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- Опубліковано 8 сер 2024
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This week we're talking about a giant mass of orange flesh directly torn from the pages of DUNE, the Orangeseer. DUNE and Dungeons & Dragons is a match made in the Seven Heavens it turns out, especially when it comes to horribly mishapen psionic monsters who used to be guys.
Let me know if you guys dig the orangeseer and perhaps we’ll do more of these obscure book/film inspired monsters in the future!
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00:00 - INTRO
00:52 - THE PART WITH THE AD
02:22 - WHAT IS IT?
06:46 - COMBAT
10:14 - PLOT HOOKS
15:25 - FINAL THOUGHTS
17:28 - NEXT TIME ON MONSTER OF THE WEEK?
Thanks for watching everyone! What monster would you like to see show up next?
For your humble consideration: Heraldic Servant from Monstrous Compedium Savage Coast Appendix. A creature that can exist incorporated into the owner's heraldry, acting like familiaes you can pass down on your children and bestowing bonuses on the owner depending on one of 21 types. It's given usually as a reward for completing quests for the Immortals, that world's gods' equivalent.
Maedar
Man your script writing and line execution has gotten so good. Thanks for your hard work making these lovely videos
What about an Orthon (a Devil), we even have one in BG3 named Yurgir! Or the Narzugon, also know as Hell Knight 🔥
@@reinaldorodrigues84255e has those already though
Asking for a Dragon Ball inspired monster in honor of late legend Akira Toriyama
Legendary stat block for Shenron pleeeaaase 🙏
Legendary stat block for Shenron pleeeaassseee 🙏
Cell would make a great monster, even a BBEG
Horror game Imperfect Cell!
Mr Popo or Mr Satan
In a setting with actual high-level spell casters who can use magic to see the future, i can imagine spice being seen as a nasty shortcut for those who want the power, but lack the discipline to strive for actual spellcasting. There could even be a cold war of sorts between spice based seers and those who took the time to learn to do it the "right way" with magic.
Edit: I could also see a cult springing up that worships Spice itself as a source of divinity.
In Dune, drugs like the spice melange became popular after a robot apocalypse that ended with humanity outlawing AI and computers, so maybe where the traditional spellcasters consider orange spice a nasty shortcut, spice seers don't trust traditional magic for some reason? Also the spice factions from Dune are already a bit cultish so you're edit is entirely on the right track.
What if a tribe of kuo-toa started worshipping melange?
@@benthomason3307 all users of spice gain effective cleric spellcasting levels?
@@mckayleepugmire9947so drugs like that may become popular in D&D world when original magic will cause something horrible and be distrusted of. Ahem...
DARK SUN, ANYONE?
How big are purple worms in lore? My brain immediately went " Sand worms are wayyyy bigger then 20 feet across" and then I remembered so are 90% of Gargantuan creatures
Purple worms are 80 feet long while Sand worms are 1’300 feet long
OK so yeah still a ridiculous Size difference, that should be reflected if you were to stat them
Just slap on the size-increasing Giant template a few times.
If you take the changes in the Dragon Magazine and add Dungeon Dad's kaiju template from a previous video, you'd get something comparable.
@@KevinVideo that's very fun!
0:37 orange is the new blackstone, it seems
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Perfect comment
Ok, but, like, also. What if this happens from other arcane substances misused? what if you can just... snort mana? Become like depraved blood elves from World of Warcraft?
DAMNIT, I Knew I was forgetting something.
it happens@@DungeonDad
One or more of these could be such an amazing rival to a beholder.
It counters the beholder being more intelligent, plays into their paranoia because it can know the future, and has a direct attack on a beholder intelligence.
Even if a beholder can easily take it in a fight, with the right minions an orangeseer could be such an amazing counter creature
The spice must flow and the Prismatic Dragon must fly.
The way wotc created this creature reminds me of how Miyazaki approaches this same idea. "I love example, example has blank in it. I want blank too, so i shall make my own. "
Many people say he's a plagiarist. Coincidentally, many people seem to not understand that most creations are inspired, and inspiration can only go so far. Eventually when you get to the creative process you realize just how much you borrow from others either unwittingly or wittingly. Makes no difference.
To extrapolate on that idea, think of the invention of the telephone. A miraculous technology. Was invented by two people simultaneously from two different locations with zero collaboration. Ergo, when you create something with intent, chances are someone else has already made it once before already anyways.
Who do you mean by Miyazaki? Is he a famous writer or artist?
@@davidkoudelka10the video game director. Did the Souls games, most recently Elden Ring
@@NoConsequenc3 Oh right! I thought the name sounded familiar! What inspiration do you think he found for the Dark Souls games?
@@davidkoudelka10probably stories and religious motives from medievel europe togheter with some lovecraftian-esque gothic horror
@@davidkoudelka10Pretty much every game has Berserk references, most blatant being Artorias from Dark Souls I
Sadly, we never got the stats for the battle pug
Time for homebrew!
Battle pug would be too OP
Feels like you could build a variant class out of this. Some crossbreed between wild magic and chronomancy, with more severe and lasting results on the wild magic chart and a crippling addiction to your favorite flavor and color of "spices".
I hate the fact that UA-cam never notifies me when you upload, even when I watch all your videos.
Ah, but they do notify me about random shorts from people I don't watch anymore 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
a flawless system to be sure
Just wanted to say I've been loving the Legend Lore videos, always looking forward to seeing more of those!! (of course we all love new monsters too)
a sibriex and orange seer rivalry both trying to out play the other with the players caught in the middle could be fun
I would love to see some videos about the wacky types of beholder kin from older editions, like the director or the overseer
The problem is the name, WotC is very tight on the trademark
Great video, and though I'm by no means a Dune fangirl, I do like the idea of the spice and what it can do for/to you. I might just put it in my game as a thing in the background but if my players want to interact with it, they are more then welcomed to.
Thanks for making the raw stats available for everyone
An interesting twist: Ingesting the orangespice extends one's lifespan. Such unnatural attempts to cheat death will likely attract another monster: a Marut.
They don't usually bother with temporary life extensions, unless it's the kind of extension that can easily be repeated without limit. What is one or two hundred years compared to the lifespan of even an elf? It's when the life extension has no effective end that the Maruts typically get involved.
@@HenriFaust Fair enough, but it's certainly possible.
So why Primus didn't decimate all of the liches again?
I love it when a campaign takes us into the desert. It happens so rarely and its so fun.
Strangely almost all my campaigns happen in deserts.
Maybe because the whole "write what you know thing because I do live in a dessert-ish area.
@@evilgibsonthri-kreen are so cool
Homebrew Idea:
For context: In original Dune, the way I've understood it the spice doesn't technically give you psychic powers, it just enhances your cognitive processing, so the psychic powers are proportional to both how much spice you take, and your expertise. Navigators are mathematicians, and their rival spice using faction, the Bene Gesserit, are political scientists with a touch of genetics, anatomy, and psychology. The Bene Gesserit also see the future, but they otherwise have totally different abilities including perfect body control, which lets them prevent spice mutation so they look completely normal.
Idea: Maybe an orange seer with a different background from others can have tweaked or additional abilities? A druidic orange seer could be a shapeshifter, a military orange seer could have abilities specifically suited for strategy or tactics, an artificer orange seer might be a ghost in the machine, etc.
That outro. Is Dungeon Dad turning into an ARG??? ARGRPG?
Asking the Why. I could see someone becoming an orange seer in order to combat Mind flayers. Or make contact in limbo/astral sea. A subsect of gith taking becoming this out of dedication to serve their people.
Extra eyes? I can see the medium schoolar at Bloodborne gulping those spices down like they where water and turn into something like a orange seer in no time, but with no sanity left since it's bloodborne.
The orangespice must flow indeed. Thanks again for letting me design this guy, love me some fun body-horror designs!
it'd be fun to have a reoccurring character who plays some advisory role to a leader, and every time you come back and see them they've progressed further along the dependency track. eventually becoming an orangeseer themselves. whether they're adversarial in nature would be up to the DM, but itd be cool to paint subtle hints like their eyes being unnaturally blue upon first meeting, and then their skin is a weird sunburnt tannish orange, then they start wearing less revealing clothing to hide their extra eyes. eventually they'd mutate too far and wouldn't be able to hide it.
Imagine one of those abominations dominating a group of irnakurses it made to fight for it
Great find, great episode!
Wielding the power of knowledge and fate is underused and I am so happy to see a creature that exhibits these themes. Thank you for making a 5e version for my players to enjoy.
P.S. Woo hoo! I'm one the first 20 commenta!
6:45 ok that did it, using the Dune2000 sound track in a video makes you officially my favourite D&D youtube creator.
To preface this I consider future sight to be more then a bit maddening.
The more you see of the fracturing lines the future holds ..... The more broken a mortal mind becomes.
Also in this context the far realm seems to be at least a possible partial genesis for the spice.
Though I don't see mind flayers having anything to do with it.
So my general take on the spice is that the more you take the more your mind breaks. + The less you can control the specifics of what you get from your spice fueled visions.
It seems like a fun time.... Far realm entities finding a way to market / trade the spice into mortal lands.....
Like a drug infiltration.
The only thing the users can never see is....
What happens to them as they use more of the drug.
I'm sticking one of the guys in a tower devoted to the archdevil of lies and knowledge.
As someone who is about the watch dune 2 this monster came just in time.
A spiced filled room..... sounds a bit dangerous. Flash ignition from the simplest of firespells.
In-universe, the general populace of the empire doesn't know why the Spacing Guild wants those absurd amounts of spice (other than for its known properties) and the Guild likes it that way.
I love the teaser at the end, and especially this one. We’ll be looking forward for your next upload!
Ah who wouldn't love a precognitive psychic orange flesh blob that's high as shit
Your video quality and editing are amazing and getting better. Still come back for the great content and the puns.
This is really in line with all the DUNE content I’ve been consuming today. I wonder if my eyes will turn blue now 🤔
This is such a fun creature. Looking forward to the next MotW!
i did make a dnd character that basically became a fantasy, aztec, voodoo priest equivalent to randall flagg. his name being tzontemoc, the scarlet baron. dude was supposed to be just an oc for villainous, but i just put him in D&D
It's a good day when you upload
It's been so long since I last played in a D&D game, your videos really scratch that itch for me. Love your work! Keep it up!
Thanks, DD! I'm hyped for that next monster 👀 Also, there was a typo at 0:33 (Blackstone Gigant!).
I think having orangeseers as mindflayer outcasts could be really interesting...orange ilithid monstrosities would be a good time, no? But seriously, I could see a whole hierarchical structure around orangeseers that are enslaved in mindflayer society, and those that somehow escape would have even more of an incentive to live an extravagant lifestyle in whichever other plane they move to 🍊
Hey Dungeon Dad! Awesome video as always. I want to animate some dnd monsters and characters, what would be a good one to start with?
Awesome video! I love the story hook suggestions you provided. Really though, I just love all Dungeon Dad videos
I have a character who’d 100% snort Orange Spice for fun. I’d love to see the concept expanded on, drugs and stimulants in D&D are an underrated idea.
strahd using some versions of these to track the party or any of the npcs
OH, I really liked the idea of finding one of these sealed away in a cave. Only I would make it so it wasn't an orange seer when it was first trapped; maybe it was a displacer beast originally trapped in a cave full of spice, it's mind and lifespan constantly expanding while it watched the outside world, learning languages and getting smarter. Now we have an orange seer with a tentacles which probably also have eyes on them. Though I think instead of orangespice I'd make it an orange fungus that grows on the this cave's walls, fits better and explains why it never runs out.
But the possibilities are endless; this creature trapped here for decades or even hundreds of years, using it's scrying / seer powers to learn about the world / future. You would have to take away or atleast nerf it's ability to dimension door... maybe just require it to have a physical line of sight to it's destination.
So many ideas though!
Maybe it's gone mad and can't tell the difference between the present and the future?
Maybe it foresaw that the party was going to save it and has been studying them for their entire lives, it knows every detail about every single one of them...
Maybe all the seeing and no interacting as left this thing attention starved and it just follows the party around... maybe it just wants headpats?
OH, it could be a take on the cheshire cat, especially as a warped displacer beast, now super intelligent and able to short range teleport around... maybe even give it an invisibility like power where it can hide itself from sentient minds.
I am going to join your Patreon, and look at the monster stats, but I am curious how the “see the future” mechanic works in game? I think it is an awesome concept, and l love the idea of the party working against an organization that has one of these Seers, just wondering how to actually run in mechanically. Maybe did the DM it can work, because they know everything already. But wouldn’t the Seer be like “I see my death at the hands of the party” or “I see the fall of this organization at the hands of the party”? And what about a player with this ability, how does TRUE seeing into the future work? Love your channel
You could yave so many adventures arise from the spice trader's guild contracting mercenaries to seek out and eliminate threats to spice mining/trading operations.
Bandits, monster nests even raids from Underdark nations opening new passages.
So much work to be done, so many opportunities for travel, I could see being hired to act as extra security for a spice shipment being an easy way to facilitate long distance travel.
Everyone will want it, even just for the life extension abilities alone.
You could have an Illuminate of Orange Seers manipulating the world to their own ends via their vast wealth, connections with the powerful and their own clairvoyance.
Do you keep the conspiracy going? Maybe their rule is relatively peaceful even if no person is truly free.
Or do you seek to cast off the bindings of fate? Bring chaos to an ordered plan, for good or ill.
Once again, your vid popped up perfectly on time when I needed it :D
Man the videos look ever better in addition to dour great conversion work and presentation. Thank you.
I’m looking for an interesting fey creature to mix up the campaign I’m about to start. Most fey are little goobers with moth wings and stuff but where’s like a flying rainbow elephant that rides clouds or something?
Oh what a great video! As always, i may use their idea in my table, just add a twist where the "Spice" would be actually Shardmind Crystals grinded into powder to add extra conflict, maybe not their same Crystal but the same source who spawn then in my world 🤔
Another BANGER! Can't wait to watch the second part of Dune this week with my partner.
Love love love Dune xD
17:15 this! A part of my brain is always active while consuming media these days that is always figuring out how to apply it to dnd xD
LOVE when you cover named monsters and villains!
This inspires me to build a setting where all magic comes from a mysterious "spice"
You don't need to take it continuously to maintain your spells, but every level or every few levels you hit a threshold where you need a dose of spice to advance any further.
I would probably hand out a lot of feats to represent non-spice-related advancement.
Perhaps sorcerers come from the bloodlines of people who consumed so much spice their body (and descendants bodies) gained the ability to produce it automatically.
If anybody took a completely nonmagical martial build I might describe them as having some sort of innate resistance to the magic of the spice (maybe hand out occasional antimagic feats), but tripping on a big dose of spice is still able to "expand their mind" and open new paths of training they can pursue.
Dungeon Dad your videos are a wonder to behold. After watching them I foresee many adventures ahead for me and my players. Of course, I also see many dangers and a path wrought with peril.
There was already a group in the game that I'm running that consumes mushrooms that grow due to the excess energy of a captured god of fate. I was trying to figure out what them eating the mushrooms would do and this slides into my recommendations.
Heck yeah. Love this.
I really want to see you do the Hullathoin. It's only in the fiend fillo for 3rd edition. And don't even have a proper wiki article. Their basically forgotten for how utterly cool as undead they are
hi dungeon dad grate video by the way can you cover the Sartani?
Hey did you used to have a video about the Silver Dragon? I swear i sae you talk about it but i cant find it again, snd if it wasnt you i have no idea who it might have been
I personally think it’d be interesting if an orangeseer ingests an obscene quantity of spice in a short period of time some of their limbs cease to be vestigial, growing back to full size, but chipping away at any semblance of restraint they might still have concerning spice, meaning some mad wizard with the methods to create spice could turn their apprentice into a psionic engine of destruction and death that can see the future and will do ANYTHING for spice.
Almost immediately i had the idea of an orangeseer being part of a quest line to perfect an incredibly important plan of some sort, in exchange for resuming the flow of orangespice. Maybe a dragon or something has been hunting the worms or whatever
So I suppose orangespice could be considered a chaotic neutral influence creating body horror, but what about chaotic good body horror?
I thought of a plot hook - Orange Seer hires the party to defeat one creature he is incapable of predicting - a time traveller with power of Chronomancy, who rewrites time whenever the Seer outmaneuvers him.
What was that tease at the end? It was special 👀
A campaign centered around trying to break free from the choke hold of THE orange seer god emperor has on his empire thru his prescient abilities, a la Leto Atreides the second would be interesting. Wrestling with the meaning of free will in a setting were your enemy isn't just guestimating your next move but knows it before you do has the potential to be really interesting if handled well
Love the hook this episode! Thanks for all your hard work on the stat block too
as someone who mainly plays pathfinder this sounds like it could be useful for inspiration for a specific type of oracle and oracle curse
One of my favorite or at least most memorized creatures for some reason that i think is from dune, there's a creature called the shriek (like the bird), the person that i listened to explaining it went into such detail about how it's quite horrifying. It just kills people and Impales people on jagged metal tree
You're thinking of the Shrike. It's from the Hyperion Cantos, actually, and is absolutely terrifying in every aspect. Not the least of which is that it is going backwards in time and thus entirely beyond a human concept of causality. Haven't read it myself, but knew exactly what you were talking about. It's on my TBR, but so are about 30 other things currently.
@@nmartinez18 yeah thank you, I remember I listened to a UA-camr read about it without going into too much detail about the book a couple years back. Hyperion Cantos and Dune are series I quite like without knowing much about but the idea of successful civilization but still struggling is an interesting topic to me
@DefinitelyFroggyDioBrando I've purposefully been trying to avoid as much information about Dune as I possibly can, so when I get to it on my TBR, I can experience it as purely as possible. Which is odd for me because, usually, I'm an addict when it comes to spoilers. But it's definitely intriguing. Know some worldbuilding holes already, but from what I've heard, it is a classic for a reason. I would not be surprised if the weakness of the Goa'uld shields not stopping slower moving attacks from Stargate SG-1 was inspired by Dune.
There could be a player option for a not-yet Orangeseer but still distinctly mutated, make it a sorcerer subclass.
My idea was an enslaved orangeseer in an organization letting the party reach it by simply not telling its captors how the party will reach them either because they want to die or be freed
Can we get an episode on Leshay?
In the manga Choujin X, the protagonists at one point have to find a poppy field to cut off the supply of opium to the main antagonist, in order to weaken her and make it so they can defeat her. I can imagine something similar happening with an antagonistic Orangeseer, with you needing to find the source of spice or the provider fast enough that the Orangeseer can't predict it or find a new supplier before you can stop it.
Will you ever do monsters from video games like monster hunter and if you do can you please talk about the velociprey/drome?
Very cool. I like the idea of a powerful entity that will know what to do at all times and therefore is highly valued.
Still asking for Ethergaunts. Finished my long campaign with my wife so I don't really have the ability to use there info anymore, but I still would like to have their stat block for 5e
The Spice must flow!
What this says inspiration, you could make a drug for each of the Green lantern colors. The drugs give you the ability of warlocks with some flavor changes, and each one without the drug effect would be an increase in the personality trait of the required ring color
When I cook grilled cheeses they get a nice orange seer
Dude, love the thematic inclusion of a really cool series into 5e. Super stoked to try and weave this one into a future adventure.
At this point most of my comments on these videos involve me brainstorming how a given video's monster would fit into Eberron, and while sometimes I have to think for a minute to figure out an idea of how to do that, for the Orangeseer it was really easy. Humanoids recognizably mutated into grotesque forms and gaining powerful psychic powers? That's textbook daelkyr shit right there.
And if ever there was a setting for "factions with too much money and power and too little foresight trying to recruit powerful entities to serve them", Eberron is that setting
This orange spice is literally luciferium in rimworld
excellent video, ty for linking the google drive stat block everytime too
This sounds like the kind of monster that the party would be recruited to kill by a Quaruts inevitable. Something that keeps viewing and changing the future and messing with fates? Thats an inevitable-ing
12:05 Oh hey, check it out. It's the plot of my 4e campaign from 14 years ago!
Had to cut my payments to you for a bit but plan to restart them when available again so hope your doing well and having a good life.
Likewise! And sincerely no worries, I appreciate any and all support folks send my way, even if that just means a comment or a like now and again. Hope you’re having a good day!
If there is an orange seer does that means there is also a blue feeler?
I wonder what happens if you go even further with spice. It would be a Herculean task to acquire enough have a does more often than an hour, but imagine a guy whose hooked up to a machine that has a constant uninterrupted supply fed directly into him.
He gets turned into powder himself and as a sort of sacrifice it becomes an even more refined drug
I've said it once, but I'll say it again, I LOVE the new intro to the show! Keep up the great work DD!
I know we only do suggestions on the patreon. But sand worm stat blocks that aren't just purple worms would be cool. So if anyone has some sauce please let me know :D
Comes out swinging by trolling all the book readers.
Something I would love to see is the bebilith, a giant demonic spider that hunts other demons sounds amazing. Toss on top the fact that they can travel between the planes seemingly at will if they need to, but will usually only go to the astral plane if in danger, and you have a rather intriguing monster.
After Lolth defeated a spider demon lord who created the bebiliths, she stripped all of the remained bebiliths of their forms and captured their essence in a metal bodies. The resulting monstrocities were named retrievers and are detailed in the Mordekainen's Tome of Foes (or, if you have no access to it, that obnoxious remake, Monsters of the Multiverse).
what price would you place a dose of spice at?
What about the Witchfire from Pathfinder?
Hey look, you can just make an orange seer as Zordon in an orange spice tube
The new monster book for the remaster of PF2 will of course come with new dragons. Maybe you could use them after your current run of dragons. Otherwise, PF2 has a wood and metal elemental planes, so of course they have their own genies. The wood genies nobles will add to the wish to add some sort of signature, and the metal will twist the wish claiming linguistical differences due to the isolation of the metal plane while it was phased out.
I was eating m&ms watching this and looked down at my hand and saw it was orange and no joke was like "oh no.. wait-"
Your video style is kinda similar to The Why Files, which makes me think that would be a fun crossover!
Haven't seen that episode of magic school bus in like 20 years, but it still lives rent free in my brain