When I wrote that article in the 90s, the Far Realm hadn't been invented yet, and there wasn't much written on the gibberlings. They were a good fit for an article on savage characters. It's always interesting to see different takes on monsters as they develop in different directions.
They certainly are elusive little critters, the research for this one went very deep into very obscure D&D lore from the UK in the late 1970's, even while I was editing the video I was still digging around and finally stumbled about as close as I think I can get to finding out where they really came from... now I am on a mission to track down all seven copies of the Underworld Oracle! (an impossible task perhaps)
Gibberling horde, the distant echo sound from the distances which bring terror to the ears of grim locks, goblins, and orcs. Feel sorry for an ogre getting swam by them. Seen a video on History Chanel where a guy was part of a tour group in a set of caves, one person got lost in the nearby room and could hear nothing. The material of the stone and the curve of the walls just ate up the sound. The show said you could be a mere 50ft away around a bend and scream your head off and no one will hear you. I don't know if they were playing it up, but they found a water feature in one section of the old cave mine system, once they broke the water surface a poison vapor killed the nearest to the water, knock off a few others and the rest of the dozen explores lost their lunch. Caves and old mines are dangerous. In a cave system, everything is dead quite till you go around a tunnel bend where you are greeted by dozens of screaming monsters.
I still find it interesting how D&D generally treats fire as this malevolent thing, yet also makes it a major weakness for a LOT of malevolent creatures, Gibberlings included.
@@AJPickett I am making a note of that..and It will happen. I'm imagining a filthy street urchin/bard with a stringed instrument missing several strings, whose whole shtick would be dirty limericks. Now I'm off to think up some dirty rhymes. Thanks AJ, your channel is a constant source of inspiration and we all could use more of that.
I clicked on this video as quickly as I saw it. I've loved the Gibberlings ever since as a youth I would curl up with my father's 2e monster manual. I adored the Gibberlings. Their frenzied nature, the total mystery of them, and the amusement I found that they left no treasure worth taking. Just this random terrible force that would sweep down on you while camping, leave everyone injured or dead, and be gone taking corpses with them. And even if the players tried to track them it would just end in a cold dark tunnel to greater dangers. They intrigued me and I will always have a soft spot for them. Thank you for lending some greater lore to them. I'm glad there's still a lot of questions unanswered as I quite like that, but the idea of de-evolved savages maddened by the Far Realm fits right into many a tale.
I recognize that sound having grown up on Discovery channel. Tasmanian Devil's, haha. Jesus. I can imagine an encampment in the woods being surrounded by that sound in the beginning of the video
You can find an official statblock for the Gibberling in Minsc & Boo's Journal of Villainy released by WOTC on their DM's Guild store front. It also includes demodands, the phaerimm, and even a statblock for mephistopheles and pazuzu.
The gibberlings are one of my favorite monsters. "They serve no purpose but random chaos and death in the night" is how iirc they were described in 2e. They seem like such a great underused resource and have a lot of potential for wreaking havoc on, well, everything. Great video!
My first impression learning about gibberlings is that they're less intelligent than some animals, and they're savage beyond any reason or measure. The one thing I don't understand is how they have weapons. Do they just steal them from victims?
Rare criticism of Baldur's Gate: it apparently *completely fails* to get across how intimidating and legitimately dangerous these little creeps are supposed to be. It lets the PC & party treat them like a pallet of water bottles in a Skallagrim video. They're slightly harder than the same number of Xvarts only by not running away as readily.
To me, D&D and role-playing is all about the stories, and the more monsters create great stories, the better they are! That's why a Gibberling is a great monster but a blue/green/red/dire/great [insert noun] is not. To me, the culture and background of a race or species is so much more important than the 'awesomeness' of their stats. Thank you, A.J., for bringing colour (in a good way) and fleshing out the backgrounds, cultures and contexts of the various creatures of the D&D multiverse! This turns them from stat blocks into living (or dead), breating (or non-breathing) beings that add to the stories!
I remember the 2nd edition forgotten realms box set had a mini adventure in shadowdale where some drow are making gibberlings and driving them to the surface and your party has to go defeat the Drow.
Me: "Sweet, a new AJ video!" *clicks* Video: *nightmarish snarls and grunts from something that should not be.* Me: "... Well all right then, let's go."
I love any monster that utilizes swarm tactics, filling more than one square with enemies can easily overwhelm underprepared players. When I think of Gibberlings I think of creature combos or some overarching evil spellcaster using the maddening swarm in conjunction with aoe spells to create a deadly encounter. Darkness cast on an area, or a stinking cloud spell would greatly increase the threat of such a fight. Even more terrifying would be the threat of Symbiotic Gibberlings (Savage Species template) created when a swarm of Stirges attach themselves to the backs of each individual Gibberling. Both creatures would benefit from the endless consumption of whatever stood in their path. The Gibberlings eat anything that moves, and the parasitic Stirges feed off their blood.
I'm going to spring those chibi Gibberlings on my players but play them as the og Gibberlings. See these cute, fluffy little Mogwai looking things snuffling about the forest floor and hooting and hollering through woods like a pack of weasels... until they notice the party then it's... Well it's basically a pack of weasels with no self preservation instincts
Aj you have a few videos where I believe you did the sound boarding(?) Noise boarding(?) where you just knock it out of the freaking park. I cant quit coming back to the Gibberling and Deep Spawn videos. So well done!
I would honestly see gibberlings as giving advantage on attacks against any targets they attack, less out of strategy than effectively sensory overload/just being overwhelmed by them.
Fun Fact: this is the first monster I ever fought back in my second edition days (34 or so years ago...). I think people tend to think of Gibberlings when they think of "Goblins". They're used in a similar fashion, but Gibberlings tend to have a slight edge to Goblins imo. The overrun tactics on top of the confusion effect of their noise makes for an interesting combat. Looking back, i don't think we contended with disease, and 5e is not really optomized for disease, but that could be a fun take.
I remember these things being one of the most terrible low level monsters in previous editions. I had a Game Master that would have a Brood Gibberling burst into a random dice roll more of the little buggers if we didn't burn the corpses.
Wotc kind of semi-officially published a 5e stat block on the dm's guild in Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy. Stat wise it seems pretty faithful to older versions, but boy did they gloss over a lot of detail XD
They're born cute, but if they eat after midnight, they turn into the ones you started with. Doesn't matter though, both are from the far realm and they reproduce the same way
Yes, yes more fodder for sacrifice. If not the adventurers baited into my dungeon, than the monsters and creatures inhabiting it will suffice! *evil laughter*
Having just heard of these guys, I imagine them sprouting up from where the diseased drool from Yhenogu’s slavering maw sloughs into the dirt. Just an idea for a little reflavour
You know gibberling could make a great bio weapon for ixitxachitls to use against the land races. All you have to do put a control collar and use an illusion spell on them and make the look like the one cute photo and then sell them as pets. And ones every child in the land has one activate the kill switch and let the magic happen!!! The only problem I could foresee is if one of the gibberling was one of the intelligent ones and forms a bond with a child and together form an unlikely duo to stop the evil ixitxachitl plan!... but that's highly unlikely.😉
Great video AJ! I'm kinda new to the channel so I'm not sure if you already have videos on it but have you considered doing monster ecology videos on dark sun creatures?
There was this adventure ages ago that Gibberlings were originally dwarves that a hag made a special stew, would submerge them into it and they would come out as gibberlings hence their exceptional skill with short swords back in 2nd edition. But I can't find that adventure anymore, anyone else come upon this lore?
I've loved every video you've made that has to do with the Far Realm in some way, and this was no exception even if the connection is pretty tangential. The only criticism I have (and it's minor, really) is that I would've loved to hear your thoughts about the potential of mutated variants for extra challenge and variety. Big and tough or frail and speedy are obvious choices, but you could also give them additional eyes for better perception, conjoined twins that can take two actions per turn, or just some malformed, pitiful little thing that doesn't do anything except flop around and whine at you. Or perhaps, one particular gibberling has a head so massive it can barely move, which lets it cast a spell like Arms of Hadar or Mind Spike - in that case it wouldn't be the gibberling itself casting it, but whatever is manifesting inside its head. Maybe it's a small gibbering mouther in there? Who knows.
I'd love to see a video going in depth about the nature of godhood and divinity. how are deities born, or how to eliminate them? what happens to portfolios in either case? can gods be resurrected ? should they? what are the paths to godhood? what are the origins of Ao? are there other overgods? how can gods cross spheres? what happens to the worlds they leave behind or incorporate into with the local pantheons?
"The first bloated Blowflies of Summer on the desperate hunt for food and fornication in the very worst places...". Did you steal that from a Type O Negative song or something lol?
I wonder if these guys might create dark depraved sites of worship to the Elder Evils or some other lovecraftian horror? Interesting as well that these creatures truly ride the very thin line between animal and humanoid...
Love this! The start sounds like the song HAY from The Butthole Surfers on the album Locust Abortion Technician, it's worth a listen. Great video as always AJ👍
These guys work better than goblins, I think. It's hard to present goblins in such a way that killing them makes the players feel like Big Damn Heroes. Gibberlings are awful, though. You're really doing God's work, killing a gibberling. I think playing up the madness/far realm stuff is good. Maybe tamper with the lore. Humanoids can be mutating into gibberlings if they are driven utterly mad... say that survivors of attacks by things like a gibbering mouther sometimes transform into gibberlings in the aftermath. Or maybe hearing too much of their gibbering for too long can inflict a sort of arcane mental infection which, if left untreated, leads to total madness and transformation into a gibberling.
Sometimes, you just need a nice weak horde monster to let/make your players throw out some large area spells that each just kill a lot of monster, because why not make spending "the big (area) spells" good fun for all? 😈
@@AJPickett the little exploding critters at the beginning of the campaign, spoilers they were brought by Ira, creature from the fey realm, involved with unseelee, you talking about these guys being the heralds of invasions so to speak just clicked with me, could be a plot Mercer thought up or nothing at all
one thing I've never understood is if ths Obyriths are Aberrations, other things that came from the Far Realm, or just strange things. talking abt Demons, do you have a video on the Loumara Demons? they sound a bit like the demonic version of the Quori.
Skaven are way more intelligent than these creatures, even most rat-ogres are smarter than these brainless abominations. The gibberlings would probably just be slaughtered, or turned into cattle and lobotomized slave-soldiers.
Hey can you make a video on dire creatures that aren't currently in dnd 5e. For example I never new there was Dire tigers and it seems like they were in 3.5.
Hearthstone? Those fluffy gibberlings are from an MMO called Allods that was great until the cash shop got overly aggressive. Your character was made up of three psychically linked gibberlings that move as one...which is odd because you do meet lone gibberlings in game some time which raises questions.
I think those "cute" gibberlings are more from the Allods MMO game than from Hearthstone, though Allods does crib on the Didier art style a fair bit. Allods even has them as a playable race where: if you play "a gibberling", you actually play three, because their pack mentality is so strong. However it doesn't change much mechanically. Hearthstone does have gibberlings, but they are more in the "gremlins/furby" style -- but still very close to the Allods race.
When I wrote that article in the 90s, the Far Realm hadn't been invented yet, and there wasn't much written on the gibberlings. They were a good fit for an article on savage characters. It's always interesting to see different takes on monsters as they develop in different directions.
Sure is! Nice to hear from you Lloyd 😎
Were they anything to do with “The Hoard of the Gibbelins” by Lord Dunsany?
Everyone's favorite Baldur's Gate enemy that couldn't be Googled.
They certainly are elusive little critters, the research for this one went very deep into very obscure D&D lore from the UK in the late 1970's, even while I was editing the video I was still digging around and finally stumbled about as close as I think I can get to finding out where they really came from... now I am on a mission to track down all seven copies of the Underworld Oracle! (an impossible task perhaps)
I remember playing for the first time and panicking seeing _Attacked by Xvart, or Gibberling_ as I had no idea what those even were.
@@AJPickett best of luck, you're doing the work that childhood me would've killed for.
I was getting them confused with the Xvart until halfway through the video.
Gibberling horde, the distant echo sound from the distances which bring terror to the ears of grim locks, goblins, and orcs. Feel sorry for an ogre getting swam by them.
Seen a video on History Chanel where a guy was part of a tour group in a set of caves, one person got lost in the nearby room and could hear nothing. The material of the stone and the curve of the walls just ate up the sound. The show said you could be a mere 50ft away around a bend and scream your head off and no one will hear you. I don't know if they were playing it up, but they found a water feature in one section of the old cave mine system, once they broke the water surface a poison vapor killed the nearest to the water, knock off a few others and the rest of the dozen explores lost their lunch. Caves and old mines are dangerous.
In a cave system, everything is dead quite till you go around a tunnel bend where you are greeted by dozens of screaming monsters.
Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy has a 5e statblocks for Gibberlings. It's actually where the thumbnail art came from
How did I miss that? Oh well, great! Thanks 👍
@@AJPickett it's a super underrated book. One of the best pieces Wizards have put out!
it would suck to be in armor they can't penetrate but they are piled on you and don't let you get out.
I still find it interesting how D&D generally treats fire as this malevolent thing, yet also makes it a major weakness for a LOT of malevolent creatures, Gibberlings included.
"Breathe like a sewer breeze" Poetic and foul at the same time. Well played
You can use that to devastating effect with your next bard levelling some vicious mockery at someone.
@@AJPickett I am making a note of that..and It will happen. I'm imagining a filthy street urchin/bard with a stringed instrument missing several strings, whose whole shtick would be dirty limericks. Now I'm off to think up some dirty rhymes. Thanks AJ, your channel is a constant source of inspiration and we all could use more of that.
I read somewhere they were inspired by the lurking fear by lovecraft.
Pinch of salt tho it was years ago and on a wiki
We are the Gibberlings Three, as merry a band as you'll ever see!
Gibberlings are stated up in Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy
I clicked on this video as quickly as I saw it. I've loved the Gibberlings ever since as a youth I would curl up with my father's 2e monster manual. I adored the Gibberlings. Their frenzied nature, the total mystery of them, and the amusement I found that they left no treasure worth taking. Just this random terrible force that would sweep down on you while camping, leave everyone injured or dead, and be gone taking corpses with them. And even if the players tried to track them it would just end in a cold dark tunnel to greater dangers.
They intrigued me and I will always have a soft spot for them. Thank you for lending some greater lore to them. I'm glad there's still a lot of questions unanswered as I quite like that, but the idea of de-evolved savages maddened by the Far Realm fits right into many a tale.
I recognize that sound having grown up on Discovery channel. Tasmanian Devil's, haha. Jesus. I can imagine an encampment in the woods being surrounded by that sound in the beginning of the video
You can find an official statblock for the Gibberling in Minsc & Boo's Journal of Villainy released by WOTC on their DM's Guild store front. It also includes demodands, the phaerimm, and even a statblock for mephistopheles and pazuzu.
Yes it does
The gibberlings are one of my favorite monsters. "They serve no purpose but random chaos and death in the night" is how iirc they were described in 2e. They seem like such a great underused resource and have a lot of potential for wreaking havoc on, well, everything. Great video!
My first impression learning about gibberlings is that they're less intelligent than some animals, and they're savage beyond any reason or measure.
The one thing I don't understand is how they have weapons. Do they just steal them from victims?
Rare criticism of Baldur's Gate: it apparently *completely fails* to get across how intimidating and legitimately dangerous these little creeps are supposed to be.
It lets the PC & party treat them like a pallet of water bottles in a Skallagrim video. They're slightly harder than the same number of Xvarts only by not running away as readily.
I love their little piggy screaming ! Lovely memories of Baldurs Gate
Me wanting to listen to something chill I can sleep in to and that is not gonna give me nightmares ->
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To me, D&D and role-playing is all about the stories, and the more monsters create great stories, the better they are! That's why a Gibberling is a great monster but a blue/green/red/dire/great [insert noun] is not. To me, the culture and background of a race or species is so much more important than the 'awesomeness' of their stats. Thank you, A.J., for bringing colour (in a good way) and fleshing out the backgrounds, cultures and contexts of the various creatures of the D&D multiverse! This turns them from stat blocks into living (or dead), breating (or non-breathing) beings that add to the stories!
My pleasure.
I remember the 2nd edition forgotten realms box set had a mini adventure in shadowdale where some drow are making gibberlings and driving them to the surface and your party has to go defeat the Drow.
Do you remember which adventure name this was? I've been looking for it for years!
Me: "Sweet, a new AJ video!" *clicks*
Video: *nightmarish snarls and grunts from something that should not be.*
Me: "... Well all right then, let's go."
So... Monday. :D
@@AJPickett Pretty much.
I love any monster that utilizes swarm tactics, filling more than one square with enemies can easily overwhelm underprepared players. When I think of Gibberlings I think of creature combos or some overarching evil spellcaster using the maddening swarm in conjunction with aoe spells to create a deadly encounter. Darkness cast on an area, or a stinking cloud spell would greatly increase the threat of such a fight. Even more terrifying would be the threat of Symbiotic Gibberlings (Savage Species template) created when a swarm of Stirges attach themselves to the backs of each individual Gibberling. Both creatures would benefit from the endless consumption of whatever stood in their path. The Gibberlings eat anything that moves, and the parasitic Stirges feed off their blood.
I'm going to spring those chibi Gibberlings on my players but play them as the og Gibberlings. See these cute, fluffy little Mogwai looking things snuffling about the forest floor and hooting and hollering through woods like a pack of weasels... until they notice the party then it's... Well it's basically a pack of weasels with no self preservation instincts
Aj you have a few videos where I believe you did the sound boarding(?) Noise boarding(?) where you just knock it out of the freaking park. I cant quit coming back to the Gibberling and Deep Spawn videos. So well done!
Thank you, sound has always been a struggle for me, but I think I am finally getting the hang of it.
Well, Keep it up! You should look into doing kids audio books or even teenager audio books that feature monsters, creatures, etc sounds.
Bipedal carnivorous honey badgers, with weapons…
I would honestly see gibberlings as giving advantage on attacks against any targets they attack, less out of strategy than effectively sensory overload/just being overwhelmed by them.
I have that Module, gates of firestorm peak!
Fun Fact: this is the first monster I ever fought back in my second edition days (34 or so years ago...).
I think people tend to think of Gibberlings when they think of "Goblins". They're used in a similar fashion, but Gibberlings tend to have a slight edge to Goblins imo.
The overrun tactics on top of the confusion effect of their noise makes for an interesting combat. Looking back, i don't think we contended with disease, and 5e is not really optomized for disease, but that could be a fun take.
Reminds me of "Critters."
*Realizes pun midway through typing* 🤣
I remember these things being one of the most terrible low level monsters in previous editions. I had a Game Master that would have a Brood Gibberling burst into a random dice roll more of the little buggers if we didn't burn the corpses.
The Gates of Firestorm Peak
Wotc kind of semi-officially published a 5e stat block on the dm's guild in Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy. Stat wise it seems pretty faithful to older versions, but boy did they gloss over a lot of detail XD
Aj, I think the therm you are looking for to describe the Hearthstone gibberlings is Yordles (which, by the way, are fae gnomes.)
Now theres a fodder creature no one minds mowing down!
I don't know if you did that opening, or if it was pre-made stock audio, but man, that sound design was _spot-on._
Thank you you're listening to the sound of a Hyena, two Bears fighting, and various Tasmanian devil noises.
They're born cute, but if they eat after midnight, they turn into the ones you started with. Doesn't matter though, both are from the far realm and they reproduce the same way
It is said that in a distant realm with little magic to call its own the Gibberlings have evolved into Futbol hooligans 🥺
Yes, yes more fodder for sacrifice. If not the adventurers baited into my dungeon, than the monsters and creatures inhabiting it will suffice! *evil laughter*
Having just heard of these guys, I imagine them sprouting up from where the diseased drool from Yhenogu’s slavering maw sloughs into the dirt.
Just an idea for a little reflavour
Excellent
Sounds like they're based on Lovecraft's: The Lurking Fear
probably, you never know with these fan-created monsters.
Hey I backed the kickstarter on Saturday also keep up the great work
Thank you! Hope I bring you something useful!
My mind's racing with encounter ideas involving Gibberlings and Darklings now.
Bless the Mighty GlueStick
Based on that noise at the start, I think a name like "Snarlers" would be more appropriate.
True. Also, thanks for the video binge Ben, much appreciated!
Absolutely love your content AJ. Keep it up brother!
I love Gibberlings, I was very excited to see this video turn up in my recommendations. Thanks AJ!
So... was that goat or sheep bleating to start that delightful choir in the beginning?
Nope, that was Tasmanian devil, Grizzly bear and Hyena.
Definitely not sounds that I'm used to hearing. Quite unsettling.
@@seancrawford4663 mission accomplished 😎
You know gibberling could make a great bio weapon for ixitxachitls to use against the land races. All you have to do put a control collar and use an illusion spell on them and make the look like the one cute photo and then sell them as pets. And ones every child in the land has one activate the kill switch and let the magic happen!!!
The only problem I could foresee is if one of the gibberling was one of the intelligent ones and forms a bond with a child and together form an unlikely duo to stop the evil ixitxachitl plan!... but that's highly unlikely.😉
Sounds like a fun campaign.
These give me strong "Critters" vibes 🤓
Same
Oh man the timing on my end with this release today couldn’t be more perfect. Thanks!
Love the opening! 😂 🎉
Great video AJ! I'm kinda new to the channel so I'm not sure if you already have videos on it but have you considered doing monster ecology videos on dark sun creatures?
Hey its the guys mentioned from the last video nice
Got a bit of a Firestorm Peak love affair going on here :)
@@AJPickett Well I look forward to hearing about the module specific monsters from older editions
There was this adventure ages ago that Gibberlings were originally dwarves that a hag made a special stew, would submerge them into it and they would come out as gibberlings hence their exceptional skill with short swords back in 2nd edition. But I can't find that adventure anymore, anyone else come upon this lore?
Oh, look, gooey dinner _and_ a show. Compliments to the chef!
Yesss finally somebody does this creature
Gibber gibber gibber! LOVE THEM!
Excellent video btw! Also when do you think the next livestream will be?
This weekend?
I've loved every video you've made that has to do with the Far Realm in some way, and this was no exception even if the connection is pretty tangential. The only criticism I have (and it's minor, really) is that I would've loved to hear your thoughts about the potential of mutated variants for extra challenge and variety. Big and tough or frail and speedy are obvious choices, but you could also give them additional eyes for better perception, conjoined twins that can take two actions per turn, or just some malformed, pitiful little thing that doesn't do anything except flop around and whine at you. Or perhaps, one particular gibberling has a head so massive it can barely move, which lets it cast a spell like Arms of Hadar or Mind Spike - in that case it wouldn't be the gibberling itself casting it, but whatever is manifesting inside its head. Maybe it's a small gibbering mouther in there? Who knows.
All good ideas.
Great video well worth the effort!
I'd love to see a video going in depth about the nature of godhood and divinity. how are deities born, or how to eliminate them? what happens to portfolios in either case? can gods be resurrected ? should they? what are the paths to godhood? what are the origins of Ao? are there other overgods? how can gods cross spheres? what happens to the worlds they leave behind or incorporate into with the local pantheons?
Good news! That video is coming soon.
@@AJPickett gods bless the work you do mate
The ai art's uncanniness really fits an aberration
"The first bloated Blowflies of Summer on the desperate hunt for food and fornication in the very worst places...". Did you steal that from a Type O Negative song or something lol?
Tasmanian devil sounds at the beginning, yes?
Yes, plus Hyena and grizzly bears
These things sound like the Magog from the Andromeda tv show
Gibberlings in spaaaaace!
Loved the vocalization!!!! Did I hear Tasmanian devil in there?
Yep, as well as Hyena and Grizzly bear.
Oh boy, my players just LOVE when I dredge up some new mutant slug that infects them and gets under their skin.
Would you be willing to make a underdark playlist?
Willing, yes, able, probably.
How have you not done this one yet? Weird.
So many, sooo many.
@@AJPickett understood, it's history of that one that surprises me.
I was also, surprised because I didn't notice. 😂
Nice! I remember these things. I'd still rather encounter these than Kobalds ;)
Why?
@@AJPickett Intelligence, sneaky behavior and traps. Plus, Kobalds are sometimes backed up by larger "friends". Just a personal preference.
@@coreyeaston6823 oh yes, those traps... *Shudder*
Excellent
I wonder if these guys might create dark depraved sites of worship to the Elder Evils or some other lovecraftian horror? Interesting as well that these creatures truly ride the very thin line between animal and humanoid...
Absolutely likely.
Honestly, the "cute" Gibberling look like a Mogwai, and the normal look like a Gremlin!
So they are even more savage than Quaqqoth. I may have to use these in a future out of the abyss campaign.
I thank you for the insights Sage AJ!
Love this! The start sounds like the song HAY from The Butthole Surfers on the album Locust Abortion Technician, it's worth a listen. Great video as always AJ👍
This video dropped literally right as my Popeye's arrived. Truly the sage must be nigh-prescient.
These guys work better than goblins, I think.
It's hard to present goblins in such a way that killing them makes the players feel like Big Damn Heroes.
Gibberlings are awful, though. You're really doing God's work, killing a gibberling.
I think playing up the madness/far realm stuff is good. Maybe tamper with the lore. Humanoids can be mutating into gibberlings if they are driven utterly mad... say that survivors of attacks by things like a gibbering mouther sometimes transform into gibberlings in the aftermath. Or maybe hearing too much of their gibbering for too long can inflict a sort of arcane mental infection which, if left untreated, leads to total madness and transformation into a gibberling.
a 4 year old request come true
thank you
You are most welcome. Thank you for your patience!
Sometimes, you just need a nice weak horde monster to let/make your players throw out some large area spells that each just kill a lot of monster, because why not make spending "the big (area) spells" good fun for all? 😈
Gentrified gibberlings
I don't think that's the word James.
Could a Gibberling be controlled by a mindflayer?
I wouldn't put anything past those sneaky illythids.
Good video AJ
Thanks Chris!
Gods these things sound nasty and I have heard a roar like a murderous train, which I can link if you want.
I'm curious!
this reminds me of critical roles new season. Just picking up on some common threads
Sure, got a favourite?
@@AJPickett the little exploding critters at the beginning of the campaign,
spoilers
they were brought by Ira, creature from the fey realm, involved with unseelee,
you talking about these guys being the heralds of invasions so to speak just clicked with me, could be a plot Mercer thought up or nothing at all
one thing I've never understood is if ths Obyriths are Aberrations, other things that came from the Far Realm, or just strange things.
talking abt Demons, do you have a video on the Loumara Demons? they sound a bit like the demonic version of the Quori.
Anybody wonder what would happen if you introduce the gibberlings to the Skaven?
Gibber-ogre hordes
This must never happen.
@@AJPickett Nooo it must!
Skaven are way more intelligent than these creatures, even most rat-ogres are smarter than these brainless abominations. The gibberlings would probably just be slaughtered, or turned into cattle and lobotomized slave-soldiers.
Thanks AJ.
They look like pre evolved gith.
They do? *squints hard and turns head on side* They are very small.
Hey can you make a video on dire creatures that aren't currently in dnd 5e. For example I never new there was Dire tigers and it seems like they were in 3.5.
Yes! Awesome. It's important to have something that just... an animal monster.
Yay!
Hearthstone? Those fluffy gibberlings are from an MMO called Allods that was great until the cash shop got overly aggressive. Your character was made up of three psychically linked gibberlings that move as one...which is odd because you do meet lone gibberlings in game some time which raises questions.
Ah, thanks for the correction, forgive me, I was not researching them, just noticed a lot of images of them popping up everywhere.
These things cut pretty close to some of the ghouls in Conan
Would a tarrasque intimidate a gibbling ?
no
...maybe. They're probably not _that_ stupid. ...right?
Raise your hand if you knew that the sounds of a mob of Tazzy Devils was used as the example of Gibberling language. * raises hand*
You will also hear Hyena (by far the most freaky vocals, way more varied and weird than I thought they would be) and two Grizzly bears having a fight.
Sounds like em
I think those "cute" gibberlings are more from the Allods MMO game than from Hearthstone, though Allods does crib on the Didier art style a fair bit. Allods even has them as a playable race where: if you play "a gibberling", you actually play three, because their pack mentality is so strong. However it doesn't change much mechanically.
Hearthstone does have gibberlings, but they are more in the "gremlins/furby" style -- but still very close to the Allods race.
They sort of remind me of a bestial version of sonic the hedgehog in some of the art on them.
I remember these from the original Fiend Folio, they were just... wrong even then. Like a Zerg Rush but nastier.
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Chibilings, lad. Cheers.