Imagine you're about to be consumed. The experience is so horrifying that you close your eyes out of terror. I think the worst part about that is that your eyelids will dissolve before your eyes actually do...
Technically it means that it doesn't need Vision to see you. Witch can manifest in not having eyes. But also allows them to see through stuff like magical Darkness, or other Vision obscuring thing such as fog.
G3 Heathen You’re only half right. Blindsense and Blindsight both are described as that, however creatures discerned with Blindsense still have total concealment against the creature with Blindsense. Blindsight is just a more acute version of Blindsense and functions as all-around vision within its radius.
Ryan Martinez right? The passion for reading the article from dragon magazines ecology, is really sold by him. Passion is an addictive cloud, people love that smell.... 👍🏼🤘🏻 The coolest thing, is he picks the legends from ad&d...well, Dragon Magazine picks them, but he reads it fun, uh huh.
In terms of pure CR, the black pudding takes it. However, because the black pudding's threat is based on the fact that it corrodes weapons and splits when dealt slashing damage, it's at a severe disadvantage against other oozes. I was about to say that the gelatinous cube would have the best chance, being both invisible and able to engulf other creatures, but the only damage type the gelatinous cube deals is acid, which 2 of the 3 remaining oozes are immune to. All three remaining oozes deal bludgeoning damage (though the ochre jelly deals the most, giving it a major advantage), but if you used the psychic gray ooze variant, I think it'd win hands (pseudopods?) down.
I could imagine having a society that practices human sacrifice, where they throw the bodies into a pit, and at the bottom of the pit is a black pudding.
My favorite black pudding encounter I ever used as a DM was in the underdark where a Black Pudding "Avalanche" came down a tunnel, causing a underdark creature stampede into the tunnel the party was traveling in. I just multiplied the BP stats by 10 to make my this black pudding nightmares of the underdark encounters. The party that fought it did a fighting retreat and the wizard burned it to death.
Your video's are a great help for being a DM, and they are always very great for helping with role play, or improving a game atmosphere or its lore. It's also nice to learn things left out from earlier editions that are not in later ones. All your videos explaining D&D monsters and lore are amazing keep it up! Your race descriptions are awesome as well it would be cool to see some more of those.
Black puddings are delicious, put some alcohol on and then light it and boom, great food for celebrations! Wait... That's not what we're talking about is it...
I'd love to see "what they don't tell you about hobgoblins". I have been playing a hobgoblin paladin and I'm shocked at how little info I could find on them as PCs, rather than just monsters. I think their society and culture is really interesting but I had to look among a lot of different sources to find anything at all about them. :)
I love your series on D&D lore and whenever I'm doing research on my own I tend to wind up watching one of your videos if you have one for the subject. On that note I would really like it if you did one on Goliaths. I just watched your video on giants and was a little bit surprised you didn't mention them as giant-kin, even though it is uncertain if they are.
@@TheNinjaLegend I have actually indeed watched some of his videos, including his Goliath one. It did a pretty good job and was very well set out, however it didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. Not that he didn't put good information in it I've just been doing a lot of reading on the subject.
These guys were in the desecrated temple of Lathander in the third SSI Eye of the Beholder game. Remember having an op party with magical weapons all the way from EoB1. Went in, attacked without thinking - goodbye Severious +5 and assorted other long and short swords. Good thing reloading/scum saving is a thing. Eventually had my cleric throw spiritual hammer at it and my mage batter it with a Bigby's fist to great effect. FYI EoB is easy to install on android basically for free with Magic Dosbox. It's easier to control too, with a bit of practice. Great games (yes, even the third one!)
9:02 For those whop might wonder why that ooze looks like it's shooting that's a Gunpowerder ooze... yes you read that right, Gunpowder ooze. It's Blast attack (the one depicted in the art) does 4d6 + the ooze's Constitution modifier (normally +7), with a range of 180 ft. and can be used once every 1d4 round, also if you get hit by the ooze or it's shots, you get covered in a sticky gunpowder residue, making fire damage, guns, holding weapons capable of doing fire damage, or simply using a flint and steel, causing the residue to explode, and it remains primed for a full day.
@@mondaysinsanity8193 maybe Ochre Jellies and the standard gray ooze, but are you telling me black puddings, gelatinous cubes, psychic gray oozes, slithering trackers, oblexes and Juiblex are boring to fight?
@@mondaysinsanity8193 black puddings destroy your weapons, psychics have psionic attacks, gelatinous cubes can engulf and dissolve you, the tracker drains your life and uses you as a meat shield and oblexes and Juiblex have so much going on, I have no clue how you can see them as boring.
Used these in a trap once (back in 1st edition days). Open door, panel above door slides open and one of these drops on the unsuspecting meal...uh, adventurer. Very nearly killed the level 18 paladin.
Wait, I had a kind of interesting thought: A Black Pudding is acidic in nature, so would it be hurt if it comes into contact with lye, because lye neutralizes acid? And if so, would it do extra damage?
This reminds me of my very first DnD character, it was a vengence paladin inspired by Alexander Anderson from Hellsing. The poor guy got devoured by a black pudding because the 5 Int barbarian wouldn't stop splitting it in half, the player told me ''it's what my character would do''. Well and truly a shame he didn't even get to fight a single undead let alone a vampire.
Hmm, I'm thinking of one day doing a high intelligence, either Rogue, Ranger or Druid that specializes in poisons and antidotes. So this will be great if I can remember this when I can play that character.
Perhaps an alchemist artificer? Would use INT as main stat and you could always multi-class into something else like Druid depending on what other aspects you want to also facilitate/create ooze use. :) (currently playing a battle smith artificer but still a very new player so take any suggestion with many grains of salt)
I guess it makes more sense that the amount of damage is limited by the amount of surface area it can come into contact with. Regardless of its size, the only part of a pudding that deals damage is the contact surface
Honestly, I usually plan to use a monster (often after watching these videos), look at the stat block, realize it's nowhere near as cool as I thought it was, and promptly make a new stat block so I can do it right. So honestly, full steam ahead.
I usually just think of home brew monster stats on the spot. I’m trying to fix that right now with the boss fight their heading towards. It’s a sentient black hole generator.
I don't know if I ''ll find fans here but I would like some info's on Jublex or Ghaunadaur as they are the "deities" of Oozes , I once created an arch evil that was experimenting with oozes , a warlock that entraped Oozes and use them for his perfect dungeon he was corrupted by Jublex but at that time I didn't have a lot to work with so I homebrew most of his story
Argg was a 7 ft 287lb barbarian thief not sneaky in the slightest but hella intimidation if he was ever seen stealing he would say "you did not see Argg" then proceeded to beat the shit out a snitch when caught and failed intimidation check.
Love your videos man. You’re getting better and better at sounding like English is your first language. Constructive criticism? You said it eat snow for nutrients- that bothers me because snow is water and water isn’t nutrients it’s just hydration. That’s about it though. You’re doing pretty good with the organizing of topics. I love the way you illustrate with images in the video. This was an interesting video. You managed to make a somewhat boring creature very interesting(I guess because you gave us all the info on it). And somehow your videos are awesome and informative without being the length of a movie, which is wow. I’d love to know to know how long it takes you to make a video from conception to upload, and what’s involved in the process.
I would love to see a video on the far realm, since i cannot find much about it. You would be the guy to find some hidden or old information on the far realm for sure!
My first dnd game ever. Made Myself an elven ranger. We went into a dungeon. And found a chest. Rogue sucked at lockpicking so I broke it open with a crowbar (which I bought during character creation exactly for that purpose). Black pudding jumped out of the chest due to the aprupt opening into my face. No advanced healing spells due to low level. And thats how my pretty elf turned into Freddy Kruger xD
You failed to mention how delicious black pudding is with eggs, bacon, sausage, tomatoes, mushrooms, beans, toast, fried potatoes, and don't forget the white pudding.
Easiest way to kill/permanently maim things...ooze/puddings can crawl up your nose or ears, or umm...other bodily orifices. Doesnt have to be a very big one either. Thats it. Right up there with kobolds lobbing green slime grenades(clay jars).
Most destructive and dangerous? That's a bold statement. I think the Oblex would like to have a word with you. It may not be as physically powerful, but it's intelligence and shapeshifting make it far scarier I'd think. :P
How the hell did I not notice that I wasn’t already subscribe to the channel. Literally watch all of your dnd videos. Correcting this blunder right this very second.
To be fair, the thinking process of a black pudding is not fundamentally different from the thinking process of a human. Our cellular programming is just significantly more complex
@@TheMrBonzz we do know their origin tho, don't we? I mean, as much as we do humans in DND. They where created by their gods, they got the hills in the drawing of lots and one of their gods once trapped the Kobold God in a maze for no reason
me and some friends were doing a 5e one-shot kobold session. we randomly generated our kobolds, and i got a small, glowing kobold named krik. krik was weak. we were doing good trying to grab loot for our chosen dragon, who had sent us on a suicide mission to the location we were at. my first ever encounter with a black pudding didnt go well. i was within 5 feet of an ally and attacked the black pudding with advantage. now, krik had a quirk, besides glowing in the dark. he had the death burst trait. he swung at the black pudding, and his 3hp was immediately melted by the resulting acid retaliation. when krik melted, he killed the ally he had right next to him. our party of 5 groups of 4 kobolds(we generated a new character a few times if one of us died) was immediately reduced to 3. also, krik couldnt taste, so he snorted food to simulate it. as well as him being deathly afraid of cakes. it was an interesting session
I enjoyed listening to many of your videos yesterday, but I forgot to subscribe. After I fixed that, I wondered if you did any videos about what they don't tell you about humans.
Got an idea for a dungeon watching this, feel free to steal ☺️: I imagine the black puddings gliding without slightest sound thru a sea of autumn leaves in a large shrine hall, (holding some visible artifact far away on the shrine pedestal), dissolving the leaves in meandering pathways. If the PCs step into the leaves, to attack any ooze or progress onwards, the crumbling sound awakens a terrible guardian that assaults them with natural/druidic magic. Stuck in some long withered memory, it is corrupted with black magic and considers the destruction of the dead leaves a direct assault on mother nature. It may attack the PCs and oozes alike at this point, since it is now alerted to the oozes also. If the players trail behind the oozes at a safe distance, or otherwise solve the issue of the leaves, the guardian might never have its slumber disturbed. Tomes / lore devices in the dungeon will foreshadow an (overzealous) protector of nature that went mad etc. Optionally, hints/puzzle elements could allow the players to block off shafts of sunlight that come in from the upper levels and augment the champion of nature.
Ooooh, a "what they don't tell you about" video that I missed!
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ABSOLUTELY love the series and interesting facts, centered on Faerun or the Forgotten rEalms is nice, but also very nice to see branching to other settings is awesome. Ever considered doing something "similar" for Eberron?
"What they don't tell you about Yuan-ti Mind Whisperer (and their kin)" I noticed that a Yuan-Ti Mind Whisperer has Warlock Spells, but the Books don't cover *WHY* in 5e (specifically I'm reading Volo's Guide to Monsters). All it says on the matter is: "Mind whisperers are malison spellcasters that enter into a pact with the serpent god Sseth, the Sibilant Death." But it tells us nothing about the motivation, of either party, in their listing. Yuan-Ti are honestly so spread out over the different books, that a video which focused on the Yuan-Ti overall would be a hit.
Month late, but I read a book series once based in forgotten realms, called House of Serpents. (before even the 4e changes and spell plague) Main antagonist was a Yuan ti psion, sounds like what that should be tbh.
@@buckhunt6832 dude lime stone is a bese Soup is a base they have bases but it depends on the streanth of them And the black pushing chod be nutrelized buy throwing a lot of limestone powder or backing soda Edit : but the simplest wey to fuck up a black pudding ADd Lithium or Sodium metel They react with water and explode / burst into flame So kepp a small amount of it in minaral oil flask
I had an idea from something that was mentioned in a group. On a ship that the players own, someone has out a small bit of a black pudding into a bottle of wine. A crew member drinks the bottle and well we have a black pudding on their ship. Any thoughts on gestation time? Maybe it eats its way out, then the whole body, then burns through the deck, hold and finally into the bilge. which will have water and thus not burn through to the ocean? So players would have to go down into the bilge and clean out the plumbing to protect the ship. Any thoughts to add?
Curious to know about that last mind flayer vid about the elder brain. No rush just curious if itll still be a thing, seeing as how the saga is yet to be finished :)
Can you eat before it eats you? Will different types of puddings try to consume each other? How do I get a swirl of different flavors? What is your favorite flavor?
Side note: 3.5 Hordes of the Abyss - under one of the demon Lord's is an intelligent (possessed by a demon) gargantuan black ooze. They never lay it out and it's just a sidenote of the demon lord. But it sounds pretty PC killer......
what happens if two puddings encounter each other or are going for the same food that they detect? Also, do they detect each other as food? or do they notice each other at all? Maybe they see one another as simply non-food objects?
@@Bofrab most of our Tools and equipment were badly damaged, I was the only one to go down. Problem was the bard only had one load stone so he couldn't use mending till we found one
If striking it with lightning or slicing it causes it to split, then a rapid-fire splitting or lightning attack followed by an AoE spell should make short work of them.
Can you make a timeline on the modules released for 5th edition giving us the years in Toril and when each campaign takes place in regards to each other?
The first death in my current party was caused by a Black Pudding (which was split by our wizard's Shocking Grasp...) We fought a behemoth of a Black Pudding (silently engulfed the building we were in, preventing our escape) a couple of sessions ago. Nearly had a TPK. These things are no joke.
What would happen if, say,, a mob boss traps a bunch of black puddings inside a giant pit for...personal use...? Would they meld together until they escaped and separate? or would they just sort sit on top of each other?
Having never heard of this creature, I was 50/50 on if this was going to be a Monster Manual vid, or if someone visited Ireland or UK and had a terrible experience with a breakfast roll...
Remember though! If can still suffocate a pudding with water! People assume due to it being able to extract oxygen from water that it's an indefinite survival thing. But the point to be raised is that it can only do that with moving water. Still water can't be re-oxygenated without moving. And it's a lot easier to fill a barrel with water and seal it, than to make an airtight box! After all, fish can suffocate without a bubbler in their tank.
mm....function similarly, but a much powerful far realm horror...Shoggoths, at least some, are actually sentient and very, very smart. Smart enough to overthrow a star spanning empire on pre human earth.
real talk im refreshing your page almost every 2 hours just waiting for that next video....i've watched literally every single video you've done on D&D and i am craving more....which sucks cause i know eventually you'll run out of stuff to cover....
Imagine you're about to be consumed. The experience is so horrifying that you close your eyes out of terror. I think the worst part about that is that your eyelids will dissolve before your eyes actually do...
bruh
"Shit just went from 0 to 100 real fucking quick."
That is a pleasant thought ha!
Aw man
But even after your eyelids dissolve you still won't see anything because the black pudding is now on your face.
Then: I wil tell you the deep machinations of elven magic and their extraordinary consequenses!
Now: *PUDDING*
pudding is just as valid as elves.
In Soviet Faeryn
Pudding eats YOUUUUUUUU !!!!!!!!
Black Puddings have killed alot of PC's over the years.
It's about time we got to the good stuff, and now i know why they're hang from the ceiling in Dark Souls 1
I just had a flashback to an episode of Supernatural...
I always thought that "blind sight" meant the creature could sense its environment without having eyes.
Technically it means that it doesn't need Vision to see you. Witch can manifest in not having eyes. But also allows them to see through stuff like magical Darkness, or other Vision obscuring thing such as fog.
G3 Heathen You’re only half right. Blindsense and Blindsight both are described as that, however creatures discerned with Blindsense still have total concealment against the creature with Blindsense. Blindsight is just a more acute version of Blindsense and functions as all-around vision within its radius.
@@jonathanwells223 I can see your vibration. Not exactly where you are, but enough that you don't get any advantages good sir.
@@slaaneshi4197"You sir do not pass the vibe check. The check requires no vibes prepare to be consumed"
the first thing they don't tell you about black puddings is that they're not actually pudding. Which sucks, because I like me some chocolate pudding.
Now now, Ed ate a black pudding and she was fine.
It's licorice flavor
I did before watching this. Now, I'm not so sure.
12 yr old pudding ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Black Pudding are actually sausage.
these are my favorite videos, I love how you talk, you sound so enthusiastic and it makes it very enjoyable
Makes me hard and leak precoom
Ryan Martinez right?
The passion for reading the article from dragon magazines ecology, is really sold by him.
Passion is an addictive cloud, people love that smell....
👍🏼🤘🏻
The coolest thing, is he picks the legends from ad&d...well, Dragon Magazine picks them, but he reads it fun, uh huh.
I like it, but why are the follow-ups so unnecessary?
Edit: the first follow-up, that is.
I find it amusing when he randomly chuckles can really tell how much he enjoys it
The only thing that I don’t like is that one of the songs is like my wake up alarm and it messes with my heaf
Put all the slimes and oozes and a gelatinous cube in a room, who would win?
G3 Heathen Genius Loci
They'll combined into a prismatic ooze 😁
You’d get rainbow slime
@@misakamikoto8785 thank you gonna homebrew rainbow ooze for my session tomorrow
In terms of pure CR, the black pudding takes it. However, because the black pudding's threat is based on the fact that it corrodes weapons and splits when dealt slashing damage, it's at a severe disadvantage against other oozes. I was about to say that the gelatinous cube would have the best chance, being both invisible and able to engulf other creatures, but the only damage type the gelatinous cube deals is acid, which 2 of the 3 remaining oozes are immune to. All three remaining oozes deal bludgeoning damage (though the ochre jelly deals the most, giving it a major advantage), but if you used the psychic gray ooze variant, I think it'd win hands (pseudopods?) down.
I could imagine having a society that practices human sacrifice, where they throw the bodies into a pit, and at the bottom of the pit is a black pudding.
For a crazy priest pours in a small black pudding to purify a well.
I thought of the exact same thing watching this. You could also have a pit with a cube where you just drop them into the cube.
Sounds like an offshoot of a cult of Juiblex.
My favorite black pudding encounter I ever used as a DM was in the underdark where a Black Pudding "Avalanche" came down a tunnel, causing a underdark creature stampede into the tunnel the party was traveling in. I just multiplied the BP stats by 10 to make my this black pudding nightmares of the underdark encounters.
The party that fought it did a fighting retreat and the wizard burned it to death.
Hrrrrnnggh, DM, I'm trying to sneak around but I'm dummy thicc and the clap of my acid checks keeps alerting the adventurers!
😂😂😂
more of a gelatinous cube imo they thicc af
@@bratanchik228 but gelatinous cubes are hard to see for being so transparent, are they really thicc or just spread out really thin?
@@TheMightyBattleSquid hecc no they thicc a lot because if you dump enough stuff in them you can see the exact size of this lad. Absolute unit.
I'm a big fan of your D&D series, +MrRhexx! Thanks for making these great lore videos. :)
I believe a Blck Pudding was the star of one of the stories in the movie Creepshow.
Your video's are a great help for being a DM, and they are always very great for helping with role play, or improving a game atmosphere or its lore. It's also nice to learn things left out from earlier editions that are not in later ones. All your videos explaining D&D monsters and lore are amazing keep it up! Your race descriptions are awesome as well it would be cool to see some more of those.
Black puddings are delicious, put some alcohol on and then light it and boom, great food for celebrations! Wait... That's not what we're talking about is it...
Mhmm, pudding *drool*.
I mean in my setting you can use milk and sugar to neutralize the acid enough to be editible.
Thats some serious gourmet stuff.
still sounds like a good way to get rid of one
@@lordscrubugus9897 yes, yes it is. Magic food is a thing I like to play with
If you dont eat your meats,
You cant have any puddling!
I was just listening to that album!
_The Pudding Ate The Meat_
I believe a Blck Pudding was the star of one of the stories in the movie Creepshow.
👏👏👏
Me: Never eats meats again.
Hey, at least it isn't a white maw. That one hits like a truck.
White Maw?
@@WildDragonSong
An ooze from one of the other adventure books.
Warforged "okay good it only wants the fleshies"
Warforged still have wood inside/underneath.
Black puddings dissolves metal so they aren’t completely safe
@@randomcustomer4295 To be exact it wouldn't target a warforged but if it made contact with one it would still damage it.
Rayclaw Icefire and that is how you lose friends at the table
Stone Dwarf "It will still eat you!"
Any chance we could get a what they don't tell you about rust monsters
They're quite interesting! They're actually rust dragon larvae.
@@daviddale9897 Wait, what's a Rust Dragon?
@@WildDragonSong Look at the Forgotten Realms wiki.
I'd love to see "what they don't tell you about hobgoblins". I have been playing a hobgoblin paladin and I'm shocked at how little info I could find on them as PCs, rather than just monsters. I think their society and culture is really interesting but I had to look among a lot of different sources to find anything at all about them. :)
Get more monster books, some of them detail CRAZY amounts of their culture.
Looking at my ooze tribal commander deck: feeling very targeted about now
I love your series on D&D lore and whenever I'm doing research on my own I tend to wind up watching one of your videos if you have one for the subject. On that note I would really like it if you did one on Goliaths. I just watched your video on giants and was a little bit surprised you didn't mention them as giant-kin, even though it is uncertain if they are.
If you like him you should look up aj Pickett aka the mighty glue stick. He sooooo many videos (I believe over 300 now) about everything d and d lore
@@TheNinjaLegend I have actually indeed watched some of his videos, including his Goliath one. It did a pretty good job and was very well set out, however it didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. Not that he didn't put good information in it I've just been doing a lot of reading on the subject.
What they don't tell you is that it's what happens if you leave Black Pudding out for too long. This is probably why.
These guys were in the desecrated temple of Lathander in the third SSI Eye of the Beholder game. Remember having an op party with magical weapons all the way from EoB1. Went in, attacked without thinking - goodbye Severious +5 and assorted other long and short swords. Good thing reloading/scum saving is a thing. Eventually had my cleric throw spiritual hammer at it and my mage batter it with a Bigby's fist to great effect. FYI EoB is easy to install on android basically for free with Magic Dosbox. It's easier to control too, with a bit of practice. Great games (yes, even the third one!)
This was a great video, I love the various oozes. Would you consider doing a “what they don’t tell you about lichs”.
This has to be the only video on UA-cam that contains the word "pudding" this many times that has nothing to do with desserts. God, I love D&D. 🤟🏻😂
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For those whop might wonder why that ooze looks like it's shooting that's a Gunpowerder ooze...
yes you read that right, Gunpowder ooze.
It's Blast attack (the one depicted in the art) does 4d6 + the ooze's Constitution modifier (normally +7), with a range of 180 ft. and can be used once every 1d4 round, also if you get hit by the ooze or it's shots, you get covered in a sticky gunpowder residue, making fire damage, guns, holding weapons capable of doing fire damage, or simply using a flint and steel, causing the residue to explode, and it remains primed for a full day.
You pronounce words wrong so right. Its a rare talent dare I say. Please never stop.
Oozes are criminally underrated. Hope to hear more about ochre jelly, grey ooze, Slithering tracker, Oblex and perhaps even Juiblex himself.
Ooze lore is cool actually fighting oozes in game is insanely boring
@@mondaysinsanity8193 maybe Ochre Jellies and the standard gray ooze, but are you telling me black puddings, gelatinous cubes, psychic gray oozes, slithering trackers, oblexes and Juiblex are boring to fight?
@@lisagaughan7154 ngl havent gotten a campaign to get that high level yet but sounds it on paper
@@mondaysinsanity8193 black puddings destroy your weapons, psychics have psionic attacks, gelatinous cubes can engulf and dissolve you, the tracker drains your life and uses you as a meat shield and oblexes and Juiblex have so much going on, I have no clue how you can see them as boring.
I dont play dnd but here i am binge listening to videos explaining the types of damage that are effective against a fictional black glob of ooze
Used these in a trap once (back in 1st edition days). Open door, panel above door slides open and one of these drops on the unsuspecting meal...uh, adventurer. Very nearly killed the level 18 paladin.
Omg Im learning more from these videos than I did in my whole experience in school
i really dream that you do 20 videos every day. amazing work thank you
I just love your videos SO much! They really help inspire my campaign design! Thank you!
Wait, I had a kind of interesting thought:
A Black Pudding is acidic in nature, so would it be hurt if it comes into contact with lye, because lye neutralizes acid? And if so, would it do extra damage?
This reminds me of my very first DnD character, it was a vengence paladin inspired by Alexander Anderson from Hellsing. The poor guy got devoured by a black pudding because the 5 Int barbarian wouldn't stop splitting it in half, the player told me ''it's what my character would do''. Well and truly a shame he didn't even get to fight a single undead let alone a vampire.
Hmm, I'm thinking of one day doing a high intelligence, either Rogue, Ranger or Druid that specializes in poisons and antidotes. So this will be great if I can remember this when I can play that character.
Perhaps an alchemist artificer? Would use INT as main stat and you could always multi-class into something else like Druid depending on what other aspects you want to also facilitate/create ooze use. :) (currently playing a battle smith artificer but still a very new player so take any suggestion with many grains of salt)
@@AVspectre I'm currently playing a cleric/ artificer alchemist
@@bethanysmith5856 Sounds like fun! :)
fill desert cups with black pudding using a glyph on the bottom that keeps it in stasis feed to party goers :)
I’d like to see you do some videos on villains from DnD. You’re informative enough to make them interesting and intriguing.
I guess it makes more sense that the amount of damage is limited by the amount of surface area it can come into contact with. Regardless of its size, the only part of a pudding that deals damage is the contact surface
I love your videos man! If you could give us a video about changelings, I'm really interested in their story.
I’m tempted to make new monster stats for all these videos so my party can fight accurate versions of these amazing creatures
Honestly, I usually plan to use a monster (often after watching these videos), look at the stat block, realize it's nowhere near as cool as I thought it was, and promptly make a new stat block so I can do it right. So honestly, full steam ahead.
I've actually used some of his videos to make homebrew races. They're very insightful.
I usually just think of home brew monster stats on the spot. I’m trying to fix that right now with the boss fight their heading towards. It’s a sentient black hole generator.
I don't know if I ''ll find fans here but I would like some info's on Jublex or Ghaunadaur as they are the "deities" of Oozes , I once created an arch evil that was experimenting with oozes , a warlock that entraped Oozes and use them for his perfect dungeon he was corrupted by Jublex but at that time I didn't have a lot to work with so I homebrew most of his story
Argg was a 7 ft 287lb barbarian thief not sneaky in the slightest but hella intimidation if he was ever seen stealing he would say "you did not see Argg" then proceeded to beat the shit out a snitch when caught and failed intimidation check.
Love your videos man. You’re getting better and better at sounding like English is your first language. Constructive criticism? You said it eat snow for nutrients- that bothers me because snow is water and water isn’t nutrients it’s just hydration. That’s about it though. You’re doing pretty good with the organizing of topics. I love the way you illustrate with images in the video. This was an interesting video. You managed to make a somewhat boring creature very interesting(I guess because you gave us all the info on it). And somehow your videos are awesome and informative without being the length of a movie, which is wow. I’d love to know to know how long it takes you to make a video from conception to upload, and what’s involved in the process.
Pretty sure food labels list water as a nutrient.
I would love to see a video on the far realm, since i cannot find much about it. You would be the guy to find some hidden or old information on the far realm for sure!
My first dnd game ever.
Made Myself an elven ranger. We went into a dungeon. And found a chest. Rogue sucked at lockpicking so I broke it open with a crowbar (which I bought during character creation exactly for that purpose).
Black pudding jumped out of the chest due to the aprupt opening into my face. No advanced healing spells due to low level.
And thats how my pretty elf turned into Freddy Kruger xD
3h before runing my players in an encounter (dripping cavern stom king thunder). PERFECT TIMING
You failed to mention how delicious black pudding is with eggs, bacon, sausage, tomatoes, mushrooms, beans, toast, fried potatoes, and don't forget the white pudding.
Now we're never gonna look at our Pudding-dishes the same way again.
Easiest way to kill/permanently maim things...ooze/puddings can crawl up your nose or ears, or umm...other bodily orifices. Doesnt have to be a very big one either. Thats it. Right up there with kobolds lobbing green slime grenades(clay jars).
Imagine a pudding kept in a magical ring that can be released on to an unexpected person by another via a hand shake or from a wand very cool
Most destructive and dangerous? That's a bold statement. I think the Oblex would like to have a word with you. It may not be as physically powerful, but it's intelligence and shapeshifting make it far scarier I'd think. :P
How the hell did I not notice that I wasn’t already subscribe to the channel. Literally watch all of your dnd videos. Correcting this blunder right this very second.
I'd like to see what you have to say about Changelings. Keep up the awesome videos
To be fair, the thinking process of a black pudding is not fundamentally different from the thinking process of a human. Our cellular programming is just significantly more complex
I saw that cheeky pillars of eternity screenshot from the wiki, with the Hauani O Whe. That was a fun boss fight though!
really hoping for one on dwarves...............and maybe gnomes
I just want Orcs
Edit: I hope when he does one on gnomes he mentions on how they are aliens that made giant hamsters
I want halfling nobody knows their origins, they are just........ There since the beginning.
@@TheMrBonzz we do know their origin tho, don't we? I mean, as much as we do humans in DND. They where created by their gods, they got the hills in the drawing of lots and one of their gods once trapped the Kobold God in a maze for no reason
me and some friends were doing a 5e one-shot kobold session. we randomly generated our kobolds, and i got a small, glowing kobold named krik. krik was weak. we were doing good trying to grab loot for our chosen dragon, who had sent us on a suicide mission to the location we were at. my first ever encounter with a black pudding didnt go well. i was within 5 feet of an ally and attacked the black pudding with advantage. now, krik had a quirk, besides glowing in the dark. he had the death burst trait. he swung at the black pudding, and his 3hp was immediately melted by the resulting acid retaliation. when krik melted, he killed the ally he had right next to him. our party of 5 groups of 4 kobolds(we generated a new character a few times if one of us died) was immediately reduced to 3. also, krik couldnt taste, so he snorted food to simulate it. as well as him being deathly afraid of cakes. it was an interesting session
Buying white pudding on the black market might be a gray area.
Well done as always.
I enjoyed listening to many of your videos yesterday, but I forgot to subscribe. After I fixed that, I wondered if you did any videos about what they don't tell you about humans.
Got an idea for a dungeon watching this, feel free to steal ☺️:
I imagine the black puddings gliding without slightest sound thru a sea of autumn leaves in a large shrine hall, (holding some visible artifact far away on the shrine pedestal), dissolving the leaves in meandering pathways. If the PCs step into the leaves, to attack any ooze or progress onwards, the crumbling sound awakens a terrible guardian that assaults them with natural/druidic magic. Stuck in some long withered memory, it is corrupted with black magic and considers the destruction of the dead leaves a direct assault on mother nature. It may attack the PCs and oozes alike at this point, since it is now alerted to the oozes also.
If the players trail behind the oozes at a safe distance, or otherwise solve the issue of the leaves, the guardian might never have its slumber disturbed.
Tomes / lore devices in the dungeon will foreshadow an (overzealous) protector of nature that went mad etc. Optionally, hints/puzzle elements could allow the players to block off shafts of sunlight that come in from the upper levels and augment the champion of nature.
I cant wait for this man to hit a million subs
Ooooh, a "what they don't tell you about" video that I missed!
ABSOLUTELY love the series and interesting facts, centered on Faerun or the Forgotten rEalms is nice, but also very nice to see branching to other settings is awesome.
Ever considered doing something "similar" for Eberron?
I can't wait to use this idea for my campaign
"What they don't tell you about Yuan-ti Mind Whisperer (and their kin)"
I noticed that a Yuan-Ti Mind Whisperer has Warlock Spells, but the Books don't cover *WHY* in 5e (specifically I'm reading Volo's Guide to Monsters). All it says on the matter is:
"Mind whisperers are malison spellcasters that enter into a pact with the serpent god Sseth, the Sibilant Death."
But it tells us nothing about the motivation, of either party, in their listing. Yuan-Ti are honestly so spread out over the different books, that a video which focused on the Yuan-Ti overall would be a hit.
Month late, but I read a book series once based in forgotten realms, called House of Serpents. (before even the 4e changes and spell plague) Main antagonist was a Yuan ti psion, sounds like what that should be tbh.
Wait so it is a blobby resistant thing made by lightning and being very stealthy and sneaky,
Shambling mound = black pudding confirmed
Would baking soda reduce any acid damage dealt by an ooze? (It is a base after all)
I figure it was a joke, but I dont know if dnd has baking soda
@@buckhunt6832 If they have cakes, muffins, and or cookies they have baking soda since that is one of the ingredients in those baked goods.
@@amrepheldemente8819 I guess it depends on the time period of the game
@@buckhunt6832 dude lime stone is a bese
Soup is a base they have bases but it depends on the streanth of them
And the black pushing chod be nutrelized buy throwing a lot of limestone powder or backing soda
Edit : but the simplest wey to fuck up a black pudding
ADd Lithium or Sodium metel
They react with water and explode / burst into flame
So kepp a small amount of it in minaral oil flask
Technically correct the acid damage is done by enzymes in the Saliva, but to simplify it is is listed as acid
I had an idea from something that was mentioned in a group. On a ship that the players own, someone has out a small bit of a black pudding into a bottle of wine. A crew member drinks the bottle and well we have a black pudding on their ship. Any thoughts on gestation time? Maybe it eats its way out, then the whole body, then burns through the deck, hold and finally into the bilge. which will have water and thus not burn through to the ocean? So players would have to go down into the bilge and clean out the plumbing to protect the ship. Any thoughts to add?
Petition for this guy to make a video about the Efretti, or just Genies in general
Glad to see we’re fighting the black tar from boiled cola.
Thank you so much for talking about my favorite monsters in all of D&D, the black pudding! You rock!
This channel is just so good.
@MrRhexx You sir, are AWESOME. Thanks for the content.
And here people said my full body stone armor was a stupid idea.
HumanoidCableDreads enjoy your 5-square per round movement speed, also if its not water-tight it’s not protecting you if you are engulfed.
It is. How much it weighs in regards to the protection provided is much higher. Metal is just very efficient material to use to provide protection.
Thank you guys for explaining the joke.
Curious to know about that last mind flayer vid about the elder brain. No rush just curious if itll still be a thing, seeing as how the saga is yet to be finished :)
Boss idea:
A black pudding who had a genetic mutation that stops them from splitting willingly, thus making them massive
Can you eat before it eats you?
Will different types of puddings try to consume each other?
How do I get a swirl of different flavors?
What is your favorite flavor?
Do you have a video on Gelatinous Cubes? I want to know more about them.
*Samwell Tarly appears*
Black Puddings: "why do I hear boss music?"
Side note: 3.5 Hordes of the Abyss - under one of the demon Lord's is an intelligent (possessed by a demon) gargantuan black ooze. They never lay it out and it's just a sidenote of the demon lord. But it sounds pretty PC killer......
Great video, love the lore you dig up
what happens if two puddings encounter each other or are going for the same food that they detect? Also, do they detect each other as food? or do they notice each other at all? Maybe they see one another as simply non-food objects?
Just fought 4 of these yesterday
Fought off 4 puddings yesterday, myself. Good thing I brought my enchanted dessert spoon!
How did that go?
@@Bofrab most of our Tools and equipment were badly damaged, I was the only one to go down. Problem was the bard only had one load stone so he couldn't use mending till we found one
"It can't never reach a conclusion that you are attacking it."
If striking it with lightning or slicing it causes it to split, then a rapid-fire splitting or lightning attack followed by an AoE spell should make short work of them.
Can you make a timeline on the modules released for 5th edition giving us the years in Toril and when each campaign takes place in regards to each other?
Watching this while making School requirements is the way to go
I'd love a series covering each ooze!
The first death in my current party was caused by a Black Pudding (which was split by our wizard's Shocking Grasp...)
We fought a behemoth of a Black Pudding (silently engulfed the building we were in, preventing our escape) a couple of sessions ago. Nearly had a TPK.
These things are no joke.
What would happen if, say,, a mob boss traps a bunch of black puddings inside a giant pit for...personal use...? Would they meld together until they escaped and separate? or would they just sort sit on top of each other?
Would they be vulnerable to salt? If they are vulnerable to drying out in the sun, then wouldn't salt also dehydrate them?
Having never heard of this creature, I was 50/50 on if this was going to be a Monster Manual vid, or if someone visited Ireland or UK and had a terrible experience with a breakfast roll...
Question: could black puddings permanently kill a terrasque?
You really sound like you're telling the most funny story ever!
The most dangerous oozes? Do you ever heard about Juiblex the faceless lord?
Remember though! If can still suffocate a pudding with water! People assume due to it being able to extract oxygen from water that it's an indefinite survival thing. But the point to be raised is that it can only do that with moving water. Still water can't be re-oxygenated without moving. And it's a lot easier to fill a barrel with water and seal it, than to make an airtight box!
After all, fish can suffocate without a bubbler in their tank.
I thought the whole concept of 'puddings' and their various types was such a lost opportunity for D&D. I mean, would you call a Shoggoth a pudding?
Eye flavored
@@BookWyrmOnAString Cosmic-politan...
mm....function similarly, but a much powerful far realm horror...Shoggoths, at least some, are actually sentient and very, very smart. Smart enough to overthrow a star spanning empire on pre human earth.
Blight sight from sensing heat
It "hunts" heat and avoid cold
From early games
This has been a great vid, all this will come very useful when I weaponize puddings by putting them in stone cannon balls :D
i was nearly killed by a black pudding on the same day you upload this....
real talk im refreshing your page almost every 2 hours just waiting for that next video....i've watched literally every single video you've done on D&D and i am craving more....which sucks cause i know eventually you'll run out of stuff to cover....