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Ive been watching since your very first DnD video. So many years have gone by and i still wnjoy every video. Love the new DnD animations in the video, though the weeb ones are completely lost on me. Please never stop making these videos
ya finally covered my favourite D&D creature. I love this landshark to a stupidly high degree. I guess you get requests constantly but if you would do my second favourite some time that would be awesome too. I am of course talking about the Strange but lovely Xorn
Love the upgrade in editing, well done! But I do miss the crazy amount of amazing art you'd bring into older videos. Not that you don't here, it's just a different feel, I suppose. Just my two cents as a long-time sub. The style adaptation does not change my love for how well you present the old D&D lore. Top tier!
My character cooked it in a coal pit, using its super hard hide as a pressure cooker/smoker oven. Meat was amazing, if you could survive the narcotics.
1) terrible 2) if you’re gonna cook up something as tough as a bulette you’d need to either brine it first, then cook it low and slow. Or, braise it a sauce or liquid. I’d suggest something with strong spices to flavor the meat.
There's one more thing that you won't find without some digging. Bulettes can actually be tamed, and what's even more impressive, they can be trained to speak in the same way that a parrot can. However, for reasons no one has ever figured out all they can remember are curse words. So, have fun making your bulettes swear like sailors during your player's next encounter.
I'm just imagening an extreamlly sweet southerner couple travling merchants, with a bullette that they raised from birth dragging their caravan. The caravan is built using the power of hillbilly enginearing and looks like it'll fall apart at any second, but it's so well built it can withstand cannon balls raining from the sky. Also, the bullette has a tiny cowboy hat and is very sassy, especally towards its parents.
@@nnickplays9713 Old dragon magazine. i tried to list the name of it to the other guy but i think youtube must've deleted it...not exactly a family friendly name even if they only used symbols instead of the actual letters to spell it out. Which is what i tried to do, but i guess that doesn't fly either. Anyway, it was about a group of colorful desert bandits with a filthy captain who had a filthy name and her trained bulettes who weren't much better.
@@flannellemur4818they dissolve like dirt, regular stone, plant matter, stuff like that. Harder and more valuable rocks and ore would probably be fine
I made landsharks in my games inspired by the ones in ratchet and clank and also dune a bit. They are crazy fast on the sand dunes but useless in wet or hard soil. They are pack hunters and pretty violent. Almost more like sand piranas when young and more like a sandworm when fully grown
@@steeldrago73 well the original comment was a joke, but I believe the designers came up with it, after gygax bought a bag of rubber dollar store toys, and asked his players figured out stat blocks for these monsters , with the bullete being designed by Tim kask, which he published in the first issue of the "dragon" (magazine).
Truly the David Attenborough of D&D. Spreading awareness and assiduously preserving the broken and defiled realms which humans, once loved, so dearly. Thank you sir.
Wait... -Burrows underground -Everything is scared of fighting them -Attacks everyone just to eat them -Stomach acid allows it to eat almost anything, including magical artifacts Are Bulettes mini-Tarasques?!
Ha, und ich hab letztens meiner Frau geschrien, dass ich in Pathfinder Kingmaker von einem Fleischpflanzerl (so sagen wir in Bayern dazu) angegriffen werde 😅
If I had to say why young bulettes aren't ever seen I'd say it's because they stay beneath the ground as much as possible to keep safe and hunt smaller game without people noticing. The love for halfling flesh may be just because they're the first humanoid they're large enough to hunt.
@@averageeughenjoyer6429 Humanoids gather in larger groups than animals, so attacking a halfling settlement is like a buffet to a young bulette. It'd be a thrill that the impressionable creature wouldn't forget, and tasting halfling reminds them of that.
In bg3 there's is an encounter with a Bulle. Thehe encounter is set up, so you are at an advantage. There is a land bridge in the underdark that is to shallow for it to dig their so it must emerge and launch itself out of the ground at you once it can no longer dig. If you're in the wrong spot, you're crushed by it and probably die, if you stand far back enough it'll miss you and do zero damage. In the encounter it's 4 against one unless you have extra companions and summons present, and it's on a small bridge, preventing it from digging and jumping. The bridge is over a massive chasm, and if you corner it up to the cliff edge and your party has high dexterity, it can barely move and barely damage you. This allows you to surround it and spam attacks against our like a fish in a barrel
About creatures like dragons not fight a bulette cause getting injured isn't worth it, that fairly true to real life. For most animals a broken leg, lost limb or deep cut is a sentence to slow death. It takes a very aggressive territorial to fight to the death or grievous injury. For example hippos.
@@KT-pv3kl it can jump 15 feet vertically, so not really. levitate on its own can go up 20 feet, and any creature with a flying speed can go much higher. this is a monster that can be default killed with a single 2nd level spell slot.
@@thalmorjusticiar1 The bulette is already 10+ft tall. It can jump 15ft up, putting its mouth at least 25ft off the ground. And if the DM is any good, the bulette would catch the PCs by surprise, erupting from the ground directly beneath them, mouth open, ready to swallow them whole. In fact, the way I run these is when the bulette erupts from the ground under the player they have to make a DC18 dex save to avoid being swallowed whole. If they pass the saving throw by 10 or more (28+) they completely avoid any damage, but if they pass by less than 10 (18-27) they take 4d12+4 bite damage and are grappled. If they fail, they are swallowed whole and take 3d12+4 crushing damage per round until they die or escape, which is a DC25 str save each round which can be assisted by others reaching into the mouth, if they are brave enough. So yeah, that levitate spell is only going to work if they see the bulette coming, which they never should unless the DM sucks.
@@KurNorockme and my group collectively agree to powergame both when dming and as players and have many homebrew rules for PCs and monsters that this rule would fit perfectly with!
the whole standing jump thing is because its ADDITIVE to its movement, basically if someone uses the dash action to get awway the bule can just move and do a standing jump into its dive attack you are got getting away
In Races of Stone 3.5 (the same book that introduces goliaths into 3.5), there are rules for hatching, raising, and training a bulette. It even has prices for buying bulette eggs and fully trained bulettes.
I imagine a dragon coming across a bulette would be similar to a person finding a particularly pissed off badger. Sure, you could take it... but you'd much rather not.
Looking forward to putting a Bulette up against my players in a DC20 campaign! Thanks for your amazing Lore video and a perfect shout out to DC20. Its nice to see your favorite TH-camrs referencing each other.💜💜💜
Using Dungeon Dad's Grey Dragon, I can see a story where one is contracted to take out the local Bulette, or the reverse Kraven situation where they kept one as a pet, and after the party somehow dealt with the bulette, they now hove to deal with the Grey Dragon who wants to avenge (?) its pet.
11:30 - Reminder that the entries in the monster manuals were canonically written by people in the world such as Mordenkainen and Volo. So, sometimes the information is not perfectly accurate or complete, but it is a canonical representation of that character's research into the creature
Haven't checked in a while, but this is a monster that I care about. I really love the new editing! It's obviously more time costly on your side, and that is very much appreciated!
Pathfinder had a particularly scary Bulette variant known as the Juggerloathe. It was the offspring of a particularly large Bulette and a herald of Lamashtu, the Pathfinder goddess of Monsters. It's a massive, 50-foot long Bulette with hollow black pits for eyes, a cobra for a tail, and the ability to swallow its enemy whole, drain the life from them, and regurgitate them as undead monsters known as Bodaks.
Sharks, crocodiles, snakes and some other animals never stop growing, but when they reach adulthood their growth rate slows down. But never stop. Except when they die of some complications of old age.
I think the thing about some things not eating dwarves is because dwarves spice their food with reckless abandon for the heath of all other races, my friends dwarf looks as human spices and always insists on adding more that makes it inedible to humans, halflings, goblins, and the party tiefling. It’s one of the things we rule due to their poison resistance. Elves might be the equivalent of eating bread, so plain and boring that you would rather not eat it due to their overly healthy diets that use next to no seasonings. So they’re the opposite ends of the spectrum of being over spiced and under seasoned. Halflings are probably liked so much because you get a lot out of a little package like a donut or a cupcake.
I do love the simple lore for slightly out of the box monsters. Some of the more highend like drow and gith lore videos are a little unapproachable. But this fuels well planned and informed monster of the week type encounters and I love it
Great to have you back with the next video so quickly xD I'm really enjoying these monster lore videos, the give great ideas for creatures to use. Although, not going to lie here, I'd also love to see the dragon series continue.
I remember playing DnD in Florida and one of these things TPK'd a 5 player team I was in. It was believed that a rival kingdom sent one of these in the direction of the kingdom we were mercenaries for to soften up the place for conquest shortly after. It freaking killed us all! (5th to 6th) level characters The worst part about it was the thing caused 2 players to be trapped under rubble to be easily eaten and you can't outrun it. Our Mage didn't have the right spells to deal with it either as he had no idea what it was and what a Bulette is capable of.
i think the reason why they would prefer halflings over elves and dwarves is because generally speaking halflings are rotund and pudgy, whereas elves and dwarves are either slender and wiry or tough and hardy.
Start a campaign with a session 0 in which the players list 6 races, 6 classes, and 6 backgrounds, and then unleash the bulette! Every round, the players roll 3d6 to determine which combination of race, class, and background, is eaten, with you narrating the kills. At the end of the 5 rounds, the players have a race/class/background combination mostly at random.
It's good to know that I'll be changing the nonsensical method of reproduction that forgotten realms gave the mysterious bulette. Killing everything for weeks and waiting for a mate is probably the most obvious thing a giant land predator could do. Attacking and killing each other would also leave signs and not be too hard to figure out. The idea that a bulette wouldn't be doing all of this underground where they are most formidable is all preposterous. I'll give my idea if you want... not that I'm some expert. A bulette could be laying eggs fairly deeply, and tracking down a nest would take a monumental effort. Bulettes are territorial and laying eggs in a well controlled location well suited for their larvae. Somewhere that would keep their young away and protected. Softer soils could also be an important decision for nest. A nest could be anywhere, but I think a place with abundant nutrition in the soil, like worm and roots, would be an ideal location. Possibly ever high moisture. Nothing is stopping us from deciding that the bulette is amphibious or has some sort of nymph stage. Or even that some other creature is actually bulette young. Last thought just for some clarity. I like that the story about bulette reproduction exists. It's a story. It's untrue and ridiculous, but "no one" has ever seen it. People make shit up and tell scary stories. Untrue things have a place in the narrative.
We encountered a pair of bulettes in my very first campaign after getting sealed in a shadow druid cave, from which we escaped by me (druid) summoning a thoqqua to dig us a way out, but then a bulette came and killed the thoqqua and bust the cave mouth open. We managed to avoid a fight by me convincing the bulettes to just go into the cave and eat all the corpses of the enemies we killed.
Encountered this thing in a cave full of *magic* mushrooms. We tricked it into eating several kilograms of the stuff until it OD'd and fell over. Two years later and our drug empire is making us more bank than any dungeon.
I theorize the reason creatures that prefer the taste of halfling to the taste of dwarf comes down to the marbling and potential toxins of the meat. Dwarves have extremely dense musculature, probably taste rather gamey- and their poison resistance could perhaps have a side effect of a “tainted meat” taste. However halflings are often depicted as chubby or thicc with higher fat to muscle ratios - leading to better taste.
In the old Xbox game Dungeons and Dragons: Heroes the first boss is a bulette. You have to lure it into charging at crystals around the area to break it open and make it vulnerable to your attacks. I'm not too sure how to think about such a universally feared creature getting to be the first major boss. It is a challenging early battle too.
I imagine any old bullettes would be aged bulls who have sired many nests. Any males from those nests would come back to the area where their original nests were to mate. This would create constant evolutionary pressure on the older males in the eventuality of there being 2-3 males surviving the matriarchal cull and ganging up on dad.
In my game the centaur bard and half-elf dao warlock had the bright idea of planting magic beans in secret. One bean grew into magic eggs that increase ability scores and other summoned a bulette, which proceeded to one-shot the bard and eat her on the next turn. Bulette was killed, but the half eaten corpse of the bard couldn't be revived. The warlock chose to ask powerful Demon Lord to break his previous contract and to take new warlock contract under the Demon Lord in exchange for the bard's resurrection :D
@@yahnservices1978except that the way to pronounce it based on how it's spelled uses rules of French, hence "boo-let" with emphasis on the 2nd syllable.
@@MethosJK9 Nope, I speak French, it's definitely "bullet" which is the closest, other comments are confirming it too. The U sound itself is the same as in luchador.
Reminds me of a dwarf villain I had that rode a bullette in the dessert. He had his goggles on a dusty cloak. He only used it when he was in the dessert otherwise he let it roam free. Thx for the vid Rhexx, never saw one I disliked, not one
Such a cool creature! Awesome job as always! Ngl, the way the bulette is described and how it behaves makes it sound like a lesser tarasque. Very scary but very cool!
Another great video, I'm loving the new animations for the monsters! Bulettes are also just awesome monsters too. I already really liked them, but I had no idea how metal they were! Also, fun fact: I once came upon a statblock on 5e tools for a young bulette from Princes of the Apocalypse that listed them as beasts. I double checked and sure enough, there's a bulette kennel where for the young bulettes it says to use the rhino statblock but reflavor the gore into a bite. You'd need to check with your DM obviously, but you can technically wild shape/polymorph into a baby bulette.
I know one DM who wrote a level 1 to 20 story arc and half the adventures were fishing bulletes out of the landfill . . . .that was full of various magical toxic waste, so the bullete HD and some of their abilities changed over time. The later part of the story arc was based on some movies about tattoos in Las Vegas, but the action was set in an outer planes steam/cyber punk setting.
There's probably no children seen because they age to adulthood almost immediately. It's possible they mature after just a month or less as a 9 month process is cut to 2 hours
Or the juveniles simply stay in remote areas of the underdark where nobody has ever searched for them similar to eels hatching their young in the Sargasso sea a specific area in the depths of the Atlantic. It took us over 2000 years to finally figure out where eels lay their eggs.
Someone make a home brew that is essentially the plot of jaws. Maybe in desert area with sand ships that have sails and at one point an NPC says "we're gonna need a bigger sand ship"
That slime that dissolves rock and earth also makes the sinkholes make a lot more sense. It's not just that the earth is displaced from the burrowing, but that the very structure of the earth is being melted away.
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Ive been watching since your very first DnD video. So many years have gone by and i still wnjoy every video. Love the new DnD animations in the video, though the weeb ones are completely lost on me. Please never stop making these videos
ya finally covered my favourite D&D creature. I love this landshark to a stupidly high degree. I guess you get requests constantly but if you would do my second favourite some time that would be awesome too. I am of course talking about the Strange but lovely Xorn
At some point I'd love to see a video on Umberlee (Presuming that you don't have one on her already.)
DC20 engagement 😊
Love the upgrade in editing, well done! But I do miss the crazy amount of amazing art you'd bring into older videos. Not that you don't here, it's just a different feel, I suppose. Just my two cents as a long-time sub. The style adaptation does not change my love for how well you present the old D&D lore. Top tier!
If Senshi ever gets to cook this monster, he'd probably make a Creme Bullette
Take my like and GET OUT
My character cooked it in a coal pit, using its super hard hide as a pressure cooker/smoker oven.
Meat was amazing, if you could survive the narcotics.
1) terrible
2) if you’re gonna cook up something as tough as a bulette you’d need to either brine it first, then cook it low and slow. Or, braise it a sauce or liquid. I’d suggest something with strong spices to flavor the meat.
You just gotta love, how the Crème Brûlée joke stays a constant with the Bulette.
DAMN! HAHAHAHA!🤣🤣🤣
Here, take this like!🤣👍
So they are the living embodiment of "You don't have to outrun the monster you only have to outrun the Halfling"
😂😂
As a halfling who just faced this for the first time, in a party w/ no frontliner due to someone leaving the group... yeah...
There's one more thing that you won't find without some digging. Bulettes can actually be tamed, and what's even more impressive, they can be trained to speak in the same way that a parrot can. However, for reasons no one has ever figured out all they can remember are curse words. So, have fun making your bulettes swear like sailors during your player's next encounter.
I'm just imagening an extreamlly sweet southerner couple travling merchants, with a bullette that they raised from birth dragging their caravan. The caravan is built using the power of hillbilly enginearing and looks like it'll fall apart at any second, but it's so well built it can withstand cannon balls raining from the sky. Also, the bullette has a tiny cowboy hat and is very sassy, especally towards its parents.
source?
@@R04-v3y it was in one of the old dragon magazines. Captain C&%# and her B@$tard Bulettes.
Second, where's the info on this. This sounds really cool
@@nnickplays9713 Old dragon magazine. i tried to list the name of it to the other guy but i think youtube must've deleted it...not exactly a family friendly name even if they only used symbols instead of the actual letters to spell it out. Which is what i tried to do, but i guess that doesn't fly either. Anyway, it was about a group of colorful desert bandits with a filthy captain who had a filthy name and her trained bulettes who weren't much better.
I had a dwarf character who wanted to use them for mining machines since they throw up valuable resources
Don’t they dissolve most of the stuff they eat though? Youre better off with an Aurumvorax
@@flannellemur4818 I was in a campaign before this video, and we found piles of raw ore
@@flannellemur4818they dissolve like dirt, regular stone, plant matter, stuff like that. Harder and more valuable rocks and ore would probably be fine
If I had to guess, refined metals, crystals, minerals etc would be reverted back to ore after being eaten by a Bulette.
Player: "Land sharks aren't real, they can't hurt me"
Gary gygax: "you just gave me an idea..."
I made landsharks in my games inspired by the ones in ratchet and clank and also dune a bit. They are crazy fast on the sand dunes but useless in wet or hard soil. They are pack hunters and pretty violent. Almost more like sand piranas when young and more like a sandworm when fully grown
Knock, knock.
"who's there?"
Landshark!
I believe it may have been arneson but it's been a minute and that may be incorrect.
@@Jeremycook_ "Candygram!"
@@steeldrago73 well the original comment was a joke, but I believe the designers came up with it, after gygax bought a bag of rubber dollar store toys, and asked his players figured out stat blocks for these monsters , with the bullete being designed by Tim kask, which he published in the first issue of the "dragon" (magazine).
Truly the David Attenborough of D&D.
Spreading awareness and assiduously preserving the broken and defiled realms which humans, once loved, so dearly.
Thank you sir.
Bulettes propably have a similar relationship to dragons that honeybadgers have to lions.
Phenomenal comparison. 👌
Wait...
-Burrows underground
-Everything is scared of fighting them
-Attacks everyone just to eat them
-Stomach acid allows it to eat almost anything, including magical artifacts
Are Bulettes mini-Tarasques?!
Yes, the mini-tarrasque, more commonly known as a badger.
I like the way they laugh at you if you miss an attack on them in Baldur's Gate 3.
totally missed this will have to look this up haha
That deep guttural "hurr hurr hurr" pissed me tf off lmao. I killed that thing with extreme prejudice
I noticed that too lol
Fun Fact: "Bulette" is North-german for meatball.
With an extra o it's french also!
MEATS BACK ON THE MENU!
Moin.
Glad I am not the only one who thought of that.
Ha, und ich hab letztens meiner Frau geschrien, dass ich in Pathfinder Kingmaker von einem Fleischpflanzerl (so sagen wir in Bayern dazu) angegriffen werde 😅
We need to tell Senshi about this fortuitous linguistic coincidence.
If I had to say why young bulettes aren't ever seen I'd say it's because they stay beneath the ground as much as possible to keep safe and hunt smaller game without people noticing. The love for halfling flesh may be just because they're the first humanoid they're large enough to hunt.
That would still have witnesses
That's actually a cool add.
@@averageeughenjoyer6429 Humanoids gather in larger groups than animals, so attacking a halfling settlement is like a buffet to a young bulette. It'd be a thrill that the impressionable creature wouldn't forget, and tasting halfling reminds them of that.
Considering how quickly they hatch, I think they simply grow fast after eating their mother's and sibling's corpses.
Bullettes are the Honey Badgers of DnD.
Naw those are owlbears owlbears give no fs owlbears get fixated and will try to kill something even if they'll lose
No its aurumvorax . . . .they are 8 legged honey badgers.
no. No. NO!!
In bg3 there's is an encounter with a Bulle. Thehe encounter is set up, so you are at an advantage. There is a land bridge in the underdark that is to shallow for it to dig their so it must emerge and launch itself out of the ground at you once it can no longer dig. If you're in the wrong spot, you're crushed by it and probably die, if you stand far back enough it'll miss you and do zero damage.
In the encounter it's 4 against one unless you have extra companions and summons present, and it's on a small bridge, preventing it from digging and jumping. The bridge is over a massive chasm, and if you corner it up to the cliff edge and your party has high dexterity, it can barely move and barely damage you. This allows you to surround it and spam attacks against our like a fish in a barrel
That’s weird because it dug and burrowed away on the land bridge when I was about to kill it.
@@jl3303 I've never had that happen
About creatures like dragons not fight a bulette cause getting injured isn't worth it, that fairly true to real life. For most animals a broken leg, lost limb or deep cut is a sentence to slow death. It takes a very aggressive territorial to fight to the death or grievous injury. For example hippos.
Hippos are freaking scary dude. I'll take gators any day over the meat tanks.
It isn't a Rhexx video unless it talks about the untold horrors of monster mating.
I had to laugh at the spinning mating Bulletes.
"Literally nothing that moves is safe from it"
*Moves into the air*
"Hey! That's cheating!"
You must be pretty high up to be outside of its reach.
@@KT-pv3kl it can jump 15 feet vertically, so not really. levitate on its own can go up 20 feet, and any creature with a flying speed can go much higher. this is a monster that can be default killed with a single 2nd level spell slot.
@@thalmorjusticiar1 The bulette is already 10+ft tall. It can jump 15ft up, putting its mouth at least 25ft off the ground. And if the DM is any good, the bulette would catch the PCs by surprise, erupting from the ground directly beneath them, mouth open, ready to swallow them whole.
In fact, the way I run these is when the bulette erupts from the ground under the player they have to make a DC18 dex save to avoid being swallowed whole. If they pass the saving throw by 10 or more (28+) they completely avoid any damage, but if they pass by less than 10 (18-27) they take 4d12+4 bite damage and are grappled. If they fail, they are swallowed whole and take 3d12+4 crushing damage per round until they die or escape, which is a DC25 str save each round which can be assisted by others reaching into the mouth, if they are brave enough.
So yeah, that levitate spell is only going to work if they see the bulette coming, which they never should unless the DM sucks.
is BG3 canon? because that game gave it's bulettes a ranged attack where the bulette shoots stomach acids at you lol
@@KurNorockme and my group collectively agree to powergame both when dming and as players and have many homebrew rules for PCs and monsters that this rule would fit perfectly with!
never heard of them until bg3, so that jumping move was a huge shock
Giving you game and content right now. A SERIES ON ALL THE CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS IN D&D WOULD DO NUMBERS
Sniped 'em oughta the air somehow on my way down to the mushy village. Poor bastard learned the hard way that day that Karlach loves land shark sushi.
I swear the biggest argument in DnD lore discussion is the pronunciation of names 😆
The Bulette has been my favorite monster for a good 12-13 years now ever since first learning about them.
the whole standing jump thing is because its ADDITIVE to its movement, basically if someone uses the dash action to get awway the bule can just move and do a standing jump into its dive attack
you are got getting away
In Races of Stone 3.5 (the same book that introduces goliaths into 3.5), there are rules for hatching, raising, and training a bulette. It even has prices for buying bulette eggs and fully trained bulettes.
I imagine a dragon coming across a bulette would be similar to a person finding a particularly pissed off badger. Sure, you could take it... but you'd much rather not.
Time to build a campaign sentinel Western Old Town where is get soon overrun by Bullettes that is actually running from baby Purple Worms
The cognitive dissonance resulting from hearing "a more aerodynamic form to swim through the ground" had me stroke out for merment
What is water anyway? A fatter version of air.
Looking forward to putting a Bulette up against my players in a DC20 campaign!
Thanks for your amazing Lore video and a perfect shout out to DC20.
Its nice to see your favorite TH-camrs referencing each other.💜💜💜
Using Dungeon Dad's Grey Dragon, I can see a story where one is contracted to take out the local Bulette, or the reverse Kraven situation where they kept one as a pet, and after the party somehow dealt with the bulette, they now hove to deal with the Grey Dragon who wants to avenge (?) its pet.
The DC20 actually sounds pretty cool. Love the idea of action points rather than action/bonus action/movement that dnd has.
11:30 - Reminder that the entries in the monster manuals were canonically written by people in the world such as Mordenkainen and Volo. So, sometimes the information is not perfectly accurate or complete, but it is a canonical representation of that character's research into the creature
Babe wake up, new MrRhexx video!
It's fascinating that pretty much all monsters that eat humanoids love the taste of Halflings.
Welcome back, dad. Did you bring more milk?
*_" What they don't tell you about Milk... "_*
Bro you stupid lol😂
Depending on the kind of milk increases the difficulty I suppose.
No but I have the cigarettes
BOOOOO!! YOU SUCK!!!
Halflings live lives of leisure, dwarves live lives of toil. Halfling probably tastes like veal.
Thanks for the DC20 Shout out!!!
Haven't checked in a while, but this is a monster that I care about. I really love the new editing! It's obviously more time costly on your side, and that is very much appreciated!
Love all your videos, brother. Keep up the great work.
These extra lore tibits, they add so much possible creative gameplay and story telling to the setting
The beholder on the monster manual isnt roaring at the adventurers... thats a face of someone who sees a bulette comming at them
Never pick a fight with this creature. Trust me, you're dodging a bulette 😁
Pathfinder had a particularly scary Bulette variant known as the Juggerloathe. It was the offspring of a particularly large Bulette and a herald of Lamashtu, the Pathfinder goddess of Monsters. It's a massive, 50-foot long Bulette with hollow black pits for eyes, a cobra for a tail, and the ability to swallow its enemy whole, drain the life from them, and regurgitate them as undead monsters known as Bodaks.
In other word, they’re pathetically weak and is a humiliation of all bulette
In Berlin, a "bulette" is a form of pan-fried meat patty that is typically eaten with a bread roll and mustard.
Sharks, crocodiles, snakes and some other animals never stop growing, but when they reach adulthood their growth rate slows down. But never stop. Except when they die of some complications of old age.
I think the thing about some things not eating dwarves is because dwarves spice their food with reckless abandon for the heath of all other races, my friends dwarf looks as human spices and always insists on adding more that makes it inedible to humans, halflings, goblins, and the party tiefling. It’s one of the things we rule due to their poison resistance. Elves might be the equivalent of eating bread, so plain and boring that you would rather not eat it due to their overly healthy diets that use next to no seasonings. So they’re the opposite ends of the spectrum of being over spiced and under seasoned. Halflings are probably liked so much because you get a lot out of a little package like a donut or a cupcake.
Bit of trivia.
The bullete was designed while the author was looking at childrens plastic dinosaurs.
I have used these to hound adventurers for several decades now. I've always been fascinated with them. Thanks for the info.
I remember my first encounter against a bullette , rough time for sure . It put the fear of Gods in me
I do love the simple lore for slightly out of the box monsters. Some of the more highend like drow and gith lore videos are a little unapproachable. But this fuels well planned and informed monster of the week type encounters and I love it
Love your videos on relatively lower CR monsters like this. They make for perfect one-shot and side quest inspiration ❤
I love how these videos manage to turn monsters I think are dumb into ones I want to use.
They're also a really nice crafting material for non-metal armours on the heavier side, especially useful for druids. I do like me some bulette plate.
Great to have you back with the next video so quickly xD I'm really enjoying these monster lore videos, the give great ideas for creatures to use. Although, not going to lie here, I'd also love to see the dragon series continue.
I remember playing DnD in Florida and one of these things TPK'd a 5 player team I was in. It was believed that a rival kingdom sent one of these in the direction of the kingdom we were mercenaries for to soften up the place for conquest shortly after. It freaking killed us all! (5th to 6th) level characters The worst part about it was the thing caused 2 players to be trapped under rubble to be easily eaten and you can't outrun it. Our Mage didn't have the right spells to deal with it either as he had no idea what it was and what a Bulette is capable of.
i think the reason why they would prefer halflings over elves and dwarves is because generally speaking halflings are rotund and pudgy, whereas elves and dwarves are either slender and wiry or tough and hardy.
13:45 Nice touch with the pink bow
Dwarfs are tough and chew, and halflins are tender and juice
Had an amazing moment during a game where we snared the bullette after drawing out of its burrow and dropped it in 2 turns
DC20 looks super interesting! I will definitely be looking into that!
With how fast it can burrow, it makes sense that it has a powerful leap, it needs to have strong, fast limbs to dig that quick
okay dc 20 actually sounds sick
interesting sponsor im really interested in and might use
YES! missed you. welcome back...we need more MrRhexx videos in our lives.
Not the scariest monster by a long shot, but a fearsome foe in the right conditions or in numbers.
Start a campaign with a session 0 in which the players list 6 races, 6 classes, and 6 backgrounds, and then unleash the bulette!
Every round, the players roll 3d6 to determine which combination of race, class, and background, is eaten, with you narrating the kills.
At the end of the 5 rounds, the players have a race/class/background combination mostly at random.
It's good to know that I'll be changing the nonsensical method of reproduction that forgotten realms gave the mysterious bulette. Killing everything for weeks and waiting for a mate is probably the most obvious thing a giant land predator could do. Attacking and killing each other would also leave signs and not be too hard to figure out. The idea that a bulette wouldn't be doing all of this underground where they are most formidable is all preposterous.
I'll give my idea if you want... not that I'm some expert. A bulette could be laying eggs fairly deeply, and tracking down a nest would take a monumental effort. Bulettes are territorial and laying eggs in a well controlled location well suited for their larvae. Somewhere that would keep their young away and protected. Softer soils could also be an important decision for nest. A nest could be anywhere, but I think a place with abundant nutrition in the soil, like worm and roots, would be an ideal location. Possibly ever high moisture. Nothing is stopping us from deciding that the bulette is amphibious or has some sort of nymph stage. Or even that some other creature is actually bulette young.
Last thought just for some clarity. I like that the story about bulette reproduction exists. It's a story. It's untrue and ridiculous, but "no one" has ever seen it. People make shit up and tell scary stories. Untrue things have a place in the narrative.
We encountered a pair of bulettes in my very first campaign after getting sealed in a shadow druid cave, from which we escaped by me (druid) summoning a thoqqua to dig us a way out, but then a bulette came and killed the thoqqua and bust the cave mouth open. We managed to avoid a fight by me convincing the bulettes to just go into the cave and eat all the corpses of the enemies we killed.
Encountered this thing in a cave full of *magic* mushrooms. We tricked it into eating several kilograms of the stuff until it OD'd and fell over.
Two years later and our drug empire is making us more bank than any dungeon.
Just wanted to say thank you. Those videos enriched my games and understanding of the world a great deal.
I started using these a while ago and they freak the hell out of high leveled parties
I theorize the reason creatures that prefer the taste of halfling to the taste of dwarf comes down to the marbling and potential toxins of the meat. Dwarves have extremely dense musculature, probably taste rather gamey- and their poison resistance could perhaps have a side effect of a “tainted meat” taste. However halflings are often depicted as chubby or thicc with higher fat to muscle ratios - leading to better taste.
In the old Xbox game Dungeons and Dragons: Heroes the first boss is a bulette. You have to lure it into charging at crystals around the area to break it open and make it vulnerable to your attacks. I'm not too sure how to think about such a universally feared creature getting to be the first major boss. It is a challenging early battle too.
that name means "meatball" or "burger patty" in north eastern germany 🤣
One thing the lore never explained is how bulette meat tastes
The real scariest monster is the Murderhobos we met along the way.
I got to hear Robert Bulette in Vegas back in the 80's.
I see Amiri from Pathfinder in there. I recognize that lovely... sword anywhere.
Damn. Bulette mating is brutal as hell.
I imagine any old bullettes would be aged bulls who have sired many nests. Any males from those nests would come back to the area where their original nests were to mate. This would create constant evolutionary pressure on the older males in the eventuality of there being 2-3 males surviving the matriarchal cull and ganging up on dad.
In my game the centaur bard and half-elf dao warlock had the bright idea of planting magic beans in secret. One bean grew into magic eggs that increase ability scores and other summoned a bulette, which proceeded to one-shot the bard and eat her on the next turn. Bulette was killed, but the half eaten corpse of the bard couldn't be revived. The warlock chose to ask powerful Demon Lord to break his previous contract and to take new warlock contract under the Demon Lord in exchange for the bard's resurrection :D
Still going call them bullet
That's the correct pronunciation but boolay is funnier.
@@yahnservices1978except that the way to pronounce it based on how it's spelled uses rules of French, hence "boo-let" with emphasis on the 2nd syllable.
@@MethosJK9 Nope, I speak French, it's definitely "bullet" which is the closest, other comments are confirming it too. The U sound itself is the same as in luchador.
@@yahnservices1978 wait, bullet (buh-let) or boulet?
@@PhoenicopterusR Not boulet (BOOLAY or BOOLET), it's bullet and the U sound is the same as the first U in ultimatum.
I was caught with low spell slots when I encountered this thing in BG3. But I pulled through thanks to curse of dread.
17:20 --- They love the taste of WHAT?
17:34 --- Ooooh, horses.
Glad I'm not the only one who heard whores the first time
Are we sure the Terrasque isn't just a overgrown Bulettte?
Reminds me of a dwarf villain I had that rode a bullette in the dessert. He had his goggles on a dusty cloak. He only used it when he was in the dessert otherwise he let it roam free.
Thx for the vid Rhexx, never saw one I disliked, not one
a Bulette in nature is the hippo of D&D.
Such a cool creature! Awesome job as always! Ngl, the way the bulette is described and how it behaves makes it sound like a lesser tarasque. Very scary but very cool!
I've always wondered if the monsters in Tremors were directly inspired by these.
Another great video, I'm loving the new animations for the monsters! Bulettes are also just awesome monsters too. I already really liked them, but I had no idea how metal they were!
Also, fun fact: I once came upon a statblock on 5e tools for a young bulette from Princes of the Apocalypse that listed them as beasts. I double checked and sure enough, there's a bulette kennel where for the young bulettes it says to use the rhino statblock but reflavor the gore into a bite. You'd need to check with your DM obviously, but you can technically wild shape/polymorph into a baby bulette.
My party fought thee Bullettes yesterday! And I'm ironically playing your dragon class in that game lol! Very excited for this video!
God damn I did not expacted Bulettes to be this hard core.
You sweet summer child.
THANK YOU! I have been wondering how the heck to pronounce Bullette for so long.
I know one DM who wrote a level 1 to 20 story arc and half the adventures were fishing bulletes out of the landfill . . . .that was full of various magical toxic waste, so the bullete HD and some of their abilities changed over time. The later part of the story arc was based on some movies about tattoos in Las Vegas, but the action was set in an outer planes steam/cyber punk setting.
There's probably no children seen because they age to adulthood almost immediately. It's possible they mature after just a month or less as a 9 month process is cut to 2 hours
Or the juveniles simply stay in remote areas of the underdark where nobody has ever searched for them similar to eels hatching their young in the Sargasso sea a specific area in the depths of the Atlantic. It took us over 2000 years to finally figure out where eels lay their eggs.
I have missed your videos so much. They always give me endless ideas for my own game.
Someone make a home brew that is essentially the plot of jaws. Maybe in desert area with sand ships that have sails and at one point an NPC says "we're gonna need a bigger sand ship"
That slime that dissolves rock and earth also makes the sinkholes make a lot more sense. It's not just that the earth is displaced from the burrowing, but that the very structure of the earth is being melted away.
Fun fact, in german, a bulette is some piece of minced meat you grill.
Love the videos and can’t get enough! Please continue with these masterpieces
The slime mentioned at the end reminded me of an Almudron but far worse for civilization.
I was honestly expecting you to pronounce it wrong (I'll admit I only knew how to pronounce it right because of the 2e MM). Full props.