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Really want to see the Suel Lich in 5e. It's probably the most horrifying monster in the sense of what its existence implies and just the chain of destroyed lives and souls for one to be as old as they are. Also it's one of the myrad of ways that liches got around the old rule of "liches can't gain experience" which is the main reason why PCs wouldn't want to become liches in ad&d.
If there is such as a thing as Wingless Wonder, by law of equivalence, a creature of the inverse must exist somewhere across the plains, the Winged Expectation. In this essay I will-
Listen, I'm a wizard that beats a rival in a duel, I'm not gonna turn them into a freaking Dragon or Displacer Beast or something. Failboat monster is much safer.
@@brettwood1351or turn them into a cow so you can milk them everyday as an exploit and profit from them while they live the rest of their lives eating grass
DD: [Describes the wingless wonder's physical traits] Me: "Heh, what a silly goober. I'm guessing the lore on this one is probably what makes it compelling." DD: [Describes the origins of the wingless wonder] Me: ...Oh. How very...Harlan Ellison. DD, 5-and-a-half minutes later: [Actually name drops I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream] Me: Well, as long as I'm not the only one thinking it. ...Could you imagine the scenario of a powerful archmage from long ago, kept alive in the form of a wingless wonder, then set free by bumbling heroes only to go full AM on the world with his magic? o_O
When I was a kid, my dad would occasionally pick up a copy of Dragon magazine -- about 1 in every 4 or 5 issues. Despite not having seen it in 30+ years, I instantly recognized the wingless wonder, the cover art, and the page spread with the monster stats. Weird little bit of nostalgia I wasn't expecting...
Fun plot: have a quest-giver warn the players that the item they have to retrieve is too powerful for the touch of mortals... so they send one of these along to eat it. And you thought Ashley from Resident Evil was a horrible escort mission.
@@thecreepoid901 Ooh, I know this one, actually. Since the orb is comprised entirely of magic, it simply winks out of existence while in an anti-magic field. The location of the orb is still tracked and it will pop back into existence once the anti-magic field dissipates, but during the time it is considered not to exist. So a Wingless Wonder could not, in fact, eat one, it would just be eating air. Although that, of course, is only the official ruling. I'm sure we could come up with a loophole, 'cuz that sounds hella fun, lol.
My favourite story about these things when I was reading about them on the Forgotten Realms wiki, was when a drow matron mother hit one and then was killed when the wonder cast meteor swarm and wiped her house out with the wonder walking away like it was nothing.
With suction cup feet to keep steady on slippery floors, small arms for detailed meal prep and a head full of long grasping tentacles to keep away from boiling oil the Wingless Wonder would be an excellent fry cook. It could even fry wings! Welcome to the Wingless Wonder's Wonderful Wings!
@@RyllenKriel *IT* might be fire proof, but I doubt everything else around it is 😂. I love the idea and see no reason why it couldn't be run by a transformed Wonder. They keep their intelligence stats after all.
I love this idea of this kindly grandpa with a garden full of Wingless Wonders who turns out to actually be a ruthless master wizard whose pets are all former rivals. I think it might be even more interesting if, since then, the man has mellowed out and is as of presently a genuine ally of the party, and might regret his former actions, but feels like removing the curse is not an option since A) the uncursed wizards would definitely try to kill him and B) they are very likely all super insane by now, so he is just genuinely trying to provide a nice life to the Wonders he has created long ago, believing it's the best thing he can do for them. If the sins of his past come up, it would be a fun moral quandary for the party to decide whether he should still be punished for them, and if so, what they should do with the Wonders. Just leave them be? Put them out of their misery? Or try to remove their curses, knowing how terribly this could turn out?
Don't wingless wonders have a wild magic surge ability? I remember a story of a drow hitting one because it got in their way while they were pursuing a target and it caused a meteor swarm to land on them and kill them but the wonder being immune to magic just waddled out of it unphased
@@Pyreperhaps you read it in some third party content that added sorcerers as possible trapped objectives?idk I'm adding it to my world just bc of how funny that sounds
Anti magic field does not protect you against meteor swarm if its summoned out of the field and falls on you. So that story souns wrong or hombrewed stuff
IDK about that story but the FR wiki references Psionic Races and Classes (2007 original) confirming the wild magic surge that functions like a wand of wonder - and that the Alkada becomes vulnerable to magic for a brief moment (1 round?) after using it.
Here's an idea: Replace the beholder's disintegration ray with this transformation. If one of the party gets transformed they they should suddenly realize that the weird things they saw bumbling around before they reached the beholder's lair were probably adventurers that the beholder defeated… do they feel guilty now for killing them on sight? Do they go back to find and release them? Could be an interesting remedy for murder hobos.
Hm... A intresting counter indeed. He'll if the entire party gets decked have a friendlyer mage who once a week can arive and just grabs the party takes them to hos tower and undoes the curse then asks them if they intended to attack the beholder. If no ones to crazy
Yeah, I would've pronounced it "al-KAH-duh", or maybe put emphasis on the first syllable for "AL-kah-duh", just to make it more distinctly...not what we're thinking when we hear that. >_>;
3:41 "The babies will follow their parents until they are large enough to fend for themselves" I don't think these creatures ever get large enough to 'fend for themselves' 💀(Most of their defenses are passive)
The wingless wonder design feels straight out of a Dr. Suss book. I can see an area of the Feywild just full of the buggers and ruled by an all powerful Cat in a Hat character.
Okay, so you're going into battle against a Lich. So you 'tame' a Wingless Wonder, put it in a baby harness, and have the fighter carry it around. EZ fight!
Fighter? Nah. Totem Barbarian dedicated to protecting the innocent animals of the world. He doesn't know what kind of animal this is, but he's still gonna protect it!
A video focusing on the Slaad lords (Rennbuu, Ygorl, Wartle etc) would be interesting since WotC seems to have completely ignored limbo. There really isn't much in 5e concerning the plane of chaos apart from some lesser slaad and a spawning stone
My god. Between this and Nothics people are just READY to take magic from wizards and chuck them into body horror experiences. None of the other classes gettin' bullied like this lol. Also though imagine the detect thoughts experience.
@@lechking941 Lol didn’t say none of the other classes get bullied at all. Cases where the actual character is singled out by class and transformed by being subjected to body horror seems pretty unique to wizards and is on a different level of extreme. Wizards can also be targeted by the fey, so not exclusive to martials. Rust monsters take weapons but the characters themselves are still in-tact and sane (barring warforged).
The only other class that lends itself to that all-consuming curiosity and thirst for What Man Was Not Meant to Know is the Warlock, which comes pre-packaged with negative implications. These monsters simply add the consequences of hubris.
I noticed one of the videos you watched to the end while you were showcasing Greenwood's channel was "does the forgotten realm have toilets" and I must say I'm left with more questions than answers.
I am in the midst if making a campaign setting and one settlement I was picturing would be based on healing. I can so see one healer and wizard having a paddock of these guys, trying to keep them intellectually stimulated so they don't go mad while trying to find a means to change them back. In this case, a special relic prevents the curse from being removed until it is destroyed.
I would love to see what you could do with the AD&D monsters that were a slight possibility for those attempting to achieve lichdom, surviving the process, but not succeeding in actually becoming liches - the arch-shadow, and their evolved form, the demi-shade. Keep up the great work!
@brettwood1351 If there was an additional magical effect on the wingless wonder that prevents communication then the statement of it can't communicate would have merit however simply stating as a fact that they can't from the start is a flaw in the lore and function of the creature. On a side note There is a particularly funny and mostly harmless very old creature that is halfway between a sea urchin or sea anemone that is buoyant in the air or water or anything else. This creature is basically harmless because the only way that it can hurt you is for you to take an action that triggers an attack of opertunity while in its threatening range of five feet or bumbling directly into it. They are filter feeders that can't attack any other way and they can't cause lethal damage under any circumstances. They have 1d4 +1 hp and minimum ability scores for all stats while also being unable to move under their own actions. They have an ability that gives Unlimited attacks of opertunites and another that give them a chance to split/ reproduce every turn and that is everything. There CR rating is 1/16 and their Hp is always restored when they split. They don't give experience but every time you kill one there is a chance that you will be able to harvest their tentacles for use in a non-magical tempary weapon modification that gives it a +1 to non-lethal damage and a to paralyze whatever you hit. Yes they can paralyze you while they are alive but they really need to hit you a lot to do that.
I remember seeing AJ Pickett's video covering this thing, and thinking that it'd be a perfect subject for this channel; a wandering, fuzzy, anemone-thing that just defies all logic, and yet still, somehow, survives, and even thrives, in the peasant-chomping, adventurer-stomping wilds of the Forgotten Realms. Nice!
Every time i see you cover something that sounds simple or lame i am always surprised at how insanely horrific or cool it ends up being. Thank you so much for doing what you do!
Thank you for conunually giving me creatures to use in my ongoing campaign, my party is currently looking for the eye of vecna, so is vecna, but now I have a concrete reason why it's never been found, a good dragon ate it and had someone turn him into this hilarious creature, thank you
The magic macguffen has been fed to a wingless wonder… and the wingless wonder has been put in an enclosure with 10s or even 100s of other wingless wonders. The wingless wonders are all incredibly adorable. Good luck retrieving it.
@@KevinVideo I guess I’ll just make it up. I’m trying to write in a character who is part storm giant part sun giant all hippy. Maybe real good at frisbee golf and music festivals.
Cute fella, honestly didn't know they exist, thanks for enlightening me man. Say, would you ever take a look at the long forgotten linnorms? I think an episode on them would be very interesting.
>Catch and befriend several wingless wonder >tie them to your armor and shield Congratulations: you have made some op armor. Not only dose it despell magic, but offers protection against bite attacks. Also when one dies, because you didn’t kill it but the guy trying to kill you killed it, it will Hurt the other guy. The only real counter is remove curse but even then, but even then that wouldn’t work unless one of the wonders is a trapped wizard.
👀 What a cute little dude...it kind of gives me 80s Trolls vibes 😅 I think it could be really interesting to have different wonders have different auras, or even have a wonder's aura change depending on its mood or the items it eats. I'm thinking it projects an aura that's somehow the negation of what's inside it or what it's made of (e.g. default is anti-magic since it's a transformed wizard). Like you said, there's just so much potential, as with most creatures that actively avoid combat. Thanks, DD! See you tomorrow at PAX! 👏🏽
I really like the idea of having each of these guys be absolutely and completely invulnerable to absolutely everything expect for one specific object or effect for each one. That one might die by getting wacked upside the head with book while that one over there can't swim
If a wingless wonder can be born, then what happens when you try to "cure" one that was never cursed in the first place. Does it become a person? Does it stay the same? Does it die? I can imagine a wizard that has a "pet" wingless wondering that's actually their child.
Hear me out. A specialist mage-hunter who sticks one of these in a backpack to provide them an anti-magic field when taking down powerful mages, Luke and Yoda style. It can also carry those potentially cursed and/or powerful items that the hunter has to transport.
Awesome video man! One (of the many) things I love about your channel is that you cover obscure creatures that I've never heard of before. Considering I've been playing since the 1E days that's pretty impressive! Thanks again for all your hard work, it really shows through in the quality of the final product 👍👍
Befriend one and put it in your backpack like yoda, instant magic defense (provided you and your team have no magic yourselves) Also, if you change a wizard back who ate a powerful magic item what happens? Imagine the wizard goes to thank the party but violently throws up a doomsday device
I just recently used the wingless wonder in my campaign. The players need to build a spelljammer. I had a hobgoblin wizard turned into a wingless wonder that they freed to give them information about wildspace. I also did new artwork because I wanted something that looked like it could be dangerous. My drawing allows you to see the mouth at the top of the body.
I can see a scenario at the start of a campaign where the players meet another player who'd been turned into a Alkada long ago, they undo the transformation and they join the party. Maybe the Alkada would try to communicate via Charades leading to some funny moments as they try to figure out what its trying to say.
god I wanna play a campain where the entire story is just building a garden for villians who I've turned into wonders the point of dungons isn't for necessarily loot but unique flowers, gems, and decorations
Idea for use the monster: a rouge that trained the wingle wonder to swallow and puke specific items. So can be used as comical duo but really good thief that breaks into a bank full of magic defense. Or can be the opposite. A ruthless thief that used the wingle as the minion to hit when something goes wrong.
While I think it's a nice touch that transformed WWs don't do the psychic death screech, I would home brew that Fly acts as Dispel Magic and Featherfall is equivalent to Remove Curse. There's just some poetry in that. Great video 👍🏻 👍🏻
Legend Lore is your best friend when encountering this monster. I would guess that most wizards singled out for transformation into Wingless Wonders would be legendary enough for Legend Lore to apply to them.
Wasn't expecting a viva piñata reference, one of my favorite games, but it's nice to hear. Of course, I wasn't expecting an antimagic doofus to be an official monster but here we are. Great work as always, this monster will make a fine addition to my bestiary!
the prist uses channel divinity to find the magic thingy, fail by 1(15 instead of 14 for a exsample) they faintly hear Howling laghter seamingly from everywhere
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Really want to see the Suel Lich in 5e. It's probably the most horrifying monster in the sense of what its existence implies and just the chain of destroyed lives and souls for one to be as old as they are.
Also it's one of the myrad of ways that liches got around the old rule of "liches can't gain experience" which is the main reason why PCs wouldn't want to become liches in ad&d.
Shame about that name, though.
I'd love to see the voadkyn from the adnd complete book of humanoids
@@danielgehring7437 what about it?
Wait, so a pure martial character could use one of these as an anti-magic forcefield? Put one in your backpack and feed it a gem every so often?
Just like Druids can use Rust Monsters to defeat armored combatants
They don't even need to eat gems they just like to eat shiney things lol
@@jamesburrows3602yeah it “likes” them… so it’ll be extra happy with the arrangement since it gets the thing it likes.
@@chrismanuel9768 druids get the heat metal spell
@CraigMetalHead you Sr are a god damn genius! I'm steeling that!
If there is such as a thing as Wingless Wonder, by law of equivalence, a creature of the inverse must exist somewhere across the plains, the Winged Expectation.
In this essay I will-
I think that’s the inevitable dragon your DM can never quite resist slipping into the story somewhere.
thats just a bird
You know what, I appreciate that in a world full of horrifyingly powerful scary beasties they added in a failboat monster too
Listen, I'm a wizard that beats a rival in a duel, I'm not gonna turn them into a freaking Dragon or Displacer Beast or something. Failboat monster is much safer.
And much more humiliating @@brettwood1351
@@brettwood1351or turn them into a cow so you can milk them everyday as an exploit and profit from them while they live the rest of their lives eating grass
All those predators need SOMETHING to eat.
Tf is a failboat?
DD: [Describes the wingless wonder's physical traits]
Me: "Heh, what a silly goober. I'm guessing the lore on this one is probably what makes it compelling."
DD: [Describes the origins of the wingless wonder]
Me: ...Oh. How very...Harlan Ellison.
DD, 5-and-a-half minutes later: [Actually name drops I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream]
Me: Well, as long as I'm not the only one thinking it.
...Could you imagine the scenario of a powerful archmage from long ago, kept alive in the form of a wingless wonder, then set free by bumbling heroes only to go full AM on the world with his magic? o_O
The monster made me think that the idea was made by someone who is a fan of Dr Seuss and H.P. Lovecraft.
When I was a kid, my dad would occasionally pick up a copy of Dragon magazine -- about 1 in every 4 or 5 issues. Despite not having seen it in 30+ years, I instantly recognized the wingless wonder, the cover art, and the page spread with the monster stats. Weird little bit of nostalgia I wasn't expecting...
I love monsters like this that act more as a weird puzzle than something to like kill
Fun plot: have a quest-giver warn the players that the item they have to retrieve is too powerful for the touch of mortals... so they send one of these along to eat it.
And you thought Ashley from Resident Evil was a horrible escort mission.
What if it eats an orb of annihilation?
@@thecreepoid901 Ooh, I know this one, actually. Since the orb is comprised entirely of magic, it simply winks out of existence while in an anti-magic field. The location of the orb is still tracked and it will pop back into existence once the anti-magic field dissipates, but during the time it is considered not to exist. So a Wingless Wonder could not, in fact, eat one, it would just be eating air.
Although that, of course, is only the official ruling. I'm sure we could come up with a loophole, 'cuz that sounds hella fun, lol.
You're evil. I like that 🙂
My favourite story about these things when I was reading about them on the Forgotten Realms wiki, was when a drow matron mother hit one and then was killed when the wonder cast meteor swarm and wiped her house out with the wonder walking away like it was nothing.
That's hilarious.
@@smithsmith1956 Sounds like someone figured out a way around that 10 foot no magic handicap.
@@brettwood1351According to another comment, Wild Magic Surge
With suction cup feet to keep steady on slippery floors, small arms for detailed meal prep and a head full of long grasping tentacles to keep away from boiling oil the Wingless Wonder would be an excellent fry cook. It could even fry wings! Welcome to the Wingless Wonder's Wonderful Wings!
Do not let anything with 'Stupid' as a primary descriptive trait around vats of hot oil.
wwww
@@Babbleplay It has fire resistance! Things will be fine.
@@RyllenKriel *IT* might be fire proof, but I doubt everything else around it is 😂. I love the idea and see no reason why it couldn't be run by a transformed Wonder. They keep their intelligence stats after all.
@@Babbleplay Wonderbob, me boy, we need more wingless patties!
I love this idea of this kindly grandpa with a garden full of Wingless Wonders who turns out to actually be a ruthless master wizard whose pets are all former rivals.
I think it might be even more interesting if, since then, the man has mellowed out and is as of presently a genuine ally of the party, and might regret his former actions, but feels like removing the curse is not an option since A) the uncursed wizards would definitely try to kill him and B) they are very likely all super insane by now, so he is just genuinely trying to provide a nice life to the Wonders he has created long ago, believing it's the best thing he can do for them. If the sins of his past come up, it would be a fun moral quandary for the party to decide whether he should still be punished for them, and if so, what they should do with the Wonders. Just leave them be? Put them out of their misery? Or try to remove their curses, knowing how terribly this could turn out?
Don't wingless wonders have a wild magic surge ability? I remember a story of a drow hitting one because it got in their way while they were pursuing a target and it caused a meteor swarm to land on them and kill them but the wonder being immune to magic just waddled out of it unphased
...See now I remember that story too.
But I swear I know these CREATURES from a *much* more recent release than the ones listed in the video too.
@@Pyreperhaps you read it in some third party content that added sorcerers as possible trapped objectives?idk I'm adding it to my world just bc of how funny that sounds
Anti magic field does not protect you against meteor swarm if its summoned out of the field and falls on you. So that story souns wrong or hombrewed stuff
@@feanor585 I'm pretty sure it's cannon but I don't recall if the wonder survived now that I think back
IDK about that story but the FR wiki references Psionic Races and Classes (2007 original) confirming the wild magic surge that functions like a wand of wonder - and that the Alkada becomes vulnerable to magic for a brief moment (1 round?) after using it.
Wingless Wonder implies that a Winged Wonder exists out there somewhere.
No, just that it is a wonder that has no wings.
And it overpowered
That's just birds though they are wonderful
Dragons?
@chickensky1121 not all dragons have wings :o
Here's an idea:
Replace the beholder's disintegration ray with this transformation. If one of the party gets transformed they they should suddenly realize that the weird things they saw bumbling around before they reached the beholder's lair were probably adventurers that the beholder defeated… do they feel guilty now for killing them on sight? Do they go back to find and release them? Could be an interesting remedy for murder hobos.
Hm... A intresting counter indeed. He'll if the entire party gets decked have a friendlyer mage who once a week can arive and just grabs the party takes them to hos tower and undoes the curse then asks them if they intended to attack the beholder. If no ones to crazy
That is a very unfortunate alternate name to have in the 21st century 😆😆
There's no way dad didn't realize how that sounds
Yeah, I would've pronounced it "al-KAH-duh", or maybe put emphasis on the first syllable for "AL-kah-duh", just to make it more distinctly...not what we're thinking when we hear that. >_>;
This monster causes psychic damage against millennials
I'm sorry, I'm not getting the reference...
@@RipOffProductionsLLC What is the name of the group that claimed responsibility for the events that lead to the Patriot Act?
I can imagine an adorable duo: a wingless wonder and and flump traveling together....
3:41 "The babies will follow their parents until they are large enough to fend for themselves" I don't think these creatures ever get large enough to 'fend for themselves' 💀(Most of their defenses are passive)
Usually just being poisonous is enough for any animal who is not inmmune to poison in this case to not eat you
The wingless wonder design feels straight out of a Dr. Suss book. I can see an area of the Feywild just full of the buggers and ruled by an all powerful Cat in a Hat character.
SUS?
@@AegisGaming99I'll consume your bones
lol@@ButterToastPotado
They stopped printing it because they called it Alkada in the 80's, and then that name became quite unfashionable in the early 2000's
Seems like it would have been simple enough to just change that in the next edition and any reprintings.
They also explode when they die. Maybe Ed knew something back then nobody else did
An exploding Alkada monster with a negative association to flying? Say it ain't so
Sounds like a really fitting negative effect for a wild mage sorcerer with an extended roll table.
Okay, so you're going into battle against a Lich. So you 'tame' a Wingless Wonder, put it in a baby harness, and have the fighter carry it around. EZ fight!
Except all his magical Buffs are gone.
@@dubuyajay9964 The lich's or the fighter's?
@@danielgehring7437 The Fighter's Magical Gear and other enchantments.
@@dubuyajay9964 Right, sorry, I was overly sarcastic there. The point was, whatever debuffs the warrior has, would also debuff the lich.
Fighter? Nah. Totem Barbarian dedicated to protecting the innocent animals of the world. He doesn't know what kind of animal this is, but he's still gonna protect it!
I thought of something, what if the Hand and Eye of Vecna was eaten by a wingless wonder
To quote Scott Lang's daughter "it's so ugly! I love it!!"
I remember hearing about the Wingless Wonder on AJ Picketts channel, such a weird creature that screams D&D and is crime that it hasn’t come to 5e.
Behold! A featherless biped! Totally a variant human.
I see no broad, flat nails.
Ed literally looks like someone cosplaying as a DM/Wizard but it's just how he looks 😂
A national treasure for sure
Finally, something I ported to 5e before Dungeon Dad! Can't wait to compare
I can totally see a barbarian using one of these guys as improvised anti magic grenade
A video focusing on the Slaad lords (Rennbuu, Ygorl, Wartle etc) would be interesting since WotC seems to have completely ignored limbo. There really isn't much in 5e concerning the plane of chaos apart from some lesser slaad and a spawning stone
Everyone gangsta until the wizard whips out their scroll of Thaelur’s Wonder.
I am so totally using this in my new D&D campaign... _giggles maniacally_
My god.
Between this and Nothics people are just READY to take magic from wizards and chuck them into body horror experiences. None of the other classes gettin' bullied like this lol.
Also though imagine the detect thoughts experience.
It's the Wizard's own fault. STOP MAKING SPELLS THAT MAKE ALL OTHER CLASSES REDUNDANT YOU BEARDED JERKS!
No the martials get bullied. It's called rust monster and the fay. Sadly it's hard to bully a monk. So they tend to get away.
@@lechking941 Lol didn’t say none of the other classes get bullied at all. Cases where the actual character is singled out by class and transformed by being subjected to body horror seems pretty unique to wizards and is on a different level of extreme. Wizards can also be targeted by the fey, so not exclusive to martials. Rust monsters take weapons but the characters themselves are still in-tact and sane (barring warforged).
The only other class that lends itself to that all-consuming curiosity and thirst for What Man Was Not Meant to Know is the Warlock, which comes pre-packaged with negative implications.
These monsters simply add the consequences of hubris.
I noticed one of the videos you watched to the end while you were showcasing Greenwood's channel was "does the forgotten realm have toilets" and I must say I'm left with more questions than answers.
I'd suggest the inferno spider. Found its 3rd edition stats the other day and it looks really cool.
Inferno Spider? Wild guess, but is it from the plane of fire?
@@umbreonmaster8921 You would be correct in that guess.
All i want for christmas is nightmare dragon video
I would love to hear your take on the carbuncle (AD&D Fiend Folio).
I think my Paladin or Barbarian characters would love to have 1 of these things as a Pet/Companion!
2:01
this is the best part ever in this entire video
Imagine a podcast with Dungeon Dad and Ed Greenwood. I'd tune in every episode
I am in the midst if making a campaign setting and one settlement I was picturing would be based on healing. I can so see one healer and wizard having a paddock of these guys, trying to keep them intellectually stimulated so they don't go mad while trying to find a means to change them back. In this case, a special relic prevents the curse from being removed until it is destroyed.
I would love to see what you could do with the AD&D monsters that were a slight possibility for those attempting to achieve lichdom, surviving the process, but not succeeding in actually becoming liches - the arch-shadow, and their evolved form, the demi-shade. Keep up the great work!
I love how the guy that created so much of the world we love and enjoy... is literally a wizard!
Wow, the wingless wonder. . . I haven't thought about that creature in probably 20 years
Thank you, You’ve given Strahd the PERFECT places to hide the Sun Sword and the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind.
I’m so happy you covered this little goober!! I’ve been hoping it’d get more popular throughout time, but people can’t see the brilliance behind it.
Goober alert! Its really a straight up GOOOOBER
It reminds me of the mascot from the rival school in Clone High
The wingless wonder could potential communicate through writing or sign languages. This said it is a cute and funny little critter.
Imagining increasingly exasperated Wizard dealing with a party where nobody seems to know how to read "Please cast dispel magic or lift curse on me."
@brettwood1351 If there was an additional magical effect on the wingless wonder that prevents communication then the statement of it can't communicate would have merit however simply stating as a fact that they can't from the start is a flaw in the lore and function of the creature.
On a side note There is a particularly funny and mostly harmless very old creature that is halfway between a sea urchin or sea anemone that is buoyant in the air or water or anything else. This creature is basically harmless because the only way that it can hurt you is for you to take an action that triggers an attack of opertunity while in its threatening range of five feet or bumbling directly into it. They are filter feeders that can't attack any other way and they can't cause lethal damage under any circumstances. They have 1d4 +1 hp and minimum ability scores for all stats while also being unable to move under their own actions. They have an ability that gives Unlimited attacks of opertunites and another that give them a chance to split/ reproduce every turn and that is everything. There CR rating is 1/16 and their Hp is always restored when they split. They don't give experience but every time you kill one there is a chance that you will be able to harvest their tentacles for use in a non-magical tempary weapon modification that gives it a +1 to non-lethal damage and a to paralyze whatever you hit. Yes they can paralyze you while they are alive but they really need to hit you a lot to do that.
I know its not from DND but id love to see what you would do with Omnath from Magic the Gathering
I remember seeing AJ Pickett's video covering this thing, and thinking that it'd be a perfect subject for this channel; a wandering, fuzzy, anemone-thing that just defies all logic, and yet still, somehow, survives, and even thrives, in the peasant-chomping, adventurer-stomping wilds of the Forgotten Realms. Nice!
Every time i see you cover something that sounds simple or lame i am always surprised at how insanely horrific or cool it ends up being. Thank you so much for doing what you do!
thats a good dog
10/10 weird looking monster
Just imagine how pissed off could be *sentient* artifacts, that was trapped inside them 🤣🤣🤣
I immediately thought of the Wand of Orcus.
How about a lich's phylactery inside a Wingless Wonder?
Those things are probobly the weirdest thing I have ever seen in D&D, and frankly I love them.
Thank you for conunually giving me creatures to use in my ongoing campaign, my party is currently looking for the eye of vecna, so is vecna, but now I have a concrete reason why it's never been found, a good dragon ate it and had someone turn him into this hilarious creature, thank you
Bro the way you say alkada is gonna get you on a watch list- I heard that and you made my head snap up to the video so fast
The CIA has already let me know that monster of the week is in their radar
@@DungeonDad Good, they need a chill lore break every once in a while lol. (But also thank you for these, you're very cool)
The magic macguffen has been fed to a wingless wonder… and the wingless wonder has been put in an enclosure with 10s or even 100s of other wingless wonders. The wingless wonders are all incredibly adorable. Good luck retrieving it.
You routinely release content that I immediately turn around to use. I love your stuff. Are rainbow giants a thing? Thank you.
Unfortunately not, no.
@@KevinVideo I guess I’ll just make it up. I’m trying to write in a character who is part storm giant part sun giant all hippy. Maybe real good at frisbee golf and music festivals.
Cute fella, honestly didn't know they exist, thanks for enlightening me man. Say, would you ever take a look at the long forgotten linnorms? I think an episode on them would be very interesting.
Gonna keep asking for Baelnorn
>Catch and befriend several wingless wonder
>tie them to your armor and shield
Congratulations: you have made some op armor. Not only dose it despell magic, but offers protection against bite attacks. Also when one dies, because you didn’t kill it but the guy trying to kill you killed it, it will Hurt the other guy. The only real counter is remove curse but even then, but even then that wouldn’t work unless one of the wonders is a trapped wizard.
Unless your GM rules that trapping them against their will counts as harming them.
👀 What a cute little dude...it kind of gives me 80s Trolls vibes 😅
I think it could be really interesting to have different wonders have different auras, or even have a wonder's aura change depending on its mood or the items it eats. I'm thinking it projects an aura that's somehow the negation of what's inside it or what it's made of (e.g. default is anti-magic since it's a transformed wizard). Like you said, there's just so much potential, as with most creatures that actively avoid combat.
Thanks, DD! See you tomorrow at PAX! 👏🏽
Like a barbarian that's turned into a wingless wonder perpetually emits calm emotions?
@@thewanderers97 Yeah, that's pretty much exactly what I was thinking!
love this one
I remember asking for this one was truly surprised to see it happen so soon
Dad is dropping these vids so fast that I’m not getting notifications in time! (Plz do Thoul)
I really like the idea of having each of these guys be absolutely and completely invulnerable to absolutely everything expect for one specific object or effect for each one. That one might die by getting wacked upside the head with book while that one over there can't swim
If a wingless wonder can be born, then what happens when you try to "cure" one that was never cursed in the first place. Does it become a person? Does it stay the same? Does it die? I can imagine a wizard that has a "pet" wingless wondering that's actually their child.
I’d imagine that’s like having a toddler for their entire life.
“REBECCA! NO! GIVE ME THAT! SPIT IT OUT! SPIT IT-YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE YOURSELF SICK!”
If you or a loved one has been transformed into a Wingless Wonder you may be entitled to compensation
It's like a land jellyfish. Min-max for passive defense, NO TOUCH, roam around harmlessly
Here's Ed Greenwood's channel link since DD forgot it: www.youtube.com/@edgreenwoodofficial
al quaida, oh my bad - Alkaeda is a crazy name
Hear me out. A specialist mage-hunter who sticks one of these in a backpack to provide them an anti-magic field when taking down powerful mages, Luke and Yoda style.
It can also carry those potentially cursed and/or powerful items that the hunter has to transport.
And then he turned himself into a Wingless Wonder, funniest shit I've ever seen.
Dude, the art for the Crypt Chanter just makes me think of The Mare of my Night by Tyr
Awesome video man!
One (of the many) things I love about your channel is that you cover obscure creatures that I've never heard of before. Considering I've been playing since the 1E days that's pretty impressive!
Thanks again for all your hard work, it really shows through in the quality of the final product 👍👍
Always love learning about these forgotten gems, and it's a pleasure being able to bring them to life! Thanks again man!
This is insane in one of the best ways possible. Playing something this goofy straight is the kind of thing that makes role playing games so fun.
Dude, that Mario Paint music hit me right in the nostalgia!
Befriend one and put it in your backpack like yoda, instant magic defense (provided you and your team have no magic yourselves)
Also, if you change a wizard back who ate a powerful magic item what happens? Imagine the wizard goes to thank the party but violently throws up a doomsday device
Aw man, you know what would be _fucked up?_
If Wingless Wonders were _immune to the False Hydra’s song._
Seems like a good creature for a kids dnd game to hook in
Love Ed's channel. Gives in-depth information from the creates perspective.
I just recently used the wingless wonder in my campaign. The players need to build a spelljammer. I had a hobgoblin wizard turned into a wingless wonder that they freed to give them information about wildspace. I also did new artwork because I wanted something that looked like it could be dangerous. My drawing allows you to see the mouth at the top of the body.
I... I love this. I love this goofy little guy who may or may not be a 100% evil insane wizard.
I can see a scenario at the start of a campaign where the players meet another player who'd been turned into a Alkada long ago, they undo the transformation and they join the party. Maybe the Alkada would try to communicate via Charades leading to some funny moments as they try to figure out what its trying to say.
god I wanna play a campain where the entire story is just building a garden for villians who I've turned into wonders the point of dungons isn't for necessarily loot but unique flowers, gems, and decorations
Tbh the eating magic items and then those items becoming invisible to detection sounds like toji’s worm
Idea for use the monster: a rouge that trained the wingle wonder to swallow and puke specific items. So can be used as comical duo but really good thief that breaks into a bank full of magic defense. Or can be the opposite. A ruthless thief that used the wingle as the minion to hit when something goes wrong.
Mr greenwood was smoking something strange and i want it
Getting extreme late 70's indie comic vibes from everything about this thing, which considering when it was first published makes 100% sense
I have been really curious about the absolute biggest and smallest monsters in dnd history
While I think it's a nice touch that transformed WWs don't do the psychic death screech, I would home brew that Fly acts as Dispel Magic and Featherfall is equivalent to Remove Curse. There's just some poetry in that.
Great video 👍🏻 👍🏻
Quite literally a legally distinct version of the fleshy blob thing from the end of "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream".
I feel like the wingless wonder has exactly 1 braincells that it rarely uses.
Legend Lore is your best friend when encountering this monster. I would guess that most wizards singled out for transformation into Wingless Wonders would be legendary enough for Legend Lore to apply to them.
The alternate name just ripped my mind out of minecraft and I had to double check what I had just heard
Wasn't expecting a viva piñata reference, one of my favorite games, but it's nice to hear. Of course, I wasn't expecting an antimagic doofus to be an official monster but here we are. Great work as always, this monster will make a fine addition to my bestiary!
12:24 Decrepit Merlin got me completely by surprise :D
the prist uses channel divinity to find the magic thingy, fail by 1(15 instead of 14 for a exsample) they faintly hear Howling laghter seamingly from everywhere
1:02 That is by far the most unfortunate name for a Dnd creature I have ever heard. No wonder you call it by its moniker instead of its actual name.