Basically Grungs
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Here's a funny video about frog people who only have one page in Volo's guide. Also some general updates tucked in the back. Thanks for a watch.
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There is a reason why the most commonly repeated phrase in the bible is "Fear Not"
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a grung settlement was attacked by a group of humans to free slaves, but the humans were like let's kill all their eggs too, but the paladin leading the charge was like "don't do that" but they did it anyway, and the paladin managed to save an egg, and raised the grung that hatched as her own son, and he grew up to be a paladin, and that's how I convinced my DM to let me play frog from chrono trigger.
Oh my fucking god YES!
I mean, an evil wizard or sorcerer or warlock could've just True Polymorphed your ass to humiliate you, but then that's too on-the-nose.
Fuck yes
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You could already play as SLANN
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9th level caster and CR 1?
Checks spell list:
Oh, it's a ranger. That makes sense.
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OOOOOH I though that was error in print
Thankyou for explaining it.
Nicholas Kelley
*coolest
OK I know it's a joke but how is a ranger a *9th* level caster
Now im just imagining a level 13 barbarian drinking golden grung juice so he can talk to a frog
"Yes, Korag, kill them. Kill them all. Bath in their blood."
What everyone else hears: *_ribbitribbitribbit rib-ribbit_*
Gazz Maz Even better, a Bard drinking it, becomes charmed by the grung, and then seduces the grung using its newly learned language
@@kittrialeviana3574 oh god dont let a bard around this shit
Thanks, now I have a one shot idea
@@azathoththe3rd dont you dare
The benefit of every monster in D&D being a slaver is that PCs have a chance to not die and instead be enslaved for later escape or rescue. This also may extend to important NPCs.
Especially with these guys. They just want to order you around, so they might actually keep you in fairly good conditions.
@@maxxor-overworldhero6730 Except eating grunk food for months turns people into living zombies
@@UmekCrafter True, but it seems like if you plan fast enough, you could escape them easily.
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Hmm that actually makes ALOT of sense. I would like to play as some of the monster races, but felt weird. Being black irl/ and playing a slaving race. The idea just made me uncomfortable.
But as a TPK loophole, its (dare i say) kind of a smart choice.
When in doubt, never eat brightly-colored creatures.
They lack camouflage for a reason lol
Damn that's true
Because they are shit survivalists, free foo-
*fucking dies from eating tiny colorful frog*
Because toxicity makes shit glow (slightly) or is brightly colored.
@@CPL.van7 not always, the reason is that everything colorful that isn't poisonous and doesn't fly was hunted to extinction
@@devforfun5618 2 halfs of the same whole.
*Human gets enslaved by a grung*
Grung: okay now go collect ants so I can eat them and make myself poisonous.
"I HUNGER! BRING ME ANTS!"
I remember going through the books and felt truly captivated by grungs like nothing else so far
Almost like you licked a gold one.
@@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 I'm not, not licking grungs. 😶
What book I need to make a campaign with them
I agree, and after 3 years I FINALLY am playing a grung character. It’s been so fun!
@@ostangvulkahn1875 Volo's guide to monsters!
i feel like he just made grungs up... thats not a real word
He didn’t... there just really weird creatures.
"All words are made up." - Thor
@@branhan215124 this is technically true...
Carter Coffee unfortunately no, they’re in Volo’s
Kittria Leviana don’t you mean fortunately?
Grung are freaking fantastic and I will do everything in my power to make them non-evil because they're too cute. Imma just make em like frog druids.
Yeah, I wanna make Grung Neutral Good instead and make Bullywugs their natural rivals.
Yes.
The Grung should be played like incompotent Drow.
Nich White "the Brung should be portrayed like incompetent Drow"
And now I am imagining a Grung that is basically Charlie the Intern from Bojack Horseman
@@roflzwafflez117 I'd make them true neutral. Take away the slaving bit, but make them aggressively xenophobic, because everyone hunts them for their poison.
So....
-Play a orange grung rouge archer
-Rub own poison onto arrows
-Use fear poison arrows to scatter groups of enemies
-Let your party mop up the rest
-Profit?
Grungs are cutie patooties
Fin Dawes,
Demons are chaotic evil, devils are lawful evil, Yugoloths are neutral evil, Grungs are cute evil. ;)
Yes.
"that makes sense moving on"
You see, they're frogs. It makes perfect sense that green juice makes you unable to do anything but climb and hop. Perfectly lore-friendly.
Yes yes yes grungs are like my favorite I played one as a homebrew character named Kermin and he was a Wizard who could only speak grung or abyssal so everyone loved his ribbits. 10/10 love all now and again
Kermin the frog?
@@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606
Yes he was Kermin The Grung lol
hey played a rung but he was a monk great combo may i ad he was quite good on the battle field his name of buck ^_^
some cute frog hops towards you, ribbiting adorably, then it suddenly opens its mouth and out comes this demonic, twisted language, and it stabs you with a poison knife
@@themageofspace5516 I don't play dnd often, but my monk grung Balunq was a blast to play as.
I helped out a bunch of grungs, and because they're so freaking cute. I immediately went into best friend mode. I started helping them get grubs, I gave them cooked meat. I bit off the head of my party members that wanted to kick them told him if he so much as punt them, I'd be giving him a butt whoopin and than the Grungs coated my arrows with their poison for free... I think the Grungs came pre charmed...
Me: *makes Grung a race that is hunted, enslaved and/or killed for their poison properties instead of slavers*
WOTC: Unacceptable!
Yeah, that makes tons of sense. Maybe they're usually attacking the party because they trust literally nobody due to this.
This makes so much more sense
This actually makes a ton more sense...
The way the art portrays them makes them look very small, so I think that idea would be very sensible. It would make more sense for them to be one of the neutral alignments, and just very distrusting of larger races because of their history.
In our session we have a kobold paladin that is *stupidly* addicted to killing grungs
Its basically the goblin slayer but instead of goblins its grungs
He is immune to every grung poison because he literally drinks it like vodka
His blanket is actually just a bunch of grung skin just sewed together
He has a greatclub that is just a bunch of grung bones glued together
Why are these tree frogs talking?
Why are they yelling?
Why do I feel sleepy?
Why am I in a cage?
Why are my organs being used for rituals?
Why did I make these life choices?
Me: **Licks some random frog**
Me: "I know grung"
*Laughs in Grung*
F*ck you!!!
*ribbit* (I now know your langua-) *keels over and dies
I'll have what he's having.
Blye cun shbek grung : P--
The gold poison charming you and teaching you Grung makes perfect sense for slavers. If you're charmed you're willing to serve. If you speak Grung then you can receive orders.
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"I WANNA BOOP THE SNOOT! THERE WILL BE ONLY A SINGLE BOOP ON ITS NOGGIN!"
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A caster in my party once bewitched a grungling to murder his entire civilization... Now his name is Genocide Frog and he's a permanant chatacter
Move earth cantrip + create water spell from magic initiate just be sure to have some way to make a spot for your water hole wherever you go like a washbasin on the big burly fighter. Now your grung is playable anywhere.
I also heard of someone playing a grung druid and Wild Shaping into a normal tiny frog every day to soak inside their waterskin :)
@@dylanboczar999 That's so cute awwwww
in the first dnd game i ever played i played as a grung rogue and by god it was so fun to just play as a little frog goblin
Aw hell yeah, I've been playing a grung bard named Plapp for about half a year now and hes been the first evil character I've ever played! Hes in a primarily good party but hes that kind of pathetic evil where he is useful to the party as a guide and hes too weak to do anything too awful but they always have to keep an eye on him.
not going to lie would slurp some of that freaking delicious golden Grung juice
Just make sure you are a paladin for dat poison immunity
Hmm, I want you to repeat what you just said and think really hard for a moment. That sounds so weird.
Go home and think about what you've done.
I love how the artist just phoned it in on these guys. Blue and Yellow are the same picture, but one has the whip edited out of his hand.
After you described their need to soak once a day I would love to see a Grung civilization based around a waterfall. Imagine a town led by a council that sits in a pool on a cliff, overlooking the bottom of the waterfall where all of the others are forced to use their bathwater to survive.
Once I played as a Grung fighter who was the righteous heir to the throne of the swamp kingdom, but my brother that had been away for so long in his magic school murdered my father and usurped the throne, and I had to flee the kingdom. This was one of the most fun characters I have ever played with.
The “slaver” trope is easily the worst part of all “evil” races in dnd. It’s such a lazy way of trying to portray “evil creatures”. Instead of writing something complex or morally interesting it’s all just genocidal slavers. The slaver trope has seriously damaged the idea of a slaver race as ever being cool to me. It’s a boring uninspired trope. It honestly feels like the writers wanted to characterise some races as being “evil” but couldn’t make a coherent reason for players to see them as evil besides their appearance so they slapped an ad hoc explanation of them being slavers in an attempt at duct taping together an “evil” culture. I really like some races like duergar, fire giants, mind flayers and even grungs but I always rewrite them in my campaign to NOT be slavers. I always try to rely on something else to characterise them with an “evil” flair.
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I mean at least mind flayers had a reason...
I agree but I think the mind flayers are a bad example as they have a reason for being slavers and they've been doing it for a long while
I like that train of thought. However, I've run into what my brain's considering a problem. I always see mind flayers as some sort of abhorrent mad scientists who need to kidnap people to run experiments on. How close to the slaver trope is this idea?
probably would have it that they just don't like people who aren't in the rainbow colored cast system and they like to experiment on others with poison and magic to make all the weird poison they have.
As far as i know, Kobolds, Green Dragons and Night Hags rarely/never enslave people. But, feel free to correct me on this.
Green Dragons LOVE to corrupt and enslave people, especially Elves. It lines up with their general tricksiness and cruelty. Fun easter egg: That's why the wizkids Green Dragon Wyrmling has an "Afflicted Elf" with it instead of any treasure or bones like the other wyrmlings.
Little bastard.
imagine being enslaved by a kobold like a fucking bitch
Kobolds don't really enslave they just want your stuff, but if they take your village and you say your their slave they'll let you keep living there. It's not really slavery in the official sense, but can still go horribly wrong.
@@Bydnelg Yep, i imagine the only people they enslave (In the traditional sense) are Gnomes, 1. They are one of the few things that they can overpower 1v1, and 2. Kobolds hate Gnomes.
White Dragons rarely if ever enslave people. They're the murderhobos of Dragonkind. At most, they'll flash-freeze you for later consumption.
When a green Grung knocks you down with their poison:
*_Get nae-nae'd._*
My brother made a Grung character whose whole tribe was killed due to deforestation and now the Grung doesnt know how to function correctly without the tribal caste system so he tries to fill all the color roles himself while trying to enslave the entire party every four minutes
his name is Garrep, he cooks
Hey I’m grung, I’m not so grung, AAAND WERE THE GAME GRUNGS
it still bothers me that there aren't separations between poisoning and envenomation and the severities thereof in 5e
Agan Mardrus why bother? what differences would you make that wouldn’t unnecessarily complicate a system that was made to be simple?
@@Hazel-xl8in why not? It would certainly be more interesting than just "poison"
I use “poison” as the regular poison, and make “Venom” do 2d10 like the venom dagger thingy
@@unknownentityenthusiast6765 Isn't 2d10 just 1d20?
@@rainbowthedragoncat6768 Due to how results on dice addition, the statistical chances for a specific results are different, putting it simply, with 1d20 you have an equal chance everywhere to get a result, which is 5% for each of them, but with a 2d10, the result is more likely to reach an average of 11 at the peak and every number going up or down from 11 have increasingly lesser chances to come up, with a 1% chance to reach a 2 (since it's two dice, you can't have a 1, so with 2d10 you also get a minimum of 2) and a 1% chance to get a 20
It's like that for every dice formula that has more than one die compared to a single die being rolled, so for example if you wanted to choose between a greataxe and a greatsword, you'll be able to consider the greatsword has an average of 7 damage while the greataxe has an equal chance to get any damage
God, I wish there was an official ruleset for this lot. I know there's loads of decent homebrew for them, and I'd run them as basically poisonous magic Kobolds with better dexterity and worse strength. Still, I wish these guys were Adventurer's League legal.
I have never played dnd and I have absolutely no intentions of doing so, but my friend tells me about things he finds cool about dnd (because he’s really into it) and he mentioned grungs, and I’ve just been hooked on them ever since. Something about them is just really cool, and I don’t know what. The simple idea of rainforest tribal frog people is just really, really captivating to me.
I’m running a dnd game right now and one of my friends is playing a grung, freakin hilarious.
Please tell us the stories of this Grung
Empoleon Master Well for one, he had a pretty awesome charisma (I can’t remember for sure) and he was basically a pimp grung, seducing the ladies and whatnot, he also had an amazing Scottish accent that just made his character even better. The cherry on top was that he is a gunslinger, so just imagine a two foot tall frogman strut into a bar with a lady on either side of him and a gun strapped to his belt and saying “top o’ the mornin lads!” One of the best characters I have ever seen
@@disturbiafromthebay TELL US MORE OF THIS LEGENDARY FIGURE!
@@disturbiafromthebay Holy SHIT
Darth Caleb *furiously scribbles down notes*
Been thinking up a druid grung who loved jello and skin care lotion, the grung only liked to capture people if they where rude to him, and he'd force them to attend a tea party
So I'm playing a grung paladin in our campaign, and after I introduced myself I realised looking at the stat sheet that grungs dont speak common... so I have to have a teammate be a translator
You can also pick a background that gives you a language and choose common :)
My favorite thing about Grungs is that they add on to the proud D&D tradition of different groups of frog people. There's Grippli, Bullywugs, and now Grungs. My goal is to get two friends to play as a trio of each kind of frog-man, and be very annoyed when people can't tell us apart.
as a DM to a group of 12-17 year olds I met in SCP Secret Lab, running their first DnD game, and thus have sent them down the path of rapid consumption of DnD lore and media, I am truly grateful for this Grung video, because as they go to consume random ass DnD information, they have discovered the grung and want to play a brother pair, if not more. This will be nice rundown for a starting point.
I’d really like to see a video on the City of Waterdeep. All the other videos on the topic get way too lost in the lore-filled sauce, but Runesmith is really good about making complex lore easy and fun to understand.
As one of my homebrew things I made a bandit group of grungs that was infiltrated by orcs who painted themselves gold and made the grungs process silk root for them.
I'll do the audible stuff if you read some of their books
New players: Oh, look, cute frogs! They won't try to trap me, right??
Drow and Goblins: lol, ok *snort*
I don't even play D&D and I've watched all of these video. I just like the lore.
Funny enough, we're doing a grung campaign right now. We play as 5 ugly multicoloured frogs going around trying to please the gold grung
Also, playing as a blue bard grung is fun
Just ran grungs in my campaign. I had the story of this particular tribe be that they were driven out of their forest by elves who just assumed they were evil creatures infesting the land they wanted to colonize and as a result, the grungs had a hatred towards elves and a gold grung that grew to rule with an iron fist. After being displaced the grungs moved into an under ground cave near an aquifer (which happened to be connected to today's dungeon). Long story short the grungs challenged to party to some arena combat and now the rogue is the new gold "grung". They also have plans to orchestrate a grung rebellion against the elves, with the aid of training from the ranger and advanced weapons from the artificer. God I love this game.
I feel like a grung cp would be verry interesting to play, having to keep track of your dryness and wet yourself, especially in a desert survival situation(unless they use create water or prestidigitation on their clothes). The ability to use a turn to poison your next attack is interesting. Mabye the CP could even determine the properties of their poison by leveling up.
I'm going to put grungs in every one of my tabletop games but without the slavery and a little less racism
Understandable though there sort of weird caste stuff is part of the appeal, the slavery thing does seem kind of odd for creatures that don't even trust each other very much.
@@Sara3346 Simple, I'll keep the castes and a sense of superiority towards non-grungs, but allow for mobility between castes.
@@Technodreamer Mobility between castes already exists. Did you miss the part about how the inferior colors can get promoted to higher ranks by proving themselves worthy?
@@Nyrufa Yeah, I'll just make it move both ways and more accessible. Also, put in a green overthrow of the previous power structures at some point in the semi-recent past.
More racism
How can Angels and Devils not be humanoids? They literally fill the description perfectly
i always thought that the way the variant poison works sinergize with the role that particoular grung has in society: green grung poision makes you climb and go where they are so they can capture you more easily and so on
Ooh this is perfect, I’m running my players in a jungle setting so these guys will come in handy!
so they're basically danger Kermits...
“Life slave’s a way”
-Jeff Grungbloom
I was part of a campaign where we nearly got tpk by a group of grungs in trees. It was horrifying...
The best part about his reading of lotr is him singing in gimlis voice
I was thinking about making a grung character, and right when i was brainstorming you made this video. Perfect timing
Edit, Ive made him a monk and his name is Frishelfart
I would love it if I never heard the phrase "Grung Juice" again for as long as I live.
if you say it 3 times into a mirror he will appear.
Gamer Grung Bath Water
Honestly, I love Runesmith's voice for these videos, I'd love to hear him in audiobooks
3:03 Hehe, joke's on you. Someone already scooped those out of me!
I'm making a grung barbarian now. His battle cry shall be the high pitched screeching of a very pissed-off Budgett's frog.
Yesss! One of my characters is a grung raised by a dwarf. He always wears heavy armor, so he seems just like a dwarf.
Is the armor filled with water, so he doesn't dry out?
Chara the blue Grung drunken master is one of my funniest characters. It’s so funny to picture this 2”9 frog drunkly punch 3 dudes and then they all start screaming.
I made a grung rogue named Moog and he is my most favorite creation
Playing a spelljammer game as Grung lifted from her savage home, a swamp plain/planet.
Thomas Herrick is she a racist
FYI, the sum total of all the rainbow Grung poisons is supposed to make you act like a frog. Sitting in water, talking loudly (have you heard frogs in the wild?), having to hop to move, being startled easily, and reflexively going for food. Its... special.
I love the variant poison effects and the red grungs abillity to cast plant growth and their rangers
I think one of the reasons so many hostile creatures in dnd are slavers is to give DM's an out if they fuck up and end up with an unwanted tpk. Basically it gives the DM a choice to be like "you... uh... wake up in a cage"
"You stop moving, then you stop aliving" i need this shirt. I don't know why, but I do
Wow look, a new race to make a d&d character out of to confuse my dm with
How to easily capture the green grung: Buy the most expensive gunpla with a golden body, work every time
Stout halflings have resistance to poison like dwarves.
What you’ve saying is that if my character licks a grung I get to learn a new language.
BTW, The Hobbit is also on Audible, also narrated by Rob Ingles. He's an amazing narrator and I've been enjoying those recordings for years.
These are the cutest little evil bastards that I have ever seen. I want a Grung character now.
If you're book is half as good as the videos you make it will be a work of pure gold...
We have been playing Tomb of Annihilation as a squad of revolutionary green grungs who have beef with Acerarak after looting the Tomb of Horrors (the one from Tales of the Yawning Portal). We are a team of a level 10 cavalier, conjuration wizard, shadow monk and a champion/barbarian multiclass, so you all can imagine a team of overpowered tiny frogs basically roaming Chuult and beating up their racist counterparts for basically no reason
Funny grung character concept: little dude finds himself in the human city because of wild magic and decides to breed cats to sell thems as mouse hunter. He really thinks that he is engaged in the slave trade and very proud of himself. But he is just a weirdo for everyone.
Now I kinda want to play as a Grung that would be an interesting time lol
I refuse to make grung evil slavers; they’re good boys.
deadly snake: shows a ball python
I'm trying to make my characters join a pirate ship made of mostly GRUNG in this next campaign
Big toe tonsil-scooping is now added to my vocabulary
The Rob Inglis narrations are so freaking good
i am playing as a red grung in a campaign, and my party just casually rub their weapons on me all the time while forcing me to wear gloves because I accidentally poisoned our first quest giver whe new started. It is still fun though because I get to jump around treeeeeeeesss.
In my dnd universe the grungs are just super aggressive towards everyone due to how hostile their homeland is and to survive they went with the chihuahua way of things
2:38 I thought the second part said 'They're trail admins' and had flashbacks to Gmod.
"Grungs=humanoids
but Gargoyles, Angels, Cambions =/= humanoids"
...wat...
after ad: and that's basically Audible.
My players saved a tribe of Grung from a nearby monster and were worshiped as saviors for a good 2 sessions... Good times.
Now I want to make a grung character
I have a huge soft spot for Grungs. One of my players rolled 6 Nat 20's in a row and convinced a group of them that he is a god by accident. He also killed their boss.
Now my other players have written diaries for Koko (New grung disciple of the parties cleric) that tells of his greatness and keep notes of all games from his perspective. The grungs have built a gold statue of the Cleric and are amassing worshipers and a temple in the clerics name. And the cleric still has no idea.
In a separate game set in the future. I have unrelated players now worshipping this cleric/grung idol and it's glorious.
I love the science portion!
Ok, what the heck has someone done with the butterflies, earwigs, and praying mantises? Haven't heard boo from these dudes at the gaming table, ever, actually. Runehammer just discovered bees so...I think they're out there somewhere.
I love your theme music. It’s amazing and has a happy mood.
So you're telling me some tiny ass frogs enslave people?
You're kidding, right?
This is the perfect race. I've wanted something like this for so long I just didnt know these little guys existed. Gotta watch this video a couple times to get all that sweet gold grung juice
Grungs are fucking adorable and so are you, Rune.