Volt Dungeons and Dragons Monster Fiend Folio

[@LawrenceofCanadia]

Excellent. My AJ playlist grows to 579. Ive been falling asleep to it for so long now I think I could quite certain lore vids word for word.

[@chadstinson9886]

Lol I use his Dragon magazine stories to fall asleep.

[@AJPickett]

@@chadstinson9886 I am the Bob Ross of D&D

[@chadstinson9886]

@@AJPickett now we just got to get you that hair of his.

[@TheHornedKing]

Cute, fluffy, electric leeches.

[@cadenceclearwater4340]

3:20 The Assassin's Tampon

[@tully667]

I like the image of them like a Remora fish or Suckerfish that attaches itself to a larger electrical generating host! More love for the weird Fiend Folio!

[@AJPickett]

Like the... Umpleby!

[@zacharyweaver276]

3:28 this makes me think a setting with electrical equipment could attract these guys like sharks who attack boat engines or electrical cables. Could be fun for a modern campaign where electricians are dealing with these creatures swarming telephone wires or power stations or you get a plot with a gnome building some whacky power generator and volts are swarming out of the hillside because of the electrical signal

[@ObsidianAmeth]

I dont know why, but monsters related to nervous systems are so rare. We have bunch of blood, flesh and bone monsters but only a handful of nervous monster.

[@chadlynch1551]

There's a joke about 9 volt batteries in here somewhere, but I'm too tired to find it. Psionic volts would be perfect for a Dark Sun campaign. Thanks for all the lore.

[@tomkerruish2982]

Benjamin Franklin called his assortment of Leyden jars a "battery" because he thought it resembled an array of armaments. Perhaps a nine volt battery could be an attack squad. Thinking on it, "battery" would be a fitting collective noun for volts, much as "murder" for crows and "unkindness" for ravens.

[@lanterns_glow]

Aw hes adorable! "hes a parasite" Ill take one.

[@nickh3205]

I could definitely see these creatures hanging out near blue dragons for the natural lightning the dragon exudes from its breath and regional effects

[@AJPickett]

Very frisky Volts in Luxury accommodation.

[@aubreyackermann8432]

Would the dragon consider the volts pests, pets, or guards?

[@zacharyweaver276]

@@aubreyackermann8432 Depends on how creative the dragon is at using them

[@sciencescripture]

Like pilot fish and sharks.

[@AJPickett]

@@aubreyackermann8432 free alarm system.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

I just double-checked Pathfinder 1st edition. The Volt made it into that game system as well. I can’t find any way to use one as a Druid’s animal companion, but I think I may just have to homebrew an aberrant companion feat.

[@richardgilson4704]

"If not friend why friend shaped?" Would be the response of my daughter's bard/druid.

[@chadstinson9886]

Mike Rowe volt would be a great name for his child.

[@Se7enBeatleofDoom]

This is why adventurers should always bring bug spray.

[@jonsosebee1689]

Not why adventurers should spray bugs?

[@lysander9957]

"How could this fuzzy little guy possibly be-" -- Famous Last Words

[@zacharyweaver276]

These monsters sound like a great native creature for the elemental plane of air. Assuming there's a section where there's plenty of lightning storms and if they aren't native it can make a great quest when they start an infestation there because of one slipping through a portal left by a careless wizard and now the djinn are putting bounties on them for adventurers to slay

[@Ghostneedle1]

The image in the thumbnail and at 3:30 looks like a pair of sphere magnets covered in iron filings

[@DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH]

Bless the Mighty GlueStick

[@jamiemcdonough6548]

Maybe my favorite part was the explanation of these creatures needing to be struck by lightning within a short time of their birth. I get uncomfortable just being in a parking garage and looking straight down outside it from a high level. I don't know how I would handle having to seek out lightning on purpose.

[@efferzzreffe4903]

sweet/nasty floating DEATH TRIBBLES!!! 😮 I wanna pet it, but no,... think I'll give that a miss thanks,... oh go on then! 😄 ⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡🤯!!!!! unless you've already done one any chance of a vid explaining psionics? how to roll up & work a psionic using character, resolving psionic combat? from what I can gather it's more like having spell like abilities with more recent D&D so I'm thinking more along the lines of older D&D where you could "brain it out" with an illithid, know there used to be a table in an old DM Guide for it but never found the mechanics of how to work it ☹️ GREAT PRESENTATION!!! 👍 as always Mr A J Sir, keep it up! 👏👏👏 😁

[@Jimmy-p9n]

Hope you are enjoying the festive season Great Sage!!! Monkey Magic!!

[@cadenceclearwater4340]

Going _Deeply Nerdy_ always reminds me of the old _Right Said Fred_ song _Deeply Dippy._

[@Pyre]

One, oh no precious thing I *want* one. Two, I know a little of why I'm thinking this, because they were created around the same time and imaginations were...more phantasmagoric, then. But this little guy more than any other so far gives me Vampire Hunter D vibes. It VERY much fits the biology of some of that setting's weird beasties.

[@joelwidgins6329]

Possibly also shocks to raise the feed's cardio duress

[@derskalde4973]

Oh no, terrible variant idea, even before you suggested: an electrophage! A subspecies of Volt, that feeds on the electricity of your nerve signals. It attaches to a piece of uncovered or just lightly covered skin, and then bites. The Moment it bites, you immediately get numb and one round later you're paralized, due to the Volt absorbing almost all the electrical Impulses from your nerves (so you usually don't even feel the bite). Unless it's close to dying from Hunger, it usually only leaves the signals, that keep the victims vital functions, like Heartbeat and breathing, going, so the victim doesn't die, though it can cause shortness of breath. If a victim is awake, it feels similar to experiencing sleep paralysis. The bite wounds of such an electrophage Volt are particularly nasty, as it bites again and again, digging deep into the flesh, in an efford to make the victims nerves downright spark with signals to the brain about the damage, all of which the Volt absorbs. Some Volt may also introduce a panic attack in the victim in order to feast on the electric discharges of the nerves. The Volt detaches and leaves, once it's sated, causing most victims to immediately go into shock due to all the nerve signals returning at once, overloading the brain. If the victim survives the shock and potentially high blood loss, the wounds this subspecies of Volt leaves behind are deep, the raw flesh torn and shredded to the point of resembling minced meat, and therefore prone to infections, and take a long time to heal properly without the help of restorative magic, leaving behind terrible scars.

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in.

[@rikospostmodernlife]

As an electrical technician, I confirm that's how Volts look like

[@Thorn99855]

Lol. Of all the D&D creatures, this one feels the most like a feisty pokemon.

[@eyedee-10-teeerror29]

If they reach medium size do they become kilovolts, then megavolts at large and gigavolts at huge?

[@AJPickett]

I certainly hope so

[@ObsidianAmeth]

this certainly reminds me of the electric aliens from ben 10

[@westongarner-qo2ez]

23rd like!👍 Awesome video!🤘 Keep up the awesome work!🤘😎🤘

[@shakescan]

Lots of electric beasties lol, they should team up!

[@Reddotzebra]

We should name the lead Volt in a swarm the Kilovolt, since it eats the energy of all comers.

[@AJPickett]

agreed

[@tomkerruish2982]

I'm just going to throw this out that a lot of these weird creatures are a result of mass extinctions _not_ happening in the game world. There were lots of bizarre creatures hundreds of millions of years ago that we still puzzle over.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

It’s an interesting thought that they discharge as a form of communication. That could be very useful. I think I am going to keep the blood-sucking as part of their feeding. That prevents them growing out of control. That would make them something akin to a lightning leech. You even got around to what I was thinking towards the end of the video. I can already see a blue kobold chieftain setting up volt-feeders throughout his territory to protect it from the bigger people around it, like a primitive electrified fence of lightning-leeches. Imagine the horror of falling into a pit trap with a volt-feeder at the bottom of it or wandering down a passageway and seeing the lighting arcing ahead of you where dozens of volts are gathered around one. The kobolds, with half-blue ancestry, might be entirely immune to the volts, but you aren’t. My players are really going to start hating you, AJ. You keep giving me the ideas that fuel their nightmares.

[@chriscalvin5083]

Great video AJ

[@AJPickett]

Thanks Chris!

[@venkelos6996]

I know this sort of might not be how they normally work, but I personally like the idea of the shocking sting being able to stun, or otherwise incapacitate, a target, which could then allow the creature to close in, and suck their blood safely. I honestly sort of like the idea of some of these critters lingering in a blue dragon's lair, and either dealing with things that then never manage to approach the wyrm, or if I stick with their stunning ability, being able to fumble up an attacker's attempts to fight the dragon, who wouldn't mind then crushing whatever had the audacity to intrude? Maybe it would even detect their electrical "excitement", at the approach of prey, which would clue it in it might have company, aside from using its senses. I might make a note of that, as I tend to feel like a blue dragon might be more the type to keep such servants, and security, around, instead of just embracing every visitor, and having to fight.

[@zacharyweaver276]

Yeah the whole point of a dragon having minions and guard beasts in their lair is to deal with adventurers or soften them up before they reach it so they don't need to deal with every level one party that reaches them

[@tatsusama3192]

I had a funny thought of having an intelligence cap as to what attracts these creatures. Maybe one or two of the party members always get advantage against attacking them because the creatures can't sense their lower neural activity😂

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

wotc sure wanted to make it as hard as possible to look up their monsters outside of dnd huh? 😅 Fetch, tween, ragamuffin, volt, beholder, etc.

[@AKNeal81]

The bulk of the material in the first edition came from the British gaming magazine White Dwarf, rather than being authored by Gary Gygax, the game's co-creator. Readers and gamers had submitted creatures to the "Fiend Factory" department of the magazine, and the most highly regarded of those appearing in the first thirteen issues were selected to be in the publication.

[@lexington476]

So if there is a creature called The Volt in the finfolio, is there also creatures called the watt, the amp, and the ohm 😀? I can keep going but I'll cut the joke short here 😊.

[@AKNeal81]

As soon as you said they levitated and used their tail to move all I could see was the snake from the old animated Robin Hood movie 🦊🐍😂

[@mikeloeven]

All I could see is getting a tiny one as a familiar XD

[@AJPickett]

@@mikeloeven Patreon supporters get full stat blocks for Familiar and Animal Companion versions of the Volt.

[@tatsusama3192]

New record! In only 8 seconds it went from cute to nope😂 Ps. Uh oh. I live in Florida. We have the most amount of thunder/lightning storms out of any place on Earth. They'd love it here

[@AJPickett]

They would indeed. 😅

[@smotmot]

Perfect spelljammer creature and after reading about them from your last video, I immediately made a token and stat block for my players 😀 thanks ai!

[@cadenceclearwater4340]

aw ❤

[@vinsonli302]

if a Psionic variant of Volt becomes powerful enough, could it actually gain individuality?

[@AJPickett]

Sure.

[@vinsonli302]

@@AJPickett while i don't have any talent for storytelling myself, i think at least 1 person out there would enjoy having a sentient Psionic Volt in their DnD adventure.

[@windalfalatar333]

Can you lose experience levels from narcotic volts stealing your memories? Do restoration and greater restoration spells restore these levels and memories? How do restoration spells technically work - how does the magic technically work (i.e., in the same sense that the Dark Side of the Force is used to restrict someone's airways telekinetically)?

[@nbmoleminer5051]

👍

[@mosshivenetwork117]

LOL peak

[@HoistTheBlackFlag]

Engagement and interaction with creator to please the mathemagics that choses what gets seen or not.

[@The-Soul-Reverend]

1st comment!!! Yesss

[@LawrenceofCanadia]

NOOOOOOOOO you beat me 😢

[@AJPickett]

@@LawrenceofCanadia It would be hilarious if all the comments on this video were just on this one thread.

[@LawrenceofCanadia]

​@@AJPickettLets do this

[@kamilguzik3870]

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