Perhaps I should have clarified. View numbers wise, Top 10 Monster videos seem to do worse than class/magic item videos. That being said, it seems those of you who do watch are more passionate and interested from what you leave in the comments. I'm hopeful that doing a video on a stellar 3rd party monster product, we'll be able to change the view statistics. There's still time to back Tome of Beasts 2 on Kickstarter, head here to check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/deepmagic/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition-400-new-monsters
Most probably is because the ratio of DMs to players. Way less DMs than players that will care more about class/items for their PCs than monsters that they should not know the stats about because meta/immersion reasons. And then DMing, in general, because of the planning requires more passion and interest.
@@SRautaro yeah, I think this is why. Population of players vs. DMs in the community means videos with subjects players care about do better. Add to that the number of people who aren't even players in a campaign, just theory crafting character ideas.
Dude, love the monster top ten! Maybe a fews sets of monster you could group by natural environment or realm.. Example Underdark, or fey wild. Etc. I still say your top tens are the BEST!
Both of KP’s bestiaries are SO GOOD. I backed the ToB2 the instant I saw it Also, KP’s monsters are more dangerous because they seem to actually follow the monster creation by CR table in the DMG.
As mimics live longer they do grow bigger and eventually become a house hunter. Which essentially is a mimic who can now appear as an outhouse, tavern or even a castle. And in regards to the map mimic, I like the idea that they become maps in order to lead people to their progenitor mimic and its siblings who have already made it back "home".
Oh shit! I actually used Swolbolds in a dungeon against players during a one-shot, so it's cool to know that you made them. Thanks! They were a lot of fun, thought the party died to the Hellfire engine they were riding Mad Max style. I also used the Hoard Golem resting in a treasure vault to a red dragon. The Hoard Golem was also accompanied by a few Cobbleswarms [Tome of beasts pg68] flavored as living bars of gold.
Looking at the picture of the Timingila in the new book that’s coming out, I have to wonder why people in Realmspace feel so comfortable sailing when they know these leviathan-esque creatures that can one-shot their whole crews loom just beneath the waters.
Videos like these inspire me to prepare main/side stories based around the monsters. I'm not DMing at the moment but as soon as I do, I should have enough material to spare.
I love that grass creature as soon as I saw it. I love creatures that I can pretty much put anywhere and not have to explain why it's there to throw into random encounters. "Yah, you're walking through a field or on a road and suddenly next to where you're walking a grass creature erupts out of the ground!"
My favorite kobold press book thank you for this I appreciate the video I mean codex is awesome but still also time of beasts 2 ahh birthday gift check.
I just bought this book over the weekend and I am really impressed with it. I am going to get the Creature Codex as well and many other Kobold Press books. I really dig their artwork and their quality is damned fine.
This is a good idea for a series. 3d party monster books. Look up Frog God Games' Tome of Horrors, 2CGaming's Bestiary, and Nord Games' Ultimate Bestiary: Revenge of the Horde. I'm sure there are others. EDIT: Forgot about the Creature Codex.
Would love if you did a Top 10 of the Tome of Horrors. If you like the hoard drake or hoard golem, you might love the hoard ooze. It's one of my favourites, and I've use it against my party before. Hoping the otterkin is also a race because that'd be fun. You should check my response on the ogrepede post. Rogue Genius Games did a variant flesh golem horror recreation that I immediately thought of when I saw the art for Kobold's picture. Definitely some similarities. I shared a picture on there from the RGG book. For the Kickstarter, I'm absolutely hoping KP does a darkness elemental. I haven't seen those since AD&D 2nd. I have the KP Tome of Beasts book as well, and when I saw the Sharkjaw skeleton, I honestly thought it was a golem. It's not like we don't have things like that in other editions (ie. the tooth golem). A mimic I miss seeing, and hope to see come back, are the house hunters (AD&D 2nd). Mimics that can look like a house or church, and give off light, sounds of people murmuring, or emulate the sounds of church bells.
I have both the previous KP monster manuals and was going to back TOB2 but unfortunately shipping for the UK (and presumably the rest of europe) costs the same as the book itself. It's a shame but I'm happy to wait.
I love how the red hag may give a reason as th o why General Ripper from Dr. Strangelove is constantly going on about "natural bodily fluids"; he ran into one and went crazy!
I would get these tomes, but I use dnd beyond for making my encounters and helping me brainstorm what my players will go up against next and I REALLY don't want to spend the time porting everything over as homebrew.
Subconsciously, and I guess now consciously, I always thought that it *made since* (somehow?) for Skeletons to cast spells/have magic, versus a basic Zombie being incapable. Anyone know where I got this concept from? A movie? A game? I dunno.
You’d have to recalculate the CR for every class feature you give it, because some things barely affect CR, while others bump it up massively. Ergo CR is not 1:1 with class levels.
Linnorms are already a thing Those are dragons with only two lambs front legs generally and in the lower they go more and more into insanity the older they get to the point where even Tiamat wants nothing to do with him
Perhaps I should have clarified. View numbers wise, Top 10 Monster videos seem to do worse than class/magic item videos. That being said, it seems those of you who do watch are more passionate and interested from what you leave in the comments. I'm hopeful that doing a video on a stellar 3rd party monster product, we'll be able to change the view statistics.
There's still time to back Tome of Beasts 2 on Kickstarter, head here to check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/deepmagic/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition-400-new-monsters
Most probably is because the ratio of DMs to players. Way less DMs than players that will care more about class/items for their PCs than monsters that they should not know the stats about because meta/immersion reasons. And then DMing, in general, because of the planning requires more passion and interest.
This actually makes a lot of sense!
@@SRautaro yeah, I think this is why. Population of players vs. DMs in the community means videos with subjects players care about do better. Add to that the number of people who aren't even players in a campaign, just theory crafting character ideas.
At the end of the day the Videos are good regardless of the views they get. The monsters in here are awesome especially the hoard Golem
Dude, love the monster top ten! Maybe a fews sets of monster you could group by natural environment or realm.. Example Underdark, or fey wild. Etc. I still say your top tens are the BEST!
I love this book. Especially since in one of my games I'm a moon druid and this book has some great beasts and dinosaurs to transform into
Best class in the game.
Both of KP’s bestiaries are SO GOOD. I backed the ToB2 the instant I saw it
Also, KP’s monsters are more dangerous because they seem to actually follow the monster creation by CR table in the DMG.
I agree, my players even killed Strahd in one round
@@thegingergod3122 I've heard that so many times. You have no idea.
@@youcantbeatk7006 Turns out, you can’t beat K, but you can certainly beat Strahd.
As a noob just about everything you post helps me out .
As mimics live longer they do grow bigger and eventually become a house hunter. Which essentially is a mimic who can now appear as an outhouse, tavern or even a castle.
And in regards to the map mimic, I like the idea that they become maps in order to lead people to their progenitor mimic and its siblings who have already made it back "home".
I love the Tome of Beasts and Creature Codex. I find myself turning to them for almost all of my campaign creatures and NPCs.
Oh shit! I actually used Swolbolds in a dungeon against players during a one-shot, so it's cool to know that you made them. Thanks!
They were a lot of fun, thought the party died to the Hellfire engine they were riding Mad Max style.
I also used the Hoard Golem resting in a treasure vault to a red dragon. The Hoard Golem was also accompanied by a few Cobbleswarms [Tome of beasts pg68] flavored as living bars of gold.
P.S. Do "Top 10 D&D 5e Creature Codex Monsters" next!
Can't wait to see you do more from the Tome of Beast and Creature Codex
Thank you. I have the tome of beasts, but I keep forgetting to look in it for ideas, since I don’t know all the stuff in there. This was useful
This is a new one. TOB2
@@draxthemsklonst these creatures are from TOB1
@@jacobpamplin6449
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Looking at the picture of the Timingila in the new book that’s coming out, I have to wonder why people in Realmspace feel so comfortable sailing when they know these leviathan-esque creatures that can one-shot their whole crews loom just beneath the waters.
Same reason we did when we thought the same.
Love the consistency of your posts and the freedom you give of speaking your opinions. Makes great for listening to for my long drives every day
LOVE Kobold Press! Immediately backed this one.
Videos like these inspire me to prepare main/side stories based around the monsters. I'm not DMing at the moment but as soon as I do, I should have enough material to spare.
I really like your top 10 monsters videos, so far it helped me a lot.
I love that grass creature as soon as I saw it. I love creatures that I can pretty much put anywhere and not have to explain why it's there to throw into random encounters. "Yah, you're walking through a field or on a road and suddenly next to where you're walking a grass creature erupts out of the ground!"
Tome of Beasts and Creature Codex were great. TOB2 is still on Kickstarter to support!
The Lairs book are freaking good.
Kobold Press is a 10/10 company that produces nothing short of gold when related to 5th ed
My favorite kobold press book thank you for this I appreciate the video I mean codex is awesome but still also time of beasts 2 ahh birthday gift check.
I just bought this book over the weekend and I am really impressed with it. I am going to get the Creature Codex as well and many other Kobold Press books. I really dig their artwork and their quality is damned fine.
Your Top ten monsters videos are well done regardless of the view's
19:39 “ I mean that’s gold!”
Me * looking at the golem literally made of gold* : well yeah, that’s what a hoard is
This is a good idea for a series. 3d party monster books. Look up Frog God Games' Tome of Horrors, 2CGaming's Bestiary, and Nord Games' Ultimate Bestiary: Revenge of the Horde. I'm sure there are others. EDIT: Forgot about the Creature Codex.
Carnivorous Saad, we made a Bulbasaur but it’s eviiiiiil!
Would love if you did a Top 10 of the Tome of Horrors. If you like the hoard drake or hoard golem, you might love the hoard ooze. It's one of my favourites, and I've use it against my party before.
Hoping the otterkin is also a race because that'd be fun.
You should check my response on the ogrepede post. Rogue Genius Games did a variant flesh golem horror recreation that I immediately thought of when I saw the art for Kobold's picture. Definitely some similarities. I shared a picture on there from the RGG book.
For the Kickstarter, I'm absolutely hoping KP does a darkness elemental. I haven't seen those since AD&D 2nd.
I have the KP Tome of Beasts book as well, and when I saw the Sharkjaw skeleton, I honestly thought it was a golem. It's not like we don't have things like that in other editions (ie. the tooth golem).
A mimic I miss seeing, and hope to see come back, are the house hunters (AD&D 2nd). Mimics that can look like a house or church, and give off light, sounds of people murmuring, or emulate the sounds of church bells.
I have both the previous KP monster manuals and was going to back TOB2 but unfortunately shipping for the UK (and presumably the rest of europe) costs the same as the book itself. It's a shame but I'm happy to wait.
I love how the red hag may give a reason as th o why General Ripper from Dr. Strangelove is constantly going on about "natural bodily fluids"; he ran into one and went crazy!
Now I would love a druid circle based on the red hag called like the Circle of Crimson that is effectively a bloodbender.
The Lindwurm reminds me of the Varactyl Obi-Wan Kenobi rides in ep. 3
Love your videos keep it up
"That's gold..."
yes, yes it is
I would get these tomes, but I use dnd beyond for making my encounters and helping me brainstorm what my players will go up against next and I REALLY don't want to spend the time porting everything over as homebrew.
Subconsciously, and I guess now consciously, I always thought that it *made since* (somehow?) for Skeletons to cast spells/have magic, versus a basic Zombie being incapable.
Anyone know where I got this concept from? A movie? A game? I dunno.
Skeletons are held together by magic,
While Zombies are usually portrayed as a disease rather than a magical creature.
if you were to add class levels onto the red hag, would you add a CR for every level of a class? (i.e. a 3rd level wizard hag would be CR 10)
No because monster's CR is supposed to match level of entire party of adventurers.
You’d have to recalculate the CR for every class feature you give it, because some things barely affect CR, while others bump it up massively. Ergo CR is not 1:1 with class levels.
The lindwurm looks like a Lagiacrus from monster hunter, you should check it out!
Wasnt lindwurm in 3rd edition books?
Yeah, I think they were a whole type of dragon creature.
🔥I have monster love 🔥
Sharkjaw is straight up a CR 2 creature with that damage
It would be funny if the map on the map mimic looks like a map to a treasure chest but it leads to a treasure chest mimic
What if you had a map mimic familiar that you could only get correct directions out of with charisma checks?
Mimic boats!
Yea, I think if you categorized your top ten creatures into different areas like fae or under dark or whatever that they'd do better
I don't understand how the sharkjaw skeleton can make claw attacks when it's all bites.
Keep making these mate! There's not enough love for bestiaries on TH-cam
Give me Cobbleswarm
Number 11!
Cool
Why is it a swarm that resist non magic weapons? Rat swarms resist all weapons. How many butterflies can a magic rapier skewer?
Linnorms are already a thing Those are dragons with only two lambs front legs generally and in the lower they go more and more into insanity the older they get to the point where even Tiamat wants nothing to do with him
I actually have the pocket edition of this book, my players think that anything in it is Op