“Demonic levels of ickyness“ Welp, add one more to the surprising long list of great band names that I get from your channel. Great work, and keep it up AJ!
just a week ago i was in one of the trippiest dungeons i have ever been through. there was a lot of memorable moments....but the best one was when we found a note stuck to the wall with an arrow that said "Many people think that there are gods and higher gods. but there are gods even above them......a bunch of geeks gathered around a table with dice and paper". It was great :)
In the older editions, Barlgura were able to use their teleport ability with other creatures. That ability alone is more likely to result in a Dead PC than a Greater Demon. In addition, in my game. Barlgura would make Demonic totems that they could break to gain a short burts of enormous stregnth or heightened fury.
While certainly less visually repulsive than most demons, they rank pretty highly on the list of types that I really wouldn't want to encounter. Apes and related creatures can pull off a rare mixture of brutal strength and surprising cleverness, traits which I can only imagine would be increased by their demonic taint. Add to that their willingness to work in groups and you end up with a very nasty foe. Oh, also, I look forward to the video about demodands. I really know embarrassingly little about them.
I love getting ready for bed, winding down, laying off the coffee. I love watching some TH-cam entertainment which isn't specific to my interests to get me sleepy and then BAM! There's AJ with another wonderful video. Thanks much for keeping me awake just that little stretch further and keep the awesome, in-depth content coming. It seems like you made it home from your trip safely, if that's the case then even better. Keep being amazing AJ, see you on the next vid.
I just made a fiend pact warlock with one of these as a patron. Gave it a lot of movement spells which help Tome pact warlocks stay out of attack range. Blade pacts got strength buffs and movement spells. Its still being tested though. I think the warlock patrons can provide more customized spell lists and abilities.
this vid is bout 3 years old but uhh...i kinda wonder if i could skin guerilla gaud as well himself but trying to use his demonic brethren in some kind of uprising as a mission in a campaign
Are there any famous ones with names in the lore? How do you find out ones true name? I'm wanting to find out for the 5e Summon Greater Demon spell. Thanks
Best bet is Hags, they are big on true name magic, as are liches. Liches are highly dangerous but it may be easier to steal a book off one then to try and interrogate a Hag.
I used these demons for one of my evil gods, Aberrus... actually a re-occurring evil god in my campaigns. He is an evil god of corrupt magic, necromancy and technology... often the go-to god for magi-tech golem creators. One of his realm areas had magi-tech "cyborgs" (cosmetic alterations only) of these demons. The area had platforms suspended by chains. Attacking the environment (cutting a chain, tinkering with one even) released a Hellraiser level attack on the individual of hook-chains (d6 attacks of 6d6, save for half) while a hook-chain fixed by replacing the hindered chain. The concentration level of chains did not allow winged flight. The situation was only climbing and running... the area also dispelled all magical/psionic levitation and flight. The area was created for Aberuss's altered Barlguras. My players had to specifically not attack the suspension chains (-2 to-hit, -4 to damage or attack only once per held weapon) to not get the planar hook-chain attacks. Getting reduced to 0 HP in a hook-chain attacks tears you apart and you die, dying in that plane as a physical invader forfeits your being to Aberrus. Resurrect there immediately or lose the character for good. These demons were awesome for that part of Aberrus's lair, they are the only beings that lose no advantage there. They are the only beings superior in that environment. My players were skilled and powerful demon slayers when the took a gate to this area. They had trouble in it. I do admit I never used this demon in its originally iconic setting, but it was handy as a converted Aberrus servant. I even had a big back-story for the players to discover how Aberrus recruited and altered them... but they found the goal to quick via hack-n-slash methodology. None of the player characters spoke the Abysal tongue and they only followed the hardest combat route to know that is the goal.
I suffer from bouts of lack of sleep, sometimes going from 20 hours to 30hrs at a given time .. makes my working hours really fun. Your fourth sentence on the second line of your opening .. " platforms suspended by chains .." Did you draw an encounter map that look like classic late 80's " Donkey Kong Junior " ... video game ? Another Nintendo/ Attari video game " Marrio Brothers " feature in dueling matches on Super Marrio Brothers 3, and Joust .. where you ride around on giant high hopping short range gliding birds trying to spear each other. Back living in Florida during 1987, just turning ten years old I heard a couple teenagers at the after school rec center talk about a really strange D&D game about jumping on mushroom people and turtles throwing hammers. Then he found out it was an arcade video game at the laundry mat. Then by the time I was 12 years old living back in Illinois at Pizza Hut had a look down flat screen " Castlevania " arcade video game. Then the summer just before I turn 14 my mom .. allowed .. me to get the Basic D&D box set cause my cousins already had it. So it was final time for all of us to fail morning star Dracula. It wasn't so much my mom was caught up with the " Satanic Panic " of the 1980's Florida Baptist Church, she was just a control freak wanting to punish someone b1tch. Her mother had to ride her backside telling her that the video games " Zelda," and Castlevania was .. D&D .. just without the dice number math and recorder keeping. Being a DM is all about creating word math problems to come up with and advance a given story. Also my grand mother had to shout down, cause mom .. her .. daughter .. was prone to self righteous yelling, that it takes longer than 20min to beat a video game during the late 1980's and most games don't have a " save " files, like having a hand me down Attari system. At first we had two options, 20 min of gaming per day or wait till the end of the week to have 120min worth of gaming. After a couple of years of her ground us for playing video games when we were not meant to be playing. We just put the Nintendo in her bedroom. So she can't claim we were playing in the middle of the night. She just wanted a reason to paddle us. So one funny day play " Pit Fall " on the Attari taking 5min turns out of our 20 min limit between seven 13 yo boys some were better at jumping snakes and others dealt with vine swinging and crocodile head jumping better than others. . Mom told us we had enough video gaming Pit Fall, and to argue ended up getting .. paddled .. hard. So we started playing D&D and and hour later she asked us what story were we running, her first ex-husband " my dad," and her second husband at the time chimed in with the rest of us boys, " Pit Fall." We were mapping out Pit Fall on note book paper trying to figure out its game map.
@@krispalermo8133 The map was the only one I used plastic see-through hex maps to draw on using a marker that easily erases off of them. It was an overhead view spread over 3 maps that I can overlay whenever the players want so they can get a mental 3D image. Since I only had that cardboard one and the three clear ones, needing to keep erasing them was needed. My family tried that Satanic Panic on me too, so did half my friends' parents. I had a weapon. I read The Bible regularly. It was also my pre-drug days so I didn't waste my mental gifts yet. I was able to talk our preacher into a corner each time he brought up the Satanic Panic sophistry. There was also a Tom Hanks movie called (correct me if I'm wrong) called "Mazes and Monsters" that came out later that was pretty much Stanic Panic propaganda against AD&D. Our precher brought it over and watched it with our family. Being a cocky lil sh^t, I had my weapon ready (Bible) and argued against applying the movie's "revelations" and said how it's mere interpretation like justifying incest, racism, and slavery. Our preacher stopped parroting Satanic Panic after that night. I doubt I convinced him. I think it's that he was embarrassed that an age 13 (14?) teen easily picked apart his entire stance on that pop-culture interpretation of something harmless. I took my beating from my dad with pride that night... like that ever did anything but harden my resolve. At least I had time of school until my marks healed to not being visible. I digress... we old people grew up when it was wholesome family values to use "bad kids" as an excuse to take out your frustrations on your kids. I feel ya'. About Pit Fall, I tried mapping it too. I also tried coming up with a formula for how it generated rooms, based upon you moved to the next, under a theory that there was no real finite map. I was much younger then and only started to understand digital memory and figured out cartridges could not hold that kind of memory for such a huge map. I had a habit of taking apart my handheld games to clean their controls or just peak inside when I wore them out. I was really good at repairing them. Out of curiosity, I opened up my Atari cartridges and saw their circuits were not much more complex than the LED-display digital handheld games, just larger circuit boards, about as large and complicated as my calculator and DataMan "game". Yes, I was one of those "let's take it apart to see how it works" kids. My dad thought I stopped taking his power tools apart at the age of 6 until he realized I didn't when I was 8 and caught me putting his drill back together. He started beating my ^ss for getting any C or lower on my report card, calling me "lazy". New program initiated: F^ck school. Back to before I trailed off to my youth trauma... did you map out Pit Fall? My brother has nicely drawn out bunches of poster boards at the time. I formed my theory then when crossing alternative paths were rare. I was 8 and called it "video game switch" and "teleporting". I was a kid and did not really understand I was trying to imagine logic gates yet. I used our hallway 3-way switches to explain what I was trying to say to my brother. My poorly educated family did not have the ability to answer any of my questions, thinking my ability to hook up our cable was amazing... my ability to connect a cable wire... to the clearly marked place to connect it to... on the back of our TV. Our slot cars were more complicated and those were toys kids our age played with.
@@That80sGuy1972 " Mazes & Monster," Tom Hanks movie, watched it a few times in junior high school and again in high school as a freshman during 1992 English class. Discussing mental illness and social awareness of scape goating problems with answers without really looking into what the problem is to begin with. Ironic thing was from a interview of Tom Hanks after the movie discussing mental illness, " Mazes & Monsters " got him into playing D&D and going to gencons to see who the people were like that like RPG. Mapping video games on the Attari system, E.T. could be mapped with graph paper, there was a two cartridge games about a Princes & Princess siblings saving their kingdom after their parents murder. Which had two mini comic books explaining the start of their quest, those two games could also be mapped out with graph paper. At the age of 13yo, 7th grade Christmas my mom traded out our hand me down Attari for a Nintendo, which the Attari was given to someone else. Mom wouldn't have two gaming systems in the house. Pit Fall, we ran the character for three hours across the jungle floor without collecting any treasure and nothing change in game play. As for the underground, there where a lot of changes we were mapping out. Game play got harder and the maps change a lot with the more treasure you collected. It had about six modes of advance play till the monsters moved too quick to react to. The game had a Random rearranger map placers program into it. It was a never ending dungeon. We had around forty well drawn maps to Pit Fall underground and jungle floor layout jumping across the heads of the crocodiles on tight millimeter sq graph paper. It looked just like the bit graphic on the tv set. In junior high school we had more fun running D&D characters thrown random shulff Pit Fall maps than we did with any story telling plot development of the PCs.
@@krispalermo8133 Yeah, I love how Mazes and Monsters actually backfired in its attempt to make D&D seem dangerous... created more fans of the game. I pointed out to my dad that the only one who went into the deep end was the really hurt guy (Tom Hanks) and his friends were all just fine. That movie was a great thing for your English class to use for that discussion. As for Pit Fall, it's been decades (I was still a kid), but the thought of it being random never occurred to me. I thought the only thing altering "where" you popped up was where and when you went underground. Thanks for confirming my neverending theory. It was the only thing that made sense unless there was a flow chart relative to score and time to have the "final room" appear. Oh, and ET had the easiest map ever. Out of everyone I ever met and knew, I was the only one who liked the game. I wondered why just about everyone didn't get it. It turns out that my habit of reading video game instruction books put me in a minority. I kept playing it over and over again imagining I was in the movie. I loved the movie for years and even purchased the book. The book made what ET did make a lot more sense. You got to hear his inner monolog. My circle of bright friends, you would have fit right in... and probably been one of the ones to tell me to stop hanging with my "scummy friends". Or maybe followed me to those guys when I hung with them, maybe I'm being presumptuous. Those guys provided me with er... other... opportunities. I liked money, sex, and had an addictive personality. It's hard to spend all your time with your smart and stable friends when you are a broken person. But hey, live and learn. And those smart (and moral) friends are still my friends to this day... sadly I'm neglecting them in my adulthood. Your mom was a bit draconian about gaming systems. I get it, I remember the era. The myth that video games rot your mind was strong back then... and totally believed by people who watched daytime dramas, talk shows, religious programming, etc who were otherwise really intelligent people. Just think of how much of *THE STUPID* would have affected our parents if the internet was common back in our day. I feel we kind of lucked out there.
As a demonologist I used a pair of these as body guards. Named Peace and Safety. I was very kind and alot of people had the pleasure of meeting Peace and Safety. Unforunately, a hound archon decapitated me with a nat 20 crit.
Don’t underestimate the Demon Poo Fling attack. There’s actually a lot a dm can do with this bm. It could be acidic, poisonous, molten hot, or harder than steel and thrown with demonic strength. A particularly devious dm could make it semi-sentient and attempt to wriggle its way up a player’s body and try to strangle them by lodging itself in the player’s throat. Demon crap is some serious shit, take it seriously.
I’d LOVE to see a video on Sorrowsworn Demons. Also, ever think about doing a video on prestige classes played by evil characters that are unusual? Example: an evil Fatespinner.
Demons are what this is about Daemons are helpers, originally the kids that set and sorted type the term is now used for background processes on UNIX systems. BSD made a joke of this confusion and put a little Demon as their mascot, this lead to some Christians thinking the OS was evil (no kidding).
Thanks for the video, I love these guys. You should add Mechuiti from the Tome of Beasts to your list! Him and the behtu would be great if you wanted to stick to demon apes for a bit
Ahhhhh these bastards! Got chills of my first and only encounter of them. Nearly TPK us due to that annoying grab and leap. Sucks they tried that with Vorse, the Paladin Minotaur, and it didn't go so well for the Barlgura that grabbed him. Never thought of using my own horns as a smiting weapon, but it worked on taking an eye out. It was an oddly painted picture. A Barlgura getting headbutted by a Minotaur that applied Smite through his horns.
Would these demons be created in a similar manor to the Knolls? I mean that they accidentally eat fruit filled with demonic energy or something like that.
Barlagura used to puzzle me, their description was very animal like and implied they want to be left alone. My thoughts were “how the heck is that supposed to be demonic”.
Quick question vaguely related: I know that Barlgura, like all demons, are Abyssal and that devils are derived from the Hells, but is there a term/classification for _neutral evil_ beings? Or _chaotic evil_ beings from Pandemonium instead of the Abyss (Pandemonic?)? Or are those simply sub-types of demon/devil? The world I'm working on has, like most D&D histories I'm familiar with, the Abyss as a bit of a latecomer to the whole alignment war; and I was wondering if there was established lore I could/should be leeching off of for neutral and chaotic evil in the pre-Abyssal political battlefield (even as only a rough framework to follow or ignore as I hang my own plot devices thereupon)?
BoojumFed If you want to know about neutral evil beings, then I would look more yugoloths, demonic middle man between Devils and demons and fight on both sides in the blood war. If you want chaotic evil creatures that easily pre date demons, then I would consider looking up obyriths and pale knight who is sometimes considered the mother of evil and demons.
Thank you! That's pretty much exactly what I was thinking of but couldn't think of the words/ names for. I knew I heard of them somewhere, but couldn't look them up without the nouns to search for. This is an immense help. ;^)
Actually, it seems that 5e lumps all fiends from Abyss into "demon" cathegory, as indicated by inclusion of Sibriex (an obyrith, of an ancient race predating tanar'ri demons) and Dyubbuk (a loumara, of a relatively recent race of abyssal possesor spirits) into Demon list in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes. And, speaking of Pandemonium, it never was described as having any iconic race of fiends - just occasional one-offs like Howlers. It probably has to do with Pandemonium being the least explored of Outer Planes.
Huh. I'd never heard of this one and just checked it out on the FR wiki. Those are absolutely horrible in the best way. Thank you for introducing them to me. 😈
So, can the undead template be applied to demons like these? I would imagine not with Nalfisnee's magic immunities and resistances, but these guts seem to lack protections against turning magic from something sufficiently powerful. Say a demilich for instance.
Doubtful. In order to be turned Undead, you first need to be living (hence the name), and all Demons are Outsiders, meaning that their bodies and souls are one and the same, whereas living beings have these two as separate entities. This has the consequence, among other things, to make Outsiders particularly hard to raise from the dead, if not impossible.
I was thinking in that line, but a barbarian ambusher , hit and run gorilla tactics, like dropping in on one and crushing him, rage out and just whirlwind attack hitting as many as it can, and leaping out of range into trees or what not. and doing it over and over. … might be something fun for a "monster of the week" kinda story for a group with nothing to do. then exspian the story were these guys are killing men and taking the women for breeding cause the offspring would be natives to the prime material world and a easy way back and forth to reek havoc and destruction, lol, I donno, just spitballing ideas of now to water it down a bit and make it a playable race of sorts. or maybe im just crazy. llmao
Love it! Always love me some tanar'ri and obyrinths. I'll agree with some of these other guys I'd love to see Baphomet. Also, where should your patrons make suggestions, for future reference?
Hey Aj I have an idea for a spell the caster creates a magical decoy and any enemy creature that has direct line of sight of it has to make a wisdom save or their next attack has to target the decoy, after the decoy takes a certain amount of damage it disappears but it's immune to poison and physic damage. I imagine the decoy would look like a crude training dummy, casting the spell at higher levels would give the decoy more health.
Spells tend to be used by both players and non-players alike, always reverse the polarity and examine the effect a spell would have if it was used on one of the player characters as well.
@@AJPickett an easy way to counter this spell would be to cast darkness or fog cloud to obstruct the vision of the decoy also the decoys armor class would be ten and the players would make the save at the start of their turn but the decoy only affects them if they decide to make an attack that deals some type of immediate damage
So even if a player fails their save they could still use their action to do anything else other than attack they wouldn't be forced to use their turn to attack the decoy. You could also use dispell magic to get rid of it or position yourself so you don't face the decoy because you only need to make the save if you can see it and if a creature gets a 20 on its save it becomes immune to the decoys effect for 24 hours.
It would be a concentration spell. A player could also just cover the decoy with a blanket or cloth and they'd be safe from the effect because the decoy can't move or attack. The spell would only last for one hour also the decoy would be medium sized. One of the components for the spell would be a large piece of wood with a target painted on it. You could also use the decoy as half cover whether an enemy or a fellow player cast the spell. I would love to hear any more advice on how you would tweak this spell.
A large chunk of wood is a bit extreme, perhaps a piece of wood and a snake fang, have the decoy be an enchantment spell, rather than conjuration or illusion, still concentration, but more effective because those who fail the saving throw really believe the decoy is there, when they fire arrows at it or attack, it seems to react to the attacks in the way they would expect, but they just can't seem to hurt it, also, the hallucination is very, very annoying, taunting and jeering at them, but of course, nobody else can see what they are seeing, as it is all in their head, until they make the saving throw.
AJ Pickett actually either of those would be interesting. Giant birds are a fairly dated trope, still interesting imo. Giant eagles can speak, I believe thunderbirds, phoenixae, do too. The Aarokocra video you put up some time ago prompted me to look into a flying themed campaign.
The author has stated in the past that he plays pretty loose with the D&D lore and rules, for example, the whole part of... oh, SPOILERS!...... the whole part where a panther figurine of wondrous power transports a person to the Astral plane and back as an escape? And the whole bit where they got the broken figurine repaired? I'm fine with this... why should all magic items be created the same? And the demon lore... this is a species of chaos, so, yeah, expect the unexpected, also, the characters in the D&D worlds don't know the same stuff we know, maybe they are right and we are wrong?
Well, maybe only the smart ones go to certain places? Thus leaving the dumb ones for other places. For example maybe it is normal for glabarezu to normally push the dumb ones to the back of the line to make sure high priority jobs get due attention. So what may be seen as a crap job may get the dregs. Indeed certain worlds may get preferential treatment.
I could. Dungeon Dad made a good video about them. Basically they are the D&D version of the Alien (from the Aliens movies) except they are even more lethal.
Nah, bar-lguras are comparatively small and weak. But, Ilsidahur, the demon lord of evil simians, patron of bar-lguras and Demogorgon's vassal, could possibly make some trouble to Tarrasque. Which is not even precisely Godzilla expy either. Sorry.
Great video, I'm torn between having you be able to respond to every comment and having you grow so big you wont be able to. Obv the latter is better. Keep doing what you're doing
There are fiendish T-rex hybrids that I have seen pop up again and again, I recall one in an old Fighting Fantasy book, they are even more ferocious than a T-rex, though not as large.
AJ Pickett that's pretty awesome this demon reminds me a lot of the card art on berserk gorilla from the yugioh card game I don't know if you're familiar with that but if I was going to run one of these monsters I would totally use that for inspiration
Depending on your definition of "dinosaur" and "demon", we've got a few. Vrocks and Spinagons are bird-like abominations that might be close enough if you want demon raptors. If you want demon lizards, there are Abishai, who are dragon-flavored gargoyle demons made by Tiamat.
“Demonic levels of ickyness“
Welp, add one more to the surprising long list of great band names that I get from your channel.
Great work, and keep it up AJ!
just a week ago i was in one of the trippiest dungeons i have ever been through. there was a lot of memorable moments....but the best one was when we found a note stuck to the wall with an arrow that said "Many people think that there are gods and higher gods. but there are gods even above them......a bunch of geeks gathered around a table with dice and paper". It was great :)
Was Clef DM?
I'm interested in learning more about baphomet as a potential final boss in a future campaign
A video on alchemy would be good no one seems to pay much attention to it but it's full of amazing things
In the older editions, Barlgura were able to use their teleport ability with other creatures. That ability alone is more likely to result in a Dead PC than a Greater Demon.
In addition, in my game. Barlgura would make Demonic totems that they could break to gain a short burts of enormous stregnth or heightened fury.
That’s a great idea!
Little known fact, King Louie was actually a Balgura.
I wanna walk like you,
Talk like you,
Rend my prey into undetectable shreds like you,
Ooh-ooh.
Jungle book was it?
While certainly less visually repulsive than most demons, they rank pretty highly on the list of types that I really wouldn't want to encounter. Apes and related creatures can pull off a rare mixture of brutal strength and surprising cleverness, traits which I can only imagine would be increased by their demonic taint. Add to that their willingness to work in groups and you end up with a very nasty foe.
Oh, also, I look forward to the video about demodands. I really know embarrassingly little about them.
Thanks so much!! I’m planning to have a Balgura encounter today and this really helped!
Happy to help :)
Balgura meaning "my mount in Neverwinter"
I love getting ready for bed, winding down, laying off the coffee. I love watching some TH-cam entertainment which isn't specific to my interests to get me sleepy and then BAM! There's AJ with another wonderful video. Thanks much for keeping me awake just that little stretch further and keep the awesome, in-depth content coming. It seems like you made it home from your trip safely, if that's the case then even better. Keep being amazing AJ, see you on the next vid.
Are we going to throw poo?
Of course, that is tradition!
I just made a fiend pact warlock with one of these as a patron. Gave it a lot of movement spells which help Tome pact warlocks stay out of attack range. Blade pacts got strength buffs and movement spells. Its still being tested though. I think the warlock patrons can provide more customized spell lists and abilities.
Am I the only person who's reminded of Samurai Jack and that Jack jump good
this vid is bout 3 years old but uhh...i kinda wonder if i could skin guerilla gaud as well himself but trying to use his demonic brethren in some kind of uprising as a mission in a campaign
Grod? Sure, don't see why not.
@@AJPickett I just read this comment. OMG! I can TOTALLY see one of these demons being an AD&D version of DC's Gorilla Grod.
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Are there any famous ones with names in the lore? How do you find out ones true name? I'm wanting to find out for the 5e Summon Greater Demon spell. Thanks
Best bet is Hags, they are big on true name magic, as are liches. Liches are highly dangerous but it may be easier to steal a book off one then to try and interrogate a Hag.
I used these demons for one of my evil gods, Aberrus... actually a re-occurring evil god in my campaigns. He is an evil god of corrupt magic, necromancy and technology... often the go-to god for magi-tech golem creators. One of his realm areas had magi-tech "cyborgs" (cosmetic alterations only) of these demons. The area had platforms suspended by chains. Attacking the environment (cutting a chain, tinkering with one even) released a Hellraiser level attack on the individual of hook-chains (d6 attacks of 6d6, save for half) while a hook-chain fixed by replacing the hindered chain. The concentration level of chains did not allow winged flight. The situation was only climbing and running... the area also dispelled all magical/psionic levitation and flight. The area was created for Aberuss's altered Barlguras. My players had to specifically not attack the suspension chains (-2 to-hit, -4 to damage or attack only once per held weapon) to not get the planar hook-chain attacks. Getting reduced to 0 HP in a hook-chain attacks tears you apart and you die, dying in that plane as a physical invader forfeits your being to Aberrus. Resurrect there immediately or lose the character for good. These demons were awesome for that part of Aberrus's lair, they are the only beings that lose no advantage there. They are the only beings superior in that environment. My players were skilled and powerful demon slayers when the took a gate to this area. They had trouble in it. I do admit I never used this demon in its originally iconic setting, but it was handy as a converted Aberrus servant. I even had a big back-story for the players to discover how Aberrus recruited and altered them... but they found the goal to quick via hack-n-slash methodology. None of the player characters spoke the Abysal tongue and they only followed the hardest combat route to know that is the goal.
I suffer from bouts of lack of sleep, sometimes going from 20 hours to 30hrs at a given time .. makes my working hours really fun.
Your fourth sentence on the second line of your opening .. " platforms suspended by chains .."
Did you draw an encounter map that look like classic late 80's " Donkey Kong Junior " ... video game ?
Another Nintendo/ Attari video game " Marrio Brothers " feature in dueling matches on Super Marrio Brothers 3, and Joust .. where you ride around on giant high hopping short range gliding birds trying to spear each other.
Back living in Florida during 1987, just turning ten years old I heard a couple teenagers at the after school rec center talk about a really strange D&D game about jumping on mushroom people and turtles throwing hammers. Then he found out it was an arcade video game at the laundry mat. Then by the time I was 12 years old living back in Illinois at Pizza Hut had a look down flat screen " Castlevania " arcade video game. Then the summer just before I turn 14 my mom .. allowed .. me to get the Basic D&D box set cause my cousins already had it.
So it was final time for all of us to fail morning star Dracula.
It wasn't so much my mom was caught up with the " Satanic Panic " of the 1980's Florida Baptist Church, she was just a control freak wanting to punish someone b1tch. Her mother had to ride her backside telling her that the video games " Zelda," and Castlevania was .. D&D .. just without the dice number math and recorder keeping. Being a DM is all about creating word math problems to come up with and advance a given story.
Also my grand mother had to shout down, cause mom .. her .. daughter .. was prone to self righteous yelling, that it takes longer than 20min to beat a video game during the late 1980's and most games don't have a " save " files, like having a hand me down Attari system. At first we had two options, 20 min of gaming per day or wait till the end of the week to have 120min worth of gaming. After a couple of years of her ground us for playing video games when we were not meant to be playing. We just put the Nintendo in her bedroom. So she can't claim we were playing in the middle of the night. She just wanted a reason to paddle us.
So one funny day play " Pit Fall " on the Attari taking 5min turns out of our 20 min limit between seven 13 yo boys some were better at jumping snakes and others dealt with vine swinging and crocodile head jumping better than others. . Mom told us we had enough video gaming Pit Fall, and to argue ended up getting .. paddled .. hard. So we started playing D&D and and hour later she asked us what story were we running, her first ex-husband " my dad," and her second husband at the time chimed in with the rest of us boys, " Pit Fall."
We were mapping out Pit Fall on note book paper trying to figure out its game map.
@@krispalermo8133 The map was the only one I used plastic see-through hex maps to draw on using a marker that easily erases off of them. It was an overhead view spread over 3 maps that I can overlay whenever the players want so they can get a mental 3D image. Since I only had that cardboard one and the three clear ones, needing to keep erasing them was needed.
My family tried that Satanic Panic on me too, so did half my friends' parents. I had a weapon. I read The Bible regularly. It was also my pre-drug days so I didn't waste my mental gifts yet. I was able to talk our preacher into a corner each time he brought up the Satanic Panic sophistry. There was also a Tom Hanks movie called (correct me if I'm wrong) called "Mazes and Monsters" that came out later that was pretty much Stanic Panic propaganda against AD&D. Our precher brought it over and watched it with our family. Being a cocky lil sh^t, I had my weapon ready (Bible) and argued against applying the movie's "revelations" and said how it's mere interpretation like justifying incest, racism, and slavery. Our preacher stopped parroting Satanic Panic after that night. I doubt I convinced him. I think it's that he was embarrassed that an age 13 (14?) teen easily picked apart his entire stance on that pop-culture interpretation of something harmless. I took my beating from my dad with pride that night... like that ever did anything but harden my resolve. At least I had time of school until my marks healed to not being visible.
I digress... we old people grew up when it was wholesome family values to use "bad kids" as an excuse to take out your frustrations on your kids. I feel ya'.
About Pit Fall, I tried mapping it too. I also tried coming up with a formula for how it generated rooms, based upon you moved to the next, under a theory that there was no real finite map. I was much younger then and only started to understand digital memory and figured out cartridges could not hold that kind of memory for such a huge map. I had a habit of taking apart my handheld games to clean their controls or just peak inside when I wore them out. I was really good at repairing them. Out of curiosity, I opened up my Atari cartridges and saw their circuits were not much more complex than the LED-display digital handheld games, just larger circuit boards, about as large and complicated as my calculator and DataMan "game". Yes, I was one of those "let's take it apart to see how it works" kids. My dad thought I stopped taking his power tools apart at the age of 6 until he realized I didn't when I was 8 and caught me putting his drill back together. He started beating my ^ss for getting any C or lower on my report card, calling me "lazy". New program initiated: F^ck school.
Back to before I trailed off to my youth trauma... did you map out Pit Fall? My brother has nicely drawn out bunches of poster boards at the time. I formed my theory then when crossing alternative paths were rare. I was 8 and called it "video game switch" and "teleporting". I was a kid and did not really understand I was trying to imagine logic gates yet. I used our hallway 3-way switches to explain what I was trying to say to my brother. My poorly educated family did not have the ability to answer any of my questions, thinking my ability to hook up our cable was amazing... my ability to connect a cable wire... to the clearly marked place to connect it to... on the back of our TV. Our slot cars were more complicated and those were toys kids our age played with.
@@That80sGuy1972 " Mazes & Monster," Tom Hanks movie, watched it a few times in junior high school and again in high school as a freshman during 1992 English class. Discussing mental illness and social awareness of scape goating problems with answers without really looking into what the problem is to begin with. Ironic thing was from a interview of Tom Hanks after the movie discussing mental illness, " Mazes & Monsters " got him into playing D&D and going to gencons to see who the people were like that like RPG.
Mapping video games on the Attari system, E.T. could be mapped with graph paper, there was a two cartridge games about a Princes & Princess siblings saving their kingdom after their parents murder. Which had two mini comic books explaining the start of their quest, those two games could also be mapped out with graph paper. At the age of 13yo, 7th grade Christmas my mom traded out our hand me down Attari for a Nintendo, which the Attari was given to someone else. Mom wouldn't have two gaming systems in the house.
Pit Fall, we ran the character for three hours across the jungle floor without collecting any treasure and nothing change in game play. As for the underground, there where a lot of changes we were mapping out. Game play got harder and the maps change a lot with the more treasure you collected. It had about six modes of advance play till the monsters moved too quick to react to. The game had a Random rearranger map placers program into it. It was a never ending dungeon.
We had around forty well drawn maps to Pit Fall underground and jungle floor layout jumping across the heads of the crocodiles on tight millimeter sq graph paper. It looked just like the bit graphic on the tv set. In junior high school we had more fun running D&D characters thrown random shulff Pit Fall maps than we did with any story telling plot development of the PCs.
@@krispalermo8133 Yeah, I love how Mazes and Monsters actually backfired in its attempt to make D&D seem dangerous... created more fans of the game. I pointed out to my dad that the only one who went into the deep end was the really hurt guy (Tom Hanks) and his friends were all just fine. That movie was a great thing for your English class to use for that discussion.
As for Pit Fall, it's been decades (I was still a kid), but the thought of it being random never occurred to me. I thought the only thing altering "where" you popped up was where and when you went underground. Thanks for confirming my neverending theory. It was the only thing that made sense unless there was a flow chart relative to score and time to have the "final room" appear. Oh, and ET had the easiest map ever. Out of everyone I ever met and knew, I was the only one who liked the game. I wondered why just about everyone didn't get it. It turns out that my habit of reading video game instruction books put me in a minority. I kept playing it over and over again imagining I was in the movie. I loved the movie for years and even purchased the book. The book made what ET did make a lot more sense. You got to hear his inner monolog.
My circle of bright friends, you would have fit right in... and probably been one of the ones to tell me to stop hanging with my "scummy friends". Or maybe followed me to those guys when I hung with them, maybe I'm being presumptuous. Those guys provided me with er... other... opportunities. I liked money, sex, and had an addictive personality. It's hard to spend all your time with your smart and stable friends when you are a broken person. But hey, live and learn. And those smart (and moral) friends are still my friends to this day... sadly I'm neglecting them in my adulthood.
Your mom was a bit draconian about gaming systems. I get it, I remember the era. The myth that video games rot your mind was strong back then... and totally believed by people who watched daytime dramas, talk shows, religious programming, etc who were otherwise really intelligent people. Just think of how much of *THE STUPID* would have affected our parents if the internet was common back in our day. I feel we kind of lucked out there.
Absolutely love the Barlgura!
As a demonologist I used a pair of these as body guards. Named Peace and Safety.
I was very kind and alot of people had the pleasure of meeting Peace and Safety. Unforunately, a hound archon decapitated me with a nat 20 crit.
Risks of the profession.
@@AJPickett it was entirely justified since I tricked him into helping blow up a nunnery with smokepowder.
Which you should get thee to.
I wonder if you could lure them with bananas
They are carnivores as per MM, but who knows.
@@BA0777sausages are shaped like bananas 😳
Don’t underestimate the Demon Poo Fling attack. There’s actually a lot a dm can do with this bm. It could be acidic, poisonous, molten hot, or harder than steel and thrown with demonic strength. A particularly devious dm could make it semi-sentient and attempt to wriggle its way up a player’s body and try to strangle them by lodging itself in the player’s throat. Demon crap is some serious shit, take it seriously.
Not a Dog Jubilex could have fun demon crap. I see an ooze made of poo.
I’d LOVE to see a video on Sorrowsworn Demons. Also, ever think about doing a video on prestige classes played by evil characters that are unusual? Example: an evil Fatespinner.
Hmmm, interesting idea.
Demons are what this is about Daemons are helpers, originally the kids that set and sorted type the term is now used for background processes on UNIX systems. BSD made a joke of this confusion and put a little Demon as their mascot, this lead to some Christians thinking the OS was evil (no kidding).
Nice video AJ,hope all's well with you and yours!
Ive never heard of these.I know a few players who hate hairy beasts thanks for the idea =D
I hear these are pretty popular in Bulgaria....
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Thanks for the video, I love these guys. You should add Mechuiti from the Tome of Beasts to your list! Him and the behtu would be great if you wanted to stick to demon apes for a bit
Ahhhhh these bastards! Got chills of my first and only encounter of them. Nearly TPK us due to that annoying grab and leap. Sucks they tried that with Vorse, the Paladin Minotaur, and it didn't go so well for the Barlgura that grabbed him. Never thought of using my own horns as a smiting weapon, but it worked on taking an eye out.
It was an oddly painted picture. A Barlgura getting headbutted by a Minotaur that applied Smite through his horns.
Love the vids man!
Man you seem like youd have some hardcore combat in your campaigns, I love barely surviving fights but my playgroup wants to be demigods lol ;p
Would these demons be created in a similar manor to the Knolls? I mean that they accidentally eat fruit filled with demonic energy or something like that.
Hey man,you should do one on the Barghest Whelp!
Barlagura used to puzzle me, their description was very animal like and implied they want to be left alone. My thoughts were “how the heck is that supposed to be demonic”.
Then you imagine Kong with rabies...
Quick question vaguely related: I know that Barlgura, like all demons, are Abyssal and that devils are derived from the Hells, but is there a term/classification for _neutral evil_ beings? Or _chaotic evil_ beings from Pandemonium instead of the Abyss (Pandemonic?)? Or are those simply sub-types of demon/devil?
The world I'm working on has, like most D&D histories I'm familiar with, the Abyss as a bit of a latecomer to the whole alignment war; and I was wondering if there was established lore I could/should be leeching off of for neutral and chaotic evil in the pre-Abyssal political battlefield (even as only a rough framework to follow or ignore as I hang my own plot devices thereupon)?
BoojumFed If you want to know about neutral evil beings, then I would look more yugoloths, demonic middle man between Devils and demons and fight on both sides in the blood war. If you want chaotic evil creatures that easily pre date demons, then I would consider looking up obyriths and pale knight who is sometimes considered the mother of evil and demons.
Thank you! That's pretty much exactly what I was thinking of but couldn't think of the words/ names for. I knew I heard of them somewhere, but couldn't look them up without the nouns to search for. This is an immense help. ;^)
BoojumFed no probs mate
Obyriths are still demons though.
Just... Really, really old demons.
Actually, it seems that 5e lumps all fiends from Abyss into "demon" cathegory, as indicated by inclusion of Sibriex (an obyrith, of an ancient race predating tanar'ri demons) and Dyubbuk (a loumara, of a relatively recent race of abyssal possesor spirits) into Demon list in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes. And, speaking of Pandemonium, it never was described as having any iconic race of fiends - just occasional one-offs like Howlers. It probably has to do with Pandemonium being the least explored of Outer Planes.
My Drow Necromancer has used them as his henchmen in AL with the 4th level spell summon greater demon 😈🕸🕷👍🏼💯
i was unaware they Nerfed them a bit from the original no wounder my players were upset that they were to hard lol
Well looks like i can finally say it.Here we go Fi.....naaah i aint gonna do it.Nice video.
The Wrath of Harambe
I would love to see a video on the Devourer.
Huh. I'd never heard of this one and just checked it out on the FR wiki. Those are absolutely horrible in the best way. Thank you for introducing them to me. 😈
Hey thanks for the vid and have a great day.
The Gambado as well!
So, can the undead template be applied to demons like these? I would imagine not with Nalfisnee's magic immunities and resistances, but these guts seem to lack protections against turning magic from something sufficiently powerful. Say a demilich for instance.
Doubtful. In order to be turned Undead, you first need to be living (hence the name), and all Demons are Outsiders, meaning that their bodies and souls are one and the same, whereas living beings have these two as separate entities. This has the consequence, among other things, to make Outsiders particularly hard to raise from the dead, if not impossible.
I would say it needs to be their demon lord's will for a demon that isn't innately undead to become so. So Orcus would probably have some.
I used these as the preferred scouts of Baphomet's forces. Themematically fits, imo
Honestly lycanthropes in general. Maybe not werebears but I don’t know
I wonder if you could roll up a tiefling that is of bragura haritage and lineage.
Tieflings are from devils not demons
So a half Barlgura Cambion? Big and hairy, six-fingered brute.
I hate the new lore on Tieflings. They will never be just from devils to me. A Tiefling will always be from fiends, all fiends.
I was thinking in that line, but a barbarian ambusher , hit and run gorilla tactics, like dropping in on one and crushing him, rage out and just whirlwind attack hitting as many as it can, and leaping out of range into trees or what not. and doing it over and over. … might be something fun for a "monster of the week" kinda story for a group with nothing to do. then exspian the story were these guys are killing men and taking the women for breeding cause the offspring would be natives to the prime material world and a easy way back and forth to reek havoc and destruction, lol, I donno, just spitballing ideas of now to water it down a bit and make it a playable race of sorts. or maybe im just crazy. llmao
Barlgura: Skull Island
Interesting as allways. Are you going to make one on Golistros too? When i saw them on the 5e MM i was surprised.
All the demons, yep.
New meaning to the Congo
Love it! Always love me some tanar'ri and obyrinths. I'll agree with some of these other guys I'd love to see Baphomet. Also, where should your patrons make suggestions, for future reference?
They can just message me on patreon :)
id really want to see a Rhek and a Barlgula have a 1v1
I was just about to use one of these in my game for the first time, and then magically you post a video on it. Are you psychic, AJ? :)
Nope, not even a little bit.
Awesome new video A.J. these are some of my fav demons to use since they are pretty tanky.
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I came here to post this.
Hey Aj I have an idea for a spell the caster creates a magical decoy and any enemy creature that has direct line of sight of it has to make a wisdom save or their next attack has to target the decoy, after the decoy takes a certain amount of damage it disappears but it's immune to poison and physic damage. I imagine the decoy would look like a crude training dummy, casting the spell at higher levels would give the decoy more health.
Spells tend to be used by both players and non-players alike, always reverse the polarity and examine the effect a spell would have if it was used on one of the player characters as well.
@@AJPickett an easy way to counter this spell would be to cast darkness or fog cloud to obstruct the vision of the decoy also the decoys armor class would be ten and the players would make the save at the start of their turn but the decoy only affects them if they decide to make an attack that deals some type of immediate damage
So even if a player fails their save they could still use their action to do anything else other than attack they wouldn't be forced to use their turn to attack the decoy. You could also use dispell magic to get rid of it or position yourself so you don't face the decoy because you only need to make the save if you can see it and if a creature gets a 20 on its save it becomes immune to the decoys effect for 24 hours.
It would be a concentration spell. A player could also just cover the decoy with a blanket or cloth and they'd be safe from the effect because the decoy can't move or attack. The spell would only last for one hour also the decoy would be medium sized. One of the components for the spell would be a large piece of wood with a target painted on it. You could also use the decoy as half cover whether an enemy or a fellow player cast the spell. I would love to hear any more advice on how you would tweak this spell.
A large chunk of wood is a bit extreme, perhaps a piece of wood and a snake fang, have the decoy be an enchantment spell, rather than conjuration or illusion, still concentration, but more effective because those who fail the saving throw really believe the decoy is there, when they fire arrows at it or attack, it seems to react to the attacks in the way they would expect, but they just can't seem to hurt it, also, the hallucination is very, very annoying, taunting and jeering at them, but of course, nobody else can see what they are seeing, as it is all in their head, until they make the saving throw.
It seems this house has a baghoul problem
I feel better that I'm not the only one who could never get a good pronounciation of those demons' name.
BAR-lə-GORR-ə
good video AJ
This was excellent, could you do a video on Giant Eagles please?
Aren't they... Extremely simple?
They are eagles... That are giant.
There's not that much to explain.
You mean giant eagles or did you mean the Roc?
AJ Pickett actually either of those would be interesting. Giant birds are a fairly dated trope, still interesting imo. Giant eagles can speak, I believe thunderbirds, phoenixae, do too. The Aarokocra video you put up some time ago prompted me to look into a flying themed campaign.
AJ already as a video on Phoenixes if you didn't know.
What is the spelling of the demon lord whom they served before Demogorgon?
Ilsidahur
Thanks for the vid sir.👍🏼👍🏼
In the latest Drizzt books the barlgura is said to be smart while the gabruzu is a dumb beast🤷🏻♂️
The author has stated in the past that he plays pretty loose with the D&D lore and rules, for example, the whole part of... oh, SPOILERS!...... the whole part where a panther figurine of wondrous power transports a person to the Astral plane and back as an escape? And the whole bit where they got the broken figurine repaired? I'm fine with this... why should all magic items be created the same? And the demon lore... this is a species of chaos, so, yeah, expect the unexpected, also, the characters in the D&D worlds don't know the same stuff we know, maybe they are right and we are wrong?
Well, maybe only the smart ones go to certain places? Thus leaving the dumb ones for other places. For example maybe it is normal for glabarezu to normally push the dumb ones to the back of the line to make sure high priority jobs get due attention. So what may be seen as a crap job may get the dregs. Indeed certain worlds may get preferential treatment.
Hey, i've got a request. Could you do a video on Kythons?
He did one about them titled chain devils instead of kython
Nah, not the devils, the little Xenopmorph dastards.
Ah yeah the mantis-like ones sorry about that
I could. Dungeon Dad made a good video about them. Basically they are the D&D version of the Alien (from the Aliens movies) except they are even more lethal.
Can they be easily distracted with bananas?
Okay so The Tarrasq is Godzilla and The Barlugura is King Kong.
Nah, bar-lguras are comparatively small and weak. But, Ilsidahur, the demon lord of evil simians, patron of bar-lguras and Demogorgon's vassal, could possibly make some trouble to Tarrasque. Which is not even precisely Godzilla expy either. Sorry.
More like Donkey Kong.
The DND King Kong is called Oonga.
Dune Stalker!
I wanted this
Much better than the ones in Congo.
Yay
Why do they have so little HP?
They're more of Skirmishers than tanks. Feel free to boost stats as you see fit though.
Because they don’t need hit points. They attack at night, from surprise and try to single out one individual, who likely won’t survive.
Because they have Invisibility as their innate spell, anyone with it won’t have high HP
Great video, I'm torn between having you be able to respond to every comment and having you grow so big you wont be able to. Obv the latter is better. Keep doing what you're doing
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Why the picture of the strigga?
From the Witcher? Well it looks like a Barlgura in that particular pic.
AJ Pickett I was just wondering lol
Any demons that are dinosaur themed?i mean does it exist?great video by the way.
There are fiendish T-rex hybrids that I have seen pop up again and again, I recall one in an old Fighting Fantasy book, they are even more ferocious than a T-rex, though not as large.
Fiendish and Half-Fiend Template are probably going to be your best bet. There's a Giant Demonic Bulldog thing though.
Do you remember the name of that book? I would love to read it!
AJ Pickett that's pretty awesome this demon reminds me a lot of the card art on berserk gorilla from the yugioh card game I don't know if you're familiar with that but if I was going to run one of these monsters I would totally use that for inspiration
Depending on your definition of "dinosaur" and "demon", we've got a few. Vrocks and Spinagons are bird-like abominations that might be close enough if you want demon raptors. If you want demon lizards, there are Abishai, who are dragon-flavored gargoyle demons made by Tiamat.
I apologize for asking this on the chance that you’ve already made a video about it, but if not would consider doing one on Dinosaurs in D&D?
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Someone had to say it
First it's Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand next its Demons. dammed Bulgarians
wut? It wasn't us. it was a Bosnian assassin.
Can it breath fire?
Nope unfortunately but you know as a DM you can always just have them do that anyways
With the use of phantasmal force they can seem to breathe fire.
Oy!
I wonder who disliked this?
The same person, every time, honestly, I will miss them if they ever stop at this point :)
Someone who can't appreciate the research time and energy to put some like this together