Basically Elder Evils 

That was the scariest thing I've read in awhile.

Damn that’s both dark as and yet profound to read somehow

What entety hes talkingyabout

@@theonesithtorulethemall all you need to know is just not say the thing between 7 and 9 or the double of 4.

@@theonesithtorulethemall He's not talking about one specific entity. He looking at someone who's become a gateway to The Dungeon Dimensions, a place inhabited by beings called Things. The feed on magic and they're harmful to Discworld.

lmao

No problem man. Take some rest (then please do another city of mist video)

its 5 am out here you the star smith or what?

well I'll never let go of the first video. having access to an unlisted video makes me feel coooool

It was kind of funny ngl

Check out 1-Diazidocarbamoyl-5-azidotetrazole. Its formula is C2N14 and no that's not a typo.

*cough* Chlorine gas *cough coooooooooooooooough* ***ded***

Bromine compounds can be used as flame retardants and fire is kind of bad Source: I watched avatar

@@conradshtock3039 That reminds me of another fun compound, chlorine trifluoride.

Certain ones, maybe.

It is a great book of background/campaign/worldbuilding ideas. :)

One of the best things to come out of 3.5. some dudes on the internet even converted it to 5e fairly well.

@@ItamarO93 there's a 5e coversion? Nice! Going to look for that later today.

@@probablythedm1669 Not a full one. Just stats for the EEs and NPCs, but you can use the rest of the book.

Let me Guess what Is in the video before watching It. Atropous, the world Born dead Rognorra, the mother of Monsters The worm guy, I don't Remember his name, Kyuss? Those are my personal favorite as final enemies, in specific the idea of a creature that generated the First gods and died doing so, Just to come back as an undead to become the gods worst enemy and try to end all world, a looming Shadow that brings destruction to everything It meets, Is really cool campagna Wise. And then i went on writing for half and hour. I'm Sorry not Sorry, I put here my idea for a campaign and It took a lot of time to write. Read It if you want to, avoid to save 10 minutes and English mistakes. Fells like you can Attach It to many ideas, and It Fits well with One of the most famous/common type of enemies completely evil, undeads. A Lich trying to call Upon the world Born dead, to evade punishment from the gods, sounds like a neat campaign, and there are multiple ways he could be going about It. Causing huge battles while staying in the Shadows, hidhing all the time while controlling the world from far away using unknown spells (in 3.0 there Is a book for Epic levels, After lvl 20, that introduces "Epic" magic among other things, basically creating any type of spells, Is really cool concept I Wish to see in 5e), a puppet master that control the fate of the world and directs It all towards annihilation, so that the world Born dead Can find and devour his world. I tried doing a campaign like that, but It failed miserably becouse I'm a bad dm, if Someone can take the idea and make It happen pls let me know, I really wanna do something like that with my Firenze. Really long comment to explain my idea. Basically, I generated the world the Classic way, put cities and enemies, different factions and other stuff, then I created the final enemy, a Lich with access to Epic magic. I made his spells, and then I tried to immagine how he would go about causing massive death to summon Atropous and escape punishment for lichdoom. I also created a backstory for the Lich, I Will try to be short, basically a long dead cult of liches left behind something special, and an old archmage manages to find It along side the secret for lichdoom (basically he found an ancient trhone, some sort of articaft i created, that was holding the remains of the dead liches, and this archmage fused to It becoming a Lich, unithing his consciousness with the maddened left overs of the other liches giving him the same goal as the dead liches alongside access to Epic magic as long as he used the trhone). Then I basically used Epic magic to modify the world I alredy set up over the course of many years. The Lich wants to stay hidden, and becouse of the trhone he doesn't have to eat, so he creates a cult over the years and used the cult (via Epic magic he makes them Belive he his a deity). Now that the world as been changed by the Lich, about 500 years later, I insert the party. The idea Is that the liches keeps causing trouble to the party, basically using the cult to create various alliances beetwen various evil beings (various races naturally evil like goblins, Giants, etc). This thing goes on with the party finding out about the cult organizing various events, they track down the cult and learn everything that has happened, basically the Lich setting Major wars and all kinds of Chaos. The party learns that this was done in order to try and attract Atroupus (by causing Major Mass death he noticed the world and starts his long March to reach It and destroy It). They let the world know, the world forms some sort of united army to take down the Lich, they also join forces with previous enemy that learned the Lich was manipolating everything, and everyone join forces in an army of both good end evil trying to prevent the common enemy from ending the world. But Surprise, this was part of the Lich Plan. When the army his united and has come knocking on his Door, the lich used his greatest spell, that causes everything to go to shit. The various armies united thogether Remember everything that has happened before, and start fighting each other, some sort of Mass confusion spell. The party Somehow doesn't fall victims to this spell and reaches the Lich in his hideout, a dark tower of eeevil (with everything outside going to shit). They reach the trhone room and confront him, in this moment the Lich mocks them, letting them know that every step they made until this point was in his Plan and all they achieved was to lead to this moment, then they fight. The Lich can keep the "Mass confusion spell" up while he Is on the trhone, he can normally cast spells but he cannot move, wich means he can't leave if he wants to complete his Plan (this Is also the reason he didn't Just go and kill everything by himself, by creating a super powerfull Epic spell to kill and entire country) and so After a long and hard fought battle the party wins and cast down the Lich stopping the spell. Surprise that nobody saw coming, the spell achieved his purpose and managed to attract Atroupus and now he his coming (in a few months). Also, the trhone was made via means superior to Wish spells, wich means there Is no way for the party to destroy It and if Some powerfull mage sits there, the mad Lich his back (0 death, not even close, 100% Will be back in due time). Also, the archmage that found the trhone First, found It becouse the trhone was kinda calling him (and here It Is, the victory? That Will enrage the party 100% of the time, letting them know that eventually another Lich Will be Born again and they haven't solved the problem, only send It further in time), basically he Heard dark wispers during his sleep for his entire Life that gave him success as a mage, and as a dying old man he decided to follow those whispers to the trhone and in Exchange for ultimate Power gave his Life to It, this pretty much the Lich backstory. Then the party goes on the Quest to stop Atroupus, basically they have to fly out of the Planet while the world Born dead his close, in a desperate attempt to stop him by killing his avatar (they did some research and found out, via help from gods, that the world Born dead Can be out back to sleep by killing his avatar). Then, if they stop the world Born dead, they can either go on with their lives or try to do something about the trhone.

A Great Old One Warlock, who is blessed by Hadar. Yaaaas.

Hadar is my BBEG! i love the necro-stars

Hadar has some fun lore behind him! He’s kinda basically like Dormamu from Dr Strange, but creepier and more unknowable

Ah yes, the good ol' mind break death. One of the simultaneously best and worst ways to go depending on your personal philosophy.

Mainly knowing that you are dying but are forced to love it even if its something you dont want is the scary aspect I think, but yeah mind break can be great or the worst depending on the hentai you watch lol

Now this is something I could see a cult being built around

Sooo... The drug epidemic?

One I made was, essentially, nightmares. That's it. It had full control of the dream realm, but technically didn't exist. Its only goal was to find a way to materialize into reality by causing such terrible nightmares in mortals that they lost their minds and could then be influenced to a certain degree by the mass of writhing nightmares every time the mortal fell asleep.

EDIT: Disregard this, Massimo got it right. Pretty much, though it was more like... "Screw the gods, let's summon an unstoppable sentient hypervoid that we can bully them into submission with" *Pandorym is summoned and starts eating the gods* "No wait you were just supposed to scare them so they would give us cool things oh shit oh fuck why aren't you listening"

From what I remeber from 3.5 Pandorym wass summoned by a bunch of stupid wizards who made him a contract to kill the gods. They then separated it body, who take the shape of a giant sphere of annihilation in a demiplane that can be accessed once a year, from its mind, capable of psionic that makes level 20 mystics like commonwrs, whom they put inside in a giant crystal. They then tried to blackmail the gods, who after the first request erased them from existance. The adventure in the book Elder Evil started because a lawful stupid inevitable wanted to free Pandorym since it was tricked over a legal and fair contract.

​@@marcsimo This is correct! Nevermind my previous comment, everybody.

@@marcsimo this is why we need to wreck mechanus now and again

@@jonathanredacted3245 Yeah, I mean it would be kinda hard since not even the Last Word could kill Primus forever, but they are really inefficient. When the Arcane sold an entire crystal sphere to the demons (basically a solar sistem), a sphere that they didn't own mind you, they didn't bat an eye instead of, I don't know, giving them a massive fine for fraud and illicit appropriation.

I know of Tharizdun's aspect as the Elder Elemental Eye, but I didn't no he made a thumbtacks-and-string appearance in Tyranny of Dragons. What deity is he disguised as in that campaign? I want to know because I honestly am a huge fan of Tharizdun, especially as the creator of the Abyss.

From an outsider perspective, that sounds boring for the players, to be fighting against the same final boss every time.

@@thoronbar I'm sure it seems that way, he was revealed in my first campaign to be controlling the BBEG, in the one after that they actually killed him, and a few years later the players learned they were in the same world as the previous campaign, things had just changed with time. So his essence was still around but not necessarily Tharizdun himself after being destroyed. It was meant to be a 3 part saga from the beginning but the players never knew. They seem to like it.

@@Ra_views hey, if the players were happy, you succeeded.

@@Ra_views I would be a little dissapointed as a player to discover, that the big reveal is yet again "the chained god did it"

I have a background arc that ties all of my campaigns together as a grand scheme by Tharizdun to weaken the pantheon of the universe enough that, when he breaks free, they won't be enough in number or strength to stop him. Unfortunately, my group plays so inconsistently that we may never finish the current campaign, the end of which I was planning on finally hinting that all of the campaigns they've gone through so far are not only in the same universe, but connected.

Whoa...you absolute genius.... We gotta help him!

I just had an idea like that, it basically boils down to "the elder evils are coming" and you have to figure out a way to stop them. Spoiler: the only way to stop them is to find a way to invoke io, which no one really knows if it exists or not, but supposedly it is the thing that all other things come from and it is the only way to stop the elder evils.

Planet wide silence spell macguffin to repel it from the world

If we’re going that route, it was the Obyriths that made Tharizdun what he is, so technically, I think the Obyriths are the BBEG of all of DnD.

Funny enough, I think cthulhu does have a daughter named cthylla, though I remember little about her other than her name.

@@DeltaOdyssey That is true, Cthulhu keeps her a secret from everything else in the universe just so she can act as an ultimate backup plan for if he is killed by his enemies.

@@SakuraiHikari15 wait, cthulhu can be killed? I always assumed if his physical body was destroyed, he would still exist somehow. Then again, I'm not the most well-versed on the mythos.

@@DeltaOdyssey He's at least scared enough of it happening. Though unlike the more popular belief, the Cthulhu mythos doesn't consider Cthulhu a god (Elder God or Outer God), he is just a priest of the Elder Gods. So he is basically just a really high level Cleric (though he is technically descended from gods).

@@SakuraiHikari15 oh yea, forgot about the priesthood thing.

No orator goodbye healing. Loke it overheqls if I remember correctly. Its just that overhealing is lethal.

Damn, I just looked her up, she's like the high evolutionary except she loves everything way wayyyyyyy too much.

one might even say that she employs The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic

All hail our great overlord Got'eem!

You fit two dyslexia jokes in this one comment. Good job.

I believe it's called "Call of Cthulu"

@@calebdouglas2512 I love Call of Cthulu

_So I got this idea for a new Elder Evil-_

Evil elder Elvis

Did your imagination break?

I mean, Seritorus just revealed that Paladins exist and could be full casters with a slightly diffrent mindset? Definitely a threat to the gods, but as a feat of "this thing should never be allowed to exist near you" its... kinda anticlimactic. Especially after the "reworks all life into her image" lady

@@the_last_balladI thougbt Sertrous was responsible for introducing the idea of Heresy?

That was really painful. I don't think it was his doing, though.

Mine was for ranch dressing, what was your ad for?

@@Seloa gee, three weeks ago, my brain already dropped that bit of trivia

@@hugofontes5708 understandable.

Bold words for someone in xenoforming range

Bold words from being in soon to be a devout cultist range

@person person they kinda can't drink their tea, really. Not alone with their own ~hands~ tentacles

@person person "if an eldritch deity trapped in a prison realm drinks tea but there's no one aware to be driven mad, does it deal sanity damage?" is the kind of philosophical argument I play TTRPGs for

​@person person so you agree it can't deal damage if there's no target, good

I was in a campaign where Tharizdun was the BBEG and Atropus was his friend/right hand man

That’s pretty cool and kinda funny when you think about it but in a scary way

This reminds me of world of light in super smash bros ultimate, where the two big "gods" Galeem and Darkhon represent opposites of chaos and order, light and dark, and a bunch of characters are basically caught between their fighting as spirits.

Watch it again

Yeh man just Watch it Again

The algorithm is its own elder evil

They knew you’d like it

Same...

Logan's sole patron is Gawr Gura.

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Absolutely

Facts

No. You are god. Your pet dog is more like the elder evil. He doesn’t care about the sims but could still wipe them out by peeing on the pc.

Im not sure- even when you torture sims, you are still restricted to the code of the video game and bound to the system itself. Elder Evils however, are more climatic, some are powerful enough to change to fabric off reality itself in ways beyond the human mind. I would instead compare Elder Evil to an artist of sorts who stolen a project, then decides to not care about what in contains and twists it as they see fit.

@@wizardlizard4496 Or, y'know, modders. Most do care about the game and mod things that feel like they should already be in the game, but some just do it to change things up (i.e. abortionbirth mod for The binding of Isaac, aka, possibly the most unbalaced mod in existence), or to achieve some weird fantasy like the nudism mods for skyrim. Or, the worst of all, *_Round Minecraft_* *shudders*

All must do their part to satisfy the great Algorithm

Truly the most powerful elder evil.

Praise be to Algorithm-chan

Praise be to the algorithm-sama

Glory be to the Great Algorithm!

@fire lord I was just making a haha funny

it got there

Considered "evil" by the gods as his power threatens their dominion over the planes just by being an alternative option. Cue godly meangirl-esc gossiping and smearing to convince reality itself that the guy is evil incarnate, leading the followers of the gods to do everything in their power to keep him buried under the sands of time with only the highest preisys actually allowed to know the name.

throw* hands

@@SapunMan monk: no, really, get through this hand

@@hugofontes5708 Ok, but that's not what he was going for.

@@SapunMan Bruh

I mean legit no 20th level party could fight tharizadun...

And a *cosmic necessity* , because she eats nightmares which makes people forget them, which helps keep everyone sane. She's great

@@snowboundwhale6860 Exept that she wants to eat the *sun*

​@@foisopracurtir6389 *Snuff out the light plays menacingly in the distance*

Becuse in fantasy..due primarily to Tolkien. Everything is degression magic and the race of man gets weaker as time goes on. Not stronger, as do the gods. Ancient evils were dangerous in their day back when people where actually capable of amazing deeds. Compared to these modern idiots who can’t make it past level ten. This is also deeply tied into the editions of dnd where each edition has had a lower and lower max level. (20 in 5e, 30 in 4e, Infinte but really hard 3.5, 3.0, and infinte but no where near as hard in 2.0,) Literally the maximum power of anything in the universe continuously is getting weaker in most fantasy and espically in DND.

Imagine people 1000 years ago would have been able to defend the earth from greater evils by weaving carpets on a weaving loom. There were probably many people who knew how to use one as it was maybe a somewhat common thing. But these people died at some point, and generations passed while weaving looms became less significant and were replaced. Now, 1000 years later, these evils return and almost nobody knows how to deal with them anymore. Makes them rather threatening 🤷‍♂️ The Director's answer is better though :P

Defeating those evils required some kind of sacrifice so even if they are weaker those who stand against them are also weaker. Also consider that Sauron was only weakened without the One Ring, the Titans were imprisoned but still strong and Voldemort was still one the most powerful mages in the world.

The problem is that, either in addition to what was said about the weakening of Mortal Powers or in replacement to it, they were defeated or driven off by a *combined* and unified force of uber powerful mortal heroes and entire pantheons of gods(often times with some of said gods dieing or being destroyed in the effort), but the uber heroes are long dead or have been corrupted, and the gods have become fractious. At one point they would have been willing to work together, but llolth and gruumsh would both rather die then help correllon do anything, and that's just a minor example. The gods are nod longer willing to work together on basic daily stuff, let alone things that are actually important, so the Elder Things being weakened isn't a "oh lets steamroll them" but a "we have some miniscule chance still!"

@@janelantestaverde2018 actually, that's the background of my party's fortune teller

I've seen a lotta comments about A but I'm not getting the joke. Elaborate please

@@JohnSmith-ex8iw Runesmith reuploaded this because in the original, now unlisted, upload of this video at the end where he'd list his patrons it just said "A" It was hilarious lol

@@joesphrobinette8878 he didn’t make fun of Socialism in this video tho?

@@gromplestomp5593 when he said best he didn’t mean best at Population control.

@@colinstacy2085 define Socialism

@@gromplestomp5593 lmao keep dreaming, commie.

@@newjerseyyouth4853 To be fair communism does have better results that most diet pills.

Or pizza.

@Dude Man thats it im making a warlock bard now.

My personal favorite was also left out. Zargon the returner.

By chance, do they have a legendary action that causes all other creatures to miss an entire round?

Except maybe a cloud tabern