The D&D Monster That Makes You Cry (and also die)

[@DungeonDad]

You can check out Ryoko's Guide to Yokai Realms right here! - www.kickstarter.com/projects/dndshorts/ryokos-guide-to-the-yokai-realms-a-5e-tome?ref=dusup1 Thanks for watching everyone! What monster would you like to see next?

[@TheIdealofGreed]

Day 13 of Darklight request. Both I and Basil feel strongly that the horror of the dead-lights should be among spooky month. Basil - Yeah! Oh yes, Basil can talk. Or I'm hallucinating already.

[@danielgehring7437]

In honor of the Eastern-themed set coming out that you're promoting, and spoopy month, I propose you do a version of the Jiangshi, aka 'Chinese hopping vampires.'

[@TheIdealofGreed]

Oh yes, and for the sake of both thematic completion and self-worth crushing cosmic horror: Nehaschimic Dragons - crazy monsters that do things like growing until they cover the entire field/"universe from your perspective." May or may not be the "nerves" of the Akashic Records

[@TheIdealofGreed]

Ok, after experimentation it seems that today the youtube bots don't like sentences split up into more than 3, so here we are; Found the above from the Draconic Abomination tv trope page, which says they're from The Immortals Handbook: Epic Bestiary 3rd-Party rulebook.

[@matthewmckinnon7654]

In the spirit of the spooky month, why not a Web Golem? A golem made entirely of spider webs and armed with poisonous spider fangs if I recall properly. It's in the 3.5 Monster Manual III if I recall properly.

[@briandurio6479]

All I hear in my head right now is a mournful cry accompanied by the phrase "don't startle the witch"

[@Pwnicus187]

I was looking for this very comment 😅

[@Jonbitor]

Exactly what I was thinking. I'm sure some people's psyches will help them avoid this monster if you describe thr Wheep just well enough.

[@aaroncunningham8307]

One thing I think should be touched on more is how the Wheep's emotional state plays into their undeath. As a spontaneous undead, perhaps they were someone who tried to take their own life out of grief, but their emotional state was so powerful that not only did their soul persist, but it became bound to their now lifeless body. As a minion, perhaps the psychological torture involved in their making is designed to create a sense of hopelessness, making the Wheep unable to even consider rebellion against their new master.

[@Goofygooberman37]

Messed up.

[@Voc_spooksauce]

Oh man you really scared me with this episode, not because of the monster but because you tricked me into believing you cut your hair

[@DungeonDad]

That would be terrible!

[@forrestpatterson6053]

Agreed. I was like “why does he look like Edward Cullen in the kitchen?”

[@Meatblasting]

And here I was: hype for the pompadour

[@gotoeceaerx]

​​@@Meatblastingno non lah nah nee nein how many more languages to make it clear THE POMPADOUR IS BAD you literally need to roll a natural 100 to convince anyone at all that's a good hair style

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

I'm convinced most DnD monster names come in two flavors, nonsense letter strings such as Xixecal... and normal singular words like Raggamoffyn or Weep... Neither of which tell you anything about the type of creature it is lol.

[@DungeonDad]

I too have noticed this trend. Once and awhile though you'll get stuff like the Chronotyryn which is like, 5 puns wrapped into one made up word.

[@JJ-M]

Oh, even better... it's Wheep. Exactly the same way that's not how you spell ragamuffin outside of D&D, they just spell it like that to make it more fun. And, it's absolutely more fun, zero notes.

[@brettwood1351]

@@JJ-M Bugbear has always felt lacking in both the Bug and Bear department to me.

[@ThorsShadow]

​@@brettwood1351Owlbears, though, I think are both adequately owl and adequately bear.

[@mcgoo721]

It's kind of like sword name rules too in that the shorter, more simpler names come off as more concerning to me.

[@Babbleplay]

Nobody accidentally becomes a lich. Andres Duvall : "Excuse me?" Duvall was, admittedly, a unique case, and not a 'true' lich, but he was listed as lich, bardic in his MC listing. He was snooping in an actual lich's library, and got caught, and the undead wizard let loose a bold of necrotic lightning, which the bade tried to block with an ancient spellbook. He did not escape unchanged.

[@sharondornhoff7563]

There's an accidental lich in the Mystara setting too. He's a Glantrian wizard and clan leader, who got that way by overusing the power of the Radiance. Dude had no idea that could happen and hadn't even been into necromancy in the slightest.

[@louissteyn6871]

I wouldn't be surprised if the acidic poison was a key ingredient in the torture that made this poor creature

[@brandonneilson6644]

Number 1: it is never to early for spooky season. Number 2: this shit was a dam good birthday present.

[@DungeonDad]

Happy birthday!!

[@619Slipk]

Ok... I can't take this thing seriously anymore Once you said it's emits constant gurgling sounds all I can hear in my head is the Murloc sounds from Hearthstone and this thing instantly went from threatening to comical

[@DungeonDad]

That is actually hilarious.

[@brettwood1351]

@@DungeonDad The Wheep probably hates Murlocs now.

[@mistformsquirrel]

I'm so going to use that against a party eventually. Everyone knows the Murloc sound... So imagine - You hear "mrrgrrglll!!!" loudly from around the corner - everyone's all "Pfft, so you imported *Murlocs??*" Suddenly Weeps.

[@goontubeassos7076]

If you really want this monster to scare you, this is the same effects you get in a bad marriage from a toxic spouse. Get out your safety tools for this one.

[@noodledoodle9408]

Imagine choking\hacking woman sounds ?

[@grimm2480]

God I love it when spooky things are done in spooky month. Very spooky.

[@josiahws5]

Id love to see the saurials in dnd, but for spooky season some lycanthropes such as the weredolphin would be fun

[@josiahws5]

Also the goblin rat

[@Squiiidd]

I spent over a year with a friend making saurials as a playable race, I need this

[@AzraelThanatos]

You know, I'd love to see the Wheep used as basically the messenger for an annoyed undead sending messages to the local nobility to please stop bothering him. A Lich that isn't really interested in taking over or anything of the sort, he's just there researching things and sends the thing to deliver messages for it along with requests for the local nobility to stop letting people come near his home because they disrupt his research. Perhaps also sending this thing out to bring back other things he may want. So a merchant suddenly dealing with a horrifying undead abomination because the lich heard that he's got a new shipment of exotic spices in that he wonders if might work as components for some new spell. Hell, putting a group of players, blindly, into a situation where there's a Lich that's less of an actual problem, and more just an eccentric and detached academic that the locals have just been stuck dealing with for who knows how long...and sees nothing wrong with horrific minions being sent to towns nearby or for things he wants that cause issues with the sanity of the locals and leave the local temples frothing at the mouth. But if the players investigate, the worst this guy is actually doing is requesting that he gets to deal with some of the condemned prisoners because he requires their lives to continue his work...or dealing with the aftermath of groups of wandering adventurers who tend to hear LICH and go to attack.

[@morrigankasa570]

I love that idea, I unfortunately don't have a group to play with. But I have created 6 different lvl 1 characters in case I found a group. 1 of them is a "Male Mountain Dwarf Runecarver background Wizard planning School of Necromancy", part of his primary goals is to achieve Immortality/Apotheosis. But he isn't true Evil, he is 'Chaotic Neutral' and wants that Immortality/Apotheosis to protect his family and clan eternally.

[@insanehiker5587]

I had an idea for a neutral evil Lich that would make a commissioned magic item for a party, in return they must carry around a pseudo-phalactery that collects the souls of the monsters they slay, Now I want to make a wheep be the courier to not only deliver the item, but also collect the pseudo-phalactery.

[@SSJKirik]

> That's great news for the Paladins, Sorcerers, and Warlocks out there- Bard: Am I joke to you?

[@DungeonDad]

I literally forgot about them 😅

[@vortraz2054]

Alright alright I got it. Instead of Curse of Empathy, my Wheeps charm is a lure that makes the target slowly walk toward them. The Wheep then makes two checks to grapple, each success is an automatic bite attack. The Wheep then proceeds to detail its agony to the target and drag them off, or worse, deliver a message. The Wheeps poison weakening targets and allowing it to EASILY keep hold with its 26 strength, two pairs of claws, and two spare maws, as it prattles on about its agony that your to share and drags you along. Always at the same pace, even if at first your too dazed to resist and collapse into the mud, it drags you along.

[@raedlives9261]

Damn, that's dark. Cool.

[@AeronHale]

As a fellow dice goblin who has recently lost most of their collection moving states those dice are super tempting.

[@jusquanorthwind1016]

Gotta love the Libris Mortis for all your obscure undead needs!

[@Warforged644]

Another great episode! Quick quandary: if a Rainbow Dragon were to exist, and be a proper Chromatic and follow Color Theory, would their conception be… a “group effort”?

[@DeathcoreTuba]

When the humming started at 3:00 I thought I had accidentally launched Hunt Showdown

[@Poyopie11]

I would like to, request the Doomsphere (Ghost Beholder) for spook month! Undead aberrations are fun

[@brettwood1351]

It's double the badness!

[@dejaypage1575]

You gonna cry? Eh? Come on, cry! Wheep: (proceeds to be monsterous at us)

[@thehellfirewolf13]

Not gonna lie, saw the title and thought, wait isn't the banshee already IN 5e? Then i heard Wheep and remembered it being somehow WORSE than a banshee. And i was right. Either way, love these dives into lesser known monsters from D&D's past. Keep up the amazing work, bud. Edit to add: Wouldn't mind seeing the Tatterlorn from Pathfinder at some point. They fit oddly well with the Attic Whisperer you did... 6 years ago. Fuck, you've been at this a while, dude.

[@LordSephleon]

Libris Mortis is still one of my favorite 3E books to this day, alongside Sandstorm, Frostburn, and Stormwrack. Good to see it getting some love in this video! Thanks DD! EDIT: Love that little clip from Hunt: Showdown's soundtrack!

[@hawkwing4300]

Loved hearing the Hunt: Showdown theme. Great vid! Excited to roll the Wheep out one day.

[@phantomviper211]

Not gonna lie I had to check that I hadn't clicked onto another video when I came back from the ad and started hearing Hunt Showdown music.

[@commanderblackheart5856]

Day 16 of arc 2 of my never-ending quest to get the Grue from Zork an episode of MotW

[@G0thCrayon]

My heart... or at least whatever occupies the space normally designated for the blood pumping muscle... goes out to/with you.

[@christopherdaurio2617]

I don't have a clue what that is - sounds like a perfect addition to the MotW roster 👍

[@G0thCrayon]

@@christopherdaurio2617 It's a peculiar and extremely lethal kind of shadow creature from a classic series of games for the PC called "Zork." The first few were text adventures, which you should be able to play online for free -and would advise you do so, as they can be quite captivating if you have the right kind of mind for them. Text adventures have been grossly under-represented the past few years, but I find them quite enjoyable. It's an older game type that has yet to be fully expanded upon, and there's a LOT you can do with them that other kinds of games simply can't.

[@tf2sniper449]

I shall watch your quest with interest. May your quest end successfully

[@notoriousgoblin83]

​@@G0thCrayonGnome on a bellows

[@aierie-dragonslayer]

Oh man this is perfect! I've been looking for a creature that could inflict a general sense of unease on a town for the one-shot I'm running for my brother's birthday, and i think this thing will work just nicely.

[@CupUhhJo]

This is such a good addition to an undead campaign! Also I don’t feel like enough people talk about how *REALLY FUCKING GOOD* the “next episode” outro is. I’m listening until the very last second just for it.

[@danielgehring7437]

Haha, it's the nighttime sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head, fever so you can go to your eternal rest monster.

[@acidnave]

sometimes i think ure reading into my homebrew notes. somehow almost all of your creatures perfectly fit in the session im having next. thank you for this vid!

[@Treebohr]

Nailed the music once again. This creature looks really fun, but I may not be able to use it in my current game. The whole party is full casters except for the barbarian.

[@Dragowolf_Rising]

As soon as the music from Hunt started playing I was like, I used to love that game, good pick.

[@mementomori771]

Nightmare fuel monsters are always some of my favorites would love to see some warhammer monsters at some point maybe a Fimir (lizard cyclops)

[@broskydoodle6697]

Just used this monster in my latest session in college, literally one of my best sessions ever, thanks lmao

[@spyguy888]

That song around 3 ish minutes in is great. First heard it in the trailer for Hunt: Showdown. “Rise up dead man” by Port Sulphur Band.

[@chompydood]

this guys videos always make me smile.

[@michaelconklin6703]

The dark crystal ref is great. I love that stuff

[@harrymusson7266]

This could be an incredible haunting arc. A benefactor hires the party to rid a nearby abandoned orphanage/jail/infirmary as rumours of a banshee have started, cries echoing from the massive building. Party saunters in only to find it silent. Following trails of ichorous poison through dark hallways they realise it's something waaaaay worse than a banshee. Tiny rooms and halls, and adding an ability to travel through walls could bring even more madness. DD I love the Hunt theme. Such a great choice

[@Pwnicus187]

His music choices are always on point.

[@nathangarcia2356]

Bro I just gotta say, getting into ur channel got me into BG3 which then got me into DND in general. Your channel is amazing

[@DungeonDad]

Thank you so much man, that’s awesome!

[@Dyneamaeus]

If you wanted to lean into the undead empathy angle, Wheeps would make for cool sort of inverted Valkyries. Give 'em a generic 'died with regrets' detector for corpses, play into all that weeping being for other cursed souls rather than itself, and their whole 'high value recruiter' angle really clicks with the rest of their dynamic.

[@cynicgamer12]

This is going to be a great month for content!

[@gabewinters496]

The hunt showdown music jumpscared me

[@andrewhalverson6974]

This was my favorite monster from that book... Which says a lot! I remember I used it just like your example. It showed up at the gates to herald the coming of a death knight, commanding the army of the midnight enclave. A triumvirate of liches bent on converting the world to undeath one nation at a time.

[@novacrush]

Thank you for the AD for Ryokos! Looked so cool I ended up backing it! Love your channel, great stuff as usual!

[@craigford33]

I’d love a video where you take a list of creatures you like however you address where they’re lacking in someway and change them accordingly

[@shandman]

I think you should make a series where you take ideas from like r/Dndideas and give them stats and a backstory I think that would be really fun!

[@vitordasilvavillasboas4819]

Man, I LOVE Libirs Mortis from 3.5. Grat video as always!

[@althechicken9597]

it's a Hemalurgic monstrosity like a Steel Inquisitior? Metal 😉

[@ImLordDomo]

Very spook. Much scary. Wow. Though in all seriousness, I gotta thank you for all the excellent content, and a spooky video in time for spooky season.

[@Blakobness]

Sending out a minion to steal corpses that leaves a trail of black ichor back to your secret layer sounds like huge hindsight.

[@DungeonsNDreadnoughts]

Oh this would be fun to sculpt for 3dprinting!

[@Vrikrar]

I'd love to add to the curse of empathy by also having it deafen the victim, then flavor it by saying all the victim hears is their own crying.

[@pablogallardo5100]

Keep the great work

[@DungeonDad]

Thanks!!

[@pablogallardo5100]

@@DungeonDad I made a story about a lich that made a underwater casino and if you gambling more than you can pay ....you have to pay with your soul

[@pablogallardo5100]

@@DungeonDad you have some monster ideas to make more apeling to the theme?

[@taylorsackett2556]

The Hunt Showdown music used at the beginning really pulled me in. Great editing

[@grindcoreninja6527]

I'm just imagining Trevor at the end of the WKUK "Happy and with your mouth open" skit.

[@Vaksharules1999]

Given the wheep seems to have nails driven into its eye sockets, I thought the ritual to make a wheep involved gouging the creature's eyes with nails (possibly made of a material like cold iron) and slitting gashes into its hands that would become mouths.

[@josuelservin]

What a perfect timing, I'm running the baldur's gate portion of decent into Avernus for my 6lv group and I was looking for something truly horrifying to put into the Dungeon of the Dead Three, and this definitely fits the bill, so thank you very much!

[@johanmedioni7856]

I almost commented on the previous video “that hair, so silky, so shiny, I’m jealous”.

[@ryanjackson6298]

Hey Dungeon Dad! One monster that I think would be a cool thing to cover is the Battleloth from 3rd edition. They're a type of Yugoloth that have the ability to transform from small fiends into weapons that other creatures can use. Off the top of my head there were Arrow, Sword, Axe and Crossbow variants of the Battleloth. I think they'd be something that you could expand upon into other types of weapons.

[@the_clontz]

I've watched this video several times now, and I can't unhear it... Weeb. (i.e. a Weeb appears and torments the party)

[@joshuazane3210]

If you're leaking black, acidic ichor from your eyes, please consult a physician immediately.

[@nonamegiven202]

wake up wheeple, new dungeon dad video just dropped.

[@Zer0Doxy]

Best comment

[@MerculiarchSyn]

That’s not a monster:, that’s just your average Twitter user.

[@DungeonDad]

As someone who must use twitter for my job, I don't disagree

[@user-oj5ec8xb4t]

I love to find your little easter eggs like Geralf's messenger from MTG when talking about undead messengers hahah

[@NegaDruid]

Wheeps are gloriously monstrous. And I just love the name. Wheep. It is just so wonderfully powerful.

[@elilevinger5981]

a old friend [of the pc] to an important NPC hero that come back as a warning from the death knight - ''what will happen to you if your not surrender''

[@heuclmeucl-heucl5351]

I think there is a small mistake on the statblock, the wheep as a +2 to int save and a +0 to con save, with a +1 modifier to CON I guess it should be the reverse? Also I once used a similar concept for a monster, where it wanted to share it's pain and it's grief so that it's murder could be resolved and the murderer punished, I had based it on the devourer but this would have been great. I also had added a mechanic for the boss fight where it was resistant to everything except the weapons that actually killed it and those weapon always landed crit on it, it was fun to make the player swap their arsenal for daggers and light crossbow and of course the investigation to find what were the mutder weapon was also pretty fun.

[@DrunkenMoose100]

that hunt showdown music is such a bop. checkout the port sulfur bands other music!

[@DrunkenMoose100]

Miner's Lament is a fav of mine highly recommend

[@WobblesandBean]

It's really sweet to see you support your fellow D&D youtuber like this 💜

[@stealthyremote7424]

This was an amazing video! But by far my favorite part was the fact that you used the Hunt: Showdown main theme early in the video. Hunt is such an underrated game that i wish got more attention

[@peng1luver259]

Wheeps, interesting way to confuse people into preparing for a banshee but encounter a Wheep instead

[@Dreadwolf3]

Damn, starting of strong with that Hunt: Showdown music. Good choice for spooky season.

[@lax9586]

I could imagine the weep having moves like poison spray or cloud kill depending on the level introduced. I just imagine it basically erupting with black fluid in a cloud once the party is in close enough range like a jump scare. That would add to the terror elements and keep the party on their toes.

[@lucrussell9363]

Back in college a GOOD FRIEND of mine put together that the university we went to would give you 150 free front and back prints from the library each week. After being introduced to tabletop gaming and piracy he found the entirety D&D’s publication history at the time in pdf form online and after getting about 10 other peoples usernames who weren’t using all their prints every week, he got a cheep binding machine and was cranking out multiple D&D books for his private collection and a couple of rule books for other games. the book this is from is one of the first few that he printed. I still have it.

[@laxxboy20]

Would love to see a video on the Dream Larvae, thing is terrifying (literally)

[@TOWYK]

The editing is 10/10 (the difference with older videos is stunning and its weird to know that its the same "steps" it still feels the same but the quality is way better !)

[@tenchraven]

The ichor suggest part of the conversion process. They were not dead when it started, but living and wishing the world to know nothing but pain and grief to be just like them. Watching atrocity, they have to willingly start the path while they're alive, further suffering burning into their minds by their eyes.

[@Jw87563]

Just realized that if the Wheep could make explosives, it'd just be a zombie Deidara.

[@Dragowolf_Rising]

After you said the name but before you explained what it was, I was imaging the witch from Left 4 Dead or the banshee from Dark Arisen.

[@UnbeGnomest4381]

You startled the Wheep!

[@NoFame]

"Weebs are in a constant state of pain and sorrow" This sounds accurate.

[@kaskando]

Woah you got me with the haircut gag xD

[@Kellethorn]

"The Dark Crystal isn't designed with goal of putting you at unease." Uhhh, have you SEEN the Dark Crystal!?

[@XanatosForever]

Dungeon trap/puzzle room: Party opens a door to a room with a hooded cage hanging from the ceiling. The room is under the effect of an area of Silence. There’s a magic mark on the bottom of the cage they can see. Disrupting the mark ends the silence effect, freeing the sound of the Wheep sitting in the cage as it drops down on the party and begins to attack.

[@jmet9955]

Made my day getting a new video before I had to go into work!

[@Malchiah01]

That Hunt: Showdown music.

[@fiddlewheelx]

All I think of is creating this creepy follow the trail encounter. Where the players start hearing faint sobs as they get closer, only to see a caravan of corpse wagons pulled by fleshy horrors, all being controlled by Wheepers on each wagon.

[@Flareon811]

The port sulfur band background was awesome

[@ethanhall7687]

New to the channel and just wanted to chime in. I think it's great that for an undead monster the Hunt Showdown main theme was used.

[@Shadowassassin908]

"Way back with the undead elementals" welp, i know what to watch next

[@Drag1azegaming]

This dropped right after my dnd session

[@KharonDeLune_vtb]

The Manic Wheep. A BBEG's second in command who constantly shifts between moaning and sobbing, and howling with delirious laughter. Could be operated as a classic Viking berserker, as in someone who under certain circumstances becomes entirely unable to recognise the pain they're in and thus just fights full force, even to the point of tearing their own muscles from the bone. Alternatively, could be one who is so very deranged by pain that they think they have had an enlightening experience, so they want to give this 'gift' to others - and when that person dies and is resurrected, well, why wouldn't that feel like a success?

[@Anew522]

For those interested, the song at 3:00 is Rise Up Dead Man, the Hunt: Showdown theme song

[@MandalorianRaider]

My latest suggestion for future monsters: The Magebane, a neat little bat-like creature that follows a spellcaster around and eats their spells as they cast them, and are invisible to everyone but the person they're tormenting. Or: Hellbred, a playable race of folk with souls damned to the hells but given a second chance at life.

[@tomisabum]

Nice; I have fond memories of reading through this book and Lords of Madness books as a kid.

[@derekstein6193]

6:27 Kitty! Who's a little orange friend? You are! I want to pat it.

[@NicStarkGaming]

Never expected to hear the song "Rise Up Dead Man" here lol

[@Fibirdnacci-sequence]

I love the look of this monster, it feels and sounds very early Phyrexian.

[@Crazor2000]

Nice video! but, small thing i noticed the saving throw for con is strangly enough lower than it's modifier of one on the wheep despite it having profiencieny on all saving throws.

[@QuantumTurtle]

Lmao I love that you are using the music from Hunt:showdown. That's great.

[@tulicloure]

I didn't want to suggest an episode on the Visage again, but it did show up while you were flipping through the Libris Mortis right there, so not my fault! 😂 Anyway, love that book! A lot of my favorite encounters and recurring enemies I've used were taken from that one.

[@grumpygoosegg3514]

So excited for all the spooky creeps that are gonna show up for October!

[@DerekEidahl]

"uploaded 55 seconds ago" earliest ive been to a video in a long time