The Most Brutal D&D Monster You've Never Heard Of 

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I wonder how unlikely it would be for the Hag to accidentally include parts from devils who actually enjoy feeling pain, accidentally creating a masochistic stitched devil which she consequently has a much harder time controlling. The Hag might even require the help of the party to bring the stitched devil back in line...

Stitched Devil is convinced in his madness that the pain is because the process is purposefully imperfect. This causes him to frantically search for a way to correct it via making dozens of them himself so that he may fix the imperfections in himself.

I started thinking about Gummy Bears as D&D monsters recently, which could be decent for an April Fools Day episode; to my knowledge, the Gummy Bear only appeared in an April issue of Dragon Magazine, where you also see Jolly Ranchers, the Pepsoid, the Lurking Dorito, and a living slice of pizza as monsters along with it.

I think a full conversion of this monster could include a random table that you roll on twice to determine extra traits from existing devils, and these can also just be options for the DM to choose from if they want a specific combination.

I would love to set up a shop tailored specifically to Necromancers, Warlocks, and Oathbreaker Paladins where they could come "buy" a pet. What would tie the stitch devil to the adventurer is that they have to give up a small part of themselves to incorporate into the created devil. Kinda like a twisted Build a Bear workshop.

Tidbit that DD didn't mention. Kocrachons (the devils in charge of torture) will sell night hags devil parts (and presumably parts from interesting creatures) for lost souls, thus making the stitched devil creation process potentially faster, though likely just as expensive.

My players were already starting to hate that I watch your videos... Now they are going to loathe it lol. Love the video. Great work. I really need to get on your patron at some point to get all your stat blocks lol ❤

I would have had the Pain Aura damage effect do Psychic Damage, since the effect is the sensation of additional pain, not actually opening more wounds.

I could see prejudiced wizard wanting to make a stitched devil construct out of all the variants of tieflings. Be a fiendish flesh golem.

almost all fiends and celestials have greater teleport (self and gear only) in 3.5 I think, since the outer planes are so unimaginably huge that that's basically the only way to get between significant landmarks in a reasonable amount of time.

I mean, a Stitch Devil sounds like the perfect Frankenstine Plot? Could even have the party face the choice of potentially awakening other Stitch Devils so the Monster isn't alone and that might be a peaceful resolution?

Now I'm imagining getting a Stitched Devil on your side by going "We have the good drugs."

If you incorporate parts from a blink dog, the creature is now equal parts fey, fiend *and* undead.

I actually just recently made a new oc for a 5e campaign who is a Hexblood druid that was literally raised by a hag who was creating experiments (and adds or changes body parts) on her subjects!! And I had no idea this monster existed, this is giving me some inspiration to add to their story

never in a million years would i have expected an American Pickers reference on this channel

I ran the stiched devil as a disgraced doctor who used arcane experiments and made various body horror monsters in an abandoned hospital. Sacrificing his own intelligence for power.

I don't know about plot hooks, but in my game there's an ominously friendly lich NPC the party knows, and I'm just imagining what said NPC would say about these fiends..... mainly a morbid take on the joys of recycling.

Everytime something in DnD has some terribly unsettling implications you can bet a hag is behind it

Them artificers been getting a bit too wild.

Stitched devils seem like a fantastic way to introduce sympathetic fiends to a campaign. Especially if like me you tend to significantly peel back on stuff like "Alignment" and tend to go on a case by case basis for things. So like, maybe things start off with a few Stitched Devils dropping into the town the party is in and starting a berserk slaughter - this is a distraction for the devil's master to get some sort of nearby macguffin without arousing suspicion as 'berserk devil rampage' probably doesn't seem that weird to a lot of ordinary people. - So the party dispatches the devils but finds a clue or rolls a knowledge check or otherwise realizes 'this isn't normal Devil behavior and also wtf even are these things?" They do some digging, they find out about the whole Stitched Devil thing and find where many are being kept by their master - depending on the order of events they might kill the master first, freeing the devils who may plead for help with the whole constant agony thing, or they might kill the stitched devils as monsters only to realize later they weren't entirely in control of themselves. Which makes the master's eventual downfall all the sweeter. (Extra pathos if you've got a Tiefling or two in the party and can somehow make them feel a bit of a link to the creatures) Depending this can spiral off into a massive fleshcrafting nightmare campaign chasing said master down. Or it could just be a one off that results in the party making some terrible discoveries and having to decide what to do with that knowledge. I dunno just a 5 minute 'here's how I think I'd use it if it were me' thing.

Me to the Hag: "Who hurt you?" The Hag making a stitched devil: "Several things, actually. So I'm stitching them together." Me to the Hag: "... That sounds horrible!" The Hag: "It will be a horribly valuable lesson, yes."

My plot hook. The hag is dying and has ordered the stitched devil to get in ingredients for a healing potion when the party finds its and it begs them to kill it or the hag. If they kill the hag the stitched devil will give them a nice reward in the form of potion ingredients that might aid them in a later adventure.

Stitched devils sounds pretty dangerous, but may I add an idea, Stitched Dragon.

New idea for this: the Stitched Devil can have a modular “components” system, where fiends and demons and whatever can be thrown together, and you take one attack/ability from each part given to it (IE you can get the smashing attacks of some beastly demons, the wings of flying ones, and a flamethrower from a Hellfire Engine), but by doing so the devil becomes more unstable.

I didnt know how badly I needed another Dungeon Dad video

Definitely throwing one of these into my avernus game

I love the idea of an Archdevil using nighthags as a castlevania forgemaster, recycling used up troops to bolster ranks. Also these could be an amazing mcguffin. One of the parts happened to belong to a devil who knew specific information (like a true name) and now the party and the villain are both chasing the creature and its creator.

You know, if you want a really disturbing setup, Devils are still emotional creatures that are technically, capable of loving another for whatever reason. Imagine a campaign that starts out with a higher level devil seeking a way to resurrect a lover or similar...you'd need to then interact with the Night Hag to have the devil brought back as a stitched devil without really knowing what is going on with the Night Hag sending the party after body parts to build the new body...then the revelation and everything from that. Perhaps their prior patron now blames the party for the constant torment of his lover there.

Another great new video, another opportunity to request the Anglerlich, a mysterious cosmic fish that lures in heroic souls with a lich that consumes them once they defeat their “villain”! Also, thanks so much for these videos! I’ve gotten so much inspiration from them I’ve got like two dozen I’m using in a campaign I’m running! (My first as DM!)

holy shit that thumbnail desighn looks sick as hell

Who's ready to fight some Timberwolves

I got a wholesome idea for you. Let's say we give the party a cloaked stranger that is paying them to guard and guide them to various areas and cities. As they travel and take damage they will notice how even the smallest scratches seem to hurt so much more. That is because our cloaked stranger is a Stitched Devil that's managed to gain freedom from it's creator but has no control over it's pain aura. It wants to keep living but desperately needs to a permanent way to stop the pain it feels. It can pay the party with items it took from it's former creator or found in Hades. Holy magic won't work due to it simply being a devil. And it's abnormal strength means medication will only work for so long. I feel the success though depends on what sort of personality you give the Stitched Devil and how long they travel with it before learning the truth. Could be a fun mini-campaign or one shot

My Idea: the Group encounters a sweet old Lady, living in a beautiful little Hut in the Woods. The Walls are decorated with stitched and crocheted Decorations. She invites them to rest there for the Night. But while they are resting, they hear strange Sounds from the Basement. If they investigate where the Sounds are coming from, they will find a stitched Devil in the Basement. The Witch will appear in the Door Frame and tell the Adventurers they shouldnt've been so nosy and she'll close and lock the Door

I think I'll have one working for my hag dragon, perhaps accompanying my group into a dungeon in search of a dagger they agreed to get for her.

Thank you for being a great contributor to the community. As a DM I often take inspiration from these videos to make unique creatures for encounters. Can't wait to see your next dragon video whenever that may be.

One of my favorite monsters to send at people is the Grisgol from Monster Manuel 3 from D&D 3.5. It's a golem made of old magic items with the phylactery of a lich at it's heart. Great for story hooks and a surprise enemy in a undead tomb. I once had a lich collect his defeated rivals phylacteries and do this to them.

I enjoyed the editing in this episode a lot :) hope you and your family had nice holidays, Dungeon Dad.

I was wonderin where my Monster of the Week video was, I have been again blessed with this content

without any info or prior context...This thing belongs in a Ravnica game as part of the Rakdos Cult.

Wait, are they the original version of the Fiendish Flesh Golems, that appear in Descent into Avernus? They have a very similar concept, but the Fiendish Flesh Golem is not necessarily made from devil parts, but from parts of any fiends.

Thanks for yet another entry showing some of the gems from the past! Funny you should post this as I am running a heavily edited version of Descent into Avernus and a certain creature found there (Fiendish Flesh Golem) might receive an "inspired" update based on some ideas presented here. Looking forward to the videos of 2024!

Old school DM here, getting close to completing the 3.0/3.5 collection of books, all of them... I'm glad you used a monster from the Monster Manual 5! In my games, my players refer to the monster manual 4 and 5 as the 'Book of Horrors 1 and 2' respectively. I tend to pull the worst enemies from those two books alone, and it keeps their fears alive! Stitched devils have a lot of diversity, because if you build one from scratch (like a necromancer!) they really can be quite a force to be reckoned with. Thanks for calling attention to these brutal beasts, they certainly do add a new dimension to franken-monsters!!

from "into the wyrd and wild," slightly modified for my own new spells document: Level 4 Necromancy Class: Cleric, Wizard Casting Time: 1 hour, Ritual Range: Touch Duration: Permanent Requirements: Silver Sewing Thread, 20’ You weave a thread through the body of a dying being, restoring them to health but twisting them to your own desire. You may revive one creature or being that has died within the last hour, quietly sewing them back together with a magic thread. They are restored to 1 Hit Point at the end of the spell and bear a series of silvered stitch-marks across their body. The caster may also choose to have the target hobbled or changed in some way by sewing on different body parts or reorganizing their limbs. In addition to any superficial changes the caster may incur a permanent disadvantage against one of the victim’s saves, its attacks, or its skills. The only way to break this curse is to kill the creature or have the original caster reverse the spell on them.

No way, pointy hat and dungeon dad uploaded a video on the same day and my birthday isnt even for another 3 days

My dungeon senses were tingling I could feel dad was posting soon.

To quote Master Shake from Aqua Teen Hunger Force: "If I woke up looking like that, I would run at the nearest thing and try to kill it."

The night lord devil. A worthy foe indeed!

I was running a highly modified version of Tyranny of Dragons for about a year and a half. At the beginning of this campaign I introduced a villain known only as "The Golem Maker". This villain was introduced as a way to explain how many of the dragon grafted creatures introduced in Fizband's came to be. This villian was working as a sort of contractor for the cult of the dragon interested in becoming more dragonlike. I feel like this monster would have been a tie in for his lair I never was able to fully "flesh" out. He was a man known for impersonating priests of Bahamat and was the opening hook for one of the parties I ran this campaign in. He always does his work in the shadows as the players have to clean up his messes. Even when they got higher level they could never find him as his experiments got bigger and more grotesque, which the cult very much appreciated.

This is amazing! What an awesome monster. Just found your channel and i subbed in a heartbeat! Keep it up!

I can imagine a party going and slaying devil lords and selling the parts to an NPC who later reveals themselves as a night hag and unleashes the new BBEG onto the world if she dies or something.

one of my players is playing a character that used to be a halfling monk but were twisted and mutated into a mutant sorcerer. in his backstory the person who made him like this was killed. but since my players are in avernus i think i got some more legions for this bbeg. amazing work.

There is a hierarchy amongst Stitched Devils. At the top are Needle Point, followed by Cross Stitch and Crochet. I would go on but these details are a lengthy yarn.

Bless the Dungeon Dad

happy new year! I look forward to another year of strong, crazy, weird, and cool monsters!

Great video as always. Incorporating the cadaver collectors is an inspired choice and I fully intend on using it. Asking once again for Ethergaunts. My very long running campaign which I DM for my wife is wrapping up and they are the final boss for the endgame

You could easily give this guy some sort of shrieking ability, too. I mean, if my life was eternal pain I'd be screaming out of my lungs

Monster of the Week: Draegloth An unholy mating between a Drow and a Demon produce this abomination Also the Drow of the Abyss have some scary variants of Drow. Zealot Drow: a suicidal berserker that when slain has a swarm of spiders explode out of their body and attack! Found in 3rd edition.

Man, that American Pickers gag hit me right in the nostalgia bone and the funny bone at the same time. I'm glad to see a fellow armchair antique collector.

Stitches and magic? This is gonna be a good one! EDIT - Upon seeing the video, you know you gotta make a extraplanor campaign about a night hag coven making all sorts of stitched beings, like stiched fae, recompilled monstrocities, stockpilled aberrations. All to make an ambush for stitched celestials, and if the party can't stop them, they stitch dead gods to themselves to make the Patchwork trinity!

Happy new year dungeon dad!

That is perfect! I'm currently preparing a campaign for my new players who loved the one shot I run for them on New Years Eve and didn't have any specific idea for main story. Now I can use those for it :D

Feel like this could be a really cool reflavour for a tiefling character perhaps have them be a warlock with the hag as their patron

No need to apologize. It’s right there in the title. Dungeon DAD. You got stuff to do during the holidays.

Happy to have you back Dungeon Dad

This will probably be rhe first monster featured on your channel that I will implement simpy because it really fits. My players made an enemy in form a Hag coven of unknown size and power and are currently moving towards one of the members territory - a night hag. I was thinking what kind of minion she would keep and now I have an answer. Great work!

LOL. You used the same background music (Glass Pond) as one of my favorite OTHER YT'ers... Fascinating Horror.

I was so sad and alone dungeon dad but now you are back XD XD LIFE GOES ON

Great episode, thanks for the update.

Night Hags are just that drug dealer from the Snakes & Barrels episode of Metalocalypse. Also the idea of a tiefling being one of these sounds like a cool idea.

My initial idea for this monster was for a night hag to treat this creature like her child. Another idea I had was one wherein someone extended the process of creating this monster to other creatures. Imagine how horrible it'd be if the party came across a monster in constant suffering that consists of various body parts from past allies.

Idea: A stitched devil becomes a high priest of Loviatar due to their constant state of pain and a way to cope with it.

I remember stitched fiends from 3e but I like the Necrocraft from Bestiary 4 of Pathfinder, nothing like harvesting undead parts to make new undead abominations....

I have an artificer general for my BBEG who's been creating chimera and using them as a sort of phylactery; and I've already been stitching together stat blocks for his creations for the players to go against. This is perfect; and now my party will not just be encountering Frankenstein'd humans and beasts, but devils as well! Thanks dad, very cool!

I was thinking a cool ability the stitched devil could have would be that anytime a section of its flesh is removed or damage the opponent has to make a wisdom saving throw otherwise they might get possessed or fall under the influence of a stitched devil.

ok, this might be a dumb idea, but Fiendish Flesh Golems are also a thing from Decent into Avernus, so I would think that a Night Hag might just make a Stiched Devil if they can't get their hands on an elemental spirit in order to make a more coaprative golem, or maybe they are just simply sadistic and like seeing other creatures suffer for entertainment.

This thing is giving off Shou Tucker level of shenanigans here. If you know you know.

These existed before they were published at the end of 3e. They were flesh golems made from infernal flesh, not just devils. Their torment was augmented by mixing devil and demon flesh. I want to say they were called patchwork demons too, but it’s been thirty years since I had a DM make use of them playing AD&D 2nd. That was about the same time as Planescape was released and Night Hags were relegated to the hells. That was the same campaign that our DM introduced the Betrayers, half-devils that looked identical to whatever their non-Devil parent was, until they revealed their true nature. Betrayers had permanent Alter Self and Nondetection powers. The only way to force them out of their altered form was the Consecrate or Bless spells and holy water, which revealed them as devils. You’ll have to convert them to whatever system you use, but it’s just a half-Devil with those two powers.

Love your videos!

good plot hook: a night hag made a deal with a king in exchange for reviving a long dead love for there heart, this heart was then sown into a stitched devil with the soul inside of it to make the stitched devil adept in the unique magic this king had that was only passed down the royal bloodline in doing so it made the stitched devil stronger and gave them access to this unique magic. ontop of this it also took the soul of the king and locking it into his heart to add an additional aura called the aura of dread that as the stitched devils bonus action can inflict fear on anything within 70ft.

I think I'll have devil-stitching be a hag-invented process that mortal spellcasters and supernatural evils have picked up on, and have it be a creature template (I run 3.5/PF1e). I like the idea of a variable composition, so I'll probably have body parts from different fiends have different effects. Thank you for your hard work! Great video as always

Always wanted to know if there were other platinum dragons other than Bahamut...

I imagine this guy could also be calmed with healing magic or calm emotions, temporarily elevating the pain.

Lamordians are drooling

kinda sounds like the necrocraft, an undead with construct build points. the plot threads are good to use for a hag coven to have influence after she is beaten.

In Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus there is a monster named Fiendish flesh golem, that is basically this. Although it's just a flesh golem with some resistances and flight speed flapped over it.

I know it’s a strange monster, but I’d love to see the Living Tank from the Pathfinder module Rasputin Must Die translated into DnD 5e.

Talking about a Modular Fiend reminds me of my Modular Poppet from Pathfinder. A Poppet that I used Warforged to replicate in D&D and just of course made it small, and more dexterous rather than strong. Plus other hijinks... Though I wonder if they couldn't be easily converted over. I think I've seen a few attempts on D&D beyond the last time I looked, but I remember those didn't really have the same flavor to them. Maybe it was just me overlooking something, I dunnknow. I play both D&D and Pathfinder, the latter which I picked up recently when some friends invited me over Discord.

*watches till the end* O,o ... Well... didn't expect the next episode to be about Platinum Dragons. Guess an extra to the list couldn't hurt for my D&D world. In fact, that might give interesting lore.

I have been looking for a way to reveal my BBEG in a campaign and I have found it! Artificer get players to steal parts he needs to build a Corpse collector, but PCs don't know what the parts are for. He cleverly waits till he gets the parts and steals the plans for building a Stitched Devil from my BBEG, a elderly woman running an orphanage for war children that is actually a Hag. When she quests the PCs to steal the item that was stolen from her and discover it is plans for a S.D. they confront her. They enter to see her enjoying a freshly prepared large egg cooked shell and all and discover it is a DRAGONBORN EGG. (She EATS BABIES) by Chris Perkins got me that last idea. Thank you!

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6:59 nice customization option! Add or remove limbs to make them stronger or weaker

Ok so hear me out. Stitched Devil Odoopi. It’s literally just like 15 devil legs and a head sewn together

One of ideas I fear I will never get to play is a hero who refuses to kill or let thier allies kill. Maiming etc is ok, they draw the line at killing. So I think if I do get to play them anytime in future, I will give them an enemy in form of Stitched Devil who got pissed and vindictive when the PC refused to kill him or help him die.

I’m going to use this a jumping off point for one of my rogue/warlock players. They just met their patron *pact of the fiend* but their powers are gonna start malfunctioning (just cosmetically, like a spell may be changed to something more akin to a different devil) and they won’t know why. When they travel to the 9 hells to see what happened, they’ll eventually follow the bread crumbs to the night hag’s lair where they find that his patron has been turned into a stitched devil. I haven’t decided how I want his power to transfer over, I guess it depends on how things transpire.

uuuuuu i have i place for it in my table TODAY! tks dad!

Running Decent into Avernus and so this is absolutely replacing the flesh golem stat block for Mickey

Fantastic video

A really good DM could use this as a sort of horror monster, patrolling the nighthags hideout area

Please cover the cloud dragon I fell in love with its 2nd edition monster manual art