D&D Ripped Off DUNE. 

Thanks for watching everyone! What monster would you like to see show up next?

Asking for a Dragon Ball inspired monster in honor of late legend Akira Toriyama

In a setting with actual high-level spell casters who can use magic to see the future, i can imagine spice being seen as a nasty shortcut for those who want the power, but lack the discipline to strive for actual spellcasting. There could even be a cold war of sorts between spice based seers and those who took the time to learn to do it the "right way" with magic. Edit: I could also see a cult springing up that worships Spice itself as a source of divinity.

One or more of these could be such an amazing rival to a beholder. It counters the beholder being more intelligent, plays into their paranoia because it can know the future, and has a direct attack on a beholder intelligence. Even if a beholder can easily take it in a fight, with the right minions an orangeseer could be such an amazing counter creature

0:37 orange is the new blackstone, it seems

How big are purple worms in lore? My brain immediately went " Sand worms are wayyyy bigger then 20 feet across" and then I remembered so are 90% of Gargantuan creatures

The spice must flow and the Prismatic Dragon must fly.

Sadly, we never got the stats for the battle pug

Feels like you could build a variant class out of this. Some crossbreed between wild magic and chronomancy, with more severe and lasting results on the wild magic chart and a crippling addiction to your favorite flavor and color of "spices".

The way wotc created this creature reminds me of how Miyazaki approaches this same idea. "I love example, example has blank in it. I want blank too, so i shall make my own. " Many people say he's a plagiarist. Coincidentally, many people seem to not understand that most creations are inspired, and inspiration can only go so far. Eventually when you get to the creative process you realize just how much you borrow from others either unwittingly or wittingly. Makes no difference. To extrapolate on that idea, think of the invention of the telephone. A miraculous technology. Was invented by two people simultaneously from two different locations with zero collaboration. Ergo, when you create something with intent, chances are someone else has already made it once before already anyways.

I hate the fact that RU-vid never notifies me when you upload, even when I watch all your videos. Ah, but they do notify me about random shorts from people I don't watch anymore 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

a sibriex and orange seer rivalry both trying to out play the other with the players caught in the middle could be fun

I would love to see some videos about the wacky types of beholder kin from older editions, like the director or the overseer

Just wanted to say I've been loving the Legend Lore videos, always looking forward to seeing more of those!! (of course we all love new monsters too)

Great video, and though I'm by no means a Dune fangirl, I do like the idea of the spice and what it can do for/to you. I might just put it in my game as a thing in the background but if my players want to interact with it, they are more then welcomed to.

Thanks for making the raw stats available for everyone

Homebrew Idea: For context: In original Dune, the way I've understood it the spice doesn't technically give you psychic powers, it just enhances your cognitive processing, so the psychic powers are proportional to both how much spice you take, and your expertise. Navigators are mathematicians, and their rival spice using faction, the Bene Gesserit, are political scientists with a touch of genetics, anatomy, and psychology. The Bene Gesserit also see the future, but they otherwise have totally different abilities including perfect body control, which lets them prevent spice mutation so they look completely normal. Idea: Maybe an orange seer with a different background from others can have tweaked or additional abilities? A druidic orange seer could be a shapeshifter, a military orange seer could have abilities specifically suited for strategy or tactics, an artificer orange seer might be a ghost in the machine, etc.

An interesting twist: Ingesting the orangespice extends one's lifespan. Such unnatural attempts to cheat death will likely attract another monster: a Marut.

I love it when a campaign takes us into the desert. It happens so rarely and its so fun.

Extra eyes? I can see the medium schoolar at Bloodborne gulping those spices down like they where water and turn into something like a orange seer in no time, but with no sanity left since it's bloodborne.

Asking the Why. I could see someone becoming an orange seer in order to combat Mind flayers. Or make contact in limbo/astral sea. A subsect of gith taking becoming this out of dedication to serve their people.

it'd be fun to have a reoccurring character who plays some advisory role to a leader, and every time you come back and see them they've progressed further along the dependency track. eventually becoming an orangeseer themselves. whether they're adversarial in nature would be up to the DM, but itd be cool to paint subtle hints like their eyes being unnaturally blue upon first meeting, and then their skin is a weird sunburnt tannish orange, then they start wearing less revealing clothing to hide their extra eyes. eventually they'd mutate too far and wouldn't be able to hide it.

A spiced filled room..... sounds a bit dangerous. Flash ignition from the simplest of firespells.

To preface this I consider future sight to be more then a bit maddening. The more you see of the fracturing lines the future holds ..... The more broken a mortal mind becomes. Also in this context the far realm seems to be at least a possible partial genesis for the spice. Though I don't see mind flayers having anything to do with it. So my general take on the spice is that the more you take the more your mind breaks. + The less you can control the specifics of what you get from your spice fueled visions. It seems like a fun time.... Far realm entities finding a way to market / trade the spice into mortal lands..... Like a drug infiltration. The only thing the users can never see is.... What happens to them as they use more of the drug.

The orangespice must flow indeed. Thanks again for letting me design this guy, love me some fun body-horror designs!

That outro. Is Dungeon Dad turning into an ARG??? ARGRPG?

6:45 ok that did it, using the Dune2000 sound track in a video makes you officially my favourite D&D youtube creator.

Imagine one of those abominations dominating a group of irnakurses it made to fight for it

Wielding the power of knowledge and fate is underused and I am so happy to see a creature that exhibits these themes. Thank you for making a 5e version for my players to enjoy. P.S. Woo hoo! I'm one the first 20 commenta!

Great find, great episode!

Ah who wouldn't love a precognitive psychic orange flesh blob that's high as shit

As someone who is about the watch dune 2 this monster came just in time.

I'm sticking one of the guys in a tower devoted to the archdevil of lies and knowledge.

i did make a dnd character that basically became a fantasy, aztec, voodoo priest equivalent to randall flagg. his name being tzontemoc, the scarlet baron. dude was supposed to be just an oc for villainous, but i just put him in D&D

In-universe, the general populace of the empire doesn't know why the Spacing Guild wants those absurd amounts of spice (other than for its known properties) and the Guild likes it that way.

I love the teaser at the end, and especially this one. We’ll be looking forward for your next upload!

You could yave so many adventures arise from the spice trader's guild contracting mercenaries to seek out and eliminate threats to spice mining/trading operations. Bandits, monster nests even raids from Underdark nations opening new passages. So much work to be done, so many opportunities for travel, I could see being hired to act as extra security for a spice shipment being an easy way to facilitate long distance travel. Everyone will want it, even just for the life extension abilities alone. You could have an Illuminate of Orange Seers manipulating the world to their own ends via their vast wealth, connections with the powerful and their own clairvoyance. Do you keep the conspiracy going? Maybe their rule is relatively peaceful even if no person is truly free. Or do you seek to cast off the bindings of fate? Bring chaos to an ordered plan, for good or ill.

OH, I really liked the idea of finding one of these sealed away in a cave. Only I would make it so it wasn't an orange seer when it was first trapped; maybe it was a displacer beast originally trapped in a cave full of spice, it's mind and lifespan constantly expanding while it watched the outside world, learning languages and getting smarter. Now we have an orange seer with a tentacles which probably also have eyes on them. Though I think instead of orangespice I'd make it an orange fungus that grows on the this cave's walls, fits better and explains why it never runs out. But the possibilities are endless; this creature trapped here for decades or even hundreds of years, using it's scrying / seer powers to learn about the world / future. You would have to take away or atleast nerf it's ability to dimension door... maybe just require it to have a physical line of sight to it's destination. So many ideas though! Maybe it's gone mad and can't tell the difference between the present and the future? Maybe it foresaw that the party was going to save it and has been studying them for their entire lives, it knows every detail about every single one of them... Maybe all the seeing and no interacting as left this thing attention starved and it just follows the party around... maybe it just wants headpats? OH, it could be a take on the cheshire cat, especially as a warped displacer beast, now super intelligent and able to short range teleport around... maybe even give it an invisibility like power where it can hide itself from sentient minds.

I have a character who’d 100% snort Orange Spice for fun. I’d love to see the concept expanded on, drugs and stimulants in D&D are an underrated idea.

This is such a fun creature. Looking forward to the next MotW!

Your video quality and editing are amazing and getting better. Still come back for the great content and the puns.

It's been so long since I last played in a D&D game, your videos really scratch that itch for me. Love your work! Keep it up!

It's a good day when you upload

Thanks, DD! I'm hyped for that next monster 👀 Also, there was a typo at 0:33 (Blackstone Gigant!). I think having orangeseers as mindflayer outcasts could be really interesting...orange ilithid monstrosities would be a good time, no? But seriously, I could see a whole hierarchical structure around orangeseers that are enslaved in mindflayer society, and those that somehow escape would have even more of an incentive to live an extravagant lifestyle in whichever other plane they move to 🍊

Awesome video! I love the story hook suggestions you provided. Really though, I just love all Dungeon Dad videos

This is really in line with all the DUNE content I’ve been consuming today. I wonder if my eyes will turn blue now 🤔

strahd using some versions of these to track the party or any of the npcs

I thought of a plot hook - Orange Seer hires the party to defeat one creature he is incapable of predicting - a time traveller with power of Chronomancy, who rewrites time whenever the Seer outmaneuvers him.

I really want to see you do the Hullathoin. It's only in the fiend fillo for 3rd edition. And don't even have a proper wiki article. Their basically forgotten for how utterly cool as undead they are

A campaign centered around trying to break free from the choke hold of THE orange seer god emperor has on his empire thru his prescient abilities, a la Leto Atreides the second would be interesting. Wrestling with the meaning of free will in a setting were your enemy isn't just guestimating your next move but knows it before you do has the potential to be really interesting if handled well

There was already a group in the game that I'm running that consumes mushrooms that grow due to the excess energy of a captured god of fate. I was trying to figure out what them eating the mushrooms would do and this slides into my recommendations.

Almost immediately i had the idea of an orangeseer being part of a quest line to perfect an incredibly important plan of some sort, in exchange for resuming the flow of orangespice. Maybe a dragon or something has been hunting the worms or whatever

Once again, your vid popped up perfectly on time when I needed it :D

Oh what a great video! As always, i may use their idea in my table, just add a twist where the "Spice" would be actually Shardmind Crystals grinded into powder to add extra conflict, maybe not their same Crystal but the same source who spawn then in my world 🤔

I personally think it’d be interesting if an orangeseer ingests an obscene quantity of spice in a short period of time some of their limbs cease to be vestigial, growing back to full size, but chipping away at any semblance of restraint they might still have concerning spice, meaning some mad wizard with the methods to create spice could turn their apprentice into a psionic engine of destruction and death that can see the future and will do ANYTHING for spice.

So I suppose orangespice could be considered a chaotic neutral influence creating body horror, but what about chaotic good body horror?

Man the videos look ever better in addition to dour great conversion work and presentation. Thank you.

I’m looking for an interesting fey creature to mix up the campaign I’m about to start. Most fey are little goobers with moth wings and stuff but where’s like a flying rainbow elephant that rides clouds or something?

This inspires me to build a setting where all magic comes from a mysterious "spice" You don't need to take it continuously to maintain your spells, but every level or every few levels you hit a threshold where you need a dose of spice to advance any further. I would probably hand out a lot of feats to represent non-spice-related advancement. Perhaps sorcerers come from the bloodlines of people who consumed so much spice their body (and descendants bodies) gained the ability to produce it automatically.

I am going to join your Patreon, and look at the monster stats, but I am curious how the “see the future” mechanic works in game? I think it is an awesome concept, and l love the idea of the party working against an organization that has one of these Seers, just wondering how to actually run in mechanically. Maybe did the DM it can work, because they know everything already. But wouldn’t the Seer be like “I see my death at the hands of the party” or “I see the fall of this organization at the hands of the party”? And what about a player with this ability, how does TRUE seeing into the future work? Love your channel

Hey Dungeon Dad! Awesome video as always. I want to animate some dnd monsters and characters, what would be a good one to start with?

In the manga Choujin X, the protagonists at one point have to find a poppy field to cut off the supply of opium to the main antagonist, in order to weaken her and make it so they can defeat her. I can imagine something similar happening with an antagonistic Orangeseer, with you needing to find the source of spice or the provider fast enough that the Orangeseer can't predict it or find a new supplier before you can stop it.

Dungeon Dad your videos are a wonder to behold. After watching them I foresee many adventures ahead for me and my players. Of course, I also see many dangers and a path wrought with peril.

Something I would love to see is the bebilith, a giant demonic spider that hunts other demons sounds amazing. Toss on top the fact that they can travel between the planes seemingly at will if they need to, but will usually only go to the astral plane if in danger, and you have a rather intriguing monster.

as someone who mainly plays pathfinder this sounds like it could be useful for inspiration for a specific type of oracle and oracle curse

What this says inspiration, you could make a drug for each of the Green lantern colors. The drugs give you the ability of warlocks with some flavor changes, and each one without the drug effect would be an increase in the personality trait of the required ring color

Another BANGER! Can't wait to watch the second part of Dune this week with my partner. Love love love Dune xD 17:15 this! A part of my brain is always active while consuming media these days that is always figuring out how to apply it to dnd xD

LOVE when you cover named monsters and villains!

hi dungeon dad grate video by the way can you cover the Sartani?

At this point most of my comments on these videos involve me brainstorming how a given video's monster would fit into Eberron, and while sometimes I have to think for a minute to figure out an idea of how to do that, for the Orangeseer it was really easy. Humanoids recognizably mutated into grotesque forms and gaining powerful psychic powers? That's textbook daelkyr shit right there.

I wonder what happens if you go even further with spice. It would be a Herculean task to acquire enough have a does more often than an hour, but imagine a guy whose hooked up to a machine that has a constant uninterrupted supply fed directly into him.

One of my favorite or at least most memorized creatures for some reason that i think is from dune, there's a creature called the shriek (like the bird), the person that i listened to explaining it went into such detail about how it's quite horrifying. It just kills people and Impales people on jagged metal tree

Heck yeah. Love this.

Love the hook this episode! Thanks for all your hard work on the stat block too

There could be a player option for a not-yet Orangeseer but still distinctly mutated, make it a sorcerer subclass.

Will you ever do monsters from video games like monster hunter and if you do can you please talk about the velociprey/drome?

My idea was an enslaved orangeseer in an organization letting the party reach it by simply not telling its captors how the party will reach them either because they want to die or be freed

What was that tease at the end? It was special 👀

This sounds like the kind of monster that the party would be recruited to kill by a Quaruts inevitable. Something that keeps viewing and changing the future and messing with fates? Thats an inevitable-ing

Can we get an episode on Leshay?

Very cool. I like the idea of a powerful entity that will know what to do at all times and therefore is highly valued. Still asking for Ethergaunts. Finished my long campaign with my wife so I don't really have the ability to use there info anymore, but I still would like to have their stat block for 5e

Hey did you used to have a video about the Silver Dragon? I swear i sae you talk about it but i cant find it again, snd if it wasnt you i have no idea who it might have been

Dude, love the thematic inclusion of a really cool series into 5e. Super stoked to try and weave this one into a future adventure.

The new monster book for the remaster of PF2 will of course come with new dragons. Maybe you could use them after your current run of dragons. Otherwise, PF2 has a wood and metal elemental planes, so of course they have their own genies. The wood genies nobles will add to the wish to add some sort of signature, and the metal will twist the wish claiming linguistical differences due to the isolation of the metal plane while it was phased out.

This orange spice is literally luciferium in rimworld

Wow it would suck for an Orangeseer if an enemy had the Orangeseers name and access to time travel...

I've said it once, but I'll say it again, I LOVE the new intro to the show! Keep up the great work DD!

i'll still try this one GERIVIAR! plz! as always, great video

What about the Witchfire from Pathfinder?

Haven't seen that episode of magic school bus in like 20 years, but it still lives rent free in my brain

I just watched Dune 2 earlier this week and have been fighting the urge to suddenly pivot my campaign to stopping an invasion of Purple Worms.

Had to cut my payments to you for a bit but plan to restart them when available again so hope your doing well and having a good life.

12:05 Oh hey, check it out. It's the plot of my 4e campaign from 14 years ago!

excellent video, ty for linking the google drive stat block everytime too

I know we only do suggestions on the patreon. But sand worm stat blocks that aren't just purple worms would be cool. So if anyone has some sauce please let me know :D

I would definitely use this as an NPC in need of a party to infiltrate a castle dungeon to rescue a friend of the NPC. It would have the knowledge, but not the physical expertise. It would be willing to repay the party with some future knowledge to benefit them once the job was done.

Using an Orangeseer as some kind of doomsayer would be great. There's a cult behind the orangeseer making sure its proclamations come true.

Imagine the party setting out to assassinate an enemy-aligned Orangeseer. After a decent dungeon crawl, they kick down the door to its chambers and engage the seer and its guards. It's a brutal fight, and although they lose one of their number in the carnage, they barely scrape out a victory. The Orangeseer lies broken and dying before them. Its eyes dim and seem to focus on something far beyond the party. Flashback to the day before the assassination. An envoy of the Orangeseer - the Orangeseer _personally,_ not the organization that hired them - arrives and asks to parley. The Orangeseer wants to make them a better offer; it knows that if it comes down to a fight, it can't win. If they refuse, flash forwards to them finishing off the seer. Things progress as they would have. RIP to their rogue or whatever. If they accept... who knows? Maybe they have a powerful (if begrudging) new ally. Maybe they get betrayed in the dead of night when the Orangeseer (who has gone into hiding, obviously) sends assassins of their own. Maybe some wacky third thing, I dunno, I'm not your DM.

Nice video! Another plot hook could be an famous oracle regarded highly by society is withdrawing more and more. This is because she is addicted to the Spice and uses it to amplify her abilities, but due to her access, she is slowly transforming, and desperate. What will the party do when they find her? how far is her progress? maybe they can try reverse the progress, or maybe it's too late, and she already is too far gone. Also for Next week it is a dragon, i think one of the ferrous dragons? i have an idea of which one, but i will let the others guess...

MOTW request for Cyst Trinity Hag from Pathfinder 1e to get a 5e stat block!!