The Most TERRIFYING Monsters You've Never Heard Of

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Tiamat, The Tarrasque, Orcus, The Stranger Things guy, we've seen them all before... Let's talk about some amazing powerful endgame bosses that deserve more love!
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  • @DnDShorts
    @DnDShorts2 жыл бұрын

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  • @bigfan1816

    @bigfan1816

    2 жыл бұрын

    Where is Tasha stat block

  • @erikhopkins9548

    @erikhopkins9548

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeenogh set up sounds like an entire adventure ark to do for mid to high level party

  • @karelreckendorf5856

    @karelreckendorf5856

    2 жыл бұрын

    I HAVE THE MAGIC THE GATHERING NUV MIZZIT card it also pretty good with magic

  • @SigurdBraathen

    @SigurdBraathen

    2 жыл бұрын

    Anyone got some bleach for my eyes?

  • @sebastianosionnides

    @sebastianosionnides

    Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic tool. And a great community

  • @skeepodoop5197
    @skeepodoop51972 жыл бұрын

    Marut; "I am inevitable." Human; *Brushes off the force and radiance. Marut; "..." Human; "And I... Am a bear totem barbarian."

  • @averagegatsby

    @averagegatsby

    2 жыл бұрын

    My Bear Totem Barbarian is so much fun.

  • @CooperAATE

    @CooperAATE

    2 жыл бұрын

    *still dies*

  • @rystudios4612

    @rystudios4612

    2 жыл бұрын

    with 5 levels of rouge

  • @spikesunshine5045

    @spikesunshine5045

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rystudios4612 the unkillable

  • @Torthrodhel

    @Torthrodhel

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rystudios4612 and knuckles

  • @cjr4908
    @cjr49082 жыл бұрын

    The fact that the Elder Tempest has a mile-long attack it can use every turn has _mad_ "the gun devil appeared for five minutes and killed a million people" vibes.

  • @dude8351

    @dude8351

    2 жыл бұрын

    Now i want to make a sheet for the gun devil :D

  • @RoxyGotMoxy.

    @RoxyGotMoxy.

    2 жыл бұрын

    The gun devil???

  • @bagget48

    @bagget48

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RoxyGotMoxy. gun devil is a character from "chainsaw-man" Manga

  • @Tinil0

    @Tinil0

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dude8351 I can see a gun devil final boss, but it makes me curious what Makima's stats would be. Probably not worth stating out since even a full party of 20s wouldn't realistically have a chance.

  • @b3rz3rk3r9

    @b3rz3rk3r9

    Жыл бұрын

    @RoxyGotMoxy The Gun Devil is a demonic creature from Chainsaw Man that's the physical embodiment of the fear of Mass Shootings. Its head is a humanoid skull with a Desert Eagle barrel taking place of the nostril and ocular cavities, with a skeletal body surrounded by random firearms and bullet bandoliers; with its neck consisting of featureless human faces. It has an insanely fast speed, killing capability and passive lethality; recorded as killing over 12 million people around the planet in the span of five minutes.

  • @alexsantos-hc4io
    @alexsantos-hc4io2 жыл бұрын

    Just imagining the scene is already awesome. DM: then all of you take 45 dmg. Players: wait we didn't make any saving throw. DM: yep, it hits automatically.

  • @NarocoSuper
    @NarocoSuper2 жыл бұрын

    Seeing as Tasha is on this list, I have to say my party is currently dealing with her and Graz'zt at the moment in our Out of the Abyss game. Our DM is making sure to cover their relationship. XD

  • @jarlsnake6023

    @jarlsnake6023

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh boy I'm DMing out of the abyss and would love to look at your DM notes, the way I managed to put the spotlight on Graz'zt in a different way hahaha

  • @Goku61394

    @Goku61394

    2 жыл бұрын

    One of my characters ate Graz’zt ☠️😂

  • @NarocoSuper

    @NarocoSuper

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jarlsnake6023 Graz'zt basically traveled with us for a while as a Teifling named "Trustworthy." and only revealed his true form when it became necessary. We ended up having to go to his home though to rest since our cleric ended up catching that pesky ailment known as dead.

  • @jarlsnake6023

    @jarlsnake6023

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@NarocoSuper pesky ailment known as dead got me laughing hshahs that's interesting I'll keep that in mind if I sver DM out of the abyss again thanks

  • @jormano

    @jormano

    2 жыл бұрын

    Played a campaign with Graz'zt as BBEG, sort of, politics were complicated, and Tasha showed up and say to us: "you gonna fight him? Good, if you guys beat him enough I'll help you. Otherwise, if you show any signs that you can't deal with him I show up to kill you myself" It was awesome.

  • @homiestudios8173
    @homiestudios81732 жыл бұрын

    Odd but interesting fact, Hyenas are more like cats than dogs. So Yeenogu is still a good boy, but is more a cat that enjoys toying with their food too much which is fairly on brand.

  • @iododendron3416

    @iododendron3416

    2 жыл бұрын

    And his litter box is a bit bigger.

  • @artie9940

    @artie9940

    2 жыл бұрын

    I mean, that's technicaly true but they're still very far from close either way, they got A LOT more relation to let's say... A mongoose then a cat too

  • @kalebb1226

    @kalebb1226

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nope f@ck yeenogu.

  • @wiggledixbubsy98

    @wiggledixbubsy98

    Жыл бұрын

    Hyena are only slightly closer to cats than dogs. Their last common ancestor was in the Miocene where their last common ancestor with dogs was in the Oligocene iirc

  • @krischan67
    @krischan672 жыл бұрын

    The prismatic wall + reverse gravity combo is even nastier if you make a sphere above the PCs head, so they will fall through the wall four times.

  • @sirken2

    @sirken2

    2 жыл бұрын

    go on....

  • @bazzfromthebackground3696

    @bazzfromthebackground3696

    2 жыл бұрын

    Cast Create Bonfire under the thick one.

  • @shadexvii3975

    @shadexvii3975

    2 жыл бұрын

    ??? Can you elaborate?

  • @cassiopeia_real

    @cassiopeia_real

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@shadexvii3975 you can make prismatic wall a sphere, so they pass through each colored wall 4 times

  • @shadexvii3975

    @shadexvii3975

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@cassiopeia_real oh. I see

  • @stormrunner4081
    @stormrunner40812 жыл бұрын

    She has wish in her spell list Ok that’s the most terrifying thing you could say the bad guy has wish

  • @llewelynshingler2173

    @llewelynshingler2173

    2 жыл бұрын

    While she is likely smart enough not to use Reality Warp mid fight, it is still beyond mighty.

  • @MasterZebulin

    @MasterZebulin

    2 жыл бұрын

    "I wish the party was dead!" **entire party dies permanently** **players start dropping dead** **DM drops dead** **house they're playing in explodes because fuck you**

  • @Ashtor1337

    @Ashtor1337

    2 жыл бұрын

    ... I think I just figured out how I'm going to explain my groundhogs day arc.

  • @tommythunder7498

    @tommythunder7498

    2 жыл бұрын

    So as a spell casting class at that level (20 and above) you wish her wish didnt exist and the then your clone wishes her to be your ally. Peoblem solved

  • @VelociraptorsOfSkyrim

    @VelociraptorsOfSkyrim

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@tommythunder7498You can't use Wish to counter Wish.

  • @marcusc9931
    @marcusc99312 жыл бұрын

    In the older editions, there were weaker inevitables to handle contracts. The job of Maruts was to enforce the inevitability of death - hunting down liches people seeking immortality and those who abused spamming ressurection.

  • @Alex-xt1rr

    @Alex-xt1rr

    2 жыл бұрын

    Since the Maruts are there to handle breaches of contracts wouldn't it be smarter to confront the fiend/devil/demon and declare "Since you did (action X) you are, in accordance with (tiny little clause one managed to slip in), guilty of breaching our contract" than sit back and watch as he/she/it gets a beating from a Marut?

  • @Ashtor1337

    @Ashtor1337

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Alex-xt1rr... untill the fiend or devil proves you wrong. Any creature of law is innately aware of the limitations imposed upon them by reality. Also if the the fiend is really good they are going to have a verbage that specifically outlines consequences if you attempt to unjustly break the contract. You don't become a devil with enough power to broker contracts with out being more competent than a mortal.

  • @louiesatterwhite3885

    @louiesatterwhite3885

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@Alex-xt1rrone thing of note, demons don't make contracts.

  • @georgeuferov1497

    @georgeuferov1497

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@louiesatterwhite3885 they do, but only to break them and betray you just for fun of it

  • @nagolbackwards1335

    @nagolbackwards1335

    2 күн бұрын

    @@louiesatterwhite3885 Yeah, demons and Yugoloths do make contracts, but they aren't bound to them like devils are. A Marut would not show up if a demon or yugoloth broke a contract unless it was a very, very specific or powerful contract.

  • @Hollyclown
    @Hollyclown2 жыл бұрын

    The Elder Tempest seems like something a Tempest Cleric will worship.

  • @davidcantrell2568

    @davidcantrell2568

    2 ай бұрын

    They’d probably turn I. The party to protect it.

  • @backonlazer791
    @backonlazer7912 жыл бұрын

    The Aspect of Bahamut isn't super duper strong while he's alone, but he has an ability to resurrect his allies WITH FULL HEALTH (and there are no limitations with this ability apart from it recharging on a d6 roll of 5-6). Combine this with the fact that he usually travels with 7 Ancient Gold Dragons and I think you can see why you shouldn't get on his bad side... They're literally unkillable as long as Bahamut himself lives, but I guess it makes sense since Bahamut is a god. He's also straight up immune to many types of damage.

  • @GKplus8

    @GKplus8

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, both aspects from Fizban's are great

  • @louiesatterwhite3885

    @louiesatterwhite3885

    9 ай бұрын

    Just to be an extra dick, make the 7 gold dragons be greatwyrms.

  • @AnubisGray
    @AnubisGray2 жыл бұрын

    It might be really cool to have the Elder Tempest be held captive by the BBEG, creating this storm around their magical stronghold. You could even fight your way to it to free it and gain it's support against the BBEG and their army or something.

  • @ROYBGP

    @ROYBGP

    10 ай бұрын

    Consider this stolen.

  • @natashasurvivallady8021
    @natashasurvivallady80212 жыл бұрын

    I don't know if he's underrated anymore, due to a certain KZreadr that grants experience points up to level 3, but I love Titilivus! He's conniving, intelligent, invisible most of the time, and bounces around the map via flight and teleportation. Just a real nightmare for an unprepared party, but a party that plans or can get the jump on him can do insane things. It let the bad guy feel dangerous, and the players feel like badasses when they beat him.

  • @KevinVideo
    @KevinVideo2 жыл бұрын

    Tasha absolutely slept with Graz'zt. They had a son together. However, their relationship is... Unhealthy. To put it mildly. But what I love most about Tasha's stat block is her own special version of counterspell that's totally not counterspell, but 100% is counterspell. No more countering counterspell with counterspell multiple times over when she uses that reaction. She just shuts you down.

  • @DnDShorts

    @DnDShorts

    2 жыл бұрын

    Great point! I didn't mention the different counterspell but that's brilliantly observed that it can't be counterspelled back!

  • @TheGateShallStand

    @TheGateShallStand

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nah, that absolutely means I'm going to figure out a way to counterspell the special counterspell, you've increased my wizard powers

  • @snrpatata

    @snrpatata

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TheGateShallStand rod of absorption?

  • @TheGateShallStand

    @TheGateShallStand

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@snrpatata I was going to do something more complicated but that works too

  • @jamesrichardson3322

    @jamesrichardson3322

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DnDShorts You are damn hilarious 🤭😆😂🤣🤣, seriously some these creatures are terrifying as hell.

  • @DnDShorts
    @DnDShorts2 жыл бұрын

    I had a ton of fun researching deeper into some of these encounters! What other underrated asskickers are out there in the Forgotten Realms?

  • @justin2166

    @justin2166

    2 жыл бұрын

    Could you do a video on Phantasmal Force? Something on how things work from a DM point of view and its powers and limitations, as well as fun and creative uses as a player?

  • @sebaseba6710

    @sebaseba6710

    2 жыл бұрын

    I remember finding the marut a few months ago and I was just mind blown by those abilities, plus I think that it had multi attack so it's 120 damage per turn

  • @O4C209

    @O4C209

    2 жыл бұрын

    Greater Star Spawn Emissary - the main thing for me is it has a 27 INT. You have to up your game as a DM to properly illustrate that.

  • @apjtv2540

    @apjtv2540

    2 жыл бұрын

    Out of curiosity, where did you find the Tasha stat block?

  • @DnDShorts

    @DnDShorts

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@apjtv2540 It's in Wild Beyond The Witchlight!

  • @ccurtis1992able
    @ccurtis1992able2 жыл бұрын

    Being polymporphed into a furret seems so relaxing

  • @TheClericCorner
    @TheClericCorner2 жыл бұрын

    **looks at my artificer-focused setting** **Looks at the Merit** Oh...😈

  • @leafionlover5230

    @leafionlover5230

    2 жыл бұрын

    oh yeah, it's all coming together!

  • @rhysedwards288
    @rhysedwards2882 жыл бұрын

    The marut genuinely scared me and my party shitless when are paladin broke is oath to Asmodeus And this thing just turned up smashed multiple demons to a pulp then took us to court in sigil to plead his case and free his soul

  • @spencervance8484

    @spencervance8484

    2 жыл бұрын

    From how dnd shorts describes it, it sounds like they just come, beat you up, and leave.

  • @pyromainia4710
    @pyromainia47102 жыл бұрын

    Okay, but I once fought an Elder Tempest in a campaign. Those things can be SCARY. We were so low level compared to it (I think we were at most lv 12-14, and there were only three of us) that to actually have a chance, we had half a dozen NPC's with us, and were pirating a flying ship that was strafing it with cannonfire. That fight was fun especially for me, because I got to pilot the ship (I was a goblin artificer, so the DM offered me the ability to forsake my normal combat actions to control the ship, allowing me to heal it, give it advantage on attacks, or make it take less damage). That thing killed at least one NPC close to the party, and seemingly killed another. It also lead to an interaction that sadly ended that campaign (Few bad moves made by me, though they were in character, and then honestly a bit of bad DM'ing from the DM). Still, even if the fight ended that campaign, it was one hell of a fight.

  • @Mokey_MokeyLordofPuns
    @Mokey_MokeyLordofPuns2 жыл бұрын

    The Elder Tempest is basically just Rayquaza

  • @anna-flora999

    @anna-flora999

    2 жыл бұрын

    So... A good guy?

  • @Alche_mist

    @Alche_mist

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@anna-flora999 That seems to be the difference. Unlike Rayquaza, that guy seems to be too dumb to discern good and evil.

  • @joebobby8371

    @joebobby8371

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hype train only shows up for aliens

  • @vulcrumgoodwin828

    @vulcrumgoodwin828

    3 ай бұрын

    Quetzalcoatl

  • @CaptainFirespitter
    @CaptainFirespitter2 жыл бұрын

    Ah, the Elder Tempest. I absolutely love that thing, especially after I managed to successfully transform into one to support my party as a Tempest Cleric using Divine Intervention in an extremely heated battle during Rise of Tiamat. Although the campaign’s been reset to the beginning due to so many players coming and going amongst other shit, it’s so fun to know what I have on the table when I eventually reach the level again, especially when playing under an awesome dm.

  • @joonapukarinen1153

    @joonapukarinen1153

    2 жыл бұрын

    Now thats cool

  • @teamcyeborg
    @teamcyeborg2 жыл бұрын

    Niv-Mezzit when he comes up against a party of Mage Slayers with one spellcaster, who knows multiple antimagic spells:

  • @louiesatterwhite3885

    @louiesatterwhite3885

    9 ай бұрын

    Succeeds on all of the concentration checks because he has +17 to his con saves, so unless you deal more than 35 damage per hit, he only fails them on a nat 1. He then goes over to the spell caster, bites it, claws it twice, and then at the end of the next players turn, immediately spends its legendary action to bite and claw twice again, killing the caster with an average of 120 damage

  • @korbinmdavis
    @korbinmdavis2 жыл бұрын

    Imagine an evil druid BBEG riding into the final battle on the back of an elder tempest possibly reflavored as 'the legendary thunderbird' with lightning coming out of the druid's eyes and thunder every time they speak. *"YOU HAVE LITTERED FOR THE LAST TIME [party member]"*

  • @TheJerbol
    @TheJerbol2 жыл бұрын

    I fought a Marut once in a game, it was so epic. They've really done a good job adding interesting epic-level monsters in these supplementals.

  • @WyldeCarde182
    @WyldeCarde1822 жыл бұрын

    Am I wrong to assume that between Tasha's wish and Niv's combo potential the DM should pull his punches a little bit to make the fights even possible? Or should it be a 'nah you knew what you were messin with' teaching moment for the party?

  • @DnDShorts

    @DnDShorts

    2 жыл бұрын

    definitely always a DM should be going for what's going to lead to the most fun for everyone! No need to pull punches, but if a DM is going to do something that just means "I win", they may as well skip the fight all together and kill the party in a cutscene. I'd go hard, and be prepared to take the foot off the gas a little if the party are struggling (without letting them know!)

  • @CooperAATE

    @CooperAATE

    2 жыл бұрын

    "If he dies, he dies." Most I-Can-Easily-Supermurder-You bad guys will first try to convince the party to leave them alone, usually with a show of force. If they don't take it, then... supermurder time, I guess.

  • @morrigankasa570

    @morrigankasa570

    Жыл бұрын

    I play without TPK and Individual Player Character Deaths are extremely exceptional circumstances and so designed a way for the players to be resurrected relatively affordably. Clerics & Paladins doing the resurrection: 100 gold/diamonds, Praying to their Deity for 24 hrs, and covering the gold/diamonds with only a little bit of their blood. Wizards/Warlocks/Sorcerers doing the resurrection: 300 gold/diamonds, sacrificing 1 of their highest lvl spell slots for the next 24 hrs, and similarly covering the gold/diamonds with some of their blood. Druids & Rangers doing the resurrection: They must sacrifice an innocent young animal to a Nature Deity and swear to do a great deed for the Deity (or offer themselves in an erotic way for the next 24 hrs to the Deity). All other Martial Classes: 500 gold/diamonds must be offered to a Holy Temple, the dead companion must be laid on the altar of the Temple, and they must swear to do a great deed for the Temple's Deity.

  • @Ninjat126

    @Ninjat126

    Жыл бұрын

    One thing about Niv-Mizzet is that he's probably got better things to do than fight the party. He's also NOT Evil, and has been one of the top 10 most powerful & influential people on the plane of Ravnica for the last 10,000 years. There's very little he wants that he hasn't already got, besides "omniscience."

  • @faerainshade8994
    @faerainshade89942 жыл бұрын

    He was there.. the most terrifying creature of them all.. the great lord Furret..

  • @chillchameleon2518
    @chillchameleon25182 жыл бұрын

    How could you Not include the Elder Brain Dragon?!? Not only does its breath cause continuous damage but players caught in it get infected with MindFlayer Tadpoles regardless of succeeding the save! Plus there's the Mindflayers serving as its entourage

  • @DnDShorts

    @DnDShorts

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's an awesome monster but seeing as it was all anyone talked about after Fizban's dropped I didn't think it counted as "underrated"

  • @elmsigreen
    @elmsigreen2 жыл бұрын

    I love taking these powerful enemies and just simply removing 2-3 features to make them slightly easier but then adding them back when the party is more powerful, like the enemy is levelling up and gaining new abilities just like the players

  • @matan8074
    @matan80742 жыл бұрын

    I would really like a follow up video for early and mid game boss or to use as a mini boss later on.

  • @oligb1469
    @oligb14692 жыл бұрын

    Weirdly enough it was a Marut force that ended one of our campaigns, the BBEG essentially got a tad to cocky with his soul taxes, mid fight five Marut bust through the door wipe this devil dude off the face of all plains and that was that (btw this was not a serious campaign think murderhobo cross phoenix wright so it was all in good fun)

  • @PuppetMaster1791
    @PuppetMaster17912 жыл бұрын

    The one campaign I was playing in that just finished up this past weekend we actually faced a reskinned Marut as functionally an artificer armorer who was the BBEG.

  • @riddleoffeels4518
    @riddleoffeels45182 жыл бұрын

    Having Yeenoghu Tbag the entire party was a nice touch. Bravo sir!

  • @timothymaddux9018
    @timothymaddux90182 жыл бұрын

    That first one, the Marut, is very misrepresented. It feels even more robotic-angel like and crazier when you know the lore.

  • @Olimar92

    @Olimar92

    2 жыл бұрын

    Current 5e lore is that the Marut (Which it is fucking not) is only meant to collect the individual that broke the contract and take them to court. It does nothing until someone has bought the service of the creature. It's as inevitable as a car crash, it won't happen until some dumbass makes it happen.

  • @timothymaddux9018

    @timothymaddux9018

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Olimar92 yeah, according to 5e lore only. In past editions, they explain the rest of the Inevitables, the Marut being the one who enforces time-based laws, and how while patient and slow, there is no escaping from them forever.

  • @Olimar92

    @Olimar92

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@timothymaddux9018 Maruts are Death. They go after those who cheat death and prolong their life far beyond the norm. Time is handled by a Different Inevitable.

  • @timothymaddux9018

    @timothymaddux9018

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Olimar92 ah, I was under the impression that they fell into the same category.

  • @shaynemross
    @shaynemross2 жыл бұрын

    You and Internet Historian are the only guys whose adds I watch all the way through.

  • @PoshSlothOG
    @PoshSlothOG2 жыл бұрын

    This was like analyzing legendary pokemon. Wonderful monsters. Awesome editing. Really want to see more⚡

  • @centurion7398
    @centurion7398 Жыл бұрын

    I had a party that ignored a contract with a Devil and the when they taunted him the Devil was sort of like "ok then see ya" and they left somewhat perturbed. I had made it so that the Magical Forges of the plain of law are capable of putting out one Marut every 33 days and so after they managed to defeat the first one I set the metaphorical timer and the next one showed up during tea time in their castle. No matter where they went, no matter what they were doing every 33 days one of these things would pop into existence and ruin their day till they went to stand trial. It was fun.

  • @bamarag
    @bamarag2 жыл бұрын

    Fought the knoll God and nearly soloed him before he got away due to plot armor

  • @GreycatRademenes
    @GreycatRademenes2 жыл бұрын

    Fun Fact about Yeenoghu: If you look closely at his artwork in OotA or MTF, aparently he's a member of the Harpers X3>

  • @kaedenhykaway5847
    @kaedenhykaway58472 жыл бұрын

    An elder tempest was one of the 4 elemental challenges our DM threw at us before we fought vecna

  • @Dhorannis
    @Dhorannis2 жыл бұрын

    Well, Yeenoghu is not really a bondage dog, if we view him as some sort of hyena. Some like to call hyenas giggle-dogs, but they are actually part of the suborder feliformia, which means that they are much more closely related to cats than to dogs. So... Yeenoghu would technically be a bondage cat.

  • @SanJymy2

    @SanJymy2

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ain't that bullshit? Like, who can look at a morse and think "yea, that's shaped like a dog alright" or at a mongoose and go "look at this strange ass cat"

  • @matthewfowler9219

    @matthewfowler9219

    2 жыл бұрын

    You seem fun at parties

  • @Dhorannis

    @Dhorannis

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@SanJymy2 That's why they are part of the same suborder as dogs/cats but nothing more. Caniformia means "dog-like", not literally "dog". Of course, dogs are also part of the dog-like animals, but a different family than for example morses or bears. And appearances can be decieving. Or would you say that whales look like mammals?

  • @llewelynshingler2173

    @llewelynshingler2173

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@matthewfowler9219 It's likely that all of us are nerds, so our parties need a person who will note Hyenas are basically cats.

  • @VelociraptorsOfSkyrim

    @VelociraptorsOfSkyrim

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@SanJymy2Sure, but there's also this thing called DNA testing that helps us show how closely related we are to other animals. It has been used to reclassify animals at times.

  • @hexbox2182
    @hexbox21822 жыл бұрын

    1:45 yeah me and my friend are playing a game with an npc ogre where we fought 8 gnolls 1 of which was a super powered by this guy. And we barely survived, ogre got knocked, same with my friend (who was a sorcerer) and I was half dead as a wizard. Also we were all level 1. And we went to level 3.

  • @paulk7906
    @paulk79062 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see more lists like this from you. Love the way you explain how they work!

  • @calvinginn1637
    @calvinginn16372 жыл бұрын

    Totem barbarian with some resistances: "just flat damage, huh?"

  • @EpicLizard-nb9zy
    @EpicLizard-nb9zy2 жыл бұрын

    This was one of the coolest videos I've ever seen Please do more like this it was amazing

  • @smoothitalianleathereater6045
    @smoothitalianleathereater60452 жыл бұрын

    I love these dm related videos, thank you!

  • @davinci6125
    @davinci61252 жыл бұрын

    These are always enjoyable to watch , very useful information & quick classy comedy.

  • @EnjeoLineMedia
    @EnjeoLineMedia9 ай бұрын

    I have used all these statblocks except the dragon. My players had to get to a dungeon that an elder Tempest was above, and they got beaten to hell before even starting the dungeon. It was great

  • @icaimas719
    @icaimas7192 жыл бұрын

    It's kind of funny how he mentions Orcus and Demogorgon at the Yenogu part as the patrons fought them when he held the last game. XD

  • @LucanVaris
    @LucanVaris2 жыл бұрын

    ...Dibs on serving Niv-Mizzet. Niv best Guild Master.

  • @LovEtheBrawler
    @LovEtheBrawler2 жыл бұрын

    Love this. Thanks for making this video!

  • @davidpotts2299
    @davidpotts22993 ай бұрын

    Great video that was one of my favorite ones of yours

  • @Doran_Runeblite
    @Doran_Runeblite2 жыл бұрын

    My favorite has to be the Elder Tempest, it sounds so iconic and horribly intimidating, just like the Terrasque!

  • @OlvarTheViking
    @OlvarTheViking2 жыл бұрын

    You‘re the best, bro.

  • @MafiaCow01
    @MafiaCow012 жыл бұрын

    Yeenoghu looks like he's spent a little too much time tormenting people in Elwynn Forest...

  • @mslabo102s2

    @mslabo102s2

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well, Warcraft borrowed a lot from D&D, so...

  • @darksev.6468
    @darksev.64682 жыл бұрын

    I didn't know about Maruts. Now I gotta put them into my game, this thing's fucking awesome. It's like the Avatar of Death in how you fight it. It's not a matter of if it can hit you or not, it's a matter of if you can damage it fast enough or not.

  • @hotwheelsshorts267
    @hotwheelsshorts2672 жыл бұрын

    Your Video editing is TOP NOTCH🤯

  • @philippemontminy5031
    @philippemontminy50312 жыл бұрын

    Great content as usual. Great sketch. Ill try world anvil right away

  • @iamlazycatxP
    @iamlazycatxP2 жыл бұрын

    DnD Shorts: Here's some interesting final boss encounters for a nice and long campaign Your DM: mmm... Tarasque... Two of them...

  • @benjaminmatheny6683
    @benjaminmatheny66832 жыл бұрын

    My DnD background is entirely within 3.5 edition. It makes watching 5e videos.... interesting. You can really see the buzzsaw WOTC took to the power curve. (3.5 had massive power imbalance issues)

  • @dank_smirk2ndchannel200
    @dank_smirk2ndchannel2002 жыл бұрын

    Considering that the Marut's lasers always hit, you could take a Marut and reflavour it as a Darkseid-like villain.

  • @TerraDoctor
    @TerraDoctor2 жыл бұрын

    Maruts were mainly enforcers that deal with those who cheat death; liches and the likes. It's the Kolyarut that focuses on contracts. Not that 5e would tell you that, though.

  • @VelociraptorsOfSkyrim

    @VelociraptorsOfSkyrim

    Жыл бұрын

    Maruts are the only Inevitables in 5e, iirc, so they basically have taken that role

  • @slayeroffurries1115
    @slayeroffurries11152 жыл бұрын

    So, hear me out: a city of cloud giants on the back of an Elder Storm

  • @dank_smirk2ndchannel200
    @dank_smirk2ndchannel2002 жыл бұрын

    Maruts: "Oi slag, you got a loicence for that _e X i S t E n C e_ roight there?"

  • @kevincochran8972
    @kevincochran89722 жыл бұрын

    "It's basically the day after tomorrow, the guy." 🤣🤣🤣

  • @I_DoThingsSometimes
    @I_DoThingsSometimes Жыл бұрын

    I really love the sketches for the sponsor

  • @tealiensalaris8897
    @tealiensalaris88972 жыл бұрын

    Hell yeah these are amazing

  • @primeemperor9196
    @primeemperor91962 жыл бұрын

    Marut: I am inevitable. Wizard with Invulnerability: And I am *invincible card*

  • @DrZombieMoogle
    @DrZombieMoogle2 жыл бұрын

    Plz post again. I like the stories you select

  • @HollowMythology-eu7hz
    @HollowMythology-eu7hzАй бұрын

    I fought babbayaga using this statblock. It made the quote, "I can run faster than you can teleport"

  • @rolancritz1853
    @rolancritz18532 жыл бұрын

    Great, can't wait for future terrifying epic boss fights on your patron...

  • @anthonyappleby8777
    @anthonyappleby87772 жыл бұрын

    The world anvil ad reminds me of the music video for “Alaska” from between the buried and me.

  • @barbarianbijuu
    @barbarianbijuu Жыл бұрын

    An army of wizards casting fireball should do the trick to take care of the marut

  • @olanowicka7681
    @olanowicka76818 ай бұрын

    I still sometimes forget that places like Ravnica or Theros are also part of dnd world (not just mtg) and when I heard "Niv-Mizzet" I got a war flashback to my last commander game.

  • @jamcdonald120
    @jamcdonald1202 жыл бұрын

    1:00 my goodness its like a walking beefed up guardian of faith

  • @Ryu_D
    @Ryu_D2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the video.

  • @DnDShorts

    @DnDShorts

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for watching!

  • @lidlonez
    @lidlonez2 жыл бұрын

    ❤ great video!

  • @valentinomunoz9687
    @valentinomunoz96879 ай бұрын

    I thought we'd be discussing creatures I'd never heard of I got excited for no reason

  • @sebaseba6710
    @sebaseba67102 жыл бұрын

    Ngl this is a great video!

  • @j.r.winkelman5424
    @j.r.winkelman54242 жыл бұрын

    The post-it notes and delirium are hilarious

  • @charlynoir9133
    @charlynoir91332 жыл бұрын

    Thank u mister big beard, great final bosses

  • @Alche_mist
    @Alche_mist2 жыл бұрын

    I'm an Izzet guy since the first showing of Ravnica back in MtG with a special attachment to Ravnica coming from me being Czech and living in Prague (who knows Ravnica, might know why that is significant). Niv-Mizzet here made me happy. In every of his incarnations, that guy is just a big pile of overly intelligent Dragon-shaped fun. That said, the other old Ravnica guild leaders would make a very fun high-powered bosses as well. Especially the red ones - Niv-Mizzet, -Malfegor- Rakdos, Borborygmos and Razia. But the shadow spymaster vampire Szadek would be a lot of fun too. EDIT: I did it from memory, so I messed Malfegor with Rakdos. While both would be a lot of fun, Malfegor is from Alara/Grixis (and is a Demon Dragon Evil-Bastard, so fun ensues).

  • @Tid-bit
    @Tid-bit2 жыл бұрын

    "Douglas I'm creating a new campaign"

  • @johnsulik6754
    @johnsulik67542 жыл бұрын

    I wanted to clarify that Marut's only enforce very specific contracts. Their main focus is on those who deny death.

  • @Rabidsandwich
    @Rabidsandwich2 жыл бұрын

    Lol as soon as you said 2 a commercial interrupted. Ads are definitely terrifying cause they always get their way no matter what

  • @isaiahwelch8066
    @isaiahwelch80662 жыл бұрын

    Just saying, us Magic players met Niv-Mizzet on Ravnica way, way back in 2004 -- and even then, in Standard, you had an infinite combo with Niv-Mizzet and Curiosity, where you could draw 20 cards and deal 20 damage. Niv-Mizzet, though, did run like a coward during the original Ravnica block, not wanting to face what killed Razia, Boros Archangel, along with all of the other Boros angels, save for Feather. And it was all a plot by Grand Arbiter Augustin IV to take over Ravnica and have the Azorius guild rule it all. In the end, Ravnica was saved by Agrus Kos, a Boros veteran who had done the work of figuring out what was actually going on -- and who instituted the Grand Arbiter's arrest by placing him in the same stasis cell as Szadek, the Dimir guildmaster, who was called "Lord of Secrets." While Niv-Mizzet is a formidable enemy, I'm wondering if Momir Vig and his Experiment Kraj wouldn't be just as much a challenge, since Momir Vig is the Simic guildmaster, who are the masters of mutation and recombination.

  • @jettblade
    @jettblade2 жыл бұрын

    I played Role Master where most dragons can have Wizard or Sorcerer class spells in addition to their own abilities and acidic blood as baselines. It makes things way harder.

  • @dungeonsanddisasters1475
    @dungeonsanddisasters14752 жыл бұрын

    I would like to make you aware to the fact that I will henceforth be stealing the Elder Tempest idea from you, you will of course gain the benefit of being credited at my table for bringing this idea to me. Thank you for understanding, fare thee well.

  • @grand-malice175
    @grand-malice1752 жыл бұрын

    Really love that Furret Polymorph >w>

  • @randomPerson88399
    @randomPerson88399 Жыл бұрын

    Finally! Someone talks about marut!

  • @VeteranVandal
    @VeteranVandal2 жыл бұрын

    This is a great list. I'm going to think about it.

  • @BobbyBurgerz
    @BobbyBurgerz Жыл бұрын

    I had the elder tempest as my final BBEG in a campaign I was running

  • @user-qb9fl6qj9z
    @user-qb9fl6qj9z Жыл бұрын

    These monsters dont stand a chance against my sword: the throngler.

  • @Strawzaw
    @Strawzaw Жыл бұрын

    the dm thought it smart to throw a Marut against our level 13 party

  • @amendersc1650
    @amendersc16502 жыл бұрын

    Tasha is terrifying! She is an archfay+kinda a demonlord+ a powerful wizard and so much more!

  • @readermike8355
    @readermike83552 жыл бұрын

    Marut is the final boss of my campaign. The players will eventually be forced to gather all the pirate factions in an epic siege defense against the realm of order

  • @xxcoolkid69xx67
    @xxcoolkid69xx678 ай бұрын

    I used kobold fight club to generate a CR appropriate random encounter once, and it gave my level 8 party a Marut. I let them play it out as like a dream sequence, they all died obviously, but they had fun trying to survive as long as they could.

  • @Lrbearclaw
    @Lrbearclaw2 жыл бұрын

    And Marut is why I wouldn't just strip a Warlock of their powers if they break their promise to their patron. If they do.... drop one of these badboys on the party and watch them shit bricks. (And if the party knowingly helped them break their promise, drop 1 Marut for every 2 PCs in the party.)

  • @Olimar92

    @Olimar92

    2 жыл бұрын

    You do know that Maruts don't just appear right? The Warlock would know full well that a Marut would be involved if the agreement was broken.

  • @bobhihih
    @bobhihih2 жыл бұрын

    It's funny that you called the Merut inevitable, as it is HEAVILY based on 3.5e Inevitables. Also constructs that dealt with contracts

  • @Tindall4CO
    @Tindall4CO2 жыл бұрын

    Marut: You can’t defeat me. My Wizard Everly: Oh really? Well the spell invulnerability says otherwise.

  • @Olimar92

    @Olimar92

    2 жыл бұрын

    Also Marut: I'm here only to take someone to court, so if you don't want trouble just go elsewhere.

  • @HallowedKeeper_

    @HallowedKeeper_

    2 жыл бұрын

    I mean, you're immune to all damage for 10 minutes. I'm sure once the Marut realizes that he'll simply bide his time, leave for about an hour then reappear next to you and pummel the crap out of you. They aren't stupid

  • @bananasmoussestachio9017
    @bananasmoussestachio90172 жыл бұрын

    I actually used Yeno as part of the backstory for my character. Former hero, lost a battle, captured and turned into prey. It eventually ended with reverting back into predator by slaughtering all of the Lands of the Wild and becoming the new Beast Lord.

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