I actually play a pure blood war domain cleric yuan-ti and it’s really interesting to play because if you pick say researcher or scholar you basically become a walking interrogation machine. Though because you do get a plus one to charisma if you roll well enough to begin with you just naturally get people to tell you everything. You also (if you’ve picked those choices) speak just about every language which comes in handy to keep murder hobos in your party from fighting everything. Bonus you also have all the cantrips, yuanti is broken you’re welcome.
Okay, so our party captured a yuanti that was using child sacrifices for a ritual (I think to transform himself into a higher tier of yuanti) and he had tried to escape by having a pet snake (or another yuanti in snake form) bite him and pretend to die so we would abandon his "corpse" I was in the tavern trying to work something out between our secret mindflayer npc companion and the bartender about straws and our friend who had fallen asleep because player couldn't make it to the session, but my familiar and the others were outside trying to figure out what happened. My familiar, being an imp, I had eat the snake while on crow form while the other two argued about how to deal with the poison- health potion, suck it out, did we even have an antidote? The guy got irritated by it by the time I came outside that he sat up, told us to shut up, and that he tried to trick us into thinking he was dead but we were so stupid that it wouldn't work. So we left him in the cart, watched over by gnolls who would eat him if he left in humanoid form, and an imp crow who would eat him if he tried to escape via snake form. We took him to the big city and turned him in but a different doppelganger or changeling murdered the guard captain and used his identity to break him out (I used big brain to figure it out, cause he was dead, body a couple of days old at the time, but the guy was taken out for "execution" the day before, and other changelings know changeling tricks) we went to another continent to try and get him, but the guy with me finally was convinced that if we try to take this guy back from a country he was and upstanding citizen in we would be the criminals for kidnapping. But yeah, fun stories!
My first and longest running D&D character was a Yuan-ti pureblood sorcerer. Not necessarily evil, but quite self centered and hellbent and raising up his own castle and chunk of land for himself to rule over. Created a lot of campaigns around the city he founded.
I made a Yuan-Ti Zealot Barbarian for a one shot my party did in Exandria as a setting. An artifact had been stolen from his people and so he was chosen to go and find it, joining up with a Pirate Crew who was then sent on a land based mission to find out why the Pirate Captains drug supplier hadn't delivered the goods. He was a Yuan-Ti Malison, who had human proportions but snake skin and eyes, who went by the name Malison but was given the nickname Sonny by the Pirate Captain, who took a liking to him. Definitely the sort of fellow whose smile never reached his eyes and that you shouldn't trust as far as you could throw him.
@@Rookzer0 Not really. I basically just used the Monster block. So other than all the Yuan-Ti Pureblood abilities he gets, he can also use an action to turn into a medium sized snake. The snake skin was more just cause I thought it looked cool.
Making a half breed as a Rattlesnake Bard archer, that sounds amazing. Use the rattle for casting, and your arms for the bow. I may be copying some Clash of the Titans =, and I don't care.
I'm. Going to be showing this to one of my players, he plays a blood hunter druid yuan-ti who, since yuan-ti don't exist as an established race in my world. They instead are the snake god of my custom cosmology who has been punished and sent to earth
I recently had a breakthrough where they will encounter a tribe of yuan ti and become the god of that tribe who is against the council run by a God who sent them on a mission
There is a god, called Anantashesha. A serpent, the king of serpents who was said to lie beneath Vishnu in the cosmos. A six headed snake god, he would linger past the end and gaze upon the darkness past the end of time. it was said that when the light of the universe finally goes out, all that would be left is Anantashesha. I don't know, i just thought i'd throw that out there since i thought it would be a cool idea to try and implement that into a campaign, either using this god as a patron for a warlock, or a god to be worshiped by a cleric or paladin yuan-ti character.
I had a half-blood barbarian who was a constrictor snake (his bite lost its poison but he could grapple with his bite) who was basically a wrestler. He also would eat poisonous things because they didn't effect him.
I hope your channel grow more, i really find interesting your commentary at the same time you show a speedpaint of a character with a nice art style. Keep it going!
Really enjoying your content (definitely liking the art style!) and your take on how these characters could be played or introduced homberew-ish to campaigns.
One of my character ideas is a Yuan-ti abormination (The VERY SNAKY one), but you cannot play them really, cause they are evil. So always when he throws initiative, if he throws 1, he fight for the evil guys. Sry for my bad english...
Well, you can always be that weird less-evil snakey boi Or being raised by someone less evil Or even a war prisoner who had enough time to rethink of him/her-self Also, loved that mechanic xD, hope you didn't rolled many 1's
In my HW campaign, the party killed the god who was the deity of the yuanti, so later in the next campaign in the same setting, one of my players wanted to play a LG yuanti light cleric, so justifying alignment, after their deity was slain the society became a wandering minority around the setting, and most of them would move worship to light or sun gods because naturally, snakes like warmth so after a time or yun in their society, they would look for something that would make them feel safe, warmth
I actually am thinking about playing a Yuanti pureblood fighter that has sort of gone rogue. He at some point decided he wasn't interested in being an acolyte for his snake gods as intended. So he picked up a Scimitar and a gold mask and left. He would later come into the favor of a Human nobleman and now has a ward... apprentice.... semi annoying traveling companion. And a cool Rapier! The mask should definitely make it harder for any party members to discern his true nature, alongside his hood that *totally* doesn't look like a cobra.
@@Rookzer0 no the hood is like a cowl that goes over the mask so it's just clothing. I just designed it to look like a cobra hood for Aesthetics. My bad for the confusion.
Just made a yuan ti character. Conquest paladin/shadow sorcerer found, taken, and trained by the Shulassakar race. Pureblood but raised by a lawful good race and actually a fan of Couatls so im giving myself some wiggle room there. Shadow sorcerer cuz idk "evil bloodline"? Plus im playing her like a samurai so being shadowy n sneaky helps with flavor ig. Snake lore goes deep (jazirian/ahriman)
I'm playing a campaign with my buddies next week from Forgotten realms, fighting against Ras Nsi and his crazy cult followers on the island of Chult. My friend and I have both decided to play as Yaun Ti Hybird (snake lower half, human upper half) bards/fighters. Ying(me) and Kai(my friend) black scales and dark purple underbelly, red eyes, kinda like the Black Momba. My friend is gonna use a Bat'leth while I'm using a GuZheng, kinda like From Kung fu Hustle. It's gonna be good. 😎👌
Okay this is a good video but that is a very important question when do you start the draw the line when it comes to shopkeepers dealing with these odd looking people in even monsters that come into their shops to buy Goods because you got to think this is just a human or Elf or dwarf if behind the counter and they got to serve whoever comes through that door you would think they will have that moment when they're not going to serve whoever comes through that door based on what race they are
I defintly thing that this kind of thought should be part of the game. Esspecially for monsterious races. If youre in part of the world where a 12 foot snake with a human face come into your shop all the time. Thats fine. But if yoi roll into a dwarven town where theyve never seen a drow before. It might freek people out. The drizzt books talk about that a lot and i think its a good way to balance out character looks and allignments in game.
Also, throughout my campaigns,.I have a pure blood yuan-ti that is the representative of a mercenary company. Whenever he finishes briefing the party, he finishes by saying "Take care of ___, now I'm going to go have sex. Call me when it's done". Why; reasons.
Bro, I want that level of drawing. Literally if a had that level of drawing I'd be so satisfied. Never have to download some shitty character art ever again
I really like my players being large sized characters. It makes designing dungeons and encounters a little more interesting. I make it more difficult for people to move past them. and they take penalties in hallways and corridors that would otherwise be normal. I think it's a great boon in combat and there is definitely a place to add challenges as well.
4:10 "maybe a big snake with a human hand for a head"
Facehugger without the the naughty bits.... 🤣
I actually play a pure blood war domain cleric yuan-ti and it’s really interesting to play because if you pick say researcher or scholar you basically become a walking interrogation machine. Though because you do get a plus one to charisma if you roll well enough to begin with you just naturally get people to tell you everything. You also (if you’ve picked those choices) speak just about every language which comes in handy to keep murder hobos in your party from fighting everything. Bonus you also have all the cantrips, yuanti is broken you’re welcome.
Ha ha i like the idea that your keeping murder hobos at bay by being an interpreter. Very clever use, keep up the good work.
your comment is more interesting than the video, haha
if a yuan-ti player wants to use charm person or suggestion i have them sing "trust in me"
Nice one
Kai from Junglebook!
😂😂😂 Good move 👏
The good omens reference made my day so I’m liking the video before it even properly starts
Okay, so our party captured a yuanti that was using child sacrifices for a ritual (I think to transform himself into a higher tier of yuanti) and he had tried to escape by having a pet snake (or another yuanti in snake form) bite him and pretend to die so we would abandon his "corpse"
I was in the tavern trying to work something out between our secret mindflayer npc companion and the bartender about straws and our friend who had fallen asleep because player couldn't make it to the session, but my familiar and the others were outside trying to figure out what happened.
My familiar, being an imp, I had eat the snake while on crow form while the other two argued about how to deal with the poison- health potion, suck it out, did we even have an antidote?
The guy got irritated by it by the time I came outside that he sat up, told us to shut up, and that he tried to trick us into thinking he was dead but we were so stupid that it wouldn't work. So we left him in the cart, watched over by gnolls who would eat him if he left in humanoid form, and an imp crow who would eat him if he tried to escape via snake form.
We took him to the big city and turned him in but a different doppelganger or changeling murdered the guard captain and used his identity to break him out (I used big brain to figure it out, cause he was dead, body a couple of days old at the time, but the guy was taken out for "execution" the day before, and other changelings know changeling tricks) we went to another continent to try and get him, but the guy with me finally was convinced that if we try to take this guy back from a country he was and upstanding citizen in we would be the criminals for kidnapping.
But yeah, fun stories!
Nice campaign story man. Pretty cool
I think yuan-ti transform into giant snakes.
Amazing content as always
Oh and
How about... "Why should you play a mindflayer"
It's on the list! soon...
Oh my god! That's perfect!
My first and longest running D&D character was a Yuan-ti pureblood sorcerer. Not necessarily evil, but quite self centered and hellbent and raising up his own castle and chunk of land for himself to rule over. Created a lot of campaigns around the city he founded.
I made a Yuan-Ti Zealot Barbarian for a one shot my party did in Exandria as a setting. An artifact had been stolen from his people and so he was chosen to go and find it, joining up with a Pirate Crew who was then sent on a land based mission to find out why the Pirate Captains drug supplier hadn't delivered the goods.
He was a Yuan-Ti Malison, who had human proportions but snake skin and eyes, who went by the name Malison but was given the nickname Sonny by the Pirate Captain, who took a liking to him.
Definitely the sort of fellow whose smile never reached his eyes and that you shouldn't trust as far as you could throw him.
Very cool, does the snake skin give you any benifits?
@@Rookzer0 Not really. I basically just used the Monster block. So other than all the Yuan-Ti Pureblood abilities he gets, he can also use an action to turn into a medium sized snake.
The snake skin was more just cause I thought it looked cool.
I play a Pureblood Scharlatan diplomat Bard, that drinks people literally every time under the table and im loving it
Lol are you able to unhinged your jaw to drink faster? Even as a pureblood I'd allow it.
An idea for a Yuan-Ti bard
2 words: Hognose snake (the drama queens of the snake world)
you should make one about a dryad. (Maybe they carry their tree in a plant pot and the tree in suspended in time so it doesn't grow out the pot)
I am Groot
I think a Yaun-Ti Pureblood would benefit the most from being a Champion of Pharika, Theros god of Affliction
Making a half breed as a Rattlesnake Bard archer, that sounds amazing. Use the rattle for casting, and your arms for the bow. I may be copying some Clash of the Titans =, and I don't care.
Sounds pretty awesome, I'd allow the bard rattle
@@Rookzer0 I'd stick with enemy effecting spells over support spells, a scary rattle doesn't seem supportive.
I'm. Going to be showing this to one of my players, he plays a blood hunter druid yuan-ti who, since yuan-ti don't exist as an established race in my world. They instead are the snake god of my custom cosmology who has been punished and sent to earth
Ha ha that sounds awesome, let me know what they think.
I recently had a breakthrough where they will encounter a tribe of yuan ti and become the god of that tribe who is against the council run by a God who sent them on a mission
There is a god, called Anantashesha. A serpent, the king of serpents who was said to lie beneath Vishnu in the cosmos. A six headed snake god, he would linger past the end and gaze upon the darkness past the end of time. it was said that when the light of the universe finally goes out, all that would be left is Anantashesha. I don't know, i just thought i'd throw that out there since i thought it would be a cool idea to try and implement that into a campaign, either using this god as a patron for a warlock, or a god to be worshiped by a cleric or paladin yuan-ti character.
Beautiful, great idea.
I had a half-blood barbarian who was a constrictor snake (his bite lost its poison but he could grapple with his bite) who was basically a wrestler. He also would eat poisonous things because they didn't effect him.
Pro wrestler, the constrictor!
Nice drawing, you crafty sidewinder!
Whenever i hear of yuan-ti i think of the mayan/aztec god Quetzalcoatl
I think that may have been the intent. the lore and esthetics are really similar. good catch.
@@Rookzer0 np! Now we just gotta add feathers and wings lol-
I hope your channel grow more, i really find interesting your commentary at the same time you show a speedpaint of a character with a nice art style. Keep it going!
Thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying the videos
I am playing as a Yuan-ti pureblood who was once a member of the Coiled Cabal they are kinda like the Red Wizards of Thay
Liked cause the Little Prince Ref was gold.
Yeah! Im glad someone caught it.
I had an idea for a yuan ti necromancer that was kinda like a witch doctor.
Bro, you're brilliant. Subscribed.
Thank you!
Really enjoying your content (definitely liking the art style!) and your take on how these characters could be played or introduced homberew-ish to campaigns.
Thank you!, if you end up adding them to your campaign let me know
Why you should play a Yuan-ti:
Because they're OP af! 😂
I SUMMON A MILLION SNAKES! someone help me dig a pit
Yuan ti
Danger noodle sounds like a name for a Tabaxi
nice, I could see that being a pretty good name.
One of my character ideas is a Yuan-ti abormination (The VERY SNAKY one), but you cannot play them really, cause they are evil. So always when he throws initiative, if he throws 1, he fight for the evil guys. Sry for my bad english...
Well, you can always be that weird less-evil snakey boi
Or being raised by someone less evil
Or even a war prisoner who had enough time to rethink of him/her-self
Also, loved that mechanic xD, hope you didn't rolled many 1's
In my HW campaign, the party killed the god who was the deity of the yuanti, so later in the next campaign in the same setting, one of my players wanted to play a LG yuanti light cleric, so justifying alignment, after their deity was slain the society became a wandering minority around the setting, and most of them would move worship to light or sun gods because naturally, snakes like warmth so after a time or yun in their society, they would look for something that would make them feel safe, warmth
Im running a yuan ti bard in our current campaign
I actually am thinking about playing a Yuanti pureblood fighter that has sort of gone rogue. He at some point decided he wasn't interested in being an acolyte for his snake gods as intended. So he picked up a Scimitar and a gold mask and left. He would later come into the favor of a Human nobleman and now has a ward... apprentice.... semi annoying traveling companion. And a cool Rapier! The mask should definitely make it harder for any party members to discern his true nature, alongside his hood that *totally* doesn't look like a cobra.
Does the mask hide the hood
@@Rookzer0 no the hood is like a cowl that goes over the mask so it's just clothing. I just designed it to look like a cobra hood for Aesthetics. My bad for the confusion.
DM: you encounter a group of yuan-ti
Me: well what kind?
DM: Pureblood
Me: NO NO NO ABANDON SHIP! MY MOTHER'S A MUGGLE!
Lol
well what's it to you filthy little mudblood
Halfblood are the snake-men from dark souls
Good call
Just made a yuan ti character. Conquest paladin/shadow sorcerer found, taken, and trained by the Shulassakar race. Pureblood but raised by a lawful good race and actually a fan of Couatls so im giving myself some wiggle room there. Shadow sorcerer cuz idk "evil bloodline"? Plus im playing her like a samurai so being shadowy n sneaky helps with flavor ig. Snake lore goes deep (jazirian/ahriman)
What would Yuan-ti Hybrid bard be like?
Now that's something I'd like to try.
Plays the maracas... wink wink
I'm playing a campaign with my buddies next week from Forgotten realms, fighting against Ras Nsi and his crazy cult followers on the island of Chult. My friend and I have both decided to play as Yaun Ti Hybird (snake lower half, human upper half) bards/fighters. Ying(me) and Kai(my friend) black scales and dark purple underbelly, red eyes, kinda like the Black Momba. My friend is gonna use a Bat'leth while I'm using a GuZheng, kinda like From Kung fu Hustle. It's gonna be good. 😎👌
Okay this is a good video but that is a very important question when do you start the draw the line when it comes to shopkeepers dealing with these odd looking people in even monsters that come into their shops to buy Goods because you got to think this is just a human or Elf or dwarf if behind the counter and they got to serve whoever comes through that door you would think they will have that moment when they're not going to serve whoever comes through that door based on what race they are
I defintly thing that this kind of thought should be part of the game. Esspecially for monsterious races. If youre in part of the world where a 12 foot snake with a human face come into your shop all the time. Thats fine. But if yoi roll into a dwarven town where theyve never seen a drow before. It might freek people out.
The drizzt books talk about that a lot and i think its a good way to balance out character looks and allignments in game.
i mean there is probably a yuan- ti or other monsterous type creature town that they rule and the should probably also do trading so just go there
My fav race
I hope i did them justice
Try a new angle "Children of the World Serpent" snow Yuanti
Oh I know, how about ''why you should play as a Treant''
I've done a few things on Plantfolk and groot type creatures in the past, th-cam.com/video/uA0Uoh-PJJc/w-d-xo.html
Also, throughout my campaigns,.I have a pure blood yuan-ti that is the representative of a mercenary company. Whenever he finishes briefing the party, he finishes by saying "Take care of ___, now I'm going to go have sex. Call me when it's done". Why; reasons.
Yeah i dont think i can answer that one for you
The abomination Just have human arms but to make scales all over i think 😅
Bro, I want that level of drawing. Literally if a had that level of drawing I'd be so satisfied. Never have to download some shitty character art ever again
Thanks! Feel free to bcheck out the discord and share your work if you'd like feedback and critique! Practice practice practice
How would you rule a large size pc?
I really like my players being large sized characters. It makes designing dungeons and encounters a little more interesting. I make it more difficult for people to move past them. and they take penalties in hallways and corridors that would otherwise be normal. I think it's a great boon in combat and there is definitely a place to add challenges as well.
Naga?
You bet
I'll play a ssssssssssneeky sssssssssssssssssnake
Oh noice!
Ahh yess, the sshh hss hss hsse eshh