i think Allip´s just have found out about the horror of their entire existence and that of the universe they live in. they are trapped in a world that are ruled by beings beyond any comprehension of morality, beings even gods,devils,demonlords,archfey,primordial and even the lady of pain must obey. the crulest of them only goes by the moniker of " the dungeon master"
Markus Nävergård This can’t help but make me help but wonder what the result would be if a god became aware of this if they didn’t know in the first place.
For a Halloween one shot, I had my players tracking a mysterious creature. The creature was a large albino Nothic which had formed a symbiotic relationship with an Allip. It used the Weird insight feature to figure out the enemy’s secrets and gave it to the Allip. The Allip would then use the info to make its babbling more specified against the enemy. The Allip would help absorb some elemental damage and the nothic would absorb some of the damage which would be more dangerous for the Allip. The dynamic duo was terrorizing a town. The rotting gaze of the Nothic was used to destroy wooden doors and rot corpses for extra creepy effect.
As a reader, the fact that these things can possess books and that knowledge itself can be accursed is quite unsettling. That pushes the theory of ideas (presented as allips here) visiting ppl that are able to manifest or realize them into the physical. At least I have deep knowledge of universal truths that anchor me and bouye me up at the right moments
I can see my necromancer character willingly working with an Alip to help it pass on. The trick would be keeping her from reading what she wrote out of curiosity.
My personal favorite allip variant is scribbling allip from Pathfinder. Unlike whispers of usual allips, their babbling manifests as tangible ectoplasmic script, clinging to walls like ghostly webs. While mechanically they are just allips with a web attack, the imagery is too evocative and surreal to be unnoticed.
A while back I made an adventure using an alien for a low level party and only at the final confrontation did I realize that they had no magic weapons and could not harm the thing. My wonderfully inventive players won the day by basically curing the poor thing of its insanity through some very intense role playing. It seems that often my mistakes as a DM make the game better or I am just lucky to have the best group ever.
I like the 5e secrets thing they got. The Allip fill an interesting neiche story wise. You can find them anywhere, and encounters with them starts stories. Unlike ghost you shouldn’t be going to a mansion looking to get rid of Allip. You encounter one, and defeating one and that starts a story. Interesting position for a monster when the party doesn’t know what to do next
In the Tome of Foes there is also a mention of people getting turned into alips when trying to find out what happened to Gith, the Githyanki leader. That leaves some leading clues about Vlaakith, which the Tome also implied is in fact the only Vlaakith.
Funny you should propose tying the Githyanki to an epic allip because there was an incident in my "Out of the Abyss" campgain... Homebrew chapter on the surface. Allip inside a desecrated temple of Amaunator. My character failed *the* wisdom save of the encounter. Turned and swung Dawnbringer at his NPC wife who is also the party's wizard. "It told me where Gith went and I just... *had to.*"
A few years ago in my campaign I ran an encounter where my players ran into a trio of allips - former enemy soldiers that had come afoul of the evil demigodess they were seeking. The fighter didn't have anything that he could hit and damage them with, until he remembered the amulet he wore was made of silver. He proceeded to wrap it around his knuckles and punched two of the allips to death, took a load of wisdom damage in the process but it was certainly a unique way of fighting them!
I already had an idea for a cursed library populated by mostly home brew monsters (not my creation but they are fantastic) including a paper dragon and an animated spell book. This ties up nicely for me how it ended up the way it will be. The a wizard having fallen to the Alip curse had written his secret in said animated spellbook. He animated it to protect this secret before succumbing to the curse and becoming an Alip. The other mages who ran this library demiplane turned themselves into headless undead both to avoid the eternal suffering of learning the Alip’s secret and and to keep other from entering and falling victim.
It has not been ripped away, it is just not set in stone as something that is conditional for the creation of the Allip. This does not mean it can not have happened in the process, so, this is what I mean about it being an improvement to the storytelling aspect of the creature's origin.
@@AJPickett I don't agree, but it's your channel. The very limited creation conditions for the Allip was part of the allure and creepiness of the monster.
@@hallerd Personally i always felt the suicide was secondary to the forbidden knowledge aspect. i took at as the knowledge is what drove them to the suicide so they would be undead instead of an aberation.
The nature of the allip makes me wonder how a conversation between one and a Nothic would go if they could have one. It seems it would be quite... maddening.
Think I have a better read on this one. Some concepts are tagged by the gods as being too dangerous to allow just anyone to learn them. So anyone not tagged by the gods as being safe to learn these concepts instead gets tagged as a guardian of the prohibited concept. This is what an Allip is. The guardian tag slowly overwrites the person, causing madness and eventually death. Only at this point do they realize they can find peace by transferring the guardianship to something else. Like locking the knowledge away within a book. With the related magic patterns to transfer guardianship to anyone who reads it without the god's permission. This is what the babbling of the Allip is. A high level curse that requires a prolonged ritual to complete. A ritual influenced both by the Allip's understanding of what it guards and it's own madness.
I might use allips that holds secrets to the broken great wheel, the aberrations true goal and origin, which of the missing gods are alive or dead and their fate.
Given the historical happening involving burning books… I’m now thinking about having players walk in to a town where a crowd has gathered around a pile of reading material to set fire to it. Have party members with decent passive perception notice religious material in the pile.
I’ve used allips as harbingers of a cosmic horror. Ancient beings of a long extinct species who gave themselves freely to learn the burdensome knowledge of the universe
Similar to how I use them, in my campaigns, they aren't ancient beings of a long extinct species, but instead are men, elves, dwarves, and the like who have managed to know the unknowable. Things like mind reading a god of madness (or that of Halaster), scrying Atropus and realizing it's coming, looking deep into the elder elemental eye and finding Therizdun looking back...... Seer councils and schools of divination are (in my world) a constant source of allip - and a sudden rise in the allip population is one of the "canary in the coal mine" events I've always used to indicate the coming of "the end of the world plot arc", as those able to see the future see what is coming (and should not be seen) and go mad (seeing atropus, therizdun, or any of the truely cosmic horrors eat your planet might be even worse than just seeing it, yea?)
Robert Lockard I like that a lot, allips have always been a favorite of mine and my players have noticed, so I might need to find a new favorite since they know to expect the worst now when they see one.
thanks for this video! i remember asking for it on the discord channel!! In my campain it was a mage that found the frbidden knowledge, and then was kept in a dungeon withut windows or doors with dimensional shackles, so when he was found he couldn't go through walls or into the ethereal plane with blink, cause i gave it some nasty necromancy spells! in the end he wanted to be freed from the magic item, and give its knowledge to one of the party members within 5 days, such member that is now with this knowledge and some permanent madness, wich will be even worse, once he eventually dies... party members that think about destroying the book wil become foes right after they realize the warlock has died, but the knowledge transformed him into something else
I like that idea of a Dark Souls inspired campaign where the party is a group of chosen undead that quest to protect the living from destructive arcane knowledge
Just came across these guys on my own long after watching the video years back. Something that stands out to me is it mentions under "Wisdom Drain" that a creature whose wisdom is reduced to 0 by it becomes helpless until at least 1 is restored but the stat block doesn't actually say how it would reduce their wisdom 🤔
One of the thoughts I have had is the difference from Nothics, which were apparently people cursed after learning certain secrets, and continue to look for forbidden knowledge as well as a way to turn back.
I’m fairly certain this creature was in one of the second edition boxed sets. I vaguely recall seeing a monstrous compendium insert page for it. I’ll dig out my Undermountain II box to check, since that’s likely where it would be.
Is it an allip of a human twisted beyond recognition, or an allip from a far older race with far older secrets? Do you dare try to find out even that much?
Actually, the pic hails from Pathfinder's "honorary core"-book, the Advanced Bestiary, a big book of templates by Green Ronin. It represents the example Dread Allip statblock, the dread allip lunar naga. In Pathfinder, lunar nagas are one of more mundane naga types, quite obviously obsessed with night sky and celestial bodies. As this naga cast its gaze deeper into starless void, it turned into a powerful allip, mad from secrets it uncovered. But, in your game, it can be anything, of course.
This creature is not only a horror monster, but it is what I call a "Player frustrator." Why? When the players seemed to be about to defeat it, it flees. Defeated, but it will come back... again and again, and again.
AJ is it too late to sign up for this month’s patreon rewards? You have the warlock in me chomping at the bit for some forbidden knowledge of the forgotten realms?
Ah madness we are all susceptible to it's dark embrace we may lie to our selves about this fact but it is all to often those who choose to do so that fall to it a very relatable monster be you god or mortal
Oh my GOD! Imagine this in a setting like Eberon where things like a Printing Press might have already been invented! This also kind of reminds me of the works of H.P. Lovecraft's references to the play The King In Yellow & The Yellow Sign with the works becoming a contagious info-hazard. In a modern day setting I can see a library of books like this occupying both the Miskatonic University SPC-Foundation's secured books wing.
Oh boy, I hope this monster doesn't appear in our game. From the damage resistances you mentioned it sounds another job for my druids magic stick. I can tell you now she won't be best pleased because she finds undead creepy.
👻 Allip "You'll understand, when you get old." 😐Young adventurer "You're not making any sense!!!" Years later. 😩 Old adventurer "If only someone would've told me..." 👻 Allip "Ha ha ha!"
1. what are the benefits of a Night Hag coven? 2. What is the attack limit for a Kraken? 3. What are the regional effects of a Bronze Dragon? Final grades will be posted on the bulletin board at the end of recess.
1. What are the damage resistances of an Iron Golem? 2. How many Aarakokra does it take to ritual summon an Air Elemental using their Summon Air Elemental Ability? 3. What are the crustacean-like servants of Aboleths, also featured in the Monster Manual?
It gets funnier the barbarian of the group was the only one who correctly guessed that it wasn't supposed to be there. Civilized city folk and it was the outsider from the wilds. He spent the whole session "I told you so".
Love the idea of a allip/wight or some other physical undead. Same creature but its spirit/physical forms both fight together. Perhaps a once powerful villian/hero who could not be killed normally so was torn in two. If physical form is killed the ghostly side seeks to find a new body always trying to become one again and if threaten hides within books or such.
Mohrg is the undeads from mass murderers ans similar villians if ypu are interested Caller of darkness that died together Allips are the one who commitic suicide Painspeakers which couldn't said something important Love leather, battle plans ect. After they say their word they turn to dust I think
I initially watched this while extremely sleep deprived, I thought I was having audio hallucinations at first, I've had them before, and it sounds extremely similar.
I kinda disagree with the notion that the 5E description would free the Allip from any restrictions and therefore have more narrative potential. To me, it's kinda the other way round because in former editions, the Allip would have been driven insane no matter how, while in 5E the victim has to be driven insane by a curse, which is only one instance of how you can be driven insane. This is not necessarily a bad thing, because you still - as you showed in the video - can do all kind of awesome things with Allips and being more specific with the description sometimes helps to drive imagination, but everything you can do with Allips in 5E, you already could do in former editions. You only need to replace "annihilation via curse" by "suicide".
@AJ Pickett Hey Aj, I'm running a home brew D&D game with my friends and i painted myself into a corner. They are investigating a series of missing kids who seemed to have been kidnapped with no physical forces or damage from their Homes in a coastal town. Problem is a lot of the hints point to a creature with psychic abilities but i got nothing that fits the bill. was thinking mindflare but someone guessed that and i said no.....so do you have any other ideas? they are only lvl 3 by the way.
@@AJPickett “Yes, Inquisitor, this one here. The jovial New Zealander cloaks his *heresy* in a veneer of amicable charm. Crafty, indeed, are the foul ways of Chaos.”
When the Tome pact warlock finally finishes reading his patron's tome
I have a pact of the tome warlock and couldn't help thinking this exact thing.
This is THE most underrated D&D channel on the internet. Ill take this over Esper the Bard any day.
dam skippy
Esper The Bard as awesome as well. Honestly I just watched both of them
i think Allip´s just have found out about the horror of their entire existence and that of the universe they live in. they are trapped in a world that are ruled by beings beyond any comprehension of morality, beings even gods,devils,demonlords,archfey,primordial and even the lady of pain must obey. the crulest of them only goes by the moniker of " the dungeon master"
Markus Nävergård This can’t help but make me help but wonder what the result would be if a god became aware of this if they didn’t know in the first place.
For a Halloween one shot, I had my players tracking a mysterious creature. The creature was a large albino Nothic which had formed a symbiotic relationship with an Allip. It used the Weird insight feature to figure out the enemy’s secrets and gave it to the Allip. The Allip would then use the info to make its babbling more specified against the enemy. The Allip would help absorb some elemental damage and the nothic would absorb some of the damage which would be more dangerous for the Allip. The dynamic duo was terrorizing a town. The rotting gaze of the Nothic was used to destroy wooden doors and rot corpses for extra creepy effect.
As a reader, the fact that these things can possess books and that knowledge itself can be accursed is quite unsettling.
That pushes the theory of ideas (presented as allips here) visiting ppl that are able to manifest or realize them into the physical.
At least I have deep knowledge of universal truths that anchor me and bouye me up at the right moments
This is definitely in my top 5 dnd creature list. I love it!
I can see my necromancer character willingly working with an Alip to help it pass on. The trick would be keeping her from reading what she wrote out of curiosity.
My personal favorite allip variant is scribbling allip from Pathfinder. Unlike whispers of usual allips, their babbling manifests as tangible ectoplasmic script, clinging to walls like ghostly webs. While mechanically they are just allips with a web attack, the imagery is too evocative and surreal to be unnoticed.
The image at 10.26 made me imagine of a Allip with like a garment made of the pages of the book that had inside his terrible secret...
A while back I made an adventure using an alien for a low level party and only at the final confrontation did I realize that they had no magic weapons and could not harm the thing. My wonderfully inventive players won the day by basically curing the poor thing of its insanity through some very intense role playing. It seems that often my mistakes as a DM make the game better or I am just lucky to have the best group ever.
When I isolated it all I got is "Like, subscribe, and hit the bell button."
Lol, lies!
Here's a horrifying idea. Allip spell weaver.
I dont always use dinosaurs in my D&D games, but when i do, they have feathers.
Dr Bright But are they the king of feathers?
Damn straight!
Instead of a VHS tape or television, the allip travels through literature. I want this in a horror movie!
It would make a really good horror movie villain.
I just stumbled on this critter in Mordenkainen figured I’d check TH-cam for a video and of course top of the list is AJ. Excellent work as always
Same!
"It's all your fault!" The Allip.
“Foul beast!”
I like the 5e secrets thing they got. The Allip fill an interesting neiche story wise. You can find them anywhere, and encounters with them starts stories.
Unlike ghost you shouldn’t be going to a mansion looking to get rid of Allip. You encounter one, and defeating one and that starts a story. Interesting position for a monster when the party doesn’t know what to do next
Theres an allip in the background taking over
In the Tome of Foes there is also a mention of people getting turned into alips when trying to find out what happened to Gith, the Githyanki leader. That leaves some leading clues about Vlaakith, which the Tome also implied is in fact the only Vlaakith.
It's just barely in the background but it is there
Thank Bahamut theyre all busy guarding Azkaban.
Funny you should propose tying the Githyanki to an epic allip because there was an incident in my "Out of the Abyss" campgain...
Homebrew chapter on the surface. Allip inside a desecrated temple of Amaunator. My character failed *the* wisdom save of the encounter. Turned and swung Dawnbringer at his NPC wife who is also the party's wizard.
"It told me where Gith went and I just... *had to.*"
I have always run Allips as if the knowledge that creates them is the knowledge they are infact a pen and paper game npc.
Kyle Ellis I love it. Can I use this? lol
@@arbington Oh course, i borrow from everyone elses videos and the comments on them.
Whenever I have my truck on my radio produces that almost subsonic background babble, I thought I was going crazy but others can hear it too😱
A few years ago in my campaign I ran an encounter where my players ran into a trio of allips - former enemy soldiers that had come afoul of the evil demigodess they were seeking. The fighter didn't have anything that he could hit and damage them with, until he remembered the amulet he wore was made of silver. He proceeded to wrap it around his knuckles and punched two of the allips to death, took a load of wisdom damage in the process but it was certainly a unique way of fighting them!
I already had an idea for a cursed library populated by mostly home brew monsters (not my creation but they are fantastic) including a paper dragon and an animated spell book. This ties up nicely for me how it ended up the way it will be. The a wizard having fallen to the Alip curse had written his secret in said animated spellbook. He animated it to protect this secret before succumbing to the curse and becoming an Alip. The other mages who ran this library demiplane turned themselves into headless undead both to avoid the eternal suffering of learning the Alip’s secret and and to keep other from entering and falling victim.
It took me 3 years to decipher the whisper heard in the video. He is whispering the following;
We are sponsored today by Raid Shadow Legends.
Lol
Ripping away the suicide explanation from the Allip does a slight disservice to the lore and design of the monster.
It has not been ripped away, it is just not set in stone as something that is conditional for the creation of the Allip. This does not mean it can not have happened in the process, so, this is what I mean about it being an improvement to the storytelling aspect of the creature's origin.
@@AJPickett I don't agree, but it's your channel. The very limited creation conditions for the Allip was part of the allure and creepiness of the monster.
@@hallerd more importantly, its your game, run the Allip as you see fit :)
@@hallerd Personally i always felt the suicide was secondary to the forbidden knowledge aspect. i took at as the knowledge is what drove them to the suicide so they would be undead instead of an aberation.
@@kyleellis9177 The "forbidden knowledge" aspect isn't in any of the monster manuals and so I have no idea what you are talking about.
Well...looks like I better get started writing an allip based mystery adventure...
I love the slip, thanks an, you rock!
The nature of the allip makes me wonder how a conversation between one and a Nothic would go if they could have one. It seems it would be quite... maddening.
I love too combine those 2 monsters. And the Nagpas are not so far away ;)
Such an amazing video, love the whispers in the background. Thanks for being awesome as always AJ!
Can someone please tell me what The Whispers saying if it exists
Think I have a better read on this one. Some concepts are tagged by the gods as being too dangerous to allow just anyone to learn them. So anyone not tagged by the gods as being safe to learn these concepts instead gets tagged as a guardian of the prohibited concept. This is what an Allip is. The guardian tag slowly overwrites the person, causing madness and eventually death. Only at this point do they realize they can find peace by transferring the guardianship to something else. Like locking the knowledge away within a book. With the related magic patterns to transfer guardianship to anyone who reads it without the god's permission. This is what the babbling of the Allip is. A high level curse that requires a prolonged ritual to complete. A ritual influenced both by the Allip's understanding of what it guards and it's own madness.
How much of a forbidden law can I read before it too late? Like can I read a little realize whats about to happen and say naw b?
I might use allips that holds secrets to the broken great wheel, the aberrations true goal and origin, which of the missing gods are alive or dead and their fate.
Great video as always.
Vecna?! What are you doing in my room?
amazing. can't wait to throw this at my players next week, thanks AJ!
Sounds like an infohazard from the SCP universe.
fits the role perfectly.
Thanks for the vid A.J. I used an ALIP that could be banished with a solution to a riddle once. That was a good use of one.
Given the historical happening involving burning books… I’m now thinking about having players walk in to a town where a crowd has gathered around a pile of reading material to set fire to it. Have party members with decent passive perception notice religious material in the pile.
I’ve used allips as harbingers of a cosmic horror. Ancient beings of a long extinct species who gave themselves freely to learn the burdensome knowledge of the universe
DustMonkey92 I fuckin love that very lovecraftian
Similar to how I use them, in my campaigns, they aren't ancient beings of a long extinct species, but instead are men, elves, dwarves, and the like who have managed to know the unknowable. Things like mind reading a god of madness (or that of Halaster), scrying Atropus and realizing it's coming, looking deep into the elder elemental eye and finding Therizdun looking back......
Seer councils and schools of divination are (in my world) a constant source of allip - and a sudden rise in the allip population is one of the "canary in the coal mine" events I've always used to indicate the coming of "the end of the world plot arc", as those able to see the future see what is coming (and should not be seen) and go mad (seeing atropus, therizdun, or any of the truely cosmic horrors eat your planet might be even worse than just seeing it, yea?)
Robert Lockard I like that a lot, allips have always been a favorite of mine and my players have noticed, so I might need to find a new favorite since they know to expect the worst now when they see one.
blank blank lovecraft has been a big influence on how I made my world, and it’s been a wild ride
Great idea
thanks for this video! i remember asking for it on the discord channel!! In my campain it was a mage that found the frbidden knowledge, and then was kept in a dungeon withut windows or doors with dimensional shackles, so when he was found he couldn't go through walls or into the ethereal plane with blink, cause i gave it some nasty necromancy spells! in the end he wanted to be freed from the magic item, and give its knowledge to one of the party members within 5 days, such member that is now with this knowledge and some permanent madness, wich will be even worse, once he eventually dies... party members that think about destroying the book wil become foes right after they realize the warlock has died, but the knowledge transformed him into something else
I like that idea of a Dark Souls inspired campaign where the party is a group of chosen undead that quest to protect the living from destructive arcane knowledge
Just came across these guys on my own long after watching the video years back. Something that stands out to me is it mentions under "Wisdom Drain" that a creature whose wisdom is reduced to 0 by it becomes helpless until at least 1 is restored but the stat block doesn't actually say how it would reduce their wisdom 🤔
I've had these things mess up lower level parties I was in.
I think revealing the whispers in the background to your Patreon subscribers is a firecracker of an idea, great incentive for gaining new subs.
But what of those who cannot afford such secrets? Like poor students or those without income? It might be enough to drive one... mad.
Allow me to paraphrase... But I believe the answer to your question is tough fuckin luck.
One of the thoughts I have had is the difference from Nothics, which were apparently people cursed after learning certain secrets, and continue to look for forbidden knowledge as well as a way to turn back.
All things Lovecraft are a path to madness and despair.
To those asking what are the voices in the background, its just something he put in for the atmosphere, he does this in other videos to
To those asking what are the voi3in the background...just watch the damn video🤦♂️ lol he addresses it around 5 min in
I’m fairly certain this creature was in one of the second edition boxed sets. I vaguely recall seeing a monstrous compendium insert page for it.
I’ll dig out my Undermountain II box to check, since that’s likely where it would be.
Im excited to use something like this now. I have the perfect set up too.
Oooh ooh I love Using these guys as a DM. Great for atmosphere
and i thought that whispering was just my schizophrenia acting up again
10:08 now that, that is a memorable image.
Is it an allip of a human twisted beyond recognition, or an allip from a far older race with far older secrets?
Do you dare try to find out even that much?
Actually, the pic hails from Pathfinder's "honorary core"-book, the Advanced Bestiary, a big book of templates by Green Ronin. It represents the example Dread Allip statblock, the dread allip lunar naga. In Pathfinder, lunar nagas are one of more mundane naga types, quite obviously obsessed with night sky and celestial bodies. As this naga cast its gaze deeper into starless void, it turned into a powerful allip, mad from secrets it uncovered. But, in your game, it can be anything, of course.
I think it would be funny for a follower of a mad god to be turned into one after death souly as an instrument of their god to spread madness.
Good video AJ
This creature is not only a horror monster, but it is what I call a "Player frustrator." Why? When the players seemed to be about to defeat it, it flees. Defeated, but it will come back... again and again, and again.
True looks like its time for a ghost trap .
ah so this is the ghost creature matt used in CR that one time
Me, seriously considering going hungry for a month just to learn supposedly-mind-blowing DnD lore from a whispered script: *fuck*
Watch the video on Astral Dreadnoughts
@@AJPickett !!!
"Ho, adventurer, I have information that could put Hillary Clinton behind bars..."
-an Alip
I'm going to listen to this until I figure out that noise !....you can madden those already mad !
Kind of Iike the yellow sign in H. P. Lovecraft that makes you mad slave of the yellow king.
Yeah :)
4:37 hahaha, That'sa Allip with a hairlip:3
The howling...WHAT?!?
Undead madness given incorporealness.
AJ is it too late to sign up for this month’s patreon rewards? You have the warlock in me chomping at the bit for some forbidden knowledge of the forgotten realms?
you can join any time
What is that weird noise in the background?
Also, isnt this the creature matt mercer used in the first mission for the mighty nein from the gentleman?
Take it from me, God of the Undead. Those were Will-O-Wisps
Ah madness we are all susceptible to it's dark embrace we may lie to our selves about this fact but it is all to often those who choose to do so that fall to it a very relatable monster be you god or mortal
Oh my GOD! Imagine this in a setting like Eberon where things like a Printing Press might have already been invented!
This also kind of reminds me of the works of H.P. Lovecraft's references to the play The King In Yellow & The Yellow Sign with the works becoming a contagious info-hazard.
In a modern day setting I can see a library of books like this occupying both the Miskatonic University SPC-Foundation's secured books wing.
Threw an Allip encounter at a party of 4 lvl 3 players and 1 level 4 player...
2 died and the rest barely escaped with their lives.
Oh boy, I hope this monster doesn't appear in our game. From the damage resistances you mentioned it sounds another job for my druids magic stick. I can tell you now she won't be best pleased because she finds undead creepy.
How do I find this I NEED TO KNOW is it to late to find out
Great channel thanks for the videos
👻 Allip "You'll understand, when you get old."
😐Young adventurer "You're not making any sense!!!"
Years later.
😩 Old adventurer "If only someone would've told me..."
👻 Allip "Ha ha ha!"
Garden of Ynn: The Idea of Thorns.
Full time? Holy balls
Im thinking of going undead one day as a lifestyle change XD
I juuuuust finished the monster manual. Go ahead AJ, ask me anything.
1. what are the benefits of a Night Hag coven?
2. What is the attack limit for a Kraken?
3. What are the regional effects of a Bronze Dragon?
Final grades will be posted on the bulletin board at the end of recess.
1. What are the damage resistances of an Iron Golem?
2. How many Aarakokra does it take to ritual summon an Air Elemental using their Summon Air Elemental Ability?
3. What are the crustacean-like servants of Aboleths, also featured in the Monster Manual?
The allip was one of the first monsters I ever fought
A memorable session was when an allip attacked during an opera. We thought it was part of the show. Well until, the lead singer died.
It gets funnier the barbarian of the group was the only one who correctly guessed that it wasn't supposed to be there. Civilized city folk and it was the outsider from the wilds. He spent the whole session "I told you so".
sounds something like the creature from the ring or close to it :)
Still think my Halloween suggestion was the scariest, I don't blame you for discarding the idea though.
Well, this year I am aiming less for the outright horror, and more for the sheer preposterousness of the thing.
+AJ Pickett (The Mighty Gluestick)
Right on, bud. Sure we'll all enjoy it.
Where the tech nerds at?
Ha ha! I challenge them!
Love the idea of a allip/wight or some other physical undead. Same creature but its spirit/physical forms both fight together. Perhaps a once powerful villian/hero who could not be killed normally so was torn in two.
If physical form is killed the ghostly side seeks to find a new body always trying to become one again and if threaten hides within books or such.
Mohrg is the undeads from mass murderers ans similar villians if ypu are interested
Caller of darkness that died together
Allips are the one who commitic suicide
Painspeakers which couldn't said something important Love leather, battle plans ect. After they say their word they turn to dust I think
The whispering in the background "swswswswswswswawsss"
What about geyhenna
Jfc. I have some issues with psychosis and I thought I was hearing voices.. turns out its just the video. Lol
specifically why I explained the nature of that sound in the vid. Sorry about that.
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I initially watched this while extremely sleep deprived, I thought I was having audio hallucinations at first, I've had them before, and it sounds extremely similar.
I kinda disagree with the notion that the 5E description would free the Allip from any restrictions and therefore have more narrative potential. To me, it's kinda the other way round because in former editions, the Allip would have been driven insane no matter how, while in 5E the victim has to be driven insane by a curse, which is only one instance of how you can be driven insane. This is not necessarily a bad thing, because you still - as you showed in the video - can do all kind of awesome things with Allips and being more specific with the description sometimes helps to drive imagination, but everything you can do with Allips in 5E, you already could do in former editions. You only need to replace "annihilation via curse" by "suicide".
Cursed ghost memes!?
Like, Zoinks Scoob!
i literaly jusy used this in my characters backstory. you bust be psychic
No, but it would seem the undead can be.
i mean there was like a 1 minuit difference lol
Appened with me in the past too. AJ psychic confirmed.
@AJ Pickett Hey Aj, I'm running a home brew D&D game with my friends and i painted myself into a corner. They are investigating a series of missing kids who seemed to have been kidnapped with no physical forces or damage from their Homes in a coastal town. Problem is a lot of the hints point to a creature with psychic abilities but i got nothing that fits the bill. was thinking mindflare but someone guessed that and i said no.....so do you have any other ideas? they are only lvl 3 by the way.
phase spider
Hag luring with candy and illusions!
Bunch if Pixies that are charming kids to play with them in the forrest.
Thanks!
I like that. may use this or the phase spider.
kinda sounds like they made it into the ghost of nothic or like something cast off when one becomes one
Can a fighter roll to punch allip in the lip with a metal.gauntlet
If it’s silver
Thanks for the vid sir.
Well we just found the bird box monsters
Like that random vengeful granny that used to shout at me when i was going to work...
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Lol! Accurate
@@AJPickett “Yes, Inquisitor, this one here. The jovial New Zealander cloaks his *heresy* in a veneer of amicable charm. Crafty, indeed, are the foul ways of Chaos.”
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@@AJPickett Brother, get the Flamer. The *Heavy* Flamer...