Animated Spellbook GABRIELLATHON (Hidden Episodes!)

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GABRIELLATHON IS UPON US! Time to celebrate one of our favorite characters Gabriella. We've got new animation we've got old episodes:
Invisibility, Carpet review, Cleric spell list, Teleportation circle! D&D 5e!

[@Sturmjaeger]

Gabriella & The Dumb Boys is basically every D&D group when the players want to adopt every monster they come across.

[@n.s.mcmahon6180]

I've started just making a designated "pet-baby" character for my players every game. That way they stay focused, rather than trying to get their hands on every goblin or kobold they happen across.

[@wobblysauce]

Either that or you hear someone yell Foooouuurrr.

[@ZanTheFox]

@@n.s.mcmahon6180 The gods don't want you to know this but all the monsters you meet in the dungeon are free. You can just take them home if you have improved grapple and a bag. I myself have 3 kobolds

[@Archgeek0]

@@wobblysauce Yeesh, take it easy there, Bull-roarer Took.

[@VahnCruz]

I might have made a young bandit into my wizard apprentice once. I never learned his name but I called him Tenser and made him carry everything for me and fight. He eventually was allowed to learn a couple of cantrips by the DM.

[@statelyelms]

the disclaimer of "here is the starting line (I am using prestidigitation this is NOT permanent this is NOT vandalism)" is so neat.

[@justiny5385]

This is a Casey Neistat spoof and it’s hilarious

[@forrestwinstead4471]

Fun fact: Gabriella is a recurring character in my campaigns. She’s a merchant who appears in dungeons at random, sells magic items at a markup, and kept grubrat’s skeleton to make fun of him.

[@awkwardllama0509]

This is perfect

[@BigAlGamingOne]

Reminds me of For the king game

[@theuncletony98]

That's so wholesome

[@emohippy420]

Just out of curiosity what lvl is she.

[@johnreiland9180]

I had a DM who, in one campaign, had a similar recurring semi-magical merchant character whose appearance (the DM warned us) always signified that the entire campaign would get more deadly (and player death/TPK more likely) if the players decided to continue in the direction they were going. He (the merchant) was always morose and talked unprompted about each player's inevitable and gruesome demise while also talking shop. "Do you have bookmaking supplies?" "Yes. I hope they will be of use to you in the time before you are cold and unbreathing forever."

[@oberondargos5465]

"I don't care if it speaks...netherese" Don't know why that line cracks me up so much, probably the pause.

[@user-rc8dj3wo6x]

You don’t need to illustrate invisible objects. This is genius

[@samuelgreen308]

The 2nd edition monstrous manual has, among the actual artwork credits, 2 people (Tim Beach and Doug Stewart) credited for the invisible stalker picture. The picture is entirely blank.

[@connelbjorkstrand1246]

​@@samuelgreen308 how many artists does it take to draw an invisible stalker? Two, one to draw the border and one to not draw the monster!

[@joshweiland3312]

my favorite Gabriella moment is during the invisibility animated spellbook when she stabs Zee in the neck

[@goreobsessed2308]

It's a great moment

[@FictionRaider007]

I remember being so shocked when I first saw it then broke down laughing. Zee has such a rhythm going in how he speaks that episode and then BAM! Blood everywhere, gargling, Gabriella being so pleased she's still invisible, Zee begging for her to pass him the potion. Caught me so off guard.

[@aaronbennett3966]

"Too much?" -Gabriella

[@jonasholm-mw5bn]

“I’m using prestigination, this is not permanent. This is not vandalism.” Is just a fun line

[@scribesorcerer4967]

Does this mean we may get the older Animated Spellbooks back?

[@Jaydee-wd7wr]

Why exactly did they go away?

[@mckinneym.2743]

​@@Jaydee-wd7wr I'm also curious

[@twicedeadmage]

​@@Jaydee-wd7wrMaybe the KZbin animation policies changes

[@randomnickify]

Copa law

[@Jaydee-wd7wr]

@@twicedeadmage, Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Yeah the Invisibility episode was probably a bit gruesome.

[@kadanseward3022]

I was wondering why I could never find the magic carpet video

[@randalljones8708]

Yeah, it used to be on here didn't it? Did he remove a bunch of videos and make them Patreon exclusive? I definitely recall seeing all of these, and I've never been a Patreon user. Edit: This was answered in another comment. He removed a bunch when KZbin flagged all animation as "for kids". Sad

[@aizle101]

It used to be on here. Its insanely good but I dunno why it got removed.

[@Vixeneye1]

​@@randalljones8708that's why it was removed. Thank you so much, literally spent a long time wondering why that teleportation episode was gone

[@melonman8999]

@@randalljones8708damn, I always wandered where his prestiditation, fireball and some kind of videos on escape went. Shame they're gone, hoping zee rereleases them now that youtube is stable again... somewhat-

[@MrFlame-zk5cy]

Sailor Gabriella is amazing holy shit

[@jackielinde7568]

Not gonna lie, but Gabriella has always been my favorite character of this series. There are a few contenders... but contenders they will forever be.

[@FizzleFX]

3:05 a mage using the key phrase "spell book".... that sounds like a horrible idea.......... and disaster waiting to happen. Like a barbarian using the key phrase "and then i hit them with my AX!" ...

[@apawhite]

You have to be very careful not to say the S-word while you're standing on the rug in your inner sanctum.

[@Brasswatchman]

That's probably why they set it that way. So they could be sure he'd give the carpet back.

[@Radicalbeast]

So that was where all the Gabriella stuff was. it seemed wierd you put out the template as if it was going to be a series then never saw any of it again.

[@dreamwanderer5791]

I was also very confused nothing became of it.

[@videogollumer]

This made me smile. Being able to see these old episodes with Gabriella again was great. The new stuff was fun too. ☺

[@misterdayne2792]

Love the implication that the flying carpet was fast as hell, when in reality it only does around 9 mph, or not even 15 kmh. Bikes go faster on a regular cruise than that.

[@henrycaltagirone3959]

Just so you know, my players liberated a group of goblin Slaves from an orc tribe . I made Gabriella the representative of the goblins and cut a deal where the goblins get paid to help the party. So far so good!😂

[@thecasualparry7797]

13 minutes?! Kudos to everyone who got involved. This will last for a month.

[@benkayvfalsifier3817]

Animation is tough. Definitely deserve the praise.

[@Slash0mega]

I mean, its 90% old videos. Only the intro and first 2 clips are new... Basicly a clip show....

[@thecasualparry7797]

@@Slash0mega Thanks for the clarification... I will go back on my words of praise... This sucks ass... I hate life...

[@Avigorus]

Whenever I think of Teleportation Circle, I always envision a Stargate because of the whole sigil thing lol

[@ClokworkGremlin]

First sigil... locked.

[@Hyde_Hill]

A lot of the animated spellbooks are not on youtube for some reason so nice to see some for the first time.

[@randomnickify]

The entire COPA thingy that decimated lots of channels.

[@tanall5959]

KZbin went on a bender some years back of 'anything animated is for kids', and having them not flagged as kids content got your nuts put in a vice. Zee as such hid a lot of things and left a lot more off site. This is where things like the fireball spell video went.

[@Hyde_Hill]

@@tanall5959 Thanks for the explanation. Bloody youtube. Also: Fireball!

[@Candlemancer]

​@@tanall5959 it was so much worse than that. KZbin started flagging animation as for kids without the creator's consent, then punished them because the content wasn't suitable for kids.

[@randalljones8708]

​@@tanall5959ah, that explains my question in my other comment. Thank you

[@user-tf8xr8wc9u]

This is hilarious in that Gabriella is basically a non-character on your channel. I remember her from one episode, because you've taken all of the episodes with her down I'm assuming. It kind of goes to show that this strange celebration of 'our favorite characters' is definitely not for newer people who have been watching you for several months only, which is cool in that I'm getting to see some hidden stuff I never saw before, but sad to know that there's so much not available to see.

[@side-beeetaloniswolfwolfac4179]

There *was* more, but youtube went through a period of flagging all animations as "For Kids" which was causing trouble so they were pulled down.

[@davidsuda6110]

I a new to the channel but picked up on the trope fairly quick.

[@DangerDurians]

I understand the sunglasses now I never picked up on that before

[@AndrewTaylorNintyuk]

what is it?

[@facugaich]

It was a Casey Neistadt spoof, the Boosted Board review specifically

[@Danund81]

There was one episode that got hidden that meant a lot to me, talking about creating things. I hope that sees the light of day again, i know other people I'd love to show

[@1Lanavis1]

Gabriella the goblin is adorable

[@mrquackadoodlemoo]

Some of these animations feel like they're either from an alternate universe or if I was in a coma, and doctors were trying to summon my consciousness from the abyss with audio from your videos.

[@guga5708156]

For some reason I remembered of my evil goblin wizard (that was very good at magic but bad at being evil) on an evil campaign. At some point we were selling a some stolen goods, and I asked "what would be a lot of money ?" and one of the guys a rogue with a merchant background said "something around 3 gold coins" thinking of the stolen goods. My goblin took that as being the a stondous amount of money, so every time we did something I would ask for 3 gold coins. It escalated to the point at the end of the campaign where we took a king for ransom and when they asked what we wanted I cut everyone yelling "3 GOLD COINS" It was fun, because my character was bad at being evil, but the minmax build was so good that people usually keept me around for that (the most powerful evil being in the group being an idiot), something like Veigar from league of legends.

[@joshmiles6]

Love the references to Casey Niestat

[@timeguy6112]

haha the crossover i didnt expect

[@connorhamilton5707]

I've missed Gabriella so much! I hope we get to see more of her in the future.

[@maxmikester8185]

Jocat would have loved to partake in this. I miss him already. :( Gabriella is a great Goblin

[@timwoods2852]

​@@Eddie42023He got Doxxed; essentially his personal information was leaked and jerkwads started sending him and his loved ones death threats and other unsavory things.

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

​@@Eddie42023 Harassed :(

[@reidmoore8754]

It was nice seeing some of these old hidden episodes again after so long. I hope that we can see some of the others ones that were hidden away again!

[@cashclam1126]

Why were they hidden anyway?

[@reidmoore8754]

@@cashclam1126 Cause this was back during that dumb "Kid Mode" Phase of KZbin where they would take down animator's work because it looks like it is for kids so they were forced to either set it to kid mode (Which gets no ads) or remove it / say its full adults only

[@drren1229]

The animated time lapses are always beautiful. Unique to see but makes so much sense when translating techniques to different mediums. You really do raise the bar for quality in this niche area of content.

[@drive_6665]

Wait, so how does the adventure with Gabriella and the two muscle heads continue? Do they find grognug?

[@jeremycheney142]

Yes

[@timwoods2852]

Yay! Our favorite gobblin assistant/wife(?) is back! I was not prepared for Salor Gabriella!😂😂😂😂 She will punish you in the name of Selûne!

[@Kereea]

Reminds me of a goblin from when an online group I was with during lockdown played Lost Mines of Phandelver. Long story short, a sole surviving goblin offered to show us where the bandits the goblins worked for were, and get us around their traps. The Warforged (I think he was a druid) decided the safest way to do this, since we were going into a town, was to put the goblin in a chest carrier like an infant and bandage it to disguise it at an "injured gnome" ally. The goblin put up with several indignities along the way, including being menaced by my wizard's "wolf" (her terrier familiar) that it was terrified of. Then our dwarven barbarian died...and the player asked the DM if he could play the goblin, as a rogue. And that is how the goblin became a full party member and got out of the baby carrier.

[@Sparkbomber]

Gabriella's one of the best characters on the series. Cheers for this Gabriellathon and hoping for more.

[@smirk-in-progress4800]

My group captured a Goblin and were going to interrogate him, he was wounded so the bard healed him. He took this as a sign and pledged himself to the group, and thus the entire table's favorite NPC, Sneeze, became part of the team. He caused soooo many problems because he couldn't stop eating random things, but everybody loved him anyway. One time 2 of the players couldn't join us, so I was able to use goblin shenanigans to cause a side adventure for the 3 players that made it. The events of that session ended up having a huge effect on the way the story played out.

[@t.h.mcelroy6597]

Goblin Time!

[@paulhammons7077]

🎶 That's word, because, you know... You can't touch this You can't touch this Break it down! Stop, goblin time! 🎶

[@tach5884]

And she proceeded to gobl all over the place.

[@liallen9380]

Just the thing I needed to brighten my day!

[@caiocbcn]

That big guy is like "I only know Gabriella for less then a day, but if anything happened to her, I would kill everyone in this dungeon and then myself"

[@novadrake9232]

I was looking forward to a video like this from you man

[@jarrettperdue3328]

Man, you score these so well!

[@minecraftReptilian42]

The music with the animation works really well. I love it ❤ Big props to your team

[@michaelstinson9030]

Thank you for this compilation, it was hilarious!

[@fractalicflow]

this is absolutely amazing. I am at a loss of words to thank you for this

[@coltinl33t]

bro! this was so much ! great work on the animation.

[@zynoveousprime118]

It's so good to see these older animations back! >w

[@regiliok]

The power of friendship? Nah cant trust that for shit The power of drooggs is much more reliable

[@kismethappel7811]

"The power of Love is _bullshit._ The power of Swords and Violence, that's where the money is."

[@bil666]

was not expecting a casey vlog parody. great video as always.

[@Enn-]

I love it! Thank you for sharing your art, and fun, with us.

[@silk3sm00th]

Yoooo regular high end item/spell reviews done in character would be top tier repeat watches for ya boi! Love your style!

[@MetalDave92]

Man the music choices are probably my favoite part of your content, great work. Idk if that last one was original but its a fuckin pleaser

[@BrentRogers5]

Always love your videos and animation.

[@pedrostormrage]

12:43 "We probably just killed everyone she's ever known: all of her friends, probably her husband, probably her kids. You think she's just going to switch sides?" A very reasonable concern, but somehow in D&D that doesn't seem to matter 🤷

[@Pantherman1979]

Even with the one of Gabriella at the end I've already seen, BRAVO. I love the little goblin and this was great to see, I was wondering if she was in more than just that episode.

[@Lycaon1765]

I love Gabriella a ton, she's great! I missed the old taken down episodes of her so this is great!

[@jsloanhpi]

A great compilation of stuff!

[@ArchFline]

I didn’t know I needed this, but I’m glad we have it.

[@squizzlor]

Claric was my first ever class, used it to get a taste for magic play. Played a charisma build as my first character, just to see how far charisma takes you.

[@caseyhand668]

Wow! I had no idea how good it was to be a patron! I will work on it.

[@player1_fanatic]

Funny enough, another way to read Invisibility rules is that only things that are currently on the person become invisible. So no items appearing/disappearing when picked or let go by invisible person. Of course, even this could be abused. Like making invisible traps, by dropping stuff around.

[@ClokworkGremlin]

Yeah, "Divine casters don't have known spells, they know all of them" is one of those pieces of information that everyone doesn't know until they do know, and then they take it for granted. I'm just lucky I worked at a game shop for a couple of years and had to explain that enough times that it stays at the front of my mind.

[@enigmaodell6806]

I appreciate Gabriella being ugly cute instead of caving to the desire to make them just cute.

[@Sleepy12ftPanda]

The way I'd rule Magic Circle is that it has to be inscribed on a surface that are charged by the natural magical Leylines connected through the earth. That's how you get from place to place. You're transmitted through the magical current that connects from one place to the next. The deck of a ship wouldn't work because the wood is dead, but on a giant tree it would.

[@jackkawell6306]

Always drop whatever I’m doing to see your uploads

[@Cryptic_Orbit]

Some how I missed the magic spell book episode 20 and I have to say those are some of my favorite clips!

[@ctno3]

So so glad to see Gabriella back I missed those episodes so much

[@adamwelch4336]

a kitty cat warlock patron is the best idea ever for a warlock build! 😎😆🐈

[@dokushirizo]

I absolutely adore the fact that your wife voices Gabriella lol. Please give her a high five for me.

[@mikecarson7769]

OMG - so much new content and awesomeness !!!

[@thomascripe9905]

Gabriella, as the shopkeeper, was the inspiration for me, trying to teach one of my other D and D players how to do goblins, right? He was obsessed with goblin NPC none of them were great. So I created a goblin merchant out in the desert for a star finder game. And she would sell you gear for higher level than you were. The problem was she's the one who built them. So there was a chance they would explode, but she still sold them to you for full price.And I actually got to do that line where she told them.The price and they asked us is that a good price?And I said "well, I mean..."

[@alexanderwizardjar9540]

14 minutes of animation? this day has been blessed!

[@Truex007]

A point on Clerics: you could easily make an entire team of Clerics and have a fully fleshed out party. Clerical Error would be a great name for the campaign.

[@ckellingc]

The sequel to Toyotathon I didn't know I needed

[@segevstormlord3713]

A more in-depth discussion of the vagueries of _teleportation circle_ could be interesting. In particular, if you're not familiar, Zee, I suggest taking a look at the Heart of Ubtao entry in Tomb of Annihilation. In it, ... hitting enter a bunch for spoiler-protection, read on at your own risk... ...the module says that the wizard who lives in the Heart will, if combat breaks out, "slip through the permanent teleportation circle" that is in the Heart to return to her real sanctum elsewhere. It makes no mention of her casting a spell, nor of her needing to buy a minute to do so. It just seems to think she can use it on any round she can get to it. So, then, are permanent teleportation circles able to be used without casting the spell anew? Can you teleport to your friend's newly-cast, temporary teleportation circle if he uses _sending_ to pass you the sigil sequence? (Either with your own _teleportation circle_ spell, _teleport_ spell, _plane shift_ spell, or maybe a permanent _teleportation circle_ as your origin point?) My original answer to those last questions would have been "no." I still am inclined to argue that the spell itself doesn't provide a means to do any of those things. The only thing the spell provides is that you CAN make a permanent circle, and that you can use permanent circles as destinations for the spell. But the way modules (I think I've seen others, too, but that one in ToA is the one I remember most clearly) seem to treat it is like the permanent circles are basically magic items that can just be used as long as you know the destination sigil sequence.

[@newmadhatter6906]

I wanna like this vid twice. This was such a wholesome ride

[@15drasedrase]

Love your videos Zee :)

[@DreadtheMadSmith]

This is everything I wanted, needed, and hoped for.

[@T1ggles]

Would love to see more compilations like this if it’s how we can get back the hidden episodes!

[@johnrogers1573]

Brilliant stuff Zee.

[@Xandorm]

i've missed the magic carpet. thanks for bringing it back

[@playerone8561]

I remember these episodes when they used to be up on KZbin. I missed them

[@The-Blue-Knight]

Love your art

[@vashmty]

YEEESSS! I've been looking for Gabriella's introduction episode for months now. Thanks !

[@Kianjgg]

I love the zeebashew videos, they make my day

[@domenicfrankpatino8056]

When I saw the thumbnail of the video I thought this was a spell that summoned a massive parade run by goblins that completely disrupts whatever was going on in the game

[@TeamIslas]

If I was ever to win the lottery I would hire Zee to make as much Gabriella & The Dumb Boys vids as possible!

[@Xavice15]

Awsome content!

[@youremakingprogress144]

Great fun, beginning to end.

[@neko_mewkawaii7120]

I love this so much

[@lilacvanilla8702]

I feel I’ve been missing out on a beautiful piece of Zee history.

[@Jodonovitch]

Gabriella and the dumb boys looks like such a good team :')

[@chefsalty9316]

I just hope this means we might get a full sequel to Gabriella & The Dumb Boys where they finally meet and kill Gugnog or whatever.

[@brycevo]

Truly the best

[@thedabblingwarlock]

I have a group I'm running through a homebrewed Price of Immortality Trilogy (as in lots of extra stuff and cutting out the third module because it turned out to be really lame in my opinion.) First fight was a goblin ambush that the party beat back with one goblin surrendering, within her saying two lines, they just adopted her and she's been the party's mascot ever since. To quote two of the players after Meep spilled her guts and begged them not to eat her: "That's it we're adopting Meep. She's just so pathetic" and "Of course we're adopting her, she's adorable." Why do I tell you all of this? Well one of my players posted this in our Discord and said that it reminded them of Meep. I can see why. Meep didn't like her old tribe either.

[@AscendtionArc]

Thanks for this :) .

[@Darkfist007]

Honestly playing a tanky supporty Community domain cleric was some of the most fun I've had in D&D. I could conjurer feasts for healing. My buddies and I played it so Good guys that the DM had to rewrite parts of humblewood because we just didn't kill people and we were good. But yeah Clerics are great.

[@epiclord7039]

I remember a lot of these episodes when they were on KZbin to start!!!

[@Carollnn]

I'm so happy! I've really wanted Gabriella!

[@Jane_8319]

I was wondering where some of these episodes went! I remember when the flying carpet video came out. And teleportation circle!

[@uninvincibleete]

as someone who worked on a bunch of rick and morty the sudden rick cameo made me think i was losing my mind lololol

[@blackgriffinxx]

Got damn you and your good and odd story tell skills.