The Worst Homebrew MONSTERS on D&D Beyond
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"Flames appear from anywhere the dragon wants..." You really don't understand a fart joke?
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I made a subclass
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The Abyssal Black Dragon is like a superheavy element: they technically exist, but destroy themselves milliseconds after coming into existence.
I mean, pretty lore accurate. If a gargantuan swarm of gargantuan black dragons would ever come together, they’d tear each other apart fast.
It literally seems to just be a Uchiha Dragon. Or just a Dragon that Has a Sharigan lol it’s literally a M.S sharigan with the abilities. It’s Amaterasu which was a Black flame and then A lil Naruto mix with the muliti shadowclone jutsu
5 Babies of Darkness is an instant counter to the Abyssal Black Dragon. You just have to get them onto it and have them explode before it attacks.
@@akun50i need a baby of darkness carapult... for reasons...
With the later ability line “Anything can happen in there”, I hope these would die immediately because you know you’re about to be in a creepypasta if the dm pulls these out.
I can't believe everyone missed that the baby of darkness doesn't just give you a speed of 0 when you're grappled by 5 of them, you become IMMOVABLE like the immovable rod! Thats the real strength here
bag of holding full of shadow babies? If not for their insane explosive damage they could honestly be an interesting creature.
Youre falling and you reach into your bag, your 5 babies of darkness grab onto each finger, and you stop immediately
They also cannot kill you. They only hit you for 75% of your health lol. So you will still have 25% health if all 5 explode. Or 25% of 25 and so forth. Still not 0
@@picallo1 But it's 75% rounded up, so they will eventually kill you (to be specific: the first explosion after you are on 3 HP or lower will drop you to 0 because 75% of 3 (or 2 or 1) rounded up equals 3 (or 2 or 1 respectively))
And to add to this, that would almost certainly happen with 5 explosions. Say you have somehow have 400 HP, the first explosion takes you to 100 HP, the second to 25 HP, the third to 6 HP, the fourth brings you down to 1 HP and then on the fifth you'd drop to 0.
I haven't done the exact math but I'm pretty sure you would need more than 1,000 HP to survive 5 of those explosions in a row
Enemy: Shoves me off a cliff
Me with 5 babies of darkness and a personal vendetta against gravity:
All fun and games until they use Explode and reduce your existence to random atoms
1. get 5 darkness babies
2. Cast levitate on yourself
3. Cast invisibility on the babies
4. Float like Gojo
@@Guy-kr9beyou have to keep one of them separate from you until you want to stop so that you don’t become immovable
@@Guy-kr9be Yowaimo🫦
Do you believe in gravity?
We need babies of light that grapple and heal you, five of them can resurrect a dead character
But still by exploding
@@crislie4149 deals up to 75% of your max health as damage but heals up to 80% rounded up
*baby of lightness
And they make you faster
@@crislie4149 Perhaps they implode instead ? Like an inverted bomb.
Reminds me of the monster called "Very old Lich" he had such powers as "Very old Lich is so old he remembers spells from D&D 3.5, 3.0 and AD&D"
this is brilliant
TBH, something pulling from broke old rule sets is SUCH A GOOD idea "I cast such and such" "oh cool, 1d4 damage" 'But?" "nah"
@@NEEDbacon “roll for system shock”
“What?”
to you have a link?
@@NEEDbacon I actually have this idea on hold for a world in a campaign. The world is actually a mimic that was put to sleep by a 3.5 spell, but the spell was removed in 5e. I just don't remember which spell I had found atm.
I love how Baby of Darkness's explode ability doesn't even say the baby dies, so it could potentially explode multiple times
And ACERAK is a Medium creature who can swallow... Large or smaller creatures.
@@OwenErickson-t6i kirby moment
I mean it is within 50 feet of itself
@@algotkristoffersson15 As written, Baby of Darkness is immune to necrotic damage, the 75% damage rounded up only applies to things being grappled, and finally to top it off it's a AOE effect that affects targets so even if it wasn't immune to the damage it just has to not target itself (I think this goes against the regular rules of D&D though, I don't think AOE's can target specific objects or creatures, they just target the area or something).
The intent was clearly that Baby of Darkness should die when it uses explode, so I would cut the writer some slack and do that if I ever used this in a campaign.
OH GOD I HAVE AN IDEA. WE ATTACH MULTIPLE TO A CORPSE AND WE CAST FLY AND THAN WE HAVE A RENEWABLE MISSILE. this probably wont work but i want to know if there is some way this could theoretically work
Another funny thing about the Abyssal Black Dragon... it can't Fly. I know it has a Reaction that says it flies, but it has no Fly speed anywhere on its stat block and that Reaction specifically says that it only goes up. So, it's a swarm of black dragons that can't fly but can levitate infinitely straight up as a Reaction apparently.
"I have to go now. My planet needs me."
Photoshop a mass of dragons going up then down, as a still image
Gravity turns off for them
Flappy bird style flight method.
xD
Homebrew Sans can survive any attack from homebrew The Old God Of The Nine Hells until he gets 'really tired'. Then they can have a conversation in Wing Dings
No trickery though
@@npgabriel no dunking for sans today
The Old God of the Nine Hells CANNOT be tricked
@@jimjimson6208can he be bamboozled?
@@the_apotecary_from_tf2 possibly
"Wing Dings" as a language is the funniest thing I have read in my life. I am DYING
Do you wing your ding til you gaster
Ok but can you imagine how hilarious it would be to tell your players "a gargantuan swarm of dragons descends upon you, roll initi- never mind they all blew each other up"
The roller coaster of emotions they would go on in 15 seconds would give them whiplash.
Roll Con against whiplash.
I'm doing this now, lol this is great.
That just means they were fighting each other, not you. Go loot.
Probably the best part of it. It is a problem that just sorts itself out. Free exp.
I like the idea of a bbeg taunting you with his secret nuclear option, a Scroll of Summon Abyssal Black Dragon. He uses it and just ends up with 20 dragon corpses, looks confused and runs away.
The old god of the nine hells isn’t immune to Portent from a divination wizard so you can still True Polymorph them into a chair.
Little did he know that the old god likes to be sat on, so it lets the portent slide
Just portent a 20 with a vorpal sword
Problem with True Polymorfing something and forgetting about the problem is that it is still a magical effect and can be dispelled.
You either have to really lock up that fucking chair somewhere or do some magic jar/clone shenanigans and become the old god of the nine hells, so everyone is not oofed.
@@Totasfunnynumber uhhhh
@@azpont7275That's when you cast secret chest, put the thing in, then cast sequester on it and let the secret chest end once it's on the ethereal plane
good luck finding an invisible pocket knife that's hidden from divination magic in a random part of the ethereal plane
Imagine fighting this ultimate being called "old god of the nine hells" and he begins his turn casting grease on the group and you get a DC1 Spellsave for fuckin grease
that would be actually funny
No clue if this intentional use of the number 9 but this reads like “legally distinct Tzeentch” to any WH40k player 😂
@@bcw1313 I mean the reason Baator aka The Nine Hells have nine layers is because the Inferno Dante Alighieri describes in his Divine Comedy has nine layers and I do believe both of those are older than 40K, although I might be mistaken 😅
Difficult terrain doesn't use a saving throw, so it still wastes an action to turn 10ft*10ft into difficult terrain.
For ACERAK (it has to be capitalized), I'd like to imagine that it's just some guy dressed up as Acererak, but he's wearing a bedsheet for a cloak and has a skull mask he bought from a Spirit Halloween store with antlers super glued to it.
bite attack must be where he yanks someone under the sheet, holds them down, and starts assaulting them for making fun of his costume
haha kinda like how BOOOAL in BG3 is impersonating Bhaal 😂😂
@@captainstaples4562or "Demogorgon" in Infernal Machine Rebuild
And he would've gotten away with it if it weren't for those pesky kids!!
I like how the Abyssal Black Dragon can either hit everything in the multiverse for 20 damage or bite someone for 1 damage
It gums you for 1 uncomfortableness damage. The entire multiverse takes d20 psychic damage as a result.
The abyssal dragon straight up ends the world by existing, the multiverse if it tries anything regarding Black Hole
Got two fucking Naruto abilities too to boot.
@@KatarHero723*
@@chaosenforcerdhm969yup naruto does bite folk
"Covid social distancing is Baby of Darkness speed tracks" is a wild sentence I've never heard before, and will never again lol
Of all of them the Baby of Darkness, with the edits shown by that user, is probably the closest to be legitimately good. You just hear a baby crying in its crib, lean over to see it, reach for it, when suddenly it lunges at you, latches on, then explodes into a cloud of necromantic energy... Then... the wails are heard from every corner of the room and you realize you are in danger.
Yeah. It just needs some tweaks.
The swarm of krakens, ocrucs whatever you get the point is actually well made too. Its just not really useful lmao.
I could honestly see myself making a couple small changes then using it the next time I run Curse of Strahd.
I mean if you had a player who's character had dealt with like a lost child or something or miscarriage it'd be a cruel plot hook but brutally poignant lmao
Yeah having a "baby" room in a necromancers lair near the entrance would be great.
I honestly liked that one. With a few tweaks I would 100% use it.
The swarm of Orcus, tarrasque, and Krakens is the best dnd shitpost I have ever seen. TheFatLabrador is a real one for that
Don’t forget Tiamats
Orcus has the title Prince of Undeath
@@kikiretzorg1467believe it or not that could actually be useful given all Tiamat’s consorts protect her polymorphed as her, plus the 2 avatars.
Genjutsu seems like you're just tripping balls but the dragon controls how you trip balls.
Funnily, at least 3 OG babies of darkness could kill Old God of the Nine Hells as written, so seems balanced to me.
This is the weirdest game of Rock Paper Scissors…
@@DeltaEntropy player beats babies, babies beat old god of nine hells and old god beats players
I desperately want to see a campaign that uses the most bullshit home brew stuff they can find. Players inclydes
Exactly my thought
nah but old god can reroll the dex save infinitely to avoid the grapple right
The Orcus/Tiamat/Tarrasque/Kraken swarm is such a “rocks fall, everyone dies” moment.
Nah, wish spell counters it. Clearly it's not unbalanced
Edit: Also Orcus is the lord of undeath and you will adress it as such >:c
@@narkle9723 He's the Prince of Undeath, you heathen
Just joking
@@narkle9723*HE HAS PRONOUNS YOU FOUL MORTAL*
It does seem like a "you have pissed off the DM with your shenanigans, but they have enough class to not just drop masonry on you" kind of encounter.
I have a monster akin to this in my setting known as the Dire Goose, which is a CR 30 goose that dwells far beneath the waves of the ocean
The baby of darkness is basically that mutated toddler from Dead Space 2 that tries to rush you and explode in your face
The old god of the 9 hells feels like someone’s party really wanted to fight god and after stopping them so many times before they decided to say “oh so you wanna fight god? I’ll give you a fight” and then made that monstrosity
My thoughts are probably this is just a sheet to show players like "hey you need to stop this guy from waking up or else" 'old god of the nine hells' implies this is the dude that was there before asmodeaus, wichis honestly a cool campaign idea, but like, it doesn't need a statblock.
@@transcatgirl551they do because they are judgement
Yeah I get the same feeling from it. This is either a joke creation or "Here. A God has a statblock. You still feeling bold?"
he isn't immune to the poisoned condition though, and he can't use invisibility because he's immune to the invisible condition, he isn't immune to incapacitated or stunned. his "legendary resistance" is entirely unusable because of turn order, and he can get essentially one shot by a 17th level divination wizard as long as they have a sufficiently low roll on their portent for this guy to fail the wisdom save on imprisonment, choosing slumber as the method. notably, sleeping is separate from the unconscious condition, which it applies, and as the old god of the nine hells is not immune to magical sleep, the rules dictate that he can be affected by imprisonment slumber. as the rules also dictate, a creature does not awaken from imprisonment slumber after receiving damage, so for the next month or so you gather a village to just hit him all day until he dies.
@@thalmorjusticiar1And this is the reason why I hate rules lawyer types.
A lot of these remind me of that one Brennan Lee Mulligan annecdote about the girl who would only draw horses. "A giant horde of tiamats a million strong blocking out the sky!"
can you link the clip. can't find it on youtube
@@judahforshey1865 ua-cam.com/video/arbe1CP_uXY/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Dimension20Shorts
@@judahforshey1865 I think they're talking about this: ua-cam.com/video/arbe1CP_uXY/v-deo.html
Oh the horse girl camp counselor story
@@judahforshey1865
I Found it an hour and a half ago, but UA-cam won't let me reply from my phone.
I dont think youtube likes links but it's called "Nightmare Fanfiction" on the Dimension20 Shorts channel.
Also awesome pfp!
24:00 ah yes, Sans is my favorite SMALL SWARM OF MEDIUM UNDEAD
The bullet hell is a swarm, the bones are undead, I guess?:-D
I'm more impressed that the gargantuan Abyssal Black Dragon is exceedingly handsome and smooth talking, according to its charisma stats.
Charisma can mean intimidation too, so maybe it's so fucking ugly you just give it what it wants in hopes it'll go away
That's the problem when you've got one stat that means a bunch of things. Charisma is also a different flavor of willpower, in a "force of personality" sort of way, which is why some things have charisma saving throw (like Banishment). Like, Phaerimms are horrible giant spiky leech things, and tend to have a charisma around 20 depending on edition, for example.
He's just handsome squidward.
This is why everyone simps over Hiei. He's probably aloof and moody, but in a cool way. And when you fight him you get nervous because you want to impress him.
I see you've never met the hoards of people horny for dragons
Baby of darkness has potential, gotta change some things but the movement upgrade seems fun for a jumpscare type scene where the players see a slow baby coming towards them and then suddently it charges at them
Right? Maybe a barovia campaign.
You couldn’t exactly represent that on a tabletop, though, unless the players were in the perfect formation for it to use that speed.
@@1ManRandom It's a mechanic designed to be expressed through your narration of the creature. Describe how once it gets close to your players, it suddenly lurches towards that at blinding speed. Alternatively, use more eloquence.
It just needs a more frightening name, appearance, and to not be a baby.
I mean honestly I think a bunch messed up, rotting, undead baby, shrieking and crying while skittering faster than a whole ass adult person when it gets close to you is a pretty unnerving appearance.
@@thenerdmaster9381
my players think that Acererak is the villain of their campaign, but they aren't prepared for the sheer ungodly might of ACERAK
Alternative final battle for Tomb of Horrors:
Acererak sits on his throne and asks you repeatedly if you would still love him, if he was a worm
I'm stealing that idea
Hellooooo next DnD campaign plot point
Ngl the black dragon being a self defeating entity dying off it’s own brain waves that flies away at every slightest hint of a problem and spends its time indulging delusions every turn is very fitting lmao.
it’s so fitting that I feel like this HAS to be a parody. I’d make something like this as a joke and never let it see the light of day in the eyes of decent and serious people.
I just have this image of the gargantuan swarm arising from the horizon, expanding as many dragons just start dropping from the sky.
The dragons kill eachother off far before they reach the party.
@@tylerbreau4544 You know I think a good DM could use this idea as a setup for hunting down a evil scientist or alchemist who's been experimenting on creatures of different types leading to some having strange and sometimes deadly abilities they would normally not.
Well given it has a move taken 1:1 from saskue in naurto . I'd say this is perfectly on flavor behavior.
I knew some DMs in High School who made "boss monsters" like this because "EPIC COOL BADASS BOSS FIGHT"
A monster that speeds up when it gets close to player is actually a cool idea though. It gives some real horror / jumpscare vibes.
“It kills itself upon existing” is now my favorite sentence ever
Feels like the you need to survive for 30 sec before the device cooks itself and explodes kind of encounter whit its darkness magic just been poorly worded for sight range and its not actually aiming it just tossing fire all over the place in complete random as the Dragons chokes themself in the equlient of A Mole of Moles situation.
"covid social distancing is baby of darkness' speedtracks" is a sentence I never thought I'd hear.
For some reason I imagine that its 50 ft speed consists of it doing the Crazy Frog
I'm so glad we're at the point it's more natural to say covid social distancing instead of just social distancing
Baby of Darkness is a blueprint for an amazing enemy type
"Gargantuan Swarm of Gargantuan Dragons" - Man don't you just hate it when your gargantuan dragons get quantum-entangled and start occupying the same spacetime co-ordinate? I sure do!
This is why Dragonstar had Colossal I-VI. MOAR size classes!
So that's how the Elemental Plane of Celestial Pachyderms was formed!
Nah, dude. It's Voltron style. They swarm to make a gargantuan dragon-shaped swarm
This seems like a forgotten Dr. Who episode
Well it is definetley dificult to figure out how to deal with swarms on one hand you cant have a tiny swarm of gargantuan dragons, on the other hand the chroma conclave is a gargantuan swarm of gargantuan dragons. On the third foot one would assume a swarms size is determined by the number if individuals. So for a gargantuan swarm you need millons of individuals.
But enough about swarms. Once you reach gargantuan the size range within that becomes the smalest gargantuan one measured in meters looks mocroscopic compared to the biggest. Measured in light years.
I love that That's a lotta Damage doesn't say it kills you. Instead it makes you "no longer able to live"
Baby of Shadow is just a Sheer Heart Attack
That and Green Baby but replace the shrinking effect with speed increase based on proximity.
When I saw Acerak’s swallow’s “cover to everything outside the worm” I interpreted it as “immune to everything other than The Worm”. Which I assumed to be some sort of unspecified tapeworm that Acerak has lmao
Oh my god this is so funny i almost choked
^ good stuff :)👍
The secret side quest, help cure this Litch's tapeworm
Or the dance move
"You see the Worm Inside."
Baby of Darkness actually sounds almost reasonable for a CR 0 creature. It's barely a threat at all by itself, but if you throw about 30 or more of them at your party at once, they will probably die.
Thinking of throwing a few of them in a boss fight. Switch the movement to up when they're within 40 feet and swap the explosion damage to be a little lower, and they sound like fun minions
@@umburon An army of them would be a good way to counter thr Swarm of Tiamats. Orcus's, Terrasques, and Krakens, unless the damage is actually given a damage type.
One baby gets the jump on a player and grabs on. The party yanks the baby away and toss it down the hallway. It doesn't move.
One round goes by. Then another. Then the scurrying in the walls begins. The motionless baby down the hall suddenly explodes, opening a hole in the floor and walls nearby. It's like a flood of babies. Roll initiative.
@@umburonThat was the impression I got from the note that they are the spawn of the Mother of Darkness. That she essentially is spawning these during the fight. Kind of like the Cell Jr.'s in DBZ. It would make a really good boss fight for a game that's trying to capture a certain kind of horror vibe. I feel like it's just taking it as a standalone and the idea of an exploding baby being offputting that has it rated so low. There's some issues with the way it's written, but the concept is very solid.
make it so the babies have to roll a con save when they take damage (DC=damage taken) and you can make a potentially terrifying encounter where undead exploding infants that won't fucking die relentlessly hunt the party
"Wherever you want"
The black dragon summons flames over the entire world!
I love that your mind immediately went "peasant railgun" when you saw Baby of Darkness.
19:07 Because there is no comma, it technically means that it knows only one language, that being the brand new language named "All cannot be tricked"
tbh take a random set of letters and say it translates into this and it would be a cool name for a conlang lol
Like is this omnipotent all knowing entity but has no idea what the hell people are saying
"All cannot be tricked" is probably a language where every single language, known and unknown, is spoken in unison in a very specific way that makes trickery impossible.
It’s just the way Pootie Tang speaks. No one understands it but they always know what you mean, so lying is impossible.
@@AshleyBeeidklmao or it's omniscient in the sense it hears everything that's going on all the time but since it makes too much noise it understands nothing about what's going on
Player:"I want a huge Lich boss battle"
New DM: "Huge leach boss fight? Like abig worm?...umm ok"
I just noticed that if THE OLD GOD OF THE NINE HELLS use celestial obliteration, because it has infinite targes, it MUST target itself as well, and because it cause it is unlockable and infinite damage, it would end up killing itself instantaneously
Mutually assured destruction.
It can choose to target that many creatures. That doesn't mean it has to. It would be really funny tho
@@iceagentx It doesn't specifically say that though, what it does say is so vague that it's purely up to interpretation
@@EnbyOccultist After reading through some of the 5e stuff I have found no other creatures that has an attack that specifically targets more than 1 creature that doesn't say one or ___ creatures. So uh, yeah no this actually would probably be how it would work funnily enought.
Consequently, it can be beaten. It requires a sacrifice and dragging them into a pocket dimension, but yeah it can be beaten.
The best part of the Old God of the Nine Hells being able to miss on a 1 despite a +infinity to attack rolls is that Magic Missile and Inevitables exist and both say "Don't roll, just deal damage", so the creator was clearly just hyperfixated on making all of the numbers the biggest there ever was, which makes the Spell Save DC 1 oversight even funnier.
I love how genjutsu on the dragon is like a paragraph that is basically just stunned for a turn
Baby of darkness strat: Run an encounter with a few vampires with a ton of babies of darkness. Whenever the vampires get low, the babies use their legendary actions to explode, healing the vampires since they heal from necrotic damage.
Why did you give me the image of a vampyre with like 20 babies clinging onto them?
That reminds me of that secret boss in the clinic from Faith: the unholy trilogy.
@@sand_sand7304"The little ones haven't eaten for days."
You'll notice the god of the nine hells isn't immune to the petrified condition and isn't immune to disease
Me omw to give The God of the Nine Hells a STD:
1 basilisk is all it takes
I guess that’s why he’s the old god of the nine hells, someone accidentally let a cockatrice into his palace and before you know it…
I cast CHLAMYDIA
I think they forgot about it! lol
12:15
So let me get this straight.
The moment this thing spawns it turns into a giant nuke that makes you have an acid trip and rapidly expands as it makes more of itself until it consumes the known universe
Are we gonna ignore the fact that the baby of darkness is straight up a saibaman ?
Yeah, when I heard about the grapple and explosion I already see it
I mean I assumed it was the Dead Space Babies, but they don't explode
That's exactly what i was thinking lol
Being listed as undead, I was thinking the Dark Souls baby skeletons
YAMCHA'S HERE
YAMCHA'S DEAD
I actually love the ethos of the “dodges until he gets really tired” line I wanna make more enemies and NPCs like that
Fun fact I think rules as written hp just generally describes how close to death something is. So it could describe how close to getting tired and unable to doge a creature is.
@@Noromdiputs yo i actually appreciate this perspective, i think me and my friends were in the ballpark of this, where armored characters would get hurt in their armor when they get hit, but i usually play monk or ranger so that never translated well. i’ll remember this for the next time we get a session going 👍
I just found notes on the most novel way I had a party deal with traditional problems. Poisoned sleeping princess with hydra poison vs party of 6 lv1 bards. Taking turns to rest they all used the lv1 spell pick your poison on the princess to turn the poison to booze which can safely be metabolized a state we calculated they could keep up indefinitely with the number of spell slots they had managed to get. After having the sleep dispelled they went on a drunken bender with the princess after persuading their way out of the castle with her figuring that vigorous activity is the fastest way to sober up.
21:50 i feel like a really good example of a way to actually do something like this well, was how Brennan mulligan ran Asmodeus at the end of EXU calamity. like that was an insanely powerful, unbeatable creature that one of the party members actually did interface with. and he didn't need a stat block to run that encounter effectively, he didn't even roll initiative. he just said "he puts you within multiple time stops, breaks your back, kills you, casts true resurrection on you and kills you again." like he used dnd terms but didnt need an actual stat block to say it was unbeatable, he just showed it.
Also the casual, dismissive "yeah, he's a god, so he'll 9th level counter spell that".
@@MyynMyyn honestly he should've used a 10th level counterspell, you never know if that paladin is packing a ring of three wishes, and at that point it's the same as using a 3rd level slot in that he has to roll to cancel the spell.
as wish is "the most powerful spell a mortal can cast" I feel it warrants a bit of caution, even if you're the god king of the hells.
Nah, you don't know what you're talking about. You have a trans flag or something in your bio, get out of here.
A thing I love of the Sans stat block is that his spellcasting ability is not the name of a score, like Intelligence or Charisma, but just 30. No ability. Just 30. This made me laugh more than it should have.
It's 30
He was to lazy to specify the stat
30 magic
This has honestly become my favorite series on UA-cam. I need more of them because I’ve watched each of them so many times at this point, but they still make me crack up, so I guess they definitely have staying power. I just got into D&D with BG3, but I loved Dragonlance as a kid and used to play the West End Games version of Star Wars: The RPG, but the community engagement in D&D is another level. I wish I found this when I was younger, I have so much catching up to do!
The "Gargantuan Swarm of Gargantuan Dragons" can fly as a reaction, but lacks a fly speed. So I imagine that is just sort of jumps in the air?
And stays there forever
@@eggbag4182SOMEONE CALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT ITS STUCK!
If it wants to fly somewhere, it would have to alternate between walking and floating in the air for a little bit.
It's sort of like a pokemon, you just can't hit it with earthquakes
Too many wings beating creates too many vortices to fly
4:45 Ah, no. It's not 'immobilised' it's 'immovable'. You can still move, you just can't be moved by other things.
Well, you can’t move, cause you're grappled
*Gets grappled by five babies*
*BECOMES INVINCIBLE*
That pfp is _glorious._
7:44 that sound was hilarious
The Baby of Darkness actually sounds fair and balanced, as all things should be.
Percentage based damage is never fair and balanced in D&D.
It sounds like it was designed for a meta gaming party. Where you know it's going to be a combat encounter and need to plan around how the DM has set up the fight. Bad for a campaign, but, as a challenge for a fight it's managable.
Or a setup where you see the baby of darkness kill a bunch of people and are challenged with working out how threatening it is.
Basically, I don't think it deserves the down vote it's recieved.
You wouldn't happen to be a tall buff Grimace looking dude with a golden glove one of your hand.
You know, I unironically like the general idea. A slow moving creature that suddenly zooms to get close to you, then primes itself to explode. Maybe not as a Legendary action, but as a sort of, you have one turn to escape before it goes boom.
@slepish1768 true. Flavor it as elemental spiders or something, once they swarm you they all start hissing and detonate
My favorite part of this series is the various anime references going clear over Jacob's head. He knows full well that he's not getting the reference, and bro is just fine with that lol.
yeah, I was dying from all of the anime references and was wondering if someone here would get them too.
8:07 amaterasu is a reference to sasuke's jutsu that he uses in naruto where he puts black fire on an opponent
Amaterasu is another reference to Naruto about an ability that does pretty much the exact same thing, but only if they look directly at where the fire should appear.
I was surprised that wasn’t the first google result. The home brew writer straight up said “itatchi dragon”
Those are all eternal mangekyou sharingan uchiha dragons lol
@@eddiemachete6680 Itachi dragon 😭
it's cringe as balls.
it's honestly surprising that there are ANY active naruto fans in this day and age, especially someone as diehard of an itachi fan like this lmao
like, someone seems to be stuck waaay earlier in the 2000s-2010s
I love that one of acerak's actions is to make acererak bite. Like oh yeah on my turn I'm gonna tell you to bite that guy. And Acererak is like "wtf why? I don't wanna, don't make me "
I love how utterly unfaithful the sans sheet is. No consideration whatsoever for what sans' stats would be. Beautiful
I will say this:
I like the baby of darkness idea.
Like... REALLY like the idea.
Sure it has some flaws, but those are managable.
Just think of a group (requires non-murderhobos) wandering around, finding a baby toddling around, get closer, the baby turns its head rapidly with a creepy undead stare and sprints towards the players, only for more to come out of the undead forest, which all try to grapple you and if you cant get rid of them after like 5 seconds you get Yamcha'd!
I LOVE THIS IDEA!
It would be better if they started devouring you instead of...exploding.
Same! It needs some tweaking but it's one amazing idea for a horror encounter. Just wandering around and you find yourself running away from a swarm of those little bastards trying to get their hands on you. They're wandering around aimlessly but the moment they detect you they move at uncanny speeds chasing the characters. And the grapple is just their way of overwhelming the characters, pinning them down then blowing themselves up like suicide bombers. It's just so flavorful and incredible!
Defeat the small group and then get ambushed by a swarm of BoD.
Only tactic being to run and keep throwing rocks or similar at them as you flee, no combat just athletic checks.
Dungeon is called the Abyssal Nursery.
I envisioned the baby of darkness as less an actual baby, but, like, a shadow blob kind of like the sidekick from “Ranking of Kings.”
You could make the "immovable" thing like a debuff that the babies apply as they grapple you, like one baby reduces your movement by X due to its lethargic touch or something, and as they accumulate you become immobile and lethargic because they are literally draining your momentum/energy like little "blackholes". The idea itself is a cool one indeed, and have the potential for a very creepy encounter. I would portray them as some kind of spawn of the void or the remaining darkness of a long dead dark entity.
The Baby of Darkness speed adjustment makes me think its so it can run down anyone that attempts to run away in an engagement.
Baby of Darkness is horrifying. They move weird and grapple.
Ngl, the Baby of Darkness could be an interesting concept. Tiny shadow demons swarming you.
What I love about the "old god of the nine hells" is that even with an Infinite bonus to his attack roll, he'd still miss on a natural 1.
I think my favourite thing is that a person with a vorpal sword still kills it on a nat 20
do you remember that legendary action, it just can always get a 20
Except its ability to reroll any d20 until it gets a 20 xD
Luckily if you use Spiderclimb to stand on a wall while it's on the floor, it's only a +8 to hit.
Should have taken inspiration from the Marut and made it 'automatic hit' instead, smh. This is clearly the one design flaw it has.
That "Would you still love me if I was a worm" broke me. Tears are running down my face as I type this. People start looking, oh my god.
Thank you, I had a super-shitty week. I really needed that.
I absolutely love the Overlord reference at 4:45 especially because it aligns with the 5 baby goats of darkness SO FLAWLESSLY 😂
Thematically... Ya baby of darkness works.
While wandering the forest you hear the cries of a young child. In a small clearing, you see a wooden bassinet. When the players look in it, a shadow child attacks, the players bat in a way and it disappears into smoke.
The players then notice small red eyes all around them from the forest edge. The children descend on the party.
Maybe not explode but cause damage when multiple attack.
I actually like the speed thing, let them charge when close.
The speed thing seems to me to be lacking a single phrase (until the end of the next turn). Have it be 'If child of darkness comes within 10ft of a player character, their speed increases to 50ft until the end of their next turn'. Suddenly, it starts having more sense. If you let them approach you once, you'll no longer be able to run away that easily, meaning that the way to deal with these babies is to keep them at a distance to begin with.
Bite attacks + swarm mechanics maybe?
I.E, if you get grappled by enough of them, you are considered swarmed. From there, think you are more or less taking guarenteed damage because you can only keep track of so many attacks at a time.
Could also give them Darkvision and place them inside a crypt. Let players walk inside, turn out the lights, let them wander into one of them, then unleash the horde. Make it a mad dash to escape, let someone look back upon their best friend as he is consumed by Babies of Darkness and blown up being able to do nothing but scream out.
Yeah, props to Baby of Darkness! Silly, but honestly good.
3E already has something similar I think called Dark Playmate thats also kind of already part of Skinwalker lore irl they pretend to be crying babies in the forest to lure you in
The baby of darkness reads like a fun idea built by someone who has no idea what they're doing.
Like, there's something there.
For real. It's a type of enemy found in many horror tropes and the stats...*almost* work. Just needs to be tweaked before use. I might honestly use a variation.
@@mentaya11the comment that Jacob skips reading actually makes it work pretty well
With the "Old God of the Nine Hells" I can see a use for it. IF the party member is a cheater or "Murderhobo", then send the Old God to punish them. 22:34
Ok. What needs to happen next is a One Shot including the worst DnD Beyond has to offer. The worst rated clases, races, monsters, items and so on. That would be either absolut chaos or maybe... idk... maybe it balances itself out? Idk. Either way. Sounds kinda fun.
And it will end with the destroy universe spell.
@somethingclever4297 the campaign's quest is to end their universe's horrid existence and find the spell to get them out of their misery
This is the single greatest idea I've ever seen in my life. Please host this on Roll20.
One time, I was on DnD beyond, I believe without the rating threshold, and found Saitama, and everything said "infinity."
Even wisdom and charisma?
@@user-unos111wisdom, intelligence, and charisma would all be below 6.
Well. Charisma may be an 8 because he’s got some pretty banger speeches sometimes.
11:30 I like the idea this just kills itself. It appears in the abyss and destroys itself after moments.
If enough gargantuan dragons come together to join a gargantuan swarm of gargantuan dragons they will reach criticality, and emit an abyssal pulsewave of black energy destroying everything around them and each other.
All the while they are unable to fall unconscious and must endure the suffering of atomic destruction fully aware of its pain.
"Now I have become swarm, destroyer of dragons."
I think Baby of Darkness can be really fun if you have a character creation session or session 0 and get the party to answer the age old "how many kids could your character hold off in a fight" and send that many babies towards them
Anything under 1000 health dies to 5 exploding babies of darkness.
I like to imagine 4 Babies Of Darkness latching onto one limb each. Then the 5th Baby latches onto the players face. Effectively blinding them and making them immovable.
Imagine decapitating one of the most powerful liches in the multiverse only to have his regular -sized head immediately swallow you whole
Words cannot express how much I love the idea of babyof darkness
7:44
Abyssal Black Dragon= *Literally Too Stupid To Live*
I love it.
The way they can clone themselves but also hurt everything nearby including the clones really captures the "Smart friends who become exponentially more stupid when they group up" energy.
With a little retooling, the baby of darkness could be a fun swarm gimmick to keep players moving in a dungeon. Like if they're taking too long on a puzzle, just say you can hear the laughter of babies down the corridor.
Sir, a fifth baby of darkness has hit the second tower
The swarm of end-game creatures is just the ultimate fuck you to the party, and I love it
If you think about it a bit then the abyssal black dragon swarm can be taken out by a small kindergarten of darkness babies
So can the old god and Tiamat swarm. But not sans (until he gets tired and the evil baby’s have determination like in Undertale)
Just as the five kages intended
A kindergarten of dark babies is nothing to da hard wun
It only takes fifteen successful grapple explosions. Better yet, since celestial obliteration doesn't specify that it can target less than an infinite number of creatures, it would presumably destroy EVERY creature (including itself) when using it, so it needs to fend off the babies of darkness with ordinary spells if it doesn't feel like dying.
There is sadly no other player within 10 ft to make them move easier, though.
18:15 the wizard as soon as he get the Wish spell
In Mutants and Masterminds there is a concept called Power Level X. A Power Level X character is a character who does not have a character sheet because they cannot be beaten with the team's current capabilities. (Mind you this is a super hero game, where at the highest levels, you can move planets with the spread sheets that come with the book.)
Similarly in Pathfinder: Gods do not have character sheets, because as soon as think of reaching for your weapon, they will use a mythic action to start at the top of the initiative and then they wish you dead as an immediate action.
Some creatures do not need character sheets, if they have a character sheet, it implies they can be killed no matter how slim the chance.
just as "If it bleeds we can kill it"; "If it has stats we can kill it."
Completely agree if someting is so high above the party they should not be able to beat it no matter what simply use some themelatically accurate attacks and have them instakill the party no matter what
I like the Pathfinder method for making an easy-to-use mythic statblock: "If any player character initiates combat with this deity/creature, the player is required to hand their character sheet to their DM for immediate shredding/composting/disposal. The character no longer exists, though the DM can decide if their equipment remains. When appropriate, the player may then join the ongoing campaign as a new character."
28:53 It sounds like it’s not because of any damaged organs or blocking their lungs, its that being filled with flex tape and flex seal is so much of a sin, that god smites you instantly because he can no longer witness someone being filled with flex seal.
I just went and commented the infamous "Nah I'd Win" panel on the Old God of the Nine Hells
4:40
I like how it's not even just that you can't move. Rather you become completely *immovable.*
Imagine a giant asteroid colliding with the planet, hitting you directly, only for you to remain still simply because you had babies on you. Granted, you might be dead, and the babies would probably be dead, but the thought of it is hilarious.
@@kzkaa. bag of holding babies to throw at local asteroids
I’m still in awe of “da hard wun” from that old video, which seemed like it was actually written by a goblin, and which could actually work as a goblin deity (it might not actually exist, but the goblins sure think it does).
The black hole of dragons is really cool as a concept, just imagine it played straight as a horror concept, I guess the “they kill themselves upon existence” bit kind of negates it though.
Imagine having the best dnd session of all time and then you suddenly gotta face the Abyssal Black Dragon
I'm just happy the baby of Darkness went to the Wonka Squirrel school of combat.
"I am the old god of 9 hells ! fear me !"
*two babies of darkness explosions later*
* "oh no ! i lost 150% my health and die ugh !"
haha it wouldnt work like that though - they do 75% of your health, not your max health. Each explosion pushes the old god ever closer to oblivion but never quite over the edge
@@jaffa4242 -- rounding up the loss changes that.
When you're at 1, 2, or 3 hp the rounding up will cause it to kill you. So you could kill something with 1 billion hp in 15 babies.
@@zmgehlke truuu
It’s 75% of your HP, not 75% of your max HP. So it will actually be 81.75% of his hp
"Alright party, we're fighting the Old God of the Nine Hells. Who has any ideas?"
"It's not immune to the Wish spell. I wish for Saitama!"
**Guitar riff**
15:50 say what you want but a nearly blind absolutely insane off brand acererak which bites you is horrifying and im stealing this idea
The baby of darkness is just a Saibaman. It latches onto you and then explodes.
Better not be playing Yamcha then
Babies of darkness are like those little spiky guys from Zelda who cling onto you and require a spin attack to get off.