Oh man, imagine if you could actually understand what the spiders are saying when close to an etercap, would make woodstock looks tame. Though you could probably hear about the truths of the universe.
I feel like cannibalism is natural to things that engage in it in nature, which humanoids don't so it'd be unnatural for them. The druids who engaged in it warped their true nature and this was the result. Pretty straightforward in my opinion.
thank you for your critical service in reporting the usage of the word 'anus' in the first edition monster manual. this is incredibly vital to the lore of these creatures, and I cannot see myself having lived the rest of my life without knowing this information
@@ivanalukic1612 Hoard of the dragon Queen and a bit chaotic, but very well for the players. They got ambushed and a few horses got stolen, but not much of a concern. The players sadly didnt follow them and continoued traveling. Most of these infos here i would have supplemented at the lair fight.
@@winterburden Hardly. A few of these infos i got from other videos. Also the players didnt seem interested in following them into their lair (it was an ambush to steal the groups horses) and most of this i would have done there.
@@ravnemagne9598 Now that is an interesting idea; a Druid cantrip that summons spiders under your control. What I mean is the CR 0 Tiny beast from pg 337 of the MM. Just have it summon 1 per casting, it stays under your control for 1/4/8/12 hours (@ appropriate cantrip levels), but is permanent (doesn't disappear; could just be summoning from somewhere else or just creating from magical energies). The cantrip could function like a low-grade Find Familiar, and allow up to a sizeable number under your control at one time. Collect enough and you can turn it into a spider swarm (swarm of insects variant on pg 338 of the MM). I estimate the spiders to be hand-sized or slightly larger, and to make up the Medium swarm could be in the 20-30 range. This may necessitate putting the maximum controllable spiders being linked to the cantrip leveling mechanic; possibly a max of 10 from levels 1-4, 20 at levels 5-10, 40 at levels 11-16, and 60 at levels 17-20. These could mean 1 swarm at second tier, 2 swarms at third, and 3 at fourth. I believe I now must make this a thing. P.S. Remember, the spider in question has an intelligence of 1. It can only be commanded to do the simplest tasks (Attack, Dodge, Hide, Dash, etc); tactics, anything beyond simple one-word answers (if using Speak With Animals), and the Use An Object action are off the table in any reasonably run game. There is a reason why monster statblocks include Intelligence scores.
@@AleRespite I was going to make a comment but it seems you're right, in Spanish, garrote is used to refer to a cudgel, and somewhere along the way (something to do with it going through French) it came to be known as a strangling wire in English.
I like the Lore where instead of being some Devine creation or a mad wizards making that they were simply humans lured into eating their own kinds flesh and then from there being corrupted by unworldly powers. Reminds me somewhat of the Wendigo lore, both include cannibalism and monstrification.
Very nice bit of lore you dug up there: Makes me rethink my 5th edition Druid who... was going down that very same path! If Covid didn't hit, that druid would have even shown acts of cannibalisms within the next few sessions.
@@porkchop4401 there's some really good forgotten realms books that cover them well. Mostly older ones but the last few Drizzt novels basically the companions storyline, is more about bruenor and the dwarf gods. Highly recommend "gauntlgrym". Original home of the delzoun dwarves. Great book. Lotta drow and orcs getting smashed and murdery themselves as well.
I just want to say that I love your videos so much. I remember being a young kid who loved playing D&D with my older brother who had most of the books at the time and I used to sit for hours just reading the first edition monster manuals. I would read about them and wonder all about them, how they would live, where they would sleep. Kind of like how you learn about monsters in The Witcher 3.
Aw man, _this_ had to be the one episode where you use IRL pictures on screen. I don't really hate spiders, but seeing close-ups of their big, empty eyes does creep me out something fierce, hahaha. Still love the video, super interesting creatures which I didn't really know about!
Makes sense as DND is based on LOTR. Heck, WOTC was sued once because they called the balors balrogs. The Balor demons were balrogs in the earliest editions until they were forced to change the name to avoid copyright infringement
Actually, cannibalism is very much part of nature. We humans practice it daily without even thinking about it. We gnaw on our cuticles, swallow cells dead skin and hair from our own and other peoples' bodies... etc. Kissing in and of itself, entails some bit of cannibalism. We dont think about it, but how many times have you licked blood off of your cut finger?
In general none of their backstory makes much sense. I'd chalk it up as made up by people who don't know anything about spiders. Spiders are not actually particularly cannibalistic. Your average spider will eat other spiders... of different species. Actual cannibalism of conspecifics is rare, and I'm not aware of ANY spider where the mothers eat their babies. It's anti-invertebrate bias! Like you wanna talk about wolves? They slaughter each other in territorial clashes all the time! Why don't druids who become wolves become violently territorial?
@@wadespencer3623 Actually, cannibalism does occur among spiders of the same species more often than you think. Female spiders do sometimes, or even often eat male spiders of the same species either after, and sometimes before mating. Spiderlings will eat weaker spiderlings of the same species opportunistically. Female wolf spiders do occasionally eat their own young when food is scarce of when a spiderling shows signs of being weak. Jumping spiders of the same species will react territorially and either run others off, or attack them and eat them unless they are adults ready to mate. It may not happen as a daily occurrence among spiders of the same species, but they have no compunctions, remorse, nor morality regarding cannibalism of other spiders of the same species. I have observed it myself commonly in the spiders I have raised both in captivity and in natural settings.
@@mutanthybrid3466 I won't claim to know all spiders, but I know it's exaggerated in many groups (say, black widows, where they get eaten a lot more in captivity, where the males can't just leave). Surprised about wolf spiders though, they are usually exceptionally careful, protective mothers and often won't even attack babies that don't belong to them!
@@wadespencer3623 It is true that captive creatures that will practice cannibalism have a much greater chance of being predated on by the female in captivity in "widow-like" species. I often ensure that the females of such species as praying mantises and spiders have a good meal before mating to reduce the chances of that. Actually, some species of spider and insect males present the females with a gift of a dead insect as a meal to keep her from eating him during mating. They realize it is a dangerous business they are in from the get go to approach a female of their own potentially carnivorous species.
It's an act against nature for intelegent life, I agree that it is normal for many creatures but not for a druid, I think that's the issue. In spider form it was normal (but a failure of the duty to protect the wards) but when it became what they did in druid form then it became unnatural
I have heard this lore before and I love that it hints at druids reflecting darker aspects of nature. I think they make obvious villains that aren't used enough since there values often run counter to the civilized races. I didn't know that druid magic is considered divine magic, since the first edition I got my hands on was forth I liked that primal magic was its own thing. I think that if I were to codify a system I would try to make each source of power and magic its own thing, though they may arrive at the same destination. But I find I keep coming back to it being a roleplaying relationship to the source of their power.
Hey Rhexx! Just wanted to mention, a garrote is not a club, it is a piece of wire which is often used to strangle a victim (think the scene in the Godfather where they strangle the guy in the car). I know in Spanish garrote is a club or mace, but the word in English refers to a strangulation device. Keep up the great work!
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Awesome lore Video as always, though I should say, a Web Garotte is not a club, it's a like a wire used to strangle your target. Which is why the target gets grappled and can't breathe too.
Hey Rhexx, you happen to have the Yuan-ti on your list at all? I still can't find satisfactory lore on them, even in Volo's Guide. Also- mad props to you for keeping up with all this deep lore, you've basically become my sole resource for obscure lore in D&D
I would love to see a miniseries on this channel that would go over the entire timeline of the forgotten realms and every major thing that's happened from the creation to the present day. I guess that might be more of a mega series but I'd still love to see it
I am absolutely using this for a oneshot or something, imagine the shock when the druid, about to be devoured alive, is told by the lone matriarch that they are very much alike.
Why would cannibalism be "against nature"? Most animals that are carnivores or omnivores are cannibals. Many humans tribes that could be argued are much closer to "nature" as far as very being primitive both technologically and socially, practice cannibalism. If anything not being a cannibal would seem to be "against nature".
Define "most" when you say most animals that are carnivores are cannibals? Its only really common in insects. Its also extremely rare in humans. Even in regions that had cultures that practised cannibalism not every tribe would.
@@thejake1453 perhaps I should not have said most, but it is certainly in many, and in far more then in just insects. Quite a number of mammals will eat either their own young or the young of their sexual competition, a few that I know of off the top of my head are many types of cat ranging from the housecat all the way up to the lion, as well as different types of rodents just as hamsters and guinea pigs. Also the majority of sea life are cannibals as well, something like almost 90% of them. And even if it was not common in humans it still certainly happens and happened, and going by fossil evidence it happened more in the past, which was my point, the more "natural" (if we are using that word to mean closer to nature and further from modern society) the more common cannibalism is.
Most animals avoid cannibalism however it is still reasonably common. The reason for it being against nature is because when performing cannibalism most organisms begin enduring a neurological necrosis from the digestion of nerve tissues. Animals such as insects, pigs, and frogs don't endure this to the full extent but animals such as Wolves, Goats, and Mountain Lions strongly avoid it the neurological necrosis drives cannibalistic animals feral overriding their nurturing and breeding instincts driving them mad and functioning essentially as a cancer of their species if it continues.
@@TheDustyPeaches so sometimes it is bad for the species and sometimes it is not. Kinda like anything else. Still seems silly to say that spider creatures practicing cannibalism is against nature when spiders are cannibals.
I wish this had been here when my party was going through spider infested woods. It would’ve been a hell of a lot more interesting to know they laid traps….
So, I hate to be THAT GUY but, cannibalism is quite common in nature, wolves, bears, and even deer (especially deer tbh) all participate in the act of cannibalism in lean times. So *technically* the druids who didn't participate in the activity would be the ones out of nature.
I've noticed there are a few videos you have about dungeons and dragons that aren't on your D&D lore playlist, like the dragonborn video. A fix to that would be appreciated since I love to listen to these videos while bored at work! Keep up the good work!!!
Everytime you rip apart 5e's many ,many , many omissions. I love you more. Apologies for when I do it to your vids again. But I cringe when watching critical role. Because to me(nerd brag, I guess?) even Mercer makes a ton of mistakes and he's known as one of the "experts"(for rules lawyering Brennan Lee Mulligan is more my style heh). So never take any criticism with my name seriously. It's just Nyahhhh nerd rage 😉 from a pedantic ass. Who owned first and then luckily got every single second edition book because all the older bros friends who played quit in their third year of high school and left three thousand in supplements at my buddies house and I got them alllll... So my forty years of bathroom reading have been DnD lore or the novels of Faerun or Dragonlance. Wish I had useful stuff up there... But dragons are better than the periodic table I suppose heh...
It is the Origin lore like Ettercaps that makes me really admire the worldbuilding of much of the D&D landscape. It's a shame you can usually tell where the skilled writers put their time though. Even still, the lore exists for other writers to take inspiration. For instance in the world I'm building, monstrosities born of people corrupted by their natural tendencies are....very valuable ideas.
Love your videos. You use the ingame music of Exiled kingdoms as your background music ...its really a cool game ,its a single player RPG. And i think the music is royalty free (:
Cannibalism is fairly normal in nature. I know for a fact that if I don't clear out mice I've caught in a trap quickly, it will be eaten by it's friends and family.
I noticed various confusion by many people on the concept of a garotte. This is a cord or a bar, or anything handy that can be used to suffocate another by placing around the throat area. This can be a club, but by calling it a garotte does not give the sense they are beating people with it. Just choking them out or dragging them with it.
A star walks into a black hole but doesn't seen phased.The black hole then turns to the star and says, "I don't think you understand the gravity of this situation."
I have to admit, the "Hello Fresh" promo juxtaposed with the hanging of living victims for consumption made an interesting juxtaposition in my already depraved imagination.
Man these are great for a fucked up character death setting. Really traumatize your players with the small details of their characters slowly being eaten alive.
Okay, cool video and all, BUT! Will you continue the videos on the Demon Lords? I wanna know more about the others too, and maybe after the Devils again. Did you stop because they aren't as interesting?
Could you make a video on the Genasi? They're personally my favorite race in all of D&D and I feel they're really slept on. They're lore is quite fascinating as well.
In a homebrew campaign, we actually had an Ettercap help us along the way. She was this curious neutral member of a farming community she helped keep other beasts at bay. One of the cool things that she did was to weave us all some silk. She returned to the farm after the small adventure into the dark forest. We wanted to take her all the way to the BBEG but she didn't want to get too far away from the farm or go past the dark forest. On the way back we through the dark forest to visit the farm we ran into another Ettercap that was trying to mimic the one that was raised by the farm. It was evil and was a cool fight. We did kill it in the end and was a fun encounter.
I wonder, could a force such as the Flood from Halo, Davoth from Doom Eternal, or Oryx the Taken king from Destiny conquer the Abyss? Like, drop them at the bottom layer, could they rise and conquer/destroy the upper layers?
Didn't think today I would start a hot debate on whether cannibalism is going for or against nature today :D Take that comment section.
Oh man, imagine if you could actually understand what the spiders are saying when close to an etercap, would make woodstock looks tame.
Though you could probably hear about the truths of the universe.
You should do the Beastlands next, I can't find anything on it
I feel like cannibalism is natural to things that engage in it in nature, which humanoids don't so it'd be unnatural for them. The druids who engaged in it warped their true nature and this was the result. Pretty straightforward in my opinion.
And no one talking about the word 'anus'? Sad...
WHAT THEY DONT TELL ABOUT ONI?
thank you for your critical service in reporting the usage of the word 'anus' in the first edition monster manual. this is incredibly vital to the lore of these creatures, and I cannot see myself having lived the rest of my life without knowing this information
It was actually the 1e Fiend Folio, source of the fabled flumph, among other noteworthy creatures.
Hehehehe
Anus
It's almost as he went out of his way for the 'anus'... word. X-)
@@tomkerruish2982 ohhhh the flumph... I miss that "little" guy lol. Memorieeeees
@@bayoubilly5176 And then, you find out he gave away 47 million dollars.
I just had a Ettercap attack in the module im running yesterday. YESTERDAY!!!
What module and how did it go?
Would it have gone differently if you'd seen this video first?
@@ivanalukic1612 Hoard of the dragon Queen and a bit chaotic, but very well for the players. They got ambushed and a few horses got stolen, but not much of a concern. The players sadly didnt follow them and continoued traveling. Most of these infos here i would have supplemented at the lair fight.
@@winterburden Hardly. A few of these infos i got from other videos. Also the players didnt seem interested in following them into their lair (it was an ambush to steal the groups horses) and most of this i would have done there.
Yesterday?
Ettercaps being catnip to spiders is cool, explains so much why spiders crowd around them
It appears DnD has corrupted my mind, cause I read catnip as cantrip, which made me very confused
@@ravnemagne9598 Now that is an interesting idea; a Druid cantrip that summons spiders under your control.
What I mean is the CR 0 Tiny beast from pg 337 of the MM. Just have it summon 1 per casting, it stays under your control for 1/4/8/12 hours (@ appropriate cantrip levels), but is permanent (doesn't disappear; could just be summoning from somewhere else or just creating from magical energies). The cantrip could function like a low-grade Find Familiar, and allow up to a sizeable number under your control at one time. Collect enough and you can turn it into a spider swarm (swarm of insects variant on pg 338 of the MM). I estimate the spiders to be hand-sized or slightly larger, and to make up the Medium swarm could be in the 20-30 range. This may necessitate putting the maximum controllable spiders being linked to the cantrip leveling mechanic; possibly a max of 10 from levels 1-4, 20 at levels 5-10, 40 at levels 11-16, and 60 at levels 17-20. These could mean 1 swarm at second tier, 2 swarms at third, and 3 at fourth.
I believe I now must make this a thing.
P.S. Remember, the spider in question has an intelligence of 1. It can only be commanded to do the simplest tasks (Attack, Dodge, Hide, Dash, etc); tactics, anything beyond simple one-word answers (if using Speak With Animals), and the Use An Object action are off the table in any reasonably run game. There is a reason why monster statblocks include Intelligence scores.
@@derekstein6193 This would be a cool thing for the Swarmkeeper Ranger subclass
A Garrote isn't a club, it's a length of cord used to strangle someone.
Right? Did I not mishear?
I could be wrong, but I think Garrote can mean club in Spanish, idk what's his first language, but maybe in his first language Garrote means club?
@@AleRespite I was going to make a comment but it seems you're right, in Spanish, garrote is used to refer to a cudgel, and somewhere along the way (something to do with it going through French) it came to be known as a strangling wire in English.
@@ThePhantom9495 We also use garrote for clubs like the thick branches type.
@@AleRespite Google was an Ally, you're right
I like the Lore where instead of being some Devine creation or a mad wizards making that they were simply humans lured into eating their own kinds flesh and then from there being corrupted by unworldly powers. Reminds me somewhat of the Wendigo lore, both include cannibalism and monstrification.
Well without the magics of the fiends they wouldnt be ettercaps at all, they'd just be cannibalistic druids which is still scary to think about
@@voodoophil mabye druids that thought the unseelie courts would accept them..... sadly they were too right
@@ethanhopkins3263 That could be plot for an adventure
Very nice bit of lore you dug up there:
Makes me rethink my 5th edition Druid who... was going down that very same path!
If Covid didn't hit, that druid would have even shown acts of cannibalisms within the next few sessions.
Which creature would win a fight
A wendigo or a ettercap?
@@Dualbladedscorpion7737 Ngl the art at 18:40 gave me some major wendigo vibes.
You Know What You Must Now Do.
Go forth, Ettercap.
@@Dualbladedscorpion7737 I mean, the Ettercap is basically a spider-reskin of the Wendigo
Ettercap, ettercap!
Does whatever a spider can
Spins a web, any size,
Catches fay just like flies
Look Out!
Here comes the ettercap!
Would love to see dwarf pantheon lore if you ever get around to that area of the cosmos
What you talking about? This channel will never die meaning he will eventually get to every topic d&d has to offer. Then he will assend to godhood
Yes please
I actually want to know about Dwarf lore too. Have a character in mind but i keep using war hammer lore to explain his shtuff.
@@porkchop4401 there's some really good forgotten realms books that cover them well. Mostly older ones but the last few Drizzt novels basically the companions storyline, is more about bruenor and the dwarf gods. Highly recommend "gauntlgrym". Original home of the delzoun dwarves. Great book. Lotta drow and orcs getting smashed and murdery themselves as well.
the next thing we know is grim hollow comming back with Ettercap transformation for druids
also mass respect for reading "anus" to educate us
I just want to say that I love your videos so much. I remember being a young kid who loved playing D&D with my older brother who had most of the books at the time and I used to sit for hours just reading the first edition monster manuals. I would read about them and wonder all about them, how they would live, where they would sleep. Kind of like how you learn about monsters in The Witcher 3.
Aw man, _this_ had to be the one episode where you use IRL pictures on screen. I don't really hate spiders, but seeing close-ups of their big, empty eyes does creep me out something fierce, hahaha. Still love the video, super interesting creatures which I didn't really know about!
"Ettercap" sounds suspiciously like "Attercop" which is a term Bilbo uses for the giant spiders in The Hobbit
Not a coincidence! The AJ Pickett Ettercap video has the whole etymology of the word/name, check it out :)
The cap/cop part of it has the same root as COB as in “cobwebs”!
@@czcrossman AJ has some great vids nice mention.
Funny enough I just assumed it was a deviation of the word , which is highly common
Makes sense as DND is based on LOTR. Heck, WOTC was sued once because they called the balors balrogs. The Balor demons were balrogs in the earliest editions until they were forced to change the name to avoid copyright infringement
I'm kind of glad the MM isn't great, so that this channel exists to improve it.
Actually, cannibalism is very much part of nature. We humans practice it daily without even thinking about it. We gnaw on our cuticles, swallow cells dead skin and hair from our own and other peoples' bodies... etc. Kissing in and of itself, entails some bit of cannibalism. We dont think about it, but how many times have you licked blood off of your cut finger?
Cannibalism is indeed a very natural thing in the wild, if there is one thing nature is not, it's wasteful, meat is meat no matter were it comes from
In general none of their backstory makes much sense. I'd chalk it up as made up by people who don't know anything about spiders. Spiders are not actually particularly cannibalistic. Your average spider will eat other spiders... of different species. Actual cannibalism of conspecifics is rare, and I'm not aware of ANY spider where the mothers eat their babies.
It's anti-invertebrate bias! Like you wanna talk about wolves? They slaughter each other in territorial clashes all the time! Why don't druids who become wolves become violently territorial?
@@wadespencer3623 Actually, cannibalism does occur among spiders of the same species more often than you think. Female spiders do sometimes, or even often eat male spiders of the same species either after, and sometimes before mating. Spiderlings will eat weaker spiderlings of the same species opportunistically. Female wolf spiders do occasionally eat their own young when food is scarce of when a spiderling shows signs of being weak. Jumping spiders of the same species will react territorially and either run others off, or attack them and eat them unless they are adults ready to mate. It may not happen as a daily occurrence among spiders of the same species, but they have no compunctions, remorse, nor morality regarding cannibalism of other spiders of the same species. I have observed it myself commonly in the spiders I have raised both in captivity and in natural settings.
@@mutanthybrid3466 I won't claim to know all spiders, but I know it's exaggerated in many groups (say, black widows, where they get eaten a lot more in captivity, where the males can't just leave). Surprised about wolf spiders though, they are usually exceptionally careful, protective mothers and often won't even attack babies that don't belong to them!
@@wadespencer3623 It is true that captive creatures that will practice cannibalism have a much greater chance of being predated on by the female in captivity in "widow-like" species. I often ensure that the females of such species as praying mantises and spiders have a good meal before mating to reduce the chances of that. Actually, some species of spider and insect males present the females with a gift of a dead insect as a meal to keep her from eating him during mating. They realize it is a dangerous business they are in from the get go to approach a female of their own potentially carnivorous species.
I wanna see Kobolds going into an Ettercap infested cave and professionally judging the traps that they find
Ah webs, how quaint. The screaming creature in the pit really adds to the ambiance. Stuck up kobold judges would be a hilarious addition to any game
From Old English ãtorcoppe, atter (poison) plus coppe (spider)
Tony: "So you're the spider.. ling? Crime-fighting Spider? Spider-boy."
cannibalisms is not an act against nature, it's perfectly natural among nature.
It's an act against nature for intelegent life, I agree that it is normal for many creatures but not for a druid, I think that's the issue. In spider form it was normal (but a failure of the duty to protect the wards) but when it became what they did in druid form then it became unnatural
My nephew recently got into D&D, and he loves lore. It's great being able to share these videos.
I'm still waiting for the miniseries on werebeasts that was promised over a year ago in the wererats video.
Ettercaps feel like are just drow arachnomacers next step forward.
Oh gosh this just gave me an amazing idea for a short game to run. Great video and super good lore~
I have heard this lore before and I love that it hints at druids reflecting darker aspects of nature. I think they make obvious villains that aren't used enough since there values often run counter to the civilized races. I didn't know that druid magic is considered divine magic, since the first edition I got my hands on was forth I liked that primal magic was its own thing. I think that if I were to codify a system I would try to make each source of power and magic its own thing, though they may arrive at the same destination. But I find I keep coming back to it being a roleplaying relationship to the source of their power.
I kinda hope Mr.Rhexx will do a what you didn't know about citys on the swordcoast someday
That would be incredibly useful. Cities like baldur's gate have so much to them its almost impossible to gather it together effectively.
Hey Rhexx! Just wanted to mention, a garrote is not a club, it is a piece of wire which is often used to strangle a victim (think the scene in the Godfather where they strangle the guy in the car). I know in Spanish garrote is a club or mace, but the word in English refers to a strangulation device. Keep up the great work!
Thanks ... I hate everything about it.
And I'll definitely use this in my campaign.
🎶🎵 Living on the edge, fighting heros, spinning webs. I should look up instead, he could leap over my head. 🎵🎶
Heros on the rise, and people live their lives. Completely unaware aware, that i will have their lives in due time. 🎶🎶
SPECTACULAR, SPECTACULAR, ETTERCAP.
SPECTACULAR, SPECTACULAR ETTERCAP.
SPECTACULAR, SPECTACULAAAR🎵🎶🕸🕷
What a grat way to *cap* off the year.
FR tho thx for the upload; been fascinated with this monster for 20 yrs since the first Baldur's Gate.
Great like normal spiders weren't freaky enough
"If druids do something that goes against nature, which you could argue cannibalism is..."
I don't think that is true.
plenty of animals do that, yeah.
Thanks for the last part, I couldn't live without knowing that
Awesome lore Video as always, though I should say, a Web Garotte is not a club, it's a like a wire used to strangle your target. Which is why the target gets grappled and can't breathe too.
Your one of my fav TH-camrs Mr.Rexx. LOVE THE CHANNEL!!!
Please make a D&D video about what they don’t tell you about Platinum Dragon King Bahamut please
He isnt a king, he is a god.
Old fat spider spinning in a tree!
Old fat spider can’t see me!
Attercop! Attercop!
Won't you stop,
Stop your spinning and look for me?
Hey Rhexx, you happen to have the Yuan-ti on your list at all? I still can't find satisfactory lore on them, even in Volo's Guide. Also- mad props to you for keeping up with all this deep lore, you've basically become my sole resource for obscure lore in D&D
Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can
Eats your kids
Eats your wife
Destroys your entire way of life
Look out, here comes the spiderman
Dude your lore videos are awesome. Best dnd lore vids out there. (Your voice is perfect volume) your right on par with fudgemuppet.
Well, there goes my Arachnophobia.
Now i'm homebrewing a druid subclass where the druid slowly, permanently changes into an ettercap. Circle of Webs here I come!
I would love to see a miniseries on this channel that would go over the entire timeline of the forgotten realms and every major thing that's happened from the creation to the present day. I guess that might be more of a mega series but I'd still love to see it
Same bro, same.
I am absolutely using this for a oneshot or something, imagine the shock when the druid, about to be devoured alive, is told by the lone matriarch that they are very much alike.
The fact that these creatures were once druid made them 100% more interesting to me, thanks for the anus mention
Why would cannibalism be "against nature"? Most animals that are carnivores or omnivores are cannibals. Many humans tribes that could be argued are much closer to "nature" as far as very being primitive both technologically and socially, practice cannibalism. If anything not being a cannibal would seem to be "against nature".
Define "most" when you say most animals that are carnivores are cannibals?
Its only really common in insects.
Its also extremely rare in humans. Even in regions that had cultures that practised cannibalism not every tribe would.
@@thejake1453 perhaps I should not have said most, but it is certainly in many, and in far more then in just insects. Quite a number of mammals will eat either their own young or the young of their sexual competition, a few that I know of off the top of my head are many types of cat ranging from the housecat all the way up to the lion, as well as different types of rodents just as hamsters and guinea pigs. Also the majority of sea life are cannibals as well, something like almost 90% of them. And even if it was not common in humans it still certainly happens and happened, and going by fossil evidence it happened more in the past, which was my point, the more "natural" (if we are using that word to mean closer to nature and further from modern society) the more common cannibalism is.
Most animals avoid cannibalism however it is still reasonably common. The reason for it being against nature is because when performing cannibalism most organisms begin enduring a neurological necrosis from the digestion of nerve tissues. Animals such as insects, pigs, and frogs don't endure this to the full extent but animals such as Wolves, Goats, and Mountain Lions strongly avoid it the neurological necrosis drives cannibalistic animals feral overriding their nurturing and breeding instincts driving them mad and functioning essentially as a cancer of their species if it continues.
@@TheDustyPeaches so sometimes it is bad for the species and sometimes it is not. Kinda like anything else. Still seems silly to say that spider creatures practicing cannibalism is against nature when spiders are cannibals.
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a garrote isn't a club its a wire that people used to strangle others, good video anyway can't wait for new videos they're always top quality
Always wanted to learn more about these guys
I wish this had been here when my party was going through spider infested woods. It would’ve been a hell of a lot more interesting to know they laid traps….
So, I hate to be THAT GUY but, cannibalism is quite common in nature, wolves, bears, and even deer (especially deer tbh) all participate in the act of cannibalism in lean times. So *technically* the druids who didn't participate in the activity would be the ones out of nature.
You think horses are nice? No, they can be evil. Knew a guy with a horse named Diablo. he would chase down rabbits and eat them.
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You've done guides on just about every playable race...except aasimar. I was curious if that was on the to-do list, or got forgotten?
Also: Tiefling, Kalashtar, Dhampirs and a lot more
@@NoNo-lt9bi Oh wow. I play a tiefling and swore I watched a video on it. It was done by a different lore creator now that I review my history.
Dayum! 1k views in 1hr! I glad to see this! Love this channel 💗 This sucess is what comes from all this hard work. This channel deserves it!
They also don't tell you that ettercaps invented breakdancing.
I want to do a one shot as a spider chasing the molly high of an ettercap XD
Wow absolutely astonishing way to end it Rhexx this is what the people want XD
Now I want a video about giant spiders and thei way of living.
I've noticed there are a few videos you have about dungeons and dragons that aren't on your D&D lore playlist, like the dragonborn video. A fix to that would be appreciated since I love to listen to these videos while bored at work! Keep up the good work!!!
*ETTERCAP, ETTERCAP,* Does whatever a spider can. Shoot some web, Eat a horse, actually he's quite a bore. *LOOK OUT, HERE COMES THE ETTERCAP!!!* 🕷🕸🎵🎶
This makes me want to make an ettercap wizard that happened to just be really smart and studies the books of wizards he eats.
Such amazing content, Rhexx!
Everytime you rip apart 5e's many ,many , many omissions. I love you more. Apologies for when I do it to your vids again. But I cringe when watching critical role. Because to me(nerd brag, I guess?) even Mercer makes a ton of mistakes and he's known as one of the "experts"(for rules lawyering Brennan Lee Mulligan is more my style heh).
So never take any criticism with my name seriously. It's just Nyahhhh nerd rage 😉 from a pedantic ass. Who owned first and then luckily got every single second edition book because all the older bros friends who played quit in their third year of high school and left three thousand in supplements at my buddies house and I got them alllll... So my forty years of bathroom reading have been DnD lore or the novels of Faerun or Dragonlance. Wish I had useful stuff up there... But dragons are better than the periodic table I suppose heh...
Ettercap is one of my favorite monsters from all editions. Congrats on being able to work 'anus' into the video!
It is the Origin lore like Ettercaps that makes me really admire the worldbuilding of much of the D&D landscape. It's a shame you can usually tell where the skilled writers put their time though. Even still, the lore exists for other writers to take inspiration. For instance in the world I'm building, monstrosities born of people corrupted by their natural tendencies are....very valuable ideas.
Love your videos. You use the ingame music of Exiled kingdoms as your background music ...its really a cool game ,its a single player RPG. And i think the music is royalty free (:
I've always been a fan of using ettercaps in adventures. They are obscure enough to surprise, but well-known enough to strike fear.
So... they eat pixies? That's something to motivate me to hunt them I guess. They weren't great to have around anyway though.
You are gorgeous, great with narrations, make awesome videos, and have helped me become a much better gamer. Hope you have a wonderful new year.
huh. I always assumed ettercaps were like...a failed wizard experiment gone rogue. This is a lot more interesting.
Cannibalism is fairly normal in nature.
I know for a fact that if I don't clear out mice I've caught in a trap quickly, it will be eaten by it's friends and family.
*aracnephobia intensify* WHY AM I DOING THIS TO MYSELF???
These spider beings are very fascinating and I like how their origins make them stand out from other spider-based creatures.
I noticed various confusion by many people on the concept of a garotte. This is a cord or a bar, or anything handy that can be used to suffocate another by placing around the throat area. This can be a club, but by calling it a garotte does not give the sense they are beating people with it. Just choking them out or dragging them with it.
A star walks into a black hole but doesn't seen phased.The black hole then turns to the star and says, "I don't think you understand the gravity of this situation."
I used Hello Fresh and worked out well. Also, glad to see a new 'What they don't tell you about ' video
I have to admit, the "Hello Fresh" promo juxtaposed with the hanging of living victims for consumption made an interesting juxtaposition in my already depraved imagination.
@@khublaklonk4480 Thanks, now I'll never think of Hello Fresh the same way again ;)
Man these are great for a fucked up character death setting. Really traumatize your players with the small details of their characters slowly being eaten alive.
Anyone knows from which source did he get the poison value? That is a fact I'd like to Investigate further
Accidentally TPKed my group with ettercaps in 3.5 once.
love your content MrRhexx!! Thank you for uploading during holiday.
This was kinda freaky. I wonder though what the most disturbing D&D monster is.
This sounds like a topic that should have been covered back in October...
Thank you for your commitment to posterity MrRhexx we would all have suffered if we didn't know where that web came from.
Okay, cool video and all, BUT! Will you continue the videos on the Demon Lords? I wanna know more about the others too, and maybe after the Devils again. Did you stop because they aren't as interesting?
Could you make a video on the Genasi? They're personally my favorite race in all of D&D and I feel they're really slept on. They're lore is quite fascinating as well.
"I would not pass up on reading the word Anus" -MrRhexx 2021
Rhexx!
Any chance we can see a video about Living Walls?
They seem to be the most undeservingly forgotten about monsters out there.
Hate spiders.
Watch this video before going to sleep.
Mistakes have been made.
The Spider-Man movie is starting to look *Kinda FUNNY*
Meanwhile in Pathfinder 2 there's an adorable pacifist were spider race.
Another great video another request for dwarves and magic runes please.
In a homebrew campaign, we actually had an Ettercap help us along the way. She was this curious neutral member of a farming community she helped keep other beasts at bay. One of the cool things that she did was to weave us all some silk. She returned to the farm after the small adventure into the dark forest. We wanted to take her all the way to the BBEG but she didn't want to get too far away from the farm or go past the dark forest.
On the way back we through the dark forest to visit the farm we ran into another Ettercap that was trying to mimic the one that was raised by the farm. It was evil and was a cool fight. We did kill it in the end and was a fun encounter.
a Garrote is a strangling implement, usually a wire of some sort, so not a club.
HEY! That first drawing of an ettercap was done by me!
Love your videos.
Could you do a Video about Mephisto? He is really cool.
I wonder, could a force such as the Flood from Halo, Davoth from Doom Eternal, or Oryx the Taken king from Destiny conquer the Abyss? Like, drop them at the bottom layer, could they rise and conquer/destroy the upper layers?
Flood and oryx could. Not sure about Davotg though.
Great video as always. And on the anus bit, 100%, thank you. Unmitigated, unashamed facts and lore.
I have always hated the Ettercap. Now I hate them more. Thanks for that.
Aw-yeah! Been waiting for my favorite monster to be covered!
This was a wild turn from taliking about the outer planes
Where does the name Ettercap come from? When I heard it I immediately thought of Bilbo calling the spiders in Mirkwood Adercop.
Apparently ettercap is a Scottish word for a spider, or a spiteful person. Attercop probably being based off of that? That's all I could find anyway.
@@PhoenicopterusR thanks
I love the videos you make that cover insect like monsters.
Thanks for my suits new fur-spiratiom!