The Worst Homebrew MONSTERS on D&D Beyond
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i love edging to this video
"Flames appear from anywhere the dragon wants..." You really don't understand a fart joke?
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I made a subclass
Real @@idlegameplayer3756
Reminds me of the monster called "Very old Lich" he had such powers as "Very old Lich is so old he remembers spells from D&D 3.5, 3.0 and AD&D"
this is brilliant
TBH, something pulling from broke old rule sets is SUCH A GOOD idea "I cast such and such" "oh cool, 1d4 damage" 'But?" "nah"
@@NEEDbacon “roll for system shock”
“What?”
to you have a link?
@@NEEDbacon I actually have this idea on hold for a world in a campaign. The world is actually a mimic that was put to sleep by a 3.5 spell, but the spell was removed in 5e. I just don't remember which spell I had found atm.
We need babies of light that grapple and heal you, five of them can resurrect a dead character
But still by exploding
@@crislie4149 deals up to 75% of your max health as damage but heals up to 80% rounded up
*baby of lightness
And they make you faster
@@crislie4149 Perhaps they implode instead ? Like an inverted bomb.
I like how the Abyssal Black Dragon can either hit everything in the multiverse for 20 damage or bite someone for 1 damage
It gums you for 1 uncomfortableness damage. The entire multiverse takes d20 psychic damage as a result.
The abyssal dragon straight up ends the world by existing, the multiverse if it tries anything regarding Black Hole
Got two fucking Naruto abilities too to boot.
@@KatarHero723*
@@chaosenforcerdhm969yup naruto does bite folk
Enemy: Shoves me off a cliff
Me with 5 babies of darkness and a personal vendetta against gravity:
All fun and games until they use Explode and reduce your existence to random atoms
1. get 5 darkness babies
2. Cast levitate on yourself
3. Cast invisibility on the babies
4. Float like Gojo
@@Guy-kr9beyou have to keep one of them separate from you until you want to stop so that you don’t become immovable
@@Guy-kr9be Yowaimo🫦
Do you believe in gravity?
Homebrew Sans can survive any attack from homebrew The Old God Of The Nine Hells until he gets 'really tired'. Then they can have a conversation in Wing Dings
No trickery though
@@npgabriel no dunking for sans today
The Old God of the Nine Hells CANNOT be tricked
@@jimjimson6208can he be bamboozled?
@@the_apotecary_from_tf2 possibly
I can't believe everyone missed that the baby of darkness doesn't just give you a speed of 0 when you're grappled by 5 of them, you become IMMOVABLE like the immovable rod! Thats the real strength here
bag of holding full of shadow babies? If not for their insane explosive damage they could honestly be an interesting creature.
Youre falling and you reach into your bag, your 5 babies of darkness grab onto each finger, and you stop immediately
They also cannot kill you. They only hit you for 75% of your health lol. So you will still have 25% health if all 5 explode. Or 25% of 25 and so forth. Still not 0
@@picallo1 But it's 75% rounded up, so they will eventually kill you (to be specific: the first explosion after you are on 3 HP or lower will drop you to 0 because 75% of 3 (or 2 or 1) rounded up equals 3 (or 2 or 1 respectively))
And to add to this, that would almost certainly happen with 5 explosions. Say you have somehow have 400 HP, the first explosion takes you to 100 HP, the second to 25 HP, the third to 6 HP, the fourth brings you down to 1 HP and then on the fifth you'd drop to 0.
I haven't done the exact math but I'm pretty sure you would need more than 1,000 HP to survive 5 of those explosions in a row
Ngl the black dragon being a self defeating entity dying off it’s own brain waves that flies away at every slightest hint of a problem and spends its time indulging delusions every turn is very fitting lmao.
it’s so fitting that I feel like this HAS to be a parody. I’d make something like this as a joke and never let it see the light of day in the eyes of decent and serious people.
I just have this image of the gargantuan swarm arising from the horizon, expanding as many dragons just start dropping from the sky.
The dragons kill eachother off far before they reach the party.
@@tylerbreau4544 You know I think a good DM could use this idea as a setup for hunting down a evil scientist or alchemist who's been experimenting on creatures of different types leading to some having strange and sometimes deadly abilities they would normally not.
Well given it has a move taken 1:1 from saskue in naurto . I'd say this is perfectly on flavor behavior.
I knew some DMs in High School who made "boss monsters" like this because "EPIC COOL BADASS BOSS FIGHT"
The "Gargantuan Swarm of Gargantuan Dragons" can fly as a reaction, but lacks a fly speed. So I imagine that is just sort of jumps in the air?
And stays there forever
@@eggbag4182SOMEONE CALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT ITS STUCK!
Funnily, at least 3 OG babies of darkness could kill Old God of the Nine Hells as written, so seems balanced to me.
This is the weirdest game of Rock Paper Scissors…
@@DeltaEntropy player beats babies, babies beat old god of nine hells and old god beats players
I desperately want to see a campaign that uses the most bullshit home brew stuff they can find. Players inclydes
Exactly my thought
nah but old god can reroll the dex save infinitely to avoid the grapple right
Of all of them the Baby of Darkness, with the edits shown by that user, is probably the closest to be legitimately good. You just hear a baby crying in its crib, lean over to see it, reach for it, when suddenly it lunges at you, latches on, then explodes into a cloud of necromantic energy... Then... the wails are heard from every corner of the room and you realize you are in danger.
Yeah. It just needs some tweaks.
The swarm of krakens, ocrucs whatever you get the point is actually well made too. Its just not really useful lmao.
I could honestly see myself making a couple small changes then using it the next time I run Curse of Strahd.
I mean if you had a player who's character had dealt with like a lost child or something or miscarriage it'd be a cruel plot hook but brutally poignant lmao
Yeah having a "baby" room in a necromancers lair near the entrance would be great.
I honestly liked that one. With a few tweaks I would 100% use it.
You'll notice the god of the nine hells isn't immune to the petrified condition and isn't immune to disease
Me omw to give The God of the Nine Hells a STD:
1 basilisk is all it takes
If you think about it a bit then the abyssal black dragon swarm can be taken out by a small kindergarten of darkness babies
So can the old god and Tiamat swarm. But not sans (until he gets tired and the evil baby’s have determination like in Undertale)
Just as the five kages intended
I just noticed that if THE OLD GOD OF THE NINE HELLS use celestial obliteration, because it has infinite targes, it MUST target itself as well, and because it cause it is unlockable and infinite damage, it would end up killing itself instantaneously
Mutually assured destruction.
It can choose to target that many creatures. That doesn't mean it has to. It would be really funny tho
@@iceagentx It doesn't specifically say that though, what it does say is so vague that it's purely up to interpretation
@@NostalgicOccultist After reading through some of the 5e stuff I have found no other creatures that has an attack that specifically targets more than 1 creature that doesn't say one or ___ creatures. So uh, yeah no this actually would probably be how it would work funnily enought.
Consequently, it can be beaten. It requires a sacrifice and dragging them into a pocket dimension, but yeah it can be beaten.
The swarm of Orcus, tarrasque, and Krakens is the best dnd shitpost I have ever seen. TheFatLabrador is a real one for that
Don’t forget Tiamats
Orcus has the title Prince of Undeath
@@kikiretzorg1467believe it or not that could actually be useful given all Tiamat’s consorts protect her polymorphed as her, plus the 2 avatars.
Baby of darkness strat: Run an encounter with a few vampires with a ton of babies of darkness. Whenever the vampires get low, the babies use their legendary actions to explode, healing the vampires since they heal from necrotic damage.
Why did you give me the image of a vampyre with like 20 babies clinging onto them?
That reminds me of that secret boss in the clinic from Faith: the unholy trilogy.
@@sand_sand7304"The little ones haven't eaten for days."
One time, I was on DnD beyond, I believe without the rating threshold, and found Saitama, and everything said "infinity."
When I saw Acerak’s swallow’s “cover to everything outside the worm” I interpreted it as “immune to everything other than The Worm”. Which I assumed to be some sort of unspecified tapeworm that Acerak has lmao
Oh my god this is so funny i almost choked
^ good stuff :)👍
The secret side quest, help cure this Litch's tapeworm
Or the dance move
"You see the Worm Inside."
The Orcus/Tiamat/Tarrasque/Kraken swarm is such a “rocks fall, everyone dies” moment.
Nah, wish spell counters it. Clearly it's not unbalanced
Edit: Also Orcus is the lord of undeath and you will adress it as such >:c
@@narkle9723 He's the Prince of Undeath, you heathen
Just joking
@@narkle9723*HE HAS PRONOUNS YOU FOUL MORTAL*
It does seem like a "you have pissed off the DM with your shenanigans, but they have enough class to not just drop masonry on you" kind of encounter.
I have a monster akin to this in my setting known as the Dire Goose, which is a CR 30 goose that dwells far beneath the waves of the ocean
If enough gargantuan dragons come together to join a gargantuan swarm of gargantuan dragons they will reach criticality, and emit an abyssal pulsewave of black energy destroying everything around them and each other.
All the while they are unable to fall unconscious and must endure the suffering of atomic destruction fully aware of its pain.
"Now I have become swarm, destroyer of dragons."
4:40
I like how it's not even just that you can't move. Rather you become completely *immovable.*
Imagine a giant asteroid colliding with the planet, hitting you directly, only for you to remain still simply because you had babies on you. Granted, you might be dead, and the babies would probably be dead, but the thought of it is hilarious.
Baby of Darkness actually sounds almost reasonable for a CR 0 creature. It's barely a threat at all by itself, but if you throw about 30 or more of them at your party at once, they will probably die.
Thinking of throwing a few of them in a boss fight. Switch the movement to up when they're within 40 feet and swap the explosion damage to be a little lower, and they sound like fun minions
@@umburon An army of them would be a good way to counter thr Swarm of Tiamats. Orcus's, Terrasques, and Krakens, unless the damage is actually given a damage type.
One baby gets the jump on a player and grabs on. The party yanks the baby away and toss it down the hallway. It doesn't move.
One round goes by. Then another. Then the scurrying in the walls begins. The motionless baby down the hall suddenly explodes, opening a hole in the floor and walls nearby. It's like a flood of babies. Roll initiative.
@@umburonThat was the impression I got from the note that they are the spawn of the Mother of Darkness. That she essentially is spawning these during the fight. Kind of like the Cell Jr.'s in DBZ. It would make a really good boss fight for a game that's trying to capture a certain kind of horror vibe. I feel like it's just taking it as a standalone and the idea of an exploding baby being offputting that has it rated so low. There's some issues with the way it's written, but the concept is very solid.
make it so the babies have to roll a con save when they take damage (DC=damage taken) and you can make a potentially terrifying encounter where undead exploding infants that won't fucking die relentlessly hunt the party
19:07 Because there is no comma, it technically means that it knows only one language, that being the brand new language named "All cannot be tricked"
tbh take a random set of letters and say it translates into this and it would be a cool name for a conlang lol
Like is this omnipotent all knowing entity but has no idea what the hell people are saying
"All cannot be tricked" is probably a language where every single language, known and unknown, is spoken in unison in a very specific way that makes trickery impossible.
It’s just the way Pootie Tang speaks. No one understands it but they always know what you mean, so lying is impossible.
@@Ashelybeelmao or it's omniscient in the sense it hears everything that's going on all the time but since it makes too much noise it understands nothing about what's going on
"Wing Dings" as a language is the funniest thing I have read in my life. I am DYING
"I am the old god of 9 hells ! fear me !"
*two babies of darkness explosions later*
* "oh no ! i lost 150% my health and die ugh !"
haha it wouldnt work like that though - they do 75% of your health, not your max health. Each explosion pushes the old god ever closer to oblivion but never quite over the edge
@@jaffa4242 -- rounding up the loss changes that.
When you're at 1, 2, or 3 hp the rounding up will cause it to kill you. So you could kill something with 1 billion hp in 15 babies.
@@zmgehlke truuu
The old god of the 9 hells feels like someone’s party really wanted to fight god and after stopping them so many times before they decided to say “oh so you wanna fight god? I’ll give you a fight” and then made that monstrosity
My thoughts are probably this is just a sheet to show players like "hey you need to stop this guy from waking up or else" 'old god of the nine hells' implies this is the dude that was there before asmodeaus, wichis honestly a cool campaign idea, but like, it doesn't need a statblock.
@@willamcars1they do because they are judgement
Yeah I get the same feeling from it. This is either a joke creation or "Here. A God has a statblock. You still feeling bold?"
he isn't immune to the poisoned condition though, and he can't use invisibility because he's immune to the invisible condition, he isn't immune to incapacitated or stunned. his "legendary resistance" is entirely unusable because of turn order, and he can get essentially one shot by a 17th level divination wizard as long as they have a sufficiently low roll on their portent for this guy to fail the wisdom save on imprisonment, choosing slumber as the method. notably, sleeping is separate from the unconscious condition, which it applies, and as the old god of the nine hells is not immune to magical sleep, the rules dictate that he can be affected by imprisonment slumber. as the rules also dictate, a creature does not awaken from imprisonment slumber after receiving damage, so for the next month or so you gather a village to just hit him all day until he dies.
@@thalmorjusticiar1And this is the reason why I hate rules lawyer types.
Alternative final battle for Tomb of Horrors:
Acererak sits on his throne and asks you repeatedly if you would still love him, if he was a worm
I'm stealing that idea
Hellooooo next DnD campaign plot point
With a little retooling, the baby of darkness could be a fun swarm gimmick to keep players moving in a dungeon. Like if they're taking too long on a puzzle, just say you can hear the laughter of babies down the corridor.
I’m still in awe of “da hard wun” from that old video, which seemed like it was actually written by a goblin, and which could actually work as a goblin deity (it might not actually exist, but the goblins sure think it does).
The black hole of dragons is really cool as a concept, just imagine it played straight as a horror concept, I guess the “they kill themselves upon existence” bit kind of negates it though.
I will say this:
I like the baby of darkness idea.
Like... REALLY like the idea.
Sure it has some flaws, but those are managable.
Just think of a group (requires non-murderhobos) wandering around, finding a baby toddling around, get closer, the baby turns its head rapidly with a creepy undead stare and sprints towards the players, only for more to come out of the undead forest, which all try to grapple you and if you cant get rid of them after like 5 seconds you get Yamcha'd!
I LOVE THIS IDEA!
It would be better if they started devouring you instead of...exploding.
Same! It needs some tweaking but it's one amazing idea for a horror encounter. Just wandering around and you find yourself running away from a swarm of those little bastards trying to get their hands on you. They're wandering around aimlessly but the moment they detect you they move at uncanny speeds chasing the characters. And the grapple is just their way of overwhelming the characters, pinning them down then blowing themselves up like suicide bombers. It's just so flavorful and incredible!
Defeat the small group and then get ambushed by a swarm of BoD.
Only tactic being to run and keep throwing rocks or similar at them as you flee, no combat just athletic checks.
Dungeon is called the Abyssal Nursery.
I envisioned the baby of darkness as less an actual baby, but, like, a shadow blob kind of like the sidekick from “Ranking of Kings.”
You could make the "immovable" thing like a debuff that the babies apply as they grapple you, like one baby reduces your movement by X due to its lethargic touch or something, and as they accumulate you become immobile and lethargic because they are literally draining your momentum/energy like little "blackholes". The idea itself is a cool one indeed, and have the potential for a very creepy encounter. I would portray them as some kind of spawn of the void or the remaining darkness of a long dead dark entity.
“It kills itself upon existing” is now my favorite sentence ever
Feels like the you need to survive for 30 sec before the device cooks itself and explodes kind of encounter whit its darkness magic just been poorly worded for sight range and its not actually aiming it just tossing fire all over the place in complete random as the Dragons chokes themself in the equlient of A Mole of Moles situation.
15:50 say what you want but a nearly blind absolutely insane off brand acererak which bites you is horrifying and im stealing this idea
25:39
Funny thing is, I remember a while ago on TikTok there was a guy who was making DND enemy ideas based on characters in media and made one of Sans
It is much more balanced and actually translates Sans into DND rather than Sans but he's in DND
Yeah I think the things like the one damage on attacks is because a probably young kid wrote this and tried to translate it linearly without knowing that you can't just do that with DnD. I do like the concept of an extremely weak but incredibly mobile enemy that you need to physically exhaust to kill though
What's the name of the person?
"Gargantuan Swarm of Gargantuan Dragons" - Man don't you just hate it when your gargantuan dragons get quantum-entangled and start occupying the same spacetime co-ordinate? I sure do!
This is why Dragonstar had Colossal I-VI. MOAR size classes!
So that's how the Elemental Plane of Celestial Pachyderms was formed!
Nah, dude. It's Voltron style. They swarm to make a gargantuan dragon-shaped swarm
This seems like a forgotten Dr. Who episode
Well it is definetley dificult to figure out how to deal with swarms on one hand you cant have a tiny swarm of gargantuan dragons, on the other hand the chroma conclave is a gargantuan swarm of gargantuan dragons. On the third foot one would assume a swarms size is determined by the number if individuals. So for a gargantuan swarm you need millons of individuals.
But enough about swarms. Once you reach gargantuan the size range within that becomes the smalest gargantuan one measured in meters looks mocroscopic compared to the biggest. Measured in light years.
4:45 Ah, no. It's not 'immobilised' it's 'immovable'. You can still move, you just can't be moved by other things.
Well, you can’t move, cause you're grappled
*Gets grappled by five babies*
*BECOMES INVINCIBLE*
That pfp is _glorious._
The baby of darkness reads like a fun idea built by someone who has no idea what they're doing.
Like, there's something there.
"Covid social distancing is Baby of Darkness speed tracks" is a wild sentence I've never heard before, and will never again lol
Amaterasu is another reference to Naruto about an ability that does pretty much the exact same thing, but only if they look directly at where the fire should appear.
I was surprised that wasn’t the first google result. The home brew writer straight up said “itatchi dragon”
Those are all eternal mangekyou sharingan uchiha dragons lol
@@eddiemachete6680 Itachi dragon 😭
it's cringe as balls.
it's honestly surprising that there are ANY active naruto fans in this day and age, especially someone as diehard of an itachi fan like this lmao
like, someone seems to be stuck waaay earlier in the 2000s-2010s
The best part of the Old God of the Nine Hells being able to miss on a 1 despite a +infinity to attack rolls is that Magic Missile and Inevitables exist and both say "Don't roll, just deal damage", so the creator was clearly just hyperfixated on making all of the numbers the biggest there ever was, which makes the Spell Save DC 1 oversight even funnier.
The Old God of the 9 Hells is effectively just the DM's in-universe explanation as to why "rocks fall, everyone dies" suddenly occurs.
Currently in a DnD game where 4 babies JUST appeared and my DM got this idea from your video. WHY?!?! These babies are actually terrifying to go up against 😂
I actually love the ethos of the “dodges until he gets really tired” line I wanna make more enemies and NPCs like that
Fun fact I think rules as written hp just generally describes how close to death something is. So it could describe how close to getting tired and unable to doge a creature is.
@@stupidAgeverificatio yo i actually appreciate this perspective, i think me and my friends were in the ballpark of this, where armored characters would get hurt in their armor when they get hit, but i usually play monk or ranger so that never translated well. i’ll remember this for the next time we get a session going 👍
Ok. What needs to happen next is a One Shot including the worst DnD Beyond has to offer. The worst rated clases, races, monsters, items and so on. That would be either absolut chaos or maybe... idk... maybe it balances itself out? Idk. Either way. Sounds kinda fun.
And it will end with the destroy universe spell.
@somethingclever4297 the campaign's quest is to end their universe's horrid existence and find the spell to get them out of their misery
This is the single greatest idea I've ever seen in my life. Please host this on Roll20.
I love how Baby of Darkness's explode ability doesn't even say the baby dies, so it could potentially explode multiple times
Imagine fighting this ultimate being called "old god of the nine hells" and he begins his turn casting grease on the group and you get a DC1 Spellsave for fuckin grease
A thing I love of the Sans stat block is that his spellcasting ability is not the name of a score, like Intelligence or Charisma, but just 30. No ability. Just 30. This made me laugh more than it should have.
It's 30
He was to lazy to specify the stat
30 magic
Thematically... Ya baby of darkness works.
While wandering the forest you hear the cries of a young child. In a small clearing, you see a wooden bassinet. When the players look in it, a shadow child attacks, the players bat in a way and it disappears into smoke.
The players then notice small red eyes all around them from the forest edge. The children descend on the party.
Maybe not explode but cause damage when multiple attack.
I actually like the speed thing, let them charge when close.
The speed thing seems to me to be lacking a single phrase (until the end of the next turn). Have it be 'If child of darkness comes within 10ft of a player character, their speed increases to 50ft until the end of their next turn'. Suddenly, it starts having more sense. If you let them approach you once, you'll no longer be able to run away that easily, meaning that the way to deal with these babies is to keep them at a distance to begin with.
Bite attacks + swarm mechanics maybe?
I.E, if you get grappled by enough of them, you are considered swarmed. From there, think you are more or less taking guarenteed damage because you can only keep track of so many attacks at a time.
Could also give them Darkvision and place them inside a crypt. Let players walk inside, turn out the lights, let them wander into one of them, then unleash the horde. Make it a mad dash to escape, let someone look back upon their best friend as he is consumed by Babies of Darkness and blown up being able to do nothing but scream out.
Yeah, props to Baby of Darkness! Silly, but honestly good.
3E already has something similar I think called Dark Playmate thats also kind of already part of Skinwalker lore irl they pretend to be crying babies in the forest to lure you in
Okay, I think someone tried to recreate Ancalagon with the Abyssal Black Dragon, and then it got infected by the uncurable Weeaboo Curse.
No it was just someone trying to make a fusion of naruto and itachi but as a dragon swarm. You could probably make either of those characters if you are good at homebrewing but this was just a 12 year old making a shitty uncreative mess
A monster that speeds up when it gets close to player is actually a cool idea though. It gives some real horror / jumpscare vibes.
My favorite part of this series is the various anime references going clear over Jacob's head. He knows full well that he's not getting the reference, and bro is just fine with that lol.
yeah, I was dying from all of the anime references and was wondering if someone here would get them too.
I love that one of acerak's actions is to make acererak bite. Like oh yeah on my turn I'm gonna tell you to bite that guy. And Acererak is like "wtf why? I don't wanna, don't make me "
i like how the abyssal black dragon (A COLOSSAL SWARM OF COLOSSAL BLACK DRAGONS) is basically just itachi.
The swarm of end-game creatures is just the ultimate fuck you to the party, and I love it
I think Baby of Darkness can be really fun if you have a character creation session or session 0 and get the party to answer the age old "how many kids could your character hold off in a fight" and send that many babies towards them
The Baby of Darkness speed adjustment makes me think its so it can run down anyone that attempts to run away in an engagement.
Baby of Darkness is horrifying. They move weird and grapple.
11:30 I like the idea this just kills itself. It appears in the abyss and destroys itself after moments.
"Wherever you want"
The black dragon summons flames over the entire world!
I like to imagine 4 Babies Of Darkness latching onto one limb each. Then the 5th Baby latches onto the players face. Effectively blinding them and making them immovable.
7:44
Abyssal Black Dragon= *Literally Too Stupid To Live*
I love it.
The way they can clone themselves but also hurt everything nearby including the clones really captures the "Smart friends who become exponentially more stupid when they group up" energy.
Baby of Shadow is just a Sheer Heart Attack
Baby of Darkness is a blueprint for an amazing enemy type
That "Would you still love me if I was a worm" broke me. Tears are running down my face as I type this. People start looking, oh my god.
Thank you, I had a super-shitty week. I really needed that.
In Mutants and Masterminds there is a concept called Power Level X. A Power Level X character is a character who does not have a character sheet because they cannot be beaten with the team's current capabilities. (Mind you this is a super hero game, where at the highest levels, you can move planets with the spread sheets that come with the book.)
Similarly in Pathfinder: Gods do not have character sheets, because as soon as think of reaching for your weapon, they will use a mythic action to start at the top of the initiative and then they wish you dead as an immediate action.
Some creatures do not need character sheets, if they have a character sheet, it implies they can be killed no matter how slim the chance.
just as "If it bleeds we can kill it"; "If it has stats we can kill it."
Completely agree if someting is so high above the party they should not be able to beat it no matter what simply use some themelatically accurate attacks and have them instakill the party no matter what
I like the Pathfinder method for making an easy-to-use mythic statblock: "If any player character initiates combat with this deity/creature, the player is required to hand their character sheet to their DM for immediate shredding/composting/disposal. The character no longer exists, though the DM can decide if their equipment remains. When appropriate, the player may then join the ongoing campaign as a new character."
Wait, wait. If i have a total of max 8 hp, the baby of darkness could kill me from 10, and 5 feet, but grabbing me, I survive guaranteed. They're chiaotzus
I am just imagine a wizard just dashing towards a swarm of babies screaming,'It's fine I survive this!"
Lol on the topic of the Old God, I will admit, I've made several beings in my campaigns that are "unbeatable" but they're also not meant to be enemies for the party, and thus I haven't made a statblock for them. They're literally just story elements lol. Only one of them is (for lack of a better word) evil, and fighting him is the responsibility of the other "unbeatables." Again, just a story element, and does not have a statblock because he's not intended to ever directly fight the party.
Imagine decapitating one of the most powerful liches in the multiverse only to have his regular -sized head immediately swallow you whole
Amaterasu is in Naruto reference. So not only have they created a dragon that will kill almost any other life on impact, but they also use Naruto attacks.
Update: I get it, the dragon is a swam of crows. It's an Itachi reference with shadow clones. Someone wanted something too strong
I can't get over the fact that it's still a *dragon* , but it can use Ameterasu. There must be an Uchiha bard running around somewhere.
I just found notes on the most novel way I had a party deal with traditional problems. Poisoned sleeping princess with hydra poison vs party of 6 lv1 bards. Taking turns to rest they all used the lv1 spell pick your poison on the princess to turn the poison to booze which can safely be metabolized a state we calculated they could keep up indefinitely with the number of spell slots they had managed to get. After having the sleep dispelled they went on a drunken bender with the princess after persuading their way out of the castle with her figuring that vigorous activity is the fastest way to sober up.
dude holy shit please do more of these more often, i don't usually belly-laugh at youtube videos like i'll usually get like a light chuckle at best but these consistently make me laugh like crazy. old god of the nine hells made me fuckin lose it immediately lmao
The baby of darkness is just a Saibaman. It latches onto you and then explodes.
Better not be playing Yamcha then
One thing about The Old God of the Nine Hells, is that it only has ranged attacks so if you stand next to it giving it disadvantage you create a paradox since infinity can never be less than infinity
26:54 *mute goblin writes down second line of description*
sky is bad, very bad. sky dangerous. could fall from sky. sky filled with cloud of deadly, very deadly. short stoy short, we no safe. IS BAD
I love how genjutsu on the dragon is like a paragraph that is basically just stunned for a turn
There is a fine line when aiming for funny creatures and lordfatlabrador is an artist painting that fine line, so that we may color in between them.
I'm just happy the baby of Darkness went to the Wonka Squirrel school of combat.
This has honestly become my favorite series on TH-cam. I need more of them because I’ve watched each of them so many times at this point, but they still make me crack up, so I guess they definitely have staying power. I just got into D&D with BG3, but I loved Dragonlance as a kid and used to play the West End Games version of Star Wars: The RPG, but the community engagement in D&D is another level. I wish I found this when I was younger, I have so much catching up to do!
20:30 "if it said infinity to hit i would leave the campaign immediately"
meanwhile, the marut:
Hey now the marut doesn't roll. . . He just hits
3:31 Oh great, the Baby of Darkness Railgun has been made.
My first thought was that video game clip of the baby running up the stairs
Jacob fulfilling the masculine urge to turn everything into rail guns
Garlic Bread Demon?
the god of the garlic bread cleric
That's actually the patron of all garlic bread domain clerics.
I feel like the old god of the nine hells is meant to be either a puzzle boss or the threat that the players are trying to stop. Like there's either a secret way to banish it, or the whole campaign is built around preventing it from returning because it can and will erase all life if it does. I might actually use this thing.
I’ve had my own idea for sans and made a basic thing for it, but more for a “meme” run w/ my friends. Where basically he has very low stats and whatnot, but he has quite a lot of reactions, and he starts with a high AC but it lowers each time he attacks or maybe each round. His main source of damage would be karma or more or less poison damage, which increases depending on how many kills each individual character has, not fully sure about it tho.
Old God of the Nine Hells' Legendary Resistance says it permits infinite rerolling of checks, NOT saves.
So it's entirely feasible that Banishment could send it back to the Nine Hells, with good luck.
I want to see the look on the face of the DM who dared to field something like this, only for it to be defeated by a 4th level spell.
I can't help but look at something like this and wonder where the gap in the armor is. Since it can only re-roll checks, the ever helpful divination wizard can always just Portent it into a failure. This also opens up the Polymorph + Power Word Kill combo, since PWK causes death without reducing HP and undoing polymorph. Alternatively, even if it can reroll saves - it can only reroll a check until it gets a 20. Forcing it to reroll after it has ALREADY rolled a 20 with Silvery Barbs says it 'must reroll the d20 and use the lower roll'. Since it's forced to use the lower roll, I would say this can make it fail a save too. Really should have given it plus infinity to those too.
So now we know how to kill it - but how do we survive long enough to do that? Celestial Obliteration is a one hit kill if it lands, and it's a reaction - though, technically speaking, a reaction requires a trigger of some sort, which this does not have. Still, we have to win imitative and possibly survive one if the reaction is allowed, so let's look at how to do that.
I think we need to win initiative regardless. Even with save DC 1, going first means it can chain together as many Time Stops as it wants. Initiative is a DEX check... going first against this thing is going to be tough since it effectively always has a 30. Still, that number could be beatable with Alert, maybe a bardic inspiration and guidance, a Luckstone, Bend Luck, collect all the miscellaneous bonuses you can and of course have a good Portent roll.
If it can use the reaction, you might have to survive a Celestial Obliteration. A natural 1 on a Portent dice can still make one miss - even with plus infinity, natural 1's are always a miss. Since we've established that it can be forced to fail saves, the Sanctuary spell could also stop it from attacking you. Alternatively, even if it has unlimited range and unlimited blindsight and truesight, this only allows it to scour a mere single plane clean in a turn! With a Gate in place, multiple groups could attack in sequence, exhausting it's single reaction. With it's single reaction though, I think my favorite technique would be with spell sharing tricks like multiclassing and scrolls (or a Lore Bard with the right arcane secrets) a caster could prepare a contingent true resurrection - simply die to the Celestial Obliteration, then get back up and cast Polymorph anyway.
The only thing I dislike about these videos is that everytime Jacob makes one where he reviews the worst-rated homebrew things on D&D Beyond, it brings so much attention to those homebrew things that they suddenly - despite not having changed - becomes some of the highest-, and best-rated homebrew things on D&D Beyond.
The Garlic Bread Domain Cleric was one of the worst-rated subclasses on D&D Beyond, but then Jacob made a video about it, and now it's currently the top 2 best-rated subclass on D&D Beyond, which means MY PLAYERS ACTIVELY ASK if they can use it, because "It's got good ratings"
Clap back at them with the swarm of 10 tiamats/krakens/terrasques/orcus lord of undeath. Cuz that will probably also get upvoted a ton. Just tell them it's fair game B)
Or at least just show them that page if it gets upvoted a ton as a reason why they can't just use the random bullshit. Altho to be fair garlic bread domain cleric is fucking hilarious and should be an official cleric subclass.
Garlic bread domain was actually decent, just goofy. Can’t speak for anything else lol
It's garlic bread. By definition it's good. ;)
"Look but don't touch" is really important when looking at laughable things online.
And your audience won't look but not touch unless it's a gatekept tight niche audience.
Some of the worst rated ones are because of them just been poorly written or just sort of unfinished or part of some other piece and on there own plain broken.
as I know I seen some earilier when I gone... this is great just need to be fixed or tweaked and its a good Homebrew (minus the specific set of circumstances where its encounter and the semi ods rule around its encounter).
12:15
So let me get this straight.
The moment this thing spawns it turns into a giant nuke that makes you have an acid trip and rapidly expands as it makes more of itself until it consumes the known universe
The Old God of the Nine Hells isnt Immune to petrification, and (only) has a +19 to save. Flesh to Stone is a con save, and would require the creature fail a total of 4 saves. Eloquence bards can use their bonus action to cause the target to lower their next saving throw equal to the number rolled on the bard's inspiration die. Lore bards have cutting words, which has the same effect as a reaction. Wild Magic sorcerers can bend luck on a reaction and cause them to lose 1d4. Assuming you have 2 divination wizards, each level 14, thats 6 portents. You would only need 4 to be low. Assuming 2 bards of the same level, thats -2d10 to the roll. A level 14 wizard with 20 int has a saving throw DC of 18, possibly higher with magical items.
Blink is not concentration, allowing the wizard to avoid damage, and portents are used on creatures that you can see. Assuming both wizards use their third eye ability for ethereal site, if they had 1 higher than 10 portent and 2 low portents each, they could just about guarantee that the wizard remained in the ethereal plane to hold concentration. The bards and the wizard could also use mirror image. Due to the wording on the page, the monster can only attack once per turn, targeting all players and bypassing AC. It wouldn't bypass mirror image though. The bards dont need their actions, so as long as at least one lived each turn, they could use it to heal anyone that went down.
The monster's attempts at counterspell can also be countered. Because of the nature of counterspell, it would presumably use it at 9th level, setting a DC 19 check for those attempting to counterspell. With up to 3 counterspells (Eloquence bard and 2 wizards), one of them rolling a 14 or higher isnt unreasonable. Both bards would also have a spare inspiration to give, which could be used to help since counterspell rolling is an ability check. Someone could also cast enhance ability for advantage.
And technically this could be done at level 11. A party of 4, with some luck and prep, could take them down in 4 turns. The Flesh to Stone becomes permanent if concentration is maintained, and the monster has no actions available once its incapacitated. Those infinite hit points and armor class and damage dont mean shit if ur a dumb stupid rock
Important to add: Amaterasu is also a Jutsu from Naruto that lets you create eternal black flames whereever you look. They can't be put out for like a week and basically once you are caught in it, you are dead. This is the same thing.
Yes and no on the "once you are caught by it you are dead."
It's just really difficult to deal with. But you can seal it, or discard whatever is caught by it.
@@tylerbreau4544thats why I added "basically". The 4th Raikage chopped off his arm to get rid of it, for example.
See, this nonsense is why people say "fuckin' weebs" even when they themselves are anime fans, because anime characters aren't designed to work in DnD, stop trying to make everything anime. There already are TTRPGs for that.
@Xhumed nah you could easily make a guts like character in dnd, or even a dbz-lite version of goku. He'll you could even do a character from overlord just toned down. All it takes is creativity and knowing how to homebrew. What's cringe is shit like this where some edgelord 10 year old makes a gargantuan swarm of gargantuan itachi dragons
23:50 That comment is from my old dnd beyond account! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING IT!
I love your stuff and can't believe it would get this attention.
That Baby of Darkness feels like it's supposed to be a joke of Mephiles from Sonic '06, cause that's like, EXACTLY what they do.
THE SWARM IS SO FUNNY AAAH
18:59 The Old God of the Nine Hells can be stunned, so it's actually balanced 😏
"Acerarak, would you still love me if I was a worm" send me laughing for solid 5 minutes
Baby of Darkness' speed thing is actually a fun way of simulating an evil baby slowly crawling towards the party, then scramblin around attacking people.
8:55. About Amaterasu. Thats also just a Naruto Jutsu as well. Its named after the goddess. So yeah. A lot just copied from Naruto.
This makes me want to see someone who’s genuinely really good at making homebrew make an ultimate composite monster, and have it not be complete garbage.
I could see using the Baby of Darkness as a puzzle combat, or as the adds for a Mommy of Darkness.
They only have 1 hit point with AC 10: so should be easy to keep off the party but would be a great distraction from the boss, especially if you encountered 3-4 of them dropping onto your party from the ceiling earlier in the dungeon so you know what they are capable of.
Mommy of Darkness
The description mentions them being spawn of The Mother of Darkness, but Jacob skipped past that because he was too busy laughing, so I'm pretty sure you figured out the intention of the author.
With the "Old God of the Nine Hells" I can see a use for it. IF the party member is a cheater or "Murderhobo", then send the Old God to punish them. 22:34
You know “Sans, Agent of Pharasma” could be a neat idea- no clue how you’d implement him, but utilizing the whole “judgement” thing or something could tie him into her.
Seeing Jacob talk about power levels when talking about The Old God of The Nine Hells got me thinking about my own campaign...
One fatal flaw I have as a DM is that I like to make my players feel powerful. So I tend to give my players fun homebrew powers. And while one or two of them are mostly balanced, four or five can easily get out of hand.
Storytime:
My players, level 19, almost a fifth of their sheet is not official 5e anymore, their power level can easily dwarf a normal CR 26~29, so, I thought that using the Tiamat's CR 30 statblock wouldn't make for a fun fight, for both me and them. So, I was honest with them: "Look guys, you know that at this point you all are strong af and nothing that has numbers that I put against you will last for more than three rounds, so don't get too attached to your sheets, but act more like your characters instead."
In my world, Tiamat has been defeated before and was imprisioned. But a cult has managed to bring her back to the material plane. The full-on goddess, not her avatar.
The characters knew of the cult plans, and knew they couldn't stop, but had time to prepare. They went on a journey, travelling and teleporting around the world, gathering arcanists, mechanics, blacksmiths, technomancers, artificers, and everything else they could to prepare something that could rival Tiamat's power...
Almost a year passes by, the dragon queen is back and they are ready. The fight starts, and like I said, no numbers are involved. It's a roleplaying battle, they start losing... Oh no! When one of the players suddenly shows up with their secret weapon, a huge fckng warforged colossus the size of Tiamat punching her directly in her scaly face.
Now the battlefield is even! (for now, they don't know what's coming next)
And they were all so hyped during the whole process that even though at that point we weren't using the numbers anymore, they were still in character because we have been playing this campaing for three years or so.
And they understood when I told them that at that point it wasn't a numbers game anymore and the story was more important than just seeing 1d4+(infinity) on the damage rolls.
What I wanted to get at is:
Just like Jacob said. Why make a sheet if it's not supposed to be beatable by the players? If it's not supposed to be beatable normally, make a plot device that allows the party to at least temporarly stop the enemy. It's their story.
Awesome, you got your players to create EDF TTRPG version and deploy a Walking Fortress Balam to punch Tiamat in her face
6:25 Imagine going, and the DM is rolling the monsters stats for hours. If they use physical dice, that would be ultra annoying to wait for. Then the Old God of the Nine Hells has infinite d100s to hit. You really are at his campaign forever.
I love how many of these just kill themselves or are unintentionally defeated by minor obstacles.