Can Druids work as D&D Villains?

[@pointyhatstudios]

Y'all asked for this one! A LOT! so I hope you dig it!

[@mathispotier4646]

i love your videos you always come up with such creative concepts idk how you do it

[@straebaseborn983]

I always love these Which Lich videos! I really hope you make an Artificer Lich at some point!

[@Bek_the_dyslexic_artist]

You introduced me to dnd. Thank you 😊

[@KaiserAfini]

Thank you for all these great homebrews, I found your videos recently and they are one compelling idea after another. The work and passion that goes into them is plain to see. The design analysis, the animations, the story hooks, the creation and calibration of new mechanics. Its all very well done and flavorful. Thanks again for sharing your passion with us.

[@42sigma30]

Absolutely inspired. Of all the casters, I was the most intrigued by what you'd do with the Druid, and this video does not disappoint. Can't wait for the Artificer, Warlock, and Paladin if half-casters count.

[@Sinfulpapaya]

I will NEVER get bored of the little final sharade of pointy hat pretending he didn't already wrote the stories he tells

[@aclaymushroomwithaberet7084]

I cannot wait for his april fools where the only difference is that he actually states he wrote it ahead of time

[@Scalesthelizardwizard]

I'm imagining an ocean-themed Blight and how their Deathbloom would be coral

[@reddiz2182]

That sounds bad ass!

[@Scalesthelizardwizard]

@@reddiz2182 and deadly imagining trying to fight the sea

[@TRainbowPitt]

Ohhhh the land expanding would actually just be like tsunamis and flodings, maybe even super heavy rains

[@malakarvonstroheim5372]

Coral are animals tecnically

[@Scalesthelizardwizard]

@@malakarvonstroheim5372 true I was thinking more for the look

[@xelnagaprime_1071]

I think a Wildfire Druid wouldn't just be another growing blight on the land, but a constant, sentient wildfire expanding ever outward.

[@MagusDouken]

Spore can work great as well, melding quite fondly with hjs examples of weaponizing the land

[@ThelordHayden34]

An eternal blaze that’s ever spreading

[@alanherlan3429]

oh great would you mind telling me why you are trying to make a portal to the elemental plane of fire?

[@markzofcin9003]

​@@MagusDoukenoh I'm definitely making that for a last of us esque city in my homebrew setting, maybe some spooky name, like the blightlands, I dunno

[@Toolgirl64209]

This is just the plot of Humblewood

[@jinxtheunluckypony]

Tying the Blight to an environment, rather than an object, was an inspired choice. I like it!

[@lordsergal8783]

First thought with the expansion idea was Kudzu overgrowth

[@milesmatheson1142]

I smell Favored Terrains

[@Dahxelb]

I too really like the idea of a Druid-Lich's soul being 'Rooted' to a specific location that the Blight both wanted to protect, but now also Needs to protect. Feels very Druid-y. I am a bit Iffy about the 'Why' the Memorial needs to continuously grow and spread. I did like the cancer comparison, since that's kinda what is had become. Maybe it could be explained by some kind of natural "Balance" needing to be maintained.. like, since the memorials internal balance of life, death and renewal has been disrupted, in order to fuel the unnatural life of the memorial land, it needs to sap and leech that life of the nearby lands, imposing the "natural death" of the memorial onto its surrounding lands instead, to maintain an overall balance. Again, kinda like what a cancer tumor do. Maybe this was exactly what he was going for and I didn't quite catch that, but I felt the 'Why' was a bit too brief

[@Cowboy-Pug]

Yes I stay for the ramblings😂 it's funny

[@jasonexplosion154]

I'm a simple man. I see folks making Swamp Things, I upvote.

[@realhuman4879]

Artificer Lich: The moment I discovered the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me

[@andrewspears8891]

Praise the Omnissiah!

[@TheRuancarlo]

Glorious evolution

[@russellhumphrey5209]

Artificer Lich = Phyrexia?

[@ITZCOATL10]

Necron?

[@BloodDracolich]

​@Russell Humphrey, I was about to say; that's Yawgmoth and the New Phyrexian praetors more or less!

[@Matt_Wildcard_Webster]

I love the idea of a Warlock litch who overpowers their patron, making them a filactory

[@pandoratheclay]

The paladin could be like the hollow dragon from the fizbans book

[@firelordeliteast6750]

I mean, one of the Warlock patrons literally is a Lich.

[@Matt_Wildcard_Webster]

@@firelordeliteast6750 wait, seriously? What book is that in?? Not what I was meaning with this comment, but still sounds awesome!

[@mateuszmika4374]

@@Matt_Wildcard_Webster just search hollow dragon they were in fizban treasury of dragons i believe

[@doughboy_6439]

It's spelled 'philactery'

[@donavandunn9824]

Making a Fungal themed Blight for my players to fight, and the first thing they hear as the main body forms is "can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters"

[@nmraven-gx9gt]

Gotta have a gunslinger or artificer though

[@szymonpinkowski256]

Thats basicly a nurgle deamon

[@Mae_Dastardly]

But does he know the name of god

[@GalexiDude]

I'M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

[@Psyko_Monk3y]

I thought you were making a "can you feel my heart" reference with this first to lines. Then disappointment.

[@Michael-ph7dy]

Tbh, I feel like a great way to wrap up this series (when you inevitably run out of spellcasting classes) would be to do an update to the concept of a wizard lich with your own flair

[@BadBabsyBrown]

DOUBLE LICH

[@LuckySketches]

Barbarian lich.

[@HuxtableK]

@@LuckySketches Man too angry to die properly.

[@notoriousgoblin83]

​@@HuxtableKactually could work. Fuels itself by war and combat.

[@HuxtableK]

@@notoriousgoblin83 Not just getting kills, but by sparking wars? Or just massive battlefields of blood? Similar to old style Kratos from the God of War series?

[@aswd90]

Imagine, for a moment, a young woman, a druid, driven to the brink of insanity by melancholy, despair and the feeling of betrayal, after discovering herself to be barren, incapable of generating new life, something that is seen as a curse according to the tenets of the druidic order she was a part of, and as such was banished from the order, and the grove in which she was born. Then one day, while searching for a new grove to call home, she discovers a thought to be extinct species of plant, known for the incredible healing properties of it's sap, and in a spark inspiration born of desperation, performs the ritual to awaken the plant, giving it the conciousness of a child, her new child. The years pass and the plant grows into a great tree, giving it's mother droplets of it's sap, greatly increasing her longevity and healing any disease that may afflic her. When one day, close to twenty knights invade their grove, coming for the tree's healing sap, as a plague has spread across the kingdom, killing dozens, threating the collapse of the kingdom. And while the druid would've normally have given them the sap, the quantity that would be needed to heal the entire kingdom, as was being requested, would kill her plant child, and so she refuses. One of the knights then revealed himself to be the king of the kingdom and demands that she hand over the sap, and when she refuses again, he orders his men to attack and the druid fights back, using her magics to defend herself and her child. The battle is long and hard, and she slays several of her attackers, but for as powerful a druid as she is, she is only one, while her attackers still number close to a dozen. Soon she is overwelmed and restrained, her magic spent, and so she can only watch in despair as her child is drained dry of it's sap, screaming at the king and his knights to stop, to spare her child. But her cries fall on deaf ears, for the king cannot afford to fail in this mission, by any means necessary, even if he knows that the cries of the druid will haunt him for eternity. Then, after the tree has been drained of it's sap, the king and the remaining knights leave, leaving behind an utterly broken mother weeping over the corpse of her child. The druid weeps for her child for three days and two nights. But at the begining of the third night, her grief turns into hatred, swearing vengance upon the king and his kingdom, for the murder of her child she will kill the king and all his descendants, wherever they may be. And as such, she performs the ritual necessary to become a Blight, so she may better fulfill her vengeance, fusing with the corpse of the tree that was her child in process.

[@tangorex2618]

This is an awesome idea!!!

[@aswd90]

@@tangorex2618Thanks! it thought of it during the ending of the video.

[@simonjameskenway6933]

This is so cool

[@CosmoNoBones]

That is so deeply troubling and tragic, it's a very compelling motivation

[@FuknKms]

​@@CosmoNoBonesI agree, it made me tear up; beautifully worded.

[@Koopaperson]

ARTIFICER CONFIRMED? WILL THE HAT BLESS US?

[@andrewdowns3673]

All Hail the Pointy Hat! With enough subscription and like sacrifices, he will surely bless us with the Lich Artificer!

[@brianmoyachiuz905]

Mecha Lich

[@WildWolfGod]

A Bag of Holding Phalactery

[@henreymichelson]

@@brianmoyachiuz905wouldn’t that be like turning yourself into a war-forged

[@Antiling_the_Squidkid]

I just hope there's no mystic. The mystic is NOT a caster

[@TheTsugnawmi2010]

I like how you’ve balanced this Lich to be the hardest to reach, but also the easiest to kill compared to the other Liches you’ve made.

[@vicio1379]

Technically you could make him stronger and stronger how close to the death bloom he is

[@interconnectedchronicler]

Or make the death bloom be embedded throughout an entire forest, a massive Chlorophylactery, if you will

[@christopherjbarclay522]

@@interconnectedchronicler Ok you had me at chlorophylactery. That’s a rad new word!

[@interconnectedchronicler]

@@christopherjbarclay522 I initially thought it up for a character pun in a campaign awhile back, and never used it again. It's been floatin around in my head for years

[@cgkase6210]

They could even be ready and willing to die, much like the second Blight Antonio makes.

[@randomcdude4430]

This feels very Swamp Thingy to me. Like you could play an adventure with Swamp Thing as the villain. He protects the Green at all costs, even the lands around his swamp. Hooray magic alligators and moss!...or magic moss alligators. Edit: Swamp Thing becomes a blight BECAUSE it wants to spread throughout the land and obliterate other life not of the swamp which the blight deems too destructive (any humanoid) and impure (not swamp stuff). Kind of gives darker Nausica and the Valley of the Winds vibes.

[@lonio9794]

Is no one going to talk about the fact that the toxic jungle from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind works exactly like a memorial ?! This universe could be a great setting for DnD campaigns. Amazing video, like always !

[@quint3ssent1a]

Toxic jungle from Nausicaa looks like some kind of restoration project gone wrong, because, as Nausikaa shows herself, fungi grown in clear environment are not toxic and there is cleared petrified forest beneath the fungal growth. Looks like aftermath of a war was so disastrous, the reclamation project couldn't clean huge swathes of damaged land and fungal forest grown for that became a disaster itself.

[@LeafyK]

Great point! I was reminded of the Blight in the Wheel of Time books.

[@theofficerfactory2625]

In the manga; there are people living within the forest as it expands outwards so... yeah; I'm gonna try and find the manga cause I heard it's better than the movie. Like how's that possible?!!?

[@OkaoComics]

I'll never watch Nausicaa the same way ever again xD

[@thegnarledwood317]

I love its name because it's so literal. It is literally a blight (a disease/scourge)

[@MicahSpiderWeb]

Yes, Pointy Hat, I stay until the end. And I’d say that I’m slaying, living, and killing it! Love this series and can’t wait to see what you do for the warlock (please do the warlock).

[@Darluk]

Please do more of these unique liches. They're so creative & introduce new ideas of an undead big bad with different themes based on the class. ...Now I'm genuinely curious what a ranger-lich would be like.

[@kjj26k]

Phylactery is their pet animal.

[@coryjarrett2952]

i thought of a Ranger Lich once: originating from the DrakeWarden, the drakes gain the ability to think for themselfs. turning the poor ranger into a phylactery and the ranger realizing too late that the drakes are controlling his archana to try to become real dragons. Either that or the drakewarden wants his drakes to live as long as real dragons so the drakewarden tries to find a real dragon to "worship" in reality the warden feeds off of the dragons arcana or soul. Without the dragon even knowing.

[@Darluk]

@@coryjarrett2952 That's a really unique idea, to have the ranger be the phylactery & the pet be the lich. The pet being the phylactery might be the more obvious answer, but I don't like that as much because the relationship between a ranger & their pet has always been portrayed as a close friendship/bond, & turning your friend into a phylactery seems to violate that.

[@coryjarrett2952]

@@Darluk you got a good point as far as betraying the Friendship/bond is concerned. But in someway strange way if you think about it, the ranger is a "Necromancer" or the pets are already liches getting revived constantly until the ranger dies.

[@kotanightshade8989]

Bit late here, but I could see a ranger lich working by Dragonheart rules, by sharing their heart with their animal companion they become linked and you'd need to kill both

[@Refinedstories]

I was talking with my brother about warlocks and he actually came up with a pretty good concept for the lich version of a warlock based on the idea of pacts. Basically you could make a pact with someone to keep yourself alive for an extended period of time. This could be through having someone die in your place, extending your lifespan by taking years off theirs, or just taking over their body after being killed and replacing them entirely. It’s a simple premise with a lot of potential for flavour and it’s built off a fundamental aspect of the entire class.

[@zachstone8721]

Just got to wait for Paladin and Artificer liches to start writing a hombrew where each of the nations is led by a different kind of lich and they are all wanting the others gone. “Till Lichdom come” is the working title 😂

[@TheDigitalWatcher]

I can't imagine a paladin lich being much different from a revenant. I'm excited to see what he comes up with.

[@tonysladky8925]

Long ago the four Liches lived in peace but everything changed when the Fire Lich attacked.

[@ikmart112]

So a death knight?

[@andrewspears8891]

@ikmart112 Death knights are externally made (evil deity or demon decides it wants an evil knight and proceeds to find a suitable person for death knightdom). I think that lich paladin would be a paladin that went so hard in on their oath that they decided to keep doing it eternally, add in a ritual of so me sort and an upkeep cost (perhaps they have their spirit inhabit another person with the same oath, taking their power and will with them) and you got a PH paladin lich recipe.

[@asilnorahc8910]

Oooh i thought of that too! Except i thought "hey, how about the world is secretly controlled by undeads, illuminaty like, and a sort of lich council controls the lives of mortals like gods?" Except, well, this druid lich wouldn't likely collaborate XD so liches fighting against eachother sounds more probable... or the liches conclave promised a druid their Land would thrive only to betray them, so the druid attained their own lichdom to fight back... and wholeheartedly desires to expand till they reach the very foot of the liches tower XD So the liches conclave would even have to reach out to adventurers to make them try to end this expanding threat!!

[@11epicnoob]

The Blight is basically as if a druid had a wish for immortality to protect nature granted by a Djinn. "Congrats! Your immortal and can control nature to let it fight back, but the forest is now a massive, malignant cancer"

[@PirvateerKurei]

Oooh an artiticer villain would be awesome! I would hope they would be the comically Victorian entrepreneur with handlebar mustache (man or woman) and make comically gigantic machines that feed off nature and magic respectively.

[@danw91]

Or they become the devil that sells cursed objects, gaining souls for each purchase making them live forever

[@toastedmarsh6185]

Would be cool to see some biomimicry where it takes that nature and replaces it with machines as its simply ineffient to destroy without replacing and if you have this uber smart robo lich why wouldnt they find a sustainable way to preserve themselves no matter the means.

[@pedrowser2446]

For some reason i think of a Artificer Lich in a form of "Chronolich" all equipped with steampunk machine parts and the control of time in the area next to him, it could age things, stop time, and similar things, the question is that he only could do it in the area of their domain, and he isn't actually imortal, just stopped time from ticking in himself while in their domain. The objective could be to expand their domain, but for this to happen he needs to build clock towers in shape of spires that age everything in the area to transfer the life energy to him and his structures. Sorry for bad english ;)

[@Yosta56the3rd]

Inevitably an Artificer Lich will run up against some, you know, "FROM THE MOMENT I REALISED THE WEAKNESS OF MY FLESH, IT DISGUSTED ME"

[@dicorockhimself]

i had a atificer litch in one of my games years ago with a whole making their body into artfcats. for instance his arm was revolver for wond's. he also hand like a while set of machine army ribs he can use to do horible things to you

[@beetleb.1418]

The Fawn-adventure sounds INTENSE ... save the town, save Fawn ... save the world! I'm imagining him popping up, appearing to the adventurers to give hints, clues, and help, as he can, fighting the Memorial to help these people who want to help them all, the way Fawn once wanted to help the land.... TEARS. And yes, you are indeed slaying, living, killing it!

[@kingsplex8974]

A little teaser of a Paladin lich has me extremely excited as an idea. I can't wait to see your eventual twist to it.

[@doughboy_6439]

The Oath Breaker is the most obvious one, becoming a Death Knight.

[@enderblade6417]

For the Artificer Lich, Nox from Wakfu seems like good inspiration.

[@TheDigitalWatcher]

YEEEESSS! Nox is such a fascinating character in both his story and his concept.

[@Sheamu5]

13:57 this section gave me huge nostalgia for guild wars 2 Sylvari race. Your character is born from a tree city and sent out into the world to learn.

[@peterschmitz9670]

I just wrote a 'little' one shot for our group based on an ever expanding dangerous land. The players are a team choosen to find out why this is happening and who´s behind it all. I delayed the onshot because I dind´t had an interesting BBEG. BUT NOW I HAVE!!! Thx a lot for that! You´re the true hero of my upcoming adventure!

[@chancecomic1595]

Man, these lich videos are the pinnacle of your creativity, I love them. Idea for a Fighter or Barbarian Lich: Its phylactery is a war. This can be between countries, gangs, families, races, tribes, or individual people. As long as the battle rages, through violence or espionage or propaganda, they continue to live, almost forcing them to maintain the conflict through subtle or obvious means. Only by forging peace can it finally be defeated (or by killing everyone involved, either or) This was inspired by Xivu Arath from Destiny 2 (The Hive god of war who grows stronger from any violence committed, for, against, or unrelated to her ("[She] feeds on warfare. The more violent the act, the greater the power she draws from it")), Apollyon from For Honor (Who stoked war between 3 different nations by brutality and subterfuge, to wheen out the wolves among the sheep), and the United States

[@skyguy713]

Clan feuds going back generations are actually uncle Hrogar fucking with your family. I love it.

[@leonmitas]

Its cool idea, but I think to become a lich you have to be a strong spellcaster

[@chancecomic1595]

@@leonmitas You're right, but there are magic based subclasses for both Fighter (Eldritch- , Echo- , and Rune Knight, and Psi Warrior) and Barbarian (Wild Magic, and Ancestral Guardians), so it's not unfeasible I'd also make the argument that non-spellcasters could maybe achieve lichdom, because: 1. By Hat's criteria, they need to conduct a ritual, which I would argue they could do, maybe, possibly, through a lot of research or old magic or something (Like using a one use magic item?) And, more honestly, 2. I think it'd be cool to see lich versions of every class, including martial ones. They all have some form of magic based subclass. They could gain weird, unique necro magic in their undeath. And, most importantly, _God damn, a super powerful undead fighter/barbarian/monk/rogue sounds fucking sick_

[@leonmitas]

@@chancecomic1595 it DOES! 🙄😂

[@chancecomic1595]

@@leonmitas RIGHT!! XD I want it so bad!

[@Vivi.20.]

Perhaps one interesting idea is a sort of love story type deal. There were two people who fell in love and came to value a particular area due to it being rather hidden and quite beautiful. It was their own little hideaway from the rest of the world. However, due to sudden illness one of the lovers is brought to the brink of death and the two decide to make their hideaway be their resting place. Years later the remaining lover is watching over the place when people decide to start expanding their towns. This would cause the destruction of hideaway in the process. In a moment of pure emotion, the remaining lover goes through the ritual to become a blight, vowing to ensure noone else will overtake this place, that nobody can ever destroy their hideaway. And so when the ritual is complete, a lone deathbloom grows over the lover's grave. I'd imagine if this is contained in a setting though it would have to be a lower leveled variant of a blight that hasn't spread far but is still a threat, this way the party can manage it as I'd imagine something like this likely isn't BBEG territory, but still an overall really cool concept imo.

[@magneticbulldog3063]

I missed my chance to say this pun on the last lich video. “You son of a lich

[@lucasstefanini3082]

Since your first Which Lich video, I did the same for the other casters for my own amusement and future usage and had the same conceptual idea as you for the Druid. So glad to see your take on it :D These are such great ideas and I can't thank you enough for your hard work!

[@commentary4298]

There is actually an official druid lich in the books. It’s called a lichenlich.

[@armata_strigoi_0]

​@@commentary4298 He literally says this is in the video.

[@nobiggie928]

That could actually work quite well for a later point in our campaign! Our Warlocks Patreon, a powerful archfey gave him the mission, to spread beauty everywhere he goes. What will happen if they meet a memorial and its blight guardian, that are touched by his patreons faycourt but is endangering the nearby villages?

[@maybeyourbaby6486]

I love this so much and you somehow blew all my expectations out of the water AGAIN somehow but also I really wanna highlight the HORROR potential of this 😭😭 because this shit would be utterly terrifying if the group didn't know what was happening and had to slowly piece it together. Just like... being in a forest that's a little too shady and makes you feel like you're being watched wherever you go, maybe investigating disappearances or something, they find victims that are basically just fertillizer at this point that clearly died in a struggle, but no sign whatsoever of whoever killed them or whoever dragged them there in the first place. Sounds of cracking twigs and branches waving in the wind that make you think someone is following, but whenever you see a bush rustling like someone's going to come out of it, nobody is there. The animals look strange and just stare at you, staying in sight but barely visible, like they're in on something you aren't. It's not "lets go defeat the lich", it's a monster hunt in the dark creepy woods with the slow realization that the creepy woods IS the monster, and you're in the middle of it. This potentially plays into so many interesting horror concepts... see In The Tall Grass (2019), The Color Out Of Space, Pet Sematary, Annihilation (2018), The Ritual (2018). And imagine running a campaign like one of them, but with a Blight behind it all 😳

[@matttale7918]

Not to mention you’re being watched at all times, imagine going paranoid as the entire time your in this forest, you feel you’re never truly safe, even in the most beautiful of places, there’s something off about it all.

[@nicolegraves9145]

This sounds great for movie or horror story, but unfortunately in role-playing game it is extremely hard to maintain this suspense and players attention at the same time. When we play, we want to have some control, some basic understanding - otherwise it immediately becomes boring and exhausting. On the other hand, one good Perception roll from your Ranger can be enough to give them answers about this bodies, this animals and so on. In that case they will have information and can make decisions, but suspense almost fades away. So yeah, sounds great, but maybe not enough for horror at your table.

[@maybeyourbaby6486]

@@nicolegraves9145 It's all up to the way you DM 🥰

[@cylver3593]

This is my favourite alternate lich so far. The memorial and its expansion is such a cool idea. Thanks for all of your hard work. Looking forward to more lich videos. Maybe warlock?

[@sirtibbles8528]

I stay for every rant, and you know what video I would love to hear a rant at the end of? A monk lich video, I have such a soft spot for that class and I am infinitely curious how you would spin that.

[@mk_gamíng0609]

I had a idea once for a druid that planted seeds into skeletons, the seeds would sprout a plant that would control the skeleton with vines acting like the muscle to move the skeleton

[@TheZachAttack777]

I'm so pumped to use every variant of lich to create a legion of doom for an undead themed campaign that still has some spicy variety. So much flavor. So awesome. Thank you for making something so cool!

[@aimeementzer7605]

A druid lich? I can't wait. I did love the bard lich! It was my favorite so far.

[@aimeementzer7605]

@@Scalesthelizardwizard I know - and I loved it.

[@TheDigitalWatcher]

@@Scalesthelizardwizard Reading is hard, isnt it?

[@mikelrose9685]

I just want to let you know that you are by far my favorite ttrpg producer of content on KZbin. The amount of effort that you put in to these stories is unreal

[@parkerlee4775]

I love staying til the end of the ramblings ❤️ so wholesome and slightly awkward as you give ten different goodbyes back to back

[@ClassicalCatDX3]

Man this is incredible, the absolute depth of character you can feel from this is astonishing. I hope warlock lich rolls around at some point soon-- I think that would be pretty awesome, and one of the characters I have upcoming would be pretty cool to develop that into.

[@unluckyone1655]

This kindof reminds me of the sentient forest guy from The Unexpectables podcast. He's literally a forest fey eldrich being that can always see and hear you (unless you have an anti life shell up) and his humanoid persona is really only used to talk to you. Also there's no wildlife or birds in the forest being because he'd just eat them Edit; his name is Fleur de Mort

[@bennusmagnus5277]

His name is Fleur Du Mort, and he's exactly what I thought of when I saw this video.

[@unluckyone1655]

@@bennusmagnus5277 yeah I forgot his name lol

[@victorvictor_dead_kro_nov_jail]

Yes I'm really happy we get the third video of this series. Also it's funny because after seeing your video about the sorcerer lich I got to read the 13 tome of a manga which surprisingly enough revealed that the main villain was practically the same thing so now I have this example to draw inspiration from when I will make a campaign about this

[@keenirr5332]

may i ask which manga?

[@victorvictor_dead_kro_nov_jail]

@@keenirr5332 mission yozakura family

[@keenirr5332]

@@victorvictor_dead_kro_nov_jail thank you

[@rynemcgriffin1752]

I’ve quite literally needed something like this for my own version of Mine of Phandelvar, thanks for coming in clutch Pointy Hat.

[@darkmatter9643]

I like the idea of a Demi-Blight which has stopped the expanse of the memorial at much expense causing both them and the grove they sacrificed everything to save wither away infront of their eyes as the last thing to rot is their very soul, but idk sounds cool to me.

[@llamatronian101]

Nice, a new flavour of sealed evil in a can. Just waiting for someone to come along and try to fix or exploit the memorial and unleash the blight again.

[@warmachine5835]

@@llamatronian101 I actually love this idea. The Blight overcame its original compulsion and went into a state of dormancy. Lands the Blight assimilated even got reclaimed somewhat! But as the reclamation got closer and closer to the Deathbloom itself, it reawakens with vengeful intent.

[@HitsujiMamoru]

This is my favorite Lich so far, because it’s a good-natured Lich and that’s very cool!

[@kdavidsmith1]

I love that you named the Druid Lich a Blight. 10/10 no notes.

[@greengeistontwitch]

Big fan of both the Blight and the Hierarch! Certainly some interesting undead foes who definitely could inspire some great villains in a campaign. If the series continues, I'd be really curious to see your take on a Paladin Lich. I tried to throw one together myself, but then I realized that Death Knights already exist and already sort of fit that role of a powerful undead. Regardless, can't wait to see the next episode of "Which Lich".

[@Thalugor]

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS Also I think the template for the paladin lich would be the Revenant, a (un)holy warrior whose very oath makes him come back from death until it's fullfiled

[@alchemicpink2392]

If you want to see something like this executed, Fleur de Mort both as an episode villain and in the arc dedicated to them in The Unexpectables are close enough to get an idea.

[@ArchBingus]

I created a Druid-Lich a couple of years ago as I loved the contrast of the concept. He was based on Pathfinder's Siabrae with a "thorny, gnarled branch that still produced a single beautiful flower" motif. Had a Lawful-Neutral alignment and made his other party members a little uncomfortable. The idea of an undead caring for nature, bringing life back to places that burned down/were destroyed using the collected souls in his phylactery gave me enough food for thought of him constantly debating whether to use his deceased party members as minions or fertilizer.

[@mesayzhi7258]

I love druids, and this is honestly incredible. Your dedication to creating things for the community is inspiring

[@hoogy913]

I absolutely love this concept, i love playing druids and had one of mine willingly pour his own blood into the land at each lay line to restore the balance of elemental magic and stop the decay of the land he then sacrificed him self in order to save the land he worked so hard to protect causing him self to become a guardian nature spirit.

[@diamond_assasion8291]

Well i *was* going to have to figure out the origin for the mysterious plant-based infection spread across the island. Now I just have to figure out the origin of my lich edit: I looked at the stat block and its amazing how perfectly this fits what I've already made. A central plant that is the source of the infection, it extends its reach by infecting creatures and other plants, its considered undead etc just everything is perfect.

[@rhodes3983]

Artificer Lich: My phylactery is a hard drive, I need to upgrade my RAM if I want to keep existing

[@nathanberlin5904]

you are honestly such an incredible creator. Honestly one of the reasons i got into dnd in the first place! i greatly appreciate you're genuine creativity and passion :)

[@GringatTheRepugnant]

I love the direction you took with these liches, especially this one. Their undead nature causing the core nature of their class to be corrupted and making them essentially parasitise on others. I could definitely see the party being recruited by a different druid circle to destroy the blight as it's an affront to everything they stand for.

[@no3ironman11100]

This almost made me want to become a DM and run a short campaign where they find mysterious events happening in the forest's edge and eventually after interacting with various characters, bandits, lumberjacks but also some who are aware of what the source of the grove's corruption is eventually would come to face this force of nature and then have it's memories somehow beam into the player character's sorcerer/wizard/warlock/druid/cleric team members, revealing the backstory of the person becoming a druid to protect a place they cherished with a loved one and never letting go of it to the point of becoming a high level druid, living a 1000 years of pain, before turning to lichdom, their mind twisted from the centuries long before that became a choice. Maybe even with a self realization and a moment of tears as the players knock it down.

[@ashleyvanhouten7611]

I stay for the end of the video ramblings. They're genuinely one of my favorite parts of your videos.

[@wynq]

I love this! It also give off horror vibes along the lines of Annihilation and the Southern Reach trilogy, where everything in the Memorial is twisted and off.

[@saloh_cin]

Got to say, this one really resonated with me. I loved the other Lich videos, but this really struck home. I'll definitely be taking this to my table. Oh, and I always watch to the end of the ramblings.

[@Gabriel-doodle]

Oh! Imagine a campaign where the players are stuck in a war between two blights that began to border each other!

[@joaorusso7464]

One of the very few channels where I cannot stop watching any video until it reaches the very end. The content and video editing are incredible!

[@MahoganyDesk]

See, the problem with this series is that I want to play all of these liches right now but I already have a homebrew game going with its own flavor! Guess I'm going to have to start building up a new world to have them in there. Can't wait for the next one! Also, I wait until the end. Your kiss goodbye is very sweet and it brings me joy to hear you go "mwuah!"

[@dorakorpar835]

god, i am OBSESSED with these lich videos. I want to run a game with alllllll of them 😭

[@luisa.acevedo3326]

Lossarwyn, also known as the Ice Lich. That lich is from DND 3.5 is a druid lich in Forgotten Realms. I used the concept in my campaign as a artic lich obsessed with cold wastelands.

[@johncloud3823]

Interestingly: you could use this monster to explain fangorn forest in middle earth.

[@petervaler3439]

I was lowkey sleeping on your content, watching casually. This series blew my mind. I’ve actally been using a druid lich that bound her soul to the land in a campaign that started a year ago, and this really helped me flesh out certain parts. Keep on the good work mate :)

[@shadebane864]

This series is epic. I do think it is some of your best work, and that is saying a whole lot. Every video you do is great.

[@Sarc339]

Awesome concept. Love that this series is back

[@LaughingMan171]

Just discovered you today and have binged a bunch of your videos. I actually enjoy the ramblings at the end and stay to the end.

[@steefhermans8855]

Love this one! I think an artificier could easily become a lich by having a "Flesh is weak!" artificer replacing their body parts throughout their life. Perhaps zealotry or a degenerative disease they are trying to prevent and can't be healed through magical or theological means or a sign of status and genius among their artificer peers/society or maybe in order to finish their lifes work or great duty that can not be left unattended after they are gone. Ever working towards uploading their mind to the almost biomechanical/magitech/clockwork lifeform his body has become. Only something goes wrong. Horrible so! Or perhaps their great duty or lifes work are now finished. What now? What purpose rests in eternal existence now? Perhaps only madness. Now the creature that remains is a broken version of the being it once was, able to pull on the drives and emotions and memories that made it themselves but now horribly twisted and wrong. Bonus points for mechanical / clockwork gnome cities.

[@LordTaos]

Yes, I stayed till the end. Yes, I have enjoyed these lich variants you have been posting. I really like the two plot hooks you provided in this video and I am seriously thinking of how to adapt them to my campaign.

[@firebreathingsnapdragon3344]

Love the concept and execution of the Blight, but there is one problem… there’s already a DND monster called the Blight (basically vampire tree people). If there’s another name that also fits, then maybe go with that.

[@nopainnogame7839]

So? You’re forgetting the fact that monster statblocks as well as their lore are just rules that can be changed at the dms discretion

[@insanehiker5587]

I'd just call them an Arch Blight to make the distinction. Blights are in essence plants warped by the dark spirits akin to those of the Shadowfell while an Arch Blight is created by the actions (or unwilling participation) of an Arch Druid.

[@commentary4298]

There is actually an official druid lich in the books already. It’s called a lichenlich.

[@insanehiker5587]

@@commentary4298 I know, he mentions that in the video. One could argue that is specific to the Circle of Spores Druid... especially if they are related to the Golgari Swarm from Ravnica.

[@firebreathingsnapdragon3344]

@@nopainnogame7839 Thank you for the reminder. My bad.

[@Sadhow6]

I definitly stay for your ramblings. You always put together beautifull videos with good pictures and graphics, you choose the music very well, the humour is never to much, has a good timing and yeah, your topics are very interesting. So yeah, I stay till the end. Thanks :)

[@krose6451]

"They are not vampires reanimated by... horniness." 2:10 This brokecme. Thank you for he laughter. I needed it.

[@TheDownrankTrain]

One of the campaigns I ran back in the day had an encounter at the start of the game (lvl 3 party start) where the party got acquainted with a friendly village located in a forest, had a party in the tavern and was woken up the next day by a pair of 5th level wood elf Druids (built using player character rules) burning the village to the ground and massacring the inhabitants. Flaming Sphere is a great spell for committing atrocities.

[@dr.keinmann2996]

11:59 is that France? that looks ALOT like France!

[@xavierwescott7261]

Given the theme of my homebrew world, this character would be perfect! As well as your circle of city druid subclass. I really can't wait to incorporate this into my campaign! Thank you so much for providing this to us

[@natashawilson7230]

Your end-video ramblings are always appreciated! :D

[@FaustoTheEndless]

Staying till the last seconds for the memes :)) Thank you for the inspirational video! I'm creating a death land in my campaign and this is super helpful!

[@Falinos]

I can't believe that resurfaced "Welcome to the Black Parade" to get stuck in my head with the single opening note

[@jakewaitart9507]

this is the BEST one of your ideas yet, the drama of a lich with good intentions, the story possibilities with an entire environment under it's control, and the very clear unchanging final destination for the players instead of having to search for wherever the phylactery is. Bravo, definitely will adapt and use this in the future

[@sadtwolvesfan]

Rot and decay is a vital part of the lifecycle of a forest, a druid lich who gets really obsessed with rot, mold and decaying things could make a really cool antagonist

[@donspafford414]

The transition of Tobey Spidey into Emo Tobey with the single note of Black Parade is genius editing.

[@sophiacozzo8964]

I want to do a bbeg that is a blight! I imagine their memorial use to be somewhere where its boarder would be constantly attacked, so every "expantion" it did was re-taking territory, but now the place is at peace. The Blight tried to just stop the expansion, but when the weight of death came knoking at it door, they caved and now are attacking its neighbors.

[@mikefowler1410]

Love these lich videos, please keep them going if you can. And I always stay for your ramblings Mr. Hat

[@stachu5049]

This is gives so many ideas for a campaign! Let's say characters' town is neighboring with a newly made memorial and they have to stop it, or else it will consume their homes. We can make it so that the Blight turns out to be a minion of a greater evil, and it was just a story hook. Or that the characters are too weak to survive in the Memorial and they have to go to the capital to get some troops or some training. It can go in many different ways. Oooor, maybe a party's NPC friend got lost in a Memorial and they have to retrieve him/her. It doesn't have to be a full campaign, it can be just a side quest. Man, your ideas are always so sick! Expanding, living biomes are always so great

[@finlay9616]

I just started watching your channel today, and I have in fact stayed to the end of all the videos I've sucked down

[@regentdoom1361]

I've been searching for what feels like forever for a D&D KZbinr that actually inspires me, so I've been elated to find you. This video, in particular, answers a riddle I'd left nebulous but undeniably important in an old Campaign setting I'm resurrecting next year. It's perfect! Thank you for the hard work!

[@targetdreamer257]

13:02 that reminded me there is something like having City replaced by the Memorial. There is a Plant that can replace people, Invasion of the Body Snatchers style. The Body Taker Plant and the Podling.

[@FoxBullet]

Ngl, this is a great story hook. A druid seeing a Blight from the border of its influence, and being enraged not just at the druid who became the Blight, but at those who drove the Blight to this point of performing something that bordered on profane for their kind

[@sssion]

I'm creating a campaign based on a brazilian RPG called Ordem Paranormal and right now I'm gathering references for a cool villain. Casualy discovered your channel and I don't even play DND but that was really interesting! The way you open and narrow the possibilities and the perfect and imersive drawings make everything really inspiring and coherent. Thank you so much

[@TheDrakesandman]

My world has an oasis in the middle of a continent sized desert that has been expanding for centuries, but until now I didn't have a good in game reason for its growth. Thanks for this one, can't wait till my players go back to the sands!

[@chaddemink7731]

I stay until the end of your videos and think your ramblings are hilarious!

[@justine6116]

oh my god... This is beautiful, amazing! Now I have to find a way to incorporate this into my campaign... Or just make a campaign for this. Thank you so much for the statblock and all this work, it's so cool!

[@JamesMadisonsSpiritAnimal]

Bro this is like...REALLY good. How can one pwrson think of such cool and original d&d ideas??

[@aryamaria4326]

I am going to try to work this in as soon as it will fit in the plot, this is such a cool idea!

[@zchamp4386]

The sign out kiss is probably my favorite KZbinr sign off I have seen!

[@Damienx247]

What you described sounds like the 3rd Edition Epic Level Handbook's Genius Loci, except for a forest randomly gaining sentience, the Druid becomes the forest's mind.

[@commanderblackheart5856]

The only thing i would change is the name, as Blights are a pre-established, undead related family of monster. The Blight also reminds me of Oberon Greenhaze from Overlord (the game, not the anime)

[@ethanharper8346]

Perhaps the name kageri it means impurity in Japanese and reference to the overflowing negative emotions in a kami that causes It to lash out a kami is the soul of something that is worshiped for a extend periods of time in Shintoism which is a anamism religion aka they believe every thing even objects and concepts can develop a soul in must be kept appeased by worship and rituals

[@dcbandit]

That fawn has so much Skullkid energy, awesome.