(Animated DM) Kuo Toa D&D
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- HUMBLEWOOD Campaign setting: thedeckofmany....
The god makers!
Opening of video was an excerpt from 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' by HP lovecraft.
Rough text for how I run Kua Toa Stuff:
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Music:
Dawn of Man by Quincas Moreira
Hostile Planet by Quincas Moreira
Bunny Hop by Quincas Moreira
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I liked some of the lore about Kuo-Toa that was mentioned in Out of the Abyss. Like the fact that, since they have no eyelids, Kuo-Toa look basically the same whether they're awake or asleep, and all Kuo-Toa sleepwalk. So there's a roughly one-in-three chance that any individual Kou-Toa you encounter wandering around in their home town is actually asleep.
I'm fucking using that.
Yes
My DM didn't touch on that.
@Brixton Joe
You're not fooling anyone dumbass.
The account that replied to yours was literally made a day before your own.
For a scammer you're pretty pathetic,
A child could scam better than you.
I don't think that's how odds work, but I like your idea
I literally cannot believe you animated that ending! Who animates a mistake
Pixar.
Wambu.
Our great god zee would of course
Hanna-Barbera for decades, that's who
@@CompletelyNewguy Yeah, those outtakes they did were pretty good
Do not forget the greatest Kua Toa god of them all: Blibdoolpoolp
Ah yes, the titty lobster named after the onomatopoeia of bubble bath.
Ah, good ol' Lobster Tits
What is this in reference to? Sounds really fun.
@@TheridMegu Oh this is from WAY back in the day, Blipdoolpoolp was actually a Kuo-Toa god from like AD&D or something.
"Blippy" as my players call her was and still is the Kuo-toa main creator goddess, but the nickname comes from the AD&D artwork of her avatar - a several meters tall human woman from the neck down, but replace her head and neck with a lobster's head, and her forearms with lobster claws.
I love this, I've always avoided using "goofy" monsters like the Kuo-Toa, but this has inspired me to lovingly craft them into something more horrific. Maybe that each god larva they create is twisted, fishy, and covered in tentacles or other fishy bits, through their twisted perspective. Maybe even make the Kuo-Toa the origin of creatures like the Illithid? I like the idea of my players realizing their violence and wrath birthed a new evil entity, one that wears a twisted mockery of their visage.
Zee, you da best.
Or they could be the only non forest spirit creature that can see a nymf with no ill effects and worship one. Have a hilarious side effect being that all humanoid villagers and townspeople have unusually high female birthrates due to a god of woman being born from them.
"Lovingly craft" Nice. Also, unless my DM was mistaken, the Kuo Toa were, like many in the Forgotten Realms, enslaved by the Mindflayers, and it is due to their experimentation they have their racial madness and psionic abilities. It's possible the Mindflayers are to blame for their god-making powers. So it's not likely the Kuo Toa made the Mindflayers. Unless the Kuo Toa's god-making powers came before the Mindflayers and the Mindflayers turned on their creators, which is actually extremely likely. Besides that, I really like your adventure idea!
"through their twisted perspective"... What if the god-larvae that they create is horrendeously swollen, shrunken and distorted in bizarre proportions, since the Kua Toa's piscine eyes can't see things in proper focus while out of water and so the gods they create are what they actually see?
@@Zombiewithabowtie The party Wizard loses his glasses and suddenly the eldritch, maddening horror just looks like Steve.
@cak01vej Capital punishment for puns? That's sheer madness! You're making mountains out of molehills. Although if you are particularly sadistic I suppose you could make a homebrew spell that reduces a players H.P. to 0 after a certain amount of puns are used.
Zee, you nearly killed us last night. My DM saw this and decided to use it. Our fighter accidentally attacked it while it was still in its larval stage and the Kuo-Toa decided to start a mass suicide in order to increase it's power in order to help it defend itself from us. We had to burn a wish (which the fighter worded kinda poorly) and summoned the Tarrasque to fight it. Our session ended with us running in the Underdark in a mad dash to escape the wrath of the Tarrasque
that sounds nuts!
Sounds more like your fighter nearly killed you last night.
Never let the fighter live that down. You can't summon a stronger evil monster to mitigate the evil monster that's currently giving you trouble and not be ridiculed for all eternity
so... basically you reenacted a Godzilla movie.
@@HunterDrone that is the plot to at least 5 Godzilla movies off the top of my head.
"If they believe something strong enough...."
WAAAAAAA-
"They can make their own deities."
-GHH?
Da red ships gos fastah, becoz ah say so.
GORKA MORKA GORKA MORKA GORKA MORKA
@@soupcake3092 Gork is brutal but kunnin' and Mork is kunnin' but brutal. What more is there to say? Look at them wrong and they'll kick yer teef in. Whilst Gork smashes you over the head with his huge spiked club, Mork will give you a staggering low blow, demonstrating the kunnin-ness and brutality of the Orkish Gods.
Nah, nah, Gork wuz cunnin’ly brutal an’ Mork wuz brutally cunnin’, get it roight ya flashgitz.
@@dok3304 DATZ DA SAME THIN' YA GIT!
For some reason i though this was a wierd bionicle D&D build....
"In the time before time, some freaky-ass fish people imagined a god named Mata Nui, and he was a giant robot universe who also had a brother who was a much smaller robot and also evil probably."
Woh guys don’t go revealing Wizard’s next adventure book
D&D adventure where the Kuo Toa worship Mata Nui enough to make the Bionicle world a reality
OMG I want a Bionicle D&D so bad!
@@Jpteryx wayfinders guide to ebberon introduce warforged who imo are the most bionicle thing in dnd
The spell is "Create God" and can only be cast by Kua Toa. It's a ritual casting and the material component is the Kua Toa performing the ritual (of dying).
Bam, Animated Spellbok Status: Reinstated.
nice
Sounds like a spell-like ability
If it’s a spell, could I flawlessly cast it with [Wish]? What level is [Create God]
@@crowsenpai5625 considering how powerful it was, and considering that its casting ressembles that of an epic spell I would say anywhere in the range of 9-11 could be second lvl for all i know though
13th level it already exists in lore second sundering anyone no just me
How about an extremely vain person, who heard about the powers of the Kua Toas and starts slaughtering them, to create a god in his own image, but with each result he is dissatisfied.
Could be an interesting adventure hook to actually protect the Kua Toa, so that no more warped gods of the villains image emerge.
I may use this.
That is amazing thank you!
This... is fucking marvelous.
Question: How long to the gods of the Kua Toa "live"? Because I can really see the final fight of the BBEG being that they're *really* pissed off that you blocked their attempts at god-making, but as they lack any real powers beyond their own narcissism, they instead opt to release their Failed Gods in an attempt to destroy your party.
A neat if somewhat cliche finale to a plot like this is that after the fight is all wrapped up the villain finally gets what he sees as his "Perfect God" and then it kills him before either fighting the players for the real climactic battle or leaving silently.
I could see it happening with a Kua Toa to start. One kills another, unknowingly starting the godmaker process. They all recognize the new large Kua as a god, but haven't connected the idea to death yet. They kill the murderer, who adds to God Kua's power. This growth feels good, and God Kua now knows it happens when a Kua Toa dies... so begins slaughtering them all. After this initial power grab, its calmed down, and now takes egg tributes from the surviving tribe.
Having used Kuo Toa in a similar manner, I had them start worshiping one of the PCs to hilarious effect.
omg.... wow
Funny enought i have a pdf(homebrew probably) called gods and deities, with rules for how to make and play with divine beings
Pedro Henrique Leite felix Send link man
@@avocato1180 2 problems:
1 It's not in english
2 the link that i had was from a site that got taken down
I could see the PC being turned into a god... but I could also see a God-version of the player (a separate entity) coming to life and soon deciding that he was better than the player and that he had outgrown him. Then the new god-player-clone disappears or flies away, perhaps appearing later in the campaign to help somehow. (like Superman in the Flash Point movie. 😜)
*drastically tries to hide video from his PCs so he can use it in a future campaign*
Why do I get a tingling sensation that the term "drastically hiding (something)" is derived from a D&D session?
Your barbarian has "drastically hidden" some evidence by slaughtering all witnesses, eh?
@@KubinWielki Goliath 'rogue' drastically hides by intimidating everyone nearby.
Haha me
@@theapexsurvivor9538 Dark Heresy: Death Cult Assassin/Moritat Assassin: 'Drastically' hides things by just murdering everyone who was in the area previously. In theory they're supposed to be stealthy. In practice, blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne.
HA! None of my friends even speak english, i've got unlimited content stealing capabilities!
I was expecting a Stay Puff Marshmellow Man reference.
Just tried this with my players. They inadvertently created a giant bird-god-thing named Sohcahtöah.
I've never been more proud.
I can see it now: Sohcahtöah, god of trigonometry
@@conorb.1901 *I order you to stop*
Conor B. I can see it as well
*OMFG*
You know, a while ago my mother suggested we make an educational DnD module aimed toward a younger audience. When I first heard the term "SohCahToa" my mind immediately went to Kuo-Toa.
*transformation intensifies*
BREAD FOR THE BREAD GOD!
SCONES FOR THE SCONE THRONE!
ThunderblargZ
*MILK FOR THE KHORNE CAKES*
Abdega COCONUTS FOR THE HORSES!
@@generalbacon7476 no
@@generalbacon7476 Yes
So you can kill one and before it dies it sees a puppy and...
BEHOLD! The god puppers! It yips and barks and demands petting! Its influence spreads to both land and sea.
FEAR ITS ADORABLE WRATH!!!
Cat and dog simultaneously kill the Kuo Toa during a thunderstorm, now it's literally raining cats and dogs.
In other news, local wizards refuse to leave towers for fear of what they claim is a blight the most terrifying monsters they've ever seen...
Me: Don't let Jocat use fireball!!! WE DON'T NEED TO FIGHT A FULL FLEDGED GOD!
Jocat: "FIREBALL FIXES EVERYTHING!" (kills 20 of them, and 40 eggs and then there is a CR 24 encounter)
New Demigod is a giant fireball, Jocat bows down and pledges his life to his newfound god.
Just as planned.
"now you know ho to create gods you're welcome".
And thus... the Warriors of Sunlight are born.
\[T]/
it's a GIANT, FIREBALL, MAYBE IT'S FRIENDLY!
@@commanderblackheart5856 Friendly fireball. Giant fiery friend.
One of the players in the game I'm in just moved overseas after a year of playing, and for their farewell game our DM took him on a quest to the Kua toa to create the great god of processed dairy: Cheesus
@Batman Wayne "Cheesus crust!" is a joke my group like to throw around occasionally. Alternatively we say "Cheese-is Crust!".
In the name of the Feta, the Sbronzo, and the holy Swiss
Oh brie that sounds hilarious
The Paladin who calls a Crusade of this fake Heretical Religion, "Lactious The intolerant, Defier of The Dairy Gods"
Fondue his will, brie loyal to attain eternal life in his lunar realm of cheese, mozzarellish his blessings, hone thine weapons to the edge of sharp cheddar and your legacy shall be grate.
Set up Plato's cave with Kua Toa to manufacture your own personal Gods
Oh God no, insert lich trying to become a God using the Kua Toa but repeatedly failing.
@@wolfsden6479 Goblin: "So, we set up a picture of you with shadows in a cave and chained a bunch of baby kua toa up so all they could see was a candle and you in the cave sir."
Lich: "Yes, yet I'm not a god. What happened?"
Goblin: "They started worshipping the chains as gods."
Lich: "...You're kidding me right?"
Goblin: "No. There's now chain gods. They're scary, they want words."
@@chameon378 the great restricting ones, protect us from losing our knowledge, the great restricting ones, won't let them take us away, the great restricting ones, won't let them take our knowledge away, the great restricting ones won't let us become, that guy that they took and he lost his knowledge. HALL HAIL THE GREAT RESTRICTING ONES!
@@wolfsden6479 want to add the candle flame to the chains to form a deity of restraint, level headiness, connection, and being down to earth?
Long story, but one of the most hilarious 'rolling with it' situations I've ever done as a DM involved these monsters in a 'high seas adventure" D&D game earlier this year I was running. The party had to sail to an island to find out why shipping and supplies had stopped from there recently, a quest they had gotten from an alchemist in exchange they would get powerful potions from as some of rarer supplies came from there. Anyway, once there they soon found out the island had been overrun by the Kua Toa. There were several battles, saving random survivors, etc. Eventually they come to the final village on the island where they last of them and captives where. And they Kua Toa were in the middle of a 'summoning spell' per say, the party didn't actually know they were doing this though. They were using the well in the middle of the island village to call forth a god they had created I named Kruspa. And the druid in the party decided he wanted to start the fight by summoning his own giant frogs to help with the battle, and he centered their arrival in the middle of the well. I had one of my DM pause and think moments as I on the spot just warped the situation. Saying that the summoning of the druid interviewed with the summoning of the demon fish monster god being brought forth, and that they somehow combined and merged, creating a giant demon fish with a frog head and tongue. I basically on the spot just combined all the stats and stuff, but to off set things I made the monster bigger, and in doing so was half stuck in the well. But its long tongue helped it grab targets at range so its not like it was totally shut down from melee so they could just range it to death. Since the monster was also much more powerful then I planned, I made the sudden transformation drive it insane, it started by killing some of the Kua Toa near it, which were some of their clerics. The other fish men saw this as some divine judgement of their new god and jumped in on the other clerics, clearly having falling from favor. Since it was a mix of a giant toad and Kruspa, they party named it To-Kruspa, and its been a running joke and source of enjoyment since.
I like how the Kuo Toa are on the same level as orks in warhammer, to where things function the way they do because that is what they believe.
Red ships go faster
Blue iz lucky
Purple iz sneaky
I can’t express how unbelievably helpful these vids are to new DMs like myself. Your awesome dude.
Yeah like thanks to your vids I realized I could of ran a million other better campaign ideas than the one I picked.......
More like this : The Animated Beastiary, perhaps. Spotlight an underused, or poorly used creature, and suggest some tactics for use.
What about The Animated DnDecks (like the pokédecks)
@@generalbacon7476 I am unfamiliar, and curious.
Babbleplay I love this idea.
I get good ideas , sometimes. Like a new Arkham game that opens with Batman dropping in on Riddler BEFORE he can scatter those damn stupid trophies all over the place, and leaves his well-punched, tied up, unconscious body atop the pointy, uncomfortable pile of undistributed green trinkets, to await the police.
I love this idea!
Man, you gotta love scary fish-boiz
Axazil Harper do you mean....... Murlocks!
GeneralBacon 74 ah yes they are pretty good to. But remember, Murlocks can’t create evil shoe gods intend on crushing the PCs because they didn’t shine their shoes enough. Speaking from personal experience
CAMPAIGN IDEA: All Kuo Toa party, on a mission to get their God recognized, and most likely change it half a dozen times whenever someone tells them about their gods.
I love these guys. They literally have such crummy lives they create deities out of nothing just so they can worship them.
Great my players would be doing everything to make their lives easier (cause that's what my players are. ) and the Kua Toa would end up worshiping them. Seriously I can make the Kua Toa eat babies by boiling them alive with no intention of changing their ways and my players would STILL be trying to find an alternative for them to eat instead (if they weren't trying to keep them as pets. Seriously why do my players have an obsession with keeping pets!?)
@@CompletelyNewguy live with it. Better than them trying to make friends with anything abyssal.
@@HumbleMemeFarmer That's what I'm afraid of!
@@HumbleMemeFarmer even then it could be worse, at least there aren't (many) Fey in the abyss. Seriously, I'd rather deal with Asmodeus himself than deal with another Fey (or Elf).
BREAD FOR THE BREAD GOD!
Bread bread bread bread bread bread bread bread
Step 1: Cast major image in front of gullible fish people
Step 2: Make them believe it is a God that grants the players unlimited power
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit as the illusion has become an actual god
Da red ones go fasta!!!
How about a ship as a god? A fishing trawler runs over a clutch of eggs and kills a brood mother, inspiring the image of a horrific demonic ship with a face that swallows all that sits in front of it. You could have a pirate captain who wants to harness this legendary ship and claim his place as the king of the ocean.
I can see the Kua Toa worshiping a player (or seeing that player as a benevolent god) if they helped the Kua Toa immensely and making an image of them combined with some everyday object or weapon or even a familar that follows them.
Okay this is actually giving me ideas, thanks for the video!
I just came up with an Idea for a character for DM's out there to use:
Imagine a warlock who carries around the offspring of a god or some god larvae and has to protect it.
This character would become increasingly powerfull as the god does and has to get it to some place or just guard it and find ways to make it stronger.
It needs some polish but it could make for an interesting NPC or even PC if you have good role-players
(I personally imagine the god larvae similar to the one on bloodborne's third ending)
Noice 👍
My mind is racing. That one proud character refuses to kill his godlike alternate self. The new demigod is a vital of poison. Such strange and fantastic concepts!
2:44 Is that a reference to Katamari Damacy? Geez... It's been a while...
It came out on steam, finally. Maybe the game's fresh in the animator's mind.
The demi god could start as an infant version of a player, then a toddler, child, teen, and adult as it grows.
It could be half Kuo toa half player. Let the player it is copying make checks to realize just why the thing looks so familiar...
Wellllllllllllll
My Wizard and our Bard, using a combination of Prestidigitation, Dancing lights and Message kind of *accidentaly* a God.
Who knew that could happen :)
In a custom game I participated in... it was a Ferris wheel and it unlodged itself from the metal shackles holding it aloft and it grabbed one of the PC on its way into the ocean. Afterwards we all joked about what to name it... the world(from the tarot) or ouroboros(the tail eating serpent)
How about "Wheel of Fortune"
Fun Fact (Which I'm sure you know since you've referenced it briefly in a previous video): While the Kuo Toa look like the Deep Ones, they're actually nothing like them in how hey act or their background. The ones who do, the Sea Spawn, more closely resemble the Creature From The Black Lagoon. However, they function like deep ones. In the Torillian equivalent of Innsomoth, Purple Rocks, the new born children are thrown into the ocean, where they are gathered by the kraken Slarkrethel, where they are transformed not just into Sea Spawn, but into his fanatic worshippers. At a young age, a Sea Spawn looks identical to a human, so after their transformation is done, they're returned to the surface where they stay, disguised as just humans, until they reach old age and take on their more fish-like form, when they return to the sea and to their master. This is identical to how the Deep Ones function.
In my own headcanon, I'm putting The Bread God in the same continuity as Runesmith's Beholder who's afraid of toast. Because the crazy paranoid lunatic being right in the end is always fun.
What makes them goofy instead of scary are the pupils. Give them black, translucid, unblinking eyes and ta-da!
Praise be the Lobster Mom
and may good tidings be yours, friend!
This is gonna be about how they can create gods right
no
you actually did predict it :D
no ;)
Uk'otoaaa~
Darnit, I just finished a shortened version of Out of the Abyss (an official WotC campaign with kuo-toa in it) and I'm not my group's DM anymore, so I can't include this. It'll have to wait until my next campaign...
Definately gonna make a campaign where there are 5 groups of kuo toa that are trying to summon 2 god arms 2 god legs and a god head and if they succeed...
the world gets OBLITERATED
EXODIA'D!
To think of what the Kua Toa will make up simply mix their names and autocorrect.
Kuala Toast
Noooooo
ukotoahhhhh
Mus toa
Auto correct you had one job and you failedme
Koala toast? Sounds taste, if a little meaty, but that slight eucalyptus flavour makes it all worthwhile.
Goes great with Vegemite...
I did not know that Murlocs could create divinities.
Oh, well. I guess that's the justification behind all those Murloc Paladins...
I think in wow they can't create gods, they just worship whatever.
"It's the stay puffed marshmallow man isn't it."
Why would you do this to me? First I animated lore for Kuo-Toa inspired by you, and then you do it and now I'm feeling like I'm in the Twilight Zone...
it sounds goofy until you see one running at you from a dark alley in full realism
You wanna see some cool Kuo Toa usage look no further than the *Tales From My D&D Campaign* series by Demonac here on youtube.
Players: Finally a campaign with no eldritch horrors, just these fish people
Me the DM: (Smiles in malicious intent)
Honestly at that point they're just being heavily genre-blind. They'd almost have to have never heard of Lovecraft to achieve that level of ignorance.
Also, fun fact, but I believe in Mesopotamian mythology, the ocean is associated with Chaos. So the connection between watery things and unknowable eldritch horrors apparently goes quite far back.
Smiles in WAYS NO HUMAN HAS EVER SEEN.
@@barrybend7189 uNLIKE ANY SEEN ON EARTH
@@Greywander87 Not only that, but Mesopotamian creation myths actually START with the two primordials of water: Abzû, the god of fresh water and bringer of life, and Tiamat, the goddess of salt water, the ocean and primal chaos. They gave birth to the other gods, who then tried and eventually succeeded in killing them. After her husband was slain first, Tiamat transformed into a giant Leviathan, and wreaked havoc on the world, and gave birth to all monsters, including the dragons, before being killed aswell. This is why the godess of chaos and all evil dragons in D&D is named after her.
There was a reddit post just a few weeks ago about a stolen Lighthouse. The players basically wander around following false leads and hearing about fishlike monster people that are scaring the dock workers, until the Lighthouse itself walks right past them while they're exploring along the coast (preferably at night)
I love these things. My favorite D&D monster.
We got the Kuo Toa, next will be *Uk'Otoaaa*
“How to kill players without trying”
Why is this not the title
I once dropped a torch that I lit with Continual Flame to stop a tribe of Kua Toa from chasing my party as a level 3 cleric before we booked it to another part of our campaign. Some levels and plot points later our DM informed me that my Sun Deity was concerned about an upstart Fire Deity worshiped by the very same Kua Toa tribe that was now worshiping the torch.
Edit: Since I never mentioned dispelling the darn thing my DM took it as an opportunity. Glad he did, that was a fun romp.
oh my god that's brilliant I love it lol
Thank you for the Animated God-Book.
Everyone, clear your minds and don't think of anything!
Ray: I couldn't help it. It just popped in there......
holy shit that is amazing, i found my next campaign main plot
Yay! We get an animated Monster Manual episode!
Also, I blame The Slayers for how the Kuo Toa are currently portrayed.
They look more like Murlocs than anything lovecraft.
Murlocs are from the same inspiration.
NGL "Kuo Toa cult" could be a really cool concept for a Warlock patron.
Some shlub stumbles into a Kuo-Toa den, unwittingly impresses them and accidentally ends up becoming kinda sorta a mini demigod by dint of Kuo Toa magic
Kuo toas imagination is quite amazing indeed!
They are like weaker versions of the most powerful God creating race..... the DMs.
My dm sent our party to a town called Saltmist. A dingy little fishing town where some of these Kuo Toa were the main inhabitants. My Warforged Barbarian Monk had decided to stand outside on a rooftop as his fellow party members took their long rest. But then the town was attacked by 10 monster hunters all wielding crossbows and longswords. I was level 12 around this time and i thought i could handle it myself, so I beat some of them up and started to get the favor of the strange fish people. As the fight continued on some of the fish people started to die, and I started to gain a level of my choice every time 10 or so fish people bit the dust. But as that happened i saw a smaller version of my barbarian monk start to emerge from the ground, taking out the monster hunters as well.
Eventually morning comes around and the monster hunters were all dead, and i was a Barbarian 6 Monk 12, and my weird clone had become as strong as i was. Turns out that they worshiped me as i faught for their safety, and my DM was using that to pump more monk levels into me, but also made a version of me that they imagined when they thought of me or something?
Anywho the party wakes up and shit themselves when they find out that i boosted to god levels of power, and has this gross rusted mucky clone of my mechanical self following us around town
We eventually left and my character level slowly returned to normal (at my request) to balance out the party, a year later when we faught the BBEG we had brought up multiple armies with us, and who else showed up but the Kuo Toa and my godlike clone, who had gained the power i lost over that period of time. With their help I was boosted to level 30 and with the help of my clone, cleared out a path through the enemy armies to get my party members and armies to the fortress
Even with all that power I got killed, but god it felt good to bash an army with my bare hands. My clone got the remaning power and focused on the army we left behind, when the other pcs hit the fortress. It was a good campaign
You make it sound like something that could be added into a Deathwatch campaign.
The fact that Kuo-Toa are going to be in Baldur's Gate 3 has gotten me pretty excited, mostly because of me having seen this previously.
I just hope they're even a fraction of as interesting.
It's Kuo-Toa, not Kua Toa...
That's the Mandela effect for you.
It's Steve, not Mandela. That's the Mandela effect for you.
Uk'otoa!
Orks Roll the Windows down on their spacecraft's to feel a breeze.
So using them in my campaign for the port city.
Better yet make them be in a land locked town and they control the sewers and all water going in and out of the town.
I used them in a game I did last year.
The group had been Hunting down the cult of the forgotten king now that their benefactor had found a lead.
lord Greyscale a half dragon potential Big Bad Evil Guy himself didn’t want an ancient evil as competition he had found that the town of glass ridge had gone quite he normally wouldn’t care but two of his emergency assets were hidden in that town if it was the forgotten king it would be very bad.
When the group got to the town they found it desolate with the magical barrier was still in place although oddly visible over the ocean, the walls were almost undamaged and the canal had been locked shut.
Searching the ruins they found many odd creatures scattered about attacking each other but ignoring the group.
Eventually they found the kua Toa the birthing ritual was well known but normally happens in a different part of the content and not for another year at least, some of the Kua Toa were still slick in their greenish scales but others were bathed in the familiar blue of the forgotten king.
Along their way the oracle unintentionally created a small creature that looked like a fire ball but the flames were actually fur it became attached to the group and each time they killed another creature the fire would absorb them and grow.
After killing a monstrous house they all realised what the discolouration in the shield was outside hidden by the shimmering barrier was a massive symbol the one of the forgotten king but made flesh.
They discovered that the cult had created this beast in order to empower their master by catching the Kua Toa and forcing to look at the symbol then killing them with the blue blades to make minions of their corpses.
A number of the Kua Toa had escaped to this town to start the birthing ritual but the symbol had followed them.
The group ended up using the secret assets of Lord grayscale a mechanical wonder from an ancient past and a powder designed specifically to mess with the blue metal which the symbol seemed to be made of.
The dwarf used the mech to grapple the symbol while the halfling used a want of flying to air drop the poweder down its throat and while the creature was suffering the oracle in tandem with her now large sized fire ball friend did a twin divine meta magic fireball to finish it off.
Afterwards the fireball grew to be even larger than the symbol had been and took the Kua Toa back into the sea with the group each discreetly taking parts of the town back to base to benefit from.
For background the BBEG was the forgotten king an ancient evil magus so powerful and dominating that in the end he was only defeated by sabotaging a ritual that would elevate him up a divine grade into Demi god and later a true god. Because they swapped out the gods blood for pigs blood he was erased from existence itself undoing his whole life with only a few of those who stopped him remembering. However he was so arrogant and self assured that he refused to stop existing and over time became an ethereal being who devours the existence of others and turns their husk into his slave.
I’m in a campaign where my did some things and started getting worshipped by the Kuo Toas. It ended when my character’s best friend burnt down their kitchen, which they were using to bake my friends, with a fireball.
Well this gives me ideas for my campaign, and if anyone here has seen The Road to El Dorado you can probably guess where I'm gonna be going with these fish boys.
In an all monster campaign I run, I have a character who plays a mad kuo-toa cleric that comes up with random gods he claims he derives his power from. He believes in the deities so strongly he ends up punishing himself sometimes when he thinks he has failed them, thus manifesting their disappointment in weird ways.
I absolutely adored this!! Please keep making these monster centred ones as they’re really inspiring!
Thank you for expanding what you can do with D&D beyond just spells and items. every time you upload a new video I get so many more ideas on what to implement in a new campaign!
That psychic creation sounds vaguely ork-like. Boyz! We'z gettin' looted!
These bois can really amp things up.
I have Kuo Toa and Sahuagan serving a Hag Coven.
The Hags also have an Oni who command their own tribe of goblinoids and assist each other.
The Hags use mass suggestion on Kuo-tua/Sahugins to worship the Oni and boom easy Tier 2/3 arc right there.
What a great combo of monsters
I've been working on a campaign settings where there is a secret organisation that is trying to make a new god. And I think I just found out one of the ways they will try and be successful
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That's... disturbing.
Damn primals! CALL THE WARRIORS OF LIGHT AND THE SCIONS!
The God's name is Not Available.
God damn autocorrect, I give you one job.
Praise the Lord of the Population.
What happens if they see an actual godlike beast an just start worshiping it
very cool but how do you actually transfer that divinity to your players? I mean, i'd rather be a god than have a god created in my image.
Eat the larva?
Favorite? Ummmm...no. My favorite scary Innsmouth Fish-boys are the originals. You know, the ORIGINAL deep ones. From 2005's game, Dark Corners of the Earth.
Yes kidding, but yeah, I like that game. Ironically, it's better in the first half, and degenerates from horror to a shooty-fest.
instructions unclear:
CR 1000 god created
1 thing though, the kua toa creations will never be an actual god. As long as it has a CR, it's still just a very, very powerful demigod.
Loving the tested reference. More ODB's please!
*Its starting to look alot like fishmen.*
your description of Kua Toa reception history really reminded me of the ancient Frog-Giants in the setting we're playing. The DM keeps insisting they are magnificent, Powerfull, eldritch Livathans but all I can think of is "Quaaaaaaaaaaaak"
I recently had kou tao in my D&D campaign that worshiped a Owlbear
I thought they were from HP Lovecraft's Nameless City.
Same author, different story. Sorry for nitpicking. Still a fun monster!
Suddenly, I think I understand something a little more about Uk'otoa from Critical Role... It's an abstract understanding, but perhaps answers a lot of questions I didn't know I had. Such as why Uk'otoa was haunting Fjord's dreams when Fjord wasn't worshiping him. If Uk'otoa was more powerful because of those who worshipping him, then having those followers fall away would mean bad things for the Leviathan God.
Thanks for watching this episode of animated Spellbook, wait nevermind lmao 🤣 you guys are awesome.
Although one could make the argument that ANY creature could create a god, if they just believed hard enough. The Kuo Toa just tend to do so, because no _actual_ gods want anything to do with them.
Still, the idea of the Kuo Toa spontaneously generating demigods is pretty darn cool, as far as creating weird and tricky encounters goes.
As an aside, I think aquatic adventures are criminally underutilized in DnD. Probably because, unless the players are told from the outset that underwater stuff is a big part of a campaign, no one really ever specs for it. And DMs so rarely think to take the adventure underwater, even though it can be a fun challenge, both for players and DM alike. I've been wanting to run a campaign that's basically set in Fantasy Venice, where as much goes on below the waterline as above it. Between the canal city, the maritime trade empire surrounding it, and and the profusion of islands and coastal ports to head to, it would really incentivize players seriously considering amphibious races (like Tritons and Sea Elves, and maybe some homebrew races like Sea Goblins or the like).
(Yes, I know about Ghosts of Saltmarsh. I've got it, I just haven't gotten around to reading it in depth).
The reason "Cook & Book" is more "evil" than stuff like Acid Splash is because other stuff at least gives you a chance to defend yourself in some way. AC, saving throw... You could Heat Metal someone stealthily from an alley and nobody would ever know it was you, because 12 seconds later you could be back at the pub playing cards with your mates.
In pathfinder they just have deep ones and deep one hybrids.. you can play as the hybrids and they are great!
So, you're saying I *can't* become a god by killing Kua Toa. Got it.
(Begins plotting other methods to ascend)
I tried this in a campaign, and things went kind of as expected. My characters actually found the god larva and decided to protect from the battle. They knew what was going on so they're like "screw it, let's see what happens." and proceeded to murderdize every Kua Toa they see making sure they saw the god. The god did eventually make them stop by kidnapping one of the players, a player that allowed it to hide in their shirt, and actually began to ask them questions.
So to put it simply the kidnapped player can answer the god's questions and depending on the answer can influence the god's behavior. They could be benevolent (but that option passed with all the death.) selfish, malevolent, and so on. The player ended up getting killed as he said, "I don't hate them, they gotta do what they gotta do survive." And the god understood so it didn't save him from the Kua Toa.
I like the idea of Kuo Toa worshipping some large and dangerous creature. Like a sea serpent. Sea serpents are intelligent enough to talk and I think that they would just be like "Okay cool, these things are worshipping me for some fucking reason" and give the sea serpent some long and weird sounding name. That would not be the sea serpent's real name and it just sort of rolls with it.
So this might be crazy but.... Hear me out. Roll a Kuo Toa character. Go to a kuo toa lair. Spread the word of our lord and savior. Kill them all in a blinding flash, including yourself. The group is safe outside. It was a trap, the lair is rigged to blow.
Godzilla is born.
Okay, where is the stat block calculator for this god being?
I want to make a Vengeance Dragon, a necrotic being made of the stitched together corpses of the dead NPCs for a group of Murderhobos.
I think the reason Lovecraftian horror has lost its edge is that it's outdated. People back in the day were ignorant enough to be deluded with grandeur, and Lovecraftian horror is built around slowly tearing that innocence away, both for the protagonist and the reader. If it's not even there at all, what's he gonna do? You're telling me there's an actual god in the ocean? Great! Finally, a god that actually shows up!