I know this sounds "umm actually" but the reasons they only live 200 years is because Tritons arent an elven race, at all, they come from the elemental plane of water, were created by a different god and dont even have pointy ears. That whole thing about them not letting their foe get away is about how they chased the elementals that were now invading the material plane into the material plane so that the elementals wouldnt wreak havoc. Triton arent sea elves, sea elves are sea elves

@ernestlam5632

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for saying this so I don't have to.

@angushiggie311

2 жыл бұрын

SEA ELVES ARE SEA ELVES, DAMMIT!

@maromania7

2 жыл бұрын

@khandwa style Oh yes, even more than that. There were elementals involved, yes, but it was the elemental EVILS they were made to fight. Which includes evil elementals, but is largely things like sahuagin and kraken.

@maromania7

2 жыл бұрын

@khandwa style Not at all, in fact entire tribes of them serve the ruling genie noble of the City of Ten Thousand Pearls, and they serve as bodyguards for good genies all over. So a water genasi is basically the ignored kid of an ally. They don't have any issues listed with any type of genasi, though I'd personally rule them as slightly biased against fire or earth ones on principle.

@kid14346

2 жыл бұрын

@khandwa style Yeah this is a common issue with D&D KZreadrs when they try to discuss the actual lore of D&D... Like so many basically describe Dragonborn as Half-Dragons.

I think a good way to avoid the pompous self righteousness could be to change how they react to no one knowing them. Instead of indignation have them be genuinely confused, maybe even a bit frightened by the idea that the rest of the world has completely forgotten them. Heck this could be a great backstory for a Triton Bard. The Triton Kingdom is being menaced by something they can't handle on their own, so they send a messenger to call on the aid of their ancient allies. The messenger arrives at the mainland only to discover that the world has long since forgotten them, and can convince no one of his identity or plight. So he takes up Bardic Magic to spread the tales and glories of his people, both to spread appreciation for his people and to sell the enormity of the crisis that threatens the world.

@CitanulsPumpkin

2 жыл бұрын

Or you could just use the lore from their Theros reprint.

@carlfromaccounting1112

2 жыл бұрын

@@CitanulsPumpkin Another way to make tritons more bearable to play as is to just, like, homebrew their story into something useful.

@ratoh1710

2 жыл бұрын

Or play to that sense of pride and nobility, and have your Triton be genuinely remorseful of having even potentially harmed people by accidentally causing an extradimensional invasion. Maybe even make them self-sacrificial to a fault and have them try to help literally anyone, with no regard to their own safety or even morality, due to a feeling of guilt so deep it is nearly killing them on the inside. Then the obvious story arc would be to help them realize that not literally everything bad that ever happened to others is their fault. Insanely self-centered and prideful as per the lore, but this arrogance resulting in a martyr complex rather than being an asshole

@CitanulsPumpkin

2 жыл бұрын

@@carlfromaccounting1112 have you read the triton description in Theros? They're adventurers in that book. In Volo's they're just egomaniacs.

@carlfromaccounting1112

2 жыл бұрын

@@CitanulsPumpkin I like to think that everything Volo wrote in his guide to monsters is wrong in some way, tritons being only one of those things.

I kid you not, I was planning on a pirate themed campaign, so this ad break is actually perfect! Time to raid the seas and stop the dwarvish dead!

@Blue-Pheonix455

11 ай бұрын

I played the module. Be prepared to suffer. It was fun but incredibly demanding... my party made it to lvl 14 before a tpk. I do recommend if you like pain

I like to picture Tritons as cheesy superhero types that get really confused when nobody knows about that megalodon they wrestled into submission 100 years ago. They proudly announce their mighty deeds... only to be at a loss when everyone seems much more concerned about things happening in a places they can actually, you know, exist in without being a fish man. Making them pompous nobles with an intense sense of obligation is fine, but giving them some himbo energy really elevates them as a whole, in my opinion. Big "I love you too, random citizen!" energy.

Unless I'm mistaken, elves have no relation to tritons. You might be thinking of sea elves when you said that, but yeah, I couldn't find anything that said tritons used to be elves

@greenEntertainer.

2 жыл бұрын

The quote in the Triton section of Volo's guide compares Tritons to elves, which gives many people the impression that they ARE elves, but you are correct in that there is no direct relation between either race.

Can confirm did play a Triton like this. Was some what fun, and was getting better, but then we since we were playing Hoard of the Dragon queen the first road trip stopped being fun. Some goods stories, some bad, but we retired it because the 40 day road to hell got boring real fast.

@l.psimer6124

Жыл бұрын

I would feel sorry if you made the comment a bit easier to read, sorry for sounding like a asshole but the Grammer could use some work.

Been playing a Triton Eldritch Knight/Wizard for around a year or so now, he's pretty much fascinated by everything in the world and is on a quest for knowledge. Pretty much like playing a magpie mixed with a baby, anything shiny and new and he's interested in it

@jericnepomuceno3843

2 жыл бұрын

Woahhhh that’s crazy !!! The first character that I made up for a campaign (but still haven’t played as) is a Triton Eldritch Knight. Good to know that other people had the same idea of a sea dwelling creature having it’s mind blown by the concept of fresh water.

@yooooo8600

Жыл бұрын

Currently coming up with a drunken triton bard who was exiled from her kingdom and now roams the seas

wait, since when are tritons elf-related? I thought they were just underwater humanoids, while sea elves are the... water elves.

@raistlin1357

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, as far as I know they are unrelated

@zooker7938

2 жыл бұрын

The flavour text compares them to elves, and a lot of people misread that as them literally being elves.

@maromania7

2 жыл бұрын

He's mistaking a comment on page 115 of Volo's guide saying they are as ARROGANT as elves to mean they ARE elves. But it was just a random sea captain saying that they're arrogant but too isolated to be proven wrong. There is no actual relation to elves at all, they were formed from water in the elemental plane of water. The closest 'relation' they consider having is nerieds, which are sea fey. Even in action, the arrogance is the only real similarity they have, triton culture and attitude is very different.

Sounds to me like they would make a great arrogant warrior. Regardless of the backstory, it's genuinely cool to see a character who's whole arc revolves around growing into their own ego. "Don't worry, feeble landfolk! I'LL save you!"

Triton are the embodiment of ''This is what my character would do.'' But replace Character with Race.

@gingermcgingin4106

2 жыл бұрын

If you think Tritons are bad, wait until you get a load of the Kender.

Every Triton is obligated to sing "You're welcome" from Moana.

I'm making a Triton and naming him Fah Gwad at 4'6. He's gonna be looking for supplies to send home and be shocked at how most things will rust or die in the ocean

They're referred to as an elven race in this video, but isn't that confusing them with sea elves, who are actually elves that did just prefer to settle in the oceans, and have their own playable statblock and lore?

@maromania7

2 жыл бұрын

correct. A comment in VGM compared thier arrogance to that of elves, which he confused as meaning they ARE elves.

I played a Triton wild magic Barbarian who is taken as a small Triton from his family and raised in the feywild as a pet. Basically did this to circumnavigate the whole pompous aspect of them as a race.

@juliandacosta6841

2 жыл бұрын

@person person stats/aesthetic

@andrej8494

2 жыл бұрын

@person person nah he is still playing Triton. He is just playing interesting new variant of it ( and that is what dnd is all about) like human child being raised by monkeys (No one asks why is tarzan human[ maybe a bad comparison but i will still stand by it])

@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8

2 жыл бұрын

@person person are you implying that mean we must only play the race according to the book? While the book states them in a way they are pompous and stuck up?

@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8

2 жыл бұрын

@person person Personally my take on that is a races psychology differs from other races in a way that makes them rather distinct at a fundamental level (Dwarves might be more inclined towards developing rigid frameworks and etc.), think of a bit of a sliding scale on certain traits.

Gillion Tidestrider, the best Triton I've ever seen, that no-one will know

@p.d.crayfish9607

2 жыл бұрын

Destiny

@gretablackwell495

3 ай бұрын

Genuinely might be one of my favourite characters ever. For several months after being introduced to jrwi my brain was reduced to a single gillion bouncing around like a windows screensaver

@elvishcyborg4275

3 ай бұрын

@@gretablackwell495 truly the Just Roll With It experience

@Flinterwing

2 ай бұрын

He is the greatest thing ever

Hate to "Uuugh actually" you buddy, but Tritons have absolutely ZERO relation to Elves and hail from the Elemental Plane of Water. They are not to be confused with the actual Sea Elves, which do exist and are rather interesting.

I’m currently playing a triton, his last name is Keel Hehe boat jokes

@tacogodboomdogg

2 жыл бұрын

It will keel

@ClassicMagicMan

2 жыл бұрын

@@tacogodboomdogg 🤣

I love the concept of tritons being pompous himbos who can tell stories of fabulous adventures but freezes up when you ask them what a plate is

All I am saying is my name is Gillion Tidestrider, Champion of the Undersea, Hero of the Deep, The One, Singer/Songwriter, Paramount Champion, Leviathan Whisperer, Defenestrator of Adulterers, Knighter of Julian that one time, and Co Captain of the Riptide Pirates.

I love imagining Tritons like the version of Drax the Destroyer that stars in Marvels Guardians of the Galaxy (the video game). Like they're intellectually stimulated, philosophical, rational and kind. But their society demands absurdly direct responses to any challenge and just *hearing the name* "Dreadfury the Dragon Devil" gives them a massive raging erection at the thought of a glorious fight to the death that will bring them glory for centuries after their passing.

@bru9383

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, this is it

You could touch-up an island/ocean setting by saying that some young Tritons leave their undersea compounds to learn what the world they’re supposed to be protecting is actually like.

My first character was a triton. I knew nothing of the game or lore. I was at a convention and my friend recommended you give dnd a shot. Our characters were summoned by our dieties and patrons to collect a couple McGuffins to defeat the BBEG. My character was so committed to the objective that he was willing to ignore a village that was set ablaze by the BBEG. We had to collect the items before the BBEG ascended or something like that. He was really fun to play and the class was monk for those wandering.

Well good thing this video exists, I'll be real. Hadn't even heard the word "tritons" in my life

If I'm going to play an Obnoxious Poopstain character, you best know I'm going to live up to those expectations! I did it for my Lizardfolk Cleric, and everyone loved me almost eating all of our deceased party members!

The first and only time I played a triton I spent three and a half sessions being in a coast-themed far-realm crossing without any of the fun aliens, then spend the rest of the adventure (7 more sessions) in a desert. The fish guy got so traumatized he punched every wall he could and killed a child because I was so afraid of everything that could be out to get him

Honestly one of my favourite player races, next to the Aasimar, Centaur, and the Warforged.

@kirilbulgariev

2 жыл бұрын

Same

Anybody remember Wake, Lanipator’s character from TFS at the Table? That was my first big introduction to D&D.

1:54 I said in 1996 when they started adding pig physics I’d stop playing DnD

@dillpickle987

2 жыл бұрын

Was looking for this, thank you.

Its funny, I recently played a young triton paladin in the sunken isles campaign. She wasn't an asshole but incredibly obnoxious, curious and had little concept of personal space. She was really fun to play, but was petrified at level 3. One day I will play a campaign where she makes it to at least lvl 10. Sadly is wasn't the sunken isles

Ayyyy glad my Triton passes the test. Every couple in game months he finds something new to obsess over. Currently it's Sauces. They don't work underwater so he's taken to trying every sauce he can get his gremlin hands on

@Flinterwing

2 ай бұрын

I love him

I like the idea of Tritons being literal fish out of water I want a Triton who randomly gives out a frustrated groan because they hate the fact you can't swim up on land

@maromania7

2 жыл бұрын

That's actually the primary reason listed that they don't go onto land, they hate that you can't freely go up or down. It just feels unnatural to them

Sooo... What you're saying is... Having a Triton and a Githyanki on your team would make for endless popcorn material for the rest of your party.

I'm building an ocean themed campaign and I can't wait to use these guys.

Just some dreaded "actually"-ing in the comment section, sorry, but Tritons are not elven. Sea elves are here own thing. Tritons hail originally from the elemental plane of water, as outsiders.

It always effs me up when i see a cool creature looking all tough an imposing and then i read that it's much shorter than me.

I have a Triton Artificer who just wants to bring back their wife, so they traveled to the surface for knowledge

@tomisabum

2 жыл бұрын

Oh nice, I've been tempted by the idea of an Armorer Artificer Triton with a sort of early Bioshock 'Big Daddy' design.

I have been on KZread for over 10 years and you and @zefrank are the only ones I look forward to with the excitement of childhood. Keep up your work man. That new book looks amazing as does all your stuff.

Where in the book does it say tritons are elves? They aren't. They get compared to elves in the flavour text but I think most people are misinterpreting that to mean that they are elves.

Tritons are just the god's first draft of Sea Elfs. You can't change my mind.

GILLION TIDESTRIDER, CHAMPION OF THE UNDERSEA

You're so good at explaining fantasy concepts in a way that's grounded and entertaining.

*I DARN LOVE THIS SERIES~*

Too late Runesmith, all Tritons are now Lord Farquaad and there is nothing you can do to change that.

Remember you talking about this campaign in an older video and was entranced, can not wait to see it for myself!

In my games, I treat them as an entire civilization dedicated to the SCP under the sea. Or the GOC. With the difference being that they would like recognition, but do still hide a lot of shit from the world.

seeing farquadd in the thumbnail made my day

I recommend watching just roll with it riptide and studding Gillian tidestrider

Im just now seeing this video after I fully planned out a triton for the newest campaign im in, still excited to play the race, especially after giving it a bit more afterthought from this video, radical

"Look at this world isn't it neat? _I will bury anything trying to harm it 90 fathoms deep"_

really glad to see a 'regular' informative video from you again :)

I had a Triton Sorcerer who was less arrogant and more just fascinated by the world, in particular one thing: fire. They *loved* fire, and had no idea how it worked. In their backstory they lit a tavern on fire by accident and went to jail just because they didn't know fire burns things. Unfortunately it was kind of a bad campaign for them, it was Waterdeep so I couldn't actually commit arson. Might use 'em again at some point.

I'm pretty excited! Our dm is throwing together a campaign where everyone wakes up dead in the river styx with amnesia. We're somehow going to break out into the steampunk era. I picked a bard triton and can't wait to play!

I wanna play a triton paladin who's general existence is congratulations you are being saved, please do not resist

I use Triton rules for a human warlock of the old ones to represent mutations from his patron. The Dunwich look...

I played a Triton once and it was one of my favorite characters, he was an ocean themed druid summoning water elementals and turning into a shark, I played him as more of the naive wide eyed outsider who lost him mind when he leaned what fire magic was and would occasionally forget how gravity worked and would try to "swim up" to get things while on dry land

I admit that there is an undeniably funny aspect about someone playing a meant-to-die Triton in the most aloof "I do not care about your personalities, landwalkers." way possible, only to use him to sacrifice himself in the most emotional, pathos-laden "I do this for you, people of the land. I love you and my life is your shield." way possible, hahaha. Only to then have the party deal with the absolutely weird emotional repercussions of that whole thing where a complete stranger who refused to even learn your names sacrificed himself at the first sign of trouble with the most emotional, world-weary goodbye possible.

My GF plays a Triton who is a personification of exactly that disgusted sound you mentioned: We are in a Theros campaign and she created a character based on Sciron, a bandit who would force his victims to wash his disgusting feet and kick them down a cliff to be fed to a giant sea turtle. Fun stuff.

Fluffs my geese is the best thing I've ever heard

Only triton I’ve seen played is from Just Roll With It and thank god they didn’t end up being the pretentious asshole type

Now I kinda want to use Tritons as a villain or starting threat. Basically occupying costal villages and ""aggressively taxing"" ships in their waters in a attempt to get more resources to deal with a major threat..... it's all for the good of the material plane..... this is simply a act of nessesity, the surface folk simply don't understand that yet..... at least that's what they tell themselves....

Currently playing a Folk Hero Triton pugilist, because of the whole isolationist aspect I've been playing up the fact that since the surface has no clue who he is, he's basically free to run from his from his past with little resistance.

@jamescanjuggle

2 жыл бұрын

xD i can imagine him gettinf cancelled in the ocean so he runs to land and just never comes back

I'm gonna play a fanatical triton that stabs every puddle, river and lake he sees just to make sure it's not a secret water elemental

If like tritons, i would recommend you learn about Gillion Tidestrider Champion of the Undersea, Hero of the Deep

i can without a doubt say: good job :)

i'm going to play a triton in a game where their backstory is homebrewed and they're isolated due to being a monster race. they've got thier own little underground beach village/community and know about nothing going on on the outside. he's a paladin of devotion and refuses to lie cheat or steal. he's also very kind and polite and naive.

One of my favorite characters I have made was a Triton. She was a ranger name Saviin (violet in Mandalorian ) I did play into the Arial inspiration. Also the campaign premise was that we were all heroes brought back by a necromancer and thus we had to come up with how they died in the first place. Saviin was fighting a shark when she swam into a jellyfish.

I made my triton a barbarian of brains, brawn, and beauty (I rolled stupidly high and got a 16,17, and 18) and she is curious about the world...because she wants to take it over. She doesn't like all the wars that keep happening so she wants to take care of the matters herself, whether it be brute force, taking their place, making them sign a treaty, or ensnaring them in her beauty to do as she wants, she will do anything to end the wars across the regions. I still don't know how that aligns...chaotic good? Lawful evil? No clue haha

This is the only channel besides Dunkey where I've watched every video that's come out so far

Dude! Oh you make me grin so. This will make me chuckle over my evening port for weeks. Thank you, young man. I am well pleased.

We are all so glad you are uploading again!

Currently playing a triton tempest cleric in my friends' (heavily modified) Hoard of the Dragon Queen module and I'm having a blast with him actually, hes actually one of my favorite characters in a while. Basically he was a hitman for the Luskan mafia before he was betrayed and exiled, and he later found new purpose as a cleric of Deep Sashelas, the sea god. He grew up on the surface on his own so he doesnt have the whole triton propaganda thing beaten into his head making him insufferable, but he still maintains some of those pompous/self-sacrificing things mentioned in the video. He is the party Dad Friend who's really tryin his best. Tritons can be really fun as long as you have a good group of friends and you arent deliberately an ass.

I'm playing a Triton oath of the open sea paladin and she's a herbo that's a mix of Seahawk from She-Ra and Aquaman from Batman the Brave and the Bold. Basically is excited for adventure and relishes in and wants to carve her own path.

Played a low int Triton that was basically an anxious golden retriever that got kicked out of the water plane, just wanted back to his farm life after realising the military weren't perfect selfless protectors. Just en entire himbo.

I’ve actually been seeing lots of ads for sunken isles around, mainly on Facebook. So whatever advertising your running there I just want to let you know it’s working! I didn’t realise you were the one to write it though!

4:30 I'd recognize that specific "Ugh" anywhere

I played a triton for a few sessions. He was Lord Katakus of House Tituth, and he was accompanied by his tortle butler who's name I can't remember. Katakus was bombastic, had a bit of an ego, and had no idea how stuff worked. For an example, he saw someone get thrown out the second story window of a tavern and determined that was the proper method of exit... and followed suit a few moments later.

YAASSS been waiting on this one!

I’ve been running a homebrew pirate campaign in my world “the Mythic Isles” for a few years now. I’m super excited to pick up this book and spice up this place a bit. 🤘

Tritons are snobby bipedal tuna with pointy ears. Change my mind.

GILLIAN

Ok, i already know who is going to have beef with my next character... Obnoxious tritons with no appreciation for my interpretive dancing

1:53 those are some quality pig physics

Played a triton samurai pufferfish for a two year long campaign (was the second character I played in this campaign, the first was a granny paladin). His name was Wasabi Naramura, a timid bounty hunter turned confused yet well meaning hero whose goal was to simply prove himself worthy to himself and his peers and follow in the footsteps of his ideal (The Pearl Dancer). I also flavoured his spells and fighting style around him being a short pufferfish man. For instance, whenever he used shield, he would puff up his cheeks. In addition, I also decided to mix influences with his look and voice with Japanese mythology style and the voice of a cockney.

Nah, I like their default attitude. It can be funny, and then they can prove their prowess in the next battle.

Can we get a Gnoll Battle Tactics video? I feel like it would be great to see how a pack of gnolls can make a group of adventurers dread the wilds

But if I don't RP them as entitled d-bags, how can I be Prince Nemor of Atlantis?

How to play a Triton, think of them as WW2 Vets but also an asshole, "Hey, stop acting like your the boss, who put you in charge?", "Who here killed Nazis, only me, yeah I thought so, anyway the plan..."

@TheSuperRatt

2 жыл бұрын

It's even funnier when you realize that nobody has any idea who the "nazis" this guy killed even are.

Bless the RuneSmith

My brother played a triton in a game we where in together. He made the intelligence stat as low as possible and role played that he was really stupid.

Basically- people want to play as a merfolk race, but they need to be able to LEAVE the water at some point.

Today I found out that a original character in my book, is a triton to a T. Blue skin, webbed finger and toes, can travel to any body of water on any planet. Is apart of a war. And she has a power that no other of her kind has, the power to turn into a cracken. And her people use that power in war weather she likes it or not. This just makes me feel better that I didn’t make her up, bc my book centers around mythology being altered and supernatural creatures being from other planets. So this fits well

Yay new book!

just casually including an oneyplays, pig physics reference at 1:53???? that's kinda cool though I like it :)

New Runesmith video :]

What an interesting video about a DND race _Continues to spam V-human, Custom lineage and flyers_

“The Elemental has fallen in love with the princess!”

Perhaps this race could be used for Swashbuckler Rogues or Storm Sorcerers.

I made a Triton character for salt marsh and made the Tritons similar to Spartans. Minus the duty to save everyone, they are similar when it comes to militant heritage, pride and even isolationism. One of my favorite characters by far to play.

Damn! Your adventure looks cool!

This is why I prefer their Theros versions when it comes to Triton lore xD