@@esperthebard sooo... murderhobo is just a straight up mad brutalist with homicidal and psycho tendancies? well sounds entertaining. kinna what i resort when all the options in a game don't work and the only "good" option is straight kill em all! kinna like how the doom slayer in doom 16 is!
@@esperthebard fancier name for the loths Dhergo- Dhergolith, Mezzo-Mezzogletat, Cano-Canogarian, Nyca-Bliegleth, Vltro-Lethlototon, Yagno-Malitoin, Oino-Malice-Ockr, Arcano can keep its name Merreno-Hellion Soulguider
"Malebolgian Painmaster." "Dark Bloodmaggot of Hell." "Hell Pain Soul Dark Pain Hell Razor Fire Hell." "Knife Bastard." "The Fuck Cauldron." "Craaaawling innnn my skiiin (cont.)"
You have a misunderstand of neutral evil. They are the most inconsistent. Chaotic evil is predictable, as well as lawful evil. Neutral evil are overwhelmingly inconsistent because they have no code or motivations. Meaning they’re predictable. Neutral just means they aren’t going out of their way to FSU
Finally...one of your opinions I UTTERLY DISAGREE WITH! Though a little repetitive sounding, at least their names sound like proper 'names', giving then a taste of realism. If they were named 'Spearslayers of Doom' or 'Brainmasters of Pain' or whatever, they'd sound totally generic. Like DOOM-era 'first-person-shooter' cannon fodder...or worse, 90's era supervillains.
@@typhusnurgle409 define "trying hard to be scary" since when are cartoony artstyle synonymous with "trying hard to be scary?" that thing looked less cartoony than most of the drawings on there
@@teratoma. to me it fillet forced as for cartoony what i mean and what esper most likely means is that even though it is supposed to be scary it comes off as cartoony .
The deal with Rakshasa is that they highly depend on the DM to play them in a realistic way. They have so many abilities to FLEE combat , that it will always meddle with the party but avoid combat at any cost for pretty much forever. Catching a Rakshasa and making sure it cannot just run away is a tremendous challenge already, as the Rakshasa will plot against the party way easier and a campaign that involves a powerful Rakshasa can easily mean its filled with traps that will mess with the party at any corner.
Well said, I'm contemplating such a rakshasa NPC who meddles with much high level stuff. I will probably give him a powerful magic weapon or implement of some sort. I just can't imagine such a powerful and intelligent monster never picking up any magic items that it uses to defend itself should it need to whoop some ass in combat.
@@lisagaughan7154 You like silly and cute things probably. If you take D&D seriously you won't like hippo's with guns and suits that are not from the age where D&D is suppose to play out. Giff's are the most pathetic creations in D&D ever, if you like them, I pity you. I'm glad I don't think like you do, really.
@@wesleyvalk9129 everything you said was wrong. One of my favourite shows is Gotham, which if I recall correctly, isn't cute and silly. By your logic, something you think is dumb and other people like it, then they must like cute and silly things.
Yeah because a Giff is totally a monster to be used as a demon lieutenant of the Dark Lord, that's totally appropriate for that example. Let me tell you about Id-Did the Kobold Psion political manipulator or the soul-collecting Flump my players just killed. Oh, and the Dretch that told my party that if someone didn't rescue the soul of the pure hearted Hobgoblin princess, the wicked Gynosphinx was going to plunge the kingdom into darkness and raise armies of undead pixies. Seriously, it's fine if you don't like them. I understand, even if I don't agree. But don't misrepresent the creature like that. I hadn't heard of Giff until your Beastmen video, but I know more now. If you're going to mock it, fine, I get it, I can see why you don't like them. But don't treat them like they're something *completely different*.
@@DaUziel Abso-frickin-lutely this. To quote Lilo & Stitch "educate yourself." The Giff are a mercenary race based on the British Empire at the height of Colonialism with an obsession with rank and gunpowder. They were made for a setting that was essentially the Golden Age of Sail in fantasy space. Now, there a plenty of stinkers in Spelljammer, and that's coming from someone who loves it, but the Giff are not one of them. Sure they're not for everyone, but Esper's Gandalf example is one of the most blatant bad faith arguments I've ever seen against them. Just because they won't fit in every campaign by no means mean they lack style.
Esper the Bard Not to mention, if a DM allows it, they can make for a pretty interesting player race, with their ability to hide their true identity having great potential for a shocking twist.
Nycaloth/Nycadaemon needs to have his second pair of arms back, and give him another greataxe too! Four armed green gargoyle looking daemon who dual wields two handed axes is metal af. The Yugoloth/Daemons are an interesting group of fiends, but unfortunately WotC rarely does anything interesting with them, and prefers to keep them as fence-sitting centrists of the whole Demons VS Devils conflict, which is probably the main reason why they're so easy to gloss over. I think Pathfinder fixed this problem by giving its daemons their own equivalent to the Archdevils and the Demon Lords in the form of the Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse, and a bitter hatred towards the existence of all life as their motivation. In my own campaign setting's multiverse in regards to the Yugoloth/Daemons I'm combining elements of the 2E Planescape and Pathfinder lore by having some individual yugoloth, perhaps secretly, be one of the Four Horsemen (Anthraxus the Oinoloth is Pestilence, Charon the Marraenoloth is Death, General of Gehenna is War, and Famine's identity is unknown). The origin of them is that they have naturally spawned from the Plane of The Grey Waste/Hades/Abaddon ever since that plane has existed, the most ancient of them being the mysterious Baernaloth. Their ultimate goal is to end the existence of life on the multiverse, and it's a long term one that they hope to achieve by manipulating the Blood War towards inevitably expanding into apocalyptic proportions.
I remember reading the vargouille entry in 3.5e and imagining how horrifying it would be to slowly transform into that creature. There is some serious body horror potential in the Vargouille’s curse.
Netherlasher is a name for... something all right. Just don’t think about it too much. I do love your videos. Nice to hear someone just being positive and having fun with something.
Not a fan of the Cambion bit. However, I do love these rankings and I tend to find myself agreeing with many of the rankings and suggestions for making the lower tier monsters better. Also, thanks for not making your tiers based on power, like so many other online rpg tiers are.
Yeah that bit was really bad. Esper needs to do some research and maybe have a conversation or two with some NB folks. He talks a lot about being imaginative and open-minded, yet acts like that? Yikes bro.
@@CultOfNothoon nope and nope. Just tired of seeing people explode over comedy. You want inclusiveness? You got it. Welcome to the party its called the real world. Nothing to do with my assumed lack of empathy just you exploding against people who don't bend over backwards to screw themselves for your narrative. Have a nice day.
@@shadowviruz Where have I exploded, exactly? Also, you're tired of seeing people "explode" over comedy? So, imagine you're a member of a group that receives constant scorn and disgust from the people around you, you're relaxing watching UA-cam, and a creator you like makes the same hateful joke you hear everywhere constantly? Wouldn't you get tired of that as well? I'm not asking anyone to bend over backwards for anything. Quite the opposite actually. I'm asking for inaction, to not make the same hurtful, tired joke that every other uninformed person does. I'm not averse to rude humor, but I want to instill the idea that the "real world" doesn't have to be a hateful, mean place if we come together to improve it. Please take a breath and think about this conversation rationally. I'm not telling Esper what he can and can't say. All I did was make a suggestion that he broaden his horizons. And I retract my earlier statement, I apologize. I want to understand, not fight.
In real (Christian) myth a half-fiend is known as Lilitu, but they are born in the living world, and not limited to any personality traits, and are related to nephilim and azreal (aasimar), meaning that the aasimar opposite, the Tiefling was the original, but cambion was created to distance them from fiend origins, probably for placating certain unlearned religious people
@@darksev.6468 what i did in a one shot is basically have one posing as an adventurer to help the party in a quest with a possesed oracle with an ensemble of humanoid aberrations from the far realm, for an artifact they needed. Soon enough after he helped them he took the artifact and managed to escape, which was broke one of the players who tried to roleplay with him to make him a recurring character since they interested them, and because they tried to set up a romantic subplot with them, lol And I literally named them cambion as a fake name, and for some reason, no one took the hint despite me trying and failing not to smile mischievously, but i do it all the time so they probably didnt think much of it, lol
Cerberus and Orthrus are death dogs (multi-headed, not fire-breathing). Black Shuck and Cadejo would be some kind of ghost hound. Yeth Hound is yeth hound (volo's guide to monsters).
Studier of mythology, Yeth Hounds are NOTHING like they are in Volo's. They're actually headless hell hounds created from the black shuck superstition. Also, just because something is named after something in a book of D&D, doesn't make it the same creature from mythology. So yes, these are still considered inspirations for the Hell Hounds. You can even look it up on Wikipedia, and it will still tell you that the black shuck is "a spectral or demonic entity found primarily in the folklore of the British Isles" and has ties to the devil, and Cadejos are literally called devil dogs, they are said to be incarnations of the devil himself.
Awww yeah, Merrenoloths, when you really need to get somewhere despite whatever is in the water. Just say a Merrenoloths name, your destination and your offer of riches while standing on a boat. In my campaign I gave it the ability to control all the rope on a ship, so it can use the ship without any crew and can entangle and crush enemies who dare board its vessel. I thought it was kind of ridiculous that the only damage it can deal comes from whacking someone with an oar.
A fun fact about the succubus is that their roleplay is so strong that in lore it can even reward players for good enough roleplay. At least, reward depending on your perspective. You see if a succubus actually falls in love with you and doesn’t want to kill you when they give their draining kiss, and you survive it, then you become an extremely powerful vampire. Like up there with the higher vampires in the witcher series.
So the thing about yogoloths is that originally they were called daemons but to avoid satanic panic they and their fiend cousins were renamed. Only when 3x babe along and restored the names of demons and devil's these guys got forgotten. The things is, it turns out that the pattern for their naming convention wasn't actually a new pattern that emerged with the satanic panic name change. Their old names sill had that pattern. It just went from nycadaemons and mezzodaemons to nycaloths and mezzoloths. They also first appeared as a random encounter in the "vault of the drow" module. Not so fun fact: Ironically, (especially since they first appeared in a drow module) that while the drow goddess Lloth is both a goddess and a fiend (at least at one point) and whose name (depending on accent) sounds like these fiends, she is actually a demon not a daemon/yugoloth.
a general rule of thumb: any 'joke' that involves drawing parallels to real-life people and giving them the "Nerdy Spit Voice" is a joke you should just strike from the script immediately after the first take if not before that. It's obnoxious and generally comes from a bad mindset of "I find this type of person annoying so I'm gonna make them sound annoying". Even the most harmless version where it's only based on obnoxious fan comments can get old fast just because it's a bit that always drags and distracts from any intelligent points made before and after.
Wizards currently creates many Names by translating random words back and forth until its unrecognizable. By the Way: The Yagnoloth looks so innocent and friendly, you really can imagine him sitting with his grandma and drinking some Tea. Just Cute!!
Esper: Confirmed Edgelord. Throw some flames on a dog and a horse, give it a tortured backstory, and what do you get? The epitome of generic fantasy hell monster. Seriously, Esper... these AREN'T the laziest, most unoriginal fiend designs?
I really appreciate all the effort you put into these rankings. They help me see monsters' potential for use in my campaign and gives me inspiration for new stories. There are a few points of critique which I feel are which are holding this series back a bit: - The speed of talking is extremely slow. I don't think I've ever had someone speak so slowly in a UA-cam video before. Especially because it's not a conversation, but an informational video. I have to put the speed at 1.25 to watch a bit comfortably. Speaking faster would also make these videos a bit shorter as 25 minutes is a big investment relative to other videos on the site. - The bit about the Cambion felt insensitive to actual real world issues people have. I wasn't personally offended, and I know you meant it to be a joke, but it felt really tone deaf and childish to me. I like these videos because of the excellent analysis, not for cheap jokes that target low hanging fruit. Don't let these points take away from the fact that I love the actual content and would love to see more of it.
Rakshasa is a cunning manipulator that is like the evil mastermind in a James Bond movies. He does not show his face except to gloat. He has underlings take all the risks. They do not need to do much damage They are not supposed to get into combat.
You left out my favorite - the Baernaloth. Its a close associate of the hags, and it has the creepiest backstory. One of them is even given credit for spawning the gehreleths.
I have been thinking about a campaign with a Rakshasa as a main lackey to the main villain. He holds a a high political "office" in a kingdom as he is a wealthy merchant that controls the trade along the river that crosses the whole kingdom. It is well known he have been "cursed" with a bestial form and tries to hide it. What his job really is is to spread confusion and stir up trouble with nearby nations so no one notice that a Lich is trying to find a way to resurrect all evil dragons from the Ancient Dragon War which he and a Dracolich is the only remaining members of. The Rakshasa is going to play a vital role in security the players a guild location (hoping they die in clearing it out from the demons and fiends he sent there) and getting well paying jobs (hoping they die trying to do them). He is going to become a schemer and when/if he is confronted he start to actively going after the players guild as well as summoning fiend/demon minions to defend himself with.
This one does not know what you mean! This one was just peddling these simple baubles to get back to the warm sands of Elsewyr. For you, though, this one might have just what you need... for the right price.
Ha! I like the part about the Nightmare. It's interesting how people learned about different creatures in general and in D&D. I learned about it when my cool aunt bought it for me in 83? from the toy line so my Warduke could ride. No articulation but a really menacing toy with accessories. I remember my dad commenting, "What happened? Why is everything for kids demonic now?" This was also a couple of years after the moral panic though.
I use a bit of Pathfinder lore for the yugoloths personally, referring to them as daemons, and having their rulers not be some stupid general, but the actual 4 horsemen of the apocalypse. It makes them stand out more from demons and devils. For me succubi aren't neutral evil, but there are two sects of them, belonging to the demons and devils. There is a queen of succubi on both sides. Lillith of the Devils, and Malcanthet of the Demons.
DM in one of our campaigns gave Ultroloths "ventriloquism" ability. It solved some issues mentioned in the video while adding a roleplay "point" to ranking.
I understand that you try to keep your lore consistent with the 5e, but yugoloths cannot go without mention how important they were in AD&D Second Edition's Planescape. Back then, they were heavily implied to manipulate the Blood War, having mostly abandoned their actual home plane of Gray Waste of Hades for Gehenna. They have still controled the tower of Khin-Oin on Hades, of which the Tower of Arcanoloths on Gehenna is weaker analogue, and worked to finish their third, secret Tower of Incarnate Pain on Carceri to extend their influnce there. Even more importantly, the most powerful form of yugoloths, baernaloths, were said to actually predate both devils and demons, and rumored to even have created both races in first place. As baernaloths are not described in 5e yet, one is free to implement this story into their game.
Yeah that took me right the fuck out of it. Hard to take someone seriously when their response to something they don't like is to create a mocking strawman of real people...
@@QuestionableObject no no no, you see, it's FUNNY, 'cause the big bad monster is... fuckin' heh... (get this) an SJW! Ha ha! Snowflakes! I have to drink piss directly out of the urinal to live
16:06 -" Hey! Is the rakshasa artwork done?" -" Yes indeed!" -" Awesome, lemme see it... You drew the hands wrong." -" What?" -" Yeah, they're completely opposite of what they should be!" -" Holy crap I totally fucked u - PFFFFTTHFF... I meant to do that!" -" Really?" -" Y... Yeah! Totally, do you honestly think I, an experienced and pronounced artist, could make such a trivial mistake? It was all on purpose and most definitely intentional!" -"... Well, we do need to set it apart more from the devils so I'll just work it in the lore..." -" I insist!"
I do hope your awful name suggestions are jokes, but overall pretty good rating system and video, found your channel randomly and will be coming back for more.
As yugoloths are so desperate to get as much coin as they can, I always thought it would be cool if they "leveled up" to more advanced forms based on how much wealth they had. For example, going to a coven of night hags and giving them some huge amount of GP (or an equivalent amount in souls) in exchange for the hags performing a ritual upon them which bumps them up to the next tier. It would explain why they're so greedy and grasping, and why they'll work for whoever is paying them the most.
They literally do that, except they need not only wealth, but also power (or at least being able to convincingly lie about having it) and approval from higher-standing yugoloths
@@georgeuferov1497 Really? I didn't know that! Hmmm... Needing the approval of a superior seems too lawful/devilish to me. Backstabbing one's superiors to get ahead sounds more NE to me.
I actually like them... They mean things. Like if you were to see a creature out in the wilderness and survive the interaction, you wouldn't name it Blargafarth, you'd name it after the familiar traits it had, like "hill giant" or "howler" if it couldn't communicate what it was itself, if it even ever would. Other esoteric names would come from scholars who otherwise make up their own names, like how we name animals scientifically, but we call them dogs instead of canines (where things like dog and tiger have long spanning origins we don't credibly have in dnd).
Nai Guy strong and understandable reasoning, true, but I'll agree with OP on the merit that most of it very much felt (to me) "I'm-12-and-this-is-cool". Suppose I'm just more nerd than geek and prefer serious and maybe overanalytical tone, let the players (master included) be the ones to bring the humor and zane. I mean, Slayer from Beyond? Ehhhh. I'll give props to Stygian Loremaster though, that one's actually rather quality.
Akav Akaku Daemon is indeed pronounced "day-mon", however a daemon is from Greek mythology and is a beneficial spirit that gave inspiration and assistance to people, often artists, philosophers, etc. The Romans adopted this in their mythology, giving it the name genius. Nowadays we call prodigies themselves geniuses.
EDUCATION TIME The ACTUAL first horseman is Conquest, who rides a white horse. Now, I get it. Conquest is the horseman that most often gets replaced by Pestilence, and white is a very similar color to pale. Fair enough, fair enough. But... 1: In every version of the horsemen I've seen that included Pestilence, the list goes "War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death", therefore placing Pestilence as the Third Horseman, which makes sense: War leads to shortage, shortage leads to Famine, Famine leads to weakness, weakness leads to disease, which leads to Pestilence, and then Death. Nice logical progression. 2: You know which one of them is actually described as the Pale Horseman? *DEATH*. You know, the most well known of the Horsemen? Are you just trying to piss people off with this video?
On a related note, the image of Conquest, or the Conqueror, holding a bow which is typically and very specifically portrayed as being without arrows is an important factor in the theory among scholars that the white horse rider is an Anti-Christ. That aside, it's pretty clear that this guy doesn't know a whole lot, really, and is just regurgitating half-remembered junk that "sounds, like, totally ominous."
@@orbitalbutt6757 I would argue that all Four Horsemen are on the side of God, as all of them come from Heaven. Conquest's bow may have no normal arrows, but it is also said it can level cities, and change the hearts or Men.
@@jondeoliveira8248 I tend to agree, I was just presenting a commonly held interpretation of the Conquest figure :) Also, weird to have a legitimate dialogue about eschatological iconography going on in a UA-cam comments section haha
I’m okay with the -loth names, it (could) allow the monsters to be very different physically, while still showing that they’re all fiends born of night-hags; and not just devils/demons. I’m a little disappointed that wotc didn’t follow through with that and make their designs more distinctive, though. They really do look just like any other generic demon... Also: Mage: “I’m in need of greater arcane knowledge in order to face the fiends of Gehenna”. Bard: *eyeing the yagnoloth’s cod-piece* “I have the perfect gift for you, my mage friend!” Roll for seduction.
I've actually made cambian and succubus home-brew races. The resistances make them... kinda op, but I feel like taking those away just doesn't do the creatures justice.
Yeah, but in another comment, he replied that his test for style is putting then across from Gandalf as she's shouting "You shall not pass!" Makes for a terrible amount of bias.
I would love to see a video ranking fey creatures. They aren’t as common and I’ve never played in a game with fey so I think it would be really interesting
If you want to be a dirty GM, give the Rakshasa a sneak attack bonus of 5d6. Makes it more potent in melee and fits the image of a target stalking its prey before lashing out with one devastating strike
Have it disguised as a holy leader who "grants" his mark to those he deems worthy. Let the players have fun figuring out why their characters are not getting any sleep benefits.
I dunno I thought it was kinda funny, I think people took it way too far despite the fact he even said it was satire. I unironically see people saying it's "homophobic", which I'm sorry but the difference between you being offended by a joke, and actual, real-life harrassment over your sexuality and preferences are leaps and bounds away from eachother. Saying that is just so immature to people that actually hate on LGBT issues, if anything we should be saying that he's fighting a strawman for the sake of a joke. We could also say that it's definitely unoriginal, and maybe a little bit tasteless. Other than that, literally harmless concidering the characature he's making fun off.
@@godlessgod096 I hadn't considered it harmful, nor offensive, nor tasteless. Just a bit hilariously out-of-nowhere, that's all. Added to the humour, if anything. :) No idea what the accusation of homophobia is for? That seems wacky to me. I'm bi myself, and I've faced harrassment for it. Can't see the connection between that and this. Weird.
@@Torthrodhel Oh. I see what's going on here. I fucked up, my bad. I read your comment as something negative, happens sometimes because text doesn't really have any emotion, so I misinterpreted it. Also yeah the homophobia thing wasn't meant to be slung at you in particular, I said "I unironically see people saying it's "homophobic",". Though I can tell you where confused too, because in the beggining I said "I dunno I thought it was kinda funny".
@@godlessgod096 easy done, completely understand. Happens to me all the time. Also in real life, because I'm autistic lol. Find it difficult to read tone in general, and just like you say, being limited to plain-text doesn't help. No worries. :)
Enjoying your videos, I don’t suppose you’d do something talking about monsters based on the mythology they came from? You could have Greek, Norse, Celtic, Biblical, Shinto, Etc. For the mythologies that seem underrepresented, it would be great to start a dialogue about that and make some suggestions as well. Shinto gets overlooked and there is some great stuff in there, especially Undead.
I've gotten into dungeons & dragons at a young age because of my older brother but after a while thousands of campaigns sometimes a brother like me would grow out of it but I want to get back into.
since i'm expecting demons next, after them i would love to see giants, both the core giant races (Hill, Stone, Frost, Fire, Cloud, and Storm), and Giant like races (Oni, Ogres, Cyclops, Formorians, Trolls)
I think that missing something in the Ugaloths is their connection to the lands of Hades. More accurately the Night market. And their strong association with night hags ties all three together
Great video, looking forward to more monster rankings. You actually inspired me to write a campaign around a Night Hag
I hope to hear the story of this campaign someday!
Night hags are my favorite antagonists. They can do soooo much without even being near the party.
HEHEHEHEE
If you haven't done so already play Planescape Torment and be inspired by Ravel Puzzlewell.
@@esperthebard sooo... murderhobo is just a straight up mad brutalist with homicidal and psycho tendancies? well sounds entertaining. kinna what i resort when all the options in a game don't work and the only "good" option is straight kill em all! kinna like how the doom slayer in doom 16 is!
@@esperthebard fancier name for the loths Dhergo- Dhergolith, Mezzo-Mezzogletat, Cano-Canogarian, Nyca-Bliegleth, Vltro-Lethlototon, Yagno-Malitoin, Oino-Malice-Ockr, Arcano can keep its name Merreno-Hellion Soulguider
I agree, why couldn’t they have good names like: “Empty void like my soul” or “My parents don’t understand me”. You know, good names.
"Malebolgian Painmaster." "Dark Bloodmaggot of Hell." "Hell Pain Soul Dark Pain Hell Razor Fire Hell." "Knife Bastard." "The Fuck Cauldron." "Craaaawling innnn my skiiin (cont.)"
I like his videos but yikes his name suggestions were awful lol
I prefer the names not changing
what do you expect, their fiends.
Aloysius, Samarcaragozzan, Squaurcanth, Fred. Cool names. Yeah.
@@orbitalbutt6757 Name checks out. You're good in my book. Asstronomical, in fact.
Neutral evil is arguably the most dangerous of the evil alignments because it’s pure evil without honor, variation, or inconsistency.
More focused than Chaotic evil, yet less constrained by rules than Lawful evil. That's how I always thought of it.
@@amannamedsquid313 It’s actually more accurate to think of it as sociopathy or psychopathy.
Dr Bright? These will all be anomalies for you to contain soon
You have a misunderstand of neutral evil. They are the most inconsistent. Chaotic evil is predictable, as well as lawful evil. Neutral evil are overwhelmingly inconsistent because they have no code or motivations. Meaning they’re predictable. Neutral just means they aren’t going out of their way to FSU
@@purplehaze2358Not how sociopathy works
Uhm Sir. A hippo with a monocle, rifle, and sharp military uniform is leagues more stylish than a loin cloth and whip
He's compensating for his 0 style
He got lost and ended up in the wrong tabletop game
😂
Ebonzai To be fair they don’t look like they belong in dungeons and dragons seems more like something out of Warhammer 40 K early Warhammer 40 K
Yeah but you know why he rates the way he does, shure giffs dress in some damm fine outfits, but their appearance is not special
Rakshasa should be A tier in my opinion, up there with Oni in the "reoccurring villian" kinda thing, and they differ a lot from each other
I'm glad you said it I like the Oni my top ten with Rakshasa.👍
9:40 "How does it speak without a mouth?"
A parakeet speaks from a throat opening, not from the beak.
So
A ultroloth is a heavy smoker
I believe other birds speak with something near their wings too.
Finally...one of your opinions I UTTERLY DISAGREE WITH! Though a little repetitive sounding, at least their names sound like proper 'names', giving then a taste of realism. If they were named 'Spearslayers of Doom' or 'Brainmasters of Pain' or whatever, they'd sound totally generic. Like DOOM-era 'first-person-shooter' cannon fodder...or worse, 90's era supervillains.
2:51 That hippo has a lot of style.
is it just me or dose his definition of "Cartoony" differ noticeably from what most would consider cartoony?
yup, that thing definitely didnt look more cartoony
sorry but that is cartoony it looks like its trying to hard to be scary
@@typhusnurgle409 define "trying hard to be scary"
since when are cartoony artstyle synonymous with "trying hard to be scary?"
that thing looked less cartoony than most of the drawings on there
@@teratoma. to me it fillet forced as for cartoony what i mean and what esper most likely means is that even though it is supposed to be scary it comes off as cartoony .
@@typhusnurgle409 then its not cartoony, its ridiculous/extreme
there's a fine difference albeit blurred but a line between the two does exist
The deal with Rakshasa is that they highly depend on the DM to play them in a realistic way.
They have so many abilities to FLEE combat , that it will always meddle with the party but avoid combat at any cost for pretty much forever.
Catching a Rakshasa and making sure it cannot just run away is a tremendous challenge already, as the Rakshasa will plot against the party way easier and a campaign that involves a powerful Rakshasa can easily mean its filled with traps that will mess with the party at any corner.
Well said, I'm contemplating such a rakshasa NPC who meddles with much high level stuff. I will probably give him a powerful magic weapon or implement of some sort. I just can't imagine such a powerful and intelligent monster never picking up any magic items that it uses to defend itself should it need to whoop some ass in combat.
Everyone shed a tear for our fallen hippo friends. (Also owlbears)
Giff are the worst creatures ever, people that like them don’t take monsters and d&d seriously.
@@wesleyvalk9129 I like them and I take DnD seriously.
@@lisagaughan7154 You like silly and cute things probably. If you take D&D seriously you won't like hippo's with guns and suits that are not from the age where D&D is suppose to play out. Giff's are the most pathetic creations in D&D ever, if you like them, I pity you. I'm glad I don't think like you do, really.
@@wesleyvalk9129 everything you said was wrong. One of my favourite shows is Gotham, which if I recall correctly, isn't cute and silly. By your logic, something you think is dumb and other people like it, then they must like cute and silly things.
@@lisagaughan7154 If you can't see why I think a freaking hippo-man with a gun is stupid then you don't even have a right to speak here.
Under style examples a napoleanic hippo man wearing a monocle is low, but generic big demon is high?
I'm imagining Gandalf on the Bridge of Khazad Dum shouting "You shall not paaaaasssss!" to a Giff
Yeah because a Giff is totally a monster to be used as a demon lieutenant of the Dark Lord, that's totally appropriate for that example.
Let me tell you about Id-Did the Kobold Psion political manipulator or the soul-collecting Flump my players just killed. Oh, and the Dretch that told my party that if someone didn't rescue the soul of the pure hearted Hobgoblin princess, the wicked Gynosphinx was going to plunge the kingdom into darkness and raise armies of undead pixies.
Seriously, it's fine if you don't like them. I understand, even if I don't agree. But don't misrepresent the creature like that. I hadn't heard of Giff until your Beastmen video, but I know more now. If you're going to mock it, fine, I get it, I can see why you don't like them. But don't treat them like they're something *completely different*.
Style is so dependant on taste and setting that it really shouldn't be an objective ranking. Too variable.
@@DaUziel Abso-frickin-lutely this. To quote Lilo & Stitch "educate yourself." The Giff are a mercenary race based on the British Empire at the height of Colonialism with an obsession with rank and gunpowder. They were made for a setting that was essentially the Golden Age of Sail in fantasy space. Now, there a plenty of stinkers in Spelljammer, and that's coming from someone who loves it, but the Giff are not one of them. Sure they're not for everyone, but Esper's Gandalf example is one of the most blatant bad faith arguments I've ever seen against them. Just because they won't fit in every campaign by no means mean they lack style.
@@davidb7406 they don't fit into dnd
Very good job ranking the Arcanaloth in the A tier. They are cool as hell.
Be Laine Gibs, Son. I was blown away after reading and analyzing the arcanoloth. These guys probably rule the world and no one knows about it.
Esper the Bard Not to mention, if a DM allows it, they can make for a pretty interesting player race, with their ability to hide their true identity having great potential for a shocking twist.
Esper the Bard But what about the battleloth??
Nycaloth/Nycadaemon needs to have his second pair of arms back, and give him another greataxe too! Four armed green gargoyle looking daemon who dual wields two handed axes is metal af.
The Yugoloth/Daemons are an interesting group of fiends, but unfortunately WotC rarely does anything interesting with them, and prefers to keep them as fence-sitting centrists of the whole Demons VS Devils conflict, which is probably the main reason why they're so easy to gloss over. I think Pathfinder fixed this problem by giving its daemons their own equivalent to the Archdevils and the Demon Lords in the form of the Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse, and a bitter hatred towards the existence of all life as their motivation.
In my own campaign setting's multiverse in regards to the Yugoloth/Daemons I'm combining elements of the 2E Planescape and Pathfinder lore by having some individual yugoloth, perhaps secretly, be one of the Four Horsemen (Anthraxus the Oinoloth is Pestilence, Charon the Marraenoloth is Death, General of Gehenna is War, and Famine's identity is unknown). The origin of them is that they have naturally spawned from the Plane of The Grey Waste/Hades/Abaddon ever since that plane has existed, the most ancient of them being the mysterious Baernaloth. Their ultimate goal is to end the existence of life on the multiverse, and it's a long term one that they hope to achieve by manipulating the Blood War towards inevitably expanding into apocalyptic proportions.
In the old lore, the Oinoloth and the General of Gehnna were at war with each other for control of the bulk of the daemons
All I got out of this video is that Esper LOVES cambions. Oh man... talk about a successful insight check there!
No matter how many times I rewatch these, it's still lots of fun to hear your opinions.
I remember reading the vargouille entry in 3.5e and imagining how horrifying it would be to slowly transform into that creature. There is some serious body horror potential in the Vargouille’s curse.
The Crawling Vaginadentatacurse
Netherlasher is a name for... something all right. Just don’t think about it too much.
I do love your videos. Nice to hear someone just being positive and having fun with something.
Not a fan of the Cambion bit. However, I do love these rankings and I tend to find myself agreeing with many of the rankings and suggestions for making the lower tier monsters better. Also, thanks for not making your tiers based on power, like so many other online rpg tiers are.
Yeah that bit was really bad. Esper needs to do some research and maybe have a conversation or two with some NB folks. He talks a lot about being imaginative and open-minded, yet acts like that? Yikes bro.
@@CultOfNothoon its a satire on the worst of NB people not all of you. Grow up.
@@shadowviruz It's unnecessarily mean-spirited and vitriolic.
@@CultOfNothoon nope and nope. Just tired of seeing people explode over comedy. You want inclusiveness? You got it. Welcome to the party its called the real world. Nothing to do with my assumed lack of empathy just you exploding against people who don't bend over backwards to screw themselves for your narrative. Have a nice day.
@@shadowviruz Where have I exploded, exactly? Also, you're tired of seeing people "explode" over comedy? So, imagine you're a member of a group that receives constant scorn and disgust from the people around you, you're relaxing watching UA-cam, and a creator you like makes the same hateful joke you hear everywhere constantly? Wouldn't you get tired of that as well? I'm not asking anyone to bend over backwards for anything. Quite the opposite actually. I'm asking for inaction, to not make the same hurtful, tired joke that every other uninformed person does. I'm not averse to rude humor, but I want to instill the idea that the "real world" doesn't have to be a hateful, mean place if we come together to improve it. Please take a breath and think about this conversation rationally. I'm not telling Esper what he can and can't say. All I did was make a suggestion that he broaden his horizons. And I retract my earlier statement, I apologize. I want to understand, not fight.
Here is a reason why the yoguloths remained obscure - there was no Fiendish Codex 3 that covered them.
I'm a fiend for monster rankings
Do an angel/celestial tiers.
There’s like. 12
I am not the only one who actually likes Cambions right...? qwq
It's the highest rank in C-tier. The potential is there, it just needs good writing to make it work.
In real (Christian) myth a half-fiend is known as Lilitu, but they are born in the living world, and not limited to any personality traits, and are related to nephilim and azreal (aasimar), meaning that the aasimar opposite, the Tiefling was the original, but cambion was created to distance them from fiend origins, probably for placating certain unlearned religious people
Cambions are really fun if you run them right, honestly.
@@darksev.6468 what i did in a one shot is basically have one posing as an adventurer to help the party in a quest with a possesed oracle with an ensemble of humanoid aberrations from the far realm, for an artifact they needed.
Soon enough after he helped them he took the artifact and managed to escape, which was broke one of the players who tried to roleplay with him to make him a recurring character since they interested them, and because they tried to set up a romantic subplot with them, lol
And I literally named them cambion as a fake name, and for some reason, no one took the hint despite me trying and failing not to smile mischievously, but i do it all the time so they probably didnt think much of it, lol
Hey, glad you did this
Edit: I love how you use songs for the names of each letter tier
Sam Wise Thanks Tim! Metal and monsters 🤘
Are you slowly becoming Araki? If so... well... now we know who's gonna write JJBA Part 9.
"Hell hounds have low lore." * ahem * Cerberus, Orthrus, Black Shuck, Black Dog, Yeth Hound, Cadejo
Cerberus and Orthrus are death dogs (multi-headed, not fire-breathing).
Black Shuck and Cadejo would be some kind of ghost hound.
Yeth Hound is yeth hound (volo's guide to monsters).
Studier of mythology, Yeth Hounds are NOTHING like they are in Volo's. They're actually headless hell hounds created from the black shuck superstition. Also, just because something is named after something in a book of D&D, doesn't make it the same creature from mythology. So yes, these are still considered inspirations for the Hell Hounds. You can even look it up on Wikipedia, and it will still tell you that the black shuck is "a spectral or demonic entity found primarily in the folklore of the British Isles" and has ties to the devil, and Cadejos are literally called devil dogs, they are said to be incarnations of the devil himself.
Helios Extras Isn't the "lore" meter refering to D&D lore? Not the real life inspiration?
TheVideoMakerTS Idk, originally it was meant for mythologies. You can go check out his beastfolk video and it is a "mythology meter."
Another interesting thing, "Shuck" comes from the Old English word "Succa" which means fiend/devil.
Awww yeah, Merrenoloths, when you really need to get somewhere despite whatever is in the water. Just say a Merrenoloths name, your destination and your offer of riches while standing on a boat. In my campaign I gave it the ability to control all the rope on a ship, so it can use the ship without any crew and can entangle and crush enemies who dare board its vessel.
I thought it was kind of ridiculous that the only damage it can deal comes from whacking someone with an oar.
A fun fact about the succubus is that their roleplay is so strong that in lore it can even reward players for good enough roleplay. At least, reward depending on your perspective. You see if a succubus actually falls in love with you and doesn’t want to kill you when they give their draining kiss, and you survive it, then you become an extremely powerful vampire. Like up there with the higher vampires in the witcher series.
So the thing about yogoloths is that originally they were called daemons but to avoid satanic panic they and their fiend cousins were renamed. Only when 3x babe along and restored the names of demons and devil's these guys got forgotten. The things is, it turns out that the pattern for their naming convention wasn't actually a new pattern that emerged with the satanic panic name change. Their old names sill had that pattern. It just went from nycadaemons and mezzodaemons to nycaloths and mezzoloths. They also first appeared as a random encounter in the "vault of the drow" module.
Not so fun fact:
Ironically, (especially since they first appeared in a drow module) that while the drow goddess Lloth is both a goddess and a fiend (at least at one point) and whose name (depending on accent) sounds like these fiends, she is actually a demon not a daemon/yugoloth.
OWL BEARS ARE GREAT YOU MONSTER
Or at least one of the weirdest griffin-type monsters in D&D.
I think they could have some improvements to mechanics.
Gehenna? *Vampirism intensifies*
Tzimisce, the only vampire who managed to outfox God himself
@@orbitalbutt6757 not surprisingly also spawned one of the coolest and testifying clan..
a general rule of thumb: any 'joke' that involves drawing parallels to real-life people and giving them the "Nerdy Spit Voice" is a joke you should just strike from the script immediately after the first take if not before that. It's obnoxious and generally comes from a bad mindset of "I find this type of person annoying so I'm gonna make them sound annoying".
Even the most harmless version where it's only based on obnoxious fan comments can get old fast just because it's a bit that always drags and distracts from any intelligent points made before and after.
Best tier scale i've ever seen.
The howler is terrifying
Wizards currently creates many Names by translating random words back and forth until its unrecognizable.
By the Way: The Yagnoloth looks so innocent and friendly, you really can imagine him sitting with his grandma and drinking some Tea. Just Cute!!
Esper: Confirmed Edgelord.
Throw some flames on a dog and a horse, give it a tortured backstory, and what do you get? The epitome of generic fantasy hell monster. Seriously, Esper... these AREN'T the laziest, most unoriginal fiend designs?
He could at least wear his biases on his sleeve and not play it off like he's some kind of enlightened expert.
@@QuestionableObject ikr
The arcanaloth was always one of my favorite fiends
I really appreciate all the effort you put into these rankings. They help me see monsters' potential for use in my campaign and gives me inspiration for new stories.
There are a few points of critique which I feel are which are holding this series back a bit:
- The speed of talking is extremely slow. I don't think I've ever had someone speak so slowly in a UA-cam video before. Especially because it's not a conversation, but an informational video. I have to put the speed at 1.25 to watch a bit comfortably. Speaking faster would also make these videos a bit shorter as 25 minutes is a big investment relative to other videos on the site.
- The bit about the Cambion felt insensitive to actual real world issues people have. I wasn't personally offended, and I know you meant it to be a joke, but it felt really tone deaf and childish to me. I like these videos because of the excellent analysis, not for cheap jokes that target low hanging fruit.
Don't let these points take away from the fact that I love the actual content and would love to see more of it.
I love how the "A through F" is matallica songs, lol
Oh how exciting! I love your ranking videos!
Rakshasa is a cunning manipulator that is like the evil mastermind in a James Bond movies. He does not show his face except to gloat. He has underlings take all the risks.
They do not need to do much damage They are not supposed to get into combat.
11:25 is genuinely one of the most embarrassingly bad attempts at humor I've seen in a long time. yikes. was that really necessary?
You left out my favorite - the Baernaloth. Its a close associate of the hags, and it has the creepiest backstory. One of them is even given credit for spawning the gehreleths.
They aren't in 5e yet
The progenitors!!!!
I have been thinking about a campaign with a Rakshasa as a main lackey to the main villain. He holds a a high political "office" in a kingdom as he is a wealthy merchant that controls the trade along the river that crosses the whole kingdom. It is well known he have been "cursed" with a bestial form and tries to hide it. What his job really is is to spread confusion and stir up trouble with nearby nations so no one notice that a Lich is trying to find a way to resurrect all evil dragons from the Ancient Dragon War which he and a Dracolich is the only remaining members of.
The Rakshasa is going to play a vital role in security the players a guild location (hoping they die in clearing it out from the demons and fiends he sent there) and getting well paying jobs (hoping they die trying to do them). He is going to become a schemer and when/if he is confronted he start to actively going after the players guild as well as summoning fiend/demon minions to defend himself with.
Just subscribed! I've never had a chance to play D&D unfortunately, but the lore is truly fascinating
The pronunciation for the D&D Beyond entry of Vargouille is "var-GWEEL"
Hey we've got most of the four horsemen there in Yugoloths
Oinoloth-Pestilence
Merrenoloth-Death
Ultraloth-War
Nycanoloth-Famine
Absolutely, Anthraxus plague, Charon death, The General of War, and Mydianchlarus famine (the not sure 100%) but the others definitely.
Love how all tiers are heavy/thrash song names.
Metallica
Yeah @the 11:30 mark, things get really weird
I totally agree. That entire bit was unnecessary and I felt like I was watching a completely different video for a moment.
Khajit, what are you doing on the front of the Fiend DND list? What about your wares?
This one does not know what you mean! This one was just peddling these simple baubles to get back to the warm sands of Elsewyr. For you, though, this one might have just what you need... for the right price.
Ha! I like the part about the Nightmare. It's interesting how people learned about different creatures in general and in D&D. I learned about it when my cool aunt bought it for me in 83? from the toy line so my Warduke could ride. No articulation but a really menacing toy with accessories. I remember my dad commenting, "What happened? Why is everything for kids demonic now?"
This was also a couple of years after the moral panic though.
11:26 not gonna lie my dude this part was cringy as fuck
Animal on fire "just plain old cool"
Can you do Aberrations list, please?
I am highly considering aberrations. Thanks for your suggestion Unraveler!
Happy to hear that! Can't wait to see which of the Lovecraftian monstrous are your favorites :)
I agree!
Bring on the eldritch abominations.
I use a bit of Pathfinder lore for the yugoloths personally, referring to them as daemons, and having their rulers not be some stupid general, but the actual 4 horsemen of the apocalypse. It makes them stand out more from demons and devils.
For me succubi aren't neutral evil, but there are two sects of them, belonging to the demons and devils. There is a queen of succubi on both sides. Lillith of the Devils, and Malcanthet of the Demons.
Loving these new Tier lists. Looking forward to seeing your take on Demons, Goblinoids, Monstrosities and Aberrations (my personal favourite subtype).
"Why couldn't they have better names" BECAUSE THEY ARE SECRET KNOWN ONLY TO THE BOOKS OF KEEPING
DM in one of our campaigns gave Ultroloths "ventriloquism" ability. It solved some issues mentioned in the video while adding a roleplay "point" to ranking.
That cambion joke is dumb as hell.
Do you mean to tell us... that you think that an Alien wearing a Wizard robe and carrying a scimitar is not awesome...?
Its super fucking awesome if done right.
I understand that you try to keep your lore consistent with the 5e, but yugoloths cannot go without mention how important they were in AD&D Second Edition's Planescape. Back then, they were heavily implied to manipulate the Blood War, having mostly abandoned their actual home plane of Gray Waste of Hades for Gehenna. They have still controled the tower of Khin-Oin on Hades, of which the Tower of Arcanoloths on Gehenna is weaker analogue, and worked to finish their third, secret Tower of Incarnate Pain on Carceri to extend their influnce there. Even more importantly, the most powerful form of yugoloths, baernaloths, were said to actually predate both devils and demons, and rumored to even have created both races in first place. As baernaloths are not described in 5e yet, one is free to implement this story into their game.
THERE IS ONLY ONE OINOLOTH AND HE IS THE LORD OF KHIN-OIN!!!
Thanks for sharing the lore
That's why the 'loths were always my favourite fiends!
fiends/devils etc and dragons are probably my favorite mosnter groups in dnd and i like your listings one reason i subbed to you
and it all falls apart at the 12 minute mark, great.
Yeah that took me right the fuck out of it. Hard to take someone seriously when their response to something they don't like is to create a mocking strawman of real people...
The Stalker. I thought it really came together there.
@@QuestionableObject no no no, you see, it's FUNNY, 'cause the big bad monster is... fuckin' heh... (get this) an SJW! Ha ha! Snowflakes! I have to drink piss directly out of the urinal to live
You mean, with renaming and reskinning, they'd improve, aLOTH? Eh? Eh?
Yeah I fought an Arcanaloth recently and the only reason we figured out he was who we thought he was is because we had a lense of true sight.
Now if a raksasha were to disguise itself as a taxibi then you would never know.
I thought the thumbnail said "D&D friend tiers"
I have a hatred for hellhounds because my first character, a Sorcerer that used mostly fire spells, was basically useless against them.
16:06
-" Hey! Is the rakshasa artwork done?"
-" Yes indeed!"
-" Awesome, lemme see it... You drew the hands wrong."
-" What?"
-" Yeah, they're completely opposite of what they should be!"
-" Holy crap I totally fucked u - PFFFFTTHFF... I meant to do that!"
-" Really?"
-" Y... Yeah! Totally, do you honestly think I, an experienced and pronounced artist, could make such a trivial mistake? It was all on purpose and most definitely intentional!"
-"... Well, we do need to set it apart more from the devils so I'll just work it in the lore..."
-" I insist!"
I do hope your awful name suggestions are jokes, but overall pretty good rating system and video, found your channel randomly and will be coming back for more.
You seem to have issue with Cambions...
As yugoloths are so desperate to get as much coin as they can, I always thought it would be cool if they "leveled up" to more advanced forms based on how much wealth they had. For example, going to a coven of night hags and giving them some huge amount of GP (or an equivalent amount in souls) in exchange for the hags performing a ritual upon them which bumps them up to the next tier. It would explain why they're so greedy and grasping, and why they'll work for whoever is paying them the most.
They literally do that, except they need not only wealth, but also power (or at least being able to convincingly lie about having it) and approval from higher-standing yugoloths
@@georgeuferov1497 Really? I didn't know that! Hmmm... Needing the approval of a superior seems too lawful/devilish to me. Backstabbing one's superiors to get ahead sounds more NE to me.
@@aliceofspades who said they can't do that? Yugoloths still have hierarchy, it's just not nearly as consistent as devilish
Your suggestions for alternate names are pretty awful. I suspect that were born out of irony tho haha
I actually like them... They mean things. Like if you were to see a creature out in the wilderness and survive the interaction, you wouldn't name it Blargafarth, you'd name it after the familiar traits it had, like "hill giant" or "howler" if it couldn't communicate what it was itself, if it even ever would. Other esoteric names would come from scholars who otherwise make up their own names, like how we name animals scientifically, but we call them dogs instead of canines (where things like dog and tiger have long spanning origins we don't credibly have in dnd).
Nai Guy strong and understandable reasoning, true, but I'll agree with OP on the merit that most of it very much felt (to me) "I'm-12-and-this-is-cool". Suppose I'm just more nerd than geek and prefer serious and maybe overanalytical tone, let the players (master included) be the ones to bring the humor and zane. I mean, Slayer from Beyond? Ehhhh.
I'll give props to Stygian Loremaster though, that one's actually rather quality.
Stephen Geden i just call them daemons
How do you pronounce that distinctly from "demons," though? Day-mons? That sounds kind of silly to me.
Akav Akaku Daemon is indeed pronounced "day-mon", however a daemon is from Greek mythology and is a beneficial spirit that gave inspiration and assistance to people, often artists, philosophers, etc. The Romans adopted this in their mythology, giving it the name genius. Nowadays we call prodigies themselves geniuses.
EDUCATION TIME
The ACTUAL first horseman is Conquest, who rides a white horse. Now, I get it. Conquest is the horseman that most often gets replaced by Pestilence, and white is a very similar color to pale. Fair enough, fair enough. But...
1: In every version of the horsemen I've seen that included Pestilence, the list goes "War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death", therefore placing Pestilence as the Third Horseman, which makes sense: War leads to shortage, shortage leads to Famine, Famine leads to weakness, weakness leads to disease, which leads to Pestilence, and then Death. Nice logical progression.
2: You know which one of them is actually described as the Pale Horseman? *DEATH*. You know, the most well known of the Horsemen? Are you just trying to piss people off with this video?
On a related note, the image of Conquest, or the Conqueror, holding a bow which is typically and very specifically portrayed as being without arrows is an important factor in the theory among scholars that the white horse rider is an Anti-Christ. That aside, it's pretty clear that this guy doesn't know a whole lot, really, and is just regurgitating half-remembered junk that "sounds, like, totally ominous."
@@orbitalbutt6757 I would argue that all Four Horsemen are on the side of God, as all of them come from Heaven. Conquest's bow may have no normal arrows, but it is also said it can level cities, and change the hearts or Men.
@@jondeoliveira8248 I tend to agree, I was just presenting a commonly held interpretation of the Conquest figure :) Also, weird to have a legitimate dialogue about eschatological iconography going on in a UA-cam comments section haha
I dont think anyone cares
Can’t wait for more ranking videos! Love these
Lmao i love Cambions. One of my players is unintentionally one cuz they tried to make a tiefling but their mother is a succubus so,,oopsies
Yikes, the Cambion joke aged like milk. Otherwise though I enjoy your content Esper.
I always pronounced it "var-ghoul", myself. Pretty cool freaky flying head. Pretty unsettling.
Var-goo-eel, it's pronounced like the French pronunciation of the word gargoyle (gargouille)
yugoloths are the best, mostly when a rival adventuring party hired a yugoloth or your party made the mistake of hiring one xD.
Are Yugoloths like Daemons from Advanced 1st edition?
I’m okay with the -loth names, it (could) allow the monsters to be very different physically, while still showing that they’re all fiends born of night-hags; and not just devils/demons.
I’m a little disappointed that wotc didn’t follow through with that and make their designs more distinctive, though. They really do look just like any other generic demon...
Also:
Mage: “I’m in need of greater arcane knowledge in order to face the fiends of Gehenna”.
Bard: *eyeing the yagnoloth’s cod-piece*
“I have the perfect gift for you, my mage friend!”
Roll for seduction.
You complain about the Ugoloth names like devils aren’t “barbed devil, bearded devil, bone devil”
I guess it’s universal.
I love this series! keep it up!
Thanks Sophia!
I've actually made cambian and succubus home-brew races. The resistances make them... kinda op, but I feel like taking those away just doesn't do the creatures justice.
7:50 Overkill album
Pipe smoking space hippos do have lots of style, though.
Yeah, but in another comment, he replied that his test for style is putting then across from Gandalf as she's shouting "You shall not pass!" Makes for a terrible amount of bias.
I like how the ultraloth looks
Well... Basic Rakshasa is not a big of a threat... But a Ak'chazad Rakshasa is real bussines
I would love to see a video ranking fey creatures. They aren’t as common and I’ve never played in a game with fey so I think it would be really interesting
Yugoloths started as daemons, way back in the days. The magic resistance was scary for spellcasters.
The ranking made with metallica songs is fantastic, nice video!
I always thought "Yugoloth" was more suited to Love Craftian mythos style beings.
I love the lyrical references in the grade ranks.
Canoloth is just Wildmutt in armor, let's be real here.
If you want to be a dirty GM, give the Rakshasa a sneak attack bonus of 5d6. Makes it more potent in melee and fits the image of a target stalking its prey before lashing out with one devastating strike
Have it disguised as a holy leader who "grants" his mark to those he deems worthy. Let the players have fun figuring out why their characters are not getting any sleep benefits.
I gave my Rakshasa polymorph self and stuck it with my players in the guise of the urchin' s pet mouse
I... do not know what unspeakable horror a cambion inflicted upon you to deserve that impersonation. But yikes.
Yikes indeed.
I dunno I thought it was kinda funny, I think people took it way too far despite the fact he even said it was satire. I unironically see people saying it's "homophobic", which I'm sorry but the difference between you being offended by a joke, and actual, real-life harrassment over your sexuality and preferences are leaps and bounds away from eachother. Saying that is just so immature to people that actually hate on LGBT issues, if anything we should be saying that he's fighting a strawman for the sake of a joke.
We could also say that it's definitely unoriginal, and maybe a little bit tasteless. Other than that, literally harmless concidering the characature he's making fun off.
@@godlessgod096 I hadn't considered it harmful, nor offensive, nor tasteless. Just a bit hilariously out-of-nowhere, that's all. Added to the humour, if anything. :)
No idea what the accusation of homophobia is for? That seems wacky to me. I'm bi myself, and I've faced harrassment for it. Can't see the connection between that and this. Weird.
@@Torthrodhel Oh. I see what's going on here. I fucked up, my bad. I read your comment as something negative, happens sometimes because text doesn't really have any emotion, so I misinterpreted it. Also yeah the homophobia thing wasn't meant to be slung at you in particular, I said "I unironically see people saying it's "homophobic",".
Though I can tell you where confused too, because in the beggining I said "I dunno I thought it was kinda funny".
@@godlessgod096 easy done, completely understand. Happens to me all the time. Also in real life, because I'm autistic lol. Find it difficult to read tone in general, and just like you say, being limited to plain-text doesn't help. No worries. :)
Enjoying your videos, I don’t suppose you’d do something talking about monsters based on the mythology they came from? You could have Greek, Norse, Celtic, Biblical, Shinto, Etc. For the mythologies that seem underrepresented, it would be great to start a dialogue about that and make some suggestions as well. Shinto gets overlooked and there is some great stuff in there, especially Undead.
I've gotten into dungeons & dragons at a young age because of my older brother but after a while thousands of campaigns sometimes a brother like me would grow out of it but I want to get back into.
since i'm expecting demons next, after them i would love to see giants, both the core giant races (Hill, Stone, Frost, Fire, Cloud, and Storm), and Giant like races (Oni, Ogres, Cyclops, Formorians, Trolls)
I think that missing something in the Ugaloths is their connection to the lands of Hades. More accurately the Night market. And their strong association with night hags ties all three together