Dungeons and Dragons Lore : Kuo-toa
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- Kuo-toa are vile, fish-like, amphibious, aberrant humanoids who live at the intersection of the ocean and the Underdark. They are half-mad religious zealots, descendants of a once-great race that was pushed deep underground many years ago. Here, they worship mad gods and spawn new numbers, dreaming of the day when they will re-take the surface. Their population nearly exterminated and forgotten, they plot their inevitable resurgence with a despicable glee.
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A fun role play item I use with Kuo Toa is that they always fail saves vs illusion as their grasp on reality is so tenuous. However their reaction to them is random at best. They may believe what they are seeing is true but might not register as important.
Yeeha, if you try and fake a god, they still might not recognize it as a great god and still be hostile to the party. They might even ignore the "god" if it tries to give orders to them.
I'd like to toss my worthless suggestion out here and ask that you remake this video and include more of their God Making abilities. These guys are so cool and I think they deserve more attention.
This video really inspired me, and four months later, the Kuo Toa have become a major force in my current campaign. Thank you AJ!
My pleasure!
stuff not mentioned in the video:
The Kuo-toa race were utterly and brutally tortured by the Mind Flayers when they fled into the underdark from humans that were invading their homeland, the Mind Flayers tortured to the point that its something similar to what the Dwemer did to the Snow Elves of the Elder Scrolls verse, the entire Kuo-toa race have been driven to insanity and when the Mind Flayers got bored and left them, the Kuo-toa started their brand new culture revolving around their madness, But that isn't even the most interesting part of their lore. The Kuo-toa can CREATE GODS through sheer insanity and faith, They don't devote themselves to a fake god until it eventually becomes real, no no no, They can MANIFEST gods from absolutely nothing. Basically if enough Kuo-toa believe in literally ANYTHING, then it manifests a clone of it and that clone is a god, So if they start worshipping a rock then it manifests a god of whatever they believe the rock is, if enough Kuo-toa worship a fish then it manifests a fish god.
And if a Kuo-toa becomes an archpriest and rallies enough Kuo-toa to worship something then they can manifest a more powerful god, the power of a manifested god depends on the amount of Kuo-toa worshipping it and it becomes weaker if enough Kuo-toa stop believing or died, also Archpriests obtain like 9th level cleric spells and can grant some powers to other beings, and the Kuo-toa Mother Goddess can even turn Kuo-toa into Kuo-toa leviathans.
tl:dr: the Kuo-toa are the most op race to ever exist and if enough of them believe in something then that something becomes a god, and theoretically they could create a god more powerful than the entire pantheons of dnd
Love these guys, their manner of speech is a lot of fun to play with. I also like to depict their caste system as being somewhat linked to morphology. Those that are selected young to be guards or priests are usually chosen because of unique features, such as long catfish whiskers or an anglerfish lure protruding from their heads. Those of a lesser caste may have proportional flaws, such as bulging oversized eyes or a an underdeveloped limb that is noticeably smaller than its others. I like to imagine that such noticeable features or lack thereof is how they determine their pecking order, however it is not reflective of any sort of mental hierarchy, and those in positions of power are no more sane or rational than any other. Perhaps they are even worse on those fronts, as they were exalted over others since youth and may now suffer from paranoia or delusions of grandeur.
are the Kuo Toa meant to be the dnd equivalent of Lovecraft's Deep Ones?
basically yes.
This video is awesome, when you mentioned that Kuo-Toa have marketplaces for slaves you gave me a great idea for a set piece for an adventure thank you.
Monitors are the coolest aspect of these creatures with monklike monastic abilities! Cool vid. On another note they remind me of the Deep Ones of the Cthuluu Mythos!
Wow, hooked as soon as you said their society is built specifically to accomodate their insanity... I must know everything about this.
What about the Kua Toa's ability to create gods?
I kinda want to do this thing if I ever get to DM where their first quests will be to protect some village from a Kuo-Toa attack, and the surviving ones will create god-like version of the heroes, evil version obviously, and they would be the main villains of the game! They would also get to ally themselves with NPCs from all the players' backstories, because they know them, because they are evil/godlike version of them!Don't know if that would work, but it's the plan! Hopefully none of the people I'd play with know about this ability they have! lol ^_^ Otherwise it would ruin the surprise!
I was shocked that was not mentioned in the video.
I love reading some of the newbies comments. It's such quaint fun for those of us that go back to the chainmail, 3-booklet & "bluebook" days, and have the original modules. ah, the good old day of "the Shrine".
Kuo-Toas remind me of Lovecraftian monsters.I suspect they were inspired by Lovecraft mythos.
I think they were, a lot of monsters and mythos in the game settings is.
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I never got a chance to play D&D, but all the different creatures are pretty neat! I think the first picture looks like Bubble Bass from Spongebob! haha!
Here is an idea for an adventure setting.Okay so the party enters a jungle to find an artifact.The artifact is in the possession of the king/queen of the lizard folk.They agree to give u this artifact in exchange for help with a little problem.See there was this earthquake recently and it opened up a massive hole in the ground that leads into the underdark.The kua toa and perhaps some drow allies are coming up to snatch slaves, and the party must stop them.They have the lizard peoples help in this quest.Hey maybe one of the party members is a lizard person who's mate was taken by drow/kua toa slavers, who knows.
+blank blank And the Kuo-Toa brought a flying Froghemoth with them!
AJ Pickett That would make an awesome boss fight.Also it would be cool if there was some rift between the koa toa that followed blibpooldoop and dagon.Maybe there are holy wars going on between them.
Although Dagon is a demon prince, it is actually an obyrith, a life form that predates all mortal life and the creation of the demons, so, it can cross into the prime material world whenever it likes.
AJ Pickett Yeah.I keep thinking of the Dagon strait out of HP Lovecrafts story Dagon.The one that made the guy in the story go insane and jump out the window.I keep forgetting there is a D&D version of him. lol
Oh, the D&D versions are pretty much just adaptions of Lovecraft's stuff into the game. I mean, one of the common traits with the obyrith is that their true form's will cause any mortal who looks at them to go insane.
Which is certainly good fodder for a monsterology video...
9:28 reminds me of a Murloc from the warcraft series, The Kuo-Toa and Murlocs seem somewhat compatible actually I must say these are quickly becoming a favorite race of mine.
In my game the kuo-toa are passive neutral races who settle down within the costal region of in the north with their own cute village and everything (thoe they are still pretty powerful)
Player: "If these guys are not really powerful and are plagued with madness with a primitive culture, why aren't they extinct?" DM: "Monitors." Player: "Huh?" DM: "Monitors. Have your character research it if you want to know more."
actually its due to the fact that they can literally create gods through sheer insanity
@@donutlovingwerewolf8837 True. Gods are fueled by faith, if not merely created by them. The insane, if sharing an insanity, can spawn divine beings.
in my current 5e campaign, my players have to deal with a tribe of kuo-toa which is getting organized and greedy, all beacause a lord tried to get some gold out of the kuo-tuo subconscious powers, it ended causing kuo-toa to be more focused and rational, and being more aware of their capabilities...
i just got 6 kuo toans for boat adventures, they are a great way to fill out ocean encounters. especially if in control of other deep creatures like chull or sharks. also, i think dagon is an hp lovecraft creation.if you havent seen the movie (dagon) watch it! lots of oceanic lovecrafty goodness.innsmouth people are half kuo toan.
+trenton maloney I think I have read everything the guy wrote, and some biographies. Dagon is a direct translation of HP Lovecraft's Deep Ones into D&D.
I must earnestly recommend Michel Houllebecq's appraisal of Lovecraft - mindfucking intense entertainment on every page
Oh! At the very LEAST be sacrificed? Is that all??😆 What a treat!
Just found this channel. Sub'd. This is exactly what I was looking for.
Thank you so much for this video.This is one of my favorite monsters! = D
+blank blank Took a while to get around to this one, but now it's crossed off the subscriber wish list :)
Ah yes, the D&D answers to the Deep Ones.
There are many notable kuo-toa in published D&D campaigns, but particularly in the _Out of the Abyss_ campaign, which has no less than three (spoilers ahead):
-Shuushar the Awakened, a kuo-toa that is a potential NPC ally in your initial escape from the drow prison. One problem - he is 100% pacifist and will not fight, even in self-defense.
-The kuo-toa of Sloobludop, who are in a conflict between the worshipers of Blibdoolploop, the "traditional" goddess of their race and "Lemogoogoon the Deep Father", who is really their name for Demogorgon. The PCs can be dragged into the conflict and used as a "sacrifice" for the Deep Father when it's really as an excuse for the Blibdoolploop worshipers to kill the demon worshipers.
-Sloopidoop, a kuo-toa archpriest that is a member of the Society of Brilliance, a group of like-minded Underdark denizens of usually evil tendencies but a neutral alignment, 18 Intelligence and a preference for diplomacy over combat. They all want to figure what's going on in the Underdark and how best to save it. They all also have special teleporting rings that can instant warp them to the side of another person who possesses such a ring.
I understand that Aboleths of certain areas in the forgotten realms have been creating human/Kuo-toa hybrids
Binge watching your videos AJ, nice work. Have you ever talked about the Locathah? They seem to be absent from 5th edition. I’ve watched most of your aquatic monster vids, thanks for the information.
Ha I love these guys.. I had a friend playing a fighter named Zorn, he went through a portal and came out naked, then I gave him a sword and told him he looked like a kuo-toa being naked with a sword. He got so mad it broke up our gaming group
Roll one of these bad boys as a cleric, & piss off your friends because your stats will just kick so much ass.
Thank you ! getting ready to run them tomorrow - was going to have some drow maroon the party on an island. Now I'll just do a straight up sale "we have 3 boat loads of trade goods and 6 slaves" the party looks around ...
Because of this video and your lizard folk video I really hope to watch a Mighty Gluestick Production of the Sahuagin (sah-hoo-wuh-gin) and their Malenti Mutants. I first read about the aquatic races in Mel Odom's "Threat From The Sea" series. In this story arch an ancient being lost to time is roused from an ancient imprisonment. And, as a result this ancient being causes all the aquatic races to come bubbling up out of the depths. Kûatoa were one of the many minor creatures to come out and maraud along side the Sahuagin. One of the main characters of the stories was a female, Malenti Priestess of Sekolah (The Shark God of the Sahuagin).
William Jackson I would like to do an aquatic series this year, the sea devils are great bad guys.
AJ Pickett one of the things I luved about Mel Odom’s series was how it read like a movie series on tv with a perfect blend of action and drama and the introduction to all the various aquatic races that live in the seas off the Sword Coast as well as the creatures that live below the Sea of Fallen Stars. The books introduce Sahuagin, Malenti, Sea Elves, Murkoths, Tritons, Bullywugs, Merfolk, a humanoid fish race I forget their name, but they have posterior dorsal fin that runs from their head to their tail bone. As an Ecologist of the D&D Multiverse if you ever have time to read this series I believe it would totally float your boat for an Aquatic Monster Ecology Series.
AJ Pickett also, because of the character of Laaqueel Odom takes the reader deep into the depths of Sahuagin Society. As an author Mel Odom is to Sahuagin what RA Salvatore is to the Drow.
Preffered tactic “make spooky mindflayer noises”.
I think it would be cool if you feature some of the races of Chult
they first appeared in rhe expert set module isle of dread and they lived in the magma inside volcanoes
More aquatic races please
Which would you like?
Man, I hate to say it. This is way better than the shoddy green screen #20sidedknight uses...
Underrated monsters
_I always ban Slark, every game_
And then when it doesn't work and the enemy picks Slark?
*_Bloodseeker,_* any position
SlardarOGtho
One of my favorite underdark creatures
Man you're a top resource
Cool that's the third name I hear for the fish man .( example) Zola,Sora,and kuros though the kuros are more froglike
My favorite fiend fearing fish folk
If I may ask, one thing I would like to know is how an adventurer goes about creating a legendary weapon naturally. Take something like Goblin Cleaver or The Sword of Mars, such weapons that started normally but over time and circumstances, was gifted with special traits that give it unique quality and association with something great. How do adventurer create these things, these mythical named weapons or items.
+Jacob Maclean How would you like them to be able to do that?
+AJ Pickett (The Mighty Gluestick) Over time, Like for example the DM notices a player with a sword (By some miracle of the dice gods) kills 100 demons, the sword might be tainted in some way and receive bonuses to damaging demonic or unholy entities and the sword changed it shape, slightly at first but more and more over time, gaining a name or affiliation with the player.
Basically, that's DM discretion kind of stuff. I enchanted a couple items when my party closed a breach to the elemental chaos. It was fun. I had the thing kind of "pulse" elemental energy, knocked everybody on their asses and gave them fun new things. They loved that, and so did I.
encountered these guys in the icewind dale heart of winter expansion or it may have been the sahaugin idk it was a long time ago. long story short fireball turned them into bbqd fish
LOL.I guys I'm a mind flayer...No Im not going to throw back the hood of my cloak.This is not a dead squid that I stuck to my face..........BOOGADEY BOOGADEY BOOGADEY!!!...I would pay to see someone role play that x D
+blank blank For the record, making psychic noises involves putting index fingers on your temples and going "WeeeOOOweeeeOOOOweeeeeOOOO!" with the eyes wide open.
AJ Pickett Oh ok.I'll make sure to keep that in mind next time im ambushed by Kua toa while wearing a hoodie and have a dead octopus squid.= P
MM5 kuotoa is so fucking happy to be here.
I liked the murlock by the end of the vídeo ^=^
Man you make very good content , but every video has audio that is quite unpleasant....
Get a good microphone, I bet your views will multiply, because the content is really good!!!!
Please go and watch a more recent video on my channel and let me know if the sound quality has improved.
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Mer-man from He-man???
I mostly clicked on this video to see how you pronounced Kuo-toa lol
Originally inspired by the Silurians from Doctor Who maybe? It would be massive fun to run a technologically advanced variant. Shades of Expedition To The Barrier Peaks sci-fi/fantasy campaign.
+Zachariah Bowman Well they certainly were around at the height of the Illithid empire, so, there are bound to be some high tech servitor slaves hidden around the D&D universe, in stasis pods or something.
Awsome
Or as they are call in WoW, Murlocs....
Right when I was about to feel bad for them.
You: they can also see invisible creatures and sense weirdness...
Now I feel like they are great on survival.
How are they an offshoot of Skum if the Skum are crossbred humanoid/fish things and the Kou-Toa were around before humanoids?
when did humanoids show up... scratch that, show me where Humans first showed up on Toril.
So slark is a kuatoa? Wish i woulda known that back in dark reef!!
I had one keep my halfling monk as a pet...
Could Kuo-Toa turn a PC into a God though?
On Azeroth, Kuo Toa are called, Murlocs. Mrglbrgl, Brglmrgl.
zombie Kuo-toa campaign
It seems really hard to find aquatic campaign setting, adventure, lore...
(Ideally for Faerun/forgotten realms)
anyone would be kind enough to recommend source materials?
(I don't mind which edition D&D or even maybe pathfinder)
3 merpeople disliked.
This is so absolutely awful. Revolting, uncanny, Lovecraft would be unnerved. It is incredibly inspiring. Stuff like this is better than watching a film, I can see the film in my head, and elaborate even more. The images are seminal aswell! I'd never seen that Aboleth image for instance, you have good taste in art.
A good number of these pieces of art are also of Murlocs from World of Warcraft which are also based on Deep Ones, hence the similar appearance.
Something was just .. fishy .. about this video.
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