Tween - Dungeons and Dragons lore - Fiend Folio

[@seansteele6532]

The scariest dnd monster, children aged between 10 and 13.

[@kindsadism4400]

Sir, a Tween is just a yarn-ball of insecurities and puberty...

[@AKNeal81]

I mean, you're not wrong 😅

[@abiggs4828]

Wonderful concept. Terrible name

[@AKNeal81]

Feeds on probability. Now you know you're in DnD lore!

[@zacharyweaver276]

11:18 this sounds especially fun for someone in a casino

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

That song was really good. Also, excellent lecture beforehand, as usual.

[@derekstein6193]

Neutral evil creatures are probably the most dangerous evil, since they don't feel bound by rules, traditions, or laws (like lawful evil), but they are also not as impulsive or short-sighted as chaotic evil.

[@AJPickett]

Exactly so!

[@downtostandup]

This video alone just got three FBI agents to take up D&D.

[@AKNeal81]

@@downtostandup + an undisclosed number of CIA agents 🕵‍♂️

[@leandersearle5094]

@@AKNeal81 Yeah, but we'll never be able to confirm or deny that.

[@lucasblaise11]

Certainly a gang of Tweens is terrifying... They're immature enough to just make fun of you for no reason, But old and aware enough to mock you in an accurate way 😔

[@Vandelberger]

Lmao that song in the end

[@abiggs4828]

A Tween bonded to a cleric of Beshaba is a self perpetuating bad luck sphere…and one self loathing cleric. This is BEAUTIFUL synergy…now I want to see this

[@pelijer]

This is next level. Your ability to casually state mind-bending concepts is one of my favorite things about this channel

[@AJPickett]

Thank you sir!

[@benthomason3307]

I'm just gonna assume these things predate the modern usage of the word "tween"

[@AJPickett]

correct

[@Adam_First]

Great video

[@chriscalvin5083]

great video AJ

[@AJPickett]

Thanks Chris

[@Comicnut64]

When I saw tween I thought of whiny brat little kid but this good haha

[@rezonpokemon3854]

I can imagine a Tween host and a clockwork soul sorceror getting along surprisingly well. Clockwork Sorceror basically rebalances their luck by negating that disadvantage is likely the only person that can be around them without their luck going into absolute shit.

[@HoistTheBlackFlag]

That is a legit bop at the end.

[@tychoknight]

OK I am digging the rap...

[@jasonmyersOU812]

AJ excellent work as always. I'm enjoying the rap at the ends. I find your depth of knowledge amazing and your ability to string concepts together to be truly inspired. I hope you are having a great week mate.

[@GuardianSage]

Have to agree with you on the rap, and the lore is top-notch, too.

[@AJPickett]

I appreciate that!

[@glorbojibbins2485]

I like this one, kinda like a little spirit guy that tags along. I can dig that, doesnt seem to bad.

[@Moose9490-ls9yr]

Hey AJ love the work ! I’ve been a big fan for years and am a forever DM . I was wondering would you do a video on the Dracolisk ? Would be cool to see it get a video , thanks again and adventure on !

[@AJPickett]

I can certainly do that, at the moment I am doing all of the creatures in the Original Fiend Folio (and loving it), so, a lot of vids to do!

[@lythnookwemin]

Well this just gave me inspirations. Thanks for uploading this.

[@ObsidianAmeth]

This brings back so many. one of my DM mispoke this monster name. DM: you spell appears to work but there seems to someone or something hiding. The party: we would like to do an check on the stone tablet that is guiding us. DM: Okay the party: rolls with proficiency and succeed. DM: you and the party sees that the tablet mentions a creature that could appear if the spell is done correctly. this particular monster are called twinks.... DM and the party : silence the party starts laughing

[@mbp1652]

Heck yeah!

[@FMoash]

That song had no right to slap so hard

[@anotheruser9224]

Meanwhile, I'm over here with a bad case of ROLLtergeists. I'm pretty certain that something is feeding on my luck, but not drawing it in. I'll play a whole session without rolling double digit number. My polterDICE are a scourge. Reminds me of Niven's Ringworld- the character Teela Brown has psychic luck. She is sent along on a mission as a good luck charm, only for the crew to learn that luck protects her, /but only her/.

[@AJPickett]

I really need to read that book!

[@Stothehighest]

​@@AJPickettDo it! Known Space is a staple of sci-fi for a reason.

[@joshuazane3210]

As far as I can tell, the first usage of "tween" as a description of age was from J.R.R. Tolkien, used to describe hobbits aged 20-33. Considering how much D&D borrows from Tolkien, I'm surprised that these are entirely unrelated to halflings.

[@AJPickett]

Well... no... now you mention it, the beings they are based on from Simak's novel were called Halflings!

[@joshuazane3210]

@AJPickett Ah! Good on you for finding a connection which I didn't... or didn't register. Scholarly collaboration ftw. 😉👍

[@lysander9957]

I do love a good pun.

[@RonaldLivingston-n2d]

Wow great history of RPG and Sci Fi, D&D ect ..❤ it thank you for all you do 😊

[@chadlynch1551]

I always wondered what happened to a tween if its host were to travel to the astral or outer planes. It's stuck in the border ethereal after all. A tween could kill your adventuring career, unless you never did anything other than solo adventures. An assassin with a bonded tween could be kind of scary. And if that failed you could always become a professional gambler. An evil wizard (or a desperate one) could purposely bond with a tween in order to improve his chances of accomplishing some important task, then when that's done phase to the border ethereal and kill his tween.

[@TheBagOfHolding]

The tween is also plotting against the wizard.

[@TheHornedKing]

They sure were a lot more interesting than their name would suggest.

[@mattnerdy7236]

Hey AJ, I remember the Tween being an odd monster but not that odd. Imagine if a Tween attached it self to a group of halflings with the lucky feat, lol. I think these days the Tween makes a great opportunity for roll playing. Thanks for the video you have a wonderful day!

[@AKNeal81]

@@mattnerdy7236 so THAT'S how Frodo and Sam made it all the way to Mordor!

[@mufasafalldown8401]

Me and my tween ruining everyone's time at the casino 😅

[@zacharyweaver276]

9:01 perfect monster for murderous attack on sight adventurers then

[@agsilverradio2225]

Immagine a litch, with a tween familar/sidekick. Togeather, they would cause "unfortunate acidents," for the litch to harvest souls from, while the tween gets protection and companionship from the litch.

[@DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH]

Bless the Mighty GlueStick

[@malcolmt7883]

Piercings in strange places and disturbing tattoos, so Tweens are the sort of people you meet at the Waffle-House at 3 AM

[@leandersearle5094]

The rap section kinda reminds me of Shinoda's segments from Linkin Park. Also: Very glad this landed back in my recommendations.

[@jarydf]

Love the luck mechanic. Thanks

[@zacharyweaver276]

10:40 Sounds similar to weeping angels who feed on potential energy

[@michaelcohen8259]

I once created a (1e version) bard who used his abilities to alienate rather than charm or attract people. (For instance, he would deliberately sing off-key.) He was Chaotic Neutral, shunning other people. He ended up finding himself bound with a Tween. This suited him fine, because his luck improved, and others wouldn't go near him because of the bad luck effect.

[@chadlynch1551]

Insult comic bard.

[@alexanderholland1603]

I need to know the name and who made that song at the end.

[@AJPickett]

Hi.

[@TheTBearington]

Wait where is the 5e conversion of the Pervert class?

[@AJPickett]

It's not even convertable, its basically a person in a leather gimp suit with different titles per level. I would have to invent the entire class, and I am NOT going to do that.

[@glorbojibbins2485]

​@@AJPickett LOL 😂

[@mrvampire7577]

I think these days they are referred to as CEOs

[@vampiresbadmoon5084]

Just paying my respects to Great Teller

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in.

[@AvromCrovax]

Ok let's see a tween takes a kobold and multiplies threw out the pack, and their ability pact tactics nullifies their disadvantage

[@lorekeeper685]

I will watch this later Tho reminds me of a creature from book of exalted deeds 3.5e that is a divine copy

[@GodDragonLich]

The Tween race reminds me of The Sontarans from Doctor Who

[@TheBagOfHolding]

would the improbability drives from the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy kill them or make them into tween titans if they eat them?

[@AJPickett]

Absolutely murder them, like being thrown into a KFC pressure cooker loaded with Abyssal chickens... sure, tastes funky, but it'll kill ya.

[@agsilverradio2225]

So, the deveet and tween are just prone to falling in with the wrong crowd?

[@agentchaos9332]

So..the theme songs are gonna be a regular addition to monster ecology videos from now on?

[@AJPickett]

Seem so, I really enjoy making them.

[@TheBagOfHolding]

Dont ask ai to make a picture of a tween without local install.

[@AJPickett]

I can navigate the entire video making process without problems, but I can't control the comment section.. lol. I knew what I was in for.

[@blairshort1098]

I think the rap artist picked up one of those.. there was an echo

[@SageofCancer]

Thank God this wasn’t about misdeeds at Candlekeep implicating the movers and shakers of magic. 🕯️ 🪄 💫

[@chickenmonger123]

9:20 Is that what happened in Annihilation?

[@shawnhowe7311]

So Crazy I would Postulate that PicARoon could figure out Howe to make it work as a companion..... I would also assume they prefer .. BleuCheezeMead

[@Lightzy1]

Lol i gotta try that pervert class hahaha

[@almitrahopkins1873]

Isn’t that Baxa illustration from Dark Sun? I never had the Fiend Folio MC, but that illustration looks familiar.

[@AJPickett]

Its certainly Tom Baxa art from 1992, Dark Sun was published 1991, so it may have been used twice, I don't know the specifics other than where I sourced the image, and that was the Monstrous Compenium (MC14) Fiend Folio Appendix (for 2nd edition AD&D).

[@almitrahopkins1873]

@ Yeah, my brain isn’t clicking on where I saw it before. I want to say it was after the 2nd campaign setting boxed set, so it might have been recycled from the MC14 rather than the other way around. That was just as the dark times were getting into full swing, you know? It’s probably going to torture me enough to dig them out of storage for another read, so that’s a plus. Dark Sun always was my favorite, but hardly anyone wanted to actually play it. The artwork was such a departure from Easley and Elmore that it made a huge impact in my memory.

[@AJPickett]

@@almitrahopkins1873 It's a gnarly setting, I'd rather play it than Eberron or Greyhawk to be honest.

[@Jimmy-p9n]

Careful!!!! Its called Tween

[@chadstinson9886]

You read all 25 back to back didn't you?

[@mikewaterfield3599]

Chaos plague? Abyssal plague?

[@agsilverradio2225]

Does the chaos plegue have anything to do with the slaadi?

[@AJPickett]

Well, they didn't help.

[@agsilverradio2225]

​But did they hinder? BTW, I was more talking about did it have anything to do with the slaadi's origins? ​@@AJPickett

[@brotherhoodz97]

There’s no way it’s called a tween

[@AKNeal81]

Just hit play ▶️ 🤪

[@brotherhoodz97]

@@AKNeal81 its so fucking over

[@CurrypkatRamonlab]

Teenagers are a type of fiends ??

[@alotosius]

Absolutely!

[@glorbojibbins2485]

God yes lol

[@jasonhopper2130]

A comment for the numbers brother

[@cadenceclearwater4340]

mmm 🤔

[@zacharyweaver276]

I've heard of these guys from Dungeon Dad but not the pervert class. Is that some subclass of bard?

[@AJPickett]

That was barely a character class, its just a sex pest in a leather gimp suit, why it was even published, I have no idea. funny though.

[@pvhep4036]

The Devete., Tween and Quom are great new additions to my knowledge of creatures and sf/fantasy. Not a fan of rap music though.

[@AJPickett]

Thats why its at the end of the video, thanks for the feedback!

[@pvhep4036]

@AJPickett whaha nice! Well thought. And thank you for the making of these videos. Lots of cool new thought material. I am curious what depictions of these creatures (and those you've made video's about already) matches your imagination the best or which one's you like the most, and the least haha. Cheers!

[@AJPickett]

@@pvhep4036 10:13 is the image I think best represents the appearance of a Tween on the material plane. There are VERY few images from other source, this video basically quadrupled the images of the Tween now in existence.

[@pvhep4036]

@@AJPickett Hey AJ, thanks. It is a stunning image indeed! The Tween are blessed with their quadrupleding of their image database, and all thanks to you!!

[@kamilguzik3870]

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[@galdalversgravekeeper5158]

Love the video, but man do I hate that time travel idea. it makes time travel pointless and boring to me. why bother when everything you change never actually matters to your timeline? 🤮

[@AJPickett]

Welcome to existential humility, where the more we learn about the multiverse, the less important we become in the grand scheme of things.