Basically the Underdark
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Logan please give us the Tesseract campaign setting
Can I have 25$ for that pdf
An idea would be an Earth elemental that's a brick
Your ideas are perfection
"The Underdark was made to kill you."
So it's Australia, but underground?
Long had the idea that everyone down there has Australian accents.
It’s the land down under.
Znapaznarf I was just about to make that joke
@@DoctorMcHerp What's the chance wizards planned for this correlation?
Actually I don't care, down under dark is canon now.
I mean, it's even got a spider queen! And a bunch of weird scary death insects! And that one weird harmless creature (the Flumph).
The question is, though. _Where is New Zealand?_
Honestly this has been my ongoing joke for who knows how long
It's an absolute sin you didn't bring up the absolute joy that is the flumphs. After all, the first rule of dungeon survival is "Trust a Flumph"
Thats what they want you to think
Flumphs and Krop Tao are the greatest creatures in the underdark
@@cipollalord8066 Krop Tao
2nd rule is never trust a yuan-ti.
Flumphs are so wholesome.
Here's some friendly advice: Everything in the Underdark hates everything else in the Underdark. No exceptions.
That's not true! There are Flumphs
@@ilik3pi32 I was mainly referring to natives of the Underdark. Flumphs are only about as native there as humans are.
Deep Gnomes
Myconids.
But remember just as long as you 100% wipe out those that hate you, it is all good. Leave even a single spore child left alive to tell the tale and you are boned!
The Flumph is a pancake made of friendship that Runesmith didn't talk about.
In short, they're lawful good aberrations (maybe even the only LG aberrations) that speak telepathically and aren't very good at fighting.
They mostly live in utilitarian socialist groups and are so friendly that they turn mindwitnesses good.
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They are Good bois
One of my players runs a Flumph. In one game that went spectacularly sideways, a Kuo-toa mating ritual resulted in a new Flumph god. The followers of are called "The Workers Union of Darkness Dwellers and Other Creatures of Dubious Moral Standards"
Also known as, the freaking best.
If you count eldritch gods and such as aberrations, (as you well should) there could definitely be some weird ancient deities who represent concepts like truth, justice or community.
Dale is said to have the highest CR in D&D
Oh that Dale, and his team of nightmare-sled-pulling aboleths!
Dale TPK’d my party by calling us bitches. Damn psych damage.
Dale can cast 20th level spells and has infinite spell slots
Dale emits an Anti Magic Field that follows him. In the older editions, the effects of it were permanent.
@@b.yoshisaurus9363 It's not REALLY unlimited, he just has as many as he has hitpoints, and can cast up to two spells of any level he can cast.
Also each time he stabs you it's equally damaging to all the damage you've dealt, ever.
He has more hitpoints than Tiamat.
"So he made a pact with Satan, and liberated his people from Squidward." These Spongebob fanfics are getting wild.
Why does no D&D Underdark video ever talk about the Flumph?! Where's the love for the floaty good boys?!
@Miriam Stumo The Flumph, the psychic floating jellyfish, is one of the few good align creatures that live in the underdark. I like them because not only are they helpful to good align adventurers, but they're also dopey looking.
forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Flumph
@@NU121493255 I think it is also worth noting that they're not only good guys, but I'm pretty sure they're also the only good aligned aberrant creatures in D&D.
I love the reason they help adventurers. They feed on surface level thoughts, but evil thoughts apparently taste awful so they tatle on mindflayers and drow to clean their pallets.
they also will tell you secrets of the bad races around u and help you find safe ways around.
You forgot boggles
I play one
The ancestral home of the edge lord's
Spelling
@5567 5555 Spelling
@5567 5555
Yes? 😀
I thought that was the Shadowfell?
No thats the shadowfell this is the home of psychopaths and cringeworthy fails
4:16
“Brains aren’t food; stop eating mine!”
That last quote kinda sounds like James from the Pokémon anime.
Like I imagine his Pokémon chomping on his head as he is saying that.
Anyone else hear it?
Now I'm judt imagining James getting his brain eaten by an Ilithid which is much funnier.
@@krounos1 LOL, that's awesome.
I mean, he did speak backwards in that one famous scene where that very situation happened.
LEO BURNETT AND 4KIDS ARE THE DEVIL
Victreebel is a mind flayer.
Bra I can totally see this in the original show
Drow bards: we come from the land down under
Where the mushrooms glow and folk plunder
The Underdark, or OOPS NOW YOU CAN'T SEE
Well it ain't the underbright.
@Sightless_Seeker I mean, I there are 3 in the PHB that don't, and Volo's was pretty conservative at handing it out. Same goes for Eberron, generally. Maybe try and get your players interested in playing a different race by introducing a cool NPC if they aren't murderhobos. There's about a 50/50 split, now, I think, so it shouldn't be hard. Try getting them invested in the lore or dynamics a rarer race would have in your campaign.
@Sightless_Seeker If not, well, magical darkness is a great creep factor. Fiends and certain creatures that don't only rely on sight would make a great challenge. What about a mostly blind hag who has grown to rely on blindsight and uses it to her advantage by disorienting players who do with magic?
Rolled a nat 1 on perception despite having dark vision. "It's pretty dark down here." The party was concerned.
Sightless_Seeker ask them to play races that don’t have dark vision, or make the underdark cancel out the darkvision of outsiders, or something like that. Players having darkvision is way less of a problem than a lot of DM’s think it is.
I always pronounce Duergar as Dvergar which is literally the icelandic word for dwarfs and I am 99% sure that that is where that word comes from. IT IS LITERALLY ONE LETTER OFF!
DWEH gar
@@MrThaumaturgical Missing the first R
@@elmsigreenthey pronounced it correctly
@@OfficialWoodElf I never said they didn't.
“Black pudding cups”
Probably a good thing we don’t have art for that
2 girls, 1 black pudding cup
@@lonefire333 no... stop. That hurts
I’d like to meet the god that made this thing canonically.
“Hey so you know black licorice?”
“Uhh, yeah why?
“Melt it.”
“Wait what?”
“GIVE IT SENTIENCE!”
@@islaydragons1563 does it go into the butt?
@@islaydragons1563 Gods don't make oozes. That the insane demonlord Juiblex.
06:44
A wild Matt Mercer appears!
Tony Favilla hahaha I was searching for this comment, not disappointed
I'm building an Underdark spider race that also has literally no connection to Lolth, but the Drow THINK that they do. They're generally pretty nice and make a living hunting giant insects with big webs. If they see a human caught in a web, they'll release it because they think humanoids taste really bad.
Official Lore: Drow are awful, racist, bad and are slavers
Me, who just wants a few sexy and cool af Drow NPCs: Jared, 19
Official lore: forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Eilistraee
forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Church_of_Eilistraee
Santiago E. Juárez Martinez yeah in the campaign I run, they broke free from Lolth and now worship other gods :) works pretty well.
Anna Are they good now? Or a work in progress at least?
>be me
>i want to have a TN male drider character
>i realize driders are not races
>i realize that every drider is CE
>i realize driders are made from a curse and cannot reproduce
>i realize driders are abandoned from every society
>i realize that i should just make another lizardfolk character
He's a Kid in Dark-elf lifespan.
I love the underdark, but I've always wondered what the weather is like down there. I can only assume they've never seen lightning or thunder down there. Can you imagine how terrified they'd be of a storm sorcerer? Basically, storm sorcerers when? :D
I once made a Derro Warlock, with a Patron called The Gelatinous Convocation, which gave them the ability to absorb memories from the melted remains of creatures. An already insane creature had a bit of trouble keeping all the memories that didn't belong to them in check.
compendium of forgotten secrets ! woohoo
so a literal goolock?
4:28 I'm guessing tone deafness from my part, but both pronunciations sounded the same for me.
Sounded the same to me too.
Like he said, the race's name is pronounced Do-ER-gar (like Do or Die), but he mispronounces it like the E and R in Duergar have swapped, Dur-EH-gar. Hope this makes sense.
@@Yormunzumr Oh, I see. For him to need an intermission pointing out mispronunciation, I thought it would be something more notable, but that's fine.
Of course, both are wrong: Duergar are named for the Norse word for Dwarf, which is pronounced DVERGARR.
Yes, in all caps. Old Norse is an angry language.
@@HellbirdIV Oh, I see. Thank you for complementing.
*Home of Drizzt, the only good drow*
Zaknafein: Am I joke to you ?
Eilistraee&followers: an entire culture of good drow with millennia of history (in-universe), and 30 years of lore. They're the only thing that saves the drow from being a laughable monoculture worldbuilding.
my cg Australian aasimar drow gunslinging cleric/rogue constantine enoch:uh ya what mate?
Zaknafein... I haven't heard that name in a long time
Now do "basically the sponsorship" that gives a more in-depth review of your book, with a basic explanation of how the stoff imn your book works.
"the underdark was made to kill you."
So......... Australia?
It's actually more like Australia's Australia.
DownUnderDark
Australia but edgy
Nevermind caves filled with violent people, misterious cities and spooky forgotten horrors, you're telling me your book has a SPAGHETTI CHILD!?
>be Aboleth
>used to rule the world
>seas would rise when I gave the word
My friend pointed out that drow are basically elf simps, and honestly I can't see them any other way now.
Drows are bees.
@Sightless_Seeker I love how unapologeticly sexist this comment is. Made me chuckle.
@Sightless_Seeker this comment is correct.
@Sightless_Seeker Yikes.
@Sightless_Seeker Lol, sorry man, thought you were being serious. It's a bit easier to miss a joke in text form.
Underdark home of the ptsd dwarves, actually cool gnomes, crackhead dwarves, toads from Mario, evil squidward, and an even gayer version off elves
"Drizzt, the only good drow", you're wrong in that, remember the followers of Eilistraee, typical chaotic good dark elves
Well, if only if they had exposure besides a Drow adventure module.
Well, there was one half drow from Forgotten Realms comic (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons by DC comic), who was implied to be a product of a drow sorceress and a human wizard, implication that the former used “magic roofies” on latter.
@@powerist209 Bruh, Eilistraee or her followers appears in three novel series / trilogies.
Glad to know.
Just that Drizzt copies has been usually go to for “good drow” and not much Eilistraee cultists and a certain mercenary drow (well, he is chaotic neutral but he is approachable than most Drows).
Do I sense someone talking about Drizzt and Jarlaxle
Yes, Jaraxle.
Fun (favourite) fact about Lolth worship :
Lolth prefers live sacrifice over other forms of worship. Lolth prefers sentient beings as sacrifice over other living beings. Lolth prefers humanoid sacrifices over other sentient beings. Lolth prefers elves as sacrifices over other humanoids. Lolth prefers Drows over other elves as sacrifices. Lolth prefers its own High Prisestesses over other Drows as sacrifice.
Also High Priestesses are kind of the ruling class (in theory) of Drow society.
Drow society is a fun place.
2:50
Aaaanndd, demonetized.
But he gave so many manlets a nice erection
its been 4 years
Baldur's Gate 3 has once again thrust the world of the Underdark to the forefront. Their imagery of it is awesome. Thanks for putting this together!
Dang! A shout out to R.A. Salvatore! Also, much of my childhood.
R.A. Salvatore is definitely one of the best authors in my opinion.
"Dammit Bobby, why are we in the underdark?"
I love the underdark. I often use dark elfs but as (mostly) good npc's because i feel that they have gotten a bad reputation overtime, and that not all of them could be evil
Basically, edgy cave.
"My book." "When I asked." Did stibbles cover for Logan?
I think Logan is stealing the credit from Stibbles. Fucking disgusting, thought he was a better person.
According to 2002 "Dissolution" by Wizards of the Coast, Lolth's titles are "Mother of Lusts" and "The spider Bitch"
Yup, seems about right there.
In classic half-elf fashion, my current character has a ridiculous backstory lol. His mother is a Drow who was cast out for being empathetic to other races and then married a nice human veteran. She was a wonderful storyteller, while he had an incredible past and stories to tell, though his way of telling them was much less beautiful. Inspired by this, Aelar (my character) set out to become a famous orator and storyteller, seeking amazing histories and epics to tell.
And then he never managed to get anywhere because everyone hated him for being half drow and his spirit was crushed. Eventually he started using his verbal talents to manipulate and fool people into gambling with him and then he'd cheat them out of their money so he could get food to survive on.
There's more, but that's the part that came to mind because of the underdark. Poor drow boy.
I literally just started reading the legend of Drizzt today.
You're in for a treat.
And soon, you too will roll up a dual-scimitar weilding chaotic good Drow Ranger.
It is inevitable.
They’re mostly good books at the start. But there are some serious stinkers further down the road. They pick up again in action and plot again but it’s kind of an up and down kind of cycle. For every good book there’s a bad one.
the first 3 books are awesome.
edit: the first 4 are awesome. it got kind of slow after he left home. a few were good though.
I’m currently on the Neverwinter books. Most of them are really good, but the action scenes do get a little dull after a while.
You forgot one of the most important history of all. the endless maze that hide somewhere down in the underdark that holds the kobold god.
No? no one cares about that part of History? Oh fine fine then.
I thought that was in a demiplane
@@timothybelleci3554 this is the Dungeons & Dragons Universe technically the underdark is a demiplane but somehow you can get to it from going in any cave that can go deep enough into the Earth but yet it somehow a demiplane.
Like I said this is a Dungeons & Dragons universe and nothing makes sense when you try putting your mind to it but you could be right it could be in a different demiplane
1:52 I feel personally attacked...
When you look at it there's two kinds of people in the under dark. Really mean or really nice.
2:56 I nearly spat my drink on my laptop when I saw this image
1:33 Blackreach is actually a perfect way of picturing the Underdark, just with less Dwemer stuff and more slaves.
Thanks, I am running a underdark segment soon. Also this lifts my spirit
I'm glad we're on the same page with ducks, my single most malevolent companion I have ever given to a player.
I too am very happy about the ducks.
Runequest used to have duck PCs.
Plug your book as much as you need, man. Good on you for making it!
Also cave fishers are something to be afraid of in the Underdark as well :x
"So he made a pact with Satan, and liberated his people for Squidward."
-Runesmith, May 2020
Bro, my girlfriend actually just broke up with me, thank you for this video. It's a nice pick-me up.
Bro, you better now?
@@Rohnon oh definitely.
2:51 Uh...think you forgot to censor something there, buddy.
Ummmmm. He censored "Bitch" so stop complaining.
He didn't
It's only a problem if some pussy reports it.
spider titties
You can’t beat K, I guess you have a point.
Man every time I go into one of these videos thinking I know a good amount of the subject matter, you bring something outta left field I never even knew about. Neverlight Grove sounds amazing, and I cant wait to explore some of the history of that place. Thank you once again, Runesmith!
Can't believe the drow are just orbiters.
You forgot about the cripped torture god that claws its ways through the depths of the Underdark
He already talked about him in his God video
@@Aroralyn The Demogorgon, I think.
@@Aroralyn Torog, Mangled god of Torture, Imprisonment, and the entire Underdark. Mutilated and trapped in the underdark by the primordials. Cursed to endlessly dig in hopes to find a way out.
Context: Drow are in the underdark because when Lolth was banished for trying to kill a God, and a select few elves just followed her down into where she was banished aka the underdark and they just kinda evolved into drow
Faerûn on surface: A typical fantasy setting
Under dark: It's Warhammer down here Bi'zzni't'ch
Lore dump time, the reason the drow are in the underdark is that Lolth who used to he the queen of the elven gods, betrayed her husband and betrayed him, her daughter ratted out her plan and she was banished to the underdark, and some of the elves loyal to her followed her down there evolving into the drow we know today
So the root of the Underdark's misery is a crappy snack bar... Interesting.
Ah yes, the Underdark, the place that is always night, dark and full of terrors.
Im now on Companions of the Hall in the Forgotten Realms series. I love that series with all my heart
Been running out of the abyss for a while, this is really good to understand a bit of the places I have to explain to my players, thank you~.
I'm mildly dissapointed that Runesmith didn't include some of the more interesting Underdark denizens, like Umber Hulks, Flumphs, Grimlocks, Myconids (they did have their own video but so did a lot of things), Quaggoths, Xorn, and purple worms.
1:40 The Land Down Under, in more ways than one.
Starting an out of the abyss campaign and your pronunciations are literally helping me more than anything in the module
One of my favorite videos. It’s harder and harder to find any content covering Dale.
2:53
I think that's where Logan lost his monetization.
I see he changed the video later on, I remember it was another uncensored image
Debatable quality is the most interesting quality. Keep up the good work!
Basically Flumphs. I demand it
May be sad, but your work in these videos is fantastic, makes me sincerely happy to see that exists such a person like you.
I just got done with a campaign in the underdark. Managed to free all the slaves from gracklstugh and change the entire system of living there too... it’s a very grim and claustrophobic environment to play in.... but it has its charms!
Uploaded 12 seconds ago? Sorry I was late, Rune.
Shame you were 12 seconds late.
what a disgusting beanbag you are
@1:31 "Massive caverns, glowing mushrooms, stone cities, dark lakes, painfully long tunnels and Hungry Hungry EVERYTHING."
Duergars... Heathens to Moradin!
*For the Mountain! For the STONE! FOR MORADIN!!!*
"Welcome... to the Underdork" Have fun with the rest of the video. You can't unhear it.
"The Drow worship the power of women and set up their hierarchy in that order. That's their only respectable quality."
What? Why is that respectable? Lol
because it means theyre not canonically sexist dude
Some of us men like our sack being stepped on by our female overlords.
@@littleleakyleakythere Having one sex over another is literally sexist though
@@cesspool8840 I dig it
@@littleleakyleakythere It literally does though
"The city of spiders"
I'll take 'Places I will never ever ever go' for $200, Alex.
Logan: neverlight grove
Me, playing out of the abyss: *cries in Yestabrood*
You didn't even mention the FLUMPHS!
>Matriarchy
>respectable quality
i mean cmon lol
I also thought this, Like wtf dude
It's a joke you baby.
@LokiTetch Saying something absurd in an ironic/sarcastic fashion. You know, the basis of this specific channels comedy?
@LokiTetch You don't think a matriarchy that treats men like slaves being called "respectable" is absurd? That speaks volumes about your character.
@LokiTetch Yeah, the female drow are above the males. Because the males are slaves. I'm not sure what's confusing you here, all of Forgotten Realm's lore has exclusively framed drow society as bad in all regards. It's a joke, it was obvious it was a joke, you need to stop being so sensitive.
This isn't your normal darkness. This is ADVANCED DARKNESS.
Given they've brought up including new feats, I'm hoping they include one that let's you specifically use the spells provided in this supplement for Familiars. Like it let's you use the spell (or similar original spells), gives some unique options for the Familiar, and maybe some buffs to it for either combat, utility, or role play. It'd make the Familiars more accessible to other classes in a way separate from just new spells or variant features like from that UA.
Personally I'm hoping for a little non-evil undead pet type creature because I have a nation in my homebrew setting that utilizes much more humane necromancy (only already dead bodies only, strict regulations, providing soldiers to minimize war casualties, etceteras) and an Undead Type Familiar would be cool and very thematic. I named the place Asphodel because it fits and the name is cool sounding to me. Personally I've also ruled that the Familiar is usually the same alignment as the mage unless they're a separate entity that's merely summoned by the spell (like with pact of the chain) because they're an extension of the user or their creation.
This is such a great video. I love this series. Thanks for putting yourself out there.
TH-cam Algorithm comment
Wait you can have an owl bear as a pet. I'll take your entire STOCK.
One thing that always got me thinking is: what does all this people eat? Do they have mushroom agriculture? Big Society needs a good food resource. How they make it without farms? I mean, you can't cultivate without sunlight
I read that the Drow have mushroom farms and they have small underdark versions of rothe as cattle.
See 2:03
Playing a 5e game right now where we all play chaotic kolbolds all within the underdark, hilarity ensues
I'm suprised the devs even bothered to come up with an explanation for how the ecosystems in the Underdark even remotely function with most creatures down in its depths are either SUPER predators but no apparent prey animals you'd think they'd normally eat but for some reason these creatures can sustain themselves entirely on witless or unlucky adventures and travelers. I mean the explanation is still BS...cause Magic radiation or whatever isn't very...well compelling to say the least but I guess it's something other than no explanation, not to say that its better than not knowing how the ecosystems of the Underdark could work either with real world inspiration and inspired idea. Heck, EVEN a better fleshed out and elaborate mythological causes would be cool too!
*Example of a mythological or supernatural cause for the Underdark's ecosystem:* Say there's these great rivers of blood that flow from the bodies of buried gods trapped deep beneath even the lowest levels of the Underdark some pool into lakes or even underground small oceans. It is from these life giving waters that near constantly creates many of the creatures in the lower Underdark and occasionally gives birth to hordes of horrible monsters that terrorize the denizens in the upper layers of the Underdark. Some of the god blood rises through chambers of rock to create more mystical wells of power and life giving energies that many of the creatures use as an initial source of sustenance then in turn some of these creatures are eaten by other creatures in a magically propelled food chain! These wells of god blood are what allows life to flourish even in the darkness and or gloom of the Underdark, but its also the cause of much of the conflict and dangers the peoples living in such a harsh environment must face in order to carve out an existence and thrive by harnessing such a precious resource.
So there a better fleshed out explanation for the magical causes for sustaining a functioning ecosystem *while still being "because magic"* just replacing magical radiation with imprisoned (or dead) gods who's blood sustains the world below BUT can be used to set up interesting adventures or quest for a slightly luckier adventuring party in DnD secessions.
2:58 Simp?
Simp.
My party hated the underdark so much the party druid which was the plot hook for why they went there in the first place decided the best gift she could give them at her last session was sacrificing her character to send them home and leave her to die lmao
It ends up being a weird 'food for thought' sort of thing. I keep getting reminded of my campaign world with each 'basically' video.
The drow is literally a simp race.
So is the creator of this video by some of his comments
“That’s their only respectable quality” (referring to how Drow live in a matriarchal society)
I will take “Things you would only hear in California” for 100 Alex!
A yes deep hole in the world where all the slimy mean stuff in the land hides
Fun fact: sunlight doesn't harm edible mushrooms at all, so long as they have enough consistent moisture to not dry out. In fact, it's beneficial to keep them in the light, because they absorb it to produce vitamin D. I'll see myself out.
Drow are respectabel for being sexist?
The drows' only respectable quality is female supremacy? I know what you're trying to say here, but uh... seeing that male drow are little better than slaves much of the time, I don't think this a "respectable quality" mate. And I'm saying this as a woman.
Also, a correction: everything INCLUDING a drow, to a drow, is either livestock or a threat lmao.
It is called humor. Try developing a sense of one. He was being tongue-in-cheek. When did TH-cam become so humorless and shrill?
Simp
This pleases me greatly.
Now this is the Type of video I love, no forced skeches unlike the video about sheep druids, this is the way to go
The Drow is the perfect example of what feminism can do to a culture.
Nice matriarchy = good joke.
In my homebrew setting, it's called the "Deep Below", and most of the dark elves are not assholes.
The negative energy plane is a mummy Lord's favorite. Also void stone, magic weave eating time bomb.