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The fun part is that the exchange could have gone much smoother if the party actually engaged in a proper discussion with Hellgore and he would have cleared the Paladin's wrong assumption about being slaves on board lol. But this turn of event is much funnier. No way Hellgore and his ship don't become a reccurring encounter!
Remind me of my old joke npc: Robo-Dwarf. A Dwarf by the name of Aldrin Silverhand who masqueraded as a 7ft plate mailed barbarian gang leader. Nobody had ever seen his face. He was covered from head to toe in silver. Underneath the armor was a construct suit that surrounded the Dwarf. He had an iron golem stat block, with a +7 to strength and 1d6 piercing damage to unarmed strikes because special gauntlets of ogre strength with spiked knuckles. Fun fight that nearly killed our Goliath Barbarian.
If you told me gnome barbarian I'd imagine a 2ft nothing ripped gnome with the voice of vin diesel that could intimidate his way out injury and death by yelling at it
Barbarians: "We need ship to go across land... We carry ship!" Gnome: "But... What if.. We added wheels?" Barbarians: ...? *5 minutes later* Barbarians: "All hail the new leader! Gnome guy!"
This is legit my gnomes back story om how he became betrothed to the barbarians daughter and then had to obtain a wyvern skull to fully prove my worth...and then a group of suitors who were angry kept stalking my group and ruined every chance of me obtaining a wyvern...long story short...my gnome is gone for 3 years in game and flys back into the village on a gold young dragon who I scolded like a dad and I adopted her...my gnome got married and began to turn his small tribe into a town...into a city..also his koda were adopted simce their is no gnome/orc race
I am one hundred percent using him in my next campaign. I literally just want to have an encounter where he kind of just smashes into a bar the players are at on his land boat. 😂
I had something similar to Hellgore; except it was a gnome so desperate to save his business that he turned his whole shop into a quadruped siege machine. This story, though? I like this, I'll definitely incorporate elements of that into my own campaign world.
The backstory was Hellgore was a gnome taken in by the barbarians during a raid. Having a natural tinkerer's eye, and (rolled nat 18 str) a good stout body, the boy took to barbarianism quite quickly and often would make contraptions to keep up with his barbarian brothers.
I think of the scene from Austin powers with Vern just slamming into Mike Myers head first... but then adding a bear hug around his knees, and just wrenching backwards to do a suplex with the paladin getting a face full of carpet.
I had a grave domain cleric. Xylorcetese. Or as his friends called him Dung. He had a pet beetle. Some of his best hits inculde: Sending a zombie frost giant king to the plane of fire for a "time out", healing the ranger from 0 to full with life transference while taking less than 1/4 damage doing so, and smacking a dragon in the face mid free fall after being teleported to another part of the world.
I’m not gonna use hellgore directly but this may have inspired the idea of gnome land pirates now. Not a barbarian crew of goliaths but just an entire crew of gnomes and maybe some halflings. Like badass Jawas
Reminds me of the off-hand references to a pirate who put wheels on his boat in the Castlevania Netflix series. This particular NPC would be fantastic for an Eberron campaign, since the clockwork armour and steam-powered land boat are a lot more feasible in that setting.
I have played all 3 Dark Souls games and I know that feeling of "Shit... there's a second phase" very well Almost feel bad for the players. Awesome antagonist idea!
This is actually really funny. Helgore is very similar to an NPC i made for my first 5e campaign; Vosk, crown-prince of Gol’data(capital of the Duergar empire in my homebrew). I might just reuse Vosk instead of adding in Helgore
Cetori Pyukumuku, the Lalafell pugilist: "Heh heh, that'll teach 'em to underestimate the smallfolk!" ^_^ Great story. I'm sure that the party eventually got their revenge for their humiliation.
When we started our game I the gm made sure everybody made their choice of a note to write when they died. So we started with a paladin, bard, necromancer, druid and a spell traveller me as a gm I had never heard of that, the class the person mentioned said if he had mana when dead he could go between worlds, that sounded too unreal for DnD on my end then I asked if their were Conditions and he said the condition to bring him back was half of the party's mana. Everybody agreed to it and made a Condition between us he had a world where everyone could train to their fullest and level up, the Condition where just that half their health and equipment were damaged, when we began our journey as players and gm clearing dungeons and having fun I had fun making it hard for them and they fun clearing it, spell traveller went to the other world numerous times between with and without them. Then it felt for me they used it as a storage for health and mana potions when I noticed it I felt I had made a stupid decision getting his class allowed into the game we played I as a gm made a plan over the next year, next week I made sure they had fun and the next three months, I made it impossible for the Spell traveller to use his storage world with only allowing him to go into it when in town, then I let him use it for nearly 9 months, then I said as the world of DnD the two worlds has merged together as 1 he literally said it was unfair I just said the mana threads of both worlds had merged because of the interactions, his mouth didn't say anything after that, then they began their fight with the last boss just as I was the gm I made it so hard they died and were sat in limbo but returned after a hundred years their equipment were badly damaged and the boss stood their as time never had moved and to their surprise they had died with the last swing of their attack and the boss last swing as he died and turned stiff with an immortal body of death. They were stunned and returned to their homes the end.
I will talk about my favorite character, York (spelt Yoq) played him in a 4E game called Revenge of the Giants, york was a stoic half orc barbarian who went to hell and back to save his party and in the end fought a primordial and won but at great cost, he lost a party member who was beyond saving even with a wish spell. Now for the part I am excited about, it has been 5 real years since I played York ( honorary stormcloak now) and a friend will be starting a 5E game in which I will be playing York's (clone? Construct? Warforged?) Daughter Sol ( York wished for a female child of himself, so him but as a baby that he could raise) and unknown to Sol she has a twin (not wished into being but built by a gnome and think T-800 style but physically 20 y.o.) named Hart (get it, York's heart and soul) who feels like her dad replaced her and has a huge hard on for killing Sol. I am excited to play her in the next few months.
MyLo 'conscript' hilariously. The emphasis is on the end of that word. ConSCRIPT. 'OOOOOH' also needed more enthusiasm. Constructive criticism over. What a cool NPC. That's the kind of character a group befriends just so they can meet them on campaign once again.
I feel like the basis originally for the creation of this guy was one of those episodes in a Viking show where they roll a boat up and over across a strip of land to get to another body of water. It's great though! :D
I've been calling historical "barbarians" land vikings for years. I'm glad this guy is so awesome that he lives up to that moniker. Also the lawful stupid paladin rears his ugly head again.
I see title... I hear intro.... All I can think is the song "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate" Cause it's a heave-ho! hi-ho! Coming down the plains Stealing wheat and barley and all the other grains And it's a ho-hey! hi-hey! Farmers bar your doors When you see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores Arr!
The DM must have gotten the idea for this from the LAWN vikings of disenchantment. Which is awesome. I need to make a Land/Lawn Viking. Im thinking a dwarf tinkerer though.
@@bravenponder7438 the Gnoll-Ruled nation of Huntach has a vaguely Greco-Roman inspiration and a slave-based economy. The Shadar-Kai in this case are a nomadic people banned from holding jobs other than mercenary or entertainment, and who worship the Raven Queen (who has not yet ascended to godhood, and runs a vast spy network to keep her people safe.) There’s a lot, but long story short, our earth in the distant future collapsed when magic was introduced and caused our electronics to fail. We then fell to an Ulitharid invasion. Eons later, humans have evolved into most of the other main races and the led world is long forgotten.
My party are about to catch the eye of Zmey the Serpent, a Dragonborn who's a lieutenant in the 'The Mark' crime ring. Zmey was once an adventurer who was captured by Yuan-ti with his companions and underwent the ritual of transformation, but something went awry and Zmey was the only one that survived while his friends either died or became Broodguards. So Zmey is a Yuan-ti Dragonborn, and his madness stems from the fact he lacks emotion and would do anything to feel that little bit of glee again... which right now only happens when he kills people... so he makes that process as long and painful as possible.
In one of my worlds, there's a "Great Desert" in the eastern end of the continent we'd nearly fleshed out... AND it was truly immense, so vast that during clan-wars, the dead were often scavenged for body fluids with which to make "desert wine" for moisture. It's only mildly alcoholic (depending on who's brewing the stuff) tastes horrible, but is better than the great amounts of very dry nothing otherwise in the wastelands... Quite a few clans actually sailed their carts rather than depend on beasts of burden. It allowed for travel both day and night, and they didn't have the extra mouths to feed and water (a precious advantage over anyone who did)... ...AND of course, there were a few bands of "pirates" to keep the Players on their toes. ;o)
Uhhh... don't remind me about desert crossings... My DM allowed the most grotesque thing I ever came up with and I regret doing it too... Our party had to cross this desert that was "so vast camels die halfway through" We couldn't fly, couldn't sail, I had no idea what the DM wanted us to do... when I remembered a troll cave with about 30 trolls in it. So we hired a bunch of guards and captured all 30 trolls. Now... I plan in phases, and I know our DM, so I anticipated fuckery. The PLAN was to use the trolls as a sort of convoy to carry supplies since their regeneration makes for great pack mules and with 30 of them pulling the carts and wagons would surely be enough troll power to make the 2-month track. month and a half in, everything was going fine, when a sandstorm hit... and destroyed all of our supplies. Party was screaming at me, about how this was all my fault. I proceeded to hack off the arm of a troll and toss it on the fire. once it was roasted, had our cleric cast purify food on it. ... we made it the rest of the way. There was a reason I made sure to capture all 30 trolls, I wanted to make sure we had an unlimited supply of food, and there was no possible way all 30 trolls would be limbless at one time. (Troll blood can be purified into water btw) Everyone agreed we never speak about the trip again. (sorry guys!)
@@kaijukojin4371 Got indoctrinated to the brewing of "desert wine" myself... It was an abomination... supposedly tasted like a fetid worcestershire with alcoholic overtones... Captured kobolds among other semi-humanoids in the region to feed them salt and hold them for about a day... and then follow them (once broken free) to a water or other moisture source. I've long allowed at least the ingenuity to build and sail a cart across the desert... but that's just me. I figure the average wind-speeds and coverage over ground, and go from there. ;o)
I've had an idea for awhile about a stunted orc or teifling that eventually gets a magic/clockwork armour and pretends to be a demon type giant. maybe even fake wings. I'm gonna do it now Definite. cheers.ta.
I applied a halfling barbarian once was it 18 strength, 16 dexterity, and 18 Constitution, 11 intelligence, 12 wisdom, 10 charisma the dice gods were on my side that day when I created that character I called him Arldo Sworz is what I called him describe him as a 3 ft tall Arnold Schwarzenegger
I'd love it if he just became a reoccurring antagonist.. not a big bad, but someone the PCs have to deal with... and most often ends up having to help him in some way or another.
But Hellgor's are equipped with Sheild rimmed hubcaps! and steam-powered steering! Just make sure the flixcombobulator doesn't go into the qualimorsal zone.
It is when it isn't a practical or a believable idea since we are not talking about magic, but a mechanical steam powered vehicle of some sort. The closest we came to something like this that was not restricted to tracks in our world is the giant steam-powered farm equipment.
In this case it was the suits hit points. This is kinda like the new mythic creatures of theros. Where the first time you bring them down activates a mythic form new power and full hp.
Hellgore's suit is non-magical, mechanical clockwork. The best way I can describe it is fly by wire, where everything is using his natural might to power the suit. It's well balanced, but I wanted to make it seem like normal armour if anyone casts detect magic on it.
@@craigtucker1290 LOL I'm just past 40, married, and have a 17-year-old son, so I'm pretty normal... I think? I guess this COVID thing is making everyone crazy since I decided I'm going to give this... whatever I'm doing... a try and see if I can make my own money... but... that's still something to see come to fruition. LOL. I'm still learning things as I go, so I'm not ready to quit yet. :-)
@@kaijukojin4371 The kink comment sounds like something a teenager would say. It isn't believable to have scantily clad women chained to the wall that are apparently free to leave at any time. It just doesn't make sense.
Surprise Checks? Excuse me? Plate Armor takes 5 minutes to doff in D&D, there is absolutely no way they should have been surprised by the Gnome after he took of his armor, because that would have taken a WHILE. Also, in one turn, the Gnome Barbarian slammed his head into the Paladin, picked them up, and then slammed them into the floor, making them drop their weapons?!?! I don't know what kind of BS rules that DM has, but they definitely made the party feel worthless for DARING to try to stop a group of bandits. They also don't seem to understand the "Rule of Cool" because he clearly was having them make several checks to try and get onto the boat. 1, an acrobatics check to get out of the stirrups, 2, an animal handling check to keep the horse controlled, and 3, another acrobatics check to get onto the land boat.
Since I ran the encounter and made the stat block for Hellgore, He created a quick release setting should the armour get damaged and he gets trapped in it.
@@kaijukojin4371 My apologies, it just really didn't seem like it happened that way based on how it was narrated as "Bit by bit the armor fell off" as Hellgore makes a speech.
@@jukesdtj656 No problem, There was a lot going on, I'm a bit of a new DM as well, but the idea is there's an emergency release mechanism if his armour is disabled. He's a boss fight, so I wanted to have that sort of "oh he's defeated" and the HP level goes back up... "Round 2" I've toyed around with the armour and included flame weapons that use lamp oil for a flamethrower attack and a few other nifty features.
@@kaijukojin4371 Oh that's cool. Sorry I didn't mean to berate you, I had just gotten back from home and I wasn't in the best of moods. I understand why you did that but I think them getting beaten up by the rest of the bandits before being presented to the boss was a bit much for right before a boss fight.
@@jukesdtj656 LOL the players did it to themselves. I had already keyed the ship and the amount of people in there. The IDEA was to follow the ship and investigate where it stops, and maby sneak in when people are asleep... The sheer crazyness of them deciding... "hey, lets galop in an open field where there is visibility for MILES and hope they don't see us coming. I already decided any defeats would just be captured, so unless a PC does something "REALLY" Stupid, only ego would be hurt if they instigated a fight... which they did.
OK I don't care that this video is 4 months old I am sharing my favorite NPC I made. I was early into dnd only have participated in about 4-5 sessions because my best friend was dm and wanted a different voice for some new NPCs and I was his best choice according to him. So he got me hooked then that campaign ended. I was invited to play as a player and gladly accepted. So I made a level five half-orc barbarian because I love being a unstoppable force. Then we never played because on member became a father and another left leaving only me and one other player. I decided that wasn't the end of my new character named Feng. He slowly gained a story that to this day grows. I then took the rains of being DM and decided to start from ground up new gods everything. I decided my players would effect everything. In my first campaign I made the party has been hired by the king of the dragon born kingdom to help expand his kingdom to a new continent where he has been struggling to gain for months. upon arrival they find a small city which has a bad goblin problem and five guards one of which is so wounded he can't fight for at least 6 days. After the 5th day another ship arrives with mass amount of guards, royal guards, and Feng. Feng then helps them out through the whole thing progressing with them. They eventually are contacted by the gods and Feng becomes a holy warrior. After they build about 6 new cities they find a city of half-orcs and learn of Feng's past. He used to be the son of the half-orc general in the half-ork kingdom but unlike his father he became a amazing blacksmith. Then the kingdom was wiped out for being impure by elves. After he fights for his home and is wounded he was sold into slavery. The human who bought him was a gladiator master who bought slaves to fight in the kingdom gladiator wars which prevented large wars (Half-orc kingdom didn't join in on it) Feng then forged his signature weapon to use in the arena his two handed great axe With in half-orc language "Pride" carved into the axe. He then fought for 6 years in the arenas but then it all changed when he fought for the humans against the dragon born kingdom. The dragon born king watched him fight and kill 7 dragon born with ease and offered to no longer wage war if he could have Feng. The humans agreed and Feng now fought for a new kingdom so he thought. The king eventually makes Feng his right hand man in future wars since shortly after he was traded the kingdoms went back to old ways of war. Feng led the armies of the dragon born to victory against the kingdom of the elves then was sent to help the party. He then realized the party came across what was left of the half-orc kingdom and all the armor and weapons he made so many years back for they tried to concur this land as well. Then the dragon born king dies of old age and his son who hates Feng since he is not dragon born takes over. Eventually the party find them making a decision to either fight for the new king or there friend Feng if they choose the king they kill Feng and the campaign ends. But if they choose the work with Feng they sail home and destroy a entire kingdom within a few days because the people love and respect Feng over their new king overthrowing him and following Feng. And there are a few different endings depending on their decisions but that is the story of my favorite NPC Feng who was supposed to be my first ever character I ever played but then becomes a king and in my next campaign I am throwing a twist at my players but I am just saying there is going to have to be a video about Feng for me to tell the rest. Sorry😂
A wooden sand crawler? Awesome! Mobile fortresses are always cool! Lets see given these are vikings Hows about we have a bard play a viking tune? After all YIRBEL LIVES! ua-cam.com/video/sLcrxhE_xQw/v-deo.html Seriously though don’t mess with hellgore!
...why were the girls tied up? why was it "better in here then out there"? does he do normal trades and monster slaughter? ya a rolling fortress can be so damn useful it's not even funny.
There are lots of ways to play. You can look up local game shops that usually host groups. You can check out a website called (D&D Beyond) which makes finding groups and building characters much easier.
Also, go to world anvil. I'm hosting my campaign there, and you can see many that are in session right now. Just simply ask around and I'm sure someone will be more than happy to help you.
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Ok, he's cool af. But making an enemy appear out of his armor AFTER taking him down to 0 Hp is cheap. It feels like the bad guys are the main characters and the party is just their to be the NPCs. How did the party respond to having their asses whopped?
They enjoyed the encounter. They only lost their pocket change in the end and made a vow to keep a lookout for him and to bring him to justice. The paladin has a healthy respect for him, but his pride was hurt and he will want a rematch. He agrees the second attack was a cheap shot, but He should have expected such trickery from a barbarian, even if he is a gnome. In the end, the party had a blast. Everyone still got some XP.
So the player characters beat the BIG BAD and the DM just cheated them out of their victory. I'd never use an overpowered broken piece of crap Villain who even after being beaten the DM just says No he wins anyways.
@@spademagna2672 That just makes it worse. Let the players have their win don't tease them by pretending you are going to let them have a cool ship if they win a hard challenge then take it away.
@@mikiiforpert6083 The players weren't going to try and get a cool ship, and the session wasn't in their favour. Most of the choices they made were not the brightest one, especially with the scenario I planned. Just to be clear, this wasn't a railroad encounter. This was a sort of one offside quest they went on. If they wanted to pursue the Vikings they could. Usually, they would follow something that big, stay out of sight, and wait till they camp. It's a strategy they've used countless times, so I had mapped out the boat and the encounter like it was fully manned and on it's way back from a haul. But our paladin got the wrong idea and charged in. Most of the party's rolls failed badly. Most of the paladin's intimidation checks boffed as well, it was just a bad night for the players in general with it. I was rather proud of the paladin's fighting. Hellgore is an honourable gnome, so he didn't use the dragon's breath. (there are 2 bellows filled with oil in his shoulders that shoots a flamethrower out of his hand.) One thing I did include is a "hastily constructed" feature with the armour since he's not a fully trained gnome, most of his gnome works have a 20% chance of failure and 10% of explosive failure per-use.
@@kaijukojin4371 The ideas weren't bad. The gm gave them a plot hook to stop the bandits the party tried but the dice were against them. As for getting the ship the gm dangled that in front of them by having the bandit leader challenge the paladin to a one on one fight saying that he would be in charge if he won. The player won solo against a boss the whole party was supposed to fight then the gm takes that away.
I would agree that the whole scenario is implausibly broken, even for D&D because apparently the gnome's armor wasn't magical, just clockwork, same with the land ship as far as I can tell. Neither the suit or land ship would be feasible or functional in our world so by default they shouldn't be in D&D without magical assistance. It just comes off as completely lacking verisimilitude of any kind, but it seems that isn't a priority or important with this group so much as having this kind of fun, which apparently they had. It's just that this "type" of game is not for everyone and some players demand more realism and believability in their games. D&D accommodates all types, even the absurdly ridiculous ones.
Seriously, are you going to use Hellgore the Brutal in your game? You should. We all should.
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Maybe if my party is being a bunch of murder hobos
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yes, Hellgore shall raid the inlands
If we did, there had best be a stat block for this guy as that was a very interesting story.
Ugh, he put wheels on his boat and called himself 'The Pirate of the Roads'...
LOL!
the big boss of the bandits turning out to be the gnome they thought was enslaved was a fun twist.
The fun part is that the exchange could have gone much smoother if the party actually engaged in a proper discussion with Hellgore and he would have cleared the Paladin's wrong assumption about being slaves on board lol.
But this turn of event is much funnier. No way Hellgore and his ship don't become a reccurring encounter!
I love the "tiny race in a suit" trope; the surprise factor alone when executed properly makes it entirely worth it!
For a little extra drama, try "massive race inside a tiny suit," like an Ogre that's in a suit that makes him goblin-sized.
@@timogul Ant-Man!
Always wanted to set up a faerie in a mecha suit that is the 'Knight of the Forests' or similar, with rocket fists, laser swords etc.
Remind me of my old joke npc: Robo-Dwarf. A Dwarf by the name of Aldrin Silverhand who masqueraded as a 7ft plate mailed barbarian gang leader. Nobody had ever seen his face. He was covered from head to toe in silver. Underneath the armor was a construct suit that surrounded the Dwarf. He had an iron golem stat block, with a +7 to strength and 1d6 piercing damage to unarmed strikes because special gauntlets of ogre strength with spiked knuckles. Fun fight that nearly killed our Goliath Barbarian.
A gnome barbarian? That's incredible, and hilarious. This guy sounds like a total beast though. Can't wait for part 2!
If you told me gnome barbarian I'd imagine a 2ft nothing ripped gnome with the voice of vin diesel that could intimidate his way out injury and death by yelling at it
Barbarians: "We need ship to go across land... We carry ship!"
Gnome: "But... What if.. We added wheels?"
Barbarians: ...?
*5 minutes later*
Barbarians: "All hail the new leader! Gnome guy!"
I like to scare the dickens out of my enemies by pulling up in a galleon that's we are sailing in a water elemental, it's a portable water source
This is legit my gnomes back story om how he became betrothed to the barbarians daughter and then had to obtain a wyvern skull to fully prove my worth...and then a group of suitors who were angry kept stalking my group and ruined every chance of me obtaining a wyvern...long story short...my gnome is gone for 3 years in game and flys back into the village on a gold young dragon who I scolded like a dad and I adopted her...my gnome got married and began to turn his small tribe into a town...into a city..also his koda were adopted simce their is no gnome/orc race
@@runzumarun4925 did you keep the adopted gold dragon?
Love the Barbarian , if you cant solve a problem with violence, you'r not hitting it hard enough
A Barbarian's Persuasion Check = his Initiative Roll!
The TF2 engineer both builds and fixes all his machines by hitting them with his wrench.
I am one hundred percent using him in my next campaign. I literally just want to have an encounter where he kind of just smashes into a bar the players are at on his land boat. 😂
I had something similar to Hellgore; except it was a gnome so desperate to save his business that he turned his whole shop into a quadruped siege machine.
This story, though? I like this, I'll definitely incorporate elements of that into my own campaign world.
The backstory was Hellgore was a gnome taken in by the barbarians during a raid. Having a natural tinkerer's eye, and (rolled nat 18 str) a good stout body, the boy took to barbarianism quite quickly and often would make contraptions to keep up with his barbarian brothers.
Just the image of a small chiseled gnome lifting up a paladin is just so funny
I think of the scene from Austin powers with Vern just slamming into Mike Myers head first... but then adding a bear hug around his knees, and just wrenching backwards to do a suplex with the paladin getting a face full of carpet.
That has to be, without a doubt, the most elaborate, well-written random encounter I've ever seen. Bravo to the author! Simply perfect!
I had a grave domain cleric. Xylorcetese. Or as his friends called him Dung. He had a pet beetle. Some of his best hits inculde: Sending a zombie frost giant king to the plane of fire for a "time out", healing the ranger from 0 to full with life transference while taking less than 1/4 damage doing so, and smacking a dragon in the face mid free fall after being teleported to another part of the world.
I’m not gonna use hellgore directly but this may have inspired the idea of gnome land pirates now. Not a barbarian crew of goliaths but just an entire crew of gnomes and maybe some halflings. Like badass Jawas
Love this idea but instead of gnomes I would use kobolds which in my opinion act more like Jawas then gnomes
Reminds me of the off-hand references to a pirate who put wheels on his boat in the Castlevania Netflix series.
This particular NPC would be fantastic for an Eberron campaign, since the clockwork armour and steam-powered land boat are a lot more feasible in that setting.
"I'm a Viking, it's what we do! We Kill, Drink, Fuck, and build boats!
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you and to hear the lamentation of their women! That is what’s best in life!
Ah, Conan the barbarian. You are a gentleman and a scholar.
You forgot about punching camels.
I hate suffering.
I love to see Hellgore animated! He's as glorious as he was when I thought of him. :-)
You're welcome :)
Having the barbarian leader be a tinker-type gnome barbarian was unexpected and very entertaining!
I have played all 3 Dark Souls games and I know that feeling of "Shit... there's a second phase" very well
Almost feel bad for the players. Awesome antagonist idea!
Me see the title: a what
LAND BOAT LAND BOAT LAND BOAT
This is actually really funny. Helgore is very similar to an NPC i made for my first 5e campaign; Vosk, crown-prince of Gol’data(capital of the Duergar empire in my homebrew). I might just reuse Vosk instead of adding in Helgore
Cetori Pyukumuku, the Lalafell pugilist: "Heh heh, that'll teach 'em to underestimate the smallfolk!" ^_^
Great story. I'm sure that the party eventually got their revenge for their humiliation.
My wizard PC has a grudge match with a slaver sorcerer. Every time she finds him, kicks his but he manages to escape.
I want to see this story continue this is gonna be funny as hell
A gnome barbarian in a mech suit! Pure genius.
A land battle you say?
BRING ME MY BOAT!
Calvary being there all confused like, why what is the point of this
I like this gnome viking. Reminds me of my viking ancestors.
I have an Elf, Sindarin “The Undying”, Sindarin “The Abysal touch”, Sindarin “The Slayer” as an NPC
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When we started our game I the gm made sure everybody made their choice of a note to write when they died. So we started with a paladin, bard, necromancer, druid and a spell traveller me as a gm I had never heard of that, the class the person mentioned said if he had mana when dead he could go between worlds, that sounded too unreal for DnD on my end then I asked if their were Conditions and he said the condition to bring him back was half of the party's mana. Everybody agreed to it and made a Condition between us he had a world where everyone could train to their fullest and level up, the Condition where just that half their health and equipment were damaged, when we began our journey as players and gm clearing dungeons and having fun I had fun making it hard for them and they fun clearing it, spell traveller went to the other world numerous times between with and without them. Then it felt for me they used it as a storage for health and mana potions when I noticed it I felt I had made a stupid decision getting his class allowed into the game we played I as a gm made a plan over the next year, next week I made sure they had fun and the next three months, I made it impossible for the Spell traveller to use his storage world with only allowing him to go into it when in town, then I let him use it for nearly 9 months, then I said as the world of DnD the two worlds has merged together as 1 he literally said it was unfair I just said the mana threads of both worlds had merged because of the interactions, his mouth didn't say anything after that, then they began their fight with the last boss just as I was the gm I made it so hard they died and were sat in limbo but returned after a hundred years their equipment were badly damaged and the boss stood their as time never had moved and to their surprise they had died with the last swing of their attack and the boss last swing as he died and turned stiff with an immortal body of death. They were stunned and returned to their homes the end.
We need more of this Land Viking! Just an excellent idea!
This just in Gnome bursts out of a man's chest and begin to suplex mouthy paladin.
Ragnar Lothbrok liked that
I will talk about my favorite character, York (spelt Yoq) played him in a 4E game called Revenge of the Giants, york was a stoic half orc barbarian who went to hell and back to save his party and in the end fought a primordial and won but at great cost, he lost a party member who was beyond saving even with a wish spell.
Now for the part I am excited about, it has been 5 real years since I played York ( honorary stormcloak now) and a friend will be starting a 5E game in which I will be playing York's (clone? Construct? Warforged?) Daughter Sol ( York wished for a female child of himself, so him but as a baby that he could raise) and unknown to Sol she has a twin (not wished into being but built by a gnome and think T-800 style but physically 20 y.o.) named Hart (get it, York's heart and soul) who feels like her dad replaced her and has a huge hard on for killing Sol.
I am excited to play her in the next few months.
Joe Abercrombie is amazing! I love the blade itself and the trilogy that follows. Its a realistic testament to fantasy and realism.
MyLo 'conscript' hilariously. The emphasis is on the end of that word. ConSCRIPT.
'OOOOOH' also needed more enthusiasm. Constructive criticism over.
What a cool NPC. That's the kind of character a group befriends just so they can meet them on campaign once again.
Wow, an idea for an Armorer Artificer that isn't an Iron Man retread. Love it
I feel like the basis originally for the creation of this guy was one of those episodes in a Viking show where they roll a boat up and over across a strip of land to get to another body of water. It's great though! :D
I can't be the only one thrown off by the term "land viking"
I've been calling historical "barbarians" land vikings for years. I'm glad this guy is so awesome that he lives up to that moniker.
Also the lawful stupid paladin rears his ugly head again.
**Norse chanting intensifies**
I see title... I hear intro....
All I can think is the song "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate"
Cause it's a heave-ho! hi-ho!
Coming down the plains
Stealing wheat and barley and all the other grains
And it's a ho-hey! hi-hey!
Farmers bar your doors
When you see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores
Arr!
The DM must have gotten the idea for this from the LAWN vikings of disenchantment. Which is awesome. I need to make a Land/Lawn Viking. Im thinking a dwarf tinkerer though.
Another awesome and funny video
The blade itself is a bloody awesome book
Hilarious Story,
Reminds me of the halfling who founded the greatest adventure guild in the world in my campaign
I would replace the wheels with oar-legs, and GLADLY run him, with a crew of Shadar’Kai (or gnolls on a trireme. My campaign setting is weird)
Can I get an explanation? Gnolls on a Greek ship in a world with Shadar-Kai is too awesome to pass up.
@@bravenponder7438 the Gnoll-Ruled nation of Huntach has a vaguely Greco-Roman inspiration and a slave-based economy. The Shadar-Kai in this case are a nomadic people banned from holding jobs other than mercenary or entertainment, and who worship the Raven Queen (who has not yet ascended to godhood, and runs a vast spy network to keep her people safe.)
There’s a lot, but long story short, our earth in the distant future collapsed when magic was introduced and caused our electronics to fail. We then fell to an Ulitharid invasion. Eons later, humans have evolved into most of the other main races and the led world is long forgotten.
My party are about to catch the eye of Zmey the Serpent, a Dragonborn who's a lieutenant in the 'The Mark' crime ring. Zmey was once an adventurer who was captured by Yuan-ti with his companions and underwent the ritual of transformation, but something went awry and Zmey was the only one that survived while his friends either died or became Broodguards. So Zmey is a Yuan-ti Dragonborn, and his madness stems from the fact he lacks emotion and would do anything to feel that little bit of glee again... which right now only happens when he kills people... so he makes that process as long and painful as possible.
In one of my worlds, there's a "Great Desert" in the eastern end of the continent we'd nearly fleshed out... AND it was truly immense, so vast that during clan-wars, the dead were often scavenged for body fluids with which to make "desert wine" for moisture. It's only mildly alcoholic (depending on who's brewing the stuff) tastes horrible, but is better than the great amounts of very dry nothing otherwise in the wastelands...
Quite a few clans actually sailed their carts rather than depend on beasts of burden. It allowed for travel both day and night, and they didn't have the extra mouths to feed and water (a precious advantage over anyone who did)...
...AND of course, there were a few bands of "pirates" to keep the Players on their toes. ;o)
Uhhh... don't remind me about desert crossings... My DM allowed the most grotesque thing I ever came up with and I regret doing it too...
Our party had to cross this desert that was "so vast camels die halfway through"
We couldn't fly, couldn't sail, I had no idea what the DM wanted us to do... when I remembered a troll cave with about 30 trolls in it.
So we hired a bunch of guards and captured all 30 trolls.
Now... I plan in phases, and I know our DM, so I anticipated fuckery.
The PLAN was to use the trolls as a sort of convoy to carry supplies since their regeneration makes for great pack mules and with 30 of them pulling the carts and wagons would surely be enough troll power to make the 2-month track.
month and a half in, everything was going fine, when a sandstorm hit... and destroyed all of our supplies.
Party was screaming at me, about how this was all my fault. I proceeded to hack off the arm of a troll and toss it on the fire. once it was roasted, had our cleric cast purify food on it.
...
we made it the rest of the way. There was a reason I made sure to capture all 30 trolls, I wanted to make sure we had an unlimited supply of food, and there was no possible way all 30 trolls would be limbless at one time.
(Troll blood can be purified into water btw)
Everyone agreed we never speak about the trip again. (sorry guys!)
@@kaijukojin4371 Got indoctrinated to the brewing of "desert wine" myself... It was an abomination... supposedly tasted like a fetid worcestershire with alcoholic overtones...
Captured kobolds among other semi-humanoids in the region to feed them salt and hold them for about a day... and then follow them (once broken free) to a water or other moisture source.
I've long allowed at least the ingenuity to build and sail a cart across the desert... but that's just me. I figure the average wind-speeds and coverage over ground, and go from there. ;o)
It wasn't meant to be an N.P.C. but....
JuJu Zombie Bulette pulling my parties wagon.
I've had an idea for awhile about a stunted orc or teifling that eventually gets a magic/clockwork armour and pretends to be a demon type giant. maybe even fake wings. I'm gonna do it now Definite. cheers.ta.
That was awesome!!!!
I am so copying this. Landship vikings are to great a concept. Viking gnomes even more so!
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
Helgore is a legend!
Have d&d players never head of a land ship?... Ie. One that sails on land as is the land was water. Look up Exalted for more info.
I want to build this now in a Spheres campaign as a player.
Anybody else expect Hellgor to go Super Sayen in the final act?
LOL I can imagine his beard going up and he has to peek through...
"Blasted Super Gnomyn... always getting in my way..."
I feel like this isn’t the last time we see him trolling the party.
I applied a halfling barbarian once was it 18 strength, 16 dexterity, and 18 Constitution, 11 intelligence, 12 wisdom, 10 charisma the dice gods were on my side that day when I created that character I called him Arldo Sworz is what I called him describe him as a 3 ft tall Arnold Schwarzenegger
I WANT TO USE THIS IDEA IN MY CAMPAIGN! I THINK IT WOULD BE A HILARIOUS NPC PARTY MEMEBER!
Is it just me, or is Hellgore giving off strong Hondo Ohnaka vibes.
I'd love it if he just became a reoccurring antagonist.. not a big bad, but someone the PCs have to deal with... and most often ends up having to help him in some way or another.
This is a hell of a gord story 😋
Good honest fun 😀
TOTALLY AWESOME!!!! :)
I want to know where this story goes in the future!
Helgore the Epic!
Whats the difference between a land and sky viking?
One has a Landship the other an Airship
A landboat for a Viking isn't that absurd. the Longboats they used had flat hulls so they push and carry them over land easily.
But Hellgor's are equipped with Sheild rimmed hubcaps! and steam-powered steering! Just make sure the flixcombobulator doesn't go into the qualimorsal zone.
It is when it isn't a practical or a believable idea since we are not talking about magic, but a mechanical steam powered vehicle of some sort. The closest we came to something like this that was not restricted to tracks in our world is the giant steam-powered farm equipment.
while it seems fine all things considered, usually, you don't have an npc drop to zero health and stay conscious.
In this case it was the suits hit points. This is kinda like the new mythic creatures of theros. Where the first time you bring them down activates a mythic form new power and full hp.
Hellgore's suit is non-magical, mechanical clockwork. The best way I can describe it is fly by wire, where everything is using his natural might to power the suit. It's well balanced, but I wanted to make it seem like normal armour if anyone casts detect magic on it.
So the women are ‘free to leave’, but they’re also chained to the wall?
I questioned that as well since it made no sense.
Don't kink shame the elves... Immortals need a way to pass the time.
@@kaijukojin4371 OK, I have got to ask because of that response, how old are you?
@@craigtucker1290 LOL I'm just past 40, married, and have a 17-year-old son, so I'm pretty normal... I think?
I guess this COVID thing is making everyone crazy since I decided I'm going to give this... whatever I'm doing... a try and see if I can make my own money... but... that's still something to see come to fruition. LOL.
I'm still learning things as I go, so I'm not ready to quit yet. :-)
@@kaijukojin4371 The kink comment sounds like something a teenager would say. It isn't believable to have scantily clad women chained to the wall that are apparently free to leave at any time.
It just doesn't make sense.
I want to be a part of that barbarian tribe.
A gnome is 10 ft tall? Never mind makes sense
Surprise Checks? Excuse me? Plate Armor takes 5 minutes to doff in D&D, there is absolutely no way they should have been surprised by the Gnome after he took of his armor, because that would have taken a WHILE. Also, in one turn, the Gnome Barbarian slammed his head into the Paladin, picked them up, and then slammed them into the floor, making them drop their weapons?!?! I don't know what kind of BS rules that DM has, but they definitely made the party feel worthless for DARING to try to stop a group of bandits. They also don't seem to understand the "Rule of Cool" because he clearly was having them make several checks to try and get onto the boat. 1, an acrobatics check to get out of the stirrups, 2, an animal handling check to keep the horse controlled, and 3, another acrobatics check to get onto the land boat.
Since I ran the encounter and made the stat block for Hellgore, He created a quick release setting should the armour get damaged and he gets trapped in it.
@@kaijukojin4371 My apologies, it just really didn't seem like it happened that way based on how it was narrated as "Bit by bit the armor fell off" as Hellgore makes a speech.
@@jukesdtj656 No problem, There was a lot going on, I'm a bit of a new DM as well, but the idea is there's an emergency release mechanism if his armour is disabled.
He's a boss fight, so I wanted to have that sort of "oh he's defeated" and the HP level goes back up... "Round 2"
I've toyed around with the armour and included flame weapons that use lamp oil for a flamethrower attack and a few other nifty features.
@@kaijukojin4371 Oh that's cool. Sorry I didn't mean to berate you, I had just gotten back from home and I wasn't in the best of moods. I understand why you did that but I think them getting beaten up by the rest of the bandits before being presented to the boss was a bit much for right before a boss fight.
@@jukesdtj656 LOL the players did it to themselves. I had already keyed the ship and the amount of people in there.
The IDEA was to follow the ship and investigate where it stops, and maby sneak in when people are asleep...
The sheer crazyness of them deciding... "hey, lets galop in an open field where there is visibility for MILES and hope they don't see us coming.
I already decided any defeats would just be captured, so unless a PC does something "REALLY" Stupid, only ego would be hurt if they instigated a fight... which they did.
I'm stealing this guy...
OK I don't care that this video is 4 months old I am sharing my favorite NPC I made. I was early into dnd only have participated in about 4-5 sessions because my best friend was dm and wanted a different voice for some new NPCs and I was his best choice according to him. So he got me hooked then that campaign ended. I was invited to play as a player and gladly accepted. So I made a level five half-orc barbarian because I love being a unstoppable force. Then we never played because on member became a father and another left leaving only me and one other player. I decided that wasn't the end of my new character named Feng. He slowly gained a story that to this day grows. I then took the rains of being DM and decided to start from ground up new gods everything. I decided my players would effect everything. In my first campaign I made the party has been hired by the king of the dragon born kingdom to help expand his kingdom to a new continent where he has been struggling to gain for months. upon arrival they find a small city which has a bad goblin problem and five guards one of which is so wounded he can't fight for at least 6 days. After the 5th day another ship arrives with mass amount of guards, royal guards, and Feng. Feng then helps them out through the whole thing progressing with them. They eventually are contacted by the gods and Feng becomes a holy warrior. After they build about 6 new cities they find a city of half-orcs and learn of Feng's past. He used to be the son of the half-orc general in the half-ork kingdom but unlike his father he became a amazing blacksmith. Then the kingdom was wiped out for being impure by elves. After he fights for his home and is wounded he was sold into slavery. The human who bought him was a gladiator master who bought slaves to fight in the kingdom gladiator wars which prevented large wars (Half-orc kingdom didn't join in on it) Feng then forged his signature weapon to use in the arena his two handed great axe With in half-orc language "Pride" carved into the axe. He then fought for 6 years in the arenas but then it all changed when he fought for the humans against the dragon born kingdom. The dragon born king watched him fight and kill 7 dragon born with ease and offered to no longer wage war if he could have Feng. The humans agreed and Feng now fought for a new kingdom so he thought. The king eventually makes Feng his right hand man in future wars since shortly after he was traded the kingdoms went back to old ways of war. Feng led the armies of the dragon born to victory against the kingdom of the elves then was sent to help the party. He then realized the party came across what was left of the half-orc kingdom and all the armor and weapons he made so many years back for they tried to concur this land as well. Then the dragon born king dies of old age and his son who hates Feng since he is not dragon born takes over. Eventually the party find them making a decision to either fight for the new king or there friend Feng if they choose the king they kill Feng and the campaign ends. But if they choose the work with Feng they sail home and destroy a entire kingdom within a few days because the people love and respect Feng over their new king overthrowing him and following Feng. And there are a few different endings depending on their decisions but that is the story of my favorite NPC Feng who was supposed to be my first ever character I ever played but then becomes a king and in my next campaign I am throwing a twist at my players but I am just saying there is going to have to be a video about Feng for me to tell the rest. Sorry😂
Yes
Was he based on Salvadore from Borderlands 2?
If you want to have a lane ship model for your game look up Total War Warhammer the table top virgin they have a landship version that you can use ❤
Lol that was good
bruh
I chose 10 easy steps to kill a demon king good booj
METAL as fuck!
A wooden sand crawler? Awesome! Mobile fortresses are always cool! Lets see given these are vikings Hows about we have a bard play a viking tune? After all YIRBEL LIVES! ua-cam.com/video/sLcrxhE_xQw/v-deo.html
Seriously though don’t mess with hellgore!
What level was the party?
Man, I laughed XD
...why were the girls tied up? why was it "better in here then out there"? does he do normal trades and monster slaughter?
ya a rolling fortress can be so damn useful it's not even funny.
Don't kink shame the elves... Immortality can get boring.
As far as trades go, I'm sure there are a few places he fences his wares too.
I'm interested in starting DnD, I've never played before tho. Is there anyone willing to teach? Discord?
There are lots of ways to play. You can look up local game shops that usually host groups. You can check out a website called (D&D Beyond) which makes finding groups and building characters much easier.
Also, go to world anvil. I'm hosting my campaign there, and you can see many that are in session right now. Just simply ask around and I'm sure someone will be more than happy to help you.
Ok who else clicked cause of the land Vikings from disenchantment
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Why does every video auto enable captions when i watch you, it’s super obnoxious
We did a poll and people voted for auto subs so there it is. You can always turn it off. Sorry for the inconvenience.
All Things DnD rip.
All Things DnD Love the videos though keep it up!
Aaaaaaaand borrowing
so the paladin won getting the man to 0 hp but the DM still had his NPC win or what ???
Hellgore probably has a mythic trait (Mythic Odysseys of Theros). They allow for multi-phase boss fights.
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Did you cast haste?
@@theonyxarm3787 no they got 1st on initiative
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Ok, he's cool af. But making an enemy appear out of his armor AFTER taking him down to 0 Hp is cheap. It feels like the bad guys are the main characters and the party is just their to be the NPCs. How did the party respond to having their asses whopped?
They enjoyed the encounter. They only lost their pocket change in the end and made a vow to keep a lookout for him and to bring him to justice.
The paladin has a healthy respect for him, but his pride was hurt and he will want a rematch. He agrees the second attack was a cheap shot, but He should have expected such trickery from a barbarian, even if he is a gnome.
In the end, the party had a blast. Everyone still got some XP.
So the player characters beat the BIG BAD and the DM just cheated them out of their victory.
I'd never use an overpowered broken piece of crap Villain who even after being beaten the DM just says No he wins anyways.
He wasnt the bbeg
@@spademagna2672 That just makes it worse. Let the players have their win don't tease them by pretending you are going to let them have a cool ship if they win a hard challenge then take it away.
@@mikiiforpert6083 The players weren't going to try and get a cool ship, and the session wasn't in their favour. Most of the choices they made were not the brightest one, especially with the scenario I planned.
Just to be clear, this wasn't a railroad encounter. This was a sort of one offside quest they went on. If they wanted to pursue the Vikings they could. Usually, they would follow something that big, stay out of sight, and wait till they camp. It's a strategy they've used countless times, so I had mapped out the boat and the encounter like it was fully manned and on it's way back from a haul.
But our paladin got the wrong idea and charged in. Most of the party's rolls failed badly. Most of the paladin's intimidation checks boffed as well, it was just a bad night for the players in general with it.
I was rather proud of the paladin's fighting. Hellgore is an honourable gnome, so he didn't use the dragon's breath. (there are 2 bellows filled with oil in his shoulders that shoots a flamethrower out of his hand.)
One thing I did include is a "hastily constructed" feature with the armour since he's not a fully trained gnome, most of his gnome works have a 20% chance of failure and 10% of explosive failure per-use.
@@kaijukojin4371 The ideas weren't bad. The gm gave them a plot hook to stop the bandits the party tried but the dice were against them. As for getting the ship the gm dangled that in front of them by having the bandit leader challenge the paladin to a one on one fight saying that he would be in charge if he won. The player won solo against a boss the whole party was supposed to fight then the gm takes that away.
I would agree that the whole scenario is implausibly broken, even for D&D because apparently the gnome's armor wasn't magical, just clockwork, same with the land ship as far as I can tell. Neither the suit or land ship would be feasible or functional in our world so by default they shouldn't be in D&D without magical assistance. It just comes off as completely lacking verisimilitude of any kind, but it seems that isn't a priority or important with this group so much as having this kind of fun, which apparently they had.
It's just that this "type" of game is not for everyone and some players demand more realism and believability in their games. D&D accommodates all types, even the absurdly ridiculous ones.
so the paladin won getting the man to 0 hp but the DM still had his NPC win or what ???
he got the armor suit to 0 HP in reality