Dungeons and Dragons Lore : Treant

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AJ Pickett

AJ Pickett

Күн бұрын

Treants are sentient trees with human characteristics. They are typically portrayed as protectors of the forests and antagonists to industrialization and despoiling of nature. They are typically allies of druids and fey, opposing malicious races such as orcs.
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@lafortya
@lafortya 6 жыл бұрын
I took a slightly different track on treefolk in my campaign world. They are a plant species where the ents are the males and the dryads are the females. Dryads take pollen from ents to make a seedling which then grows in the soil like a normal plant until it "wakes up".
@gibbonsalty5729
@gibbonsalty5729 6 жыл бұрын
Random idea for an adventure hook, a farmer has had a tree stolen. When the party investigates they find that a treant took it, because it is growing into a treant.
@michaelkelligan7931
@michaelkelligan7931 6 жыл бұрын
My buddy's character Mabonga is an immortal Hierophant of the Cabal and as a deity his avatar appears as an 800ft tall Giant Sequoa,it's one hell of an intimidating sight when he's forced to physically attack in that form! The amount of dmg his character is capable of doing is staggering and he also has a giant ape companion that hangs around "kong" lol. Treants are a favorite in my elven campaign too! Spot on vid with a great description of the destruction these creatures are capable of dealing...thanks A.J. well done!
@michaelkelligan7931
@michaelkelligan7931 6 жыл бұрын
.....on another note I found the character "Old Man Willow" from the Old Forest that bordered the Shire in the Fellowship of the Ring to be a fascinating example of a treant gone bad as it tries to murder the hobbits almost immediately after encountering them!
@randyranderson690
@randyranderson690 3 жыл бұрын
My brother ran a Pathfinder game once where he used an Undead Treant against the party. This was a huge treant that had, in its branches, a monkey swarm which was also undead. He rolled to see who the undead monkey went after, intending to go after different party members. As the dice gods decreed, the entire swarm of undead monkeys (18 of them) went for our Paladin while the treant went for the rest of us. Not fun. at. all.
@KossolaxtheForesworn
@KossolaxtheForesworn 6 жыл бұрын
“I am not going to tell you my name, not yet at any rate.' A queer half-knowing, half-humorous look came with a green flicker into his eyes. 'For one thing it would take a long while: my name is growing all the time, and I've lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time saying anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.”
@antwan1357
@antwan1357 7 жыл бұрын
Hmm, wonder if a Dryad can be connected to a Treant like a regular tree? If so if that Dryad becomes attracted to a mortal wich is a common theme would the Treant act as paternal father or a angry husband in a sense or even care for that matter simply being a tree only caring if you harm the Dryad. It would also be interesting if Treants could create Dryads, but this would be forbiddin knowledge to non tree people i guess fun to play with this idea though.
@RachniThane
@RachniThane 7 жыл бұрын
be good to have in a story.
@noname-do5wo
@noname-do5wo 6 жыл бұрын
That just gave me an amazing idea for an encounter, a dryad and treant bickering like an old married couple because ... well I don't have a reason yet but it will come to me
@yamatohekatsue9143
@yamatohekatsue9143 Жыл бұрын
During the time of 3.5 i remember reading something about a dryad merging with a treeaint in a dragon magazine but the tree before awakening had to be an oak tree that and the dryad had to join with it before hand. And in Eberron special oak trees in mineral rich environments could soak iron particles into the tree slowly making what was known as green iron, similar to the magical green wood. The iron would gain special self repairing properties. So it would be possible for a treeaint to not only have a dryad but also gain a fast healing property. Again this is all from memory i dont have the magazine or the 3.5 eberron book that referenced the green iron. But hope this gives you an idea or two
@theHiddenStone
@theHiddenStone 8 жыл бұрын
I often wonder how treants of different tree species would differ. Different stats, or just behaviour (evergreens tending to be more immutable, deciduous trees having moods that last entire seasons, etc...) What about a treant formed from a clonal colony of many "trees" sharing a single root mass? I guess it'd be like a tree hydra!
@AJPickett
@AJPickett 8 жыл бұрын
+theHiddenStone That is a great idea, seasonal moods!
@Brutalyte616
@Brutalyte616 7 жыл бұрын
theHiddenStone Cactus treants?
@draxthemsklonst
@draxthemsklonst 6 жыл бұрын
Pando, the Quaking Aspen clonal colony (in Midwest US) friggin 80 thousand years old!
@latinname7073
@latinname7073 5 жыл бұрын
Redwood treant
@thepallghost6443
@thepallghost6443 4 жыл бұрын
I like the idea of a tree hydra
@BrendanKOD
@BrendanKOD 4 жыл бұрын
Speaking of corrupted Treants, Second Edition Ravenloft not only described the Treants corrupted by being from Ravenloft, but also detailed how some of them would eventually become undead.
@Menzobarrenza
@Menzobarrenza 4 жыл бұрын
This gave me 2 wonderful ideas: One character concept and one creature concept: The creature concept is treants awakened from the elementally-aligned trees used for wands and magic items in Eberron. A walking, talking tree with fire immunity that can conjure fire elementals 1/day sounds awesome. The character concept is a prematurely awakened treant of Medium size (+1 Str , +1 Con, +2 Wis) using its Animate trees ability (Awakened Tree stats instead of Treant) to animate their 2 parent trees (wether literally related or they had a similar role) in order to bring them on a quest to awaken them too. It be a Druid, either of the Land (Forest) subclass, or custom made treant subclass. It would be amazing fun to play.
@bjarnivalur6330
@bjarnivalur6330 5 жыл бұрын
Contrary to popular belief, they are *_not_* just tree-ant hybrids
@alanschaub147
@alanschaub147 5 жыл бұрын
AJ: I “like” your videos before I even finish watching them because they always turn out to be fantastic!
@johndotcom9648
@johndotcom9648 8 жыл бұрын
Treants are one of my favorite encounters. There is so much to make a story with & they make for awesome fights and ex machina circumstances. I could make a weed treant that requires a CON save versus the '70's
@AJPickett
@AJPickett 8 жыл бұрын
LOL, oh man, this is now a thing in my game setting! :D
@BigDictator5335
@BigDictator5335 5 жыл бұрын
Ents should act like weeping angels or skinwalkers. They protect the forest, they can't be killed because no one can ever catch them, they can look like trees when you watch them and disappear when you aren't watching them. The ent's goal isn't to kill you but to watch you and creep you out so you leave. Imagine you come out of the woods and sit down in a meadow to have a picnic and after you have unpacked your lunch you look up to see that you are no longer in a meadow.
@daverhoden445
@daverhoden445 4 жыл бұрын
Picture Baby Groot in the GoTG end credits.
@NWLR-tv
@NWLR-tv 7 жыл бұрын
10:13 wow ents sure are rare, well even endangered species number in the hundreds they could be hiding in plain site
@destonlee2838
@destonlee2838 Жыл бұрын
Tree nerd here, retired private forest manager. I do like the idea of a waking walking forest. I've long advocated reforesting what I suspect is the largest clearcut in the world... USAs I-5 freeway corridor
@destonlee2838
@destonlee2838 Жыл бұрын
A shambling mound as George to a treant Lenny like in of mice and men. "I want a gnome, George, and I will love it and hug it and pet it..." "George?"
@jaymeVos
@jaymeVos 4 жыл бұрын
As a magical entity I always make them immortal. Only magical fire and extreme violence (magic slashing weapons ov +3 or higher) will kill them otherwise Mielilki would most likely bring its consciousness back into being. I have a one for each species ov tree but that is just in my game. And some species are tied to specific deities (such as birch being allied to Freyja & Mielikkil, which is due to real-life mythology)
@jaymeVos
@jaymeVos 4 жыл бұрын
Plus I tend yo use them as messengers or champions ov their patron deity. So I give them a little more power thru advancement and a few special abilities & powers which usually takes the form ov some low level spells and mastery over one element.
@jacobfreeman5444
@jacobfreeman5444 4 жыл бұрын
Immortal unless killed because they are essentially a fey being. I like it. Maybe they just go into dormancy for long periods of time. Soaking up magical vitality for those times when they wake back up and move around.
@trajanfidelis
@trajanfidelis 4 жыл бұрын
Druid:"I wonder what stories the trees could tell if they could talk" Treebeard:"let me tell you about this family of squirrels that made a home in my canopy..."
@harmony1454
@harmony1454 8 жыл бұрын
this inspired me to create a Treant figure today. So fun! Cardboard tubes, wire, TP, jar lid, hot glue, and some cheap little RR trees, just need to finish painting. Thanks for the inspiration (dice)!
@AJPickett
@AJPickett 8 жыл бұрын
+Harmony Camden You are most welcome.. I hope you post pictures over at The DM's Craft forum or DM Scotty's page on facebook :)
@Just_Call_Me_Tim
@Just_Call_Me_Tim 5 жыл бұрын
I like pronouncing it like a melding of "Trent" and "treat".
@trentonmaloney3280
@trentonmaloney3280 8 жыл бұрын
be careful waking the great old ones of th forest for when they awaken the whole forest awakens with them. i would imagine they have the ability to influence other plants around themselves as well. an ent flanked by 2 giant vamprie roses is no joke. what if they influence nearby vegepygmys or myconids? this can just be such a fun encounter.
@AJPickett
@AJPickett 8 жыл бұрын
+trenton maloney I was giving some thought to the idea of Clone colonies of trees, such as Aspens, and how they could all join together to form one colossal Treant (kind of like Transformer robots or Voltron). Also, I looked up how old those sort of trees can get.. a single clonal organism has been around for nearly ten thousand years! In the D&D world, that is long enough for the colony of gestalt minded Aspen Treants to breed a race of sentient Squirrels who worship the Treants as living gods.. and in times of harsh climate conditions, will go to extraordinary lengths to keep the Treants alive and healthy.. including murdering 'civilised' humanoids to turn into compost.
@wickedbrat69
@wickedbrat69 6 жыл бұрын
I have a player with a rainbow dragon treant with a couple of moconid followers. This video will help me give her more details during campaigns.
@garethfarrell8146
@garethfarrell8146 7 жыл бұрын
I am totally putting a Treant in the forest in my game, it is known there is a huge tree in the forest in the Great Tree Glade. thanks! also your Yuan Ti video helped inspire the main plot in my campaign.
@AJPickett
@AJPickett 7 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear it! The Yuan-ti make for great villains.
@garethfarrell8146
@garethfarrell8146 7 жыл бұрын
thanks, i find huge inspiration in your videos for campaign ideas. the Yuan Ti are attempting to take over a port city to establish a foot hold in the land which is in a weakened state after loosing a war 5 years earlier and a Yuan Ti anathema is trying to impress Sseth so he may ascend to full divinity. once again your videos are amazing and i look forward to hopefully seeing many more :)
@NodDisciple1
@NodDisciple1 6 жыл бұрын
I want to put together a civilization that has the elves, dwarfs, and gnomes working together as a unified government (as several of the nations in Faerun are). Problem is, the dwarves do use some lumber. I'm concerned about this angering the Treants, elves, etc. Can you think of any work around for this? The only thing I can think of it having the elves be in charge of the lumber gathering as they know how to get lumber from a tree without chopping it. Or take the Dwarf Fortress route and buy the lumber (even then that can still backfire).
@jacobfreeman5444
@jacobfreeman5444 4 жыл бұрын
Make it be a continual sore spot with the elves. Maybe tree farms start up as a response in some places? But in general it is a matter of constant diplomatic haggling between kingdoms.
@zmishiymishi5349
@zmishiymishi5349 Жыл бұрын
-But you are so little? -We may be little to an ent, but our hearts are big! -I do not know what hearts are, but i can see your wood is hard. -umm..? -And your bark strudy. -Thats better...
@samuelsmith5828
@samuelsmith5828 3 жыл бұрын
A massive live oak. A master strategist from years of constant conflict in the blood war. The greatest military mind the multiverse has ever known. The Tree of Woe.
@randallbaumgardt3424
@randallbaumgardt3424 3 жыл бұрын
There are so many real life exotic trees to use as inspiration with a tiny bit of research to add so much flavor to the game. Cannon ball trees, red woods (truly massive), any fruit tree (magic apples), banyan, also setting spacifc trees like ebberons lift wood add so much, the diminutive bonsai trent (all the power fraction of the size) and so many others. Go wild.
@finnmcool2
@finnmcool2 5 ай бұрын
When the Lorax has had enough of your crap.
@Claycanplay
@Claycanplay 2 жыл бұрын
The forest sighs in gratitude.
@almitrahopkins1873
@almitrahopkins1873 2 жыл бұрын
I like the idea that the elves think they created the first treants, but the treants know that they are older than the elves. A treant Druid could have witnessed the Crown Wars as a sapling and lie sleeping deep in the heart of forests that are older than the kingdoms of the giants and the dragons. They were the first to migrate from the fae to the material worlds, but they feel little need to remind lesser beings of it. That would also mean that Yggdrasil is a treant god, so old that the gods themselves have forgotten or never knew it.
@josiahklein70
@josiahklein70 7 жыл бұрын
I would love to see a druid with a pet animated plant. It's name would be "Shrubbery," but "Shrub" for short!
@AJPickett
@AJPickett 7 жыл бұрын
Imagine if you will, a dark plant familiar, it travels with the druid as a faithful companion, not until a creature dies does the druid discover it's real purpose, as the hungry roots tear apart the body and acidic slimes break down the dismembered flesh, greedily, the plant slurps up the remaining slop, engorged, it sits for a while, before swollen pods break open, releasing a cloud of young spores... a few minutes later, the plant uproots and is mobile again.
@evilanno3394
@evilanno3394 3 жыл бұрын
Out of interest would a bonsai treant be possible? A bonsai awakening after being carred for for many generations. Maybe as q guardian of an ancient garden or as a observer hiden as a poted plant alarming others when it spots intruders.
@AJPickett
@AJPickett 3 жыл бұрын
Bonsai it tree torture. Only a sadist would do that to a Treant
@ZenodudeMC
@ZenodudeMC 7 жыл бұрын
I have a treant that was corrupted by this shadow cult in my game, which basically had hanging bodies dangling from its branches and arms. That was a fun fight in the hanging woods
@randallbaumgardt3424
@randallbaumgardt3424 3 жыл бұрын
Is the hangman tree on the video list or possibly the ever bizarre orc wort (I think that's what they are called) the one that has big fruit that grows into orcs of all things.
@dvklaveren
@dvklaveren 8 жыл бұрын
I play all my treants' personalities to be rather... wooden.
@AJPickett
@AJPickett 8 жыл бұрын
+Alderick van Klaveren You are a stickler for the theme, good sir. :)
@AllenLinnenJr
@AllenLinnenJr 8 жыл бұрын
+Alderick van Klaveren Is this thread about to branch out in a weird direction?
@AJPickett
@AJPickett 8 жыл бұрын
+Allen Linnen, Jr. I don't know, we might be barking up the wrong tree with a pun thread.
@dvklaveren
@dvklaveren 8 жыл бұрын
AJ Pickett That pun takes the crown, so let's leaf it at that.
@AllenLinnenJr
@AllenLinnenJr 8 жыл бұрын
Alderick van Klaveren You seem to want to truncate this discussion. Are you sure you don't want to get to the root of the problem?
@ernestlam5632
@ernestlam5632 Ай бұрын
I love treeple. They make sense in a fantasy world but not a Sci-Fi world. There's no scientific reason for a plant to evolve a humanoid body. I thought a lot about how a plant would evolve to move. Most likely if it had to move quickly it would just roll like a ball think of tumbleweeds. Flying plants would be neat they could definitely be burned like there's a lot of plants that have flying seeds without I mean they glide . Anyway I could see that evolving and that would be very advantageous because then if they could fly fast enough they could chase the Sun . They could just keep following the Sun and never experienced night. A lot of plant type creatures in fantasy don't have to eat food because of photosynthesis which makes perfect sense. But you know how plants poop? Because like the book says everybody poops. And when you learn it it will make perfect sense. Plants poop through their leaves. The pump all of the unwanted chemicals into a leaf then drop that leaf. So for the people with house plants even a healthy plant will have to drop a leaf every once in awhile.
@Fyre19
@Fyre19 2 жыл бұрын
If for whatever reason a treant was away from the forest and on a walk into town and tried to animate a wood house what would happen..
@AllenLinnenJr
@AllenLinnenJr 8 жыл бұрын
Yes, please do, do dryads next. Love the videos!
@AJPickett
@AJPickett 8 жыл бұрын
+Allen Linnen, Jr. Thanks! OK, next forest themed critter will be the Dryad.
@AllenLinnenJr
@AllenLinnenJr 8 жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@AJPickett
@AJPickett 8 жыл бұрын
+Grant Jacobson I think I will call this the Woodland Creatures series.. including a lot of the Fey.
@darthshivvis956
@darthshivvis956 5 жыл бұрын
You an nerdarchy need to do one of those Livestream q an a hangout chat thingys
@TomBombadilTheEldest
@TomBombadilTheEldest 5 жыл бұрын
A 350 foot redwood Treant would make a great king of the forest
@pbr-streetgang
@pbr-streetgang 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the vid sir.👍🏼👍🏼
@mikenianiouras7848
@mikenianiouras7848 7 жыл бұрын
I actually heard of a tree in Africa which grows taller than a Redwood. Elephants feed off them constantly and are endangered now. I forget their name. Quite opposite of a Bonsai.
@damianmorningstar3150
@damianmorningstar3150 7 жыл бұрын
I am Groot?
@AJPickett
@AJPickett 7 жыл бұрын
Dude! Spoilers!
@nickh3205
@nickh3205 7 жыл бұрын
AJ Pickett we are groot
@ServantofBaal
@ServantofBaal 5 жыл бұрын
I've always been against the fact that tree kin are weak to fire. Even seasoned lumber has a higher flashpoint than animal tissues, which contain volatile fats and oils. This doesn't account for living wood, which would if anything possess a resistance to fire in comparison to most organic material
@dallasmartinfark
@dallasmartinfark 3 жыл бұрын
What is that outro music, AJ?!
@AJPickett
@AJPickett 3 жыл бұрын
Oh, sorry Dallas, I have no idea, was a few years ago.
@jamesmoreland7569
@jamesmoreland7569 4 жыл бұрын
I'm here because I played in a one-shot off shoot of our main campaign Another character took some seeds from a treant they'd persuaded to be friendly. I'm uncertain how I feel about this since very few people agree they have seeds. I have held back on casting druidcraft on the seeds just to see what our main DM does about it. I don't particularly know how I feel about this scenario What do you think of this situation?
@Purple.mind...Honored.one.
@Purple.mind...Honored.one. 6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this one, but cleric please
@christianoliver25
@christianoliver25 8 жыл бұрын
Dryads!
@robertsimpson7424
@robertsimpson7424 3 жыл бұрын
At any point, can a dryad be bonded to a treant? Not like Wrenn and Seven from Magic the gathering, but a naturally occurring treant with a dryad attached.
@AJPickett
@AJPickett 3 жыл бұрын
I think it is a combination too perfect NOT to be fairly common.
@robertsimpson7424
@robertsimpson7424 3 жыл бұрын
@@AJPickett I was thinking how cool would be to for a treant to deal a group threatening its forest. While any spellcaster threats are getting sniped, and no one figures out that there's a dryad with a bow. Popping up in different places on treant's body, getting the best angles and occasionally freaking someone in the middle of a sneak attack.
@kurtoogle4576
@kurtoogle4576 8 жыл бұрын
Dryads please! Maybe some info on their relations to nymphs in mythology.
@AJPickett
@AJPickett 8 жыл бұрын
+Kurt Terfloth Well Nymphs would be the species the Dryads are members of, and the name/kind of Dryad is based on what sort of tree they come from. So yeah, certainly worth a mention, thanks Kurt!
@justoutofframemoviereviews656
@justoutofframemoviereviews656 5 жыл бұрын
That's a hasty word.
@AllenLinnenJr
@AllenLinnenJr 8 жыл бұрын
Treants! Woot!
@nicklegend4547
@nicklegend4547 6 жыл бұрын
Pure awesome!!!
@-SRM-
@-SRM- 2 жыл бұрын
Your old video's audio is terrible. Ah.. I can smell the nostalgia..
@AJPickett
@AJPickett 2 жыл бұрын
LOL, you are too kind.
@-SRM-
@-SRM- 2 жыл бұрын
@@AJPickett Said in only the most endearing way AJ 👍lol.
@justinmarino5601
@justinmarino5601 4 жыл бұрын
Mangroves would be a good coastal option.
@almitrahopkins1873
@almitrahopkins1873 2 жыл бұрын
Mangroves grow multiple trunks from one set of roots, don’t they? It wouldn’t be able to walk, but it could hit you from multiple directions.
@redfaux74
@redfaux74 4 жыл бұрын
Really....?!? You mentioned nothing about their mortal enemies the were-beavers? 😳 Or woodpeckers? Termites? Friends.... giant bees? Eagles?
@redfaux74
@redfaux74 Жыл бұрын
Three years ago and I'm just now getting some love? My comment was hilarious. 🤨
@robinlayley4758
@robinlayley4758 4 жыл бұрын
Yes
@samuelsmith3781
@samuelsmith3781 6 жыл бұрын
Do a weretrent or something like a wererino
@ralphediger1856
@ralphediger1856 5 жыл бұрын
I am groot
@calebhelton725
@calebhelton725 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks to lord of the rings they are forever just Ents to me
@coffeegoblynn
@coffeegoblynn 7 жыл бұрын
I speak for the trees
@gerythionargarys7848
@gerythionargarys7848 7 жыл бұрын
There's a disturbance in the forest? :v
@samuelsmith3781
@samuelsmith3781 6 жыл бұрын
Can you dawrf lore
@arnoldcruise5688
@arnoldcruise5688 5 жыл бұрын
what if dreamt + burden =
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