Basically Snake People

[@Runesmith]

www.kickstarter.com/projects/415994272/stibbles-codex-of-companions?ref=b3gxeh Edit: For clarity! There will be pledge managers and an Eldermancy shop later down the line if you can't get the book quite yet, but the price will jump a bit once the campaign is over. Hope that cleared up some questions! Thanks for the support! Also I hope you enjoyed the video, specifically 2:25

[@junkfood7361]

Runesmith will there be something like how nerdarchy did the late pledger? With this stupid virus goin around I work at a movie theater and we’re closed so I don’t have any money to put towards the Kickstarter or I would buy the hardcover

[@Ben-jl2rh]

I hate game theory

[@chrispinzon4752]

Are you originally from the central valley in Cali.

[@Ben-jl2rh]

@@chrispinzon4752 no

[@TheLyricalCleric]

Runesmith Just backed the Kickstarter, here’s hoping it gets to $300k!!

[@THEOBSERVER-1]

"Yes, they put their noobles inside of danger noodles." A sentence I would never thought I would ever hear in my entire life.

[@RenoKyrie]

Sounded like a plot to a hentai

[@W3bst3rStudio]

Noodles*

[@THEOBSERVER-1]

@@W3bst3rStudio thanks

[@patrickdees5256]

And now I have a disturbing image in my head. XD

[@lsedge7280]

"Let that sink in"

[@Ryodraco]

Snakes: *completely unable to be manipulated* My pet snakes: *can be easily fooled into moving where I want if I make them think they are going to be fed*

[@geoleo965]

Can they be as affectionate as dogs? Since it is fascinating how some reptiles may act as such.

[@Ryodraco]

@@geoleo965 not in my experience. Snakes can trust their keeper, recognize them, look to them for food and even enjoy the warmth of their body or safety in an unfamiliar place. However, they aren't going to display affection as a social mammal, bird or even lizard might, it's just not part of their behavioral repertoire.

[@geoleo965]

@@Ryodraco Many thanks for your input. Meant to ask that as someone who isn't very fond of them (heck, I could barely hold a small and slim *blind snake* on the palm of my hand), but they still deserve our respect and/or tolerance. Speaking of reptiles, ever heard of *Pocho the crocodile?* An amazing and unique phenomenon about an actual friendship between a dangerous predator and a human being.

[@Ryodraco]

@@geoleo965 There are indeed some amazingly affectionate reptiles, and they are in general capable of more than many give them credit for. I just tend to caution away from potentially unreasonable expectations (not that you had any).

[@geoleo965]

@@Ryodraco Not to mention the many dangers and responsibilities they might represent as exotic pets. Much appreciated.

[@Mgauge]

My takeaway from this is that replacing body parts with snakes s a quick path to power.

[@scoots291]

I mean replacing your wingdangdoodle with a danger noodle would definitely make you more powerful

[@gammatt2513]

Certainly worked for Orochimaru

[@tophatchaos8142]

If you replace those snakes' parts with snakes, you exponentially increase your power

[@urahara64360]

@@gammatt2513 or voldemort

[@pinchman2946]

Was this not already your plan?

[@cam75501]

"So Yuan to be a snake person?" Thought it was coming the whole video but then it didnt.

[@manicseacucumbers4194]

TheGreatSirSpigulz so yuan ti be a snake person

[@ShengFink]

Lmao

[@ShengFink]

At the end I could have sworn he was gonna say “that’s basically yuan to a ti” lol

[@arbiterskiss6692]

That sounds more like the start to an XP to Level 3 video. Say, has there been a co-OP video between him and Runescape yet?

[@cheeselord3655]

@@arbiterskiss6692 yeah, just gotta find the right vid

[@XendiasSoria]

Sseth took over the Pantheon like : Hey hey Snake Gods! SSeth here!

[@kitvoxon1591]

He is able to commit war crimes in every universe he's in

[@battafyuwi6760]

The first thing came to my mind after I saw this video lol

[@martysue3704]

Do you like sacrifices? Of course you do. It's... A part of you.

[@DioBrando-yk5up]

Xendias Soria are you talkin bout my boy seeth the scalefull

[@Srksius2802]

@@DioBrando-yk5up no, it's about Sseth Tzeentach a youtuber who does videogame reviews and a former African Warlord now recruited by Izrael to earn internet bucks for them

[@adabel2526]

You forgot to mention that they also live beneath Ninjago city smh my head

[@jaxrobinson3890]

I, too, like to shake my head my head.

[@Eric_The_Cleric]

Smh my head dude it's a tragedy he didn't mention it tbh.

[@adabel2526]

@Dalton K no who dat is?

[@thebluesnake6163]

Yuan-Ti got me into D&D because they looked like the snakes from ninjago.

[@meme0taker87]

i mean.. they get the suggestion spell soooo hypnobrai (however it's spelled)

[@GuardianTactician]

Note about Dendar, the night serpent, she wants to eat the sun and plunge the world into eternal night. Sounds like the inciting incident for an epic level campaign that involves either saving the sun god or replacing him before everyone dies.

[@rozu7772]

So she's Apophis then?

[@kylestanley7843]

@@rozu7772 you could potentially use them that way, yes.

[@Master_E444]

So basically Apep

[@snowboundwhale6860]

@@rozu7772 She's great, she _wants_ to eat the sun, but she needs to be strong enough to pull it off, so she eats nightmares- *All of them* , including those of the Gods, Beholders, etc. So to stop her stockpiling so many nightmares that she acquires sufficient power the Gods have holy crusades sent into the Far Realms after her every few centuries. The catch is, they aren't allowed to kill her. Not that they likely could, but if they did then every nightmare that's stored in her body at the time would return to the being whose mind she ate it from, causing them to remember vividly. And given that list includes bad dreams from potentially any/ all thinking being that's ever had to sleep, the mania that has the potential to cause is _also_ world ending. So they can't actually eliminate her threat, so they just chip away at her and force her to metabolise some of the nightmares to recover from the scratches or whatever, the goal being to keep her from ever getting enough nightmares at a given time by basically mugging her (replace "nightmares" with "money" it's an easy parallel) on a somewhat regular basis.

[@ohitsrusher842]

Dendar is that one bad evil character from the other book series Rick Riordan made?

[@TsulaAngenati2292]

The way how I explained my Yuan-Ti Cleric who’s a trader of medicine being emotional, is that they were genetically altered by illithid with a psychic stone in their head, and with them using it to read other people’s emotions, they then understood emotion and started selling medicine to people and learned healing to make people not suffer the grief they witnessed at the “experiment room”

[@Joryho]

I can only imagine an abomination and a flirty AF human talking to each-other, trying to take control of the situation, but both of them are on-par because they both keep rolling nat 20s on persuasion.

[@kylestanley7843]

The hottest fucking conversation E V E R

[@Joryho]

Kyle Stanley EXACTLY.

[@Master_E444]

No. They don’t just roll Nat 20s. They roll identical results one after the other, always getting exact matches. It’s a never ending stalemate.

[@ChucktheSpicyChicken]

Paladin: Don't you dare do it! Bard: YOU CANNOT STOP ME!

[@timebrain3188]

Yuan-ti Nightmare Speakers: *exist* Monster girl fetishists: It's free real estate.

[@sanuhan1]

dont google lamia

[@xxXXRAPXXxx]

*DO* google lamia.

[@secretname2670]

@@sanuhan1 what is lamia? edit: fuck.

[@nielsdejong]

Please don't tell the Bards... They are already seducing the Dragons! www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/fbwoxt/art_half_dragon_player_race_finalized_after/

[@itzplant3196]

@@sanuhan1 What's wrong with the Lamia?

[@GaijinGoombah]

7:05 I can't believe you've done this.

[@Xenibalt]

lol you know you loved it :3

[@professorhaystacks6606]

"You could eat each other. That'd be pretty funny." I admit, I laughed at that.

[@baronnolanvonstraya5743]

But hey, that’s just a theory A SNAKE THEORY

[@VarianAlastair]

Aaaaaaaaand STRIKE

[@Southpaw4696]

Favorite joke of this video

[@fonztorres]

Best part. Logan is hilarious

[@leafloaf3232]

Edbotikx Yeah alright we get it, no need to be so aggressively sarcastic friend, they aren't hurting anybody. It feels nice to know that the jokes you really liked stood out to other people as well. We live in lonely times, it feels nice to relate to people, however basic or predictable an interaction it may be.

[@Wimikk]

@@leafloaf3232 This describes so much of why I came to the comments. And why I kept reading even after I saw the replies derailing. And why I'm replying right now... :O

[@snekkoheckko4466]

some randome sorcerer: tries to frick a snake the snake gods : Yo WTF

[@nielsdejong]

Sorcerer: Hey, if bards can do it with dragons, I can do it with snakes! www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/fbwoxt/art_half_dragon_player_race_finalized_after/

[@corbinbarron8772]

Snake gods after a second : actually we can use this

[@Nukestarmaster]

@@nielsdejong Honestly, the largest problem with that race is the ability scores. Only one of the ten subraces has a +2 to charisma (and only 3 more have a +1). With dragons being natural sorcerers and their lifespan being based on charisma there should be more +cha in the race.

[@zebaklongfang9344]

Snake god: ...heh... sure.. whatever Yuan-ti... why not?.. ...its not like such gods have feelings... ya know.. those worshipers learned from somewhere... and the great devourer might use them just as much..

[@UmekCrafter]

Yuan-Ti gods after a while: actually that's kinda hot, lets give them more magic

[@erickchristensen746]

Dendar the Night Serpent is a Primordeal, those beings born from the elemental chaos and are on par with gods in power. He has no real god status and can’t grant Clerics any power but can still(like any primordeal) create Warlocks. The other gods mentioned here are legit gods. Primordeals and other non god beings however can attain deification through means of enough true worship though.

[@Millstone1985]

In fifth edition, Dendar is considered a great old one of the Far Realm, instead of a primordial of the Elemental Chaos.

[@caiosergio5775]

I once had a Yuan-Ti Warlock of Dendar in my campaign. The RP was amazing until she failed a diplomacy-between-gods attempt with a powerful kraken. While the other party member were fleeing

[@exomancer3632]

@@Millstone1985 Not a Great Old One of the Far Realm, just a Great Old One. Dendar is still a primordial in 5e, just a primordial that happens to be a possible patron for Great Old One warlocks.

[@Millstone1985]

@@exomancer3632 The Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide connects her to the Far Realm. I suppose she could be both, a primordial that was touched by that other plane. But since her being a primordial was a 4e thing, it is likely retconned now, much like how Akadi, Grumbar, Istishia and Kossuth are simply listed as gods of their respective elements.

[@snowboundwhale6860]

@@caiosergio5775 oof, how'd it go?

[@calebbell2176]

I've been running a Yuan-ti and Sseth focused campaign since June 2019 and my players love it. Its even more interesting because one of the players is a pureblood and is betraying all these other Yuan-ti that she used to know.

[@jamiejamie8]

Same here, and started around the same time as you too. So far they've only started scratching the surface (scheduling conflicts). Have you managed to find any decent art or even STL's of Sseth?

[@calebbell2176]

@@jamiejamie8 No I haven't. There's like literally no art for him anywhere. I've just described him as a large scaled man with a cobra head and huge dragon wings on his back. That's how I picture him because his symbol is a winged snake with beared fangs.

[@SweetMattieG]

I've had my Yuan-ti act like actual snakes where archers will fire warning shots at the party, then try to hit them, and only if they keep coming do they use venom tipped arrows. They also just hang out underneath shade, have their back up against a pillar, or are always hugging something before they spring into action.

[@charliecowan9758]

Do a basically flumphs, please.

[@drbonerstein8411]

Agreed

[@Wow-cr2ll]

Take the Giant Flying Spaghetti Monster, make it a Tiny Flying Spaghetti Monster, give it the personality of a cinnamon roll, but make it live with assholes. That's basically Flumphs.

[@pupp3tStudios]

@@Wow-cr2ll Some expansions talk about the Flumphs once having the job of COSMIC DIPLOMAT. They would warn of incoming cosmic dangers to adventures, and were the bookkeepers of knowledge. Or so I've heard.

[@DaxterL]

I love my good aligned yuan ti character, instead of using the symbolism of a snake as an evil thing, but rather the eastern or northern symbolism of snakes, cycles, wisdom, eternal life, youth, rebirth all that good zaz.

[@leviathansol]

Rune: Don't picture it. Me, with aphantasia: Got it.

[@Shouziroku]

For real, if I had aphantasia, my life would be hell by now. Like, after years of intermittent insomnia I realized the best way to fall asleep was to take a manga/anime/book and self insert myself in it and make up some story.

[@yokaiju8909]

What's that? I can always afford to learn more.

[@metumortis6323]

@@yokaiju8909 the difficulty to or inability to picture things in your mind

[@shiningvictory7060]

same

[@garfoofian8507]

@@metumortis6323 THEN WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY WATCHING DND VIDEOS

[@janelantestaverde2018]

The real emotionless monsters are those who think snakes have no feelings

[@andordimeny6130]

„Let that sink in, just dont picture it" Too late, friend. *starts drawing* Too... Late...

[@lillithyukiutacrow2532]

*hands you the "HORNY fucker club" card* welcome my friend~ 🙃

[@xxXXRAPXXxx]

In the olde days i think i remember a guy trying to put his dick into a snake for real. Although i don't remember if he succeeded. Well if for "sacrifice" of people like that we would get sexy nagas then im all for it.

[@rileygoddard7181]

Asking for a friend, but are you going to put that drawing online?

[@randomguy3954]

That sounds like heresy talk

[@secretname2670]

THIS ((slaps table)) , THIS IS WHY I BECAME ARTIST

[@Bluecho4]

On the one hand, I'm kind of annoyed that all reptile people in DnD must be cold, emotionless manipulators, under the justification that reptiles don't have emotions. They absolutely do, we humans just aren't attuned to read them (we have trouble reading the emotions of mammals like Cats). Sneks have feelings, yo. On the other hand, I do love Conan-style snake cultists, because Genre Convention. They make for great villains, making them useful to DMs. And it lets me have the Followers of Set from Vampire: The Masquerade, but in DnD. Suffice to say, my feelings toward the Yuan-ti are complex. What I'd prefer is that Yuan-ti be perfectly emotional, and they're so often evil because they have fucked-up ethics and are willing to sacrifice anything and anyone for power. A perfectly human quality, if there ever was one. You don't see sneks in real life doing things like ritual murder, torture, or corporate raiding.

[@Eric_The_Cleric]

Honestly, as worn out tired and old as it is, this is your game to rework to your liking. Just because it's useful convention to have them be emotionless murderers and liars does not mean you must subscribe to that view of them. Personally, as villains, I find it would be more useful if some did have emotions and others are so traumatized from their environment that they have let go of having them. It is even useful as a player who wants to play a Yuan-Ti confront their culture and ethics when faced with another viewpoint than just "am snake person must sacrifice." Regardless, use your interpretation of them. It will be much more useful for you and your players and make the game more engaging for all.

[@karsonkammerzell6955]

Pretty sure my python Meow is dreaming about corporate raiding all day, every day.

[@DarkwellorBZ]

I usually ignore the raw “i never have emotions” part of the Yuan-Ti and treat them as being molded into a society with full throttle pragmatism and human ramen production lines

[@MrRourk]

Are you the Yuan-Ti that applied to college a few months ago? That Speciest they didn't let you in.

[@TheShadowlord18]

I've recently started playing as a yuanti, and I don't play her as pure emotionless. Because that's dumb. I made her less emotionally expressive/behaving in a bit of an alien way, and trying to navigate human behavioural patterns while still finding them confusing. You know, a weird person with a lot of baggage, but still a person

[@duncanjohnson4034]

Last time I was this early, the mind flayers were still in charge.

[@NathanTAK]

Ah, so the future?

[@douchevick309]

You were a decade late then

[@maxthepaladin2147]

So, you were either very early or so late you may have as well been early for the next time

[@freman2413]

snaaaake people, snaaaake people, look like snake, walk like people.

[@16kauffmanh]

SNEEPLE SNEEPLE

[@CastorRidicule]

Except those that slither like snakes, of course.

[@LucasDeziderio]

Swallow slaves, any size Kill up parties, just like that Look out! Here comes the snake people

[@DioBrando-yk5up]

Snake eater

[@ethanlocke3604]

Random sorcerer: “hey, wanna try fricking that snake? Jkjk ...unless...?”

[@allankcrain]

“Every scaly Aztec satanist wants to rule the world” is my favorite Tears for Fears song

[@SergeantSniper]

Runesmith: "Yes, they put their noodles in danger noodles." Me: "..." Runesmith: "Just don't picture it." Me: "It's a bit late for that, pal."

[@StormSage13]

I'm foreshadowing a Yuan-ti encounter for my friends, one of whom is an anime fan, and I'm basically prepping the Yamata no Orochi as a big boss fight at the end of this

[@StormSage13]

@Chaz Hagen Oh god. I wish I had thought of that XD They already had the boss fight and left the island. Next time lol

[@mclilzenthepoet2331]

2:15 a soul eater reference ah the good old days my sweet sweet childhood

[@purpleisthesneakiest]

Just to clarify, human sacrifice in the Aztec confederation (and, indeed, the wider Nahuatl cultures of the period) did not merely sacrifice anyone that they could find, nor did they do so as a punishment or as appeasement. Rather, these peoples specifically only sacrificed volunteers and prisoners of war, which influenced their warfare strategies, development of weaponry, military promotions, and foreign affairs. The reason for this (at least, for the primary god of the Mexica/Aztec) was as follows: they believed that their sun/war god, Huitzilopochtli, protected them against the Tzitzimimeh, monstrous, man-eating sky-skeletons (the stars), that they believed attacked Huitzilopochtli at night and during eclipses (which is why you can't see the sun then). While Huitzilopochtli was mighty, his sacrifices (and, indeed, the sacrifices of all the other gods of the cosmos) could not be maintained indefinitely - and so, this is where the sacrifices come in. By giving him the strength and sustenance of mortal warriors regularly, they gave Huitzilopochtli nourishment, allowing him to fend off the Tzitzimimeh for a while longer and stave off the end of humanity. This was such a widespread practice that the Aztec confederacy and their regional rivals/enemies deliberately partook in regular, ritualized warfare at special locations (called a "Flower War" or "Xochiyoyotl"), to ensure that everyone would have enough sacrifices to do their part in giving back to the gods that sacrificed constantly for their sake. Also, fun fact: Tzitzimimeh were also worshipped and invoked as patron deities of midwives, fertility, and as protectors of the feminine.

[@Depleted-Uranium]

if they're all deceitful, wouldn't everyone know never to trust them, therefore ruining the point of being deceitful?

[@LupineShadowOmega]

They're rare and exist inside of lush tropical hellscapes that few venture into, so theoretically every sucker they meet probably should be a sucker unless they've met a Yuan-ti before.

[@5n4k3d0rk]

In the words of captain Jack Sparrow: "you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest". So if you meet a Yuan-Ti and expect them to betray you, you won't be cursing their sudden and inevitable betrayal

[@Xenibalt]

they shapeshift \ polymorph

[@Guuuun_]

So they be truthful till everyone trusts 'em and then...they switch back!

[@jimrustles4773]

1:13 Smooth

[@TheTimberwolf44]

Thank you for getting me hooked on D&D and helping cure my social anxiety. You and Critical Role are the reason I can go out in public now.

[@angelic8632002]

Acting has been used to cure social anxiety for some time now. So it makes sense that role playing would do the same thing. Its essentially a way to ease you back into enjoying social interactions by using an alternate persona to bypass the anxiety block. ...anyway, good on you :)

[@stevevondoom4140]

the fellow at the youtube Dimension20 has some really cool games he has uploaded , some with matt M of CR playing. defi worth a watch if you havent yet caught his program....

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

You should try D&D videogames like Neverwinter Nights or Baldur's Gate.

[@Grinnar]

"you and me, unless..." We know you and Jacob are soul mates. Don't be playing us like that.

[@crownlessking6436]

"Zehir: Where are those guys? I thought we were getting lunch with that Runesmith guy together."

[@DarkDodgers]

Was just about to make one actually! A bard college of whispers. Thanks so much man.

[@Wiki1184]

"Through foul sorcery, the Yuan-Ti bred with snakes." This is knowledge I wish to unlearn.

[@Vee_Sheep]

so, some crazy aztec wannabes got extra crazy, went up to some snakes and were like "yuan sum fucc?", and now the D&D realms have horrible sneople walking around, doing snake things and people things all at once amazing, i love them so much, *delete these things please*

[@Skeletonk]

Requesting basically sun soul monk because I want to hear you make dragon ball z references and say poopy repeatedly.

[@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668]

Bard: *watches Monster Musume* Also Bard: It's seduction time

[@skullman-us7wn]

SAAAAAIIIIKOUSOOOOOU! FALLLL IN LOVE!

[@lavernadecay3616]

I'm playing a Yuan-Ti soon so this is perfect timing!

[@lavernadecay3616]

@Kasper Kleine Tank Mine is a Yuan-Ti paladin. My DM is excited to see how they work with the other players.

[@DarkDodgers]

I'm about to do a College of Whispers one myself. Needed some info for backstory though.

[@kenansabic2901]

I am thinking of doing a fiend warlock that tries to outsmart the devil patron.

[@LupineShadowOmega]

@@DarkDodgers Pure-Bloods tend to be spies because they can pass for human with minimal effort, so I'd take that and combine it with your College of Whispers and just take the Spy background and flesh things out using your game world as a point of reference.

[@Zirkalaritz]

I appreciate your efforts to redeem the lack of flumphs in the underdark video by mentioning them here.

[@gammatt2513]

"Thats basically yuan-too a t," I see what you attempted there

[@lockwoan01]

And then there's my Yuan-Ti Pureblood Paladin of Vengeance in battle with a succubus - knocked out three times, only to keep coming up, and land blows - eventually killing her. Also, due to a prior encounter with ghosts, was out of spell slots for Divine Smites, save for 1 level-2 slot. Also, due to her kiss, I was running on less than 10HP during the fight. Lots of fun.

[@greenplantlizard]

Wait, Yuan - Ti want to ascend to godhood. So if one Yuan - Ti got a metric ton of Kuo-Toa to believe that it's a god...

[@ManyMissingMalaysian_s]

thanks for the campaign idea, S U C K A

[@incognitomigueljimenez807]

Great content as usual ! I was wondering are you thinking of doing a Basically episode focusing on the individual planes ? Loved your "D&D Universe : The Planes" video but would love to listen to you describe them in more depth !

[@Seraphil1]

I feel like whoever came up with this race had a thing against snakes

[@travisbewley7084]

I think they had a thing against South American culture

[@AndrewWukusick]

Tomorrow I'm starting my first campaign as a dm and one of my players is a Yuan-Ti. I just mentioned last night that I wished you had a video for them, and wake up to this. I love it!

[@matthewnichols4843]

I love these videos, even if I have to pause and rewind to see the written words.

[@skilledwarman]

Backed the book last week! Got it at the tier that includes the physical copy and the stat cards. Those cards are a huge selling point for me. I have trouble remembering stats and abilities and digging through my hand book and reference books every couple turns slows things down for everyone. Thats why I had to buy the druid spell cards too

[@Master_E444]

I was actually a little inspired by this video to make an NPC. A Yuan-Ti Malison whose basically a Cute Girl with some Scales around her body and Two Big Snakes for Arms. They were abandoned by their Sneople soon after birth to be fed to a Snake Pit but Adventurers charged in before they could be sacrificed and one of them adopted her since they were just born. Since then, they’ve grown up around a fairly normal society and have become a fairly normal but quirky person. They have some magic, have a little fun with her snake arms (which are named L and R), and growing up with a Bard for a parent have them a love of hijinks and stories plus she eats with her arm mouths. she’s mostly meant to be comic relief and just an excuse to have a cute snake girl in game. Statistically they’d basically be a Yuan Ti Malison Type 2 with some minor tweaks.

[@Alkahest3]

Good breakdown of the Yuan-ti but Too much conflation with irl Mesoamerican relgions which is waaay too oversimplified.

[@snowboundwhale6860]

So watching this video back to back from the Kuo-Toa one made me think a cool campaign idea from the "villan plot" side of things could be a Yuan-Ti tribe(?) happening across a village of Kuo-Toa and learning of their ability to create gods, and the Abomination leading that group of Yuan-Ti decides to try to use the Kuo-Toa as a means to attain godhood for themselves. So the Yuan-Ti are being as friendly as they can bring themselves to pretend to be, offering protection, basically proposing on paper really good deals to the Kuo-Toa to get them on side, coexisting, so that they can use their god making powers to their own benefit. They're even building the Kuo-Toa population up, bringing more in from other areas under this promise of protection, so as to increase the strength of their collective worship. The Yuan-Ti being so silver tongued, not openly hostile, and making an effort to at minimum be seen to be keeping their promises to the Kuo-Toa would lead the latter to trust them, unwittingly allowing themselves to be used almost as slaves without realising it. The PC side of this I guess would be to neutralise the Yuan-Ti threat that's building up, with a "good" party trying to do so without too greatly destablising the Kuo-Toa society that's been built up around them. Kuo-Toa would push back because on the face of it, they have a legitimately good thing going on with the Yuan-Ti, it's just horribly one sided and selfish when actually looking at the latters motives, so there's room for a socio-political angle for how the conflict is handled. As for how the PC's would find out, I think hearing about how there's been an unusual amount of Kuo-Toa activity lately, and/ or that they seem to be gathering together would be a fair opening lead.

[@pretsal4955]

"Anna-Thee-Ma" ack, so close.

[@lord1315]

Nice timing! Coincidently I’m using the Yuan-Ti in my current setting, one of them happens to be part of BBEG’s pose.

[@AdamAtYourService]

Yuan-Ti are one of my favorite monstrous races. We'll done.

[@KilRBass]

I just wanted to say that you and your book are the reason i joined Kickstarter. That’s why I blame you for me constantly searching for more kickstarters to back ;) But in all seriousness: I really love your content and I can’t wait for your book :)

[@NICK....]

So Ben Shapiro's fursona?

[@IrGregular777]

in my setting the Yuan Ti were basically all just cowboy purebloods but learned how to turn themselves into all other types of snakey nonsense in order to improve their combative ability in wartime

[@Captain_Mike82]

The natural enemy of wererats and weremongoose.

[@beastwarsFTW]

And the pray of weredachshunds.

[@cake-diver8991]

I know this is an old video but i regularly rewatch these. RUNESMITH & co, Can i just say well fuckin done! Seeing all you guyzez release all this sweet merch and working hard to make butt tons of D&D shiz, makes me happy to see y'all bloom

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

Most people: here's a hint. Logan: HEY GUESS WHAT GUYS!?! THERE'S A HINT HERE! IT'S GONNA BE IN THE DESCRIPTION OF THE VIDEO!!!

[@mocha5742]

This is perfect timing. I'm currently writing a one-shot based around the infiltration and plundering of a Yuan-Ti temple! Very excited.

[@Bysthedragon]

Ok the Aztecs get a bad reputation but the Snake god that most people know the Aztecs for worshiping Quetzalcoatl the Feathered Serpent was actually opposed to the practice of human sacrafice and had a deep love for humans who he would do anything for. According to Aztec mythology Quetzalcoatl is the creator and father of humanity who sacrificed his own blood in order to give us life. When he saw humans needed food he journeyed into the Mountain of Food and brought us corn and taught us how to farm. When the Sun God Tonatiuh hoarded all music, arts, and Cocoa beans in his sun palace like a jerk Quetzalcoatl snuck in and stole it from him to give to the humans, and now we have chocolate because Snek Dad decided we deserved the Gods' favorite bean. Remember there's a big fluffy snek dad in the sky who just wants to boop your snoot, feed you chocolate and tell you he's proud of you. And that's basically Quetzalcoatl.

[@24601st]

yeah, didnt they sacrifice people to delay the world's destruction that they always said would be "really soon"

[@Millstone1985]

Eberron, a D&D campaign setting, has good-aligned yuan-ti called the shulassakar, who are connected to serpentine celestials called the couatls. The shulassakar are divided into bloodsworn (≈ pureblood), flametouched (≈ malisons) and transcendent (≈ abominations). They possess feathers and sometimes wings. In other settings, the couatls were created by a primordial deity called Jazirian, who is D&D's version of Quetzalcoatl.

[@Bysthedragon]

Yes, that is one of the reasons they sacrificed for. They believed that the Earth was made from the corpse of a primal sea monster who's still somewhat alive and eternally hungry so periodically they would have to sate it's hunger with blood. There is also the Sun God Huitzilopochtli who because Tonatiuh was an asshole and bad at his job Huitzilopochtli gave him the boot and took over as the God of the Sun, carrying the sun around the sky to keep it from being destroyed by the Moon and Stars, they thought a Solar Eclipse was the Moon attacking the Sun so to keep up Huitzilopochtli's strength they would offer him blood and human hearts, however if you were a sacrafice, warrior who fell in battle, or a mother who died in childbirth you would be reborn as a Hummingbird.

[@Bysthedragon]

@@Millstone1985 Awesome!

[@dxjxc91]

Alright, I made a kickstarter account to back your thing (because I like this channel and companions seems like a super easy thing to slip into a campaign without anyone knowing it is homebrew). I wanted the hardcover to show off (and I don't have a single hardcover rule book), and I wanted the PDF so I could copy and paste stuff into D&D Beyond.

[@elmonko5068]

Yuan-ti gods be like "Hey hey people. Sseth here"

[@blankflank3488]

Ok but Nightmare Speakers are actually really freaking cool. Also I swear I read in a MM that Purebloods were higher on the food chain than Abominations (and I believe those were the only two Yuan-ti types in the book), but maybe I'm just dumb and remembered wrong.

[@skullman-us7wn]

>see’s that sseth has two “S”s Hey hey people.

[@Morec0]

Do you love lying in the sun all day? Do you hate your soft, smooth skin? Do you dream of imposing your will on others half the time, while dreaming of llamia monsters girls the other half? Well, do I have a deal for you...

[@AlphalanceVO]

One of my favorite monster groups and I still learned something here. Great video!!

[@slamduncan3376]

Day 2 of asking for “Basically Flumphs”

[@jonahyogman6282]

I made a yuan-ti rogue. She carries around a human skull everywhere and hears voices. She hates sseth and is actually a really polite person

[@adamholcomb1906]

Yuan-ti and Drow are my favorite playable races and most of all villains. I play two Drow a Necromancer and assassin Ranger, also I play a Enchanter wizard Yuan-ti in AL😈🕷🕸🐍🐍💯

[@CL30]

Yuan-ti always make for...interesting...encounters. The Fane of the Night Serpent is a fun place to play with them, though it's funny that both the yuan-ti and mindflayers had empires they lost due to uprisings. Almost like a weird trend :x

[@luckshott2295]

How How HOW DID I SEARCH UP YUAN TI YESTERDAY AND NOW YOU DO THIS

[@juscallmeollie]

"Never trust a Yuan-Ti!" My campaign who's main NPC is a Yuan-Ti that runs a resistance against an invading army that's the meeting place of the party: *"I'll pretend that I didn't hear that"*

[@MrRobot673]

hey hey people sseth here 6:50

[@deepsea5266]

That early 2002 He man reprise (Season 2 ) captures what they would be like very well.

[@beesbutinabox]

I love being poor and a minor with no money to give, really wish I could donate to the kickstarter

[@josiemcmillan5012]

The idea of a snake with guys for arms is horrifying, and I love it. Can’t wait to use that eldritch abomination for something.

[@dudewatches6125]

Is it a theory? A consnakepiracy theory?! .... Sacrifice me.

[@SCKentrol]

I just started a campaign as a Yuan-ti pureblood. So far the party thinks I am just another human wizard, but he's actively trying to subvert the imperial colonisation near his tribes borders, planning on courting favour with the lords to eventually cause a collapse of their government. The long con in motion

[@nimrodthewise836]

"Anathema" is pronounced with emphasis on the second "a"..

[@24601st]

anathem (deep breath) AAAAAAAAAAAA

[@ivantheterrible7696]

@@24601st that's the third one...

[@24601st]

Ivan Bartrina Carreras do you think i know how to count

[@ivantheterrible7696]

@@24601st shit, sorry, that's my b

[@fenrircinder279]

I built yesterday a yuan-ti abomination sorcerer of the storm, this is just perfect timing

[@joshmcintyre5868]

This is the first time I’ve ever been early for a video...

[@hopeiswherethehomeis9606]

The people who wrote lizardfolk and the yuan-ti have never interacted with beardies, seen how alligators interact with their young, or cuddled with a ball python.

[@nielsdejong]

"Yes, they put their noobles inside of danger noodles." Let me guess, they were all bards? Not too far of a stretch seeing as bard players often try to seduce Dragons... www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/fbwoxt/art_half_dragon_player_race_finalized_after/

[@zepaduse97]

In a campaign i am the yaunti are fighting with an army of efreetis coming out of a portal through the elemental plane of fire for territories and slaves in basically australia. They keep capturing and enslaving each other’s peoples.

[@numen7778]

I’m so happy for you Logan. Stibbles gonna make the best codex

[@christopherglade5693]

“Yes they put their noodles, in danger noodles” made me spit take

[@ErokowXiyze]

Yuan-ti Malison lady who replaces her hooters with hissers. Also, the snake with a guy for a tongue is my favourite.

[@Nemo12417]

Don't forget that Dendar the Night Serpent was apparently so strong that when he/she ate the sun, the gods themselves couldn't put a stop to it and so when one of their current enemies, the Primordials, switched sides and defeated Dendar, they had to welcome Ubtao to the god club.

[@comandantegorrion7271]

One of the favorite characters I’ve made in a long time is a Yuan-Ti Pureblood Paladin of Trithereon who rejected the dangernoodle gods, took part in a slave revolt, got exiled, and now fights both slavery and monarchy because Trithereon gave him a vision saying “monarchy is the big gay and slavery is the big stupid. All power to the people, my duderino.” So now his whole schtick is a very liberation theology inspired “No kings, no masters, only the gods in the heavens above.”

[@Thornshock]

I really love your styles of videos. They're so dumb in all the right ways. I always look forward to your next upload!❤️

[@wiilov]

My Yuan-Ti pureblood took Pragmatism to the extreme, by witnessing Yuan-Ti's regularly failed attempts at empires, and quickly made a pact with a Seeker. Hes basically trying to end the cycle by creating a spell that shows the eventual outcome of every evil plot they come to. He personally believes in the "behave as the apes do, and they can leave us to more ascendant endeavors".

[@mister_muffin3625]

Wow, thats the first time, that thoughts and prayers actually achieved something.

[@shanemcnamara244]

Another wonderful, informative video from the encyclopedic being that is our true savior, Logan.

[@alexsduthie23]

Love your stuff man and I'd love to back your book but I'm recovering from having a brain tumor removed but when I'm back to work I'll definitely be picking up a copy for my play group

[@TheShadowlord18]

As a random comment, if you are ever in a campaign with oceans/high amount of water, may I humbly suggest the homebrew me and my DM cooked up? There are such things as sea snakes, and water Yuan-TI are... basically mermaids. A secret empire is much easier to imagine when it is literally underwater, siren songs are basically a coordinated 'Suggestion' spell, bonus in charisma? Check there as well. As far as their gods, one can literally be a world sea serpent a la Jormungandr.

[@greatestaxolotl4933]

haha this is such a good idea!

[@vagrant2863]

If monster girl quest has taught me anything it’s that noodles are dangerous.