelling game which relies on both home-brew and shared settings!

YESYESYES!!! I was looking for a grand finale for my campaign in ancient greece and this is it! An enemy sea tribe faction leader ascends to power and uses the power of ancient Atlantis (Kuo Toa City) to be able to create a god and take over the pantheon.

A slighlty different version of the Kuo Toa are one of the main plot devices behind my favorite D&D KZread series "Tales from my D&D Campaign" (TDDC) The video/audio quality is not the greatest, but he did an AMAZING job building his world, and the story he tells is worth watching!

Great video gives me a couple ideas for my group to encounter.

Orks Roll the Windows down on their spacecraft's to feel a breeze.

That Katamari god got my goat. Good stuff as always!

Those rules seem so neat, especially the idea that they don't necessarily have to be against the players. They can just be a new God that suddenly exists.

Love your content man

Love the episode!