Good lord, knowing what I do about biology, any number of animals fit the bill. To keep it SFW, I'll just say probably an ant. I have absolutely no idea how a creature born of a hive mind would react to suddenly being an individual.
ants don't have "hive minds" the same way as Unity from Rick and Morty, most actual biologist prefer the term "hive intelligence." while the colony is indeed able to get up to much smarter shennanigans than a lone individual ant could, the same could be said of humans: do *you* know how to build a smartphone? speaking as an actual biology major, the most notable result of awakening a hive of ants would be the effect it had on their extremely warlike tendencies. they would doubtlessly still be extremly warlike, but the fact they are now able to comprehend diplomacy (assuming there are other awakened hives nearby) would be a tremendous boon
@@benthomason3307 ...I mean I'm an IT guy so yes to the smartphone thing, but yeah I get what you mean. I still have to imagine it'd be fairly jarring. Imagine living in New York all your life, suddenly you're in the backwoods of Montana with nobody to rely on.
so in my homebrew world, I've got a bar/grill where the head chef is a Psionic/Awakened Raven.. who when he uses his telepathy speaks like Gordon Ramsie. He has all the skills of a master chef and due to his telekinetic powers he can prove he's got the skills to back up his position. He may be a master chef but he's still a Raven. piss him off enough and every raven in/around the city will know who you are and hate you on site, plus since he's a telepath he can even get the city itself against you.
Reminds me of the Albino Awakened Moose from the Icewind Dale campaign who attacked and killed hunters. Granted he was being influenced by an evil druid that worshipped the Frost Maiden. But an awakened apex predator or territorial herbivore/omnivore makes a great low level villain.
Once made an old high-level lizardfolk beast master ranger (Yes I love monstrous humanoid races and rangers, they are cool.) for a one-shot whose animal companion was forcefully given sentience by the party druid. She was a T-Rex to be exact. The druid's player apparently hated the concept of 'beast masters' and saw the whole animal companion concept as 'animal cruelty'. Quetza, the t-rex, was treated well, and when she was not munching on monsters or enemy humanoids she spent most of her days sleeping in the sun next to Dervex, my lizardfolk. She was more like a giant lazy cat than a dangerous ancient apex predator. When the druid awakened Quetza and tried to convince her she was free of Dervex's 'slavery' and could leave for the open wild. Quetza responded by doing the following. 1: She spoke. "You would call the care, love, and companionship that the person who has essentially been my father has shown me since my hatching slavery? He's been there for me through thick and thin, and I for him. We have fought, bled, cried, suffered, laughed, survived, hunted, and lived together for decades. I might have been ignorant and unknowing of these concepts of morality and self-awareness you have forced upon me. But in you, I cannot help but see true delusion and a malicious willingness to act for your own gratification while ignoring the feelings and opinions of others. Forcing your views upon them like a diseased mutt trying to spread its viral pathogen. You are no savior, you are a deluded tyrant." 2: And then she bit the druid, munched on them until they dropped to 0 HP, and spat them out. None of this was my doing by the way. The GM apparently made a personality for Quetza based on how she behaved through my rping and even made a personality test app to get some ideas. And apparently, she was a 'High Intellectual' with a 'Spiteful Temper' who 'Enjoyed Debates And Hated Hypocrites'. The druid player left the one shot at that, unwilling to accept that the 'enslaved' dinosaur would view the druid as anything but a morally correct savior. It felt awkward to finish the one shot after that since we just lost our only healer and we had not even gotten to the temple we were meant to reach.
The crow suffering from existential crisis gave me an idea. The awakened crow follows the druid as an apprentice to learn the ways of the druid until they themselves can cast awaken. Now burdened with terrible purpose it leaves to awaken his brothers, and teach them the ways.
Before even watching: Rabbits would simultaneously get the absolute most out of being Awakened and absolutely _hate_ it. Rabbits are surprisingly cunning, but suddenly gaining human-levels of INT would mean they're suddenly outmaneuvering even most humans because most humans don't expect a rabbit to fight back like they're in the Viet Cong. _Meanwhile_ rabbits are as low down the food chain as it's possible to get without the ability to photosynthesize, and already they're pretty well aware that everything's out to get them. Now imagine the bunny suddenly has the mental clarity to develop a personal philosophy. That rabbit has learned how to truly _despair._ So here's the play: Make a rabbit with a memorable look. Druid casts Awaken. Rabbit goes absolutely tharn (go read Watership Down if that word isn't familiar to you. Or to develop the character. Or just in general, it's a really good book.) Your goal is to make the druid think that, despite costing a bunch of money, the spell failed (if he gets mad and attacks the rabbit, all the better, just have the rabbit bolt in the opposite direction.) Bring the rabbit back later. Oh sure, that rabbit's helping the party, but make that rabbit constantly come up with just the absolute _darkest, saddest_ shit you can think of with just a completely straight face, and also make sure that bunny is _constantly_ roasting the druid. That bunny needs to hold a _grudge._ Congratulations on your super-memorable new NPC: The Adorable Fluffy Depression Bunny.
I have a feeling the cat of a rich noble might welcome being awakened. They'd just keep doing their cat thing, but at a more human level. And it can go in so many directions depending on the cat. One might become a renowned military strategist, deploying a "pouncing" strategy on the battlefield. Another might become a famous chef, originating from a newfound desire to create the perfect pate. Or just a simple cat, that can now talk everyone's ears off.
A fruitfly since they tend to live only for 24 hours or so, most insects. A plasmoid player put a fish into him and I saved it and spoke with animals with it and my dm had it basically have an existential crisis and scream at horror of being told life and death concepts
Honey Badger. They hate everything. Sentience would simply allow them to come up with a REASON to hate everything. Random violence would suddnely become very directed, calculated violence.
It’s not necessarily hate though. They’re smart. They ENJOY messing with other animals. They like to figure things out, get the better of problems. In captivity, they plot elaborate escapes just to find their keepers and brag of their accomplishments. Total punks lol Awaken a honey badger, they’ll set their sights on world domination
3:19 Terry Pratchett's *The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents* explores this well. He does a good job in general writing distinct non-human people convincingly, and this instance of it won him a Carnegie medal.
I'm reminded of the discworld book the amazing Maurice and his educated rodents. They had a lot of these similar issues. Maurice as a cat no longer cares to hang around with other cats, but he is fine with humans. The rats are trying to create their own society, they are bothered quite a bit about normal rats, and needless to say they don't get along well with most humans
@@averycheesypotato yes, but the books with Angua and the rest of the werewolves have them as being a separate species. Even her brother who's stuck in wolf form got a career as a sheepdog. Even carrots talking hound seemed happy with his life. I can't think of any that genuinely had issues with sapience
Hmm. While I can agree that personality would be unique to the animal and there would be the occasional instance of anger and such, I feel like around ~1/2 of the options here are... "bad faith" arguments. When I imagine how "Awaken" works, I view it as making the target sentient, but they keep their own creature's mindset, and it reflects the base creature's biology. Consider this: in Mass Effect 2, Legion says: "No two species are identical. All must be judged on their own merits. Treating every species like one's own is racist - even benign anthropomorphism." A lot of their arguments for hating the Druid is based on giving a human-style mindset to the awakened creature, rather than granting that creature its *own* species-unique mindset. That's not to say personality wouldn't be unique, or wouldn't override this. Indeed, I imagine that personality would range as greatly for them in breadth and depth as human personalities can be, just that how it would work would be like a venn diagram - one circle "human mindset", one circle "awakened species mindset". The awakened species circle would overlap more or less with the human one depending on what species it was and how close they are to humans. A tree would (likely or more often) be placid and calm, and from a human perspective, "uncaring" of its new sapience. (I imagine it would likely have such a different thought process to a human that it would be difficult to truly describe, but being "slow" and "considering" would make sense in general, but it then comes across as uncaring of its newfound sapience to a human, because it wouldn't really change what it was doing - [tolkein quote] eat Earth, did deep, drink water [end tolkien quote] , and enjoy the sunlight). It could be angered and such, like from parasites, threats of fire, animals carving it, etc, but for the most part the tree would be thinking "tree things". The idea of a tree that hates a druid for making it sapient because it can't enjoy being a tree, while a fun idea, shouldn't apply normally. Similarly, a snail that is constantly frustrated by how slow it is, while an interesting concept, wouldn't really happen - instead, it would think in ways where it is takes time to get there, experiencing reality through its own unique lens. Consider the stereotypical "turtle monk" that is very slow and patient, yet is capable of quick thought. It's not really having "slow thoughts" so much as it takes time to fully go though its thoughts, thinking things through, enjoying the moment, so on. Of course, that is only one interpretation of how it's mindset could end up. How about the dog being awakened? Sure, it could examine its memories and view every moment not spent time with it was an intentional snub by its partner, but I think it far more likely that it would suddenly gain an epiphany. The owner doesn't leave almost every day for hours for no purpose - he leaves to go to work to gain money and support his family. The teen didn't stop playing with him just because it wanted to hurt his feelings, rather, the teen was sapient and playing with the dog was not a stimulating activity for the teen after a while - it's not like the teen never plays with him. The child doesn't ignore the dog because he doesn't like the dog. He does it because he has to do homework. Besides, requiring that the human be beholden to the non-sapient dog's whims at all times would make the dog the owner and the human the pet at best. Merely another form of slavery at worst. (Seriously, whoever made that argument, how do you think most people treat their pets? People *love* their pets as part of their family, FFS. Granted, there are plenty of A-holes who do not and really should be put in jail, but that's another talk.) (side note: for all those creatures who have been given human mindsets, perhaps an incorrectly cast "awaken" could grant sapience in such a way, leading to a creature with an innapropriate mindset for it's body, thus the eternal angsty suffering some people want) Creatures that have short lives would probably have a similar range of reactions as humans do to the longer lived races - granted, most awakened creatures wouldn't have their own society of people of the same species and sapience, so probably worse (if a social species). But that is an interesting idea for worldbuilding. Given how magical the setting is, and how old the world is, I can easily imagine that over time, druids (or other magics, gods, demigods, magical events, or who-knows-what) awakened animals. Eventually a stable breeding population could occur, and **poof**, new sapient species. As time goes on, their number remains small (both quantity of creatures and count of different awakened creature species), but the older and more magical a setting is, the more "common" they become. If the amount of such things is slightly lower, you get "awakened creature societies" made of different social creatures coming together who didn't want to be part of the party, or old druid died, or what have you. Some categories of animals and my own remarks: - eusocial or hive species probably wouldn't like it, their mindset needing the existence of a proper queen/king - unless the queen/king *and* their retinue all were awakened (hey, I don't know if there are *no* eusocial "kings", especially if we allow fantasy creatures) - Social creatures could be okay or could hate it depending on circumstances (like if they found "pack" in the adventuring party, or if a society that accepted their kind existed, they could be okay. Meanwhile, if they're alone in a cruel world, well...) - antisocial species are more difficult to generalize, but I can imagine the easiest go-to would be "indifference to their creator, annoyance at being bossed around" - Colony creatures and Zooids, I don't have enough background knowledge on to really get a feel on how I'd play them. - Sessile creatures... well, the 5e spell grants movement to plant "limbs, roots, vines, creepers, and so forth", so I would logically extend that for these as well.
Not related to the topic but a story I had to share. Last weekend, I was Dm for dnd session with my party of 4, long story short, the group was about to fight a horde of zombies to defend a small village. As I was describing the scene and getting the players ready for battle, one of the party members (our fighter) receives a phone call from his girlfriend, and we had to put the game on pause. The rest of us sat around for little talking, getting up to stretch and what not, and then our cat decided to hop onto the chair where my friend was sitting. My partner jokingly said "haha, the cat is playing for our friend now". I looked seriously at the cat and said "kiba! (Cats name) the horde of undead start scrambling towards you, snarling and growling as the edge closer to you, what do you do?" We all chuckle for a few seconds, and then I decide to place a D20 in front of the cats feet. Shortly after, the cat knocks the dice onto the floor next to my feet, I look down and I kid you not, Nat fucking 20! We all went into an uproar, and sarcastically stated "the cat is our new fighter!" Best part about this story, this was the only nat 20 for the night...from the cat 😂
Oh Lord. This just made me realize that when the party I'm apart of eventually gets the chance to use magic, the Eccentric Nobleman Dorian would cause problems if he were to get the spell Awaken. Most likely casting it in the middle of the town under our control, the party is a noble house lead by Lady Piscia who is related to Dorian's wife, while its night. Or he just uses the spell in the middle of a crowd during the day... (Long story short, King of the gods ruled anyone who protects a witch or is one will be executed. Dorian tried to save one's life but got whipped for almost getting us executed. And there's a high chance he didn't learn his lesson due to how eccentric/mad he is.) Anyway, the chaos which would happen from the spell being used would be due to how the townspeople will be panicking while their pets and other animals that were affected would having an existential crisis upon becoming sentient and getting overwhelmed with their new found understanding of so many things.
I like the idea of awakening a pet... only to accidentally awaken a parasite within the pet. After the pet gets a bit too aggressive one time and dies, the parasite slinks away, and slowly works his way up through animals/people until finally becoming a BBEG. When asked "why?", all they can say is "i learned it from you."
Rabbits. Rabbits are prey animals that can die from the stress a sudden shock can put on their hearts. That's right, you can *scare a rabbit to death.* Now give that poor animal the cognitive power to understand taxes, war, relationships and existentialism. ... Yeah that's not gonna be a happy bunny.
there was an interesting video by isaac arthur about genetical uplifting of animals to human level intelligence. but in that case, they get born that way. still, a sentient and sapient cow would have quite weird vibes for us. much like that animal from the restaurant at the end of the universe, that offers itself for food, because it is genetically engineered to do so.
Blastomycosis. It's a microscopic fungus which lives primarily in soil. However, it's spores can reside in humans (and humanoids) with weakened immune response. Let's say your druid rolls a nat 1 and accidentally awakens a patch of soil containing Blastomycosis. He carries the talking soil around with him as a curiosity. After the spell expires, the fungus explains the potential open real estate to the colony. They actively seek to colonize humanoids and become a plague using the residual magic. Extra Bonus points if you can turn this into the species origins for Myconids.
I'd imagine that most if not all naturally intelligent animals like elephants, parrots, corvids, apes and monkeys would be rather upset about being charmed for the same reasons as a human.
basically any social creature wold have a high chance of being unimpressed by their awakening, because we can assume that the only thing that has changed is degree to which they can comprehend reality and nothing else so solitary animals would be annoyed they are tied to some guy for a while, before leaving to do their own thing, while social animals would be stuck with the person that awakened them due to aforementioned loneliness
I'm reminded of something from Dimension 20. I think the campaign was called "Never After" or something like that. Basically, the players came across the mice from Cinderella, who were all traumatized from their experience being temporarily turned into humans. Along with a bucket.
This is not exactly the same thing as my idea didn't hate being awakened but I had this idea for a weird player character. She was an awakened crocodile. She ate the wizard that awakened her after refusing an order to commit horrific evil acts on innocents. After she ate him she chilled in the swamp until some adventurers came by needing help navigating that swamp. She could help them find the underwater entrance to a dungeon or also with combat once inside. That was supposed to be her entrance into the game anyways. I never made this character but maybe one day.
Sunfish. Seriously, the sunfish shouldn't exist. It is the fish that natural selection forgot, that survives only because it's too derp to die. If you Awaken them, they're going to realise that. Of course, because it's a goddamn sunfish, there's not much it can do to get revenge on the awakener (or the gods that made them that way). Then again, it's a sunfish- why would anyone want to awaken it in the first place? (other than a sense of sadistic schadenfreude as it undergoes an existential crisis realising just how cruddy it is)
I've got an idea for a hilarious "joke" ranger character that's been bouncing around in my head for a while based around a video game character I remembered seeing when I was younger, but I couldn't think of a good race for him. I was originally thinking of having him be a Satyr, but after watching this video, I think it would be better for him to be an awakened animal that was slightly anthropomorphized. He's a deer who watched his girlfriend get shot and killed by human hunter/rangers, and so has made it a personal quest to find those responsible and kill them and lay his girlfriend's corpse to rest, while bagging as many "trophies" (i.e. disrespectful hunters) as he can. His name? Bambo. John Bambo. Deer Avenger. (Yes, he's supposed to be based on the game of the same name. lol)
I don't know whether this would be good or bad, but the mega fungus that are hundreds or thousands of acres but still strictly speaking one creature. What would it be like if that was awakened?
I think more “selfish” animals would enjoy making use of their newfound awareness- ie cats & weasels would be pleased with their hunting prowess and find ways to improve. “Selfless” animals would suffer more for the isolation & lack of purpose. Eusocial animals could become increasingly frustrated that they are just one part of a whole that remains unaware. Unable to affect change or warn of risks, they would discover “futility” -a horrible concept
Dropping a Like just because of how damn clean the read of all the weird bug or parasite names where. I would stumble for hours trying to read all that.
I don't think a Wolverine or Honey Badger would care wether it's uplifted or not. once the charm wears off, noone would be safe from it's barbarian styled rampage.
Look into David Brin's Uplift Saga - the first two books are sundiver and star tide rising. I know there's at least one more but I cannot remember the name offhand
This video came at the perfect time. My players just arrived in an awakened forest So far, they've only talked with an eagle, but they know most if not all other animals in the forest are sentient. They've also hopefully picked up on the clues I gave them that they are surrounded 🙃
Animals “awakening” and resenting it is a great concept, and it was explored fantastically in “Fifteen Dogs” by Andre Alexis. I’d strongly recommend this read. But I will warn you; as with all books about dogs, there are dog deaths. In this case, 15 of them.
There's something I just thought of. What if a pc was an awakened animal (or something) that just so happened to travel with the one who awakened it but was also (in some way) controlling the one who awakened them, if nobody else in the party had such a character then it could lead to a very interesting plot in the story
Not DND, but a super hero game I play has an awakened cephalopod who was the result of his owner's co-researchers dumping experimental neurotropics into his tank. He's a "kill all humans" type villain who just wants to be just an octopus again
Not exactly the same thing, but adjacently related, I have been working on a D&D campaign setting on and off for a while where its Earth several thousand years after an apocalyptic world nuclear holocaust. All of the monsters from the Monsters Manual are the results of mutations caused by radiation exposure and hundreds of generations of evolution. Because in older editions of D&D, orcs were illustrated as looking a lot like mutant pig people (the 1983 Dungeons and Dragons cartoon is an excellent example), I made my version of orcs having evolved from pigs. I even changed the spelling of orc (to ork), which is derived from the word pork. The reason why orks are so hateful towards other humanoid species, (especially humans, dwarves, elves, and the like) is because when they started mutating into sentient humanoids, the first thing to become more advanced was their intellect. Pigs became smarter and smarter, first becoming the equivalent of primates, and eventually Homo Sapiens. But they were still four legged creatures, which could only grunt and squeal. So they continued to be slaughtered and eaten by the other humanoids who were raising them as food. It wasn't until after they had gained sentience that their bodies began to change in order to catch up. Like their intelligence, the difference was subtle at first. The cloven hooves of their forelegs began to develop the ability to grab items clumsily, about the equivalent to the grasping capability of a raccoon. Several generations later, their forehooves were more like the hands of certain apes, like chimpanzees. Eventually, their forehooves became the equivalent of human hands, only cloven with two fingers and an opposable thumb. It was when this became the standard that the orks revolted and killed those who raised them to be slaughtered as meat. Now, to the modern day ork, men and their demihuman allies are the boogeymen that they tell their children about to get them to behave. Orks give them no quarter, show them no mercy, because they truly believe that the other (typically good) races will cook them and eat them. They have been told this by their parents, who were told by their parents, who were told by their parents, all the way back to before The Great Uprising.
Imagine awakening a pack of wolves but the awakening doesn't pass on to the next generation, now you have a pack of fairly intelligent wolves who hate you and will hunt you down to rip you to shreds, or demand you awaken their young. Also would dispel magic wash away an awakened creature's intelligence?
@@williamstokes4282 True Polymorph specifically states that "If you concentrate on this spell for the full duration, the spell lasts until it is dispelled." Awaken does not.
@@itap8880 I forgot that it got errata, it used to read "The Transformation becomes Permeant" and I always read that as the transformation and not the spell.
Any animal awakened by a vivisectionist. I can't believe they weren't mentioned in the video. For those of you not familiar with pathfinder, vivisectionist is an architype of the alchemist class that specializes in transmuting living things. They get an ability called torturous transformation which is basically a alchemically enhanced surgery that functions as one of three spells: anthropomorphic animal, awaken animal, or baleful polymorph. (That's right. There's a pathfinder architype that exists solely to turn people into furrys) Also, since it's an alchemical transmutation, it's effectively permanent and irreversible. It can't be reversed by magic, and there isn't anything in the rule books about transmuting an animal into a humanoid (that I know of. it's been a few years since I've actually played any d&d) I could just imagine an awakened animal becoming a vivisectionist to seek revenge. What better way to get back at the druids that awakened them than by turning them into animals themselves?
I think the least appreciative animal would be the snake. It has all this intelligence but they're so little it can do with no hands. I would hope he would awaken them in Pairs, male/female or they could be awful lonely
I always thought it'd be fun to have an awakened creature that could pass on their awakened status...that being said an awakened wolverine sounds fantastically useful
I'd hazard to say anything in or around the rodent family or resemble them would likely find awakening is hell. These are prey creatures who already naturally understood that but now intellectually know it as well. I'm sure knowing that as a mouse or rat that almost everything is looking to ether kill you out of spite or for food is particularly comforting. Then we have animals like possums where nature had installed a forced shutdown on and higher intelligence would likely run that feature into overdrive.
What if it was used on a whole colony of termites or ants? Imagine the realization that your species has been fighting a relentless, pitiless, grim and bloody war with each other and other similar species for millions of years, which can never end, and can never be won. Such a thought could immediately drive an entire colony to madness. What would they do? Give up? Try to escape? Infest ancient ruins and build the greatest insect army the world has ever seen to scour the planet of all rival life?
A sea cucumber, a male lantern fish, and possibly some starfish. Why? ... Biology. Though it depends if awakening makes them feel pain when the starfish and sea cucumber eject their stomach and when the starfish split off pieces of itself. And let's not talk about Pearlfish!
Imagine a middle aged male dolphin. Dude just wakes up one day being smart enough to know helldivers is a parody, then has to grapple with his memories of his "adventures" he had with his "hunt" buddies
An orangutan, it just knows that at some point, regardless of its desire to do so, it will be typecasted as a librarian. (now let's see how many people know the reference)
I'm amused this started from talking about woodland creatures, and some bio students are flexing their knowledge about insects, deep sea creatures, and parasites.
Imagine a middle aged male dolphin. Dude just wakes up one day being smart enough to know helldivers is a parody, then has to grapple with his memories of his "adventures" he had with his "hunt" buddies
Imagine a middle aged male dolphin. Dude just wakes up one day being smart enough to know helldivers is a parody, then has to grapple with his memories of his "adventures" he had with his "hunt" buddies
Good lord, knowing what I do about biology, any number of animals fit the bill. To keep it SFW, I'll just say probably an ant. I have absolutely no idea how a creature born of a hive mind would react to suddenly being an individual.
ants don't have "hive minds" the same way as Unity from Rick and Morty, most actual biologist prefer the term "hive intelligence." while the colony is indeed able to get up to much smarter shennanigans than a lone individual ant could, the same could be said of humans: do *you* know how to build a smartphone?
speaking as an actual biology major, the most notable result of awakening a hive of ants would be the effect it had on their extremely warlike tendencies. they would doubtlessly still be extremly warlike, but the fact they are now able to comprehend diplomacy (assuming there are other awakened hives nearby) would be a tremendous boon
@@benthomason3307 ...I mean I'm an IT guy so yes to the smartphone thing, but yeah I get what you mean. I still have to imagine it'd be fairly jarring. Imagine living in New York all your life, suddenly you're in the backwoods of Montana with nobody to rely on.
Animorphs said that an ant would do nothing but scream upon experiencing consciousness for the first time.
Now that I think of it, this is exactly what the Borg went through in Star Trek the Next Generation.
@@mitchnewara3229 Man, that's one series that's constantly on my "to do" list and I just never get around to it...
Parrots. I know they are smart, but imagine the cringe they would have realizing they were only as smart as a 5-year old.
Awakens snail:
The Immortal Snail: You know not what you have done
Lord Theodore Thomas Blackwood
7:38 *faintly from the back row.*
"hey uh, problem? We can't see the slides."
so in my homebrew world, I've got a bar/grill where the head chef is a Psionic/Awakened Raven.. who when he uses his telepathy speaks like Gordon Ramsie. He has all the skills of a master chef and due to his telekinetic powers he can prove he's got the skills to back up his position. He may be a master chef but he's still a Raven. piss him off enough and every raven in/around the city will know who you are and hate you on site, plus since he's a telepath he can even get the city itself against you.
Reminds me of the Albino Awakened Moose from the Icewind Dale campaign who attacked and killed hunters.
Granted he was being influenced by an evil druid that worshipped the Frost Maiden. But an awakened apex predator or territorial herbivore/omnivore makes a great low level villain.
Yeah... I'd rather fight the young green dragon than a fully aware moose.
Give them sidekick level if awakened...
Awakening a queen of any usocial insect would probably be quite the nightmare barring a few species that have the ability to not be purely egg layers.
Once made an old high-level lizardfolk beast master ranger (Yes I love monstrous humanoid races and rangers, they are cool.) for a one-shot whose animal companion was forcefully given sentience by the party druid. She was a T-Rex to be exact.
The druid's player apparently hated the concept of 'beast masters' and saw the whole animal companion concept as 'animal cruelty'.
Quetza, the t-rex, was treated well, and when she was not munching on monsters or enemy humanoids she spent most of her days sleeping in the sun next to Dervex, my lizardfolk. She was more like a giant lazy cat than a dangerous ancient apex predator.
When the druid awakened Quetza and tried to convince her she was free of Dervex's 'slavery' and could leave for the open wild.
Quetza responded by doing the following.
1: She spoke. "You would call the care, love, and companionship that the person who has essentially been my father has shown me since my hatching slavery? He's been there for me through thick and thin, and I for him. We have fought, bled, cried, suffered, laughed, survived, hunted, and lived together for decades. I might have been ignorant and unknowing of these concepts of morality and self-awareness you have forced upon me. But in you, I cannot help but see true delusion and a malicious willingness to act for your own gratification while ignoring the feelings and opinions of others. Forcing your views upon them like a diseased mutt trying to spread its viral pathogen. You are no savior, you are a deluded tyrant."
2: And then she bit the druid, munched on them until they dropped to 0 HP, and spat them out.
None of this was my doing by the way. The GM apparently made a personality for Quetza based on how she behaved through my rping and even made a personality test app to get some ideas. And apparently, she was a 'High Intellectual' with a 'Spiteful Temper' who 'Enjoyed Debates And Hated Hypocrites'.
The druid player left the one shot at that, unwilling to accept that the 'enslaved' dinosaur would view the druid as anything but a morally correct savior. It felt awkward to finish the one shot after that since we just lost our only healer and we had not even gotten to the temple we were meant to reach.
Big oof
Eh, good riddance. A player willing to walk out rather than continue and consider other points of view isn't a good fit for most D&D tables.
The crow suffering from existential crisis gave me an idea. The awakened crow follows the druid as an apprentice to learn the ways of the druid until they themselves can cast awaken. Now burdened with terrible purpose it leaves to awaken his brothers, and teach them the ways.
And that’s how Kanku are born
I like to think that any Ape, if awakened, would grow bitter and resentful that humans are hoarding all the pants.
I can just imagine when stating their anger, some humans would just ask to take the Apes measurements so that they can make them some pants.
They already are.
Pfft, nah. Look at bonobos, they'd think we were weird for not going commando 24/7.
imagine casting awaken on a dog only to have the flea on the dog awaken instead
Before even watching: Rabbits would simultaneously get the absolute most out of being Awakened and absolutely _hate_ it. Rabbits are surprisingly cunning, but suddenly gaining human-levels of INT would mean they're suddenly outmaneuvering even most humans because most humans don't expect a rabbit to fight back like they're in the Viet Cong. _Meanwhile_ rabbits are as low down the food chain as it's possible to get without the ability to photosynthesize, and already they're pretty well aware that everything's out to get them. Now imagine the bunny suddenly has the mental clarity to develop a personal philosophy. That rabbit has learned how to truly _despair._
So here's the play: Make a rabbit with a memorable look. Druid casts Awaken. Rabbit goes absolutely tharn (go read Watership Down if that word isn't familiar to you. Or to develop the character. Or just in general, it's a really good book.) Your goal is to make the druid think that, despite costing a bunch of money, the spell failed (if he gets mad and attacks the rabbit, all the better, just have the rabbit bolt in the opposite direction.) Bring the rabbit back later. Oh sure, that rabbit's helping the party, but make that rabbit constantly come up with just the absolute _darkest, saddest_ shit you can think of with just a completely straight face, and also make sure that bunny is _constantly_ roasting the druid. That bunny needs to hold a _grudge._ Congratulations on your super-memorable new NPC: The Adorable Fluffy Depression Bunny.
Apply sidekick leveling via Tahsa's to the dispersed awakened...
The rabbit from Monty Python sounds kinda like this.
@@BorisderBankwarmer Aye, but THAT rabbit didn't have the cunning to throw the Holy Hand Grenade back at the humans.
I have a feeling the cat of a rich noble might welcome being awakened. They'd just keep doing their cat thing, but at a more human level.
And it can go in so many directions depending on the cat. One might become a renowned military strategist, deploying a "pouncing" strategy on the battlefield. Another might become a famous chef, originating from a newfound desire to create the perfect pate. Or just a simple cat, that can now talk everyone's ears off.
Well, this is perr-fect
Watch Red Dwarf
A fruitfly since they tend to live only for 24 hours or so, most insects. A plasmoid player put a fish into him and I saved it and spoke with animals with it and my dm had it basically have an existential crisis and scream at horror of being told life and death concepts
That would be awful! I love it
The Pug.
Pugs already suffer due to inbreeding, Imagine the anger if they were aware of what humans did to them.
Honey Badger. They hate everything. Sentience would simply allow them to come up with a REASON to hate everything. Random violence would suddnely become very directed, calculated violence.
It’s not necessarily hate though. They’re smart. They ENJOY messing with other animals. They like to figure things out, get the better of problems. In captivity, they plot elaborate escapes just to find their keepers and brag of their accomplishments. Total punks lol
Awaken a honey badger, they’ll set their sights on world domination
Honey badger awakes: " what a beautiful day. Violence is not the solution... it's a question and the answer is yes."
3:19 Terry Pratchett's *The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents* explores this well. He does a good job in general writing distinct non-human people convincingly, and this instance of it won him a Carnegie medal.
I'm reminded of the discworld book the amazing Maurice and his educated rodents. They had a lot of these similar issues. Maurice as a cat no longer cares to hang around with other cats, but he is fine with humans. The rats are trying to create their own society, they are bothered quite a bit about normal rats, and needless to say they don't get along well with most humans
Witches Abroad also touched on it (the poor Big Bad Wolf, and Greebo)
@@averycheesypotato yeah, the scene where granny arranged for the wolf to be put out of his misery was just heartbreaking
@@Benjamin1986980 there was another book with a wereman or manwolf too lol
@@averycheesypotato yes, but the books with Angua and the rest of the werewolves have them as being a separate species. Even her brother who's stuck in wolf form got a career as a sheepdog. Even carrots talking hound seemed happy with his life.
I can't think of any that genuinely had issues with sapience
@@Benjamin1986980 I meant the one character who was a wolf that became human on the full moon
Hmm.
While I can agree that personality would be unique to the animal and there would be the occasional instance of anger and such, I feel like around ~1/2 of the options here are... "bad faith" arguments.
When I imagine how "Awaken" works, I view it as making the target sentient, but they keep their own creature's mindset, and it reflects the base creature's biology.
Consider this: in Mass Effect 2, Legion says: "No two species are identical. All must be judged on their own merits. Treating every species like one's own is racist - even benign anthropomorphism."
A lot of their arguments for hating the Druid is based on giving a human-style mindset to the awakened creature, rather than granting that creature its *own* species-unique mindset. That's not to say personality wouldn't be unique, or wouldn't override this. Indeed, I imagine that personality would range as greatly for them in breadth and depth as human personalities can be, just that how it would work would be like a venn diagram - one circle "human mindset", one circle "awakened species mindset". The awakened species circle would overlap more or less with the human one depending on what species it was and how close they are to humans.
A tree would (likely or more often) be placid and calm, and from a human perspective, "uncaring" of its new sapience. (I imagine it would likely have such a different thought process to a human that it would be difficult to truly describe, but being "slow" and "considering" would make sense in general, but it then comes across as uncaring of its newfound sapience to a human, because it wouldn't really change what it was doing - [tolkein quote] eat Earth, did deep, drink water [end tolkien quote] , and enjoy the sunlight). It could be angered and such, like from parasites, threats of fire, animals carving it, etc, but for the most part the tree would be thinking "tree things". The idea of a tree that hates a druid for making it sapient because it can't enjoy being a tree, while a fun idea, shouldn't apply normally.
Similarly, a snail that is constantly frustrated by how slow it is, while an interesting concept, wouldn't really happen - instead, it would think in ways where it is takes time to get there, experiencing reality through its own unique lens. Consider the stereotypical "turtle monk" that is very slow and patient, yet is capable of quick thought. It's not really having "slow thoughts" so much as it takes time to fully go though its thoughts, thinking things through, enjoying the moment, so on. Of course, that is only one interpretation of how it's mindset could end up.
How about the dog being awakened? Sure, it could examine its memories and view every moment not spent time with it was an intentional snub by its partner, but I think it far more likely that it would suddenly gain an epiphany. The owner doesn't leave almost every day for hours for no purpose - he leaves to go to work to gain money and support his family. The teen didn't stop playing with him just because it wanted to hurt his feelings, rather, the teen was sapient and playing with the dog was not a stimulating activity for the teen after a while - it's not like the teen never plays with him. The child doesn't ignore the dog because he doesn't like the dog. He does it because he has to do homework. Besides, requiring that the human be beholden to the non-sapient dog's whims at all times would make the dog the owner and the human the pet at best. Merely another form of slavery at worst. (Seriously, whoever made that argument, how do you think most people treat their pets? People *love* their pets as part of their family, FFS. Granted, there are plenty of A-holes who do not and really should be put in jail, but that's another talk.)
(side note: for all those creatures who have been given human mindsets, perhaps an incorrectly cast "awaken" could grant sapience in such a way, leading to a creature with an innapropriate mindset for it's body, thus the eternal angsty suffering some people want)
Creatures that have short lives would probably have a similar range of reactions as humans do to the longer lived races - granted, most awakened creatures wouldn't have their own society of people of the same species and sapience, so probably worse (if a social species).
But that is an interesting idea for worldbuilding. Given how magical the setting is, and how old the world is, I can easily imagine that over time, druids (or other magics, gods, demigods, magical events, or who-knows-what) awakened animals. Eventually a stable breeding population could occur, and **poof**, new sapient species. As time goes on, their number remains small (both quantity of creatures and count of different awakened creature species), but the older and more magical a setting is, the more "common" they become. If the amount of such things is slightly lower, you get "awakened creature societies" made of different social creatures coming together who didn't want to be part of the party, or old druid died, or what have you.
Some categories of animals and my own remarks:
- eusocial or hive species probably wouldn't like it, their mindset needing the existence of a proper queen/king - unless the queen/king *and* their retinue all were awakened (hey, I don't know if there are *no* eusocial "kings", especially if we allow fantasy creatures)
- Social creatures could be okay or could hate it depending on circumstances (like if they found "pack" in the adventuring party, or if a society that accepted their kind existed, they could be okay. Meanwhile, if they're alone in a cruel world, well...)
- antisocial species are more difficult to generalize, but I can imagine the easiest go-to would be "indifference to their creator, annoyance at being bossed around"
- Colony creatures and Zooids, I don't have enough background knowledge on to really get a feel on how I'd play them.
- Sessile creatures... well, the 5e spell grants movement to plant "limbs, roots, vines, creepers, and so forth", so I would logically extend that for these as well.
Not related to the topic but a story I had to share. Last weekend, I was Dm for dnd session with my party of 4, long story short, the group was about to fight a horde of zombies to defend a small village. As I was describing the scene and getting the players ready for battle, one of the party members (our fighter) receives a phone call from his girlfriend, and we had to put the game on pause. The rest of us sat around for little talking, getting up to stretch and what not, and then our cat decided to hop onto the chair where my friend was sitting. My partner jokingly said "haha, the cat is playing for our friend now". I looked seriously at the cat and said "kiba! (Cats name) the horde of undead start scrambling towards you, snarling and growling as the edge closer to you, what do you do?" We all chuckle for a few seconds, and then I decide to place a D20 in front of the cats feet. Shortly after, the cat knocks the dice onto the floor next to my feet, I look down and I kid you not, Nat fucking 20! We all went into an uproar, and sarcastically stated "the cat is our new fighter!" Best part about this story, this was the only nat 20 for the night...from the cat 😂
I know I'm a day late but, hear me out an awakened immortal jellyfish.
Oh Lord. This just made me realize that when the party I'm apart of eventually gets the chance to use magic, the Eccentric Nobleman Dorian would cause problems if he were to get the spell Awaken. Most likely casting it in the middle of the town under our control, the party is a noble house lead by Lady Piscia who is related to Dorian's wife, while its night. Or he just uses the spell in the middle of a crowd during the day... (Long story short, King of the gods ruled anyone who protects a witch or is one will be executed. Dorian tried to save one's life but got whipped for almost getting us executed. And there's a high chance he didn't learn his lesson due to how eccentric/mad he is.)
Anyway, the chaos which would happen from the spell being used would be due to how the townspeople will be panicking while their pets and other animals that were affected would having an existential crisis upon becoming sentient and getting overwhelmed with their new found understanding of so many things.
I like the idea of awakening a pet... only to accidentally awaken a parasite within the pet. After the pet gets a bit too aggressive one time and dies, the parasite slinks away, and slowly works his way up through animals/people until finally becoming a BBEG. When asked "why?", all they can say is "i learned it from you."
Rabbits. Rabbits are prey animals that can die from the stress a sudden shock can put on their hearts. That's right, you can *scare a rabbit to death.* Now give that poor animal the cognitive power to understand taxes, war, relationships and existentialism. ... Yeah that's not gonna be a happy bunny.
there was an interesting video by isaac arthur about genetical uplifting of animals to human level intelligence.
but in that case, they get born that way.
still, a sentient and sapient cow would have quite weird vibes for us. much like that animal from the restaurant at the end of the universe, that offers itself for food, because it is genetically engineered to do so.
Blastomycosis. It's a microscopic fungus which lives primarily in soil. However, it's spores can reside in humans (and humanoids) with weakened immune response. Let's say your druid rolls a nat 1 and accidentally awakens a patch of soil containing Blastomycosis. He carries the talking soil around with him as a curiosity. After the spell expires, the fungus explains the potential open real estate to the colony. They actively seek to colonize humanoids and become a plague using the residual magic.
Extra Bonus points if you can turn this into the species origins for Myconids.
I'd imagine that most if not all naturally intelligent animals like elephants, parrots, corvids, apes and monkeys would be rather upset about being charmed for the same reasons as a human.
awakend animals would look back at their animal memmorys as we look back at our kindergarden time.
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2:00 The crow will discover murder.
Let's be fair. There is an entire franchise of movies about this.
"Planet of the Apes" anyone?
Or Cars.
“Oh, and this is Ghost Pig…”
-Zee Bashew
(There are multiple videos)
"T-TAKE IT BACK!"
basically any social creature wold have a high chance of being unimpressed by their awakening, because we can assume that the only thing that has changed is degree to which they can comprehend reality and nothing else
so solitary animals would be annoyed they are tied to some guy for a while, before leaving to do their own thing, while social animals would be stuck with the person that awakened them due to aforementioned loneliness
I'm reminded of something from Dimension 20. I think the campaign was called "Never After" or something like that. Basically, the players came across the mice from Cinderella, who were all traumatized from their experience being temporarily turned into humans. Along with a bucket.
This is not exactly the same thing as my idea didn't hate being awakened but I had this idea for a weird player character.
She was an awakened crocodile.
She ate the wizard that awakened her after refusing an order to commit horrific evil acts on innocents.
After she ate him she chilled in the swamp until some adventurers came by needing help navigating that swamp.
She could help them find the underwater entrance to a dungeon or also with combat once inside.
That was supposed to be her entrance into the game anyways.
I never made this character but maybe one day.
A simple frog.
Over several sessions, and towards the end of the campaign it caused a tpk.
Ghost Pig: *sad harmonica intensifies*
Any creature that dies after mating, now they they have to choose between celibacy or death
Sunfish.
Seriously, the sunfish shouldn't exist. It is the fish that natural selection forgot, that survives only because it's too derp to die. If you Awaken them, they're going to realise that. Of course, because it's a goddamn sunfish, there's not much it can do to get revenge on the awakener (or the gods that made them that way).
Then again, it's a sunfish- why would anyone want to awaken it in the first place? (other than a sense of sadistic schadenfreude as it undergoes an existential crisis realising just how cruddy it is)
A worker ant. It cannot resist the orders of the queen ant, but realizes that now and can't do anything about it.
eusocial insects actually operate on democracy; the queen is just a big egg factory that the workers take care of.
I've got an idea for a hilarious "joke" ranger character that's been bouncing around in my head for a while based around a video game character I remembered seeing when I was younger, but I couldn't think of a good race for him. I was originally thinking of having him be a Satyr, but after watching this video, I think it would be better for him to be an awakened animal that was slightly anthropomorphized.
He's a deer who watched his girlfriend get shot and killed by human hunter/rangers, and so has made it a personal quest to find those responsible and kill them and lay his girlfriend's corpse to rest, while bagging as many "trophies" (i.e. disrespectful hunters) as he can. His name? Bambo. John Bambo. Deer Avenger. (Yes, he's supposed to be based on the game of the same name. lol)
Ants. It would be like giving grass the ability to talk or lick your feet when stepped on.
The first poster regarding crows clearly knows nothing about them irl. They're closer to the stone age than apes.
So you're saying they'd be even more smarter?
I don't know whether this would be good or bad, but the mega fungus that are hundreds or thousands of acres but still strictly speaking one creature. What would it be like if that was awakened?
I think more “selfish” animals would enjoy making use of their newfound awareness- ie cats & weasels would be pleased with their hunting prowess and find ways to improve.
“Selfless” animals would suffer more for the isolation & lack of purpose. Eusocial animals could become increasingly frustrated that they are just one part of a whole that remains unaware. Unable to affect change or warn of risks, they would discover “futility” -a horrible concept
How about a mimic? You can do a whole lot of chaos with a mimic. A moral mimic is one. "Oh God, I eat a lot of people" and play onto that.
Any prey animal would probably be living in Hell.
Good ones would be a large predator like a wolf, but it would suck to be separated from their pack.
Ant. It’s been part of a Hive mind all it’s life only for someone to break it out and destroy everything it’s ever known.
Ant whet why am I moving the rock? Ant probably a good reson weep back to work
Dropping a Like just because of how damn clean the read of all the weird bug or parasite names where. I would stumble for hours trying to read all that.
I don't think a Wolverine or Honey Badger would care wether it's uplifted or not. once the charm wears off, noone would be safe from it's barbarian styled rampage.
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
- Emil Cioran
Look into David Brin's Uplift Saga - the first two books are sundiver and star tide rising. I know there's at least one more but I cannot remember the name offhand
A snail who gains sentients saying," Look at my mouth, my gross mouth "
/Squeaks "Why would you do this to me".
This video came at the perfect time. My players just arrived in an awakened forest
So far, they've only talked with an eagle, but they know most if not all other animals in the forest are sentient. They've also hopefully picked up on the clues I gave them that they are surrounded 🙃
Frogs and toads. Nothing but unending hunger.
An octopus. Give it high int and dex. Bonus points if you can insert it in an unexpected setting.
Animals “awakening” and resenting it is a great concept, and it was explored fantastically in “Fifteen Dogs” by Andre Alexis.
I’d strongly recommend this read. But I will warn you; as with all books about dogs, there are dog deaths.
In this case, 15 of them.
There's something I just thought of. What if a pc was an awakened animal (or something) that just so happened to travel with the one who awakened it but was also (in some way) controlling the one who awakened them, if nobody else in the party had such a character then it could lead to a very interesting plot in the story
Not DND, but a super hero game I play has an awakened cephalopod who was the result of his owner's co-researchers dumping experimental neurotropics into his tank.
He's a "kill all humans" type villain who just wants to be just an octopus again
A group of halfing bards after a night of celebration
Not exactly the same thing, but adjacently related, I have been working on a D&D campaign setting on and off for a while where its Earth several thousand years after an apocalyptic world nuclear holocaust. All of the monsters from the Monsters Manual are the results of mutations caused by radiation exposure and hundreds of generations of evolution.
Because in older editions of D&D, orcs were illustrated as looking a lot like mutant pig people (the 1983 Dungeons and Dragons cartoon is an excellent example), I made my version of orcs having evolved from pigs. I even changed the spelling of orc (to ork), which is derived from the word pork. The reason why orks are so hateful towards other humanoid species, (especially humans, dwarves, elves, and the like) is because when they started mutating into sentient humanoids, the first thing to become more advanced was their intellect. Pigs became smarter and smarter, first becoming the equivalent of primates, and eventually Homo Sapiens. But they were still four legged creatures, which could only grunt and squeal. So they continued to be slaughtered and eaten by the other humanoids who were raising them as food. It wasn't until after they had gained sentience that their bodies began to change in order to catch up. Like their intelligence, the difference was subtle at first. The cloven hooves of their forelegs began to develop the ability to grab items clumsily, about the equivalent to the grasping capability of a raccoon. Several generations later, their forehooves were more like the hands of certain apes, like chimpanzees. Eventually, their forehooves became the equivalent of human hands, only cloven with two fingers and an opposable thumb. It was when this became the standard that the orks revolted and killed those who raised them to be slaughtered as meat. Now, to the modern day ork, men and their demihuman allies are the boogeymen that they tell their children about to get them to behave. Orks give them no quarter, show them no mercy, because they truly believe that the other (typically good) races will cook them and eat them. They have been told this by their parents, who were told by their parents, who were told by their parents, all the way back to before The Great Uprising.
Dogs, because they already have enough communication to tell me they wanna play.
Does a pet rock count, now you have this sentient rock that can’t move.
All of them. They all suddenly gain the sentience and perception to realize what the humanoids do with their species normally.
Imagine awakening a pack of wolves but the awakening doesn't pass on to the next generation, now you have a pack of fairly intelligent wolves who hate you and will hunt you down to rip you to shreds, or demand you awaken their young. Also would dispel magic wash away an awakened creature's intelligence?
Pretty sure there's no ongoing magic to dispel. I would recommend using greater restoration on a willing creature or feeblemind on an unwilling one.
@@itap8880 That's my take too but I've also heard people argue that after True Polymorph has set permanently in it can be undone with a dispel magic.
@@williamstokes4282 True Polymorph specifically states that "If you concentrate on this spell for the full duration, the spell lasts until it is dispelled." Awaken does not.
@@itap8880 I forgot that it got errata, it used to read "The Transformation becomes Permeant" and I always read that as the transformation and not the spell.
Tapeworm. Just imagine its existence
Humans, if money is not an issue: Go to any political rally; cast the spell and see hundreds to thousands of humans crying in collective depression.😂
Any animal awakened by a vivisectionist. I can't believe they weren't mentioned in the video. For those of you not familiar with pathfinder, vivisectionist is an architype of the alchemist class that specializes in transmuting living things. They get an ability called torturous transformation which is basically a alchemically enhanced surgery that functions as one of three spells: anthropomorphic animal, awaken animal, or baleful polymorph. (That's right. There's a pathfinder architype that exists solely to turn people into furrys)
Also, since it's an alchemical transmutation, it's effectively permanent and irreversible. It can't be reversed by magic, and there isn't anything in the rule books about transmuting an animal into a humanoid (that I know of. it's been a few years since I've actually played any d&d)
I could just imagine an awakened animal becoming a vivisectionist to seek revenge. What better way to get back at the druids that awakened them than by turning them into animals themselves?
cats.
you just know they would absolutely detest having to talk to 'the help'.
I think the least appreciative animal would be the snake. It has all this intelligence but they're so little it can do with no hands. I would hope he would awaken them in Pairs, male/female or they could be awful lonely
PANR has tuned in.
Cats. They are happy in their ignorance. They would despies a world where they must do taxes.
I always thought it'd be fun to have an awakened creature that could pass on their awakened status...that being said an awakened wolverine sounds fantastically useful
Have you tried Awakening a construct It didn't end well 2 dead three heavily burnt oh because of the Flights of Fancy of The Bard
I'd hazard to say anything in or around the rodent family or resemble them would likely find awakening is hell. These are prey creatures who already naturally understood that but now intellectually know it as well. I'm sure knowing that as a mouse or rat that almost everything is looking to ether kill you out of spite or for food is particularly comforting. Then we have animals like possums where nature had installed a forced shutdown on and higher intelligence would likely run that feature into overdrive.
Cats. Wake them up and they'll give you some stink-eye.
Dogs. Sure ited be neat for about... 3-4 weeks. But afterwards there gonna get bored/spiteful about its existence
What if it was used on a whole colony of termites or ants? Imagine the realization that your species has been fighting a relentless, pitiless, grim and bloody war with each other and other similar species for millions of years, which can never end, and can never be won. Such a thought could immediately drive an entire colony to madness. What would they do? Give up? Try to escape? Infest ancient ruins and build the greatest insect army the world has ever seen to scour the planet of all rival life?
A sea cucumber, a male lantern fish, and possibly some starfish. Why? ... Biology. Though it depends if awakening makes them feel pain when the starfish and sea cucumber eject their stomach and when the starfish split off pieces of itself. And let's not talk about Pearlfish!
Dung beetle be the worst or even maggot or fly. Dung beetle + maggot for gross factor fly for itty bitty teeny tiny life span.
Imagine a middle aged male dolphin. Dude just wakes up one day being smart enough to know helldivers is a parody, then has to grapple with his memories of his "adventures" he had with his "hunt" buddies
An orangutan, it just knows that at some point, regardless of its desire to do so, it will be typecasted as a librarian. (now let's see how many people know the reference)
A STUDIO GHIBLI TTRPG!?! SIGN ME UP!
Easy answers:
Moose,
geese,
giant river otters,
meerkats,
and komodo dragons
What if you awakened the tarrasque?
Durin's Bane …
Clam
Mayflys
Text didn’t quite much the narration towards the end
why did you read squirrel like that.
Is the offspring of an awakened creature also awakened?
I'm amused this started from talking about woodland creatures, and some bio students are flexing their knowledge about insects, deep sea creatures, and parasites.
Me.
lol yes
Humans that vote Trump
Good job pronouncing all the scientific names.
Do not awaken apes. I know you guys saw that movie. it didnt end well for us
Imagine a middle aged male dolphin. Dude just wakes up one day being smart enough to know helldivers is a parody, then has to grapple with his memories of his "adventures" he had with his "hunt" buddies
Imagine a middle aged male dolphin. Dude just wakes up one day being smart enough to know helldivers is a parody, then has to grapple with his memories of his "adventures" he had with his "hunt" buddies