Yeah, one time my group's Warlock was being grappled by a giant frog, so he casted Evard's black tentacles inside the medium sized frog, the DM ruled that the Frog was now large and allowed the Warlock to roll double the damage dice for Evard's black tentacles. The giant frog proceeded to explode showering gore all over everyone. I forgot to mention that the Warlock was me.
they know all but yet know nothing . They are nothing but a butch of murdering hobos with a whispering of a god in their ear .Toying with them . ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iCilTm8UBr8.html
Barbarian: I attack the drow! DM: You cleave the top of the drow's skull open, allowing it to crumple onto the ground. Barbarian: Excellent! I then turn to his compatri- DM: As you revel in your success, the drow's brain rolls out, and begins to stand on tiny legs. Barbarian: THE *WHAT*
@@lovelandfrog5692 I can't claim full credit, I recall a meme image with that dialogue somewhere on the interwebs. Still, Intellect Devourer showed up and it dug it's way out.
This makes me want to roleplay as a very anxious character, who happens to befriend a Flumph that follows him around, boosting his confidence due to the lack of anxious feelings.
They're an excellent friendly creature. Their intense body odor being one of the few downsides to long-term friendly interactions with them. I kinda wish more people appreciated them.
"All hail the mighty Blibdoolpoolp! His yocklespogging knows no bounds! His lecribious scribs will jabbercate your mentals, until the last drop of fleep absorbs into his Borticle Cavity. BLUBBLUBBLUBBLUBBLUB! BLUBBLUBBLUBBLUBBLUBBLUB!" This is my favorite thing. My FAVORITE.THING.
A character I played once tried to convert an entire village of the little bastards to become followers of my warlock's patron-- Nyarlathotep. Which was perfect because, in character, my warlock kinda forgot who his patron actually was. He just thought he read about it once, maybe, in some dusty old tome. At this point he had converted about 500 or so people (one being the leader of a major city) and had started production of robes and such. The campaign ended prematurely, but I was told that I was on the cusp of bringing Nyarlathotep into the world.
Having played a kenku as a pc I can say it certainly revealed something about humans, or at least that my friends should not be trusted with supplying someone with their entire vocabulary (or name) ever
Spiders are overdone. Besides, you want the Illithids to affiliate themselves in any way with the Spider Queen Lolth? Are you as insane as their mind-tortured slaves? Maybe instead of a spider, a scorpion would make more sense, with the brain stem acting as its tail.
I think the beholder should be over the honorable mentions. it's dreams change reality, and it can will itself into lichdom just by deciding they rather not die
A replicated city of an Oblex is such an amazing concept of a terrifying adventure... especially if the Oblex starts to copy several NPCs that were first with you in the group, but end up eaten by it.
I had a player once that played as a kenku, he used a sound board, he had recorded every game session he played when he came up with this idea, and mixed the voices together to get his "voice". it sounded wierd as heck, but it was amazing.
I just have my kenku characters talk normally while his voice switches between dozens or hundreds of different voices each word, sortof like how bumblebee from transformers talks using radio stations.
I heard rust monster, and I started thinking of my mom's dwarven life domain cleric character's rust monster named fluffy. Don't ask why a dwarf has a rust monster, or why it's named fluffy; we're still prepping for the campaign.
I'm honestly kind of surprised that the horrifying Aboleth never made an entrance in the list. Still, definitely loved most of the choices show here ^_^
Question : If the oblex sheds one of its personalities to create a spawn , is there a chance that the spawn may become a being who believes they are the personality they absorbed ?
Weirdest of the weird. Creepiest of the creepy. And the best of them all: The cream of the crop. THE INTERCONTINENTAL WRESTLING CHAMPION MACHO MAN RANDY SAVAGE OHHH YEAAHH
4:53 Well, actually, there is some depth to gibbering mouthers- they absorb and integrate the nervous systems of the victims they consume. All the voices that come from a gibbering mouther come from the minds of its victims, maddened by being forcibly amalgamated into the creature. Digest that for a minute. I will note that this is coming hot off of a MrRhexx video, so pardon if this is based off of previous edition lore that isn't technically 100% canon anymore.
"the characters are fighting their way through a dungeon. maybe a goblin stronghold, or a haunted crypt. they open a door." oh well, cant be vox machina then.. -.-
I just want to say thank you Esper i love the passion that you have for table top rpgs you always help spark my imagination. i recently moved and haven't found a new group to play with and i really appreciate being able to watch your videos. can you make us a part 2 video detailing your honorable mention weird monsters? thanks again!
Thanks a million for the great comment Joseph! I hope you can get a new D&D group going soon. As for a part 2, I will certainly consider it. There are so many oddball monsters out there ...
Greetings, Esper! Much love to your work. You're truly talented. I found some of your old videos on ranking monsters, demons and so on. You talk about making separate rankings of demon- and devillords, but I couldn't find any such video. If you still got the passion for making those videos I would love to watch them. Much respect, and thank you for the brilliant and interesting entertainment. Poul - former D&D player back in the eighties, last century. I'm going to die in this present one. Amazing.
There are so many monsters that I would say could replace the monsters in this list for weirdness. Many of them have only been used once, in either one edition or in a dragons magazine. The best example I would say is the "Roving Mauler" from Tome of Magic (2006). "Claws flash as it cartwheels end over end on five furred legs," the fluff text reads. The Roving Mauler is a 5-foot tall starfish with lion legs and a lion head on either side of its ridiculous body. Then you have the "Dohwar". The magial penguins from outer space that was only in the Spelljammer version of second edition. Though the dohwar speak Common and their own tongue, they rely heavily on telepathic powers for communication among themselves. In fact, dohwar have pairings called "mergers", wherein two dohwar stay in mental rapport, even to the point of finishing each other's sentences.
Gibbering Mouthers are one of my favorite. In the homebrew universe my group uses, they're the result of a cruel technique of fleshwarping. Rabid animals, assorted monsters, and parts of corpses are thrown into a vat with the victim, and blended together into a single mass of flesh. The victim is still conscious, but unable to control their body. Legend says that if you listen carefully enough through the crazed yammering and horrific screeching, you can hear a thin, feeble voice begging to be freed so they can cross the Bone River and know the peace of death.
The mind flayers took over in the future, but were driven to collapse due to a massive slave revolt. The surviving mind flayers went back into the past to rebuild.
3.5, they came back in time because they were living at the end of existence. They came back to rebuild their empire in the past, though they lost a lot of their knowledge in transit (not to mention a few slave revolts and other setbacks). Fun fact: aboleths in 3.5 _feared_ mind flayers, simply because the aboleths had existed in the time before time and didn't even remember mind flayers existing then; mind flayers were the only beings that they had no prior knowledge of, and couldn't predict in any way.
I love your videos. The segment on star spawn has me wanting to rewatch dungeons of drakkenheim by the dungeon dudes. Thank you for revealing a tidbit of lore that has my imagination swimming with possibilities. You are the best lore bard and I feel like a cannon Esper's big book of lore is in order.
I'm personally a big fan of the cutout minis. They're afordable in box sets of hundreds of different kinds, they last if you don't fuck around with them, and the art is typically spot on. I get the appeal to figurines, but I just don't have 20-200$ to spend on passing fancies.
Hey bro, some people may see you promoting a sponsor as "selling out" but forget them. I've been watching your channel for a while and I'm super happy that you've getting successful enough to find a sponsor for a quality product. As a DM, I love your videos and even use inspiration from them in my non-DnD games as well. Please keep up the great work and that was awesome voice acting, my fav was the Kenku interaction but the Flumph made me laugh pretty hard too.
The gibbering mouther should be an absolutely terrifying creature. Straight out of the worst nightmares, the flesh of multiple victims melded into an insane mass of eyes and teeth. But no, this is 5e, so it's a PG-rated cartoon.
Funny thing about being a kenku, you actually have a voice if you go to a library, pick up a dictionary, and ask someone who has a voice you like to read it to you for like, 50g. Yeah you speak in a monotone, but it really makes playing one as a PC not as much of a headache for a more newish DM, or a seasoned DM who doesn't like them. And you still have the mimic ability to use when you need to. Bonus points if you talk like Jacket.
You forgot the most terrifying factor of the gibberish mouther! When it kills someone it absorbs them and they are forced to join their masses. No ethereal plane required!
I've always imagined them as creations of a High Priest Vampire Lord. Victims not quite powerful enough to be actual vampires.... "I don't like too much competition. The blood is mine."
A few years ago, I went through every official Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder Monster Manual to ever exist, and compiled a list of the monsters I thought were interesting. There are a LOT of really awesome things that you just don't see nowadays. The CIFAL, a psychically-linked amalgam of insects in the shape of a human. Not unlike the Worm That Walks. Nonafel, a beast that looks kind of like a Displacer Beast which can separate its body into 9 real clones. Tirapheg, a humanoid with 3 heads and 3 legs, mouth under its third arm in chest. Makes a flash and creates illusionary copies of itself. Lurking Stranglers, two eyeballs connected by a mess of muscle tissue. Beholders like to keep them as pets, since they resemble them. Defacer, a muscular undead with multiple faces swirling on its head. It can replace people's faces, steal the faces of the dead, and rock swim Lots of stuff like that.
As a voice actor myself, I applaud you for this video and your efforts! Lord knows, *I* would probably be stumped (or at least have to fall back on audio editing of various sorts) to figure out appropriate voices for this menagerie of the bizarre! Also, if you like bizarre monsters and mythos in D&D (ESPECIALLY involving Kuo-Toa), I highly recommend Demonac's Tales From My D&D Campaign (TDDC), it is a very well written (and animated) ongoing campaign saga that I see A LOT of your DM, Roleplay, Design, etc. principles reflected in.
You sure grew a lot, congratulations. (I've known your channel for a long time, although back in the day I had a different account, not disclosing it though, but we did have some pleasant exchanges in the comments.)
Me: Yes! I love Kuo-Toa, Theyre so vast! "I will explain! No.. There is too much, I will summerize" That's exactly why I like them. My favorite humanoid race does happen to be Thri-Kreen! If they have a hyphon in the name.. I love em!! Great video!
Venomous means it bites you to poison you, poisonous you bite it, or touch, scrape whatever poison dart frog 🐸, their is a difference! Love the videoz!
Just for fun, a list of my favorite weirdos. On the Cuff: Giff, Nalfeshnee, Thought Eater, Atropal, Disenchanter, Nuckelavee Off the Rails: Cipactli, Temerdaemon, Kamaitachi, Anunnaki, Elohim, Psychemental, Penanggalen, Wizard's Shackle, Slurk, Moon Beast, Wolf-In-Sheep's-Clothing Essentially Cheating: Yithian, Color Out of Space,, Azruverda, Astrazoan, Urog, Barathu, Shirren, Neogi, Skittermander, Stellifera, Morlamaw (This one I personally suggest you look up). Tried to include ones that not only look weird but are unique in some way that sets them apart.
Esper was that kenku bit a long way of saying "if you play the bird person youll end up understanding what it takes to be a certain yellow transforming car"?? Lololol
"Imagine... waking up in the middle of the night and see a Vargouille ""sitting" on your chest. After the first seconds of shock and horror, you feel something slippery coming out from the farthest part of your mouth. (Gag). It turns out it is the long tongue of the Vargouille, who was stealing the smallest part of your life force through your saliva. After that, he start to flip his wings and flies through the closest window. " Kinda f... up , right? We have some kind of Vargouille in the folklore of my country, with a different name of course.
Are you from Indonesia or Phillipines? I remember watching a movie called Mystics in Bali in which a witch uses magic to make a girls head fly off (with some parts hanging from the neck), then the head follows the witch's evil commands. I think 3E D&D even had this monster, but the name escapes me (starts with a P I think?).
@@esperthebard Actually from Chile, in South America. And the name for our version of Vargouilles is Chonchon (like saying Shawn twice). But you know... every mythological creature has a couple of similar versions around the world (like Bigfoot). PD: never actually saw Mystics in Bali, but i recognize the cover
In 2nd (I think), my character, a Wizard, had as his goal to turn into a Worm that Walks (Lich was boring, 2nd pick was Defiler Athasian Dragon, which was undoable). All partymembers helped, he turned, and that Party got benched. Epic Times
