D&D'S MOST TERRIFYING OUTSIDERS 

Nightwalker: If they breathe they are my enemy Warforged: Yeah that sucks guys But i'mma head out.

"It punches you. It hits" "You didnt roll" "60 damage" "You didn't roll!" "It doesnt give a fuck. It hits again"

Nightwalkers: If you are considered alive by any version of the definition, then it considers your existence as a personal attack.

Outsiders: The saviors of all "20th Level One-Shot" DMs

I use Marut as an enforcer of the no messing with time rule. My Chronoturgy Wizard player is constantly paranoid of it

One session, we were trying to Teleport in the Astral Plane based on a description. Roll and get Off Target. We find ourselves in some sort of Githyanki war ship that’s been sawed in half. We don’t take the hint and loot the place. 10 minutes later one of the members has the idea to take a quick look outside. They immediately stare into the magic defying gaze of an Astral Dreadnought.

Half of the people watching this: "Okay yeah these are pretty scary" Sadistic DMs watching this: "Write that down, write that down!"

"WHY ARE YOU BUYING SOULS AT THE SOUP STORE?!?!!?!!!????"

Thought that knock was my window. Scared the shit out of me.

Terrors from beyond the realm of imagination, the threat of existence nullification, and shooty shooty hippos. Truly in a league of their own.

Gods: All mortals are royalty! Nightwalkers: If they breathe... THEY'RE A CORPSE.

...I kinda want a Basically Giff video now.

A nightwalker in a campaign is a good indicator that your DM hates you. Also I want more like this. Please do one on aberrations and how it is really hard to truly implement Lovecraft into DnD

The Marut: The most dangerous of all of Primus' toys.

I'm actually planning on using a Marut in on of my games as a way to draw the party's curiosity and start the next leg of the campaign. Basically it'll show up and kill one of the lesser villains when they catch him, before/as he is able to spill the beans about the pact made by him and his partners to keep a legendary hero (and founder of their guild) imprisoned in the Abyss.

The apple from annoying orange with text saying it “doesn’t need to be near you” has a very foreboding energy

The thing I find the best about the Marut is they have a specific ability, if they ever would roll to make an attack or a save, they don't roll, they automatically succeed, so it doesn't matter what your AC, and if you toss a spell at one you better make it a spell that doesn't have them make a save, so every save or die spell automatically fails against them and a lot of spells do vary little since a lot of them have save for half damage.

Anything: *lives* Nightwalker: And I took that personally.

_"D&D'S MOST TERRIFYING OUTSIDERS"_ Groups that run City of Mist in a D&D setting

Christ, I forgot how terrifying these creatures are

"Nightwalkers are made of pure diesel powered evil" Ah, finally some DND representation for all us dieselmaxxers out there

I'm glad to know that it was a knocking sound effect and not the "Wall-People" acting up again

Nightwalkers? Breath? Is this some kind of a living joke, that I am too Warforged to understand?

Book sounds exciting, I may have to get it. Imagine dude keeps making them until he has one for every normal aspect of D&D (taverns, battle sites, etc) and then someone just buys all of them and creates the ultimate overly detailed too-many-mechanics campaign.

“And there aren’t even any tigers…” And like that, every rakshasha cried out in sadness

Awesome. More terror for my party who never shows up on time. I come back two years later and I've hit 1k likes. I'm famous now.

"Half of them just sit on rocks thinking of justice until someone does something they don't like" I now know what i yearn to be in life

While Solars may seem like the Supermen of dnd I’d say that title more rightfully belongs to the Empyreans.

Reminder that the head of an Astral Dreadnaught is where Cacodemons come from.

So we got, *Slenderman, Space Araj Lobster, The Iron Giant, Hungy Hunter Hippos, and the Angel that Banged Mary*

Nightwalkers are drawn to certain people and places. They walk the material plane in the tracks of the person who inadvertently summoned them by trying to draw upon powers from their realm of the Shadowfell. They are often accompanied by other Nightshade, such as Nighthaunts and Nightcrawlers

I wouldn't mind more stuff where you talk about monsters from dnd.

Do we want more of this madness? Does Primus wake up at 8am sharply and get up at 8.30 to the second?! I don't know, but I sure as hell would like to believe so!

4:48.... God I love d&d

I think that ine Inevitable thatupholds the boundary between life and death is way scarier than the Rules Lawyer version, since you can talk your way out of trouble with the RL Inevitable, whereas the Death Dealer Inevitable literally will stop at nothing to kill you just because you are alive when the Universe says you shouldn't be.

That knock sound effect is amazing.

"Doesn't even have tigers" I beg to differ, and offer up my feral Rakshasa who has been terrorizing my party throughout their current field trip through the outer planes.

The Marut is still, to this day, the creature I fear the most

There was some relatively low level evil outsider in 3.5 that would paralyse its victims and use a proboscis with teeth to eat their guts while their still lived. Not because he was hungry, outsiders don't need to eat, he just loved to make others suffer. It also had telepathic power, so while it chewed through your guts towards the heart, you and everyone around you would feel what it tasted like.

This is me interacting for the Almighty Algorithm-Sama.

Space hippos, just when I thought D&D couldn't get wierder

Angry multiplayer kid: damages his xbox. Marut: I AM THE LAW!

The knock at 1:23 scared me so bad. I literally jumped and looked to the left, when there was literally just a wall there.

Of course who dosnt need a tavern to stick some adventurers in at the beginning of the asventure

I really wish I could get one of these kickstarters, I’m only 11. Keep up the good work!

Maruts are some of the most dangerous enemies, and one of the scariest creatures you can encounter, because they... they don’t quite roll attacks. They just... hit. And they don’t roll damage either. They just deal damage. 60 force damage, to be exact. And they can do it twice. Meaning, unless you have resistance or immunity to force damage, or some way to prevent it from even targeting you with an attack, it can just start cranking out 120 force damage a round. The only advantage of this is that it can’t Crit. But... it also can’t roll any 1s. And your AC stops mattering. This thing is just a nightmare in every way, actually.

Love how with all the nightmarish OP badass's on the list, that Space Hippos were at the end and that I'd be more afraid of them out of everything else. I mean the odds are greater that I piss someone off that would hire them versus anything else on the list showing up.

#6: The Dungeon Master.

"Ooh, the hippos are spacefaring! That means--" "(Dressed like a 18th-Century British naval officer; wielding a musket)" "...I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed."

I hope you’re doing well, Rune. I’ve always appreciated you’re talent and hard work. Keep it up!

That knocking sound effect at 1:24 scared the shit out of me

The Marut reminds me of a being in Invisible Sun called the Pactholder or something. Pacts are big thing there and essentially, if any party breaks a pact, even a demon, this terrifying shows up to punish you for it. It doesnt need to see the pact made or broken, it just knows and instantely teleports to the oathbreaker as well. It is kinda a demigod.

'And turns them into soup', showing a guy trying to buy clothes as at a soup store. Just beautiful

I would 100% love more of this kind of series. Gives me bunches of ideas for BBEGs to create (and probably never use), plotlines to construct, and scary evildoers to toss at my players.

Im sitting with my back to a glass door at night and that knocking sound at 1:23 scared me 3/4s to death.

You forgot the most important detail of all for hippos: they are the only creature to have EVER made the crocodile hunter (rip Mr Irwin) hesitate moving forward on camera.

That stupid knock from the nightwalker actually made me jump a little.

“And plans on walking out of the inky void to knock on your door” that 3D audio gave me a heartattack

Space hippos are a thing in D&D! D&D is officially the best thing ever!

The door knock at 1:25 made me jump, so good job Nightwalker, ya got me.

My players found a cracked Iron Flask with a Nightwalker in it. The crack damaged the "charm occupant into obedience" function of the flask, so they can release a fully hostile Nightwalker whenever, wherever they want. They have yet to do so.

In my campaign we have a Solar ally, and my Druid is basically almost a worker of his, it’s fun. Edit: my most liked comment, so imma just explain the story because why not. Our first session starts as my party all as Tribals at the coming of age ceremony. we have -Vulfgang, me, the human druid -Jeff, The lizard folk druid -Noman, the Triton Fighter -Tilfork, The Dwarf ranger (the player does not know the meme, it just happened) - Graegus, the Dwelf Wizard We have to go to a cave and clear it out to become of age, and we start with a encounter with skeleton archers across a moat, so basically... range vs team that half the people don't have ranged spells. We won by basically having the Barbarian Jump over the moat with me on his back (it was crazy). and after that we just made a bridge because we needed to get in, and then we went down to a lower level, and then a giant figure appears, I roll religion (Nat 20 +3) and realize "this is a Solar". then... MORE SKELETONS ATTACK as the Solar watches us try to fight them, but due to action econemt and low health from the last encounter, we get rekt. and thanks to the LG alignment my character has, he is chosen to follow Helm (alongside Jeff) and yeah, magical Items and we follow Helm now, fun. The solar has basically been our bud this entire time, we went on our own for a bit, and then our Solar in his human form helped us fight the incursion of devils, in his human form. More has happened, but basically -One off with only Vulfgang (I am getting favorited by the DM for playing Druid and am trying to help the other players feel more special) and I figure out the human was actually the Solar Oulvenal. next -Training arc intensifies- an we travel back to Holdehik (Jeff's player miss said it once, heh) And then devil army marching at us including these Insanely powerful Crystal guards and basically we have to protect the city with a small group of men because the entire 1000 soldiers outside just got slaughtered. me and my master (an archdruid) plus the human Solar and the party and some more key NPCs fight to protect and basically only my character, the archdruid, and the Human Solar of the key players get hit (I took over 100 damage as a lvl 6 druid, how did I live? good question.) and then the other players figure out who he is, so that's just basically it, I skipped over a LOT of fun dnd stuff, but this is about the Solar, so... yeah, I may tell the story later in a video or something. Thanks for the likes though.

Maruts are especially scary because their melee attacks are automatic hits, and deal a flat 60 force damage. It attacks twice, so if you are alone you eat a big fat 120 force damage every turn

1:22 that knocking scared the crap out of me with my headset on

Nightwalker: *is one of the most powerful types of undead. Able to kill anything from 3 football fields away by proximity* Necromancy Wizard at 14th level: "That's cute."

Oooo! This will be perfect for the stuff my players are getting into!

Jesus Christ, that knocking sound at 1:23 with surround sound headphones on scared the shit out of me. I thought someone was knocking on my walls or something.

This was a very cool video :) I really like the sound of the Giff, and my recommendation for your videos would be to maybe link or mention what DnD sourcebook you got whatever creature you're talking about in the description. Love your videos man, you're doing great!

Gotta be honest, the Marut would make for an incredibly amusing one shot if the party found one that had lost its mandate and wasn't sure what to do.

Okay, so...it's almost 2 in the morning for me right now, I'm wearing headphones, and that knock at around 1:23 almost stopped my heart.

Thank you for mentioning the giff! They're the best race/monster that gets like no love.

1:23 on headphones, literally sounded like someone was pounding a door to my right. When there was no door to my right.

time to bring extreme amounts of terror to my campaign

Only bad guys need to fear Solars. I really hope the Solar's definition of bad isn't "less than perfect".

I really liked this video because these are some cool dnd monsters that are more than just:"irl mythological creature but now they have stats" these are like, super unique and i love to learn more about them and other creatures like them

Nightwalkers are just roleplaying the adventure time lich

I want that twisted taverns book. I keep getting recommended the “remarkable Inns” by loresmyth. But I could see me getting yours on taverns

The Giff are another reason spelljamming should be more common in d&d sessions.

Nightwalkers Actually Originate from The Mystara setting. They are the bully boys of the Entropic Immortals (the settings equivalent of Evil Gods) who are sent out to stop high level PCs from getting strong enough to attempt the process of becoming an Immortal themselves.

This was a really lovely reprieve from the normal playlist. Would really enjoy seeing more along the lines of “the (biggest/scariest/most famous/most helpful) etc. on a plane or I. The outter realms. Please and thank you!

I am curious how you will do taverns. One of the best adventures I ran was when a party stumbled into a kobold run tavern called Took Zuk's Fire Pit. Was awesome. No racism, no violence, no Gnomes and if you break a rule or do not pay your bill, you become the special. They served all sorts of things like Axe-Beak, Kua-Toa and Bullywug. Good times.

Mr. Rhexx is that you? Also ooooh card game. That... looks like a lot of fun, damn. I have enough spare cash to fund a lot of fun kickstarters this month. Also have you ever thought of exploring the lore of really obscure ancient edition stuff?

logan: makes an entire book full of awesome homebrew for a stupidly cheap price also logan: i'll fucking do it again

I want more of this kinda thang... Seriously though, I love your Basically series, and this feels like a natural progression of it, so gimme the scares man! Also looking forward to taverns, and getting my copy of stibbles whenever the world gets right! thanks for being awesome.

I really like this little showcase format, it kind of give DMs like me some inspiration for "okay how do I freak my party out big time". Would love to see more, I'd suggest the Sibriex O:)

I think personally I'd love to watch more of this content, I'd love to hear about more monsters in this format

I like this kind of content. Showcasing some obscure monsters to possibly inspire me to add them to my campaign is awesome

To answer your question, more of this please, also you explaining dnd classes was always fun

"Look out there is an astral dreadnought!" "I SAID. I'M. AT. SOUP!"

Anyone: breaths Nightwalker: “and I took that personally”

This has always been my favorite type of content from you. I love learning about monsters and dimensions and you make it really enjoyable and often pretty funny. My only complaint, and it's a minor one, is the length. Id like slightly longer videos but I also understand that it's a long and difficult process to make videos like this so I'm not going to complain about it. Your content is great.

I used a marut as a modrons older brother, they were survey takers from the modron march surveying the lands, the monodrone he was paired with could only say numbers and was nervous all the time and the marut would actually ask the questions

i was sitting on the toilet when the knocking sound at 1:23 happened and that scared the sh** out if me...

I loved stiles codex and I am extremely excited for you next progect

These all seem perfect for a player character's tragic backstory or revenge plot. -Your wife was killed by a Nightwalker. She was an undead hunter. -Your son was killed by a Solar Angel as punishment for worshipping Zariel. -Your father was killed by an Astral Dreadnought while he was astral projecting. -Your daughter was kidnapped by a Marut because of a technicality in a certain contract. -Giff killed your dog and stole your car.

Yes. More of this. Or anything. I just want more Runesmith videos.

I actually got jump-scared by that knocking sound at 1:23

Just imagine teleporting the Tarrasque into the Nine Hells. Like "Hey Asmo-daddy I got you a giant, ever-hungering Christmas present and you won't guess what it is. Have fun!"

Yes, I want more of this thing

The scariest thing in this video was easily the door knock