D&D's Buff Furry Angels

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[@maromania7]

Actually, male lions are just night shift so we didn't see thier contributions until recently. They patrol the area on guard duty and occasionally hunt sleeping creatures by themselves. they just don't hunt during day much because those manes are worse for stealth and heat, better for them to stay home unless the extra muscle is necessary. But hyenas would kill a lot more baby lions if not for the males, they take part in hunts during storms and at night, and if the pride is getting hungry they'll hunt by themself so they're not draining the group's kills.

[@maxthepaladin2147]

So male lions are doing an Immortal Tatsu and being efficient house husbands. Cool to know

[@Ryodraco]

Yeah, the male lion's main job is to protect the pride, mainly from hyenas and other male lions, both of which not only kill cubs but steal kills from the female lions. They also assist the females in hunts, primarily of large and powerful prey where their extra strength is a boon to bring down things the females are fast enough to catch but struggle to actually kill.

[@williamgeorge2580]

This was a legit righteous use of "actually" and you have my respect for the week.

[@stankmcdankton6204]

Yeah, the manes are there to basically protect their necks by hiding where it's specifically placed in all that fur. Try to one shot homie with a bite to the throat and all you get is a mouthful of fuzz.

[@MandalorV7]

I remember there was a time when two male lions were stocking a railroad construction project. They killed so many people that the workers thought the lions were demons. Male lions are beast when push comes to shove.

[@incorporealnuance]

Back when I was a kid I accidentally discovered that buff furry angel men was my mom's Thing because she left her stash out.

[@roarytheromanarcanine]

That’s… an unfortunate thing to discover as a kid.

[@incorporealnuance]

@@roarytheromanarcanine Probably. It didn't change too much in hindsight, because I was already a furry lol. I think it's genetic in my case.

[@harley8047]

Oh man! Your mom left her DnD stuff ou- ... Huh? ... ... I've been informed that you may have not meant DnD stuff by this.

[@jamesdoyle6914]

Mustevals feel like natural story fodder. Give them a cute little voice, make them act like Navy Seals deep behind enemy lines with no backup, and have them feed the PCs leads on fiends and major undead in the area. It just seems like such a fun little character to have.

[@AzraelThanatos]

They're kind of a mouse version of the Penguins of Madagascar...

[@quinntan2222]

I'm confused why they changed mustevals from ferrets to mice. Mustelid means weasel.

[@AzraelThanatos]

@@quinntan2222 They merged two types of guardinals together for them, they had been separate ones. The rodent ones, originally, were pretty explicitely Reepicheep expies as a race, being more of swashbucklers, while the ferret based ones were the spies/assassins...

[@georgeuferov1497]

​@AzraelThanatos are you really sure? There's no ferret-based guardinal in 2e

[@AzraelThanatos]

@@georgeuferov1497 There was one somewhere, it may have been a magazine thing because I remember there were mini-adventures for each of them in something.

[@newttrain8667]

Morte's Planar Parade is the second book of the recent Planescape product, because I guess splitting one book into three is a good way to charge more. I guess that one you found just got separated from its family.

[@unironicallylikesranger7122]

You know what new dnd race did just show up yesterday? The Verdan. Acq Inc C Team freed the primordial spirit of entropy and a bunch of goblins got to close and experienced millennia of evolution in the course of seconds, and they just kinda decided to hang out. Didn’t even get mad at the mind flayer who was there boss.

[@infinitivez]

Now that would be a fun exposé! I've always thought goblins to be either vastly over and under rated. Let's throw primordial spirit energy at them and watch them cook!

[@johnp1806]

Love the Verdan so much

[@EPadraigM]

I'm definitely good at avoiding the furry allegations with how quickly I clicked on this

[@kenku238]

Me when I’m simply a person who wears cat ears and has a fursona and I am most definitely not a furry I SWEAR IM NOT A FURRY GUYS I SWEAR

[@thegreatandterrible4508]

​@@kenku238the fursona is pretty damning, but wearing cat ears could just mean you're a middle school girl doing a very poor job at figuring out what "quirky" and "sexy" mean while you're overwhelmed with hormones for the first time.

[@EPadraigM]

@@kenku238 Relatable

[@tawumpas]

What's your soma? My boyfriend said I am a Deer or something with antlers 🫎 Not much of a furry, but the extremely goofy movie is exceptionally good.

[@AntonsVoice]

Scales

[@WILDMUTTDude]

Ah yes! Guardinals. Forgotten by D&D for more than 10 years and randomly back in a small random book for 5e. Good thing Pathfinder took and renamed them as Agathions and moved them to Nirvana as reflavored "Neutral Good" celestials. Great video as always Logan ^^

[@ronben-ezer8373]

Agathinons (very similar name) are a previous editions angel type, didn't know PF had some similarly named thing too, neat

[@kawaiipotato8131]

4:09 "Our last vicious combatant from the plane of peace, at least from this book are the Avorals, whose name sounds a lot like anal vore. And I think that's neat." - Logan, 2024. Amazing.

[@clementverkimpe940]

a true man of culture ^^

[@jcm3949]

ew

[@retroicdescent]

Yo I wasn't ready for that 😂

[@luckyday5721]

I would like a big set of Good aligned creatures and monsters to serve as counter balance to all of the "EVIL" everywhere. Something being good by nature doesn't mean that means good in our sense so can still be monsters. Got a couple am writing myself with my favorite being a shadow with just a smile that helps guide innocents and lost souls out of forest or other planes and pulls a lost woods on any who try to harm them.

[@georgeuferov1497]

Except creatures that are made out of our thoughts and beliefs about what is good are good in our sense (or more accurately the sense of some of us, since people are different). That's the whole point of exemplar beings like guardinals and devils and modrons That doesn't mean that you can't have conflict with celestials. They may be made of goodness, but they still have free will and can fall. Plus, you know, there are more ways to add a character in the story that to make them villains to kill

[@gaidencastro9706]

Please review the Inevitables. I think you'd really like them. They're great for reigning in unruly players.

[@lorekeeper685]

Free exp

[@Hawkens4k]

Lets be honest, gale will try anything at least once.

[@techattack6803]

Love these guys. First learned about them from an AJ Pickett video a couple years back. They're a good example of obscure creatures unique to D&D (I think?) that have an unnecessarily large amount of lore nobody's aware of.

[@georgeuferov1497]

I wouldn't say "unnecessarily". They have less lore than fiends or even some other celestials

[@monkeykingw]

That sudden Xenoblade 2 reference. Respect

[@RomLoneWolf23]

The Pathfinder RPG has its own versions of the Guardinals, called Agathions, which includes not only pretty much all of the same ones as D&D, but also extra ones like the cat-based Silvanshee, the Turtle-based Chelonidals, and the Dragon-based Draconids.

[@elegantoddity8609]

Draconals

[@RomLoneWolf23]

@@elegantoddity8609 right, sorry.

[@alfadorfox]

Don't forget the Vulpinals! >:3

[@switchactions3184]

4:10 You could have gone your entire life without editing this into any video ever

[@MrSpookersMcGeeThe1st]

That silly sync at the end by itself made watching to the very end worth it.

[@idontno6d105]

Elysium doesn't have a god of it, but there are many gods that make realms upon her lairs. Most notable is Ishtar and her extravagant City of the Star. She holds a powerful rivalry with the Egyptian power Isis. In general, planes don't have powers (aka gods), but each plane is composed of layers which each has a number of deity realms. This is why Tiamat has her realm on Avernus while the broader layer is/was/will be ruled by Zariel. Guardinals have an important role in Elysium, mainly slapping the shit out of any invaders. The obvious ones are the demons and devils trying to tap the upper planes for some sort of advantage in the blood war. There are others, however. Who are you going to turn to if a warband of heroes from Ysgard decide to take a field trip to Elysium via Yggdrasil, or a group of Bacchus from Arborea disrupt the peace in the City of the Star? And always remember, just because the upper planes are referred to as "heavens" does not mean that they are completely free of threats.

[@elegantoddity8609]

What horrors come from Arcadia and Mt Celestia?

[@georgeuferov1497]

​@@elegantoddity8609 mainly Harmonium. Bunch of bastards

[@idontno6d105]

@@elegantoddity8609 Many of the creatures of Mount Celestia are good, and are made to help those on their journey up the mountain. The danger comes from those journeying up the mountain, who may find it too difficult and escape to Elysium. The Archons of the Seven Heavens may come to Elysium to return their escaped petitioner to the plane of lawful good, and when that occurs it is the Guardinals that they confer with. Arcadia is much more dangerous. The plane has bent more and more lawful over time, to such an extent that one of the layers slipped into the plane of Mechanicus. A loose Aasimon or Archon from that plane poses a more significant threat, as it may try to execute anyone not obeying their strict and secretive law code.

[@elegantoddity8609]

@@idontno6d105 I like idea 2, although with idea one I remember it being said that there's these...space whales, who take petitioners who for lack of a better term have been "cosmically misclassified". Ie, they end up in heaven when what they actually wanted was Elysium, and these guys use the Oceanus (good ol reverse River Styx) to take them there.

[@Numdenu]

as a wizard-rizzing Gale-romancer, I'm not sure how to feel about equinals.

[@mmangalisomasinga432]

Strong competition

[@Darasilverdragon]

Inadequate.

[@RenoKyrie]

Hey wait, this is just Helluva Boss

[@andyv8624]

I’m pretty sure Elysium is just Care-a-Lot and these are the Care Bear Cousins.

[@DemonicEngineer]

Okay, this is freaking crazy to me. I already had a vore dream last night that involved Logan (don't ask me why, I don't know). And now you gotta tell me, he knows what Anal Vore is, and makes a funny joke about it!?

[@a2izzard]

Logan… Paul?

[@clementverkimpe940]

gosh me too! it was not involving Logan, but it definetly involved vore.

[@DemonicEngineer]

Runesmith's name is Logan ​@@a2izzard

[@antonissofoulis6032]

guardinals! ancient as 3.5 protectors and defenders of House of Nature

[@lazrustosadow5880]

Gotta make that space squad do the Ginyu force poses

[@evilallensmithee]

Dude, the life of male lions is brutal as hell

[@dew-it8744]

2:14 (xenoblade spoilers) Wait, is Nia are guardinal?

[@hoi-polloi1863]

Mustevals give off strong Reepicheep energy, and that has to be a good thing.

[@Tamashikiri]

Ah, guardinals, or as I like to call them, "oh yeah, that's why the agathions in Pathfinder all have names ending in '-inal.'"

[@claudefaust9104]

Because you brought up chopper, now I can't stop seeing ardlings as zoan type people.

[@weezact7]

I remember the Guardinals from 3.5. They were neat...but weird. Which, I guess, is pretty much 60% of 3.5e in a nutshell. They churned out so many splatbooks for that edition I think they really ended up scraping the bottom of the barrel by the end, but there were some really neat entries in there, both for monsters and player options. Sadly, the power creep was real for the player stuff.

[@loftwingheropon2743]

The xenoblade 2 joke is appreciated.

[@rpghorrorstories]

Why are mustevals mice and not ferrets? Musteval, mustelid.

[@isaacgraff8288]

Fun fact: I actually have ardlings a thing in my Games. They are new, and it actually makes the Aasimar far more interesting. Lots of weird crap has happened.

[@NebDaMin]

The Best part of this video was finding out that Logan knows about BoJack Horseman and Joel Haver.

[@powerist209]

So part of me wonder if TSR and WoTC have anti furry agenda. Like it took like 4E to get official playable Kenku and even OA seems to avoid Tanuki and Tengu (latter does exist, but as “monsters you should beat up”…and I think Inuyasha and Invader Lum were a thing back then).

[@mmangalisomasinga432]

I can at least understand their hesitance with the Tanuki. We all know what the players are gonna do with those bastards.

[@powerist209]

Well, L5R had “kid friendly” variant. No sack and just simple shapeshifter though. Still doesn’t help with anti-furry agenda in world design…and Pathfinder doesn’t count.

[@hollowknight4630]

1:00 crab theory but they evolved for back pain

[@RyanEdwardsVA]

I got to say I absolutely love the way you're presenting these videos now. The laid-back goofy casual presentation is a delight, and your jokes and asides just absolutely tickle me. Good shit.

[@zeusdemi6858]

It feels like they really want the whole celestial animal people thing to happen (Guardinals, Ardlings, Archons) but they're not sure what to actually do with 'em. Sort of an overarching issue with all the celestial angelic beings as opposed to the infernal ones

[@kiruppert]

Morte’s Planar Parade is part of the 5e Planescape box, which has been out , like 4 months? And you’ve already found it in a used book store?

[@quaranteeth]

"why they sitting like that" probably car rash

[@vgdevotee3]

Pretty sure Morte's Planar Parade is from the new Planescape book that came out last year

[@tawumpas]

I love having angels arrive only when my player attempt to break laws of reality

[@MuscleRevenger]

In case anyone wants to use these in their games as opponents/NPCs, Dragonix has them in their Monster Manual Expanded III.

[@angryfoxzd5233]

Well that after life sounds friggin awesome.

[@felixrivera895]

"I found it in a used book store" its like 3 months old 😂

[@TheDizzieC]

I feel Ardling was made as a way to let players play their fursona without causing endless pages of custom races for every combo of furries.

[@Technodreamer]

HOW could they have a creature called an "Ursinal" and NOT have it specialize in lots and lots of weapons??

[@sentientsickness]

This has made me realize how much I miss 3.5 bat folks, were they weren't mindless monsters, and it could be fun to actually play one Now I have to go to Pathfinder for my flappy bois

[@janelantestaverde2018]

Bojack and Joel Haver in one video. Rarely have I been this actively reaffirmed why I'm following a channel for such a long time already.

[@legateelizabeth]

Hey, you know what edition introduced a new race and just... said they were new? 4e. 4e introduced a race of playable plant people front and centre in the PHB and just went "Yeah they're just the newest race that've rocked up, they're very young, still figuring themselves out." Because 4e was far more based than anyone is willing to admit.

[@SayuriMiki]

Still can't believe they thought they could replace Aasimar with Aardlings and people would just sit back and accept that.

[@SayuriMiki]

I wish Aardlings would stick around though, as well as Aasimar.

[@eugene9211]

Furries suck.

[@HmmBearGrr]

The solution to aardling lore is to make them a sort of feywild tiefling imo

[@eugene9211]

@@HmmBearGrr Sure, but you'd effectively be making up an entirely new race and rewriting all of their existing lore for that.

[@spottedslash4256]

It's because the tiefling hype went so hard, the Aasimars were left in the dust Because "appearing angelic is lame". Which is a misconception. Can do just as much with them as you can with a tieflings. But alas.

[@antonblake1476]

I love that 1/3rd of the brand new Planescape was already thrown into a used bookstore. Planescape is a very cool setting and all, but I just deeply enjoy the disrespect WotC and Hasbro are getting

[@GMJoeGrey]

Hot take, but I was sad they were not able to figure out the mechanics of Ardlings. Flavorwise it was cool. I liked the idea of making one a weird scaley dog and making him an Armorer so he could be the dog-man power ranger from the SPD series.

[@Dinosaurianationazation]

HELL YES. Now do Archons next.

[@warmachine5835]

Shows Omniman ripping a dude in half, won't show lionesses eating a gazelle. I see how it is.

[@jonathanrobinson319]

Soo, lions society is like drow, but with less backstabbing?

[@TheoreticalTubes]

Artists who draw horse people will sometimes make their finger up to the first knuckle one solid fingernail. I think it's in reference to hooves. I'm guessing the reason horse twink has literal hooves on his fingertips is for the same reason we have bobble-head baby-hands the half-ling. WotC doesn't want other races to be as sexy as elves and all their off shoots. Could have been a miscommunication with the artist too.

[@Prisma144]

They are niche but cool angels.

[@shed816]

Honestly man thank you for wasting my time (EventhoughIreallyenjoyedthevideosoit'snotreallyawasteofmytime) your super odd videos always bring a smile to my face and brighten my day even before I actually watch them. Thanks for the mood boost after a very draining day.

[@TwinSteel]

3.5 was pretty great

[@BuildinWings]

I know it's not your business or whatever, but I'd like to see the DnDTubers put something together to say goodbye to Jocat. He brought all of us together as a community and now he's gone, and nobody with a soapbox seems to have anything to say.

[@chattychatotchannel]

there's also archons! Like hound archons and sword archons who can look like cats

[@welltatormytots5269]

Runesmith can you start making “basically” videos about each of the Cities/kingdoms in DnD, it would be so helpful to understand the most important aspects of each city when trying to prep where to start/run campaigns

[@Uh-huh463]

I can't wait to see more Joel Haver cameos on random channels

[@RoryRose_]

for the majority of people watching, this video was probably the first time they heard the words "anal vore" next to each other, and i think that's very funny

[@Titleknown]

The real question tho: If you are a petitioner in Elysium, do you get to yiff them? This is an important and vital question for reasons.

[@TheSuperRatt]

Don't you become one if you end up in Elysium? Maybe I'm misremembering.

[@Titleknown]

@@TheSuperRatt Huh, I thought the Petitioner-to-Celestial was just a thing with Pathfinder's Celestials, including their Great Value Guardinals the Agathions?

[@jonasholm-mw5bn]

It would be interesting to see a lion human actually acting like lions. The male could be a king or it could be a gang and he’s the leader, while the females does everything.

[@Tomha]

Congrats on your book making it to the local bookstores. That's really cool

[@clementverkimpe940]

4:10 a true man of culture indead! someone who know what Anal vore is deserve all my consideration!

[@DemonicEngineer]

*Finger guns*

[@DaBezzzz]

I now wanna play a witching wardrobe. Maybe a warforged sorcerer or something

[@cameronstone4495]

I thinks Ardlings would have worked better if if they were less just Guardinals (i.e. full furrys) and they were more like how Animal headed gods were depicted in Egyptian myth, where Anubis is a anthro dog-man and instead is a man with a dog head. The animal head is more like a symbolic aspect instead of purely biological.

[@geckoevolution1112]

These guys should be guardians to souls which willing reincarnate into 'lesser beings' like animals

[@asahearts1]

1:30 "There have always been female Custodes."

[@sasha1mama]

Equinals' fingertips actually make sense, as a hoof is the same distal keratin structure as you have - a fingernail. It's just placed and proportioned differently to account for the horse's bodyshape. I dunno why the wuntz decided to go for hoof-fingertip instead of just flat fingernails, but I'm not a moron, so I can't make any insights regarding their nonfunct neural processes. This might surprise you, but every land-dwelling animal on Earth has the same basic skeletal and organ blueprint, just in different proportions based on how their physiognomy developed over the course of their evolutionary history.

[@mihokspawn]

Just because I was eating and we got to Avorals: If you want to know why the Horse dude as that thing on his 'nails' look up Foal Hooves

[@pyronicdesign]

The beastlands already have fury angels. They are called beast lords.

[@sharemation5339]

You sold me on the 15 foot tall dominatrix

[@harry_ord]

I kinda like the idea of this deus ex machina just showing up beating up big bads then just running off.

[@Dyundu]

3:26 That literally just the first boss in Zelda II.

[@cameronpearce5943]

Saw Twisted Taverns in Mind Games melbourne

[@Oddmanoutre]

Kinda sad they didn't bring back Shedu. Horses with the heads of dwarves that roam the Astral, Ethereal, and Material Planes throwin' hooves with evil.

[@thatguydanny8681]

I recognize that furry in the thumbnail! Thats eylof lucky wolf

[@parkersmith8711]

I really would love to see your books on Roll20

[@Warnndog]

You forgot to go back a few pages and check out the Hound Archons! Yeah!

[@dawsonhelf7922]

Thank goodness “Ardlings” were scrapped 😙💨

[@nerdaccount]

It's odd where lines get drawn. I THINK you can be a humanish cat, bird, dragon, devil, angel, elemental but we draw the lion at Lions, different birds, bears and mice. My DM was getting tired of everyone being something weird. He said this next campaign only HUMANS! When we got started, of the six players, I was the only human. LOL People like to play different things!

[@MoodyViewz]

I feel like we all felt that sound you made after explaining the horse goddess XD

[@mattheweroles6760]

In my games, Guardinals are the good equivalent of Yugoloths. They're the souls of people who were not good but also not actively evil, or tried to be good but they also did or caused great evil, so they have a karmic debt that needs to be paid. So Instead of being consigned to the 9 Hells, they're given a second chance as Guardinals, opposing evil in various ways until they earn Heaven...only a good chunk of them Instead decide to continue fighting evil, because they're bound by less rules than angels.

[@georgeuferov1497]

That's actually a really cool idea. I might use that, though I am not sure that guardinals are the best pick for this archetype

[@social3ngin33rin]

cool material :) Also, they seem insanely powerful lol

[@idle_speculation]

He's doing videos on previous editions? I want my inevitables and I want them NO- whenever would be good for you, actually, so long as you eventually get around to it. They're some of the coolest monsters that 5e never used and it's a shame they haven't come back.

[@yungo1rst]

Ankhshar dragon 341 magazine. from a list i forgot to put descriptions.

[@stormallen1490]

...oh I am so using those good-aligned harpies...

[@Rutgerman95]

2:08 Please, it can't be heaven if they serve Heineken

[@georgeuferov1497]

"We want more cool Celestials! Nooo, not them!"

[@wynnefox]

This is hilarious. I am not a furry. The whole thing with "Why do everything need acient history?" bit reminded me of the Wolven from Palladium Fantasy RPG. That race is suposidly only a couple thousands years old and was created by some mad... wizard, scientist, something... Elves that went off to the Northern Wilderness and wanted servents and protectors so was like, "These wolves would do, they work in packs and easily domesticated. Lets make them into people." and Since then, the elves died out and the Wolven bread like crazy. I am not a furry.

[@dashampootester1274]

The adventure time clip 😂

[@tomjohnson4922]

I loved the photo of you and your cat.

[@De_La_Evo]

I would love if you made a video on the Morte’s Parade, I wish they’d release more books that deal with the planes, I want more planar creatures, we have enough grounded ones man. Although the Guardenels are deff underwhelming in a way.

[@noxiousbones]

I love the Joel reference ❤

[@makeshiftmousepad7684]

These edits are fire

[@fluxjoint2388]

4:10 oh god... he knows