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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2024
- The False Hydra: D&D's Most Infamous Monster? by Dungeon Dad
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Honestly i think id prefer encountering the tarrasque than a false hydra in any setting.
Any DM who breaks out one of those without warning is a sadist with nothing else to lose in the campaign
Hehehe, I feel like I’m being challenged, now! >:) My players have you to blame!
One of the DM’s under one of the random DnD shorts I watched written this comment: “I usually don’t shift major plot if my players just wandered off to sightseeing completely understanding what they are doing, but they do meet consequences, like fall of the kingdom, or civil war, or they relatives die, or just mature false hydra is on its way to eat whole continent.”
The best idea I've had in integrating a false hydra into a setting is a village where everyone is joyful, loving and caring to everyone, unafraid because their "mother" protects them always. The "mother" is actually a false hydra, who uses it's song not to eat the villagers, but to hide it's appearance but not it's actions, causing the village to worship it as a God, giving it offerings to it daily to sustain it indefinitely.
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I would love to play a few sessions with a false hydra as a bbeg but since i know about It it wouldnt be as good as if i didnt knew, oh the irony
is a great monster even if you know about it, i suggest trying out a one shot maybe, personaly is the best for the hydra (a short campain of 3/4 sessions also work pretty well....)
I actually managed to pull off a false hydra during a oneshot, with the players all set up to fight a low level undead who had screwed them over.
Only to then end up teaming up with their foe against something far far worse.
Everyone is expecting a good ole' classical murderhobo DND campaign.
Then you discover your DM is on a horror kick, and give up on peaceful sleep for the foreseeable future.
Theres a little in joke for fans of this channel where this is the SECOND video he’s made about the false hydra. He took that one down and then uploaded this.
Hence the little line at 19:10 of “I have NEVER made a video about this creature before.”
I KNEW IT!! I KNEW IT!! I just saw the video casually and saw it again later. I knew I had watched it previously but youtube was saying I didn't.
@@merilynnshark6144 Yep, you weren’t going (any more) crazy. I noticed it the second it happened, got confused, then remembered the gimmick of the monster and connected the dots.
GREAT troll from Dungeon Dad eh?
as a master, this is my favorite monster, the story you can write with this are crazy and nothing make me laugh more that a player istantly thinking at this every time a npc forget something
My DM ran this during a long campaign...it was a _terrifying_ reveal. Just needed to find the post I made in another video featuring the False Hydra, but all Imma say is, we all needed to hit the bar after the reveal session to process it, and this was a freaking juvenile!
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See, in the beginning of the campaign, our GM, a known lover of music would always play a song or two whenever we have to either travel somewhere and we indicated we were in a hurry or stumbled into combat or found creative ways around problems to name a few things. We didn't really think much of it, the music was atmospheric and helped us to get in the zone, and while we had some suspicions regarding why certain combat encounters were easier or why some NPCs freely gave us information regarding certain investigations and the like, we honestly didn't question it. The bastard made everything as natural as he could, having us pin the inconsistencies on any number of things including our backstories.
Then we came across a certain village.
Again it was so natural, we had a combat encounter involving some decently strong opponents, so we had to heal and rest up, then we came across the village and spent the night there in the inn. The next morning we found that the door had been forced open, the framing broken, and a bed completely shattered apart along with a pack next to it. To this day, I'm still feel a little sick at just how quickly we looted the pack, we gave the excuse that it was to find the identity of the owner, but it was free loot...
That was how the creepiest DnD session I've ever been to started and from start to finish, there was absolutely no music playing at all, there was some ambient sounds of people and/or nature depending, but even that was taken away towards the end of the session and the absolute silence (dude actually had sound mufflers for us we had to wear).
It turned out that for the entire game, there was one other member of the party, a Bard who was the twin sister of the sorceress of the party...who had left her home in search of her mother, because she desperately wanted her family together again. I remember that the sorceress' player had to leave the table for a bit after the stunned silence at the reveal, we played it as her character sort of shutting down and going catatonic before we dragged her and the village alchemist who had been helping us (and created the potion of deafness), who was just as catatonic because he remembered that he had a wife and son, outside the village bonds so that we could plan in some piece...the hydra had grown too fat and comfortable to leave the dry well in the village center.
Let me tell you, walking back into that village deaf and actually able to not only see the hydra's heads and all the old and fresh blood stains and small amounts of gore from its meals were terrifying enough, but then one of the heads came real close to us and we had to continue on our way without acknowledging it or the fact that it left to pick up the kind innkeeper's daughter as a snack...we had to ignore it all to get to the alchemist's home because it had an underground passage to the main body. Then, while deaf, we had to navigate the tunnel to the main body and then, again, in silence, we fought the strongest enemy we've had to date. Then things got worse when he revealed that the mufflers were bluetooth headphones and simulated our hearing slowly returning, because he's a sadist.
Suffice to say, it was the most amazing session ever, but holy crap, I don't any of us really recovered after that insanity...and I'm pretty certain that the dude has already laid down hints for the next Impossible Hunt that we doing for Artemis.
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So this was like a year ago, unfortunately, the game couldn't continue a few months after the False Hydra, the DM had to move out of the country.
That reveal mixed with all the other in person elements is awesome. Thank you for sharing that story!
Jesus Christ that is one amazing DM
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0:13 me after a eating a whole boar and 2 bottles of pepsi max
i was actually part of a homebrew session where a false hydra appeared and the only ones that could combat it were the deaf, atleast in our session anyways others might have other ways, one of our characters happened to be deaf and communicated with sign language and notes but as nobody else could really see it he made a plan to bombard it with traps which kinda worked, the traps made it stop singing for long enough that he and other adventurers and guards could hunt it down, especially handy because we had a mage that could silence everything in an area so while it was trapped fighting people it had no chance to sing
This is why you need a deaf telepathic party member, just in case
I adore the False Hydra as a concept. As a player I wish I hadn't learned about it so I could have a completely blind experience with it in-game. As a GM, I hope none of my players know about it so I can give them a completely blind experience with it.
I'm glad you enjoined my suggestion
There's a song for this monster, ' lullaby of the false hydra'
0:42 don't worry once it starts singing you'll forget
I knew it wasn’t going to happen. But I really wanted an Elder Brain Dragon to appear in Baldur’s Gate 3.
Going up against a False Hydra was difficult, being the only member immune to its song as a Warforged (purely mechanical, approved by DM) I was stuck playing as the parties pseudo guardian. Every time I noticed it getting near my party members, I had to push them out of the way or lead them away from the area.
Everyone thought my systems were fried because I was acting weird. I dealt with it by asking our cleric to cast deafness on the party in a tavern and writing down the situation we had to deal with. We didn't have any means to communicate during combat so we had to fight while deaf the entire time so we wouldn't forget when one of its heads sang. We could have handled it better, but hindsight is 20-20.
Context: We were hired by a neighboring kingdom to investigate the reason as to why their emissaries haven't come back yet with documents confirming their formal alliance. Both kingdoms are at the brink of conflict due to a lack of communication.
As a long time DM these things are hilarious. They make great one shot villains or long campaign story moments. Also to answer your question about nukes the answer is kinda. There's lore equivalents in various settings but my favorite 'nuke' in dnd was an old 3.5 exploit dubbed "locate city bomb"
So glad to see dungeon dad reactions I have some recommendations for more monsters you should watch such as the Bagman, odopi the spanner or my favourite the Deepspawn
been running a d&d campaign with a false hydra and no-one has realized it for 8 years a 8 year campaign and no-one has noticed
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I would definitely recommend reacting to more videos by Dungeon Dad as he does great DnD videos and has some good videos on dragons and their variants
Some monsters are straightforward juggernaughts, some are sneaky stalkers, and some... some are just nightmare fuel.
Speaking of assimilating, you can actually play the creature from John Carpenter's The Thing. Not sure if there's a video on it for D&D, but yeah, terrifying.
That's awesome! Guess it really depends on the creativity of the DM.
DnD lore is so rad
Deafening yourself or repeatedly casting silence 9:14
Check out the D&D Legendlore series! It goes really in depth on many of the gods in dnd (like eilistrae, my favourite). Lots of really cool stuff in there.
Night comes, a mother sings to her baby and waits for her family at their house on outskirts of town.
The son comes back with food and his sister.
The father comes back with freshly cut wood.
A mother sings to her baby. The father comes back with freshly cut wood, their son brings the food.
A mother sings to her baby, the father comes back with some food
A mother sings to her baby, realizing she forgot to get wood and food from the market
A woman sings to a doll in her arms, sitting a bed too small for her, in a house too big for only one person..
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An abandoned cabin in the outskirts of town, many say it's haunted and swear they hear someone singing from the woods, no one's ever been brave enough to go investigate, no one that they can remember.
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This vid was really fun, so I'll def check out more when I can
17:24 Why can't a False Hydra become an immortal lich, the life style suits it? Just grow till the cosmos is HYDRA...