Purple Worms | D&D Monster Lore | The Dungeoncast Ep.180

Will and Brian are staying on brand with another big guy, but this one is not part of the Ordning. The Purple Worm is a nearly mindless freight train of earth consuming destruction. Find out about how you should stay out of it's way; or what's in store should you defeat one of these dangerous creatures this week on The Dungeoncast!
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[@MunkeeMag]

One of the best examples of a shark ejecting its jaw is the goblin shark. It’s creepy as all hell.

[@TaoScribble]

I'm not even going to look that up. The mental image alone is nightmare-inducing.

[@stancal9249]

Man, I know you guys probably have 10 thousand topics lined up and he's more of a 4e entity than a 5e one, but I feel like an episode on Pazuzu would be so damn juicy. If you think that Graz'zt is an interesting character, you'd probably love Pazuzu as well. The obyrith nature, the whole Beetlejuice summoning thing, the corruption of Asmodeus, the free wish granted with no strings attached... It's great stuff. A real shame he doesn't have a notable 5e footprint. I have a homebrew concept where Kenku were an offshoot of Aarakokra who had their flight taken away (still keep speech and creativity, so they're not a nightmare to roleplay). Explains their stat boosts being identical. The Kenku remain greedy and shady, but what's not known is that every Kenku sends off a portion of all the gold they collect to their secret city of Blackfeather, where the Kenku leaders are trying to accumulate enough money to bribe the Yugoloths into giving them Pazuzu's true name. They hope to make him give then their flight back and use the true name as insurance against being manipulated into ruin. You know, one of those classic plans that is clever, but just clever enough to be a TERRIBLE idea. Anyways, I'll Stan for the obyriths! Gimme Pazuzu! Gimme Dagon! Gimme Pale Night! Gimme Obox-ob! Gimme the Queen of Chaos!

[@TaoScribble]

And here I thought Pazuzu was just an old, one-off Simpsons thing. XD

[@OlympusPublicAffairs]

I reskinned purple worms in my desert campaign to be sand worms. The major civilizations in the area has an entire hunters guild devoted to hunting these things down once every five years in expeditions because they basically have oil for blood (in my version) and a host of other useful properties. Instead of gems, they form a glass as sturdy as steel in their gut. I've reskinned monsters before, but I was quite proud of this one.

[@dorianrobinette9712]

You should be, that's legitimately really cool. Always fun to think of a cool reskin of a monster.

[@fbauzo024fb]

Love that lore that they show up for celebrations or disasters. Just the tremor sense coming into affect.

[@pricerowland]

Not a campaign-ender?! Good sirs, my players don't want nuance, they want to *smash stuff with their weapons.* The Purple Worm is definitely going to be making an entrance.

[@spacewarsfight281]

They look delicious and sweet like gum

[@ashenwuss1651]

The next sourpatch kid. Purplepatch gummie Wurms

[@dorianrobinette9712]

That would legitimately be a great dnd themed candy.

[@natethaxton1800]

Them Hobgoblin must've been stomping the yard to hard for that Purple Worm.

[@notsae66]

So these guys may well be right up there with Beholders in carving out and creating the Underdark.

[@mcswaggerduff8946]

Your content always manages to worm it's way into my heart, keep up the good work!

[@ashenwuss1651]

Some topics are delightful, others usually leave *tremors* in my heart.

[@dorianrobinette9712]

Their content always warms my heart, but your guys puns *burrow* into my brain to haunt me.

[@Smitty-hr2mg]

worm, hehehe... worm jokes.

[@mcswaggerduff8946]

I dont want them getting tunnel vision though, theres a lot of big topics to explore

[@ashenwuss1651]

Whatever we discover, I'm sure we can continue happily dishing the *dirt* at what/who we find

[@peteplays6890]

Great Work on the Episode today. In fact, might even use a Purple Worm for my players in one of their upcoming encounters. Love you guys and love your work keep it up you awesome.

[@destonlee2838]

The Dwarves of the Klemm of Taurau herd the prplerwrm to carve the main passages of thier kingdom, building harnesses and driving them like Shai hulud in offensives vs the drow. Also attach carts to them and put rails in their tunnels, building actual railroads. Fun times in the Klemm.

[@stephenclements6158]

I'm shocked that y'all avoided penis jokes on this one.

[@rippertrain]

I listen to this channel while playing path of exile. Keep em comming thumbs up subbed

[@tasnacornelis4775]

Imagine the BBEG fight in your campaign. After a long hard battle the party won the ground rumbles... and a purple worm gobbles up the party. The end.

[@Licjr]

Stopped watching this video to open up one of Superquest and Josh does look like Stranger Things guy

[@draxthemsklonst]

Shai'hulud...sort of.

[@dorianrobinette9712]

I have liked and commented! I continue to serve the burrowing dungeoncast! Bleck! Don't even get me started on these abhorrent creatures! This weeks boon of knowledge is appreciated as always, but this paladin has no desire to hear about or see a purple worm ever again. They always show up at the most inconvenient times! I once was about to slay a drow high priestess to interrupt a ritual for lolth, a purple worm showed up and she escaped in the resulting chaos! I had once found a legendary treasure in the depths of the underdark, before I can take it, bam! A purple worm shows up out of nowhere, devours the treasure and borrows away never to be seen again! I had just saved a fair maiden once up on the surface. My very first maiden in fact. I was being quite successful in chatting her up, despite not being a bard, and was about to get a number for the first time ever, then you know what happened? A feckin purple worm shows up, consumes her, and proceeds to burrow away! Purple worms suck! I vow that if one should ever rear it's disgusting maw in the lands too knowledge and laughter, I shall gather a raiding party to exterminate the things! Less any more fair maidens be prevented from giving paladins their numbers... Thanks for another episode guys, this was great to wake up to. (I too am a creature of the night and slept during the day) Brian was right about great white sharks btw. They do basically just what he said. When they go to bite into prey their jaws sort of unhinge or something and lunge out to bite down on their prey. During that brief period where will mentioned that sometimes it's just fun to fight a big monster, It reminded me of an idea I had a few months ago I completely forgot about. Ok so picture this, somewhere in your world, you have this tower. Your players can choose to explore it if they wish, but the tower has no apparent connection to the main campaign. They find that each floor has set challenges to overcome, monsters that attack the players on sight. Even monsters fighting together that wouldnt normally have anything to do with each other. As the players ascend the floors each room has increasingly more difficult battles, the first floor might have goblins and kobolds, the 100th may have a beholder, a red dragon, and a storm giant. If the players die, they'll find that they mysteriously wake up unharmed outside of the towers entrance. The tower is basically meant to serve as a repeatable dungeon that players can delve into as many times as they please, and gain treasure and exp each time. Although a dm might have to find a way to balance this to prevent the players from becoming over powered. You could probably do a lot of cool things with this idea, from adding traps in some rooms that get deadlier and crazier the farther you progress, to reskinning the tower entirely to be a dungeon you descend into instead of a tower you ascend. I'm quite proud of this particular idea, so I'd hope somebody likes and uses this idea someday. Anyway that's all for now, will, brian, stay safe and have a good day ok?

[@ryanbrown5905]

For the mating pair example you could have babies emerge part way through the battle. Really turn up the heat.

[@OthEdden]

Can imagine a war shaman of some barbaric nomads looking to get rid of cities in their area drawing these to the surface.

[@DDonSon1]

I could wrestle both Will and Brian's purple worms with both hands tied behind my back. That's my one per year folks...

[@philiphamel8504]

In my current world Goblinoids live in the dessert, and will as a rite of passage, will go into the deep dessert and hunt and kill a purple worm. (They have a lot of similarities to Shai Hulud from Dune)

[@jeffreychampion7648]

Shoutout to you guys at The Dungeoncast - Really appreciate what you guys have done, are doing and have accomplished. I just started watching your channel about a week ago or so and the information Will provides (for the most part) and Brian plays off of and reacts to, or explains in layman’s terms, is EXTREMELY helpful and palatable to both veteran AND new DM’s/players. It’s far more organized and accurate compared to many other channels as well, and that deserves to be recognized and commended. This has been a big inspiration to me to get off my own ass and finally create a campaign arc I’ve always wanted to do, and while it’s in my nature to spend copious hours just surfing the various wiki’s and books for detailed info on monsters and lore, the opportunity to just passively listen to the information come to ME is very appreciated and cuts time when I’m busy with other things (like being a basement musician lol). So again, thank you guys, and thank you to those who have helped out both “on set” and fan-contributions! Going to check out what all I can do to personally help as well! FOR THE LORE!

[@snarkback]

Josh definitely looks like Hopper I have thought that from the beginning!!!

[@HowtoRPG]

Thanks.

[@Metanaut1]

You could have a huge skill check for players, just figuring out how to dissect a giant worm looking for a stomach, looking for minerals not dissolved by its stomach juices.

[@Gingomir]

I don't know if you take suggestions in your comments but you guys should do Rakshasas, they're super interesting!

[@Thedungeoncast]

We will!

[@leorictristram4894]

The purple worm is the final form of graboids, aka tremors. i fucking wrote this at 6 minutes into the video and like magic they brought it up.

[@timothyhanna6304]

I have 7 lvl 6 and the final boss is a snake god reskinned from a purple worm

[@darklightstudio]

Hey. My Purple Worm just shit a Gold Brick!

[@baddragon7057]

they have ayes

[@aleplayer1712]

Do you guys play Neverwinter Online? Maybe you should do a special episode on that since they have a new Campaign Event based on Demons!

[@D1LLDozZer135]

Yeah Josh looks a little like hopper tbh

[@joshuastyron3502]

GRABOIDS!!!!

[@estanislaomarugo3381]

I´ve got an idea of a necromancer controlling 2 zombie purple worms as his minions, swearing vengance against the city that houses his nemesi´s paladin order.... my players are going to hate me

[@MiloshFitzroy]

Nobody: Literally Nobody: Me: YoU WaNt tO SeE mY PUrPLe WoRm? In all seriousness this was another great video!

[@bluedruid8152]

When will we get the super quest saga been waiting for ever i am an old man now.

[@Thedungeoncast]

We are currently working on a solution where we can record SQS from seperate locations. We are doing some tests soon and when we are able to come out with an official date we will make an announcement.

[@justincarlozmaxino1100]

Ever seen the new King Kong film when they fall into the chasm where the insects come out yeah that's freaky I imagine the purple worm's nest looks like this kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2eyoqaVoJeBpc0

[@SillyGoosePaints]

You’ve talked a lot about dragons, but not much about dungeons

[@Thedungeoncast]

We are working on it!!

[@TaoScribble]

There are pre-made dungeons?

[@maji6294]

You guys have a discord?

[@Thedungeoncast]

Link in the description

[@maji6294]

@@Thedungeoncast thank you very much

[@dpdiaries4917]

You guys gonna do an episode on Ao?

[@Thedungeoncast]

Probably

[@calebrenegar1992]

When is new SQS?

[@Thedungeoncast]

We are currently working on a solution where we can record SQS from seperate locations. We are doing some tests soon and when we are able to come out with an official date we will make an announcement.