Can you imagine two of these things communicating over a distance in the dark? Strange gurgling noises and mad hand clapping echoing off the hills and coming from the trees at night? Terrifying. And I can imagine them reproducing by two meeting up, grasping a few hands, and then TEARING THOSE ARMS OFF AS THEY FUSE TOGETHER TO CREATE A NEW ABERRANT HORROR! A flopping mass of limbs and eyes grasping at whatever is near to consume it as it first drags itself along, then begins hopping, and finally rolling as new arms, claws, and eyes sprout. GAH!
Mfw playing DnD for the first time ever as a Ranger in a homebrew, I get two small orange balls as pets from a magic shop, not knowing what they were exactly. Never figured out what they were either, but they constantly ate random animals, creatures, enemies and sometimes tried to attack my party. I felt an emotional attachment to them because they were only the size of a basketball at the time, and they listened to me. At one point in the story, I had to let them go due to circumstances beyond my control, and it was a sad goodbye. Fast forward to the final boss months into a campaign, and as a Lyndworm is trying to eat me. My character yells out. Then out of nowhere, two much bigger orange balls appear in the dungeon. Balls 1 & 2 (My names are all unoriginal) return to me, and trample and attack the Lyndworm! (they were now much bigger) and the thing fell into the chasm along with the Orange balls, ending the fight. My Orange balls came to save me, and died in the final fight (Or did they?). I was super grateful. I found out after the campaign, they were called Odopi.
The fact that their language is through gurgles and claps just gives me an image of two of these things communicating by doing the most intense pattycake type game x100. Hilariously off putting.
@@Zaprozhan It can only be negotiated with through sign language, otherwise it's time to throw hands. Also it does a salt sprinkle thing with it's hands when it downs someone or just dabs, either should be sufficiently annoying ways to taunt players, maybe it just makes many L's with it's many hands. So many possibilities.
Should be taking a higher damage Dice from the fall because of physics. .... and then the grappled crushed player should take a bunch of that damage too.
@@windhelmguard5295 does it emit a series of gurgles and hand claps that probably means something along the lines of "nothing personal, kid" immediately after teleporting?
I want to have an encounter where the party to run into an Odopi rap battle or poetry slam. Just hundreds of claps, snaps, & occasional gurgles, while the party hides and watches.
So if Caceri is a prison realm of the gods, maybe it just grew out of the wall as essentially a jailor. If you plop it in the material realm, it's just crushes/captures anything it sees since it sees them as escapees. Maybe a weird twist or possible seed of a solution is any town you come across that has been destroyed by the Odopi still has the occupants of the local jail or dungeon untouched.
I was thinking along the same lines, that the Odopi might be jailors. It might be chasing something from Caceri that is even nastier than it is. How about if a foolish warlock made a pact with a powerful nasty from Caceri and as a result was doing things that would lead to it's jailbreak. The Odopi might be sent to deal with the warlock and drag him to Caceri for punishment. The warlock might hire your players for protection or more likely as cannon fodder to delay the Odopi while he escapes.
That makes sense. Panoptical vision and true sight would be very useful for spotting anyone who thinks they can pull a fast one, its teleportation and speed allow it to chase them down, and its many hands give it a phenomenal ability to restrain and grapple. The only wrinkle is that prisoners might not tend to survive being eaten, which makes their tendency to eat things a bit odd if this is the case.
@@Fluffkitscripts granted these things are sentient, so I suppose they could just simply choose not to eat the prisoner if they want to take them back to Carceri.
I like the idea that the odopi are destroying stuff because they are just freaking out. To them the material realm must be a horror show full with wierd incomprehesible creatures. The horrible noises made by a rampaging monster might just be a desperate creature calling for help in a world it doesn't underdtand.
I imagine these guys reproducing like succulents, snap off an arm and it'll first sprout little pins from the stump that eventually grow into full arms, and you better believe every evil wizard lab my party encounters is gonna have this in a jar from now on
We are missing the scariest part, the Odopi is intelligent and more then wise enough to figure out how to use uncomplex tools and has all the hands it will ever need to do so. Imagine you see a scene of dead Men all wearing armor crushed and stabbed but there are no shields or weapons except a single broken crossbow seemly destroyed in frustration instead of battle...your only clues to the horror to come.
it's entry specifically states it can't use non throwing weapons like swords and hammers go actually read about the monster instead of relying on this guys weird ass homebrew version of it
You could possibly use them as a warden of this super-max prison. A creature like that seems like they'd make great improv-cops to this super-max prison.
The hundreds of hands with eyes kind of makes me imagine a failed attempt at creating a celestial, or maybe a fallen/corrupted angel. In this flavouring of the creature, A party could hear about the creature from a celestial who it’s desperate to find a way to cleanse them and reclaim there fallen brethren!
I could totally see some big talking point about the nature of Carceri and these Odopi being a big reveal of “these things aren’t the prisoners! They’re the wardens! They aren’t meant to be here and they know it!”
I was at a friend's when this dropped, and had him watch this with me. He said that another way this thing could potentially reproduce is for it's limbs to slough off or if they're dismembered, could be the equivalent to pollen and grow into new ones.
For the reproduction, what came to my mind were either tumbleweeds or starfish, meaning either: A) at some point in it's life cycle, it passively releases spore-like eggs while rolling around. Or: B) have some of the arms it loses for one reason or another eventually grow into a new Odopi
Oh man! Huge inspiration here. I put a Cambium (from Tome of Foes) in my Out of the Abyss game. They just banished it, and I'm thinking Odopi would be a perfect unleashed form. "This is what happens when the addict made of hands doesn't get its fix."
Perhaps due to them being from THE Prison they are more like prison guards (or guard dogs) who are making sure inmates stay in their cells, but when they find themselves on the Material Plane they don't know who is a prisoner so they just go after anything not in restraints. If they see something running from them they go after it cause to them it's someone/something trying to escape.
I like that. If it sees someone shackled or in a locked cell, it will not attack them immediately. And it will also obsessively lock doors and restraints as it passes by, if there are people/creatures in them...so if you're wearing shackles that aren't locked to try and fool it...you just played yourself, but it won't start attacking now.
Given that they are _from_ Carceri, they're a giant ball of grappling hands, they're fast, and have a form of Dimension Door, I have a bit of speculation about their origin. Or perhaps it could be a bit of fun homebrew lore to add if you use these creatures. I think they are created/used for hunting down creatures that the various higher powers want imprisoned in Carceri, or for recapturing escapees from that dimension. I think it makes a lot of sense, they pop in, roll swiftly at their target, attempt to grapple and restrain their target with their uncountable arms, then teleport back to Carceri with their target in tow. It could create some fun situations, where instead of just being a big monster the party needs to fight, it is actively trying to capture an important NPC or a player, and the party has to prevent the Odopi from capturing its target. You could even have a small arc around this creature. Have it show up when the party is lower leveled, steamroll them, and then capture someone. The party then has to chase it down, go on a little adventure through Carceri, and then have a rematch with it as a mid-level boss to free their friend.
Ok, but what if you give it like a hundred greatswords? It’s huge, so it could probably hold them in one hand, and just become fifty times more dangerous.
Maybe if it had mostly swords in all hands you can remove the true sight ability. Hard to see correctly when almost all your eyes are shoved into the hilt of a sword
Fun fact, that exists! It’s called the hecatoncheires, it’s a CR57 aberration created by the gods to fight off the strongest titan should he ever escape the mental prison where he is killing every single god and is quickly running out. Edit: fixed spelling on the name
It's a little weird that giving something 100 swords would make it 50x more dangerous. That suggests that each sword is only worth a .5x dangerpoint each.
I like to imagine these things reproduce in a manner reminiscent of nuclear fission 2 big odopi roll into each other, causing them to split into 3-5 smaller odopi
Can confirm that I thought that was awesome that they commun by clapping and gurgling, cause I feel watching two of these things clapping at each other would just be horrific and probably sound like a bunch explosions happening in quick succession
As DM, I would describe its teleport as "A spectral sphere like an eye surrounds the creature, shutting like a blinking eye, leaving nothing behind. The eye opens again over the wizard, followed by a mess of hands, claws, and pain."
Myself I love the idea of using a alchemist that has been driven crazy by a elder lovecraftian deity. Kind of a Homunculus that was defective, or that failed being crafted as a perfected being.
I am going to take this cutie home- I run a fallout-ish d&d campigan with both tech and magic, and plan a bio computer brain as a dungeon. I think the Odopi (with a significant nerf) will feel home there
I see the Odopi life cycle including an intermediate stage when an arm is severed and lands in the remains of fallen foes, the open shoulder joint will animate the gore as an ooze type flesh pool until it consumes enough flesh to fully form a new Odopi.
I imagine hearing 2 of these Odopi communicating with one another would sound akin to a crowd's applause, with some gurgling to boot, which would definitely be a sight to see and hear.
Monsters native to Carceri running loose in your dimension is bad news for more reasons than just those specific monsters. These things being as distinctive as they are make for excellent plot hooks. Also, now I've got the Katamari Damacy theme stuck in my head.
@@DungeonDad PF1 is basically DnD3.75 so Yeah, very little jump there. Have you thought about converting these to 5e AND PF2 stat blocks so they would be more accessible as more and more people are looking into converting to PF2 lately?
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I like the idea that it doesn't split through mitosis, but rather it reproduces by intentionally ejecting one of its arms off, which grows into an adult odoopi after 1d4 weeks
I choose to believe that the Odoopi's mouth and stomach are also lined with arms, but smaller ones due to limited space. In general their arms work like shark teeth. They start small and grow larger as they migrate out onto the outer surface.
Almost thought it was a reverse bluff at first. Citing a friendly creature in the opening, then presenting us with this; started to suspect this claw horror was actually good and helpful, despite its abominable appearance. Which, is an interesting thought; a helpful, beneficial and benevolant monster that just looks, smells and sounds abhorrent.
a hammer flying at your face is terrible, but a hammer in your hand can build a future this is just a tool with a specific purpose is all, all tools only need the right care
Now I'm tempted to put this thing in my campaign as a good creature. Maybe it has a construction company. "Oh this? This is Jeff. Well actually it's name is *makes several claps and hand gestures* but we call it Jeff. Yeah, he builds our houses and shit. Pretty cool dude!"
@@THEPELADOMASTER I like the idea, but, in my mind's eye, even the good ones are still scary, like, what is normal talking for them, to humans is multiple hands clapping and snapping an inch from your nose. All up in your face. It would take some getting used to.
2:20 As a person who has used beholder abominations, gibbering mouthers, vampiric ilithids and a literal homebrew build of Lovecraft's Yog-Soggoth in his campaigns, I object with great umbrage. I'm a swell guy.
Eldritch katamari damacy? Sign me up, Josiah! I think I'd make these more like starfish: have the central "body" regurgitate the stomach and digest prey externally. For bonus points, have the hands pull its stomach out instead and toss it at people. You could even take cues from the crazy array of ways starfish can reproduce: hermaphroditic, protoandrous, etc. Also, make those eyes secrete acidic tears. That gets at some weird existential dread tied to sticky hand toys, and has ecological implications: odopi transform the terrain they roll on into a surface that makes it easier for them to roll.
Well to add to this, maybe the creature has a symbiotic relationship with an ooz for a stomach, it itself cannot digest solid material so it needs an ooze to digest things. so the ooze would seperate itself so it could be thrown, keeping a small portion to either regrow or to reform back together, so while the party is then battling it, dodging rocks, it opens its maw, pulls out what looks like a giant fucking booger and yeets the thing at a party member, where the ooze coats and begins to digest the adventurerer. then the odopi rolls over the party member and brings it into the maw.
Thinking of these guys being a mode of transport in our universes Chaos plane of Pandemonium. Call an Uber, and suddenly this guy rolls over, scoops you up, and starts heading wherever you want to go.
This looks like something a Beholder would dream into existence if they had a nightmare about crowds of people swarming & grabbing at them. It does however make an incredible amount of sense that they're simply natives of what's basically the Australia of the Multiverse. The fact they actually have a mouth, along with the idea of it being a "prison warden" for Carceri that some other comments have mentioned makes me feel like it should have an ability similar to the Astral Dreadnought where their stomach itself is a type of prison dimension, or in this case that anything they swallow appears in Carceri.
I have taken almost every monster you have converted to 5e and they will be in my new campaign starting soon. So thank you very much for all the work and effort.
So, I've been watching your videos for awhile now, they've always been great. But I just want to say you are killing it with this new presentation in the most recent videos! Also, thanks for making a great arguement for putting one of these in my game. I originally saw the artwork and bounced off it, but you've convinced me! Keep crushing it dude!
OMG. I don't know if you will read this but thank you so much. This is the first video i have seen. Me and my DM have been looking for something different for my character story which is a homebrew Fleshwarper (wizard subclass) this is a perfect type of creature that could fit in amazingly.
Anyone else see this thing and immediately think it runs up on people slapping them repeatedly in an attempt to communicate? Like it just keeps slapping out of no where.
I remember facing off against one of these things. The encounter only lasted a few rounds because out mage managed to cast finger of death on it and it critically failed its save.
And people still keep saying that the artificier, monk and pshyonics don't belong to dnd's so called medieval fantasy feel. Well then why aren't they also complaining about the monsters being to ridiculous. Hypocrites! Absolute hypocrotes!
True. There is no reason in complaining about stuff that is in D&D. Everything in this game is optional. A person who likes or dislikes one part, but likes other parts of the game is always able to just put the parts they like into there game and leave all the parts they dislike out. And even for a person who dislikes DMing there will always be like minded people somewhere. It was never so easy to find people to play with (reddit, discords and what ever).
@@Aikolon Meanwhile Final Fantasy has had both technology and magic existing in it side by side for a long time and is definitely a fantasy series. Guts from berserk has a prosthetic arm with a cannon in it and that series is definitely dark fantasy. In Warhammer Fantasy the empire had guns and cannons, the skaven made nukes out of warp stone, ogres had literal hand cannons. Technology does not equal ruining a fantasy setting or making it sci fi, that is just objectively wrong. I would say keep the technology from surpassing late 1800's where telegraphs, trains, revolvers, repeaters, dynamite, nitro glycerine and crank operated machine guns are the most advanced thing around to maintain maximum fantasy vibes without getting too technological, you likely would not need much technological development with magic being a thing anyway.
@@voidstrider801 or go into the distant future in a post post apocalyptic setting like adventure time, so there's small amounts of modern tech kicking around, but it's actively rarer than magic.
Funny thing : I'm running a campaign where the villain is a necromancer obsessed with hands. So he used a lot of Crawling claws and one of the bosses was a amalgamation of a lot of hands. I had no idea this the Adoopi existed
9:18 this is definetly the in character way of saying "well, we made this thing, but its so fucking op we can't just make it a random monster so we put it in the dimentional equveleant of the 'big box of do not touch' and thats where it shall remain 'till one day your dm decides they have had enough of your bullshit"
When I used these guys I tweaked them a bit lore-wise to make 'em even more worrying. There wasn't a "Center" to them, just a dimensional rift. There is only one Odopi. Every encounter with one is just a hole where a bit of the Odopi leaks out into the normal planes. No one has ever been able to map out where it really is, because no one who stumbles onto the plane of Odopi is coming back to tell anyone about it.
I had the idea of a beholder mutating somehow, so the hands are all mutated stalks. Meaning running from it doesn't work, as it has *all* the beams. The only good thing about it, is that the main eye has lost the anti-magic field. Cuz now it's just a pure hellspawn of death. ...so that's terrifying.
Can you imagine two of these things communicating over a distance in the dark? Strange gurgling noises and mad hand clapping echoing off the hills and coming from the trees at night? Terrifying.
And I can imagine them reproducing by two meeting up, grasping a few hands, and then TEARING THOSE ARMS OFF AS THEY FUSE TOGETHER TO CREATE A NEW ABERRANT HORROR! A flopping mass of limbs and eyes grasping at whatever is near to consume it as it first drags itself along, then begins hopping, and finally rolling as new arms, claws, and eyes sprout.
GAH!
This is genuinely inspired 👏🏽
You're a genius my friend, WTH is wrong with you
Wouldn't them speaking also use like a super complex sign language
Wait wait... Strange gurgling and clapping. It's the Americans, run!
I admire your imagination
Mfw playing DnD for the first time ever as a Ranger in a homebrew, I get two small orange balls as pets from a magic shop, not knowing what they were exactly. Never figured out what they were either, but they constantly ate random animals, creatures, enemies and sometimes tried to attack my party. I felt an emotional attachment to them because they were only the size of a basketball at the time, and they listened to me. At one point in the story, I had to let them go due to circumstances beyond my control, and it was a sad goodbye. Fast forward to the final boss months into a campaign, and as a Lyndworm is trying to eat me. My character yells out. Then out of nowhere, two much bigger orange balls appear in the dungeon. Balls 1 & 2 (My names are all unoriginal) return to me, and trample and attack the Lyndworm! (they were now much bigger) and the thing fell into the chasm along with the Orange balls, ending the fight. My Orange balls came to save me, and died in the final fight (Or did they?). I was super grateful. I found out after the campaign, they were called Odopi.
That is an amazing story. Your DM is a creative individual!
That sounds like a fun deus ex machina.
Awwwwdopi!
What a cool idea
@@phonetheory7056 a nice payoff you mean
The fact that their language is through gurgles and claps just gives me an image of two of these things communicating by doing the most intense pattycake type game x100. Hilariously off putting.
Or a game of charades.
In a slightly comedic note, imagine this ball of crazy getting riled, and simultaneously cracking 50 pairs of knuckles, or giving you the finger.
@@Zaprozhan It can only be negotiated with through sign language, otherwise it's time to throw hands. Also it does a salt sprinkle thing with it's hands when it downs someone or just dabs, either should be sufficiently annoying ways to taunt players, maybe it just makes many L's with it's many hands. So many possibilities.
Just the most intense amount of hamboning
Arguments are just Star Platinum vs. The World punch duels
That teleport would be a BRUTAL way to punish flying characters.
"Yup, you're grappled, aaaaaaand now you're plummeting 100ft to the ground."
That’s an amazing point. The odopi might take some fall damage too, but it’s health pool is so big it surely won’t mind
@@DungeonDad Just have it roll a check to half or negate the damage.
@@MyAramil Have it position the player below itself as a pillow so the player takes the majority of the damage.
That player's face when the giant tumbleweed piledrives them from 100ft in the air
Should be taking a higher damage Dice from the fall because of physics. .... and then the grappled crushed player should take a bunch of that damage too.
Ok. im now convinced this thing was made by a DM who got tired of his parties shit. then created this thing. Teleport and true sight?
100% the vibe
party member flies up to escape.
odopi teleports near him, grapples him, smashes him to the ground from 500feet in the air, then falls ontop of him.
this is 3.5e monster almost everthing around ıts cr have it or way to get it otherwise party walks next to them and it explodes
@@windhelmguard5295 does it emit a series of gurgles and hand claps that probably means something along the lines of "nothing personal, kid" immediately after teleporting?
'We stay at range and shoot it with bows'
Ok, it throws four boulders at you, teleports on top of you, and rolls
Carceri is where every lvl 17+ player characters go when they're done adventuring.
I want to have an encounter where the party to run into an Odopi rap battle or poetry slam. Just hundreds of claps, snaps, & occasional gurgles, while the party hides and watches.
Oh my gosh hahaha, that would be *chef's kiss*
So if Caceri is a prison realm of the gods, maybe it just grew out of the wall as essentially a jailor. If you plop it in the material realm, it's just crushes/captures anything it sees since it sees them as escapees. Maybe a weird twist or possible seed of a solution is any town you come across that has been destroyed by the Odopi still has the occupants of the local jail or dungeon untouched.
That’s a very cool idea!
I was thinking along the same lines, that the Odopi might be jailors. It might be chasing something from Caceri that is even nastier than it is. How about if a foolish warlock made a pact with a powerful nasty from Caceri and as a result was doing things that would lead to it's jailbreak. The Odopi might be sent to deal with the warlock and drag him to Caceri for punishment. The warlock might hire your players for protection or more likely as cannon fodder to delay the Odopi while he escapes.
That makes sense. Panoptical vision and true sight would be very useful for spotting anyone who thinks they can pull a fast one, its teleportation and speed allow it to chase them down, and its many hands give it a phenomenal ability to restrain and grapple. The only wrinkle is that prisoners might not tend to survive being eaten, which makes their tendency to eat things a bit odd if this is the case.
@@Fluffkitscripts A dead prisoner is a prisoner that's not a problem anymore to the Odopi.
@@Fluffkitscripts granted these things are sentient, so I suppose they could just simply choose not to eat the prisoner if they want to take them back to Carceri.
I like the idea that the odopi are destroying stuff because they are just freaking out. To them the material realm must be a horror show full with wierd incomprehesible creatures. The horrible noises made by a rampaging monster might just be a desperate creature calling for help in a world it doesn't underdtand.
I imagine these guys reproducing like succulents, snap off an arm and it'll first sprout little pins from the stump that eventually grow into full arms, and you better believe every evil wizard lab my party encounters is gonna have this in a jar from now on
I feel like small groups of hands more like budding of jellyfish
We are missing the scariest part, the Odopi is intelligent and more then wise enough to figure out how to use uncomplex tools and has all the hands it will ever need to do so. Imagine you see a scene of dead Men all wearing armor crushed and stabbed but there are no shields or weapons except a single broken crossbow seemly destroyed in frustration instead of battle...your only clues to the horror to come.
it's entry specifically states it can't use non throwing weapons like swords and hammers
go actually read about the monster instead of relying on this guys weird ass homebrew version of it
After being surprised by this monster in Tears of the Kingdom I will attest to how terrifying they are.
I love to imagine that in their home realm they're just like petty tiny spiders not really a threat
Party peacefully wandering some safe looking path... And then rolling ball of death just teleports in front of them. I love it already.
You could possibly use them as a warden of this super-max prison. A creature like that seems like they'd make great improv-cops to this super-max prison.
I've a feeling that, in this prison, even the soap can kill and eat you. 🤔
Just slightly less violent than U.S. cops.
The hundreds of hands with eyes kind of makes me imagine a failed attempt at creating a celestial, or maybe a fallen/corrupted angel.
In this flavouring of the creature, A party could hear about the creature from a celestial who it’s desperate to find a way to cleanse them and reclaim there fallen brethren!
I could totally see some big talking point about the nature of Carceri and these Odopi being a big reveal of “these things aren’t the prisoners! They’re the wardens! They aren’t meant to be here and they know it!”
I was at a friend's when this dropped, and had him watch this with me. He said that another way this thing could potentially reproduce is for it's limbs to slough off or if they're dismembered, could be the equivalent to pollen and grow into new ones.
That is a very gross an cool idea. Extremely on brand for an aberration
That’s how some starfish reproduce as well. You can cut off one arm and both pieces will regenerate into 2 new individuals
This seems like something that would fit well in the Far Realm. Maybe that could be where they came to Carceri from?
That would make a lot of sense to me!
Ether that or a Beholder had a *REALLY* weird dream
Desperate escape attempt gone horribly wrong
The worst part about the odopi is it makes you buy into it’s subscription plan so now you’re stuck with it.
For the reproduction, what came to my mind were either tumbleweeds or starfish, meaning either:
A) at some point in it's life cycle, it passively releases spore-like eggs while rolling around.
Or:
B) have some of the arms it loses for one reason or another eventually grow into a new Odopi
mabye eyes fall out of the hands and hatch out into new baby odopi
@@badideagenerator2315 eye eggs 🫣
@stingerjohnny9951 i just realized that emoji still has a eye peaking out between the fingers
Oh man! Huge inspiration here. I put a Cambium (from Tome of Foes) in my Out of the Abyss game. They just banished it, and I'm thinking Odopi would be a perfect unleashed form. "This is what happens when the addict made of hands doesn't get its fix."
Yes! That’s an amazing idea
Did you mean Tome of Beasts from Kobold Press?
@@KevinVideo Yep that's the one!
I wondered how a Cambion (from MTF) could be related to those creatures. Then i looked up what the Cambium is and...yes...
Perhaps due to them being from THE Prison they are more like prison guards (or guard dogs) who are making sure inmates stay in their cells, but when they find themselves on the Material Plane they don't know who is a prisoner so they just go after anything not in restraints. If they see something running from them they go after it cause to them it's someone/something trying to escape.
I like this idea a lot.
Given what these things look like they may not be able to differentiate an Orc barbarian from a halfling librarian.
Could be an interesting area, you need to sneak in open cells as it passes to stay alive
@@Superbug-tf8zy If caught you get dragged back to the starting cell and have to start all over again.
I like that. If it sees someone shackled or in a locked cell, it will not attack them immediately. And it will also obsessively lock doors and restraints as it passes by, if there are people/creatures in them...so if you're wearing shackles that aren't locked to try and fool it...you just played yourself, but it won't start attacking now.
Now this one is odd, a alien tumbleweed of arms, eyes and claws.
It would be terrifying to encounter this thing in a cave system where it could just roll back and forth over your entire party
Woof, that would be straight up devastating
They actually had a monster in the same book that did exactly that
Skeleton ball from Dark Souls 3
Given that they are _from_ Carceri, they're a giant ball of grappling hands, they're fast, and have a form of Dimension Door, I have a bit of speculation about their origin. Or perhaps it could be a bit of fun homebrew lore to add if you use these creatures.
I think they are created/used for hunting down creatures that the various higher powers want imprisoned in Carceri, or for recapturing escapees from that dimension. I think it makes a lot of sense, they pop in, roll swiftly at their target, attempt to grapple and restrain their target with their uncountable arms, then teleport back to Carceri with their target in tow.
It could create some fun situations, where instead of just being a big monster the party needs to fight, it is actively trying to capture an important NPC or a player, and the party has to prevent the Odopi from capturing its target.
You could even have a small arc around this creature. Have it show up when the party is lower leveled, steamroll them, and then capture someone. The party then has to chase it down, go on a little adventure through Carceri, and then have a rematch with it as a mid-level boss to free their friend.
I can just imagine one of them being like and a squad of them just starts rolling over the offended
Ok, but what if you give it like a hundred greatswords? It’s huge, so it could probably hold them in one hand, and just become fifty times more dangerous.
Now we’re talking
Maybe if it had mostly swords in all hands you can remove the true sight ability. Hard to see correctly when almost all your eyes are shoved into the hilt of a sword
Fun fact, that exists! It’s called the hecatoncheires, it’s a CR57 aberration created by the gods to fight off the strongest titan should he ever escape the mental prison where he is killing every single god and is quickly running out.
Edit: fixed spelling on the name
this is some dark souls shit
It's a little weird that giving something 100 swords would make it 50x more dangerous. That suggests that each sword is only worth a .5x dangerpoint each.
I like to imagine these things reproduce in a manner reminiscent of nuclear fission
2 big odopi roll into each other, causing them to split into 3-5 smaller odopi
Can confirm that I thought that was awesome that they commun by clapping and gurgling, cause I feel watching two of these things clapping at each other would just be horrific and probably sound like a bunch explosions happening in quick succession
I get the feeling that the Gloom Hands in Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom took some inspiration from this creature.
I laughed like a goddamn lunatic when I saw the two “communicating”. I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time. Great shit as always, lol
As DM, I would describe its teleport as "A spectral sphere like an eye surrounds the creature, shutting like a blinking eye, leaving nothing behind. The eye opens again over the wizard, followed by a mess of hands, claws, and pain."
Other cool way for it to teleport would be it literally tearing a hole in the fabric of reality with it's multiple arms.
Watching this after playing Tears of the Kingdom, I couldnt help but scream "Gloom Hands!!" out of terrified recollection
Myself I love the idea of using a alchemist that has been driven crazy by a elder lovecraftian deity. Kind of a Homunculus that was defective, or that failed being crafted as a perfected being.
For some reason I get the feeling that they’re almost like a young child in personality and intelligence
Sorry the upload was a few hours late. Enjoy guys!
No worries, rendering is a PAIN
@@KS-PNW it really, really is
I am going to take this cutie home-
I run a fallout-ish d&d campigan with both tech and magic, and plan a bio computer brain as a dungeon.
I think the Odopi (with a significant nerf) will feel home there
Absolutely something I’d expect to see in a post apocalyptic wasteland!
The reason the setting is a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
I see the Odopi life cycle including an intermediate stage when an arm is severed and lands in the remains of fallen foes, the open shoulder joint will animate the gore as an ooze type flesh pool until it consumes enough flesh to fully form a new Odopi.
I imagine hearing 2 of these Odopi communicating with one another would sound akin to a crowd's applause, with some gurgling to boot, which would definitely be a sight to see and hear.
Monsters native to Carceri running loose in your dimension is bad news for more reasons than just those specific monsters. These things being as distinctive as they are make for excellent plot hooks.
Also, now I've got the Katamari Damacy theme stuck in my head.
Wait…ANOTHER channel about monster ecology similar to MrRhexx, but with stat builds for 5E? I’m in love.
Odoopi on a opera trying to figure out why the audience is calling upon a snake to send a magic missile to the actors: 👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️
Between the appearance, and how terrifying it is? I think I see the inspiration for the Gloom Hands of Tears of the Kingdom
I run pathfinder so I'd have to change some things, but this seems like the biggest WTF monster to throw at the party.
Luckily 3.5 to pathfinder isn’t too much of a jump. Plus it’ll make it even less likely your party knows what to expect!
@@DungeonDad PF1 is basically DnD3.75 so Yeah, very little jump there. Have you thought about converting these to 5e AND PF2 stat blocks so they would be more accessible as more and more people are looking into converting to PF2 lately?
the lack of ecology in the new monster manuals Just kills so much of the creative energy for me
Bard: “i like to seduce the odopi”
Dm: *facepalm*
Odopi: numerous facepalms
yeah lets start with a hug...or many many hugs
what kind of hybrid abomination would that make
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I like the idea that it doesn't split through mitosis, but rather it reproduces by intentionally ejecting one of its arms off, which grows into an adult odoopi after 1d4 weeks
I choose to believe that the Odoopi's mouth and stomach are also lined with arms, but smaller ones due to limited space. In general their arms work like shark teeth. They start small and grow larger as they migrate out onto the outer surface.
Almost thought it was a reverse bluff at first. Citing a friendly creature in the opening, then presenting us with this; started to suspect this claw horror was actually good and helpful, despite its abominable appearance. Which, is an interesting thought; a helpful, beneficial and benevolant monster that just looks, smells and sounds abhorrent.
a hammer flying at your face is terrible, but a hammer in your hand can build a future
this is just a tool with a specific purpose is all, all tools only need the right care
Now I'm tempted to put this thing in my campaign as a good creature. Maybe it has a construction company.
"Oh this? This is Jeff. Well actually it's name is *makes several claps and hand gestures* but we call it Jeff. Yeah, he builds our houses and shit. Pretty cool dude!"
@@THEPELADOMASTER I like the idea, but, in my mind's eye, even the good ones are still scary, like, what is normal talking for them, to humans is multiple hands clapping and snapping an inch from your nose. All up in your face. It would take some getting used to.
this is probably the inspiration for the gloom hands in TOTK
I've decided I'm going to make an Odobi Hive where it's basically just a gargantuan mass of Odobis holding hands
The author's barely disguised fetish
Monster straight out of Jim Hensen's creature shop
2:20 As a person who has used beholder abominations, gibbering mouthers, vampiric ilithids and a literal homebrew build of Lovecraft's Yog-Soggoth in his campaigns, I object with great umbrage. I'm a swell guy.
Eldritch katamari damacy? Sign me up, Josiah!
I think I'd make these more like starfish: have the central "body" regurgitate the stomach and digest prey externally. For bonus points, have the hands pull its stomach out instead and toss it at people. You could even take cues from the crazy array of ways starfish can reproduce: hermaphroditic, protoandrous, etc.
Also, make those eyes secrete acidic tears. That gets at some weird existential dread tied to sticky hand toys, and has ecological implications: odopi transform the terrain they roll on into a surface that makes it easier for them to roll.
Well to add to this, maybe the creature has a symbiotic relationship with an ooz for a stomach, it itself cannot digest solid material so it needs an ooze to digest things. so the ooze would seperate itself so it could be thrown, keeping a small portion to either regrow or to reform back together, so while the party is then battling it, dodging rocks, it opens its maw, pulls out what looks like a giant fucking booger and yeets the thing at a party member, where the ooze coats and begins to digest the adventurerer. then the odopi rolls over the party member and brings it into the maw.
This is a beautiful comment
@@MyAramil I like this a lot!
Thinking of these guys being a mode of transport in our universes Chaos plane of Pandemonium. Call an Uber, and suddenly this guy rolls over, scoops you up, and starts heading wherever you want to go.
Not running a D&D campaign but a spacefairing Offworlders one.
And I'm totally using these as an alien bio-weapon
I love 3.5 creature design. It never aaked if they should, only if they could.
And its 3.5, so the answer is *YES*
oh to be a hand zorb, rolling down a hill with a grappled druid
This is the first video I’ve seen of yours and I’m absolutely loving your presentation and personality
That means a lot man! Thanks for checking out the channel!
If they understand the concept of a threat, it also means they feel *fear.*
Lord, communicating one would have to involve your character engaging in an intense hambone session.
Just found your channel and, as a new DM, this is super helpful! Definitely going to binge through your vids!
Welcome to the channel!
This looks like something a Beholder would dream into existence if they had a nightmare about crowds of people swarming & grabbing at them.
It does however make an incredible amount of sense that they're simply natives of what's basically the Australia of the Multiverse.
The fact they actually have a mouth, along with the idea of it being a "prison warden" for Carceri that some other comments have mentioned makes me feel like it should have an ability similar to the Astral Dreadnought where their stomach itself is a type of prison dimension, or in this case that anything they swallow appears in Carceri.
I'm afraind of using this monster for my 5th level 5player party and them choosing to straight up fight it
I have taken almost every monster you have converted to 5e and they will be in my new campaign starting soon. So thank you very much for all the work and effort.
So, I've been watching your videos for awhile now, they've always been great. But I just want to say you are killing it with this new presentation in the most recent videos! Also, thanks for making a great arguement for putting one of these in my game. I originally saw the artwork and bounced off it, but you've convinced me! Keep crushing it dude!
Great video! I really enjoyed it. First of yours I've seen and looking forward to checking out more
Awesome! Thanks for watching 😁
I like the editing in this one a lot! Also the hand puns.
When the monster is so insane that it knocks you out of your greenscreen through sheer what-the-fuck.
OMG. I don't know if you will read this but thank you so much. This is the first video i have seen. Me and my DM have been looking for something different for my character story which is a homebrew Fleshwarper (wizard subclass) this is a perfect type of creature that could fit in amazingly.
I'm so glad! Thanks for watching!
Looks like someone looked at a Hecatonchires and went "Hmm..... How can I make this into a Cthulhu Horror?"
Anyone else see this thing and immediately think it runs up on people slapping them repeatedly in an attempt to communicate? Like it just keeps slapping out of no where.
Just found your channel, subbed and am currently binge-watching. Thanks for posting.
If a party kills it, they have to fight Phantom Ganon
This is a criminally under viewed series.
I remember facing off against one of these things. The encounter only lasted a few rounds because out mage managed to cast finger of death on it and it critically failed its save.
I crave this type of content so much, I can't believe it took me this long to find your channel. thanks for the grrat video!!
And people still keep saying that the artificier, monk and pshyonics don't belong to dnd's so called medieval fantasy feel. Well then why aren't they also complaining about the monsters being to ridiculous.
Hypocrites! Absolute hypocrotes!
True.
There is no reason in complaining about stuff that is in D&D. Everything in this game is optional.
A person who likes or dislikes one part, but likes other parts of the game is always able to just put the parts they like into there game and leave all the parts they dislike out.
And even for a person who dislikes DMing there will always be like minded people somewhere. It was never so easy to find people to play with (reddit, discords and what ever).
Big agree! Let's not even get into the whole "fanatasy vs. sci-fi" debate. It's DnD; RP, fight, and enjoy it however you'd like!
@@Aikolon Meanwhile Final Fantasy has had both technology and magic existing in it side by side for a long time and is definitely a fantasy series. Guts from berserk has a prosthetic arm with a cannon in it and that series is definitely dark fantasy. In Warhammer Fantasy the empire had guns and cannons, the skaven made nukes out of warp stone, ogres had literal hand cannons. Technology does not equal ruining a fantasy setting or making it sci fi, that is just objectively wrong. I would say keep the technology from surpassing late 1800's where telegraphs, trains, revolvers, repeaters, dynamite, nitro glycerine and crank operated machine guns are the most advanced thing around to maintain maximum fantasy vibes without getting too technological, you likely would not need much technological development with magic being a thing anyway.
@@voidstrider801 It's 100% preference. Weird as hell creatures sometimes != magitech. Yes, you *can* do stuff like that. But no one *needs* to.
@@voidstrider801 or go into the distant future in a post post apocalyptic setting like adventure time, so there's small amounts of modern tech kicking around, but it's actively rarer than magic.
Gotta Hand it to you, you've got your finger on the pulse with this creature
When someone decides to turn "hand-eye coordination" into a monster.
I'm 100% using this in my TotK based campaign, as its basically the gloom hands from that game!
Funny thing : I'm running a campaign where the villain is a necromancer obsessed with hands. So he used a lot of Crawling claws and one of the bosses was a amalgamation of a lot of hands. I had no idea this the Adoopi existed
Three minutes in you already got my Like and Subscribe.
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So does that mean to communicate with an Odopi, I should be proficient in hambone-ing while gargling mouth wash? Golf claps.
Absolutely. Roll a perform hambone check
@@DungeonDad oof, 8- Immah just say I’m clap bound…
This guy looks like the far realm dodgeball champion.
3024 years strong!
My guy, I have a forest full of horrors... Odopi, come here you little beautiful baby.
Excellent...
gotta hand it to you, this video is very handy
I would love to hear you do a tour of the planes!
This thing is an Elden Ring/ Bloodbourne/ Dark Souls boss
Sounds like a fun warlock patron to align with
9:18 this is definetly the in character way of saying "well, we made this thing, but its so fucking op we can't just make it a random monster so we put it in the dimentional equveleant of the 'big box of do not touch' and thats where it shall remain 'till one day your dm decides they have had enough of your bullshit"
odopi joins a band and plays "hambone"
When I used these guys I tweaked them a bit lore-wise to make 'em even more worrying. There wasn't a "Center" to them, just a dimensional rift.
There is only one Odopi. Every encounter with one is just a hole where a bit of the Odopi leaks out into the normal planes. No one has ever been able to map out where it really is, because no one who stumbles onto the plane of Odopi is coming back to tell anyone about it.
Your videos are really well made , awesome
Thank you so much 😀
I feel like your players must watch all your videos so they're aware of the crazy abilities from the monsters you use.
I had the idea of a beholder mutating somehow, so the hands are all mutated stalks. Meaning running from it doesn't work, as it has *all* the beams.
The only good thing about it, is that the main eye has lost the anti-magic field. Cuz now it's just a pure hellspawn of death.
...so that's terrifying.
This hits different after tears of the kingdom
Looks like something a beholder would dream up
If it was dreamed up by a beholder would it be called a Handholder?
' Odopi can't be flanked ' Rouge PC's are FeelsBadMan
Watching this after TotK came out. *Shudders* Dang, I'm glad I never faced anyting this crazy.