The Origin of D&D's Greatest Monsters

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Runesmith

Runesmith

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@Runesmith
@Runesmith 5 ай бұрын
Here's a Greamer: www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/4378385-greamer
@oddvar4578
@oddvar4578 5 ай бұрын
Yay
@benthomason3307
@benthomason3307 5 ай бұрын
As an avid homebrewer myself, it was really fun watching someone go about it with a completely different thought process. The way I go about it is "Okay, so I've got this mad scientist fleshcrafter demon lord who was inspired by artificers from Ebberson to take up robotics and turn himself into a cyborg... he'd probably be very interested in the process of building Warforged. So he's stolen the info needed to build a warforged creation forge, but there's no lore on how a thinking soul is infused into the warforged body. He already owns a section of the afterlife though, he could probably just stuff them with would-be demon souls, which I guess would make them demons and robots at the same time. So he's bolstered his forces with robo demons... the other demon lords will probably think that's cool as Baator and want some of their own. He could probably make quite a profit selling these things to other demon lords as mercenaries or slaves or whatever. His customers probably won't pay money for robo demons that do things their regular forces can already do, so he'd probably have to design them to fill combat roles that don't exist within the typical demon lineup... I don't see a long-range demon here, I design a scoripon robot with a naval cannon on it's tail. I don't see a wizard demon, I'll design a wizard robot that can fly and cast magic missile at-will. The demons don't seem to have an answer to the devils' Hellfire engine, I'll design my own. I'll make it a minotaur-centaur-warforged-thing that's a steamroller from the waist down" (btw if anyone wants the stats for any of the monsters I've described here, here's my google doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1YitD0F1LYGr1iE46CxyUABE-3D0fjQElaMcsGJ1O4Vk/edit?pli=1 )
@dinobuckwell2999
@dinobuckwell2999 5 ай бұрын
for some reason this reminded me of something from Mordenkainens Fiendish Folio, which i'd love to see a take on, since it has some of the most interesting creatures I've ever seen in it
@dubuyajay9964
@dubuyajay9964 5 ай бұрын
Yeah, about the Ultraman thing. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnS9nqyvbbqAi9Esi=oNxJeBKNvPkMG4oF
@hebegebe11
@hebegebe11 5 ай бұрын
I've never needed anything more in my life than this greamer stat block. Thank you.
@smilemore7431
@smilemore7431 5 ай бұрын
I assumed the size of the toys compared to minis would be the size of the monsters. Following this logic I was horrified seeing the rubber chicken. 70 foot tall screeching horror who could eat your barbarian.
@bskec2177
@bskec2177 5 ай бұрын
It's amazing that the mental image of a giant one was so horrific, but as soon as he said 1 ft tall, it became cute.
@samuelcacnio9548
@samuelcacnio9548 5 ай бұрын
@@bskec2177 went straight back to horror for me when he said the pack size was 15-30
@bskec2177
@bskec2177 5 ай бұрын
@@samuelcacnio9548 I went straight to wondering if they were edible.
@giladpellaeon1691
@giladpellaeon1691 5 ай бұрын
@@bskec2177 I've played a character that actively found out whether dungeon monsters were edible, had to make a lot of Con saves but the dice seemed to like me for that campaign.
@bskec2177
@bskec2177 5 ай бұрын
@@giladpellaeon1691 I once played a dwarf that would mumble things like "hmmm kobolds. Serve with beer, tastes like chicken...."
@dragontrainerzero
@dragontrainerzero 5 ай бұрын
Ran a little long? I could watch an hour long video of you taking janky ass toys and turning them into D&D monsters, I loved this video.
@thosebloodybadgers8499
@thosebloodybadgers8499 5 ай бұрын
Genuinely a fantastic exercise in game design and worldbuilding
@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993
@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993 5 ай бұрын
Why did You stop posting
@revthescatman137
@revthescatman137 5 ай бұрын
This
@dragontrainerzero
@dragontrainerzero 5 ай бұрын
@@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993 who?
@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993
@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993 5 ай бұрын
@@dragontrainerzero you
@Dudeman715
@Dudeman715 5 ай бұрын
The Greamers are the best part of the video
@noahmellemstrand4756
@noahmellemstrand4756 5 ай бұрын
I need a stat block for them yesterday lmao
@claybournewhite4680
@claybournewhite4680 5 ай бұрын
Genius. I've already stolen them for my next session.
@brianmoyachiuz905
@brianmoyachiuz905 5 ай бұрын
Okay I love this idea where you go buy cheap toy and make a creature out of it, that should totally be a D&D challenge maybe it should work with cheap action figures too like weapons or something
@nigeltucker4202
@nigeltucker4202 5 ай бұрын
Do I smell a new creature book? Wait, that could possibly be the Stinkspark.... *looks around nervously and grabs fire extinguisher*
@ShouldaWoulda
@ShouldaWoulda 5 ай бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpW1o6mka6xneNUsi=boFgKtlKgWWN_Sxv This guy made a video kind of similar to your idea
@parkerdixon-word6295
@parkerdixon-word6295 5 ай бұрын
One of my favorite similar stories is that when Bioware were making Knights of the Old Republic, they were coming off of making Neverwinter Nights, and working in the same engine, so they had a bunch of d&d monster models just *available* but this was a Star Wars game, so they sort of weren't supposed to use them. They clearly ignored that, and when they wanted to make an evil sith Rancor monster called a Tarentatek, apparently they based the model on the Umber Hulk, which is really funny to me, because in-lore, those things are supposed to be *utterly horrifying* and the script works pretty hard to sell that, but then you lean that their model is based on a silly, dinky old monster that was originally a dime plastic toy Gary Gygax bought on a lark.
@JaredHight-g4e
@JaredHight-g4e 5 ай бұрын
As fun as that sounds I can’t unsee that now, it’s just an umber hulk with a different face.
@tomkerruish2982
@tomkerruish2982 5 ай бұрын
In the late nineties, I bought my daughter a bag of plastic dinosaurs from a 98 cents store, and it included a rust monster.
@OldGreyGryphon
@OldGreyGryphon 5 ай бұрын
I had one of those growing up!
@bingonight1504
@bingonight1504 3 ай бұрын
Now I need to find a video essay on the history of cheap plastic dinosaurs. I had a drawer full of em in the early 2000s and never considered that previous generations were buying similar but slightly different dinos
@FaeQueenCory
@FaeQueenCory 5 ай бұрын
That "lavaback lizard" is 100% dimetrodon. An extinct stem mammal.
@pablito-e
@pablito-e 5 ай бұрын
And the monster is scientifically accurate, in a way
@benthomason3307
@benthomason3307 5 ай бұрын
to translate from nerdspeak, "steam mammal" basically means it's a proto-mammal, the same way dinosaurs like T Rex are proto-birds. It's honestly quite shocking Runesmith's never seen one before, this thing is one of the most famous extinct animals of all time.
@atomicbuttocks
@atomicbuttocks 5 ай бұрын
i thought dimetradon was a theraspid, or theyre the same thing and im slowly losing my dino knowledge
@AlysIThink101
@AlysIThink101 5 ай бұрын
Dimetrodons were not mammals, though they were closer related to Mammals than they were to Dinosaurs.
@AlysIThink101
@AlysIThink101 5 ай бұрын
​@@benthomason3307 I'm sorry but T. Rex were not proto-Birds, proto-Birds where certain Dinosaurs that looked incredibly similar to Birds and were closely related to them but were not Birds, T. Rexes as well as not looking much like Birds, were also only distant relatives of them, by the time the first T. Rex was born the branch of the evolutionary tree that that would produce them had split from the one that would produce Birds tens of millions of years ago (If I remember correctly over 100 million years ago but it could be much more, or as little as 60.) To be clear it is not your fault for not knowing this, the amount of knowledge you showed in that comment puts you well above the level of most people.
@RynoG2003
@RynoG2003 5 ай бұрын
I have one of the bulette toys from the hand-me-down dinosaurs I got as a kid. It's great to see one of my favorite d&d creators talking about this part of d&d's history.
@ANAMEHASNOTBEENTAKE
@ANAMEHASNOTBEENTAKE 5 ай бұрын
I had one when I was younger. Now I wish I’d kept it!
@KamiKyojin
@KamiKyojin 5 ай бұрын
Same! The bulette, the owlbear and the grey-ish standing dino with abs and ear-frills!
@BlitzkriegBryce
@BlitzkriegBryce 5 ай бұрын
Still have my bulette also, not sure why but I held onto it as a childhood momento.
@asafoetidajones8181
@asafoetidajones8181 5 ай бұрын
The bulette Chinasaur is one of the most common and still being produced in HK. You'll see in included in cheap playsets there even today.
@dank_smirk2ndchannel200
@dank_smirk2ndchannel200 5 ай бұрын
Getting inspiration from your personal life is always fun. For example, I have a pet black rat snake and I collect its shed skin. And because the shed skin is partly transparent like a ghost, I have the idea of having spirits in my setting look like gentle, floating, halfway transparent snakes.
@thelakeguardian8188
@thelakeguardian8188 5 ай бұрын
That's amazing. I'll be sure to add that to my Luigi's Mansion campaign.
@dank_smirk2ndchannel200
@dank_smirk2ndchannel200 5 ай бұрын
@@thelakeguardian8188 go right ahead. I don’t own the copyright to shed snake skin.
@thelakeguardian8188
@thelakeguardian8188 5 ай бұрын
@@dank_smirk2ndchannel200 As a fellow snake enthusiast, I thank you.
@dank_smirk2ndchannel200
@dank_smirk2ndchannel200 5 ай бұрын
@@thelakeguardian8188 Not a problem.
@bingonight1504
@bingonight1504 3 ай бұрын
I have one of my corn snakes shed sitting on top of her enclosure right now and this is a good idea :0
@shinkoryu14
@shinkoryu14 5 ай бұрын
Lol the Bonbonne is an ankylosaurus. A very janky one, in keeping with the other dinosaurs, but it IS a real dino. Still very fun to learn that some of D&D's most classic monsters got their start as super cheap, janky plastic amalgams passing as toys, thank you for teaching me this important fact about the game's history.
@eightcoins4401
@eightcoins4401 18 күн бұрын
They're not actually Dinosaurs. Its labelled that to avoid copyright infringement. They're all offbrand bootleg kaijus.
@westleyhurtgen4275
@westleyhurtgen4275 5 ай бұрын
"it ran a little long" not even 10 minutes. The history lesson at the beginning was really interesting.
@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV
@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV 5 ай бұрын
Runesmith: Sees a figure of one of the most dangerous herbivorous Dinosaurs ever. Runesmith: Hmm.... Pathetic. Yes.
@mystery1020
@mystery1020 5 ай бұрын
I honestly love what you came up with the Greamers. I wanna try to fit them into my game now
@bingonight1504
@bingonight1504 3 ай бұрын
Especially the dump truck part
@Vrikrar
@Vrikrar 5 ай бұрын
I HAD THAT PLASTIC RUST MONSTER as a kid, I loved that little thing. I don't know where or how I learned that it was a rust monster as a 6 year old in a rural canadian town, but at some point I did. I wonder if I still have it, I feel like I would have kept it in a box somewhere, now I have to go dig through some closets.
@uzziya6392
@uzziya6392 5 ай бұрын
The Geyserspine/Lavastack Lizard thing is someone's attempt to make a dimetrodon toy. They're more closely related to mammals modern lizards, but they did run like an iguana. They predate dinosaurs and the largest were apex predators as big and heavy as a rhino with a skull as large as a human's torso lined with large serrated teeth. They just also happened to look really funny running with their entire body undulating side-to-side like a big lizard. The spine was probably used to help regulate their body temperature and also maybe attracting mates.
@zoe_w_draws
@zoe_w_draws 5 ай бұрын
Came to the comments looking to see if anyone was talking about dimetrodon--not disappointed
@therizinosauruscheloniform2162
@therizinosauruscheloniform2162 5 ай бұрын
* The dimetradon/edaphosaurus (the one with the sail) is actually a synapsid and not a dinosaur at all, and more related to you and me than actual dinosaurs.
@idle_speculation
@idle_speculation 5 ай бұрын
Probably Dimetrodon, I don’t see edaphosaurids being made into toys anymore than caseids or captorhinids.
@maaderllin
@maaderllin 5 ай бұрын
Came here to say this
@t_hetty1758
@t_hetty1758 5 ай бұрын
Now I have the urge to get these toys but kitbashing and convert them up to make new monsters.
@alyxtheexorcist
@alyxtheexorcist 5 ай бұрын
OMG I’m a big Ultraman fan boy and after seeing some of my favorite pastime in a D&D video made me squeal with joy. Fun fact; I actually met the original suit actor for GOJIRA at G-fest.
@collins2509
@collins2509 5 ай бұрын
I always assumed the Purple Worm was a Dune ripoff.
@CrownofMischief
@CrownofMischief 5 ай бұрын
Could've been both, like they saw something that reminded them of the sandworms
@snake698
@snake698 5 ай бұрын
As a spanish speaker, I never thought Laputa would be pronounced different than how I pronounce. I'm sorry but the spanish pronunciation is unbeatable here
@gabrielpardo4229
@gabrielpardo4229 5 ай бұрын
"It's LaPuta!" "Damn bro, I know it's a monster but chill."
@isaacgraff8288
@isaacgraff8288 5 ай бұрын
The assimilator is such a fun concept. Eats things, then goes and regurgitates soldier bois to kill things to feed their Father Factory.
@ClockworkOuroborous
@ClockworkOuroborous 5 ай бұрын
Picking random stuff and using it to create new things for games is a lot of fun. I love filing 'filing the numbers off' and having something that the players are familiar with come as a complete surprise.
@luidprand
@luidprand 5 ай бұрын
I absolutely do this, except I use random Wikipedia articles. My favorite creation is the Great Depression, an obese Fey Lord that feeds on melancholy and runs a goth nightclub.
@Blandco
@Blandco 5 ай бұрын
I am going to do a video talking about the Toho monster that was the inspiration for the Owlbear toy! It's so great that all these monsters had humble origins.
@maromania7
@maromania7 5 ай бұрын
Always love hearing people talk about this, wonderful bit of history.
@voidtremor6329
@voidtremor6329 5 ай бұрын
The greamer is by far the coolest idea for a monster I’ve head in a long time. I love it!
@Bluecho4
@Bluecho4 4 ай бұрын
One thing to remember when appropriating dollar store toys for your games is that you aren't obligated to use them as-is. You can chop off pieces of one toy and glue them to another. Maybe soak some toilet paper in watered down PVA glue (also found at the dollar store) for use as little robes. So you turn it into some kind of monster wizard or druid.
@spoonyluv19
@spoonyluv19 5 ай бұрын
star assimilator sounds pretty dope. I got a bit of inspiration from your army of dead video & pokemon where monsters that don't need to breath can be stored in extra dimensional boxes that look like old school cigarette cases.
@briangoss8062
@briangoss8062 5 ай бұрын
I know some people call it a bullet but in one of the EARLY Monster Manuals it has a pronunciation guide in its description and they literally say to pronounce it boo-lay!
@martabachynsky8545
@martabachynsky8545 5 ай бұрын
I've always pronounced it "boo LET leh" I'm going to have to look at my old Monster Manual. ( I just love those illustrations in that book!).
@videogollumer
@videogollumer 5 ай бұрын
Terry Kuntz was a friend of the Gygax family since teenhood. He and his brother, Robert, became regular members of Gary and Dave's play group along with Gary's son, Ernie.
@Coryn02
@Coryn02 Ай бұрын
That Wandering Village clip made me so happy to see.
@FluffyTheGryphon
@FluffyTheGryphon 5 ай бұрын
Greamers are now my spirit animal. I'm kinda sad that you'll never talk about these monsters ever again.
@camblycreeper7999
@camblycreeper7999 5 ай бұрын
Would have loved some stat blocks for them, as well
@fighting.words.ma.library
@fighting.words.ma.library 5 ай бұрын
Oh wow, I absolutely had those plastic toys!
@nicholaspokorny5058
@nicholaspokorny5058 4 ай бұрын
I once bought a pack of cheap dinosaurs from a dollar store. I needed them cause I was making a cookie recipie that said to use toy dinos to make footprints. My DnD group uses them as placeholders for various animals, like giant eagles and panthers.
@KamiKyojin
@KamiKyojin 5 ай бұрын
That was bizarre as all hell - we had that set of dinos when I was a kid! Never made the connection to the bulette before, but this was cooler than I'd ever thought. Thanks!
@Machamp-ps7wx
@Machamp-ps7wx 5 ай бұрын
In the first session of a D&D campaign I was running for work friends, I had a bunch of rust monsters attacking the party and because I had a token of the same enemy logos except this one had a crown unlike the others that were just horned skulls, I decided to make one rust monster the “King Rust monster” and described it as golden with three pronged horned on its head forming a crown and I gave it the ability to cast lightening bolt from the crown, and gave it a health increase. I made the choice on the fly but figured if I couldn’t back and prep more I’d have given it the ability to regain health when it eats metal. Would love more ideas though.
@owenslaughter9438
@owenslaughter9438 3 ай бұрын
Hey, So, this was like one of your best videos ever. I would love for this to be a regular thing on the channel. Cheers man and thank you for making videos that always put a smile on my face and make me feel a little better.
@DexSaveDan
@DexSaveDan 5 ай бұрын
Well, The Greamers. Who knew I needed these in our game?
@safebox36
@safebox36 2 ай бұрын
On a related note, I love / hate that the paladin (in both name and class attributes) comes from a mid-20th century French isekai novel about someone getting teleported from WW2 Germany to a fantasy world. Also one of the first high fantasy novels as the "magic" in the universe is just nuclear physics, which the protagonist then brings back to the real world and flees to the US to help start up the Manhattan Project. Medieval France did have paladin knights, but that title just meant they worked for the monarch and didn't really do anything different from regular knights. So they're closer to DnD's Fighter or Ranger than DnD's Paladin.
@jacksondouglas2110
@jacksondouglas2110 5 ай бұрын
My first bbeg that has transcended past one shot's and is now in at least 3 different campaigns started as a failed 3d printed mindflayer. The guy who made it stuck a chaos helmet on it. With the 3d stuff still clinging to it I told him to leave it as is and paint over it with black and purple. The Archon of Tharizdun was born and this guy has surpassed all of my hopes.
@Kroeghe
@Kroeghe 5 ай бұрын
I like that you picked the one with a big pink hole in the middle and called it an "ass-emulator". It's exactly that kind of creativity that I'm looking for on youtube
@JAY-gl5xd
@JAY-gl5xd 5 ай бұрын
Thanks. Now I have to create a stat block for a rubber chicken golem, for my campaign. The hard part will be answering, "why?"
@JAY-gl5xd
@JAY-gl5xd 5 ай бұрын
After scrolling through the comment section, I have decided they will be compatible to synthetic, unlicensed chocobo, and are basically drone delivery bots.
@griffinoliver693
@griffinoliver693 5 ай бұрын
Liked the turtle dragon video too
@marcusaaronliaogo9158
@marcusaaronliaogo9158 5 ай бұрын
We need more monsters based on bootleg dinosaur toys
@christosgiannopoulos828
@christosgiannopoulos828 5 ай бұрын
Oh man I used to have a crapton of those as a kid. Like entire boxes full of them. I may still have a few, but most are lost. And yes, I too use to make up stories about what they were
@M_Alexander
@M_Alexander 5 ай бұрын
That "iguana spinosaurus thing" is a dimetrodon and is more closely related to us than it is to dinosaurs. It's from a group of what's been called "mammal-like reptiles" and was an early synapsid (dinosaurs and other archosaurs are diapsids). So it might not be our direct ancestor (but maybe it is, who knows?) but it's closely related to the ancestors of early mammals
@JaredHight-g4e
@JaredHight-g4e 5 ай бұрын
I’ve always wanted a rust monster as a pet, but I know no party would let me have one unless it was only Druids and monks. Even the serious version in 5e and 3.5 still looks durpy and cuddleable
@yungo1rst
@yungo1rst 5 ай бұрын
Geyser Spine is my favourite of these new creatures. it reminds me of Dodogama, just chilling in lakes until adventurers try to evict it for killing the lake fauna.
@arm279145
@arm279145 5 ай бұрын
The lava stack monster should be called the Bloatspew. It consumes copious amounts of water from the swamps it lives in to lower its natural buoyancy so that it doesn’t float all the way and stands on two legs on the bottom of the swamp the way gators do in the winter. The sail on its back is so large because it sticks up out of the water and absorbs sunlight which heats the water it drinks to near boiling. As it rests in its weird position, it opens its mouth like a snapping turtle, and uses the heated water in its mouth to attract mosquitoes, looking for warm water to lay eggs in, which attract birds, which it eats either by lunging at one that gets into its mouth, or by squirting it with boiling water from its stomach and plucking the now-drenched bird from the water. If you threaten it, it rises to the surface, taking in extra sunlight, and inflates its turkey gizzard neck with water, as a threat display and as a way of looking bigger. Further provocation and it attacks with the boiling water, doing damage the same way a dragon turtle’s breath weapon works.
@MJ-zl3vo
@MJ-zl3vo Ай бұрын
Funnily enough. The "Thembler" is what I call my NB friend.
@Groovebot3k
@Groovebot3k 5 ай бұрын
I am always down for more monster lore and ideas presented in an infotaining way.
@עומרשרייבר-ל4ר
@עומרשרייבר-ל4ר 5 ай бұрын
Well that was pretty intreasting.
@R2-DPOO
@R2-DPOO 5 ай бұрын
FUN FACT: the purple worm is inspired by the dune collectible popcorn box. Gary Gygax is a huge Timmy fan
@Trivial_Whim
@Trivial_Whim 5 ай бұрын
I got a bunch of my dad's toys from when he was a child because my grandmother kept them and I literally had that exact orange and red feather covered pterodactyl thing. There was a bullette as well, but it was a different color. I think I had what became the purple worm too, it was a yellow sort of cone thing made of four slightly smaller in sequence empty spheres with a few tooth looking flaps around an opening at the big end. Like one of those dog toys, except about the size a kid's thumb (don't remember the specific size, do remember 'wearing' it as a fake claw but not fitting all the way, like I had an extra knuckle or something). Despite the shape it was really soft and flexible plastic. No idea where they are now, moved three times since back then. Can't say anything about the rest. Never saw one that looked anything like them. Edit: Phone typing errors needed correction.
@metaltornado3457
@metaltornado3457 5 ай бұрын
4:29 As a kid, I owned a white and green version of that pteranodon/phoenix thing in the back. I used to pretend it was a Pokémon. Don't know where my parents got it.
@darinholm8795
@darinholm8795 5 ай бұрын
I had one of those rust monster toys as a kid and remember being mindblown while reading the monster manual that it was in there. Thought I had some licensed D&D toy
@Edin_Bresha
@Edin_Bresha 5 ай бұрын
This was awesome and I hope you do more videos making monsters with this gimmick.
@SetaRotta
@SetaRotta 5 ай бұрын
I think that's a pretty medium sized creamer
@engine0991
@engine0991 5 ай бұрын
Love this! Definitely had the rust monster and bulette toys as a kid
@tylerkahle332
@tylerkahle332 5 ай бұрын
Woah, hey, this is awesome! Thank you for this. I loves this
@Cousin_Uli
@Cousin_Uli 5 ай бұрын
For the Ultraman Connections some safe bets would be The Umber Hulk might be based on Antlar. Carrion Crawler looks like it COULD be based on Twintail with a bit of artistic license. Bulette is almost assuredly Telesdon made using a weird mold that squashes him down to the dimensions of one of the "baragon" kaiju.
@fumarc4501
@fumarc4501 5 ай бұрын
I love the Darkmakers from Jak 3. Great antagonists and even cooler designs. Metalheads and Lurkers as well.
@sartanawillpay7977
@sartanawillpay7977 5 ай бұрын
I never wanted that set when I was a kid because I recognized they weren't real dinosaurs.
@newyorkny5023
@newyorkny5023 5 ай бұрын
I used to have the original bulette toy. Came with a set of other dinosaurs and dragons back in the day. I wish I could find them again.
@cryptidliker5294
@cryptidliker5294 5 ай бұрын
Big Ultraman (or really just daikaiju in general) nerd here. I think I can identify a good chunk of those, starting off with the first one named in this video: the bulette. It’s Telesdon. The back spike is an easy giveaway. As for the owlbear, I can definitely see the kappa resemblance but as far as I’m aware, yokai and Japanese mythology in general didn’t become popular over here until at least the 90s. In all likelihood, that figure is probably of Gokinezura from Return of Ultraman. Sure, the owlbear doesn’t have as long a neck (if at all) as Gokinezura but I reckon they just made it a stump to save plastic. The umber hulk is maybe a bit more of a stretch given we don’t actually have any pictures of the figure it was based on but just looking at the 1e artwork, it’s most definitely a grossly-simplified version of Antlar. The exaggerated mandibles, flat overall head structure, hunched posture. It all matches up. And finally, the rust monster. This one is definitely the most complicated. For starters, while I don’t subscribe the Kemular comparison, I don’t find it TOO hard to see where it comes from. Sure, head-on, it’s easy to say it isn’t but the similarities become a lot clearer if you look at the rear view. The antennae could be a flanderized version of Kemular’s tail fork and its curved back plates could be re-interpreted into the rust monster’s rounded body. However, my verdict is honestly that it isn’t from Ultraman at all but rather one of the “dinosaurs” that toy packet would’ve also contained. Maybe, some sort of shrimp… thing? Sea scorpion? Yeah, I’m not sure on this one. Hope that helps!
@SkorpTS
@SkorpTS 2 ай бұрын
Today I learned that Runesmith doesn't know what an ankylosaur is, and I can't help but be disappointed. The dimetrodon, I can understand, but an ankylosaur?
@arborealblazer283
@arborealblazer283 5 ай бұрын
The Jak 3 reference is giving me /LIFE/
@commanderblackheart5856
@commanderblackheart5856 5 ай бұрын
The Star Assimilator is a really cool idea! I have to share this video with my group, and see what things we can come up with!
@aa-tx7th
@aa-tx7th 5 ай бұрын
5:57 ive never seen something as beautiful as that in my entire life
@CthulhusDream
@CthulhusDream 5 ай бұрын
I don't know if you'll get to it in this videoi (I paused to type this) but there are a LOT of our modern "famous monsters" taken from fan submitted creations in ye olde White Dwarf articles from Games Workshop, that were later "borrowed" for that first AD&D Fiend Folio with the gith on the cover. Edit: check out the Snipe and Wib video called "That One Time White Dwarf Published D&D Monsters - Codex Compliant" for more info.
@sordcooper2
@sordcooper2 5 ай бұрын
From what I understand the Umber Hulk was made by the brits in White Dwarf's Fiend Factory column back when Games Workshop (the warhammer guys) primarily made content for DnD. They endedup continuing to make the thing as a monster for Warhammer, and they still have an Umberhulk mini for their Necromunda game
@josephstone4842
@josephstone4842 5 ай бұрын
I would love more of these. A series of monster creations from obscure objects
@benjaminarnold6554
@benjaminarnold6554 5 ай бұрын
Ok, totally stealing the Greamer. I think you nailed the unsettling-ness of those uncomfortable rubber chicken toys and using them as almost like paychic shocker lizards feels correct.
@cubancavalier3051
@cubancavalier3051 5 ай бұрын
I have a couple OG monsters cast in lead from the old days. One of them looks exactly like that rust monster!
@ElderGoblinGames
@ElderGoblinGames 5 ай бұрын
If you ever want some weird random creatures, hobby stores usually have quite a few in their kids sections/ aquarium sections. Also see train sets.
@trenchcoatbandit
@trenchcoatbandit 5 ай бұрын
TINY GORDON RAMSEY! :D
@Insane-Howl-Cowl
@Insane-Howl-Cowl 5 ай бұрын
I could watch this kind of video all day!
@thegreatdreamer8377
@thegreatdreamer8377 5 ай бұрын
If you wanted a comparable haul, I'd recommend a dollar general, or equatable store
@safirasart
@safirasart 5 ай бұрын
I love your type of humor 😊
@AnEnemySpy456
@AnEnemySpy456 5 ай бұрын
That iguana Spinosaurus thing is called a Dimetrodon. It's in fact not a dinosaur at all, it predates the dinosaurs by millions of years and is actually an ancestor to mammals.
@inuendo6365
@inuendo6365 5 ай бұрын
Iguana spinosaurus, bro doesn't know what Dimetrodon is
@EnigmaticRPG
@EnigmaticRPG 5 ай бұрын
Greamers are canon now, I luv them
@OrKkTeKk
@OrKkTeKk 5 ай бұрын
Always a pleasure when your name hits my feed
@godzilla80192
@godzilla80192 5 ай бұрын
I am actually working on converting some final faction spider looking things into some d&d minis.
@asafoetidajones8181
@asafoetidajones8181 5 ай бұрын
They're great for kitbash and conversion. Reasonably priced toys, amazing. I've used the green vines attachment, the green wings, the purple.. walking dude. Plenty of value
@moxtordoki96
@moxtordoki96 4 ай бұрын
4:29 Holly shiet, i had that pterodactil looking one
@Cousin_Uli
@Cousin_Uli 5 ай бұрын
The Star Assimilator is similar in concept to the titular creature Zeiram from a series of movies and an anime ova. It's a hat shaped alien with a smug face that consumes and assimilates basically everything it encounters. It's "body" below the hat is basically just an amalgamation of meat and guns it's sucked up as it goes about it's interstellar rampaging. But it can also vomit out monstrous clones of whatever it's eaten prior. In the ova series it uses that to turn a major metropolitan city into a monster filled warzone in just a couple days.
@neonavaro25
@neonavaro25 5 ай бұрын
That was great. We should do more.
@andyv8624
@andyv8624 5 ай бұрын
I used to have that bag of Prehistoric Animals when I was a kid, once I saw a picture of a rust monster I knew immediately where they got the designs from
@wisepheonix2392
@wisepheonix2392 5 ай бұрын
Star Assimilator is probably the sickest name for anything that i have ever heard
@dieselsdungeons
@dieselsdungeons 5 ай бұрын
It's fantastic where you can find inspiration. I came up with a spell for an encounter based on a dumb video I saw online. FISH STORM
@All4Tanuki
@All4Tanuki 5 ай бұрын
Same! Except mine awaited the heroes on the beach of an island they were sailing to - Sand Guardian, Guardian Of The Sand. Poseidon trembled before him!
@AbsenceOfContrition
@AbsenceOfContrition 4 ай бұрын
Rune-ey has never heard of the Dimetrodon. That oddly makes me like him more.
@FirstLast-wk3kc
@FirstLast-wk3kc 5 ай бұрын
The last monster is amazing!
@legendaryg367
@legendaryg367 Ай бұрын
I love this video and will be using this method to come up with some homebrew monsters to scare my players.
@giladpellaeon1691
@giladpellaeon1691 5 ай бұрын
Used to work at a bookstore and saw an issue of a graphic design magazine with a cool robot/mech on the cover. I Photocopied that cover and used it as the description of a boos droid in a Star Wars: Saga Edition compaign.
@Brentegg
@Brentegg 5 ай бұрын
Personal fact, my family had the toy the rust monster was based on. I never knew that until i was an adult
@johnnyace581
@johnnyace581 15 күн бұрын
I’m laughing about the part about the Greamer where you said “thick asses and no arms” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@lukeedwards6027
@lukeedwards6027 5 ай бұрын
Who hasn’t daydreamed of crazy creatures after a dime bag?
@6bambolbi6
@6bambolbi6 5 ай бұрын
7:05 This was definitely supposed to be an Ankylosaurus
@ZombieInvader
@ZombieInvader 5 ай бұрын
7:48 I’m pretty sure Synthoid is what I take for my hypothyroidism lol
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