Five Deadliest Legendary Monsters in Dungeons & Dragons 5e 

Once per day: Entire party makes a Charisma save vs. "Something just came up". Those who fail can't make it to the game session later

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If at least 3 of my 5 player can make it, we play

ain't it the truth.

facts

Bro, my party literally took 8+ hours to kill 5 goblins and an orc

@@jordanhoadley7243 meanwhile my parties first session had us kill 5 goblins in three turns

ah yes, the total total party kill

@@jordanhoadley7243 4e?

7 players that are lv 4 KILLED A BEHOLDER

@Matt Rondeau - Well, he is an “eye”-conic creature... 🥁🥁🥁

queenannsrevenge100 *loud groans from that pun*

@@queenannsrevenge100 Eye see what you did there.

@@queenannsrevenge100 Iris-ent you so much for that pun

@@queenannsrevenge100 That's a cornea joke than any I've heard in a long time.

villain group

Screamy skull boi

Demolicious sounds like it could be a fun new word and now I can't help but wonder what it could potentially mean. xD

I would have been severely disappointed in people if they hadn't remembered these.

They covered those in the low level deadly monster video

LordGavinGames F

Someone was salty lol

LordGavinGames I killed my wives cleric with one breath attack also... I’m seeing a pattern here.

In my current campaign, a couple of them have come dangerously close (1hp) type situations, and the pesky rogue has had more near death experiences than I can count. Im trying to be fair, but if they keep pulling this Houdini shit, I swear one of them is getting “smited by the gods.” *coughroguecough*

First time i killed a PC, it was a human paladin - wannabe oeathbreaker - in level 2. By goblins. Next time i killed my gf's fighter, she died against some dark druids in lvl 3. The last time (so far), was a girl's male half orc barbarian at lvl8, it was killed by failing 3 death saves after a battle versus some ghouls and 2 maurezhi. It was all in the same campaign. They will visit Avernus next time, just to get some levels before a beholder. In it's lair.

That might need its own video. ;)

@@RaiderAvian that definitely needs it's own video. Snacks are very deadly

too much carbs, not enough water.

You obviously need to make a Will save to keep from eating it. 😁

My favorite: "The lich 'ass rock'" - well, that's a tellingly name, albeit not very flattering. :D

Hammer dog games lol

I ALWAYS have the captioning on. It is hilarious!!!

That sucks lol

Were you resurrected?

@@durnsidh6483 Yes. The druid succesfully fled and ressurected both of us.

Smart party

How did you get away?

But that strokes the already massive ego of the paladin. And if prefer to die then make my friends paladin a cocky bitch

Yes my friend, wrap your arms around us and be intertwined with your salvation.

Try a Spell-casting Ancient Gold Shadow Dragon. Pretty crazy lair actions, and you can give it up to like level 8 spells IIRC. You're in the endgame, why not go ham with the monsters.

I think the easiest way to challenge a 4 caster party is wearing them down with mooks, be it as ambushes or simply having a lot of threats in that one big fight :) It might be lame to simply wear out their resources I guess, so personally a much bigger fan of the second variant :P But that being said I think your stories sound awesome regardless, I don't really view their epic battles and luck as a problem tbh :) As long as everyone is having a blast ^^

@@Micras08 The Huge Dragon was not alone, it had a small army of kolbolds, 11 green half dragons and 1 large green dragon. They party had 7 encounter before hand mostly of kobolds and half-green dragon veteran (variant on the half red, CR5, 65 HP, 18 AC, 2 attacks). The biggest pre boss was a custom Green dragon sorcerer that had a ring of invisibility that ambushed. The Wizard is a controller/utility and locked down the ancient dragon at the word go with force cage, while his simulacrum told all the body gaurds to run away ( the dragon born). The sorcerer & Cleric nuked the kobolds while the warlock kept the large occupied. After that the wizard locked down the large dragon with wall of force (He held action until the warlock had cast sickening radiance first). Once the large dragon realized he was taking exhaustion levels he pleaded for his life so the party accepted (polymorphed into a goldfish and into a bowl). the ancient refused to admit she was bested so the party wore down the legendary resistances and the sorcerer gambled on dominate monster and won. The wizard then teleported the group & hostages to a high temple to Bahmut were an ancient Gold could pass judgement (The party is trying to save their city from a dragon war, and the cleric realized if they kill an ancient Green, that pretty much seals the deal on dragons wiping out everything they care about, just so the young mortal races don't get any ideas). All in all it is alot of fun. I am just trying to come up with foes and encounters that can challenge them (in all fairness if initiative had turned out differently or if they were up against a non-poison breathing dragon this enounter would have turned out much differently).

@@ianmorse9381 That is a pretty good idea. I like the idea that the cleric of Bahamut has to redeem a fallen gold dragon. It does not get spells, but it can polymorph into any beast or humanoid with less CR (a base ancient Gold is CR 24, so an archmage is a valid choice so would Drow Matron).

@@chaosburger307 Oh for sure, sounds like there was a lot of lucky rolls as well :) But I totally feel you, sometimes it's just impossible to challenge your party because they are really smart about their tactics, really lucky that evening or a combination of both :P It's a struggle, but a fun one :D

there are a ton of named gods

@@leohruska1611 yes but there are only a few stated in 5e

@@nickh3205 no, if you look at the back of the players handbook theres a ton of them

@@leohruska1611 only a few have actual statistics, you know monster statistics

Demogorgon, Fraz Urb'luu, Graz'zt, Orcus, Zariel.

I'm going to start doing this on every video I watch from now on.

Drunk. Talkin' 'bout monsters.

Suspiciously specific

Double speed makes them sound like those fast talking animators

Me: *plays at 2x speed* "Something's wrong I can feel it."

HA!!!! I hope it was a male Demi Lich!!! Otherwise, it might have either joined the Drow, or the Drow may have joined it. Hang onna minnit... Doesn't Drizzt come from Menzo.?

@@Raz.C yes. But its drizzit you uncultured swine. How very dare you sir.

@@johnathanera5863 I haven't seen him for almost twenty years! I'm entitled to misspell his name, following such an absence. Coincidentally, though, I did run into one of his scimitars two years ago, so I can't help but wonder what happened to him...

@@Raz.C last time I've seen him I pickpocketed his +3 scimitar somewhere along the sword coast

@@Mikey-zj8bn Was that in a small town just west of Naskell? I think I remember reading about that...

@Erdi Erdmaennchen105 He will live on in our hearts and in Caspian legend.

Oh I may start listening again!

I hear that Pluto Jackson killed an entire Bridge of Sibriexes.

@@euansmith3699 I hear he killed a throne room of Sibriexes and a bridge of minotaurs, and his friend Sebastian burned a courtyard of paladins!

@@evanabney3659 And yet, both of them speak in awed tones of the damage output of someone called Veo Sjena! :O Oh, and them "Paladins"... I hear they had it comin'.

Best of luck!

Good luck and have fun! I start a homebrew campaign next friday, level 1 to about 10 or 11. It's gonna be a great year lol.

@@T3h_Marganus yeah we are gonna try for once a week it's going to be fun

God luck ad have fun

We'll be going bi-weekly with ~3 hour sessions. And of course it'll be fun. It's D&D!

Inquisitor Thomas that blind elderly kobold? Yeah he just chose to resist your Hold Person.

Ben Holeman You know the old saying, “Beware the Old man in a job where most men die young.”

You guys are getting healing?

Inquisitor Thomas that’s what I’m talkin about!

Something might point to a homebrewed boss tea

If you are a spellcaster of any type. Take resilient(con) and warcaster. Both will save you countless times

@@mauriliogarcia9239 My aberrant mind sorcerer has the Eldritch Adept feat instead. The Eldritch Mind invocation is better than Warcaster for concentration saves because it's not relying on taking damage for the advantage

Thats why I love the spell Dawn

Ripcord303 how many were in your party?

@@58847436 There were five of us the boss was clearly juiced up too. It was an Epic fight all that was left were my Archer and the Bard. We were like a duo and he was obsessed romantically with my character. My guy was pretty stoic though. The bard was able to get the last shot in it was hilarious because whenever he cast magic missle he said "boom boom missle" that finished the boss.

PinkCanoeDaVagoo very nice

Why would a beholder actively shape its surroundings in a way that makes it more likely to die.

@@wafl7212 this is if the characters pass their saving throw. I flavor it as the day didn't fully hit the PC and turns the area behind them into this giant block of stone. It allows a terrain that the players can strategize

In third edition, I cast polymorph on a beholder and it miraculously failed it's save. I turned into a fish and it suffocated because it can't turn off it's floating ability. :P

@satsunada That won't work, it will drop to 0 hitpoints and turn back into beholder. The same goes for the dragon, it would turn back into a dragon before hitting the ground

@@exantiuse497 Not before the hitting ground. It would hit the ground, take the full fall damage, and go to 0 on its Polymorphed form's hp. Then the overflow would go to its normal form, which would bring their normal hp down to 0 as well.

@@DerUberGaijan Read the rules regarding drowning in DnD. You'll go unconcious after 1+(your Con modifier) minutes, then your hitpoint will fall to zero after 1+(your Con modifier) rounds (minimum of 1). Drowning usually applies to characters falling in water, but it also applies to fish taken away from the water A fish would most likely have a Con modifier in the negatives (e.g. a quipper, which has Con of 9 and Con modifier of -1), meaning it would fall unconcious immediately and then fall to 0 HP after one round, or 6 seconds, which isn't enough for it to fall from the sky, so it would revert back mid-fall

you gotta admit tho, me trying to intimidate the ancient dragon was hella funny.

The Bag of Devouring is a magic item, not a monster.

But a great waste management system for a smart party of adventurers! 😉

The bag of devouring.. or as we refer to it.. a portable guiatine

@@nightflame69 guillotine

Pro tip right here, I petrified one of my players and realized I had pretty much just killed him. I retconned some bulshit in and said they found a spell scroll that contained the spell to revert the condition, but I learned that day to be very wary of "kill buttons" like that.

crankysmurf To be fair, the Molydeus is actually above even the Balor in the demon hierarchy - it is essentially a demon lord’s emissary and chief enforcer; according to its description, its snake head serves as a direct link to their respective demon lords, allowing them to literally be the ‘voice’ of their master. Because of that, the Molydeus is the closest thing to a demon lord without it actually being a demon lord.

Andrew Dinse in addition to that, a sibriex is one of the oldest and most cunning creatures in the multiverse, it just makes sense that they’d have legendary status. meanwhile the balor and the pit fiend are both kind of... boring? they just don’t feel very inspired to me

@@Hazel-xl8in the Balor is my fav dnd monster.

Sibriex is one of the oldest demon types. Molydeus is more powerful than a balor. Makes sense.

@@kelliechristinadick9623 Back in the day, Molydei were basically unkillable. 90% straight up magic immunity and immunity to normal AND magical weapons. I've had balors and pit fiends dropped on the party, but never one of those. It was as close to being a god as you could get without being one. Furthermore their axe is vorpal meaning instant decapitation on a natural 17, no save, and was considered +5 for overcoming resistances. In the 2E description, their job was to police the True Tanar'ri and murder their asses if they so much detected a hint of cowardice or desertion. Kind of ironic how the forces of chaos rely on this internal policing, but if you think about it, the only way to force compliance out of hordes of CE scum is by terrorizing them into submission. It was put in the game for the purpose of hard countering every other demonic creature in the game. Old school D&D planar creatures were just terrifying. Even something like the lowly succubus had full fire immunity, magical weapon immunity +2, and 40% chance of gating in a balor.

the kraken, for starters

that just sounds like bad design

@@Hazel-xl8in The earlier editions were more DM vs players

Brock Smith fire giants are not to be underestimated. I had one down a level 18 player due to getting a terribly timed crit on an opportunity attack. If not for the bard he guranteed would have died before his next turn.

@@christopherclubb9167 I myself would never underestimate them and am not surprised they took down such a high lvl PC. My lvl 10 PC Levi had never dealt with them before only read a bit and didn't know what to expect but was counting on Bahamut to give him strength in this case it worked 😁

Brock Smith the crazy part is that this was a medium encounter on the way to the actual boss fight in the dungeon. It should not have been a big deal, but the giant was rolling well and I rarely fudge rolls unless it would derail the plot

@@christopherclubb9167 yeah rolling crits is especially devastating now that implemented the rule the @dungeon_dudes suggested. I love seeing both the faces of elation when a crit is rolled and those of utter horror when a crit is rolled against them. They all want adamantine armor now 😂

Oh god... I can hear the panic...

That's not how Lair actions work, at all. That's also not possible even using lair actions PROPERLY because it takes 18 seconds for an eye ray to be able to be used again. A beholder has to rotate thru its entire lair action repertoire before using it again.

Have you checked out their series? Campaign 1 (Dungeons of Drakkenheim) had 52 episodes, campaign 2 (Shadows of Drakkenheim) started earlier this year with a small break of 2 part episodes while they got used to playing online.

Gregus its the style, but yes more handsome

Nah, it's the d20 that is upset at you for using a different die