Basically Mummies

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[@Tortle-Man]

For context, a mummy is basically a Cleric Lich. Wizards can’t become them aside from like mummy rot. But a powerful cleric can willingly be mummified alive to achieve a stable form of undeath, powered by their faith in their god. Like how Death Knights are Paladin liches.

[@blvalverde]

Now we need a rogue lich and we can make a full lich party! Pally, Cleric, Wizard, we're just missing one

[@Pyrous56]

I thought fighters could also become death knights? But paladin ones are usually cursed or something

[@nicholaswulf4563]

​@blvalverde the KZbinr PointyHat got you covered there. He already made a Bard Lich, a Sorcerer Lich, a Druit Lich and even a Barbarian Lich.

[@AzraelThanatos]

@@blvalverde There's a warlock one out there, can't remember if it's in the current edition, but there was a thing where it's essentially a punishment possibility from some of the patrons if the warlock fucked up. Paladins also have a second form of "undead" self that popped up in, at least, 3/3.5 that's either undead or deathless where it's the Paladin being so duty focused that they exist beyond death until they complete their mission One of the WotC/AEG books for when they were cooperating for OA/Rokugan included what is essentially a Lich/Mummy thing for the monks based on the self mummifying traditions in some locations. You also had the sword Lich from one of the old Dungeon or Dragon magazines where the weapon is basically the phylactery and got stronger and stronger while being very difficult to find out what it actually was...and would start taking over the bodies of wielders. I believe it was from around with the Book of Vile Darkness came out and was an alternate use for the possession mechanics along with sentient weapon rules and other things in a rather twisted adventure.

[@blvalverde]

@@AzraelThanatos neat. Those self mummufying monks freaked me out so much as a kid once I found out about them.

[@1Ring42]

Mummy lords getting divine spells is probably a nod to pharoahs being god kings

[@agentofcaladium2741]

Like the god king Wurd Long may the boss reign

[@gamercore5216]

They're pretty much a Cleric Lich, and a Lichen is a druid Lich

[@Deathven1482]

Fun fact, the Egyptian gods were in Toril for a while. Edit: and they nearly got wiped out by Grummish

[@Trivial_Whim]

That’s the Doyle explanation. The Watson explanation is in the video. Both are probably correct.

[@budgoodrich6000]

Made me smile to see a clip from Prince of Egypt at the end there. My uncle Carter designed the characters for that movie. Still got a sketch of Rameses that he made for me when I was a kid hanging up on a wall.

[@Pyrous56]

Dude, that sick as hell, outright one of my favorite 2D Disney movies

[@wmad202]

The Prince of Egypt was made by Dreamworks, not Disney.

[@RenoKyrie]

​​@@wmad202If Disney made Prince of Egypt, both Christianity and Islamic would SEETHE upon them Dreamworks actually respect the story of Moses by making the story actually good

[@ohmygoditisspider7953]

your uncle sounds cool. you sound cool.

[@Schmaglow]

​@@wmad202lol my favorite fact about that movie is that their standards for it were so high that, as punishment, anyone they deemed not good enough to work on it was sent to work on Shrek... which blew up beyond their wildest imaginations 😂

[@darklordofsword]

That McConnell joke slayed me.

[@darienb1127]

Mummies are something that i've changed opinion on a lot over time. Growing up, a lot of media present pyrmaids as these trap filled dungeons that are meant to be raided for treasure. But growing up I realized that like... these are graveyards and catacombs. That's kinda fucked up the way that some media portrays them as. Not to mention there's been actual issues in the past with tomb raiding. If I were to run a pyramid tomb, i'd give it some kind of reason. Like that they're trying to clear out a curse or that they do need a magic item from it, but they have to try and convince the long dead Pharoah to hand it over.

[@nattly6340]

na fuck that hes dead gimmi the gold

[@Ryan-cu5gg]

Well to be fair your typical bog standard underground long winding stone dungeon is very reminiscent of European Catacombs, but I get your point and its fair enough if you wanna stray away from it

[@yungo1rst]

The ancient Pharoah has the planar key to an obscure realm the players are fighting. The descendants of his loyal subjects are being threatened by that realms inhabitants.

[@ImmortalLemon]

I remember in a DnD game I was in we found a mummy and accidentally woke her up. But she was super chill and thanked us for freeing her so she just kinda followed us around and was our friend. And then during a fight she almost died and we realized we can’t heal her with magic or potions so the artificer used his mechanical servant feature and basically turned her into a reanaman from Invincible so we could heal her with mending

[@AGrayPhantom]

Imagine going into a mummy's tomb and start breaking pots and shit while chanting, "I'm not stealing anything! I'm not stealing anything!"

[@aiseanaivalu2143]

Mummies are cool, probably one of my favorite kinds of monsters.

[@lucasaugusto7743]

If there's not a joke about "Mummy Issues" I'm gonna be sad.

[@MigoqAki]

how's your sadness going?

[@lucasaugusto7743]

@@MigoqAki She's been with me for years now, it's the longest relationship I ever had, and she never cheated on me

[@TheXell]

Welp. Guess that's a wrap.

[@Yacovo]

Fun Mummy fact. Mumia is the act of taking an old mummified corpse, grinding it up, and eating it for medicinal purposes. It was practiced in Europe into the 19th century. If you every need a fresh excuse for why a town got ultra-cursed, that would certainly shock the party. Thanks for the video.

[@Trivial_Whim]

Also, the boiled rags make a specific shade of brown paint.

[@foxtailzerda9108]

2:25 I am amazed at Runesmith's ability to casually tap into nostalgic niche things like that so easily.

[@TrashJack3000]

For mummified bog bodies, you could easily strip out the Egyptian-esque flavor of the regular mummy (not sure how mummy lords would work, though) and replace the "turn to dust" effect of mummy rot to instead have the victim turn into swamp water (like a less-hygienic version of Senator Kelly's mutation-induced death in the first "X-Men" movie). And what they guard isn't something precious that their creator tasks them with protecting, but rather, the bog itself.

[@Trivial_Whim]

Probably just like the Druid flavored liches instead of cleric flavored.

[@Bluecho4]

I like the idea of making the bog mummies heavily Celtic flavored.

[@Jessie_Helms]

Basically mummies, as opposed to basic mommy- which would just be a description of your mother.

[@Lrbearclaw]

Or Karlach.

[@yamato9753]

Funnily, just like the night-walkers they have one giant weakness. Necromancers. They could just burn through their legendary resistances and go "Hippity hoppity, you are now my property" and suddenly control them for ever. They just get advantage that can be cancelled out

[@donavandunn9824]

it might be better then Night walkers, cause they can create more undead for you and grow your army

[@yamato9753]

@@donavandunn9824 it would definitly my first choice. You now have a holy spellcaster with legendary actions/resistances, Lair actions, the ability to make more undead, at will short-term Invincibility, decent stats and, most dangerous, the universally feared N word pass.

[@seawurm]

I like the simplified love story idea. It sounds like a solid four session adventure.

[@Trivial_Whim]

I think a third party book for 3e had that exact plot line as one of three ways a trap riddled example dungeon could end. It was expressly a book full of traps and examples of how to spice them up and use them better. The other end game sections were basically; “thank you heroes, now take this plot item and get out” and “load bearing boss defeated, now you have to time trial the trap laden dungeon backwards.” It was basically, did you save the exposed female mummy from her tomb degrading as she slept, and did you solve the puzzles or just smash through that determined what the mummy lord at the end did in response.

[@zmanrara1]

I’m a simple man- I get a notification Runesmith made a new video, I stop what I’m doing and watch.

[@WitchsHutDnD]

he hath blessed us all

[@MLeivick]

As we do every time

[@genghiskhan6809]

I see. So you too are a man of culture.

[@elegantoddity8609]

I like the pointy hat interpretation that mummy lords are just the clerical version of liches. Instead of learn magic real good you gotta impress god of death real good. So really there liches are the kingmakers of undeath with vampires being close runner ups (in my opinion).

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

Tossing in Death Knight, proper Liches and the other pointy hat liches, that's a looot of options to do a full undead party out there.

[@elegantoddity8609]

@@gratuitouslurking8610 Indeed. Made my own little homebrewery doc about em taking tips and ideas from PH and elsewhere actually. And it makes sense. The willful enterance into undeath via complex rituals and pacts with entities of power is compelling and arguably the ultimage form of undeath. That entered willingly. Heck that's the whole morbid appeal of the concept that makes them more than poor monsters to smack. Vampires have their charms to though.

[@chrishubbard64]

BAH! Vampires are the cockroaches of undead. Stinking bugs who spread and multiply everywhere but have no notion of the true beauty of undeath as they continue to copy the behavior of the living. True masters of undeath dont feel ashamed of their undeath, they revel in it, display it openly and proudly, and destroy the weak living whenever they dare to show themselves.

[@CheshaGurimu]

In rime of the Frost Maiden there was this mummy that just wanders into a library after you release it from an ice something and I had no clue why it did that until now. I just assumed the book forgot about it.

[@tabithachastain6999]

One of my favorite things about mummies is, if they were prepared properly, they smell wonderful. Because fragrant herbs and incense is used during mummification.

[@Trivial_Whim]

Eh… you do know what the British did with the majority of mummies they collected from Egypt right? …if you don’t, don’t look it up.

[@tabithachastain6999]

@Trivial_Whim Oh I know. Ate them, ground them up for paint. All sorts of messed up stuff

[@Bluecho4]

I like the idea of taking the Tomb Kings of Khemri from Warhammer Fantasy, and plopping something similar in my D&D world. There's just a suspiciously Egypt-like country - a fertile river valley surrounded by deserts - where the Old Kings knew the secret of mummification. And the land is just filled with hidden tombs, that only each Pharoah's successor knew the location of (who was, in turn, buried where only THEIR successor knew, etc). Or else there's some, like, tomb cities where a bunch of lords decided to hang out together. Most of the time, the mummy lords astral project into their version of the afterlife or in other planes of existence. Popping back in if they sense their tomb has been raided (though usually only after their subordinates have been unable to repel the invaders, since the boss needs their beauty sleep). But sometimes they allow, or allowed in the past, for mortals to come speak with them. The mummies provide(d) counsel for mortal lords or imparted tutelage on various topics, and the mortals would provide offerings and entertainment. (Mummies get bored when they aren't flying through the astral plane). It's both a mutual arrangement, and a tradition born of duty, for both parties. For the record, in this setting, the mummies are of various Alignments. Because that's more interesting than them all being evil. Though as a caste of undead drawn mostly from the nobility and their favored servants, there's no shortage of dicks. That's just how feudalism works. The mummies also have millennia old rivalries with each other. This can evolve out of personal grudges or family squabbles. Some mummies might have betrayed the locations of their fathers's tombs for personal gain, and now the father is a refugee hanging out in a friend's tomb, bitter as hell. Entire dynasties naturally have animosity towards the ones who replaced them (probably violently), and the feeling is mutual. Some dynasties, in a mirror to Real Life Egyptian history, were formed out of invaders to the region who adopted the "civilized ways" of their new country. The elder dynasties naturally despise these outlander barbarians, no matter how they "ape our ways". And, naturally, some mummies are such huge dicks - so incredibly Evil - other mummies oppose them on principle (even the mummies who are, themselves, Evil). Because all these mummies - Pharoahs, minor lords, their servants, etc - are petty bitches, an adventurers wandering the land will have a hard time figuring out who they should be looting and killing. They all think someone is The Worst, and will say as much. Navigating this political landscape is half the game. And we're not even getting into the MORTALS who live here and have their own complex relationships to the Old Kings. From those who continue the old traditions, to those who actively worship the mummies (in general or specific ones), to converts to a foreign religion that considers undead a bad thing (though practitioners have a spectrum of ideas about what to do about them, from "live and let live" to "kill them all"), to folks just keeping their heads down to avoid plagues and curses and undead warfare.

[@unironicallylikesranger7122]

A mummy was one of the first non fodder undead I fought in my first campaign. The rotten fist is to be feared

[@wellingtonmcskellington4833]

A mummy cursed me to eat lunch without KZbin but then this video saved me

[@yungo1rst]

Thematic bosses that can give the lore nerds more time to shine around the backstory of the area. their tombs are smaller and filled with ancient cursed traps. Maybe the dm can implement the changing corridors as the players have taken treasure meant for the tombs protectors as the seal on the structure is letting out the mummies army.

[@Lastofthesigilites]

Mummy Lord Cleric, Lich Wizard, Vampire Lord Bard, Death Knight Cleric all are an old adventure party that are tasked with finding their barbarian and fighting something big.

[@tomisabum]

"...In WHAT jars?" "Don't worry about it, keep watchin' da video."

[@alanolex3962]

Oh mighty, Settra... Great King, the Imperishable, Khemrikhara, The Great King of Nehekhara, King of Kings, Opener of the Way, Wielder of the Divine Flame, Punisher of Nomads, The Great Unifier, Commander of the Golden Legion, Sacred of Appearance, Bringer of Light, Father of Hawks, Builder of Cities, Protector of the Two Worlds, Keeper of the Hours, Chosen of Ptra, High Steward of the Horizon, Sailor of the Great Vitae, Sentinel of the Two Realms, The Undisputed, Begetter of the Begat, Scourge of the Faithless, Carrion-feeder, First of the Charnel Valley, Rider of the Sacred Chariot, Vanquisher of Vermin, Champion of the Death Arena, Mighty Lion of the Infinite Desert, Emperor of the Shifting Sands, He Who Holds The Sceptre, Great Hawk Of The Heavens, Arch-Sultan of Atalan, Waker of the Hierotitan, Monarch of the Sky, Majestic Emperor of the Shifting Sands, Champion of the Desert Gods, Breaker of the Ogre Clans, Builder of the Great Pyramid, Terror of the Living, Master of the Never-Ending Horizon, Master of the Necropolises, Taker of Souls, Tyrant to the Foolish, Bearer of Ptra's Holy Blade, Scion of Usirian, Scion of Nehek, The Great, Chaser of Nightmares, Keeper of the Royal Herat, Founder of the Mortuary Cult, Banisher of the Grand Hierophant, High Lord Admiral of the Deathfleets, Guardian of the Charnal Pass, Tamer of the Liche King, Unliving Jackal Lord, Dismisser of the Warrior Queen, Charioteer of the Gods, He Who Does Not Serve, Slayer off Reddittras, Scarab Purger, Favoured of Usirian, Player of the Great Game, Liberator of Life, Lord Sand, Wrangler of Scorpions, Emperor of the Dunes, Eternal Sovereign of Khemri's Legions, Seneschal of the Great Sandy Desert, Curserer of the Living, Regent of the Eastern Mountains, Warden of the Eternal Necropolis, Herald of all Heralds, Caller of the Bitter Wind, God-Tamer, Master of the Mortis River, Guardian of the Dead, Great Keeper of the Obelisks, Deacon of the Ash River, Belated of Wakers, General of the Mighty Frame, Summoner of Sandstorms, Master of all Necrotects, Prince of Dust, Tyrant of Araby, Purger of the Greenskin Breathers, Killer of the False God's Champions, Tyrant of the Gold Dunes, Golden Bone Lord, Avenger of the Dead, Carrion Master, Eternal Warden of Nehek's Lands, Breaker of Djaf's Bonds... and many, many more...

[@wf1675]

imagine a mummy lord who entombed himself to ensure his dynasty will forever rule the kingdom ad if they ever lose control of the kingdom he awakens to reconquer his own people and will go back to bed once one of his decedents is made king.

[@Nyghtking]

Can't remember where I heard it but I heard in old lore that a mummy lord could inflict you with their mummy rot, and then perform a ritual on you, if they succeeded you wouldn't be able to free yourself and then if you died of the rot you would, instead of turning to dust, rise as a new mummy, but because of the ritual the mummy did you would come back as one that has all your memories, class levels, and skills, but total loyalty to the mummy lord as part of the ritual, as such they can have an infinite number of these at their command. Which also means a mummy lord can have guardians that are actually stronger then it itself is if it so happened to capture itself a couple high level adventurers.

[@Trivial_Whim]

That was in third edition, wasn’t it?

[@Nyghtking]

@@Trivial_Whim Maybe, I don't remember, there was just a video on them i saw a long time ago that mentioned that in the old lore that was a thing they could do, which meant that while a mummy lord itself was weaker than a lich it could actually possess a much stronger army than anything a lich could make.

[@svenabel2987]

Ah yes, regular zombies, but from a better socioeconomic background

[@erikanderson1402]

LMAO I spit my water out when the Mitch McConnel clip came up

[@StonedPriest]

My players got ahold of a Bag of Beans that contains a pyramid. This is perfect timing 😂

[@Beepers559]

Imagine if the pyramid housed a mummy that just really likes beans, his sarcophagus is beans, everything is beans

[@TrashJack3000]

@@Beepers559Even the mummy itself is a humanoid simulacrum made out of beans that were glued together with a pureed bean-paste.

[@Beepers559]

@@TrashJack3000 the perfect specimen

[@StonedPriest]

@@Beepers559 So now we got a farting Mummy Lord, that I'm totally naming Toot-uncommon. I love the Internet sometimes 😂

[@Beepers559]

@@StonedPriest the internet’s a magical place sometimes

[@FacelessPorcelain]

For anyone wanting to run mummies and interested in third party materials, I recommend Kobold Press' Tome of Beasts, which adds some very thematic monsters to diversify your pyramid dungeon like Ushabti (custodians and guardians of mummy tombs that range in challenge rating from just a little better than normal mummies to just shy of the power of a mummy lord), Possessed Pillars (basically animated statues that the artist decided to make look like a big anubis statue), Anubians (sand elementals), and Accursed Defilers (sandy undead that I personally flavor to be the undead forms of people who died from the effects of a mummy's rotting fist). I also recommend Nord Games' Ultimate Bestiary: Dreaded Accursed, which adds a bunch of different types of mummies of varying challenge ratings from stuff like armed mummy guards of varying challenge ratings, to mummified animals (an actual thing ancient Egyptians did), to straight up a mummified sphinx. They also provide the idea for dungeon masters to make Russian nesting dolls of mummies, where you kill a mummy only to discover it was filled with mummified snakes!

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

The idea of a mummy getting beaten up, only to erupt into a swarm of angry necrotic-flavored scarabs or something already seems like a no-brainer but hearing someone already did rules of that is hilarious and worth picking up.

[@aaroncunningham8307]

The most likely reason for a mummy lord to be locked away, instead of just ruling their kingdom forever, is that they were forcibly locked up by a heir who got salty about being throne-blocked by their dad.

[@POTATOEMPN]

I've been playing BG3 a lot. I have a necromancer, and you know where that goes, where I hav like 17 undead, a mummy, a few mephits.... Turns are eternal. They need to make the ai for minions be more automatic.

[@person1145]

I haven't finished the video yet but I fully agree

[@knines6279]

3:51 it took me a full three seconds to register what he said and then I started laughing my ass off

[@Bluecho4]

On the subject of making Mummy adventures, remember that there's an entire set of NPC stat blocks in the back of the Monster Manual (with similar sets of stat blocks in other books). If you want more variety in your encounters, just take these stat blocks and slap on mummy-specific traits, like the cursing touch or the vulnerability to fire. A mummy lord should not be limited to just generic mummies. They may have a plethora of favored servants with their own skill sets. From elite warriors (Veterans, Knights, Champions), to magical specialists (Mage, Archmage), to musicians and storytellers (Bards), to covert agents (Spies, Assassins, Warlocks), to diplomats and seneschals (Nobles). These folks might be "mere" minions, that die like normal mummies, or they might be full-fledged undead like their master, with their own heart jars. Because if their lord wants them around for all of eternity, it makes sense they should be able to return if killed. (Probably with the lord themselves or a favored overseer given control of those hearts, as final insurance to force eternal compliance). Nobody said you can't also apply mummy traits to beast or monster stat blocks, either. WotC can't stop you from siccing mummified baboons or manticores on your party. Unless the monster is naturally intelligent and the lord has a good reason for prizing that, or the beast is the lord's beloved pet, these mummies probably aren't given the recurrent undeath treatment. They're disposable unless the lord wants it otherwise. (Now a _mount,_ for the lord or a favored warrior servant, might merit having their heart preserved. Especially if it's a really cool one, like one that can fly. Imagine the mummy lord attacking the party in the desert on the back of a mummified fellbeast, like an Egyptian-themed Nazgul). Other cool monsters for a mummy lord: stone golems shaped like Egyptian statues; illusory or clay constructs (ushabti the mummy summons to life from tiny figurines); Shadows (from the Monster Manual) created from the bound Ka of those who opposed or failed the mummy lord; painted figures on the walls that come to life and attack intruders; swarms of flesh-eating scarabs; dust mephits, air elementals, and other desert-themed elemental creatures; and all manner of skeletons, of course.

[@dantevitale5714]

Fun fact, Mummy Lords are one of the highest level monsters that a Necromancer wizard can control indefinitely (they get advantage on the first save but they can't redo it every hour cuz they're too dumb)

[@Shatterverse]

Mummies got hugely buffed in recent decades thanks to Brendan Fraser.

[@BradleyRaven]

Ironically, just bring a level 10+ Necromancer with you.

[@monodragoon]

I like the idea of a mummy lord watching his kingdom fall into ruins, and him blaming the guy who succeeded him, thus sending the party of a quest to kill the guy, only the find that the mummy lord had been holding onto that grudge for thousands of years, and now the party has to kill his great-granddaughter or something. Or the mummy lord just forgot that he was the final king and blamed his failure on himself, but forgot it was himself and not some other guy.

[@MisterSmith00]

Mummy Lords are what helped me to realize that the Cleric spell list is PERFECT for re-creating Imhotep in D&D.

[@ultimateninjaboi]

Had a character get rotfisted and go down (but not die). Half of the next session became a mad dash for the rest of the party to lug me around the desert to get to some kind of town that had a good enough cleric, while i had a mini vision quest. Was dope as fuck

[@xalwine]

just dropped my party on the edge of a desert. They are looking for a Blue dragon, but his horde is built on top of one of them there mummy-huts and boy-oh-boy am I excited.

[@Ilix42]

I always used to think McConnell looked like a turtle, then I learned about the False Hydra…

[@HollowTomajikate]

I like the idea of a Lawful Good Sokushinbutsu mummy lord. The mummification process of Sokushinbutsu is self-imposed and their remains stays in a meditative position where they are interred to protect a temple from evil spirits.

[@gene8447]

I was not ready for the violent, 100% fair hatred you had for turtle boy. Good shit.

[@johnjohnsin3762]

Yes to term limits, no to age limits, yes to age competency tests as a qualification.

[@willowwoodward7674]

Words cannot begin to contain my excitement for enchanted emporiums

[@samuelrodriguez9801]

2:21 you just gave me nostalgia.

[@denizserkan1691]

İ really like the mummies in the warhammer universe where they are failed immortals who are searching for a cure to be a immortal without looking like a rot bags

[@evanpuckettart]

This video came out JUST in time! Started a desert campaign recently.

[@eliplayz22]

My homebrew world’s POV area is mostly desert or at least semi-arid

[@sbeve1591]

Logan always uploads what I need for my encounters, been thinking of having an encounter where the party has to kill a mummy for a noble and bring back the body, don't ask why, its the plot twist hehe

[@jeremiahhoy1905]

Okay seeing that spy kids 2 toy brought backs of memories. I had that whole completed thing. It was simpler times

[@blazingflame5674]

The love story between a mummy and a vampire did happen with a little guy named Arkhan. Though his magic cure all had a little something missin' from it and she died anyway.

[@Diresilence]

I ran a Mummy Lord who, along with his wife and servants, acted as would be guardians and advisors of their family line. After ruling their land into prosparity for several hundred years, they decided to retire and allow their decendents to take over and do the heavy lifting while they enjoyed their lavish tomb in relative peace. However, they cursed anyone in their family who abused the people, and inflicted plagues upon them until they straightened up or were eventually overcome. The party came on during these plagues, to which the current pharoah attempted to enlist them to their cause offering them their weight in gold, citing the tyrant had ruled over this land with impunity for thousands of years, and his guard (Who were basically the best and most loyal guardsman of the OG pharoah's age) were to strong. The party went to fight them, only for them to learn that this guy had effectively been retired, and the guy they got hired by was a prick. Rather than their weight in gold, the original pharoah offered a spell book with their divine spells to the party as well as a trinket to return to his descendent and politely refuse, with the trinket 'for their troubles'. Party wisely decided to take the spell book and peace out, cause family disputes just ain't worth it.

[@WalkinStereotype]

YOOOO so glad that we’re getting more of Seeker!

[@ironyusedincorrectly]

Needed more Mummies Alive references. 8/9 Stars :)

[@Quietu]

I have missed this delightful awkwardness. Very glad to be watching you again! Welcome back!

[@jwarner1469]

I'd love to see more Tactics videos fed from your Basically series, they are both so good, so would probably be even better together!

[@leoryff979]

Oh, so that's where the Mummy Curse in Doctor McNinja came from.

[@nondescriptname]

"Like this sickening creature" Pure gold. Thanks for the laugh.

[@ConstantChaos1]

The shade at McConnell

[@quantumz1348]

OMG the idea that "Blasphemous Word" is just the mummy laying down some Super old-school racist slurs so heinous that everyone in the room has to stop and go "Woah dude! We don't say that anymore!"

[@Bofrab]

I was in a campaign where we planted a Magic Bean and summoned a pyramid with a mummy lord inside. We all almost died but it then got 2 shot because we were all around level 8 when we did this. The DM then learned Mummy Lords have hoards and the items he rolled were stuff we were already planned to get during the campaign, so we ended up skipping a chunk of the campaign. So that’s fun. We later got attacked at our base and the 2 sorcerers on our team (Divine Soul and Wild Magic) channeled their magic to teleport our base, and me (Horizon Walker Ranger) used the portal detect ability to find a good trajectory for us to teleport, and we teleported to where we summoned the Pyramid from.

[@Deoxys_Used_Mimic]

You do NOT want to find a mummy in World of Darkness.

[@TwinSteel]

Check out the 3.5 template for vampire lords and make a video about how obscene they are: qualifications, powers, extermination - all insane

[@alexmol6268]

Thank you, very cool. I will run one for my level 2 party now

[@coolboy9569]

BEEN WAITIN FOR THIS ONE

[@NobleWolf]

Whats really scary is a Mummy King/Lord coming back to life, becoming a God to a Army of Cyclopes and proceeds to turn them all into an army of Cyclopse Mummies, then starts a campaign of mass death to enable him to rule the world in his never ending dynasty of undead. Thats a free D&D campaign idea for ya

[@hunterstone9132]

the most annoying part about these, litches and basically any ousider is that they literally just respawn if you dont kill them right. Imagine fighting a mummy lord 3 different times just because you cant find its heart. I could never, the moment it even smells like I might get mummy rot my character my character is gone. However I would like to pitch a concept. Fungal spore mummy in the under dark who awakened underneath a myconid colony and turned them evil and now evil fungal rot spreads from the colony with the mummy at its heart.

[@mavericktitan7874]

Yeah, that's Mummies alright.

[@sjhsoccer]

Runesmith decided to get spicy with some of these jokes

[@DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH]

Bless the Runesmith

[@mattc2327]

I love mummies as divinely powered (clerics rather than wizard liches,) and this pointed me to Pointy Hat's great undead video. It opens up story ideas, and fits with the classic story that mummy brains weren't preserved like other organs. A mummy can't cast intelligence spells, it literally has no brain. It's just going on vibes now

[@idle_speculation]

I am once again asking that you cover Inevitables at some point; They're some of the coolest outsiders and it's a shame that they're not in 5e.

[@LardofAll]

Reminding me of the Spy Kids 2 toy afflicted ME with mummy rot.

[@Vooblebooble]

These videos always make me want to create potential player characters of these creatures. A mummy protagonist could honestly be REALLY cool.

[@chrishubbard64]

I think you would basically play it as a revenant style character who is after something or someone as a condition of its rising. Might take some work to justify leveling it up as a class.

[@XXassasinzX]

Holy hecc, wasnt expecting a Dungeons and Daddies reference, but hey, noice!

[@Whisk3yKnight]

Saw this 4hrs ago when it came out and somehow didnt even realize it was new😂😭

[@FanOfMostEverything]

I kind of want to do something with naturally occuring sand or bog mummies, but the spell list would definitely need a rework. Maybe a pickled green hag...

[@lostmarble540]

holy shit that joke from futurama where fry eats a mummy is based on real life

[@researcherchameleon4602]

The yeast of thoughts and minds looks like a false hydra

[@SteveAkaDarktimes]

at what point does Grave robbing turn into Archaeology? Mummies make clear: never.

[@RegenliefArtoria]

Love these. I hope I get to run the mummy I've planned for my campaign. He'll be so terrible. Yay.

[@aaroncunningham8307]

I like to think that the mummy rot effect is like entropic tax evasion. Despite being both physically and magically protected from rot, the weight of time still bares down on them, building as a sort of "decay pressure." When a mummy strikes a living creature, some of that pressure is passed on to them, causing them to decay in the mummies stead.

[@drewforchic9083]

I ran an adventure where a mummy lord had hidden its heart inside a large stuffed tiger, and couldn't be killed until the heart was destroyed, which required cutting open and digging through the tiger and passing a check to find it. Or, as my chaotic asshole party did, setting the stuffed tiger on fire the instant they entered the room just because it looked spooky, killing the mummy lord and skipping the boss fight before he even woke up, and leaving none the wiser.

[@arqueiroXD]

I have a cleric that her lore basically is that she is a mummies created by the Egyptian god because for a complicated reason she can't really go to the Egyptian afterlife. So she just comes back each time the gods needs her to do shit.

[@lucamonticelli267]

There are other times of mummies that I run, inspired by the types that exist in real life. Rather natural mummies like bog or ice ones, as well a self mummified Sokushinbutsu that has monk ability.

[@papierowyszczur9234]

A hillarious thing: in an official module there is a chaotic good mummy that smells like pumpkin spice.

[@lachlanmckinnie1406]

For extra badassery and DM laziness, just take the Tomb Kings from Warhammer Fantasy (bonus points for Settra or Arkhan), and get some nasty stone constructs or ghosts to go along with them. Though if you pull out a not-Settra type mummy, he really HAS to be a badass King, and really be a threat to your setting, for Settra does not serve.

[@thedamnguy2896]

a great green man once told me that mummies are like onions

[@grayrook8637]

My favorite take on mummies: Settra the Immperishable. Cause who said you gotta take undeath lying down?

[@ohmygoditisspider7953]

I play a shadar-kai in descent into avernus right now. dude had his arms cut off and skeleton arms grafted where they used to be like the 3.5 prestige class "Pale Master." He was kidnapped by a thayan wizard and had this done to him. I use this for his Elemental-Adept-Fire-Damage that he gets from being a blood hunter. I call this Ghostfire, because we've flavored it as like that black flame from the elden ring, and because of you.

[@ohmygoditisspider7953]

addendum comment: the death knight completes the mummy-lich-vampire adventuring party. Mummy is cleric, lich is wizard, vampire is rogue, death knight is fighter.

[@Xangancan]

G thanks for the bg spoiler😂

[@kylefriedman2427]

Can't believe you killed me for this video

[@Mr.Despair.]

Making fun of McConnell - Good Making fun of Brenden Frasier - bad How dare you sir.

[@jamesd8169]

What on earth was that cursed 3D animation?!

[@LexSchilperoord]

I was not expecting the Globglogabgalab

[@mattsullivan78]

Mummy lords are cool cuz you can just be one by playing a reborn death cleric.