1) Imagine meeting Corellon in the Astral Sea as an encounter. The Astral Sea is NOT part of the Prime Material place so, as a God, he is not banned from interfering with the the mortal races. As an exxample, should Corellon, as a chance encounter, meet up with an Orc ship, he could destroy it entirely, with access to his full power, with impunity. I can easily see a God level war breaking out in the Astral Sea making travel via the Astral Sea impractical. One of the biggest mistakes WotC made with the new Spelljammer was replacing the Phlogistan with the Astral Sea.
Sounds like an exiting storyline. The space-lanes are blocked by squabbling godlings. Brave adventurers, you must convince these divine belligerents to sit down andnegotiate so that trade with your neighboring planets can continue. Or, if you're really high level, help one side win so the conflict can end.
I didn’t know much about the new Spelljammer books but damn replacing the Phlogistan with the Astral Sea sounds so stupid. Especially since the gods are supposed to have no power in the Phlogistan. They should’ve just made it so that Spelljammers were also capable of traversing the astral sea and Phlogistan.
@@LordMorin Let me double check that, I just overheard it in a tavern on the Rock of Bral once. Mmmph, berk must have just been flapping his laugh box.
After spending the past hour watching a couple videos of an astrophysicist talk about black holes and gravity this was the perfect transition back into DnD. A researching sage talk about Spelljammer!
Arawn and Hecate? Cool, they're some of my favorites from real life mythology. A bit strange that Hecate is evil though, considering how she was often a protector in Greek mythology. There would be statues of her at the entrances of cities, public buildings and even some private houses, that people would pray to and ask Hecate to protect them from evil spirits. She also helped Demeter look for Persephone when she was taken by Hades, and I have heard there is one versions where Hecate befriends and comforts Persephone while Hades, Zeus and Demeter are sorting things out, and Hades apparently appreciated this so much he rewards Hecate with a residence in his domain. Probably why DnD Hecate has a realm in Hades. And I just now see a very good reason why she is evil DnD; Hades is evil in DnD too. Btw, the Chroincles of Prydain can also be nice to read for inspiration for Arawn. The books are heavily inspired by Welsh folklore, and the main villain is a mage and king who is not only inspired by Arawn, he is named after him too.
AJ, I cannot tell you just how helpful your channel is to me. MtG and D&D are my favorite games outside of Final Fantasy (especially XIV. The writters for that game just... omfg, got talent in spades.) This might seem off topic for the video I am posting this on but I wanted your input. Here goes... I was asked by a friend of mine if I would set up a game for he and his sons-possibly more people. I agreed. But as all involved are absolutely brand new to D&D I thought I would make myself a bit of an, shall we say, op character to play and belp guide things along. Now the level I set it at and the reasons why are somewhat cannonical. Without going into extreme detail here what I did was threefold. First, I created an entirely new class with three subclasses called Dragoon. I'm a FF nerd /shrug. The second was that I made it so my character and some npcs I made are homebrew tied to Netheril. What happened here is I took a page from FFXIV and sort of tied some of the Netherese culture and that of the Amaurotines together. Namely the Convocation of Fourteen(FFXIV) as a ruling body of one of the largest floating cities. The last thing is that my character's actual level and full abilities would never be known unless the pcs got to at least level 16 or higher. So basically it amounts to me being able to "save" them if I feel the need. I won't just flaunt my overwhelming ability just because I can. Suitability: Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. If they do it to themselves, as in ignore warnings the game throws at them, then they'll die if they can't figure it out. But if SHTF, and I feel like I should for the sake of narrative, I'll show off a bit. Nothing overly drastic. What do you think? My character is more of a very helpful guide if I dumb it down to basics, just really op.
I would say, for myself, cliches exist for a reason, they meet a wizard in the corner of the tavern, tavern keeper wants them to go downstairs and kill some fire Beetles, there's a ghoul uprising in a graveyard, there's a nearby farm with some ankhegs, there's a nearby crypt that's broken into an old dungeon complex with a couple of skeletons and some zombies in it. cliches exist for a reason give them the starting experience that is the classic D&D starting experience and never insert yourself in the game as a player as well as the DM. But that's just my opinion, I would not tell you how to run your game, perhaps a suggestion in this case.
About to start a new spelljammer/planeshopping campaign with a bunch of *dead* characters judgement on the fugue plane being interrupted. They will then be on a wild goose chase around the mutliverse
I love the astral sea and the devine powers and gods that inhabit them...so the idea of just casually running into one is exciting..it's not like it has to turn into combat. Imagine meeting face to face with the full manifestation of bahamut (I know it's not likely to happen in the astral sea but just saying).
AJ out here doing goodly work. On details alone, leaving aside things like "Corellon is always male to the elves, even when he isn't, and also occasionally does a genocide" which is the best depiction of pronouns and 'sometimes the Big Good *isn't* ' that I've seen recently. And the kid in me who ravenously read through 3.0's Deities and Demigods will always love seeing deity mechanics. Much as I adore this channel though, If Wizards wants to keep being so sparse on the details they should maybe consider an official toolset that allows the playerbase to fill in those blanks. Crowdsourcing of a sort worked for building 5th edition, using it to fill it out properly feels right too. Or like, a list of resources like AJ's channel here. Best of both worlds.
It is not without precedent, the Grand History of the Forgotten Realms started off as purely a fan made resource, WotC made it official and published it and its hands down one of the best resources ever created for the setting.
Considering how 5e tried to avoid the whole “fight a god” issue that came around with stats it seems so wild that you could just *encounter* one out there. No way the players would win but definitely has huge potential for shifting an entire adventure. I still don’t agree with the Astral Sea replacing the Phlogistan though. Would’ve been nice if they just had spelljammers able to traverse both. Double the adventure!
I honestly won't miss the spheres and phlogiston one little bit, but hey, you can create phlogiston nebulas with massive spheres protecting hidden wildspace systems, build eons ago by cosmic civilisations long lost in some cataclysmic war.... that makes perfect sense, maybe the gith built them as epic military installations in the genocidal war across space and time with the Mighty Illythid Transdimensional Empire?
It would be a wonderous adventure to be a nobody that inadvertently keeps sticking their fingers in all the Gods pies, the nobody always in the weirdest places at the weirdest of times, all the assuming nobody can do is go with the flow to whatever ends the gods make them take. Having done everything their is to do, having been all there is to be and seen, this nobody picks up an enormous variety of skills and subjected to unfathomable near deaths, now this nobody has caught a dreadful case of being immortal. Amoungst the Gods this nobody now pops up like an annoying acquaintance like a schrodinger's cat unable to be killed, banished even removed from existence by any being in existence. No one knows when or where this nobody will popup. Its as if the nobody is everywhere and nowhere at the sametime. Its as if this person has unwittingly left everlasting impressions on all that exists, all anything can do is suffer the nobody's presence till they have conversed in seemingly idle chatter and humor this nobody's requests to cure the nobody's boredom. Arch devils try to trap nobody, demons attempt to consume, angels speechless, Gods baffled. Its all a game of wheres waldo to try manipulate nobody into their schemes just to shut this person up and leave them be. Nobody has become the flow they use to be swept up by, somehow turning most event on its head seemingly in unexpected ways. Nobody listens, Nobody knows. All wonder what this Nobody will do next....
The list is mostly gods of travel and trickery. Anubis isn't concerned with space travel. His portfolio is laser focused on shepherding the souls of the dead to the afterlife so their hearts can be weighed against the Feather of Truth. And then devoured by an orangutan/dog with the head of a crocodile. Anubis doesn't travel the Astral Sea or watch over travelers. He simply exists wherever there is death. Aside from grave clerics and undead hunters, almost no one should be worshiping Anubis. Even in ancient Egypt no one openly worshipped Anubis. He wasn't the friendly boatman ferrying heroes and grieving boyfriends to the gates of hades every time they needed to steal back a loved one's soul or give Hades himself "the business." Anubis was the boogeyman that came for you in the night.
@@CitanulsPumpkin Anubis is known in the lore to guard the bodies of the Dead gods in the Astral sea. (he exists in many places at once, so this is just one aspect of his existence)
@@AJPickett they more than likely felt that if they put out the blanket statement that "Anubis guards all dead god corpses in the Astral." they would then have to answer the question "What about Tu'narath, and the dead gods the Athar used as outposts during the period in 3e when the factions were expelled from Sigil, or the carbon copy of Nowhere I made just for my campaign?" Saying Anubis is guarding every fifth or tenth collossal sized corpse floating through space is great for flavor until you realize that means you need to provide mechanics for when the players inevitably trespass on the Jackal's turf and start a fight.
2:06- Depends which universe since Corellon had Eilistraee with Lolth and was actually reluctant about exiling her and even pardoned her with Eilistraee voluntarily going to Underdark. Consider that Crown War involved massacring Eilistraee worshippers, who were trying to reject Lolth as well...it is more "oof". I mean there was one short story where an Eilistraee Drow envoy was treated with disgust the moment she landed in Evermeet. Also Sun Elves are not shown in positive light and those who do are the one who either learned humility (Vartan) or rejected their notions (expatriates in Waterdeep).
Why did they make Hecate Chaotic Evil? She never struck me as particularly evil(for a Greek God). Weird they made her evil and not just Chaotic Neutral.
She is not the Greek god, that is just the source of inspiration, if you look at her depictions in more modern books, comics, tv shows and movies (such as Sandman) she is quite different.
@@BlankEmporium the Greek god is the source of inspiration. If you want to learn about that, don't rely on D&D for an accurate depiction is all I'm saying
Feeding the algorithm, can't think of any puns or bad dad jokes at the moment. 12:00 .. Hecate, in Wicca and in other pagan faiths, she may be chaotic, but not evil. Since she is the goddess of passages and Doorways, rogues would seek her favor in by passing locks that keep doors sealed. Or those hoping to keep their doors close at night. She is very important in ancestor worship and speaking with the dead.
Ah, so some of the AD&D gods changed since I looked into them and even when I used them. Good thing my Loom of Magus wasn't (still isn't) actual AD&D canon. That 4th and 5th dimensional aspects of the gods you referred to is a nice little nugget most DMs won't get and figure out how to apply without game-breaking.
I was fine with the traditional idea of drow alignment, but I wasn't aware of the wide prevalence of demonic blood. That goes a long way toward clarifying the matter, in my view.
Maybe but people might take this in the wrong way of saying it's even more "racist ". Mostly because it's literally condeming an entire people because of their bloodline more than anything cultural. I'm more inclined towards it simply being explained as a culture or even a curse thing.
I've watched a lot of lore videos on this and done some reading in source books myself, and I've never seen it mentioned that there was a large prevalence of actual demon blood among the drow. Wendonai tempted them into betraying the other factions of elves, and then the other elves cast a powerful curse on the drow. There is actually a race of elf-fiend hybrids, but they have a whole separate history
Hey Aj, I know you deal mostly with lore but I’d love a breakdown of what you think of the One D&D, and how it will impact the broader DnD lore in the future!
The Lost Spell is part of Boccob's lore. And you can argue why everyone from wee jas to the archmages searching throughout the multiverse is due to it?
hey AJ long time big fan.always appreciate the dedication. the clarity and richness of details you provide i love watching and just getting lost in fantasy
Hey AJ how's it hanging. Me and my players would really like to run a spelljammer campaign but I find the openess of it all very daunting. Do you have any recommendations for a good starting of area? I would choose Cigil though I feel like my players would jump into the first abyssal portal they see
Start with the Rock of Bral, treat it like a busy dock town with a lot of arriving and departing ship crews and the locals who make a living on the rock and call it home.
@@AJPickett very down to earth and fun. Maybe the first few sessions will be about intellect devourers trying to smuggle in some mindflayer tadpoles? I guess they'd need to bring an elder brain along to do that so maybe not a lvl 3 adventure
There's an intro adventure that was free on D&D beyond. That's a good place to start. As for the openess of the setting I like the advice WebDM gave a while back. Watch your favorite scifi show and write down the root plot twists and inciting incidents. Then sort what you wrote into three 2d6 tables. Where in space does the party find itself(an asteroid belt, a one biome planet, a space station, etc...)? What is going on? (Slavers, a secret auction or gathering, a planet being hit with a natural disaster, two cultures on the brink of total war). Who do the players run into? (Mindflayers, beholders, neogi, replicators, elves, gnomes).
Long ago. Not all dark elves of the period between the Dawn War and the Crown wars were Drow. Some of the good and neutral deities of the Seldarine still have followers among the dark elves. Krynn has no Drow, because they never had Lolth as a deity, so no Drow at all. Rillifane Rallathil, the god of the wild (wood) elves still has dark elf worshippers.
They made an RPG for Sláine! It was from Mongoose Publishing using the d20 system. Pretty much followed the comic books and featured a huge amount of the panels and artwork.
The new Spelljammer takes place in the Astral Sea, not in the Phlogiston. That allows gods to appear to people who are spell-jamming, while in the original they couldn't enter the Phlogiston.
I got really confused about that but apparently there is a new Spelljammer release that retcons how the prime material plane works. Originally, worlds or systems appeared inside crystal spheres and Spelljammer was set in the phlogiston, the area between those spheres. Meanwhile, the Astral Sea/Plane was it's own plane of existence, separate from the prime material plane. In the NEWEST Spelljammer release, there are no crystal spheres and no phlogiston, it's called wildspace instead, the parts of wildspace that are very remote from planets and such become hazy and are known as the astral sea, wildspace+astral sea are referred to as astral plane so now the astral plane is part of the prime material plane.... This changes a LOT of things.... Gods can appear in the space setting now and should technically therefore be able to access any world even without worshippers on that world, changes to the smaller details of how spelljamming works as well ...... This is my understanding after watching an interview from two months ago about it anyway
At first I felt objectionable to "he/him" about Corellon (gender pronouns being popularized in OUR culture, but not really any other, doesn't seem appropriate to project onto the cannon of D&D which is intended to be "other" as cultural creativity). However, the more reflection I have on that as Corellon being the embodiment of art and creativity, I think that was a genius way to describe him. Whether you like gender pronouns or not, that seems a perfect way to describe a being that is the embodiment of his portfolio (for good or bad). A dwarf barbarian scoffing at "he/him" or an elf bard saying "well of course you would describe him like that" seems a perfect reflection (wow, went really Warhammer there).
I don't think the elves would even care about gender politics or even consider them an issue. They as a society are all very gender fluid. Their native language might not even have a He/him or she/her but just simply a singular version for They. Of course other languages have other rules so they would simply use the closest term available and put no further thought into it because to do so would be alien to them. They don't have our social baggage after all and gender issues would be such an alien concept to a people so heavily steeped in magic that they simply can choose their gender. Alter Self is a low level spell and the Belt of Gender Reversal was in the game from its first edition and was permanent.
@Andy English in case you misheard and did not read the scripted captions, I said "Corellon has no biological sex but * is referred to by the elves* as their Father, thus he is always referred to in the male pronouns of He/Him _even if he chooses to manifest in a female form_ his normal appearance is that of an exceptionally beautiful androgynous male elf. " Corellon does, the elves however, do not.
1) Imagine meeting Corellon in the Astral Sea as an encounter. The Astral Sea is NOT part of the Prime Material place so, as a God, he is not banned from interfering with the the mortal races. As an exxample, should Corellon, as a chance encounter, meet up with an Orc ship, he could destroy it entirely, with access to his full power, with impunity. I can easily see a God level war breaking out in the Astral Sea making travel via the Astral Sea impractical. One of the biggest mistakes WotC made with the new Spelljammer was replacing the Phlogistan with the Astral Sea.
Sounds like an exiting storyline.
The space-lanes are blocked by squabbling godlings. Brave adventurers, you must convince these divine belligerents to sit down andnegotiate so that trade with your neighboring planets can continue. Or, if you're really high level, help one side win so the conflict can end.
Indeed, however its not the first time the Phlogiston got 'switched off'.
@@AJPickett Not in any of the official materials I have ever come across. Got a reference link?
I didn’t know much about the new Spelljammer books but damn replacing the Phlogistan with the Astral Sea sounds so stupid. Especially since the gods are supposed to have no power in the Phlogistan. They should’ve just made it so that Spelljammers were also capable of traversing the astral sea and Phlogistan.
@@LordMorin Let me double check that, I just overheard it in a tavern on the Rock of Bral once. Mmmph, berk must have just been flapping his laugh box.
After spending the past hour watching a couple videos of an astrophysicist talk about black holes and gravity this was the perfect transition back into DnD. A researching sage talk about Spelljammer!
Arawn and Hecate? Cool, they're some of my favorites from real life mythology. A bit strange that Hecate is evil though, considering how she was often a protector in Greek mythology. There would be statues of her at the entrances of cities, public buildings and even some private houses, that people would pray to and ask Hecate to protect them from evil spirits. She also helped Demeter look for Persephone when she was taken by Hades, and I have heard there is one versions where Hecate befriends and comforts Persephone while Hades, Zeus and Demeter are sorting things out, and Hades apparently appreciated this so much he rewards Hecate with a residence in his domain. Probably why DnD Hecate has a realm in Hades.
And I just now see a very good reason why she is evil DnD; Hades is evil in DnD too.
Btw, the Chroincles of Prydain can also be nice to read for inspiration for Arawn. The books are heavily inspired by Welsh folklore, and the main villain is a mage and king who is not only inspired by Arawn, he is named after him too.
Cheers for the knowledge of Gods outside of Forgotten Realms.
AJ, I cannot tell you just how helpful your channel is to me. MtG and D&D are my favorite games outside of Final Fantasy (especially XIV. The writters for that game just... omfg, got talent in spades.) This might seem off topic for the video I am posting this on but I wanted your input. Here goes... I was asked by a friend of mine if I would set up a game for he and his sons-possibly more people. I agreed. But as all involved are absolutely brand new to D&D I thought I would make myself a bit of an, shall we say, op character to play and belp guide things along. Now the level I set it at and the reasons why are somewhat cannonical. Without going into extreme detail here what I did was threefold. First, I created an entirely new class with three subclasses called Dragoon. I'm a FF nerd /shrug. The second was that I made it so my character and some npcs I made are homebrew tied to Netheril. What happened here is I took a page from FFXIV and sort of tied some of the Netherese culture and that of the Amaurotines together. Namely the Convocation of Fourteen(FFXIV) as a ruling body of one of the largest floating cities. The last thing is that my character's actual level and full abilities would never be known unless the pcs got to at least level 16 or higher. So basically it amounts to me being able to "save" them if I feel the need. I won't just flaunt my overwhelming ability just because I can. Suitability: Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. If they do it to themselves, as in ignore warnings the game throws at them, then they'll die if they can't figure it out. But if SHTF, and I feel like I should for the sake of narrative, I'll show off a bit. Nothing overly drastic. What do you think? My character is more of a very helpful guide if I dumb it down to basics, just really op.
I would say, for myself, cliches exist for a reason, they meet a wizard in the corner of the tavern, tavern keeper wants them to go downstairs and kill some fire Beetles, there's a ghoul uprising in a graveyard, there's a nearby farm with some ankhegs, there's a nearby crypt that's broken into an old dungeon complex with a couple of skeletons and some zombies in it. cliches exist for a reason give them the starting experience that is the classic D&D starting experience and never insert yourself in the game as a player as well as the DM. But that's just my opinion, I would not tell you how to run your game, perhaps a suggestion in this case.
About to start a new spelljammer/planeshopping campaign with a bunch of *dead* characters judgement on the fugue plane being interrupted. They will then be on a wild goose chase around the mutliverse
I put off this video for 9 hours, frankly I'm impressed at my restraint
That wins comment of the day.
I love the astral sea and the devine powers and gods that inhabit them...so the idea of just casually running into one is exciting..it's not like it has to turn into combat.
Imagine meeting face to face with the full manifestation of bahamut (I know it's not likely to happen in the astral sea but just saying).
Ooh love me some spelljammer content
AJ out here doing goodly work.
On details alone, leaving aside things like "Corellon is always male to the elves, even when he isn't, and also occasionally does a genocide" which is the best depiction of pronouns and 'sometimes the Big Good *isn't* ' that I've seen recently. And the kid in me who ravenously read through 3.0's Deities and Demigods will always love seeing deity mechanics.
Much as I adore this channel though, If Wizards wants to keep being so sparse on the details they should maybe consider an official toolset that allows the playerbase to fill in those blanks. Crowdsourcing of a sort worked for building 5th edition, using it to fill it out properly feels right too.
Or like, a list of resources like AJ's channel here. Best of both worlds.
It is not without precedent, the Grand History of the Forgotten Realms started off as purely a fan made resource, WotC made it official and published it and its hands down one of the best resources ever created for the setting.
Considering how 5e tried to avoid the whole “fight a god” issue that came around with stats it seems so wild that you could just *encounter* one out there. No way the players would win but definitely has huge potential for shifting an entire adventure. I still don’t agree with the Astral Sea replacing the Phlogistan though. Would’ve been nice if they just had spelljammers able to traverse both. Double the adventure!
I honestly won't miss the spheres and phlogiston one little bit, but hey, you can create phlogiston nebulas with massive spheres protecting hidden wildspace systems, build eons ago by cosmic civilisations long lost in some cataclysmic war.... that makes perfect sense, maybe the gith built them as epic military installations in the genocidal war across space and time with the Mighty Illythid Transdimensional Empire?
Thanks a lot! I missed last stream unfortunately...
Not sure where it'd fit but I'd love a little lore on Helm; god of protecting the weak, bros over hoes, and just doing my fuckin' job.
Yay excited for this one... thank you made my day when i seen u posted something new... keep it going, good to see your back on the roll...
Nuada of the Silver Hand is such a fun god to use. My favorite take on him was by Julian May in the Pliocene Epoch.
Bless the Mighty GlueStick
It would be a wonderous adventure to be a nobody that inadvertently keeps sticking their fingers in all the Gods pies, the nobody always in the weirdest places at the weirdest of times, all the assuming nobody can do is go with the flow to whatever ends the gods make them take.
Having done everything their is to do, having been all there is to be and seen, this nobody picks up an enormous variety of skills and subjected to unfathomable near deaths, now this nobody has caught a dreadful case of being immortal.
Amoungst the Gods this nobody now pops up like an annoying acquaintance like a schrodinger's cat unable to be killed, banished even removed from existence by any being in existence. No one knows when or where this nobody will popup. Its as if the nobody is everywhere and nowhere at the sametime. Its as if this person has unwittingly left everlasting impressions on all that exists, all anything can do is suffer the nobody's presence till they have conversed in seemingly idle chatter and humor this nobody's requests to cure the nobody's boredom.
Arch devils try to trap nobody, demons attempt to consume, angels speechless, Gods baffled. Its all a game of wheres waldo to try manipulate nobody into their schemes just to shut this person up and leave them be.
Nobody has become the flow they use to be swept up by, somehow turning most event on its head seemingly in unexpected ways.
Nobody listens, Nobody knows. All wonder what this Nobody will do next....
I’m surprised that Anubis isn’t here as he guards the corpses of the dead gods that are in the astral plane
Yeah, I agree.
The list is mostly gods of travel and trickery. Anubis isn't concerned with space travel. His portfolio is laser focused on shepherding the souls of the dead to the afterlife so their hearts can be weighed against the Feather of Truth. And then devoured by an orangutan/dog with the head of a crocodile.
Anubis doesn't travel the Astral Sea or watch over travelers. He simply exists wherever there is death.
Aside from grave clerics and undead hunters, almost no one should be worshiping Anubis. Even in ancient Egypt no one openly worshipped Anubis. He wasn't the friendly boatman ferrying heroes and grieving boyfriends to the gates of hades every time they needed to steal back a loved one's soul or give Hades himself "the business." Anubis was the boogeyman that came for you in the night.
@@CitanulsPumpkin Anubis is known in the lore to guard the bodies of the Dead gods in the Astral sea. (he exists in many places at once, so this is just one aspect of his existence)
@@AJPickett they more than likely felt that if they put out the blanket statement that "Anubis guards all dead god corpses in the Astral." they would then have to answer the question "What about Tu'narath, and the dead gods the Athar used as outposts during the period in 3e when the factions were expelled from Sigil, or the carbon copy of Nowhere I made just for my campaign?"
Saying Anubis is guarding every fifth or tenth collossal sized corpse floating through space is great for flavor until you realize that means you need to provide mechanics for when the players inevitably trespass on the Jackal's turf and start a fight.
2:06- Depends which universe since Corellon had Eilistraee with Lolth and was actually reluctant about exiling her and even pardoned her with Eilistraee voluntarily going to Underdark.
Consider that Crown War involved massacring Eilistraee worshippers, who were trying to reject Lolth as well...it is more "oof".
I mean there was one short story where an Eilistraee Drow envoy was treated with disgust the moment she landed in Evermeet.
Also Sun Elves are not shown in positive light and those who do are the one who either learned humility (Vartan) or rejected their notions (expatriates in Waterdeep).
As good morsel as this is, I have to admit that this version of Spelljammer has a sour aftertaste.
My favorite deity is the Drow goddess of beauty. This chick is to damn cool and was a good Drow before it was cool.
There’s a drow goddess of beauty?
Meanwhile, in an alternate universe..
“Magic blocker: Deities of the Cosmic Ocean”
I like stories of the gods no the setting. It is fun that so many of them overlap between Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, and real world mythology.
Well the rl gods ended up in Toril, the world of Forgotten Realms.
Why did they make Hecate Chaotic Evil? She never struck me as particularly evil(for a Greek God). Weird they made her evil and not just Chaotic Neutral.
She is not the Greek god, that is just the source of inspiration, if you look at her depictions in more modern books, comics, tv shows and movies (such as Sandman) she is quite different.
@@AJPickett She is a Greek God. Maybe not the Hecate of D&D, but the real life one (as real as fictional beings get) was indeed a Greek God.
In DND Hecate is well deserved chaotic evil. Hanging out with hag deities, the goddess of the orcs and more.
@@BlankEmporium the Greek god is the source of inspiration. If you want to learn about that, don't rely on D&D for an accurate depiction is all I'm saying
@@AJPickett Fair enough, I guess.
Feeding the algorithm, can't think of any puns or bad dad jokes at the moment.
12:00 .. Hecate, in Wicca and in other pagan faiths, she may be chaotic, but not evil.
Since she is the goddess of passages and Doorways, rogues would seek her favor in by passing locks that keep doors sealed.
Or those hoping to keep their doors close at night.
She is very important in ancestor worship and speaking with the dead.
Thanks for the content AJ!
This is how I mixed starfinder and spelljammer. A jammer finding a drift beacon to get around divine conflict.
Yeah baby this has been what I'm waiting for
*blink dog hops onto lap*
Ah, so some of the AD&D gods changed since I looked into them and even when I used them. Good thing my Loom of Magus wasn't (still isn't) actual AD&D canon. That 4th and 5th dimensional aspects of the gods you referred to is a nice little nugget most DMs won't get and figure out how to apply without game-breaking.
I was fine with the traditional idea of drow alignment, but I wasn't aware of the wide prevalence of demonic blood. That goes a long way toward clarifying the matter, in my view.
Maybe but people might take this in the wrong way of saying it's even more "racist ". Mostly because it's literally condeming an entire people because of their bloodline more than anything cultural. I'm more inclined towards it simply being explained as a culture or even a curse thing.
I've watched a lot of lore videos on this and done some reading in source books myself, and I've never seen it mentioned that there was a large prevalence of actual demon blood among the drow. Wendonai tempted them into betraying the other factions of elves, and then the other elves cast a powerful curse on the drow. There is actually a race of elf-fiend hybrids, but they have a whole separate history
Welcome back! Love the video.
Hey Aj, I know you deal mostly with lore but I’d love a breakdown of what you think of the One D&D, and how it will impact the broader DnD lore in the future!
Oh I have some ideas!
16:29 Greyspace is dying? What book is that in?
I don't know, this was actually news to me. I need to investigate.
The Lost Spell is part of Boccob's lore. And you can argue why everyone from wee jas to the archmages searching throughout the multiverse is due to it?
Outstanding. I think Celestian is a super cool deity choice.
hey AJ long time big fan.always appreciate the dedication. the clarity and richness of details you provide i love watching and just getting lost in fantasy
Thanks Spencer, as always, plenty more to come!
Good video AJ
Thanks Chris
A fascinating video. Thank you.
Is it just me, or did Zivilyn's description sound a bit too similar to Yoga Sothoth?
Ha good thing I'm always watching SG 1 already ahead of the game... Uhhhh I have no life...lol. Another good one AJ thanks
Indeed ;)
Thank you, now we talking🔥
Clicked on this video thinking it was a metal album.
She is so beautiful in the thumbnail.
Thanks King 🙏
AJ, do you have any thoughts on the 5e spell jammer books?
I just made a resource video for it so, I am a fan.
Hey AJ how's it hanging. Me and my players would really like to run a spelljammer campaign but I find the openess of it all very daunting. Do you have any recommendations for a good starting of area? I would choose Cigil though I feel like my players would jump into the first abyssal portal they see
Start with the Rock of Bral, treat it like a busy dock town with a lot of arriving and departing ship crews and the locals who make a living on the rock and call it home.
@@AJPickett very down to earth and fun. Maybe the first few sessions will be about intellect devourers trying to smuggle in some mindflayer tadpoles? I guess they'd need to bring an elder brain along to do that so maybe not a lvl 3 adventure
@@Colourbleyend Could be if the Elder brain is seriously old, diseased or injured.
@@AJPickett an advanced elderly brain, that could be fun. Maybe it's got astral brain eating nematodes
There's an intro adventure that was free on D&D beyond. That's a good place to start.
As for the openess of the setting I like the advice WebDM gave a while back. Watch your favorite scifi show and write down the root plot twists and inciting incidents. Then sort what you wrote into three 2d6 tables.
Where in space does the party find itself(an asteroid belt, a one biome planet, a space station, etc...)?
What is going on? (Slavers, a secret auction or gathering, a planet being hit with a natural disaster, two cultures on the brink of total war).
Who do the players run into? (Mindflayers, beholders, neogi, replicators, elves, gnomes).
17:23 now stargate sais the same thing the goa'uld empire kidnaped humans to different planets throughtout the cosmos.
Time to get lost in space
Oh, the pain of it all.
You messed me up with that Mabinogi remark because I only know the MMORPG 😂
respect for giving a shout to MAUI !!!
I am a Kiwi descended from ancestors who came here many generations ago from Norway, so, Thor and Maui are part of me.
_"Rolling down to old Maui me boys"_
_"Rolling down to old Maui"_
_"We're homeward bound,"_
_"From the Arctic round"_
_"Rolling down to old Maui"_
Since when Drown and Dark Elves are two differents things ?
Long ago. Not all dark elves of the period between the Dawn War and the Crown wars were Drow.
Some of the good and neutral deities of the Seldarine still have followers among the dark elves. Krynn has no Drow, because they never had Lolth as a deity, so no Drow at all. Rillifane Rallathil, the god of the wild (wood) elves still has dark elf worshippers.
The Illythiiri people were dark skinned elves from Atornash in Southern Faerun. They were also called dark elves.
I noticed you were referencing On hallowed grounds. My favourite book!
what is this game called?
They made an RPG for Sláine! It was from Mongoose Publishing using the d20 system. Pretty much followed the comic books and featured a huge amount of the panels and artwork.
Amazing!
thank you!
Yay!
Bring me the flichers please mighty AJ.
Great
why is shiva in the thumbnail xD.
Could be Kali.
@@AJPickett true
What about Anubis ? Ik
I'm guessing encounters with Anubis don't end well.
I thought good could not exist in the space between the worlds. Is that out odd date?
Thanks to current spell jammer apparently
The new Spelljammer takes place in the Astral Sea, not in the Phlogiston. That allows gods to appear to people who are spell-jamming, while in the original they couldn't enter the Phlogiston.
I got really confused about that but apparently there is a new Spelljammer release that retcons how the prime material plane works. Originally, worlds or systems appeared inside crystal spheres and Spelljammer was set in the phlogiston, the area between those spheres. Meanwhile, the Astral Sea/Plane was it's own plane of existence, separate from the prime material plane. In the NEWEST Spelljammer release, there are no crystal spheres and no phlogiston, it's called wildspace instead, the parts of wildspace that are very remote from planets and such become hazy and are known as the astral sea, wildspace+astral sea are referred to as astral plane so now the astral plane is part of the prime material plane.... This changes a LOT of things.... Gods can appear in the space setting now and should technically therefore be able to access any world even without worshippers on that world, changes to the smaller details of how spelljamming works as well ...... This is my understanding after watching an interview from two months ago about it anyway
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More spell jammer plz
I got loads for ya! Stuff you have never seen before.
Nerds.
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At first I felt objectionable to "he/him" about Corellon (gender pronouns being popularized in OUR culture, but not really any other, doesn't seem appropriate to project onto the cannon of D&D which is intended to be "other" as cultural creativity).
However, the more reflection I have on that as Corellon being the embodiment of art and creativity, I think that was a genius way to describe him. Whether you like gender pronouns or not, that seems a perfect way to describe a being that is the embodiment of his portfolio (for good or bad). A dwarf barbarian scoffing at "he/him" or an elf bard saying "well of course you would describe him like that" seems a perfect reflection (wow, went really Warhammer there).
I don't think the elves would even care about gender politics or even consider them an issue. They as a society are all very gender fluid. Their native language might not even have a He/him or she/her but just simply a singular version for They. Of course other languages have other rules so they would simply use the closest term available and put no further thought into it because to do so would be alien to them. They don't have our social baggage after all and gender issues would be such an alien concept to a people so heavily steeped in magic that they simply can choose their gender. Alter Self is a low level spell and the Belt of Gender Reversal was in the game from its first edition and was permanent.
Pronoums he/him?
Its the lore, its not a political statement man, get over it.
There's a reason TV tropes has a page named "elffeminate".
@@AJPickett I thought the lore was that Corellon used many different pronouns, even as far back as 1st Edition.
@Andy English in case you misheard and did not read the scripted captions, I said "Corellon has no biological sex but * is referred to by the elves* as their Father, thus he is always referred to in the male pronouns of He/Him _even if he chooses to manifest in a female form_ his normal appearance is that of an exceptionally beautiful androgynous male elf. " Corellon does, the elves however, do not.
@@AJPickett uh whoa