Monster upgrade! Combine the Treant with the nine hells, and you get the "Thornagon". Also known as the Thorn Devil, or Hell-Tree. Imagine the look on your player's faces! Basically they serve as the "bouncers" of the hells. Anything that doesn't belong had better avoid the twisted forests and overgrowth or else!
Missed a good opportunity of a nicely placed "rip and tear" Doom reference in there that would fit with the devil/hell theme of this video and the musical background choice.
I could easily see Spined Devils functioning almost like flying attack dogs in a fight, send a pack of the things after the enemy ahead of the actual charge. They send them into disarray before getting smashed by the stronger devils. Having some "elite" Spined Devils that had been in the service of a stonger devil by adding Pack Tactics would be a nasty thing there
They hide in car fur? Okay, picture Cruella Deville and the 101 Dalmatians. Now picture something like a pit fiend covered from head to toe in spines devils like writhing armor, whilst always walking within a raging swarm of more spined devils, Raam from Gears
A group of spiked or spined or barbed devil or whatnot destroyed a whole village and villagers in the forgotten realms the godborn novel which I got the hardcover of
In 3.5 planetouched were considered native outsiders which allowed them to use *alter self* to transform into lesser outsiders including spinagons. While it was certainly a limited transformation it gave you 120ft flying speed for 1 hour, way better than a fly spell.
@@AJPickett if I'm not mistaken engaging in telepathic conversation is a two-way street in most cases. And if a PC has the lack of moral standards to turn into a devil that's probably a tiefling, and they probably know infernal(in order to have a familiarity with the forms of the baatezu).
Concept for cursed demon sentient weapon: spinned devil willingly is forged into an artifact to be the weapon for asmodeus’s champion. That way it can get promoted faster to bone devil and then ice devil. I’d treat it somewhat like an Arms of the Betrayers sort of thing maybe. But now my players have it since it is just a black crystal gauntlet.
On one hand, I'm super happy that this video exists. On the other, I'm very sad that I'm reminded we'll never get a proper ending to Metalocalypse. sad face
AJ, do you have any information on Devil and Demon activities on the Material Plane? I know they can be summoned, or possibly use a Gate spell, but do they have other means of invasion?
The only expossure i have had to the spinny bois so far is a game where i played as a khenku sorc, copied their laughter and used it to taunt them and many many other creatures over the campaign. Highlight was a higher-ranked devil getting butthurt and basically american football rushing the entire party to get at me at the back due to it.
Mate, you're not going to believe this but I forgot to subscribe despite watching you pretty much daily for about 5 months until you said "Dethklok" then whatever idiocy that bound my mind was freed by the brutality of metal, subscribed.
Recommend Amon Amarth, Manowar, Blind Guardian, Powerwolf, Sabaton(of course), Disturbed, Trans-Siberian Orchestra(especially Beethoven's last night), and Tyr's "By the sword in my hand". Curious if anyone/anyrhing in particular comes to mind when you hear that one.
@@AJPickett Tyr: 2nd Thor avatar, the back-up guy to Thor stories with a more relateable version of Thor, when Thor (not Thor by that moment) losing his hand in Fenris's mouth... or other stories. Tyr is far is a far more human Thor with a lost hand without Mjolner even being a thing with him. Thor, before Tyr, was the Norse as a Norse man. Tyr, a former Thor clone, became his own being who became more Norse (human) than human... more human than Thor. Sorry... my mythology nerd needed to vomit.
@@AJPickett while taking the share of Lil'spined devil's dessert..... awwwww now they are too cute to fear. Till a horde of them chases me trying to stick their pitchforks in me 😱
With a sound like a steam train, a giant flame skull roars across the parched wastes of Avernus, wreathed in green flames, with one gloved hand a humanoid figure grips some red glowing chains leading to hooks in the undead skull's eye sockets, while leaning back and pointing a wand, pulsing arcane bolts that punch through a dark cloud of Spined devils, flying in the skulls dusty, heat shimmering wake...
@@AJPickett "wreathed in green flames" I'm actually wondering about this, because in one picture in the video, pit fiends there seem to be hurling green flames, and then there is the spell green-flame blade. Is green fire some special kind of fire in DnD or something, or is it litereally just fire that is green and nothing more?
I was going to ask if this was a reupload, but then I realized the last one was barbed devil, not spined devil. “Barbed” and “Spined” are literally synonyms of each other, so I think the confusion is warranted.
Barbs, thorns, quills, prickles and spines all conjure specific things in my mind.... humans have a lot of words for things that cause stabbing injuries :)
If a Spined devil developed a friendship, or showed any small amount of goodness, what kind of punishment would it receive? Could it become a diplomatic for upper plane? Also outstanding video as always btw!👍
They would be ripped in half, have the Lemure Ovitorium ripped from their body, and be demoted to that form. There's no point in further tormenting them, demotion is anguish.
Spined Devils are the equivalent of mid level interns at 9 Hells LLC. Ranked just high enough to push around the fresh interns or the devils who work in the mailroom, but still low enough to take crap from basically everything else.
They say that Japan is the land of the Rising sun but in truth it’s actually New Zealand !!! It’s only bout 5:35 am here in good ol Kansas but I can’t sleep so imma get any early start on the day and donut right . Thanks for helping me stay sane during the Rona Virus 🦠 with all your amazing videos yo!!!
Hey AJ, do devils remember their time in the lesser states? I mean could you get in one's head by reminding them what they have to look forward to once you defeat them or humiliate them by bringing up their past states?
I don’t see why not and really that’s a very interesting idea. Even if a devil is slain in the hells they may reform as an imp with the same life force, now that would be humiliating. -signed, Not AJ
They certainly do, every single moment of it, however, Devils have an often unexpected pride in what they are and how they got to be where they are.. after all, the multiverse owes them everything for keeping the demons from taking over all the planes of existence.
Devils are so interesting. I have a hard time deciding who was right or wrong in the very beginning: the ones who became angels and the ones who became devils. I honestly kind of side with the original devils..... Is that wrong? Am i going to become a gibbering flesh-blob when i die?
3.5e rules for multiclassing, make them with Rogu3/expert3 +5CR/+? ECL key skills Spot, Listen, Gather Information, maybe Intimidation ( bully) all at 12 ranks. Might give them sorcerer4 or wizard3 for the spell Invisibility, along with Alter Self. My last game shop 15 years ago normally ran 12th-level single or multiclass character games.
Even after watch all these devils, I don't don't know much about devils that makes contract with humans. I'm talking about devils that are capable of making wishes, can transform into human-like figure to appear as a beautiful human, or appear as a classical "devil" look (simple human-like red skin and horns). And no, I'm not referring to erinyes.
Any devil can make a contract. They may just need to send said contract up the chain of command to someone who can fulfill it. But this still benefits the original holder as they get some recognition for their efforts towards their next promotion. And souls equal power. Thus all the higher up devils want as many as they can get. Beyond that is just the individual quirks of each high ranking devil. Like high school but in hell.
Its funny, but in many ways the lower demons and devils facinate me more than the higher level ones. Its very interesting to see what evil does when it cant do much.
@@AJPickett Not if he was Slitherin! Specifications are mandated for leverage, nonsense is outed (even if not nonsense), and accusations are more valuable than the reason for them until they are dismissed. Sorry... probably RPG and not cannon experience there.
@@BockwinkleB Yeah, but if you have seen the metalocalypse episode featuring "Awaken" you will see they summon a demon/fiendish troll giant. The song and video will tell you a bit about em', and the episode is hilarious.
Awesome intro and video AJ. I still wish you did the Sage AJ pic for some of your deep thought comments on them. You are an artist in how you present your videos and you know your audience more than my ancient ^ss does. I did use these beasties a lot. I also made Imps have that complex relationship with them. I pretty much made them Hell's Kobolds in my campaigns... a thing post-1st & 2nd Ed people might not get as a reference point. When a party travels to Hell, the first thing they must endure (besides the environment) are these beasties growing in flock size, whispering and laughing. It's when they have a huge flock, they attack while laughing. Attacks by these Devils to a party not informed and ready is a really fast death-by-1000-cuts for every party member. I also used them to follow and amass in numbers, hiding and watching (lots of perception checks to actually see them), when the party is on their way to challenge certain devils of actual status... like anyone not a Spined Devil. When the party decides to attack that devil, they are usually swarmed by Spined Devils while their target teleports away to let those cannon fodder do their damage while he/she gates in other devils. Rule of thumb: Don't start sh^t in the outer planes unless you can actually take what they give you.
If you listen to heavy metal while writing for the nine hells, what do you listen too when writing about Celestia? Enia? Gregorian monk chants ;) Personally the only thing I have been listening to lately is my players wine. What sweet music they make.
I use Enya & the LOTR soundtrack to put my mind in a Fey state, it still gives me that feel of wonder that I felt seeing Peter Jackson's Lothlorien the 1st time. For celestials, I listen to Gregorian chant (martial factions), or some classic Irish harp. Whine pressed from the blood of adventurers, flavored with the despair of a TPK - one of my favorite vintages. I prefer to serve mine in Kobold lairs, you?
In 3.5 They used to have Produce Flame from the start IIRC (Which isn't super great for them because chucking them as little fireballs only deals about the same as a spike shot or less. I forget it it was 1d6 or 2d6.) and disguise self
Huh, awkward that Baet'atka, an imp npc who reappeared as a Spined Devil, is really more of a sidegrade.. Would it not be unheard of for a throwaway imp to be turned into a Spined Devil for the purpose of faster overland flight? Because that little guy actually became a party/antagonist neutral deliverer of messages whenever called by the inscribing of the (as of yet unidentified) Symbol of Avernus.
@@PattPlays Hmmm, well there are several different types of imps, and there a many different types of Spined devil, mainly related to the layer they call home, which archdevil they may be pledged to serve, and what they devote most of their time to doing... so, imps and spinagons, while pretty low on the pecking order, are just as complex as humans.
@@AJPickett They did seem cool with the side-grade as it were. They are all disconnected from the plot of Zariel (pre Baldur's Gate 2019) but trust that every step in the operation was anticipated by her tactics and go with it. What the party did to one of them, whoo.. I tell ya, it was extremely fun playing with the three Fiendish Classes in the appendix of the 3.5? fiend folio for fiends of posession, seduction, and blasphemy in 5e. Spectral Oni, dude. Spectral fiend-blessed ogre mages. Struck gold there. Shame what happened to the bastard. *God I miss irl d&d*
Why don't the Devil's just promote every devil into something extremely powerful? They could surely over run anything if they didn't bother with the lesser stages.
That would cause utter chaos in the hells, and would be like having two dozen managers with nobody to manage. It would be rewarding maggots that don’t deserve it. It would also be quite likely to cause a rebellion as every devil with a feud against their masters got some measure of power to act with. Not to mention that the little guys are useful. Much easier to sneak in an imp than a pit fiend.
This makes me think that carrying a few spells is a good idea, sure. Rain a couple lightning bolts down to clear them out. However, this is DnD. You need to sleep to recast most of the time. So, make a full auto crossbow. Load her up with a few bolts, spray them in the air, and you might cripple them.
@@muninrob If you gave them a well made weapon and some modest training they'd do fine. Some guys with strong crossbows and heavy bolts? Yeah, that'll go farther thsn you think.
@@TheKing-qz9wd One of the things I usually do to add a fantasy flavor is think about what kind of special gear a kingdom or city would develop after a devastating attack by *monster X*, and then adding a few bits of that preparation.
The internet is large. Sometimes credits can't be found. Sometimes a piece is very old, and the artist's name has been lost. Some people don't sign their art, because the art is what is important, and not the creator.
I'm also concerned because there are legal concerns about using an artist's work without permission. If a particularly litigious individual - or organization - decided to throw their weigh around AJ's channel could suffer, and I think we all would like to avoid that.
They should make Blood War: Total War. These guys would be useful skirmishers.
I mean, they might have the Chaos Demons as a faction in the third Warhammer Total War, so there’s a chance for it
A total war D&D game would be awesome like imagine running a mind flayer army
Monster upgrade!
Combine the Treant with the nine hells, and you get the "Thornagon". Also known as the Thorn Devil, or Hell-Tree.
Imagine the look on your player's faces!
Basically they serve as the "bouncers" of the hells. Anything that doesn't belong had better avoid the twisted forests and overgrowth or else!
Missed a good opportunity of a nicely placed "rip and tear" Doom reference in there that would fit with the devil/hell theme of this video and the musical background choice.
I could easily see Spined Devils functioning almost like flying attack dogs in a fight, send a pack of the things after the enemy ahead of the actual charge. They send them into disarray before getting smashed by the stronger devils.
Having some "elite" Spined Devils that had been in the service of a stonger devil by adding Pack Tactics would be a nasty thing there
Brutal Intro.
Love Dethklok.
"Unlike parrots, these creatures carry weapons..." That gives me a wonderful idea...
I've always loved the design of these beasties~
The vecna shirt on your teespring is very worth it ..also I remember when you originally drew the fight art for that the fight shirt
They hide in car fur? Okay, picture Cruella Deville and the 101 Dalmatians. Now picture something like a pit fiend covered from head to toe in spines devils like writhing armor, whilst always walking within a raging swarm of more spined devils, Raam from Gears
The All-Star Monster Campaign gains another member.
Skin Kite being flown by it's original skeleton
Spined Devil wearing Cat's Pajamas
I appreciate the dethklok intro.
A group of spiked or spined or barbed devil or whatnot destroyed a whole village and villagers in the forgotten realms the godborn novel which I got the hardcover of
Dethklok, great selection!
In 3.5 planetouched were considered native outsiders which allowed them to use *alter self* to transform into lesser outsiders including spinagons. While it was certainly a limited transformation it gave you 120ft flying speed for 1 hour, way better than a fly spell.
That would be interesting when the Spine devils start trying to communicate telepathically with them.
@@AJPickett if I'm not mistaken engaging in telepathic conversation is a two-way street in most cases. And if a PC has the lack of moral standards to turn into a devil that's probably a tiefling, and they probably know infernal(in order to have a familiarity with the forms of the baatezu).
Love your work, AJ. It's not easy to actually talk about the grunts in D&D and make them interesting.
When I made that 20 minute video on the Flail Snail... I knew I had a calling in life.
Awsome more devils! that trip into hell for my players is gonna be loreful.
loving this devils series.
Concept for cursed demon sentient weapon: spinned devil willingly is forged into an artifact to be the weapon for asmodeus’s champion. That way it can get promoted faster to bone devil and then ice devil. I’d treat it somewhat like an Arms of the Betrayers sort of thing maybe. But now my players have it since it is just a black crystal gauntlet.
On one hand, I'm super happy that this video exists. On the other, I'm very sad that I'm reminded we'll never get a proper ending to Metalocalypse. sad face
Respect tf out of the Dethklok intro
Face Fisted-Dethklok
Devil Heiarchy=How Pointy Are You?
Lemure, not pointy at all, very bottom.
Asmodeus's true form, a big ole puffer fish.
In his final form he looks like an inside out pincushion.
Also dose Mount Celestia and the 9 hells keep in touch?
It's a cosmic cold war.
I am be angerous now, you throw spines at me!
Man, hell is too much f hard work. I'll take the higher planes any day.
For sure.
You know it's gonna be good when there's a Dethklok intro...
Spined Devil not a bumblebee
AJ, do you have any information on Devil and Demon activities on the Material Plane? I know they can be summoned, or possibly use a Gate spell, but do they have other means of invasion?
Not many, and none well known or at all easy to access... Escaping hell is difficult.
The only expossure i have had to the spinny bois so far is a game where i played as a khenku sorc, copied their laughter and used it to taunt them and many many other creatures over the campaign. Highlight was a higher-ranked devil getting butthurt and basically american football rushing the entire party to get at me at the back due to it.
Heh! Excellent
Love the dethklok intro
New D&D monster idea, 'The armed Parrot', discuss.
This is D&D, stranger things exist. Anyway *points at brightly plumed Aarakocra bard*
Mate, you're not going to believe this but I forgot to subscribe despite watching you pretty much daily for about 5 months until you said "Dethklok" then whatever idiocy that bound my mind was freed by the brutality of metal, subscribed.
Face Fisted is so awesome 🤣
The Dethklok intro makes me moist, in the most fiendish of ways.
Recommend Amon Amarth, Manowar, Blind Guardian, Powerwolf, Sabaton(of course), Disturbed, Trans-Siberian Orchestra(especially Beethoven's last night), and Tyr's "By the sword in my hand".
Curious if anyone/anyrhing in particular comes to mind when you hear that one.
Dark Tranquility, Finntroll, At The Gates are ones immediately coming to mind.
Brocas Helm's "Drink the blood of the priest" and "Cry of the banshee" are both awesome.
Big fan of Tyr.
@@AJPickett Tyr: 2nd Thor avatar, the back-up guy to Thor stories with a more relateable version of Thor, when Thor (not Thor by that moment) losing his hand in Fenris's mouth... or other stories. Tyr is far is a far more human Thor with a lost hand without Mjolner even being a thing with him. Thor, before Tyr, was the Norse as a Norse man. Tyr, a former Thor clone, became his own being who became more Norse (human) than human... more human than Thor.
Sorry... my mythology nerd needed to vomit.
Just in time for my morning AJ
I thought I recognized that into music Dethklok
th-cam.com/video/3hLd3xA7GJQ/w-d-xo.html 'Face Fisted' by Dethklock.
They say the corporate world is hell in the dnd world its actually true...
Love the Deathklock intro
So they are the "I'll tell my big brother he'll beat you up" type guys 🤣
The big brother always ends up beating them up afterwards, but... yeah.
@@AJPickett while taking the share of Lil'spined devil's dessert..... awwwww now they are too cute to fear. Till a horde of them chases me trying to stick their pitchforks in me 😱
With a sound like a steam train, a giant flame skull roars across the parched wastes of Avernus, wreathed in green flames, with one gloved hand a humanoid figure grips some red glowing chains leading to hooks in the undead skull's eye sockets, while leaning back and pointing a wand, pulsing arcane bolts that punch through a dark cloud of Spined devils, flying in the skulls dusty, heat shimmering wake...
@@AJPickett Is that from Descent into Avernus? Or a freebie for me? Cause I Like it :D
@@AJPickett "wreathed in green flames"
I'm actually wondering about this, because in one picture in the video, pit fiends there seem to be hurling green flames, and then there is the spell green-flame blade.
Is green fire some special kind of fire in DnD or something, or is it litereally just fire that is green and nothing more?
Hey are you going to talk about the hellfire engine
Yes
GREAT opening song, mate!
great work, as always!
I was going to ask if this was a reupload, but then I realized the last one was barbed devil, not spined devil. “Barbed” and “Spined” are literally synonyms of each other, so I think the confusion is warranted.
Barbs, thorns, quills, prickles and spines all conjure specific things in my mind.... humans have a lot of words for things that cause stabbing injuries :)
@@AJPickett this is why we need "surviving edged weapons"
Personally, I do not concern myself so much. After all, I still have sharp things sticking out of me after the fight. Doesn't really matter why.
If a Spined devil developed a friendship, or showed any small amount of goodness, what kind of punishment would it receive? Could it become a diplomatic for upper plane? Also outstanding video as always btw!👍
They would be ripped in half, have the Lemure Ovitorium ripped from their body, and be demoted to that form.
There's no point in further tormenting them, demotion is anguish.
Devil's can be evil and be friends.
@@AJPickett So what your saying is friendship is the most powerful thing in the multiverse? 🤔
Spined Devils are the equivalent of mid level interns at 9 Hells LLC. Ranked just high enough to push around the fresh interns or the devils who work in the mailroom, but still low enough to take crap from basically everything else.
I knew you were cool Deathklok rules!
Deathclock!!!!! Love that intro music!
Great choice of intro song! Thanks for the content
Poor choice for demonetization purposes!!!!!!!!!
@@IchimaruGin19877 Yep, it could bite me in the ass, but then, I can always swap it out for something else.
They say that Japan is the land of the Rising sun but in truth it’s actually New Zealand !!! It’s only bout 5:35 am here in good ol Kansas but I can’t sleep so imma get any early start on the day and donut right . Thanks for helping me stay sane during the Rona Virus 🦠 with all your amazing videos yo!!!
Just doing my part :)
AJ and Heavy Metal !?! The Dark Ritual is complete!! Bring the rest of the sacrifices, we need another video.
Why use all the lesser beings for sacrifice when one Assimar will do. Use the others after
AJ, could you make a vid or a sheet explaining all the lines of devilish hierarchy?
That can be arranged.
@@AJPickett as there are @ least 3 lines (Imp, Spined, & Erinyes), I get totally lost in it.
@@AJPickett thank you! you're my favourite D&D Lore Tuber!
The metalocalypse has begun.
Hey AJ, do devils remember their time in the lesser states? I mean could you get in one's head by reminding them what they have to look forward to once you defeat them or humiliate them by bringing up their past states?
I don’t see why not and really that’s a very interesting idea. Even if a devil is slain in the hells they may reform as an imp with the same life force, now that would be humiliating. -signed, Not AJ
They certainly do, every single moment of it, however, Devils have an often unexpected pride in what they are and how they got to be where they are.. after all, the multiverse owes them everything for keeping the demons from taking over all the planes of existence.
Devils are so interesting. I have a hard time deciding who was right or wrong in the very beginning: the ones who became angels and the ones who became devils. I honestly kind of side with the original devils.....
Is that wrong? Am i going to become a gibbering flesh-blob when i die?
@@ruhalajn Yes, you are.
Spinagon are like the playground bullies of the Nine Hells. If I ever get the chance to run them, that's how I'm going to characterise them.
3.5e rules for multiclassing, make them with Rogu3/expert3 +5CR/+? ECL
key skills Spot, Listen, Gather Information, maybe Intimidation ( bully) all at 12 ranks.
Might give them sorcerer4 or wizard3 for the spell Invisibility, along with Alter Self.
My last game shop 15 years ago normally ran 12th-level single or multiclass character games.
In tiny tf2 spy voice; "medic! MEDIC!" As he stabs the healer
Nice intro my guy
I will always remember the Spined Devil as the first real boss in Tales of Phantasia. Good times.
Great videos man. Youre my go-to for monster lore
Intro starts playing
Waaaaaiiiiiiiiiitttttttt...
BATMETAL!!!!!!
(yes I'm aware that its Deathclock but Batmetal is where I know it from.)
Thank you for this interesting lore video! 😁
Even after watch all these devils, I don't don't know much about devils that makes contract with humans.
I'm talking about devils that are capable of making wishes, can transform into human-like figure to appear as a beautiful human, or appear as a classical "devil" look (simple human-like red skin and horns).
And no, I'm not referring to erinyes.
I can certainly make a video about that.
@@AJPickett is this video still coming?
Any devil can make a contract. They may just need to send said contract up the chain of command to someone who can fulfill it. But this still benefits the original holder as they get some recognition for their efforts towards their next promotion. And souls equal power. Thus all the higher up devils want as many as they can get. Beyond that is just the individual quirks of each high ranking devil. Like high school but in hell.
metallica seek and destory works well with a megaman theme music.
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Loved this intro.
Its funny, but in many ways the lower demons and devils facinate me more than the higher level ones. Its very interesting to see what evil does when it cant do much.
another fantastic vid
Great lore! Most fascinating! 😃👍
Loved the intro,
When are you going to cover the dreaded Mermaider?
He already covered wastriliths
I wonder what Musta-Krakish of the song "Awaken" would be?
Mr.Wonkey you gain 50 points for your house.
@@AJPickett Not if he was Slitherin! Specifications are mandated for leverage, nonsense is outed (even if not nonsense), and accusations are more valuable than the reason for them until they are dismissed. Sorry... probably RPG and not cannon experience there.
@@BockwinkleB Yeah, but if you have seen the metalocalypse episode featuring "Awaken" you will see they summon a demon/fiendish troll giant.
The song and video will tell you a bit about em', and the episode is hilarious.
Awesome intro and video AJ. I still wish you did the Sage AJ pic for some of your deep thought comments on them. You are an artist in how you present your videos and you know your audience more than my ancient ^ss does.
I did use these beasties a lot. I also made Imps have that complex relationship with them. I pretty much made them Hell's Kobolds in my campaigns... a thing post-1st & 2nd Ed people might not get as a reference point.
When a party travels to Hell, the first thing they must endure (besides the environment) are these beasties growing in flock size, whispering and laughing. It's when they have a huge flock, they attack while laughing. Attacks by these Devils to a party not informed and ready is a really fast death-by-1000-cuts for every party member.
I also used them to follow and amass in numbers, hiding and watching (lots of perception checks to actually see them), when the party is on their way to challenge certain devils of actual status... like anyone not a Spined Devil. When the party decides to attack that devil, they are usually swarmed by Spined Devils while their target teleports away to let those cannon fodder do their damage while he/she gates in other devils. Rule of thumb: Don't start sh^t in the outer planes unless you can actually take what they give you.
Exactly so. If you can't handle the spined devils, you have no business being in Hell.
Is there anything more iconic than a devil with a fork/bident? I appreciate workhorse monsters like the spinagon. X3
Amazing as always AJ!
Glad you think so!
Rewatching your older stuff has been quite rewarding ☺, dethclock is definitely a good choice when delving into fiends! Haha
If you listen to heavy metal while writing for the nine hells, what do you listen too when writing about Celestia? Enia? Gregorian monk chants ;) Personally the only thing I have been listening to lately is my players wine. What sweet music they make.
I use Enya & the LOTR soundtrack to put my mind in a Fey state, it still gives me that feel of wonder that I felt seeing Peter Jackson's Lothlorien the 1st time. For celestials, I listen to Gregorian chant (martial factions), or some classic Irish harp.
Whine pressed from the blood of adventurers, flavored with the despair of a TPK - one of my favorite vintages. I prefer to serve mine in Kobold lairs, you?
I listen to Scandinavian goth operatic rock and Synthpop
Metal!
In 3.5 They used to have Produce Flame from the start IIRC (Which isn't super great for them because chucking them as little fireballs only deals about the same as a spike shot or less. I forget it it was 1d6 or 2d6.) and disguise self
I had a feeling that you are a fellow metalhead, I had a lot of respect for you before, now I have even more, \,,/
When do you plan on doing ice devils
Well if I am being lawful about it, they would be next right? Or perhaps the horned devil...
@@AJPickett thank just curious they keep being brought up I was just wondering love your videos and I listen to them a lot when I'm working
Dethklok!!!
my players are 14 level and they are about to go to war with Cheliax (pathfinder edition) . Needless to say i injest your devil videos into my veins.
Lol, facefisted
good video aj
Sweet! Love Me some coffee time lore vids 😈😈
Loving the devil videos!
Nothing clever to say😋 Enjoyed the vid as always, haha
Huh, awkward that Baet'atka, an imp npc who reappeared as a Spined Devil, is really more of a sidegrade.. Would it not be unheard of for a throwaway imp to be turned into a Spined Devil for the purpose of faster overland flight? Because that little guy actually became a party/antagonist neutral deliverer of messages whenever called by the inscribing of the (as of yet unidentified) Symbol of Avernus.
The party actually summoned Bae-t'atka'chkayktktk in order to request an sos message fo their retired divine sorceror.
@@PattPlays Hmmm, well there are several different types of imps, and there a many different types of Spined devil, mainly related to the layer they call home, which archdevil they may be pledged to serve, and what they devote most of their time to doing... so, imps and spinagons, while pretty low on the pecking order, are just as complex as humans.
@@AJPickett They did seem cool with the side-grade as it were. They are all disconnected from the plot of Zariel (pre Baldur's Gate 2019) but trust that every step in the operation was anticipated by her tactics and go with it.
What the party did to one of them, whoo.. I tell ya, it was extremely fun playing with the three Fiendish Classes in the appendix of the 3.5? fiend folio for fiends of posession, seduction, and blasphemy in 5e. Spectral Oni, dude. Spectral fiend-blessed ogre mages. Struck gold there. Shame what happened to the bastard.
*God I miss irl d&d*
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Why don't the Devil's just promote every devil into something extremely powerful? They could surely over run anything if they didn't bother with the lesser stages.
That would cause utter chaos in the hells, and would be like having two dozen managers with nobody to manage. It would be rewarding maggots that don’t deserve it. It would also be quite likely to cause a rebellion as every devil with a feud against their masters got some measure of power to act with. Not to mention that the little guys are useful. Much easier to sneak in an imp than a pit fiend.
@@jamesforgie6594 Not to mention that every devil gets some satisfaction in bossing their inferiors around.
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I missed a spinnagon somehow? No way
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This makes me think that carrying a few spells is a good idea, sure. Rain a couple lightning bolts down to clear them out. However, this is DnD. You need to sleep to recast most of the time.
So, make a full auto crossbow. Load her up with a few bolts, spray them in the air, and you might cripple them.
Blessed "venomous" crossbow bolts loaded with holy water instead of poison.
@@muninrob
Good plan. Honestly I was thinking back to Gael's crossbow and how you could do weird things. Like make it into a automatic shotgun.
@@TheKing-qz9wd I prefer special ammo for normal weapons - something that you can issue to guards to give them a snowball's chance against hell.
@@muninrob
If you gave them a well made weapon and some modest training they'd do fine. Some guys with strong crossbows and heavy bolts? Yeah, that'll go farther thsn you think.
@@TheKing-qz9wd One of the things I usually do to add a fantasy flavor is think about what kind of special gear a kingdom or city would develop after a devastating attack by *monster X*, and then adding a few bits of that preparation.
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Ugh... yes, yes I am.
Sorry about that!
@@prestongarner8796 don't be.
@@AJPickett I like the new design of the spined devils the new version almost reminds of some gargoyles.
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Noticed that we didn't get all of the artists credited in today's video. They worked hard on their art and deserve that recognition.
The internet is large. Sometimes credits can't be found. Sometimes a piece is very old, and the artist's name has been lost. Some people don't sign their art, because the art is what is important, and not the creator.
I'm also concerned because there are legal concerns about using an artist's work without permission. If a particularly litigious individual - or organization - decided to throw their weigh around AJ's channel could suffer, and I think we all would like to avoid that.
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@@AJPickett Dang it! Now I'm craving toasted marshmallows.
@@That80sGuy1972 S'more time?
@@AJPickett think there aren't any left my guy
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Not these ones, no.
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