Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Thay 

​@@grahamward7 I concur

Ah yes. The”magic” of slave traders

@Florida Under Moonlight Ov course someone from Florida wants to eat methwood berries lol ;)

Quantum Realities , alternate time lines. Thay show up on " a " Earth in the early bronze age, around 2,700 years ago on our time line. After nearly 3,000 years of "that "Thay Forgotten Realms time line. Thay is still a late medieval tec and social development. Where in our own world's time line. We have smart phones and air craft. 20 years ago, my game shop ran a Planescape campaign where Baator devils had smart phone that ran off of wizard spells.

@Harvey Dustin Quantum theory

@Harvey Dustin lazy map making is more likely.

@@krispalermo8133 o was gonna object to smartphones 20 years ago and then I realized that was 2000.

Now that's an isikai. The day I became a slave.

Your betters... :7

That's funny because when I'm playing PlanetSide 2 I'm always telling the TR THEY'RE THEIR THERE, TAUNTINGLY, using the incorrect forms, so I guess it'll be There their thay

Thay got another think comin’

that was funny!

Booooooo

They're like a joint rip off of Warhammer Orcs combined with DnD Orcs

Warhammer beagn in 83 forgoten realmes 87, warcraft 94

@@DCdabest Warcraft was originally a Warhammer game before the deal fell through. Just like Starcraft was originally supposed to be 40K.

@@dubuyajay9964 Indeed. Hence warcraft orcs being green. Admitedly i think i like Starcraft exactly the way it was

@@ArantyrDarkhand well technically forgotten realms is from 67ish, but didn't make it to its own official campaign until 87 after TSR bought it from Ed greenwood.

Thank you Michael :)

Elric Engquist You know that Lodoss was originally a homebrew DnD Campaign in Japan, right?

My pleasure :)

What edition?

Thanks, I was happy with this one.

same.

So pre-imperial Japan?

@@dylanreeck1589 More like Switzerland but with added slavery.

And Halruaa

Jose Leon yes yes yes i second this request

Definitely. Larloch's Crypt is a long lasting and stable undead city, probably the only one in the realms. It's an extremely interesting location and it's King is a huge part of that.

The Harpers really need a video.

AJ Pickett Yes!

AJ Pickett yesssssss

I posted this video in February of 2018 Jesse, my suggestion is go to the Forgotten Realms wiki, scroll down to the reference list and check out those sources. They never steer me... well, they rarely steer me wrong.

@@AJPickett Worth mentioning that the adventurers league has a whole arc of adventures that have updates to current Thay lore, and feature the Red Wizards prominently. Lots of new stuff that’s considered official but doesn’t show up on the wiki. Look up DRW (Dreams of the Red Wizards) on DM’s Guild.

Jeremy Moore yes, that's why I made the vid on Kyuss

Star Trek the Motion Picture movie, .. Thay have shaved headed tattoo women. What more could you ask for ?

@@krispalermo8133 Well, now that you want there, maybe a PG-13 love scene that borders on a rated R one... that actress was drop-dead gorgeous and we all pictured her far more than in R-rated ways. I was thinking that of her and I don't even think puberty started for me at the time yet.

@@That80sGuy1972 I forgot to add Star Wars Dark Horse comic art of Asajj Ventress, she is another hot looking bald woman. With 3.5e rules a 10th-level wizard/2nd-level fighter/3rd-level rogue, CR: 15, BAB:+9 She could create her own magic items of Rapier 1d6+3 crit:18-20/x2 (14-20/x2) upgraded with Scarber of Keen Edges and Improved Critical( rapier). Other than what her str is to Power Attack, her crit rolls will do 2d6+6dmg on nearly each hit if rolled high enough, and with her Bluff skill back with Tumbling to move her into a flanking position to do sneak attack dmg of +2d6. So on a sweet hit she does 4d6+6dmg. To trip it out use True Strike and Power Attack to land 1d6+12 each round, crit rolls become 2d6+24dmg per hit. Even if you factor in the penalty of two weapon fighting on melee atk rolls to Power Attacks, she is still tapping 50dmg to her target. " cough, cough," Due to the way drow society is built around military conquest and mention how the adults take bets on how long it takes for their grade school children to cord strangle kobolts & goblins. All drow in my gaming shop has a base of rogue3/fighter2 before they take on wizard or cleric classes. And since 3.5e wizard supplement book, .. " Tome & Blood," states anyone that can learn the Knowledge(arcane) and Spellcraft can learn wizard spells if they have the base Int:10 or higher. So even the run of the mill low level Lolth priestess of rogue3/fighter2/wizard3 .. then three or more levels of cleric. Why, cause why not, wizard magic is just a hobby to play around with. We just need to come up with high level CR opponents for our human or dwarf PCs to gain Xp to defeat in game play. My shop also just traded gp value of magic item creation Feat: Craft Wonderous Item by paying it off with Xp, hence they level cap themselves by the number of self-made magic items they have. Where they sacrifice their life force/experience points locked into magic items to Lolth. We also ran Epic level 20th-level or higher campaigns so we did not regard drow being over powered or too high in class levels. Menzoberranzan dance clubs it is consider bad taste to go dancing in armor or carrying any weapons at all. Their frenzy rave dances are know to devolve into rowdy brawls, so dog packing happens. So if you are mob by six drow starting damage is 1d2+2d6 per drow = 1d2+2d6x6 or 6d2+12d6 per round of beating. So in a way, a 10th-level half-orc barbarian could get beat down with in two or three rounds by .. teenagers. As a teenager and young adult I could never really fetishize drow women from what I read about them. I had a sister and many teenager girls around growing up outside of city limits. They get bored and jump you just the way the boys did, main different the guys didn't paint your face up with makeup the way the girls did. Along with having a few really bad spider bites that needed medical treatment, spider venom in D&D is under rated .. spider venom is more like acid damage. Chaotic evil cleric, that get bored, and uses acid to torture people .. uh, .. no thanks. I would rather deal with nighthags and Baator. Menzoberranzan have a couple yearly festivals that last for a full month where it is .. safe .. to travel and trade with them without being capture by them for mine labor or scarifying. So the plot is to go in and tick off as many priestesses you can within social limits then run for the surface as you can after wards.

I don't get it. :-/

Mr L have you considered Deep Imaskar?

AJ Pickett you mean the Netherese would have magically hidden themselves from the world?

Absolutely, they could create demi-planes and planar gateways, there may be a large number of them which were off-world at the time.

AJ Pickett And gods are multidimensional, so other dimensions mistal may not have perished, only the one in the same dimension as karsus. Also they could have outright banned the worship of all evil deities, but basically tolerate it and in fact, behind the anti-evil rhetoric, they only prosecute the suspected followers of shar, to keep the shade enclave scrying at bay

I could make a video of equal length just on what I think could be found on and within the Thaymount. Or the horrors of the slaves who live in Delhumide, with a nice long list of the mewling abominations that lurch, crawl and undulate around in those gods forsaken ruins. Half the battle of making this sort of video is deciding on what to include and what to exclude, such as, I never talked about the shining silver armor the Thayan army is reknowned for, or mentioned Deep Imaskar, and as someone else noted, I made no mention of Warforged or talked much about the Undead in Thay.I do appreciate the suggestion, it is something I consider a lot as I make these vids :)

That would be awesome. I love how much there is to dig in here, though I am one of those people that always crave to know more and love hours long videos that can stimulate me with information and ideas so I've been watching and listening to your videos for a while now :) absolutely love it!

I recall the video where I talked about Flail Snails for 26 minutes and the reaction from one commenter... let me paste it here... "Half an hour on a FUCKING PUN".lol, I love the outrage.

indeed quite amusing and it was a good video too so personally I think it could have been 4 minutes longer just so it reached propper half hourage :D I would have more to say about comments but I mostly only pay attention to the videos

I remember how after watching your video on liches my opinion of them changed drastically from: oh this sounds like a pretty good deal to: well shit they have to be pretty fucking desperate to do this to their souls

Jeremy Clarke its a possibility for sure, half orcs are relatively common around Thay.

AJ Pickett There is a distinct feel that Thay is like the ottoman empire in its location and trade, I think it's general portrayal as an evil empire of doom has prevented people from using it as a very rich setting for a campaign.

Always good to work with your DM both on things that deal with your character in it's creation, but also in the history an motives of your character too. It gives the DM a good measure of ideas that they can embellish, and personalize a adventure even more to the players, and also create some side-adventures that could be linked to specific characters. I had a group in which thru side missions, and info they discover over the course of the adventure that the group had some quite interesting links. like that the Half-elf/orc character was the grand-daughter of the npc that had actually killed the Male Elven mage's father, which caused some quite interesting dynamics an tensions in the group. I would also say that your character's hatred of undead could also stem from the fact that many tribes of Orcs have a very brutal form of druid/shamanistic belief systems. So the twisting of the natural states of life, and death into what they would see as the corrupted state of undeath would naturally give the character a much more intense dislike of undead. I have also always liked using the idea of a brutal sense of honor, and code of conduct with Orc, which to the outside world gives them a look of being very evil an brutal, but once you look at their history an the lands they occupy it makes sense.

No Thay still falls pretty snuggly into the category of Lawful Evil, the systematic subjugation of tens of thousands of slaves, the creation and use of an army of the dead, the bureaucracy and hierarchy is all very familiar.. as the saying goes "It's not the nine hells, but it is certainly hell adjacent"

OK thanks! I remembered that the Necromancers had the numbers advantage in Thay due to being the type of magic that extended life/unlife while other schools weren't as prone to take the plunge into lichdom. It would appear then that Zass Tam would LIKE everyone to view Thay economically neutral, but their evil practices have continued.

Zass Tam himself is listed as Neutral Evil I believe, but the rest of the country is Lawful Evil. So its like the Empire in Star Wars in some ways. NE ruler with LE kingdom.

Lewis Rush yes, its a really great source book, one of the best, though, being published in 2003 the events in the book are now 120 years or so in the past.

Awesome, not really looking for hard historical law just cool flavorful writing to get the feel for the eastern realms. thanks :)

There is always a chance. The location videos are a lot more sporadic than my monster ecologies.

*bows* my pleasure. Chult! I'll see what I can do. Nightmare jungles in general perhaps.

@@AJPickett that would be fantastic! Also, I found one of your videos on Chult right after this, awesome, love the input. I'm doing more research on epidemiology.

I doubt they're far off from somebody going completely overboard and making that happen.

That is a quite a brilliant insight, thank you, I will certainly incorporate that into any games I run there :)

They actually employ Vampires and Lyncanthropes in their armies, so not necessarily.

@@jonathancampbell5231 they'd still look for it, to cull outliers and probable carriers from the general population of slaves. Don't want your pens going wild on the full moon. Nor lose stock to an unrecognized lycanthrope