That was A+ from beginning to end. 🎈🥳🎈The art is phenomenal and new. Even tho the video is 30 minutes long you had me captivated for the duration. Great homebrew ideas. Thank you for bringing back the idea of puzzles, traps, glyphs to solve. DM - "When you touch that rune, you hear heavy stone on stone above you." Quiet. 1 round later... DM - "A 1 foot circular stone falls in the center of the ceiling followed by a green puff of dust and the room is filling with sand." PC to the mage - "Did you read that glyph correctly? Now is the time to check. I feel sick." Make it very dark. Light, even magical (unless holy or positive material), is only effective at half normal distance. DM - "Again, the sound of heavy stone scraping on stone echoes. Sometimes close, sometimes not so close. Shadows move among you in the edges of your lights." PC - "Did I see something in robes up there?" Can the Mummy see them from the practically invisible ledges 60 feet up by the ceiling? Does their "light" extend that high? Are there moving slab rock doors that lead to secret passageways? Has it been watching us the entire time? 😢 Make them scared to be alone. PC - "Warning... There's no word in our tongue for this glyph. Maybe 'gulp'? 'Black gulp sand'? I'm not sure." DM - "You smell something foul, like sewage and rot." After exactly 1 round the first random player quickly sinks completely into the black (it wasn't black before) sand but manages to take a deep breath. Roll to find their fellow player in the noxious sand with their hands. Roll to pull them "out"... PC - "I could feel something sucking on my entire body, my soul. Like I was in its mouth." Necro dam 1d6, no save. Another character (or same), soon after or randomly later, gets to roll to avoid it (IF they notice that same stench and associate it with the black sand attack... DM - "Were you looking down when you smelled that?"). PC - "Is it trying to separate us or eat us one at a time? That stench.... it's death." The African Egyptian area is the home to a LOT of poisonous snakes (Asps are small, fast, often in groups and very deadly, hiding in every crevice). Bugs can be dangerous and full of disease. Small and giant scorpions, a glossy mat of moving....?? PC - "LICE!!! RUN!!!" ...swarms slowly to you, biting flies, rot grubs in the slow moving, flesh eating zombies and... stirges?!? It sucks to have to ditch that armor. PC - "I feel something on my thigh." They cannot just ignore those 6 fat with eggs, black and iridescent green, shiny beetles (with the skulls on their shells) crawling down the wall. Many things hide in the sand in ambush. Large Sidewinder snake, just the tip of the tail visible, beckoning like a decomposing finger? Special effect noises? Skittering undead rats are spies are contaminated with the lesser rot virus, transmitted by their bite and can jump down on them if within 10 feet of the wall. They will scurry and hide if attacked but otherwise might just watch from a distance. Following them, behind, ahead and above? Their small beedy eyes reflect creepy red dots just outside the edge of your lights. Those that can see in the dark will think "Are those rats smiling?" Anything dropped and small is dragged away by them, lost and taken to the Master. Where is the next attack coming from? DM - "There is a layer of bluish mist just above your head.... like a gently, slowly, waving pond..... Something slimy is dripping on you." Fire will slightly part the mist to reveal hundreds of clear skinned worms, 3 feet long with large maws of teeth. Some are fat, others not. Dozens of the thinner are descending down towards you. They're swimming thru string upon string of sticky, wet tubes attached to the ceiling. You see the skeletons of their previous victims, as if glued by wet silk to the ceiling. [In groups they can carry a victim up to fight over.] They "swim" in and out of the sides of these clear "intestinal" like tubes by their little hooks (setae) on their sides. A figure in the distance, dark and tall, dissipates into a large pile, cloud, swarm? of annoying critters that cause damage in an area of affect of biting, stinging to weaken and scare the adventurers just enough to show them this is deadly. Is the Mummy able to taste their blood thru these swarms? DM - "You hear.... Female.... human.... ahhh, tasty." A more dangerous party might be plagued by a much faster Mummy who can ride the sands in any direction very quickly. Straight up, down or gliding across sands easily. He sinks into the sand below (teleporting away) or rises from it (teleporting to). He can attack with giant sand punches (5d10+10) or a giant skull sand bite (5d10+30) when they approach too close to his throne or final scenario. These do no Necro damage however. But they do have to escape the mound of sand this creates, 1 round and -2 rolls until out. Moving thru sand is not as easy for adventurers (half move and quarter jump). So much potential. Great effort! Great choices! I can see a tribe of Yuan-Ti as the Mummy's replacement if the party succeeds. Yuan-Ti soon please..... 😃

@RichesandLiches

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for listening! I have noted you as one of the "watermarks" for my videos. You are clearly knowledgable and fair in your assessments, giving praise or criticism when deserved and fairly (like the Hag pet... complete miss for me). Thanks for taking the time... your comments and feedback are taken very seriously.

@redfaux74

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Thanks for the response. As a former player and DM for many years I like to have fun but also took the game seriously. There are so many DnD channels out there that are very boring, copy and pasted. I'm convinced if you just briefly mention what is known and focus on the creative then your channel will explode quickly. I've seen a lot of the other guys have 200 to 400k subs and I wonder why. Obviously the bar is not high. With your homebrew ideas you'll go far. Cut out every repeat, use diff adjectives and go where no one else has. You're art is great. Good luck brother.

"Let me put it this way. Can you see the pyramid?" "Yes." "Then you're too close..."

Chuck Norris is the reason Mummies wear bandages. Great content.

I once had a Mummy Lord as the Big Bad in a campaign. She wasn't cursed however, she was extremely devoted to her goddess. The Priestess knew a dark and terrible secret: Her goddess was dying, but the ailing deity knew how to return to life, but the process would take centuries. For her unquestioning loyalty and devotion, the Priestess was specially embalmed after having imbibed a mystic poison at the behest of her goddess. Rising as a Mummy Lord, the priestess keenly feels the last of her goddess' divine power pass through her, fueling her diving magic. Now she sends forth her minions to gather the reagents needed to resurrect her goddess, acting with the patience that only the dead could have...

@RichesandLiches

Жыл бұрын

This is awesome! Thank you for sharing... I love these types of comments!

@danielrowan4716

9 ай бұрын

Awesome. I currently run a campaign based on Dwellers of the Forbidden City with a Mummy Lord as the main BBEG. It too is attempting to bring its god (a Lovecraftian horror from outside reality and time) using a version of the Codex of the Infinite Planes and a Cubic Gate to the Prime Material.

You forgot to mention the bag of beans tie in. As a pyramid can pop up literally anywhere.

Nice. I find it fascinating that real Egyptian mythology is cannon in DnD.

@redfaux74

Жыл бұрын

In real life there were only 2 kinds of Mummy. Pharaohs and his servants. Pharaohs were the head of the Egyptian pantheons. They could rewrite the pantheon, history and change the order of their deities if they desired. They had sorcerers, large libraries, incredible resources and vast armies with chariots, exotic pets, etc. With that knowledge a Mummy Lord would be in charge of many lesser mummys. Mummy wizards, Mummy warriors.... Wow, what potential for a campaign. Definitely a last potential bad guy. A lot of betrayal going on the ranks however.

Man I just love your clips on DND

Years ago I ran a Triton Mummy Lord laired up with its undead horde in the underwater tunnels of a huge iceberg. He was not dry but had his skin flayed and was wrapped in rune-marked seaweed wrappings. I swapped out some spells, immunities and vulnerabilities for flavor but it was totally just an underwater mummy preserved by dark magic and salt. Also the limitations that make a Mummy Lord(and many other baddies) basically food for a moderately prepared party can be tweaked in really fun ways by giving them magic items instead of just more HP or better spells. Love the videos, glad I subbed!

@RichesandLiches

Жыл бұрын

Love it! Thanks for sharing... and listening!

I love the idea of adding the plagues to a mummy. Yeah I know it’s been done in the movies but the characters, especially ones familiar with the D&D mummies, might be surprised when the fountains or water features start pouring with blood. Or if one of the actions cause a dried dusty corpse start to bulge and ballon until it ruptures explosively with flies/locusts/beetles… or if you’re really nasty, rot grubs.

Definitely a great vid with a lot of fun ideas. I pretty much agree with the lore as presented with one small change. In our setting, mummy lords were a type of undeath discovered before liches, who were created later by mages that improved the process. Great stuff! Thanks for making the vid. 😊

The variation in Lair settings is great and the artwork in this video is amazing. I have placed Mummy Lords in several different places over the years, to include a Spelljammer ship crashed on an asteroid.

Great stuff, man. I've got some stuff cooking that could lead my party to Anaurach. A mummy lord seems like a fitting capstone for that arc...

This video was amazing man. I can't wait to dig through your back catalogue.

@RichesandLiches

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening and be sure to let me know if there is something you would like to see so we can add it to the queue!

My favorite back story for a mummy lord was an arrogant King and a badly worded wish from a djinn.

Blighted oasis x insect plague is my new nightmare fuel. Ty.

I love mummies, but sadly they are often over looked in fantasy, so thanks for making this video!

@RichesandLiches

5 ай бұрын

Completely agree!

Wow! That was a great video! The artwork is fantastic!

Fresh Idea, newly formed. Jarl of the Draugr. A former king of the Mordish horselords' tomb has been disturbed. He has awoken and with him; brings a dozen of his hardest thanes, also returned from the lands beyond death. To serve their king, once again. The environment is not a desert, but Snow covered mountains, underdark tunnels and cold forest/plains.

Anyone else hearing Slayer’s Season In The Abyss in their heads as Rich read out that intro?

@RichesandLiches

Жыл бұрын

I must know more about this! Do share and I will check it out! :) Thanks for commenting and taking the time to watch... very appreciative.

love your stuff, great vids

Mummies can also be formed by being persevered in a swampy bog. Maybe a back story of a king, priest or priest-king and his army were thwarted and “wiped out” in a battle or in his mad pursuit of a McGuffin. Maybe the gods found disfavor and rose the waters to drown them, leaving behind a swampy bog filled with the dead. Maybe those who survived built a tomb or enshrined a temple or obelisk were the lord died. There he rose up, a wrathful figure preserved by the swamp.

@RichesandLiches

Жыл бұрын

I love this... a perfect example of yet another "not to typical" lair idea...

Great timing! Im a GM in a game where my players got the Mummy Lord effect from the Bag of Beans (8 level 9 players) and they just left the pyramid to return to at a later level! Ive been looking for inspiration on how to have the Mummy's influence spread to bite them back later on in-game.

@RichesandLiches

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking out the video and commenting... i forgot the bag of beans! lol the perfect video eludes me still :)

Pharaoh Settra is a good example of an undying ego

MummRa The Ever Living!

Heh heh... I'm binging all your videos, and again, my Lovecraft obsession kicks in. And of course it's the observatory...where it's already been established that peeking into the cosmos is a *very, very, VERY bad idea.* I would have the pyramid AS an observatory. But this ain't gonna be your standard mummy lord. Oh no. How does Lovecraft fit here? Through the fabled Pharaoh Nephren-Ka. The most extensive treatment of this character in Lovecraft comes in "The Haunter of the Dark" (1935/1936), where he forms part of the history of the Shining Trapezohedron: "The Pharaoh Nephren-Ka built around it a temple with a windowless crypt, and did that which caused his name to be stricken from all monuments and records. Then it slept in the ruins of that evil fane which the priests and the new Pharaoh destroyed, till the delver’s spade once more brought it forth to curse mankind." This plays into the god curse trope but with a twist. How? Well, this special little Pharaoh that goes by a couple of names---The Black Pharaoh and Nophru-Ka most famously. He is also dubbed "The Haunter of the Dark." He turned on the good gods to worship another insidious deity and they cursed him. But his dark god found favor with him. And this god not only gave Nephren-Ka great power and wisdom, but this god made the Pharaoh his avatar, thus the monikers"Nophru-Ka" and "The Black Pharaoh". And that God is Nyarlathotep, "The Crawling Chaos" himself. And the Shining Trapezohedron? That's a special artifact. Let's see what's said about it: "The Trapezohedron serves as a window on all of space and time. By gazing into it, its wielder would summon *Nyarlathotep* in his avatar as the eponymous *Haunter of the Dark,* as well as (possibly) the other Outer Gods. In exchange for horrible sacrifices, the *Haunter of the Dark* would reveal other worlds and arcane knowledge. It has been theorized that the stone offers a glimpse into the mind of Yog-Sothoth." Yeah...my party is FUCKED. Would totally tie in the vampire observatory scenario as well. Why do you keep tempting me to use Lovecraftian elements?! This is the second time now lmao

great channel and I like your take on the mummy lord. I am building one in the middle of the dark jungle in a ziggurat, using jungle themed creatures and Indiana Jones themed traps.

@RichesandLiches

3 ай бұрын

That's a great idea! Will definitely make a fun adventure!

Imagine a mummy lair at the center of a true river of quicksand. Just reaching the structure would have caused uncounted deaths, but adventurers with control water and other magics will always try their luck.

@RichesandLiches

Жыл бұрын

I love this! Might have to add this to my own homebrew tome with your approval and attribution :)

Awesome! We just need the Deathlock now and we pretty much all the undead that could be former players lol

@RichesandLiches

9 ай бұрын

And don't forget the world of homebrew and third party! :)

If I heard & translated right, "Mortalus Aternum" roughly translate from Latin as: eternal mortal. I'm guessing the voices that Ankahara heard were telling him that he's achieved eternal life... at a cost.

@RichesandLiches

5 ай бұрын

Nailed it! Thanks for watching and commenting!

Fire! Fire! Yeah! Fire! Hee hee hee hee! Pyrokineticist. Priest of Kossuth. Pyromancer. Psionics,divine and arcane.

make one with no homebrew about lices

Thanks

@RichesandLiches

11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your support and time!

New Subscriber! Stick to the undead! I love the undead and anything from the abyss or 9 hells. Bad guys, only.

@RichesandLiches

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for checking out the channel and subbing up, welcome!

i miss bill are dm learned firsthand never use a mummy lord on a party with a necromancer. also bog mummy lord of a fallen barbarian king

@wbbartlett

Жыл бұрын

nice selection of random words

Im really loving the channel so far. Something that will help both people find you as well as help people navigate, please put in chapters. KZread gives video with chapters more views and we fans would love easier navigation for when we can't watch your longer videos on one sitting. An addon that will help your SEO is called "tube buddy" It will help grow your channel naturally by giving you reccomended optimized changes. I used to do media management for youtubers and I think you have it in you to be big!

I'm not a native speaker and the "great Lenin grasp" part threw me off a little...

@RichesandLiches

7 ай бұрын

Given your spelling of Lenin I can certainly understand! :) The ability has nothing to do with the former Russian leader, but the material (linen) that mummies are most often wrapped in as part of their burial ceremony. Thanks for watching!

Curious. Do you play / are you going to play Larian's BG3?

@RichesandLiches

Жыл бұрын

I have played all the Divinity series so love Larian Studios... unfortuntely I have zero free time at the moment... but eventually.. YES definitely, love CRPGs :)

I Love your videos. Just a thing though. I Played 2'nd Edition. There was never a need to make a "Whatever Lord" I had players up against a strong Mummy that had gained Knowledge and power in it's Undeath. why the Zombie Lord, The Mummy lord, etc. You can easily make a Strong, intelligent adversary in any rules. Base rules and stats are just that. Base. Ravenloft 2'nd edition has a far better "Mummy Lord" as you call it. This NEED to fit the rules is the decimation of RPG's as a whole. Imagination and creativity are what makes a campaign or a stand alone adventure. What is next? A Kobold lord.... Already done years back. Though it was just a very strong leader of Kobolds. i REALLY hate this "Lord" term so much used now as if it makes a thing more evil. For reference... Check out the RPG "Chill" it had the Zombie master to a Tee in it's ability to be part of society. Now THAT is Horror. Unsubscribed now. Sorry. I Liked your Vids.

why you got jack sparrow as your thumbnail for mummy lords?

What about a spell called ancient dusty fart. Where the mummy farts out a dust cloud that chokes and pulls the air from the victims lungs only to lay the flavor of the fermented last meal the mummy ate 5000 years ago.

Bruh narrate some stories please lol

Certain Mummy Lords could use a magic to regain a youthful appearance like The Mummy movies.