I model my hobgoblin society from the edo period of Japan. Taking into stock the utter fragility of life and the heavy burden of duty and personal honor. Coupled with a law system That penalizes with only two possible outcomes, death or slavery.

Nice page hope it grows

My first ever character is a half shadar-kai half goliath ranger. So much lore to try an weave together between the two races. The idea of resurrection interests me, and I wonder how it would play out if my character were to die. Would the raven queen revive me? who knows.

Good video! It’s sad that few GMs understand how to utilize these classic monsters in a game setting- in myth, these creatures were a true horror! Now, they are just another fighter cannon fodder if used at all.

My last DnD character was a Fey Vampire (mechanically, a human Dhampir). He was the only one in the party with any affection for the Fey Wild. The rest of the party was utterly traumatized by it

Don't forget the Fiend Folio

Great job thank you !

So, a Tarrasque is basically a French kaiju 😅

Scrap the whole "aboleths using magic" nonsense and replace the magic with psychic powers.

Im making a shadar kai for my new campaign. I always found the raven queen one of the cooler deities so wanted to make a character who was tied to her. They are going to be a hex blade warlock and phantom rogue. (Collecting souls for the raven queen) Only thing is i want to flesh out the character a bit more and realized i only rlly knew they where tied to the raven queen.

excellent vid (& your voice isn’t a problem , monotone is a problem)

23:55 battletoads campaign

Basically the humans of the monster world

Aren’t you such a silly billy. It's troll bones that you need, not ghoul bones. Ghoul bones are a potent ingredient in potions of vitality.

The Forgotten Realms wiki has different information. Ex - King Bres instead of King Thrumbolg. And the Court of Stars is ruled by Queen Morwen of the Eldarian, not Titania (Queen of the Seelie Fey, Summer Court). Is your information strictly for 4e D&D?

In the 3.5 fiendish folio it actually reveals that Gith, the greatest rebel of all was a prisoner of Dis. A trophy. It is hinted but not explained if it was a trade, deal, gift, or betrayal. Probably related to the deal made with Tiamat.

There is a great north glacier ice wastes variant that is covered with dense wool. It was wooly, yes, it was woolly, wooly bullette.

"This marks the lowest point for our flumphs." 4E was kind of the lowest point for most things D&D.

I now want to make a vampire go out and make friends with these sad monsters. Build an army of "friends" and set them on his enemy’s when he retturns from the shadowfell.

Creepy three eye fish will frondle you with its Feeley fronds.

SWEET LIBERTY, I KNEW IT!!! 💀 THE TERMINIDS HAVE INVADED THIS GAME AS WELL!! FOR DEMOCRACYYYYYY!!!!! ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️

I play a grave domain cleric and my deity is the Raven Queen. i love her so much!

God bless you... Yeshua

Fantastic video with awesome visuals! I really like how the visuals include their source too. That's something I'm usually left wishing i could find out.

She gets pretty bad press from those, good masses for trying to break up a fight.

In the Fifth Edition, I like the way Orcus has become the conceptual embodiment of Despondency, sloth and despair. He hates life because it's noisy and full of pain. He hates the gods, because they maintain the existence of this life and force the living to undergo trials. He takes advantage of the despair of people whose loved ones were not resurrected according to some "higher principles" incomprehensible to mortals. On top of that, he's also lazy and fat. Seriously. In general, he became very interesting precisely when he was made more philosophical, as befits a being from the Outer Planes. One of the few things 5e did right.

This is awesome! Thank you

I love all dump stats videos!

What exactly is the raven queen ideology? I can find some simple tenets online but it seems as she supports natural death and objects interference to it while still reviving shadar kai for her own means.

why is there a huge amount of sentences that are exactly the same in reddit?

Well done!

What happens when they run afoul of the mindflayers??? AWESOME ❤

was enjoying the video till I noticed you use AI generated art. gross.

4:05 That's the edgiest device for not losing your soul for the edgiest race. 😂

Githzerai and mindflayers never teamed up??? Idk where you got that, but from what I’ve read all three are at war but githyanki and githzerai will team up if they end up fighting the same ghaik, mind flayers, otherwise they till fight each other. Bot gith factions hate ghaik but one is more determined on the war effort where their society has broken down into a war culture based on endless warfare with the ghaik till extinction.

I came across your channel by pure chance (salute to the dark lord of the algorithm). I chose to introduce the Raven Queen into my Greyhawk setting. For what? I’m a nerd about mythologies and religions. Some Greyhawk gods were created with tongue in cheek. (Pholtus and St Cuthbert), but they’re explainable. It’s the behavior of the faithful that amuses. Nerull wasn’t explainable, death considered evil is a modern concept. Utterly evil god of death isn't found in any mythology (if you have found one, please tell me). All death gods have positive domains. We cannot find in all mythologies an evil death god. So Nerull in Greyhawk was irksome. However with the 4th edition of Raven Queen my problem was solved and the gothic Shadar-Kai are cool! A consistent death deity is neutral, feared but neutral. I want to add that freeing souls don’t infer that they’re eaten or destroyed…

Dont talk to me before my morning concoction

Exacly the level of research i was looking for! Thank you very much.

Great dive. Always enjoy your content.

There are only two ways make a name in the Forgotten Realms: Repeatedly smash your head into a keyboard or take an adjective and noun and put them together.

a lovely unique twist I love these races! but there is one thing...I don't know if anyone else does this but when I meet a new word i try out several pronunciations, with this word knowing that it was a fabricated race/word I felt free to explore and as it turns out I ended up settling on genasi pronounced JEH-nuh-sigh with the emphasis on the first syllable and the last syllable rhyming with "eye". I have since been disabused if this mispronunciation and I am painfully aware that the word's proper pronunciation is jeh-NAH-zee. and thus my query sparking dilemma What do you do if you like YOUR pronunciation better but you find the endless correction tedious and irksome??

Githzerai supremacy!!

OH odd that they have a small comment about locations and then mentions locations later

You've inspired us all thank you! 🎉

I ran "the night bellow" as a teenager

At first I didn't like the Neogi, they just felt like less interesting Mindflayer. Then I decided to move away from the mind control aspect and focus on the hyper capitalism aspect. Now to me the Neogi are the ultimate evil mega corporation. No one likes them but too many people rely on them because they genuinely have the best products for the most competitive prices. So I entice my players with a Neogi shop and cool items like a grappling gun, hybrid effect potions, and automatic ship repair automata. And the more the players spend on the shop the more control the Neogi shop owner has over the aria. And the friendlier the players get with the shop owner, the more likely it is to offer them a job. Not mind control, this is a job that slaves are too weak minded to do. (and can be too easily traced back to the Neogi in question.)

Honestly I didn't like the Giff at first, I thought they were just silly. But as I began to plan my own home brew dnd world and set it in the renascence era I found myself referring back to their stat block over and over again for musket and grenade rules. Then as more 5e spell jammer books came out with more Giff entries came out I had an epiphany. The Giff are a space empire, that isn't evil, and aren't another flavor of elves. Now I embrace the Giff they are the rigged lawful bulwark who defends the universe against the forces of the Beholders, Mindflayers, and Neogi. They aren't the kindest, they aren't the easiest to work with, and they certainty aren't cheep, but every one is safer and better off with them around. And I cannot stress this enough, they aren't elves. I swear there's like 12 eleven sub races of them. A third of them lack any real flavor, and another third get way too much attention and lore. It really wouldn't be as bad if the other races like dwarves and orcs got as much attention, but come on why is every 3rd fantasy author an elf simp.

Exellent Summation! Genasi are by far my favorite race to play as and I really loved seeing how they evolved and changed. There were also a set of Genasi you missed in 4th edition as the "Genasi of Athas" (I can't recall which issue of Dragon it was in): Embersoul: Gray skinned with black lineswith +1 Reflex and bonus to saves to ongoing fire damage, as well as an ability to burst out flames around them Magmasoul Black with red lines, +1 Fortitude, reduce incoming melee damage, and a heat aura around them Sandsoul: Tan skin with White lines, bonus to escapes and to resist being moved, and their ability to turn themselves into sand and move through any opening Sunsoul: Golden skinned with white lines, bonus to saves against radiant and fire damage, and a big burst of radiant damage around them as an encounter power.

Is any new reason given in Explorer's Guide to Wildemount for how/why the 5e Raven Queen has the domains of Fate & Winter? I like both origins, though 4th Edition's I like better. However, I am curious about the 5th Edition spin on her gaining Fate & Winter domains.

Always loves this race and finally had a chance to play one now. let me say, I don't ever play edgy characters and this is one trying to move beyond it, even though she went through parental abuse (she understands that part of that was her father had a bad encounter with a god that broke his mind). So, yes, she is dark and a bit edgy, but trying to move through that is an interesting character to play..