Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Mephit

The small, irritating elemental imps known as Mephits have existing for far longer than many would believe, perhaps the oldest among them could tell amazing tales of ages long past, if they were not so prone to being irritating little toadies that quite often get killed by their masters.

[@stevenpeterson8582]

I like the idea of using mephits as familiars instead of imps and quasits.

[@michaellauer8181]

I'm playing a fathomless warlock and wanted a water based familiar that wasnt a beast so my dm let me use mud mephit!

[@MySerpentine]

First D&D game I played started with the barbarian getting his loincloth burned off by a fire mephit. It only got crazier from there.

[@XXX_xxxxxxxx]

Welcome to the Jungle 😉😉😉

[@Swatman170]

6:55 This part made me lose it, I'm totally going to use a gang of Fire Mephits that light up their own smokes using various strange objects.

[@AJPickett]

That's directly taken from Dimwold the fire mephit, an NPC from "The Throne of Bloodstone" adventure module. :D

[@TraciPeteyforlife]

D&Ds natural born annoying crazy minions. Now my Mephits go forth and do the mighty glue sticks bidding!

[@linguisticallyoversight8685]

I love these little bastards I once ran entire game where everybody played a different type it was rather interesting to say the least

[@phyllisbergenholtz2541]

Sounds Interesting.

[@venkelos6996]

Mephits amuse me. In much the same way as some folks use Imps and Quasits as familiars, I've often wondered if casters of a more elemental bent could summon a Mephit into this role, or if it would be adking too much? Not to take a jab, but I have to note that this video mentions upcoming Spelljammer content, which we did get...four years later.

[@MrSirStephen]

I used some Home-brewed Beer-Mephits once. ^^ Quite fun to see the party fumble when they get drunk from the Deathburst XD

[@NovaRuner]

To some extent I feel like these things are like living emoji. For a powerful primordial god being, creating living things as a form of symbolic language would make some kind of strange sense. And something they could do.

[@kmg9763]

Mephits are living Emojis!

[@robinsearles5771]

Fell in love with mephits years ago while playing Baldur's Gate II. Hope to encounter them in my live campaign someday. Great enemy type! Smoke mephits we're a pain.

[@Mulletmanalive]

I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that mephit is essentially the same word as imp, just in a different language, perhaps Hebrew as opposed to Saxon. Imp means “cutting, spawn” as in how you propagate and graft plants.

[@lyudmilapavlichenko7551]

Mephits. The Jr high schoolers of the elementals.

[@AJPickett]

That Star Trek episode where all the adults turn into zombie maniacs but the 'kids' stay juvenile for 70 years.

[@SageofCancer]

So Mephits are Primordial emoji's, wonder what message slime/ooze mephits would send... and is there a sexual harassment litigation mephit to counter with

[@thedarkmaster4747]

lol!

[@stevenpeterson8582]

The slime mephits have infiltrated the prime material plane, where they tend to be either ambulance-chasing lawyers, used car salesmen, or extremely pervy sexual-harrasing office managers.

[@brianc9374]

Best new years gift ever, new vid from the monsterologist himself.

[@ichaukan]

The first place I ever heard of mephits was EverQuest. So called "Nightmare Mephits" found in the Plane of Nightmare definitely fit the description of having a "Pathological need to annoy the hell out of other beings"

[@linguisticallyoversight8685]

What if the one's we see now are just shattered remnants of the primordials

[@justinbaskall8291]

Cant help thinking of a weird version of the Storm-light Archives spren. They are supposedly manifestations of human emotions and states of being like glory, anger, pain, death, etc... Not a direct correlation but could be a cool addition if playing a game like that,

[@randallbaumgardt3424]

Payed in a very short game where our very first encounter was a steam Mephit. It turned into a TPK. Not much glory that day.

[@gabrieladerre2862]

I've always adored imps, and quasits! If they were real, at least in the way they are in the game, I'd love to have one. I doubt that I'm evil enough for that though. Lol

[@thezerowulf2046]

Just become a chain pact warlock 😈

[@gabrieladerre2862]

Thezerowulf That sounds familiar! I can only think of my time spent playing my warlocks in W.O.W...

[@zzfrute]

As flavorful as these little bastards are, I'm shocked this video doesn't have more likes! Pity. I'll definitely add these to my campaign

[@cosmicparticles9658]

The true nature of Cherubs, abandoned but not forgotten.

[@linguisticallyoversight8685]

Belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Years hope everything's going well for you

[@tatsusama3192]

Why send a plain old written letter. That's boring and tedious. Create a living being that embodies that message on an ideological level x'D

[@thehillz726]

in theory could there be mephits, or even quasits or imps, adapt that language part of their nature and become living entitles of mortal language? like living spell mephits with letters made of elemental energy on the bodies or floating around them or book mephits?

[@Eisenwulf666]

thanks for all the inspiring ideas! I had a couple of ideas for minions and/or npcs in my campaigns: first an ice or sludge mephit that is costantly depressed( see Marvin the paranoid android )and whining "here i am, created by primordial entities, witnessed the birth of gods and fiends ..and now my only duty is to hold the grimoire of a snotty teenage wizard..what a life..", that could be hilarious to roleplay. Second idea is an incredibly old mephit that has served hundreds of masters, maybe even some famous ones like Vecna in his archmage days,who knows the tricks of the trade by heart. I see that with two variations : a power beyond the throne, a grey eminence pulling the strings of a BBEG or even a good npc - " yes,yes master that's a great plan, spawned by a great mind...perhaps though, in the majestic scale of your utter brilliance, there are some small itsy bitsy details you overlooked.." proceeding to tell him the real plan. Or it could go in a complete opposite directions, like a Iago from Aladdin minion: through sheer luck and incredible incompetence manages to survive for millenias, bringing doom to every master he follows, all the while snickering and making dark jokes, often at the expenses of their master. Doing a Gilbert Gottfried voice would be a welcomed bonus

[@kordelshorgar122]

primordials should have their own video

[@austintracey9368]

I watch all the videos anyway but id watch that one extra hard.

[@AJPickett]

javier solarte I plan on doing that vid very soon.

[@LordM46]

I like the concept of the mephit and imp minion fitting and some interesting stories can be made here.

[@TheIdealofGreed]

Did anyone else click this video thinking these would have something to do with Mephistophles?

[@XXX_xxxxxxxx]

Guilty:D

[@jeffreylucier5266]

More my speed! Orcus was disturbing! Happy new year! I saw Auckland celebrating at 2 in the afternoon my time.

[@theatreofcontroversy]

happy new year AJ- looking foward to cool views on TMG in '18

[@AJPickett]

My to!

[@omlo9093]

I love Mephits, they make great little minions! Once I gave them a power attack; if enough Steam Mephits were alive together, then they could unite to form a powerful gust of wind. Is this canon? No! Do I or my players care? No!

[@Yuudaddy]

It is almost insulting that the computer games only us the fire and ice variant...

[@fonandoozmando5961]

Since there's a mephit of pretty much everthing amd anything, do you think there could be a radiant mephit/necrotic mephit? Or even undead mephit?

[@AJPickett]

Yeah, there are Radiant Mephits, the Shadow Mephits can be more necrotic if need be, and there could be something like an undead mephit, though, they are elemental beings, so, it would be a different sort of Undeath than the biological creatures of the Material Planes.

[@elricengquist9989]

Honestly hearing about the Primordials and the mephits, most of all how the Primordials use them to communicate between themselves. It makes me think that they could both be used in a lovecraftian like campaign, I mean what is more alien an greater than a primordial to a human. Maybe in a campaign you could make it that some researcher finds the Mephits are literally smaller aspects of the primordials, not merely created by them, but that literally the Primordials created them from themselves. While maybe at the end of the tantrum the Primordials had their manifestation or being was sundered into the Mephit race, and their primary essence was sealed away, but the Mephits to some degree do seek to reunite together an release essense of the Primordial. If the players either are working with the researcher, or one of them is the researcher that could lead to alot of interesting things happening an exploration into things other beings (including AO) might have wanted left forgotten.

[@burakc9673]

Please de a few in depth videos on named legendary creatures or God's or things like the video on tiamat please! I especially enjoyed that video! I enjoy them all but especially that one

[@haroldtchicken5871]

I'm curious about the Beastlands. Could make a good future video

[@captainfiteer7360]

I love the new intro.

[@theouterlimits7788]

I have a request I hope you can help with. Can you do a video about iuz and zuggtmoy and their involvement in Temple of elemental evil and also about the item the orb of golden death apparently created by the two above. I really appreciate it if you could do a video covering that.

[@PeaceFriendx]

So they are basically hipsters...

[@linguisticallyoversight8685]

I found an interesting way of modifying them using the different planar existences my rationalization was if they predate everything then they exist everywhere this means that they take on the characteristics of where they were for example you could have War versions or chaos versions or law versions even good and evil versions it's really all up to how far you were willing to modify the existing monster

[@billdavid7306]

Love the video man. Your stuff is awesome. Any idea where we could find a full list of mephits and their unique linguistic meanings?

[@williamdavid8705]

Nevermind, found this: www.mimir.net/cant/mephit.html

[@AJPickett]

Bill David that's the one :)

[@HowtoRPG]

Thank you AJ.

[@Nathan_J_Kirbs]

Hey AJ are you planning to go over some other player character races like humans, dwarves, or elves, so we can get a better comparison to other creatures, as well as the various cultures, and average life in this world for something like a human since I'm unsure how humans are able to react to, and survive against something like Dragons, and hordes of hobgoblins

[@matthhiasbrownanonionchopp3471]

Alexander_Hernon_Hadrada _ that's a very good question how are humans who only get a bonus feat and an extra skill point able the survive on this world

[@gnomewrecker1342]

Nice video but I was hoping for a little information on the ice mephit

[@clericofgreed4351]

Duz this mean that air mephit's always have a healing boost?

[@drizzo4669]

Underground, in a dungeon, I'd say no. On a cliff, mountain, windswept plain, thunderstorm or high winds condition.....I don't see why not.

[@clericofgreed4351]

@@drizzo4669 thx

[@GringatTheRepugnant]

An old character of mine was a planar ranger, which wasn't as glamorous a job as you'd think. It basically boiled down to pest control jobs, the majority of which were clearing out mephit messengers from wealthy estates or neglected spaces.

[@HumbleMemeFarmer]

Literally me

[@AlkaponX57]

Mephits!

[@greenhawk3796]

I'm thinking of having a Mephit serve as a sort of companion to a character in eberron. the mephit powers a small airship in exchange fore? something. anyone know what a fire, lightning, or steam mephit would desire or accept in trade for performing such a task?

[@andresmarrero8666]

Orders from some powerful being real or imagined.

[@rickveenbergen9021]

Have to ask will you redo some older videos

[@AJPickett]

Rick Veenbergen yes, I'll be redoing the vids on mind flayers and some others.

[@florianw.9545]

Really? There isn't more lore about Mephits?

[@elcejasoficial3332]

Im... huh...

[@elosoesmamadejulian50]

I how NEW bhe ky the roll

[@elcejasoficial3332]

el Hong John Aaron

[@PyraPanda]

Which book are they in for 5e?

[@AJPickett]

They are part of the basic rules bestiary so, you can view them online free.

[@ryanmay3022]

Are Dimernesti D & D?