Dungeons and Dragons Lore : Ghoul 

Roderick Steel That's a very clever joke....im guessing most people here had that one sail right over their heads.. ..if I was DMing with you I would have awarded that joke with a bit of experience!

Worthy of an inspiration point.

it needs to be read out loud

Maurezhi is definitely one being able to create and raise ghouls from the dead

I give you 1500 xp and a Rod of Ressurection with 8 chgs remaining for that clever joke. You have got to be over 35 to have made that joke! Spot on!

Same, haha. Gruesome way to die. It was my very first death in that game, back in 1992. Not sure when it was released in USA, I am from Brazil.

whats scarier than a undead wizard that blends into crowds one with a paralyze attack

You could've kept playing as him if you wanted to with the ghoulish bloodline trait. Though idk how much of an edgelord you need to be to pull off a part ghoul character. www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/sorcerer/bloodlines/bloodlines-from-paizo/ghoul-sorcerer-bloodline/

if that created any 'class conflict' among orcus's followers kewl!

'may his light shine!'

@bryan diaz varela No call a chemist

Parasitic ones?

I feel like spectral / lingering dead is a 5th category here. Your ghosts, spectres, wraiths & revenants

I as a player, hate that. But as a DM though... *SIGN ME THE FUCK UP*

And a very good jump..... Yes.

and Choose your own Adventure book reading kids of the 1980's :)

In an old Dragon Magazine 25 years ago they were called "the hungry dead" and they were contagious.

@@redfaux74 yeah but the undead virus is a side-effect that mortals get from f*cking succubi, it's a normally harmless virus for demons but for humans it turns into a infectious virus that turns them undead. And that's why you always need to wear protection when dealing with demons.

My pleasure!

Thanks Stormtoober, and welcome back to the hobby, you picked a great time to come back to it!

Your dm went easy on you. As undead they are supposed to have resistance to cold spells/magic. You also aren't supposed to be able to crit undead.

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@@goolabbolshevish1t651 5E doesn't work like that.

Sounds like you've got a pretty good DM.

@@goolabbolshevish1t651 what? Your DM strapping Adamantine on every single undead you fought?

I'm going to look for that! Thanks. 🎈🥳🎈

Dude.... that was truly horrible but it had great potential. Good actors, better make up and a plot that makes sense would be awesome! Thanks tho.

@Michael Kelligan 🤣🤣🤣 That stuff will kill you. Another recommendation like that and I will too... 🤣🤣🤣

Agreed.

Think of undeath as being animated by negative energy, no matter the manner of infusion of that energy they received. As such undeath could result from anything you can thematically tie them to. Curses, diseases, deliberately seeking eternal life or power...

That sounds beatiful.

Thanks Jared, trying to put up a vid twice a week, mostly monsters!

was searching for this comment!

N I C E O N E

There is no doubt this is a group of monsters close to your heart! Alrighty, more vids on the way!

Even if you don't make a video about the the other genies I look forward for more monster ecology videos from you. I binge watched most of your playlist already and these videos gave me lots of ideas for future campaigns. keep up the great work.

Oh I will, they are on the list! Thanks FWB, I'm doing my best to keep a two vid a week format.. with the occasional random video topic thrown in :)

Well, they don't eat teeth.

Rather Lord of the Ringsy

@Akordeon the Cursed Bard of the Underground Classic ghûls

Sounds like age of sigmar

Most welcome!

LOL, ew!

H.P. Lovecraft spinning a tale of terror :)

One of my favorites of his too!

darnell parker I think I have not heard of some anime or something else you are referring to.

@@AJPickett Tokyo Ghoul superhuman cannibals with tentacles

You're thinking of the anime-style vampires they decided to _call_ "ghouls" because vampires and zombies are words that have grown a bit stale.

I prefer the Tokyo ghouls instead of the ghouls from d&d, hell if someone did put Tokyo ghouls into d&d that would be great.

They are super creepy, they could pass if wearing a cloak and walking around in dim light, but yeah, one good look and it's Twilight Zone of Horror.

@@AJPickett thanks so much! Love all your videos by the way! They've kept me company so many times while I go on with my day or try to sleep

@@jamesnave1249 thanks James!

What happens if a Ghoul drowns? Does it die? I think your DM is fucking with you. Ghouls eat because of their curse, not because they need sustenance. They don't need air or food, that's why they are perfect guardians for sealed up tombs, they can last forever. They are powered by the abyssal energy given to them by Orcus. Although, they can probably sleep. In fact, that sounds like a cool adventure scenario, where the party has to sneak past a large room filled with sleeping Ghouls, and have to make 2 or 3 Stealth checks to get through the massive crypt. As for that info not being listed in the MM, maybe your DM has a first printing, and the later editions include that info. Check the errata online. But as a personal viewpoint, Ghouls and Ghasts are Undead, and therefore can't drown. Although, Vampires are vulnerable to running water, so they can drown??? I might have to think this over some more.

@@paulcoy9060 Yes he is fckin with me, but the thing is it is not added with errato to this day!!! :( So even if you have brand new rules or DnD beyonde MM undead nature trait is missing on ghoul stats... :( It is of course medium undead. But he ask me "Why only this two undead do not have it there?" Sorry for late response I missed your comment Edit: I can also hear that he says in thi video that they do not need air to breathe

Maybe... depends on the steak.

hmmm, not sure, some really unusual drug that only works on undead creatures perhaps?

antwan1357 keeping up with old habits a ghoul could mime drinking or smoking, dress convincingly, holding its composure til it can get what it really wants- just like a suburban crack addict hiding his habit from his community and creeping around in the dark

A single cunning ghoul could be a great npc turned villain for low level adventurers

what if she snorts powdered humanoid bones, like it's cocaine ?

Their drug is flesh. They can't enjoy it anymore, like any other hedonistic pleasure, but they will attempt to do so anyway. It is their nature to obtain that perverse pleasure again. So yes, have your ghouls be doing all sorts of things as well. Just remember that the focus of their cursed existence is flesh. It is all just going through the motions of their old lives to find some comfort they will never obtain.

Because they still have hair. A little bit of hair and the right angle can do wonders for anybody.

Yup. Portable snacks!

Good question! I am going to do some research on that for you and come back with a better answer than "They get tired".

Thanks AJ. Someone told me that Sorcerers get tired because of magical energy or something.

Alrighty, I am back with an answer! So this is all thanks to fantasy author Jack Vance and the Dying Earth collection of books and stories that Gygax and Arneson based their magic system on, leading to the magic system being termed "Vancian".. and also the origin of the name of Vecna (Vance with rearranged letters, as a tribute). The basic idea is that spells are very complicated, mentally, and the magician can only hold so much detail in mind, also, when the spell is cast, the detail of it is wiped from the magician's thoughts, requiring a refresher from the notes in the spell book, every time it has been cast. This is a great thematic way to justify limiting spell use to serve the purpose of game balance, and it is a system which has stuck with D&D (in fact, a lot of Fantasy RPG games) for a long time. In the modern game, it still comes down to how many spells the magic user can have fixed in their mind at any one time.. a high level wizard would have no problem remembering a long string of random numbers, a grocery list, the phone numbers of all the best restaurants in town, and the lyrics of all of David Bowies songs.. when the spell is being cast, the mage is manipulating the undercurrent of reality with their raw will power, and I like to think, in doing so, they are exposed to 'things' that the mind just automatically blocks out, lest the mage has some sort of mental break from reality and becomes befuddled.. the spell is all about going into weird mental realms with specific filters in place, in order to do a very specific thing, and get back out safely.. so, built into it is a 'wipe' feature, to protect the spell caster from unwanted, lingering feedback, nightmares, or possible insanity. Divine casters are a different kettle of fish, for them the casting of a spell is still physically and mentally taxing, but, the effect is far more intuitive and channeled, usually by some other agency working through them, requiring that they simply learn how to give themselves over for it to do the work. Bardic magic uses song, mind, vibration, quantum field dynamics, string theory and the power of dance to do it's work, and frankly, nobody cares, bards are hot, nerdy book worms who know how to party.

Thanks AJ.

AJ Pickett I do not know if its intentional but Vecna also means eternal in czech in a pun like fashion. At least according to this ill named tech company called Vecna. They even have a charity arm called Vecna cares; which is rather hilarious unintentionaly. Great video's by the way. They are so informative and well paced.

@bryan diaz varela thanks Bryan. I don't know why I wrote ghosts, I know they're intangible. I was thinking if a necromancer had an army of undead he would have to keep ghouls in check so they wouldn't eat zombies, skeletons, etc

I have to research Wendigos to answer that.

I can't, I mean, I am 6'1"ft and they are just too small for me to physically do that. In truth, they are the seventh video on my list at this current moment, so, getting pretty close :)

Excatly what I would've written.

Gnomes get +4 against giantfolk like us.

How I'd see it.

The paralytic touch and toxic stench of the Ghoul also sets them apart.

+AJ Pickett (The Mighty Gluestick) I was just talking movie aesthetics if you've seen Return of the Living Dead.

Many times :) What did you think of the (relatively) recent zombie movie 'Warm Bodies'?

+AJ Pickett (The Mighty Gluestick) Obviously a ghoul who went through some serious Trainspotting Linda Blair cleansing.

Ghouls are present in Arabian Mythology, which is derived from older religions, which are derived from older religions... todays religions are tomorrows mythologies, and on and on it goes.

I'm curious!

+AJ Pickett (The Mighty Gluestick) Do two videos on the different subspecies on elves and dwarves from Forgotten Realms. I don't know if they go into that in 5th edition, but their different ecologist are facinating. Don't forget Rock and Aquatic elves, and even though it's Dragonlance, include Gully Dwarves.

Moon, Sun, Wild, High, Grey Elves. Gold and Shield plus all the ones that I'm forgetting.

+kingstewy Well I did the Drow video, so that kind of opened up the playable races can of worms I suppose :)

+AJ Pickett (The Mighty Gluestick) Suppose is right in the proverbial sense.

Have a nice, big thumbs down from someone who has been playing since before the AD&D books were released.