The Most Wholesome Monster 

1. Trust a flumph. 2. Before you drink from a fountain or pool, toss a copper coin into it. It’s a small price to pay for your life. 3. Sometimes a chest is just a chest, but don’t bet on it. 4. No one carves statues of frightened warriors. If you see one, keep your eyes closed and your ears open. 5. Don’t poke skeletons. Bludgeoning works best. 6. Keep a few gems in your pocket. A hungry Xorn is a helpful Xorn. 7. Before opening a sarcophagus, light a torch. 8. Traps mean someone wanted to keep you out. If a trap still works, that means there’s still plunder on the other side. 9. Some wards don’t follow their object. Don’t open interesting plunder until at least 100 feet away from ornate pedestals. 10. Do not trust attractive men and women in dungeons. 11. Glowing things that don’t do anything when poked with a pole, still might when poked with a finger. 12. Always wear gloves when handling strange objects. 13. Consider all objects removed from dungeons strange until proven otherwise (thoroughly) 14. Always ask permission to walk past a statue. It never hurts to be polite and it might save your life. 15. Do not kill a lich. They’ll just come back angrier. 16. You’d be surprised at how much in a dungeon is actually edible. That doesn’t make it a good idea to put anything in your mouth besides what you brought in with you. 17. Never interrupt anything willing to tell you a story. 18. Runic circles can be very good, very bad, or very boring. Unfortunately, it usually takes an intelligent being to determine this. Try to make sure your friend goes first. 19. Make offerings at any dais or altar you find and cannot identify. Unless you’re a paladin and your god is watching. 20. Always check behind tapestries and drapes. Similarly, always check beneath rugs. Do this with a 10-foot pole, in case you actually find something. 21. A spear or quarterstaff is not a proper substitute for a 10-foot pole. 22. Don’t mess with fungus. Yes, some can be eaten and most is harmless. Others eject spores that can kill you in less than a day. 23. Every adventurer should have a large towel. 24. If you find something powerful intentionally imprisoned in a dungeon, there’s probably something worse that put it there. If that thing isn’t gone, you should be.

Was in a magic school campaign and a Flumph was both the mascot and the school councilor.

I wonder how Flumphs would react if they met a player character with psionics. Like, imagine a single flumph just decides to stick with them because he can finally feed off of someone not evil while the character gets no downside from it.

Never realized how horrifyingly morbid the one wild magic barbarian effect was until now. On a side note, have to add “soulknife rogue, raised by flumphs” to my list of stupid character concepts

Flumphs: Baby seals that are also quest critical NPCs. Thanks for the video.

I had a Player that absolutely DID NOT trust Flumphs. He found them being immune to Divination Magic and universally Lawful Good very suspicious.

I feel like this is the character GMs invoke when they are beyond fed up with the players going off on a wild goose chase for months' worth of gaming sessions and is their last ditch effort to steer the party back toward the actual main threat; by having this cloister of flying spaghetti monsters appear and just spell out everything they've been missing this whole time. Sprinkle in a little added pathos of the flumphs revealing that they will die having revealed this information and being totally cool with that if it means the party can finally GET TO THE BIG BOSS ALREADY!

Always trust a Flumph, and befriend a Xorn.

Flumphs are the type of beings you never want to turn evil, because if they do, your suddenly getting a magic and pionic enemy whe can dox you any time you try anything to go against them. Killed a random bandit? Well the flumph just doxed you to the new villain who sent his little brother to a safer area to bandit in.

The god worshiped by Lawful Good Aberrations is an unbelievably interesting concept.

So basically, you're telling me that Flumphs are, at once, some of the most wholesome creatures in the DND Multiverse... and *also* some of the pettiest, because I don't know how else to describe the willingness to literally *go hungry and starve* just to ensure that those dudes over there get wacked. And actually, precisely because of who 'the other dudes' happen to be in this equation, neither the pettiness nor the wholesomeness are actually in conflict. God I love Flumphs.

The only other good aligned creature that is canonically psionic is the coastal, a celestial. There may be a simbiotic relationship there.

And if you are a Wild Magic Barbarian and roll well, you can summon one every six seconds, just to blow it up.

4:01 Flumphs can intercept telepathic communication? Hold on while I write the words “Flumph telepathic phone operators” Ok now we can continue. Edit: and they feed on psychic energy! Flumphs would create a multi dimensional communication system and they wouldn’t even charge because feeding off the communications would be payment enough!

Before the eye-catch image loaded I read the tile and thought: "If this is about anyone other then Flumphs I might flip a table." Glad we're on the same page.

Imagine a network of flumphs that soul purpose is information brokers

Flumphs feel like the counterpart to the RE4 merchant. They just dispense wisdom instead of lead.

She dungeon on my dragon until I flumph

I can honestly say that i've never had a farting jellyfish seek out my players before. Usually, i use them as comic relief on adventures in the underdark.

It should be required that all Flumphs be subtly offended when you refer to them as such in lieu of a genuine fart sound.

I love when the flumph said it's flumphing time and flumphed all over the place

I think they also feed on excess thoughts. Which means they're perfect support for people with OCD, anxiety disorders and depression. Now I want one.

Man usually fully good-natured characters aren't that interesting, but these lil guys are amazing. Specially the last part

It's flumphing time

I love them. They're just silly little goobers

I am a simple person; I see flumphs, I like.

Flumphs are like an equal opposite to beholders almost. Tons of knowledge, hyper psyonic, floating ball of tentacles and eyes. Just replace the paranoia with trust, and unimaginable destructive power with kindness.

The only time I’ve ever encountered a Flumph was in some guy’s home game I played in in 2022. A flumph approached us and wanted to trade sentimental items and memories we had for magic items. We all got +1 items or equivalent for memories or mementos. The next morning, all the items disappeared and were apparently illusions. We got scammed and the DM said “don’t trust strangers in the underdark”. Needless to say, that was my first and last session with that guy.

Hm...this makes me suddenly fantasize about obtaining psionic abilities just so I can have a cloister of Flumph friends follow me around in a campaign XD

I know theres a big debate of inherent alignments for some monsters, but I kind of want an evil flumph who chains up a bunch of mindflayers and becomes an obese aboleth

4:22 MF DOOM mentioned, instant like

One of my characters was an Aberrant Soul sorcerer who was raised by flumphs. She was a drow who was abandoned as a baby due to being born weak, but some flumphs found her and brought her up as best they could for a humanoid. Now she's a grown adventurer who still prefers to talk telepathically and shows emotions by using Presdigitation to change skin/eye/hair colors.

I like the idea of halflings and flunphs being friends.

I like how evil is depicted by a fedora. Just like in real life.

Maybe Wurd can get some for Paula. I'm sure that'll make her happy and even more willing to work for you and the party. Well that's if the party has time to go back to the Sandy Shores Inn. Glad you guys are still recording more of Heart of Elynthi. Love Boss Wurd ~ Thanks for the video too, I'll have my D&D players meet some of these jelly boys.

I too felt betrayed by Larian when I found out the flumph mating rituals book was real. They can't stop talking about how EVERYTHING ELSE fucks. But as soon as it comes to the topic of wholesome flumph courtship they deny us.

"Jelly narks" best description of them.

New mysterious stranger in the tavern, beckoning my adventurers on a quest: Flumph

I'd say 5th edition Locatha are pretty wholesome for having pet otters.

Flumphs are perfection

I really needed a theme for the next dungeon I'd run my players through, now they get to encounter an NPC they needed to save who is instead surrounded by flumphs that kept him safe and will warn the players of psionic threats ahead should they dare delve deeper into the ruins. Thanks Runesmith!

We had a wild mage that accidently got a few flumphs spray her after her wild magic went off and was stinky for one hour and when she walked by, both my character and one of our two kobolds passed our from the smell.

I loved Flumphs. When I really started playing in the 90s. I used to use Flumphs as party healers.

We played in a Kingmaker game with a truly bizarre monk that the DM and I (another player) decided must have been a flumph that forgot what he was.

THE VOLDEMORT JUMPSCARE OMG!!!

In my last campaign, I was a tamer class, my first creature was a flumph. I was going to it to a immortal status stick

Im currently running campain with mindflayer playing big part in the story. My players just arrieved in port city sorta Ank-Morpork, so now they will meet Flumph- detective npc Thanks for tbe video :)

Hurting a Flumph is a death sentence on most worlds

I'm so very happy that I found this video. One of my favorite campaigns that we completed involved my beastmaster ranger and his adopted zoo. One of these lovely npc adopted family members was a flumph named "Jelly". This lovable lawful good friend-o became an essential memeber of the team and a loved npc every player at that table would burn the world before letting harm come to our friend. He was also the ultimate "vibe checker" and a bane to the DM. Their telepathy being passive and ability to sense and read intent/emotion made insite checks a joke. New NPC? Jelly vibe check? Oh he's a Djinn and lying? Thanks friend-o! You saved us! *Pat pat*

An evil psion who does the "but not _too_ evil" thing to hang out with good adventurers with a flumph cohort now sounds very amusing.

These beings seem almost deliberately engineered to keep creatures like Mind Flayers, Aboleths, etc. at bay.

Barbarians backstory Mom gave me a small trident to fight these things called vegetables and dad said he was called a formal fighting against the veg so they said make sure you eat all your veg on your plates

It’s weird how flumphs and mindflayers have the same basic problem: their psychic food source is too dangerous.

This was Flumphin' awesome.

I love playing Flumphs, but I hate that I butcher there gimmick. I was running a spell jamming campaign and the party had one. His name was Flumpy and he was a reoccurring character from an old campaign. The few players that knew him forgot that he was killed by undead at one point and was resurrected so when he ignored one of our party members who is a dhampir. It was meant to be a cute playful thing, but everyone just assumed Flumphs hated elves despite there being multiple elves that he was fine with and honestly that’s one of my biggest regrets as a DM. I’m sorry I ruined these wholesome creatures.

Takes psionic initiate as a caster to have a mini flumph as a familiar

So, what I learned from this is that if I ever play an Aberrant Mind Sorceror, a Soulknife Rogue, a Psi Warrior Fighter, any race with Psionics, any race with Telepathy and/or Telekinesis, or any character with the Telekinesis and/or Telepathy Feat- a Flumph is my new bestest buddy. Yay!

Once my party summoned three flumps on an elevator because of our wild magic sorcerer and they had a gore battle between who could annihilate the flumps in the rawest way possible. The tabaxi just started mauling one to death, the PALADIN, yes, the paladin, threw a spear at the wall piercing one of them, meanwhile the sorcerer put the other in a bag and started cooking it on a slow cooker he had. (they were sort of stuck in the elevator, so they had time). Meanwhile the druid and other sorcerer (not wild magic) watched in horror trying to stop the boys from doing what they were doing but failed miserably and ended up watching the whole situation tied up.

I had a party with some murder hobos in it and wanted them to stop killing anything that was even slightly non humanoid. Long story short, they ended up in a drunken cave system full of Flumphs. A couple players started killing a few after some snarky dialogue, and then after all the flumphs had run off or died, turns out the flumphs were feeding on the thoughts and feelings Kua-Toa that were down there. A new evil god of the ocean was raised from a dragon turtle corpse, and the simple go clear a cave mission got ALOT harder.

Any creature that propels itself to the sounds of farts is trustworthy in my book.

Flumphs and capybaras are a great comparison that I’d never thought of before

Just because Mr. Perkins said so, still doesn't make it law. I very much liked your second rendition of the Flumph sound. :)

That worm image was a goddamn flashbang

They taste bad, but my character keeps eating them. Trying to find a way to use them in their meals.

We have a Flump in our campaign name Pinky who has become quite the hero with his special skills. Flumps are cool.

If Flumphs eat psychic energy, why are they vulnerable to psychic attacks?

I figure its like blowing a raspberry while trying to say flumf to get the sound

Flumphs are Lawful Best, and I will love them forever.

How did you say the bit about Sonic the hedgehog during the exact moment I was thinking about Sonic the Hedgehog. I’m not even kidding, I’m mildly terrified how perfect the timing was

Flumphs are my favorite Dungeons and Dragons creature. I even made a homebrew pantheon for them. In fact, I was brushing up on the Monster Manual, came across the Flump entry and thought, "It would be cool if Runesmith made a video about Flumphs." Sure enough, that happened today

Who doesn’t love that delicious marshmallow spread, especially with peanut butter. Flumphernutter sandwiches are the best

Bro never misses with these videos.

aren't mycanoids also telepathic sorta? perfect Flumphfff partners.

I knew the flumph entry was going to be full of random fart noises, and you did not disappoint

So, would a befriended Flumph, after a long diet of Happy thoughts, get a "happy stomach ache" and suddenly want to eat evil thoughts again/might even change alignments?

I like these guys. They seem trustworthy.

The God of flumphs is obviously the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Yes! Finally a video on everyone's favorite flying spaghetti monsters.

This will be so helpful in the campaign I’m running

I’m as trustworthy as a flumf is now a saying in my dnd world

I'm just glad to see non-evil aberrations.

i want to make a character who is a "god of flumphs".. hes not actually a god, just a telepath whos not evil so the flumphs started calling him a "god sent" and eventually it evolved into being called a lesser deity.

What was up with the random jump cut of Voldemort sassing me?

Welp, wonder when these things will turn up in the campaign I’m in and feed on the brain magic of the other party member (he’s a mind flayer) while my character chitchats with them (he’s a tabaxi who’s a real nerd.)

Wow, Maybe I'll use flumps in the future to set up a campaign. Another banger Runesmith

Flumph's are just the best.

I trust them, but the character I’m currently playing is VERY psychic, so I think that one might be trying to eat his brain waves

5:20 *gets jumpscared by old Voldy for a split second The fuck!?! 😅

I remember the one time they were in one of your d&d episode... it didn't end well for them.

Doesnt some Flumphs actually adopt Beholders? ESPECIALLY if those Beholders are affected by Mindflayers

Why am I still suspicious of the flumph Did a flumph write this to keep our guard down.

Calling them "monsters" is just wrong. They're the most innocent aberrations

what if they're just the most powerful psychics in the universe and changed everyones mind about them being evil?

You called them parasites, but do they actually harm the other psychic creatures? Cause if not a psychic wizard with a Flumph acting as its spell book sounds like a fun character to make.

i hoped he was gonna mention their mating rituals

I see Runesmith new video, I proceed to watch. Simple life

My experience in watching Bill Cavalier’s videos before EpiclevelTV was shut down made me have a brain aneurysm when you said “It’s flumphin’ time”. I hate them, they were a mistake and they will never be in a d&d video game ever.

I’m surprised you haven’t made a video on war subclass for wizards in your magic school videos

Flumphs are absolute chads

AWWE. That's the best thing I've heard all day, I have been Desperately trying to find/put together a TTRPG game (I really wanna help with the Daggerheart beta), and that would be the most amazing hook to start a campaign. I got very close, we had a session zero yesterday, but one guy got scared off by the math, my closest friend of the bunch gave a weak blow off excuse, and the person who was supposed to GM only wanted to run "biker d&d" pure combat sim punish the players bs, and "won't waste his time running a game for less than 4 players", refused to even discuss any of the systems I brought" (Cyberpunk Red, 5e or Daggerheart) he had a version of Shadow dark that was stripped down, would only allow humans or dwarves as pc races, only fighter or wizard as classes, and we were supposed to do a gauntlet to even get our equipment. I don't want to pretend I am a Russian conscript circa 1940, I want to role play with friends in a supportive atmosphere. Well I guess I will keep looking with fingers crossed