AJ while I fully accepted your departure from DnD and Forgotten Realms I have to admit that I was absolutely ecstatic when I saw this video. You are the one who got me interested in DnD years ago and I can’t thank you enough for it.
Same honestly, your content is some of the best I’ve found. Always interested in d and d but never had a chance to play myself and this channel is my avenue. Love it!
I credit AJ and this channel for my deep love for the lore of the Forgotten Realms as well. Definitely wouldn’t be as hooked on TTRPGs and world building as I am without these videos!
AJ words dont describe how happy seeing you openly make d&d content again, ive learned so much from you over the years and hope to learn more from you ol sage, please keep on making d&d content and dont let wotc ruin your passion. Forever your student in lore. - thank you
While I really appreciate your new content, especially the derailed fantasies. Your D&D lore videos have always had a special place in my heart. Some of my fondest memories are of watching them with my brother and I am so glad to see you bringing them back!
Prove that AJ is the best: He actually managed to upload this video while I was drinking coffee. I live in Costa Rica. How did he do that? No one knows
Wow, AJ, I literally was remembering the barghest encounter from the novel with Drizzt only a day ago. I was thinking how they could be an interesting boss in a campaign I'm working up...and bam you put up a great video. Thanks for everything you do to spread the hobby!
I absolutely love goblins, and barghest being their equivalent to Aasimar is just so so on brand for them. I'm so glad to see you making D&D related content again, even if your reason for leaving was 100% valid.
Agreed. Honestly, I think that making D&D content while simply ignoring WotC and any of their retcons (As was done here. What the hell is that Volo's entry talking about?) is a greater insult to them than simply not making D&D content at all. We own this game, not WotC.
Always great when the Sage throws Volo some stones of truth. I must say the depiction of Volo in BG3 seems pretty spot on especially after getting the facts from the Sage.
Not only do you come back to our beloved D&D multiverse, but you do so with a request I sent you about three years ago! Of course, I immediately jumped on the video! I couldn't be much happier! Great stuff as always! Keep it up! 😁
Regardless of the questionable decisions and policies of WotC, the comfortable familiarity and cornucopia of lore available in the various editions of D&D will never stop drawing us back, will it, AJ?
3:00 ahh Gahenna reminds me of the Shard of Jund in Magic the Gathering, that’s the black, red, green “shard” and what people call that combination of colors.
Aj back at it again with the crisp DnD lore videos. Edit: because of you I finally got to play DnD with an online group. I'm a druid monk combo tortle and I constantly have your voice in my head narrating it.
My favorite lore master has returned. The lore belongs to us. WoTC may have the rights, but we own the soul of D&D. No matter how bad of stewards they are, we choose what gets used. My community is why it still exists. It would be so easy for WoTC to win us over, but the owners never understood what any of this is. They are looking for profit margins only. Not support. Which us why I wish a company like Larian had the rights. Just look at what they've done to Magic the Gathering. The very same thing is next for D&D. And i won't be there to support them. MTG fans should boycott WoTC
And yet again, another great video is posted! I have always loved the monstrous races and their world views, their lives, how they end and what their afterlives are like. It's hard to imagine someone, ANYTHING, enjoying these afterlives...but hey! Guess if they're happy...good for them? Also makes me wonder what it would be like if a goblin pledged themselves to a more good aligned god and tried to live a righteous life. Do they still end up in their 'paradise' afterlives or do they get taken away to an afterlife that was not made for them? LORE IS COOL Y'ALL.
I suppose it would depend on their actual alignment upon death. They would likely end up in the Outer Plane that most resemble said alignment. A redeemed Hobgoblin who ends up being Lawful Good, for instance, might just end up in the Seven Heavens of Mount Celestia (where, ironically, they might eventually end up in a canine Outsider form as well, lol).
My ongoing Pathfinder in Baldur's gate is base on a Cambion son of Magoubliet, who assaulted the city and has even more sinister motives up his sleeves.
This is one where I have a completely different take on them. A barghest in a goblin tribe will be just slightly larger than the rest until it shifts its form. It will look exactly like the rest in coloration as part of its hunting strategy. The goblins with a barghest hiding among them won’t run from a fight. Hobgoblins loathe barghests. They’re the only goblinoids that will actively try to kill them, if they can. They view them as little more than animals, even though they are of a fiendish nature. The bugbears are more like tieflings with a barghest ancestor long ago. They revel in having a barghest among their number, because it is like having an epic hero leading them in a glorious hunt. Bugbear tribes become utterly vicious when a barghest is among them, which is saying a lot. They will take on whole cities of humans with a barghest leading as few as a couple dozen bugbears. Barghests are viewed as the servants of the goblinoid gods by all but the hobgoblins. The goblins especially view them that way because they can shift form into wolves instead of being forced to domesticate wolves. All of the lesser goblin gods are barghests who ascended to godhood by leading massive goblin tribes, numbering in the tens of thousands. Neutrally-aligned goblin tribes will often have a Druid with the ability to wild shape either leading them or giving orders to a goblin king. But that applies only to goblin Druids. A Druid of any other race will be killed for attempting to mimic the gods. The original goblin race was neutrally-aligned and descended from the fey, until the usurper gods created the barghests to herd them towards evil, increasing their power. The sole remaining neutral goblin deity is the Stalker, detailed in Monster Mythology for AD&D 2nd. The Stalker was the hunting companion of Rillifane Rallathil, Eilistraee and Solonar Thelandria before the Dawn War and it is only the fear of him that keeps him alive as a deity. If not for the fear the usurper gods have of him returning, the Stalker would die and pass on into the Astral. The only priests the Stalker has are Druids and they can often be found in the company of Wild and Dark elves of a more neutral alignment. Yeah, I like barghests. They can be fun to include in a game. A mixed party of goblins, wood elves and dark elves hunting a barghest can be an amazing encounter for players of the right mindset and provide relief for players who fail to stock up on supplies before starting a cross-country journey. That also makes one heck of a good plot hook and makes them look at goblins, wood elves and dark elves differently. Doing that encounter at night when half the party is sleeping can make it terrifying if you use the old coup de grace rules. I can guarantee the players will add points to perception at the next level. When the goblin with the highest stealth plops down next to the fire and says, in perfect Elvish, “you’re lost, mate, and this is dangerous country” it will throw your players into a panic.
I had heard of these but never realized their infernal origins. That bit at the beginning of the video was a interesting perspective shift, and definitely makes them more terrifying.
A barghest is a BBEG in a setting I run every few months. He’s a massive demigod who openly rules steppe hobgoblins, wargs, etc., and the dragonborn empire is the only neighbor he fears. He’s struck a trade deal with them to sell demon and devil flesh to make “veinplate” armor (which is as cursed as it sounds). The barghest himself is essentially fused into veinplate made from his long-dead superiors. Telqan the Crimson Patron loves infiltration, and uses his demigod powers to rule his Bloodpact while also sneaking around among other races. He regularly keeps tabs on the players (the Four Winds) in the forms of NPCs he’s killed and briefly replaced. He even dueled one of the Four Winds in her gladiator backstory, albeit in a situation where killing wasn’t allowed.
I've always viewed the Barghest more of a Goblin infected with Lycanthropy. Since it would present differently in different races. But that's more of a Shadowrun view I guess.
Thank you so much for doing this video! Barghests are not a creature I have given a ficus to, before, but I occasionally have a moment where I get Goblins on the mind, either because of my own silly obsession with psionic Blue Goblins, from 2e, or like now, as I play BG3. I'll have to go do some poking, and see if I want to add any to some little encounter, or story bit, that I keep in thevild udeas for later use folder.😊 It was so nice to see this video. I get that you had your reasons to sortbof cut ties to the official D&D stuff, after the OGL fiasco, but your DhD content videos were some of my favorites, and listening to you discuss lore I'm familiar with was a lot of fun! Thanks very much for doing this one!
Hey AJ, with you mentioning Deodands, a type of fiend I have not heard of before, I have tried to research them but have found nothing yet. Where are they mentioned?
Gobliniods are a stolen race. Their head god killed the original pantheon. They probably were always evil but the fact the current culture among them is the result of that usurper god cannot be overlooked. So not strange at all their god doesn't seem to quite fit their theme. He really is an outsider whom is twisting the goblins to his purposes
@@jacobfreeman5444The original goblins were more like short wood elves. Their gods were good, neutral and evil, but mostly neutral. I use The Stalker from Monster Mythology as the sole remaining one with any power and he is chaotic neutral, like Rillifane Rallathil, the chief god of the wood elves.
Love to see you returning to D&D monsters! Do you think you'll do another video about mind flayers, now that BG3 has them on (and in) everyone's mind? Related to that, how about more Far Realm monsters or general lore? The videos you've done on Far Realm stuff are still some of my favorites.
That little dig at Volo though. I got knocked back to remembering the sage character you had for these. Little bit of professional criticism, eh? I *forgot* much of this about Barghests, though I feel like I used to know it. Gehenna, likewise, feels like one of those places that is begging to have more known about it: less love given it than the Abyss or the Hells, but its own personal brand of horrific. To spring off talks of goblin lore elsewhere: in my homebrew, the god of the goblins is KNOWN as Maglubiyet, to them. Other races have different names for him, because he's the God of *Conquest* . And every horrible thing that implies. It just felt right, you know?
In my home brew, Magubliyet is a usurper. The only one of the original goblin gods left is The Stalker from Monster Mythology in AD&D 2nd, who only retains his existence in the fear that followers of Magubliyet have of him. He was the goblin god of hunting, stealth and tracking, but he doesn’t seek out priests to worship him. His worshippers are mostly Druids, shaman and Rangers, who get their spells from elsewhere (the wild elf god with the same portfolio grants many of them, along with the dark elf goddess Eilistraee). It isn’t unusual to see wild elves, dark elves and goblins in mixed hunting parties, but only when they want you to see them.
That’s an extension of a very old argument about a dwarf cruelly torturing an orc to find out where the orc village is located. A lawful good dwarf would never even consider torturing another good character for information, but savagely separating the joints of an orc with an axe until it talks doesn’t break the dwarf’s lawful good alignment. It falls into the same category as a paladin ruthlessly slaughtering a whole village full of orcs. Everything about alignment is based on perspective.
I mean this in a nice way, but Paizo needs to make its own stuff and stop rewriting D&D. That's why I don't cover it, I have an encyclopedia of lore in my brain as it is, I am not going to fill it with a second load of 'almost but not quite' lore from Pathfinder, because I'll go batshit crazy. 😜
100% agree Pazio should start acting as a competitor to dnd rather than an alterative and i don't have a lore channel so i can mix and match and steal the best ideas . and the pathfind stuff on Barghests/ goblin gods is crazy better than dnd ver .so i have stolen alot from the pathfinder version personally also the Dnd lore on goblin gods is kinda bad . it's been a DM measuring stick to see if u can even pronounce their names and begs for home brew. it never sat right with me that the head god goblin uses a great axe what goblin uses a great axe @@AJPickett
that sounds like a full /awesome campaign to me Maglubiyet is killed by Malar and now all goblins are even more feral and more bestial and coming for those who hide behind walls @@AJPickett
@@tctc4413 There is a goblinoid god that has no church, no worshippers and he doesn’t grant spells in the book Monster Mythology that should have been carried on to later editions. The best I can tell, he was the goblin god of hunting and stealth before Magubliyet usurped his power. He’s listed as a demigod or lesser god, which means he would be a floating corpse in the astral if not for the fear of him among goblinoids. The stat block was close enough to the stat block of Rillifane Rallathil that it is either an aspect of that god or it fulfilled the same role in the goblin pantheon before Magubliyet took over. If you read the stat block for Rillifane, it may have been an overlapping god of goblins and elves, since Rillifane could easily be a god of the goblins based on his portfolio. Since I have the Metsan Vaki and Ghillie Dhu in my games as neutral and good goblins, it fits nicely. It gives players good, neutral and evil gods of the hunt and nature.
Absolutely do a video on Gehenna. Im fascinated by the planes. Maybe Acheron too. I thought you had made one on that plane and bladelings, but I cant find those either.
That is one thing kind of confusing in BG3. Spectators generally are peaceful unless you persist agains their assigned guard points. Still the underdark cut scene is awesome.
@@AJPickett Oh I know all about Barghests and Greater Barghests. But they seem kinda bland. I mean they ARE a big bag of Str Dex, Con and Hitdice but other than Outsider skill and feat advances I'm wondering if there's anything better at higher thresholds such as more spell likes the way Greaters get more than standards for their spells.
@@AJPickett Ah, the Barghests themselves tend to run those cities? Cool. I had figured most were in the hands of Deities or the bigger Yugoloths (or occasional devil forward base.)
Yeah in 3.5 Wish, miracle, and True Resurrection only had a 50% chance to rez, not per cast. EVER, if any of those three spells fails the first roll, no mortal magic can return them (Bit of an odd phrasing there honestly, since Miracle's supposed to be asking a deity to do it for you, but eh) I'd say killing the Barghest would give you a 100% chance with those three spells.
Bar - ghest, or Bar -ghist. In nutshell, Fae/fairy ghost hound that hunt marsh/wetlands around lakes and rivers prey on travelers camping to close to their haunting grounds. Will -o whips or swamp gas lights work in tangent. As for 3e Dragon magazine " Ecology of the Hobgoblin," Hobgoblin shamans/ clerics reaching 7th-level cast 4th-level spell Lesser Planar Ally to call an 8hd barghest to impregnate worthy females of the goblin tribe creating many half-fiends to function as tribes forward scouts. A tribe with a good number of half-fiend barghest will give birth to a full blooded barghest. Carry over from 2e Planescape barghest gain 1hp per class level a n/pc they eat. So any 0-level npc will just be not bother with unless used as bait for some adventurers. Or they will lead low level PCs into encounters to .. beef .. them up till it is feeding time. Then there is something about European myths regarding the Dog men, such as in dog/ hounds and not werewolves which are something else. More lore on fae/ shadow folk that jump scare people out after dark to feed off the emotions of fear, paranoia, and dread. Other than OLD reports other than traditional Irish folk lore of wild Irish wolf hounds. The appearance seem to be across of Roman imperial war dogs/ mastiffs which are large enough they will tackle push their prey target to the ground before they decide the best location to bite down on. As for bull baiting the mastiff along with the great dane will run at full speed and shoulder bump the cattle till the animal lose its footing and twist or break their ankle. Something about something leading up to cow tipping.
Cu is “hound” in Gaelic. The -ghest at the end is likely a variant on ghast, geist or ghost in one of the Germanic, Frankish or Dutch languages. It’s unlikely to have a French origin, because geste is “joke” or “jest” in English. Although that doesn’t rule it out entirely, because it could mean something along the lines of “cruel joke” or the like. It would be much easier to know the origin if English wasn’t a combination of Gaelic, Brythonic, Anglic, Jutish, Geatish, Frankish, Saxon, Norman, Frisian, French, German, Danish and Norwegian.
@@almitrahopkins1873 " favorite beasties, " ... yeah I been in and ran a few games that had barghest in them. Some ran them as another hack & slash xp snack. Strait up military encounters. Others ran them as " you are being stalked, " .. great another werewolf theme monster. 2.) Now back at my first gaming shop during 1998 to 2003. Before WotC and still had to deal with lingering b.s. of the Satanic Panic, where they called D&D devils & demons. Our shop said F- it and ran a Planescape campaign pcing fiends. " Blood War " Since Whitewolf/World of Darkness (WoD) vampire and werewolf was out, we ran a game where everyone was PC a barghest playing a point game to out do each other in trophies. So using AD&D2ndE rules for role playing and not so much for xp level gain. But the concept of a barghest acting as a military adviser to provoke a given leader into having their soldiers to commit a bunch of war crimes. Then stalk all of them as soul food impower themselves on. You have a sad soldier suffering from battle fatigue/ shell shock and a hound from hell comes to collect their soul with one bite of flesh at a time.
To me high level goblins are the embodiment of strength through hardship. And considering goblins are one of the weakest races in any setting, they've faced more hardship than you can imagine. A powerful goblin is an entity that has been forged broken, and reforged into something that is ready to be broken and reforged once again. For the record mid level goblins are unpredictable jokes that are as likely to get them selves hurt as they are to be an actual threat, both options are the most likely option. And low level goblins are an endless wave upon wave of endless cannon fodder. So to become a powerful goblin you start out as a drop in a bucket that's about to be thrown on a fire. Then if you survive that, you become a danger to yourself and others that every one laughs at including yourself. Then if you survive that you're only a danger to others and you're the only one laughing.
D&D lore pretty much abandoned what goblins are. They aren’t cowardly, they’re cunning. The average goblin in 3e or pathfinder 1st has a +13 stealth from a single skill rank (+4 from size, +4 racial, +1 from their Dex, +3 because stealth is a class skill for all goblins). Use that and your players will fear goblins even at high levels. I created a goblin encounter that still wipes a 5th level party of four pretty much every time using only 5 goblins, three wolves, a 10’ pit and a 10’ tower behind it. One of the five goblins is a 3rd level rogue. They attack from ambush and the goal is to kill anyone not wearing armor and any horses in the first two rounds. If the melee types try to charge the two archers in the tower, they end up in the pit with two goblins using bows 20’ above them. Those two leg it out the back if the players climb halfway up to the tower. The other two regular goblins are armed with spear, shield & bow and are mounted on two of the wolves. They will move out of range constantly while firing their bows unless forced into melee. The 3rd level rogue will get close and attack anyone not wearing armor. If the wolf hits with its attack, it gets a trip attack, giving the rogue a +4 to hit because the player is prone and that gets it a sneak attack bonus. After 3-4 rounds all five goblins leg it and track the PCs, who are now moving without the benefit of at least half their horses. When the PCs bed down for the night to recover, the goblins will sneak into their camp using that really high stealth skill to try to catch at least half the party sleeping. That’s instant death unless the sentry can spot the goblins, which is why the rogue will go after him if there is only one. A third level goblin rogue has a +15 stealth with a 12 Dex and his short sword gets an extra +2d6 damage. That’s just a goblin scouting party. Double that for a raiding party and add a goblin Fighter 2/Rogue 3 and a caster of any type at level 1. For a war party, the leader is a Fighter 2/Rogue 5, two lieutenants of Fighter 2/Rogue 3, four scouts at Rogue 3, one war chief’s shaman at level 3, two casters at level 1, twelve wolves and sixteen regular goblins warriors. If you attack them in their village, there will be a Chief of Fighter 4/Rogue 5, his shaman at level 5 and 3-5 war parties along with double that number in females and whelps. 20% odds of the PCs targeting a nearly full-grown whelp instead of a warrior in the confusion. The non-leveled goblins will have either spear & shield or bow & short sword or dagger. The whelps might have a dagger or short sword, but no shield. All of the leveled ones will have a bow, quiver, short sword, spear and shield except the casters, who will have a short sword or dagger. The tribe’s shaman will have the feats to make magic weapons, miscellaneous magic items and potions, so equip the tribal chief and his war chiefs appropriately. The lowest stealth will be +13 and the highest will be +17, so your players should be very afraid of not getting all of the goblins if they attack a whole village. Was that more along the lines of what you were thinking? Don’t forget that 4-6 of your goblins have +3d6 damage if the players are flanked. 12-20 of them have +2d6 sneak attack. You also have 48-80 goblins without levels for the backstabbing ones to hide among and 48-80 whelps to confuse the PCs. A goblin tribe can wipe a group of 10th-15th level quite easily. With the fight being on their home turf, there will also be traps, short tunnels and bolt holes to deal with. Whelps will try to grab the weapons, armor and clothing off of the PCs and take off running while the warriors and leaders fight from hiding among the regular warriors. And if they don’t get them all, the goblins will track the players back to whatever village or city they came from, climb walls at night, swim through river gates, squeeze through the bars of portcullises and fire flaming arrows into thatched roofs. The most terrifying encounter in games I DM is “goblin tracks”. It scares the crap out of my players. When I play, I tend to play goblins. The maximum possible stealth for a goblin PC is +21 at 5th level without magic items. A fifth level goblin Druid can make magic items, have a +21 stealth, track and doesn’t leave tracks. That’s a terrifying prospect, isn’t it? And with Wild Shape, they can pretend to be a barghest.
Doing a wiki dive, the oldest written source I can find for it is a ballad from William Hone's "Everyday Book" in 1830 and it was legendary before that.
@@HBHagaAnd the -ghest at the end could have come from geist, ghast, ghost or even geste, so tracking it down through a dozen different languages will be a giggle.
I would love more videos on the lower planes. Like more videos on the Hells a video for each layer and their Archduke or dutchess and maybe even ways to improve them.
@AJPickett thank you. Volo's guide to monsters talked about how they were all unrelated races united by Maglubiyet. And I gotta say seeing how lore changes from edition to edition gets confusing. So did Maglubiyet come in and take over the pantheons and just take over, or is it something else?
I'm not against the concept of Barghests and Liches consuming souls (albeit even then they should be stored, not destroyed), but considering the importance of souls to the Afterlife's ecosystem/economy in D&D, any creature like that would be hunted and destroyed. By all sides. After all, the gods' very sustenance is worship And it's kind of hard to get that from destroyed souls.
@@almitrahopkins1873 oh, I know. Good to see AJ back in the forgotten realms. Best part of Gray orcs is the terrifying prospect of eliminating the few shortcomings goblinoid peoples have. That and one of the novels featured a grey orc paladin of Torm. A civilized, mannerly, patient, and well discipline orc…. Ooh the possibilities.
@@TheHornedKingYou have to apply logic to it. Goblins are of breeding age by six years at the latest. Each and every goblin has a soul, but they are about as worthwhile as the average larva. Barghests are there to encourage evil among the goblins, not consume them. The goblins will be in Gehenna in about 25 years as larva anyway, but they can be so much tastier with proper guidance. And those souls power evil deities as worshippers, making evil deities more powerful. Barghests look like goblins until they start to be developed enough to be a threat to everything. That’s so you don’t notice them until it is too late. Why would they eat their camouflage?
@@AJPickett didn't mean it in a bad way i just love d&d lore and love when you make those videos. I get why you branched out and don't blame you for it at all but genuinely only want d&d content
AJ while I fully accepted your departure from DnD and Forgotten Realms I have to admit that I was absolutely ecstatic when I saw this video. You are the one who got me interested in DnD years ago and I can’t thank you enough for it.
Same honestly, your content is some of the best I’ve found. Always interested in d and d but never had a chance to play myself and this channel is my avenue. Love it!
I credit AJ and this channel for my deep love for the lore of the Forgotten Realms as well. Definitely wouldn’t be as hooked on TTRPGs and world building as I am without these videos!
Agreed, I listen to AJ to learn all of my D&D lore, and give me ideas for later. Happy you are doing some more D&D
Yeah u helped me become a DM thanks
I thought a barghest was a blight to goblinoids, sent to punish Maglubiyet? Oh, right, Volo is an unreliable witness.
AJ words dont describe how happy seeing you openly make d&d content again, ive learned so much from you over the years and hope to learn more from you ol sage, please keep on making d&d content and dont let wotc ruin your passion. Forever your student in lore. - thank you
While I really appreciate your new content, especially the derailed fantasies. Your D&D lore videos have always had a special place in my heart. Some of my fondest memories are of watching them with my brother and I am so glad to see you bringing them back!
Dnd is back, thank the gods
It's good to see the sage of Candlekeep is back 👍
Prove that AJ is the best:
He actually managed to upload this video while I was drinking coffee. I live in Costa Rica.
How did he do that? No one knows
I have a certain set of skills...
Wow, AJ, I literally was remembering the barghest encounter from the novel with Drizzt only a day ago. I was thinking how they could be an interesting boss in a campaign I'm working up...and bam you put up a great video. Thanks for everything you do to spread the hobby!
I absolutely love goblins, and barghest being their equivalent to Aasimar is just so so on brand for them. I'm so glad to see you making D&D related content again, even if your reason for leaving was 100% valid.
Agreed. Honestly, I think that making D&D content while simply ignoring WotC and any of their retcons (As was done here. What the hell is that Volo's entry talking about?) is a greater insult to them than simply not making D&D content at all. We own this game, not WotC.
I never thought you would return to the forgotten realms after what WoTC had done.
They may have the rights, but we own the lore. Screw WoTC. I'll support great companies like Larian, but for now I'll never support WoTC.
Barghests are not D&D. They exist in Pathfinder as well.
AJ DOING D&D AGAIN! CHRISTMAS CAME EARLY!
Always great when the Sage throws Volo some stones of truth. I must say the depiction of Volo in BG3 seems pretty spot on especially after getting the facts from the Sage.
I missed the dnd lore, I’m glad you’re back!
Me too man.
Not only do you come back to our beloved D&D multiverse, but you do so with a request I sent you about three years ago! Of course, I immediately jumped on the video! I couldn't be much happier! Great stuff as always! Keep it up! 😁
I looked it up: youve been coming through with videos when im sick for like 8 years. Thanks, AJ.
Get better soon or Yurtrus, the orc god of disease will poison you in your sleep.
Regardless of the questionable decisions and policies of WotC, the comfortable familiarity and cornucopia of lore available in the various editions of D&D will never stop drawing us back, will it, AJ?
I mean, I've been enjoying D&D since I was 11 years old, I am pretty much the same age as the hobby itself.
3:00 ahh Gahenna reminds me of the Shard of Jund in Magic the Gathering, that’s the black, red, green “shard” and what people call that combination of colors.
I have a barhest gang leader in one of my settings. He runs a sydicate that uses goblin werewolves as enforcers. It's pretty fun to run him
Nice!
Aj back at it again with the crisp DnD lore videos.
Edit: because of you I finally got to play DnD with an online group. I'm a druid monk combo tortle and I constantly have your voice in my head narrating it.
An honor, to be sure.
My favorite lore master has returned. The lore belongs to us. WoTC may have the rights, but we own the soul of D&D. No matter how bad of stewards they are, we choose what gets used.
My community is why it still exists. It would be so easy for WoTC to win us over, but the owners never understood what any of this is. They are looking for profit margins only. Not support. Which us why I wish a company like Larian had the rights.
Just look at what they've done to Magic the Gathering. The very same thing is next for D&D. And i won't be there to support them. MTG fans should boycott WoTC
And yet again, another great video is posted! I have always loved the monstrous races and their world views, their lives, how they end and what their afterlives are like. It's hard to imagine someone, ANYTHING, enjoying these afterlives...but hey! Guess if they're happy...good for them?
Also makes me wonder what it would be like if a goblin pledged themselves to a more good aligned god and tried to live a righteous life. Do they still end up in their 'paradise' afterlives or do they get taken away to an afterlife that was not made for them?
LORE IS COOL Y'ALL.
Good question.
I suppose it would depend on their actual alignment upon death. They would likely end up in the Outer Plane that most resemble said alignment. A redeemed Hobgoblin who ends up being Lawful Good, for instance, might just end up in the Seven Heavens of Mount Celestia (where, ironically, they might eventually end up in a canine Outsider form as well, lol).
I decide to check on my favorite intellectual gastronomist only to find an absolute treat. Tasty glue as always, AJ. :9
Nice to see Gehenna getting some love. Is there enough lore on the General of Gehenna for a whole video?
Hmmm, I can look into it
I thought there be no more dnd content still watch your old videos in my down time at work quality content 👌
My ongoing Pathfinder in Baldur's gate is base on a Cambion son of Magoubliet, who assaulted the city and has even more sinister motives up his sleeves.
Volo caught some stray (sling bullet)s. XD
This is one where I have a completely different take on them.
A barghest in a goblin tribe will be just slightly larger than the rest until it shifts its form. It will look exactly like the rest in coloration as part of its hunting strategy. The goblins with a barghest hiding among them won’t run from a fight.
Hobgoblins loathe barghests. They’re the only goblinoids that will actively try to kill them, if they can. They view them as little more than animals, even though they are of a fiendish nature.
The bugbears are more like tieflings with a barghest ancestor long ago. They revel in having a barghest among their number, because it is like having an epic hero leading them in a glorious hunt. Bugbear tribes become utterly vicious when a barghest is among them, which is saying a lot. They will take on whole cities of humans with a barghest leading as few as a couple dozen bugbears.
Barghests are viewed as the servants of the goblinoid gods by all but the hobgoblins. The goblins especially view them that way because they can shift form into wolves instead of being forced to domesticate wolves. All of the lesser goblin gods are barghests who ascended to godhood by leading massive goblin tribes, numbering in the tens of thousands.
Neutrally-aligned goblin tribes will often have a Druid with the ability to wild shape either leading them or giving orders to a goblin king. But that applies only to goblin Druids. A Druid of any other race will be killed for attempting to mimic the gods.
The original goblin race was neutrally-aligned and descended from the fey, until the usurper gods created the barghests to herd them towards evil, increasing their power. The sole remaining neutral goblin deity is the Stalker, detailed in Monster Mythology for AD&D 2nd. The Stalker was the hunting companion of Rillifane Rallathil, Eilistraee and Solonar Thelandria before the Dawn War and it is only the fear of him that keeps him alive as a deity. If not for the fear the usurper gods have of him returning, the Stalker would die and pass on into the Astral. The only priests the Stalker has are Druids and they can often be found in the company of Wild and Dark elves of a more neutral alignment.
Yeah, I like barghests. They can be fun to include in a game.
A mixed party of goblins, wood elves and dark elves hunting a barghest can be an amazing encounter for players of the right mindset and provide relief for players who fail to stock up on supplies before starting a cross-country journey. That also makes one heck of a good plot hook and makes them look at goblins, wood elves and dark elves differently. Doing that encounter at night when half the party is sleeping can make it terrifying if you use the old coup de grace rules. I can guarantee the players will add points to perception at the next level. When the goblin with the highest stealth plops down next to the fire and says, in perfect Elvish, “you’re lost, mate, and this is dangerous country” it will throw your players into a panic.
I had heard of these but never realized their infernal origins. That bit at the beginning of the video was a interesting perspective shift, and definitely makes them more terrifying.
A barghest is a BBEG in a setting I run every few months. He’s a massive demigod who openly rules steppe hobgoblins, wargs, etc., and the dragonborn empire is the only neighbor he fears. He’s struck a trade deal with them to sell demon and devil flesh to make “veinplate” armor (which is as cursed as it sounds). The barghest himself is essentially fused into veinplate made from his long-dead superiors.
Telqan the Crimson Patron loves infiltration, and uses his demigod powers to rule his Bloodpact while also sneaking around among other races. He regularly keeps tabs on the players (the Four Winds) in the forms of NPCs he’s killed and briefly replaced. He even dueled one of the Four Winds in her gladiator backstory, albeit in a situation where killing wasn’t allowed.
I've always viewed the Barghest more of a Goblin infected with Lycanthropy. Since it would present differently in different races. But that's more of a Shadowrun view I guess.
Barghest are true shapechangers from the depths infernal realms. They’re worse than lycanthropes.
Thank you so much for doing this video! Barghests are not a creature I have given a ficus to, before, but I occasionally have a moment where I get Goblins on the mind, either because of my own silly obsession with psionic Blue Goblins, from 2e, or like now, as I play BG3. I'll have to go do some poking, and see if I want to add any to some little encounter, or story bit, that I keep in thevild udeas for later use folder.😊
It was so nice to see this video. I get that you had your reasons to sortbof cut ties to the official D&D stuff, after the OGL fiasco, but your DhD content videos were some of my favorites, and listening to you discuss lore I'm familiar with was a lot of fun! Thanks very much for doing this one!
I love deep dive detailed lore
Yes, more gehenna, more infernal planes!
Excited for the future of the channel AJ!!
Always enjoy your lore videos while nursing a hangover 😅
6:30 This concept reminded me I still need to watch that Immortal Engines movie
Exactly so.
Hey AJ, with you mentioning Deodands, a type of fiend I have not heard of before, I have tried to research them but have found nothing yet. Where are they mentioned?
I mention in the video, dragon magazine.
@@AJPickett I believe they're also in the 3.0 Fiend Folio.
I'd given up on watching any AJ with the exception of older DnD videos. Glad to see you making DnD content again!
It is odd that the Barghest is from Gehenna when the Goblinoids' head god hangs on Acheron on the far side of Hell.
Gobliniods are a stolen race. Their head god killed the original pantheon. They probably were always evil but the fact the current culture among them is the result of that usurper god cannot be overlooked. So not strange at all their god doesn't seem to quite fit their theme. He really is an outsider whom is twisting the goblins to his purposes
@@jacobfreeman5444The original goblins were more like short wood elves. Their gods were good, neutral and evil, but mostly neutral. I use The Stalker from Monster Mythology as the sole remaining one with any power and he is chaotic neutral, like Rillifane Rallathil, the chief god of the wood elves.
Love to see you returning to D&D monsters! Do you think you'll do another video about mind flayers, now that BG3 has them on (and in) everyone's mind? Related to that, how about more Far Realm monsters or general lore? The videos you've done on Far Realm stuff are still some of my favorites.
The Mindflayer video is getting a lot of attention lately, so, we shall see.
That little dig at Volo though. I got knocked back to remembering the sage character you had for these. Little bit of professional criticism, eh?
I *forgot* much of this about Barghests, though I feel like I used to know it. Gehenna, likewise, feels like one of those places that is begging to have more known about it: less love given it than the Abyss or the Hells, but its own personal brand of horrific.
To spring off talks of goblin lore elsewhere: in my homebrew, the god of the goblins is KNOWN as Maglubiyet, to them. Other races have different names for him, because he's the God of *Conquest* . And every horrible thing that implies.
It just felt right, you know?
In my home brew, Magubliyet is a usurper. The only one of the original goblin gods left is The Stalker from Monster Mythology in AD&D 2nd, who only retains his existence in the fear that followers of Magubliyet have of him. He was the goblin god of hunting, stealth and tracking, but he doesn’t seek out priests to worship him. His worshippers are mostly Druids, shaman and Rangers, who get their spells from elsewhere (the wild elf god with the same portfolio grants many of them, along with the dark elf goddess Eilistraee). It isn’t unusual to see wild elves, dark elves and goblins in mixed hunting parties, but only when they want you to see them.
You are my absolute favorite Sage of D&D lore Mr. Pickett….
I love the framing of what is hell and what is heaven all depends on who/what you are!
That’s an extension of a very old argument about a dwarf cruelly torturing an orc to find out where the orc village is located. A lawful good dwarf would never even consider torturing another good character for information, but savagely separating the joints of an orc with an axe until it talks doesn’t break the dwarf’s lawful good alignment. It falls into the same category as a paladin ruthlessly slaughtering a whole village full of orcs.
Everything about alignment is based on perspective.
I LITERALLY just had a short encounter with a barghest last session for my players lol the timing
I'm in your brain like an Illithid Tadpole
@@AJPickett 🔥🪱🔥
Remember Aj. We don't play the game because of WOTC we play in spite of them!
Thanks, I'll have a coffee ☕️
Thank you, sir, for another great ecology video.
I really like some of the Barghest Dnd lore but the pathfinder lore on Barghests really blows it away , AJ pls dive into the pathfinder ver
I mean this in a nice way, but Paizo needs to make its own stuff and stop rewriting D&D. That's why I don't cover it, I have an encyclopedia of lore in my brain as it is, I am not going to fill it with a second load of 'almost but not quite' lore from Pathfinder, because I'll go batshit crazy. 😜
100% agree Pazio should start acting as a competitor to dnd rather than an alterative and i don't have a lore channel so i can mix and match and steal the best ideas .
and the pathfind stuff on Barghests/ goblin gods is crazy better than dnd ver .so i have stolen alot from the pathfinder version personally
also the Dnd lore on goblin gods is kinda bad . it's been a DM measuring stick to see if u can even pronounce their names and begs for home brew. it never sat right with me that the head god goblin uses a great axe what goblin uses a great axe @@AJPickett
@@tctc4413 Bug goblins. Anyway, it should be Malar who tried to take over the pantheon, as he did with the Orcs int he prehistory of Toril
that sounds like a full /awesome campaign to me Maglubiyet is killed by Malar and now all goblins are even more feral and more bestial and coming for those who hide behind walls @@AJPickett
@@tctc4413 There is a goblinoid god that has no church, no worshippers and he doesn’t grant spells in the book Monster Mythology that should have been carried on to later editions. The best I can tell, he was the goblin god of hunting and stealth before Magubliyet usurped his power. He’s listed as a demigod or lesser god, which means he would be a floating corpse in the astral if not for the fear of him among goblinoids. The stat block was close enough to the stat block of Rillifane Rallathil that it is either an aspect of that god or it fulfilled the same role in the goblin pantheon before Magubliyet took over. If you read the stat block for Rillifane, it may have been an overlapping god of goblins and elves, since Rillifane could easily be a god of the goblins based on his portfolio.
Since I have the Metsan Vaki and Ghillie Dhu in my games as neutral and good goblins, it fits nicely. It gives players good, neutral and evil gods of the hunt and nature.
Hey AJ are you going to talk about the orthon bounty, hunter devil?
I have it on my requested content list
45° gravity so going north is actually going up hill.
A really steep hill is about 30 degrees, so I don't see how a rampaging goblin even walks around.
I think it's uphill no matter what direction you go. Physics don't necessarily carry over to the Planes
I'd heard of these as some vaguely canine fiends, but I didn't know they had so much depth and breadth. Good job, sir. 👍
Oh how i missed this❤
I thought demodands were from Carceri? Good video though.
Demodands come from any of the neutral evil planes.
Absolutely do a video on Gehenna. Im fascinated by the planes. Maybe Acheron too. I thought you had made one on that plane and bladelings, but I cant find those either.
Awesome video, AJ, as always.
I fought a Spectator in Balders Gate 3 nasty thing. Maybe a video on them in the future.
That is one thing kind of confusing in BG3. Spectators generally are peaceful unless you persist agains their assigned guard points. Still the underdark cut scene is awesome.
I'm glad drizz' hunt down monster in that beautiful story That dude is amazing hand down
Where are the Barghest Tyrants stattted in the various editions?
Barghests are statted in every edition, The manuals of the planes (various) probably have that info.
@@AJPickett Oh I know all about Barghests and Greater Barghests. But they seem kinda bland. I mean they ARE a big bag of Str Dex, Con and Hitdice but other than Outsider skill and feat advances I'm wondering if there's anything better at higher thresholds such as more spell likes the way Greaters get more than standards for their spells.
@@DIEGhostfish Yeah, they get an army of slaves, magic items and a super robot fortress.
@@AJPickett Ah, the Barghests themselves tend to run those cities? Cool. I had figured most were in the hands of Deities or the bigger Yugoloths (or occasional devil forward base.)
Goblins, not just another pretty face.
i think i fought one in the old (3e) days
More of gehenna would be great as well!
Why does the picture for the thumbnail like like Beast? Wate is Beast a barghest?
little bit
Yeah in 3.5 Wish, miracle, and True Resurrection only had a 50% chance to rez, not per cast. EVER, if any of those three spells fails the first roll, no mortal magic can return them (Bit of an odd phrasing there honestly, since Miracle's supposed to be asking a deity to do it for you, but eh) I'd say killing the Barghest would give you a 100% chance with those three spells.
Awesome, a new one... speaking like I've seen them all.. lol
good video AJ
this is a great video Chris :)
Bar - ghest, or Bar -ghist.
In nutshell, Fae/fairy ghost hound that hunt marsh/wetlands around lakes and rivers prey on travelers camping to close to their haunting grounds.
Will -o whips or swamp gas lights work in tangent.
As for 3e Dragon magazine " Ecology of the Hobgoblin,"
Hobgoblin shamans/ clerics reaching 7th-level cast 4th-level spell Lesser Planar Ally to call an 8hd barghest to impregnate worthy females of the goblin tribe creating many half-fiends to function as tribes forward scouts. A tribe with a good number of half-fiend barghest will give birth to a full blooded barghest.
Carry over from 2e Planescape barghest gain 1hp per class level a n/pc they eat. So any 0-level npc will just be not bother with unless used as bait for some adventurers. Or they will lead low level PCs into encounters to .. beef .. them up till it is feeding time.
Then there is something about European myths regarding the Dog men, such as in dog/ hounds and not werewolves which are something else.
More lore on fae/ shadow folk that jump scare people out after dark to feed off the emotions of fear, paranoia, and dread.
Other than OLD reports other than traditional Irish folk lore of wild Irish wolf hounds. The appearance seem to be across of Roman imperial war dogs/ mastiffs which are large enough they will tackle push their prey target to the ground before they decide the best location to bite down on. As for bull baiting the mastiff along with the great dane will run at full speed and shoulder bump the cattle till the animal lose its footing and twist or break their ankle. Something about something leading up to cow tipping.
Cu is “hound” in Gaelic. The -ghest at the end is likely a variant on ghast, geist or ghost in one of the Germanic, Frankish or Dutch languages.
It’s unlikely to have a French origin, because geste is “joke” or “jest” in English. Although that doesn’t rule it out entirely, because it could mean something along the lines of “cruel joke” or the like.
It would be much easier to know the origin if English wasn’t a combination of Gaelic, Brythonic, Anglic, Jutish, Geatish, Frankish, Saxon, Norman, Frisian, French, German, Danish and Norwegian.
@@almitrahopkins1873 " cruel joke," -- thanks for commenting. Kind of fitting like Hades dog named " Spot."
Hope you are having a good weekend.
@@krispalermo8133 Of course I'm having a good weekend. I got an AJ video on one of my favorite beasties.
@@almitrahopkins1873 " favorite beasties, " ... yeah I been in and ran a few games that had barghest in them.
Some ran them as another hack & slash xp snack. Strait up military encounters.
Others ran them as " you are being stalked, " .. great another werewolf theme monster.
2.) Now back at my first gaming shop during 1998 to 2003.
Before WotC and still had to deal with lingering b.s. of the Satanic Panic, where they called D&D devils & demons.
Our shop said F- it and ran a Planescape campaign pcing fiends. " Blood War "
Since Whitewolf/World of Darkness (WoD) vampire and werewolf was out, we ran a game where everyone was PC a barghest playing a point game to out do each other in trophies. So using AD&D2ndE rules for role playing and not so much for xp level gain.
But the concept of a barghest acting as a military adviser to provoke a given leader into having their soldiers to commit a bunch of war crimes. Then stalk all of them as soul food impower themselves on. You have a sad soldier suffering from battle fatigue/ shell shock and a hound from hell comes to collect their soul with one bite of flesh at a time.
As uncomfortable as that Barhest summoning may sound, it beats what Drow go through.
To me high level goblins are the embodiment of strength through hardship. And considering goblins are one of the weakest races in any setting, they've faced more hardship than you can imagine. A powerful goblin is an entity that has been forged broken, and reforged into something that is ready to be broken and reforged once again.
For the record mid level goblins are unpredictable jokes that are as likely to get them selves hurt as they are to be an actual threat, both options are the most likely option. And low level goblins are an endless wave upon wave of endless cannon fodder.
So to become a powerful goblin you start out as a drop in a bucket that's about to be thrown on a fire. Then if you survive that, you become a danger to yourself and others that every one laughs at including yourself. Then if you survive that you're only a danger to others and you're the only one laughing.
D&D lore pretty much abandoned what goblins are. They aren’t cowardly, they’re cunning. The average goblin in 3e or pathfinder 1st has a +13 stealth from a single skill rank (+4 from size, +4 racial, +1 from their Dex, +3 because stealth is a class skill for all goblins). Use that and your players will fear goblins even at high levels.
I created a goblin encounter that still wipes a 5th level party of four pretty much every time using only 5 goblins, three wolves, a 10’ pit and a 10’ tower behind it. One of the five goblins is a 3rd level rogue. They attack from ambush and the goal is to kill anyone not wearing armor and any horses in the first two rounds. If the melee types try to charge the two archers in the tower, they end up in the pit with two goblins using bows 20’ above them. Those two leg it out the back if the players climb halfway up to the tower. The other two regular goblins are armed with spear, shield & bow and are mounted on two of the wolves. They will move out of range constantly while firing their bows unless forced into melee. The 3rd level rogue will get close and attack anyone not wearing armor. If the wolf hits with its attack, it gets a trip attack, giving the rogue a +4 to hit because the player is prone and that gets it a sneak attack bonus. After 3-4 rounds all five goblins leg it and track the PCs, who are now moving without the benefit of at least half their horses.
When the PCs bed down for the night to recover, the goblins will sneak into their camp using that really high stealth skill to try to catch at least half the party sleeping. That’s instant death unless the sentry can spot the goblins, which is why the rogue will go after him if there is only one. A third level goblin rogue has a +15 stealth with a 12 Dex and his short sword gets an extra +2d6 damage.
That’s just a goblin scouting party. Double that for a raiding party and add a goblin Fighter 2/Rogue 3 and a caster of any type at level 1. For a war party, the leader is a Fighter 2/Rogue 5, two lieutenants of Fighter 2/Rogue 3, four scouts at Rogue 3, one war chief’s shaman at level 3, two casters at level 1, twelve wolves and sixteen regular goblins warriors. If you attack them in their village, there will be a Chief of Fighter 4/Rogue 5, his shaman at level 5 and 3-5 war parties along with double that number in females and whelps. 20% odds of the PCs targeting a nearly full-grown whelp instead of a warrior in the confusion.
The non-leveled goblins will have either spear & shield or bow & short sword or dagger. The whelps might have a dagger or short sword, but no shield. All of the leveled ones will have a bow, quiver, short sword, spear and shield except the casters, who will have a short sword or dagger. The tribe’s shaman will have the feats to make magic weapons, miscellaneous magic items and potions, so equip the tribal chief and his war chiefs appropriately. The lowest stealth will be +13 and the highest will be +17, so your players should be very afraid of not getting all of the goblins if they attack a whole village.
Was that more along the lines of what you were thinking? Don’t forget that 4-6 of your goblins have +3d6 damage if the players are flanked. 12-20 of them have +2d6 sneak attack. You also have 48-80 goblins without levels for the backstabbing ones to hide among and 48-80 whelps to confuse the PCs.
A goblin tribe can wipe a group of 10th-15th level quite easily. With the fight being on their home turf, there will also be traps, short tunnels and bolt holes to deal with. Whelps will try to grab the weapons, armor and clothing off of the PCs and take off running while the warriors and leaders fight from hiding among the regular warriors.
And if they don’t get them all, the goblins will track the players back to whatever village or city they came from, climb walls at night, swim through river gates, squeeze through the bars of portcullises and fire flaming arrows into thatched roofs.
The most terrifying encounter in games I DM is “goblin tracks”. It scares the crap out of my players.
When I play, I tend to play goblins. The maximum possible stealth for a goblin PC is +21 at 5th level without magic items. A fifth level goblin Druid can make magic items, have a +21 stealth, track and doesn’t leave tracks. That’s a terrifying prospect, isn’t it? And with Wild Shape, they can pretend to be a barghest.
@AJ- where can we find your artwork?
check out my discord channel where you can see me generating images for the videos.
Idk if enough is known about the General to talk about him. But if so would love a video.
The lore for these was changed for 5e, eh.
Volo got it wrong
@@AJPickettpar for the course really
@@hircenedaelen Eye have no idea what you're talking about.
@@DIEGhostfish I really don't care
AJ back in the house! 😁
(have missed these vids 😞)
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Thanks AJ.
I thought the Barghest was an original creature from a British children's comedy series called Roger & The Rottentrolls
Oh, well the cryptids origins in folklore is most certainly from the UK
@@AJPickettI didn't even know that it was a real folklore beast
Doing a wiki dive, the oldest written source I can find for it is a ballad from William Hone's "Everyday Book" in 1830 and it was legendary before that.
@@HBHagaAnd the -ghest at the end could have come from geist, ghast, ghost or even geste, so tracking it down through a dozen different languages will be a giggle.
D&D lore again?
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I would love more videos on the lower planes. Like more videos on the Hells a video for each layer and their Archduke or dutchess and maybe even ways to improve them.
Fan-F#(king-Tastic!
Something that has confused me a bit from your series is are Goblinoids an unrelated race tied together by Maglubiyet? Or are they all related?
They are all related
@AJPickett thank you. Volo's guide to monsters talked about how they were all unrelated races united by Maglubiyet. And I gotta say seeing how lore changes from edition to edition gets confusing.
So did Maglubiyet come in and take over the pantheons and just take over, or is it something else?
@@androidmk5987 He came in and took over, you have it right. Volo is unreliable.
@@AJPickett Entirely unreliable. Ed Greenwood even said so. Volo sells the story, not a true history or ecology.
What even is his appeal? The more I learn about him the more I dislike him.
I'm not against the concept of Barghests and Liches consuming souls (albeit even then they should be stored, not destroyed), but considering the importance of souls to the Afterlife's ecosystem/economy in D&D, any creature like that would be hunted and destroyed.
By all sides.
After all, the gods' very sustenance is worship
And it's kind of hard to get that from destroyed souls.
There are a few losses, its not a perfect system, also not all gods.
@AJPickett almost all gods in the D&D multiverse (except Ao and whatever the Lady of Pain is).
@@Rensune *points at Jergal*
YAY!
Hey aj, could I get your permission to post your videos in my discord?
You have my permission
I still like grey orcs the best. What do we expect from the creations of a literal god of rape and pillage.
He has videos on orcs and the orc gates posted.
@@almitrahopkins1873 oh, I know. Good to see AJ back in the forgotten realms. Best part of Gray orcs is the terrifying prospect of eliminating the few shortcomings goblinoid peoples have. That and one of the novels featured a grey orc paladin of Torm. A civilized, mannerly, patient, and well discipline orc…. Ooh the possibilities.
Aj,
I’m surprised. I thought you were going to stop doing DnD content
Look at what's happened to his view numbers. Man's gotta eat, ya know
Love it❤
Don't they spesifically prey on goblinoid souls, or is that just 5e nonsense?
Only if the goblinoids they are ruling over can’t bring them others to feed on. Good souls are better sacrifices.
@@almitrahopkins1873 5e lore says they were created spesifically to eat goblinoid souls, but are free to eat other souls too.
Its 5E nonsense.
@@TheHornedKingYou have to apply logic to it. Goblins are of breeding age by six years at the latest. Each and every goblin has a soul, but they are about as worthwhile as the average larva.
Barghests are there to encourage evil among the goblins, not consume them. The goblins will be in Gehenna in about 25 years as larva anyway, but they can be so much tastier with proper guidance. And those souls power evil deities as worshippers, making evil deities more powerful.
Barghests look like goblins until they start to be developed enough to be a threat to everything. That’s so you don’t notice them until it is too late. Why would they eat their camouflage?
rawrrr
Glad you did a d&d video as thats what i watch this channel for im not interested in the other non d&d lore
Gee thanks.
@@AJPickett didn't mean it in a bad way i just love d&d lore and love when you make those videos. I get why you branched out and don't blame you for it at all but genuinely only want d&d content
Well, you will be getting plenty of it.
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