What They Don't Tell You About Displacer Beasts - D&D
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"House-cat to 500lb in 2 years"...that's what a tiger cub does. That isn't a particularly fast growth rate for big cats. Of course, they don't live nearly as long.
I've been reading The Shattered Land, the second book in the Eberron setting, and I got a kick out of the bit where a character gets served displacer beast meat at a tavern. He initially thinks his plate's empty until he notices strips of meat hovering a few inches away.
Lol
That sounds really unhealthy imagine if you eat some then it teleports into your lungs
@@theomnissiah-9120 It doesn't actually teleport, merely bends the light to appear at a different location for defensive purposes. Blink Dog meat might be riskier, but I doubt that ability - used consciously, at least most of the time - is transferred to its dead flesh.
Harrowed2TheMind ahh that makes more sense
Though teleporting meat does sound like a funny assassination method
Harrowed2TheMind okay, but it’d be kinda cool though. *eats blink dog meat, gains the ability to blink in a random direction 1/day*
Today's episode:
*"Tentacle Kitty vs Warp Doggo"*
I would watch that
New campaign goal, cure displacer beast evilness and make them and blink dogs get along
I'm normally a cat person but in this instance I'm with warp doggo 100%.
Warp doggo is good boy, and as smart as your average tax collector.
@@Reddotzebra lol
@@roguepsykerhaaker4813 you have my vote
The rivalry between the displacer beast and the blink dogs is one of my favorite things in D&D lore.
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Displacer Cub
Small Monstrosity, Chaotic **Adorable**
Hell yeah, I've always wanted to know more about these spooky furrballs
Furry spookballs*
My thoughts exactly
Come bonk the lama
Hello acreano friend
I'd be interested to see one on Blink Dogs since they were bred to hunt Displacer Beasts.
Although I can't say it is the true answer, since it's just a conjecture, I can easily think of a simple explanation for the Displacer Beast to not use fangs or claws to attack.
That is simply that it would reveal their actual location. The tentacles are long, it is hard to tell where the beast is precisely just being hit by tentacles. But a claw attack would reveal to you at least the precise position of the foreleg, and on top of that the general direction of the body, since a leg isn't prehensile like the tentacle. This is too much information about the beast's actual location. A bite attack would be even worse, revealing the location of its head right away.
That makes a lot of sense actually.
I came here to comment exactly this.
Oooh that’s smart
Good answer
apropos sir. this is the reason, though i don't remember where i heard this. sometime in a basement in the 80s, but yea, you are correct.
I think I have a blink cat in my house, he can teleport up to 5 feet (big for a tiny creature) as a reaction to any effects that might or might not harm him. I don't know the exact science behind it but it seems to work even while asleep, teleporting instantly woken up and standing.
Likewise. My cat seems to have a tendency to blink into holes in the walls when she doesn't want to be found.
Adventure Time taught me that the Displacer Beast has "approximate knowledge of many things"
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Well said, 33freedom22
Every time one of your videos comes out it is like holiday! Some of my fondest memories are of when I got home from school, got a snack, and turned on your most recent upload.
If only I knew all this beforehand, my party fought a displacer beast and when we were finished we found a displacer cub which we adopted. A session or two were spent finding milk for the cub but eventually we found out that the cub liked chocolate milk keg (a gag magic item that refilled infinitely) that our tabaxi sorcerer carried on him. If we had known this information idk what would've happened with the cub but I'm glad we didn't cause I love it.
Very good video, thank you!
As someone who knows little about DnD monster lore, I thought Displacer Beast would be some kind of teleporting dog or cat monster based on the name.
The actual thing is so much better.
Ironically their archenemies are the blink dogs
@@drbonerstein8411 Who are the actual teleporting monsters, or should I say "blinking in and out of existence" as someone told me.
What an Nice convenience 4 u
For some reason i always thought they were a bat type creature, until i saw this...no idea why i thought that now
Maybe they don't use their fangs and claws beacause it would take them to get even closer to their enemy, making it easier for the foe to identify the real position of the displacer beast. And when they attack with their tentacles they can keep their distance and make quicker attacks since the tentacle has more manuverability than their other limbs.
2:16 a video on those gray alien doppelgangers would be cool, never heard of them before. their description seemed very interesting
Oh, those can be very interesting plot devices indeed...
Added one to my campaign just to mess with my group but he quickly became hunted and now is a major player in the bbegs plan
Always wanted to learn more about them, ever since one was mentioned in the adventures of Drizzt Do'urden. Only half a page was devoted to the encounter, and still I remember it better than the plot of the book
What did the Kitty do to the drow elf ranger that was so memorable?
There is also one in the last book of the Moonshae trilogy.
Scary buggers.
@@defensivekobra3873 I think it just ambushed him in a cave when he was going back to the underdark if i remember right he was chasing someone who had Guineveres figurine
no thats wrong he was back to menzoberranzan to stop the drow in the book the starless night though you most of it right@@nathancarter5034
>being chased by Displacer Beast
>somehow jumps across 40ft chasm
>Displacer Beast stops at the edge of chasm
>I turn around and blow raspberries
>Displacer Beast slinks back into the treeline
>start to trot off, sense wind blowing behind me
>turn around to see Displacer Beast in mid-flight claws out about to clear the chasm and land on me
>"It was at this moment Jonathan knew... he f**ked up".
lol
Hahaha!
Doesn't stop you from grabbing them and throw them off the chasm!
@@justnoob8141 As a DM friend of mine always says, "You can always try." :P
This is perfect timing for the video. Awesome roleplay, background, and other things has earned one of my players a displacer beast companion and I’m working on how to run that. Thank you!
Crazy timing. This thing looks alot like a black panther and we just got the horrible news of Chadwick Bosman passing away. RIP Mr Bosman
Yeah, I thought the same thing. Then I looked at the channel and was confused, then I saw the title and I finally got it.
im trying to think of a nice pun about him becoming one of these awesome creatures that doesnt sound mean...i want it to be awesome not mean
Wow that is a terrible and sad coincidence. Personally I was looking forward to more of him as T'challa as Black Panther. Also, I didn't know of some of the really nice things he did and it only makes his passing more sad. :(
Don’t listen to Blink Dog propaganda, side with Displacer Beasts for a better future!
Where can i sign up ?
Sure
But Blink Dogs can Teleport. They can have the best and worse games of catch.
Displacer Beasts go all Predator Mode and lay around. Either to think about pouncing on you and beg for food or just do nothing.
Kevin Myerson you’e been corrupted by the courts of the Feywild. Displacer Beasts are mighty panthers while Blink Dogs are insecure puppies!
@Kevin Myerson You say that like it is a bad thing..
#TeamBigFaeKitty
An interesting question: Does the displacer beast also bend infrared light?
If not, fighting in the darkness with darkvision would be a good idea.
I think it does. I vaguely remember in one of the Drizzt novels he was ambushed by one in the underdark and it fooled him at first. He levelled the odds by dropping darkness on them both and relying on sound to locate it iirc.
DnD darkvision is not infrared. What you actually see are ripples in the weave. That's why it still works in completely pitch black places
probably as infrared is just another type of light. they probably bend all electromagnetic radiation
Darkvision is black and white only (colors cannot be discerned). It does not allow characters to see anything that they could not see otherwise-invisible objects are still invisible, and illusions are still visible as what they seem to be. Likewise, darkvision subjects a creature to gaze attacks normally.
@@william0j With darkvision you can ONLY see in black and white(and grey shades in between). This inherently probably means that the "cones" in your eyes are temporarily changed(if the spell) to "rods" making your vision many more times sensitive in the dark. You can not see color though with darkvision. In rare cases of whole population of real life humans, they actually have to over cook their food, because they can not see the pink of meat turn to a greyish. However, they like to stay up at night, because to them it's like day time(also, they perceive the sun as brighter than normal humans).
"Seeing ripples in the weave" is more likely to be Blindsight.
I've been waiting on this video for a while, your channel is by far my favoriteon the entirety of this platform, seeing a new video pop up makes my entire day, keep up the great work and I wish you much success
Monster Manual: “...use their malevolent intelligence...”
Also Monster Manual: “INT 6 (-2)
6 intelligence in 5e is considered near-human level of intelligence; the creature would be expected to be able to plan advanced tactics and solve puzzles and possibly even comprehend human language if taught.
I know RP wise it kind of breaks down when building a PC where if you roll for stats its possible to be like a lvl1 fighter with no schooling in their background and have like 12 intelligence which technically RP wise makes you a super genius.
@@FormerRuling Not exactly... A human with the intelligence of "6" would equate to an IQ of only about 60-80 on that scale, where 100 (or 10-11 dnd) is average, 140 (12-15 dnd) is exceptional, and 160+ (16+) is genius. So, a feral or trained aggressive beast, with the intelligence of "6" would be an exceptionally intelligent animal. For a human of 6 intelligence the only puzzles they may solve , with significant difficulty, would be square-peg to square hole and round peg to round hole. This would be a very challenged human, but for a feral or trained beast, this would be quite exceptional... Relatively speaking.
Whereas good boy blink doggo has an INT stat of ten. This is why they can take these malevolent furballs down despite having worse stats overall.
@@MarkLewis... Thats roughly what I said? I don't see where we disagree lol.
@@FormerRuling that's why I said "not exactly" which is a way of saying you were mostly correct. Factoids are not proven to be untrue, they are probably,but not necessarily untrue. A "Factoid" is.... "The Blue whale is the largest sea-creature." Why? Because we haven't explored all of the Earth's oceans. In fact, (pun intended) we've explored very little of our oceans, so the declaration "The Blue whale is the largest sea-creature." does not have enough evidence to be promoted to an actual "fact", though believed. (Even though most look at it as a fact and not a factoid.) However, the Theory of Evolution is an accepted proper fact, because though we don't know everything about Evolution, we have a tremendous amount of evidence to support the claim. This is the difference... Small but not unimportant.
"From the distant land from where i came they are called displacer hounds".
"What's thou land called, old adventurer?"
"Tindalos".
@Kevin Myerson who knows mate. Lore is this nebulous and sometimes Eldritch thing, because absurd, horror and the unfathomable.
Those hounds are not the same 🤣
@@CypherofShadows all work and no play makes jack a dull boy, mate.
Ah interesting creature no doubt, but from what I read on Wikipedia... those sound even WORSE(being more formidable). Not the same though. :P
You sound like you're ready to corner the market
If Wizards of the Coast were to release books that contains all of the collective knowledge of Monsters, Races, God's, and Spells, I hope they do the same research you do for your videos. They are so cool to listen to
Yes!!! The episode we have all been waiting for!
Hmm, I wonder if its "evil" tendencies can be mitigated by giving the kittens grown-inhibitors.
I mean, they'd make for the ultimate pets.
I don't know every time you tried to pet them you would be three feet off and they would think you were messing with them, I think I'd also be tripping over mine all the time as well my..maybe that's why they are evil???
The Keeper or just being evil my guy is neutral evil and likes monsters He’s kind of like Steve Irwin but for monsters and he’s a mercenary the evil really just comes into what he’s willing to do to other people who have pissed him off or who his scent against
I much prefer the Thressym. The ultimate kitty companions.
Last time I was this early was 2nd edition......
Man 2E takes me back
One of the coolest beast in D&D it’s actually inspired me to make a subclass similar to it.
CAN’T WAIT TO SEE A HOBGOBLIN VIDEO
I mean, the Blur spell exists
@@dynestis2875 i feel like Treachery Paladin’s channel divinity works well for a Displacer Beast style ability, especially with how it gives you advantage on attack rolls when you’re within 10ft of the illusion. Both at once would be damn good.
Love these videos, keep it up!
I love the old Dragon Magazine articles. They give so much insight on monsters that has been left out of the basic description in the Monster Manual.
The Displacer Beast has always been my one of, if not my favorite, 5e creature. I'm so glad it finally got an episode.
D&D geeks: "displacer beast"
Sci-Fi geeks: "Coeurl"
final fantasy geeks: "also Coeurl"
everyone else: "tenticley danger kitten"
edit: Coeurl* (thx for the correction)
Coeurl*
Kitty whippins
But how can it be a Coeurl if it doesn't learn Blaster?
I had a character who had a pet displacer beast named Gary
He didn’t help in combat or anything he was just kinda there
3.5e cohort using leadership? Paladin steed? Literally just an displacer beast named gary that decided to follow you on your adventure?
defenseive kobra well the reasoning behind it was that my character kinda beat it really bad so it figured that if it followed him around he’d get more chances to kill stuff or get more food and he had speak with animals so he managed to convince it that coming with him would be better than dying
@@thisstatementisfalsenothin5312 okay so just friend? Very cool thank you for sharing, nothing bad happened after that right?
defenseive kobra if I remember correctly Gary just died of old age but I like to include references to him in my own campaigns
@@thisstatementisfalsenothin5312 Ie how humans domesticated wolves into dogs. Supieor hunting ability
Cat & Dog relationships go D&D.
A breakdown of one of my favorite monsters and also on my birthday to boot. Keep up the good work work MrRhexx
*This brings me back to the time our (Revised) Ranger Elf with came across a Dark Elf Rouge with a Displacer Beast* ...and I tell you what .. It was the most heat racing fight I've ever witnessed
I’ve been playing this game since 2000 when I was 9 and am still playing today. I loved looking threw 3rd ed monster manuals and my dads 2ed books when I was younger. I would read more about dnd than I would ever read an assigned book in school. One of my favorite books was the 3rd ed dragonomicon. The art lore and design of the basic chromatic and metallic dragons all displayed in a handy little book. I would play as much as I could and would go with my pops to origins and gen con and would play organized play for many years before life would force me to be an adult and get a job causing me to pretty much do my own hombrew games with a select group of friends off and on when I could. Since I have discovered this channel it amazes me how little I had truly know about monsters and lore threw out the editions of dnd and the fact that you dig up all this research threw the 5 editions of this game to compose all this stats is something I appreciate very much. Your info helps me to be a better DM for my groups and inspires me to creat new stores with the knowledge you have gathered. So I guess what I’m trying to say is thank you. You help people like me out so much in our games and in general give out interesting videos on a hobby that I have loved for my whole life. Whatever the future holds for you my it be prosperous, peaceful and complete.
I never knew "Chaotic Adorable" was a proper 5E alignment?! Lol!!!
My poor Za'rail tried to protect his party from a Displacer Beast. It didn't end well for him. Thankfully my friend, the DM's wife, loved Za'rail so much that he revived me. Something I didn't expect him to do. I loved that campaign.
been waiting for this one!!
Displacer Beasts are one of the crowd favorites. I just wish there was more lore about it.
turns out that animals using quantum effects for an advantage isn't so far-fetched. love your channel.
Firstly, you have singlehandedly made me realize this is my favorite creature in D&D and I will be using it constantly, and probably homebrewing subspecies for my games that can do all sorts of little tricks.
And secondly, I'm unsure if you do take any sort of requests or anything, but I just learned about Zaratan, a huge turtle with an island on its back. If this interests you, I'd totally love to see it in any video soon! Though if not, I understand and thanks for taking the time! I hope to be a patreon supporter when I get some income
True fact: North Americans mountain lions (cougar), Jaguars, Tigers and Panthers have also been recorded killing prey for what is assumed to be sport or practice.
...the more you know
domestic cats are actually known for playing with their prey and not eating it after they kill it. So I guess felines just have this in their blood both in real and fantasy words.
Literally every cat does that. I thought it's common knowledge.
You didn't know cats hunted for sport?
Here's a nice twist for those who don't know, there's an old Dungeon magazine adventure that has a displacer beast & kamadan mated pair. In their lair there is 7 cubs, 3 more like the displacer beast, 3 more like the kamadan, & 1 with full abilities & looks of both parents. I took interest in these cubs ever since that issue so many years ago. Now i got to find that issue in my collection...
The word "Factoid" means something that is not a fact, or more simply: "not fact".
"an assumption or speculation that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact."
yeah. I hate that people use that word so incorrectly. It is going to become the next "literally".
We should get people saying fact-ito when they mean a side fact or small fact.
No... A little different... A "Factoid" is a brief synopsis of minutiae or mundane but believed true trivia. Jeopardy is a perfect microcosm of many "Factoids", just ask Cliff Claven. Though facts are proved, Factoids are accepted as true, and may or may not be true. All myths are Factoids, but not all Factoids are myths. Factoids are unreliable, not necessarily wrong. The "Post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy teaches us this.
@@druid_zephyrus Maybe a "factette"?
First Video was your purple worm video, currently binging your amazing stuff, please keep it up
Finally, a video about my favourite dnd monster!
I love that you included some illustrations from the sci fi story by A.E. Von Vogt that inspired these creatures, even if you didn't say anything in your narration. The original beast in the Von Vogt story was a sapient but non-humanoid alien.
Alex Wisz : Thank you! I ran across that story a while back but I couldn't remember many details other than the creature being referred to as "The Black Destroyer"; not the name of the story, planet, nor the author. Knowing it's a Von Vogt story will make it easier to find. Thanx.
The image showing a regular cat pushing a beaker off the shelf, calling it a 'Displacing Beast' made me laugh even though it was a quick image. @10:00
Any day I open youtube and see you have a new video is an amazing day. Truly you have made my days and the days of my players, a truly enjoyable and thought out adventures. You are probably my favorite TH-camr, period. Thank you Rhexx, you are awesome.
It actually makes a ton of sense that displacer beasts only attack with their tails - tail attacks are much easier to mask with displacement, since they're long and flowy, and thus the displacement can strike with them simultaneously and you would have hardly any idea which was the real beast. Whereas if it were to claw at you or bite you, it would become apparent very quickly which beast were real.
Learned a good piece of advice from this one that's going on my adventuring wisdom list between "Don't put hand into dark holes" and "Don't put Bags of Holding into Portable Holes". "Don't wear Cloaks of Displacement around Blink Dogs". Noted thank you!
Watching this makes me excited for the D&D movie next year
So my group ran into them and my character made a comment, "It looks like a noodle cat" which was a joke. The DM told me to roll a nature and I go a modified 20. So rolling with my previous comment they're not called displacer beasts in this campaign but instead noodle cats.
I introduced an NPC to my party a while back that was a beast conclave ranger with a pet panther who constantly ignored her orders. The ranger and the party found out it's because it's actually been a Displacer Beast the entire time but was able to retract its limbs like it was Stitch. It was fun to RP that asshole cat
Love this! Displacer Beasts are one of my favorite low-mid level monsters. I think I've had one in pretty much every campaign
I did not expect this, it is still awesome
your d&d videos are the best not to long or to short
I needed this! My character got turned into one of these. Interestingly, she's still a cleric
You should do a video about leucrotta from first edition, they can mimic voices and are really smart, cool creatures
“Human sacrifice! Blink Dogs and Displacer Beasts living together! Mass hysteria!”
Love your stuff. Your energy and enthusiasm make these videos so great
One main reason it does not use it's claws and teeth in combat (though very effective and deadly when brought to bear) is due to its awareness of its own displacement ability. The tentacles allow the beast to strike from the location of its displaced image making the target believe the image is the actual beast. Like the old gag of reaching behind someone to tap them on the opposite shoulder while you appear on their other side.
The Animosity between Displacer Beasts and Blink Dogs seems like a magical Cats vs. Dogs thing. :'D
I had a character who had a Displacer Beast as a pet. Laziest SOB cat in the world. But I still loved him.
My GM is making an "imperial" displacer beast, innate spellcasting, invisibility, teleportation, higher AC etc and they're bred exclusively by an imperial family, and buffing regular displacer beasts them within a certain area that's densely populated, claw, bite, pack tactics, keen senses. They're also neutral, the regular ones are getting pack tactics and keen senses
Fascinating and iconic creatures, great vid, keep up the good work!
Interesting you showed artwork taken from the publishings of Black Destroyer/Voyage of the Space Beagle but didn't name it. If anyone wonders, displacer beasts are taken whole-sale from a A. E. van Vogt story. In it they find the Coeurl, and an Earth ship encounters this last surviving member of this once-intelligence race. It is described as looking like a giant black panther with tentacles coming from its shoulders (ending in suction cups), and its fore legs are twice as long as its hind legs. It feeds on the potassium in our bodies and has the ability to smash almost anything by touch, using resonate frequency generating organs in its tentacles. It's about as nasty a beast as what you will encounter in its D&D incarnation.
chainedlupine : Thank you! I recognized the DP from a story I ran across way back but couldn't remember enough details to look up the original story. You're the 2nd one I read mention the author's name, so now I can find it.
I haven't even finished the purple worm video you're killing me MrRhexx lol
Wow, you are still doing DnD Lore videos?
Love them, I am glad to see you that you still make them. :)
Nice picture of Copper and BigCat. (Notice the Chain flag proudly adorned).
My very first d&d (2nd ed) characters' family was cursed. Their first born son was half displacer beast. He was kept in a cage and the only one who could approach him was his sister, Katrina (my character). So her nickname thereafter was Katz. Ah, memories
Displacer cub-alignment: chaotic adorable
Bruh i laughed to hard at that
Time stamp 8:20
The goblin riding the Displacer Beast. The Chain will return
@8:24
Displacer Cub - "Chaotic Adorable"
So as someone that has loved these creatures... Thank you MrRhexx. I will say my favorite encounter with them was in a 2nd edition game with my Priest of Bast.. I walked into a room with 12 of them and just said.. "KITTIES!" while opening my arms and dropping to my knees. Because a Priest of Bast can not be attacked by any felines and the DM ruled that they are mostly feline... Well.. I had 12 Displacer beasts following me for the rest of the night.. Managed to keep a pair to follow me around for a while. Was great cause it was a mating pair.. so.. Displacer cubs...
Do I see Copper and Bigcat? Nice!
I have a theory: Displacer Beast are a type of chimera (ex. Hypogriff, Hippocampus, Owlbear, etc.), part panther and part squid
(Mic dropped)
-DD
Lol hippocampus? Like the part of the brain? Also said are aggressive creatures so its possible.
Jim Beam, I’m talking about the literal “seahorse” hippocampus
-DD
@@dawsonhelf7922 ahhhhhh ok I thought you were being funny. I forgot about those.
3:47 "... no bite or claw attacks, and actually there is a reason for that, doh they don't go into that here..." 16:11 end of video, neither did you... =w= gj MrRhexx XD
Then don't like using those attacks.
They should still have them, but they are only a last ditch effort so I suppose they just didn't add them.
Also, that would put their illusion inside the opponent and has half the melee range of the tentacles
While not unfamiliar with D&D universe as currently playing Buldars Gate 3 and mobile game. Very fun❤️
I once played a witch that had a displacer beast for a familiar (among other nasty creatures), so I am excited to see what this video may share that I did not know
Displacer Beasts and Blink Dogs, living together. MASS HYSTERIA!
One of my favourite monsters and the perfect companion for an extraplanar hunter.
Glad to have all the lore here!
Danm the list of supporters at the end hell yeah man I remeber when it was just 1 or 2 people never forget them!
imagine if wearing a Displacing Cloak made the caster wearing it unable to cast Blink!
Nice video again, will be nice to see one about Angels, like solars or something like that.
With a good roll, you can locate the beast by looking at where the beast is looking at (its target), and deduce what bearing it is coming from to attack it.
Dnd story time!
Recently, our party was investing a few murders around a town called Pav and we met one of these kittos! We suspected it was the murderer, but... My character felt something was strange when it warped into our place of stay, as it spoke like a child would and seemed rather young- And didn't attack until provoked. The elf wasn't sure if this creature was as vicious as the party seemed to believe, so...She did what she could!
Thus, my elf tried to talk to it- Lulling it to sleep with her magik as to calm it down, which suceeded! Using the noise of a triangle, I managed to catch its attention. Unfortunately, a protective soldier pc attacked it while it was asleep, which...Made the beast scared and made it run away. My character bolted off in a mix of anger, sadness, and disappointment in her companion, since she had a gut feeling that the displacer beast wasn't the killer.
The elf split from the party and decided to find whether her hunch was right, tracking down the beast with a locate object spell- As in one of the crime scenes, a musical triangle had been missing from its holder, and by tracking that, she found the displacer beast!
It was quite wary of the elf, understandably, but let her into their lair to ask questions- I think this may have been because I only tried to make it levitate in the air, thus holding it still for a minute and have it sleep. No edlritch blasting here, folks!
When she was looking about the room, er. Sort of, the elf is blind, has tremorsense, a large creature appeared. An abomination of displacer beast and human mangled together, crying in pain, as it breathed down her neck.
Well, as implied- My elf is a warlock, and her patron is actually rather sweet and protective, a bit overly so at times, but he tries his best to be both a decent patron and good friend- After panicking at this gaint thing about to snap its maw on the elf and realizing he may not be able to fight this thing, her patron appeared to the party and got them to run to her aid.
Thus, combat ensued. No one died! Woo!
While the elf was wary around her party members, since they may attack the displacer beast, after investigating the paw of the abomination, she realized that the claws matched the ones they found at the scene-
Meaning the displacer beast was innocent and was just looking for a replacement triangle- Since its last one was broke by the abomination.
My and her gut was right! She was quite relieved at this.
The displacer beast was asked a few questions about some things- And we found it was taken from its home and brought to a laboratory- Where it now lived. The elf. Did not think it was safe at the lab, not anymore, particularly since she had overheard the mayor/police department fantasy equivalent talking about a public image and how something would damage it.
Either way.
After a very cute moment of the displacer beast curling into the elf's lap, the session ended. I cannot wait until next Tuesday.
Long story short-
My timid, scribe elf, may have befriended an eldritch fey cat, which...Incredibly in character, her patron is an eldritch demon elf and she just...Does not care.
Either that or I just befriend eldritch beings. Hm.
I just keep watching your videos and finally I figured it is time...SUBSCRIBED.
I hadn't played D&D much at all since 2e when I was in high school in the early 90s. I jumped into 5e feet first, and ended up DMing after about three months as a PC. By the time one character (in a level 0 campaign start) decided to aim for being a ranger, I ended up homebrewing a new creature: the displacer rat.
www.worldanvil.com/w/realmspace-and-beyond-darias/a/displacer-rat-article-1
The player hunted for him forever, and he kept disappearing, he couldn't figure out how. When the ranger went to a local, higher level ranger, the mentor looked in surprise, "You've seen him too?" As soon as the words went out of my mouth, I devolved into the interaction from the movie Real Genius.
Thus, Lazlo, the kinda OP displacer rat ranger pet ended up joining our party.
I asked for this awhile back, nice!
In our very small campaign (2 players) we got to adopt two displacer kittens, one of them albino. Sol is the incarnation of chaos and Agna is pretty calm.
My kitties! I never thought you'd get around to displacer beasts but this is now the highlight of my day.
Such interesting creatures. Your video makes me want to develop them further for the next time I use them. I love the DB kitten concept.
I have never played DND but the Lore is Just so fascinating
Another thing you might not know is that the displacer beast is that the creature is considered a part of D&D's product identity; as a result it, alongside beholders, carrion crawlers, githyanki and githzerai, mind flayers, and a few others, do not appear in the game's system reference document alongside the rest of the monsters.
Thank you so much for this, I'm definitely gonna give my party a Displacer cub now!
I just found a plushy of this creature and it's adorable!!
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