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Enjoy a video about these weird vampire born weed things. I think if they retconned the vampire origins and gave their creation more freedom of application, they'd be super fun enemies. Like a bunch of grass golems guarding a crazy plant wizard. Also I use a lot of Adventure Time and Avatar. They just come to mind a lot.
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I had a scenario where I had blights supporting a corpse flower. It was definitely one of the more fun encounters I ran.
I ran some heavily modified blights with a Gulthias Tree (from the starter set) and oh that was a fun fight as well!
Oh yeah that sounds cool. I was running mine as a Forest traversal puzzle almost where the party was trying to get their way through while the blights were trying to get them off the path and get them all turned around while slowly funneling them to the corpse flower. The fact the twigs were so fire weak actually was part of their plan because the Paladin had a flame sword he just got and wanted to try out so it lead to them slowly losing sight of the trail.
I've done that one too! They were Corpse Flowers, but when they got hit for the first time, 4 Vine Blights fell off of them
When hugging your friend lets you touch grass
Life hack. Play games with blights.
@@aguiar6636 no, not *those* games you sicko!
Honestly I kinda like blights. I always liked the "evil plants" kind of stories where the main antagonistic force is a plant that just grows everywhere and creates monsters and shit.
I’ve created a few monstrous ****s myself
I am getting tired of all the newer races/creatures having no lore at all anymore. and just being stat blocks. It's like WotC thought, "hey, everyone is just going to take it and put their own spin on it anyway, so why bother?" Because lore matters that's why. Lore helps people understand what a monster is supposed to be. Sure we can change it to something else, and that's going to happen, but we are a community of players, and that base lore provides a shared experience that we all value. It's that shared experience is why we love D&D in the first place.
On one hand, I relish a opportunity to flesh out my own lore for my homebrew, but it really is slapdash on WotC how lazy their stuff has been, on TOP of their OGL nonsense and everything else.
@EliteRevenant I like taking what I want for homebrew, but a little lore about the context of a monster is nice to give me a starting place and give us all a standard.
We all know what gnomes are, which makes hombrew differences more notable and unique. Without that standard though, what's the point?
Join the Paizo side, we have Leshies! (And we still get lore for things!)
Thank the unnecessarily angry people who got angry about races being inherently evil.
@micahbeers8904 This hasn’t exactly stopped Paizo from giving Pathfinder 2e ancestries detailed lore (while ALSO taking steps to rework problematic lore into something better), so I think this is more a WotC problem.
I like how we all just agree that a modern interpretation of The Lorax should have him use violence
I am the lorax and i speak for the trees
Cut one more down and I'll break your knees
I made a TOTK meme where he was responsible for creating the evermeans. Funniest meme I ever made
We saw the past as well as the present in that film. Everything is dead and used up in the present. Clearly, the path of peace and diplomacy he took in the movie was the wrong move.
I am the Lorax
I speak for the trees,
If you listen close
They speak Vietnamese!
The trees can't be harmed
If the Lorax is armed
I think these are my favorite creatures to throw at parties. I basically use them the same way you would a zombie horde, but kind of smart
I've always really liked the blights, trees that hate other trees really helps them stand out from the plants that hate everything that's not a plant pack.
I never got to run it, but i had a short campaign in a desert set around a gulthias tree growing underground and making desert themed cactus blights.
I feel like you could do something really cool with blighting a dryads tree and or a dryad potentially knowingly binding to a blight tree after their home tree. Basically taking control of all the blights the tree spawns to seek revenge. All the while becoming ever more warped from the tree's evil influence and becoming a sort of vampire/driad combo, maybe giving it access to all of the lesser blights abilities plus some legendary and layer actions.
My modified cultist-made twig blights looked (very roughly mind you) like each of the PCs. When they destroyed the one that looked like them, they took 1d6 psychic damage from the backlash. Fun little modification
I've always felt the plant monsters are underutilized in 5th and I'd love more blight variants.
Imma do Tree Blights real quick: They're trees that do blight things. One showed up in Curse of Strahd and another in Wild Beyond the Witchlight. Might be more in the books but idk.
I'm using blights in my current adventure. They are battling for control of the jungle against a tribe vegepygmies, the latter of which are in league with a circle of druids that lives in nearby ruins for their mutual benefit and protection from the blights.
Also, Basically is my favorite of your series, Runesmith. Those videos are both funny, but also teach me a lot about D&D that the rulebooks don't (and that's saying something since the rulebooks are pretty good)
I am tempted to steal this because i want a reason to run vegepygmies
This makes my idea of having a scenario where the BBEG uses the remnants of a vampire to corrupt a tree ent and create blights to attack an elven forest actually not seem convoluted.
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I think another cool way to use blights with a BBEG, at least with the help of some Homebrew: connect a dryad to a blighted tree. Id imagine it like this
-A dryad who's tree was destroyed or injured beyond saving and in dire need of a new tree coming across a young blight tree. And either out of desperation or a want for revenge on those who destroyed here original tree, bonds to it. (Potentially connect the blight tree to the people who destroyed the og tree for some fun irony)
-As a result of the binding the dryad gains control over the blights, giving them a more direct and active leader and giving the dryad her own army for her revenge.
-as time has gone on the wicked, bloodthirsty, and parasitic nature of the blight tree begins to corrupt the dryad, bending her into a sort of reflection of it's originators will with a active thirst for humanoid blood, plus some of the following physical changes:
1. Increasing her own power (just better stats and spell casting, plus legendary and layer actions all that stuff.)
2. Her blights can now be treated as her home tree, allowing her to teleport through them.
3. She can use all of the blight abilities in combat.
These are just ideas that you can add to or ignore. I think that teleporting between your minions freely could be really cool and be an extra reason to keep the lesser blights in check.
For those who haven't played Curse of Strahd or Wild beyond the Witchlight, there is also the Tree Blight. These things are highly territorial and the most feral of all blights, going on rampages of destruction against anyone their master tells them to. They are described as vicious carnivores who happily feast on the flesh of living things, and are so aggressive that if two Tree Blights meet, they will fight ot the death. They also will attack Treants on sight.
How have we still not gotten a playable Blight species yet? Just update the lore a bit to say that Blights aren't just created by evil magic but any magic and have the ability to speak Common. They already have subspecies to work with: Twig, Needle and Vine (Astral could be reworked into a Fungus Blight since a lot of fungus is bioluminescent).
Needles could have piercing unarmed strikes and maybe a damaging reaction when hit by a melee attack. Vines could be able to squeeze through small spaces and be good at grappling. Twigs could have natural armour thanks to their bark-like skin. Fungus could have a limited use flash of light that deals a little radiant damage and blinds creatures in an area.
If you really want to play plant people, Pathfinder 2e has Leshy, Ghorans, and Conrasu as plant people ancestries. (Leshy even have a fungus option.)
I'd rather they didn't rip out any of the last few bits of lore tyvm
There's nothing wrong with having inherently evil player races... Or just making a new one that's got a similar theme but some differences too
Bard: "i roll to seduce the wizard"
Wizard: "go touch grass instead"
Bard: "i roll to seduce the blight"
DM: "You succeed in seducing the blight it covers you in pollen, give me a Con save vs. Allergies.... and another against 'disease' "
Bard: Wha? Okay.... *Rolls two nat 1s*
DM" You begin to sneaze violently and take *Rolls dice* 6 D6 necrotic damage as blights begin to take root in your skin.... Congrats, its a flower."
Seems like this might mix well with that hat dude's druid lich, for homebrew...
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I heard the words "Space Ghost" in the opening ad bit, and my brain auto-completed with "Coast to Coast".
I once had an ambush of 30 twig blights lying motionless and camoflaged. They were to wait for the party to engage with the handful of needle blights as bait.
Druid decided to style on those 5 twig blights by casting Fire Storm that covered the entire map. Pretty much ended combat instantly.
I’d be interested in what would happen if a forest of Blights get infested by a bunch of Ettercaps, I already had a visual in my head of a party stumbling upon a corrupted and dying dryad who begs them to save her home from the invasive spiders who have infected it but maybe having a Vine Blight approach them instead and be like “you wanna earn 20 bucks? Deal with these spiders for us” could be hilarious too.
I'm slowly introducing the Sylvari from Guild Wars 2 to my Campaign and they are very close to blights but on the good side.
I wanted to create a story where my players guide a new species into the world and shape them in some ways.
PSA: When someone tells you to touch grass, Blights are specifically excluded, as are shambling mounds.
I really think we should get more blights, or more plant creatures in general. They're real cool and kinda underutilized in my opinion.
But like, proper blights. Not just a *[ꜱᴇᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴍᴘᴀɴʏɪɴɢ ꜱᴛᴀᴛ ʙʟᴏᴄᴋ].*
Perhaps flower blights could be fun.... Little parasites that look like dandelions when not moving.... They start their lives as little parasitic dandelion seeds that burrow into your skin like a tick and if not noticed/removed grow into their "Adult" form (A tiny blight with a flower for a head that just looks like a normal dandelion but growing out of a creatures flesh instead of the ground.... Eventually releasing a seed cloud to infect more creatures before ripping its way out of the host to go off to do blight things....
I've waited so long for a blight video, thank you. Your videos and humour have helped me with certain issues in my life right now.
I am a sucker for "singular creature that is for some reason the opposite of their bretheren", so I would love a story about a good blight-tree. Maybe like a druid who was recently cursed with vampirism, and wanted revenge against said vampire, dies and their soul occupies a nearby tree. The vampiric abilities allow them to create and command the blights, but, after they stake the vampire, they just want to protect the forest and its inhabitants. Because they are inherently evil, the druid instead fashions the blights to be temporary agents of their will, never spreading their influence too much or too far. This also puts a limiter on how powerful the central tree-blight can be, and prevents them from sending too many reinforcements to a single area.
I'm currently playing a blight in a campaign who has the ultimate goal of taking over the city and seeding a new evil forest by becoming a new Gulthias tree.
I'm surprised none of the other party members have stopped me yet.
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I recently was allowed to DM my family's group of 6 freshly lvl 2 characters and sent them to recover a scroll from an abandoned shadow druid temple and filled it with these guys. Really nice low level fodder, even though 12 twigs almost tpk'd them (and that was the first encounter).
My party encountered a small army of twig blights in the session just yesterday, funny timing
There are also tree blights in Curse of Strahd. They are big evil trees that can bite you and are filled with blood
I always run twig blights as just like thorny puppies. I mean look at them. They're just little dudes and no one can convince me otherwise
Cool idea: A forest becomes infested with Blights after the nearby city starts fuming magical waste in a river upstream
Oooh that's very fun. You could probably find some fun extra thematic abilities or even new unique blight variants to fit the theme, like a aquatic reed/lillypad blight who's form works almost like a slime, bound together by thick magical sludge.....
Oh and there could be a hook about the river starting to run dry as the blights dam it up to surround their tree with even more of the magic waste that sustains it.
Honestly a campaign/questline against an evil circle of druids and vampires that essentially besiege the town the party is in using blights sounds pretty cool I might do that.
Well pine cones have a defense for fire when they get heat up there wax melts releasing all the seeds and then thouse seeds grow up strong in the super rich soil from the ash, so you could have something like if you kill one with fire it makes more
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In such cases, the Circle of Spores is the best way to create an evil Druid.
There is also the tree blight from curse of strahd. I do have some soft spot for blights as i made them a fairly majorr threat during my homebrew curse of strahd campaign, turning the tree at Yester Hill into the original Gulthias tree, with his body at the roots of the tree.
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This video has inspired me for my next campaign. The first sign that the OG Dark Lord is rising once again, is a bunch of evil tree people ready to give the party splinters!
I assume that destroying the tree that commands them does not destroy them. This would leave them lost without a purpose. Capable of becoming minions of someone else or go on a spiritual journey to find a purpose or even become an adventurer.
Ok so a space blight example is Audrey 2 from little shop of horrors. You can design a while Champaign around Audrey 2 where either a warlocks pateron is Audrey 2 or Audrey 2 is the plant of a party member or big bad. With slim chances the party is trying to prevent Audrey 2 from world domination as a cosmic horror campaign.
The reason the pine cone blights are not vulnerable to fire is because pine cones are generally not flammable under normal forest fire conditions. They're designed to survive a forest fire, so that new pine trees grow when the fire is over.
Putting these around an oasis in a desert campaign would be mean
I have a major soft spot for blights. I was running a campaign once heavily inspired by Slavic folklore, and during a seemingly never-ending war, a treant, who, along with his kin, were benevolent guardian spirits of the forest, watched much of its kin burned over the course of the war for attempting to stop the oncoming armies. Afraid and alone, this treant rooted itself and waited for the end, but the end never came. It lingered there, for centuries, afraid and isolated, growing blackened and seeming to rot away from the inside until the bloodshed of war that had broken out once more awoke the creature from its slumber. Filled with nothing but sheer hatred, its wounded cries caused blights to take form from the very roots of the forest, as if the trees themselves heard the treant's mournful cries, coming to serve their frenzied former protector. The deeper the party got into the forest, the more twisted, tainted, and bloodthirsty the blights got until basically the whole forest was attacking them, all to protect one lonely, scarred, hurting victim of senseless war. This was a pretty crazy series of encounters, and I loved every minute of it.
Ah nice, I'm planning on throwing these guys into a forest that, while already having a pretty bad spider problem, has had darkness recently sown into it from a devilish "heart".
I love throwing twig blights at my players. They're terrified of them ever since I almost TPK'd them in Lost mines after they were pretty spent after fighting the green dragon. The trauma runs deep and I like to toss 8-10 at them at least once every campaign when they're at their most vulnerable.
It's hilarious because they do less damage than a goblin, and can be killed in one hit. But they are so scared of them lol.
As far as fun things to do with blights? I came up with a variant of blight called a shield blight.... (Basically I took a Twig blight and gave it a sheild, the Hag responsible basically had them pretending to be stools when the players entered the cabin she had set up as a trap/ambush.... The legs of the table were Needle blights.... And there was also that creepy laughing moose head from Evil Dead mounted to the wall of that same cabin...)
I was already planning a island of blights for a pirate themed adventure even before you mentioned an island full of them :D
I know you've planted this idea a while ago, but this really grew on me 🥁
I ran a pirate campaign and a blighted island dungeon was one of the top moments that stuck out to me as the gm and players still to this day years later
I just recently finished DMing for the first time and I ran Lost Mines of Phandelver. Part of that adventure involves going to the ruins of a town that was devastated by a volcanic eruption (presumably caused by some evil magic shenanigans) and the town was full of twig blights and ash zombies.
My best friend, who is way more into DnD than I am and knows all the wacky stuff that's happened in its lore, still refuses to accept that evil magic volcano can make zombies. o3o
If you want some interesting ideas for what to do with Homebrew Blights, might I suggest borrowing from Remnant: From the Ashes. Sprinkle some of that eldritch, dimension-eating horror in there. Keep players on their toes.
I feel like also mess with dryads, they obviously would be anti blight and join/aid the party with removing a blight tree...... Or..... Better yet you could explore what happens if a dryad is bonded to a blight tree.
Heck going off the 5e smell blight, I might rework these guys from plant zombies to more like plant mummies. The desiccated remains of plants affected by the blight spell animated through foul magic or necromantic auras. Give them spores that curse or cause coughing fits, vines that seek to ensnare and entomb foes,
I like to roll with the idea of vampiric blights. Imagine a horde of dessicated bushes shambling across the countryside, choking out people and other plants and draining the blood of humanoids just to grow the Gulthias Tree. You could also give or take vampire weaknesses. You could make them vulnerable to sunlight and running water, the thing which plants normally need to survive, which forces them to survive off of blood instead, and make them much stronger to compensate. Or you could take away the vampire weaknesses, but make them servants of vampires which use them to overcome their weaknesses like shading them from the sun or building wooden bridges over streams.
I have cotton/pollen blights that give people sneezing fits (disadvantage on everything). But otherwise they're twig blights.
You forgot the Tree Blight! He shows up in Curse of Strahd as an evil druid project.
Blights have a great dark fantasy *vibe* where corruption has seeped into the soil and goes deeper than the simple presence of a few evil creatures- the entire *ecosystem* is being poisoned by an evil that has taken hold like a disease, or an open wound. They're lovely for that, and can be used alongside any villain who feels evil enough to leave that kind of mark on the world around them, or, even better for your low-level party, they can be the *aftereffects* of a previous evil that the players need to prevent from coming *back* because it's way high-level and will fucking wreck them, but these blights are something they might be able to handle.
Fun fact about the vine blight, in 5e it has a speed of 10ft
Almost killed my players with blights in our fourth episode of our current campaign. Homebrewing blights is dangerous.
Thankfully someone did a decent homebrew race of these if you want to play as them
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Blights would make great zombie-type goons for a Druid-lich type bbeg
I wonder if I could play as a vine blight.. gonna check the stat block and see if I can talk to my dm about it, sounds cool to play a chaotic neutral vine dude
If you or your DM want mechanics ideas from another d20 game, Pathfinder 2e’s Leshy and Ghoran ancestries might be worth looking at. (The former are plant/fungus spirits, the latter are humanoid plant people.)
Unseasoned wood actually isn't very flamable. That's why people have to use fire starters.
You should do a series on what each ttrpg you've played taught you about being a better DM. I still haven't ran Blades in the Dark but I feel like reading the rule book just made me a better DM.
Ooh Good Timing, I needed an idea for an evil forest encounter for my next session
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He Completely Forgot the Tree Blight but Somehow remembered the astral Blight 🤣
I actually think Astra Blights have a lot of potential to be used really well. I'd change some things about them, but overall, they aren't that bad.
I made something called a dew blight that is basically one of those sticky carnivorous plants
A idea for Topaz Dragon
Have them make your player character the Topaz Dragonborn Wildfire Druid farm undead materials so he can get a garden full of Corpse Flowers and Blights
Topaz Dragon are known to adore Undead things afterall, they love anything involving Death but actually aware Life and Death is part of natural cycle, and a Wildfire Druid would 100% praise them while most Druids would probably be like how Twitter Vegetarian get angry
You know that one forest that is actually a single tree with a massive root network. That would be a cool blight boss
You forgot the Tree Blight.
I wonder if there's a playable version of these guys because i think it'd be cool to run around as a plant dude. I have the strong urge to play as a Peace Domain Blight Cleric named Amity, or a Wildfire Druid and be Swampfire from Ben 10
So if a character eats like, i dunno, blight tree soup, would they gain some vampiric qualities?
So the blights are basically just the evil trees from the wizard of Oz
Ah….so when my party was doing the Sunless Citadel, we 'killed' Belak, but neglected to destroy the tree thinking it was fine. My spore druid took a seed of the Blighted Tree to eventually plant for himself, and that lead to issues later on XD
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My DM lets me summon them with Conjure animals as a spore druid worshiping Zuggtmoy. Now I know what I am summoning, thank you. Love the video
Wait, the Gulthias Tree was in the Sunless Citadel. The blights planted outside returned to it. There wasn't expansion in the module. (suspicious look)
Never used these, always just did Vine Assassins
Imagine an Blight Beholder
There’s that one tree blight in curse o’ strahd that killed like three of my players
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big tanky oak blights would be cool
can they spawn from a "good" dude or is like a precondition to be born from "evil" in order to germinate?
can they spawn from a "good" dude or is like a precondition to be born from "evil" in order to germinate?
There was a blight island in Life of Pi that could eat animals
I could see an evil dryad creating them given that they are kinda tree too
Needle blights?
Yeah, not vonurable to fire.
Not surprising thou because many trees that turned their leafs into needles have lower parts of trunk covered in bark that is mostly resistant to fire.
In tundra they use that to their advantage, because of spontaneous wildfires that burn out other species of trees, while they remain untouched by flames and heat.
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That opening is really funny great job
I wish for more plant monsters like the blights, I just want to make an evil forest / jungle, controlled by evil Druids
edit: I know of the homebrews
would def read a dr seuss about the lorax grabbing a glock
"I am the lorax, I speak for the trees.
If you cut them down, there'll be lead in your knees."
Don't forget the Treeblight from Curse of Strahd
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Since Blights are born after a stake is stabbed into an evil vampire or person and an evil tree grows out of it, what would happen if, say, a misunderstood good vampire or a good person with some kind of supernatural power was the origin of a blight?
What if the blights (or whatever adjacent tree that spawns from it) that grow from this is ultimately benevolent creature thanks to the positive influence of that blights good hearted host? What if these good blight variants don’t just mindlessly attack adventurers but instead work as protectors of the forest and it’s creatures? Instead specifically attacking those that wish to harm its forests like loggers or sport hunters? Maybe these blights will help the party by letting them stay in their forest as shelter, or provide them with beneficial forest themed loot like fruit or new wooden wizard staffs.
That could be a neat NPC encounter idea I think idk.
i just fought these. light cleric just Orb of fired them into oblivion along with 90% of the forest.
My wizard smokes blights
Plant characters are pretty cool