a party i once had blew up a whole layer of MindFlayers with heavily enchanted explosives and the use of corpse puppets to place them. so in short it was a good day.
Because of this video,I looked up facts about mind flayers and found out about something that happens after ceremorphosis. The mind flayer would take on one of the host's personal quirks,like biting your nails.The quirk is hidden from other mind flayers because they believe in The Adversary.The Adversary is a mind flayer legend about a person becoming a mind flayer, getting the mind flayer's powers, but keeping all of their old memories. I also found out that some beholders eat mind flayers. That makes me want to know what mind flayers taste like. Probably tastes like calamari.
I come everyday to MrRhexx's channel to see if a new video of D&DLore&Secrets has been uploaded... and it's been more than a month since the last one... this is terrible, I NEED MORE!!!!!!! MORE!!!!!!
The Mind Worm seems pretty OP. Teleporting a player far away from the party would be bad on it's own but sending them into the stomach of a monster sounds like a guaranteed death sentence.
I remember the time our DM made a brain stealer drakolich! Our wizard, who had lots of points in the various knowledges was like "that foul horror appears to be an amalgam of draconic, psionic, and necrotic energies!" dragon zombie alien? That's fucking crazy!
Well, the ritual for creating a dracolich can only transform true dragons, and a brainstealer dragon is an Aberration, not a Dragon. So technically it wouldn’t work. Although, if a mind flayer colony can make illithid zombies, that’s its own host of problems.
@@lordvader9072 I'm not going to rules-lawyer against something as cool as undead dragon aliens. Just saying that technically it wouldn't be a dracolich, but more like an alhoon shaped like a dragon.
So basically the Mind Flayers in their base form adapt into the body they control. I imagine this at one time in their past was simply a way to protect themselves as they grew, latching onto a dead carcass and hitching into the nervous system to use the body to defend itself. Then one hitched into some poor scalped fellow, grew into an intelligent being due to the position it had in the body, and the first intelligent Mind Flayer grew into maturity. And then that first made more, then they honed their abilities over time, and we have the modern chtulhu bois
I don't think flumphs have brains, minds yes but no physical brains. This would explain why they tend to live near mindflayer colonies in order to feet of the thoughts.
Flayer + Neogi Flayer + mimic Flayer + Medusa Flayer + Peryton (looks for heart and brains in a person) Flayer + rust monster These are just the beginning of the list of monsters I will unleash on my players when they go into the under dark
well the true question is what would happen if a "fool" killed a mind flayer colony and just fed the tadpoles until it was too late for everyone and just a swarm of neolithids emerged and caused chaos EVERYWHERE
Yes this would be interesting. But at the same time, I bet part of the reason neolithids are so powerful is that they're all kings of their brine pool. They had to survive against hundreds or thousands of other hungry tadpoles. Just another consideration.
@@bobshaw3107 well, they have a tendency to "imprint" what they see for the first time, after maturing, as their leader. But if they get hungry, they will see you as another snack, and they are always hungry.
You: "But what happens if the tadpoles grow on their own." Me: "They turn into cute pets." You: "They turn into non-intelligent beasts that not even mindflayers can control, that sees neither friend nor foe, and only seeks to devour brains. Me: "I think I'd rather become a mind flayer with no free will of my own."
MrRhexx -- Found myself heading down the rabbit hole that is TH-cam, came across one of your videos while working behind the desk, and before i knew it, it was an an hour or more later and I was still listening/watching your videos in the background, thoroughly entertained. Thanks for the awesome uploads, you just gained a new subscriber!
3:50 That took me off guard. Laughed for quite a while after. But I get you man, it's a herculean task to even get near one (in my experience at least).
Hey, man, could you do a video on Kobolds when your done with mindflayers? I know they're a popular DnD race, but I don't know much about them aside from the fact that DnD ones are lizards, and the Japanese ones are dog-imps. Thank you, and amazing videos. This is the one I found you with, and it is Amazing.
I’m making a Underdark campaign with different areas and mind flayers as villain and a mind flayer hero and I find these transformations very useful. Thank you
Its mostly because Pathfinder can't use Mind Flayers due to copyrights, but it does have Neothelids so they had to change them from how they work in D&D For example, they spawn and rule over wormlike creatures called Seugathi in pathfinder. Oh and they are in war with Intellect Devourers btw. Basically, Pathfinder Neothelids used to have mighty underground empire and aren't as mindless as D&D version
ShadowoftheMask one thing I love about neothelids is that (at least in my campaigns) they can still be implanted into a host, there just aren't any that are large enough. I also have a mountain that is an ancient frozen titan. 400 ft. tall mindflayer final boss anyone?
Would love to see a video on the hypothetical combinations with the tadpoles. What might be created if a tadpole were able to survive being inserted into an aboleth for example? I also wonder what would happen if a mindflayer tadpole was inserted into a mindflayer. In both cases death is probably the most likely, but what kind of interesting things might be born if it did work out for the inserted tadpole? 🤔
Neothelid battle was my favorite part in Baldurs Gate: Siege of Dragonspear by Beamdog. I know many people hate that game, but I liked it, but I really loved the Neothelid fight. So hard, so chaotic, so terrifying.
I survived an encounter with a Brainstealer Dragon. Dragonborn Monk/Druid, was able to break free of the tentacles the second they got me with a good strength save and the Monk ability to end a stun. Then, using Stonemeld (I believe that's the spell, whichever one let's you walk through stone) I wore the Party's stone golem like armor and hid from the beast while hitting it with ranged spells. Our Rogue and Cleric managed to hack it to pieces from there.
An idea for an Illithid character: Y’nagh’nagulagth the Thought Searer comes across a traveling merchant one day. As he is about to devour the man’s mind, he notices his wares and the incredible deals he was offering. Picking through the merchant’s brain a little more, he learns the man’s trade and all he knew about finance and business deals. It was Y’nagh’nagulagth’s turn to have his mind blown. There exists such a power to control minds that is so simple, it requires no magic or eldritch power or sheer psionic force and relies on the sole power of... commerce? Marketing! Trading goods and wares and such! The Thought Searer released the merchant’s mind apologized for startling him. He thanked the nervous traveller profusely and began to haggle over prices for some exotic spices and furs. The deal was struck. Y’nagh’nagulagth handed the man 1202 gold pieces and 37 electrum pieces and picked up his sack of merchandise. Y’nagh’nagulagth the Thought Searer was no more.... Y’anny the Reasonable Illithid opened his first booth in a Waterdeep swap meet. Y’anny has immense cosmic power, high level magics, powerful artifacts, yet relies solely on his keen mind for a good deal to survive. The magics are used for advertisements. The artifacts are 10% off next President’s Day Weekend.
Thanks for this video, very instructive ! But many questions arrive: - How do mind flayers reproduce ? How do they make tadpoles ? - At the beginnings, how were the first Mind Flayers created ? Did a creature fall into a tadpole mare ? - What are these enormous brains, and what is their relationship with the Mind Flayers ?
Loving these videos, despite being fairly inexperienced with D&D(want to play but very difficult to find people to play with) it is still amazing to hear what you have to say. Your voice is fucking glorious to listen to when you are speaking about lore and just wanted to say keep up the good work.
hey dude I'm in SA too, here's a tip though you can play online through a site called roll20.net. iys an online table top website that host multiple table top games with people all around the world, you could try looking for a game there
The most horrifying monster I’ve ever had to homebrew was for a campaign where the party accidentally released a tadpole in limbo with a group of slaadi running at them. They got away, got back to the Prime Material Plane, and laughed about the misadventure. But over the next few months, they began to hear whispers of a terrible nameless foe. The Paladin player decided it must be his backstory coming back to bite him, and all the players thought the same thing... right up until the Slaad-Illithid hybrids were injecting live tadpoles with every bite. Right up until the party’s noble dragon ally got swarmed. It felt less like DnD and more like The Empty Child.
Hello MrRhexx. I've been a DnD player for a long time. In one game, my party and I we're doing a Lords of Madness campaign. The story I have is long but I'll just sum it up. At some point I got a hold of a kind of portable plague in a box from a Drow temple (I stole it). According to what the DM tell me, the box is locked with a little needle that pops out. When someone pricks their finger or whatever on it and a very dangerous disease would poof out and have a great chance of killing everyone and everything of that species. I got grabbed by a Urophion and smack the tentacle with the box, its needle out. According to our DM, all the Urophions around us just... Died and the plague was now spreading across the underdark. Until it can't effect anymore soooo.... Hope your pleased.
***** if you have a character with high lore (history or arcana or religion depending) then you roll and the dm tell you based on the roll or your character can do research and the dm can give you the info like that too
I love how D&D and the art of Magic the Gathering cards are mixed in this series. I can identify so many cards from the art. XD. Great series. Hope there's more coming. I haven't never played D&D in my life (just Vampire, Werewolf snd LotR RPG), but I would love to try it.
Could you do the Gith in one of these? I recently found these and binged them lol. I really liked the one about the Slaad and the Modrons and with the Gith being a very big interest to me I would absolutely love to see a video explaining them a little more than the monster manual has.
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"If you were to infiltrate a colony of Mind Flayers..."
Ok, I'm gonna stop you riiiight there...lol
Well... mind blank?
Super low intelligence?
Nicholas Smith While the word often implies stealth, it can be used synonymously with words such as 'assault'.
Haha, I was making a funny at the folly of voluntarily going to a mind flayer layer. :-)
a party i once had blew up a whole layer of MindFlayers with heavily enchanted explosives and the use of corpse puppets to place them. so in short it was a good day.
Because of this video,I looked up facts about mind flayers and found out about something that happens after ceremorphosis. The mind flayer would take on one of the host's personal quirks,like biting your nails.The quirk is hidden from other mind flayers because they believe in The Adversary.The Adversary is a mind flayer legend about a person becoming a mind flayer, getting the mind flayer's powers, but keeping all of their old memories. I also found out that some beholders eat mind flayers. That makes me want to know what mind flayers taste like. Probably tastes like calamari.
thanks for how to make a chaotic good Mindflayer character. I really wanted to play one without being evil :)
@@adrianguerrero6163 we must research.
It is said that a legendary potion, with a success chance of 20% to retain your conscience, exist out there.
So Twimothy is the Adversary?
mmmmmmmm people calamari
If a MF gets far enough from the elder brain, it can break its ties to the colony and adopt its own personality...
Seems like you had traumatic expiriences with Urophions.
quite frankly so
I come everyday to MrRhexx's channel to see if a new video of D&DLore&Secrets has been uploaded... and it's been more than a month since the last one... this is terrible, I NEED MORE!!!!!!! MORE!!!!!!
Does anyone else want to steal a tadpole and grow their own Urophion?
Wesley Bird maybe
Link_Fd Top secret government research facility, D&D style
Tadpole + Tarrasque = No
Likely won't even happen in the first place.
thanks for a campaign idea hehehehehe
Yis
The Tarrasque's superphysiology would kill the tadpole.
*NO*
Baulders gate 3 is about to give you some more traffic :)
Yup the trailer made me rewatch it.
Why I'm here again
Right you were!
That's the first time i heard you break you mentor-esk dialog to display your terror/hatred of a Urophion.
The Mind Worm seems pretty OP. Teleporting a player far away from the party would be bad
on it's own but sending them into the stomach of a monster sounds like a guaranteed death sentence.
Unless they are immune to acid damage
Yeah? Thats because it's the underdark lmfao
I remember the time our DM made a brain stealer drakolich! Our wizard, who had lots of points in the various knowledges was like "that foul horror appears to be an amalgam of draconic, psionic, and necrotic energies!" dragon zombie alien? That's fucking crazy!
That sounds horrifying.
Well, the ritual for creating a dracolich can only transform true dragons, and a brainstealer dragon is an Aberration, not a Dragon. So technically it wouldn’t work. Although, if a mind flayer colony can make illithid zombies, that’s its own host of problems.
@theintrovertedarcanist984 anything can happen at any game table if the DM wants/needs it to.
@@theintrovertedarcanist984 There is alreayd an Illithid Lich called Alhoons so.... yeah it is on the table.
@@lordvader9072 I'm not going to rules-lawyer against something as cool as undead dragon aliens. Just saying that technically it wouldn't be a dracolich, but more like an alhoon shaped like a dragon.
If I had to guess, you lost a beloved character to an urophion...
Kyle Maxwell most likely a tpk
Huh. Since urophions are so successful, I'd be willing to bet money that every Mind Flayer lair in my campaigns will have at least one.
XD
Tom C., but remember kids! The DM's job isn't to to kill the players!
@@c_hale yeah learned the hard way that's how you lose friends xD
Nope but I did watch my party die, me and the rogue and dark cleric stood back and watched through a scrying mirror.
So basically the Mind Flayers in their base form adapt into the body they control. I imagine this at one time in their past was simply a way to protect themselves as they grew, latching onto a dead carcass and hitching into the nervous system to use the body to defend itself. Then one hitched into some poor scalped fellow, grew into an intelligent being due to the position it had in the body, and the first intelligent Mind Flayer grew into maturity. And then that first made more, then they honed their abilities over time, and we have the modern chtulhu bois
1.) Psionist/ wizard made contact with the "Far Realm," and was mutated as a result.
2.) @ Clay Xros , your is a good ideal.
has anyone else thought tadpole + flumph = Metroid
thechaoticmagnet yeeeees it all makes sense now
But... Flumph are awesome...
But yeah that makes sense.
using this
Amen
I don't think flumphs have brains, minds yes but no physical brains. This would explain why they tend to live near mindflayer colonies in order to feet of the thoughts.
Flayer + Neogi
Flayer + mimic
Flayer + Medusa
Flayer + Peryton (looks for heart and brains in a person)
Flayer + rust monster
These are just the beginning of the list of monsters I will unleash on my players when they go into the under dark
Mind Flayer + Storm Giant
Mind Flayer + Wereshark
Mind Flayer + Pit Fiend
Mind Flayer + Tarrasque
Mind Flayer + Succubus
Mind Flayer + Phase Spider
Mind Flayer + Grick
Mind Flayer + Gibbering Mouther
Mind Flayer + Stirge
Rip your players, I threw mine into a war between demons and devils lmao
PLZ DON'T
What about a Grell? Or an Intellect Devourer?
I wonder if this Video will get rewatched because of baldurs gate 3, game is wonderfull and the Videos adds a lot of indepth to the gameplay
Got into d&d universe because of baldur's gate 3, and I'm loving it. Here to learn more about the universe
Yes
hey please dont forget to talk about the ultrathid. the rare illithids that are both physicaly dominating as well as mentally
But can they tell why kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch?
Or mother hunker chunker bunkers
they can't because they don't have tongues :(
The shrimp tails id say
What about the amount of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
3:53 I want the story behind that.
Eric Berg it's a roper cross *shudders* nope nope NOPE
Same.
I love how dumb the Mindstealer Dragon looks.
RiotKurhein he's so good at stealing minds that he even stole his own.
Rafael Iasbeck Dalcol lol
So did that video about the elder brains ever actually get made??
I have a yearning for learning.
Don’t think so. I can’t find it and I’ve been lookin
Rowan A'Boat I’ve been looking as well. Didn’t know much about mindflayers and baldurs gate 3 sent me here lol
@@JazzOLantern same
I'm here for the same thing. Hope that Eldar Brain video is coming soon :)
I wanted it as well. Maybe he made it and then took it down...... Doubt it, nonetheless is not in his video list.
Very Interesting lore. I kinda love D&D lore and i just recently started watching it after playing BD3.
well the true question is what would happen if a "fool" killed a mind flayer colony and just fed the tadpoles until it was too late for everyone and just a swarm of neolithids emerged and caused chaos EVERYWHERE
Yes this would be interesting. But at the same time, I bet part of the reason neolithids are so powerful is that they're all kings of their brine pool. They had to survive against hundreds or thousands of other hungry tadpoles. Just another consideration.
K-class end of the world scenario
Blood FartMoon XK-Class End-of-the-World Scenario
Now as they are unintelligent but if one guy feeds and created this swarm would they not think him him as a leader?
@@bobshaw3107 well, they have a tendency to "imprint" what they see for the first time, after maturing, as their leader.
But if they get hungry, they will see you as another snack, and they are always hungry.
You: "But what happens if the tadpoles grow on their own."
Me: "They turn into cute pets."
You: "They turn into non-intelligent beasts that not even mindflayers can control, that sees neither friend nor foe, and only seeks to devour brains.
Me: "I think I'd rather become a mind flayer with no free will of my own."
The mini rant about urophion was hilarious.
Still waiting on that Elder Brain video. :(
that why we can't have nice things. lol!!!!
Excellent video! Looking forward to the Elder Brain segment... and maybe one on Ulitharids?
What is that?
An illithid on steroids. They're stronger,smarter and revered by other mind flayers.
What happens if you put a tadpole in a mind flayer?
Mind Flayer Squared
@@StilvurBee Mind SQUAYER
@@orb6144 *_YES WE FIGURED IT OUT_*
Mind Squidward
You get a normal frog
what brain did the tadpole eat to make Cthulhu?
Dev Lightning those are just general illithid dude (aka mind flayers)
Another god
Dev Lightning the gods....or a storm giant. Probably a storm giant
Maybe but that wouldn’t explain the wings
Dev Lightning Dwayne Johnson
MrRhexx -- Found myself heading down the rabbit hole that is TH-cam, came across one of your videos while working behind the desk, and before i knew it, it was an an hour or more later and I was still listening/watching your videos in the background, thoroughly entertained. Thanks for the awesome uploads, you just gained a new subscriber!
3:50
That took me off guard. Laughed for quite a while after.
But I get you man, it's a herculean task to even get near one (in my experience at least).
if rather fight a red dragon then a room full of mind flayers
tony x This Wednesday, my group may get stuck fighting a red dragon. We're level 4, so I think we're fucked.
Shadow S. Korosu At least you didn't get your minds fucked!
Well ofc
A well played dragon can fuck your mind just as easily as an Illithid
yo, these videos are dope as hell. keep up the good work fam.
Did he ever come out with the mind flayer elder brain episode
where is the last part with the elder brains? its been over a year :/
Anyone else here because of Baldur’s Gate 3? Needed to brush up on the lore.
That third video on the elder brain never happened , did it?
Hey, man, could you do a video on Kobolds when your done with mindflayers? I know they're a popular DnD race, but I don't know much about them aside from the fact that DnD ones are lizards, and the Japanese ones are dog-imps.
Thank you, and amazing videos. This is the one I found you with, and it is Amazing.
and the german ones are goblins (because kobold is german for goblin apparently)
For the first time in a while Mr.Rhexx tried to do humor, and it worked.
These guys would make a fine addition to a table top army game. So many kinds of units.
pov: a bunch of bg3 nerds have swarmed here for mindflayer lore.
Nah. You mean "BG3 casuals". Nerds are the ones who cared about DnD and its lore before the mainstream game.
I’m making a Underdark campaign with different areas and mind flayers as villain and a mind flayer hero and I find these transformations very useful. Thank you
Wow, that is one hell of a difference between DnD and Pathfinder Neolithids.
could you explain the difference? I am not familiar with pathfinder but i am curious now o.O
Its mostly because Pathfinder can't use Mind Flayers due to copyrights, but it does have Neothelids so they had to change them from how they work in D&D For example, they spawn and rule over wormlike creatures called Seugathi in pathfinder. Oh and they are in war with Intellect Devourers btw.
Basically, Pathfinder Neothelids used to have mighty underground empire and aren't as mindless as D&D version
ShadowoftheMask one thing I love about neothelids is that (at least in my campaigns) they can still be implanted into a host, there just aren't any that are large enough. I also have a mountain that is an ancient frozen titan. 400 ft. tall mindflayer final boss anyone?
A rouge in my group has a purple worm egg. Now we are headed to clear out the mind flayer tunnels with the egg on his back sounds great!
I feel like there's a story behind why you hate Urophons so adamantly 😂
That Roper rant is so good.
Would love to see a video on the hypothetical combinations with the tadpoles.
What might be created if a tadpole were able to survive being inserted into an aboleth for example?
I also wonder what would happen if a mindflayer tadpole was inserted into a mindflayer.
In both cases death is probably the most likely, but what kind of interesting things might be born if it did work out for the inserted tadpole? 🤔
I love these D&D series! It's my first exposure to it's lore and your videos got me really into it, hope you make more on the future!
I love you videos so much! As a DM, I will be throwing a few Urophions my players way tonight!
That’s the most aggressive I’ve ever heard him get
This is now more relevant than ever.
Another vote for that long-awaited Elder Brain video!!!
THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS. Lol love this channel
I'm so happy for these mind flayer vids they help me prepare for my campaign
esto es increible!!!, muchas gracias, este video me inspiro a crear una historia llena de criaturas de la infra oscuridad!!!
Neothelid battle was my favorite part in Baldurs Gate: Siege of Dragonspear by Beamdog. I know many people hate that game, but I liked it, but I really loved the Neothelid fight. So hard, so chaotic, so terrifying.
Please do Aboleths next! Or some landmarks of the Forgotten Realms.
ABOLETH REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Hey dude. I've been binge watching your videos while I was sick for the past few days. It's been quite fun and enlightening.
Neothelid exists
Mind Flayers: What have you brought upon this cursed land!?
I survived an encounter with a Brainstealer Dragon. Dragonborn Monk/Druid, was able to break free of the tentacles the second they got me with a good strength save and the Monk ability to end a stun. Then, using Stonemeld (I believe that's the spell, whichever one let's you walk through stone) I wore the Party's stone golem like armor and hid from the beast while hitting it with ranged spells. Our Rogue and Cleric managed to hack it to pieces from there.
"Telecommunications" Well done.
I love you too MrRhexx, never stop what you're doing.
An idea for an Illithid character: Y’nagh’nagulagth the Thought Searer comes across a traveling merchant one day. As he is about to devour the man’s mind, he notices his wares and the incredible deals he was offering. Picking through the merchant’s brain a little more, he learns the man’s trade and all he knew about finance and business deals.
It was Y’nagh’nagulagth’s turn to have his mind blown. There exists such a power to control minds that is so simple, it requires no magic or eldritch power or sheer psionic force and relies on the sole power of... commerce? Marketing! Trading goods and wares and such!
The Thought Searer released the merchant’s mind apologized for startling him. He thanked the nervous traveller profusely and began to haggle over prices for some exotic spices and furs.
The deal was struck. Y’nagh’nagulagth handed the man 1202 gold pieces and 37 electrum pieces and picked up his sack of merchandise.
Y’nagh’nagulagth the Thought Searer was no more.... Y’anny the Reasonable Illithid opened his first booth in a Waterdeep swap meet.
Y’anny has immense cosmic power, high level magics, powerful artifacts, yet relies solely on his keen mind for a good deal to survive. The magics are used for advertisements. The artifacts are 10% off next President’s Day Weekend.
I love what you’re doing here man. Lots of good stuff. Absolutely good series hands down
When Will the elder brain lore come?
Thanks for this video, very instructive !
But many questions arrive:
- How do mind flayers reproduce ? How do they make tadpoles ?
- At the beginnings, how were the first Mind Flayers created ? Did a creature fall into a tadpole mare ?
- What are these enormous brains, and what is their relationship with the Mind Flayers ?
What about intellect devourers? I thought they're a type of mind flayer.
they were created by the mindflayers but as I recall arent actually mindflayers themselves.
Loving these videos, despite being fairly inexperienced with D&D(want to play but very difficult to find people to play with) it is still amazing to hear what you have to say. Your voice is fucking glorious to listen to when you are speaking about lore and just wanted to say keep up the good work.
Not even close man, i live in South Africa :P
Maybe you can play with Yolandi and Ninja
Maybe, if i knew who they were
hey dude I'm in SA too, here's a tip though you can play online through a site called roll20.net. iys an online table top website that host multiple table top games with people all around the world, you could try looking for a game there
thanks
one question about the tadpoles:
"WHY THE EYES!?"
seriously, I HATE when something mess with eyes
The optic nerve provides a direct path to the brain. None of your other head holes actually lead to the brain.
The most horrifying monster I’ve ever had to homebrew was for a campaign where the party accidentally released a tadpole in limbo with a group of slaadi running at them.
They got away, got back to the Prime Material Plane, and laughed about the misadventure. But over the next few months, they began to hear whispers of a terrible nameless foe. The Paladin player decided it must be his backstory coming back to bite him, and all the players thought the same thing... right up until the Slaad-Illithid hybrids were injecting live tadpoles with every bite. Right up until the party’s noble dragon ally got swarmed.
It felt less like DnD and more like The Empty Child.
Baator Pit Fiend," Dam it ! Now I have another mess to deal with other than the Blood War !"
please more DND videos
I LOVE these D&D lore vids, great job :)
There was no follow up video, I'm sad.
All those combinations and Mind flayers themselves would make a nice addition to Dwarf Fortress
This is amazing! I've been watching Critical Role, so the "fools who kills an entire Mind Flayer colony" party is pretty funny for me xD
Roper + tadpole rant really funny 🤣🤣🤣
Baulder Gate 3 revives this video
I love the absolute hatred and loss of chill because of the urophion 😂😂😂
Ah, so this is what happened in that cinematic trailer for Baldur's Gate 3
The fact that not even dragons are safe from the tadpoles is in my opinion what makes the mindflayers the biggest threat to the world.
Who's watching this again after getting BG3?
Hello MrRhexx. I've been a DnD player for a long time. In one game, my party and I we're doing a Lords of Madness campaign. The story I have is long but I'll just sum it up. At some point I got a hold of a kind of portable plague in a box from a Drow temple (I stole it). According to what the DM tell me, the box is locked with a little needle that pops out. When someone pricks their finger or whatever on it and a very dangerous disease would poof out and have a great chance of killing everyone and everything of that species. I got grabbed by a Urophion and smack the tentacle with the box, its needle out. According to our DM, all the Urophions around us just... Died and the plague was now spreading across the underdark. Until it can't effect anymore soooo.... Hope your pleased.
Hey can you also talk about how to defeat the creatures you feature in these videos?
That is up to you my fellow adventurer :D
You wouldn't want it spoiled, would you? Meta gaming sours the fun.
Living_Floor you make a very good point there, but i dont mind knowing weaknesses, what i do mind is knowing how much HP certain monsters have
nah dude knowing weakness ruins the fight and challenge
***** if you have a character with high lore (history or arcana or religion depending) then you roll and the dm tell you based on the roll or your character can do research and the dm can give you the info like that too
"I scoop my empty jar into the pool to grab some tadpoles. And stash them in my bag of holding before anyone else can see"
But what if you adopt a tadpole ? If you train them and feed them, will they recognise you as a ally ?
Of you turn it into a Flayer?
No.
If it becomes a Neolitid... Maybe.
Either way, you'd have a lot of players out for your head.
These are both well-researched and funny - well done, sir!
...I can't help but wonder if the type/color of the dragon makes any difference in the result...
another amazing video Rhexx!
I'm playing as a mind flayer in my campaign right now
Byybz Myconids should rule the underdark in peace.
Awesome series you've started! :D I would love some lore about some of the gods of DnD.
Any chance you'd want to do the elder brain video? I'd love to see it!
So, a big question remains:
What if a Neothelid were to eat an Elder Brain?
Hmm…getting some campaign ideas…
Tentacles + suspicious obsession with reproduction= Am I the only one suspecting hentai inspiration here? Lmao
Other way around
I love how D&D and the art of Magic the Gathering cards are mixed in this series. I can identify so many cards from the art. XD.
Great series. Hope there's more coming.
I haven't never played D&D in my life (just Vampire, Werewolf snd LotR RPG), but I would love to try it.
Flayers + Slaad = ???
plz no
+MrRhexx two tadpoles in a roper
TheAtheistPaladin the end
Thing on bogcreeperino Kripperino is that a 2 girls 1 cup thing?
Illithid + Aboleth.
The intro to the Urophion was the best moment of the video.
where is the elder brain video
Man I want more dnd videos... Enjoyed them all
Could you do the Gith in one of these? I recently found these and binged them lol. I really liked the one about the Slaad and the Modrons and with the Gith being a very big interest to me I would absolutely love to see a video explaining them a little more than the monster manual has.
*Me casually listening to this video*
*Hears brainstealer dragon*
"THE FUCKING WHAT!?!"
Just came across this while doing research for a book. Whatever happened to part 3?!?
Two things I'd like to see you do a video on. Lolth and the dimension Carceri. I plan to use both in my game and would love some info about them.