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The Most TERRIFYING Monsters You've Never Heard Of
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Where is Tasha stat block
Yeenogh set up sounds like an entire adventure ark to do for mid to high level party
I HAVE THE MAGIC THE GATHERING NUV MIZZIT card it also pretty good with magic
Anyone got some bleach for my eyes?
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Marut; "I am inevitable."
Human; *Brushes off the force and radiance.
Marut; "..."
Human; "And I... Am a bear totem barbarian."
My Bear Totem Barbarian is so much fun.
*still dies*
with 5 levels of rouge
@@rystudios4612 the unkillable
@@rystudios4612 and knuckles
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.
Now i want to make a sheet for the gun devil :D
The gun devil???
@@RoxyGotMoxy. gun devil is a character from "chainsaw-man" Manga
@@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.
@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.
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.
She has wish in her spell list
Ok that’s the most terrifying thing you could say the bad guy has wish
While she is likely smart enough not to use Reality Warp mid fight, it is still beyond mighty.
"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**
... I think I just figured out how I'm going to explain my groundhogs day arc.
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
@@tommythunder7498You can't use Wish to counter Wish.
The Elder Tempest seems like something a Tempest Cleric will worship.
They’d probably turn I. The party to protect it.
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
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
One of my characters ate Graz’zt ☠️😂
@@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.
@@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
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.
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.
go on....
Cast Create Bonfire under the thick one.
??? Can you elaborate?
@@shadexvii3975 you can make prismatic wall a sphere, so they pass through each colored wall 4 times
@@cassiopeia_real oh. I see
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.
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?
@@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.
@@Alex-xt1rrone thing of note, demons don't make contracts.
@@louiesatterwhite3885 they do, but only to break them and betray you just for fun of it
@@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.
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.
And his litter box is a bit bigger.
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
Nope f@ck yeenogu.
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
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.
Yeah, both aspects from Fizban's are great
Just to be an extra dick, make the 7 gold dragons be greatwyrms.
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.
Consider this stolen.
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.
Great point! I didn't mention the different counterspell but that's brilliantly observed that it can't be counterspelled back!
Nah, that absolutely means I'm going to figure out a way to counterspell the special counterspell, you've increased my wizard powers
@@TheGateShallStand rod of absorption?
@@snrpatata I was going to do something more complicated but that works too
@@DnDShorts You are damn hilarious 🤭😆😂🤣🤣, seriously some these creatures are terrifying as hell.
Being polymporphed into a furret seems so relaxing
I don't know if he's underrated anymore, due to a certain TH-camr 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.
**looks at my artificer-focused setting**
**Looks at the Merit**
Oh...😈
oh yeah, it's all coming together!
I had a ton of fun researching deeper into some of these encounters! What other underrated asskickers are out there in the Forgotten Realms?
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?
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
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.
Out of curiosity, where did you find the Tasha stat block?
@@apjtv2540 It's in Wild Beyond The Witchlight!
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
From how dnd shorts describes it, it sounds like they just come, beat you up, and leave.
The Elder Tempest is basically just Rayquaza
So... A good guy?
@@anna-flora999 That seems to be the difference. Unlike Rayquaza, that guy seems to be too dumb to discern good and evil.
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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]"*
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.
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.
Now thats cool
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.
Niv-Mezzit when he comes up against a party of Mage Slayers with one spellcaster, who knows multiple antimagic spells:
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
gods i hate legendary actions and legendary resistances.@@louiesatterwhite3885
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?
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!)
"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.
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.
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."
He was there.. the most terrifying creature of them all.. the great lord Furret..
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)
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
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.
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
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"
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.
I would really like a follow up video for early and mid game boss or to use as a mini boss later on.
Having Yeenoghu Tbag the entire party was a nice touch. Bravo sir!
You and Internet Historian are the only guys whose adds I watch all the way through.
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.
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"
You seem fun at parties
@@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?
@@matthewfowler9219 It's likely that all of us are nerds, so our parties need a person who will note Hyenas are basically cats.
@@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.
That first one, the Marut, is very misrepresented. It feels even more robotic-angel like and crazier when you know the lore.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@Olimar92 ah, I was under the impression that they fell into the same category.
Fought the knoll God and nearly soloed him before he got away due to plot armor
An elder tempest was one of the 4 elemental challenges our DM threw at us before we fought vecna
Fun Fact about Yeenoghu: If you look closely at his artwork in OotA or MTF, aparently he's a member of the Harpers X3>
This was like analyzing legendary pokemon. Wonderful monsters. Awesome editing. Really want to see more⚡
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.
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
Totem barbarian with some resistances: "just flat damage, huh?"
Yeenoghu looks like he's spent a little too much time tormenting people in Elwynn Forest...
Well, Warcraft borrowed a lot from D&D, so...
Maruts: "Oi slag, you got a loicence for that _e X i S t E n C e_ roight there?"
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.
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
Considering that the Marut's lasers always hit, you could take a Marut and reflavour it as a Darkseid-like villain.
I'd love to see more lists like this from you. Love the way you explain how they work!
This was one of the coolest videos I've ever seen
Please do more like this it was amazing
I love these dm related videos, thank you!
...Dibs on serving Niv-Mizzet. Niv best Guild Master.
My favorite has to be the Elder Tempest, it sounds so iconic and horribly intimidating, just like the Terrasque!
These are always enjoyable to watch , very useful information & quick classy comedy.
DnD Shorts: Here's some interesting final boss encounters for a nice and long campaign
Your DM: mmm... Tarasque...
Two of them...
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.
Maruts are the only Inevitables in 5e, iirc, so they basically have taken that role
Your Video editing is TOP NOTCH🤯
I fought babbayaga using this statblock. It made the quote, "I can run faster than you can teleport"
Marut: I am inevitable.
Wizard with Invulnerability: And I am *invincible card*
So, hear me out: a city of cloud giants on the back of an Elder Storm
"It's basically the day after tomorrow, the guy." 🤣🤣🤣
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)
Love this. Thanks for making this video!
An army of wizards casting fireball should do the trick to take care of the marut
You‘re the best, bro.
I thought we'd be discussing creatures I'd never heard of I got excited for no reason
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.
Lol as soon as you said 2 a commercial interrupted. Ads are definitely terrifying cause they always get their way no matter what
Great video that was one of my favorite ones of yours
I wanted to clarify that Marut's only enforce very specific contracts. Their main focus is on those who deny death.
Great content as usual. Great sketch. Ill try world anvil right away
Great, can't wait for future terrifying epic boss fights on your patron...
1:00 my goodness its like a walking beefed up guardian of faith
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.
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.
I really love the sketches for the sponsor
The world anvil ad reminds me of the music video for “Alaska” from between the buried and me.
the dm thought it smart to throw a Marut against our level 13 party
"Douglas I'm creating a new campaign"
I'm trying to imagine a demon going to court to file a complaint about heroes breaking a contract. That's hilarious in on itself. Curious, if you manage to break multiple contracts the same time, do more of those enforcers show up or just one?
These monsters dont stand a chance against my sword: the throngler.
Hell yeah these are amazing
The post-it notes and delirium are hilarious
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
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).
Thank you for the video.
Thank you for watching!
It's funny that you called the Merut inevitable, as it is HEAVILY based on 3.5e Inevitables. Also constructs that dealt with contracts
Plz post again. I like the stories you select
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.
>the elder tempest can squeeze through a 1 inch hole
well now i wanna use it to make the most powerful air cannon ever built. i bet you could get a baseball to escape velocity with that kinda power
The flying snake can move 491 mph, about 7 hours flight from NY to london
that almost rivals planes
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.
I had the elder tempest as my final BBEG in a campaign I was running
Finally! Someone talks about marut!
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.)
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.
Thank u mister big beard, great final bosses
three words: Aspect of Bahamut
essentially, if a Dragon prayed long enough for their God to help them then he appears.
remember that the platinum dragon is always accompanied by seven ancient gold dragons...one of the aspects abilities is to revive with its breath weapon.
this is one of the few cr30 creatures in the game.
(featured in fizban's treasury of dragons)
They are cool in 3.5 you had a spell to summon the 3.5 version of that beast. You are probably not likely to find a dragon with enough faith as that is kind not something Dragons usually do.
"f*cked" Grazzt is an understatement.
Well.. now I have to right an entire campaign about storms.
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.