I love Gelatinous Cubes!! One of my favorite trap ideas ever in a dungeon is a long dark hallway with a mirror at the end. The party spent so much time trying to figure out what the mirror meant they didn’t notice the completely transparent cube slowly making the hallway shorter and shorter. (The mirror is actually a door, but my party didn’t figure that out until after they had to pull their friend who wanted to check the other side of the room out of the cube. If they hadn’t figured out the door situation when they did, the encounter probably would have become much more deadly lol.
My very first dnd session 15 years ago actualy ended with a gelatinous cube tpk. We had just survived a dragon fight, one of the players threw a rock in a pool of water and the monster emerged from it and ate us. We got cornered and couldnt run lol
I'm surprised Rot Grubs aren't #1! If players have never encountered them before, and the characters don't have knowledge of them, they are basically an automatic and unavoidable near-instant death. If attacked by Flying Snakes, even if you've never heard of them before, you can at least run for cover, take the dodge action, hide in a room or building, fireball them, jump in a pool of water, roll under a table or cart, cast a healing spell, ready an attack action before their next flyby, turn invisible, climb a tree and hide in it's branches, etc., etc., ...
Can't flying snakes be trivialized by just readying an attack on the condition "the flying snake enters my melee range" or "it enters my line of sight" for ranged attacks?
> “These are in no particular order” > Proceeds to list creatures from 10 to 1 UA-cam might have cursed you with something, I'd recommend you seeing your local cleric;)
Shadows are dangerous, more dangerous as minion monsters
I love Gelatinous Cubes!! One of my favorite trap ideas ever in a dungeon is a long dark hallway with a mirror at the end. The party spent so much time trying to figure out what the mirror meant they didn’t notice the completely transparent cube slowly making the hallway shorter and shorter. (The mirror is actually a door, but my party didn’t figure that out until after they had to pull their friend who wanted to check the other side of the room out of the cube. If they hadn’t figured out the door situation when they did, the encounter probably would have become much more deadly lol.
Hah, that’s great, I’m gonna use that! Glad your party was able to walk away un-dissolved
My very first dnd session 15 years ago actualy ended with a gelatinous cube tpk. We had just survived a dragon fight, one of the players threw a rock in a pool of water and the monster emerged from it and ate us. We got cornered and couldnt run lol
I'm surprised Rot Grubs aren't #1! If players have never encountered them before, and the characters don't have knowledge of them, they are basically an automatic and unavoidable near-instant death. If attacked by Flying Snakes, even if you've never heard of them before, you can at least run for cover, take the dodge action, hide in a room or building, fireball them, jump in a pool of water, roll under a table or cart, cast a healing spell, ready an attack action before their next flyby, turn invisible, climb a tree and hide in it's branches, etc., etc., ...
Agreed! I didn’t rank these in any particular order, but If I did, rot grubs are definitely scarier than flying snakes.
I've never seen the Vampiric mist on any of these lists, new dm put 2 against 4 of at level 2 I think, we barely made it
Can't flying snakes be trivialized by just readying an attack on the condition "the flying snake enters my melee range" or "it enters my line of sight" for ranged attacks?
That’s a great point, definitely makes it a much easier fight.
great video, thanks.
Imps should be able to make it on list 2
The Carrion Stalker from 2e ravenloft monster compendium was vicious.
3 +8 dagger strikes per turn 😳😨
Yea it’s insane. For reference, a +8 goes with a CR of 11-15 according to the DMG’s chart for calculating challenge rating 😅
Nice video, keep it up my friend.
> “These are in no particular order”
> Proceeds to list creatures from 10 to 1
UA-cam might have cursed you with something, I'd recommend you seeing your local cleric;)
Lolol, couldn’t help myself I guess
The mosquito like things that are also low lvl, I don't remember their name, they almost TPK one of my last campaigns...
Stirges? Yea those things suck…literally
@@dndlounge Yes! Those! Super deadly too!
Our last stirge encounter was completely destroyed by a single sleep spell.
Those grubs are nasty
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