Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Ixitxachitl

[@thehangryphalangite739]

I knew the teacher in Finding Nemo was up to something.

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

"🎵THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE'S🎵 nothing to see here...."

[@sullieduser6116]

Shield captain: SHUT UP BOY NOBODY ASKED!!

[@thehangryphalangite739]

LORD DADORABLE HELP

[@honestgoblinproductions5663]

@@sullieduser6116 take a shot. Not even a 40k video.

[@coreyeaston6823]

17:25 Here is a thought. Much like dragons, the lxitxachitl have magic items of their own. What is a dragon going to do with a cloak made for a humanoid? The Ixitxachitl have wing rings (like ear rings that pierce their wings) and act like rings of protection, or other items. Perhaps they even sacrifice their entire tail for an item that replaces it with an equivolant magical staff. Demogorgon might approve as the ritual to remove the tail would be graphic and brutal filled with pain and the envy of others. Its been a dark morning :(.

[@evilestmonkeey]

Had to pause the video to say that sounds like a great idea! Non humanoid item use is far too underused in general. They have to have all these inborn abilities but nobody every wants more? Good call.

[@mrl9418]

AJ : Get creative with it Me : Ixitxachitl-descent tiefling with big Dumbo ears

[@bumblingbureaucrat6110]

@Ian Yoder That's a lot of Seances

[@bumblingbureaucrat6110]

@Ian Yoder I'm just having a bit of a laugh because a Seance is a ceremony meant to communicate with the dead. What you meant were Senses.

[@bumblingbureaucrat6110]

@Ian Yoder lol it's ok.

[@TheKing-qz9wd]

@Ian Yoder Excuse me but I only have six senses and my sense of smell and touch is actually restricted.

[@TheKing-qz9wd]

@Ian Yoder Born with bad sense of smell, over the years I have slowly been noticing touch and dexterity eroding. Anyways, what are these 4 other senses, kiddo?

[@CidGaius]

Sea flap flaps! EEEEEEEEVVVVVVVVIIIILLLLLLLL SEA FLAP FLAPS!!! Also the Barbarian is no longer allowed to name the enemies in my party.

[@saeyabor]

That sounds like a Minsc-ism.

[@Overthinks21]

Dispel Magic is terrifying underwater. Odds are the party are using a spell to be underwater and need that to breath. And you can't cast spells underwater with being able to breath underwater. Depending on how deep you are, dispel magic could be a 1 hit kill.

[@AJPickett]

Hmmm, very good point

[@saeyabor]

Dispel doesn't usually shut off potions or on-when-worn magic items' effects. Other than that you're absolutely right.

[@Krishnath.Dragon]

@@saeyabor It does however shut off spells such as Water Breathing and Airy Water.

[@saeyabor]

@@Krishnath.Dragon Well yeah, that's OP's point. I was just pointing out that potions and items might be preferred when available for that exact reason.

[@Krishnath.Dragon]

@@saeyabor I've found that most PC's prefer the use of spells because they are cheaper to use than consumables and expensive magical items. At least that was the case in 3rd edition.

[@purplehaze2358]

What our ancestors had to deal with and be afraid of: Big cats, maybe the occasional hyena, bear, or such What the average person in D&D has to deal with: Flying stingrays, biological tanks with wings and flamethrower attachments, nightmarish amalgamations of various animals, literally any object being a monster that bites a decent chunk of your finger (If not, more) off, incursions of hellspawn, etc.

[@thehillz726]

And big cats

[@rejvaik00]

And freaking sharks with freaking lasers attached to their freaking heads!

[@immaturityincTV]

So here's a fun fact if you are planning an underwater campaign with these guys. Contrary to what Aj has said there is underwater weather. Underwater storms, dead zones of oxygen-less water, pockets of extremely heated water that spring up, whirlpool at various levels of depth, deep sea silt fog and the dreaded jelly fish bloom storm just to name a few. I can see these death rays, like raiders, coasting in on the heels of a deep sea storm, like mad Max and the dust cloud, screeching obscenities as they pick off prey trying to avoid the treacherous weather.

[@Diditallforthexp]

Most of what you described isn't weather. Underwater creatures don't have to worry about spontaneous whirlpools or superheated water just rolling through like a storm. Those are localized events caused by specific circumstances. Scalding vents don't roam around. Whirlpools are caused by water falling or being pulled through a hole. Deoxygenated water or brine pools don't move much either, they are weather under water in the sense that a swamp is weather in the surface. If you mean things like currents causing temperature shifts I can dig it, but even a silt fog is just something caused by weather on the surface. It would be like referring to a flood as weather instead of being caused by weather.

[@seanrosenau2088]

@@Diditallforthexp Most of what you said is true. But this is D&D. Any of these 'not weather' things can be caused by 'not real' things. For example underwater whirlpools or hot water can be caused by a portal to the elemental plane of air or fire. Not trying to start anything, just my opinions.

[@Diditallforthexp]

@@seanrosenau2088 Very true, planar shenanigans abound, but weather they are not. You make a good point about regional effects though no matter their origin. A magically summoned storm or volcanic rift impacts the world just like the real thing, so how can we define the fallout from their effects as different than natural weather? For all we know, the oceans of Toril could be littered with portals and gates to all manner of crazy crap, so who knows what's floating around out there? I totally see your point, and i see what you mean by weather as a broad range of fantasy effects. Consider my mind changed!

[@AJPickett]

I happily stand corrected. And now I want to make a random roll table for it.

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

Lets not forget the Fingers of Death that form in polar waters, super cold and dense streams of desalinated water that sink to the seafloor, freezing everything they touch and coating it in a layer of ice.

[@nightlock826]

Low key; one of my favorite evil factions as I love the reactions from my players when they find out they are fighting stingrays

[@reifuTD]

I like the idea of giving these things a Spelljammer ship, flying around realmspace in a with a ship surrounded by a bubble of water.

[@moonringXD]

Maybe their ship could be like a submarine except it keeps water in and is made of coral?

[@reifuTD]

@@moonringXD I was thinking the same thing, The ship at least needs to be a open bowl shape because when the ship enters the gravity of a planet the water doesn't all drain out.

[@AJPickett]

Could be an actual nautilus

[@saeyabor]

Or a ship that's a giant fish tank, like the amoebas in Endless Space.

[@MrTotalAhole]

I clicked just for the pronunciation, and then stayed for the lore.

[@terrainaholic]

A monster too unrepresented in d&d after reading the black pearl ( the cover art you showed) I've always had a thing for rays. Great job Big Guy!!!!!

[@sarbnitrof4663]

Im trying to wrap my head around how a flying, limbless manta ray can enslave anything that isn't just a smaller version of itself.

[@moonringXD]

Man we need more type of Ixitxachitls, like a Paladin Ixitxachitls, or maybe a lich Ixitxachitls or perhaps a monk Ixitxachitls? oh maybe a desert Ixitxachitls that live in sand! So many Ixitxachitls possibilities!

[@AJPickett]

You're welcome. 😎

[@zhondortoth8699]

Dispelling breath water is nasty.

[@Mattdood.]

theres a fight in the 2e module "Paladin in Hell" where (longer story made short) the PCs find themselves encountering approximately 50ish of these things, along with a marilith demon (~75% chance she'll be here), in a room filled neck-high with putrid abyss water and a shrine to Demogorgon. ive never had a party successfully defeat it. they always retreat or tpk. ive run it 3x for different groups. maybe its the marilith....8^)

[@yannickdellaert1616]

50 jfc

[@AJPickett]

They did not fuck around back in the day. "What's game balance?".

[@Mattdood.]

im pretty sure one has like cleric levels too. thats a really crazy, messy fight to run. thats not even the big boss either. hes a balor and has an ancient linnorm wyrm and a nalfeshnee with wizard levels guarding him. #2e4lyfe hahahah

[@masonabbey6353]

The picture with manta rays under lit in murky water is both.amazing and haunting - Good Job Kresimir Jelusic

[@MrKlotzi123]

Would a high Level Cleric Ixitxachitl be able to summon other demonic Water Creatures such as a Wastrilith associated with Demogorgon? Or maybe even an Aboleth or a Chuul, if they are affiliated with the Far Realm? Or Hell, maybe even a Styx Dragon!

[@anthonyalexander8886]

That would be cool, and therefore is correct.

[@AJPickett]

@@anthonyalexander8886 yes.

[@epiccthulu]

I’m reminded of Evil Manta from the Little Mermaid animated series. Turn Ursala into a high priestess of Umberlee. I can see a complete dnd conversion of little mermaid brought to life.

[@Mr-dead]

Ursala is more like, a sea hag, hate all things that are pretty, having an obsessin to bring ruin to loving and tern it to tragedy

[@HBHaga]

A GM of mine, long ago, threw a raiding party of these guys at us while we were part of a flotilla of cargo ships. When the attack started he queued up 'Ride of the Valkyries'.

[@muninrob]

One of my players pulled something like that. Just as the drow broke into the Dwarven city the party was defending, the bard's player reached under the table, and very quietly began Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King." They did eventually die - dropping the hall leading to the throne room right on the head of the Drow "queen", timed to the last creshendo of the song. "Since I'm the last man standing, I'll pull out my horn of blasting, and in time with the last creshendo, I'll blow it - at the ceiling" (I honestly needed a sniffle break after that "How do you want to do this", it was a PERFECT capstone to a 3 year campaign - and I'm glad my players saw what I hadn't.)

[@HBHaga]

@@muninrob Oh, that's beautiful. It's always wonderful when those moments come along.

[@AJPickett]

You know your DM means business when...

[@AJPickett]

@@muninrob that is AWESOME!

[@shellknight1323]

This video helped me greatly in writing an underwater campaign

[@shellknight1323]

*seeing how i spent most of my time rewatching the all the Aquatic races video you've made*

[@AJPickett]

Happy to be of service.

[@Lunarl4ndr]

A NE Ixitxachitl might make an interesting magic item trader NPC for a coastal location. They are shady, but not wholely untrustworthy. Trading with surface races for items they can use. This would move the items out of their domain and bring in useful ones directly to them.

[@AJPickett]

Exactly.

[@ericbondeson3614]

Yeay!!! My absolute favorite monstrous race finally gets some love!!! I used these beasties all the time when I still used 2nd edition and was very disappointed when following editions barely mentioned them!

[@AmigoRoberto]

Me: what even is that word? Also me: oh it's the good Professor AJ. I'm in

[@TimmyT1234]

Constantly stunned by your coverage! Fantastic stuff!!!

[@AJPickett]

Thank you so much 😀

[@arcticdino1650]

So they worship Demogorgon? If Merrow weren't too busy killing things in his name they would make a formidable force

[@zombiemanjosh]

I will happily accept this as a birthday present in my headcanon. A consolation prize now that I'm on the wrong side of almost 30. Thanks, AJ!

[@AJPickett]

Happy Bithday!

[@nicolaezenoaga9756]

Happy birthday!

[@johncaccioppo1142]

Funny you say that, I made a birthday card for my mom when I was 12 that had an ixitxachitl on the front of it.

[@moonringXD]

Congrats 🎉

[@Lazycandle]

Was thinking of making an underwater westmartch campaign going to hafto bookmark these guys Also the giant coral labyrinth dungeon

[@skippy9273]

I'd also look at Sarhuagan and malenti

[@MrKlotzi123]

You're D&D Lore has inspired me and my Friends to start our own D&D Campaign. And we never had such Fun before. Thank you so much for your hard Work.

[@AJPickett]

Wooot! Success.😁🧙‍♂️

[@RedneckWraith]

I feel like this is an april fools episode, I just can't take an evil manta ray seriously lol.

[@moonringXD]

Aj you have out done your self keep it up!❤ Also were do you think Ixitxachitls came from?

[@AJPickett]

My money is on the Aboleths.

[@BoojumFed]

Well, when a Mommy Ixitxachitl and a Daddy Ixitxachitl love each other very, very much...

[@nategoalbevazin1387]

Dude, AJ, this was exciting and riveting. I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I generally do enjoy them but today this was exactly what I needed. Thanks man!!!

[@AJPickett]

Thank you sir :)

[@TheRastawookie]

if you have a con 0f 20+ do they heal you?

[@AJPickett]

No.

[@purplehaze2358]

Ah yes, devilish dinner plate fish.

[@BiohazardCrow]

So this is the creature that killed Steve Irwin.

[@johngleeman8347]

The creepy batoids with the tricky name! Wonderful overview of all ray and skate-like creatures Sir. I thought of a great variant that could be added to the ixitxachitl ranks. Torpedo rays! Replace the barbed tail attack with a deadly shock that has a chance to stun hapless adventures that are desperately trying to avoid the vampiric leader's bite and the other more common stingray warriors. Sadly the 5th edition stuff doesn't allow the leader or the underlings to summon demons. Perhaps a school working in tandem could call forth a vile wastrilith or piscodaemon or one of the myriad obscure aquatic terrors from other planes that the referee never gets to use. Honestly any adventure under the waves is like Hanukkah for a ref. Mankind is lousy with myths of horrors that lurk just below the surface and are ready to devour we humble land apes if given half the chance. The ixitxachitl are really fun because they offer a nice alternative to the sahuagin. Severely different culture given their patron and physiology. The architecture of their lairs would be supremely claustrophobic I'd wager. Even worse than fighting kobolds or gremlins because the only weapons that work effectively underwater are polearms, and those would be hampered by the narrow little underwater passages that the demonic rays can retreat into.

[@AJPickett]

Excellent.

[@lukemarcello1229]

The subtitles said "devil rave vampires" it is almost always not correct but i love the idea of devil's and vampires at a rave. Awesome. But Prolly not a place that a human would want to be lol

[@AJPickett]

It's the only place still serving at 3am though... Needs must.

[@Greenscyth22]

Why are there always powerful demon lords behind every aberration race? I would have liked it more if the Ixitachitl were beholden/worshipped a elemental deity instead.

[@AJPickett]

There is always room for heretics.

[@oguguaobidike9251]

Man, I love this guy

[@AJPickett]

He loves you back

[@Saku2Suzuki]

I only clicked this video to hear this thing pronounced properly lol

[@coreymerrill3257]

I have a question for you AJ. WHAT was the living symbiotic armor called? It is semi parasitic chitinous Plates that fuse itself into a body and gives a pretty crazy armor boost. There was a breastplate and backplate , braisers and gauntlets, and leg pieces too. Is it grafted armor? I think it was in forgotten realms in the way, way back .

[@GrimThe13]

www.realmshelps.net/magic/items/grafts.shtml This? Edit: Look at the Silthilar section

[@AJPickett]

I'm not familiar with that one.

[@DracosDiabolis]

I think what your talking about is in a Eberron book

[@coreymerrill3257]

@@AJPickett hmm. Now I really have to find it!

[@coreymerrill3257]

@@AJPickett it was darksun not forgotten realms... and they are called plaiton grafts. Listed under athus' psionic items.

[@mikemccoy5092]

Imagine a wizard cross breeding one of these with a red cap oh the evil fun it could do

[@mikemccoy5092]

Make the end of tail a scythe and red on top with combined mental abilities and identity

[@HBHaga]

Is Airy Water still an available spell in 5e and what would happen it an Ixitxachitl if it were cast on them?

[@AJPickett]

I don't think so, and yeah, they would drop like a stone.

[@TheKing-qz9wd]

As a palladin styled character, I am not at all swayed by an enemy asking for me to kill them. In fact, that's what my weapons want to hear.

[@TheKing-qz9wd]

@Basement Bohab No, I wasn't being literal. I wouldn't trust a sentient weapon with my life.

[@TheKing-qz9wd]

@Basement Bohab That's very specific.

[@kholtsclaw5266]

This is why paladins don't typically live long despite being a strong class. They get involved with items that are smarter than they are.

[@TheKing-qz9wd]

@@kholtsclaw5266 I take offense to that notion on several levels.

[@TheKing-qz9wd]

@Basement Bohab I will blame you for trying to befriend an inanimate object that someone animated.

[@rejvaik00]

I always knew stingrays were evil I mean how could something not evil end the good-natured Steve Irwin

[@AJPickett]

right?!

[@seanrosenau2088]

I've always loved this particular monster. I just can't stand trying to pronounce the name. I can pronounce macuahuitl and quetzalcoatlus just fine but the name of this creature is weirdly difficult for.

[@eros5420]

RIP Steve Irwin. 😢

[@Scortch-lo3xy]

i have returned to view the master once more

[@AJPickett]

Welcome back Scortch

[@agsilverradio2225]

Looks like a giant butterfly/moth, crossed with a sting ray.

[@themightymoose5047]

Great way to start the morning! Thanks for another great video AJ!

[@yanaleigh]

Doing some follow-up reading on these things sent me down a rabbit hole where I stumbled into myrmyxicuses. Which have zero results when searched on KZbin. I had never heard of them and now I'm absolutely fascinated. I'm working on a campaign for high-level characters where they're going to have to travel through the abyss and the abyssal sea seems like a good way for them to get around, but they're going to have to find a way to either avoid or bargain with the myrmyxicuses that rule it. Anyway, I was wondering if you had considered making a video about them because it looks like no one else has.

[@AJPickett]

I have a video on the Wastralith, but yes, have not got around to the other aquatic demon types yet :)

[@jester105629]

That intro is the exact intro that @Alliestraza uses. A hearthstone steamer.

[@luisvazquez4397]

Is he/she from Cleveland?

[@chriscalvin5083]

good video AJ

[@tumulterudition3228]

It’d be cool if he had a playlist of just aberrations.

[@LogicIsFail4100]

You watches this to learn how to pronounce Ixitxachitl

[@trajanfidelis]

This is probably Moonringxd’s favorite video

[@moonringXD]

Perhaps

[@AJPickett]

Moonring gets to make another video request next year

[@moonringXD]

@@AJPickett I mean, next year isn't that far away.......aj😏

[@You-re9nr]

You should do the Dobie next they are the cutest Fay after all and no one ever talks about them.

[@AmigoRoberto]

6:13 do you mean they have access to the spells an 8th level cleric would have or 8th tier magic spells? Either are terrifying, one significantly more so

[@AJPickett]

8th level cleric.

[@frankyflowers]

if you soak their wings in brine overnight they taste like scallops

[@manarayofhope2374]

I feel very loved right now

[@JoseMolina-ij3xx]

What if the Ixitxachitl would attempt to crossbreed with a cloaker or lurker and succeed?

[@AJPickett]

Anything is possible with Magic. Honestly, I get a lot of these cross breeding questions... just do it, you don't need biology to get involved, I mean, in D&D you can have a person who is half stone golem... this makes NO sense... so, magic.

[@_Carlos]

666 likes for a demon worshipping fish race. Alright I'm 667

[@jamesfisher9594]

I want to play a see based campaign.

[@ironkeepgaming1936]

I will include the ocean in my campaign when it’s finished

[@jameswilliams2075]

How do aquatic lizardfolk view them

[@Arius_Astronomy]

Well they view things all on a basis on survival. So they would think of them as not good. Don't get close and so on. They wouldn't be actively or traditionally scared of them like we are. On the other hand they could also be enslaved by them. In which case they would follow their orders for survival.

[@jameswilliams2075]

@@Arius_Astronomy sounds about right

[@jameswilliams2075]

@Ian Yoder I could see them as basically being like a terrorist strike force agenst a large colony

[@HBHaga]

I'm thinking somewhere between 'No taste good' and 'Oh, gods, not these a-holes again'.

[@andresmarrero8666]

So we need some good angel or ghost rays to combat these devil rays.

[@waldirnacarath]

godrays?

[@blights5468]

Orcas

[@ARationalRedneck]

It's coming......... Tressym Video!

[@moonringXD]

The day of flying cats is near!

[@AJPickett]

Indeed!

[@Lazycandle]

Alright time to make a giant one from loz minish cap / demon souls

[@zombiemanjosh]

I was thinking the same thing! I'm currently making a LoZ inspired/themed megadungeon for my players and these will have to be in there somewhere.

[@findantu]

Some of these names lol. Lets learn mesoamerican today XD.

[@sirloin869]

how they feel about aboeths? is it lik between yuan ti & naga/lizardfolk

[@AJPickett]

Dude, they hate Everyone.

[@coreymerrill3257]

Mr.Mxyzptlk was allowed to name this creature ...

[@Redrung]

Look like the boss from demon soul

[@moonringXD]

Aw that would be so sick for a boss! Like your in waist-deep water and you have to fight a horde of them as a boss fight!

[@aconcretemoth9382]

no views but 8 likes... the joy of fans

[@tonyoliver4920]

Spell: destroy water Does this cause cavitation bubbles and/or Sonoluminescence. Increased spell level at higher depth larger cube oooohhhh, does 5th Ed have meta magic to reshape area effects? You could create a “shaped charge” cavity rather than a cube for silly attacks

[@tonyoliver4920]

This feckery is like using freedom of movement to cancel the effect of air resistance on a falling target to remove the fall damage cap (this was in 3.5)

[@Krishnath.Dragon]

@@tonyoliver4920 If your DM allowed that in 3.5, then you had a bad DM.

[@tonyoliver4920]

@@Krishnath.Dragon did I say they did? Did I even say I played 3.5? THOU SHALT NOT INSULT THE DM! What I did was ask questions! They start with words like "does" So, if you were a DM how would you roleplay the sudden absence of water, under water? Would the surrounding water rush in to fill the void? Cause if it didn't, you would be a bad DM (A void under water is a cavitation bubble! At greater depths this would be significantly more damage. At higher spell levels this would be a larger sphere, more damage from the water pressure)

[@thecrypticautistic611]

I just cheat, exit-a-chital

[@Mr_Maiq_The_Liar]

Maybe nobody pays attention to these things because no dm can pronounce their name

[@AJPickett]

There is more truth in that then there should be, lol.

[@jameswilliams2075]

If the sahuagin have trouble with them there a big deal

[@anthonyalexander8886]

"We may be evil, but those guys are *messed up*." ~Sahuagin, probably

[@jameswilliams2075]

@@anthonyalexander8886 ya thats what I thought

[@nicolaezenoaga9756]

Thank you so much.

[@dragonballtalk8527]

Don't leave these alive because the grudge

[@mikemccoy5092]

Never heard this name pronounced correctly thanks

[@AJPickett]

The audio edits on this video...

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

The correct pronunciation is "Exit Don Cheadle". You're welcome. 😉

[@moonringXD]

Ah a dog of culture!🍾🎉

[@philurbaniak1811]

@15:57 aka lawyers 😎

[@TheKejka13]

Water coat just got more terrifying 😏😈

[@alexanderjohnson6178]

It’s here

[@Klancer2]

You say they can't be skeletons. Who says skeletons can only be animated with bones they were born with? Why can't they be implanted with a series of shark teeth to form a flexible bone structure we could animate? Why can't we induce bone growth? We can do that in real life. It has the minor side effect of random growth, leading to chafing against muscles for constant agonizing pain, but when nature overlooks the option to give evil manta rays bones that also grow spikes that protrude from their skin in horrific ways to produce devil ray bear trap horrors that latch onto your face while screaming obscenities at you in abyssal, I think it is our duty to correct those oversights.

[@AJPickett]

That's disturbing... I love it.

[@reactionarydm]

100% stealing this. Great idea!

[@nathanielkidd2840]

They’re skin might be like real Manta Rays, and have “dermal denticle” skin, so maybe when making a skeleton out of them, it’s skin is all you need.

[@nes819]

Great, now i have to wait untill October for the beachepisode. ^^

[@skrog907]

Anyone else watch this video just to see how it's pronounced?

[@cesargarcia5490]

Well, I would say the pronounciation's still off. The word's clearly constructed with nahuatl phonemes, and that being the case, the "tl" part of the name at the end, for example, is said with way too much emphasis when it should be softer and more subtle to the point where it almost sounds like one syllable.

[@thehillz726]

I like to imagine they hunt with belly flops and have a shadow war with undead pirate lords

[@kevinelement9383]

AJ ... You are awesome...just saying

[@thedude5880]

WHY do so many names in dnd look like some unimaginative schmuck bashed the keyboard a few times??? This monster is called MYXYVRIXKLOXLE

[@TheMrSarcastic]

Pronounced mixy vricks cloaks el...the demigod of mispronunciation.

[@off6848]

Pretty sure it’s a Mayan word probably derived from an actual thing as most DND monsters are actually taken from folklore

[@maxsync183]

we cant expect things from other dimensions to play nicely with our human language

[@TheLoyalOfficer]

I can't get into a monster with such a difficult name to pronounce!

[@AJPickett]

"Devil Ray" :)

[@jacobmendonca8571]

How about “evil flap flaps”

[@sage4all2000]

Okay..., I admit my main reason for clicking on this video was to hear this name.

[@TheLoyalOfficer]

@@sage4all2000 Haha! Me too!

[@saeyabor]

Icks it sock HEAT ill

[@maggintons]

WOTC need to do a completely underwater campaign.

[@Krishnath.Dragon]

There were rules for it in 3rd edition in the Stormwrack environment book. Sadly that was all we got.

[@kevinobill4818]

Hmm, interesting but why are these Ray fish are intelligent in DnD? I mean, I don't read about them in the Monster manual

[@AJPickett]

The were most likely created by an even more ancient race, and over the eons, they have benefited greatly from their devotion to Demogorgon. While they do look very much like large fish, they are quite a lot more complicated in every way.

[@kevinobill4818]

@@AJPickett Created by a more ancient race? That's creepy

[@Arius_Astronomy]

@@kevinobill4818 In my mind most likely the Aboleth. Their want to enslave and dominate would make that probable.

[@johncaccioppo1142]

They are in the first edition Monster Manual (which is 2nd edition D&D), although there is no lore as I recall.

[@tatsusama3192]

Oh, come on! The creator(s) of this monster is trolling us, DMs and players alike, with that name

[@johncaccioppo1142]

Especially considering that the "x" was likely intended to be pronounced "sh". Try that one on for size.

[@AJPickett]

@@johncaccioppo1142 the pronunciation is provided in the dragon magazine article by Ed Greenwood.

[@johncaccioppo1142]

@@AJPickett Cool, idnk that. Do you know which issue? I might like to read that, I just found my old collection. BTW, this is my all-time favorite monster, so thanks for that as well!

[@muninrob]

@@AJPickett Replace the "X" es in the name with "SH", read it a couple times, put some spaces in it, and look for the less than subtle, less than mature joke / trap for those who were "south of the border". P.S. Do the rays that inspired these also live around AUS / NZ? It's a Pacific species that Americans normally encounter off Baja Mexico & southern California.

[@moonringXD]

I believe there are eight official pronunciations? The guy who made them got the name off of a Mormon pamphlet. I'll link the article about it. www.enworld.org/threads/monster-encyclopedia-ixitxachitl.663534/

[@brandonotto3031]

But can i ride 1 as a friend...

[@AJPickett]

No, they generally are not large enough.

[@jesseb43]

Love thia

[@marshiongreen9948]

yo you are the shit my boy

[@huntercj424]

Thalassophobia

[@Ixitxachitl]

Oooooh

[@onisinn1]

🌈🖤

[@christopherwilliam2593]

And do you know ware a Real life Dungeon is the Old BALCHSPRINGS City Jail closed shortly after my first time Going to jail!

[@adamwelch4336]

I'm not sure AJ they seem to be between boring monster and cool monster kinda goonie

[@AJPickett]

And a piranha is just a guppy with teeth. Goofy, until suddenly they are not funny AT ALL.