Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Demogorgon
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- 8:55 To Skip Intro
12:23 Details on Demogorgon in the game
23:58 Narrating the encounter with Demogorgon and Tasselhoff
31:03 Tactics of Demogorgon
42:38 Cults of Demogorgon
57:19 The Ixitxachitl
The Sibilant Beast, lord of the Darkened Depths, Lord of all the swims in darkness, Prince of Demons, Demogorgon is one of the greatest villains in D&D history and his influence and plots touch so much of the game setting, across the different realms, that to do them all justice would take a LOT of explaining, this, however, is my small introduction to the first and greatest of the Tanar'ri demons.
Drums of the Deep Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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creativecommons....
8:55 You'll thank me later.
Thanks, actually I will add the time stamp to the doobly doo.
Thank you.
CrudusViscus thank you
no i wont
Gave me an ad, but still worth it (no offense AJ)
Orcus and Grazzt are battling it out in the ring
Looks like Orcus has has Grazzt in a headlock, Grazzt punches out, and OOH, where did he find that chair!
This is getting wild folks-
Wait, is that?
IT IS!
That's Demogorgon, they're not even in this match!
Uh Oh, neither Orcus or Grazzt is paying attention-
Demogorgon's slithering on up there...
AND BOOM!
RKO out of nowhere! I can't believe it!
Grazzt is out everybody, and Orcus is barely hanging on!
The crowd's going wild, Demogorgon just swooped in and stole the Title Belt right from under everybody!
I... would... watch that. In its entirety. And enjoy it greatly lol
OH GODS HE'S GOT AN ADAMANTINE CHAIR!
Yo that hyped me up
Mithral chair man, where are we zhentil keep?!
@@DIEGhostfish That's gotta hurt!
"I didn't summon you to talk about your problems."
Holy SHIT that magus has balls of steel.
Yeah right, mad respect
I mean for dragon lance era. Magus was one of the 3 most powerful mortal wizards ever in that setting. Magus, Raistlin and Fistandlis would be the only ones to take on demogorgon. All 3 almost became gods as well
@@Mogel1978 in the one timeline raistlin absorbs them all... Love that "ending" almost reminiscent of Faeruns Shar.
@@Mogel1978 not to be a dick either but it's magius , the magus is just a random high level mage.
***woke up this morning/got yourself an arcabus*** Demogorgon (sitting): the fookin' moke chagon, they think they can take me?
Dr. Magus: Language.
Demogorgon (lighting a mummy): hey, whose the kinderi ova there.
Dr. Magus; Huh? Hey, wheres my ring?
Demogorgon: hey doc, I gotta get this. You figure that out.
Later Demogorgon and Little Orcus are complaining about Grazztopher inside of Tharasdun Social Club
Stranger Things kids: "We did it, we beat the Demogorgon!"
D&D Nerds: "You killed ONE VROCK..."
I know! Right?!
@person person like vroom nothing fancy
@person person Pretty much the same as "frock" but you gotta bite and flick your bottom lip.
So true
@person person it rhymes with Brock from Pokémon
No disrespect to Orcus, but is anyone else here old enough to remember when Orcus was THE interesting one? Great Demogorgon video AJ.
Orcus the Black Prince. In life he was a devil swine(one of the more destructive types of lycanthrope)...
I am hehe
Not really. I actually read that Stones Throw story back when it was published. I always though Demogorgon was way more interesting. Orcus just had a cool wand.
@@ameliaward7429 I can respect that. I was on the other side of the experience. Demogorgon was just the guy in the Abyss that Orcus did not do. Orcus was the Devil Swine that was the center of all Abyssal demon things, almost a random-thinking mob boss, who pretended most of his power was in his wand... who he gave to many cultists who worshipped him as some kind of god, as in, many. I have no idea when the dynamic changed and Demogorgan became the interesting one. I never read that story so it was probably in that story. Now... I have a story to read, thank you.
The Ritual of Self Feasting is to this day the only thing in D&D lore that made my jaw drop
I'm begging you to get your hands on some more Dragon magazine lore bits; during the 3.5 era the edgelords from Paizo ran the show and there was all sorts of weird shit.
By far the most underappreciated channel on youtube
Amen
The Demogorgon certainly deserves such an epic intro!
I thought so, seems most people like it, not to everyone's taste though, but, they forgive my quirks and experiments :)
Well no way of pleasing everyone but I did find that with this length of video, it was rather balanced, plus that was just awesome
Go with it ! This is your channel and, on top of that, the percussion + darkness encroaching on a candle suits the tale.
Unrelated... is there some Pathfinder in the foreseeable future ?
Golarion, hmmm, I know I am going to have to make a video about it, it is a D&D setting after all, so, yes.
AJ Pickett Oh right, Golarion 😮... to be honest, I was thinking of the Abyss in pathfinder 😁😀
In terms of being such a badass enemy, Demogorgon is right up there with Tiamat.
Wasn't Orcus originally a mortal who climbed the demonic heirarchy all on his own? that Scramble for Power must've lasted many centuries.
Millenia
According to this video, Orcus was fighting with Graz'zt for the title of Prince of Demons when Demogorgon crawled out of the Abyssal mire to claim the crown for himself. So if he climbed the demonic heirarchy to become a demon prince, he did so VERY early in the cosmos ... like when mortals were first made.
@@Michael-cf9cj Or perhaps Mishka simply reigned for much longer than the pacing of AJ's narration implies.
@@benthomason3307 Could be. They don't go into a specific timeline but they do talk about eons.
My take on it was always Orcus was one of the first mortals to become Balors…first batch along side THE Balor. That’s my head canon anyway. Also given the time span covered when talking the history of the abyss…a few millennia would be a pretty rapid rise all things considered. Like the abyss itself…the canon is chaotic and shifting at best lol
"I won't be going into anything that isn't depicted in the Dungeons and Dragons Guide".....Ah but as terrible as the depths of human depravity and the fetid mists of imagination are. They bring deeds to mind that are far more terrible.
I absolutely love the starting of this video, I finally watched and listened to it with subtitles on. I was completely and totally hanging on every word as it wove the tapestry that told the story of how Demogorgon was cast aside and came back to claim what was originally his... Keep up the amazing work, you are a true blessing to the D&D Community....
Wow, thank you Jeff! Pity WotC broke my heart and caused me to stop making D&D content.
The ixitxachitl's name is seemingly written to look like a Pre-Columbian language from the Mexico and Central America region called Nahuatl (pronounced Na-whaht) . If it were a Nahuatl word, it would be pronounced Ee-sheet-shacheet. The L at the end of Nahuat words is almost never pronounced, though modern diaclects sometimes do, but inconsitently as far as I can tell. The X is pronounced very much like SH.Great video. Keep up the good work!
The pronunciation I used is the one provided by Ed Greenwood in his Dragon Magazine article (he spelled it out phonetically, bless his snowy beard). You are totally correct on the Nahuatl pronunciation, I would certainly use either, as the species ranges over such a vast area, they probably have a lot of different names.
I love it that the dark, demonic narrator voice has a New Zealand accent :-D
Awesome. I like the longer form videos. The loads of detail really fill in all the little traits, homes, motivation etc.
Crom claps at your soundtrack!
I thank Crom, strong in his mountain!
Thanks for the candle. It brought me back to playing og dnd and adnd with my friends as a child. :)
SOMEBODY GETS IT! Thanks Erin :D
Tasselhoff also experienced fear in the presence of the Death Knight Lord Soth, when he captured Laurana.
Funny how demogorgon birthed the death knights and both are feared by kender
Stopppp you’re going to make me cry Tasselhoff is too fucking pure for this world
Also outside the Tower of Waywreth I think, the tower that Raist and Dalamar set up shop in, in the middle of the city
@@TencelasTas is not pure, he thinks he's pure, but he isn't. He's a pain in the ass kleptomaniac with no concept of personal space or ownership. He's also apparently incapable of making decisions "conducive to a long life "
And I love him for it.
I dont know how many times I've watched this just for the first part.
I hope you do yeenoghu as well, after all he had the most influence in the material plane out of all the daemon lords*
Demon
Yeenoboi for the win!
I was under the impression that dagon was on par with the queen of chaos in power as it was stated when she gathered the other demonlords, The only exception to this was Dagon, whose power she feared.
Dagon always whispers his secrets to one head at a time (never both at once), thus playing a major role in the tension between Demogorgon's heads.
Ah, that makes sense, Dagon seems one of the demon lords who just endures the countless eons, sowing slow tides of terror throughout the cosmos.
Great video, perhaps after you have covered the other main demon lords you could do a video on great evils and how they fit within the pantheons or power structure. Them aswell as the aboleth feel kinda shoehorned into the lore more as a nod to lovecraft and don't seem very flushed out.
D&D could stand for 'demons and demons'
So many partially sketched out demon lords.
Piecing together the lore, the queen of chaos indeed could not rally dagon. Whether from fear, apathy, eagerness to start the war against the multiverse is unknown.
My guess is a combination of all 3. The queen slew many obryith lords who refused her. If she had won, im thinking then it was dagons turn. She lost though, so its unknowable what wouldve happened
22:05 I thought that motorcycle was the demogorgon...
Lmao. I thought it was a sound effect or something. 😂
I love how your videos on Demons & Devils really dives into their personal motivations, you point out how unique they really are. When I read about them I don't pick up on that and they just kinda seem all the same, you have a way of making them more believable and interesting. Thanks!
I remember Demogorgon even before I got into AD&D. I remember playing a game called, Forbidden Forest that had a boss creature known as Demogorgon.
I might have missed it but Demogorgon was "killed" (or banished) in the novel "legend of Drizzt, Heros book 3" when the city of Menzoberranzan was attacked by him. Loth blessed her followers and help the drow "kill" the demon prince. If any one wants more Demogorgon.
hawktondog Oh snap. Demogorgon and Loth are now the future blood feud of a bunch of books. And hopefully a few campaigns.
Not true, -I- killed Demogorgon in Watcher's Keep ;)
One Drow alone can't beat him. Wrestle him in Watcher's Keep and you know why. Salvatore's deus ex machina is no match, surely not.
Demogorgon>lolth
Put enough bodies on a problem and even a god can be taken down. But I think we can assume his full power was not brought to bear on the city. We can infer this from the fact it survived. Something like Demogorgon isn't gonna risk losing something he can't afford to lose on a gambit in a pitiful mortal realm.
So, four years later, I might not expect an answer, but in 5e, would you still allow Demogorgon, and other similar monsters to grant divine spells to clerics? In my experience, the ability to grant such spells is an ability that sets gods apart, so a Demon Prince, not counting as a deity, wouldn't be able to do this. In my headcanon, gods don't empower Warlocks, because unlike such weaker Patrons, they have the power to grant real power, in the form of full casting, and get a greater hold of their souls. Patrons, lacking such a boon, tend more to slip secrets, and lead their Warlocks along via breadcrumbs, trying to get them to do their will. I getvthat part of that might just be my preference, but how about you? Could 5e Demogorgon, Graz'zt, or Fraz'Urb'luu still have the strength to empower Clerics? If they do, then why "waste time" with Warlocks? And I know part of that isn't fair; Warlocks can be a blast, and have several fun builds and abilities, but the biggest complaint I always hear is limited casting, followed by dual-classing into Sorcerer, because Charisma caster. Since many Patrons are definitely not mighty enough to grant full casting, would you let Demogorgon "double-dip"? Fraz? Asmodeus is a weird area, since he definitely has clerics, but also contracts warlocks; I haven't had to feel that out yet, in a game, but what is your opinion?
Well, regardless, clerics can always cast up to 3rd level spells, so they get those, but wouldn't it be more interesting if your cleric got to choose arcane spells instead? After all, Demogorgon knows all spells and rituals (well, one head certainly does), because what you are making is more accurately called... a cultist.
Stranger things was the first thing that got me interested in dnd. Aside from my cousin relaying stories from his games when he was younger. Specifically his dwarf character that fell off a mountain side and decided to flap his arms and fly..... Roll nat 20. 😂 the dwarf rises above the mountains cliff flapping his arms furiously. Then lands in the snow beside his fellow adventurers exhausted and must take a short rest.
wow! Your cousin is the person that actually DID the famous "Falling Flapping Dwarf" trick that every single D&D player has heard a hundred times at every fan convention since 1985?!?!?! I think your cousin may have told you a lie. Not unlike the person who ACTUALLY DID originally tell that story, because only the weakest of DM's would allow any such stupidity to succeed. It is game of magic but ONLY magic can suspend natural physics. You can't "fly" without spell to make it happen. And it takes a Long Rest to ease the "Exhausted" condition, not a Short Rest.
‘As you fall, flapping your arms like the world’s most over grown bearded duck, your bag is snagged by a hardy tree branch, bending a full 135 degrees. You begin to hear cracking as you come to a stop, and rocks begin to crumble at the roots as you feel your bag begin to dig into your armpit. You are launched in the air back the way you came. Nice 20.’
Clever!
It was really interesting to hear that Demogorgon could wrestle a dragon, made me wonder about what the ultimate pecking order is. Could you make a list of most to least powerful diety level beings in DnD?
Yes that needs to be done
Number one. Lord Ao. Go from there.
@@sagesheahan6732 Luminous Being is above Ao or at least an equal
A greater god of a single world is not more powerful than greater gods of major races found in multiple worlds
@@remeyrune6009 who?
Im loving the longer videos. The amount of detail you put into these is incredible and greatly appreciated by all Im sure
This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels.
Splendid monograph, I enjoy these in-depth recitations...All Hail The Mighty Gluestick!!!
*bows* shadow council, may my labors please you.
You should do a detailed video on Raistlin and Fistandantilus (dragonlance), Raistlin is what made me interested in d&d and in my opinion is the arch type mage, worthy of a video
“Stranger things theme plays”
Conan the barbarian theme plays too
Mr. Pickett your content is astounding! Not a D&D player myself (aside from the games BG 1+2 ID 1+2 NWN 1+2 ect.) so I've dipped my big toe in the lore over the years. I am a fictional writer though so your content is an absolute goldmine of inspiration! Thank you for the hours of entertainment 👌
You are most welcome
I love those games myself
@@jacobshelt01 From a narrative perspective, I missed arguably the best one, Planescape: Torment. I've learnt a lot more about the various planes from this channel, including Sigil. Would have loved to dive into that in my youth knowing what I do now.
@@YuVen3487 I got it on my steam wishlist just need to afford it , I live all the old TSR books and games
@@jacobshelt01 Truly wish I had the time to sit down and enjoy a good ARPG, life and writing sadly take up far too much of it these days. Luckily though I channel that in my writing, creating an engaging narrative is my passion now 😌
Fantastic episode - I am running out of the Abyss now and this will add tremendously.
11:04 if you have the developer's Ascension mod installed and are using insane difficulty, that fight is ludicrous.
I really enjoy your interpretation of Demogorgons confusion gaze.
Also, great video. You deserve more attention.
thank you for making my campaign epic i always liked him "demogorgon" just needed some extra flex of inspiration. also thanks for making a player know kender CAN feel FEAR!!!!!. XDDD really really the player liked it as well as in the read. so~ thanks mate....
It's been a while since I've read the novel, but I thought in Dragons of Summer Flame, many Kender experienced fear for the first time due to the destruction brought on by Malystryx the Red.
I'm guessing the green ring on the one fellows hand is a ring of magus killing? Making the one guy a mage assassin?
O lord it’s an hour long. I did not anticipate this well time to watch it.
It's easier in the future. You may find yourself sitting in a room wondering what to do. Thank you China.
This video de-railed me from writing my history project; still worth every minute
Oh my friend, you must have a conduit into my head. I've been planning some Demogorgon related material recently! Thanks as always for your thorough and thoughtful coverage.
Most welcome Jeremy!
One of my favorite bosses of all time. One can make many different fight scenarios with only this monster
You could modify the ritual that the potential thrall goes through so that the demon slices through the corpous callosum, the thick bundle of nerves that connect the two hemispheres of the brain. This is actually performed in humans in extreme cases of epilepsy to stop seizre signals travelling from one side of the brain to the other. Thralls in game may experience apraxia / aphasia, balance issues or even Hemispatial neglect. The latter could manifest with thralls shaving half their face (and not realising they missed half), denying that some of their limbs are theirs or ignoring things that fall only on once side of their vision (maybe they only talk side on). Maybe they can also now concentrate on two spells at once :D
Really appreciate your work and ask the effort you put into these videos 👍 you're awesome!
I appreciate that!
Yes the intro was great...at some point I hope you do a video on Malcanthet the Demon Queen of Succbi😈💯
^^^^^^^^^^^^
MalcanTHOT amirite ?
Who is this magus that casually summons contains and interrogated the Demogorgon like it were some quasit?
Gandalf
Mordenkainen?
thank you for inspiring! been LOVING listening to the monster backgrounds...ALL of them
Demogorgon is ridiculously powerful. All but the most powerful characters would shit their plate mail even laying eyes upon him. Think about his passion for rage and chaos and then add in his abilities and intellect. He's destruction personified and has perfected the art of destroying. If I was DM'ing a game with him in it, this is one encounter I take zero pity on the PCs. You'd best be bringing EVERYTHING against him in the most articulated way or you're going to end up a mane or worse.
Hey, I enjoy your videos quite a bit and hope you keep doing long ones like this! You’re a fantastic storyteller and I’m hoping to absorb some of the descriptive strategies you use to detail those stories. Thanks!
Oh you should check out my latest videos, LOADS of story telling, I really amped it up a few notches!
That motorcycle was great ambience. I enjoyed the long video
Thanks Emiliano :)
Crom laughs at Demogorgon from deep in his mountain.
From very deep, and not too loudly.
newish subscriber from canada... been watching a lot of your videos lately and must say this one has to be my favourite. many thanks for putting the full hour treatment to one of my favourite characters! much love and keep up the awesome work!
Thank you sir, I have a few lovely relatives over in Canada, great folks, great place.
Well done! I definitely would enjoy more of these longer more in depth videos.
This is my favorite video you've done. The music, the back story, all of it.
Agreed. Tis epic. 😁
It would be nice if you provided the spelling for all of these weird names and made up words. Either said aloud, or printed on screen or in the description. I could sound out "ixitxachitl" 100 times and never even get close. Luckily google knew what I meant by "demon ray" lol. Not that you don't put enough work into these videos already, they are phenomenal.
Been playing in a Savage Tide group for the past 3 years. (old ass 3.5 campaign that was in Dungeon magazine, had Demogorgon as the BBEG. Our DM adapted it for 5e.) Now the campaign ended, we killed Demogorgon's sorry ass, and it feels so damn good to finally be listening to this video that I purposely didn't watch to avoid spoilers.
You rolled a 20 on your Wisdom save. :)
@@AJPickett you say that as a joke but hilariously I was the cleric in that campaign
I cannot believe you only have 74k subs. You deserve a lot more!
Thanks!
Thank you again Sir, another great addition to an already impressive collection of videos.
Love the videos, thanks for the hard work. Would love to see one on Graz'zt!!
41:50 Demogorgon could reach his goal if he obtained "the Apparatus".
I actually made a fusion of the stranger things demogogon with the original by giving them two flower pedal mouths and the ability to dimension door between dimensions using a black inking stuff as their door as well as a fun little move where they use the door ability and only puts their arm in it and will try to punch the party at where ever they are. I call it “a rift punch”
nice intro and use of the C .T .B sound track - anvil of crom - ? a sound track every gamer should have :)
I totally agree. Here, let me string together a playlist of awesome..
th-cam.com/video/DxzzlpX1Dms/w-d-xo.html (Dark Crystal)
th-cam.com/video/LWc_yKpR3ng/w-d-xo.html (Beastmaster)
th-cam.com/video/W2wQ0PelmZo/w-d-xo.html (Krull)
th-cam.com/video/EuKGNGZjUJI/w-d-xo.html (Wrath of the Lich King)
th-cam.com/video/OJk_1C7oRZg/w-d-xo.html (lord of the rings)
th-cam.com/video/xWtfo9kuRTU/w-d-xo.html (Skyrim)
th-cam.com/video/l7Ltbmvx5VI/w-d-xo.html (Avatar)
th-cam.com/video/xdJa0XHoX0c/w-d-xo.html (Conan: Hyboria)
th-cam.com/video/ZeZL2R9jDJM/w-d-xo.html (Conan the Barbarian: Original)
the red friar s ;;t(marsh
So much awesome...
Now I am spending all night expanding my playlist. Thank you!
@@AJPickett AWESOME list man!
👍👍👍
Damn flower-headed son of a- wait- wong Demogorgon
Hmmmm Demogorgon and pale night both made a race of demon spider things maybe something in the far realm or outside reality gave them the idea of spiders a massive hive of creepy horrible spider like evil just viewing these two as caught in its web
You make really great videos. Underrated for sure
Wow, a spell caster wizard can "summon" Demogorgon with a "Gate" spell !
This can be Abuse big time !
3.5e favorite multi-class combo
Starting as : rogue2nd/fighter1st/wizard3rd. CR: 6 ;BAB+4
Getting Naughty : wizard6th/Loremaster4th, CR: +7(13) ; BAB+4(+8)
Doing the Work: Loremaster10th CR:+6(+19);BAB+3(+11) caster: 16th-level wizard
Getting the Job Done:
3.5e " Manual of the Planes," prestige class: Planeshifter 10th-level, CR:+10(26)
BAB:+5(+16) ; +7caster level: 23rd-level wizard. " 12th-level Spell" slot.
Class special ability: "Planar Swap," planeshift a section of land equal to 100ft radius per Planeshifter level for a few days or two weeks.
AD&D2e "Tome of Magic", had 'Estate Transfore' as a 9th-level spell that can/ could movie a 100ft radius piece of land to the first level of any give Out Plane," at cost."
2.) Build a " Magic Circle of Holding " from Pure Cold Wrought Iron
a.) Send the "Trap" building to the First Layer of the Abyss..
b.) Use "Wish/ Gate" to call/ summon Devil/ Demon Lord, trap them, bind them to an
Iron Flask, or Kill them, and wait till they are " Wish " back to life.
I go with Binding them in an Iron Flask.
c.) My groups were more creative with using " Celestial " energy from Lawful Good Planes
to " Energy Level Drain " them to the power of an Imp. Then "bottle."
Thanks for making this video I had been looking for a video about the Demogorgon. :)
Finally coverd the prince of demons
indeed, and a new series no less, the Lords of Ruin :D
AJ - I’ve been revisiting some of your older videos. Love Demogorgon and plan on having him be the Demon Prince the Yuan Ti in my campaign worship.
Side info - Ilsidahur makes his first “appearance” in Dungeon Magazine #10 (March / April 1988) for the short adventure The Shrine of Ilsidahur (stats are provided on pg 8)
Love the intro,
I love using Demogorgon in settings that the players an even the beings of the setting do not know Demogorgon is a single being with two personalities, but instead know him by the main name of his two heads instead. Like that either Demongorgon does have a single cult that exist in the setting, but within that cult is a split within which two sub-cults exist devoted to one of the heads thinking that the other cult is a imposter, or that the two heads have founded separate cults that the other head does not know of actually, and these cults actually work against the other.
Awesome vid, dusted off my old book of vile darkness
So much nostalgia. I played D&D long ago. It gets much harder to find a group as an adult, so I ended up in MMOs. I would still play if I could. I bought first edition books when they came out I was a child (so parents bought them), 2nd edition, 3.5, 4th edition. That was about the end of it for me, last game I played was 4th edition.
This was great. i loved it
I would really love some details as majors figure's "plot/story" has progressed through the editions of DnD
Thanks for this video my good sir. It has been very enlightening
This was amazing. Your hard work and research are so admirable. ❤🎉
Loved it. Great work as always. Thank you 👏🏽
Nice, I'm wating to see how you handle the lore around Graazt
22:02 A nice Demogorgon roar right there
These videos are top notch, I've been peripherally aware of D&D for years now, played a few games with my buddy who is DM, but the tabletop was always a little slow for me. But with Baldurs Gate 3 recently coming out, ive really gotten into the lore, and your vids have been tremendously helpful filling in the backstory, so thanks a lot.
Epic addition of the Conan the Barbarian score on this vid:
"And the secret of steel has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle, Conan, you must learn its discipline. For no one, no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts... This you can trust."
Cool, I enjoy the videos. One suggestion: I'd prefer the audio without the background drumbeat in the latter half (I notice Drunkens & Dragons did this too in his early videos). I find it makes listening a little difficult. I have a bass speaker on my setup but it's set at a pretty low level. Someone listening with just a standard desktop speaker probably doesn't find it as intrusive.
I generally avoid music in the talky bits of the videos these days, these Lord of Ruin specials are a bit more theatrical.. still, I can only judge by my own set up, listening to the vids through headphones, almost always on a PC (though they occasionally play on my smartphone when I am answering questions in the comments.
one of the best, (and rare examples) of art that improved drastically from 3.5e to 5e look at that shit!
Lmao that motorcycle noise actually made me jump. Thought it was some demonic sound effect till you said it wasn't 🤣
Awesome episode as usual. Voice over is beginning was epic. Demigorgons are so badass. Thanks for sharing the lore and details. Now I’ll introduce one into my campaign.
Thanks RfD, I was a bit worried it would be a little over the top.
AJ Pickett no way! It was fun! Loved it. Keep up the great vids man!
Lol, in 5e, it is not a creature type. Demogorgon is a proper name of the prince of demons.
Vasilie Crisan true but there is no reason we can’t tweak it to be the beast it used to be! Just sample him from “out of the abyss”
Roll for Damage true.
I want to defend how he was shown in Baldur's Gate, yes he was the boss battle but the end of that quest line is that you never quite defeat him and the only real way out is to basically banish him back to the Abyss, which in effect frees him, though he can't return for something like 100 years. The story factor in that boss battle makes him more than just a random boss, it makes him a theoretical future threat, so there is still a feeling of him being dangerous, if you have developed an attachment to the storyline of the game. If you don't have any sense of attachment to the story... why are you playing an RPG?
Running an out of the abbys campaign, can't wait for demogorgon to wreck some koa toa ass haha. But yeah really this guy ia going to be fun for every one to either fight or play :)
You'll get your wish. He might even wreck more than that. Be prepared and don't throw yourself at him at L6 lol
This needs to be updated. Demogorgon was first a primordial ever since fourth edition
Dude. The lore was updated and still holds for 5e as well. This is common knowledge for the intense dnd community. Demogorgon was a primordial primarily. At least after 3.5e.
thumbs up for the Anvil of Crom
Demogorgon is Demos (people) and gorgos (grim or dreadful), not daimon gorgon. He is a monster of two monsters, named Dreadful People.
True but try explaining that to Demogorgon and he’ll stuff you up your own ass for a laugh
Love demons and oove long videos. Good job man
Are there any other videos that are going to be added to this playlist in the future? It is an absolute treasure trove of information about those who are the shapers of Ultimate Evil.... As always, I am a huge fan of all the work you do to create the videos that are amazing and informative... 🍻 My good man
Never say never.
Hope this never disappears ❤
Demogorgon: Foolish mortal you stand before the prince of demons!
Conan: I am king by my own hand. This hand in fact, the the same one I used to rip out Dagon’s horn, before I killed him. *smiles slightly*
Dagon:
Wouldn't be surprised if this gets a bump in views from the Stranger Thing's craze.
*ahem* perhaps :)
44:00 - 48:55 how to shout out the demogorgon
Just found your videos. They are great. Can you please revisit these characters and discuss how they would fight. Much like "the monsters know what they are doing"
That intro was straight badass!!
Was Lord Soth sworn to Demogorgon?
Orcus I believe?
I made a drink at one point so may have missed it but heard no mention of Mandrillagon?
I'm not sure if the Gord the Rogue series is D&D Canon. But yeah, that was Demogorgon's "brother".
The Gord books ARE THE cannon, everything since is at best fan fiction.
*dives for cover*
Awesome intro. Thank you.