Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Psurlon 

Have to agree with you there. Savage Species, the environment series (stormwrack, etc), Libris Mortis, all excellent books.

Lords of Madness Tyrants of the nine Hells Drow of the Underdark

arms and equipment guide was delightful though

That's actually true.

@@AJPickett thanks for confirmation of my theory AJ

This immediately made me crave Ramen.

@@AJPickett Right?!😂 I don't know if it's good or bad that we've been this desensitized

I keep a stock of at least 15 instant ramens(of varying flavors) in my house at all points in time. Its my only Prepper tendency. There is only 14 now. 😉

They are so diverse and ancient, they may have many different forms of civilisation, with little in common and many at war with each other.

Why would they need one?

@@AJPickett To travel with style trough the phlogiston like Mindflayers and board cocky wizards ships and steal their stuff and their delicate flesh of their bones? :D

Maybe you should combine them as cool worm monster bards and monks... 😉

@@michaelpettersson4919 well I am now.

Little break to cover viewer requests.

@@AJPickett makes sense! Really interesting subjects, I'd never heard of any of these recent species before. Crazy how such powerful ancient species are so busy with massive time spanning wars that the puny humanoids aren't even a concern for them. Always a bigger fish!

Aha!

@@AJPickett hope it helps! Also will the livestream be on Saturday?

@@moonringXD yes

@@AJPickett sweet it'll be on my birthday!

Feel better

Because neutral in literal terms means non existent. They'd be nothing

Their initial attack is to simply disgust their prey....

Perhaps they moved on to another sphere to try again?

@@AJPickett I guess I was always looking for a way to fix the Astromundi setting, since it was such a beautiful mess. Not only did the background of the race and setting seem to kind of mesh, but by having the psurlons replace mind flayers there, it would give the players a bit more chance against them. I mean, you would still have a race of evil, powerful, non-human psionicists, but they wouldn't have the mind blast thing and somewhat reduced magic resistance. Anyways, thanks for the channel. Always enjoy the content.

Only in the sense that the Elder species will fuck you up.

@@AJPickett Fair enough.

Great. Now I have a purlong armorer artificer/ psy warrior? Something like that. Lmao jogging threw my game brewing brain.

For sure.

So that is the purpose of the kinku?

Not exactly like Ygorl, but yes, there are a few, such as the Spellweavers.

Yes.

*nods* if it ain't broke... Oh wait.. soul blades...

@@AJPickett 😅😂

Found the party Barbarian!

"Strange Aliens, And How To Eat Them?"

It's a long standing tradition of the game itself, so it breaks the 4th wall and is just one of those things that are "Because they are".

@@AJPickett Really turn undead should work on anybody, specificaly enemys of the cleric's church or god, like the members of an enemy god church.

Just went to bed relistening to the past video

Mind wizard. Brain sorcerer.

It's a hobby 👍

I have barely scratched the sand on Dark Sun.

Earthworm Jim!

@@michaelpettersson4919 such a fun game

There is a quest in Skyrim where you need to sacrifice someone that trust you to empower a sword. Some people look for asshole npc's to "befriend" for this purpose.

I think the sorcerer class is perfectly suited for it.

@@AJPickett I want it to have a unique system, not sharing it with some other class. The large pool of psi points that the mystic has combined with the disiplines is what I think is cool for psionics

@@AJPickett Just remembered, I prefer the 3.5 way of psi power casting, thats what I meant. If WOTC ever release a psionic class they should do it somewhat like that, and bring in alot more of the powers that were there

AVERAGE PSURLON Medium aberration, usually neutral evil Armor Class 15 (mage armor) Hit Points 55 (10d8 +10) Speed 30 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 13 (+1) 14 (+2) 12 (+1) 18 (+4) 13 (+1) 17 (+3) Saving Throws Int +7, Wis +4, Cha +6 Skills Arcana +7, Deception +6, Insight +4, Perception +4 Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing and slashing from nonmagical attacks Condition Immunities charmed Senses blindsight 60 ft., darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 14 Languages Undercommon, telepathy 300 ft. Challenge 6 (2,300 XP) Innate Spellcasting (Psionics). The psurlon’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (Spell save DC 14). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components: At will: detect thoughts, mage armor 3/day each: hold monster, invisibility, lightning bolt, telekinesis 1/day: dimension door Magic Resistance. The psurlon has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Mental Fortitude. The psurlon is immune to any effect that would control, manipulate or othervise influence its actions, such as the command, confusion or suggestion spells, and magic can’t put it to sleep. The psurlon has advantage on saving throws made to maintain concentration on spells. ACTIONS Multiattack. The psurlon makes one bite and two claw attacks. Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8 +2) bludgeoning damage. Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 +2) bludgeoning damage. Sound Burst. A tremendous cacophony bursts in a 10-feet-radius area of a point within 30 feet of the psurlon. Any creature inside it takes 7 (1d8+3) thunder damage, and must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of its next turn.

ELDER PSURLON Medium aberration, usually neutral evil Armor Class 16 (mage armor) Hit Points 88 (16d8 +16) Speed 30 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 13 (+1) 16 (+3) 12 (+1) 21 (+5) 17 (+3) 21 (+5) Saving Throws Int +8, Wis +6, Cha +8 Skills Arcana +11, Deception +8, Insight +6, Medicine +6, Perception +6 Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing and slashing from nonmagical attacks Condition Immunities charmed Senses blindsight 60 ft., darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 16 Languages Undercommon, telepathy 300 ft. Challenge 8 (3,900 XP) Innate Spellcasting (Psionics). The psurlon’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (Spell save DC 16). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components: At will: detect thoughts, mage armor, suggestion 3/day each: dimension door, hold monster, invisibility, telekinesis 1/day each: chain lightning, dominate person, mass suggestion Magic Resistance. The psurlon has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Mental Fortitude. The psurlon is immune to any effect that would control, manipulate or othervise influence its actions, such as the command, confusion or suggestion spells, and magic can’t put it to sleep. The psurlon has advantage on saving throws made to maintain concentration on spells. ACTIONS Multiattack. The psurlon makes one bite and two claw attacks. Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 +3) bludgeoning damage. Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 +3) bludgeoning damage. Sound Burst. A tremendous cacophony bursts in a 10-feet-radius area of a point within 60 feet of the psurlon. Any creature inside it takes 9 (1d8+5) thunder damage, and must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of its next turn.

GIANT PSURLON Large aberration, usually neutral evil Armor Class 17 (natural armor) Hit Points 204 (24d10 +72) Speed 40 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 23 (+6) 12 (+1) 16 (+3) 18 (+4) 13 (+1) 19 (+4) Saving Throws Con +8, Int +9, Wis +6, Cha +9 Skills Arcana +9, Deception +9, Insight +6, Perception +6 Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing and slashing from nonmagical attacks Condition Immunities charmed Senses blindsight 60 ft., darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 16 Languages Undercommon, telepathy 300 ft. Challenge 13 (10,000 XP) Innate Spellcasting (Psionics). The psurlon’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (Spell save DC 17). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components: At will: detect thoughts, mage armor 3/day each: hold monster, invisibility, lightning bolt, telekinesis (the psurlon can cast it as a bonus action) 1/day: dimension door Magic Resistance. The psurlon has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Mental Fortitude. The psurlon is immune to any effect that would control, manipulate or othervise influence its actions, such as the command, confusion or suggestion spells, and magic can’t put it to sleep. The psurlon has advantage on saving throws made to maintain concentration on spells. ACTIONS Multiattack. The psurlon makes one bite and two claw attacks. Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (4d6 +6) bludgeoning damage. Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (2d8 +6) bludgeoning damage. Sound Burst. A tremendous cacophony bursts in a 10-feet-radius area of a point within 60 feet of the psurlon. Any creature inside it takes 7 (1d8+4) thunder damage, and must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of its next turn.

What do you think Lore-Dude? Honest conversions these are or some cop paste lacking intel?

It's possible to find a good psurlon. Illithids probably respect the psionic power of their rivals.

Difficult to stack because in their current state, the Spellweavers are just a few individuals on a nearly impossible task to reset the universe.. a fully functioning Spellweaver civilization? They could enslave gods.

Got a vid on them.

@@AJPickett I know, pretty sure I’ve binged everything that hasn’t been a livestream

@@AJPickett can we have an MTG discussion board on the discord?

@@tonyoliver4920 yes, we can.

Because your playing with mostly aberrations in your games?

There is Innate magic and there is Learned magic.. Arcane learning is difficult for intelligent monstrous species to access most of the time, but not impossible and usually worth the effort. Stat blocks for creatures are supposed to represent the average member of that species, but, nothing is stopping any DM from adding spell casting if they want to, or making any other modifications they see fit to add. Give me 30 seconds and I can provide a logical explanation for anything in a D&D Campaign :)

@@AJPickett Whilst I understand that, Sorcerous magic is supposed to be much more common than Psionics, yet the only non-humanoids I can think of with sorcerery are Dragons and Deep Rothe, meanwhile I can name a dozen monsters odf the top of my head that have psionics. It seems like an incongruity between the collection of stat blocks we're given and the actual lore about psionics and arcane magic.

Ghaunadaur

​@@AJPickett🙏thank you!

Leshay are no doubt well aware of the Psurlon. Best place to get feedback on a stat block is my discord server (link in video description^)

First reply! 😅👍

Yes... one of which is the Flumph.

@@AJPickett which ones, Material + ?

@@jaredbledsoe-sams1361 Just talking about creatures that have prime material forms and also a significant presence in the astral and ethereal planes, any time you see bunches of relatively sedate psionic creatures who keep gathered together, say for example, the Myconids... its a good bet they are present and powerful on the Astral plane at the same time.