I think this video help me put my finger on why I love your videos: You're not content with presenting "The Lore"or where monsters come from, you present how the creatures live, their attitudes and cultures, if any. This thorough examination of a monster, possible habitats, feeding habits, preferences makes it extremely easy to figure out how you want to drop said creature into your setting. Your videos are closer to wild-life documentaries than lore videos. Big thanks, AJ, my players and I have had lots of fun due in no small part to the inspiration I get from your videos.
No matter how many times I've read _all_ the books. You still always find something new and interesting to point out, that I didn't notice before. As always you lay the anatomy of these fearsome beasts and monsters bare. I applaud you Sir! I really appreciate the way you highlight the monsters environment and any social behaviors. Of course along with showing every Dm, young and old a quick how to guide on fully utilizing your Monsters full potential A really great way to truly flush out monsters for encounters. Your channel is one of the best fantasy role-playing Dungeons & Dragons video channels out there. Thanks again! :-)
Dude... I wish this channel existed when I was growing up. I was too poor to buy Fiend Folio as a kid and remember standing in book stores for hours reading D&D books. I never even played the game!
This is a race I ignored and considered a nothing people, mere vermin for Dark Elves, Deep Dwarves, Illithid, most Underdark dwellers above Goblin and Grey Dwarves to kill off. You made me reconsider with this great video.
Awesome video as always, but I can't help but prefer the Volo's Guide Darklings. I like the premise that they were a tragic race. They felt unique as I imagined a people that cherished beauty and wished to see the light but never could. That they dreamed of the surface they could never see, instead living viciously in the Underdark. But I suppose we can play them however we like. Maybe two tribes with different ideals from both the older lore and Volo's would be an interesting story. Again, great work on the lore video!
I'm neck deep in work atm, but I saw the notification and hopped right to the video. Great to see you working on fan requests!!! Thanks for the video work!
I love this video, thank you for making this. I like a lot of you shared here, though I am fond of some of the stuff mentioned in Volo's Guide of Monsters, such as love of art and the Arch Fay Dubh Catha, which I wish there were more about. I'll probably mix the two range of versions of the Darklings for my own games.
Pathfinder's take on dark folk is pretty intresting. They are described as descendants of ancient human civilisations (clockpunk magitek Atlantis-inspired Azlant, in default setting Golarion's case) who have turned to owbs, mysterious and malevolent entities from Plane of Shadow, for protection. Upon birth of a child, owbs decide its future fate in society, which besides original dark creepers and dark stalkers include dark slayers (life-driniking assassins who implode into nothingness upon death), dark callers (priests of owbs who explode with shadowy energy), dark dancers (bardic jesters and intermediaries) and dark empaths (emotion-controlling psionicists who cause confusion at death). On top of all that, some dark folk are born throwbacks to their ancient forebears - called caligni, they are despised by owbs and looked upon as glimers of hope by less evil dark folk. And they are a character race, of course.
I think Wizards of the Coast should definitely flesh out their settings for 5e. It almost seems like they omit interesting history that DMs would like to use.
The ending was especially entertaining, I'm wondering how many players would be comfortable with a one-shot that involves humans or other player characters without darkvision in the underdark where the only light source for the players is a small lantern or collection of candles to see their dice and sheets. Creating an atmosphere of suspense and dread, you'd be just as fearful having your character cross an empty room as you'd be when the DM mentions that the hairs on your characters' necks are all standing up on end as a poisoned knife slips between their ribs.
Long live the Lore Master! Another day, another great video. You always seem to out due yourself. If you ever stop doing what your doing... You're fired xD
My theory is that Darklings and Dark Ones are different species, and both exist. Dark Ones are of the Shadowfell. Darklings are of the Feywild. Dark Ones speak their own language. Darklings speak Elvish and Sylvan. Dark Ones hate the light and love darkness. Darklings love beauty and risk their lives to see it. Dark Ones cause blindness when they die using darkness. Darklings cause it using light. Thematically opposed, but both bound to the dark. Hence why they look the same.
The fey creature type always Beene strange one and I see this as a strong possibility. Always been several fey look alikes that you can confuses with elves, goblins, and gnomes.
Fey, outside the game, more or less just refers to magical or spiritual beings. Although the word fey does refer to a specific regions creatures. But anyway goblins, kobolds(which are just a different regions take on goblins), trolls, multiple types of undead, and more, are fey. So feel free to make them such in your games.
Lel, the Ork or half ork @0:50 is holding his parrying dagger wrong, he is supposed to have the cup part of his guard(I forget the exact terminology applied to this style of guard, but let's go with "swept cup hilt".), facing the outside part of his hand. (It's more than likely many of you won't care for such trivia, but if you ever get the chance to hold one, you will know how uncomfortable that grip is, and how easily it can be forced from your hand. Then there is how easy it would be to attack your opponent's fingers and knuckles with a cut, since the guard isn't helping to protect them.) *End/Walloftext.exe*
On subject, the Darkling's don't sound all that bad, perhaps even a working relationship might not be too difficult to set up. ( Could one not set up a deal with them, where they serve as assailants for someone, in exchange for resources and such? Maybe even keep outsiders away from their territory, as a additional component?)
Hey Aj, sorry for bugging you again, I was just wanting to say amazing video!!! And also how long roughly does it take you to write one of your scripts?
This is one of two classes I'd like to play as. I always try to work them into a narrative but because of their outlook on life it's very difficult. I thought about giving one a ring of darkness so they are continuously shrouded and can still use their blindsense. Or perhaps giving them Snow Goggles (Pg. 25 Arms & Equipment) to counteract their light sensitivity? But I think just being above ground is what they don't like. I know there are dark gem glasses in another book, but I can't recall.
I can't really see to much for them being a swashbuckling adventure going P.C. based on what they believe, in a religious sense, but an apostate darkling would definitely be a fun character to roleplay as or encounter as help on a surface adventure. the whole: "we try to bring the darkness, meekly." thing they have going on makes them hard to fit in with the steriotypical good or evil dungeon delving party. maybe you could have them ware a blind fold in the day & take it off at night/when it gets dark, akin to riddicks eye shine.
@Aj Pickett You should create a boarder to show all the images inside of, it would give your videos a more uniform look and help them stand out from other clip channels. You could even go back and add it to older videos, just set the pre-existing content to play inside of the new boarder.
worse. They don't plot, they don't story, they don't attempt trade or persuasion. They're thieves on a wargaming set; just pieces on a board with absolutely no value beyond that. They show up, they attack you for literally the dumbest unexplained reasons, and they disappear afterwards in classic "WTF" fashion. They're fodder for a rest-abusing party at best.
yeah, but from a player's perspective, they show up out of nowhere and try to mug them without any clear provocation. If they pass any kind of knowledge check, the DM now has to explain the following Darkling flow chart: Do you have a Light source (y/n) Y: They want to murder you. (Players fight for their lives) N: They want to rob you. (Players purge everything in a 100 yard radius with fire and choking gas to ensure no man, woman, or child is left alive. Identify the item the DM tried to steal and ensure the DM can't make a cheap 2nd attempt) The ethics, language barriers, and cultural structures (specifically, the lack thereof) just barely cover the gaminess of their role as a random encounter. It's an entire 2-part race of "Scarf guy" with no speaking lines at best, or discount dark-elves at worst without major DM revisions. Either way, great video :)
In our lore they are Instead of a physical beings they’re a type of spirit that warns one of danger such as an evil lurking that Intends to kill someone. Very gravely misunderstood spirits since they can be very frightening when they try to warn you.
Yeah they’d often take the form of a previous victim that was killed by a said evil to do so though since most people are scared shitless of ghost some of their efforts to help a new future victim are often in vain. Though those who are perceptive enough would realize that it’s not trying to scare or antagonize them but trying to tell them something.
Well, crossing through the Shire, over the misty mountains and down to the Bay of Plenty, so, not too far away, but going from urban to country living.
My peasant wizard Peachtree tried to trade with them outside of skullport and they wanted nothing to do with him. Yet his friend my drow archmage managed to do it with limited success. They are a tough nut to crack no doubt about it! My drow suggested polymorphing into one of them and Peach refused as in his mind he considered it wrong to decieve them. They were such a pain in the ass to deal with they both eventually abandoned the idea all together. Oh well. 😀 great vid AJ!
When I gave a PC human (multigenerational slave) dark vision of 30ft, I said he can see the bioluminescence that all living creatures have (real human eyes are just not sensitive enough to see it...but miners trapped underground for a prolonged time swear they could kind of see their hand. Some people claim that it is more of a situational awareness and superimposing your imagination over where your hand should be...) Thanks for the show. I love darklings
Louis Black: yeah... I was a little long winded in explaining that...... Some days the rambles just vomit out in text and verbally. I wonder if that experiment was done before or after we discovered human bioluminescence. I don't doubt the experiment your mentioning, it's likely 99.9% accurate.... But this is d&d I like to inject weird science into fantasy. :)
Would you maybe consider adding an [Old Canon] tag to some of these videos? I appreciate you telling us early but it's always a bit of a let down to get 1/5 of the way into a video and find out it's not what you were looking for. Absolutely adore your videos but just a suggestion.
Hi Pickett, I have been a huge fan of your content, and I appreciate all that you do for our benefit. I would like to ask your help with questions about the Seelie and Unseelie courts, as I am trying to create some content for the fans of all that is Fey. I know that there are many individuals within both courts; however, I don't know if by making a new one, I would be crossing over others. I have been thinking of recreating them based on more folklore stories and always show an almost cautionary side to their stories to represent the way that others tell it. I would much appreciate your opinion and would have no hard feeling against your or hold you accountable in any form. I simply would appreciate your thoughts and penny on what I make. I genuinely thank you for all that you have done and wish you all of the luck.
This is wonderfully "illuminating" this is a great piece of lore, and you've cleared up a disernment cannon issue aswell, so now. not only do i have a blinding fungus throwing race race of religous zealots to put into the world i'm putting together, but a moral polarity to so many of the religions that exist. What would i do without your anthology? not just theives, but faithfull but silent. ❤'ed this. I like the grey outlined version of darkvision instead of infrared, because you can see much more with heat vision(though walls, inside people.) akin to the dragons(wyverns) in the reign of fire universe, in certain ways, heat vision(with high resolution) is superiour to how we see. nightvision, has limitations, there are limits to how well even a cat can see in the dark, but darkvision doesn't have that limit, but you shouldn't be seeing blood vesels & creatures hidding in things, that are behind things, underthings & technically invisible... *homing plasma bolt discharges* darklings would definitely try to bolt the sun, sever the connection to the gods, but they are not evil & have no manifesto... just some psionic drow that has been warning everyone about the doom of the "coward people", who isn't listened to, untill ofcourse it's too late. and said psionic drow saves everyone, at great extortion of others & benifit to themselves. Although it is true that you can't see in the absence of light, you can also be blinded by it...
OKAY. This is going to be a weird question/nitpick! I want more ways of using alchemy, stone workers equipment, brewers kit! And so on. I don’t want the boring. Okay roll a D20. Nice you made TWO healing potions! I want it to be you found an ancient root of a long forgotten golden apple tree. If you are able to bring it back to life you’ll get golden apples. Which are a main ingredient of a secret potion of nullified aging. Your character doesn’t age for 10 years! Or my stone working becomes infused with my magic so my small clay dolls can do simple actors! You understand I want something more
They are the reason why we cast amunantor's eternal sun in the underdark. Hahaha. Let there be light. So now there in the caverns in the formerly underdark is now a second mini sun bathing the once dark in a endless noonday sun. Course we had to exterminate the ilithids but every vermin requires pest control after all. The children of gith were all too happy to help.
It's now possible to be blinded by looking down. Haha. It was something quite interesting as the people. Above ground never realized for the most part. The apocalypse happening just beneath their feet. Giving zuggotmoy the secret of photosynthesis and binding her as the sun's guard. Breaking the drow host as underground rivers ran red. Stealing kirsansalee's divine spark. Having lolth confronted by her once husband. Truly an epic adventure.
I’m now very interested in this spell, but google pulled nothing up sadly. Does it literally create a mini-sun? Because in that case I am very interested for my homebrew Light of Ra domain.
I knew early dnd and games workshops ties and their falling out lead to warhammer...but I never knew the fiend folio( very great book) was from the white dwarf side
there is zero chance they could use spell books as those use sight to record spells, posibly if it was engraved in clay, metal, of stone tablets but all standard spell books are sight based and this monster disdains all sight.
It's a shame they're essentially one-sided random-encounter antagonists alongside hook horrors or or carrion crawlers. Players generally have only one option when it come to darklings, and that's an inevitable conflict. Whether they're ambushed, or fall afoul of taboos, players simply can't negotiate, trade, barter, deal, or even converse with them, which makes them more like mindless ambush monsters rather than bandits when it comes down to DM material. They don't plot, they don't story; They just attack or rob whoever's closest. Which is a shame, really, since there's a lot of potential material to work with here if they weren't 'hard coded' to be unmitigated assholes.
Zourin There are plenty of creatures like that to be fair. Plus you can always just change that part of their character if you want them to be more interesting.
Just like the cat or the dog they have low light I seen logical this theory a long time ago when I was like it was amazing like they they tapped into it I think the dogs eyes and all you see was just different types of light gray mid gray shapes to dark gray shapes to a very darker gray but this is in the dog's eyes color blind perspective and they follow the dog feel like I think Miles and Miles the study in and to see how he looks in the night time the light shifts a little bit always stays gray always while light gray only in daytime but night time it shifts a little to a mid dark gray always crazy crazy I was in high school at the time and was on NBC or CBS I was like say two decades ago I wish I had those eyes it's not as powerful or rich sharp shapes like your infrared or green it's all about color blind which was still amazing and I was in high school at the time
Ah my house covered in snow its all quiet and I'm listening to dnd monsters quite a good day thank you for being a part of it with the dnd lore
I'm a simple man, I see an AJ vid, I click
"Darklings believe light is fleeting and therefore pointless"
Yeah I don't shower today because I'll get dirty tomorrow, too.
Sound like a bunch emos, you know the really depressing ones.
I realize it's kind of randomly asking but does anyone know of a good website to stream newly released movies online?
“But we can forgive Volvo his shortcomings” 😂 shots fired
I think this video help me put my finger on why I love your videos:
You're not content with presenting "The Lore"or where monsters come from, you present how the creatures live, their attitudes and cultures, if any. This thorough examination of a monster, possible habitats, feeding habits, preferences makes it extremely easy to figure out how you want to drop said creature into your setting. Your videos are closer to wild-life documentaries than lore videos.
Big thanks, AJ, my players and I have had lots of fun due in no small part to the inspiration I get from your videos.
Dungeons and Dragons Lore is more search friendly, but for a long time in the early days, these were called a Monster Ecology.
@@AJPickett completely fair
When I hear "darkling" I just immediatley think of the darkling from The Darkness 2. I love that little goblin.
No matter how many times I've read _all_ the books. You still always find something new and interesting to point out, that I didn't notice before. As always you lay the anatomy of these fearsome beasts and monsters bare. I applaud you Sir! I really appreciate the way you highlight the monsters environment and any social behaviors. Of course along with showing every Dm, young and old a quick how to guide on fully utilizing your Monsters full potential
A really great way to truly flush out monsters for encounters. Your channel is one of the best fantasy role-playing Dungeons & Dragons video channels out there. Thanks again! :-)
What if you made an aquatic avian version?
Darkling Duck.
YES! New Video!
wonder if a Darkling Bard would sing "The Sound of Silence"
only if he Believes in a thing called love..
Dark One Bard would use Dance as a perform skill. No sound.
Dude... I wish this channel existed when I was growing up. I was too poor to buy Fiend Folio as a kid and remember standing in book stores for hours reading D&D books. I never even played the game!
They must enjoy cold iron weapons.
Now all I can think of is the one quote about darkness from Bane in "The Dark Knight Rises" that he says before breaking Batman's back.
This is a race I ignored and considered a nothing people, mere vermin for Dark Elves, Deep Dwarves, Illithid, most Underdark dwellers above Goblin and Grey Dwarves to kill off. You made me reconsider with this great video.
Oh snap, I was looking for a new humanoid to use instead of kobolds, orcs and goblins for an upcoming adventure. It is appreciated, AJ.
Awesome video as always, but I can't help but prefer the Volo's Guide Darklings. I like the premise that they were a tragic race. They felt unique as I imagined a people that cherished beauty and wished to see the light but never could. That they dreamed of the surface they could never see, instead living viciously in the Underdark.
But I suppose we can play them however we like. Maybe two tribes with different ideals from both the older lore and Volo's would be an interesting story.
Again, great work on the lore video!
I'm neck deep in work atm, but I saw the notification and hopped right to the video. Great to see you working on fan requests!!! Thanks for the video work!
Consistently outstanding.
Perfect for either the underdark or shadowfell. Possibly in the caves of Pandemonium too.
the great Chaos Gods at GW have their fingers in many games .
I love this video, thank you for making this. I like a lot of you shared here, though I am fond of some of the stuff mentioned in Volo's Guide of Monsters, such as love of art and the Arch Fay Dubh Catha, which I wish there were more about. I'll probably mix the two range of versions of the Darklings for my own games.
Hey aj I would love to see you do a lore video about the 40k chaos gods. Especially nurgle and Slaneesh
Ever more certain given I am a TTRPG channel, not just a D&D channel.
Pathfinder's take on dark folk is pretty intresting. They are described as descendants of ancient human civilisations (clockpunk magitek Atlantis-inspired Azlant, in default setting Golarion's case) who have turned to owbs, mysterious and malevolent entities from Plane of Shadow, for protection. Upon birth of a child, owbs decide its future fate in society, which besides original dark creepers and dark stalkers include dark slayers (life-driniking assassins who implode into nothingness upon death), dark callers (priests of owbs who explode with shadowy energy), dark dancers (bardic jesters and intermediaries) and dark empaths (emotion-controlling psionicists who cause confusion at death). On top of all that, some dark folk are born throwbacks to their ancient forebears - called caligni, they are despised by owbs and looked upon as glimers of hope by less evil dark folk. And they are a character race, of course.
I think Wizards of the Coast should definitely flesh out their settings for 5e. It almost seems like they omit interesting history that DMs would like to use.
The ending was especially entertaining, I'm wondering how many players would be comfortable with a one-shot that involves humans or other player characters without darkvision in the underdark where the only light source for the players is a small lantern or collection of candles to see their dice and sheets. Creating an atmosphere of suspense and dread, you'd be just as fearful having your character cross an empty room as you'd be when the DM mentions that the hairs on your characters' necks are all standing up on end as a poisoned knife slips between their ribs.
Awesome video!
Long live the Lore Master!
Another day, another great video. You always seem to out due yourself.
If you ever stop doing what your doing... You're fired xD
Great video AJ
Finally a darkling!!!
My theory is that Darklings and Dark Ones are different species, and both exist.
Dark Ones are of the Shadowfell. Darklings are of the Feywild.
Dark Ones speak their own language. Darklings speak Elvish and Sylvan.
Dark Ones hate the light and love darkness. Darklings love beauty and risk their lives to see it.
Dark Ones cause blindness when they die using darkness. Darklings cause it using light.
Thematically opposed, but both bound to the dark. Hence why they look the same.
The fey creature type always Beene strange one and I see this as a strong possibility.
Always been several fey look alikes that you can confuses with elves, goblins, and gnomes.
Fey, outside the game, more or less just refers to magical or spiritual beings. Although the word fey does refer to a specific regions creatures. But anyway goblins, kobolds(which are just a different regions take on goblins), trolls, multiple types of undead, and more, are fey. So feel free to make them such in your games.
Minor correction: Low-light vision is accomplished by rod cells; RGB color vision is accomplished by cone cells.
Lel, the Ork or half ork @0:50 is holding his parrying dagger wrong, he is supposed to have the cup part of his guard(I forget the exact terminology applied to this style of guard, but let's go with "swept cup hilt".), facing the outside part of his hand. (It's more than likely many of you won't care for such trivia, but if you ever get the chance to hold one, you will know how uncomfortable that grip is, and how easily it can be forced from your hand. Then there is how easy it would be to attack your opponent's fingers and knuckles with a cut, since the guard isn't helping to protect them.) *End/Walloftext.exe*
On subject, the Darkling's don't sound all that bad, perhaps even a working relationship might not be too difficult to set up. ( Could one not set up a deal with them, where they serve as assailants for someone, in exchange for resources and such? Maybe even keep outsiders away from their territory, as a additional component?)
AJ we call them people of Darkness.
I own a fiend folio. Had no idea it had such an interesting backstory.
Hey Aj, sorry for bugging you again, I was just wanting to say amazing video!!! And also how long roughly does it take you to write one of your scripts?
it varies a lot, this one took about seven hours.
So does that mean that the material for D&D in the early White Dwarf mags are as "canon" as Dragon Magazine?
Yep
This is one of two classes I'd like to play as. I always try to work them into a narrative but because of their outlook on life it's very difficult. I thought about giving one a ring of darkness so they are continuously shrouded and can still use their blindsense. Or perhaps giving them Snow Goggles (Pg. 25 Arms & Equipment) to counteract their light sensitivity? But I think just being above ground is what they don't like. I know there are dark gem glasses in another book, but I can't recall.
I can't really see to much for them being a swashbuckling adventure going P.C. based on what they believe, in a religious sense, but an apostate darkling would definitely be a fun character to roleplay as or encounter as help on a surface adventure. the whole: "we try to bring the darkness, meekly." thing they have going on makes them hard to fit in with the steriotypical good or evil dungeon delving party. maybe you could have them ware a blind fold in the day & take it off at night/when it gets dark, akin to riddicks eye shine.
@Aj Pickett You should create a boarder to show all the images inside of, it would give your videos a more uniform look and help them stand out from other clip channels. You could even go back and add it to older videos, just set the pre-existing content to play inside of the new boarder.
Thanks for the feedback Iron Reed :)
@@AJPickett Or easier, just put your "AJ Pickett" emblem in the lower right corner of the videos.
AJ Pickett Thats not a bad idea kiwi!
So, basically, your average DnD player.
worse. They don't plot, they don't story, they don't attempt trade or persuasion. They're thieves on a wargaming set; just pieces on a board with absolutely no value beyond that. They show up, they attack you for literally the dumbest unexplained reasons, and they disappear afterwards in classic "WTF" fashion. They're fodder for a rest-abusing party at best.
Well, I explained the reasons.
yeah, but from a player's perspective, they show up out of nowhere and try to mug them without any clear provocation. If they pass any kind of knowledge check, the DM now has to explain the following Darkling flow chart:
Do you have a Light source (y/n)
Y: They want to murder you. (Players fight for their lives)
N: They want to rob you. (Players purge everything in a 100 yard radius with fire and choking gas to ensure no man, woman, or child is left alive. Identify the item the DM tried to steal and ensure the DM can't make a cheap 2nd attempt)
The ethics, language barriers, and cultural structures (specifically, the lack thereof) just barely cover the gaminess of their role as a random encounter. It's an entire 2-part race of "Scarf guy" with no speaking lines at best, or discount dark-elves at worst without major DM revisions.
Either way, great video :)
Hey AJ, what's up? On a random rainy Saturday afternoon alone, what do you rather play, D&D or Fighting Fantasy?
D&D.
I figured that, haha!
Darkvision is just one of many reasons to love the gnomes.
Gnome invisibility is awesome, guys!
See Darklings are very different in my family’s lore. Still interesting.
In our lore they are Instead of a physical beings they’re a type of spirit that warns one of danger such as an evil lurking that Intends to kill someone. Very gravely misunderstood spirits since they can be very frightening when they try to warn you.
@@matthewmartinez3907 interesting reminds me of banshees in mythology would haunt a family and would cry out if a member of the family dies.
Yeah they’d often take the form of a previous victim that was killed by a said evil to do so though since most people are scared shitless of ghost some of their efforts to help a new future victim are often in vain. Though those who are perceptive enough would realize that it’s not trying to scare or antagonize them but trying to tell them something.
Like a reverse revanent
I imagine they'd be big on using chemical reactions to create heat.
Generally such reactions also cause light. Because all the excess energy excites the molecules.
Aye AJ, you staying in Southern Hemisphere? Or moving up North?
still in New Zealand.
+AJ Pickett (The Mighty Gluestick)
That's one way to make sure the water drains in the same direction. Are you hopping islands, or staying very local?
Well, crossing through the Shire, over the misty mountains and down to the Bay of Plenty, so, not too far away, but going from urban to country living.
+AJ Pickett (The Mighty Gluestick)
I think I figured out Nerdarchy's hesitation in reaching out.
"They hate blacksmiths..." Ok now I already have a problem with these guys.
Thanks for the vid sir.👍🏼👍🏼
awesome viewing of the darling buddy thumbs up
My peasant wizard Peachtree tried to trade with them outside of skullport and they wanted nothing to do with him. Yet his friend my drow archmage managed to do it with limited success. They are a tough nut to crack no doubt about it! My drow suggested polymorphing into one of them and Peach refused as in his mind he considered it wrong to decieve them. They were such a pain in the ass to deal with they both eventually abandoned the idea all together. Oh well. 😀 great vid AJ!
man i got my dads old copy of the adnd fiend folio.
When I gave a PC human (multigenerational slave) dark vision of 30ft, I said he can see the bioluminescence that all living creatures have
(real human eyes are just not sensitive enough to see it...but miners trapped underground for a prolonged time swear they could kind of see their hand. Some people claim that it is more of a situational awareness and superimposing your imagination over where your hand should be...)
Thanks for the show. I love darklings
Actually, it has been proven that that is an illusion. It has more to do with spatial awareness of your own hand.
Louis Black: yeah... I was a little long winded in explaining that...... Some days the rambles just vomit out in text and verbally.
I wonder if that experiment was done before or after we discovered human bioluminescence.
I don't doubt the experiment your mentioning, it's likely 99.9% accurate.... But this is d&d I like to inject weird science into fantasy. :)
Would you maybe consider adding an [Old Canon] tag to some of these videos? I appreciate you telling us early but it's always a bit of a let down to get 1/5 of the way into a video and find out it's not what you were looking for.
Absolutely adore your videos but just a suggestion.
Hey AJ. In a stream a while ago you mentioned a link to your sage advice in which you give campaign advice. Where is that located?
Hmm, I think I like the volo’s guide lore more, but I’m a sucker for curses
A bit of nuance, but it's the cones that are for color and rods are for light intensity.
Quite right, my bad, thanks for the correction
You would think that Sharr would take an interest in them but no.
Hi Pickett, I have been a huge fan of your content, and I appreciate all that you do for our benefit. I would like to ask your help with questions about the Seelie and Unseelie courts, as I am trying to create some content for the fans of all that is Fey.
I know that there are many individuals within both courts; however, I don't know if by making a new one, I would be crossing over others. I have been thinking of recreating them based on more folklore stories and always show an almost cautionary side to their stories to represent the way that others tell it.
I would much appreciate your opinion and would have no hard feeling against your or hold you accountable in any form. I simply would appreciate your thoughts and penny on what I make.
I genuinely thank you for all that you have done and wish you all of the luck.
send me an email, I am happy to help.
How do they get anything done like making metal
you can work metal just using chemicals.
certain characters I'd imagine giving them "darkvision" by saying they see heat (nod to the predator movies)
Theyre like an entire race of rogues
YOu HaVe MeARlY AdOPteD ThE DarK
So tempted to do that impression!!
@@AJPickett
That was literally the first think that popped into my mind when you said they were born and molded by it😆
Thanks
really cool i'm familiar with them because of pathfinder ( where they are really different) but this was good nonetheless
I've added some modification to them, but I can say I love to use these little brats as the minions of a greater, evil fey ;) :)
Yay
"And so we wait in darkness"
How can they study spell books if they're blind ?
I still have my first edition monsters Copadiem
This is wonderfully "illuminating" this is a great piece of lore, and you've cleared up a disernment cannon issue aswell, so now. not only do i have a blinding fungus throwing race race of religous zealots to put into the world i'm putting together, but a moral polarity to so many of the religions that exist. What would i do without your anthology? not just theives, but faithfull but silent. ❤'ed this. I like the grey outlined version of darkvision instead of infrared, because you can see much more with heat vision(though walls, inside people.) akin to the dragons(wyverns) in the reign of fire universe, in certain ways, heat vision(with high resolution) is superiour to how we see. nightvision, has limitations, there are limits to how well even a cat can see in the dark, but darkvision doesn't have that limit, but you shouldn't be seeing blood vesels & creatures hidding in things, that are behind things, underthings & technically invisible... *homing plasma bolt discharges* darklings would definitely try to bolt the sun, sever the connection to the gods, but they are not evil & have no manifesto... just some psionic drow that has been warning everyone about the doom of the "coward people", who isn't listened to, untill ofcourse it's too late. and said psionic drow saves everyone, at great extortion of others & benifit to themselves. Although it is true that you can't see in the absence of light, you can also be blinded by it...
OKAY. This is going to be a weird question/nitpick! I want more ways of using alchemy, stone workers equipment, brewers kit! And so on. I don’t want the boring. Okay roll a D20. Nice you made TWO healing potions! I want it to be you found an ancient root of a long forgotten golden apple tree. If you are able to bring it back to life you’ll get golden apples. Which are a main ingredient of a secret potion of nullified aging. Your character doesn’t age for 10 years!
Or my stone working becomes infused with my magic so my small clay dolls can do simple actors!
You understand I want something more
FlyingAxblade nice! Didn’t know they did that. Time to look them up
Thanks for the awesome vid A.J. sorry I didn't watch or comment on your planeswalker vid, but I don't support MTG in my D&D games.
That's OK man. But there will a few more vids like that one as I am learning about the MtG lore.
They are the reason why we cast amunantor's eternal sun in the underdark. Hahaha. Let there be light. So now there in the caverns in the formerly underdark is now a second mini sun bathing the once dark in a endless noonday sun. Course we had to exterminate the ilithids but every vermin requires pest control after all. The children of gith were all too happy to help.
It's now possible to be blinded by looking down. Haha. It was something quite interesting as the people. Above ground never realized for the most part. The apocalypse happening just beneath their feet. Giving zuggotmoy the secret of photosynthesis and binding her as the sun's guard. Breaking the drow host as underground rivers ran red. Stealing kirsansalee's divine spark. Having lolth confronted by her once husband. Truly an epic adventure.
I’m now very interested in this spell, but google pulled nothing up sadly. Does it literally create a mini-sun? Because in that case I am very interested for my homebrew Light of Ra domain.
I knew early dnd and games workshops ties and their falling out lead to warhammer...but I never knew the fiend folio( very great book) was from the white dwarf side
These darklings sound like interesting Darklings but I prefer the Fey creature versions from volos idk why
You seem to be a little close to your mic there, buddy.
Dr Bright “admindum #134: Dr. Bright is not allowed access to ANY P.A. System.”
That was entirely deliberate.
+AJ Pickett Okay. Its just that usually I can set my volume at a safe 35.
there is zero chance they could use spell books as those use sight to record spells, posibly if it was engraved in clay, metal, of stone tablets but all standard spell books are sight based and this monster disdains all sight.
The gith remind me of yuzon vong from star wars
With came out first
It's a shame they're essentially one-sided random-encounter antagonists alongside hook horrors or or carrion crawlers. Players generally have only one option when it come to darklings, and that's an inevitable conflict. Whether they're ambushed, or fall afoul of taboos, players simply can't negotiate, trade, barter, deal, or even converse with them, which makes them more like mindless ambush monsters rather than bandits when it comes down to DM material. They don't plot, they don't story; They just attack or rob whoever's closest. Which is a shame, really, since there's a lot of potential material to work with here if they weren't 'hard coded' to be unmitigated assholes.
Zourin There are plenty of creatures like that to be fair. Plus you can always just change that part of their character if you want them to be more interesting.
actually, these are also a playable underdark race.
I understand that this is roughly what the word tiefling translates to from German. Well, one of the translations. I guess it depends on who you ask.
Just like the cat or the dog they have low light I seen logical this theory a long time ago when I was like it was amazing like they they tapped into it I think the dogs eyes and all you see was just different types of light gray mid gray shapes to dark gray shapes to a very darker gray but this is in the dog's eyes color blind perspective and they follow the dog feel like I think Miles and Miles the study in and to see how he looks in the night time the light shifts a little bit always stays gray always while light gray only in daytime but night time it shifts a little to a mid dark gray always crazy crazy I was in high school at the time and was on NBC or CBS I was like say two decades ago I wish I had those eyes it's not as powerful or rich sharp shapes like your infrared or green it's all about color blind which was still amazing and I was in high school at the time
Shhh...did you hear something?
Darklings... Sounds edgy as frakk^^
AJ > Volothamp
RIGHT?
Thats just stiupid.. they are blind yet they can craft, make alchemy and all other stuff that is simply impossible to do without sight.
Fuck it its magic lol