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@Judge_Dredd_

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Jim/Webdm, any chance you could do a review on the 5e D&d book of fiends (by Robert J. Schwalb) ?

WebDm: Still the best intros on youtube

This intro is the content I have come to love.

@WebDM

2 жыл бұрын

happy to deliver quality intros

One idea for basilisks is that they turn creatures into different materials based on their creature type or something like that. Celestials turn to marble or gold, fiends into obsidian, giants into iron, etc.

This made me think of a dragon or basilisk with a metalic breath attack. Like they breath gaseous metal that condenses on the air and objects around it, so it quickly fills the air with microscopic metal dust which is toxic, and it also quickly coats things in a layer of deposited metal, quickly hardening into an encasement. Similar to turning something to stone

@jacobcochran3743

2 жыл бұрын

I thin Gorgons have a breath weapon like that so you could steal that

Potent venom? Trail of slime? Kills all nature everywhere? Horrific embodiment of evil? I don't know if this is a mythic beast or just the gop!

I think the Basilisk's saliva has anti-petrifying properties. It would make sense since swallowing jagged rocks wouldn't be pleasant that, much like a person seeing their meal before them, a basilisk starts to heavily salivate and will coat the chunk of its victim it rips off in its saliva, waiting for it to un-petrify before swallowing. It would also make un-petrifying party members or training a pet basilisk more forgiving as saliva would be fairly easy to gather.

Perfect timing with the video. My party has discovered a cave system that will end up having a basilisk as a guard for naga, a gorgon (behind a gate), and finally a maedar and medusa.

@Leftists_are_Losers

2 жыл бұрын

Your party’s theme ... Everybody must get stoned !

@andrewholland2763

2 жыл бұрын

I am debating wether to add a Stone Cursed in with the regular stone statues in the basilisk’s area.

@nicka3697

2 жыл бұрын

Could you not add a few cockatrice?

@Leftists_are_Losers

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicka3697 why not ? And the big treasure at the end is a cache of potions of stone to flesh. One per party member. And the only gold there is has been “stoned” so it is worthless...

Jim's gotta real future in the petrified victim role! Reminds me of my audition for a leaf on the ground.

I like to think that some people very much enjoy being turned to stone. Like you can still feel everything when youre turned to stone, youve just sacrificed mobility for stability. And after spending some time being a statue if they were to be turned back it would feel very destabilizing and flimsy, and some might panic, as in their stone form they might have lasted 1000s of years but after being turned to flesh they have mere decades

That's a stone cold intro

I’ve been writing up Cockatrices as a very common critter in my homebrew setting and decided any creature who can cast spells has their blood turned into veins of ruby within the petrified body.

@Tysto

2 жыл бұрын

Stealin' that.

Nobles keeping tea cup basilisks in their purse pocket to petrify any pickpockets.

@Nathan_Talisien

2 жыл бұрын

I love that! I immediately imagined a Lesser Teacup Basilisk where the effect of the gaze wears off in a few minutes, and the wealthy carrying them around as pets which can be used in a pinch like real-world people use pepper spray or tazers.

HAHAHA Godamnit I love the way he sounded when doing that intro

A couple things come to mind when thinking of Basilisks and Alchemy. First An alchemist thinks they have successfully created the elixir of life. In an act of hubris, they drink it, and turn themselves into a Basilisk. Second, A raging Basilisk in an alchemical lab, undergoing radical changes as it accidently exposes itself to the various alchemical components brewed up in the lab. This could be an incredibly fun random table to build.

Immediately want to build a society of blind monks who keep basilisk as their spiritual guides... great video gang!

@AlexanderBaird

2 жыл бұрын

That also makes me want an alternate use of stunning strike to cause petrification!

This one really got me inspired, particularly the ties between basilisks and alchemy. I’m thinking that a basilisk is created in an attempt to make a living philosopher’s stone as its victims are turned to gold instead of stone. Who would employee such a thing? Maybe a moralist society that uses it as punishment for criminals or other undesirables and then uses the statues to mint their coins, enriching their city both morally and commercially. Maybe a palace is filled with gold statues of past rulers granted the mercy of enshrinement on their deathbeds. I’m sure there are others, but I’m on the clock and it’s back to work for me!

My favourite basilisk usage (at least up until "teacup basilisk" - gonna steal that!) was from "The Mines of Bloodstone". Forgive hazy memory here - this is a very old high-level module series (2E?) that was the spiritual ancestor of Kingmaker, I guess. PCs find a jumble of stone chunks at the bottom of a long and wonky ladder. If their rogue isn't sufficiently cautious they will poke their head over the top and stare into the eyes of a basilisk lairing in the chamber above. They petrify, topple down the shaft and shatter, adding their chunks to the pile. The giggle here is that the PCs are high enough level that fixing petrification is trivial, but making sure they give their rogue back their original nose (or even the correct number of hands) is definitely non-trivial. Opens the way to ideas about creative reconstruction of broken petrified people, or stone-shaping prior to revivification for fun and profit. Mostly fun though... their cleric wasn't the nicest fellow...

20:00 Exactly my same thoughts. I even reskinned the Catoblepas to put it in the same taxonomic family as thr Behir/Basilik

Only just occurred to me that basilisks and similar creatures are pretty lovecraftian. A creature you can't even see without risking yourself in some way

@isaacalien

2 жыл бұрын

Instead of petrification it would be... Stunned? Incapacitated? Ooh! _Feeblemind_?! Something like that to show your brain has checked out at glimpsing it too long

Sea Basilisks and Cobra Basilisks are aquatic based serpentine variations of the classic monstrosities that lurk in the deep waters of the dark ocean. Cobra Basilisks do not petrify with a stare but instead with a venomous bite, the poison is harvested and used to produce protections from Medusa and Gorgon. Sea Basilisks have adapted a venomous defense as well but they do not petrify, instead they boil you from the inside rapidly. On the first failure you gain the effects of a Haste spell, if you succeed on the second save you gain a level of exhaustion, if you fail your second save your body begins to dehydrate as steam pours from every orifice.

The 2e Pathfinder Basillisk did the anti-petrification thing well in my book. Namely that it's blood - for a short period of time after death - can be smeared on those petrified to return them.

Riffing off of the Beholder-Basilisk: Beholder-Hydra! 😱

This has given me some amazing ideas for side quests. Great content as always Jim!

I love the goofiness of this channel. It's what makes it one of my favorites. Plus the knowledge wealth is so vast. Much Love. Keep it up

these type of shows are some of my favorite. glad this is a new series

Genuinely one of the best videos you have made.

Thanks for the video!!! I've been trying to respark my passion for DMing for a minute, and your videos never fail to inspire me. I hope to hear more about Weird Wastelands soon :)

I have fell in love with your monster videos.

This type of video is awesome. I need more monster videos!

an idea i have beeb sitting on for a while is the healing basilisk, a total inversion of this terrifiying low level monster. imagine a battle were a PC is horribly maimed, straight up taking out a limb, sight, etc. and then you have an NPC medic either already be in their company or they are quickly ushered off to this character and they take out a lizard from there sidebag and have you stare into its eyes, the PC is turned to stone and then the statue is then worked on by a medicnal mason taught in the ways of sculpture and mended to prime form. then the guts of a freshly slaughtered basilisk are slathered upon the PC and they come alive fully healed and good as new.

Excellent episode

Man, what if your basilisk turned people to gold? A Midas basilisk! Ooh! Or if the clerics made one that turned people into diamonds so they can always resurrect people? Edit: Nevermind, should've waited to the end of the video.

RPG gold - as usual. Thanks! :-)

This got my imagination going! Thank you!

I love me some basilisks. For anyone who wants fresh art, check out the Pathfinder 2e version, they look just different enough. Also, I hope Pruitt is doing well. I'm sure working as a pharmacist through the global BS has been very stressful.

Magocrat who had basilisk eyes grafted in place of their own. Controls effects by using magic to navigate. Make spells and spell effects on creatures that they can see particularly nasty

Basilisk Blinkers definitely exist.

Basilisk deep dive… Perfect! I decided a few days ago to use a basilisk for the next quest. The PCs stole a magical yacht, so the boat repair guy said he can modify the construction if he gets the tear ducts of a basilisk. With them, he makes a tea that will sort of “pause” the magic allowing things like extra ballista ports to be cut in the sides without destroying the pocket dimension 2 of the decks are in.

@WebDM

2 жыл бұрын

awesome!!

I had a bad run in with a basilisk early on in my ttrpg career and my DM has leveraged this on me every time we run into one.

Perfect video for me! I want to include these in a later part of the game (Players decided to NOT enter the caverns yet, thank goodness).

@WebDM

2 жыл бұрын

glad to help!

Basilisks in Warhammer Fantasy not only petrifies, they cook their victims inside stone, like chicken in clay. And after they brake brittle stone they eat cooked meat

I have been loving the classic monster videos. You guys are awesome. Keep it up!!

@WebDM

2 жыл бұрын

thank you!

We done with Spotify? I understand if it wasn't worth the hassle for y'all, but it honestly was the most convenient and clutch way to listen to the great minds of WebDM. I am in law school, so I don't have the extra money to sign up for the Patreon. But if you're still putting podcasts out there, I'll be able to join in a year and a half. Keep up the good work, even if it makes me keep my phone unlocked to watch haha.

"Ok... ... ... cut." 😂😂

Watching this i got a weird idea: a basilisk made to turn creatures into gold, a strugelig kingdom or a bbeg that is basing its economy of literal blood money. Some real evil stuff huh neat

15:30 The _Dark Souls_ version of the basilisk fit pretty well with this Pliny reskin, specially the breathing a petrifying miasma that hangs around temporarily.

Watching this while at the vet with my dog (she had chocolate). Thanks for brightening up an otherwise terrible afternoon!

@WebDM

2 жыл бұрын

Hope your pupper is ok!

@geoffdewitt6845

2 жыл бұрын

@@WebDM Vet says she'll be fine; thanks!!!

The black mamba can stand six feet and strike you in the face, but they live in Africa primarily. So that stood out to me. It is also pretty deadly.

I still have PTSD from the BG1 basilisks..

Loved the troll video, sure this one is just as good 👍

I am about to run a one shot: Temple of The Basalisk which has statblocks for juvenile Basalisk who if you fail your save petrify 1d4 limb resulting in falling prone/disadvantage on melee, no somatic spells (or meet an Arcana DC to perform one handed.) I am really looking forward to running this because my players have no idea what is about to hit them. The petrification only lasts 24 hours but enough time to get up in their business and doing some damage.

Oh Jim Jimmy Jim JimJim Jim Jiiim. Intro game @ 100%

Just let the Basilisk drain levels. :D

That shirt is amazing! Please tell me you sell it, or where to get it.

@WebDM

2 жыл бұрын

It's a death saves shirt

Who made that really cool Orcus shirt?? Great video btw

@WebDM

2 жыл бұрын

It's by death saves!

So if a party member gets stoned by a basilisk can you swap their arms and legs before Greater Restoring them to give them arm legs and leg arms?

Imagine, a druid using giant weasels, (perhaps they hay have resistance to gaze attacks)that you cast enlarge on to help hunt down Basilisks, 😂 lol Added, their walking down the trail, and find a deer or wolf stone leg, perfectly sculpted, except for were it fractured were it would attch to the rest of the animal.

Man, it would be cool to reskin a basilisk's gaze to inflict charm rather than petrification. Then you have a bunch of con-men take it around to various towns and use it to bilk people out of coin or food. ALL HAIL HYPNO-TOAD!!!

Second. Dang it!

ive always found the dnd basilisk and cockatrice very disappointing. i find the aspect that a basilisk is created when an egg is laid by a rooster (something that cant happen) and then is incubated by a toad (something that shouldnt happen) extremely interesting. i like the idea that they are extremely rare, cannot be manually created and have a level of power associated with that rarity. a cockatrice being basically a baby basilisk that undergoes a metamorphosis as it grows up. i would play a cockatrice as at least CR10 and a basilisk as at least CR20. their petrification is death and can only be restored by a wish spell or brought back with true res as all of their cells are replaced with stone and scrambled on a molecular level so the original body is effectively entirely destroyed. this may not be an instakill and rather con drain that kills when it hits 0 but would still be really harsh

What if there is a government that domesticated war Bassikisks? They could even use the basilissk to stone people relocate them chain them to a wall and stone to flesh them. They interrogate the person. Then they stone them again and return then where they found them and cast stone to flesh again.

@AlexanderBaird

2 жыл бұрын

You can count on bounty hunters to learn how you use a solution of basilisk saliva to cast their targets in carbonate like Star Wars lol

@florenmage

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlexanderBaird I can totally see that happening in a fantasy setting. Great way to make some loudmouth criminal shut up for the trip back to prison. lol XD

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Did your band break up? Where's your boi

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@WebDM

2 жыл бұрын

you are the KING

wheres pruitt? things are different... i'm scared.

@doomfrom9077

2 жыл бұрын

I honestly have no idea...

@polygon2745

2 жыл бұрын

Can't tell if this is a joke or not, but on the off chance you're serious, Pruitt decided to step away from videos for the time being due to burnout. That happened quite a while ago, have you not been watching their vids recently?

@WebDM

2 жыл бұрын

Pruitt has been on hiatus since November or so - still part of the team, but taking a break from videos due to burnout.

@Treebohr

2 жыл бұрын

They said he was leaving the videos for a while because he was getting burned out doing them. He still works with them on books and stuff, just not in videos

@MrShockzine

2 жыл бұрын

@@polygon2745 youtube algorhythm, i get random picks from them, dungeondudes, taking20, xp to lvl 3, nerdimersion, etc. This is the first i've seen without him.

fird

How exactly are you supposed to train a lizard not to look at specific people? That sounds like utter nonsense to me & is typical of D&D wanting every possible option on the table at the same time. They are either deadly supernatural creatures that kill with a look OR they are cutesy domestic pets. They cannot be both.

Nice work!

Buc-ee's!