Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Kraken

[@AJPickett]

Ugh, ok, partial victory, I now realize that bypassing the direct upload from my (broken) video editor means that the cropping settings I altered to try to fix the aspect ratio error, now mess up the images displayed, while the intro and outro video clips work perfectly. At least I know I am on the right track at last.

[@dadsdone3524]

@Pilot Burrito so punny :-)

[@Z0nK89]

XD dont worry about it and take your time we know that you try to do your best :) so if u need a bit of time dont worry! You are one of my most linked youtuber not becose you Upload evry day but cose your content is awesome and i can see that the Quality is ever improving have a nice day/night:)

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

AJ Pickett Perfection takes time, Big Red. Just be patient.

[@dragonturtle7645]

THE KRAKEN HAS BEEN UNLEASHED!!!!!!!!!! Seriously though, I appreciate the attention to detail and quality standard (and of course the information itself).

[@dmstantastic3653]

Don't be so hard on yourself. The images are 2% of why I enjoy your videos and I am willing to bet other fans would agree with me.

[@ShineDark]

In my groups campaign, we watched in awe and horror as an ancient golden dragon fought a kraken. It ended with the Dragon using an Enlarge spell to make itself big enough to pick up the kraken and carry it to orbit. The fight was ended by the Dragon throwing the kraken into space.

[@filimonpoptudor799]

Use fire to kill it But sir it is to big for fire Dramatic pause Use space itself 😱😱😱

[@greanstreak04]

An ancient dragon needing to use Enlarge is a terrifying thought...

[@rotschadel3574]

And eventually it stopped thinking....

[@loganmincks7819]

Well that’s gonna one hell of an encounter for a spelljamming crew 😂😂

[@corsaircaruso471]

Yooooooooo

[@lysander9957]

The "minions in a can" bit gave me a wonderful mental image of a kraken in a supermarket pulling cans off the shelf like, "...Organic Sahaguin..., oh Weak-Willed Human that's nice. Should I splurge on Crazy Elven Wizard? Yeah, treat yourself, Fthyblonyll."

[@paulh3892]

🤣

[@edmaldonado8207]

A kraken is the main antagonist of my two year long campaign and in a couple of sessions, the final battle with it is about to commence. In the last session the party were at a town that worships the kraken. In fact the town was experiencing a time of bounty, with fishing catches being abundant. All they have to do of course is sacrifice someone to the kraken once per season, usually the elderly who volunteer do this, a small sacrifice for prosperity. This made the players really uncomfortable, in a good way!

[@Klancer2]

Had an idea for a bunch of Krakens to pass the time by playing what is essentially death chess, but in place of each piece, they use an entire squadron of sea creatures. Anything, up to and including aboleths or dragon turtles could be fielded, though anything like that would have to be manipulated onto the field. You cannot so easily intimidate an aboleth or dragon turtle into servitude, after all. Needless to say, the resulting massive war and extreme death toll, including the ships raided by the pieces on the board, was horrifying, and everyone seems to think that this is some all out war between undersea factions. Nope. It's two or three krakens entertaining themselves with a game. Because their chess pieces have no real value except what they bring back, and their pawns, particularly the sahuagin, reproduce fast enough that they can play these games once, sometimes twice per decade. Minor things like adventurers coming to stop the conflict, or sea elves attacking their sahuagin are nothing more than terrain hazards to them. It's a good showing of just how evil and uncaring they are, that what we consider a full scale war is a game for their amusement.

[@purplehaze2358]

The moral of the story is: The ocean in D&D is a god damn nightmare.

[@zacharyhawley1693]

I paired a kraken with a couple callers of the deep. (Elementals of the black water at the bottom of the ocean.) The funniest encounter though was in the epic campaign. The epic fighter had married a woman from his hometown island. When you aren't even interested in mortal conflict not much can phase you. An antagonist decided to kidnap his wife. He's about to embark on a rescue when she just abruptly shows up on his ship. "I rescued myself because I got bored. They didn't even know how to tie knots properly." Bard just pronounces the fighter. Mr.kraken. And the fighter doesn't deny it. So he just took his wife with him from then on.

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

I'm guilty of previously thinking of the kraken as a dumb beast, or a really overpriced spiced rum 🤣🤣🤣

[@muninrob]

Hook: sea side town uses an unknown "magic" in it's infrastructure (Edison era electric light & heat) *lean heavily on lovecraft's "Shadows over Innsmouth"* Line: Said village is covering up an aquatic cult that performs human sacrifice (and all of the chains on the lampposts eventually lead to the sea) *Make the players feel clever when they assume "deep ones = Kou Toa"* Sinker: The bottom of the harbor is actualy a kraken's lair & the power source for the village (taking care of the village both to ensure regular tribute AND to conceal it's presense) Thinker: The Kraken is a servant of the demon lord DAGON & the "cult of the deep ones" actually IS behind it all Twist: It's not the demon lord Dagon, but that's as close as your physical mind can come to making sense of the far realms being responsible for the cult

[@gorillaguerillaDK]

If the Kraken can teleport, it’s kind of a serious super power... Imagine this; Aside from creating a lightning storm, and a whirlpool, the Kraken positions itself right below a ship, and teleports away. The ship will immediately get swallowed up by the sea as the disappearance of the Kraken creates a vacuum. The Kraken can then just teleport back on top of the ship, grappling it and use its weight to drag the sunken ship to the bottom of the sea....

[@Bossaru9000]

My god, teleporting elbow drops.

[@gorillaguerillaDK]

@@Bossaru9000 Teleporting Tentacle Drop, but yes, you definitely got the idea right....

[@jacobfreeman5444]

Nightcrawler bamph weaponized

[@Diditallforthexp]

Kraken open a cold one with the horrific monsters of the deepest depths!

[@dadsdone3524]

We got some Daddy's Kraken jokes tonight!

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

Dad Jokes? Let’s get it Kraken!

[@That80sGuy1972]

My players always read the DM references and often forgot that I "cube the sphere" in my campaigns, I alter each campaign world to have little nuggets of everything different from the source materials. They were cocky when they had an encounter with a Kraken, they had the gear and power to challenge one. They were prepped to fight the minions. What they were not prepped for is the Kraken grappling them and using them as clubbing weapons against their teammates with telepathic laughter in their heads. The party lost the battle they plowed into as each was being used as clubs to beat down their teammates and-or being beaten down with the Kraken beating them down by using their teammate as a club. Over and over again, players underestimate the brilliance of a monster because it looks like a monster. My long-time veterans get nervous when any boss willingly shows up for a potential fight. If the boss is there, and you have a reputation of fame/infamy, don't assume the boss is an arrogant idiot without at least one ace in the hole. Great video AJ. You probably would have liked my many homebrew alterations of Krakens. They are generally squidlike and octopuslike, but they do have other manifestations and my worlds always have one epic paragon level Kraken that is called "The Kraken". I love ancient folklore so I always have one homebrew omega-level being called "The Kraken". Until the player character party messes with it, its only purpose is spawning new Krakens when Krakens die. It's an "all hell breaks loose" paragon level city-sized enemy if the player character party messes with it. I usually name it Cthulu.

[@AfroChef]

I'm not sure if I've articulated this but I think my favorite thing about your videos is how you break down reql life monster history before even getting to the dnd. I love that real life perspective it provides!

[@PuffLance]

For a moment I thought this was "Dungeons and Dragons Lore: KAREN" and was rlly scared

[@AJPickett]

Don't tempt me. lol

[@mosesa.weaver3058]

It is the matriarch and most ancient of dark magic using Hags! They only mate by baiting lonely beta cu-males into a sexual relationship and then lecturing them into submission. Be wary!

[@thatonekobold]

Love the aquatic opening AJ great touch for the new theme 😁

[@styrax7280]

It always amuses me that in German "Krake" (pl. Kraken) simply means octopus ^^

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

For the Tentacle Fling while in water, use a D10 for determining direction. The usual 8 directions, then use 9 and 10 for directly up and down through the water.

[@AJPickett]

Ah, good call.

[@SlothinAintEasy]

The idea of a massive tentacle monster from the deep flying through the air is terrifying

[@NanoMayTry]

Air squids

[@saeyabor]

Cthulhu himself usually has dragon wings!

[@lc9072]

May I present to you the work of H.P. Lovecraft

[@denewst01]

Krakens can operate outside of water as much as they like.. so, a kraken living in an inland sea within the middle of a desert could be an interesting twist for the last place you might expect to find one :)

[@JanusHoW]

They probably don't like being out of the water any longer than they have to,, but that still sounds like an amazing adventure idea.

[@zacharyhawley1693]

I would wager that the Kraken is still doing its job. Since the gods' battlefield is incomprehensibly vast and could include alternate timelines, innumerable mortal worlds and only gods know how many battlefields throughout the multiverse. Its better to let your aquatic siege weapons believe in their freedom and superiority as long as their work continues unabated.

[@thedarkmaster4747]

"Gods..." 😵✨🏛🤫✍📖😞⛓🌍🤏

[@zacharyhawley1693]

@@thedarkmaster4747 It stays lowercase up and until I meet one. "gods"

[@thedarkmaster4747]

Zachary Hawley Whatever it is your PC's believe or don't believe your P.C.s are no different in affairs than the very krakens they may slay. 👏🌩🌅⏳🔔💨🐱‍🏍👻🎹🎲🃏

[@thedarkmaster4747]

14:52 *hobbit adventurer face palms as a red dragon blazes a path to glory just as they return to their home country after spending years on a quest to defeat a kraken and it's cult* all: "there are con-sequences to killing mortals you know!" ans "And for it is known that: wind is common, rain is common and earth is in abundance. So then it is only fare that I should visit you in my season from above in FI..." *the hobbit loads a vorpal stone into a sling*

[@pouncerlion4022]

The "broken, knotted, severed and rewritten" time of creation and war explains a lot of the now conflicting data coming out for the 5e lore.

[@bigmonkey1254]

Honestly, I kinda like it. It gives total leverage for the DM to alter various details but still get the same final experience. I also like the SCP Foundation for this reason.

[@jgr7487]

1) fuse the Kraken with the Aboleth adapting the powers of the latter to the CR of the former 2) make the Aboleth's minions Sea Spawns 3) ??? 4) have fun with the Elder God of the Deep

[@jgr7487]

don't forget the Rotgrubs! there must be rotgrubs in the Kraken's stomach!

[@wightmamba8085]

One of my parties got a quest to kill one by a man who turned out to be a kalamari chef

[@linguisticallyoversight8685]

The motto of giggle Town: we're all mad here

[@purplehaze2358]

"Magical weapons are not indestructible" ......Unless they're directly meant to be indestructible.

[@AJPickett]

Specific overrules general.

[@Thorn99855]

Glad you showed some crab type krakens as, if you read some of the old accounts, they have a much more crablike than squidlike description in many of the tales. Thus their description of seeming like a moving island and possessing claws rather than tentacles. But I enjoy both descriptions. More variety the better.

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

How does the interplay between Kraken and Aboleth work out? Like, who’s the dominant species, are they willing to work together or even cohabitate, do they instantly start fighting? The similarities between them make me think they’d hate each other.

[@zacharyhawley1693]

Aboleth has to work together and still will take casualties against a Kraken. The Kraken will win unless it is suicidally taking on an aboleth city.

[@AJPickett]

Kraken look at Aboleth and Illithids as simplistic, animalistic versions of themselves, like we would see a little monkey.

[@ShizaruBloodrayne]

I'm half way through this video and I've already imagined the depths of Eldritch horror..........imagine an Elder Brain being implanted in the body of a Kraken, kept in a state of undeath where the Kraken's powers can still be used via stimuli.....while also frankensteined with the bodies of a Leviathan and a Dragon Turtle...

[@Louis-ef4eb]

Hold monster and smugglers banner....⚓

[@dadsdone3524]

The Kraken, the Kraken fun for girls and boys!

[@johngleeman8347]

Nice meaty episode. Thanks Mr. Pickett!

[@nathanmitchell9695]

I love how we can listen to AJ's scheming mind at work, throwing out ideas like the Kraken casting a flying spell on itself and using its tentacles to pick up and hurl people at buildings, doing Siege Monster damage to both person and structure. I love how you can hear the genuine delight he feels about subjecting players to that kind of monstrosity. I think I would enjoy being a player in your games, being somewhat of an optimiser and finding myself having to tone it back because when a DM tries to challenge me, the other players find themselves being overwhelmed. For example, I have played an Eldritch Knight who could grapple huge creatures before flying up in the air and dropping them, with an Athletics check of +12 by 9th level. Fun stuff.

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

I recently started playing an artificer/rune knight and can become huge allowing me to grapple gargantuan creatures and I somehow didn't think of dropping people, thank you. now I need to revisit the character as race with powerful build and some of the other various lifting increases.

[@dangrippi3179]

It's just like ol' Andy used to say... Get busy dying... Or get Kraken.

[@greedavaricious7760]

Making a pirate fathomless warlock, with a Kraken as a patron. This’ll be fun

[@thedarkmaster4747]

17:17 Well if an outcome becomes inevitable, then you can build upon its cascading manifestation. As an example: If you know that deity A will always K.O. deity B no matter how often they fight, where ever and when ever they fight. And they always fight. Then you can plan to take advantage of deity B's unconsciousness. It becomes more of a momentum of events, synchronous patterns in time. Pushes and pulls between competeting themes in univeral eventualities. And then all of a sudden your running through a forest, and an angry god is chasing you. And you know you'll never outrun them. You know what happens when they catch you. Because you've seen it time and time again before. You've already tried to do things differently each time around, you know this because your watching yourself trying to change your fate now. Your watching many you's trying to do different - yet only futily the exact same things. And the god catches you, and their similing with bloodlust. Because they know you can see what can see, and they've just taken a momment to pause - changing their cascade of events, as easily as you can't. As you both watch what inevitably happens next... And no it's not just a dream. It's always your litreral fate, from now/then/there on.

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

“Krak The Releasen!” - Zuez

[@AmigoRoberto]

Ooooo! A video on your perspective of Faerunian cults would be lots of fun

[@mattnerdy7236]

You fixed it, everyrhing is full size now. Great intro! One of my favorites. Thanks AJ & have a great day.

[@zeburancher9480]

rewatched this, dont know if i should repost my first comment, but to add, the sahuagin barons are pretty awesome. i also really like the idea of a massive mobile fortress ship the kraken uses as its' lair. I'll be honest it made me think of giant kraken robots. like medium human -> giant humanoid robot, giant kraken -> colossal krakenoid robot. but it is something i've considered before, dragons went to war on large scales (which is not like individual fighting at all, i imagine), surely they had dragon-scale war machines which (usually) required them to work in teams. whatever a dragon warship might look like, i imagine the krakens' warship could look pretty similar (maybe it took one over, each of its' tentacles performs the duties of one station, alongside its' minions). thanks for sharing, looking forward to hearing 'kraken' in future videos.

[@alketsadedinaj3011]

zebu rancher I need to see that

[@VikingMarhofer]

This was a great birthday present. lol Thanks an keep it up.

[@SlothinAintEasy]

Minions in a can! Dont leave home without it!

[@itayist]

"DEEPly nerdy" - I see what you did there

[@virtualhimeji462]

The gods would have to have sets of rules for each reality and the frame of time in it that they would compete in. It makes my mind bend with the possibilities

[@User-r5g5f]

That pause at 15:05, I thought AJ was going to say he could see himself joining a cult.

[@zacharyhawley1693]

Why would a leshay join a cult?

[@AJPickett]

Wait.. D&D isn't a cult?

[@User-r5g5f]

@@zacharyhawley1693 That would actually be a pretty fitting meta story. AJ is a LeShay or an outsider seeking demi status through followers. If it works for Elder Scrolls, maybe it will work for D&D!

[@SirShawn-qb2fk]

Great now I'm going to have a land encounter with I flying krackin

[@Italiangentleman2394]

So basically don't fight a kraken

[@fructosecornsyrup5759]

My D&D group on Thursdays is fighting a kraken. Granted... a few of us have a couple of current characters simultaneously playing in this fight, so we might actually stand a chance.

[@fructosecornsyrup5759]

UPDATE WE WON, NOBODY DIED, IT WAS A DISNEY MOVIE, HOORAY!

[@wrelaxcliffgaming6330]

This is what I needed to tie my campaign together!!! Thanks so much AJ ❤️❤️

[@Greenscyth22]

6:41 Always the most terrifying thing I remember about Krakens. The idea that entire generations of people can be "bred" underwater without ever seeing the sun, only knowing service to some alien monstrosity.

[@OswaldStretchdisaz]

Came back to this vid, i love how in depth D&D gets on these fellas. I've always been fixated with sea creatures, especially cephalopods, so it's cool that you collected all this info! Thanks, AJ!

[@AJPickett]

You are most welcome

[@davidfletcher6703]

You ought to do a video on the Kraken for the Rifts world setting and the cults that form around them

[@calebcrites5039]

Thanks for doin a nautical miniseries before Ghosts of Saltmarsh releases, your videos are super helpful for me!

[@dadsdone3524]

AJ that is a beautiful way to explain DND Reckoning, I always tell players that's why there are multiple creation in Forgotten Realms, its just like in our own world. I try not to dictate to the players what they should or should not believe. That way they can commit blasphemy and not even know it...lol Talk about the dreamer dreaming the dream that was and will be again. I can see it now Somewhere in the dark depths in the ocean a kraken dreams. AO I deny your creation reality and submit my own.

[@AJPickett]

Thanks :)

[@nullvoid4063]

So, the question is: Who would win? Kraken vs Tarrasque? (Assuming a battle field that favors both parties such as a very shallow sea or a desert coastline, and with little to no prep time as that would favor the intelligent combatant ie the kraken. So, all other factors being (relatively) equal, who would win?) P. S. New Dungeons and Dragons VS series? Maybe?

[@AJPickett]

We talked a lot about Krakens on today's live stream, including exactly why a Kraken would wipe the floor with a Tarrasque.

[@thedarkmaster4747]

YES!!!

[@thedarkmaster4747]

AJ Pickett i'll be watching that keenly then.

[@That80sGuy1972]

@@AJPickett Wipe the floor to get the juices of the Tarrasque's victims' blood as "dipping sauce" before it eats the Tarrasque.

[@1mealer]

Krakens have 22 Int to go with their 30 Str. They will have plans and followers, plus could realistically use magic items The Tarrasque is a big dumb eating machine. It will win if they stand there and wail on each other, but the Kraken won't do that

[@A_real_Ha_So]

I know that an avatar of Mystra had battled one off the sword coast, I believe was the location, in Crucible.

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

Every Plumber Ever: Release The Cracken!!!

[@AJPickett]

And Magic the Gathering tournament players. (those photos are hilarious)

[@markusnavergard2387]

feel we are gonna have to go into Dagon in this aquatic series and maybe even Cthulhu

[@Harrowed2TheMind]

While it was suggested in passing when talking about a hypothesis of their origin concerning parasitic life forms and mostly through the fact that the images used are very dissimilar from one another, not to mention the fact that the 5E illustration is nowhere near the usual imagery of a Kraken's squid-like appearance, you did not mention the Kraken's propensity for fleshwarping/fleshcrafting, more specifically on themselves and not just their tortured and warped slaves, hence their very varied appearance and which I find is a rather important facet of their being and lore. Interestingly, despite thinking of themselves as gods, they do not think of themselves as a perfect life form - unlike dragons and beholders, for instance - and individually look for ways to optimize their physical forms through experimental evolution, be it through arcane rituals, alchemy or other means (imagine a Kraken coated in a metallic armor?). Every kraken encounter is potentially very unique, with different physical and magical abilities, making it a very versatile monster for a DM, and easily reusable. Great video otherwise, so thanks again for the content!

[@Harrowed2TheMind]

Funny enough: considering that tendency for fleshwarping and self-optimisation, your idea of an internal encounter for swallowed characters with parasitic life forms makes all the more sense: they could even be voluntary symbiotic relations bred by the kraken themselves to optimise their feeding process through their not-so-microbiota and can help explain their legendary appetites as well, as this would come with a significant caloric toll, either way.

[@Harrowed2TheMind]

I also highly suggest looking up MrRhexx's video on the subject (and D&D video series in general), which I find highly informative and entertaining, by the way.

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

What’s the damage die for a humanoid being used as a bludgeoning weapon?? I feel like the Improvised Weapons section of the PHB or DMG doesn’t quite cover this.

[@AJPickett]

For a Gargantuan creature, the Kraken can pick up a character with a total weight no more than 400 lbs, when used as a Bludgeoning weapon, the humanoid will deal between 4d6 and 5d6 damage +10 points of the Kraken's strength bonus. The person picked up and used as a weapon will take the same amount of damage as whoever or whatever they hit.

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

AJ Pickett Thank you.

[@alketsadedinaj3011]

Is this an overlord referenze ?

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

alket sadedinaj Nope. It’s a legitimate question. It’s come up several times in different games I’ve been in. Typically someone debates the amount of damage someone does based off the armor they’re wearing, hoping that they won’t take as much damage because the Gnome they just got smacked with is wearing leather armor and not metal.

[@alketsadedinaj3011]

@@Im-Not-a-Dog OH i see

[@markusnavergard2387]

looks like its calamari for dinner tonight boys

[@Zenas521]

I'm thinking Kraken were created by the same "entity" that created the Tarrasque. Could it be Pale Night?

[@SirCaptTordek]

Love the channel! Old school DM from the 80's; I have a series of games I have written and they are called the Challenge. I take a worthy monster and put them against a party of heroes. The first one was the Tarrasque and this video gave me the second one. Just FYI, the third one is the Dragon's Lair. Keep up the great work!

[@dracorex426]

Would love to see more about the leftovers of the Dawn and Blood wars.

[@trinisantana]

What up the kraken from movie aquaman.....surprised you did not mention that 1 too.

[@mudshrooze]

I genuinly dont understand why. But so many myself included find squids, octopus, kraken all very terrifying and yet beautiful and intriguing. Kraken are some of my favorite monsters in any fantasy realm and the ones in dnd and wow are some of the coolest.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

They are obviously intelligent in a way that is alien and hard to fathom. Their bodies are so strange compared to modern animals that they seem completely out of place. They are exotic and mysterious. Novel in a way that cannot be found elsewhere.

[@mcfender19]

Could we get a video on Juiblex one day?

[@Ankhakaru]

I've always wondered if the Kraken is more powerful than Aboleths? Someone let me know please, thank you.

[@AJPickett]

Individually, yes, as a society? Still yes.

[@Ankhakaru]

@@AJPickett thank you Aj

[@spawn-sr8tw]

One of my fave dnd monsters

[@findantu]

*Whistles loudly Disenchanted comes bumbling up . Scratches his ears."good sniffy" Points "go fetch"

[@scottmcley5111]

One of the great BBEG's of Forgotten Realms the Kraken is one of the smartest and wisest in the Monster Manual. What things might a kraken scheme? What webs would they weave? What destruction they can manifest!

[@davidfletcher6703]

I think I read somewhere that the Kraken looked like a combination of a crab and a squid, kinda like from the remake of Clash of the Titans

[@davidfletcher6703]

But in the original version of the story of Perseus the monster was a sea serpent not a kraken, and it is represented in the sky by the constellation Cetis

[@bigmonkey1254]

​@@davidfletcher6703Yeah, in the original, Cetus was a fish or whale of some kind.

[@purplehaze2358]

"Krakens aren't gods. The gods are the Krakens' pets."

[@jonathanhendrix2925]

Meh

[@johnnyscifi]

I thought the kraken was squidlike. Not octopus...also craved the kraken in pirates!!!

[@AJPickett]

Well, a Kraken is Kraken-like.

[@LurkerDaBerzerker]

*Cue Hans Zimmer's The Kraken*

[@LurkerDaBerzerker]

Also, you may want to check your spam filter for comments AJ. I believe the one I left with multiple links on the livestream was "ghosted", I left several links to various albums.

[@AJPickett]

@@LurkerDaBerzerker Yep, you can post links, please do, but they get put into the folder for me to approve, for obvious reasons.

[@LurkerDaBerzerker]

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[@rickeymariu1]

One of my groups kust fought one. It was great.

[@BowChickaHonkHonk1]

This is amazing to hear you're doing ocean stuff! I was just thinking today, "which seas in Faerun have Storm Giants under them, or is it just the open ocean off the Sword Coast?" So excited for what's coming up.

[@jameswhite-pv3sq]

Coming back to my favorite big kritter.

[@pbr-streetgang]

Thanks for the vid sir.

[@tomsawyerpiper9412]

That comment took time and energy to think of and type out. Oh well.

[@AJPickett]

I know, I am sorry Tom.

[@Demolitiondude]

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

[@paulellington1505]

Love the video. Been a fan for a while. I recommend your videos to party members when they wish to know more about the D&D multiverse and the creatures that populate it.

[@chriscalvin5083]

Good video AJ

[@arcticdino1650]

23:50 Laviente from Monster Hunter? I feel like Nakarkos would be more appropriate

[@Agreus-WolfsbaneYT]

You said in the video, if I misunderstood please tell me, but your saying that the kraken was created by the war of the gods and the primodrals to fight as a weapon then does that mean the tarrasque is a creature of a similar origin that they are simply made to be a weapon?

[@AJPickett]

We don't know for sure, but there is some mention in the lore that Tarrasques have a home planet that they evolved on.

[@Agreus-WolfsbaneYT]

@@AJPickett there is an entry in 4th edition monster manual 1 under abomination the tarasque was a creation of the primordials as a weapon to destroy all the gods created. But the gods put it to.sleep.in the earth. I think 5th edition may be different however

[@Janshevik]

Kraken has been released :) makes sense doing marine videos now, as saltmarsh book is coming out soon

[@ramoneblack9309]

I wonder how would a aboleth fair against a kraken?

[@jefferyrowland5579]

There’s a adventure in Ghosts of Saltmarsh that you can get that question answered.

[@snarkback]

Sometimes I find myself rewatching a lore video and didn't like it yet. Here's a comment for that oversight.

[@ironkeepgaming1936]

Wait a minute, d&d has time travel, heck yeah, also I really want to cuddle a kraken for some reason, maybe because I think octopus are adorable

[@kylienielsen6975]

Little squishy boys

[@adamwelch4336]

Release the Kraken!🦑so it can eat the ships and what not 🚢

[@MrNope-jd3ym]

In the history of the realms, has anyone ever killed a Kraken?

[@joshuamourning6650]

Probably a couple but not many

[@RichardPhillips1066]

How do they deal with aboleth?

[@AJPickett]

mutually assured destruction and general shared dislike of each other.

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

I imagine with a light breading and marinara sauce

[@ShizaruBloodrayne]

You're in the middle of the ocean. In one direction, a Kraken, another, an Aboleth, another, a Leviathan, another, a Dragon Turtle. They all look at you like prey, but they all are aware of each other's movements so they stay where they are and wait for movement. What do you do, party of fresh meat?

[@HowtoRPG]

Thank you AJ.

[@Michael-du2fv]

Made by gods for war, overpowered to stupid levels, would rather do anything else then be involved in a fued war... Sounds like an evil gods rough draft version of an Empyrean.

[@pouncerlion4022]

That's how I treat the Great Old Ones, they're actually leftovers, often weapons, from the far more powerful beings that existed and warred themselves into extinction at the beginning of existence.

[@ironreed2654]

Come host a game in Wisconsin AJ, we have all the cheese...and beer! Google it I promise Im not lying!

[@AJPickett]

Happy days :)

[@Nizati]

Ok, HOW does a Kraken amble about on the surface? I need a diagram...

[@tatsusama3192]

This is the last time I'm watching this, Professor Pickett. . .

[@AJPickett]

Fair enough :)

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

Haha I just released the kraken in my pathfinder game.. we were in water deep and I unleashed this bitch in the middle of the city. Got in trouble with the kings guard for it my mage/priest is in jail right now

[@jasonsantos3037]

Civil love Leviathan versus Kraken who will win what do you think

[@AJPickett]

Kraken, the Leviathan in 5E is just a really big elemental.

[@joshuamourning6650]

I wonder how well a kraken would do against dagon

[@seanryniker3897]

I have an adventure planned revolving around a kraken locked in a stalemate with an ancient bronze dragon at the mouth of a city's harbor. The adventure revolves around trying to figure out why the kraken is there and how to appease it before it inevitably overpowers the dragon and drowns the city. So in this case, I've made the kraken stronger than an ancient bronze dragon (Who's lair is the harbor, so the dragon is essentially at the height of it's power), yet still the best they can do is buy time for a while. Granted, maybe I'm underselling the strength of the dragon a little.

[@kylienielsen6975]

Depends on the dragon and its age

[@ironl4nd]

@@kylienielsen6975 He's not talking about a dragon dude

[@evanbryant9196]

I'm pretty sure krakens worship Dagon

[@verticalflats2816]

Some people see a giant monster I see a stock pile of sushi 😁.

[@Dualbladedscorpion7737]

That if you dont become its food

[@verticalflats2816]

Part of adventuring is sometimes eating what tries to eat you.

[@darthkai3621]

I 100% agree