Mephistopheles | Archdevils of D&D | The Dungeoncast Ep.316
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- William and Brian are going almost as deep as you can go into the levels of hell - stopping in the frigid realm of Cania to study the Arch Devil second only to Asmodeus himself. Learn the many astounding secrets and evil practices of the feared and might Mephistopheles this week on The Dungeoncast!
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Mephistopheles and Asmodeus is the closest thing you could have to true friendship between two immensely powerful, purely evil Archdevils
Never, ever never was there ever, such a cast as the magical Dungeoncastopheles.
Mephi wanting to surpass Asmo with his own power is so similar to Vegeta and Goku. I think Vegeta has actually saved Goku’s life and said something like, “The only one who will kill Kakarot is me!”
The way I see it Asmodeus is Megatron and Mephistopheles is Starscream, down to the treacherous right hand man being vocal about his ambitions and the main villain thinking that the traitor is too useful to be disposed of.
He’s an intimidating Starscream. Need to differentiate that starscream sucks lol.
I think I'll have him turn into a jet next time I use him
Yeah it'd be cool to interact with this video to raise its rating
Came here to put this
"Are you Satan?"
"I should be!"
Thanks, guys, that made me laugh so hard. 🤣
Hell yeah Vegeta of DND has finally been given the spotlight what an awesome NPC and character to use in your games. The game I am running had one of my players be a warlock who served Mephistopholes after he saved her by turning her into a warforged to save her from an illness he himself placed upon her it was glorious. Now she is free though and he doesn't let people who wronged him get off the hook that easily. Thanks for your continous work guys, I always look forward to your new releases.
DEVIL WIZARD!! Is the most metal band name I've ever heard. Once again, you guys have given me another great campaign idea!
I miss you guys... I know it hasn't been that long but it feels like it.
Not sure if this channel is still monitored but hope you both are doing well.
Shout out to Demogorgon.
this is literally a starscream and megatron dynamic and now it’s giving me ideas to turn the nine hella into the g1 decepticons lol
In Pathfinder, there is something called Hellfire Ray if I remember correctly. Also, in D&D there is at least in NWN 2 a Hellfire pact Warlock which has access to the hellfire blast. It is a ranged touch spelllike ability of unlimited use. It deals moderate damage.
if someone you know or love has contracted Mephistopholes please contact our lawfirm to hear about settlement options today!
As I listen to your take on 9 hells, it sounds like TheOffice to me. Perfect.
Looking forward to a Moloch or Geryon, if they are on the card 🙂
Would also be interested to hear how you would rank the Arch Dukes in terms of power.
Praise Zariel 🤟
This was well organized and a great resource for lore!
I can’t wait for y’all to do one on the 10th lord of the nine hells… Gargauth! Oh dang, someone already suggested that… ummm… never mind… do their suggestion instead!
Listening to your videos keeps me sane, nerd on forever. 🥲
Im a dm and between you guys and a few others, its helped so much of my knowledge and lore to prep for games and areas, especially the mindset of all the creatures and races. I appreciate all what you guys do especially cause its always a fun listen and the best part make it understandable and relatable
🎵And you'll all say:
Oh! Well I never! Was there ever
A fiend so clever as magical Mr. Mephistopholes!🎵
Damn didn't know we were in such full force in Chicago. Hell yeah, come thru to the city!!!
I remember reading somerwhere that Baator had original denizens that were kicked out by Asmodeus, the Baatorians. Zargon the Returner is one of them
Coldest place on earth is -114° Fahrenheit. That's a little colder than Cania. Bring it, Mephistopheles.
I am in fact, in KS. It was quite nice to be remembered for once (directed more generally at people always forgetting, not y'all specifically). My partner and I both enjoy your show quite a lot, especially because it feels like you want your players to be involved with the story and have a reasonable say. It can be seen in the way y'all interact, that you both encourage each other's ideas and expound upon them. We also both appreciate your occasional political tones, as they align quite closely with our own. By the way, thank you for saying something about voting this past election. Both myself and my partner are from marginalized groups, and it means quite a bit to hear people advocating to make sure people like us aren't more marginalized. We would sub to patreon if we could, but, we are disabled and without many funds. But if we had them, you guys would be high up on the list of those we'd want to give to
Hi guys, I’m following you from Spotify, now I will watch all your videos here too lol, thanks for all your effort, I really appreciated ❤
"i was about to unravel the cosmos but i had to take out the garbage" is the best way to sum up a mushroom trip that ive ever heard.
10/10 You guys should make a "Get Wreckoned" shirt for your merch store.
20:45 On that note.
"The Sacred Flame is a mystical, interdimensional source of energy considered important by all the non-evil gods, although it is associated with no one god specifically... half of the damage is divine power rather than simply fire, so even creatures resistant or immune to fire take that damage." - Dragon Magazine 283
"The Abyssal version of hellfire... Blackflame: Your spells and spell-like abilities and magic item abilities... deal half fire damage and half vile damage." - Dragon Magazine 357
Oooo this is an excellent find!
So in 5e blackflame would deal necrotic damage.
@@damianstruiken5886 Yep, as would hellfire (true hellfire anyway, ignoring the abilities that have the name in it).
The star scream of dnd
I’m new to DnD and i found this channel! It’s awesome, and i just started to listen to the podcast episodes so i can get a little more information on how the game works and the lore and mythos and everything! Is really cool, i’m currently on episode 7 of the podcast, where it’s about Worldbuilding.
Minsc and Boo’s Journal of Villainy has 5e stats for Mephistopheles. The book is technically unofficial but has some great stat blocks for various villains including several arch devils and demon lords. Hellfire doesn’t care about fire resistance.
Just found this channel as I love all things devil in dnd. Your banter is amazing, even the comic book chit chat 🤣. Made a new subscriber!
In my own homebrew I have a son of Mephastopheles and they have one of those paradoxical relationships. Like they hate one another deeply but God help anyone who disrespects the other in their presence. The logic being that I am awesome so no wonder he is awesome mentality.
I just love how Meph is peak ADHD representation in his working style.
I see you buddy, I see you.
First time watching this channel, 12 minutes in and already cracking up.. Batman vs Superman then Hulk vs Banner!.!.! some serious ADHD nerds 😂😂
This is a great video! I recommend you guys cover Gargauth in the future, he's really cool.
I love the kismesissitude reference
perfect timing, my warlock needed a secret patron that was bipolar 😂
Baalphagor's history in dnd is very interesting. She is said to be as old as the hells themselves and maybe even older than the other 9 Lords of Hell. And quite possibly is a primordial Nessian/Canian/Baatorian.
She's the queen of ice, and in 3.5, she's missing and her erinyes squads are looking for her.
RE: the raven queen, I actually think that CR is to "blame" for her drop in popularity in 5e due to their interpretation of her in the first campaign. The way she treated the protagonists at the end kinda soured her for some.
Yeah, Critical Role Raven Queen is just Female Kelemvor but with less redeeming values.
On the Banner/Hulk vs Jekyll/Hyde:
Apart from the very recent (and super excellent) "Immortal Hulk", Hulk has always been an agent of chaos, but still good natured; same goes for Bruce Banner. I think what Bryan mentioned is actually the Old Man Logan timeline, in which both have gone crazy and generated a long series of in-bred with She-Hulk (who's the only woman who could bear the Hulk child).
Jekyll/Hyde are the poster child of good turning bad, with Hyde being the physical representation of Jekyll's (and by extension, all of humanity's) malice, starting small and weak (when Jekyll is still a good man new to evil) and then becoming strong and almost (here comes the joke) hulking.
In the original Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story, they weren't even two separate personalities. Dr. Jekyll would just use a potion to change his appearance so he could act on the bad impulses he always has without being held accountable. The problem arose when he started changing to the Hyde appearance without the potion and outside his own control. But it was always Jekyll doing those things.
Late to the party so if anyone else said it, my bad. Bruce Banner did come out during world war hulk in the fight against Doctor Stranger. (Changing to Banner to get his guard down then reverting and crushing DS's hands)
And the fight between Hulk and Sentry was a stalemate ended by a giant space laser that turned them both back to their normal human forms. Cause you gotta leave it ambiguous so no camp gets too mad.
Mephistopheles: the science, these knees" -Runesmith
My personal canon for why there are so many ruins in Baator is that it was actually the first plane created, and the original inhabitants were corrupted into the first devils, forgetting what they once were. Now Mephistopheles is rediscovering forgotten knowledge within the ruins of the first people.
I really enjoyed the year of the Fiend, psyched to see what you do next.
Happy new year to you both 👍👍
I'm sorry I could've sworn there for a second you said Taint his foe's with phallic evil. I was like dude what a dick.
The ancient things in parts of the 9 Hells are sometimes referred to as Baatorians, and they are the native races of the Lawful Evil plane, before it was taken over by Asmodeus and his fallen angels. The only named one I know of is Zargon.
A bad version of Bruce Banner is featured in “Old Man Logan.” He’s a cannibalistic, incestuous warlord who kills Logan’s family just because he wants to fight the Wolverine again.
My PRACTICAL guess on the hand-off reference: Next year is Year of the Undead. LOTS of material there.
My PIPE DREAM HOPEFUL guess: Next year is Year of the Humanoid, where we finally go into the greatest hits of actual people in the D&D multiverse: Mordenkainen, Elminster, Jarlaxle, Wulfgar, etc. They could honestly go even more specific and make it Year of the Mage and still have a boatload of content.
My CRACKHEAD guess: Year of the Ooze, baby
Maybe an episode on the 4e pantheon as a whole would be cool
HELL YES!! I would love that!
idk about glacier wyrms but frost wyrms are pretty terrifying. aj pickett just did a pretty good video about them. yeah they're pretty close to a purple wyrm but with some other terrifying abilities
"I listen to your show to get prepped."
Yeah, that. I'm listening to all the nine hells episodes so my one devil character knows what he's talking about. (He kinda unconsciously sounds like y'all.)
SHOUT TO CHICAGO! SHOUT OUT TO! SHOUT OUT TO! SHOUT OUT TO CHICAGO! OOOOHHHH YEEEEAAAAHHHHH!
So, being the big dweeb that I am (and probably thanks to binging Um Actually episodes recently), I feel I gotta say something about the Bruce Banner/Hulk tangent. In World War Hulk, Hulk believes that Reed Richards planted a bomb in the ship, but it's revealed that one of his war brood planted it there to decieve Hulk. And the other story that's mentioned where Banner himself is evil would be Old Man Logan. Banner has a bunch of inbred Hulk kids that do nefarious things, but Banner only turns into the Hulk if he absolutely has to (for instance, Logan coming to kill the Hulk family).
I came for the devils, but I stayed for the superheroes.
The Archdevil of ADHD
That's exactly what I thought😂
Mephistopheles is basically Hades from Disney's Hercules. 😂
have you read Minsc and Boos book of villainy supplement? it has Mephistopheles statblock along with others!
hot dayum I love me some Dungeoncast
Y'know, in Dante's inferno, the final ring of Hell is actually a cold place where the souls are frozen up to their necks. So.. yeah, cold hell isn't exactly unprecedented.
Love year of the fiend you homies rock
Chicago representing.
"monk is two different concepts" ... goes to know the wisdom on the hosts.
Mephistopheles is his own Rival
Mephisto is the Ra's al Ghul to Asmodeus Batman. The Lex Luthor to Asmodeus Superman.
Mephistopheles is like the Riddler.
Do a video on the tarterian depths of carceri while its still year of the fiend
Regarding world war/world breaker hulk both bruce and the hulk are pissed and at the end he realises some stuff which im not gonna say cause spoilers and they both ask the heroes to stop them before they destroy earth🤓.Also great video you guys really help in my campaign
XANTH is a world in Piers Anthony novels.
It’s not year of the fiend it’s year of the subclass
In terms of storylines demonstrating the power of hellfire, I love the idea of an Igor/Dr. N. Brio type of henchman who is always by the Master's side but is kind of a wimp, even a comic relief character, who the party often sees as they chase after the supposed master.
Eventually, this goofy little idiot gets sick of being the butt of everyone's jokes and discovers the secrets of hellfire and this afterthought suddenly burns his master alive and torches entire castles and countrysides with a level of power that far outstrips anything the old master was doing. No secret training, no hidden power backstory. He just got access to portable nukes without any of the hard work and is suddenly way more powerful than anything you've seen before.
Ok just a small gripe, when a villain signs a song in a disney movie they arent telling the kids its good😂 they are in fact showing they are bad and showing kids this is how bad people think
So, in terms of 5E, the Forgotten Realms is featured heavily. But Ravenloft was introduced in 5E back in 2016, which was the second year of the edition. So saying that the first 5 years of 5E was Forgotten Realms only, is technically incorrect.
Lol, you talked about him being the Lord of Hellfire and the Cold Lord, and then you joked about his low AC, for some reason my brain thought you meant air conditioning, because he likes it cold. Took me a second to realize you obviously meant armor class.
I love the intro and short rest music! Do you guys have a band?
No band, we are just a couple of bards :)
I love AuDHD representation in media
I appreciate the Chicago shoutout but cmon man not the blackhawks
I'm imagining these two, like most classic rivalries, as having homosexual undertones
They said that they were in a kismesissitude
Mephistopheles just has ADD he aint special
I'm in Arkansas, does that count? 😆
One sec, Gotta just um, fight the LITERAL ARCHDEVIL Mephistopheles rn because someone put it into a story ONCE. -Apollo
Year of the Dismembered?
Having a lore video for dnd and just hearing crap about superheroes completely killed this for me tbh
Yeah genuinely. The first fifteen minutes and they spent 2-3 min at least talking about batman and the hulk
I mean dont listen to podcasts then? Its not a lore dump video, its still people talking and being themselves.
@@Mr911superstar Mental gymnastics
So Mephistopheles has crippling adhd. Cool!
So he is Starscream from transformers?
I want to see Mephistopheles versus Orcus wanna necromancer spellcasters and wonder, wizard spellcaster, one demon lord, and one arch devil demon lord Orcus 👿 and arch devil Mephistopheles 😈.
Are you Gotta talk about balors and pit fiends.
Dnd one is on the way and they still didnt address deities and demigods in 5e...wtf
Because the moment you make a statblock for gods they becomes numerically and mechanically killable
@@PyrotechNick77 i have been playing dnd since 1e...they have always had stat blocks ....even for odin Hercules. Death and thor
I've been trying to become a dm for years
I need to know if you actually hate baalzebub on principle or if you just dont like him cause now hes a cursed slug monster in a poop castle
Batman can totally take superman, asmodeus and mephistopheles all teamed up against him.
Hellfire is a great song, he’s a villain. He wouldn’t sing about womens rights lol
I don't think anyone disagrees that it's a great villain song, the question is usually whether it's actually appropriate to have it in a kid's movie.
@@brianroberts783 like the SpongeBob movie, there’s a few surprises for the adults that get dragged in
@@calebrenegar1992, I still think that the main villain's motivation being explicitly stated as lust is more than just a sly joke to get parents to watch it.
This episode was thiccc with 3 c's
So, he has adhd. Neat
Maybe Mephistophalies is true about how to solve problems with Azmo because he is subtly showing Asmo i know how to do this better than you and this is why i should lead.