@@saeyabor I actually really liked the song. I'm a bit of a snob when it comes to music, at least secretly, I like what I like. I actually like it. It's got this kind of unique feeling, it tells a story in a way. It describes the kargra perfectly and sounds pretty dang good 😊
13:03 They can have some gold as a treat. I do agree with your outrage at them getting the lore wrong. Felt like they wanted to male this monster somewhere that doesn't destroy your equipment or eat your money when that's the point
That is hilarious that a bite from a creature that tears hunks out of iron and stone apparently only does as much damage as somebody stabbing you with a knife. Veresimilitude took a kick to the shins with that conversion. XD
A creature that can eat 5 pounds of metal every round (6seconds) only has 45kg of metals that can be harvested when killed. and apparently they store up all these metals over their life time until the die. Yeah these things should be far more powerful and far more rewarding when killed. You could make a campaign out of hunting them just for loot.
Hey AJ, awesome video, loved how you called out WotC 😂 on the stats. The music at the end was such fire 🔥 🚒 🔥 it was really good! I see in the comments the excitement and love for this creature and the music. I'm kinda surprised by it, never thought people even would care, it such a obscure creature. Glad people still enjoy the old school monsters. I don't think I have ever noticed the double scimitar at the end of the desk. What no Naginata 😮 When I first read how the double scimitar works in 5e. I thought no way that's the dragon paw mechanics, from Dark*Sun. Again awesome video AJ, I have watched it 3 times already, lots of information your videos are so good! Thanks AJ, you have a wonderful day!
These guys are so hard to scan in No Man's Sky! I can see these things getting swat like flies by powerful earth elementals and gods of races like deep gnomes and dwarves. Also, when did you become a music producer? Bc I'm loving it!
Yes, but it seems revealing of the lack of nuance that's so frustrating in D&D. Teeth that shred iron do as much damage as getting stabbed by a knife? Ridiculous
The song at the end, I realy liked it, good musical...foundation, not sure if it would fit more into ....ROCK and Roll or.....HEAVY METAL, it just really Rocked! (see what i did there?) who made it? :D
I may have asked this before, forgive me, but have you done separate videos on the elemental planes? The closest things I can find in your videos are references in the Genasi and Jin videos
If the vast majority of its diet is iron, then presumably their more metallic components would be similarly comprised. Sounds like a job for rust monsters. 🤷 Edit: spelling
Amazing video AJ, What modifiers would the teeth and fins be if turned into weapons? Same with the scales for armor? Also will songs be your new outros?
Adding materials from other planes of existence allows base enchantment and the more different planes are involved, the more difficult the process and the more + get added, or the more magic effects the material can hold. Gygax explained this in a Dragon article once I am sure... anyway, it makes perfect sense to me. Oh, and I dunno, the songs seem to be popular.
Yeah, 5e ruined these. 1d4+1 damage? No. 3d6 minimum. It shreds metal, so that is generous. These always struck me as combination worm and bony fish, like the armored fish that existed long before the dinosaurs, whose jaws were external bony plates rather than internal jaws with teeth. As the digestive tract expands, it causes the first couple rows of scales to flick out, shredding whatever doesn’t fit completely into the digestive tract. It doesn’t actually “bite”. It just shreds whatever couldn’t be swallowed entirely. Any concentration of refined metals will attract them. They don’t have to digest as much that way. That steel sword is like raw sugar to them, unlike a vein of ore full of impurities that they have to break down and excrete. Dwarves love and hate these things. Once killed, they can be smelted down to provide lots of metal, but killing them is difficult.
So AJ think we will ever be getting a video of all the metals in the forgotten realms, I know you did some in your metallurgy video but the forgotten realms has a lot of stuff to go over. Plus you did all drugs in forgotten realms.
The song was a surprise that made me LOL. Was that made with Udio? I once used Udio to make a whole two hours of songs for a big combat against gnolls.
Hey AJ. WEIRD question for you. If a creature has a reaction that can teleport them a certain distance away. can they use that reaction in between attacks of something that has extra attack? would that change for multiattack?
For anyone too stupid or dense to understand why they made the damage 1d4 I’ll explain it for you. It’s a CR 1/8 monster that is meant to be used against low level players and in large amounts.
Its an extremely rare creature, and if played correctly, it has to roll twice, successfully, just to land a single bite attack, so, its likely to get killed quickly anyway. I stand by what I said. If anything, they got the CR wrong.
He doesn't exactly mention this in the video, but apparently Khargra make music that would blend in with Korn or Linkin Park.
How about Pantera or Disturbed
@@saeyabor I actually really liked the song. I'm a bit of a snob when it comes to music, at least secretly, I like what I like. I actually like it. It's got this kind of unique feeling, it tells a story in a way. It describes the kargra perfectly and sounds pretty dang good 😊
"Diamond and platinum rock crusher? Yea, that's about like being bitten by a rat"
-WotC, probably 😂
What a fishing trip that would be. I could see dwarves with huge poles sitting next to a portal drinking and pulling these in.
This is fitting on a few levels for today AJ I’m meeting a client at their stone cutting place haha
5:50 Until some evil earth mage gets them to eat through the foundations of a castle and collapse it
That khargra song at the end totally slaps, i'd bump it!
Any creature that could damage a dragon hoard is going on my list of first creatures to kill during any campaign encounter.
Pls make that song available, it fucking rocks.
Ok, that song at the end is epic.
Thanks!
@@AJPickett It needs its own upload, or at least an MP3 download, lol.
@@Krishnath.Dragon I'll post it over on my discord server for channel members and patrons.
@@AJPickett Sadly can't afford membership or patronage. But still, it's good, and I am glad you'll share it. :)
@@Krishnath.Dragon I put it on spotify for you.
13:03 They can have some gold as a treat. I do agree with your outrage at them getting the lore wrong. Felt like they wanted to male this monster somewhere that doesn't destroy your equipment or eat your money when that's the point
PC-dwarf that sleep in a tree
DM: why do they sleep in a tree?
Player: Khargra
PC-wizard sleep in steel box.
DM: we are not going there today.
Bless the Mighty GlueStick
That song is rad! Please make a vid of just the song so i can add it to my jams!
what would happen if
one met a rust monster?
Good Presentation Mr
A J Sir, you really brought
these critters to life! 👍
👏👏👏👏👏 😁
Rust monsters would be lethal to the poor little Khargra! Thankfully, they very rarely meet.
8:35 of course if you're inside a dungeon tossing away your equipment to feed a monsteiscan be dangerous
That is hilarious that a bite from a creature that tears hunks out of iron and stone apparently only does as much damage as somebody stabbing you with a knife. Veresimilitude took a kick to the shins with that conversion. XD
Okay, ALL monsters need a Metal song.
Seems that way, I hope they all turn out so well.
Well certainly all Earth Elemental Monsters.
After all, it's PURE Metal!
I'd love to see monsters get songs.
But not all songs need to be metal.
True.
I think I've heard of these guys before
I want to strap the Khargra from the thumbnail on the back of my car, like a very heavy, decorative chrome rocket engine.
Love the music at the end
Thanks for the video AJ
PANR has tuned in.
A creature that can eat 5 pounds of metal every round (6seconds) only has 45kg of metals that can be harvested when killed. and apparently they store up all these metals over their life time until the die. Yeah these things should be far more powerful and far more rewarding when killed. You could make a campaign out of hunting them just for loot.
Hey AJ, awesome video, loved how you called out WotC 😂 on the stats. The music at the end was such fire 🔥 🚒 🔥 it was really good! I see in the comments the excitement and love for this creature and the music. I'm kinda surprised by it, never thought people even would care, it such a obscure creature. Glad people still enjoy the old school monsters. I don't think I have ever noticed the double scimitar at the end of the desk. What no Naginata 😮
When I first read how the double scimitar works in 5e. I thought no way that's the dragon paw mechanics, from Dark*Sun. Again awesome video AJ, I have watched it 3 times already, lots of information your videos are so good!
Thanks AJ, you have a wonderful day!
Thank you!
Excellent
Extremely good episode as usual A.J. You hold persistently extremely high quality to your videos.
These guys are so hard to scan in No Man's Sky!
I can see these things getting swat like flies by powerful earth elementals and gods of races like deep gnomes and dwarves.
Also, when did you become a music producer? Bc I'm loving it!
Very cool
That song slaps!
Wow, this song was incredibly well written 👏 😂
Thank you!
i think the idea behind the low damage of the bite attack is do to their size category and how 5e did things at the time
Yes, but it seems revealing of the lack of nuance that's so frustrating in D&D. Teeth that shred iron do as much damage as getting stabbed by a knife? Ridiculous
2:40 Please sell shirts/mugs. I'll buy them😂❤
It is on a shirt, you can buy them.
Thanks AJ.
I love how alien the Khargra looks. Really fun and unique design.
Wow just wow good stuff 👏
Cool video!
I now imagine the Khargra singing the metal song in the end. 😎
WOW someone made a song about them?! even more to the point, its METAL! :)
Thanks
I need this song!! I'm serious!!
It was on Spotify for a little bit. Not sure what happened to it
@@Drizztbc yeah, there was an issue with Spotify so I can't host it there currently.
People are going to be asking for a song on every video now 🤘
That song slaps
Homeboy really said what about more item destruction monsters aaa
This song is sick! Metal af
Fiend folio, my beloved
5th ed nerfed everything
ITS LIT 🔥
The song at the end, I realy liked it, good musical...foundation, not sure if it would fit more into ....ROCK and Roll or.....HEAVY METAL, it just really Rocked! (see what i did there?) who made it? :D
those puns hit hard.
They hit hard like rock that rolls.
I may have asked this before, forgive me, but have you done separate videos on the elemental planes? The closest things I can find in your videos are references in the Genasi and Jin videos
I have not.
They remind me of a rocket engine combined with an Elder Thing.
good video AJ
Thanks Chris
Dayum... I can't say I ever expected a song about khargra (of all things) to kick ass. Great work, AJ!
After all the creature from Fiend Folio is done, will you be doing a video on other books related to dnd like the tomb of beasts?
Yep.
@@AJPickett🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
If the vast majority of its diet is iron, then presumably their more metallic components would be similarly comprised.
Sounds like a job for rust monsters. 🤷
Edit: spelling
Amazing video AJ,
What modifiers would the teeth and fins be if turned into weapons?
Same with the scales for armor?
Also will songs be your new outros?
Adding materials from other planes of existence allows base enchantment and the more different planes are involved, the more difficult the process and the more + get added, or the more magic effects the material can hold. Gygax explained this in a Dragon article once I am sure... anyway, it makes perfect sense to me. Oh, and I dunno, the songs seem to be popular.
Rock and stone
Did i hear a rock and stone?
Definitely a Digimon called Terebrodramon.
There was no reason for that song to go as hard as it did, but it was amazing and I approve. Is it anywhere as a standalone??
Started the video; happened to see a comment about KORN. Thought, “Cool.”
Then AJ stopped talking and smacked me in the face with tasty bacon-rock.
I even mention bacon in the video :) I will compile these songs into a spotify list or something, let me make a few more of them.
Yeah, 5e ruined these. 1d4+1 damage? No.
3d6 minimum. It shreds metal, so that is generous.
These always struck me as combination worm and bony fish, like the armored fish that existed long before the dinosaurs, whose jaws were external bony plates rather than internal jaws with teeth. As the digestive tract expands, it causes the first couple rows of scales to flick out, shredding whatever doesn’t fit completely into the digestive tract. It doesn’t actually “bite”. It just shreds whatever couldn’t be swallowed entirely.
Any concentration of refined metals will attract them. They don’t have to digest as much that way. That steel sword is like raw sugar to them, unlike a vein of ore full of impurities that they have to break down and excrete.
Dwarves love and hate these things. Once killed, they can be smelted down to provide lots of metal, but killing them is difficult.
That song goes hard LMFAO
That song was great, credit?
Lyrics by AJ Pickett 2024, composition by Suno.com Thank you.
@@AJPickett I 100% want to throw some of these at my party and play this on repeat for the battle. Great vibe.
"Non-murder hobo terms"😂
*checks comment, then loots the body*
Where can I find that awesome song?
Just here at the moment, I'll load them elsewhere when I have a few more.
@@AJPickett Once you're selling it I'll buy the album. This is exactly the kind of nerd culture I can dig! Pun totally intended :)
So AJ think we will ever be getting a video of all the metals in the forgotten realms, I know you did some in your metallurgy video but the forgotten realms has a lot of stuff to go over. Plus you did all drugs in forgotten realms.
There really are most of the metals in that video, there are a few more mentioned by folks in the comments below.
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491st like!👍
Awesome video!🤘
Keep up the awesome work!🤘😎🤘
Great video
Would they're fins and teeth be +2 to hit I wonder?
+4 to hit for the bite attack, the fins are not used in combat.
@@AJPickett No no no no, I meant if turned into weapons! My bad, my bad! My apologies!
@@Rells2coolpeoplehavebadtastes. Ah, I get it, Just +1 (as they come from ONE different plane of existence.)
@@AJPickett Oki doki.
The song was a surprise that made me LOL. Was that made with Udio? I once used Udio to make a whole two hours of songs for a big combat against gnolls.
Suno, very similar but better.
Who did the song?
That's the theme for Ruined Tristram from Diablo 2
@davidfletcher6703 ty
The end song was made by AJ with A.I tools, pretty good sounding honestly.
@@LurkerDaBerzerker Correct!
@@AJPickett, you should put out an album with songs about creatures from the monster manual, the one for the Apparition was bangin
Hey AJ. WEIRD question for you. If a creature has a reaction that can teleport them a certain distance away. can they use that reaction in between attacks of something that has extra attack? would that change for multiattack?
Not AJ, but yes. Attacks are resolved individually.
What triggers the reaction?
Yep, they can use that reaction anytime if they had not already.
@ wonderful
@ thank you as always friend :)
Khargra rock 🪨
The corruption needs to be rooted out by this town
It's time to get deeply kibble.
Eh?
Oh, advert 😅
Who does this song
Lyrics by AJ Pickett, composiion by Suno.com
@@AJPickett you should release this as a stand alone song. or is it already? link?
@@iamzid Khargra is already on Spotify :)
AJ I beg you link it I cannot find it on Spotify
@@AJPickett Is there a link anywhere? I cant find it
My mans runnin outta shit
Not even close. He literally has a decade worth of content left, at least, just on monsters that showed up only in 3.5.
I will never run out of monsters, this was voted on LaneLibra :)
@@AJPickett This was a great video, loved the life cycle, very appropriate for an elemental.
For anyone too stupid or dense to understand why they made the damage 1d4 I’ll explain it for you.
It’s a CR 1/8 monster that is meant to be used against low level players and in large amounts.
Its an extremely rare creature, and if played correctly, it has to roll twice, successfully, just to land a single bite attack, so, its likely to get killed quickly anyway. I stand by what I said. If anything, they got the CR wrong.
5:50 Until some evil earth mage gets them to eat through the foundations of a castle and collapse it
Well... Yes.
@@AJPickett And thus begins the wider quest