Dungeons & Dragons: Complete Guide to Hades: Oinos

Complete Guide to Hades, chapter one, Oinos, the first 'gloom' of the Gray Waste of Hades, featuring the plane's origin, the main population groups, notable locations, physical and psychological effects, the soul trade and more.
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[@JanusKastin]

The yugolothts have always been the most intrigueing of fiends because of their intentional quietness. Out of the demons that are even capable of thought, most of them haven't really thought about evil, they just do what they're driven to do. And with the devils, when you get them down the rabbit hole, they'll try and convince you and themselves that they're actually the good guys! But the 'loths? From their perspective, the demons and devils don't really even know what evil actually IS. When given freedom and choice, and you DECIDE to be evil, that's the true essence.

[@agsilverradio2225]

And yet, they moved to Gehenna, making them slightly lawfull.

[@AJPickett]

@@agsilverradio2225 Exactly, the plane MADE them more Lawful, but these planes are Infinite, each is a UNIVERSE, so, a portion of the loths moved to the planes next door (so to speak) but we have no way of knowing what true percentage of them moved from one place to the next. Just 5% of the loth population could number in the trillions for all we know.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

@@AJPickett That's another one that makes no sense to me. Gehenna is the valley of burning just outside of the temple precinct of Jerusalem, so I tend not to use it. How it made it through the purge of religions in D&D of anything from the real world I can't say.

[@itaykerensm1629]

@@almitrahopkins1873 hah, I never knew that Gehena was named after Gei Ben Hinom, that makes so much sense now.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

@@itaykerensm1629 Sheol also makes an appearance too. As do the Djinn of Islam. Asmodeus and several devils & demons from the Lesser Key of Solomon were also included. The purge of real-world religions only seems to have included Christianity. Although the Native American Animistic stuff doesn't match the names by any stretch.

[@nitayrafowicz5934]

finally!!! the gray wastes need a lot more fleshing than the books actually give us!!

[@AJPickett]

Please don't mention the word Flesh when I have just got back from Hades *(dry heave)*

[@nitayrafowicz5934]

@@AJPickett What is most interesting to me in the Gray Wastes is the fact that yugoloth were created there but couldn't withstand it so they went to Gehenna. while their creators (night Hags and Baernaloths) still live there. really makes you think what it takes to call such a place home.

[@kitsuned.m.4550]

@@AJPickett never thought you'd find a yeast infection inside a mountain before did you?

[@Comicnut64]

here we go perfect timing have a half hour drive to horror show for work thanks AJ

[@AJPickett]

Matter of fact, that is exactly what I timed this for.

[@joshuazane3210]

For being such a nexus of the Blood War and the lower planes soul trade, Hades seems to get surprisingly little attention in official supplements.

[@AJPickett]

Right? I guess its up to me then.

[@Jeremycook_]

@@AJPickett at least it's in good hands

[@robinsearles5771]

What a way to start the day

[@Eisenwulf666]

Already loving this series! Seems like the Grey Wastes aren't a topic a lot of people talk about,and yet they're so interesting! Devils aim to control chaos, at any cost, while demons want to destroy the multiverse. Yugoloths only care about themselves and pure evil. To use an armchair psychologist's metaphor, Devils are control freaks and paranoids, Demons are rabid lunatics and megalomaniacs, Yugoloths are the true psychopaths, incapable of feeling joy or empathy. They do evil deeds, but without the desire to gain something from it like the devils or the sheer joy of cruelty the demons do, no. They do evil deeds because they don't even understand the concept of "kindness" or "joy".

[@arcotroll8530]

I have a feeling Yugoloths would love Twitter...

[@coreyshorter8526]

Goldshire as a reference...someone plays alliance.

[@AJPickett]

Barrens chat. 'nuff said.

[@TheHornedKing]

Nothing like a video about the birthplace of disease, while I myself am sick.

[@AJPickett]

Get well soon, oh horned one.

[@krispalermo8133]

From a given point of view, you can start a Dark Souls campaign like setting and then slowly let the players realize they are in Hades the whole time. Normally at my last game shop when a PC dies they roll a charisma check like you would do in the Ravenloft setting to see if the PC becomes a ghost or not. If successful we rolled a 1d8 minus 1hd/level to see what type of undead they become or just apply the 3e half-fiend template to the PC to see how much their original personality remains after death. Did a mini campaign of a neutral evil pig farmer that was rogue/sorcerer with add half-fiend template that ended up marrying a night hag. His sense of purpose that grounds his soul is that he is a pig farmer that herds larva. He will eventually screw you over in one way or another but he also hands outside quest and gives minor aid at the cost of temporary ability score points or Xp cost, or some form of magic treasure.

[@AJPickett]

Interesting! I like that.

[@krispalermo8133]

@@AJPickett Even if it is true that night hags feel no true love, them getting married is just another type of Game they play to help pass the time. Spoken or unspoken rule of Hades or any other lower plane, having a short or long term Game helps to keep one sane or less insane and to pass the time. Which is a reason why fiends like making and having Contracts with multiple catches to keep the mind sharp. Marriage is just another form of soul binding legal contract listing duties each partner having in a given relationship. . Anyways you have to be playing some vile PCs if anyone of them willing court and marry a nigh hag out of the Goodness of their heart.

[@tsunamiditka5776]

New vid? Nice.

[@demonblood8841]

Imagine escaping Carceri only to find your now In Hades 😞

[@AJPickett]

Crawling through a mile of sewer pipe, only to emerge in the source of all the sewage. Yep, that would suck.

[@demonblood8841]

@@AJPickett But it would be mildly amusing as a DM to do this to your jailbreaking party lol or I just have a sick sense of humour 😅

[@johnforeman5608]

Another awesome one!

[@johnarnold8485]

Very excited for demon weapon stuff. Thanks as always for the vid.

[@zacharyweaver276]

I now imagine some wanted poster in the night market of the nicest looking person you'll ever see that's wanted for going around the market spreading joy and happiness.

[@AJPickett]

Accurate! You should see my poster, quite a good likeness.

[@SlothinAintEasy]

Thanks. This will be useful for my upcoming vacation.

[@themightymoose5047]

I was just saying I hadn't seen a video in a bit! So excited for this one! Thank you AJ!

[@burningbronze7555]

cool, I would ask for something but I will wait until next year for that.

[@jloren4647]

I can hear that illness is affecting you and wish you to be well with speed.

[@AJPickett]

Thanks.

[@D--FENS]

This is an instant favorite video, alongside seminal works such as Nessus and the Negative Energy Plane.

[@guuspot923]

Another spicy snack from my favorite chef. Keep 'em gluesticks coming!

[@lysander9957]

Love that little tip of the hat towards Arthurian legend with the Siege Malicious. The idea of a grand throne literally granting power to the rightful owner rather than simply being a display of it is something I really need to incorporate into my own games.

[@agsilverradio2225]

But what if that legend is a lie made up by a clever ugoloph, in order to motivate infighting?

[@lysander9957]

@@agsilverradio2225 possibly. But if the Siege Malicious is anything like the Siege Perilous then any who sat upon the throne undeservedly would be instantly struck dead. A pretty quick and efficient test for such a rumor.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

@@lysander9957 Sort of like the thrones of the Seelie kings & queens? The current nymph Titania isn’t Titania. Her throne is Titania.

[@Razyura]

Yet another gem of a video! Quality and quantity… keep up the good work! You always help inspire a new wrinkle in campaigns

[@prestongarner8796]

The fiendish artwork is really cool

[@Whichendup]

We know exactly why the Old Ones created the multiverse. It is clearly laid out their motives in the intro of the __Dungeon Master's Guide to Immortals__ book for BECMI.

[@AJPickett]

You know, I know, but they don't know yet... shhhh, it's coming.

[@KS-PNW]

BECMI?

[@Eisenwulf666]

@@KS-PNW Bacon Eaters' Companion : Meats Incorporated, of course (it's Basic Expert Companion Master Immortal actually, but that's the boring answer)

[@EdricLysharae]

"The worst type of evils are not found in action, but rather in apathy."

[@billberndtson]

A.J., it's been too long since I've complimented the quality of your videos and the information contained within. 🙂 As always, you are by far the easiest D&D content creator for me to recommend to others. Someday, I hope to be watching your 10,000th video while sloppily gumming the food the nurse brought me.

[@AJPickett]

By that time it will be an AI that has been trained to produce content in my style, but I'll be getting a royalty check!

[@ShizaruBloodrayne]

Oinos seems worse than both the 9 Hells and the Abyss. I'll take my chances in the endless maze, thx.

[@AJPickett]

Yeah, there are places worse than hell in D&D

[@jcrules101]

Perfect timing! My BBEG is Baba Yega the Night Hag Queen so this is perfect.

[@AJPickett]

Also catch the video on the Diakk (Diakka), lots of hag info in there also and some notes on Baba Yaga and Cegilune.

[@jcrules101]

@@AJPickett Will do! Keep up the great content homie 👏

[@glorbojibbins2485]

Hoardlings: gotta catch em all Lol

[@arcotroll8530]

Have a care they don't catch you instead...

[@cernunnos_lives]

I absolutely love how you fill in details here better than I've seen almost anywhere. You get this backdrop better than most. We don't get to hear much about how it's all put together. Thanks for filling out the details. Your the GM this company owes a lot too. You've kept this game alive for decades now.

[@AJPickett]

Wow, thank you!

[@krispalermo8133]

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.

[@kd9749]

No saving though vs Grey Waste and up to 300 ft. That’s brutal. Edit: nothing puts the evil of Australia to shame

[@NoLoveSouth1st]

Perfect timing! My pcs just bought a book about this plane, so I’ve gotta study up for next session. Thanks for what you do!

[@jeffcook6735]

Yes! Im working on a planar campaign.

[@ARCThunder]

Great video! I'm a bit surprised you didn't touch on the City of the Dead/Crystal Spire, but I guess that's located nebulously in Oinos but also the Fugue Plane?

[@AJPickett]

Lots of info to cover, I appreciate these tips on which parts to focus on, thank you.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

I’ve watched this one three times already within the span of a day. I want to see the rest of the series first, but I’m already working on a revised cosmology where Hades is neutral and all the dead travel here before being permitted to go to their reward or punishment. It will make it the primary battleground in the blood war, but also a place where the celestial travel to gather up their lost followers. Truly a nightmare for even the righteous dead, who risk being consumed as their god’s agent come to claim them. “How dare you come to take what is mine, angel. The dead belong to me. You will pay homage to me if you wish a single soul for your master’s realm.” -Hades, king of the dead.

[@philurbaniak1811]

I love this 👍👍!

[@Eisenwulf666]

a bit similar to what Hades is in Greek mythology. Cool

[@almitrahopkins1873]

@@Eisenwulf666 I tend to go back to the original mythology whenever and wherever I can. The planes, being able to exist and not exist simultaneously is something I picked up from the movie Erik the Viking. To a believer, everything is true and nothing else exists. Two heroes standing side by side could be on parallel planes at the same time. A player not worshipping Odin could walk right through the walls of Valhalla unhindered while his companions couldn't.

[@blairshort1098]

That's why there are no Bees in Hades. It's very existence is Bee-Leaves....

[@dustydesertdisciple6290]

Aj you are the best d and d loremaster brother, noone else comes close and those who try fall short. I wish I could suppport your work financially but I can hardly keep my family afloat right now, im very greatful for this wealth of lore and hope you get the recognition you deserve. God bless you and your family.

[@hazbinhotelsuperfan3383]

Could you do a video on the gloom dragons of Hades

[@AJPickett]

Absolutely

[@BimmWPBS]

I'd like one permit for hand holding please

[@AJPickett]

Denied

[@BimmWPBS]

@@AJPickett Gosh darn it.

[@matthewdunham1689]

I’m fascinated by the mysterious yugoloths. Especially their version of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.Anthraxus disease, The General of Gehenna war, Charon the boatman death (not sure which one is famine yet)

[@BabySniff]

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[@zmishiymishi5349]

Yes please! I'v been craving battleloths lore since i'v read about them. Thanks a loth, AJ!

[@tatsusama3192]

Haha, The title of this video makes it seem like a travel brochure. Maybe next year😅🍿

[@anxiousbug3867]

Woah this is insanely perfect timing for my planescape game! I just finished up some notes for a quest here. Thanks AJ!

[@AJPickett]

Glad I could help!

[@bigsarge2085]

MADNESS

[@napoleoninrags1346]

Another AJ fiend realated vid!! Happy Christmas, folks!

[@josephkelly7278]

This is probably my favorite video so far. Question: The worms you were referring to, as currency? Are they Abyssal Worms?

[@AJPickett]

Larvae, souls sent to Hades as an afterlife (also other lower planes) spawn as these disgusting slugs with humanoid faces, no limbs except stubby claws, they are vile, nasty, desperate, mean, greedy little literal scum bags that usually deserve exactly what they get,

[@josephkelly7278]

@@AJPickett If I remember my planescape Lore as well, Hags especially Night Hags, are always on the lookout to get their hands on Abyssal Worms as well. Correct?

[@purplehaze2358]

Is there also the Hades deity in D&D, or is it just the realm that takes that name?

[@AJPickett]

Oh yeah, he's there, just lower down in Pluton.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

That’s questionable. The planes may take their name from Hades or Hades may take his name from the name of his kingdom. None can say, since none were there before. Tartarus is the name of the titan trapped in it, for example. My question is whether Hades also rules the Elysian Fields. That would make him a lesser overgod, like Ao.

[@AJPickett]

@@almitrahopkins1873 Pluton is also the bottom of Mount Olympus, the weird thing is, when travelling across the three glooms, you always feel like you are heading down a mountain, then when you get to the bottom, its a different mountain...

[@almitrahopkins1873]

@@AJPickett I never really liked the way some of the cosmology was organized. The great wheel doesn't work with Olympus or Hades and it definitely doesn't work with Yggdrisil.

[@AJPickett]

@@almitrahopkins1873 none of them are accurate, but nobody has drawn a spectrum map of the planes according to their frequency yet, so...

[@jonathanthomas8736]

This is a particularly good and engaging one, AJ. Very appreciated and looking forward to the rest of the series. Coincidentally, I was pondering deep prehistory of a fantasy milieu earlier this very evening, and had just about arrived at the interface b/w Eldritch Outer Space (i.e. The Far Realms) and realms of spiritual dimension (e.g. the Outer Planes) leading me to postulate something very like the old ones and their blue/orange morality. Regardless, you inspire. Please, sir, may I have some more?

[@AJPickett]

You may!

[@Luke-n-CourtneyMentzer]

If really enjoy listening to videos about the other planes. Between you and MrRhex (I think I spelled that wrong, sorry), I should know just about everything worth knowing about any topic that both of you have covered. I used to run Planescape 25 years ago and have forgotten most things I learned (although I do remember a fair bit of the Hellbound: The Blood War boxed set).

[@TotalTech2.]

6:17 Intresting

[@davidkoudelka10]

8:05 I'm sorry WHAT!? Demonic Tarrasques!?!? Implying there are multiple!? Also, I could definitely see an adventure set in a continent-sized laboratory belonging to Mephistopheles. (He could have a demiplane like that for all I know)

[@brianzmek7272]

According to spelljammer there is a whole planet where Tarrasques are the most common life form and there are at least hundreds of thousands of them

[@Pyre]

@@brianzmek7272 God Spelljammer was unapologetically constant ludicrous bullshit and it was The Best.

[@agentchaos9332]

Memohistophles has Cania, which I assume is at least continent-size if not infinite, but I'm sure he also has separate Demiplanes for the more dangerous experiments, to allow his servants to respawn in Baator if they accidentally blow themselves up( Dying in Cania would be permanent). BTW, is there lore on the size of the layers of Baator at all? I know many of the outer planes are infinite, but I can't remember the 9 hells specifically being stated as such

[@brianzmek7272]

@@agentchaos9332 the layers of hell ar infinite.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

@@brianzmek7272 That’s the Abyss. The hells are finite. There are nine, no more. Demiplanes are not true planes. If the creator of a Demiplane dies, so does the demiplane.

[@darktimber13]

Always a good day when you upload

[@Greenscyth22]

I can't imagine any reason for a character or party desiring to travel to the Night Market, but that's gotta be a trip you take once and only once which required a way out immediately. But.....like I say every market has it's hidden treasures. I'm sure that there have to be a culinary establishments in Hades even if the cuisine is inedible to most prime material denizens. Hellfire roasted mystery meats, hookah bars with acidic vapors and imprisoned dancing souls that writhe in agony for the pleasure of their twisted customers would be common. Where else could you taste charred archon wings, broiled gold dragon flank or a pixie-soul smoothie?

[@NoNamesLeft0102]

Reasons for a party to consider going to the Night Market? Recover a soul that was acquired by a Night Hag. They've been known to enjoy acquiring good souls due to their potential value.

[@chriscalvin5083]

Good video AJ

[@nicmountcastle258]

Love these videos about the disgusting and the deranged. Thank you for the long video.

[@themalcontent100]

Wizards of the coast have all of these great backgrounds but fails to do anything but focus on one tiny region. See if you can create a cool Hades or bitopia centralised game next crowdfund.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

That was on purpose. If published material focuses on one region, it leaves you to fill in the rest. AD&D Forgotten Realms focused on the Dalelands & Cormyr. 3e and beyond focused on the Sword Coast & Waterdeep. Doing it that way makes the world yours, not theirs.

[@malcolmt7883]

That market sounds like the way Craigslist used to be.

[@coreyeaston6823]

Good morning from -43 degree Calgary. A fair bit colder than Hades...too bad really ;)

[@vedymin1]

So depression is just a constant wisdom debuff then :) if so then i feel very unwise indeed xD ... :(

[@agsilverradio2225]

I would have assumed it was linked more to charisma?

[@samsamsamsamsamanilla5281]

As extensive as the DND multiverse is, it would be amazing to see a Dante's Inferno level of description of each Plane with a Virgil equivalent. Just saying. Thanks AJ, really looking forward to the hordling video👍

[@thedarkmaster4747]

It's actually just the 2020's isn't it? All the tropes line up & match.

[@mbarker_lng]

The work I do is as tedious and boring as Hades, so I am loving listening to these deep dives while doing it.

[@stevewinkleburg5300]

In the future, could you expand the section on quest ideas and possible power players in the region?

[@AJPickett]

Yes, and thank you, that is great feedback.

[@stevewinkleburg5300]

@@AJPickett of course. Happy as always that you are returning to the lower planes

[@heathharris2545]

Didn't Anthraxus regain the title of Oinodaemon?

[@AJPickett]

Did he?

[@downtostandup]

There is Greyhawk and I believe Demonomicon versions, so two versions i recall. One ( Greyhawk) he still wanders... and Demonnmicon has him regaining his old tilte sometime in 4th edition.

[@AJPickett]

@@downtostandup I can mention that in the next video, thanks!

[@Vandelberger]

So Hades is the warp?

[@downtostandup]

And all Orks in 40k are the Paladin class

[@AJPickett]

@@downtostandup Actually all the Orcs in Warhammer 40K are Dire-Vegepigmys

[@downtostandup]

@@AJPickett so the Great Old Ones way way back in 40k abducted two vegepygmy called Gork and the other Mork. Then through some bioengineering created the Krok. The rest is history.

[@AJPickett]

@@downtostandup yes

[@Emil-Tiger02]

Yay!

[@errantknight-f2z]

This video has some of most horrific and terrifying fantasy art I've seen in a long time! Well done!

[@coreymerrill3257]

Well, if it's all minds that form it , somewhere in hades is a forest were you can see yourself be wired to a tree and tortured by lesser devil's . if you don't save for constitution and intelligence upon viewing , your concious gets trapped in that version of yourself . Once transferred,you are perminantly in that body .if rescued , stats are rerolled but level modifiers still are applied. Hope that gives someone a fun game idea

[@rejvaik00]

🎶 _"In these gray wastes"_ 🎶 🎶 _"There's no love, there's no tears to cry"_ 🎶 🎶 _"While I feel my grip,"_ 🎶 🎶 _"Slipping loose of my will to try"_ 🎶 🎶 _"So let Hades come, and wash away...."_ 🎶 *WHAT I'VE DONE!* *Erase myself!* *Exhausted!* *Rip out my tongue!* *Disgrace myself,* *And let go all that I've done!* 🎶 _"Put to rest, the memory of me"_ 🎶 🎶 _"While I changed my shape"_ 🎶 🎶 _"To a worm, and have ceased to be"_ 🎶 🎶 _"Now hear Hades come and wash away..."_ 🎶 *WHAT I'VE DONE!* *Exhaust myself* *Apathy has become,* *My soul reset!* *Destroying all.... I've..... done!*

[@agsilverradio2225]

You got a singing permit?

[@rejvaik00]

@@agsilverradio2225 it's in my other bag of holding

[@mikewaterfield3599]

Welcome to the real hell.

[@AJPickett]

Very much so

[@adamsuperdork]

This was a great video! Thank you, Sage!

[@stephanc6138]

i double take ... Onions in Hades?

[@almitrahopkins1873]

I just noticed the way you pronounced “slough”. Unless New Zealand has a different pronunciation, it rhymes with “rough”. Ain’t English a giggle?

[@bartlester591]

I can summit up in one word boredom the old ones were bored, and they wanted something to do usually kept playing around and seeing how fucked up they can get things

[@coreymerrill3257]

Still working on my marketplace concept from months ago too. I have not forgotten...

[@lyraburke2104]

Read this as "Complete guide to hades:Ohio" at first and honestly it still works

[@agsilverradio2225]

16:40 A feind having "pets," in the way we think of them, dosn't track, because it emplys that they care about and have compation for somthing. ... Oh, they keep them starving so they are more usefull? That makes more sense.

[@arcotroll8530]

You don't wanna know how a fiend treat their "pets"...

[@jacobfreeman5444]

You have never encountered the kind of human trash that treat their pets not as friends and family, I gather?

[@trajanfidelis1532]

Call me crazy, but I wanna learn about the Old Ones.

[@agsilverradio2225]

Your not crazy for being curious, but crazy is what you will become if you learn too much about the old ones.

[@AJPickett]

I have a very generous dispensation to talk about the deep secrets of the D&D Multiverse, but if I start talking about the old ones, I'd be a nothic within the hour.

[@williamharper6625]

I am interested in learning more about this plane. Some questions what the relationship with this plane and Shadowfell, and Ravenloth? As they seem similar. Are you planning on doing something on Abandone? The pathfinder counterpart.

[@AJPickett]

Abaddon? Yeah sure.

[@junesoler]

A.J. Where did you get the video clip from 1:10 to 1:50? Asking for a friend.

[@Zasek2112]

So could a high level devil use a yugoloth pretty much like a phylactery so it can only be killed temporarily on it's home plane? Then move the yugoloth to a pocket plane?

[@AJPickett]

You're going to have to explain that one a bit more to poor old AJ's tired brain sorry Zasek

[@almitrahopkins1873]

Particularly strong devils can’t be killed. Unless it’s consumed, it will just re-form in the spawning pits, a lot more pissed off at whatever killed it. PCs normally lack the ability to consume souls and the devil has all of the time it needs for its anger to seethe. It might even come back stronger if there are weaker demons to eat in the spawning pits.

[@johnsistrunk2587]

I thought it said “Ohio” instead of Oinos and got excited that Ohio being a weird hell scape was cannon in DND. Can you make a video of Ohio being it’s own plane?

[@AJPickett]

Ah ha ha... No.

[@theyawningowlbear6758]

If I may ask where did you find the information for this that I can peruse?

[@AJPickett]

Both an extensive book and rare PDF collection, and online resources such as the Forgotten Realms wiki, which is an amazing resource that never gets the credit it so richly deserves.

[@theyawningowlbear6758]

@AJPickett for the books and pdfs is that random material or a small amalgam? Sorry I tend to be a lore goblin and can't get enough reading material lol

[@andirach]

@The Yawning Owlbear Look for the Manual of the Planes for each edition (they have varying & expanded lore each time) to start. Then look for the Planes Planescape & Forgotten Realms wikis. Those entries have bibliographies to point your research onward

[@Craig_Tucker48]

I love your planes videos. Hoping one day you will make another one despite WOTC ruined this.

[@AJPickett]

Give it a year or so, and I will see how I feel about it :)

[@philurbaniak1811]

👍👍Oinos sounds truly awful! Reminds me of the WW1 bit in The Darkness if anyone knows it?

[@KS-PNW]

Yeah it really does

[@Mortablunt]

Yes.

[@MrBendylaw]

If Anthraxus is still alive, does this mean Midian-whatshisname can't use the throne without damaging himself? And did Anthraxus get his skin back? 🤔

[@AJPickett]

Good questions, which I currently don't know the answers to, but, we have just started to explore Hades.

[@MrBendylaw]

@@AJPickett Anthraxus the Decayed ---> Anthraxus the Presentable

[@michaelmorford3932]

Ah! The complete guide to Onions! Oh shoot, that's not what it said...

[@hellrott]

Timely video too couple with current events eh?

[@AJPickett]

Indeed.

[@deforesttappan6478]

Hey A.J. have you seen the new D&D movie? And is that the thred or fourth?

[@AJPickett]

There's a new movie? Never heard of it.... NEVER WILL. :D

[@deforesttappan6478]

@@AJPickett yes there is! It's coming out March of this year. Well in the States that is. I don't know about New Zealand sorry bro. Honestly I don't know if I want to see it in the theater when it comes out. Or what for it to get to the $2 theater. What?

[@almitrahopkins1873]

@@deforesttappan6478 Did you miss the cash-grab attempt by WotC? Nobody who creates D&D content is going to see that in a theatre.

[@kitsuned.m.4550]

When I clicked on this video I was expecting to see a day in the wotc office.... I wasn't wrong.

[@AJPickett]

Oof!

[@jimyanker9861]

Complete guide to hades: Ohio Is how I read it

[@ultraman5168]

Ohio has a lot more cool planes tho. If you like flying machines, Dayton is a dragon's horde.

[@mrplinkett4429]

...I'm not mean all the time...

[@InquisitorThomas]

So am I the only one who misread the title as “Guide to Hades: Ohio”?

[@downtostandup]

Everyone knows Ohio is just one layer of Hades... /s

[@phillycakeboss]

This is exactly why we have dnd..go to hades and kill stuff..lol

[@agsilverradio2225]

Oinos es no buenos.

[@reifuTD]

Me I like the idea of a monster girl based plane of existence, I've made up my own based off of the logic of DnD lore, to be more specific it a realm of monster girls and motherhood, most if not all the monsters and animals take the form of humanoid with different levels of sapience ranging from wild animal, to primitive to human intelligence then rule of the world they just kind of start having offspring when they are old enough or the condition are right. I find playing with the impactions fun and interesting to explore because monsters are just monsters they are people. If a monster does attack you they probably have a kid that might have to fight and kill as well or if they run and hide. Like fighting wolf girls, you can fight the pack but enter the den where they keep their those children' will defend their home and try to stab you with knives. Then you go into the idea of eating meat and harvesting monster parts.

[@AJPickett]

Sorry, lost me on the first sentence. Just not into monster girls my dude. sorry

[@phillycakeboss]

Mostly bad stuff..😉

[@AncientRylanor69]

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[@AncientRylanor69]

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