if you enchant the feathers during ed's instructions, they are magical, meaning... arrows with cocktrice feathers can turn incorporeal undead to stone. the 24 hours allows time to cast permanency on the stoned creature.
It seems that a cockatrice would be useless to sculptors in 5e unless you restore the more powerful petrification from earlier editions. BUT, they would be invaluable to slavers. Think about it. Keep a couple around as pets and use them for petrifying your intended targets. You can smuggle them out of the area by hiding them amongst other artworks. At the very least, your slavers can tie down their victims and release cockatrices on them. They get petrified in lying down, restrained positions. They can then be easily stacked, or boxed up for shipping. It's a great scheme to kidnap a noble!
Now that you've done an ecology video on the cockatrice, it's only fair that you do one on the basilisk to avoid confusion. (I'm a huge mythical monster geek and even I get them confused on occasion) Keep on being awesome AJ!
LOL, Lovin the Death-Rooster at the end, I haven't heard that since one of my Quad mates rigged it up as the alarm on his computer back in college. Now THAT was an alarm clock, lol.
I love that preserving the tail feathers thing. I'm running a Neolithic campaign right now where the players go through quest chains and gather rare things to make their magic items rather than a feat gold n access to a city market. Got a bugbear who would love a paralysis whip ... eventually
Never heard this story. Seems fishy. Anyway in poland cockatrice is called kuroliszek. Chicken-litch. It is believed you can create them by leaving rotten egg on graveyard
"Clutch" (pun intended?) your possessions as close to your body as possible when petrification sets in to avoid being robbed? You sure? One might find their arms on the floor if some murder hobos have happened to pass by.
I was going to ask can you eat a Cockatrice but... (2:48) Yah, that'll be a really bad idea. The ones from FFXII look like feathered beach-ball sized chickens. Wait, what! (5:40) So you kinda, sort of be able to eat them just like fugu fish; Instead of poison its petrification.
I do wonder how effective this could be as a tool for a neutral chaotic thief character. They don't kill, but hey if they can not defend themselves, survival of the fittest, as long as it is them that is most fit. And of course, the added benefit of humiliating the opponent makes it all the better.
The human tears bit you might fine this interesting, psychedelic mushrooms often cause you to litterally just leak tears for extended periods of time, I could see drow holding human slaves just to stuff them full of crazy underdark mushrooms to collect massive amounts of human tears.
Kudos on a video well done (expect for the low sound volume). Are the females of this creature called henatrice? Also, this reminds me of a past adventure in which a party member stupidity made a wish that all cockatrices look like chickens, making it hard to tell the difference between the two. This made chicken meat very expressive and almost made the chicken series to become exist.
Severe volume changes in a video and between videos in a playlist are probably bothering my neighbors in my building. I turn up the volume when the video's audio is quieter then all of sudden loud music plays.
During a session my players were in the monastery of an evil elemental earth cult and they just cleared a room and it had some tables and vases. one of the players inspired by the zelda video game decided to break all the vases thinking gold and magic potions would pop out. of course this didn't happen and i had one of the npc's tell him that he shouldn't be making all that noise because more enemies may be near. There were 14 cockatrices in the next room that had been train and i was subtly telling him. Like many players who are told by the DM that something is a bad idea, immediately started to break more vases and then started to pound on the door that lead to the room of cockatrices and bellowed loudly while at it. The door then burst open sending the player character to the ground prone while all 12 cockatrices land on top of him and all began to attack him. They all landed hits, 3 got crits, he failed all the petrification resistances and even got critical fails. I ruled that because of all that he immediately turned to stone and it was permanent unless a greater restoration spell was used. This party also for some reason refuses to use healers. At least I made all my players make backups in case they died while in the monastery.
Yes they very much are. The one who turned to stone now plays a warforge bard thats been modified to dispense beer and play music automatically. The other used to play a halfing paladin that thought jumping at the manticore while in a sky battle was a good idea. He now plays a human paladin of the god of rebellion and his name is Goldfor'd Cash. He is rebelling against his god of rebellion and i made him a nemesis called Patron Freabie who is rebelling against his rebellion.
Rebelling against the god of rebellion, lol, classic!I had a player who's character followed a god of trickery, and at one point, basically tried to trick the god of trickery. The entire party were then subjected to a brain twisting logic and observation trap that scattered them across multiple alternate dimensions and, yeah, to put it simply, one does not try to outwit the god of quick wits, as they are playing games at a whole other level. : D
AJ Pickett I going to do a session with them soon and they are preparing for a major attack on their base. one of the npcs helping them told them they can get a powerful ally to help them which is a bronze dragon, but they don't know that. however they need to prove they are worthy and need a pass a trial by combat with the dragon. It's going to be fun for me. Also awesome videos! they really help me flesh out creatures and create fun encounters.
Yuan-ti are on the list, I was planning on doing some Fey monsterology next, and including the Yuan-Ti when I cover some more info on the creator races and the age of thunder.
If possessions don't turn to stone with you, I just thought of some nasty blackmail uses of cockatrice in a campaign that is oriented around politics and lords and high society... something along the lines of the ending of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, with the petrified person waking up in a strange location and dressed in scandalous clothing.
I hate to say it, but the cockatrice is conceptually obsolete as a monster, given what we know now about theropod dinosaurs. This creature effectively existed in real life. It was called Yi qi: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_(dinosaur)
Real life equivalents of myths don't make myths obsolete. We still have zombies in fiction, although it's been proven that the first recorded story about a traditional "zombie" was a case of severe poisoning and a person dugging themself out of the ground thanks to the grave being very shallow. The sluggish movements are explained by brain damage. No animal can turn you to stone, lay eggs as a male, or let frogs care for their young - the myth is still pretty novel.
All that stuff is neat, but I'm referring to the physical appearance of the beast. A creature that's supposedly half bird and half reptile hybrid doesn't seem chimerical anymore, because we know now that birds are highly specialized reptiles (i.e. dinosaurs). This wasn't obvious in the medieval period. It would be a like a mythological ape-man hybrid. We now know that humans ARE apes, and many of our ancestors have effectively already filled this role. I also think the zombie genre needs to be retired. Zombies have appeared in interesting movies and shows, but zombies themselves aren't interesting. They just moan and shuffle around. I don't care for vampires, but at least they have personalities, histories, and occasionally pathos. Not to mention that zombies are even less convincing when moved out of fantasy and into sci-fi, since they make absolutely no sense biologically, and there is no particular reason to believe that a horde of slow, stupid, and easily killed opponents is somehow going to pose a threat to global civilization.
Writing a creature off just because it has a real world equivalent is an interesting point of view, though I would keep the cockatrice as a mythological beast (I mean, there are historic accounts! Tremendous, nobody does eye witness accounts like the medievals, and without the internet I might add, second to none, believe me) and just make another dinosaur listing for the archaeopteryx and it's raptor kin.
Will do, thanks for the feedback. Just a reminder that this is an old video (like, several years), and this issue is an old issue where I am going back and remastering these old vids.
@@AJPickett yeah noticed, it's a jump scare! I really love to see the commitment the video was awesome and the cockatrice is such a fascinating monster, love all of your bestiary videos keep it up!
if you enchant the feathers during ed's instructions, they are magical, meaning... arrows with cocktrice feathers can turn incorporeal undead to stone. the 24 hours allows time to cast permanency on the stoned creature.
It seems that a cockatrice would be useless to sculptors in 5e unless you restore the more powerful petrification from earlier editions. BUT, they would be invaluable to slavers. Think about it. Keep a couple around as pets and use them for petrifying your intended targets. You can smuggle them out of the area by hiding them amongst other artworks. At the very least, your slavers can tie down their victims and release cockatrices on them. They get petrified in lying down, restrained positions. They can then be easily stacked, or boxed up for shipping. It's a great scheme to kidnap a noble!
"Hmmm... so I'm gonna be petrified in a round or two huh? ... ... ... ok, DM, I attempt to wring it's neck..."
2:21 dipholosaurus
Now that you've done an ecology video on the cockatrice, it's only fair that you do one on the basilisk to avoid confusion. (I'm a huge mythical monster geek and even I get them confused on occasion)
Keep on being awesome AJ!
It's on the list, I am getting there :)
Cool! Thanks for the response, good luck.
Gloves of Storing magic item:
20 lb "Cockatrice" becomes a Pocket Monster," Pokamon"
LOL, Lovin the Death-Rooster at the end, I haven't heard that since one of my Quad mates rigged it up as the alarm on his computer back in college. Now THAT was an alarm clock, lol.
I love that preserving the tail feathers thing. I'm running a Neolithic campaign right now where the players go through quest chains and gather rare things to make their magic items rather than a feat gold n access to a city market. Got a bugbear who would love a paralysis whip ... eventually
I always thought cockatrice final syllable was pronounced "triss"
Never heard this story. Seems fishy. Anyway in poland cockatrice is called kuroliszek. Chicken-litch. It is believed you can create them by leaving rotten egg on graveyard
A thief with a trained cockatrice..... Yeah 24 hours you could make one hard to catch thife.
"Clutch" (pun intended?) your possessions as close to your body as possible when petrification sets in to avoid being robbed? You sure? One might find their arms on the floor if some murder hobos have happened to pass by.
Glad i didnt watch this to go to bed like usual. Theres a RUDE wakeup at the end of this one. That is one angry grindcore rooster.
I was going to ask can you eat a Cockatrice but... (2:48) Yah, that'll be a really bad idea. The ones from FFXII look like feathered beach-ball sized chickens. Wait, what! (5:40) So you kinda, sort of be able to eat them just like fugu fish; Instead of poison its petrification.
I have a player that brings up all the time he wants a cockatrice as a pet.. Lol with this i now can implement the rule of cool. Ty
So much talk about tail feathers but the pictures I paid the most attention to didnt have feathers I could see
Actually there were some at the end but the tail can make that lore confusing
Sad that they are so small, they would be perfect mounts for kobolds.
Nasty creatures that kinda resemble dragons a bit ^^
what's fun is if you put one in a covered bird cage and see who's got a sense of curiosity.😆
If you ever spot a barbarian sporting a feather duster, there are at least a couple of reasons to flee the area.
I do wonder how effective this could be as a tool for a neutral chaotic thief character. They don't kill, but hey if they can not defend themselves, survival of the fittest, as long as it is them that is most fit. And of course, the added benefit of humiliating the opponent makes it all the better.
The human tears bit you might fine this interesting, psychedelic mushrooms often cause you to litterally just leak tears for extended periods of time, I could see drow holding human slaves just to stuff them full of crazy underdark mushrooms to collect massive amounts of human tears.
Kudos on a video well done (expect for the low sound volume). Are the females of this creature called henatrice? Also, this reminds me of a past adventure in which a party member stupidity made a wish that all cockatrices look like chickens, making it hard to tell the difference between the two. This made chicken meat very expressive and almost made the chicken series to become exist.
Severe volume changes in a video and between videos in a playlist are probably bothering my neighbors in my building. I turn up the volume when the video's audio is quieter then all of sudden loud music plays.
The outro 🤘🐔😂
Have you done the Pyrolisk yet?
Not yet
During a session my players were in the monastery of an evil elemental earth cult and they just cleared a room and it had some tables and vases. one of the players inspired by the zelda video game decided to break all the vases thinking gold and magic potions would pop out. of course this didn't happen and i had one of the npc's tell him that he shouldn't be making all that noise because more enemies may be near. There were 14 cockatrices in the next room that had been train and i was subtly telling him. Like many players who are told by the DM that something is a bad idea, immediately started to break more vases and then started to pound on the door that lead to the room of cockatrices and bellowed loudly while at it. The door then burst open sending the player character to the ground prone while all 12 cockatrices land on top of him and all began to attack him. They all landed hits, 3 got crits, he failed all the petrification resistances and even got critical fails. I ruled that because of all that he immediately turned to stone and it was permanent unless a greater restoration spell was used. This party also for some reason refuses to use healers. At least I made all my players make backups in case they died while in the monastery.
Wow... I would have great fun with your group of friends, they sound like they are into D&D for the lolz :)
Yes they very much are. The one who turned to stone now plays a warforge bard thats been modified to dispense beer and play music automatically. The other used to play a halfing paladin that thought jumping at the manticore while in a sky battle was a good idea. He now plays a human paladin of the god of rebellion and his name is Goldfor'd Cash. He is rebelling against his god of rebellion and i made him a nemesis called Patron Freabie who is rebelling against his rebellion.
Rebelling against the god of rebellion, lol, classic!I had a player who's character followed a god of trickery, and at one point, basically tried to trick the god of trickery. The entire party were then subjected to a brain twisting logic and observation trap that scattered them across multiple alternate dimensions and, yeah, to put it simply, one does not try to outwit the god of quick wits, as they are playing games at a whole other level. : D
AJ Pickett I going to do a session with them soon and they are preparing for a major attack on their base. one of the npcs helping them told them they can get a powerful ally to help them which is a bronze dragon, but they don't know that. however they need to prove they are worthy and need a pass a trial by combat with the dragon. It's going to be fun for me.
Also awesome videos! they really help me flesh out creatures and create fun encounters.
I have to wonder if a Cockatrice is a result of certain genes in the Chicken that get turned on or off causing a more saurian appearance?
In the campaign I'm doing, there is going to be cockatrice fights...yes, I know I'm a horrible person.
Thanks AJ.
Research?
@@AJPickett Yes. I have to talk about this critter on Friday as you know ;)
Hmm I wonder if my idea for an NPC Cockatrice rancher/farmer is valid possibly bulking the group out with regular chickens? (In a separate pen)
thanks these are always geat, any chance you might do a series on the gods of dnd?
good question! I want to say yes, but I am not sure when it will happen. There is not many Vids on them on youtube, is there?
If you could, could you do a video on Serpentfolk next?
Yuan-ti are on the list, I was planning on doing some Fey monsterology next, and including the Yuan-Ti when I cover some more info on the creator races and the age of thunder.
AJ Pickett Okay, thanks.
Why no bassalisk video?
Hadn't had any requests for them until now.
Maybe I missed it, but is there a way for players to reverse the turning into stone? Or is it permanent once it happens?
There are spells and potions
@@AJPickett Good to know. Thanks for the reply! 😁
The image at 2:21 is very provocative!
Hey Pretender, long time since I got a comment from you! Glad you are still tuning in :)
Reminds me of what they say Raptors looked like with feathers
A Velociraptor withoutfeathers isn't a Velociraptor.
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I love how there is just the shadow outline of a domestic cat in that image.. like there was a cat, but.. Velociraptor.
If possessions don't turn to stone with you, I just thought of some nasty blackmail uses of cockatrice in a campaign that is oriented around politics and lords and high society... something along the lines of the ending of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, with the petrified person waking up in a strange location and dressed in scandalous clothing.
Hmmm....a pet cockatrice. interesting indeed.
I hate to say it, but the cockatrice is conceptually obsolete as a monster, given what we know now about theropod dinosaurs. This creature effectively existed in real life. It was called Yi qi:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_(dinosaur)
Real life equivalents of myths don't make myths obsolete. We still have zombies in fiction, although it's been proven that the first recorded story about a traditional "zombie" was a case of severe poisoning and a person dugging themself out of the ground thanks to the grave being very shallow. The sluggish movements are explained by brain damage. No animal can turn you to stone, lay eggs as a male, or let frogs care for their young - the myth is still pretty novel.
All that stuff is neat, but I'm referring to the physical appearance of the beast. A creature that's supposedly half bird and half reptile hybrid doesn't seem chimerical anymore, because we know now that birds are highly specialized reptiles (i.e. dinosaurs). This wasn't obvious in the medieval period. It would be a like a mythological ape-man hybrid. We now know that humans ARE apes, and many of our ancestors have effectively already filled this role.
I also think the zombie genre needs to be retired. Zombies have appeared in interesting movies and shows, but zombies themselves aren't interesting. They just moan and shuffle around. I don't care for vampires, but at least they have personalities, histories, and occasionally pathos. Not to mention that zombies are even less convincing when moved out of fantasy and into sci-fi, since they make absolutely no sense biologically, and there is no particular reason to believe that a horde of slow, stupid, and easily killed opponents is somehow going to pose a threat to global civilization.
Writing a creature off just because it has a real world equivalent is an interesting point of view, though I would keep the cockatrice as a mythological beast (I mean, there are historic accounts! Tremendous, nobody does eye witness accounts like the medievals, and without the internet I might add, second to none, believe me) and just make another dinosaur listing for the archaeopteryx and it's raptor kin.
I wonder if you believe in the existence of any fiction creature aside from god.
I don't believe in anything, things are either real or not real, it's a simple system that has served me well :)
Slayer Task: Kill Cocatrice
Gumbo anybody lol
Fav
love the extremely low volume with the voice but the intro just destroying my ears, dude just edit your video!
and intro too
Will do, thanks for the feedback. Just a reminder that this is an old video (like, several years), and this issue is an old issue where I am going back and remastering these old vids.
@@AJPickett yeah noticed, it's a jump scare!
I really love to see the commitment
the video was awesome and the cockatrice is such a fascinating monster, love all of your bestiary videos keep it up!
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