To be fair, you don't worship her for harsh winters. People pray to her the same way they pray to Umberlee, which is in hopes that worshiping them will get them to "be cool" and not make things worse for everyone.
Yeah. That’s pretty much what is happening in the Ten Towns. You would think enough people would be praying really hard to the gods and goddess of Summer, the sun, fire, and barbecue.
Came to the comments to say this, it's the most interesting part to me about her. It explains how so many evil gods get as big as they do. Rather than "pray to me for good luck," you pray for them to spare you, your family and friends, your town, etc.
I remember when I ran Auril for my Rime campaign. Since her lair allowed her to teleport anywhere and sense everyone that comes over. I decided to teleport behind one of my players when she felt provoked. My player I did that to. He didn't recover for a few weeks after that. EDIT: I forgot to mention the player was my brother.
This really only works until the party is around level 5 or 7. An optimized level 5 party can take her out, and a level 7 party of moderate skill can take her out. (There is an ending where the party takes her out at her island for this reason.) She only has a total of around 330 hp between all forms and only her big ice form and final form do any sort of damage so she really only has 240ish hp instead. (And the big ice form only does that damage because of cone of cold, otherwise her damage in that form is low as well.)
I too enjoy teleporting behind my players. Really puts the fear in their eyes, especially if it's an online game. They really don't expect you to be able to do that.
Agreed @archmagemc3561 , I actually had to buff her a little to make her a threat in later levels (ie more spells and some more help) Eventyr was my best friend running the campaign
@@alaricromsaithong6648 Our DM instead had us fight the roc, her 2nd in command, then her in a gauntlet to escape her island the first time. The second time at the end in the tower, he buffed her with lots of spells and everything... that she didn't get to use because my dumbass druid decided to shove the mcguffin that took out the city in a bag of holding since she was using it as leverage against the leader there, and set it off turning off all magic in the area. When its a slug fest vs a moon druid who can turn into an earth elemental and no one has magic, things get funny and weird.
As a lover of MGE (despite the existence of Sabbath as a group in series), We're always happy to see even the smallest of nods to it on platforms like TH-cam.
@@waterpolonum1 I don't really see it as cowardice. I see it more as Oh God (pun intended) just let this end it's been three hours, and we've just entered a third phase.
Fun Fact: One of Auril's Chosen is Artus Cimber, a guy who found a cool ring called the Ring of Winter. He also helps another group of adventurers kick the asses of an aborted god and one of the most feared liches in the multiverse in order to end a curse that caused the campaign to be a permadeath game. This suggests that the Ring of Winter is somehow connected to Auril in some way shape or form, but there really isn't anything that tells us how they are connected. My personal opinion? Auril decided to split her Divine Spark into four separate pieces. She kept three of them (one for each of her forms in Rime of the Frostmaiden) and forged the other into the Ring of Winter. That sentience in the Ring of Winter? In my headcanon, that's Auril. While it keeps her relatively weak as a minor goddess, it acts as an insurance plan in case people try to slay her in Icewind Dale, and it hides her from Ao (hope you do a video on them btw) so he doesn't clap her booty cheeks for fucking around on the material plane for so long; since she doesn't have her full spark, Ao doesn't really detect her, and he can't find the other spark because the Ring of Winter is immune to any form of divination.
@@SwissStrawberry That's only really a theory behind it's origins, and there isn't any sources claiming that Azuth loved Auril. He was more into Mystra and her chosen. It also wouldn't make sense that a ring forged by a patron of wizards can only be destroyed by being worn by the Summer Queen. It would make more sense that a ring made by the embodiment of winter itself could be melted by the embodiment of summer itself though, at least in my mind, and I like to think that the destruction of artifacts in D&D are somewhat symbolic and poetic in nature. Hence why I think the ring was just made by Auril to house part of Auril's spark.
ngl, when my friend sand I played this we ended up beating all three phases WAY earlier than we should have, somehow, and the campaign has been on indefinite hiatus since because the DM was like "you guys kinda completed the main story early and now i need to figure out what you guys are gonna do" and then life kinda happened.
I just finished the Mastering Dungeons review of the adventure and yeah, it's kinda weird the whole titular Rime and/or Frostmaiden are not the end of the adventure. You could solve the problem in Act 2 and then Act 3 makes little sense ...
I had a murderhoboe playing with use for a few years and his most recent creature created a character that prays to Auril and uses the excuse that his goddess is telling him to murder nearby people including children and in general just be evil to the rest of the party. this lesson made me learn that not all your friends have to apart of your DND group
In the Dawn War pantheon, when Khala tried the "Eternal winter" thing, the rest of the gods (including her sons Bane and Kord) killed her, and the Raven Queen took domain over winter from her. The world's nature spirits were like "Y'all can't come here anymore."
The Gods of Fury against the Dead Three would be hilarious. Both sides send in champions, who, like their gods, do not get a long and constantly fight each other. One of those group could be the players.
5:37 is it crazy how fast that moved? You must not have played many campaigns starting as basically peasants and then fighting gods within a year's time
That is not the norm though. I mean, imagine it from a normal person in, lets say Neverwinter. A whole apocalypse or something starts, couple years later an entire region has a climate catastrophe, a couple years later again an entire city gets dragged to hell for a few weeks and then some weeks following that another big city is almost wiped out by a fucking alien invasion. At some point around that time you hear about some fucking weirdass lich blocking all revival spells from his dungeon in a hellish jungle, rotting all those who were previously ressurrected until he is stopped. And whatever else is happening in terms of big, wide-reaching campaign plots. Imagine all that happening in your lifetime. Not even your entire life but a decade or two. That is absolutely fast.
@@kingskelett6265 I mean.. the Great Depression ran into WW2. And there are many.. *many* modern examples of disaster after disaster. All of D&D lore just seems like the kind of stuff you'd get if you added beings with god-like power who want to screw with people/the world/reality. Adventurers would be the oddballs out, rising above the commoners, but their powers are (clearly) not unheard of. I think it would be the unfortunate norm, if that's the world you grew up in. Cursed to live in interesting times (emphasis on the "cursed").
I would like to point out, in Rime of the Frost maiden, they DO give a way to permanently kill Auril. Drop the scroll of summon tarrasque on her and hope the tarrasque eats her. If she can't get out before the tarrasque's acid damage takes her out, she dies forever as the tarrasque is able to kill even greater gods by eating them through their avatars. Its why the gods run the moment the tarrasque shows up and don't even try to fight it even though many of them could actually beat it, because its one of the handful of ways to permanently end them.
Good luck, may it be the first of many (or as many sessions as you're hoping for) and I pray to the gaming gods you can avoid the ravages of dreaded scheduling dragon.
My party just finished Icewind Dale. That last fight with her was really difficult, but we kinda cooked her. The Demi-Lich we had to kill immediately before that fight was 10x harder. That thing can instantly kill the entire party if you're unlucky.
The art style of the anime ice girl in the thumbnail looked familiar, and my suspicions turned out to be correct. She is from the Monster Girl Encyclopedia, the Ice Queen to be exact! ^^ A very nice choice from a very _nice_ source book. 💙
I was talking with the guy who wrote this book of battlezoo. We were talking about the living spells and their balance and it was really fun. IT was on the pathfinder side of things, but still, we were discussing some of the living spell abilities and if they were balanced or not and lots of people including myself said he did a good job balancing things for pathfinder since the downsdies are one crit away from the player going down and casters get crit way more often than martials so its a strong high risk high reward gameplay style, but the reward doesn't outweigh the risk and you get a MOBA situation.
7:25 I love that game idea. You can find a copy of risk godstorm and have the different gods battle for control of that map over multiple sessions with the hero’s picking sides( there are 25 total god tokens. Each god raises armies to battle each other on the map. Between sessions a round of godstorm occurs. In each session players get to move up to 5 regions max (having to sneak past unfriendly “armies” if avoiding them ) and doing dnd battles in the last place they land. Players individually or in a group can wipe out enemies or lead ally armies during sessions under contract of one of the 25 gods. If a player dies godstorm has an underworld map they can move or fight their way out of.
I had a plotline in mind for months before Rime of the Frostmaiden came out (I'm aware it was probably a remake of an old module, but idk) that involved Auril. She had had a succubus child with Levistus and the plotline involved said succubus seducing a "powerful hero" (PC) and having a child, forming a group called "The Frosted Fingers" who's goal was more or less to conjure her to the material plane and cause vast wintery death.
life the Forgotten Realms must be pretty shit, all the official 5e adventure modules canonically happen within the span of like 5 years, starting just after or even overlapping with the end of the Second Sundering. And it's always been like that nonstop for tens of thousands of years.
Auril is an amazing goddess because while weak she is actually present, in fact because she is weak she works as a good villain, most gods in dnd are way too powerful to be anything but the schemer behind the scenes, which is less interesting than them actually being physically present. Though i'll admit that when i ran rime of the frostmaiden i gave her some better motivations than the canonical reason for the everlasting winter.
Auril was a huge pushover for ,y party when I ran Rime of the Frostmaiden. Despite having 3 forms and being a multi-staged boss, she couldn't be a real threat to the party, due to the fight being a single creature vs many. She lacks enough versatility and proper minions for a lvl 11 party, and that's a recurring issue with the 5E bosses. The real challenges are those that have multiple threats that force the party to split their focus and fire power. Other than that, she also felt more like a backseat threat than an actual one for the party because of how the story unfolds, which is a shame imo.
Starting up a new campaign so ive been watching DND videos like I'm being subjected to some kind of CIA television torture scene, and I was starting to run out. Glad to know runesmith's got my back
I WISH i had cold days here in Brazil, Joinville at christmas. The weather used to be almost always cold or close to it, but nowadays almost all days are SO fucking hot. It really sucks. Great video btw
Auril is, i think, my favorite goddess of the Realms. I ran Legacy of the Crystal Shard, it was supposed to go into RotF. But it fizzled out. I think i would have used the rules to kill a god from previous editions. where you can take the spark of divinity from her, permanently slaying her, and replacing her with an NPC, or Player character.
I was working on a grimdark campaign where a cult of Auril was trying to get her to manifest at the same time another force was waking up an Ancient Frost Dragon. The BBEG final battle was going to have a dragon v god avatar fight like Kong v Godzilla
DO NOT let my players see this video ! They have just battled a massively beefed up version of hers and if they find out both her forms were supposed to have only 130 HP someones gonna riot. :o Though they were also caked up in a stupid amount of magic items and had a Godslaying Hammer of the Dwarves, resulting in the fighter dishing out over 100 dmg per turn, every turn. Those buffs were sorely needed.
My campaign ended with my character, an Oathbreaker Paladin who made an oath to her specifically, got a deck of many things and got wish spells. So essentially I got to wish her out of existence (probably not how the wish spell worked but yeah)
I had a triton paladin/warlock who worshipped umberlee but my father had this black book that drove him insane. One night he died in a fire and I awoke clutching the book. Now I read his book hoping to find an answer but am now hearing voices. My worship was still for umberlee but I had made a pact with some ancient entity. Oathbreaker with great old one. I had a trident and I would randomly blurt out nonsense like "no we won't kill them" and when everyone would look at me I would tap my trident on the ground and utter a light prayer: "bizch please."
I have a homebrewed dark domain that I’ve been working on on/off for a few years now, with the main idea being “what if I mixed Curse of Strahd and Icewind Dale?” Basically a monster hunter turned Vampire is the dark Lord and was trying to make the lands into an eternal winter so that the sun would never rise. (I think there’s actually a vampire movie set in Alaska with a similar, albeit far less fantasy type of story) Didn’t even think about how maybe he could be a worshiper of the Frostmaiden. Which would be super funny since I’m currently playing a Blood Hunter who helped “kill” Auril, break her eternal winter, and blames all of his life’s misfortune on her lol
having done the fight, it isn't as bad as it seems. All of her forms have pretty common weakness being Radiant, Fire and Thunder and the book gives you a bunch of weapons throughout the story to help you deal with it. If I remember correctly there is a thunder hammer or sword and you can get a bunch of Radiant weapons from a crashed ship in the mountains.
I think the reason Umberlee gets some curious title and names, is cause its moslty Sailors who worship her, since she doesnt care about whats going on in land besides on the shores, and aslong shes being worshiped, she doesnt really care about the names shes gets, aslong shes feared. On another note: If the 3 boss phase is abit anoying and hard to explain, theres another way to look at why Auril is this much of a pain. Dont look at her as a Goddess, look at her as an Archfey whos now gaining Divinity by trying to carve her own domain. Its honeslty more fitting if you look at her like that, since it makes her actions make more sense and explain why shes weirdly chill if you arent agressive towards her. Combining the power of an powerfull minor Archfey and power of Divinity through Follower's, is honeslty a good way to represent her weird power scalling. If you have trouble explaining where she comes from or who shes related to (assuming ya dont want to use old lore), just say shes the spawn from the Queen of Air and Darkness and another being (like a Frost Giant since Fey and Giant are usually neutral or chill).
One does not pray for Endless Winter. One prays for the power to unleash epic ice spells on their enemies. Wall of frost, Cone of Cold, Blizard, Ice (insert weapon name here, because knife sounds like a silly thing when I can conjure a scythe made from ice), Ice Pillar, (and why not) Summoned Ice Elemental (which I hope would be a eight legged horse to crush under my enemies hooves and I ride threw the enemy lines
You know what I really find funny? If I remember correctly, in Rime of the Frostmaiden, you can find a scroll that lets you summon the Tarrasque. If you ever wanted to reenact the ending of Thor: Ragnarok, you certainly can.
All the gods of primal fury gathering chosen to do some world ending plot sounds like Princes of the Apocalypse but with storms instead of avatar elements
in my setting she has a second daughter who is currently competing to kick each other out of the dale though...its more like a taped off house...your side my side right now
If I'm not mistaken, Auril had something to do with the crafting of the ring of winter, right? Could you make a video explaining more about that artifact? The amount of lore about it in Tomb of Annihilation is quite disappointing...
The Fearsome Foursome are back together. There is a problem, they each want to be in charge. The solution? Since outright war isnt allowed, they have to move through their avatars and be the last one standing. Thats where the party comes in. They literally get to choose their own adventure. Which gods plans do they want to disrupt first? Second? Third? Its a steadily escalating challenge no matter who you pick because of course the other three gods will help you drag down the first victim. Then the other two, then the one you didnt choose to go after. Meanwhile the remaining avatars are themselves growing stronger which means you get less help and the avatar and its challenge is steadily getting harder. Thankfully you are leveling up during all this.... right?
I tried to pet Auril because we met her in wolf form and I did not get the context clues lol. The entire party yelled at my character and barely convinced me to not pet the danger puppy. They saved my hand that day. Needless to say my character was moritified after the fact. 😂
@@rawmen2127 I think Anamnesis is talking about the anime ice girl in the thumbnail. She is the Ice Queen from the Monster Girl Encyclopedia books. It's really nice, well-made and NSFW.
No need for me to listen to the sponsor segment, I already got sold on it earlier by the temptation to play a Kaiju and next week will need to set aside $200 Australian Dollars... (I couldn't refuse Onis Gremlins and The Fair Folk as an addon option because I have the temptation resistance of a rat who isn't afraid of people seeing them)
Small Trigger warning 6:10 to 6:33: if you played that game and kept dying, getting interrupted, the power went out, your system crashed because you left your PS2 running all night because your cousin stole your memory card/ save over your game file so they could play the worst game( still is the worst continuous game) Madden 2005. After all, those setbacks, you finally beat the damn thing just for the game to freeze in the middle of a cute screen!!!!!!!!!!
I've only ran one game before, so i don't think I'd be up to it, but Rime of the Frostmaiden seems like such a cool adventure to run. Also please stop using AI slop in your videos, that stuff does not need any more exposure.
To be fair, you don't worship her for harsh winters. People pray to her the same way they pray to Umberlee, which is in hopes that worshiping them will get them to "be cool" and not make things worse for everyone.
Yeah. That’s pretty much what is happening in the Ten Towns. You would think enough people would be praying really hard to the gods and goddess of Summer, the sun, fire, and barbecue.
Came to the comments to say this, it's the most interesting part to me about her. It explains how so many evil gods get as big as they do. Rather than "pray to me for good luck," you pray for them to spare you, your family and friends, your town, etc.
@@TheMightyBattleSquid Or to inflict those things on your enemies.
Honestly, placating gods was like, half of all worship back in the day.
Or if not placate, then at least not get the negative attention of.
I remember when I ran Auril for my Rime campaign. Since her lair allowed her to teleport anywhere and sense everyone that comes over. I decided to teleport behind one of my players when she felt provoked. My player I did that to. He didn't recover for a few weeks after that.
EDIT: I forgot to mention the player was my brother.
This really only works until the party is around level 5 or 7. An optimized level 5 party can take her out, and a level 7 party of moderate skill can take her out. (There is an ending where the party takes her out at her island for this reason.) She only has a total of around 330 hp between all forms and only her big ice form and final form do any sort of damage so she really only has 240ish hp instead. (And the big ice form only does that damage because of cone of cold, otherwise her damage in that form is low as well.)
I too enjoy teleporting behind my players. Really puts the fear in their eyes, especially if it's an online game. They really don't expect you to be able to do that.
Agreed @archmagemc3561 , I actually had to buff her a little to make her a threat in later levels (ie more spells and some more help) Eventyr was my best friend running the campaign
@@alaricromsaithong6648 Our DM instead had us fight the roc, her 2nd in command, then her in a gauntlet to escape her island the first time. The second time at the end in the tower, he buffed her with lots of spells and everything... that she didn't get to use because my dumbass druid decided to shove the mcguffin that took out the city in a bag of holding since she was using it as leverage against the leader there, and set it off turning off all magic in the area. When its a slug fest vs a moon druid who can turn into an earth elemental and no one has magic, things get funny and weird.
Bold of you to take an image from that one specific encylopedia, and hope no-one noticed. Very bold.
A cultured choice ☺️
My exact words were
"Hey, I know that artstyle!"
As a lover of MGE (despite the existence of Sabbath as a group in series), We're always happy to see even the smallest of nods to it on platforms like TH-cam.
I've always wanted to play a human farmer with my farm house wife and 10 children in D&D
Auril is married to Mephistopheles in my setting and they’re constantly scheming
"And they were roommates!"
"Oh my god, they were roommates..."
I love the secret ending that can happen if someone finds the Scroll of Summon Tarrasque.
or better yet, go back in time and erase all of history
Or both
5:53
How can you kill a god?! What a grand and intoxicating innocence!
I never ran it, but the boss fights sounds legit to me. Beating a god should be an incredibly difficult task.
Runesmiths' takes on combat make him sound like a coward to me
@@waterpolonum1 I don't really see it as cowardice. I see it more as Oh God (pun intended) just let this end it's been three hours, and we've just entered a third phase.
@@cwat4102 spoken like a true coward
"Although gods have no true physical form, they manifest as avatars." That's true for greater deities. Lesser deities have bodies.
Lmao 2e lore
Hay nice to see monster girl encyclopedia in the thumb nail.
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed ^^
Knew the art style looked familiar
Does he know..?
@@WalkinStereotype Doubtful.
MGE's Ice Queens are quite lovely ladies
I won't tolerate such slander against my wife
Fun Fact: One of Auril's Chosen is Artus Cimber, a guy who found a cool ring called the Ring of Winter.
He also helps another group of adventurers kick the asses of an aborted god and one of the most feared liches in the multiverse in order to end a curse that caused the campaign to be a permadeath game.
This suggests that the Ring of Winter is somehow connected to Auril in some way shape or form, but there really isn't anything that tells us how they are connected.
My personal opinion? Auril decided to split her Divine Spark into four separate pieces. She kept three of them (one for each of her forms in Rime of the Frostmaiden) and forged the other into the Ring of Winter. That sentience in the Ring of Winter? In my headcanon, that's Auril. While it keeps her relatively weak as a minor goddess, it acts as an insurance plan in case people try to slay her in Icewind Dale, and it hides her from Ao (hope you do a video on them btw) so he doesn't clap her booty cheeks for fucking around on the material plane for so long; since she doesn't have her full spark, Ao doesn't really detect her, and he can't find the other spark because the Ring of Winter is immune to any form of divination.
the ring is literally the engagement ring Auril got from Azuth. But she rejected him
so you're telling me she pulled a Sauron
@burghleyimeanberdly6513 Basically yeah, at least in my headcanon and interpretation. Ring of Winter is pretty One Ring coded anyway.
@@SwissStrawberry That's only really a theory behind it's origins, and there isn't any sources claiming that Azuth loved Auril. He was more into Mystra and her chosen.
It also wouldn't make sense that a ring forged by a patron of wizards can only be destroyed by being worn by the Summer Queen. It would make more sense that a ring made by the embodiment of winter itself could be melted by the embodiment of summer itself though, at least in my mind, and I like to think that the destruction of artifacts in D&D are somewhat symbolic and poetic in nature.
Hence why I think the ring was just made by Auril to house part of Auril's spark.
The ring of winter is related to giants and the fall of their empire. Have fun looking into it.
ngl, when my friend sand I played this we ended up beating all three phases WAY earlier than we should have, somehow, and the campaign has been on indefinite hiatus since because the DM was like "you guys kinda completed the main story early and now i need to figure out what you guys are gonna do" and then life kinda happened.
I just finished the Mastering Dungeons review of the adventure and yeah, it's kinda weird the whole titular Rime and/or Frostmaiden are not the end of the adventure. You could solve the problem in Act 2 and then Act 3 makes little sense ...
Ha yes, "evil gods" and "working together", what could go wrong.
I had a murderhoboe playing with use for a few years and his most recent creature created a character that prays to Auril and uses the excuse that his goddess is telling him to murder nearby people including children and in general just be evil to the rest of the party. this lesson made me learn that not all your friends have to apart of your DND group
In the Dawn War pantheon, when Khala tried the "Eternal winter" thing, the rest of the gods (including her sons Bane and Kord) killed her, and the Raven Queen took domain over winter from her. The world's nature spirits were like "Y'all can't come here anymore."
The Gods of Fury against the Dead Three would be hilarious.
Both sides send in champions, who, like their gods, do not get a long and constantly fight each other. One of those group could be the players.
I really like Auril, i actually make sure to include a god like her in all of my worldbuilding projects.
5:37 is it crazy how fast that moved? You must not have played many campaigns starting as basically peasants and then fighting gods within a year's time
That is not the norm though. I mean, imagine it from a normal person in, lets say Neverwinter. A whole apocalypse or something starts, couple years later an entire region has a climate catastrophe, a couple years later again an entire city gets dragged to hell for a few weeks and then some weeks following that another big city is almost wiped out by a fucking alien invasion.
At some point around that time you hear about some fucking weirdass lich blocking all revival spells from his dungeon in a hellish jungle, rotting all those who were previously ressurrected until he is stopped.
And whatever else is happening in terms of big, wide-reaching campaign plots.
Imagine all that happening in your lifetime. Not even your entire life but a decade or two. That is absolutely fast.
@@kingskelett6265 I mean.. the Great Depression ran into WW2. And there are many.. *many* modern examples of disaster after disaster. All of D&D lore just seems like the kind of stuff you'd get if you added beings with god-like power who want to screw with people/the world/reality.
Adventurers would be the oddballs out, rising above the commoners, but their powers are (clearly) not unheard of.
I think it would be the unfortunate norm, if that's the world you grew up in. Cursed to live in interesting times (emphasis on the "cursed").
Seeing Springtrap fall across the screen after him mentioning Freddy Fazbear briefly made me wonder if I was going insane.
Made me chuckle. Good bit.
I would like to point out, in Rime of the Frost maiden, they DO give a way to permanently kill Auril. Drop the scroll of summon tarrasque on her and hope the tarrasque eats her. If she can't get out before the tarrasque's acid damage takes her out, she dies forever as the tarrasque is able to kill even greater gods by eating them through their avatars. Its why the gods run the moment the tarrasque shows up and don't even try to fight it even though many of them could actually beat it, because its one of the handful of ways to permanently end them.
6:35 yeah but that’s also a crazy satisfying final boss for the trilogy
Hosting a first session today, wish me luck!
🙏 have fun!
Good luck, may it be the first of many (or as many sessions as you're hoping for) and I pray to the gaming gods you can avoid the ravages of dreaded scheduling dragon.
My party just finished Icewind Dale. That last fight with her was really difficult, but we kinda cooked her. The Demi-Lich we had to kill immediately before that fight was 10x harder. That thing can instantly kill the entire party if you're unlucky.
The art style of the anime ice girl in the thumbnail looked familiar, and my suspicions turned out to be correct.
She is from the Monster Girl Encyclopedia, the Ice Queen to be exact! ^^
A very nice choice from a very _nice_ source book. 💙
Runesmith: "Are you tired of playing basic humanoid characters-"
Me: "No. Human supremacy all the way."
How boring. I bet you like your food unseasoned or just lightly salted, and find all sex off-putting minus missionary. Basic bish
1:35 music shifts to You Might Be A Runesmith 😊
I watched the video, Logan. 7.8/10, there's a mean water lady in it.
I know where thay anime waifu in the thumbnail is from. Cultured. Also, yes. Yes I get the Ratchet and Clank reference.
Auril my beloved. The Frostussy.
Yoo MGE race in thumbnail... nice~
I was talking with the guy who wrote this book of battlezoo. We were talking about the living spells and their balance and it was really fun. IT was on the pathfinder side of things, but still, we were discussing some of the living spell abilities and if they were balanced or not and lots of people including myself said he did a good job balancing things for pathfinder since the downsdies are one crit away from the player going down and casters get crit way more often than martials so its a strong high risk high reward gameplay style, but the reward doesn't outweigh the risk and you get a MOBA situation.
Oh shit i thought you meant Elsa. I'm like "Well i don't know if i HATE her, but I definitely think she's overrated."
"AI Art Warning" "Eh close enough"
-shows the AI coke ad-
Bless the RuneSmith
god damn that Ratchet And Clank mention brought back memorieeeeees
I’m concerned about the anime ice girl in the thumbnail I have the displeasure of knowing where she comes from
If I could listen I would probably stay away and be wary. BUT I CAN'T! ROLL TO SEDUCE!!!
7:25
I love that game idea. You can find a copy of risk godstorm and have the different gods battle for control of that map over multiple sessions with the hero’s picking sides( there are 25 total god tokens. Each god raises armies to battle each other on the map. Between sessions a round of godstorm occurs. In each session players get to move up to 5 regions max (having to sneak past unfriendly “armies” if avoiding them ) and doing dnd battles in the last place they land. Players individually or in a group can wipe out enemies or lead ally armies during sessions under contract of one of the 25 gods. If a player dies godstorm has an underworld map they can move or fight their way out of.
You gave me flashbacks to a childhood trauma I'd long buried... Ratchet and Clank 3's final boss(es).
I had a plotline in mind for months before Rime of the Frostmaiden came out (I'm aware it was probably a remake of an old module, but idk) that involved Auril. She had had a succubus child with Levistus and the plotline involved said succubus seducing a "powerful hero" (PC) and having a child, forming a group called "The Frosted Fingers" who's goal was more or less to conjure her to the material plane and cause vast wintery death.
ew, AI
I kinda feel sorry for Auril tho. Maybe needs to expand domain
RATCHET AND CLANK 3 MENTIONED!
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Dude, I love auril. She is so fun to run
To those who clicked because of the thumbnail:
"If you know, you know."
life the Forgotten Realms must be pretty shit, all the official 5e adventure modules canonically happen within the span of like 5 years, starting just after or even overlapping with the end of the Second Sundering. And it's always been like that nonstop for tens of thousands of years.
Nothing that Battlezoo produces will ever top their Dungeons book. Wherein you play AS the Dungeon (as a PC).
Also, BZ:D is a free pdf.
The auril boss in rotfm, is actually super weak. At the level you’re supposed to fight her at (11-12), she can die within 8-10 turns
Auril is an amazing goddess because while weak she is actually present, in fact because she is weak she works as a good villain, most gods in dnd are way too powerful to be anything but the schemer behind the scenes, which is less interesting than them actually being physically present. Though i'll admit that when i ran rime of the frostmaiden i gave her some better motivations than the canonical reason for the everlasting winter.
They really do need more good ice deities. There is more to winter than cold.
I mean, there’s always Santa.
@jordanwhite8718 he is more a fey lord than a deity, below that of Father Time and Mother Nature.
I love Auril!
My paladin wiped the floor with her. It was a great fight!
Auril was a huge pushover for ,y party when I ran Rime of the Frostmaiden. Despite having 3 forms and being a multi-staged boss, she couldn't be a real threat to the party, due to the fight being a single creature vs many. She lacks enough versatility and proper minions for a lvl 11 party, and that's a recurring issue with the 5E bosses. The real challenges are those that have multiple threats that force the party to split their focus and fire power.
Other than that, she also felt more like a backseat threat than an actual one for the party because of how the story unfolds, which is a shame imo.
Keep up the great work!!
Starting up a new campaign so ive been watching DND videos like I'm being subjected to some kind of CIA television torture scene, and I was starting to run out. Glad to know runesmith's got my back
P sure on that first beach in Baldur’s gate 3 there’s a shanty to Umberlee in a book somewhere
Video begins at 1:04. AI 'art' admittedly used at 2:41.
I WISH i had cold days here in Brazil, Joinville at christmas. The weather used to be almost always cold or close to it, but nowadays almost all days are SO fucking hot. It really sucks.
Great video btw
Auril is, i think, my favorite goddess of the Realms. I ran Legacy of the Crystal Shard, it was supposed to go into RotF. But it fizzled out.
I think i would have used the rules to kill a god from previous editions. where you can take the spark of divinity from her, permanently slaying her, and replacing her with an NPC, or Player character.
I was working on a grimdark campaign where a cult of Auril was trying to get her to manifest at the same time another force was waking up an Ancient Frost Dragon.
The BBEG final battle was going to have a dragon v god avatar fight like Kong v Godzilla
That sounds like the climax of Oblivion
DO NOT let my players see this video ! They have just battled a massively beefed up version of hers and if they find out both her forms were supposed to have only 130 HP someones gonna riot. :o Though they were also caked up in a stupid amount of magic items and had a Godslaying Hammer of the Dwarves, resulting in the fighter dishing out over 100 dmg per turn, every turn. Those buffs were sorely needed.
My campaign ended with my character, an Oathbreaker Paladin who made an oath to her specifically, got a deck of many things and got wish spells. So essentially I got to wish her out of existence (probably not how the wish spell worked but yeah)
cold damage can be a bit rough. Always better to wear a sweater
The simpson episode where Homer makes that song called "Everbody hates Ned Flanders" comes to mind if this god is so hated.
I had a triton paladin/warlock who worshipped umberlee but my father had this black book that drove him insane. One night he died in a fire and I awoke clutching the book. Now I read his book hoping to find an answer but am now hearing voices. My worship was still for umberlee but I had made a pact with some ancient entity. Oathbreaker with great old one. I had a trident and I would randomly blurt out nonsense like "no we won't kill them" and when everyone would look at me I would tap my trident on the ground and utter a light prayer: "bizch please."
Me: Worships a god so winter won't be that harsh
God: Jokes on you i can't do shit anyway it is what it is
I have a homebrewed dark domain that I’ve been working on on/off for a few years now, with the main idea being “what if I mixed Curse of Strahd and Icewind Dale?” Basically a monster hunter turned Vampire is the dark Lord and was trying to make the lands into an eternal winter so that the sun would never rise. (I think there’s actually a vampire movie set in Alaska with a similar, albeit far less fantasy type of story)
Didn’t even think about how maybe he could be a worshiper of the Frostmaiden. Which would be super funny since I’m currently playing a Blood Hunter who helped “kill” Auril, break her eternal winter, and blames all of his life’s misfortune on her lol
having done the fight, it isn't as bad as it seems. All of her forms have pretty common weakness being Radiant, Fire and Thunder and the book gives you a bunch of weapons throughout the story to help you deal with it. If I remember correctly there is a thunder hammer or sword and you can get a bunch of Radiant weapons from a crashed ship in the mountains.
And you used an MGE monster for the pict, nice work
sounds neat for the boss fight. reminds me of the kaiju mechanic recently finished.
Honestly, I love playing my boring humanoids, I also encourage my party to be weird and awesome for me
The idea at the end kind or reminds me of Dragon Heist's faction system / branching story-line
I think the reason Umberlee gets some curious title and names, is cause its moslty Sailors who worship her, since she doesnt care about whats going on in land besides on the shores, and aslong shes being worshiped, she doesnt really care about the names shes gets, aslong shes feared.
On another note: If the 3 boss phase is abit anoying and hard to explain, theres another way to look at why Auril is this much of a pain. Dont look at her as a Goddess, look at her as an Archfey whos now gaining Divinity by trying to carve her own domain. Its honeslty more fitting if you look at her like that, since it makes her actions make more sense and explain why shes weirdly chill if you arent agressive towards her. Combining the power of an powerfull minor Archfey and power of Divinity through Follower's, is honeslty a good way to represent her weird power scalling.
If you have trouble explaining where she comes from or who shes related to (assuming ya dont want to use old lore), just say shes the spawn from the Queen of Air and Darkness and another being (like a Frost Giant since Fey and Giant are usually neutral or chill).
i gotta say it "I can fix her"
Calling the Dullahan Dull a hand when its actually D oo l a h aa n hurts my soul.
One does not pray for Endless Winter. One prays for the power to unleash epic ice spells on their enemies. Wall of frost, Cone of Cold, Blizard, Ice (insert weapon name here, because knife sounds like a silly thing when I can conjure a scythe made from ice), Ice Pillar, (and why not) Summoned Ice Elemental (which I hope would be a eight legged horse to crush under my enemies hooves and I ride threw the enemy lines
You know what I really find funny? If I remember correctly, in Rime of the Frostmaiden, you can find a scroll that lets you summon the Tarrasque. If you ever wanted to reenact the ending of Thor: Ragnarok, you certainly can.
Damnit now you must give lore on terry the terryfying
All the gods of primal fury gathering chosen to do some world ending plot sounds like Princes of the Apocalypse but with storms instead of avatar elements
in my setting she has a second daughter who is currently competing to kick each other out of the dale though...its more like a taped off house...your side my side right now
If I'm not mistaken, Auril had something to do with the crafting of the ring of winter, right? Could you make a video explaining more about that artifact? The amount of lore about it in Tomb of Annihilation is quite disappointing...
The Fearsome Foursome are back together. There is a problem, they each want to be in charge. The solution? Since outright war isnt allowed, they have to move through their avatars and be the last one standing. Thats where the party comes in. They literally get to choose their own adventure. Which gods plans do they want to disrupt first? Second? Third? Its a steadily escalating challenge no matter who you pick because of course the other three gods will help you drag down the first victim. Then the other two, then the one you didnt choose to go after. Meanwhile the remaining avatars are themselves growing stronger which means you get less help and the avatar and its challenge is steadily getting harder. Thankfully you are leveling up during all this.... right?
For once I'm ahead of Kyle on this after hearing about it in a podcast. It is my goal to go see Byers grave one day.
*HOT.*
...Or cold?
I tried to pet Auril because we met her in wolf form and I did not get the context clues lol. The entire party yelled at my character and barely convinced me to not pet the danger puppy. They saved my hand that day. Needless to say my character was moritified after the fact. 😂
To be fair, Talos is basically just Crom (from Conan) mixed with Odin.
Cultured thumbnail
Didn't know you were cultured.
How?
@rawmen2127 🤫 IYKYK
Logan is a man of culture indeed.
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I think Anamnesis is talking about the anime ice girl in the thumbnail. She is the Ice Queen from the Monster Girl Encyclopedia books.
It's really nice, well-made and NSFW.
I love aural, she is great, just misunderstood
4:20 Sea dogs.
If you can't find an image, I would rather you didn't use AI.
ai art 3:
I don't want to play as a kraken, I want to play as a 9 foot tall babe
COLA(R) BEAR!
No need for me to listen to the sponsor segment, I already got sold on it earlier by the temptation to play a Kaiju and next week will need to set aside $200 Australian Dollars... (I couldn't refuse Onis Gremlins and The Fair Folk as an addon option because I have the temptation resistance of a rat who isn't afraid of people seeing them)
She's the White Witch.
Looking a the thumbnail i am already down bad, how could anyone hate her?
Thats not the goddess herself, the one in the thumbnail is an ice queen from monster girl encyclopedia
So where do you think she might wind up after rime of the frostmaiden?
Those health pools for Auril seem... Really small? Are my players power gamers because they can burn down 200 hp in one round at level 6
Small Trigger warning 6:10 to 6:33: if you played that game and kept dying, getting interrupted, the power went out, your system crashed because you left your PS2 running all night because your cousin stole your memory card/ save over your game file so they could play the worst game( still is the worst continuous game) Madden 2005. After all, those setbacks, you finally beat the damn thing just for the game to freeze in the middle of a cute screen!!!!!!!!!!
I've only ran one game before, so i don't think I'd be up to it, but Rime of the Frostmaiden seems like such a cool adventure to run.
Also please stop using AI slop in your videos, that stuff does not need any more exposure.