Basically The Sorrowsworn

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[@memesrdreams4854]

Imagine playing Darkest Dungeon and when someone in your party reaches 100 Stress, instead of an affliction, it spawns a boss

[@mystic1029]

😖stop, please.

[@Master_E444]

Well more like a monstrous creature. The Sorrowsworn aren't meant to be boss fights, they're meant to be miniboss fights at worse and a swarm of metaphorical monsters at best. I'd have them as very difficult, but not nearly impossible to beat.

[@lkcdarzadix6216]

Stop that

[@slimjim877]

Why would you even say that?

[@Silverwind87]

Isn't this a Regular Show episode?

[@darkmoon2503]

The Angry: "CMON, HIT ME! IM HERE! COME ON! DO IT NOW! KILL MEEEEE-" Players: (hug it) The Angry: (existential crisis)

[@digitaldevil696]

This is wierdly wholesome. Like the Punisher scene where a bully kid begs Frank to kill him because his life became a misery, but the Punisher, of all people, goes to play ball with him instead.

[@wert1234576]

Warrior runs up "I love and cherish the hell out of you" The rogue sneaks behind "your a great friend and we want the beat for you" Then the wizard hit it with a "you are worth more than you think and we will help you find your way" DM "wtf guys"

[@awkwardukulele6077]

Kill’em with kindness

[@orangepearlproduction9496]

"two headed creatures, like Demagorgon and ettins. That's It" Death dogs: am I a joke to you?

[@Fure2]

Hydras1

[@unknqwnshepherd1872]

No, but they don’t count, as they’re good bois

[@zeecaptain8202]

Spider King

[@retnuhretnuh]

Thanks for explaining food, I never understood that part.

[@mbcrimson3865]

69 likes...nice

[@darkmoon2503]

Imagine being so lonely your hands mutate into harpoons just to reel in some company. That's what the world will be like at the end of quarantine. (Also, I like to imagine the sorrowsworn not as the Shadowfell messing with people's negativity for shits and giggles, but to teach them a lesson about controlling your emotions. A harsh, deadly lesson, but a lesson nonetheless)

[@abiggs4828]

Monks in the Shadowfell: "Pathetic"

[@gideonmele1556]

ABiggs *Pride begins to manifest Rest of party looks at the monk “What? What? Is it a crime to be a bit smug every once in a while? We suffered through bad class designs since first edition, give me this one thing”

[@josefsvec5236]

I love that analogy, beautifully said :)

[@Aplesedjr]

Hardly a lesson if it kills you. There’s nothing to learn after that.

[@codywest3879]

So its basically Silent Hill? At least the version from 2.

[@vlanoik]

"The sentient magic that looms over this nasty place thinks it's almost funny to straight-up unique manifest personifications of these feelings to kill you; for fun" There is no fun in the Shadowfell

[@DRida64]

The Fun would be the scariest of all sorrowsworn, for it would be attracted to that which the party feels after overcoming any of the other sorrowsworn. And as you get angry at the dm for manifesting such a thing, The Angry comes back for round 2.

[@MCNarret]

Not with that attitude!

[@johnblunt5243]

There can be no hope in this hell no hope at all

[@hexretro8112]

@@hobg5786 The fun is a cult of shadowfell satyrs that ended up in the shadowfell and they are attracted to people who are actually having a good time.

[@BigE3618]

The Guilty is an absolutely wonderful idea for a Sorrowsworn and I will definitely be throwing a couple at my players.

[@danniemiesse4643]

Maybe if the grappled PC accidentally damages an ally (with an AoE, crit fail, etc); give the Guilty a buff! Or, it deals damage when the PC noticies an ally taking taking damage; or when the PC misses an attack, or whenever the actual player apologizes for something irl. The Guilty is *such* a good concept.

[@BigE3618]

@@danniemiesse4643 I was actually thinking that the PC what is afflicted with the Guilty cannot physically remove/damage the Guilty themselves, much like carrying your own guilt. To get rid of it, another character must "sacrifice" their turn to aid you, thereby easing your guilt. ;D

[@kylestanley7843]

@@BigE3618 I do like that idea more.

[@strionic770]

Both of those are good ideas for the guilty

[@remingtonwright6796]

One of the Demon Lords in my setting is literally the personification of all fear, sorrow and mental illness (because giving an intangible concept a face to fight is a common human coping mechanism). As such, his circle of hell is primarily these things (and wraiths). I've mulled over adaptations for every monstrosity in this list for my setting

[@MrJoeyWheeler]

For anyone interested, the homebrew document "Ulraunt's Guide to the Planes - Shadowfell" has some fun additional Sorrowsworn, including The Dolorous and the Heartbroken.

[@eracer166]

Thanks

[@DonnyDunne]

Dolorous Umbridge is a Sorrowsworn? that explains alot.

[@fireknight4151]

Here are some sorrowsworn I came up with The Desperate (recklessness and paranoia caused by urgency and despair)- a small nimble fast creature that runs at top speed towards just about anything it perceives as Ethier food, escape or something familiar. It constantly uses reckless attack and if it goes without damaging something its next attack deals extra damage and it can dash as a bonus action to show it is desperate to catch the target. The Obsessed- It does not stop chasing one specific target ignoring everything else until it catches it or it dies. As a bonus action it can choose a specific target and it gains advantage on attacks on that target, deals extra damage and knows the exact distance and direction of its target. However it gains disadvantage on attack against other creatures and disadvantage on tracking anything else. There is also a comment on this video by Jane Ross that comes up with some good Sorrowsworn to

[@tahunuva4254]

The bankrupt: basically like a fleshy cube shaped like a safe, that traps creatures inside it and suffocates them.

[@raptus2wolf167]

Maybe for the desperate, instead of the doing more damage if it doesn’t do damage last turn, it does more damage as it’s health gets lower. It could also have not be able to use disengage or it just straight up cant move away from enemies

[@kylestanley7843]

I like the idea of the obsessed, as love between two people could turn into desperation and obsession through the infectious melancholy of the shadowfell.

[@Dahaka-rd6tw]

Abused: This sorrowsworn at first mannifests in form of a naked, sexless and emaciated child covered in scars and wounds, with eyes leaking black tears. It's main target are adventurers with evil or chaotic alignment, especially if they have killed innocent or harmed other people unprovoked before arriving to Shadowfell. When Abused mannifests, it goes only after it's specific target, leaving adventurers with good aligment alone. More target tries to fight back, stronger the abused grows. Turning the damage recieved from its enemy, abused grows bigger and stronger. In its base form Abused has sharp claws and great agility bur once its receives enough damage, it will grow in power, I already mentioned. After growing in strength, it begins to resemble less a child and more of a grotesque fusion of Re4 Regenerator (with its grayish skin, sharp teeth and glowing eyes) and Smiling Titan from Attack on Titan with bruises, scars and festering wounds covering its body and messy hair, well except for instead of smiling it's always frowning and crying blood. And maybe long arms compared to its body, similar to Shy Guy from SCP? As I said before, Abused grows in strengh and size when damaged and in its maximum can reach 9 feet in height. Only way to destroy the Abused is by hand of pc or npc with lawful good aligment and who hasn't killed innocents. Also, wounds inflicted such a character won't give the Abused its power boost. Like, sorry man but if you have commited DnD sins that inspire stories in RPG Horror Stories - subReddit, you will never be able to kill this thing. If you manage to roll nat 20 to defend themself or fight back in any way, Abused actually gets a TRIPLE in its damage-based power boost. Even if you manage use something like wish spell to wish it gone.... well abused can actually cease to exist. HOWEVER, if your party managed to kill the Abused or wish it away, I can still always come back if you roll Nat 1 for anything and anywhere in Shadowfell. Even wishing the Abused to be permanently gone wont help, althought you evil character has to roll maybe three Nat 1s in order to Abused to return. Like a revenant , it will pursue its prey relentlesly, and it will always know its victim's location Oh, and if you have more than one evil or chaotic adventurer in your band, who have all killed random people before arriving to Shadofell, Abused will the target multiple players, also meaning that if party is full of murderhobos.... well, I suggest to you to get the hell out from Shadowfell

[@ethanotoroculus1060]

If it were me personally, I'd represent guilt as an omniscient Lawful Evil Paladin that constantly berates the character for their sins while seeking to punish them. They're almost impossible to defeat head on, so the solution instead becomes about convincing them that their logic is flawed, much like in real life.

[@critter8132]

That's Pretty Much what a Death Knight is bruv

[@ethanotoroculus1060]

@@critter8132 **Reads the entry** ...Yeah, that checks out.

[@polygon2745]

The Lonely looks like handsome squidward squirted ink into his eyes

[@SpitfiretheCat16]

suicide squidward and handsome squidward's lovechild

[@imeantherearethedarktownsy5210]

how- how did he squirt that ink?

[@Peusterokos1]

He he he That isn't ink He he he

[@Reubenaut]

They should do one in reverse for the faywild with happy and “good” emotions but they are deadly because It’s unhealthy to only have “good” emotions. Maybe one of joy that keeps you in a drunken state of bliss until you starve.

[@isaachess9356]

Sounds dope

[@elegantoddity8609]

Or make some less terrible sorrowsworn. If the sorrowsworn are antifey I don't see why they all have to be evil when hags etc exist.

[@CheshireFatorum]

Thing is, they can't really decide what they want to do with the Shadowfell. The Feywild is described as "life in overdrive", where every whim becomes a passion and emotions quickly boil over. _All_ emotions, whether joy or rage, compassion or sorrow. In fact, some fey are spawned by emotions, too - redcaps come from bloodthirst, Boggles from loneliness, Meenlocks from fear. The Feywild _already_ does the "emotions spawn monsters" thing, and obviously isn't limited to positive emotions. There have been descriptions of the Shadowfell that mirror that, as in, having it subdue all emotions until all that's left is emptiness… …but then there's also _this,_ where the Shadowfell suddenly amplifies (only) negative emotions, breaking the symmetry.

[@havokmusicinc]

That's the Positive Energy Plane. Everything is more vibrant, full of life, healing, and light... but living creatures eventually literally explode into energy and are destroyed since they become overloaded

[@elegantoddity8609]

@@havokmusicinc Erm I don't think that's it. The Gray Wastes and Shadowfell both deaden emotions while the Feywild and Elysium amplify them. It's their thing.

[@Torthrodhel]

I love the concept too. Coming up with a few of my own just because inspiration: "the Morbose" Resultant of a jealousy of edginess you haven't experienced sufficiently to spoil the attraction of, these silent open-mouthed gargants slide effortlessly along any surface, their dragged legs constantly crunching and reshaping, snapping and reforming to fit the relief they don't seem to actually be in friction with. They won't attack you, but you can choose to do damage to them, to which they react with only a longing gaze. Should you kill one, unbeknownst to you you've actually dispached of yourself and it is now you instead. Slowly you begin to glide around like they do, and soon enough your body contorts to fit the same shape. A good anti-murderhobo, especially if other enemies interested in your demise could perceivably disguise one as something else. "the Languid" The sneakiest of the bunch, this gormless humanoid lump likes to secretly insert itself into the company of adventuring parties, aimlessly plodding alongside waiting for someone to seem like they aren't caring about what they're doing. At this point it will open up horrifyingly on one side, completely to reveal a gutty mawlike hollow innard (but still entirely silently) and attempt to swallow the listless soul whole. If swallowed, you make saving throws that gradually drain random stats (curable only by major restoration) a point at a time at a rate of one per minute. If you're still aimless and rote, you may not even notice being swallowed in this way as a perception-numbing aura extends around the creature. Should any stat fall to zero, you die. Should you succeed in a saving throw, you wake up to the situation and gain an attack against the creature from inside, escaping if you kill it, going numb again if you don't. Either way, during all of this nobody around you will even know you're in peril unless they are naturally inclined to look back and take notice. So take heed of your fellow adventurers, lest they become took by a false proxy. "the Stubborn" These wireframes of flesh slivers with translucent force magic panelling that drip with liquid ambition both figuratively and literally manifest in roughly symmetrical spaces a victim is led to by their dogged insistence to follow a singular path no matter the consequence. One will mirror its fixation's motions and dimensions precisely, diverging only should other circumstances in the spacial vicinity force it to scrabble to get back on track. Effectively this translates to every attribute you have, it has twice and everything you do to it happens twofold back at you. You're willing to escalate? Well I'm twice as willing to escalate in return! They can be disencountered entirely by giving up on the goal, or they can be actively defeated by playing with the kinds of self-destructive emotions that might draw other sorrowsworn to seek you out (you're suicidal? well I'm twice as suicidal!). But should you get past one in order to claim the great object of desire it has drawn you toward, you come to realise that the object dies and disintegrates along with it. "the Ashamed" Bulbous twists of self-torture, these gross visages have tusks that grow into their own eyes, tears that burn trenches in their cheeks, legs and arms joined together so that no matter which way it walks it's always painfully barring a limb, and a spine so thin and bent it barely holds a chucked neck above the jagged spines where chest hair would be expected. Should you encounter one from feeling deep shame at a personal failure, you may expect it a particularly easy foe, if a little cruel to dispatch of. And that individual one may indeed be, but should you do so you will be cursed to feel the same shame after each defeat of another sorrowsworn and compelled to react the same way in killing it, causing more and more to show up each time. The more there are, the less pathetic a challenge they actually pose, behaving as a hive mind, as if one creature. Accumulate enough and you might not make it out alive, and then you will surely feel eternal shame in wherever you end up post-death, having had your life ended by something designed specifically to be more pathetic than anything else. So that villager that warned you to maintain courage and self-assuredness on your adventure wasn't speaking in platitudes after all...

[@dylanboczar999]

Underappreciated comment, these are very cool

[@emilianorios4761]

Can we get one for lust?

[@godsigner]

I liked the Ashamed and Stubborn :)

[@Torthrodhel]

Aww thanks you guys! As requested... "the Slatherous" Chasers beware, for from a distance this dribbling murmurer's illusion aura will have you believe it to be the idealised object of your desires, manifested from inappropriateness toward the aim of your real affections. But the closer you get, the more you realise just how horrifying that object actually is, with knees for feet and flattened arms making it look like in a constant worship pose, and a twisted-back reverse head looking up at you from a dipped position. It will thrash and bite at you and anyone allied with you, covered with tiny spines from top to toe that scrape flesh and pierce armor, and keen to shower you with the violent gifts of its own obsession. Any praise heaped on this creature will cause its most devastating attack of all - a spewed stream of rancid acidic bile that overcomes resistance and even reduces immunity. If killed, it curls into a sad ball and regains its distant idealised shape, hardens into marble and cracks into bloodstained pieces.

[@kylestanley7843]

I do appreciate the Ashamed.

[@deanthelis5578]

Haha, you're a DM. You have way more than 383 hours in D&D, boyo, ain't nobody believin' that nonsense.

[@scepta101]

Maybe he only meant solid session time rather than prep time?

[@CharlesBalester]

Thanks Logan, you just pointed out to me that I also have more hours in The Binding of Isaac than in D&D, and I have more hours in Critical Role than The Binding of Isaac, and that I have more hours in Skyrim than I do in Critical Role

[@pokemainiak]

One of these monsters was used in a short campaign I ran for a friend, but with a twist: the sorrowsworn were transformed FROM the people that felt the thing. Someone ran into a Lonely that would stalk them and managed to nearly kill one of the party members as he chased them down. Eventually through some really intense healing magic, they were able to turn it back into a person: It was an infant baby, whose parents died in the Shadowfell as they fled their homes into the ungodly plane and she was left alone in her crib to the elements of the Shadowfell's magic... Becoming The Lonely

[@mediatorraptor3349]

Damn, that kinda dark and sad.

[@JonnesTT]

The Shadowfell is just cave² It dark The paths seem to change you lonely going up can lead you down Monsters crawl from the depth to consume every emotion you ever felt while enjoying the slow painful death they willingly inflict on you. Just a like a cave

[@BookWyrmOnAString]

Bruh what kinda caves u going to

[@kylestanley7843]

Ahh, but the shadowfell doesn't spam poison.

[@ragoth6207]

When you said something about loving those creatures I thought you were going to add something like "The Lustful" and make it a bards best nightmare come true.

[@holdenkimura5034]

The Humiliated: Literally physically isolates the part one by one

[@jaythestar4352]

Basically: just vibe and you'll be fine.

[@darkmoon2503]

Okay, but imagine this: a shadow sorcerer whose dad is a sorrowsworn. On second thought, don't. Ew.

[@behindthesmile1276]

@Ray Bans *the rest of the party* We should never have asked

[@darkmoon2503]

Ray Bans ShadSorc: "Dad, I'm heading to school." Dadsworn: "Aren't you forgetting to do something?" ShadSorc: "Nnnnnope." (opens door) Dadsworn: (f*cking harpoons son through chest and pulls him into a hug) "Yes you were ;)"

[@digitaldevil696]

I can see him despising his family so much that he have made a fiend pact just for a more fun company, because nothing says "fun" more than hellish fiends

[@kylestanley7843]

@@darkmoon2503 "Dadsworn" lmfao

[@strionic770]

Ok but hear me out: Shadow sorcerer who *is* their own sorrowsworn.

[@rinco1532]

Then depression ends up being an eldritch dragon leech that eats your mind from the inside

[@KRJayster]

I can’t be the only person who misread this as “sorrowworm” and went “what?”

[@formorianify]

saddest worm this side of Faerun

[@skenjamin7683]

0:40 now that’s how to live.

[@camilla3801]

Random suggestion: PLEASE! Do a collab with Jess jackdaw to make some monsters it would be AWSOME

[@haysdixon6227]

take a look at the Dungeon of Doodling! :)

[@leetzabach5793]

Yo I love this style of content, and I've always thought the sorrowsworn were pretty interesting. Keep it up man!

[@TheMSwork]

The vengeful: if youve lost a dear companion in your tome in the underdark this creature will appear to subtly trick you into killing your friends, whether that be through illusions or other means. The way you free yourself from it is to let go of your vengeful grudge.

[@notabot3236]

I feel the melting sun every single day, god I hate arizona weather

[@notgonnahappen8074]

Saaaaaaaaaaaaame

[@roshanedelman7020]

I also hate melting when day breaks

[@mattheusfinco7050]

meh , here in south america we are used to melting climate , but the winter started like , past week

[@MCNarret]

Especially when those electric companies suck your money and forces you to have the house at 86 F or above and all you do is sit there with a small fan unable to think. Outside is worse 110 and above, the light going through the windows burns from >11 UV index.

[@jaythestar4352]

Me: *steps outside* Also me: Ow! Heat was hot!

[@Danothyus1]

I do also love the sorrowsworn and im actually playing a homebrew campaign that have then as one of the main enemy. And i also think we don't have enough sorrowsworns to make an adventure with then, so i made some for me. i made the following ones, based on guilty, tiredness, doubt, fear, sadness, loathing, madness, sickeness, violence and hatred and hypocrisy. guilty is a large creature with spider like features, it goes after ppl feeling guilty and if he hits you, he makes you feel so much guilt that you fall prone in front of him. If you do something altruistic in front of him you're immune to his effect and he gets disadvantage. tired is almost unmovable creature that causes exaustion if you don't end up moving at least your speed at your turn. If he is forced to move he loses his ability. Fear is a thin black humanoid that can locate ppl who are feeling fear and cause the frightened condition, teleport to ppl who are frightened and deal extra damage agaisn't then, if you pass the fear test, it gets disadvantage agains't you. doubt is a giant headed humanoid with countless eyes that can use its reaction to make you fail any action you're trying to do, and if you fail anything close to it you get disadvantage while close to it. sadness is humanoid who crawls on the ground and causes ppl to fall prone and incapacitaded in despair until they are attacked. loathing is a huge bat like creature with a human mouth and no eyes that forces you atyour turn to attack your allies you're close to or waste your action attacking yourself. madness is a large humanoid that it screams causes temporary madness, and have advantage attacking ppl affected by madness. violence is a flaming humanoid that deals more damage when attacking someone that attacked it last turn. If it dies to someone who hitted him twice, he explodes. hatred are small bat like things that are blinded to everything except one target, if they hit you, you also become blind to everything else, except the hatred. hipocrisy is gargantuan sized hydra thing that each head it is own creature. the heads can't work together and will try to pull taret away from each other; if they are adjacent to each other, they have disadvantage, same with creatures standing close to each other causes disadvantage on the heads.

[@oliversmalley7771]

I really love that Runesmith just took this as an opportunity to sneak in a few mental health lessons.

[@crafterbros8708]

My DM used these guys are representations of emotions, as bosses. Loved that campaign.

[@dank_smirk2ndchannel200]

Barbarian: *exists* The Angry: "It's free real-estate."

[@pepsifacts7724]

in 1995 the slogan for Pepsi-cola was "Nothing Else is a Pepsi"

[@the_soup_man695]

Thanks pepsi facts! Very cool

[@loganmorris1094]

I have a leather pepsico jacket with that slogan printed inside

[@RayPoreon]

I made my own sorrowsworn called "The Anxious". It's basically a big mass of flesh that's paranoid and socially anxious(go figure). It can use it's reaction to attack a talking character and sew its lips shut. You can avoid the fight by staying quiet and end the fight by gagging yourself/casting Silence. It appears in the path of people that have confidence issues, are paranoid or have trouble fitting into the group.

[@Technodreamer]

Fresh Runesmith, wonderful in the morning!

[@MCFinalNinja]

"I give it till mid 2022 before we figure out how to live with this in the air." Well then.

[@montauk1684]

If the concept of the Sorrowsworn interests you, then I would highly recommend the Magnus Archives, which focuses on things which prey on the inherent fears and sorrows of humanity. (You can also plagarize the hell out of it for D&D campaigns, if you don't recommend it to your entire group like I did.)

[@TheBlackSerpentBeta]

The Joy It inflates your feelings into a balloon, its shifting colours mersmerizing you and it wraps itself around you and pulls you into the sky, until it finally pops, turning your floating feeling into a sinking one and drops you to your death/120 bludgeoning damage.

[@roadtriiip]

YOU;RE TELLING ME THEY HAVE A D&D EQUIVALENT OF SILENT HILL AND I'M ONLY JUST HEARING ABOUT IT NOW

[@jetstreamjackie3437]

Sometimes I just watch your videos because your voice is relaxing to listen to. I have no idea what these things are and will not remember them at all after this, but I still like the video bc your voice is very nice

[@matthewletexier]

That's why I'm always revisiting Larry videos. So relaxing.

[@Phelan666]

The Nag: A giant wet blanket that falls out of the sky and is really hard to get off. That's all it does.

[@nobodyimportant4778]

Maybe they're so hostile because they start off ephemeral and imperceptible and slowly "learn" how to be like you by reading your (very unhappy) thoughts, and upon taking form, try to do what they think is normal

[@FutureBoy23]

The Bored: Oh cool, you invented ADHD.

[@s.colins2050]

Bruh, same on the Jenna and Julien Podcast bit. They're so chill.

[@fizziz_1035]

The fact that you said you didn't remember your shadowfell video made me think that I truly am a fanboy for this kind of content

[@theforevergamemaster]

A idea, I thought up: Confusion: This creature of confusion appears as a thin, tall creature that stumbles around aimlessly. As a bonus action, this creature can force a player to make a wisdom save. On a failed save, the player is stunned until the confused's next turn. The confused gains a large bonus to damage if a player is stunned

[@Chiavica]

Not to brag but the best monster I’ve ever done was a Sorrowsworn, it was called Paranoia. So if a bad thought can manifest and kill you the worst thought you can have is Paranoia, knowing something is coming but it will probably never came. When I put it in the game, Paranoia just followed the party from a distance, like a shadow from tree to tree, dealing small amounts of psychic damage every time they made a check and when they started panicking and running away. The damage was getting higher every time, the only way to defeat it is to face it. The monster is low CR though.

[@levi6248]

Did I... just see an obligatory Cody Ko reference when Logan said “frictionless”?

[@someidiotfromover7yearsago]

So basically the Shadowfell is like that swamp in Neverending story but instead of sinking into the swamp and traumatizing children you turn into a monster.

[@manybenefitsofmarinebiolog256]

I think that something the Sorrowsworn have that is criminally underused is that, despite their low intelligence and bestial nature, all but the Wretched CAN SPEAK COMMON. I’ve always interpreted them talking as them shouting the hidden insecurities, fears, traumas and grudges at a character while attacking, which is honestly horrifying to me.

[@FirstLast-cg2nk]

So, the Angry is basically the personification of an internet troll? Attack him and he gets stronger, but just ignore him and he goes away.

[@swordofstabbingold]

The two-headed rage thing started with Demogorgon, then trickled down. It is some kind of universal constant.

[@antuanyammine1537]

This feels pretty much as the silent hill realm, and I dig it. Also, I love to see another person with that many hours in The Binding of Isaac. Hope you got a nice day.

[@isaachess9356]

It was only 383

[@antuanyammine1537]

@@isaachess9356 yeah, ik, Warframe drains my time, so it can't be drained by TBOI as much as I wanted :c

[@tennysonchiles192]

This is sounding more like made in the abyss by the second.

[@sobertillnoon]

Yeah, I'm doing that non raycon thing you and Snoop have in common right now.

[@nickh3205]

Remember fireball is the only solution

[@zubbworks]

Can't feel my feels if they're on fire.

[@GootPoot]

I think the Sorrowsworn are a good opportunity to show a party how badly they can fail. They find a dungeon with a collapsed entrance, and if they somehow manage to tear it open, the inside of the dungeon is full of different sorrowsworn. In the entrance room is an Angry. The walls have all be scratched at, and in the corner is an eviscerated corpse. Deeper in the dungeon is a triggered pitfall trap, at the bottom is a Lonely. Wedged in the spikes is another corpse. In a locked room is a Hungry. There isn’t a corpse but only fragments of bones. And then there’s a maze trap, with a Lost in it. At a random dead end in the maze, there’s another corpse.

[@SirMorganD]

Dude, thanks for this. Those little parts of this video made me feel more calm.

[@batmanboy9794]

I gotta ask, what would "The Anger" look like if it met a figure like Escanor from 7 Deadly Sins? Anger: I grow stronger the more hate you put into this fight! Escanor: Why would I hate something obviously so much weaker than myself?

[@coyraig8332]

Because the sun doesn't rise in the shadowfell

[@batmanboy9794]

@@coyraig8332 True, although I am wondering what the spell "Daylight" or something similar would affect him.

[@evannibbe9375]

batman boy97 I guess Daylight or Dawn could work like how Expecto Patronus works in Harry Potter.

[@Aplesedjr]

Evan Nibbe definitely using that. It makes it possible to have hope, if however slim, in such a dreary place.

[@stranger6732]

If defiance is idiocy then compliance is complete mindlessness.

[@space9989]

Watermelon Dog is life

[@nooneinparticular5256]

The Great Bøyg (Inspired by Hendrik Ibsen's opera: Peer Gynt) A strange immortal being with curious ties to Trolls, despite looking nothing like them. It's appearance includes elements of a dark shadow, a slimy serpent, and a thick cloud. It can see into the minds of its targets, see their goals, desires, and flaws, and persuasively offers them misleading advice. The Bøyg thrives off of doubt, despair, selfishness, egotism, materialism, and problems that cannot be physically confronted. "The Bøyg conquers, without fighting." It also likes to hinder travelers, misdirecting them, or making them feel lost, when they aren't. While it is intangible, and unkillable, it can be obstructed, annoyed, and repulsed with certain things: Conviction, Drive, Religious icons & artifacts, fervent prayer, church bells, and chaste women. I suppose this would classify more as an encounter, or event, but you can't really fight it. Not physically, anyway. SO, what do you think?

[@TsulaAngenati2292]

An expansion to the idea of the Guilty: they could appear as a misty rib cage with a mirror held in said ribs, they force the guilty person to look into said mirror as their damaged by psychic energy, the tail-like spine of the Guilty will constrict the person, weighing them down so they can only see the mirrors guilt

[@lsedge7280]

Awesome video, perhaps a different idea for The Bored though? (that'll make the party hate you). Rather than lying in wait to surprise you, they'll creep up on you while your resting / waiting (i.e. 'doing nothing' really) - Just to make short & long rests in the Shadowfell that much more of a nightmare. Possibly also rather than them typically outright dealing damage to start, they are instead really hard to notice/perceive, but cause disadvantage on various checks & saving throws and other passive debuffing? In themselves they wouldn't then be a huge threat, but they could become deadly when you then bump into another type of enemy, with one of them clinging to you.

[@Ana-ng1xk]

"I'd like to imagine that we'll get through this in good time." Oh poor sweet May 28 2020 baby...

[@destrik4115]

So many cool ideas thank you for the inspiration!

[@KageRyuu6]

Angry = Wrath Hungry = Gluttony Lonely = Lust, I guess. Lost = Sloth, maybe? Wretched = Envy, maybe? Just missing Greed and Pride, neither of which are very well represented by your suggestions. But there's probably a reason as to their absence, probably because WotC couldn't really rap their mind around the two concepts.

[@kylestanley7843]

Mm, this doesn't necessarily have to pertain to the seven deadly sins. They're oddly popularized for some reason, I find it over rated.

[@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149]

You know what they say, two heads are filled with more unbridled, mindless rage than one. Also, man, these are really cool! I've never heard about sorrowsworn before.

[@jackg1135]

Thanks for making videos. They are always interesting and even have funny jokes at times. Keep making good content!

[@juniperrodley9843]

I've been seeing a lot of sorrowsworn suggestions in which you beat the monstrosity by feeding the emotion which... like... that's the *exact opposite* of how it's meant to work

[@ryanbirchley6613]

The Apathetic/Hopeless The creature manifests when someone has completely lost all will to continue, it is a gaunt and ashen androgynous figure. Makes no attempts to engage and will actually flinch away from being attacked, however the creature maintains a 60ft aura of apathy, that makes all inside it feel fugue and listless. The feeling translates to anyone attacking the Apathetic making a DC 15 Cha Save or lose the action or spell completely, this also works against aoe spells that would hit within its aura. One final annoyance is that if the attack or spell succeeds it can use it's reaction to wither the attacker, adding a stack of exhaustion to them. So possibly best to focus fire it using as much advantage as you can muster 😅

[@KamenRiderGreed]

Great video, love the original concepts at the end a d tbh, I'd have loved to see more of those ideas.

[@wedran9225]

I feel like this doesnt really work mechanically (or at least it would just suck), but i imagine the way to "defeat" a Bored is to just survive its attack, and it'll just stop after a little bit.

[@roobs2976]

so sorrowsworn is just depression but this time you're able to punch it in its ugly face

[@TheKa89]

How to deal with The Angry is what I do at my job on the daily. I listen, but I just ignore the emotion in a customer. I once had a lady get to the point of sputtering because I told her I wouldn't yell back at her and engage in an argument, because 'i'm afraid that's not professional and sets a bad example for our staff.' Just as a shadowsworn, she stood there unable to get me to engage negatively, until she just wandered off.

[@mtherfurth]

0:46 Runesmith uses the same Simmons cooling pillow that I do.

[@dotmp4353]

Ah yes my favorite emotion blobs of sad boi land

[@lightsora34]

I love how you start putting out these videos a couple of days after a player of mine gives me his backstory about how his character is tied to the Shadowfell, and that is where his warlock patron grants his powers from. Now I have some really fun ideas about encounters I can have. Not to mention the two new creatures you thought up, and more that could be made. Just want to say thank you.

[@Groovebot3k]

4:38 Did he just give us a slightly hopeful reaction to current events? I don't know whether to be thrilled or terrified.

[@weavelcow9596]

Thanks for making this. It's a great video and I appreciate the work you put into these. It's probably not the goal but it would be nice to show friends the whole monster manual just from your videos, you always make the information enjoyable :)

[@freakyzoid3565]

Overall just a lovely addition to every dms toolbar

[@sinnerthesinful552]

3:44 That's gluttony

[@pilky_boooi]

gluttony is a stupid sin and also it can be connected with power or money so yeah its gluttony but not really

[@Aplesedjr]

Greed is an extension of gluttony.

[@garrettbyrd7426]

Greed is the sin from which all others arise

[@eggbag4182]

I like how Runesmith made The Bored and accidentally predicted a new Legend of Zelda enemy

[@joshuadominick7134]

also just keep doing what you do your dry hilarious humor is just what i want

[@wmad202]

I'm just patiently waiting for Basically False Hydras

[@kyledilbert6424]

A person with the munchies in Shadowfell: "Why do I hear boss music?"

[@zedekai9456]

Yo do more videos where you create more of what you're exploring! Loved the extra stuff!

[@hostagegrenade743]

I really love these vids. They teach me a lot about the lore of D&D. Keep up the awesome work

[@alwinwinter1645]

I've always lived these and honestly always wanted all of them to have more of a gimmick on how to defeat them, I just find the idea of emotions manifesting as monsters very fun

[@magiv4205]

Ok but no joke, these guys are the ULTIMATE foil for any party. What a thematically cool way to kill your characters lmao

[@starbomber]

The Duldrums...like in The Phantom Tollbooth. That's a pretty good example of how to beat Boredom. You have to use your brain, to think.

[@sharpestbulb]

I think "The Bored" should be a leech that you don't notice is on you and progressively saps your movement

[@Galdrazier]

Current campaign I DM is in the Shafowfell, I love throwing these guys at my players. My players love it slightly less.

[@HeavenifHell]

I think "lassitude" might be a better name than "the bored". Especially since it would be a bit more open of a concept, it could be tied to exhaustion in a more survival centered game which I think would work great for such a dreary place.

[@tropical_flak]

Yes, very spooky monster

[@tobythompson3746]

Oh my god the sorrowsworn you made are great, I’ve wanted to have more for so long!!!

[@abiggs4828]

Happy Blursday everyone!! What a joy fresh content to consume is. Runesmith, your impending madness is grounding for us all, and we appreciate you.

[@dilophosaurussk4333]

YES! ONE OF, IF NOT MY FAVORITE MONSTER GROUP! THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[@arandomzoomer4837]

Thank god Runesmith is doing basically videos about monsters like he used to instead of just subclasses.

[@thomasvanbellen3987]

Loved the Kody Ko reference