The Most Pathetic Monster
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Here be xvarts, the fart particles of a sad excuse for a god. I love them, I want 20, but I'll be caked in unmentionables if it isn't fun to insult them. They're pathetic little guys with nothin going for em, not even their own creator. He just sits there, and so do they.
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You missed their coolest feature: if you try to use magic to find Raxivort, it just points you towards one of these little bastards instead
Also they can become warlocks of big daddy Xvart if they weeb out over him hard enough 👍
@@christopherdaurio2617 well yes, but that's just any warlock except these guys chose to weeb out over their dad who shat them out while going to get cigarettes
Hypothetical question: If for whatever reason, I want to make a mission around finding this guy, would you have any suggestions about how one would go about it?
@@douglasbabb1725
Ok,
I've got more than a suggestion
(Warning!: BIG response below)
I've got some
(loosely researched/thought out)
ideas 👍
Soooo....
First - to find Raxivort - you'd want to know where he, not one of his crappy clones, is - that's "Pandemonium".
Unfortunately, to explore Pandemonium's tunnels (and it's all tunnels) looking for Raxivort's realm is basically like asking to die - since it's a plane of madness - where even the wind can drive you crazy.
So rather than searching for Raxivort the old fashion way - you'd want a "backdoor" to his lair.
The only creatures that would know of this "backdoor" are his favorite nasty kids: the Xvart Warlocks of Raxivort. But, since he's uber-paranoid, Raxivort doesn't actually tell his servants where this "backdoor" is, but rather, where it leads to: Azzagrat - the Triple Layer of the Abyss. Specifically "Fogtown" (the 45th layer of the Abyss); the Demon Lord Graz'zat's doorstep, where the demigod has a portal to his lair open, which constantly spews out rats to infest his former master's domain - as a big ol' F.U. to him.
^^^ To summarize:
to get to Raxivort,
you'd have to first know you'd need a portal to his particular slice of Pandemonium - then find a lacky of Raxivort to tell you where to find this portal - then travel to the Abyss to track down this portal - and lastly swim through a deluge of rats to get into Raxivort's backdoor.
From there, you're in Raxivort's lair, and must navigate its winding tunnels to ambush the demigod - before he b****es out and portals away.
NOW - going off all of that - I'd say to make a mission/adventure out of those ideas...
FIRST have your players - by some means/magic/magic item of lore/knowledge - learn:
1. Raxivort's hiding out on Pandemonium
2. It's a stupid bad idea to just drop in and search for him
and
3. the best way to get to the god - is to go through his mini-me's;
as the set-up/start of their quest.
THEN from there, have them...
• Run through a trapped mini dungeon - to shake down/persuade a high powered (Infinity Spindle powered) Xvart Warlock to help them get to it's god's "backdoor".
• Figure out a way to the 45th layer of the Abyss - and track down Raxivort's "backdoor" in Fogtown.
• Fight through rat infested fungus-demon tunnels - in "The Queen's Causeway", beneath Fogtown - to reach Raxivort's "backdoor", and through it, his hideout realm.
And lastly
• Sneak around Raxivort's lair: The "Black Sewers" - cut off his magical means of escape - then jump him.
P.S.
Resources:
• For info on Pandemonium - see dumpstatadventures.com/the-gm-is-always-right/the-planes-pandemonium
• For inspiration on a Xvart Lair - see Wally DM's "Pathfinder D&D Puzzles #29 - The Temple of Raxivort" + "Lairs: Xvart" by Zac Goins on dmsguild.com
• For info on Azzagrat & Fogtown - see
3.5e's "Fiendish Codex 1: Hordes of the Abyss"
And
• For inspiration on Raxivort's Lair - see Dungeon Magazine #264 + the forum thread "Advice on creating a Sewer System" on dndbeyond.com
OR ALTERNATIVELY...
Just make/run the "Xvart Lair" mentioned above - and instead of having the Xvart Warlock point the players towards Raxivort's "backdoor",
have it summon a visage/avatar of the god from a blazing brazier of bat guano
(little reference there -> bat gauno is a spell component needed to cast "Fireball")
if the mission isn't to confront/meet the literal demigod himself, but rather to like talk w/ him or something.
Annnd that's all I got! Happy adventure crafting 👍👍
@@douglasbabb1725 His entire schtick is that he's impossible to find, he's outrunning Gods. Finding him would be any combination of elaborate rituals and divine intervention and would be A Big Thing that should probably take several sessions. Hell you could probably make a whole campaign out of it. I imagine the Gods chasing him would be pretty pleased with any adventurers that could do the deed.
The funniest Thing is, it is impossible to actually detect Raxivort as long as those ball-less Mfers exist. Any spell that would do that just locates the nearest Xvart.
That's like just as cosmically genius as it is pathetic
Sounds like the only way, and reason, to involve them at all would be a plot where Raxivart stole something important.
@aahijustateyt8112 oh god.... it's like those side missions in video games; the challenge isn't finding them, it's figuring out how to hit them, like the Ravens and Tazelwyrms in God of War, or the Egg Thieves in the old Spyro games.
The most niche reason to create a race ever.
Isn't that the entire cosmic point of their existance? Which ...yeah actually that is pathetic.
Can he still create new clones, though? Otherwise, they'll have to go extinct eventually. That's when Raxivort is vulnerable, even if there's no fuckin reason to attack him at all
I reflavored a gnome to be a xvart once. His backstory was that someone had finally found and killed Raxivort, and stole his Infinity Spindle. This triggered a massive war among the xvarts, who started killing each other to determine who would be their new god. My character was a xvart that had found the toe of Raxivort and ate it, gaining a small fraction of his power. His new mission was to find the rest of his dead god's parts spread across the planes, eat them all, and become the new god of xvarts. In the process, the party was also on the path of confronting Raxivort's killer, who had also become a demigod. An entire multi arc journey based off nothing else but xvart lore.
That's beautiful.
YOUR DM IS AWESOME
Isn't that the plot of that cartoon that's fairly popular around now?
@@devin5201jujutsu kaisen?
Kinda yea, has one similarity. But its not to crazy to receive powers by eating part of a powerful beeing. Also calling an anime a cartoon is a bit like calling D&D "the lying & math game for nerds" , but sure
I'm sorry, "god of xvarts" is objectively one of the funniest phrases that has ever been said
Now I need to make a Xvart wizard who can only cast spells because he found a legendary necklace that would make any other creature have a god like intelligence but if it's on him it just kinda makes him kinda smarter than average.
And the reason they aren't with the others is someone pointed out that's exactly what got them into this mess, and they kicked them out?
IQ of one hundred and.........twelve.
Used these goofballs in a campaign once, as bat cavalry employed by a gnoll warband. The session effectively ground to a halt when I told the players their name, they would _not_ stop laughing 😂😂
"Wait, they are called sex warts?! I mean, I guess they do like genital herpes so that tracks...".
@@LordDragox412I'm sorry, but how do you get that from xvarts (zvartz is how I'd best describe the phonemes?)
Here's the thing about the xvarts, for every xvart in your dimension there's a dimension that doesn't have a xvart. So you could be a dimension traveler and come across these little sh!ts and have absolutely no idea what they are.
*your
@@heitorpedrodegodoi5646 *dyslexia
This would be true to amazing amount of creatures, as most creatures don't know how to dimension travel.
@@ezariogerion3138 It's just that the way I understand the lore is he made clones by traveling to infinite dimensions and to gather infinite versions of himself to take the place of him. Like the citadel of Ricks, each "clone" is just a lesser him from another dimension.
these time bending morons baffle me
Why have Raxivort hiding? Add a rule so you roll like 5d10 every time you meet new xvarts and if you get all tens one of the xvarts in the scene is actually him.
That's hilarious but wouldn't the size give it away?
The unique thing about Xvarts is that divination magic meant to find Raxivort will not target him but target the nearest Xvart instead; Meaning, so long as a divination spell would tell you your targets proximity to you, and you managed to isolate the hiding actual Raxivort and use such a spell to try and find Raxivort, it would not point to what you believe is a Xvart, is the real Raxivort, and instead to another of the gagle, blowing his cover as such a spell in all other cases would point you directly at that "Xvart" you isolated. Assuming he used his demigod power to change sizes to hide properly, as you.
As such a divination spell likely exists and would be in high demand from his hunters, this is why he avoids his Xvarts like the plague (which your incredibly low odds at 10^-5 can satisfy IMO,) but I would absolutely include it in a campaign he had the chance to be relevant in, but wasn't scripted for.
Just use Wish to prevent the creation of new Xvarts and hunt them all down. Just to mess with him.
When even the Goblins think your Pathetic .
"I suppose you're here to kill me then? All right, get on with it. I haven't got all day."
-Voort the Xvart, to a suspicious looking rock.
Our DM had us fighting xvarts for about a year. They were like an army of little Beavises.
that is the funniest sentence I've read all month.
And then you got to their leader: THE GREAT CORNHOLIO!
"die xvarts!"
"uhehehehe, you said farts"
@@thejuiceking2219 The name of the campaign on roll20 was "Who Xvarted?"
Note to self: have two xvarts but they act like bevis and butthead and follow the party around being bevis and butthead.
Lore notes: they are stupid even by xvarts standards, also why they got kicked out. They have wizard orb they use as a tv. Also every time they have an idiot savont moment, the party suffers, can’t be killed for quest reasons.
Nyeh-hehheh.
I imagine they sound like Grunts from Halo and allow themselves to be kicked around like them
i pictured them doing Murloc noises from WoW
They were (incredibly pathetic) enemies in ye olde baldur's gate 1.
They did high-pitched screaming.
A *lot*.
They're also like the little dudes in Diablo who yell out "rakinishu" when you kill them
@@Byssbod the Fallen! Or in the case of the blue ones, Carvers.
Xvarvers.
(Carvers not to be confused with the cool little motorcycle cars)
if Xvarts have a million fans i am one of them. if Xvarts have ten fans i am one of them. if Xvarts have no fans, that means i am no longer on earth. if the world is against Xvarts, i am against the world. i love Xvarts till my last breath...
Based and xvart-pilled
There are a xvartillion fans in the world and every one of them is you
Interesting. But can I ask _why?_
@@CrazyLikeUhFox why the xvart not?
@@MarkD5678I am xvart fan xvartmillion and one.
Oh man, the Xvart. I love pointing out these little dudes whenever I talk about DND monsters. They're just so lovably awful
The xvart have the special honor of having had an article about them written by Ed Greenwood complaining about how much they suck. Specifically, it was the original Fiend Folio xvart, which lacked the "creations of Raxivort" twist and were therefore functionally identical to goblins and kobolds of the era.
His full quote:
"The Xvart, a rewritten Svart from the Fiend Factory in White Dwarf #9, is redundant; the Factory original was a poor variant of Alan Garner's presentation (in the novel Weirdstone of Brisingamen) of the svart-alfar and lios-alfar of Scandinavian mythology. The svart-alfar are already in the AD&D rules; they were the model for Gygax's Drow. The Xvart, a 3-foot-tall beastie with no strikingly unique or colorful characteristics, is a prime example of needless overpopulation. Including the other new races of small beings, the list (just of those who dwell in subterranean or related surroundings) is now comprised of goblins, kobolds, dwarves, halflings, gnomes, svrfneblin, meazels, mites, snyad, jermlaine, and kill moulis. The race of xvart need not have been added to the list."
It's wild because most of the time when you see a derpy design from first edition the fifth edition at least tries to make it a little cooler.
Our game had an Xvart named… Xvart. His desire was to be an orfice cleaner. The party took to him.
Smash
"Summon Xvart the... Rimjob specialist ?"
I had a blast running these guys once. I treated them like a pack of feral kindergarteners who were terrorizing a rural Provence. (Essentially a fly over state) they were multiplying so quickly that the guards and local Goblin and Kobold Warrens had all teamed up so as not to get overwhelmed. The elaborate strategies the players had to come up with to find and wipe out their “spawn points,” mixed with some truly chaotic ambush encounters made them one of my favorite early level campaign arcs.
Granted this was in an older addition so their lore was a bit different. I would have loved to have the whole divine clone progenitor thing and the futile offerings part. It would have made their motives a lot more interesting.
I played Baldur's Gate 1 in the 90s and Xvarts attacked me on the second map screen, critted, and blew up Imoen. Other than BG i've never seen them in anything. I always assumed they made them up for the game instead of using goblins.
In a planescape campaign my friends and I were in, the DM made us encounter a pair and we took them into our crew. We "accidentally" put them in a big vat of polymorph juice and transmogrified them into not Xvarts and they started to have an existential crisis.
“Not Xvarts”
And what the hell does that look like?
@@LordCrate-du8zmI would assume not like a Xvart...
I literally read about these things in Volo's Guide like a week ago and thought that they would be a perfect creature for a Runesmith video
It just sounds so wrong to my Scandinavian ears, seeing as svart is Swedish for black, so Xvarts...
💀💀💀
The monster was originally published in White Dwarf as Svart, but TSR changed it for the Fiend Folio. Apparently the creature was too close to the svart alfar (black elves), goblinlike creatures from Alan Garner's Weirdstone of Brisingamen.
@@bukharagunboat8466 Which led Ed Greenwood to write an article in Dragon Magazine complaining about how D&D now had two separate, unrelated monsters based on the dark elves of Norse mythology, and one of them was far less interesting than the other. (The 1e xvarts lacked the twist of being clones of Raxivort, and were functionally just goblins that hung around rats sometimes.)
Well, I mean, their skin colour is pretty dark
@@misterbadguy7325If you look at the original source (the Prose Eddda by Snorri Sturluson) Svartálfar really seem to be a subset of dwarves, so probably more than two!
doesn't sound like jack to me. I've had players that have misheard Duergar with Dvärgar a lot though. To the point of mistaking them to be friendly
This is the kind of monster a DM would likely ignore the flavortext for and just attack. A shame, I could see a good aligned player (yes, player, those are rarer) trying to befriend one to avoid conflict.
Surprisingly this makes them sound significantly cooler than I thought they were.
Smurfs but, yunno, rude.
Also, amazing kibby.
Dont talk about them like their lifes is hard and you shame em leave the smurfs out of that
@@boiiiiiiiesmurves aren't having a hard enough time. 😤
Gargamel is incompetent and Azrael is a slacker.
@@AW-sx8hm gargamel aint incompetent hes a crackhead
I like the idea that this little gremlin guy stole the artifact of a God and shit himself running away and farted a whole bunch of pathetic clones of himself across the universe to hide from the Gods looking for him
This is hilarious cause I've been obsessed with xvarts, my character is actively perpetually hunting his god. I didnt want to simp for raxivort
A few years ago I ran a Christmas game where these guys stole Santa's toys
I have never seen that depiction of Priapus, before. Thank you for this absolutely cursed knowledge.
I kinda want to have my players go through a cave system and find these guys playing some type of pool game in a room and the xvarts just flip their shit when they notice they're being watched and run screaming.
I remember these things from the original Baldur's Gate game, I tried to look them up to find out what they were, but couldn't find them (probably just misspelled thair name.) Love that you covered them.
Yup i remember them well from Baldur's Gate 1 XD
It's basically a very nasty Umpa-Lumpa
5:24 Human sacrifices? How would they even get them? By asking nicely?
I think it would work on some PCs.
I saw the picture, read the name, and INSTANTLY heard the little bastards from their appearance in the first Baldur's Gate. Ancient memory unlocked.
Have a chamber full of them like the Goblins in The Labyrinth, perfect miserable creatures for a Narcissist BBEG or PC
I like that all their art has them carrying weapons and then the description is like 'they're too cowardly and dumb to fight anything'. Like what's 1st edition Xvart lad gonna do with that sword, butter his toast?
I included a Xvart in an early random fight for my campaign just because they were a low CR. That then became the primary focus of a year long campaign to kill enough of them to locate Raxivort. I love these little guys and never would have known about them if it wasn't for building a random low level encounter one day.
Thanks for showing these. I like to have a list of extinct species in my game, to show it's a living world and there's so much room for species. These, I imagine, would have been killed off by goblins, kobalds, drow, mind flayers (who wouldn't even eat them), and anyone else with taste.
But Raxivort keeps making more of them as long as he is alive, so he would have to die first, and he is basically impossible to find because spells to find his location just point to the nearest xvart instead.
My brother ran a joke one shot and decided that xvarts are so funny looking that he flooded everywhere with them and made 90% of npcs xvarts
"You are debased and defunct" will forever be my favourite insult
I love Xvarts. They were the one monster who surprised me in BG2 by just swarming my party with their overwhelming numbers. Ever since then, that has been how I run them in my games.
It be funny if while fighting some of these the god that had their stuff stolen just shows up completely obliterates one looks around says "not hidding here, just more clones..." crosses out something in a book and gates away
I'm looking forward to the new Seeker book, keep up the good work Logan.
Cool. Time to run an adventure where one of them finds a headband of intellect and starts scheming a plan to usurp his god and needs the party for help. So they bring him to a group of Kuo’Toa and they try to get them to worship him as a god so that he becomes one
My campaign with Vxarts had the party being hired by Raxivort to investigate why a cult of Moloch kept trading him magic items for Xvarts.
Twist:
Moloch called in a favor from a Sibriex and was warping the Xvarts into an army of Monsters to steal the infinity spindle from Raxivort
Poor little guy. He’s just a little. Can’t hurt nobody, nohow. He’s just a little fella
Xsvart warlock of Raxivort though...
...would be running away from you, chaotically shooting EB in your general direction
The hardest part about wiping out the xvart camp in baldur's gate 1 was the bear they had in a cage.
So there’s a finite amount of Xvarts then. This gives them rarity and thus value.
How interesting…
The internet brain rot thinking that based came before debased has me rolling. God I love the internet forcing old words to have a new meaning
i never understood why people never just used magic to find the infinity spindle
It points to the nearest Xvart with a knitting needle or other such piece of equipment, clearly.
Now I wanna add a Xvart to my game who is the embodiment of that "I'M JUST A WIDDLE GOBWIN! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" meme
I would play them as beavis and butthead of the dnd world!
Getting into stupid mischief
4:20 This is the perfect time to bring up Great King Rat by Queen. I was in a campaign with a villain named that; sadly not a giant rat king though
The story of the Xvart feels like someone was drinking late at night and then realized they had a deadline on a creature mythos that was supposed to be on someone's desk the next day.
[Edit: The following is incorrect, I neglected to go to the actual source material and trusted faulty information. Read only for an object lesson on how to avoid spreading misinformation. See responses for correction.]
Fun fact: in D&D 3.5 Xvarts as a player character are the ONLY race with a negative level adjustment. This means that if your campaign starts at level one, a Xvart can already have two class levels.
Or you give it the draconic template (no, YOU figure out how that works in the lore) and have a gnome with a bit extra natural armor and better stats.
So I decided to check this, and I don't think this is true. Xvarts were given two different statlines (one in Living Greyhawk, the other in Dragon Magazine), and neither had a "negative LA" rule. They were counted as lower in CR than most other humanoids if they had an NPC class, which is a trait they share with goblins and kobolds, but that doesn't affect LA.
@@misterbadguy7325 Indeed you are correct!
My source was an index of 3.5 races that had showed itself to be correct for every race I'd played from it (or rather, chose from it and made the character from the source material), so I trusted it for the Xvart as well. Since I'd never actually played a Xvart, I had no reason to search for the Dragon Magazine it was sourced from.
In response to your comment I looked up the source (DR 339) and it turns out that whoever wrote the index misunderstood the CR of Class level -2 as LA -2 (and I misremembered it as LA -1).
Thank you for the correction.
@@9Johnny8 Hey, it's no shame! That's what happens sometimes. Xvarts in terms of their actual niche were historically somewhere between goblins and kobolds in power, which was why I went "huh, wait, what?"
That said, 3.x did have one creature with negative LA: the Incarnate Construct template, which is a template where a construct turns into an organic being, and lowers LA by 2. Sadly, it's noted to have a minimum of +0.
@@misterbadguy7325 Makes sense, you don't want a living homunculus casting lvl 2 spells at character creation...
This monster looks like me when grandma says I must be popular with the ladies
From the moment I saw their drawn picture and description in the original book, there has only ever been one association that has come to my mind for the xvart... Evil Smurfs.
Raxivort on a good day is less dangerous than an attacking level 1 brownie spellcaster out of spell trying to attack by pounding you with his tiny spellbook (while drunk). That's because Raxivort will flee, or turn into a rat to hide in a swarm of rats, or summon xvarts to use them as meatshields. On occasion he may use a legendary action to wiggle his dagger in your vague direction, and you'll get 5700 exp. Poison and a force cage will save effort.
I love these little guys! I let my players enfeeble then awaken a few Xvarts so they could help heist Mt Olympus.
When I clicked the video, I expected runesmith to just tease us endlessly for clicking onto the gross thumbnail creature, but instead he took his frustrations out on the creatures.
You got an extra cat audience from the meowing
Runesmith Foreshadowing his later “Giant Rat King Dungeon” video brilliant as always
I had just read about these guys not but a couple days ago and now you make a vid of them. This feels like when you learn a new word and suddenly start noticing it everywhere.
My DM actually did throw a few of these at us in an underground cavern. They attacked the paladin en masse because she was wearing nice, shiny armor. As pathetic as they are, action economy alone dictates that it's pretty hard to fight when 8 of them completely surround you. She went down and our fighter, who had a big dumb crush on her (they were an IRL couple so there were no issues), lost his shit, impaled one of them vertically from the top of the skull through the non-crotch, and proceeded to beat the others to death with his sword-turn-club.
The DM described the body's limbs flopping around like a glitchy ragdoll every time the fighter swung his weapon. By the time he was done, there was just a skull, a ribcage, and some stray bits and pieces left dangling on his sword. When we got back to town, he had the skull incorporated onto a helmet and the ribcage turned into a lantern which he kept for the rest of the campaign.
I love to imagine a village of these little guys and then suddenly a Solar shows up out of nowhere, blasts the whole village into pieces, and is like "goddamn it, he's not in this one either"
These could be the sewer cleaners in my campaign! A more modern-esque through high magics style world. i was thinking they use push brooms and push gelatinous cubes, and anything they pick up that doesn't get eaten is what they use as donations to their god!
I now want to play a half-xvart, just to confuse the hell out of my table.
How in an ungodly fu(k would you even get a half-xvart they are sterile
Between their origin lore and all-around patheticness, these things sound like they could have started out with a grudge Gary Gygax had against someone who stole his stapler or something at the office.
Excuse me, are you saying you wouldn't collect rats or smooch bats? Liar.
I want to play a vengeful Xvart now.
Years ago I mowed these guys down in Icewind Dale and only now forever later do I even bother looking into what they were lol
The demigods name is actually Maxi Farts?
No, it’s raxivort
Xvartkind were one of the two creatures mentioned in the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer which I had no idea of when I first had that book.
Dw you're good. Manshoon is only really purple on the cover. In the art INSIDE the book he's pale alabaster white
Such a great summary! I have seen them a few times over my 4+ decades of gaming, and they are always a combination of entertaining, annoying, and pure "WTF?". Good times!
And with that, I shall end my day on a high note, and get some sleep!
Xvarts are randomly encountered in BG1. They make hobgoblins look like supersoldiers by comparison.
The whole video about roasting things, that stupidier than a literal pile of moss... That's why i'm here for 😂
Give one a circlet of intellect and they would probably immediately probably go "Ok, screw this, and screw our deadbeat dad-god, i'm out." and then leave to do whatever they felt like now.
the 2e edition desing look like the orc of the small races and i love it
Seems like a good low level combat encounter tbh, have the players go into a bunch of caves hunting down a xvart which has enough magic items to be a pain to trap into an actual fight. Have him set up in some sewers and coordinating rats into stealing valuables for him. Adds an infuriating twist to rat stomping.
Glad to see more of your content Runesmith. Please keep making more.
So, the first time the Xvart appeared in DND was in White Dwarf magazine back in the 70s, and from there they made it into the 1st edition fiend folio. A lot of White Dwarf monsters were from literary sources, and from the general description and original spelling (Svart), I'm almost certain they were taken from the 1960 fantasy novel The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner. In turn, the name comes from old Norse Svart Alfar, which just means dark elf- though in the book they were degenerate dwarf-like creatures, not elves as such, which is why I think they came from Garner directly. TSR was in the habit of stealing monsters from copyrighted sources not in public domain and then changing the spelling slightly to avoid getting sued. (Dero/Derro for example).
Goblin: finally, worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!
😂 all I can imagine is walking up to and slapping the back of his head going
" I like your cut G" 😂
in my homebrewed yawning portal campaign, i had my players start off fighting these little shits as their rats-in-the-cellar intro fight. And again when some of the survivors from that fight started worshipping a dead rat one of the party members tossed on the side of road after his devil patron asked him to clean up after himself. Fast forward a few months, about to start Shrine of Tamochan, wherein lies an altar dedicated to a god of vampires and bats, well well would you look at that?
so they basically give you all the same reasons to fight them as goblins, but without the "goblin child, what do?" moral conundrum? neat!
I don’t think I’d kill a Xvart child either… imagine what a xvart toddler would look like. I could not kill something so loveably pathetic
There is no such thing as a xvart child is his point.
@@furgenaeducan1265 my point exactly
You just described British people
If the xvart are all clones of Raxivort (who is a demigod), shouldn't all be demigods (thus powerful)?
I saw the thumbnail and said "Finially, my favorite creature!"
Ah, so these are the D&D equivalent of findom pay pigs.
The thumbnail is 💋 perfecto
Xvarts: As if Minions couldn't get any dumber.
On god, Richard Whitters is one of the top dnd artists for me, loved his art since I saw it in the esential kit
At first I thought you overlooked the Gully Dwarfs. And maybe you did. But you got it right anyway.
You’re dang right I clicked on this video. Does the Infinity Spindle ring a bell?
I’m using it in my campaign so naturally I came across Raxivort and the Xvarts. Thanks for the vid
This technically could be a fluffy origin made by Volo
The biggest reason I clicked this is because I used them before. They weren’t comic-relief, more like misery-relief, or look-at-my-sorry-ass-relief.
I vaguely remember them having a petty height-based society but I guess I mixed them up with something
The Irken maybe? 😂
Sounds like Gully Dwarves from Dragonlance.
His name is Maxifart… this was either intentional or horrible lapse in by Research and Development
You say there terrible with no cool encounters, but I raise you: Xvarts riding Giant Bats! I think that's the lowest CR combination of flying+range attack you can get.
The vine boom sfx at the end 🤣
YOOOO Nilbog cameo