Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Dretch

[@florenmage]

Oh what terrible luck to be born a Dretch in D&D...Wait I just had an idea.A one shot game where all the player characters are Dretches trying to survive and get out from under the heels of a greater demon.

[@thedarkmaster4747]

good idea.

[@florenmage]

Yeah!That's brilliant! ^_^

[@nullvoid4063]

"shrieking torture plushies"... Well that's is immediately going onto my list of band names. Also, now my campaign has to have one of those slightly more "refined" demons such as a Balor or a Glabrezu using one as a stress ball... Cultist: "my immortal lord! the adventures! they-" Glabrezu: "Ahh... those pathetic do-gooders I sent on a wild goose chase after their precious mentor..." ( Glabrezu reaches down and plucks a dretch out of a large serving bowl and begins to caress it with its massive claws) Cultist: "Uh.. yes, erm well, actually no, but... well..." Glabrezu: "Well? well what?! Out with it slave!" (The Glabrezu's grip tightens and the dretch makes a sound akin to a cross between a rubber duck and a torture victim) Cultist: "Well... you see... they... they're...) Glabrezu: "You try my patience mortal." ( The dretch's sickly squeaking increases in pitch) Cultist: "They... they're here" Glabrezu: "..." (*squelch!*)

[@thedarkmaster4747]

Yessszzz. 😈

[@owenwalsh1471]

Null Void Nerd

[@TKDxxxward]

I like the idea of a slightly smarter dretch. Who gets summoned by a kobold shaman. And they start worshipping the dretch as their god! And then the kobolds start getting or violent because of the influence of the abyss. So your party of adventurers must go down the cave of the kobolds with nasty traps and rabid kobolds. Only to find a massive fat dretch. A massive anticlimax but shows the players what the weakest demon can do! Imagine what a more powerful demon could do!

[@AJPickett]

Good idea. Actually, perhaps Mites summon one by mistake when they mess with a stolen magic item.

[@BoojumFed]

Dretch: The physical embodiment of the internet troll. Gotcha. ;^)

[@whiteknightcat]

"They are a diseased horrible thing that tend to be bloated and miserable, have raw and ulcerated flesh on their faces and hands, rubbery flesh, and smell incredibly bad." OK, so like a college dorm roommate then?

[@xPumaFangx]

Only if that roommate plays dnd.

[@soshp]

I was really hoping you'd go into lifecycles, like how a demon can become a dretch.

[@AJPickett]

Ah, it's a bit better if I talk about that when I have covered the basic definitions of demon types, so when I talk about transformations, progressions, roles, niches and regressions or de-evolutions, viewers will not be completely lost as I rattle off all the different names. Good call though, certainly a very interesting subject.

[@DuskyPredator]

I am imagining the worst demon cultist ever, who is jealous of another's Quasit, and then ends up with a Dretch. At first impressed at it being bigger, but end up shouting at it to do anything, or actually think it is amazing with wise telepathic words as they pamper it, or a Team Rocket's Meowth situation.

[@seanwarren9357]

Some things are best kept to ones giant mouth. Wait, are we not beholders, here? XD

[@TheLoyalOfficer]

Great vid! I actually like how you tackle the lower level monsters - you give some great detail and campaign ideas.

[@cameronpearce5943]

I was in a campaign where by insane luck, this one Dretch we encountered early on kept coming back, and over time began to metamorphous and mutate in to more powerful forms (either by steeling items or getting magic power-ups. He got killed at one point (or sent back to the Abyss I guess), having become a reoccurring villain, but was then revived some time later by an elvish Lich who was gunning for the party because our leader was the Lich's descendant and mortal (unmortal?) enemy. Anywho, long story short, Jenus the Ultra-Dretch eventually betrayed the Lich, and then after that found a Sibriex to transform him in to Jenurex, The Interminable Prince, and became the final boss of the campaign, having taken over the first two layers of the 9 Hells. In the end the party led an army of devils against his demon hoard, and managed to get him in to a magic circle to take him back to the abyss (after we bamphed through the Astral Sea, The Plane of Fire, our beholder ‘friend’s Spelljammer Spaceport, Athas, and a few other places the party had been) where we finally defeated him and cast him down in to an abyssal vortex that led to beyond the far realm. So obviously he’s probably gonna show up again at some point. Jenurex is interminable after all…

[@florenmage]

That is a very interesting monster use.

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

not bad for a bloated little bugger.

[@jeremymount795]

Such a foul and wretched little creature. Not even worthy to stain my hammer!

[@GMspiration]

Great video AJ. In some of your other ones you mention how you'd use the monster in your campaigns. Could you add those into your videos again? They were fantastic inspiration for my own campaign. Sometimes I get overwhelmed with the range of things I could add I don't think about how to tie the monsters into the storyline.

[@AJPickett]

Oh for sure, thanks DCCAR, I'll be happy to.

[@wolfnerd4984]

Kobolds of the Abyss

[@mikifauns]

They sound like demonic goblins. XD Though goblins seem way smarter and more fun to interact with.

[@michaelkelligan7931]

My drow mage, before I got him out of Menzoberranzan fought a ton of these creatures in the lower planes after his mother sent him there to prove his worth to the church. Nasty creatures,the dretch!

[@RockyRodent333]

Ah, a great video on some of my favorite hideous, beautiful abyssal boys. The lore was amazing AJ, especially that stuff about the dretch telepathy.

[@feylin]

This and a few other videos kept me entertained in the ER this week. Also I wish I knew this when I ran the Pathfinder Adventure path Wrath of the Righteous. (Paladins vs Demons)

[@keithmcclane3692]

really enjoy watching your videos. keep up the good work.

[@randallbaumgardt3424]

Introduced what my players called one of the coolest but largely worthless magic items a while back. It was the staff of the wretched. It once per day could summon but not control 2d8 drech . Caused some appropriate amount of chaos before being cast into a volcano, as is tradition.

[@thebigdawgj]

I swear I heard "Grinch" every single time.

[@adamholcomb200]

Your Demon series are my favorite videos and give my favorite evil AL character ideas😈👍🏼💯

[@projexwar2407]

In my current campaign my group just fought a Hezrou. He used these guys to horde, and when he needed to would absorb these guys to gain health. He could of course summon so many (35%) once each round.

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

I have a feeling that the easiest way to defend one self from these things would be to just yell loudly and scare them away. that tactic seems to work even for bears so why would it not work for these bloated little idiots.

[@unicorn2040]

I love this stupid monster. I had a whole bunch of the figurines for the tabletop. I had them orcas and a few other demons. People thought I was weird because I always knew the difference between the devils and the demons in the game.

[@AJPickett]

Well, you are in good company with this community :)

[@Craig_Tucker48]

So this is what Twitter mobs and internet trolls turn into when they die.

[@Morriaphant]

oooo... dat wuz a pretty flash intro youz got dere!

[@dragonballtalk8527]

I saw that mini in there

[@thedarkmaster4747]

short range teleporting dretches would be cool, like just afew feet or meters, all stiinky an incompotent murderous evil attacking a party... untill they learn to fear them. the. hard. way... maybe a party of goblins. do devils enjoy getting at dretches due to the whole blood war thing, just torturing the litteral hell out of them? *pictures a balor chowing down on them with a huge metal bucket, like living popcorn chicken, where they are trapped because they're pushing each other to the top instead of working together to escape* "Now i am inevitable. nom nom, before i could have been stopped. nom nom, but i wouldn't tell you! nom nom, and i didn't!?!? hahaha! nom nom there is no way that you'll, nom nom NOM nom, stop me from corupting your lands, nom, your rivers, nom, your villages, your food, your CRUNTCH air... your wemen, your men nom, even your children. yes your children well be corrupted, and all your food. even you are being corrupted now, seeing me eat dretches with my mouth full, like your mother warned you not too. everyone hates dretches nom nom, they deserve to always be gluttoned down by greater evils like me for every conceivable reason! eaten alive, crutched down, and spocken out with a filthy full mouth. it feels so GOOD! grrARRGH!! i'm going to crush your wooden house with my elbow now & you're going to like it. i know... nom nom, i know you think you wont... but you will. and yes silly soft succulent mortal when i get to the bottom of this delightfull bucket, you'll be next, but by then no one will be able to tell "the difference..." not even me." @_@

[@thedarkmaster4747]

Fabius Maximus yes, reverse bucket crabs, fear instead of jelousy working against them.

[@seanwarren9357]

Well played, friend.

[@matheusbento363]

Thanks for the really nice lore content. I think if your intro were more subtile and short it would be more effective.

[@kainebishop9791]

At least it's short. I think it's fine but I don't use headphones.

[@seanwarren9357]

I prefer the subtly of chainsaws. XD

[@Z0nK89]

Nice Intro :) i realy like your stuff :) greetings from germany :)

[@sabastjunberthiaume8391]

Nice video I really liked it

[@AJPickett]

Hey! I remember you (still) :)

[@hexkwondo]

Who would win? A dretch or lemure?

[@AJPickett]

Pretty even match actually.

[@cameronpearce5943]

They would take eachother out, leaving the Larva the true victor

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

dretch is basically a demon who hasn't accepted itself as a demon yet.. basically the body with no living spirit

[@mattnerdy7236]

Hey AJ, how many more of the demon series are left. Im looking forward to something different. Most of these creatures you cant even use. Just my thoughts, have a great day

[@GodwinCarpenter]

Don't listen to this guy AJ

[@GodwinCarpenter]

Don't listen to his reply either AJ

[@thedarkmaster4747]

Your being a heretic. every creature can be used, in more ways than one would think.

[@AJPickett]

Matt, with the volume of vids I am putting out now, there will usually be one Demon video per week, but like, 2-4 other vids on other stuff. There is a massive list of demons, this series is going to be one of the largest and it is quite popular, so I hear you, I thank you for your feedback, but these might be vids you will end up skipping.

[@zenarkia]

I like to depict Dretches as the demon dogs in the Ghostbusters movie.

[@jonwooldridge3766]

Zhuul!!!

[@AJPickett]

Many Shugs and Zhuuls shall roast in the belly of the Slor!

[@seanwarren9357]

I bow before the might of Gozer!

[@tobigarcia8058]

Wait so even an imp could take on one of these guys???

[@prestongarner8796]

They’re like the nupperibo of the nine Hells

[@grendel8342]

I have adopted a baby dretch in my campaign. Dont know how it will go but i want to see what a chaotic neutral barbarian can do to raise a dretch to be more neutral and less evil.

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

dretches.. hell's army in lotr battle of 5 armies!

[@seanwarren9357]

Looking for an excuse here, but I f'ing love u man. XD

[@GrimgoreIronhide]

Honest question, who wins most of the time, a Dretch or a peasant conscript?(Let's say armed with a sheild and spear)

[@jasonpike4489]

Probably conscript

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

One on one, armed peasants win. Dretches don't come one at a time, though

[@krofgninut5984]

@@johntheherbalistg8756 armed peasants dont have to either XD

[@seanwarren9357]

U running a campaign? XD

[@seanwarren9357]

I'll make my better half understand...

[@seanwarren9357]

Let's just pretend you are. Damnit, Nehwon Ghoul it is.

[@seanwarren9357]

XD

[@AJPickett]

I do love those folks... the crystal flesh

[@seanwarren9357]

AJ Pickett so muddy, the flesh of the other kind... you nailed it. Would you want a second edition char sheet, I have one, 20 years old as it is... Idk what to produce, but Hammarilion lives. I'm more than happy to share his happenstance for the sake of playing( I miss playing, vs gm' ing). Lvl 14 rogue, lvl 16 mage with specifics. Post realm of the dead gods(orcus spell book), post idk what else XD... Really tho, if u are looking to run as gm... Maybe we should work together a lil for a high level intro for the audience. It's a great character and I'd be proud to provide the cross section for a fun little intro for folks interested in what may happen when like minds meet.

[@michaelkelligan7931]

Hello A.J. I sent that copy of my Diamond Dragon to you as promised it is in the comment section under your shadow dragons video....do me a favor and let me know if you can see it as I typed it in under my account on my smart phone but it doesn't show up when I look for it on my laptop....the same thing happened on my longer than normal comment under your skeletons video and I had to redo it before I could see it on both...thanks m8

[@AJPickett]

Yep, got it, it was flagged as possible spam so I OK'ed it and it shows up in the comment thread now.

[@seanwarren9357]

AJ Pickett niiiice. Count me to in on anything dragon.

[@jgr7487]

a CE person dies, thus they become a Mane... then what? Devis have well defined order of growth from Lemure to Pit Fiend, but what about Demons?

[@temmy9]

Demons are more random. They evolve at the whim of the abyss or the demon lords.

[@ThengelB]

Gosh

[@davidlewis8814]

Ha! There were 777 likes. Can’t have that, says I!! Muah ha ha ha!!

[@nathanielchance9751]

Finally! First!

[@That80sGuy1972]

So those are the Dretch? Hmm... now I know where most of the online trolling and pro-trump online posts come from.

[@AJPickett]

This video will be around long after Trump is.

[@That80sGuy1972]

Yes, but who will the Dretch love next? ;) There will still be online trolls, most of who are obviously Dretch. XD

[@NodDisciple1]

That80sGuy1972 Don't you mean, Hillary? It even had her face. :3

[@tatsusama3192]

Hate to get political, but this guy sounds like Antifa, haha

[@AJPickett]

*cricket chirps*

[@thedarkmaster4747]

if only they wore black. XD

[@BigusGeekus]

They sound more like the tiki-torch-waving fascists if you ask me.