Khargra - Dungeons and Dragons - Fiend Folio

[@saeyabor]

He doesn't exactly mention this in the video, but apparently Khargra make music that would blend in with Korn or Linkin Park.

[@downtostandup]

How about Pantera or Disturbed

[@17Scumdog]

@@saeyabor I actually really liked the song. I'm a bit of a snob when it comes to music, at least secretly, I like what I like. I actually like it. It's got this kind of unique feeling, it tells a story in a way. It describes the kargra perfectly and sounds pretty dang good 😊

[@chadstinson9886]

What a fishing trip that would be. I could see dwarves with huge poles sitting next to a portal drinking and pulling these in.

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

"Diamond and platinum rock crusher? Yea, that's about like being bitten by a rat" -WotC, probably 😂

[@Comicnut64]

This is fitting on a few levels for today AJ I’m meeting a client at their stone cutting place haha

[@lordtaurinos]

Pls make that song available, it fucking rocks.

[@magejoshplays]

That khargra song at the end totally slaps, i'd bump it!

[@DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH]

Bless the Mighty GlueStick

[@zacharyweaver276]

5:50 Until some evil earth mage gets them to eat through the foundations of a castle and collapse it

[@ObsidianAmeth]

Any creature that could damage a dragon hoard is going on my list of first creatures to kill during any campaign encounter.

[@sagegibbs-mckearney6074]

I love how alien the Khargra looks. Really fun and unique design.

[@Krishnath.Dragon]

Ok, that song at the end is epic.

[@AJPickett]

Thanks!

[@Krishnath.Dragon]

@@AJPickett It needs its own upload, or at least an MP3 download, lol.

[@AJPickett]

@@Krishnath.Dragon I'll post it over on my discord server for channel members and patrons.

[@Krishnath.Dragon]

@@AJPickett Sadly can't afford membership or patronage. But still, it's good, and I am glad you'll share it. :)

[@AJPickett]

@@Krishnath.Dragon I put it on spotify for you.

[@efferzzreffe4903]

what would happen if one met a rust monster? Good Presentation Mr A J Sir, you really brought these critters to life! 👍 👏👏👏👏👏 😁

[@AJPickett]

Rust monsters would be lethal to the poor little Khargra! Thankfully, they very rarely meet.

[@lysander9957]

That song is rad! Please make a vid of just the song so i can add it to my jams!

[@zacharyweaver276]

13:03 They can have some gold as a treat. I do agree with your outrage at them getting the lore wrong. Felt like they wanted to male this monster somewhere that doesn't destroy your equipment or eat your money when that's the point

[@blackgriffinxx]

PC-dwarf that sleep in a tree DM: why do they sleep in a tree? Player: Khargra PC-wizard sleep in steel box. DM: we are not going there today.

[@trajanfidelis]

Thanks for the video AJ

[@zacharyweaver276]

I think I've heard of these guys before

[@karljeffries4848]

I want to strap the Khargra from the thumbnail on the back of my car, like a very heavy, decorative chrome rocket engine.

[@sterquiliniis7583]

Wow, this song was incredibly well written 👏 😂

[@AJPickett]

Thank you!

[@sw33n3yto00]

Okay, ALL monsters need a Metal song.

[@AJPickett]

Seems that way, I hope they all turn out so well.

[@victorvaldez8869]

Well certainly all Earth Elemental Monsters. After all, it's PURE Metal!

[@azuritet3]

I'd love to see monsters get songs. But not all songs need to be metal.

[@sw33n3yto00]

True.

[@zacharyweaver276]

8:35 of course if you're inside a dungeon tossing away your equipment to feed a monsteiscan be dangerous

[@ConspiracyOpossum]

Very cool

[@tatsusama3192]

2:40 Please sell shirts/mugs. I'll buy them😂❤

[@AJPickett]

It is on a shirt, you can buy them.

[@aaronwilliams007]

Excellent

[@AKNeal81]

These guys are so hard to scan in No Man's Sky! I can see these things getting swat like flies by powerful earth elementals and gods of races like deep gnomes and dwarves. Also, when did you become a music producer? Bc I'm loving it!

[@windalfalatar333]

Extremely good episode as usual A.J. You hold persistently extremely high quality to your videos.

[@RonaldLivingston-n2d]

Wow just wow good stuff 👏

[@HighmageDerin]

WOW someone made a song about them?! even more to the point, its METAL! :)

[@AJPickett]

Thanks

[@TheHornedKing]

That song slaps!

[@mattnerdy7236]

Hey AJ, awesome video, loved how you called out WotC 😂 on the stats. The music at the end was such fire 🔥 🚒 🔥 it was really good! I see in the comments the excitement and love for this creature and the music. I'm kinda surprised by it, never thought people even would care, it such a obscure creature. Glad people still enjoy the old school monsters. I don't think I have ever noticed the double scimitar at the end of the desk. What no Naginata 😮 When I first read how the double scimitar works in 5e. I thought no way that's the dragon paw mechanics, from Dark*Sun. Again awesome video AJ, I have watched it 3 times already, lots of information your videos are so good! Thanks AJ, you have a wonderful day!

[@AJPickett]

Thank you!

[@sirguy6678]

Cool video!

[@digunder14]

i think the idea behind the low damage of the bite attack is do to their size category and how 5e did things at the time

[@hmnhntr]

Yes, but it seems revealing of the lack of nuance that's so frustrating in D&D. Teeth that shred iron do as much damage as getting stabbed by a knife? Ridiculous

[@chrzzzzz]

People are going to be asking for a song on every video now 🤘

[@tatsusama3192]

I may have asked this before, forgive me, but have you done separate videos on the elemental planes? The closest things I can find in your videos are references in the Genasi and Jin videos

[@AJPickett]

I have not.

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in.

[@Exar_Kun]

They remind me of a rocket engine combined with an Elder Thing.

[@mikewaterfield3599]

5th ed nerfed everything

[@SageofCancer]

Homeboy really said what about more item destruction monsters aaa

[@anathema1828]

ITS LIT 🔥

[@ObsidianAmeth]

After all the creature from Fiend Folio is done, will you be doing a video on other books related to dnd like the tomb of beasts?

[@AJPickett]

Yep.

[@ObsidianAmeth]

​@@AJPickett🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@kell9743]

This song is sick! Metal af

[@Rannos22]

Fiend folio, my beloved

[@captdrastic]

Dayum... I can't say I ever expected a song about khargra (of all things) to kick ass. Great work, AJ!

[@joshuazane3210]

If the vast majority of its diet is iron, then presumably their more metallic components would be similarly comprised. Sounds like a job for rust monsters. 🤷 Edit: spelling

[@matthewfritz4629]

Amazing video AJ, What modifiers would the teeth and fins be if turned into weapons? Same with the scales for armor? Also will songs be your new outros?

[@AJPickett]

Adding materials from other planes of existence allows base enchantment and the more different planes are involved, the more difficult the process and the more + get added, or the more magic effects the material can hold. Gygax explained this in a Dragon article once I am sure... anyway, it makes perfect sense to me. Oh, and I dunno, the songs seem to be popular.

[@connorphipps8377]

Definitely a Digimon called Terebrodramon.

[@chriscalvin5083]

good video AJ

[@AJPickett]

Thanks Chris

[@nicklapallo9090]

There was no reason for that song to go as hard as it did, but it was amazing and I approve. Is it anywhere as a standalone??

[@adamsuperdork]

Started the video; happened to see a comment about KORN. Thought, “Cool.” Then AJ stopped talking and smacked me in the face with tasty bacon-rock.

[@AJPickett]

I even mention bacon in the video :) I will compile these songs into a spotify list or something, let me make a few more of them.

[@RoughGalaxyYT]

That song was great, credit?

[@AJPickett]

Lyrics by AJ Pickett 2024, composition by Suno.com Thank you.

[@RoughGalaxyYT]

@@AJPickett I 100% want to throw some of these at my party and play this on repeat for the battle. Great vibe.

[@FuyuBankeretsu]

Where can I find that awesome song?

[@AJPickett]

Just here at the moment, I'll load them elsewhere when I have a few more.

[@SlashDragonX]

@@AJPickett Once you're selling it I'll buy the album. This is exactly the kind of nerd culture I can dig! Pun totally intended :)

[@Kid_illithid]

A Like-Like from Zelda

[@almitrahopkins1873]

Yeah, 5e ruined these. 1d4+1 damage? No. 3d6 minimum. It shreds metal, so that is generous. These always struck me as combination worm and bony fish, like the armored fish that existed long before the dinosaurs, whose jaws were external bony plates rather than internal jaws with teeth. As the digestive tract expands, it causes the first couple rows of scales to flick out, shredding whatever doesn’t fit completely into the digestive tract. It doesn’t actually “bite”. It just shreds whatever couldn’t be swallowed entirely. Any concentration of refined metals will attract them. They don’t have to digest as much that way. That steel sword is like raw sugar to them, unlike a vein of ore full of impurities that they have to break down and excrete. Dwarves love and hate these things. Once killed, they can be smelted down to provide lots of metal, but killing them is difficult.

[@westongarner-qo2ez]

491st like!👍 Awesome video!🤘 Keep up the awesome work!🤘😎🤘

[@jacobwilson8579]

So AJ think we will ever be getting a video of all the metals in the forgotten realms, I know you did some in your metallurgy video but the forgotten realms has a lot of stuff to go over. Plus you did all drugs in forgotten realms.

[@AJPickett]

There really are most of the metals in that video, there are a few more mentioned by folks in the comments below.

[@Sirfinchyyy]

"Non-murder hobo terms"😂

[@AJPickett]

*checks comment, then loots the body*

[@Adam_First]

Great video

[@jkrisanda2011]

Who did the song?

[@davidfletcher6703]

That's the theme for Ruined Tristram from Diablo 2

[@jkrisanda2011]

@davidfletcher6703 ty

[@LurkerDaBerzerker]

The end song was made by AJ with A.I tools, pretty good sounding honestly.

[@AJPickett]

@@LurkerDaBerzerker Correct!

[@davidfletcher6703]

@@AJPickett, you should put out an album with songs about creatures from the monster manual, the one for the Apparition was bangin

[@NeatNightOwl]

That song goes hard LMFAO

[@matthewbennett1972]

Who does this song

[@AJPickett]

Lyrics by AJ Pickett, composiion by Suno.com

[@iamzid]

@@AJPickett you should release this as a stand alone song. or is it already? link?

[@AJPickett]

@@iamzid Khargra is already on Spotify :)

[@cadenceclearwater4340]

It's time to get deeply kibble. Eh? Oh, advert 😅

[@snarkback]

The corruption needs to be rooted out by this town

[@Rells2coolpeoplehavebadtastes.]

Would they're fins and teeth be +2 to hit I wonder?

[@AJPickett]

+4 to hit for the bite attack, the fins are not used in combat.

[@Rells2coolpeoplehavebadtastes.]

@@AJPickett No no no no, I meant if turned into weapons! My bad, my bad! My apologies!

[@AJPickett]

@@Rells2coolpeoplehavebadtastes. Ah, I get it, Just +1 (as they come from ONE different plane of existence.)

[@Rells2coolpeoplehavebadtastes.]

@@AJPickett Oki doki.

[@LaneLibra]

My mans runnin outta shit

[@QCreyton]

Not even close. He literally has a decade worth of content left, at least, just on monsters that showed up only in 3.5.

[@AJPickett]

I will never run out of monsters, this was voted on LaneLibra :)

[@joemerino3243]

@@AJPickett This was a great video, loved the life cycle, very appropriate for an elemental.

[@brotherhoodz97]

Hey AJ. WEIRD question for you. If a creature has a reaction that can teleport them a certain distance away. can they use that reaction in between attacks of something that has extra attack? would that change for multiattack?

[@hmnhntr]

Not AJ, but yes. Attacks are resolved individually.

[@JokersVsZombies]

What triggers the reaction?

[@AJPickett]

Yep, they can use that reaction anytime if they had not already.

[@brotherhoodz97]

@ wonderful

[@brotherhoodz97]

@ thank you as always friend :)

[@pulverize3]

Rock and stone

[@cobytaylor2097]

Did i hear a rock and stone?

[@cadenceclearwater4340]

Khargra rock 🪨

[@mikeharris6429]

For anyone too stupid or dense to understand why they made the damage 1d4 I’ll explain it for you. It’s a CR 1/8 monster that is meant to be used against low level players and in large amounts.

[@AJPickett]

Its an extremely rare creature, and if played correctly, it has to roll twice, successfully, just to land a single bite attack, so, its likely to get killed quickly anyway. I stand by what I said. If anything, they got the CR wrong.

[@zacharyweaver276]

5:50 Until some evil earth mage gets them to eat through the foundations of a castle and collapse it

[@AJPickett]

Well... Yes.

[@zacharyweaver276]

@@AJPickett And thus begins the wider quest