Top 10 D&D 5e Monsters | Nerd Immersion

[@jtjames79]

Instead of using the Cloaker as an ambush predator, I like to play up its intelligence. Something like making them the secret master of a rogues guild. Sort of a Dread Pirate Roberts situation. Everybody thinks the cloak is a symbol of leadership, when it's the actual leader. Makes for a good low level reoccurring villain.

[@karpmageddon4155]

Cool idea! 🤓

[@theendicott2838]

*silently steals idea for the campaign I’m running* Interesting. Don’t know if I’d use it though.

[@jtjames79]

@@theendicott2838 you better not steal my idea of having it speak in a Godfather voice either. As you don the cloak it wispers in in your ear, while constricting around your neck "I'm here to make you an offer you can't refuse."

[@briguy_81]

Any chance of you doing a top 5 or 10 list of each monster type ie Aberrations, Fiend, etc...?

[@NerdImmersion]

Most definitely

[@deKahedron]

It's a shame then that there aren't even ten celestials...

[@KevinVideo]

The flumph is the paladin of monsters. They're fun. My personal favourites have to be the mind flayer (illithid), cloud giant, and iron golem. If I'm doing an intrigue game, gotta have that doppelganger.

[@karpmageddon4155]

I'd definitely expect xorn to be domesticated by dwarves or other similar mining creatures. They're too great of a boon to not do so. As for flumphs, to me they are what happens when a beholder has a good dream. Perhaps even an entire cloister is birthed per dream, as a cooperative group is the antithesis of a beholders usual self centered mindset.

[@themediocremaster2388]

Karpmageddon aaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnndddddddd I’m stealing that flumph idea haha

[@bleddynwolf8463]

like truffle pigs, but enslaving intelligent creatures

[@twilightgardenspresentatio6384]

That xorn finds a vein of electrum, it’s keeping it! And I don’t think they’re babies first, I think they come into existence fully formed like a car

[@NerdImmersion]

I think you're right, but a baby Xorn would be so cute!

[@Indomakio]

I had to DM a one shot for a couple of PC's so I randomly choose the scarecrow as the encounter and we all loved them!

[@Kugo]

hey it's me Ted coming at you with another 5AM top 10 video

[@keithmarshall4350]

Thanks for this. I'm definitely going to be using the scarecrow and the cloaker against players in an upcoming campaign I'm running.

[@Viking2Go]

So happy you brought my attention to the Flumph. Never heard of them. Will incorporate tons of them.. I love the idea of freaking my players out with them. The players will be super scared and suspicious of them. And smart players who realise what they are could use them as detect evil allies. Or an evil villian could abuse them for that.

[@Seergun]

Lol, love the tremor movies.

[@adamguenther190]

This video gave me three adventure ideas in a row! I’m definitely going through every monster in the dnd books again now

[@jaredprice4415]

Hear me out A B E R R A N T M I N D S O R C E R E R BUT F L U M P H

[@philswiftdestroyerofworlds1988]

I read that as Butt Flumph. I need more sleep lol.

[@NerdImmersion]

Sold

[@karpmageddon4155]

Yes!

[@karpmageddon4155]

@@philswiftdestroyerofworlds1988 Also, yes. 😝

[@lisagaughan7154]

@@MegaPokefan97 actually cannot speak yet has a big mouth

[@hectortoledo8938]

Flumphs are cool, specially when you have a wild magic Sorcerer that keeps summoning them by mistake and gets showered by these alien skunks lol

[@erichaws6788]

Much better series than the magic items. I use your videos as writing prompts for my campaign because, while I know all these monsters, having a good reminder of the lore behind some of these creatures and items helps the creative juices flow.

[@hambinger]

Love ghosts. I just attacked the party with a ghost and two displacer beasts, that they discovered were also possessed by ghosts.

[@deffdefying4803]

Yo, I heard you like monsters, so I put a monster inside this monster

[@btmeph]

"5am in the morning". You get a pass for that since you're clearly tired.

[@Ingothrial]

I mean he could have meant 5am in the afternoon.

[@maximillionchaoswolf]

a pass for what?

[@bleddynwolf8463]

@@Ingothrial what?

[@KrausHaus0]

Great video, I’d love one for the other books, maybe a top 10 (or perhaps 5) npcs from each book as well

[@rotheraisscott7315]

Could you possibly do a top minis from your collection on some way so we can see some of your collection a little better?

[@NerdImmersion]

Sure thing! Maybe I'll do a "tour" video

[@rotheraisscott7315]

@@NerdImmersion thanks man! I absolutely love your videos by the way 👍

[@69Naha]

When I use Bulette in combat. They have major plot armor. Their tunnels are completely hollow out for the party could go into the Underdark if they want

[@keithmarshall4350]

The Dead in Thay also has a reduce threat Remorhaz (CR7). It has about 1/2 the health of the adult one and only has +9 to hit with an attack and 15 DC saves (instead of 17 DC) for its grappling. I know you are only doing the Monster Manual for this one but I just noticed it on DnDBeyond.

[@fireknight4151]

Here are a list of some of my favorite monsters (non evil creatures included) 1. Duergar: I love their pyconic abilities, connection with devils and OI love dwarves in genral but even more the Duergar are sympathetic an dtragic in that they were tricked by the mind flayers and then cast out by their surface dwarf cousins because of how they (were overcome with greed) 2. Hobgoblins: I love how they are disciplined in their fighting and how they us strategy a lot. I also love their Old Japanese ascetic and how they use magic in warfare reminds me a lot of the Fire nation from Avatar. 3. Elemental: I love Avatar The Last Airbender. Enough said 4. Hags: These are classic evil witches. I love how they make twisted Bargains, Use Weird Like Magic, They make excellent BBEG and everything they do they just do it to inflect pain onto people. My favorite is the night hag with the Bher hag coming in a close second 5. Giants: A classic fantasy monster I love the variety of each of the giants, the lore of the ordaining and each giant is diffrent. Giants can make both great BBEG or powerful Brutes and that is rare 6. Oni: I just love how they can change shape, use magic, regenerate. A solid brute monster 7. Deep Gnomes: I love how in the perilous Underdark where almost evey creature is out to get you and the Drow and Duergar enslave every creature they can get their hands on there are gnomes that help each other are every passer by and who stay in the underdark to collect gems. 8. Lizardfolk: I love how they are neutral creatures that just do whatever to survive and their allien mindset where they don''t really experience emotions and only value things to help them survive. Intresting Alternative to orcss 9. Yuan Ti: I love yuan Ti for their lore of how they were once human but transform themselves into snakes for power and how they manipulate people and mind control powers. They also make excellent Cultist, Evil Advisor and theif guild villains. They are excellent alternatives to Drow not just for their abilities, lore and snakes but also how they don't have all that "Drizzt Edgelord Clone" Bagged attached

[@tiagocunha7258]

Please continue doing this top 10 monsters

[@dwreanchinotan]

26:00 Jerry: HELLO! unexpectables represent

[@quinnlee-newbury9003]

Had an encounter with a shambling mound. One of my players threw a lightning bolt at it after a couple rounds and healed it to nearly full XD

[@7to607]

Actually, in a curse of strahd campaign, my party convinced a ghost to inhabit Strahd instead, and it actually worked (We had worn down strahd quite a bit before this happened)

[@DeathDawns]

Can someone edit his "flumph" noise to the beginning of feel good inc

[@BramLastname]

I like weak and counterintuitive monsters, Because they make for great minions And "random" encounters.

[@RickJagger13]

Love monsters as a DM I love choosing what to throw at my party next

[@alecioffi3173]

Next video: top 10 artifacts

[@quinnlee-newbury9003]

With cloakers you could make a band of rival adventurers who have tamed cloakers. Imagine going to fight a bunch of people and they all throw off their leather cloaks, which then turn out to be creatures that also start to attack you

[@buckveazey3369]

Everybody loves those flumps

[@NerdImmersion]

What's not to love?

[@Castheknotted]

Sends in 4 flaming skulls. Everyone please make 4 dex saving throws.

[@MrNocturnalEmission]

I wonder if the flumph fighter you were talking about was the one that was made for The Unexpectables campaign, I think his name was Jerry. Yeah google "Jerry the Flumph", first result.

[@robineir]

Idea for a BBEG. Give the BBEG more AC than a cloaker, have him abuse and manipulate a Cloaker into being worn by the BBEG. So when your party fights him, they don't realize he has a meat shield. They can break the cloakers ac and not the BBEG's to give them false hope, and when it dies first that'll really emphasize to your players how evil they really are. That they would force a creature to take hits just so they can live longer.

[@Twosocks42]

Want to have fun with a ghost as a DM? Have it possess the party barbarian. >D

[@AllenLinnenJr]

There is no worse table to play at than one where the DM wants to entertain themselves.

[@Twosocks42]

@@AllenLinnenJr I believe everyone should have fun at the table. Possessing the Bard provided a scare to the group, but they overcame, which became a memorable moment for the group. ;)

[@spaztastic95]

I feel it's only bad if the DM wants to entertain themselves at the expense of the parties fun and entertainment. Otherwise you might as well just throw things like story and area/dungeon design out the window.

[@Bromid261]

what are your top 10 favorite underrated/unpopular monsters?

[@Armyhamsters]

Can someone help me understand this who immunity and healing thing? Trying to learn why he keeps mentioning that something can heal after being damaged with something it’s immune to.

[@NerdImmersion]

So for example, an Iron Golem has a Fire Absorption ability: Fire Absorption. Whenever the golem is subjected to fire damage, it takes no damage and instead regains a number of hit points equal to the fire damage dealt. The Shambling Mound has Lightning Absorption: Lightning Absorption. Whenever the shambling mound is subjected to lightning damage, it takes no damage and regains a number of hit points equal to the lightning damage dealt. So if an Iron Golem takes fire damage or a shaming mound takes lightning damage, they don't take the damage and heal from it instead.

[@Aplesedjr]

Personally, my favorite kind of monsters are dragons. Not any of them specifically, just as a whole. No other monster represents true power and might quite like the dragons do while not being simple “hit thing, eat thing” monsters. Aberrations are probably a close second, but everything else is pretty even in my book Ghosts definitely aren’t fun when you play a typically short lived race. Goblins only live like 60 years, so one or two shots of their aging ability and you’re dust.

[@AllenLinnenJr]

I get that Charisma is force of personality and all, and I understand the logic behind using charisma for the possession save, BUT then it fails the sanity check of why should a musician be able to resist possession better than a cleric or a wizard. Why would a minstrel have more mental discipline than a scholar? It defies logic that a charming (high cha) albeit brainless (low int) and gullible (low wis) character would be better able to resist mind control. Or more simply put: Why would Zoolander be better at resisting possession than Dr. Strange or Constantine? Will someone please change my mind?

[@Kingdomkey123678]

Allen Linnen, Jr. It’s arguable that Dr. Strange and Constantine have high charisma as well. Force of personality is more than just being charming, good leaders also have high charisma as well. Simply put if people stop and listen when ever you open your mouth in a serious situation. Your charisma score is over 13.

[@AllenLinnenJr]

@@Kingdomkey123678 I reckon. Dr. Strange was the sorcerer supreme and all...

[@wedlock94]

It's not taking over someone by attacking the person's mind so int does nothing. It possesses someone by forcing their spirit out of the drivers seat. I usually see wisdom as willpower so for me, that would work too but generally charisma is about the persons will and spirit to push through.

[@deffdefying4803]

Because charming people know charming people. Takes one to know one. If a ghost tried to influence their actions, they’d pick up on it immediately, because they’ve likely tried the same thing before, or at least seen it happen within their social circle. Albeit not through outright possession, but certainly outside influence.

[@TheBeelzboss]

Obviously if it's 5am, it's the morning...

[@general.catallion_8054]

I had used a shambling mound in curse of strahd cause my brother immediately attacked it after it was identified as a shambling mound, and in the initiative roll the paladin companion went first and did a huge smite... Then my brother who was a wizard used witch bolt, and got a nat 20... They totally wrecked it 2 turns later but i thought they were done for cause it was just a paladin, wizard and a animated broom that i gave them after i accidentally killed them with it, so yeah... I may or may not be a competent dm😿

[@TerrariaGolem]

New video? I lo- *gibbers incoherently*

[@xornxenophon3652]

Cool selection! I missed many of those (like the FlameSkull or the Formian). I hate the Flumph, though...

[@twilightgardenspresentatio6384]

Oh, that Flying Spaghetti Monster. Advanced religion philosophy and mathematics, huh. They feed off of psychic energies. Nice fit.

[@Answerisequal42]

Not an insult but: What are doing with your life when you get up at 5 a.m. just to make videos for a bunch of us nerds? Seriously, you make great content and have great amount of discipline. Cudos to you that you manage to get up this early just to make content for us.

[@uhtredofbebbanburg5748]

Maybe it's the only time he has to record videos idk, maybe he has a long commute so he has to leave this house really early and only comes back late, and he prefers to spend time with his family in the evening instead of recording videos

[@NerdImmersion]

@@uhtredofbebbanburg5748 it's a little of both. Usually I like to record at night but I fell asleep putting my son to bed last night. And since it's Tuesday, I needed to make sure I got the video out. I managed to wake up early, record and edit before he woke up for the day.

[@NerdImmersion]

The improved awareness of my channel, the views and the comments and support from you all are what motivates me to make sure I keep putting out consistent content

[@BramLastname]

@@NerdImmersion it is appreciated, But you did look like a mess. Tho I did spark some new ideas.

[@backcountry164]

"Pronounced boo-lay"... The art is great in the 5e MM but you have to go back to earlier editions for detailed descriptions for most of the monsters.

[@NerdImmersion]

It's not anymore. DnD Beyond actually has a pronunciation guide for monsters. You can click the little speaker button next to it and it clearly states: Bull-ette

[@k-sanend6474]

love the vid but not to be rude but that shirt looks like u just come from a construction site

[@NerdImmersion]

Not rude at all. I literally was doing renovations all morning and passed out in that shirt, woke up and filmed the video as fast as I could

[@Bad_Moon_Rising]

That shirt needs some cleaning lol

[@NerdImmersion]

Yes, yes it does.