Deviously evil creatures got a fellow acting quite unwise

don’t think it gets mentioned enough but the weirdcore digital aesthetic of your videos goes so hard

I use flanking, but instead of advantage, I make it just a flat +2 bonus to melee attacks.

You are looking good today, dungeon dad. Good vibes.

Oh i get it, Phaerimm = Fear Him, that's cute

Its this demon (Pale Night) that gave me the idea for my dnd characters backstory

Honestly a good starter setup would be to find a frozen one and then have the players thaw it out and then it turns out to still be alive and then have the players fight it and then have it infect the players.

Admittedly I'm only 3min into the video bud DAD's version of the Phaerimm (and the Netheril war) is very different to the one I have heard so far. What I had heard was that the Phaerimm were a race that ate magic energy. Originally few in number once they felt the presence of the large amount of magic the Netheril were using they raced over and began to multiply due to the abundance of food. They eating of the Netheril magic interfered with not only their flying cities but also their life extending magic used my their Archmages. The war began at which point the Phaerimm began to use their magic which was not based on the Weave but was more in line with the Dark Sun setting magic that consumed the vitality and moisture from the environment (which is why Dark Sun is a mad-max style desert setting). With the land being corrupted and the Phaerimm eating all but the most powerful spells used against them the Netheril Archmages began to abandon Netheril to avoid the weakening of their life extending magic. What I really love about this is that it makes the Phaerimm seem like a group of mutated Dark Sun wizards that fled Athas similar to the Tri-kreen.

Nice! There’s a location in Rime of the Frostmaiden that I had a Phaerimm encounter a while back. Was really memorable

Dropping all your cash at Gnome Depot

Technically they did not cause Netheril to fall. They just helped them destroy themselves.

Mercury dragons are the Hypebeasts of dragons. Lol

Crypt Chanters could also go really well in Curse of Strahd. Though your players will throw doritos at you when the Strahdivarius pun finally hits.

13:09 sounds like a good plot for baldurs gate 4

New subscriber who you won over with the Neon Genesis reference 👀

I can already see faces of my players when il pull this statblock, a pack of pringles, and a lube on the table.

I cant get behind one big plot hole in their rreproducrtion. If there were so little of them when their kind was imprisoned, and whey operate solo, and live for 400 years, then how are those things still around thousands of years after? And if whey dont need a partner to create fertile egg, only a victim, then how are this creatures rare after thousands of years? Whey should be everywhere, there should be cities with them, rivaling or even toppling their original ones. I mean its a creature whitch literally cannot be very rare - either there are loats of them, or none. The only way this could work out, is if a single creature would be able to create only a small number of eggs for its whole life, like 1d4 or 1d6, but at the same time, over the course of so many years, this also sounds like exctinction, considering that not every egg will grow into one. Few will be cured, few would be broken, aome specimen wouldnt even produce one before meeting their demise. And if whey could do more, like 10 eggs per life, whey would overrun the desert and nearby places, even if there were only one or two of them who wasnt sealed.

Many of the pictures are a toothy sunflower. And I already hated sunflowers.

I would've given them an ice pick rather than a glaive, both because it's thematic and because there's not much point to a reach weapon when your literal chill touch attack means you want to get as close as possible anyway.

6:30 man this sounds like Echidna from Worm

"i have thoughts on death drinker childrearing, but we'll save those for later in the video." the thoughts never come up.

What the Sharn did to the Phaerimm sounds a lot like what happened in Peter F. Hamilton's Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained duology, where am entire star system was sealed off by an unknown, advanced alien race to imprison a cold, ruthless hive mind entity. This hive mind came from a species that lacked anything like empathy, compassion, etc. Anything that wasn't of a particular hive mind was a threat to that hive mind. Literally as soon as this one hive mind got nuclear weaponry, it made a bunch of missiles and blew up every other hive mind on the planet. It's one goal is to exterminate all competition, all life that is not it. And interestingly, it also had the ability to dominate the minds of other beings.

I'm wondering now, if you wish to harvest their eggs will it be like a fish or chicken? Fish eggs being able to be harvest when dead and chicken eggs only being able to be harvest when living.

If they stitch together whatever detritus they find in the Bloodwar then what would happen if they stitched bits of devil and demon into one creature? Something that far beyond the stitched devils usual degree of atrocity could have some curious implications.

Finally!!!!!!!

If a Deepspawn ate the first clone of something it produced would that reset the degradation? Also what if it ate a part of itself?

If embracing a mortal creates a Shrouded Knight, what happens when she embraces a demon?

Your modifications reminded me of me using this same monster in Pathfinder but I also put he Nightmare/Nightmare Lord template (Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary 4) on it and it had some Modified Redcaps as minions. The Redcaps sowed fear and terror, will the Boogyman lurked in the background sowing distrust amongst the village that I put this in the campaign.

I knew that it was the doors or the sphere. One of those two. Best version I heard was a party hiring a dwarven mining crew to go around the Tomb to the treasure vault. That or the party that pulled a stunt so insane the convention host had to call Gary at 2am for a ruling.

I bet hoards are socially frowned upon as being a frivolous waste of time, but the draconic hoarding instinct means each tungsten dragon has its own tiny secret hoard they don't talk to another soul about

Do a Sharn Video!!! I really wanna see these monstler fleshed out and I badly wanna make some headcanon lore for them.

I can just picture the imprisoned phaerimm being so disturbed that someone keeps sending slaves they never asked for when they outlawed the practice and started a utopian society 800 years ago lol

The same way that some magic spells have metaphorical components (usually puns), this monster feels like a metaphor for censorship.

Since youve touched on one denizen of the anauroch, how about the native lizardfolk, the Asabi/Laerti, (ive made my own stat block and even player race alternative already, but you and your team would probably do a much better job)

Terithrans inspired the Slarn. Ethereal Thugs who loathed Magic Users.

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

If I had a nickel for every D&D monster I knew of that reproduced by chestburster I'd have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Also, love the little comments with the pics/gifs at the end! Yes, I got the cave reference. :D

I’m so happy you adapted this monster for 5e. I’ve been yearning to use them in a campaign, I also just love this era of dnd lore.

I like the idea of a former slave species that isn't insane or evil in D&D, and having goblinoids, of all creatures, being the ones to rise above their circumstances and become better for their suffering really speaks to me. I imagine that after several generations, a large population of Vril managed to stage a slave revolt and escape into the upper world, and as beings that just escaped a horrible fate, they get the hell out of dodge. In the end, they retreat to some forest or valley at the edge of the forgotten realms, where they build their own culture away from the influence of Meglubiyet. I can totally imagine them as a good aligned goblinoid halfling analouge, and "A cloystered group of friendly goblins is forced to start interacting with the world again, and has to face the predijuce and evil their goblinoid relatives have wrought." could make an entire campaign. I also want to have an excuse to play a goblin palidan from the underdark.

Ever heard of the Scile? It’s a second edition swarm creature from the Plane of Radiance that feeds on color, and can render creatures permanently invisible. I don’t think you’ve done a creature that’s completely incapable of dealing direct damage before.

wonderful video <3 still waiting on nightmare dragon :*

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It'd be interesting to see them interact with Illithid. The mind flayers would probably want to figure out their mind control ability or ceremorphise them, and the Phaerimm may try to take control of an elder brain to use the Illithid colony's collective brain power to try to find a way to open the imprisonment

The prison for them could be like "the matrix", where everyone is mind controlled in a way to perceive a false reality while the phaerimm use them for labor or food. And the players meet someone like Morpheus inside, who could himself be a phaerimm.

13:30 what if all the ones inside the portal are dead having all gone insane, inbred, and cannibalistic over many generations. All that is left are the enthralled sacrifices forced through the portal who now have thier own makeshift society

"Hi I'm a massive evil fleshlight with a hagfish mouth bent on world destruction, so of course Charisma is my most important stat"....never change D&D

They Feed on Magic like we breathe Air, so the prison they are in also sustains them enough to not die. Their magic doesn't kill the earth, they just did that to the Netherese to Screw them over for taking all the locally available Magic.

These are one of my favorites. One of the few things even mind flayers are terrified of.

Forbidden Fleshlight.

Can i just use bees wax to plug my ears or as an artificer to make some sort of helmet to filter out malicious vocal spells like this? Im relatively new to dnd