Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Grick

[@christostefan]

People may not know this. But these are actually native to the Western American deserts and are regionally known as Graboids.

[@jacobwilson8579]

A Grick sounds like a curse doesn't it "you Grick"

[@tyronedavies8680]

I like to use them as carrion beasts more than ambush predators. If a party of adventurers has to come back the way they came and slew a few monsters on the way, have a couple of Gricks tryin to drag the corpses away, maybe while taking a bite here and there. Of course, they then get aggressive when approached :)

[@nullvoid4063]

I love all of the weird and otherworldly monsters of D&D, the weirder the better! Thanks AJ, keep it up!

[@flibbernodgets7018]

I love the idea of grick beak scrimshaw. Anything you can make out of monsters, really

[@NanoMayTry]

I want to make a club out of Grick's vile rubber flesh. But I'm sure it'll just rot away...

[@00784865]

You gave me inspiration for a side quest where the grick are vermin in a dwarf kingdoms sewer or mine.

[@YOOTOOBjase]

I bloody love these videos, AJ

[@codychavez9839]

I made an entire adventure around a copper mine that supported the hill town of Copperhaven’s economy coming to an abrupt halt when the gnome miners unearthed a Grick.

[@GrimgoreIronhide]

If you become disoriented in the underdark and start to panic it's important to get a grick on yourself.

[@gwyndolin1536]

If i where a rich but somewhat nutty D&D noble and wanted to have "one of those dangerous pets to show off my wealth rather then be a good pet" which would you recommend, a Grick or a Hooked Horror?

[@xeonespydonum4995]

Oh hey! Those weird octopus ladies in the duke's archives!

[@jamesembry4921]

I love these guys. If I remember correctly, I used them in the first game I ran for 3e. Not many of the 3e monsters got my attention when it first came out, but gricks were a nice addition that I really enjoyed right out of the gate.

[@andirach]

Love this! Obscure critters for the win ^_^

[@thomastruant8837]

Here's the idea let's cross one with a purple worm see if we get graboids

[@Persephon94]

Hello AJ, another great video. The Grick was actually the first creature that my first party ran into from the underdark before any other, surprisingly. I wanted to ask you a question during your last live stream but it seems I was too late. In your Spellweaver video you had mentioned a Mirrior Universe that the Spellweaver's discovered with a race called the... Nira? Neara? And you said you were going to make a video about it later. You start talking about it at ten thirty on the time scale, and I'll put a link here. My question was, is that still going to be a video? Or is that just a scrapped idea now, since your spellweaver video was from the start of this year. Again thank you so much for you dedication to unearthing this lore and ecology about Dungeons and Dragons. In addition, I was wondering, since you are making this as like reference material, do you think it would be possible for you to list off the sources of the information in some of your videos? I'd love to try to find specific books that had certain creatures or places in them. Best of luck and wishes with the move! kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5W5opSZgrWSoLMm30s

[@Persephon94]

Ah thank you for hearting the message! I hope to hear about this in a livestream or video soon!

[@Greenscyth22]

Gricks and Grells. Beaked horrors of the underdark......ever think of maybe redoing your Grell video? : )

[@AJPickett]

The sound is not great on it, but I really love that intro to the Grell video.

[@Greenscyth22]

I like the intro too : )

[@85Funkadelic]

I've been using these almost exactly as you described. I try to build living dungeons in adventure locations. I've been using these things as one of the carrion eater species or as a random encounter for tunnels in the like.... Never had one show up on a city street before lol.

[@meat0delislice722]

D&D tremors !

[@flaviomadeiramirandafilho3469]

Great video man

[@NanoMayTry]

I love these weird creatures with dexterous octopus limbs. Tentamorts, and Grick seem like weird twisted experiments.

[@randallbaumgardt3424]

I use a variety that are like tube worms. Just give then a small AC bumb and a cave full of cool winding tube structures.

[@atibamaule]

Almost had an encounter with this today first time playing DnD. Unfortunately or, fortunately our Sorcerer aggroed the dungeon guards and we had to fight those instead. By the time we were finished, the game shop had to close.

[@purplehaze2358]

They some heckin spoopy snek bois.

[@Zasek2112]

I can't decide whether mind flayers would consider these things as useful guard dogs and cannon fodder or as an unintelligent nuisance.

[@That80sGuy1972]

The answer is yes, all of the above.

[@jackhubbard4461]

A 20 ft grick was just in my campaign. A group of goblins captured one and it broke free of its chains during our battle it was a great time loll

[@rickeymariu1]

Thanks A.J. I haven't used one of these in about a year.

[@davidfletcher6703]

The creature in the thumbnail is an enemy from Dark Souls, the mutated Handmaidens of Queen Guinevere, you encounter them in the Dukes Archives

[@cameronpearce5943]

I always thought they were similar to the Grill

[@dubbydapanda7189]

I really love the Grick ever since my uncle threw two at the party in the Sunless Citadel. I have such a deep connection to them and I don't know why... Imagine the party is wandering through a deep cave and they run into a Grick nest with little gricks all over and 2 alpha gricks. It's like a extremely well preserved ecosystem of these creatures. It would be tough but fun.

[@rylanc9]

A Grick was the first monster I fought in 5th edition if I remember correctly. 2 of them almost killed my Warlock

[@Zombied77]

This thing is in Dark Souls

[@AJPickett]

THIS VIDEO IS JUST LIKE DARK SOULS.

[@AJPickett]

It's the Dark Soulsiest of soul darkery

[@AJPickett]

can we get 420 likes? #Danksouls

[@Zombied77]

@@AJPickett - I'll start it off, mate

[@DuskyPredator]

I wonder if it could be fooled with covering yourself in their smell.

[@AJPickett]

I think you could make the equivalent of a shark Repellant (that works by mimicking dead shark stank).

[@DuskyPredator]

@@AJPickett probably something always at hand for D&D Batman, then?

[@chriscalvin5083]

Good video AJ

[@derekdumas4556]

You know I recently killed one of those in a single attack would be nice to learn more about them

[@jeremyshaffer8029]

Would you do one on the Loxodan, and if you could please tell how you would improve it

[@AJPickett]

Loxodan is on my list. Did you mean improve the Loxodan?

[@jeremyshaffer8029]

@@AJPickett yes I read a bit about it and I feel like it is a bit to close to the dwarf race

[@AJPickett]

I'm very interested in what their role will be on the world of Ravnica.

[@PANCAKEMINEZZ]

The first pic was a picassa from Dark Souls 1, found in Seethe's archives.

[@dbensdrawinvids8390]

Very late to this video, but consider this adventure seed: novice adventuring party is looking for some sad little girl's missing cat down in the sewers, only to stumble across a grick that's been feeding on the local pet population.

[@KidPrarchord95]

I don't play D&D but this is interesting.

[@saeyabor]

Too bad, you're still a total nerd now.

[@jsizzlesaurusrex]

AJ stop releasing videos, I have to work!

[@Zasek2112]

Maybe they tend to go deeper and deeper as they get bigger, if there is no upper limit to their size. Most alpha's die at large in the middle underdark but in the right conditions they go deeper and get huge.

[@Zasek2112]

@AJ Pickett I've given this alot more thought and it's their breeding cycle. I would LOVE to catch you on the discord at some point and get deeply nerdy about it ;p

[@bigd7861]

Gricks attacking a purple worm...

[@lycansdietired7837]

12:54 am where I am and AJ uploads another video of course I’ll watch. Anyways, a question AJ, how come the Devil in the Christian Religion stats don’t appear in any official 5e content, why did it stop at 3E? I’m trying to not have your content demonetized otherwise I’d say more understandable names so sorry if you are confused.

[@jacobwilson8579]

Technically you could argue that said figure still exists in Azmodius and similar lords of HE-double hockystick

[@lycansdietired7837]

Jacob Wilson of course one can do that I personally didn’t know said being was in the game until I looked it up a few hours ago. So now knowing said being created Infernus after getting his butt kicked out of the avernus by asmoedues and the other archdevils (this was In 3rd edition of i am correct) I would like to say there could be a piece of them in all of them in essence. Just him being a completely different being already in game is what got me to ask this question because I thought asmoedeus was said being just with a different name.

[@AJPickett]

Lucifer retired before D&D was published, Asmodeus is actually the third such ruler of Baator.

[@lycansdietired7837]

AJ Pickett, That makes sense then. Thank you AJ!!!!

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

AJ Pickett A video on the history of Baator and it’s rulers would be amazing. Now I’m curious as to what happened to Luci and who ruled before him.

[@MRDicristofaro]

with how durable there flesh can be id make bow strings out of there guts lol i wonder if you could make leather out of the skin as well

[@linguisticallyoversight8685]

I was able to get everything worked out I have Discord on my phone and I was able to get connected to the Discord server so yay

[@asdfasdfasdfasdfasd3534]

Frick

[@AJPickett]

edge lord :)

[@PinkProgram]

Are these related to grell?

[@AJPickett]

No.

[@florenmage]

Somehow a monster that a low level party could kill seems nice it's a back to basics simply monster you know that is under appreciated I think

[@defechan7486]

It may be a monster for the sake of categorization but It seems more like any other deadly animal or organism. In my opinion it is more like an ecological parasite. Not good not evil. Has just enough instinct to survive and reproduce to its fullest life cycle. And nothing more to be said.

[@dragonballtalk8527]

Please review von richtens book creatures

[@skyshadow4523]

Oh Great

[@linguisticallyoversight8685]

Is this thing influence by the farRealm? A basic question merely on Aesthetics of the Beast. General rule of thumb is if it has tentacles it might be from the farRealm.

[@jameswilliams2075]

All hail the grick king

[@jakecrichton562]

I've always liked these things, but have never encountered them in a game. My party will be heading into the underdark eventually but I fear they'd walk through an encounter with Gricks mostly unscathed.

[@issacwhittaker3687]

Jake Crichton modify them. Maybe make them infected by a mind flayer parasite thing and make them overall better but also psionic abilities.

[@Birbucifer]

My umber hulk ichor addicted alchemist would wanna try to make some kind of alchohol out of the blood of these things! >:)

[@thedarkmaster4747]

Yesss... XD

[@cricktrickity]

Minor palpitation when I scrolled past that thumbnail.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

A grell with a hefty ick factor?

[@Daimon-X]

Drokking bugs! Someone get the bug spray! Or Fireball a really big fireball...

[@dragonballtalk8527]

With all thease grotesque horrific creatures it must be terrible to just be a citizen of dungeons and dragons.id try to kill it or run and tell

[@Yuudaddy]

Csn you make anything useful out of them?

[@kylejacques8577]

Corpses

[@purplehaze2358]

Were-grick. That is all.

[@sanguiniusonvacation1803]

Ohhhhhh put that thing back where it came from or so help me !

[@Antdevamp]

I have laid my trap...weak and easily destroyed Grells....and in a Kuo Toa room my 6ths party will easy roll even in large numbers....the Grick Alpha awaits invisible on the stones.....

[@gunhatornie]

Top panel on 🐠 🌐

[@AJPickett]

fish world?

[@mynameluvsdragonscancelled6759]

I’m the 359th person to like

[@purplehaze2358]

The apocalypse shall come. Not in fire and smoke, but in rain.....and mist. For I, Azahlgotep, am both your creation, and destruction. Edit: Dont you just hate it when your trying to comment but you get possessed by a primordial god of the cycle of birth, life, and death?