Lore You Should Know - Tasha 

In a recent game, my DM had us come to Earth to find the last piece of the Rod of Seven Parts. It was, of course, in a secret room in the basement of the WOTC office. We met Chris Perkins, which is one of my favorite moments in D&D.

Demons hate her! Local wizard harnesses Abyssal power using this ONE EASY TRICK!

Xanathar's Guide to Everything followed by Dragon Heist which features Xanathar. Sounds like something similar is going to happen with Tasha.

Would love to get a lore you should know on Larloch. I want to hear how he stands up to other great Wizards. The FR wiki makes him seem near untouchable by any singular foe.

There is so much amazing lore about Tasha that I never really paid much attention too. You guys didn't even touch on Elena the Fair and the conflict between the two "sisters". What a great book.

20:05 “There was actually no assumption that any of these people were heroic.” That’s a good thing, because then heroic deeds are sincerely heroic.

Suddenly I understand what Chris was doing with Strix

i would love to read a fiction series on tasha's life and adventures

I learned about Tasha as Iggwilv, the sometimes-lover of The Dark Prince Graz'zt way back in the 90's (Dungeon Magazine #121 - Fiend's Embrace).

Gandalf was never a child, duh.

Iggwilv (CE female human Wiz 26/Archmage 4) (Mordenkainen is a Wiz 27 by comparison) (3.5 ed) Reasons Tasha/Iggwilv is CE: 1. Trying to hijack the Crook of Rao from the Isle of the Ape to launch a daemon invasion from Hades to Oerth @ 579 CY 2. Using Turney the Merciless (now a Nalfeshnee Wizard!) to launch a demon invasion of Greyhawk from Luna on Dark Night 585 CY. Also turning Tenser into a Dretch was not very nice. What was Nice was the Ring of Multiple Wishes she left behind. Thanks Tasha! 3. Also, entombing your daughter to guard a lamp. Wait...is setting the vampire warrior free the morally correct thing to do in the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth? Oops. If you are also "morally grey" she does have a nice +4 unholy bastard sword though. It doesn't mean she's not cool, but come on...her eggshells can handle the truth. From them, she hatched a demigod and a vampire. She won't even notice if you run real fast. My family, who are all Stranger Things fans recently asked for a game featuring the Demogorgon. Well, it will be Demogorgon alright, but not the one they know. Iggwiliv may show up to be a help for once , with some timely advice. All she will want in exchange is a bauble she fancies for a pet she lost.

this was wonderful, Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins are always a fascinating watch.

Very cool you mentioned Sigil. I’m starting a campaign that features it prominently

Jeremy: Doesn't want to reveal the origin of Tasha. Also Jeremy: Pretty much says that she may come from Earth's Russia.

We just finished off running Lost caverns of Tshjeroth (spelling) and they attempted to leave Tasha's daughter caved in her tomb. So, I'm making her daughter's sword a hexblade patron which steals people's shadows and then sends shadows out to work for her. There will be an attempt to recreate the empire.

So, when there is a D&D movie I expect Scarlet Johannson to play Tasha.

Cant wait to see more of Tasha!

I love learning more about myself.

Fun fact, my first ever D&D campaign was curse of Strahd, and she reanimated me to house her soul when her house killed me... in session 1.

Anastasia could certainly be abbreviated to Tasha.

I suggest upping the speed to 1.25. You'll thank me :)

LOL'd at how Tasha doxxed the demon lords. 🤣

My goblin would like an auto graph from tasha, a book about magic put my goblin on the path to be a wizard and is going on adventures hoping she gets lucky and gets her to sign her wizard book as it's her heroine, a foolish goal but a goblin likes to dream

Tasha snuggles up to an ancient death god trying to learn how to sidestep death permanently. Figures out how to kill a god instead. Kills the god of death, steals his mantel, becomes the Raven Queen. #Headcanon

All hail the Witch-Queen.

*hears about Baba Yaga, and how much Jeremy loves hags* *Cries at there being no Feywild book*

And before that, there was the 5 GOLDEN RINGS!!!

I´m creating my new character as Wizard and she´s obsessed with her! And she changed her name to Natasha and has two tattoos in her palms that are her Arcane Focus! (MY DM IS AWESOME for letting me do this!)

3:33 didn't Laeral Silverhand have an adventuring company called The Nine in the Forgotten Realms?

I love the idea of Earth being part of the D&D multiverse, and it is part of my own homegame, however, it is Earth from roughly one thousand years ago.

My current character is a power hungry blade singer wizard who is also a big fan of Tasha, this is research so she can nerd out

Book featuring Melf when

I really want to see stats for her.

Haven't played since the old first editions. Would this book be a good way to catch up on all things D&D? -

And Baba Yaga turns out to be John Wick

Please do a lore episode of MELF

How could they not make a Witch class or subclass to go with Tasha’s pack.

Does the book have stats for Tasha? For npc purposes.

Waiting for the army of one 😂

I’d like to think that I would be a heroic adventurer and live to assist civilization prosper! 😁.

The great wizardess.. the author of the demonomican.. iggilweg! -:P I totally butchered how to spell her name-

Pretty Sure Detroit isn't it's own Prime Material.

Blackend body of god I needed this! At a loss for this characters background

Wait does that mean Tasha and strix are related by adoption?

Tasha’s UNCONTROLLABLE hideous laughter

I think ya mean the might nine, and I'm pretty sure they already exist, no?

Um, Greg, you really need to brush up on your LOTR lore by reading the Silmarillion. The fact you think that Gandalf ever had a childhood or was actually bound to any mortal age at all means you are not privy to Tolkien’s full work. Gandalf or Olorin as was his original name was an Istar or wizard and of the race known as Maiar that were near-primordial spirits, immortal beings akin to angels. He chose to appear as an older male human, but that was not his true form.

Iggwilv though

Mighty 9? I know they are not best in terms of D&D skills (for some of them), but they are really fun to watch and good voice actor. :D

Top-tier lore dump.

My only issue is that the name is very same-same with Xanathar's Guide to Everything. Just switch out Xanathar for Tasha and Guide for cauldron

Hmm. The Rei of DnD. Part of the resistance huh?

"now we need to wait for the cabal of nine" The Mighty Nein?

First of all, I cant believe they missed the Mighty Nein in their discussion. Second, Great topic.

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I have to completely disagree with Jeremy that the older players were more morally flexible than modern players. This type of talk is what creates the edition wars. This sounds more like him towing the new company line than speaking truth. There are as many morally flexibly characters today as there were back then. If anything one might say that older editions encouraged it more through a much stringent alignment system. If you wanted to be a paladin you had to be lawful good, and that was the only option. It really makes me sad that even someone like Jeremy has to finger point and basically call names at older players to try and boost his own opinion. Whether we like to accept it or not there are as many morally players and characters today as there was then too. This constant finger pointing at the older editions and making blanket accusations has to stop. There is no wrong way to play a role-playing game. The Old School does not own the right to say that they did it better and neither does the modern generation. I find it very sad that a company, the owners of the IP, encourage such segregation among their fan base.

Oh yes, Tasha, the Monica Lewinsky of D&D

feels like this info could have been presented in a bit more of a polished format than just two guys chatting in front of their webcams for half an hour.

Very cool you mentioned Sigil. I’m starting a campaign that features it prominently

LOL'd at how Tasha doxxed the demon lords. 🤣