Garbug Fiend Folio Dungeons and Dragons monster lore

[@Jimmy-p9n]

They look like another insane wizards monster creation. Damn you wizards and your magic!!!

[@AJPickett]

*Bargle laugh*

[@LawrenceofCanadia]

AJ all you had to say was "Flying Jungle Chuul" and a tasty beverage practically levitated into my hand as I reclined.

[@zacharyweaver276]

3:26 love the ecology more predators for giant spiders. Still hoping for videos on giant bees and wasp ecology

[@sirguy6678]

Excellent video! I always thought the “Fiend folio” was a cool list of character killers- dreamed up by frustrated DMs who were tired of the players making quick work of every monster in the monster manual-

[@AJPickett]

That's fairly accurate for most of the monsters in there.

[@adamsuperdork]

I’m sold on the fear. I’ll have to wait until evening for the beverage. Flying chuul!

[@mrmackie-qp6lr]

When you said the phrase flying chuul I actually stopped what I was doing and said WHAT!?

[@malcolmt7883]

A crawfish fell in love with a mosquito.

[@mrperfectjeff]

You forgot the unholy amount of spit needed for the thing to survive

[@zacharyweaver276]

4:22 if not used to create them at least sharing a common ancestor

[@anotheruser9224]

Fantasy phylogeny is the fabulously fun. The lore goes deep. Back in 1989, 'Dragon Magazine #150', Stephen Inniss wrote an article about the Mind Flayer homeworld. Here, he suggested that carrion crawlers might be the larval form of something. It also suggests that carrion crawlers are somehow related to illithids. Fun to think of garbugs as being the arboreal cousin of the deep sea chuul, both developing carapace in their final life stage. I like to think that somehow in the seas of time, a wizard is trying to ship live illithid tadpoles, putting them in just the right stressful conditions to cause them to metamorphose into tiny, carapaced crustaceans: their adult form. The truth that the elder brains don't want you to know. *Cue Futurama "Popplers" episode*

[@Comicnut64]

Perfect timing just started lunch love your vids AJ

[@AJPickett]

Bon appatitties!

[@Evohuh]

I love listening to you go in deep depth about monsters, their biology, and how they live. ❤

[@zacharyweaver276]

Never heard of this monster cannot wait to get deeply nerdy with it

[@windalfalatar333]

Extremely good video!!

[@couchcommandoiv5528]

Most wizard made aberrations are horrible plaques upon mankind, except the otyug. Those guys are chill

[@downtostandup]

I bet they taste like lobster 🦞

[@professionalamateur849]

Which dnd monster do you think would be the tastiest? Maybe we need a guide to cooking your quests written by some intelligent lizardfolk wandering chef Rordon Gamsey.

[@tatsusama3192]

I was going to ask if they were edible 😂

[@alucardbird_of_hermes9785]

Pink jelly

[@SirDoots]

They got some big, meaty, CLAWS!!

[@HowtoRPG]

Thanks AJ

[@chrismills2439]

so for a good prank against evil drow city, gate in a few hundred of theses into it....

[@Jimmy-p9n]

They are fiends wouldn't you worry they will work with drow

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in.

[@Aquamentus11]

Cant wait to describe something as moist and loathsome. "How was your anniversary yesterday?" ........

[@bellaususfitzpinguidpalate8732]

THANK YOU!!!! 😍

[@DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH]

Bless the Mighty GlueStick

[@anotheruser9224]

My favorite tinfoil hat theory is that carrion crawlers are closely related to the "serpent" which occupies the head of the chuul. This is the first time I've heard of the garbug and I love it as the other side of the equation. I choose to believe that carrion crawlers ancestors started out as a tiny parasite, but evolved to be gigantic scavengers as a result of deep sea gigantism. Like the relation between the tongue-eating louse and the Giant Isopod. I must say, I love that your story also includes carrion crawlers as neotenous nymphs. Firstly because it makes their caterpillar body shapes make sense. Secondly because the one other creature in the Forgotten Realms which has a giant neotenous version is the Neothelid. And carrion crawlers sharing a common ancestor with illithids feels good, lore-wise.

[@AJPickett]

I know what to call the next Mindflayer I see. 😎

[@theblocksays]

Correct me if I'm wrong (it's been a while), but wasn't it established that Chuul were the bio-engineered creations of the Aboleths as muscle? Or was that strictly Pathfinder lore? Then again with those early D&D modules like Barrier Peaks having a crashed alien vessel there's no telling what weird shit got loose.

[@anotheruser9224]

​@@theblocksays You are not wrong. 5e lore makes the chuul an aboleth experiment, designed to collect magic items. 3.5 lore described the chuul as the creation of a wizard named Ashranezr, who lived on an island and played Dr. Moreau until death. Maybe Ashranezr was an aboleth. Why not? Both times, the chuul are described as a united creature - part tentacled-brain-parasite - part giant crayfish-like thing. I enjoy having occasional alien technology pop up. If you meet a lizardfolk priestess with a mechanical arm that is rusted in place and packed with mud, you immediately know she has a backstory. If you can coax out of some of her tale, perhaps there is another wizard playing Dr. Moreau, callously amputating limbs and attaching found alien technology to the citizens of the swamp. Trying to get the machines to work again. You immediately has a detestable, disgusting villian set up in the wizard. And if you have spells that regrow limbs maybe you have a new friend. (And a rusty Gauss gun.)

[@anotheruser9224]

​@@theblocksays I fit the lore together with the chuul being the result of aboleth combining the ancestor of carrion crawlers (the larval form of something) with an giant arthropod. Perhaps a modified garbug? I also like to think that the Mindflayers are the future descendents of chuul parasite. The whole thing feels like Larry Niven's Bandersnatch, as the livestock are the only leftovers of an empire. (I also think that Niven's Grogs are the fate that we can eventually expect for Mindflayers.) Imagine being sent into the future and coming back, not to a Planet of the Apes, but a to a Planet of the Bovine Tapeworms. That is how it must feel for the aboleth. No wonder they insist that they have no idea where illithids came from.

[@chriscalvin5083]

Good video AJ

[@AJPickett]

Thanks Chris

[@trajanfidelis]

Lobsters grew wings! Hide the children!

[@krispalermo8133]

Garlic butter and crab claw meat. Kao Tao fish fry guys ?

[@glorbojibbins2485]

Oh good its only a purple 6 to 9 foot long flying lobster wasp that wants to paralyze and then drink you like a juice box. Also Sometimes it never grows a shell like a big evil caterpillar. Yuh know, Tuesday.

[@windalfalatar333]

Is garbug meat tasty, and if so which is the choicest bit? The claws? Do they taste like crab claws or lobster claws or something else entirely?

[@AJPickett]

Not tasty, very not tasty.

[@windalfalatar333]

@ ❤️

[@off6848]

Taste like aged carrion crawler

[@lexington476]

I'm going to be keeping a weary eye open for bugs to both indoors and out 🙂.

[@connorphipps8377]

So oral arms and nematocysts.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

Aren’t these the origin of the tyranid termagaunt? You could take all of the various crustacean monsters, add them to the mind flayers and make Tyranids for D&D. I don’t think it would be all that difficult. It would be a good counter for the spider-worshipping Drow.

[@AJPickett]

Deep spawn and neogi, green salad and Intellect Devourers 😎

[@almitrahopkins1873]

@ That would work too. I already did something with thri-kreen to make an Alien offshoot for a campaign. That had more of a Tyranid feel to it than Alien when it was all said and done. The garbug would just add more nightmare fuel to it.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

@ But what is the stat block like for a green salad? I’m laughing in auto-correct, if you couldn’t tell.

[@matthewfritz4629]

And people wonder why wizards are mocked. "Have a problem. I'll create a magical solution." Said the wizard. Magical solution becomes a worldwide problem. "I'm out of ideas." The wizard says later.

[@aubreyackermann8432]

It's hard to come up with ideas when your last one ate you and your tressym

[@pensador6953]

even the worse beasties do have their value, namely in gold, as body parts.

[@TheCubecrafer]

Didnt you have a video about the Celestials Zodiacs and how they cannot be Attacked by conventionla means + how the gods would interact with them. What was the video called again?

[@AJPickett]

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[@TheCubecrafer]

@@AJPickett thank you a lot man :D

[@jimwhite2541]

They do fear Garbug collectors though. Bwahaha.

[@TheHornedKing]

Sweet! New nightmare fuel!

[@ArborealOctopi]

AJ you simply must do a video of the Moon Dawggy Doggo!🐤

[@Sirfinchyyy]

Some Mad Scientist decided to cross mosquitoes and crawfish and probably got killed by his creation shortly after.

[@abrahamsorby8193]

Obviously an Illithid mad scientist

[@AJPickett]

Probably.

[@AKNeal81]

A wizard is training one to follow one simple command: attack all who enter other than himself. Not wanting it to become confused by illusions he begins going into the local town to find criminals to lure back and test his newfound defenses! When the party first meets the wizard he is in the market buying quite a lot of fresh meat and is actively trying to lure pickpockets and thieves before disappearing into a strange looking possibly magical doorway?

[@AJPickett]

That's excellent, you could publish that adventure.

[@AKNeal81]

@@AJPickett thanks for the inspiration! This is going into the campaign lore for sure!

[@saeyabor]

Cthulobster

[@mikewaterfield3599]

God I live classic D&D.

[@blackgriffinxx]

As a person that lives in an area that eat crayfish. This is pure nightmare fuel. Some people in my area feed crayfish so they can harvest them later. Some throw old meat form stores to them.

[@Jimmy-p9n]

What if they are criminals that off people and feed them to the crayfish? You may be a cannibal and not know it 🤪😁

[@blackgriffinxx]

@@Jimmy-p9n Oh. We know this already and it happens a lot more than you think. Not just criminals but accidents and people off them self here.In the lower Mississippi river. The amount of bodies that pop up is crazy. Gators eat the bulk of it. Fish pick at it some and crayfish do the finale clean up. We eat all of them here.

[@justin.channels]

On the topic of eating them, can the nymphs be dipped in chocolate?

[@AJPickett]

Searing hot chocolate. That would taste terrible

[@justin.channels]

@AJPickett the Goliath in me likes spice Seriously though, have you done an AJ's world or campaign-agnostic cookbook?

[@krispalermo8133]

Blood Feeders, .. Dig large pit to crawl in, fill with wood and cover in render down fat into oil and mix with lye. Place swealing pigs and some blood letting to draw predators. Once the bugs are crawling in the pit with side air flow holes to roll up in with plenty wetted down damp hay which will mold, cover with heavy netting and lite the pile. The wet hay will create a lot of smoke choking the air causing lung damage. As for the effects of the blazing bone fire, since it is in a pit .. just add water or dirt cover after the bugs are dead and harvest charcoal after site is cooled. Bacon fried ants/crayfish ? Now humans have a history of .. trophy .. hunting and importing and eating exotic animals. And people with our current global market collect dried sun-bleached crab shells .. so, .. American Swamp People, a few shows of people hunting seasonal alligator for market.

[@alexswords848]

Aj I watch one of your videos when you were drawing a world map can you help me find that video please

[@AJPickett]

kzbin.infokSpESkVAuWM?si=TZveVcYPeu15nuWJ This one?

[@alexswords848]

@@AJPickett it wasn’t that one but thank you for trying to help

[@Sirfinchyyy]

These creatures remind me of "tree lobsters" (i think i got that right) except for the wings. Anyone who didn't know about them ahead of time would probably think they were an alien invasive species.

[@jonsosebee1689]

....there's a happy advertisment obscuring your video ... I don't know what these peeps tryin to sell

[@AJPickett]

Sorry, ad slots are controlled by google and vary according to your personal profile, it's frustrating, but there is the option to upgrade to a paid youtube experience (consider how much time you spend on KZbin content, is it worth it?)

[@jonsosebee1689]

​@@AJPickett it may be. I was joking a bit

[@Dahaka-rd6tw]

With December nearing, how would video on Island Giant from Zakhara setting sound for December ( The release month of Ray Harryhausen's The 7th Voyage of Sinbad )? Merry future christmas!

[@cadenceclearwater4340]

Bugs 🐛

[@flubjig903]

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[@derekstein6193]

0:27 EXCUSE ME?!? Do you kiss your loved ones with that mouth?

[@kamilguzik3870]

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[@AJPickett]

Reply (yes, I read all the comments) :)

[@AnonymousAlcoholic772]

AJ I offer up this spell in your honor: FLAVORFUL LIBATION- 2nd level wizard, conjuration. The wizard creates a delicious potation that magically appears in his hand. A +2 drinking straw or greater is a material component. If this palatable elixir is consumed while the wizard is studying a magical tome for which an intelligence check is required, he gains a +2 on his roll. The drinking straw is destroyed upon the spells expiration. However, if the player rolls a 1 he has spilt the drink on the magical tome and destroyed it. I’ll let you flesh out the details..

[@AJPickett]

... Well, that settles it, I am off to Mechanus finally, I know full well they have... not specifically drinking straws, but enchanted gear lubrication conduits look precisely the same as a metal bendy straw... marvelous! I shall fill some journals for sure.