Something that would be cool is a dungeon where there's a room full of water that you have to drain for some reason but there's a statue of a bull at the bottom and it turns into a gorgon and then they have to fight it.
I like that. I like that a lot. But, also imagine a stone bull statue being dredged from a river, sold off to researchers, and then released in the museum because Dave ‘had to have’ his oculus.
@@RustyhairedAlp9575 everything was going fine with the light of the torches, until the priest cast his Light spell from the Sun sphere of magic, and the beast broke loose
I thought the same but it was a lake that the player party drains to reach a dungeon, revealing hundreds, and about 1/3 of them come to life immediately.
I actually like the ida of a city/village having a large statue in the center of the town-square that celebrates when the hero of the city/town defeated a rogue Gorgon. Unknown to the town the hero had tricked the Gorgon to chase him off a cliff leading to them plunging into the large lake below that the city/town sits upon. Then the group is tasked with cleaning the statue for the up incoming festival for the heroic act, which could lead to them having to find out how to get rid of the mud an grim on the Gorgon statue, and if they fail to stop the cleaning of the statue in time the Gorgon awakens in the middle of the city/town. Place in it that the group maybe is collecting things for the festival too like say some of the items/possessions of the hero, accounts of the actual event of the deed, and seeking out a mage to help clean the statue as just normal methods of cleaning it are not working. The group could go thru several levels prior to finding accounts of what happened, and that the statue had been found /dragged up from the lake after the hero's death, and then placed in the town center to commemorate the deed. Just imagine the look of the group as they figure out prior to the statue being cleaned what it is actually, or them arriving at the festival an seeing the Gorgon awaken in front of them with out warning an gaining full surprise on the group.
Geez imagine finding the statue of a bull at the bottom of a river and shipping it back to town Selling it to a mayor. The mayor loves it a orders someone to clean it and place it in the center of his tower. Come noon the entire town is overwhelmed by the smell of cabbage right before they all hear an angry bulls scream. That has to be an adventure written somewhere right
Imagine that a group of low-level adventurers are tasked by an eccentric collector to retrieve a stone bull from a riverbed and fix it up for display. After herculean efforts to haul the bull out and clean it, it suddenly revives and goes to town on them.
One of the PCs sees the town's new statue and succeeds at a knowledge check. He pulls out his waterskin and pours water on the statue. He bends down, grabs some mud, and slaps it onto the statue. Everyone else is just, "The fuck are you doing?"
MrRhexx: Lone Gorgon's are either seeking females, or alpha bulls to fight. My Minotaur barbarian: Ah. FINALLY! A worthy opponent. Our battle will be Legendary!!
Interestingly enough, Greek mythology had a creature similar to that called the Colchis Bulls, a bull made of bronze that spat fire. No idea why they decided to call it a gorgon instead. Maybe they mixed up the names back then?
Probably a pun on goring, like the thing angry bulls do, and just to mess with everyone. Every new player knows what to expect when you say gorgon, but it's actually not.
It comes from the Cleric Edward Topsell’s Bestiary “The History of Four Footed Beasts” there are a lot of creatures and one of them is the Gorgon which is a scaled bull with wings and human hands, the funny thing is that the Gorgon actually breaths out toxic gas, and the Catoblepas was another metalic bull that actually has the stone breath, but these two and other mythological bulls are often mixed.
in 3.5 I once used these as the basis for a ramped up tribe of minotaur. Most just had the plating, the leader was massive with a small ballista and the breath weapon. Also had earth mephit companions, which swarmed them and constantly summoned more as they made thier way to the throne. They were 11th level, so nobody stayed down for good, but it REALLY made them sweat.
If there is, you could probably find it in Kara-Tur. And from the few things I read about the eastern empires like Shou Lung, they seem to be relativly close to ancient Asia in our world, so it is definitelly possible.
Yes I love that back in 2nd edition they had stuff on how to protect your structs like this. If I am rembering right displacer blood can stop phasing and pass stone. You should do a vid on things when making homes. Ever since back then many if not all Castles in my campains have stuff like that otherwise a castle offers no protection.
It seems like a lot of spells would be highly effective against them. Heat metal, chill metal, transmute metal to wood, and rusting grasp come to mind. Oh heck, the first level druid spell cloudburst would be enough to send them running. I'm certain there are others.
Unfortunately, it would seem that only 1 of those spells is carried over to 5th edition at this point. and while Heat Metal is a bomb spell, it is not going to do enough damage by itself to take this thing down, only make it very. VERY. angry.
Notable thing about the D&D Gorgon is that it's clearly based off of the mythical Greek Catoblepas, which has been described as a scaled carnivorous bull that exhales a pestilent haze that causes plants to die and livestock to become ill and is occasionally said to have a gaze that either petrifies people (Similar to the Gorgons of Greek myth) or simply outright kills them upon eye contact.
@@chrisnichols9014 An old bestiary from the middle ages reprinted in the 60s or something inspired this gorgon for Gygax and was based on the Catoblepas.
Great video but I'm sad you didn't mention the Gorgimera, and that's like one of my all time favorite D&D monsters!! 😭 Lol good stuff though, Rhexx, you are *THE* D&D lore channel, to me at least 👍😇👍
whenever i watch one of these videos in this series i always think "Man those planar videos make me wanna play so much D&D and travel the multiverse" and then i watch these damned monster vids and i'm like "NEVER MIND jezus christ how am i supposed to tackle something this horrific and deadly"
Rhexx, you should really do a What They Don’t Tell You About Tieflings. I’m about to play as one and I want to get into the mindset better since I’ve never played a tiefling.
If you're still looking for stuff on tieflings, go check out Arcaneforge videos, basically the same except they draw art while discussing the creatures or things
Whenever I want to learn something about FR I always come to this channel first. I am looking for a history of Waterdeep with perhaps an emphasis on contemporary politics within the city. I would love to see a 'What They Don't Tell You About Waterdeep' or any of the popular towns, cities, regions, etc.
While referencing Greek mythology it is also worth to mention a piece of its history, that I think inspired D&D's Gorgon: the bronze bull. It was a method of execution, where the exucutee was put in a hollow statue of a bronze bull, and then fused inside. After that a fire was stoked underneath the bull, leading to the executees painful demise via boiling alive.
It probably grew the iron plates. It mentioned that it's natural so instead of a normal hard carapace like a bug it grew an iron rich one and it's diet explains their essence.
In one of my 1st/oldest adventures I DM, I added Gorgons. We had a long chat discussing if they count as constructs. I decided to "make up the lore" and make them animals with metallic leather armour, similar to Dragons. So very similar to what the manual doesn't tell. I also noticed it must have been originally created by mixing Greek myths. As it looks and acts like the "Cretan Bull" and since old references come from stone statues...bull gets petrification powers, and when researching about it they found about Medusa, the Gorgon. So it feels some notes got mixed when makeing this monster. I don't mind. I really like this monster. Mixed with the Bullet, they are cool metallic monsters. Later on a slightly more modern adventure I introduced a cowbow (gunslinger) who owned a ranch of Gorgons.
Thank you Rhexx, just gonna steal the Gorgons blood and lead shielding idea for a certain BBEG who doesn't want to take 7 levels in wizard for Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum. Love your work as always. Totally called the rust monster weakness the second I heard its scales were actual Iron. You have really helped me flush out the world-building for the campaign I have been writing the last 2 years.
I'd imagine it would be something weird like: "The Gorgon's breath smells of bitter sulphur, and orange peels" The way i see it, if you can't find any information just make it up lol. Seems more fun than not.
Oh man, I was so ready to correct you about the introduction of the Gorgon into D&D, but just had to double-check first. It turns out the gorgon was introduced in the original 3 rulebooks (#2: Monsters and Treasure) from when D&D spun off of Chainmail and it was already a different monster than the medusae at that point, so I was wrong there. I assume the form they gave it was based in some way on the Catoblepas which also became its own monster in D&D regardless. I expect that is one you will cover fairly soon.
Good form Rhexx, im still reeling from that economy jab; top shelf indeed😭. Gorgon City is an EDM act, so i wonder if this is inspiration for their group. Now I'm imagining a whole city of Gorgons, what a logistical nightmare. I greatly appreciate the level of depth for this series, and your character/charisma shines through with the choice of dialog and delivery; like i can imagine you running the game would be next level
The gorgon as a bull comes from an old book, "The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes". You actually used the image of the gorgon from that book in the video at 11:50. A few D&D monsters were pulled from this book.
I just finished planning a lvl 5 oneshot for my players and, at the very last minute, decided not to include gorgons. They are so deadly!! Thank you for making these video, especially the last bit of lore XD.
Best epic fail a temple of the bull where if you roll a 1 for investigation you find a hidden lever, when pulled the roof rolls back letting in the sunlight turning all the statues to gorgons.
I nearly TPKd a 3rd level party with a gorgon once. They were about to run away (which was my intention), when one of the players came in late. We started with him where he was last game, which was just behind the Gorgon. Well, he was a monk, so he jumped on top of it and... ...well, if you've ever seen that one gif where a guy just stands on a bucking bronco machine no matter how it moves. Yeah, that's what happened. Bronco busted it into a wall head first.
I'm building an archfey bound Pallock who is sworn to cleanse the material realm of monstrosities and aberrations (things not natural to this realm) to clear the way for fey expansion. The both classes get features sensitive to celestials fey and fiends. I'm trying to work with my DM and reskin these to monstrosities and aberrations but he's worried this would be too strong. What do you guys think?
Heh, just a bit of a thought. So when they mate, will people hear metallic clanging noises in the distance? If so, then that would be one other way of knowing there's Gorgons not that far away and you need to walk the other way. I'd imagine some experienced adventurer hearing that and would be (There are Gorgons nearby!) and the others (How can you tell? and the Vet goes (Do you hear that clanging?) the other goes (That's a blacksmith's forge, no?) and the vet goes (The nearest blacksmith is miles away from here. no, this must be two Gorgons going at it) and then the rest of the party slowly realize what he means.
I remember watching a video on these guys from jorphdan if I believe he said it was an elven goddess that gave them the ability to turn to stone if they are submerged in deep water
just thought about if a PC playing a minotaur beats a gorgon bull and the gorgon cows start following him cause... well, he's bull-shaped and smells of metal. just me but that sounds funny.
Really makes me wonder who and why decided to make the Gorgon a metallic bull in D&D when they have so many other mythological creatures of old. What made the Gorgon so special? And who's wild idea can we credit for its initial creation?
It comes from the Cleric Edward Topsell’s Bestiary “The History of Four Footed Beasts” there are a lot of creatures and one of them is the Gorgon which is a scaled bull with wings and human hands, the funny thing is that the Gorgon actually breaths out toxic gas, and the Catoblepas was another metalic bull that actually has the stone breath, but these two and other mythological bulls are often mixed.
@@Rulytasho Topsell actually has a little debate on whether the gorgon's breath or eyes are the source of the deadly poison, but seems to land on the idea of seeing its eyes to be the killer. Though he also mentions it's hair standing on end to be poisonous, though that might be because it uncovers its eyes.
This form of gorgon actually comes from a different mythology than Greek, I cannot remember which however. Somewhere along the line the names of the monsters got mixed up somehow and now a gorgon can either mean this weird bull thing or a medusa-like creature.
Gorgon is an iron bull that appears in the story of Jason and the Argonauts not to be confused with the three sisters. Same name but from different regions. Its breath was said to be poisonous.
I doubt D&D will do anything with Euryale or Stheno. I know I am working on something with them. Medusa as a player race which is divided into two 'subraces' named after Medusa's Sisters.
Something that would be cool is a dungeon where there's a room full of water that you have to drain for some reason but there's a statue of a bull at the bottom and it turns into a gorgon and then they have to fight it.
And there is a sun roof
I like that. I like that a lot. But, also imagine a stone bull statue being dredged from a river, sold off to researchers, and then released in the museum because Dave ‘had to have’ his oculus.
@@RustyhairedAlp9575 everything was going fine with the light of the torches, until the priest cast his Light spell from the Sun sphere of magic, and the beast broke loose
I thought the same but it was a lake that the player party drains to reach a dungeon, revealing hundreds, and about 1/3 of them come to life immediately.
I actually like the ida of a city/village having a large statue in the center of the town-square that celebrates when the hero of the city/town defeated a rogue Gorgon. Unknown to the town the hero had tricked the Gorgon to chase him off a cliff leading to them plunging into the large lake below that the city/town sits upon. Then the group is tasked with cleaning the statue for the up incoming festival for the heroic act, which could lead to them having to find out how to get rid of the mud an grim on the Gorgon statue, and if they fail to stop the cleaning of the statue in time the Gorgon awakens in the middle of the city/town.
Place in it that the group maybe is collecting things for the festival too like say some of the items/possessions of the hero, accounts of the actual event of the deed, and seeking out a mage to help clean the statue as just normal methods of cleaning it are not working. The group could go thru several levels prior to finding accounts of what happened, and that the statue had been found /dragged up from the lake after the hero's death, and then placed in the town center to commemorate the deed. Just imagine the look of the group as they figure out prior to the statue being cleaned what it is actually, or them arriving at the festival an seeing the Gorgon awaken in front of them with out warning an gaining full surprise on the group.
Geez imagine finding the statue of a bull at the bottom of a river and shipping it back to town Selling it to a mayor. The mayor loves it a orders someone to clean it and place it in the center of his tower. Come noon the entire town is overwhelmed by the smell of cabbage right before they all hear an angry bulls scream. That has to be an adventure written somewhere right
Thats actually a plot of my campaign, where when they return its just a petrifyed town xd
Stealing that
"oops"
Talk about a "trojan bull"! Imagine if it were a fishing village to boot. That bull will be in heaven.
gift that to the bbeg
"Nearby village dredges up a stone statue of a bull" sounds like an amazing one-shot premise.
Imagine that a group of low-level adventurers are tasked by an eccentric collector to retrieve a stone bull from a riverbed and fix it up for display. After herculean efforts to haul the bull out and clean it, it suddenly revives and goes to town on them.
One of the PCs sees the town's new statue and succeeds at a knowledge check. He pulls out his waterskin and pours water on the statue. He bends down, grabs some mud, and slaps it onto the statue.
Everyone else is just, "The fuck are you doing?"
MrRhexx: Lone Gorgon's are either seeking females, or alpha bulls to fight.
My Minotaur barbarian: Ah. FINALLY! A worthy opponent. Our battle will be Legendary!!
*one week later*
"Whao, this Minotaur statue is really life like! You guys think it's Dwarven craftsmanship?" :- Random Halfling
@@Humster he wouldn't have it any other way
Interestingly enough, Greek mythology had a creature similar to that called the Colchis Bulls, a bull made of bronze that spat fire. No idea why they decided to call it a gorgon instead. Maybe they mixed up the names back then?
It comes from a book of monsters called a gorgon how it got misinterpreted I don't know and i think the origin is the history of four footed beasts
Probably a pun on goring, like the thing angry bulls do, and just to mess with everyone.
Every new player knows what to expect when you say gorgon, but it's actually not.
It comes from the Cleric Edward Topsell’s Bestiary “The History of Four Footed Beasts” there are a lot of creatures and one of them is the Gorgon which is a scaled bull with wings and human hands, the funny thing is that the Gorgon actually breaths out toxic gas, and the Catoblepas was another metalic bull that actually has the stone breath, but these two and other mythological bulls are often mixed.
Probably for the same reason they called trolls ogres?
It comes from a bestiary written by Edward Topsell, the same with lamias as lion woman instead of snake woman
in 3.5 I once used these as the basis for a ramped up tribe of minotaur. Most just had the plating, the leader was massive with a small ballista and the breath weapon. Also had earth mephit companions, which swarmed them and constantly summoned more as they made thier way to the throne. They were 11th level, so nobody stayed down for good, but it REALLY made them sweat.
"from beans or tofu" was there a time a gorgan ate tofu? is tofu even cannon in forgotten realms?
we need answers
If there is, you could probably find it in Kara-Tur.
And from the few things I read about the eastern empires like Shou Lung, they seem to be relativly close to ancient Asia in our world, so it is definitelly possible.
I was more like, "Tofu has iron in it?"
Feed it tofu flavored like fish and it'll love it!
Yes I love that back in 2nd edition they had stuff on how to protect your structs like this. If I am rembering right displacer blood can stop phasing and pass stone. You should do a vid on things when making homes. Ever since back then many if not all Castles in my campains have stuff like that otherwise a castle offers no protection.
It seems like a lot of spells would be highly effective against them. Heat metal, chill metal, transmute metal to wood, and rusting grasp come to mind. Oh heck, the first level druid spell cloudburst would be enough to send them running. I'm certain there are others.
me a 5e player: lolwut
Unfortunately, it would seem that only 1 of those spells is carried over to 5th edition at this point. and while Heat Metal is a bomb spell, it is not going to do enough damage by itself to take this thing down, only make it very. VERY. angry.
@@aaronloeffler5844 Will debuff it though.
Notable thing about the D&D Gorgon is that it's clearly based off of the mythical Greek Catoblepas, which has been described as a scaled carnivorous bull that exhales a pestilent haze that causes plants to die and livestock to become ill and is occasionally said to have a gaze that either petrifies people (Similar to the Gorgons of Greek myth) or simply outright kills them upon eye contact.
More like Ethiopian than Greek. The word is Greek though.
D&D Medusa = Myth Gorgon
D&D Gorgon = Myth Catoblepas
D&D Catoblepas = original monster that has been all 5 editions
….. Totally not confusing
Gorgon's are a race of snake people that can turn you to stone. This name does not make sense for this creature at all.
@@chrisnichols9014 An old bestiary from the middle ages reprinted in the 60s or something inspired this gorgon for Gygax and was based on the Catoblepas.
Part of what’s cool about the gorgon blood construction is that historically blood has been used in construction as a binding agent
I really hoped that you would make one about gorgon (I plan to make my players encounter it) and my whish came true! Thank you so much for that video!
I love all of MrRhexx's videos... all other lore channels just don't hit the same way. Any plans to return to the Planar series?
What about Gorgon Milk? I mean... they are cows...
yeeeeeeeeeeees please i LOVE those
"They would sink faster than the russian economy..." YOU FUCKING BROKE ME RHEXX!!!
Not as badly as Putin broke Russia! Hey-o!
Agreed, it came out of left field and got me good
I know right? Lmao
Came to post this, kek
Phrases that I will use for at least the next few years.
I've been expecting this one after all the other monsters with petrifying effects
I have gigs all day and needed some listening material right now. These are always so well timed. I literally just set up on a worksite.
honestly, boiling some cabbage and putting it in a small tupperware or something and opening it doing the description of a Gorgon would be amazing!
I didn't know the thing about them petrifying under water.
Thanks for doing these, always a great day when I see you have a new one!
Great video but I'm sad you didn't mention the Gorgimera, and that's like one of my all time favorite D&D monsters!! 😭
Lol good stuff though, Rhexx, you are *THE* D&D lore channel, to me at least 👍😇👍
whenever i watch one of these videos in this series i always think
"Man those planar videos make me wanna play so much D&D and travel the multiverse"
and then i watch these damned monster vids and i'm like
"NEVER MIND jezus christ how am i supposed to tackle something this horrific and deadly"
Mahyar gorgon rancher, workin the herd for his loving medusa wife. Gives the party a quest to kill the rust monster varmints plaguing his herd
My favorite DnD lore channel
Rhexx, you should really do a What They Don’t Tell You About Tieflings. I’m about to play as one and I want to get into the mindset better since I’ve never played a tiefling.
If you're still looking for stuff on tieflings, go check out Arcaneforge videos, basically the same except they draw art while discussing the creatures or things
Hey, great video, as always. BTW do you know, that your videos about green hags an dragonborns are not on your d&d playlist?
I would love to see something about Gith or maybe about aasimar...great vid btw
Whenever I want to learn something about FR I always come to this channel first. I am looking for a history of Waterdeep with perhaps an emphasis on contemporary politics within the city. I would love to see a 'What They Don't Tell You About Waterdeep' or any of the popular towns, cities, regions, etc.
That shot of the gorgon miniature was very appreciated.
I’d love some lore about weretigers but there doesn’t seem to be much about them in 5e
Every creature you do a video on gets me thinking of ways to incorporate them.into a d&d game.
Gorgon organ... both magical and musical
While referencing Greek mythology it is also worth to mention a piece of its history, that I think inspired D&D's Gorgon: the bronze bull. It was a method of execution, where the exucutee was put in a hollow statue of a bronze bull, and then fused inside. After that a fire was stoked underneath the bull, leading to the executees painful demise via boiling alive.
Stheno and Euryale....
medusa's sisters for the curious
Gnolls, would be a really good video for you to cover, I'd imagine we'd all absolutely would love it
Gorgon Oil should be a rare magic item that gets rid of the stealth penalty for medium and heavy armors
Lots of interesting details and beautiful illustrations, worthy D&D content !
8:21 hehe, "The organ of the gorgon is a-wafting nasty gas!"
Could you do Homonculus soon? Great video btw
After the day I've had, this video is a godsend
It probably grew the iron plates. It mentioned that it's natural so instead of a normal hard carapace like a bug it grew an iron rich one and it's diet explains their essence.
Yes they are grown, though they can never be regrown.
I ran a Theros campaign where the gorgons were made out of brass and were crafted beasts of burden. It was a rather fun thing to play with I admit.
In one of my 1st/oldest adventures I DM, I added Gorgons. We had a long chat discussing if they count as constructs. I decided to "make up the lore" and make them animals with metallic leather armour, similar to Dragons. So very similar to what the manual doesn't tell. I also noticed it must have been originally created by mixing Greek myths. As it looks and acts like the "Cretan Bull" and since old references come from stone statues...bull gets petrification powers, and when researching about it they found about Medusa, the Gorgon. So it feels some notes got mixed when makeing this monster.
I don't mind. I really like this monster. Mixed with the Bullet, they are cool metallic monsters.
Later on a slightly more modern adventure I introduced a cowbow (gunslinger) who owned a ranch of Gorgons.
Thank you Rhexx, just gonna steal the Gorgons blood and lead shielding idea for a certain BBEG who doesn't want to take 7 levels in wizard for Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum.
Love your work as always. Totally called the rust monster weakness the second I heard its scales were actual Iron. You have really helped me flush out the world-building for the campaign I have been writing the last 2 years.
I don't play D&D but I do love the lore that you have provided from it.
If you'd Like To play, I've got a group starting up soon that has a spot for another player
@@sssargon8569 it's something that I may try but I'll put if off until later
Not even lying, I was honestly hoping you'd mention the scent of their breath, so I can more thoroughly describe its breath weapon.
I'd imagine it would be something weird like:
"The Gorgon's breath smells of bitter sulphur, and orange peels"
The way i see it, if you can't find any information just make it up lol. Seems more fun than not.
"These guys will sink faster than the Russian economy" brutal haha
You know I've been waiting for this one!!! 😁
"Sink faster than the Russian economy" gottem
Lol
came down to say that
🇺🇦
That's rude
But still true
That was perfect
After this, I understand what a monstrosity is better than before. Previously magical beasts. So cool!
Oh man, I was so ready to correct you about the introduction of the Gorgon into D&D, but just had to double-check first. It turns out the gorgon was introduced in the original 3 rulebooks (#2: Monsters and Treasure) from when D&D spun off of Chainmail and it was already a different monster than the medusae at that point, so I was wrong there. I assume the form they gave it was based in some way on the Catoblepas which also became its own monster in D&D regardless. I expect that is one you will cover fairly soon.
Good form Rhexx, im still reeling from that economy jab; top shelf indeed😭.
Gorgon City is an EDM act, so i wonder if this is inspiration for their group. Now I'm imagining a whole city of Gorgons, what a logistical nightmare.
I greatly appreciate the level of depth for this series, and your character/charisma shines through with the choice of dialog and delivery; like i can imagine you running the game would be next level
Thanks again for another awesome video. I love listening to these.
"Turns to stone if submerged in water..."
I immediately thought of this just being a bull that ate a devil fruit.
MrRhexx: "They will sink faster than the Russian Economy"
Me: (low whistle)
The gorgon as a bull comes from an old book, "The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes". You actually used the image of the gorgon from that book in the video at 11:50. A few D&D monsters were pulled from this book.
I just finished planning a lvl 5 oneshot for my players and, at the very last minute, decided not to include gorgons. They are so deadly!! Thank you for making these video, especially the last bit of lore XD.
Best epic fail a temple of the bull where if you roll a 1 for investigation you find a hidden lever, when pulled the roof rolls back letting in the sunlight turning all the statues to gorgons.
Lmao Gorgons craving for some beans and tofu
I nearly TPKd a 3rd level party with a gorgon once. They were about to run away (which was my intention), when one of the players came in late. We started with him where he was last game, which was just behind the Gorgon. Well, he was a monk, so he jumped on top of it and...
...well, if you've ever seen that one gif where a guy just stands on a bucking bronco machine no matter how it moves. Yeah, that's what happened. Bronco busted it into a wall head first.
Resembles the mythical Roman catoplebas creature, which was a bull with petrifying breath. Very interesting
I especially appreciated the part about the gorgon's organs.
Still waiting for werewolves to be done by you. But, now I want to see you do the lore behind that book with magical housing lol
I'm building an archfey bound Pallock who is sworn to cleanse the material realm of monstrosities and aberrations (things not natural to this realm) to clear the way for fey expansion.
The both classes get features sensitive to celestials fey and fiends. I'm trying to work with my DM and reskin these to monstrosities and aberrations but he's worried this would be too strong.
What do you guys think?
Heh, just a bit of a thought. So when they mate, will people hear metallic clanging noises in the distance? If so, then that would be one other way of knowing there's Gorgons not that far away and you need to walk the other way.
I'd imagine some experienced adventurer hearing that and would be (There are Gorgons nearby!) and the others (How can you tell? and the Vet goes (Do you hear that clanging?) the other goes (That's a blacksmith's forge, no?) and the vet goes (The nearest blacksmith is miles away from here. no, this must be two Gorgons going at it) and then the rest of the party slowly realize what he means.
Hell yeah boy! Great vídeo dude
LETS GOOO. amazing work.
I remember watching a video on these guys from jorphdan if I believe he said it was an elven goddess that gave them the ability to turn to stone if they are submerged in deep water
Dude.... do the Fog Giants.... almost cero info on them, could be part of a giants series and based on their habilities, they could be ninjas
just thought about if a PC playing a minotaur beats a gorgon bull and the gorgon cows start following him cause... well, he's bull-shaped and smells of metal. just me but that sounds funny.
Dang, 5e REALLY pulled out the fangs of petrificating monsters! Fail two!! Two!! low dc saves to be petrified
Thanks, i couldnt find a sorce for gorgon blood paint
More of an additive to the mortor than a paint, similar to how Romans used pig blood in their concrete to make it stronger
If you help a gorgon out of the water I wonder if you could befriend them
Only Medusa had the stone gaze of the sisters. One had a banshee like scream and the other was a peerless sword fighter.
Could you next speak of gruumsh from the orc pantheon?
10:35 ayyooo! 😂
Amazing! There is actually a creature in 5E that has Darkvision!
Art at 5:00 is so crooked! Did the artist ever see a cow or something? 😂
Forgot you posted this. Came back before watching the dwarfs.
Is there any chance we can have a video dedicated to the Bulette and its subspecies?
Personally i think gorgons should be a CR 7 or 8, at those levels players at least have slightly more health, higher magics, and between 0 - 3 feets.
I assume you mean feats?
But thank you, this painted a very funny picture in my mind, and I needed that.
@@derskalde4973 yes, and im glad you got a good chuckle out of this comment.
So, I know you have done a vid on planar travel, but would it be possible to do the lore on Time travel In D&D?
It's very wibbly-wobbly.
Thanks for this.
You beautiful bastard I was just looking for this
Speaking of the Xorn,,,,
We're _WAITING!_
10:30, oof, didn't expect that :D
Imagine turning a gorgon into like an enchanted shield that can be used to release the petrifying gas.
So gorgon's need breathe mints, interesting lol
Really makes me wonder who and why decided to make the Gorgon a metallic bull in D&D when they have so many other mythological creatures of old. What made the Gorgon so special? And who's wild idea can we credit for its initial creation?
At 13:31 to 13:48 you weren’t describing gorgons. You were describing my party.
That ad read had me as depressed as you sounded reading it 😂
I will never understand their did they think when they named this creature "gorgon" and medusas "medusa".
It comes from the Cleric Edward Topsell’s Bestiary “The History of Four Footed Beasts” there are a lot of creatures and one of them is the Gorgon which is a scaled bull with wings and human hands, the funny thing is that the Gorgon actually breaths out toxic gas, and the Catoblepas was another metalic bull that actually has the stone breath, but these two and other mythological bulls are often mixed.
@@Rulytasho Topsell actually has a little debate on whether the gorgon's breath or eyes are the source of the deadly poison, but seems to land on the idea of seeing its eyes to be the killer. Though he also mentions it's hair standing on end to be poisonous, though that might be because it uncovers its eyes.
Make me remember heroes might and magic 3
This form of gorgon actually comes from a different mythology than Greek, I cannot remember which however. Somewhere along the line the names of the monsters got mixed up somehow and now a gorgon can either mean this weird bull thing or a medusa-like creature.
Probably one of the best units in Heroes of Might and Magic 3 ... Wait wrong Game!
Ah yes, the mighty Gorgon feasting on its tofu. I assume they prefer extra firm?
Gorgon is an iron bull that appears in the story of Jason and the Argonauts not to be confused with the three sisters. Same name but from different regions. Its breath was said to be poisonous.
When people think of the word gorgon, they think of a chick that can petrify you. Calling this bull thing a gorgon is just weird.
Should try to do one on what they don't tell you about Dungeon Masters lol
video starts at 2:07.
I doubt D&D will do anything with Euryale or Stheno. I know I am working on something with them. Medusa as a player race which is divided into two 'subraces' named after Medusa's Sisters.
15:35 you can hear a cat meow