In one campaign I played in, there was a character who was a cleric who specialized in constructs. By far one of the coolest concept characters I've ever seen. She started out with plush teddy bear constructs that she could imbue with healing, so they'd walk towards you and give you a Cure Light Wounds when they adorably stumbled into your shin. And then of course at later levels she just had a clay golem following her around. We had to bend some rules and outright break some others to make it all work, but man, just the flavor of that character was worth it.
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Golems in DnD cheat though. The original Golem is specifically said to work because its creator imbues it with divine authority in the form of a secret name of God, so it's "alive" because God can grant life. Your average clay golem (and most of the other "X material" golems) are just statues that a spellcaster has shoved the living essence of a shackled elemental into, so they're not really "made alive" so much as they are walking coffins that become the new body of a creature that doesn't have a set "body/soul" distinction. They are actually pretty horrific if you think about it, I mean most of the things Necromancers bring back are at least mindless, these things just look mindless because they are forced to do stuff, while inside the trapped mind of the elemental spirit is probably screaming bloody murder and cursing the day you were born...
@@lylacor8401 Only by rules because it is technically immune to all the damage the Tarrasque can do and can just go into its stomach and tap it until it dies. Anyone who doesn't run completely raw would say the thing still gets destroyed.
I'm just going to say, you got another one or two plots with this thing. 1. Got a petrefied friend/source of information? Find the gigant and barter them for their animating ability. They may still be stony however (permanent stone skin hack?) 2. A cult may possess eternal life as long as members pay for it with devotion to the cause. 3. Convince it to help you against something else like a false hydra. 4. Help your friendly neighbourhood Stone giant to craft a statue/jewelry to impress the gigant. EDIT - Added 4th point.
In my world it would definitely help. False hydras are seeds of corruption from an elder evil to begin the harvesting of the universe. Basically, biblically accurate angels had a threesome with the Old Ones and the Reapers from Mass Effect.
Creatures animated by gigant are just mindless constructs serving the gigant akin to zombies and golems. To give them consciousness, you still need to un-petrify them. Remember also that the gigant's INT is 6, a level of 5-year child. You will need to put a considerable effort in your words to convince it do something for you, not only because it might be unwilling, but also because it may not understand what you're talking about.
I like the idea of showing up to a place with one of these, and basically be "I'm the janitor." and convince it that you were sent there by the deity to spiff the place up. Like "Just look at this! No-one has polished this gold statue of our deity in decades!" and get to work, kinda passive aggressively pointing out how "THIS is how it *should* look!" after finishing each piece. Could even clean out "heretical" pieces. Or collect tithing if that's a thing. I especially like the mental image of convincing it to lift you up to clean the statue, arguing that "I can't STAND on it. That'd be heresy.".
I think it makes sense why these are typically made by evil worshipers and not those of good deities. Spending the tithe money on a giant murder construct probably isn’t in the tenants of the god of healing instead of doing charity.
@@Exxeron-ob3tv Indeed like many things you should flavor these to match your goals. A stone paladin of your god for instance would make perfect sense. Just make it basically a paladin but with some of these features.
random picture that popet into my head: A Hospital once run by a church were big statues are scattered around the premise and people swear that they are shifting around at night and if you are near them at day you seem to sometimes hear whispers. This all is just rumors and hear say but strangely it´s said that it was the only building that came out unharmed after an invasion off another nation that since long crumbled, some say over night.
Idea for a blackstone gigant NPC. Party is sent to an old rundown chathidrel, looking for (insert religous artifact). The chathidrel is overrun with vegetation and animals (sprinkle in any flavor of enemies "that make sense in the area" you like for a combat encounter if you're feeling spicy.) The party looks around and finds the door to the basment, they enter and are met by the gigant who acts as a tour guide teaching the party about the history of the chathidrel and the founding of the relegion, the gigant uses the petrified remains of bandits/theives that tried stealing the (insert religous artifact) as demnstrations of the historical events that lead to the founding of the relegion, finally the party (and gigant) arrive at the (insert religous artifact) chamber, if the party was sent by the same church they could show an insignia, or they could've escorted a memeber of the church (temporary cleric) of the church and tell the gigant that they'er here to retrive the artifact (the party can bring the gigant too if they'er feeling spicy) If the party was sent by bandits/theives they could try to lie to the gigant (if failed the party is TPKed if this is an early game quest.) Party gets mega rich but are hunted by the church. Feel free to add ideas or your own twist to this :)
A gargoyle in stone form is not actually petrified. Nor is it dead. I have had a DM rule that a petrified gargoyle could just un petrify itself because of stone form, but technically the rule as written don't allow for that.
@@skipmageYou could make some bad-ass variant gargoyles with it, though. Off the top of my head, you could have one that's half 'true' gargoyle and another statue bonded onto it (like an ettin), under the control of the gigant. So the gargoyle part would be alive and driven insane by the fact that it's other half is controlled by this demon-like being. Clerics make the coolest villains. Being able to say everything is explained away because 'a god did it' means pretty much anything is up for grabs.
I too like finding constant horrors to terrify my friend group. Bedlam Beast, Odopi, and this new creature are some of my favorites that you’ve reviewed.
I like the idea of a couple of these things serving as war engines of sorts for an army which is specifically out to petrify their enemies. Paired with Medusa, Cockatrices and Basilisks in the ranks, the Gigants would lag behind unless needed at the front, animating petrified corpses and adding to the ranks of the big bad. That seems like a very effective, theatrical use for this monster. Maybe I'll do that!
That came right in time! The next session for my campaign the players are going to do a heist to get a prisonerthat has been set in the vigilance of the god Helm. I was bashing my head trying to think what would be guarding this prisoner, because it most certainly wasn't going to be Helm itself. They now have two options, either they reason with the Giant to give up the prisoner, or they'll have to find a way to actually pull up a heist against a guardian of the God of Vigilance
I kind of have an idea of a temple placing a Blackstone Gigant (or two) and their past victims as a guardian to a Legendary Weapon connected to the god (akin to the Blood of Lathandrer mace from Baldur's Gate III) this would give a party a couple of options to obtain the weapon, either solve the puzzle (which they might have noticed on the way to the lair) that the Gigante could inform them of or fight and try to beat it and the statue army.
There is something interesting about this monster that the video doesn't mention. The blackstone gigant looks nearly identical to the demon princess Shaktari, who is the queen of Mariliths. They both look like black-skinned women with eight arms and a snake tail instead of legs.
I was looking for a construct to put at the bottom of an ancient Monk temple that was sealed thousands of years ago due to the relic of a god deep within it. Cant believe you covered the perfect thing.
I feel it would be fun to explore a Gigant that went rogue on the direct command of its god, or one that somehow became an avatar of said god. A party could be hired by a church to find out why a mysterious Gigant suddenly appeared in their temple despite them not building it, only to find out it showed up because its original god was subsumed by the god of the temple.
Could you cover Star spawn/foulspawn? They updated most of them for 5e but left the berserker foulspawn behind. Would love a stat block for him and some insight on using the lot of them in game.
Wishmaster. Weirdly, something about the camera quality and the *vaguest* memory of the actress told me that before I googled to confirm. Good little 80s-style monster horror with one of the best oneliner villain comebacks in media.
Fun fact, some missiles do need to go on walks. Isotopes tend to get fussy when they have to sit still. Hence why there's a company in the US dedicated entirely to transporting parts of nuclear warheads around the US every day in unmarked semis
The artwork for this monster is top notch. Amazing job by Dakota👍. I have so many ideas for this for this campaign and for future campaigns... May use this as a defender of a fallen ancient city that was destroyed (by another monster you covered, the Xixical) and have it be created by one of the ancient followers of an old god that has since died, but the construct still defends the section of the city out of habit/lack of anything else to do for the past several millennia.
I do't know why, but his pronunciation of "Gigant" really bothers me. To me it feels like it should intuitively be pronounced "Gih-Gahnt" or "Guy-Gant" with the "G" sound and not the "J" sound. I don't know if that's how it's supposed to be pronounced or not, but it just sounds better to me.
I was once told that dungeon dad didn't take requests of monsters from outside dungeons and dragons source books, not even d20 modern. Now, they have a creature from Dune next time. Well poop 😝
Something I would really love to see you do is make videos giving stats to monsters from Magic the Gathering. Some that I’d love to see would be eldrazi, slivers, myr, etc.
@@nicholasfarrell5981 I feel like they would be a template that you could imprint actions or spells on, and then they’d do the whole hive mind thing. Not to mention what you could do with a sliver hive or sliver queen
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I think I'll use this statblock for the Ungod in my campaign setting. The Ungod is a massive construct being created by a cult in hopes of overthrowing the gods themselves. Sort of a combo of the Numidium from Elder Scrolls and the mechanical god mentioned in SCP-001.
Eh, I'd prefer either the Rogue Eidolon powered by cultish madness or the Elder Eidolon powered by whatever forces lurk beyond the reaches of time and space. I suppose these three constructs form a trifecta of some sort. Oddly, the Rogue Eidolon inflicts pernament confusion on people, whereas the Gigant petrifies and then animates, so the Gigant seems like an upgrade of the Rogue Eidolon.
YESSSS im so happy you showed the Lord Inquisitor parade Edit: AND youre getting into Warhammer!? Welcome welcome friend, come sit by the fire and learn.
Somewhat off topic so forgive me but im trying to raise awareness of a cool opportunity. Creative Assembly has started to look at their next fantasy total war series (after Warhammer fantasy) they've explicitly said DND settings are a possibility. While there are lots of great settings that would translate well to a total war game I think Darksun in particular would be AWESOME!! If you agree, or think another DND setting would work well then let CA know now! Its a longshot but the potential payoff is pretty epic!!!
Speaking as someone running a long-on-hiatus Eberron campaign, I'm thinking blackstone gigants could work as creations of the daelkyr Orlassk in that setting. Definitely helps that DD used art of the stone cursed for one of its abilities, since I've already used those for a cult of Orlassk in my campaign.
MAN your music choice caught me off guard. When I heard the Warcraft 2 music start it sent me into a nostalgic memory trip. Had to rewatch that part of the video because I wasn't paying attention for a bit HAH
Worth noting that in 3e/3.6, a score of 30 was not the highest Strength could get -- ability scores had no upper limit. While rare, it was possible for a PC to have a Str of 30, enhanced by a single magic item to 36, by level 20, not to mention what can happen in epic levels.
Not from a movie, or from any one source really, but what about a painting monster? Players are already paranoid about statues, but not the paintings strewn across the dungeon walls. If there is a painting monster already in DnD then I've missed it and would love to hear about it. The Shambler from Call of Cthulhu comes to mind, or the shadow imbued paintings on Thriller Bark in One Piece. A creature that lives inside a painting that can come out and get the players would be incredible for a horror session. Perhaps you can't damage the creature, but you can damage its painting, turning it into a puzzle monster. Or maybe use paintings as doorways and teleport throughout the mansion. Maybe it only hunts those who fail to appreciate its painting, or seeks to pull people into landscape paintings to trap them as portraits. Surely something like this exists, or if not, then it should. I don't know if you can do anything with this or would want to, but it could add a new dimension to your next haunted castle adventure.
I'm making a ttrpg that was originally based on dnd and going to be a supplement but because of wizard's ogl bullshit I have decided to completely build a new system. All that to say I love these creatures and I'm going to have a large ancient city that they guard included. Thank you for bringing them to my attention.
Why can I picture a paladin riding a gigant into battle. Ones created with the power of Tyr or Torm might be the best suited for this fantasy version of Pacific Rim. Also probably best to keep the bards away from Sune clerics.
I have the fondest memories of golems, granted this is not so much a typical golem, and that makes the experience better for its sentience. They are so much like children, trained, programmed, or whatnot with the simplest of actions, but of course with so much physical brutality in their ‘make’ its a wonderful dichotomy for the novice player to figure things out. In my defense, NAT20 golem punch the dungeon wall to bypass all the traps in order to the exit safely on the otherside of the wall was necessary.
Thank the gods the Animate has 30 feet range and it remains animated for 1 hour, or until the giant is destroyed. wait how many turn in an hour HO CRAP ! HO CRAP! 600 turns So in theory you can have army of +400 troops to charge a place This thing on a battle field would be a murder machine . Those who fall to it will raise to fight for it. The worst apart is it say petrified creature. So dragons army can be a thing . This just goes down a rabbit hole of just darkness. I can see a church just amassing an army of stone slaves. Then you maybe able to use stone shape on the petrified creature. fix them or mod them.
I have a Mega dungeon with W40k as an inspiration. I am looking for a template for a dnd version of an Astartes. Would that be an idea for you to do? Love your content, fellow DaD.
Golems but with more chill.... So i homebrewed some new sub races of giant.... Metallic and gem based .... I'm wondering if this was a new idea or if there are other rare and exotic giant sub species out there....
Me talking to my partner when we go out in drag, "I'm not going to tell the 40-foot murder statue what it can and can't wear." Followed by petrifying stare 😅
What I'd like to see is like a collection of the stupidest monsters of D&D. Don't have to a whole episode each one, but could do like a Top 5. Stuff from earlier editions like the Spider Horse for example, and other stuff that was just dropped due to just how bad it was.
Zealots who voluntarily allow themselves to be ritualistically petrified are reborn either as helmed horrors or as constructs with their original stats except for the type change and new permanent damage resistances they hadn't had before, whichever transformation is more powerful. Sacrificial victims of truly vile deities whose souls are consumed in a ritual petrification gain stone golem stats instead of animated armor stats; if their souls are torturously bound to their new stone forms instead of consumed to power it, they become stone cursed (MPMM), compelled to feed others to the Gigant (if the Gigant touches someone petrified by a cursed, their petrification becomes permanent, albeit basic).
I am running a campaign where the party has their dreams attacked while long resting, transporting them to a place that represents one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. For famine, I as using a scaled-up version of Death House from Curse of Strahd. I'm going to use this monster as a guardian of the house, preventing the party from leaving as opposed to the bricks that usually appear
This gave me the wee drop of inspiration I needed to finish planning my next Pathfinder session, cheers! The party are at a religious festival celebrating the a god with a large golden statue; not sure how I didn't think to bring the statue to life! Animated by the enemies of the church to use their own god against them...
These things would be great for a Shadow of the Colessus style campaign, as each one is imbeued with a fragment of power you could flug them as being containers of that gods essences, so by killing them you could end up bring back a god.
It looks like this was designed to be a simple bruiser, but I like the idea of using these to give some real teeth to a faction not typically known for combat prowess. I can't help but think these would be amazing in the hands of peaceful gods who don't want their clerics and other followers fighting. A monastery dedicated to a peaceful way of life is attacked by a horde of fiendish orcs, the monks retreat into the inner sanctum; the orcs begin to loot and sack the town, but then the ground starts to shake, and the beautiful statues around the sanctum spring to life, laying waste to these would-be raiders! Once the fight is over, the monks begin to rebuild and give thanks to their god for the divine protection, their faith stronger than ever before.
If there are no petrified things around to animate, maybe it animates one of it's "jewellery pieces" and throws a newly-animate head or limb at the PCs. Fun!
an interesting scenario i can think of would be that your party needs a treasure guarded by one of these and you find out one of your party members is following the same god
It is both a blessing and a curse that you are not more popular. I love that my players might not know what im going to throw at them but it sucks that you are not making more money.
On a mechanical level this is interesting because if it went through a mass of commoners it would effectively level up a group from CR0 to an animated armour. Maybe a church trying desperately to make an army will unleash one on the congregation to turn them into units of stone soldiers
I reckon one of these things could make for a really good warlock pact, if the character stumbled across one of these in an old decrepit tomb when they were young, and found the Gigant in service of a long forgotten/dead god. They were spared only because they promised to spread word of this God so that they might regain their power, and the Gigant itself acts as the players patron, gifting them powers as they spread word of this god more and more.
I reckon one of these things could make for a really good warlock pact, if the character stumbled across one of these in an old decrepit tomb when they were young, and found the Gigant in service of a long forgotten/dead god. They were spared only because they promised to spread word of this God so that they might regain their power, and the Gigant itself acts as the players patron, gifting them powers as they spread word of this god more and more.
Finding proof that their master has done an action completely forbidden by the God that empowered them could be an interesting way to turn them against their master. If one somehow had two from different Gods with slightly different rules it could make a harder fight more interesting if you convinced one that their God’s rules had been broken but the other ones hasn’t.
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a giant
Might I suggest the immortal LeShay.
simple generic slime
3 words puzzle blackstone gigant
we saw a spider with swords for legs in 4th edition monster manual 1
I like how it has a low Dex to reflect the fact that it’s a tangled monstrosity that looks like it would tie itself into a knot just by moving.
Knotting lol
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It doesn’t have to be serpentine. The size is what makes it comparatively slow.
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@@TotallyNotSenawheres the joke? you just said a keyword
In one campaign I played in, there was a character who was a cleric who specialized in constructs. By far one of the coolest concept characters I've ever seen. She started out with plush teddy bear constructs that she could imbue with healing, so they'd walk towards you and give you a Cure Light Wounds when they adorably stumbled into your shin. And then of course at later levels she just had a clay golem following her around. We had to bend some rules and outright break some others to make it all work, but man, just the flavor of that character was worth it.
That sounds like a helluva lot of fun! Sounds like a good aligned Big Daddy and Little Sister combo 😂
I couldn't get the whole crafter cleric thing to work nicely in the rules so I ended up having to pick bard instead.
Clerics, preparing to cast the most horrific, eldritch and monstrous shit possible: “You all need Jesus”
"Fortunately, I have this Jesus already prepared from earlier...."
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I mean, the first Golems were the creations of Rabbi, so this does actually have precedent 🤣
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@@omardaddy2218 Golem walking into Hitler’s bunker with an axe: Shalom Mother Fucker 🪓 🗿
Golems in DnD cheat though.
The original Golem is specifically said to work because its creator imbues it with divine authority in the form of a secret name of God, so it's "alive" because God can grant life.
Your average clay golem (and most of the other "X material" golems) are just statues that a spellcaster has shoved the living essence of a shackled elemental into, so they're not really "made alive" so much as they are walking coffins that become the new body of a creature that doesn't have a set "body/soul" distinction.
They are actually pretty horrific if you think about it, I mean most of the things Necromancers bring back are at least mindless, these things just look mindless because they are forced to do stuff, while inside the trapped mind of the elemental spirit is probably screaming bloody murder and cursing the day you were born...
@@Reddotzebra most dnd golems feel like dreadnoughts
The original (clay) golem was created by a rabbi, so without clerics the most iconic construct creature wouldn't even exist.
Wasn't the clay golem like very effective against the tarasque?
@@lylacor8401 Only by rules because it is technically immune to all the damage the Tarrasque can do and can just go into its stomach and tap it until it dies. Anyone who doesn't run completely raw would say the thing still gets destroyed.
@@iceagentx If we were to actually look at it narratively however, the Tarrasque should crumple the golem like a clay figurine.
@@stingerjohnny9951 I know that's what I said
@@iceagentx lol sorry your comment length cut off at the last sentence for me 🤣
Something that's missing from the story but possible relevant: "Gigant" is just the Dutch word for Giant.
doesn't it come from Greek? It's where the word 'gigantic' comes from?
And guess where the dutch got it from. Btw reus is more commonly used for giant. Gigant is a bit obscure.
@@wimfranken826and to make it even harder the use of gigantisch is more common than reusachtig.
Damn and i thought i was being cool and original using it as a catch all for kaiju in my setting.
@@marcusc9931Gigant is actually Romanian
I'm just going to say, you got another one or two plots with this thing.
1. Got a petrefied friend/source of information? Find the gigant and barter them for their animating ability. They may still be stony however (permanent stone skin hack?)
2. A cult may possess eternal life as long as members pay for it with devotion to the cause.
3. Convince it to help you against something else like a false hydra.
4. Help your friendly neighbourhood Stone giant to craft a statue/jewelry to impress the gigant.
EDIT - Added 4th point.
In my world it would definitely help. False hydras are seeds of corruption from an elder evil to begin the harvesting of the universe. Basically, biblically accurate angels had a threesome with the Old Ones and the Reapers from Mass Effect.
3. Or the forces of a rival religion...
@@Krishnath.Dragon Or a sect of the same religion.
Stone giant, romancing ancient deity's sentient construct is quite power move lmao 😂😂
Creatures animated by gigant are just mindless constructs serving the gigant akin to zombies and golems. To give them consciousness, you still need to un-petrify them.
Remember also that the gigant's INT is 6, a level of 5-year child. You will need to put a considerable effort in your words to convince it do something for you, not only because it might be unwilling, but also because it may not understand what you're talking about.
I like the idea of showing up to a place with one of these, and basically be "I'm the janitor." and convince it that you were sent there by the deity to spiff the place up.
Like "Just look at this! No-one has polished this gold statue of our deity in decades!" and get to work, kinda passive aggressively pointing out how "THIS is how it *should* look!" after finishing each piece. Could even clean out "heretical" pieces. Or collect tithing if that's a thing. I especially like the mental image of convincing it to lift you up to clean the statue, arguing that "I can't STAND on it. That'd be heresy.".
I think it makes sense why these are typically made by evil worshipers and not those of good deities. Spending the tithe money on a giant murder construct probably isn’t in the tenants of the god of healing instead of doing charity.
Yes but also consider, build statue, bam town defended.
Unless it is imbued with healing abilities or divinations to serve the god as a protector of its followers.
@@Exxeron-ob3tv Just hand it some magic items, like a wand of _Cure Wounds._ Nobody will have the balls to steal them.
@@HenriFaust Or... run with the flavor that matches the god that imbued it with life?
To each his own.
@@Exxeron-ob3tv Indeed like many things you should flavor these to match your goals. A stone paladin of your god for instance would make perfect sense. Just make it basically a paladin but with some of these features.
random picture that popet into my head:
A Hospital once run by a church were big statues are scattered around the premise and people swear that they are shifting around at night and if you are near them at day you seem to sometimes hear whispers. This all is just rumors and hear say but strangely it´s said that it was the only building that came out unharmed after an invasion off another nation that since long crumbled, some say over night.
Idea for a blackstone gigant NPC.
Party is sent to an old rundown chathidrel, looking for (insert religous artifact). The chathidrel is overrun with vegetation and animals (sprinkle in any flavor of enemies "that make sense in the area" you like for a combat encounter if you're feeling spicy.) The party looks around and finds the door to the basment, they enter and are met by the gigant who acts as a tour guide teaching the party about the history of the chathidrel and the founding of the relegion, the gigant uses the petrified remains of bandits/theives that tried stealing the (insert religous artifact) as demnstrations of the historical events that lead to the founding of the relegion, finally the party (and gigant) arrive at the (insert religous artifact) chamber, if the party was sent by the same church they could show an insignia, or they could've escorted a memeber of the church (temporary cleric) of the church and tell the gigant that they'er here to retrive the artifact (the party can bring the gigant too if they'er feeling spicy) If the party was sent by bandits/theives they could try to lie to the gigant (if failed the party is TPKed if this is an early game quest.) Party gets mega rich but are hunted by the church.
Feel free to add ideas or your own twist to this :)
Also forgot to add that the gigant has been keeping the church in as good shape as it can with the help of the petrified idiots
The art he made for it is insane. I’ll bury myself and die just so I don’t have to fight it
I would smash it.
Since this thing can animate petrified things, can it bring gargoyles to life i wonder?
A gargoyle in stone form is not actually petrified. Nor is it dead.
I have had a DM rule that a petrified gargoyle could just un petrify itself because of stone form, but technically the rule as written don't allow for that.
@@skipmage interesting
@@skipmageYou could make some bad-ass variant gargoyles with it, though. Off the top of my head, you could have one that's half 'true' gargoyle and another statue bonded onto it (like an ettin), under the control of the gigant. So the gargoyle part would be alive and driven insane by the fact that it's other half is controlled by this demon-like being.
Clerics make the coolest villains. Being able to say everything is explained away because 'a god did it' means pretty much anything is up for grabs.
I too like finding constant horrors to terrify my friend group. Bedlam Beast, Odopi, and this new creature are some of my favorites that you’ve reviewed.
I like the idea of a couple of these things serving as war engines of sorts for an army which is specifically out to petrify their enemies. Paired with Medusa, Cockatrices and Basilisks in the ranks, the Gigants would lag behind unless needed at the front, animating petrified corpses and adding to the ranks of the big bad. That seems like a very effective, theatrical use for this monster. Maybe I'll do that!
Let me be the first to welcome to the warhammer Fandom there is no eacape
The "Lords of Madness" book has the Blackstone Eidolon, which is that, but with a reality warping field, for 20% more eldritch cosmic horror.
so, basically this thing, but Great Old One instead or regular diety XD
That came right in time! The next session for my campaign the players are going to do a heist to get a prisonerthat has been set in the vigilance of the god Helm. I was bashing my head trying to think what would be guarding this prisoner, because it most certainly wasn't going to be Helm itself.
They now have two options, either they reason with the Giant to give up the prisoner, or they'll have to find a way to actually pull up a heist against a guardian of the God of Vigilance
3:08 - thanks, now all I can imagine is the Pope flanked by a pair of giant statues of Jesus.
I kind of have an idea of a temple placing a Blackstone Gigant (or two) and their past victims as a guardian to a Legendary Weapon connected to the god (akin to the Blood of Lathandrer mace from Baldur's Gate III) this would give a party a couple of options to obtain the weapon, either solve the puzzle (which they might have noticed on the way to the lair) that the Gigante could inform them of or fight and try to beat it and the statue army.
I remember having one of these in my 3.5 game years ago. Only one pc survived... They thought they could handle it, but nope.
There is something interesting about this monster that the video doesn't mention. The blackstone gigant looks nearly identical to the demon princess Shaktari, who is the queen of Mariliths. They both look like black-skinned women with eight arms and a snake tail instead of legs.
It probably means that the first one of them was created by a worshipper of Shaktari.
I was looking for a construct to put at the bottom of an ancient Monk temple that was sealed thousands of years ago due to the relic of a god deep within it. Cant believe you covered the perfect thing.
I feel it would be fun to explore a Gigant that went rogue on the direct command of its god, or one that somehow became an avatar of said god. A party could be hired by a church to find out why a mysterious Gigant suddenly appeared in their temple despite them not building it, only to find out it showed up because its original god was subsumed by the god of the temple.
Stay away from Warhammer. Your wallet will thank you.
Super Castlevania music in the background, how do you always pick the perfect song for your videos?
Could you cover Star spawn/foulspawn? They updated most of them for 5e but left the berserker foulspawn behind. Would love a stat block for him and some insight on using the lot of them in game.
He typically avoids converting 4e stats simple because WotC avoided story and lore back then and just threw out stat blocks.
@@KevinVideo If it helps, 4e’s foulspawn come from 3.5e’s ushemoi.
Not how I'd pronounce Gigant. Kept thinking you were saying Giant
Fantastic job. Definitely a terrifying monster.
6:46 Curious what movie you scenes you borrowed these ones from. Kind of want to watch it.
same here
Wishmaster.
Weirdly, something about the camera quality and the *vaguest* memory of the actress told me that before I googled to confirm.
Good little 80s-style monster horror with one of the best oneliner villain comebacks in media.
I had to use image search to find it, only to find I'm 6 minutes late to answer!
@@PyreThe first one? Wow, I absolutely don't remember this scene. I guess the second one is burned into my brain too much.
Day 1 of asking for one of the epic dragons from 3.5E epic level handbook
One of these appeared in theforgotten realms book I was just reading (War of the Spider Queen), and it got me so hyped for this episode!
Ah, back when D&D novels were still good.
tempted to use one of these to recreate the plot of The Iron Giant
My favorite monsters from the 3rd Ed Fiend Folio are the AOA and the Weandigo. Great Video as always.
Hey, haven't watched a Dungeon Dad video in a while and I **LOVE** the new editing and graphics! Great job!
Fun fact, some missiles do need to go on walks. Isotopes tend to get fussy when they have to sit still. Hence why there's a company in the US dedicated entirely to transporting parts of nuclear warheads around the US every day in unmarked semis
here's an alternative for the rogue statue plot. Maybe the god that was commanding it is either dead or imprisoned
Is that four polished blackstone with a carved pumpkin on top?
The Tomb Kings of Warhammer specialize in constructs, some of their best units
Do they still exist in AoS, or no?
The artwork for this monster is top notch. Amazing job by Dakota👍. I have so many ideas for this for this campaign and for future campaigns... May use this as a defender of a fallen ancient city that was destroyed (by another monster you covered, the Xixical) and have it be created by one of the ancient followers of an old god that has since died, but the construct still defends the section of the city out of habit/lack of anything else to do for the past several millennia.
I never even played dnd i just enjoy the videos
I love the Warcraft 2 music man that takes me back
Looks a lot like a giant statue of a marilith demon, but with an extra pair of arms.
I wonder which is the imitation and which is the original?
The real monstrosity is having to see Dungeon Dad fingers' filtered out by the greenscreen effects at 6:31 💀
I do't know why, but his pronunciation of "Gigant" really bothers me. To me it feels like it should intuitively be pronounced "Gih-Gahnt" or "Guy-Gant" with the "G" sound and not the "J" sound. I don't know if that's how it's supposed to be pronounced or not, but it just sounds better to me.
It should be pronounced "Gee-gant". It's Romanian for Giant.
I can see why it is usually constructed by followers of Evil gods. It basically a Marilith demon carved from stone.
I was once told that dungeon dad didn't take requests of monsters from outside dungeons and dragons source books, not even d20 modern. Now, they have a creature from Dune next time. Well poop 😝
A couple of Dune monsters were converted and put in Dragon Magazine, but renamed to avoid copyright issues. So what you were told still holds up.
“Hello, brave and noble kobold. Do you wish for immortality?”
Castlevania 4 SNES cred
Grave Elemental, please 🙏
Went and added it to the list.
This is fantastic, Thank you
Just on how this guy look ik this video is gonna be good!
Wishmaster footage?!
Something I would really love to see you do is make videos giving stats to monsters from Magic the Gathering. Some that I’d love to see would be eldrazi, slivers, myr, etc.
Slivers would be scary.
@@nicholasfarrell5981 I feel like they would be a template that you could imprint actions or spells on, and then they’d do the whole hive mind thing. Not to mention what you could do with a sliver hive or sliver queen
What is Space Magic?
Prismatic dragon
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I think I'll use this statblock for the Ungod in my campaign setting. The Ungod is a massive construct being created by a cult in hopes of overthrowing the gods themselves. Sort of a combo of the Numidium from Elder Scrolls and the mechanical god mentioned in SCP-001.
Armies support by Blackstone Gigants VS armies with dragon support, Kaju battles. That sounds epic.
So basically a 40' "inteligent" golem based on a Marileth with 2 *extra arms* ...cool,cool...WT actual fk man. Not cool.(except very cool)
Hellfire Wyrm!
Sick "Secret of Evermore" needle drop! Always nice to see Jeremy Soule's CRIMINALLY underrated early work appreciated for the ambiance it brings.
I love the Warhammer references lol, and I'm super glad that you're getting into the hobby. Happy to welcome you to the community! 💜✌️
Eh, I'd prefer either the Rogue Eidolon powered by cultish madness or the Elder Eidolon powered by whatever forces lurk beyond the reaches of time and space. I suppose these three constructs form a trifecta of some sort. Oddly, the Rogue Eidolon inflicts pernament confusion on people, whereas the Gigant petrifies and then animates, so the Gigant seems like an upgrade of the Rogue Eidolon.
YESSSS im so happy you showed the Lord Inquisitor parade
Edit: AND youre getting into Warhammer!? Welcome welcome friend, come sit by the fire and learn.
Somewhat off topic so forgive me but im trying to raise awareness of a cool opportunity. Creative Assembly has started to look at their next fantasy total war series (after Warhammer fantasy) they've explicitly said DND settings are a possibility.
While there are lots of great settings that would translate well to a total war game I think Darksun in particular would be AWESOME!!
If you agree, or think another DND setting would work well then let CA know now!
Its a longshot but the potential payoff is pretty epic!!!
Speaking as someone running a long-on-hiatus Eberron campaign, I'm thinking blackstone gigants could work as creations of the daelkyr Orlassk in that setting. Definitely helps that DD used art of the stone cursed for one of its abilities, since I've already used those for a cult of Orlassk in my campaign.
MAN your music choice caught me off guard. When I heard the Warcraft 2 music start it sent me into a nostalgic memory trip. Had to rewatch that part of the video because I wasn't paying attention for a bit HAH
Any possibility of Dungeon Dad Warhammer content in the future?
I’ll never say never, but nothing is planned right now. I’m still learning the rules and reading the lore haha.
@@DungeonDadDo you have a favourite army so far?
Worth noting that in 3e/3.6, a score of 30 was not the highest Strength could get -- ability scores had no upper limit. While rare, it was possible for a PC to have a Str of 30, enhanced by a single magic item to 36, by level 20, not to mention what can happen in epic levels.
Yooooo... The Warhammer space marine parade mixed with Darktide sound track hit different
Not from a movie, or from any one source really, but what about a painting monster? Players are already paranoid about statues, but not the paintings strewn across the dungeon walls. If there is a painting monster already in DnD then I've missed it and would love to hear about it.
The Shambler from Call of Cthulhu comes to mind, or the shadow imbued paintings on Thriller Bark in One Piece. A creature that lives inside a painting that can come out and get the players would be incredible for a horror session.
Perhaps you can't damage the creature, but you can damage its painting, turning it into a puzzle monster. Or maybe use paintings as doorways and teleport throughout the mansion. Maybe it only hunts those who fail to appreciate its painting, or seeks to pull people into landscape paintings to trap them as portraits.
Surely something like this exists, or if not, then it should. I don't know if you can do anything with this or would want to, but it could add a new dimension to your next haunted castle adventure.
I'm making a ttrpg that was originally based on dnd and going to be a supplement but because of wizard's ogl bullshit I have decided to completely build a new system. All that to say I love these creatures and I'm going to have a large ancient city that they guard included. Thank you for bringing them to my attention.
that warcraft 2 music had me looking to see if I had another tab open since ive been watching a WC2 player and their amazing micro lol
Neat monster, hits like a truck... but it's non armor defenses are kind of abysmal. No MR, no Legendary Resistances, and not even Immutable Form.
Why can I picture a paladin riding a gigant into battle. Ones created with the power of Tyr or Torm might be the best suited for this fantasy version of Pacific Rim. Also probably best to keep the bards away from Sune clerics.
I have the fondest memories of golems, granted this is not so much a typical golem, and that makes the experience better for its sentience. They are so much like children, trained, programmed, or whatnot with the simplest of actions, but of course with so much physical brutality in their ‘make’ its a wonderful dichotomy for the novice player to figure things out.
In my defense, NAT20 golem punch the dungeon wall to bypass all the traps in order to the exit safely on the otherside of the wall was necessary.
Thank the gods the Animate has 30 feet range and it remains animated for 1 hour, or until the giant is destroyed.
wait how many turn in an hour
HO CRAP ! HO CRAP!
600 turns
So in theory you can have army of +400 troops to charge a place
This thing on a battle field would be a murder machine . Those who fall to it will raise to fight for it.
The worst apart is it say petrified creature.
So dragons army can be a thing .
This just goes down a rabbit hole of just darkness.
I can see a church just amassing an army of stone slaves.
Then you maybe able to use stone shape on the petrified creature.
fix them or mod them.
I have a Mega dungeon with W40k as an inspiration. I am looking for a template for a dnd version of an Astartes. Would that be an idea for you to do? Love your content, fellow DaD.
Golems but with more chill.... So i homebrewed some new sub races of giant.... Metallic and gem based .... I'm wondering if this was a new idea or if there are other rare and exotic giant sub species out there....
Me talking to my partner when we go out in drag, "I'm not going to tell the 40-foot murder statue what it can and can't wear."
Followed by petrifying stare 😅
That's a nightmare greenscreen moment at 6:32
What I'd like to see is like a collection of the stupidest monsters of D&D. Don't have to a whole episode each one, but could do like a Top 5. Stuff from earlier editions like the Spider Horse for example, and other stuff that was just dropped due to just how bad it was.
Zealots who voluntarily allow themselves to be ritualistically petrified are reborn either as helmed horrors or as constructs with their original stats except for the type change and new permanent damage resistances they hadn't had before, whichever transformation is more powerful. Sacrificial victims of truly vile deities whose souls are consumed in a ritual petrification gain stone golem stats instead of animated armor stats; if their souls are torturously bound to their new stone forms instead of consumed to power it, they become stone cursed (MPMM), compelled to feed others to the Gigant (if the Gigant touches someone petrified by a cursed, their petrification becomes permanent, albeit basic).
Hey Dungeon Dad? Has anyone asked you to make stats on the unique creatures, NPC’s and maybe magic items from BG3? Cause it would be cool to see those
I am running a campaign where the party has their dreams attacked while long resting, transporting them to a place that represents one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. For famine, I as using a scaled-up version of Death House from Curse of Strahd. I'm going to use this monster as a guardian of the house, preventing the party from leaving as opposed to the bricks that usually appear
This gave me the wee drop of inspiration I needed to finish planning my next Pathfinder session, cheers! The party are at a religious festival celebrating the a god with a large golden statue; not sure how I didn't think to bring the statue to life! Animated by the enemies of the church to use their own god against them...
These things would be great for a Shadow of the Colessus style campaign, as each one is imbeued with a fragment of power you could flug them as being containers of that gods essences, so by killing them you could end up bring back a god.
It looks like this was designed to be a simple bruiser, but I like the idea of using these to give some real teeth to a faction not typically known for combat prowess. I can't help but think these would be amazing in the hands of peaceful gods who don't want their clerics and other followers fighting. A monastery dedicated to a peaceful way of life is attacked by a horde of fiendish orcs, the monks retreat into the inner sanctum; the orcs begin to loot and sack the town, but then the ground starts to shake, and the beautiful statues around the sanctum spring to life, laying waste to these would-be raiders! Once the fight is over, the monks begin to rebuild and give thanks to their god for the divine protection, their faith stronger than ever before.
If there are no petrified things around to animate, maybe it animates one of it's "jewellery pieces" and throws a newly-animate head or limb at the PCs. Fun!
an interesting scenario i can think of would be that your party needs a treasure guarded by one of these and you find out one of your party members is following the same god
6:32 - Skinny fingered Dungeon Dad can't hurt you, he's not real. Skinny fingered Dungeon Dad-
It is both a blessing and a curse that you are not more popular. I love that my players might not know what im going to throw at them but it sucks that you are not making more money.
On a mechanical level this is interesting because if it went through a mass of commoners it would effectively level up a group from CR0 to an animated armour.
Maybe a church trying desperately to make an army will unleash one on the congregation to turn them into units of stone soldiers
I reckon one of these things could make for a really good warlock pact, if the character stumbled across one of these in an old decrepit tomb when they were young, and found the Gigant in service of a long forgotten/dead god. They were spared only because they promised to spread word of this God so that they might regain their power, and the Gigant itself acts as the players patron, gifting them powers as they spread word of this god more and more.
I reckon one of these things could make for a really good warlock pact, if the character stumbled across one of these in an old decrepit tomb when they were young, and found the Gigant in service of a long forgotten/dead god. They were spared only because they promised to spread word of this God so that they might regain their power, and the Gigant itself acts as the players patron, gifting them powers as they spread word of this god more and more.
Seems as if Kali or Durga were the inspiration for this ... where else would you get the necklace of heads idea. Thanks for that Video. 😃
It looks like something a really big Kuo Toa tribe could pray into existence.
Finding proof that their master has done an action completely forbidden by the God that empowered them could be an interesting way to turn them against their master. If one somehow had two from different Gods with slightly different rules it could make a harder fight more interesting if you convinced one that their God’s rules had been broken but the other ones hasn’t.
Wasn’t Jewish mysticism the origin of golems? Invisible protectors until turning on their creator.