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Hey, could you considee covering tha Phane in future. It's a really interesting monster from the epic level handbook and I'd love to see a 5e conversion.
Hey have you have thought of doing any Mork Borg monsters? Because I know you done a few Pathfinder monsters, and I think it's be SO SICK to have some Mork Borg stuff in D&D.
I like the idea of the Angler Kuo Toa Leviathan that I think I will use it in the one shot I am planning based off of Annihilation as a secret major threat. Hoping one day to see you cover Ethergaunts
Ohhhhhhh i love the Kuo-Toa. One of my favorite setups i had for them was a tribe of kuo-toa was thrown out of their homeland by some merfolk, so they migrated to a shoreline a few miles from a small fishing town with a lighthouse. Every night they saw the light house and interpreted it as a giant eye watching over them, and worshiped it as a god, until one day the light house just...got up. and walked away.
When I lived in RI in the late 90s, I took the tour of his home in Providence.. it was interesting for a fan but a bit of a snorefest for all but the staunchest fans.. an older English gentleman asked that very question ans legit thought that they were connected.... Have NEVER heard it since..UNTIL TODAY
I like to think that the Kuo-Toa were originally a failed creation of the Aboleth, who turned out so mentally unstable that the Aboleth eventually abandoned them.
It also seems like the main draw of the Kuo-Toa as a slave race would be their ability to conjure up whatever nightmares they had imagined, but focusing that seems to be impossible given their absolutely chaotic behavior.
In my world they were originally a slave race created by the Aboleths who just have to be used very specifically, their insanity no more than a measure to keep them in check as good servents(making them easy to manipulate, granting their creators godlike powers and creating beasts of war by the design of the Aboleths)- and when the mindflayers slaved the Aboleth race they also took the Kuo'Toa, and recognizing their usefulness, spread them to every sphere they inhabited. With the downfall of the Illithid empire they spread in the wilds and created their own fractured cultures, forgetting their past and their powers, accidentally creating new gods in the process
Just imagine you are chilling in one of the godly realms and some squid looking thing just poofs into existence. It can only talk in burbles and keeps talking about some weird little fish people who keep talking about it. It is clearly confused and a bit frightened because it so old yet is zero seconds old.
One idea for a Kuo Toa-related warlock is someone who is reverred by a tribe of Kuo Toa, but instead of ascending into a Leviathan or an embryo of a deity, the Kuo Toa tribe accidentally creates a divine version of that character, whose powers can be partially accessed by the character due to their conflated identity. It would make sense that the divine version of the character turns out to just be a Kuo Toa leviathan
Honestly, hearing about the Kuo Toa reminds me of the Warhammer Orcs that also imagine stuff into existence. That just makes me think how terrifying a hyper-intelligent Kuo Toa would be by harnessing that power in a more strategic way.
A friendly kuo toa clan that lives entirely inside a particularly gigantic leviathan would be an incredible encounter. They could have a tavern, ship builders, and of course a little temple where worshippers pray for their home to keep growing and be sustained by divine energy.
I like Kuo-Toa, when you're a canonical outer god you can hijack them to give divinity to your warlock. Would have had him positioned take over Deneir's empty seat but in the DM's world the spell plague hadn't happened so it was still occupied. Was a heck of a first campaign.
I can just imagine the party coming across a small group of Kua-Toagetting wrecked by Suaguin. They help the pitiful creatures and are reveared as heroes... Only to find out a week later that the group they saved have started kidnapping and sacrificing the local townsfolk for some reason.
What if they've been sacrificing for the party who thanks to the powers of belief have been getting buffs from the rituals like water breathing and swim speeds and they have to choose to keep their buffs or stop the sacrificing
The existence of this video is not going to deter me from another week of requesting the Anglerlich, an extradimensional entity that lures in adventurers with villainous “lures” to feast on their heroism.
@@cheatcode436It's from Veins of the Earth, a book about a reimagined Underdark filled with absolutely alien creatures and the sentient manifestation of caving-induced madness dogging your every step. Also, spending too long down there results in physical mutations and mental abberations; eventually, you won't want to leave, or even be able to leave. It's a great book overall, and is also made for old school D&D so the stat blocks included can be pretty easily ported to 5e on your own...
@@cheatcode436Veins of the Earth, a reimagining of the Underdark filled with truly alien horrors, and the sentient manifestation of caving-induced madness dogs your every step. Light is so precious, it's the local currency. Stay too long, and you'll start to adapt. Eventually, you can't- or won't- leave. Wonderful book, and it's made for old-school D&D so it shouldn't be too hard to adapt it to 5e yourself! Don't wait for Papa to do it for you! X3x
Even though it wasn't playing, I heard Volbeat's Leviathan playing in my head throughout. >.> Possibly a sign of the sea madness. OR ASCENSION! IT COULD BE ASCENSION!
These little gremlins are my absolute favorite. They itch my chaotic itch so well. And they are perfect to have as little chaotic breaks from the norm in a campaign.
Koa-Toa are always some of my favorite creatures. I remember paging through my fathers old Fiend Folio trying to find new monsters to fill a campaign I was making and settling on its rendition of the Koa-Toa, they're always just such fascinating creatures.
In a campaign I played in once, due to some amazing persausion rolls, and handing them some of his weed - our druid gained a Kuotoa following. He therefore became a god, and slowly gained more powers throughout the campaign.
My silly kuo toa idea is that they basically game the system. Due to the fact most dnd gods are technically Tulpas (literally dependent on thoughts and faith... which if you ask me makes them barely worthy of the term) the Kua Toa's madness basicly gives them the ability to skip the buildup and just make a god which will start the cycle of being fed faith making it stronger making new people belivie in it. Basically if it takes thousands of years for a god to be made... they somehow get right to "Gibblesnarf Exists and demands garbage" it also implies that any reinterpretation of a god will automatically happen if not stamped out.
That makes a lot of sense. And, also brings up a hilarious campaign concept. A local, good aligned priest has taught some funny fish people he found washed up on the shoreline about his good aligned goddess. The fish folk took to this very quickly and are overall having a good time of it... and yet your party has been hired by the church to stop him and kill the fish guys because they're changing the goddess. For extra fun make it so while the goddess is being made more fishy and crazy she isn't actually becoming evil. Hell, to make it a moral quandary add that they're also making the goddesses's evil sister/brother/mom/dad or whatever other relation *good* via their mad assumption that if goddess is good all things related to her must also be good. So you have to weigh the cons of the goddesses's increasing madness vs the pro of an evil God changing alignment.
This reminds me about Warhammer 40K Orc Wah psychic effects caused by their beliefs. Like their beliefs in red painted vehicles going faster (or how their weapons and mechanics shouldn't work but incredibly do). This gives me an idea about how Kuo-Toa could believe in a powerful weapon or golem they believed into existence. This is a fantastic upload brother.
I do like the idea of wrapping up a characters story by having them be part of a ritual to become a kaiju for the final battle before the call of the ocean forces them to leave.
I have a homebrew Kuo-Toa character ready to go at the moment. His name is Karlos and he is a sorcerer who got his powers by simply saying he is magical, his tribe believed him and just like that he got sorcerer powers… he unfortunately forgot to specify WHAT magic powers he had and ended up with wild magic… and promptly blew his tribe up with a wild magic surge. He now adventures partially to control his powers, and mostly to put as much distance between him and the remainder of his tribe that wasn’t in the blast radius.
Just so you know, the google doc has a couple of errors. The swallow attack refers to the tarrasque when talking about total cover against attacks and other effects outside. There is a second space between the word "The" and "kuo-toa" at the start of the Swallow attack. The insight and perception skills are not calculated using proficiency bonus correctly. Using the given perception bonus the passive perception should be 22, using an expected proficiency bonus it should be 20, and using expertise it should be 25. The corresponding perception skill scores are 12, 10, and 15. Reflexive Dodge is written in language not standard to 5e, in more 5e terms it should be written closer to, "When the kuo-toa is hit by an attack while it is submerged in water, the kuo-toa moves up to half its swim speed in a straight line in any direction without provoking attacks of opportunity." The language regarding trigger and response is not a convention in typical 5e statblocks. In any case, great video, hope there's more cool creatures on the way!
they are literally deep ones from cthulhu and so insane i love them. one of my top 3 favorite races! also. the leviathan toa, i gave him the ability to not only scoop up smaller toas but to shoot them like a spit wad. they show up spitting them out in a cone of 40 ft and he keels a couple of em for spit wad shots....
I've been using Kua-Tuo as minions of an Aboleth in my D&D game. Except, they are in a coastal swap instead of the sea, meaning I can use the Angler Lure out in the dark woods, where a giant angler fish would not be expected. Thank you for this!
i like that the kuo toa basically work like most human societies irl (deities not provably real, nobody sure how much of their history is made up) but bc it’s in a dnd setting it seems crazy and ridiculous. makes me wonder if someone transported to our world from a dnd world would think we’re crazed and ridiculous too.
One of my players rolled a 26 on a history check and I had to improvise some lore about a fish cult. I made the mistake of calling their deity "the great swallower", but at least I can just use the leviathans stats for it now.
Thank you for letting me beat Elden ring, i was grinding against Elden beast for like five hours cuz im bad at this game, but your video in the background allowed me to focus and beat it.
I LOVE Blipdoolploop's name! I can't say where but I read the name came from purposely making it sound like bubbling water and have embraced that as a pronunciation guide. So fun to say!!!
i actually have a goddess who was born from the kuo-toa in my homebrew world. the world held a balance between four gods, each with their own domain and history. the kuo-toa, however, didn't seem to follow any of them. but after being saved by a firbolg monk once, they saw her as a powerful god, thus accidentally granting her apotheosis into godhood.
A Kuo Toa Leviathan vs Aboleth fight would be epic. Kaiju battles are rad. Krakens are a bit tougher on average but a younger kraken would probably be a close enough fight
insane fish people. they somehow materialize gods... bbeg makeing up gods they want, introduceing them to kuo-toa, gets sacrifiesed in the name of new god, and now party has to deal with a new god
Interesting timing! My NWN server's Underdark just had one of these guys accidentally released from its ancient prison and is now wandering around somewhere.
The old Dungeon and Dragons module: "D2: Shrine of the Kuo-Toa" from 1st edition of Advance Dungeon and Dragons. Part of the Queen of the Demon Web Pits modules..
I saw the same parallel, but didn't think of obvious possibilities. Dude, I love it! Just picture Kuo-toa building rickety Spelljammers from regular shipwrecks lashed together with seaweed and barnacles, yet plying the aether with them by sheer bloody-minded-insistent belief -- maybe even breaking through to the Astral and causing trouble for the Gith. (I'm familiar with 3.x and earlier, so I can only hope that this makes sense in 5.x language.)
This channel has introduced me to a lot of cool monsters, so I'd like to return the favor: you should research the Gem Dragons for a future video. My favorite of them is the Obsidian Dragon, though I think what little lore it got in 2E and 3E didn't do a good job of exploring the concept of a psionic, fire-breathing dragon with a god-like inellect, primarily because the Obsidian Dragons were a victim of the rather rigid morality system of old DnD which pigeonholed all Obsidian Dragons into being le evil mustache twirling villains even though realistically, their immense minds should if anything, make them more alien cosmic entities than outright evil. Leave it to WotC to invent something as cool as Obsidian Dragons only to completely forget about them for 20 years.
Badass alternate timeline where a Kuo-Toa hero sacrificed themselves to become a Leviathan and fight Demogorgon during Rage of Demons/Out of the Abyss in an epic kaiju battle. Fish Vs Monke
I'm Irish and just hearing fish n chips made me hungry. But only if it's from a random shop on the harbor coated in vinegar and salt wrapped in newspaper
Hot damn @DungeonDad, I recently got back into some youtube creators I hadn't watched in a minute. I gotta say, I have always loved your content and humorous bits (the EVA opening for the Spirit Warrior video had me in physical pain from how good that was) but your latest intros and production are SO well done! Don't know how you keep giving us great content this consistently, but thank you!
im convinced the leviathans came about cus one kuatoa just worked out and got swole, the other kuatoa believed this was a blessing from their god cus they dont know how a gym works, and this sort of snowballed into them becoming kaiju, and well once the first one worked every moderately larger kuatoa can just start hyping up the rest to turn themselves into a titan
So I'm starting Pointy Hat's Storm Rising adventure our next session. My party has rarely done underwater combat. So I'm thinking instead of using the Merfolk Trial By Combat, I'm thinking the Merfolk use the nearby residing Kua-Toa Leviathan as a trial instead. Maybe something like "carve a chunk off of the glowing orb in x location" with the Kua-Toa encounter being more about getting the maguffin and escape rather than a hunt x monster encounter.
I really wish the Kuo-Toa you meet in bg3 really could impact the ending to some degree based on your dialogue choices. Would have been funny if they created a secret ending.
This gives me some ideas for future plans... A significant portion early on in my first campaign had my players go through a string of sea adventures including a kraken chase and a sahuagin cult resulting in a sea god's blessing that enables passive water breathing and some active effects. My plans for after the current main plot involve more sea adventures and Blipdoolpoolp was already a part of that plan. The leviathan warlock especially feels promising
Isn’t the point of Kuo-Toa that their belief is so potent that- regardless of *what* they believe in- it *always* becomes divine? Like, a particularly spooky adventurer that wipes out half of a Kuo-Toa cult can come back a few years later and find an exaggerated version of themselves acting as the cult’s new god.
Plot twist. What if the Kuo-toa gods were always in existence but Kuo-toa were the first beings to discover them without going completely insane to the point of dying.
tell you what though the only thing scarier than a Kua-Toa's wrath is a Kua-Toa's admiration. Because in my case if the Kua-Toa begin to like you they may start worshipping you and eventually start to make up crazy things about you based on what you did, and then it starts to manifest within your character. My poor life cleric found out she could cure any disease, heal any wounds, sate any hunger, undo any curse, etc. She also slowly transformed into a leviathan, lost her humanity and the memories of everyone she held dear. Using what little left of her sanity to heal the party to max when cornered by a dragon turtle and vanishing into the ocean. Her ending was that she was a worshipped being that people will seek out and give offerings too in hopes of receiving her magical cures.
I like the idea of finding a beached version of one of these. Maybe it got trapped in an deep inland lagoon and it’s luring ships to crash on the island in order to get food or it’s the prize exhibit in a traveling carnival (unknown to you) that’s starting to be attacked by Kuo-Toa and your party is hired to protect the carnival.
