Fun fact about Yuan-ti and Chult - Yaun'ti are so wicked, dangerous and just dominating outside of the human civilizations, that they've "purged" their parts of Underdark (especially under Black Jungles) from anything that is not their slave. So, generally, drows, duergars, ilithids etc are scared shitless of them. Another fun fact - Yuan's racial spell-like abilities are psionic in nature, not stricte magical. I recommend looking into The Serpent Kingdoms as well, even just for spells created by Yuan'ti and created just for dealing with them. Seriously, Yuan'ti are perfect antagonistic forces for characters from level 1 to 20 and, in a way, are very fresh and underused by popular media

@MrRhexx

Жыл бұрын

I wanted to add the psionic part but i didnt have the space to put it :(

@Dahaka-rd6tw

Жыл бұрын

@@MrRhexx I dont know did you see my comment sugestion but just in case. I'm still waiting for episode about oni in future. Like, do they originate from Vaprak like ogres do?

@togashi-azul

Жыл бұрын

@@MrRhexx I promise we won't feel bad if you do a part 4 👀

@savannahshane2231

Жыл бұрын

@@MrRhexx We won't feel bad if you do a part four, but don't do it if you don't want to, haha.

@RawCauliflower

Жыл бұрын

Are they psionic? That is not what I see in the monster manual or other supplements. Then again, there is a lot of inconsistencies like not giving certain Githyanki elites their silver swords.

My Tomb of Annihilation party is just about to enter the Fane of the Night Serpent for our upcoming session next week, so this recent string of videos about the Yuan-Ti have come in CLUTCH. You've really helped me flesh out my campaign, and I really appreciate it.

@MrRhexx

Жыл бұрын

I am glad you like them! So bad we don't really have lore about Dendar's yuan ti :( Hopefully we can get some in 5th edition.

@andrzej6294

Жыл бұрын

@@MrRhexx We've got an entry about Yuan'yi Nightmare Speakers in Volo's guide to monsters. I'm not sure if there is anything else in previous editions but i could've sworn there was something, if not in Serpent Kingdoms then in some 2e stuff

@ragerequiem6323

Жыл бұрын

I read up on a ton of the lore and my party actually RPed past it, was both proud and disappointed

@UrMom-it7gj

Жыл бұрын

Someday I’m gonna play a yuanti cleric and use the use video as an excuse for sacrificing the rest of the party to the serpent gods lol 😂

@jacobshelt01

Жыл бұрын

Hope you had a fun session

I personally loved how the 'Time of Troubles' was the "In Story" way to explain the changes in rules between 2nd Edition and 3rd Edition 😁

@notthefbi7015

4 ай бұрын

The same thing happened with the spellplague 3e-4e and the second sundering 4e-5e

I'm one of those people, that love DnD, but have never in their entire lives played even one session. Mainly because none of my friends want to... Anyway, thanks to your videos I get my DnD fix and I love it! Can't wait for the next one!

@ironl4nd

Жыл бұрын

Me too.. I know like about everything of the lore and I love it, but I no friends to play with. :( oh well, back to the books!

@TheAratine

Жыл бұрын

It was like that for me for the longest time too. I've been playing in my first ever campaign for a year and a half now, and just yesterday we finished the first major arc of the story. It's alot of fun but also alot of time dedicated to it. I'm in europe and the rest of the group is in the US, so I have to be available at 2am every other friday, for 4-5 hours

@ironl4nd

Жыл бұрын

@@TheAratine So you are playing online? :) How did you find the group you are playing with, is there like a website or something where ppl who are looking for others to play with can connect?

@bleddynwolf8463

Жыл бұрын

same

@PlanktonWhisperer

Жыл бұрын

Then you don't love D&D.

I wish that we saw the Sarruk in 5e. Them as well as the other creator races. In D&D, it is so easy to overlook their influence in the deep past, instead looking to the Dragons and Giants who sort of overshadow much of the early history of Toril. I'd love to see future videos on the Aerie, Sarruk, and the Batrachi.

@svbsvbsvb

Жыл бұрын

There's a channel called Dungeon Dad. He takes older edition monsters that weren't covered in 5e and converts them, also giving their basic history and advice on using them in a 5e campaign. He also covers monsters that are radically different in their 5e presentation vs. all of their previous entries. We could send requests that he cover the Sarruk in a future video.

@kitsuned.m.4550

Жыл бұрын

King Orem is one of my favorite pulling the strings from the shadows characters

@notthefbi7015

4 ай бұрын

Tbf the creator races are so old that most of their influence on the world has basically come and gone. They are all extinct now so there isn't really a reason for then to be talked about in 5e. As for not really appearing pretty much everything to do with Netheril is tied to Sarruk. Because if the nether scrolls.

that happened a lot after the Time of Troubles, a lot of powerful deities (mostly the evil ones) went after independent and sleeping gods when AO changed the rules on them. Shar took out a lot deities without anyone knowing they are actually worshipping her now and Tiamat went after everyone with the scalykind portfolio (Tchazzar for instance)and I fear she finally took out Finder in 4E

I, for one, would be 100% onboard with a mini-series like you’ve done for the Yuan-Ti, for each of the 5 Creator Races 😁 sounds fun.

As I mentioned in the last video I have a pureblood player in my game so I'm hoping he doesn't watch this. But all we really did fornhis backstop was he's from najara and he was supposed to be a willing sacrifice to Sseth until he heard the low priest utter Set's name. I've been trying to approach it like it's a rogue cult not the entire belief to hopefully surprise him with the reveal later on if he hasn't already read up on it himself.

Hot take: Sseth is an avatar of Asmodeus's true form; Ahriman, a titanic snake that was one of the two champions of Law before falling into Baator. Everything that Sseth and his priests advocate sounds just like the way Asmodeus/Ahriman operate; subtlety, stealth, secrets, and domination. "Sseth" isn't actually trapped; Asmodeus tricked Set into taking over the worship of Sseth. This frees up Asmodeus from having to perform the duties of a god, but more importantly, sets up the real pay-off... Asmodeus/Ahriman's real body is still terribly wounded from his original fight with his former other Jaziran, and the fall into Hell. To heal, Ahriman needs to devour the souls of the Faithless, those who've rejected the gods completely. When the worship of Sseth has grown big enough, Asmodeus will trigger the big reveal that Sseth's worshippers were deceived by Set, and their "actual" god isn't real. This would cause a catastrophic upheaval in yuan-ti society, and probably a massive civil war. Ahriman will feast on a glut of serpentine souls who've rejected their god, and all gods, and the Deceiver will heal...

@bayoubilly5176

Жыл бұрын

You can do it. Cuz anything is allowed. But Asmodeus is not an old god. His story has been plainly told in the novels many times. They keep it vague for the sourcebooks. He's a fallen angel of the first gods before there was good or evil.

I love how often you are releasing videos this month. Keep it up

"What they don't tell you about the World Serpent" That video is just gonna confuse a *bunch* of people.

People give the FR a hard time for being the default, kitchen sink setting. I don't entirely disagree, but it still has its own identity that it has within its own mythology. Things like the Times of Trouble and the things between Set and Sseth I find really cool

@boinkmcbingo8890

Жыл бұрын

I personally think it's the best choice I just wish we'd get more setting specific source books.

@RealSaintB

Жыл бұрын

@@boinkmcbingo8890 yes, please elaborate on what is happening somewhere other than the Sword Coast North...

@davidmacfarlane1763

Жыл бұрын

Something has to be the default, and FR got more love in the novels (which is a gateway into the game) than Greyhawk, DL, Eberon etc

Obligatory supporting comment

@MrRhexx

Жыл бұрын

absolute chad right here

I *really* enjoyed this series! Knowing Seth is in distress gives me both an idea to incorporate into a campaign and a character goal!

I always love hearing about the Goss fights even if they're short you make them sound so cool. "Asking for a video on half-dragons?"

I'm running RoT and my party just saved Varrem the White from the Yuan-ti in the Tomb of Diedrus which is in the Serpent Hills which would be house Hss'tafi Yuan-ti, the Yuan-ti in this Tomb had been using Diedrus' divination pool which supposedly can get past most blocks on divination, so these Yuan-ti were probably using it to try and divine on either Mershulk or Sseth.

The dragon armor looks quite similar to the one is Skyrim. I love that

This was easyly one your best episodes. Thanks ones again from your hard work

I would absolutely LOVE a series about the early history of the Forgotten Realms.

Thank you for this video, MrRhexx! The Yuan-Ti have come a long way since their introduction in the original, old-school sandbox module "Dwellers of the Forbidden City" in the early 1980s, in Gary Gygax's time. In there, they were just a grisly, horror-inducing "lost world" type serpent race inspired by tales from writers like Robert E. Howard and the like. Players back then might not have known all these origin stories about them but still knew that they were SCARY. 🙂

That thumbnail 😳

@juanl7911

Жыл бұрын

Ikr, I can tolerate them being evil...

@guctusu

Жыл бұрын

@@juanl7911 That's how Yuan-Ti manipulates you.

@juanl7911

Жыл бұрын

@@guctusu Don't care, snitties are worth it

@aidantesdahl4283

Жыл бұрын

Morality goes out the window once snitties are on the table

@rokusho6667

Жыл бұрын

Damn my bard gonna be a snake charmer now.

These lore videos are incredible and fascinating to watch. Thank you for all the hard work you put into making this information readily available to us! I can watch for hours sometimes

The amount of work that you put into this is beyond praise. You are a blessing to us passionate about the D&D Lore.

thanks for sharing another great video! i like how your organised all of the diverse inter-related information and noted the useful references

As always, great work MrRhexx! I love (and GREATLY appreciate) the work you do with lore.

I've absolutely loved your set of videos about them, they're one of my favorite races

The last 5 minutes of just wondering around the map and explaining what’s around here or cool idea. its my favourite thing about DnD and the lore I could literally listen to an 4 hour version of it just going around the map and giving a quick brief overview of what’s there! We can always dream!

I absolutely love learning from you because you explain topics so well. I could listen to you literally all day. Please keep it up!

@bfallout111

Жыл бұрын

If possible I have some questions I would love to ask you do you know how I could do that

Loved this Yuan-Ti series, keep up the fantastic content sir.

great work as ever, really like all of your videos and appreciate the depth of your research for them.

Love the work your doing, been following you for a long time now. Keep it up.

Thanks once more my friend. Absolutely LOVED your in-depth review on the Yuan-Ti and though most of it I was familiar with, there were certainly aspects I found new and noteworthy as well. Great job. Should you elect to do another one on a civ type race, I'd love to see a deep dive on both the Duergar and their mad as hatters relatives, the Derro. Both offer delicious adventure traits in not just the Underdark but also mountain/hillside ranges infested with caves and caverns. I also have keen interest in your development of an armour class & damage reduction guide. Which makes wonderful sense. Seeing some of your proposals, such as the use of monster carapace shell to fabricate armour brings back memories of the Baldur's Gate game, with its use of Ankheg shell crafted armour and Icewind Dale, with the use of Umber Hulk shell crafted armour. Of course there's also Bulette shell, Chuul shell, Xorn, etc that come to mind. I look forward to seeing your results! Cheers. :)

The next character I’m playing is actually a pure blood so I’m so glad you made these videos I can’t express it I’ve been having a hard time with the lore and this sires is helping a lot

The wiki page on the Sarrukh is hilarious. They live up to 1000 years or more and it looks like their empire was founded and declined in just over 1500 years (-35,000 to -33,500 DR). For reference the Roman empire lasted 1000 years and was populated by humans who usually live to be 60 if they survive infancy. This makes the Sarrukh look like a nation of mad scientist gene tinkers who speed ran the creation and implosion of their own society instead of a wise and powerful ancient race.

@MrRhexx

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it all happened kinda fast, had to do a double take on that one. I like to believe that there was a lot that happened before they became an empire, where they got to live for a few thousand years as the supreme rulers without fully conquering everything.

This has been a great 3 Parter. Thank you! Favorite fantasy.

Do it. A series about the creator races. I love fantasy history like that!

+1 for the DR mechanic. I've been playing with my own homebrew for that for ages and its great to see someone else feel the same about base 5e's armors!

21:40 You can also tell that the artist really likes the Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game.

Man been excited for your armor book for a while. Instant purchase!😁

Awesome stuff and just what I needed! Thank you! I am running Storm King's Thunder, and I wanted to introduce Iymrith earlier, with yuan-ti followers (who are in her lair but not really explained in the module). The adventurers will probably run into her in Luskan (treating with one of the Ships that is part of the Kraken Society). I'm going to go with your video on her in that she is seeking some sort of spiritual ascension, and she needs the Wyrmskull throne's power for this (hence why she is doing what she is doing other than her hatred of giants). I plan on her also polymorphing (hand waving the "polymorph doesn't work that way"), for the sake of introducing her more easily, into an elderly air genasi named Lady Dhuma Ayeem of the Enclave of Ascore (a play on Doom of the desert and the name Iymrith, which I pronounce as "eye-Yeem-rith"). She would have high level sorcerer abilities (one of the players is a water genasi storm sorcerer). Her yuan-ti bodyguards follow her as a cult, believing in and supporting her goal of Ascension. She will give the made up cover story that her air genasi Enclave who lived in Ascore researching Old Netheril were destroyed "by a cabal of giants", and that as a lady in exile, she is trying to make alliances to take her kingdom back and get revenge. One of those then would be members of House Hss'tafi who decided to follow her Cult. Perhaps the yuan-ti think her ascension will help the troubles of Sseth. Or perhaps they plan to betray her and literally sacrifice her to Sseth instead. I'll leave it open in case the players try to ally with them to defeat her. Anyway, thought I would share and thank you again for the lore!

I was looking for "inspiration" for a campaign heavily using the yuan-ti, I'm using these three vids as my campaign focus, thanks so much.

Thank you for sharing!

DMing ToA and near Fane of Night Serpent in the nexts weeks so THANK YOU for the content

Fascinating stuff as always! We’re starting Tomb of Annihilation next month, and one of my players is a Pterafolk! 😊

These videos are so cool and are satisfying my need for lore. I’m getting ideas for a whole campaign where the yuan-ti have some big plot that the players have to find out and thwart

Nice video again, thanks man!

Thanks for the lore! ^^

Hey can you cover how exactly the races work in dnd? What foes the race mean, how exactly people who originate from different origins called that or this race, and how exactly the race changing conditions like undead and lycathrophy work to have different races affected by these conditions treated as the same race of undead or lycanthrope, for example having dwarf, elf and a human have these and somehow be clasified as being the same dispite most of the time keeping their race speciffic abbilities when they change races?

@piketheknight2581

Жыл бұрын

very interesting topic, that is somenthing i wish to know

@piketheknight2581

Жыл бұрын

@Ethertask Sebastian ??????

@piketheknight2581

Жыл бұрын

@Ethertask Sebastian oh well yes

@leon--osseusii4664

Жыл бұрын

@Ethertask Sebastian yes and the new ch just released, woooooo!

Long time watcher, first time commenter. I just want to say mate, Your passion for this game is contagious!

@Mrrhexx if you made a podcast I would listen to the heck out it. Your content is amazing.

I need more yuan ti videos in the future, PLEASE

Thank you for the video. :)

Great videos. Thank you.

Nice fire ya got going here 🔥🔥🔥🔥

In the main continent of my home brew world I have a Historian that works in the Magic College named Rhexx. The party is damn near as reliant on him as I am to your actual videos!

Totally awesome just like the other two parts

Glad you mentioned how Zehir/Set relates to the Yuan-Ti.

Thanks for this.

Thank you for the video! Now, I want to know about the Bathrachi! Damn, the more info appears the more it seems missing.

"What really matters to you" Your words are what matters to me! You could make an entire video about the process of building a house in DnD and id watch it.

I dont know if you covered it before, but a video on the other continents would be awesome! Especially Maztica.

Bravo! I wonder what your next video will be about.

Love your content

I was waiting for a PDF based on your armor video. Really looking forward to checking it out. I really liked your ideas on weapons as well and wouldn't mind a PDF for changes to that as well.

@MrRhexx

Жыл бұрын

I will be releasing a video hopefully next week or the week after that, explaining the PDF and how it all functions :)

@sethperez4204

Жыл бұрын

Awesome, l'll be looking forward to that too!

More! More! More snake lore! Let’s go fourth video lol

Bless MrRexx

Remember Port Nyanzaro in Chult is an Amn colony, so you can ‘import’ a Yuan Ti or plot into Amn, Candlekeep Library or even the southern part of the Sword Coast, due to this connection.

Set ....definitely my favorite of the gods

@tyrannicaltypomichaeltester

12 күн бұрын

The real one or Egyptian interloper?

Bro, i know its a bit cringy to request but I'd genuinely enjoy seeing a "what they don't tell you about Mr.Rhexx"

@Doublemonk0506

Жыл бұрын

If he ever makes a QNA, it should be titled that.

Would you be able to do a big timeline video explaining, in brief, the events from the start of the world of Toril up to the “modern day,” please!

21:10 I think it might be the other way around. Pretty sure Blizzard was inspired by D&D and not the other way around.

there was a "freemium" mmo in the ebberon setting, and it was pretty good even if you didn't spend a penny. as long as you don't mind only getting to level twelve or so ever.

Thinking about the so many things you touched upon in this video: have you already made a video about the Dragons' civil war? If not, it would be a very interesting one!

I would love another Yuen-Ti vid somewhere down the line~

Fingers crossed for an Arborea Video someday!

Hey MrRhexx ! Love your content about D&D ! Could you please continue your D&D heaven video playlist with Elysium ?

Awesome video like always. Would you ever consider doing any lore videos on the game Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2? I just started playing the games and it seems like there would be cool lore to learn in them.

Amusingly, the World Serpent is currently operating as an interdimensional Inn in the D&D universe...even able to provide entry/exit to places such as the domains of Ravenloft and Dark Sun...you just need to find a door into the Inn. It's also more of a neutral location there... There are also at least 2 houses and Kara-Tur and a few of them in Maztica according to older editions

"Hey hey people, Sseth here." Sorry I couldn't resist making the joke.

28:35 now i'm picturing snakemen in Superman costumes

Would it be possible for you to do a video on the Leonin? I'd love an in depth breakdown on what they're like and what they're capable of.

ill def use this race in my campain they are so interesting and would love to RP as a snake boss

Okay, there are too many comments about thumbnail snek bitties. I think I may have overdone it this time.

@jwall1646

Жыл бұрын

I was just focused on the size of those fangs! LOOKS SO PAINFUL

@Anonymouzor

Жыл бұрын

the snitties are just too powerful

If you make another video about Yuan-ti secret spells etc I WILL WATCH IT ❤ just letting you know 😉

Lmao thanks for these everytime I watch your videos I get campaign ideas, but this one might be the best yet, the party is forced to work with a long forgotten hidden house of the Yuan-Ti and as they're working together the party will find out that the reason this house was outcasted is because the priest of the house discovered the truth about Seth and Set, and switched gears to help and awaken Seth tho of course to the other house appears to be blasphemous, so the party ends unknowingly help heal Seth

Title is a mouthful chief

The whole Set - Sseth thing could be a great setting for a Mulhorand themed campaign.

I play a Yuan-ti Pureblood male Enchanter and member of the “Coiled Cabal” in Adventure League in Forgotten Realms🐍🐍💯

Mitigation is a good term for damage reduction. You can have Armor class and mitigation boost each other with some kind of simple math can incorporate a soft cap

4:55 that's not a mutated batrachi that kinda look like a slaad, that's literally a slaad lord Bazim-Gorag

@MrRhexx

Жыл бұрын

Bazim-Gorag was a batrachi in life, before he ascended and became a slaad lord.

Hey Rhexx excelent video as always! are you planing on do lore videos about the new monsters froms SpellJamer?

Thanks.

Please could you do a deep dive on obsidian dragon!

@emilsinclair4190

Жыл бұрын

Ajpicket has a nice video about them

Item creation and personalizing their weaponry has been a major focus of my campaign recently. a rogue can modify a pair of daggers to be bolos, for example

@2:00 I agree armor needs to be worked on. Right now there is nothing involving materials and real impacts. There is adamantine but that's it. I think there need to be more matierals and materials like adamantine not turning armor into magical (RAW it is magical as artificer can't infuse it on DnD Beyond) I think this should carry over to weapons too. Somehow add differences to weapons.

@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim

Жыл бұрын

I agree as well. I am probably going to augment my 5e setting with two of the PDFs on the storepage

I hope you'll give consideration on "What they don't tell you about the Gith" or even a subvideo on the Githzerai, Githyanki and the Githvryk

i fucking love u my man u shits so cool me and my son love listening together thanks bunches

honestly, the best thing about D&D magical iten is that you have little room for optimization. Older editions felt like Cyberpunk 2077, the characters walked around wearing half a million in gold pieces. If you gave them a butplug slot they would take it! 5e you can only have 3 and the cut atribute inflation in the bud with the 20 hard cap. This accelerate dice rolling.

In my personal lore, the Yuan-ti gods are actually Astral Dreadnoughts, who also factor into the lore of the Beholders to believe they will ascend to that form.

I'd be interested to hear more about the Egyptian pantheon if there's more