Probably because the original monster from myth just had a deadly appearance, much like the mythological Basilisk. (Unlike the D&D Basilisk, which has stone-vision like a Medusa). The 5e designers probably didn't want to just use the same mechanic over again, but with death instead of petrification, so they made it a laser instead.
The Forgotten Realms wiki says that catoblepas can be domesticated and their milk can be used to make really stinky cheese. I am now making a encounter with a swamp hag owning a small herd of catoblepas who likes cheese and is happily making it everyone else's problem.
Death Cheese was made from catoblepas. The cheese itself wasn't dangerous but the creature that it came from is how it got its nickname. This was back in the days of Aurora's whole realms catalog in the second edition. The tagline was it was made by blind monks, but it was really out of work adventures.
Last summer I walked past the dumpster of my local McDonalds and the breeze blew the rancid meat smell for just a second at me, I hit the ground and actually lost my vision for 30 seconds
5:12 This reminds me of a quest in DDO called 'Freshen the Air' where you had to go kill Trogs because they made the sewer smell too bad. Their smell is also so rancid it is actually classified as a poison in the game
as someone who has also at some point had a broken fridge full of stuff, the stench is truly awfull, and what's even worse is when you have to remove everything in it, because its all just a black, wet slime, no matter if its berries or meat
Having had the refrigerator freezer combo part of the refrigerator fail on me and then weeks passed, I unfortunately can vouch for this. Yeah, even if that were repairable you just want to throw that thing out immediately.
Fun Forgotten Realms lore: catoblepas milk is used to make a rare delicacy - death cheese. It's not dangerous to eat, but it's extremely dangerous to milk a catoblepas. 🧀
When I DMed, I described Demon ichor as having a taste and smell reminiscent of the contents of a porta-pottty at Burning Man. After an encounter with a Demon Lord, the party was blessed by Modrons. The Warforged gained fleshy Modron lips, and a sense of taste/smell. While covered in Demon Ichor. "You can smell. Oh no: you can smell!"
My last year in college I lived in an apartment with 3 of my friends. Over the summer I was the only one there. My mom bought us a bunch of food including a few pounds of hamburger in the freezer. I took a trip with my family, and while gone the circuit breaker tripped. I found out later that the owners bought the cheapest fuses they could find which were too small for the actual draw of the appliances in the apartment. Wiring was also aluminum so it was bad to begin with. It was a hot week while we were gone. The smell was indescribable. I called the landlords and told them that the refrigerator had to be replaced because every time you open it up the stench was just horrific. So they came to the apartment and the one said" well the smell isn't that bad." I asked him to open up the freezer, and when the smell hit him he puked. We got new fuses and a new fridge within 3 days.
Nothing quite like being a warforged with a catoblepas mount. All the people wave and scream your name when you ride into town, and then out of respect they leave and trust you with all their stuff.
Most rpg players are blessed by nurgle tbh, i once saw a dnd player pick out some earwax and eat it. Stinky monsters are bad but the stinky players are worse
I don't know what its called, but that CR 20+ Cronenberg demon that mutates you and attacks with chains is an honorable mention. That thing looks putrid asf, as if Nurgle from Warhammer created a DnD character.
@@yamato9753 Not only should it be stinky, it's a spawning ground for demons. So smelling it should infect your airways with microscopic demons. (Because all smell is triggered by having airborne particles of the material you're smelling enter your nose. Also, you will now never be able to smell poo again without retching, b/c you've got poo in your nostrils. Sorry about that.)
The reek of rotten vegetation hung off their misshapen bodies, and they constantly exuded streams of blood and bile, polluting the ground and causing plants to wither wherever they went.
- Neat observation on the black dragons, that reminds me of how vultures are able to eat carrion because of their stomach acid being so potent - Otyughs breath is likely to be utterly vile, their bite attack inflicts a life-threatening bacterial infection that kills people over several days if not treated
I don't know what's worse here. That there are diaper furries, or that somebody thought putting them on fire with a good idea and they somehow smelled worse.
I just got the idea of making a skunk-themed character today, and then saw this video come out on the same day. Coincidence? Yeah, probably, but I still thought it was neat nonetheless.
OH MY GOD IT'S THE CATOBLEPAS! I actually love the concept of this monster, and almost no-one knows about it. Something inspired slightly by it is going into my book. Yeah, so, think death ray ankylosaurus warthog that hangs out in swamps.
I once had a group of players choose to leave a Decanter of Endless (spoiled) Milk completely unattended in a dungeon under the city they were questing in. When they remembered a number of weeks later, there was lots of fun subterranean spoiled milk lakes they got to get pulled into. I'm very glad they forgot, it was a great opportunity. Also I remember in Pathfinder, Otyughs communicate to each other with a suite of scents.
I was expecting a Cadaver Collector mainly duo its already heavy smell of a back end of a truck with some added rotting bodies (interplaner likely) still neat to see some funny critters.
Your fridge story reminded me of one of my own. I was on the train home for winter break during my second year of college and I suddenly remembered that I had left some chicken nuggets in the tiny freezer drawer of my mini fridge. My mini fridge that I had to unplug before leaving for break. In a building where I could swear the heat in the winter was kept well over 80. There wasn't even anybody I could get in contact with who could have accessed my room to toss them for me. Everyone had left for break, housing staff included. So the whole time I was home, I could do nothing but dread the stench I'd be returning to. The one slight bit of luck I had was that I'd be returning a bit earlier than everybody else. I'd been hired as an RA starting the next semester and had to move all my stuff to my new room on another floor before everybody else came back. So at least I was the only one who had to deal with it. And yes, it was every bit as bad as I feared. I don't think I was able to eat chicken nuggets at all for over a year afterwards.
This is great! I've been trying to convert the Catoblepas from its 2e incarnation into a dinosaurian creature without a functional death ray (it's more of a nocebo ray that kills you if you fail a Wis throw), which ended up nerfing it in terms of combat. The acrid stench is really going to save it from becoming a pushover.
You see in an upcoming mini boss fight in my campaign I have my Mini boss commanding Stench Kows and Dretches. This is for both story and because I want it to be difficult yet not too deadly (they're low leveled). The story behind it is that how I envision people who summon demons and devils to command do so having them be a reflection of themselves. So although this Mini-boss is seemingly pure and proper, he commands creatures with horrendous odors showing his more putrid insides.
I'll just set this horrid memory here. I grew up kinda rough. I had to work as a preteen onwards. So... When I was 14, I had to help my boss remove a dead cow from the back pasture. It was at least a week old. I grabbed the back legs to wrap the chains around it's ankles. Three possums immediately squirted out the cow's ASS. All covered in blood and shit. You simply cannot imagine the smell. Literally NOTHING else stinks to me.
Ed Greenwood, creator of the Forgotten Realms, actually covered the pronunciation of Catoblepas on his channel. He uses the French origin of the word, hence "ca-TOH-ble-pah". I don't care what WotC thinks, I'm going with the original source.
Just a quick mention; I once lost power to my 16 cube freezer in the basement when a board fell behind it and knocked the power plug out. It was at least a week before I noticed since it was summer and we were buying meats and other food sporadically. Long story short, if I had not owned a gas mask to wear while cleaning it, I was going to strap it shut and throw the entire freezer & contents out. Even with the mask, it was a terrible ordeal. Fortunately, with bleach washes and multi baking soda thick rinses, I was able to bring it back into service. Short of cleaning an out-house pit with a shovel, can't imagine a worse scenario... :o
My family went on holiday and the power went out while we were away. Cut to two weeks later, we came back, realised the power went out, and I went to investigate the freezer, which had A LOT of frozen fish in it. I opened the door and it was like being physically hit. Somehow I didn't throw up, but it was like instant nausea directly to the face.
I remember when someone was explaining the process to get the Roman Purple dye that Ancient Roman nobility used, they mentioned offhandedly that it was “one of the five great terrible smells of the pre-dark ages world”. And that sentence has always stuck with me. I don’t know what the other smells were, but the fact that it was somehow known as such implies so many things. I also recall that once a cheaper alternative dye without the scent was invented, the nobility maximized the horrid stench as proof that they were wasting large amounts of money to get their purple colored clothing. Which is just another reason I will never understand rich people. They literally sought out paying more to make themselves suffer all day to prove they were easier to get money out of. Bizarre.
Leucrotta is funny to see in fantasy stuff because it stems from Leucrocotta which is a cool mythical creature that when examined is actually just a hyena.
My part legit killed a catoblepas today and my lizardfolk managed to perfectly harvest it with a nat 20 and is now the proud owner of “The Cloak Of Stink”
Now imagine a group of evil druids/rangers that go from village to village saying " nice village you have, it would be a shame if a catoblepas started living nearby.." Or get paid by rival families to ruin the others crops(nobody is buying the grain that smells horribly, not at full price anyway..).
The funny thing is, I literally don't have a sense of smell, so I could probably deal with any of these. Or at least the bottom five, after a point some of them might even get to me.
The reason for the catoblepas having a death ray is that in their real world mythology they are so utterly ugly that it kills you if you look them in the eye.
I once had to remove a fridge from a storage unit in the middle of summer. It had no power. It had been in there for months. Whoever put it in, had left a gallon of icecream & a whole turkey in the freezer. Now, I've been around the body of a deer that's been rotting for a week in the sun. It is one of THE most wretched stinks I've had to endure. I think for the smell itself, the deer tops the list. But for the absolute POTENCY and RANGE of what was dubbed "the turkey fridge", it is hard to compare. Even closed, it had to be set FAR away until we finished loading everything from the unit onto the trailer. We dropped it in the desert with the door open to let everything bake & dry out so we could clean it without risking a biohazard. So yeah, rotting bodies really stink. And sorry you've got that fridge-situation. I hope that, gross as it is, it's not as bad as my story.
This is why any Necromancer worth their salt uses Skeletons, not Zombies. If you only have zombies make two, then have them rip the flesh off of each-other and bury it again.
I feel like the Catoblepas could easily have an additional 300ft aura that makes perception checks that rely on smell impossible. Your nose is just too busy disciphering whatever the fuck the Catoblepas smells like to even bother trying to make out any other smell
So what your saying is to annoy the devils of the nine hells or halister the mad mage, just keep teleporting in catoblepas until their respective areas and realms smell so bad that even stink demons would avoid them?
I originally read the title as 'Top 10 Kinkiest Monsters in D&D' and let me tell you, that was quite a weird thing to find in my reccomendations. ... still kinda of disppapointed that this video wasn't that, though...
On a successful saving throw, the creature is immune to the stench for an hour???? I'd say that's pushing it lol I think if you were in an environment like that, every breath would deduce less and less to be more susceptible to being affected....think Black Mold. Somebody with a higher constitution might be able to handle a longer duration inhaling it but will eventually succumb if in that environment for too long......maybe tone it down to "this creature is immune to the stench for 10 minutes?" still pushing it but mechanically I think it would work better. It would be a natural hazard timer the players have to kill or shoo away this thing.
Fantasy and fiction have seemed to have forgotten that dead flesh on rotting zombies smells disgusting. Fallout is probably the worst. Trying to make us think ghouls are just ugly looking.
Black Dragons according to Logan: Bathe in a stinky swamp and eat right out of their own bath mud So Black Dragons are Shrek in the opening of Shrek 1? EDIT: Wait, Bleach breath??? isn't bleach basic? Like, the OPPOSITE of acidic?
For some reason Catoblepas came up in my last D&D session.
It produced the incredible quote of "Why do the stinky cows have DEATH LASERS?"
Probably because the original monster from myth just had a deadly appearance, much like the mythological Basilisk. (Unlike the D&D Basilisk, which has stone-vision like a Medusa). The 5e designers probably didn't want to just use the same mechanic over again, but with death instead of petrification, so they made it a laser instead.
i like to imagine it's just its stinky breath concentrated into a tight air column (somehow)
@@Bluecho4 but *like* the Medusa the mythological Catoblepas is actually a Gorgon.
The Forgotten Realms wiki says that catoblepas can be domesticated and their milk can be used to make really stinky cheese.
I am now making a encounter with a swamp hag owning a small herd of catoblepas who likes cheese and is happily making it everyone else's problem.
Sounds like one of my family members.
Death Cheese was made from catoblepas. The cheese itself wasn't dangerous but the creature that it came from is how it got its nickname. This was back in the days of Aurora's whole realms catalog in the second edition. The tagline was it was made by blind monks, but it was really out of work adventures.
Reminds me of my grandfather with Limburger.
Hide several redcaps in the herd.
Cheese, Gromit!
Last summer I walked past the dumpster of my local McDonalds and the breeze blew the rancid meat smell for just a second at me, I hit the ground and actually lost my vision for 30 seconds
Failed the con save
Lmao 😂
*"Gawd Damn!"* Bro literally got hit with Poison and Blindness 😵🤢😭
Nat 6 CON
I believe the medically correct term is “nauseated”
5:12 This reminds me of a quest in DDO called 'Freshen the Air' where you had to go kill Trogs because they made the sewer smell too bad. Their smell is also so rancid it is actually classified as a poison in the game
as someone who has also at some point had a broken fridge full of stuff, the stench is truly awfull, and what's even worse is when you have to remove everything in it, because its all just a black, wet slime, no matter if its berries or meat
Having had the refrigerator freezer combo part of the refrigerator fail on me and then weeks passed, I unfortunately can vouch for this. Yeah, even if that were repairable you just want to throw that thing out immediately.
The Catoblepas's death ray takes priority because it's taken from mythology where it has similar powers to a basilisk
Now I need top 10 D&D monsters that smell like sugar, spice, and everything nice. We’ll make it outta jollyville with that one.
Do the Powerpuff Girls count?
I love how under the foulness Catoblepas are just cows doing cow things. Chillest moster in dnd if ya can stomach them.
Fun Forgotten Realms lore: catoblepas milk is used to make a rare delicacy - death cheese. It's not dangerous to eat, but it's extremely dangerous to milk a catoblepas. 🧀
I mean judging by its face it seems perfectly reasonable to milk it to make DEATH CHEESE
When I DMed, I described Demon ichor as having a taste and smell reminiscent of the contents of a porta-pottty at Burning Man. After an encounter with a Demon Lord, the party was blessed by Modrons. The Warforged gained fleshy Modron lips, and a sense of taste/smell. While covered in Demon Ichor.
"You can smell. Oh no: you can smell!"
Jacob is not on the list 0/10
Whom?
@@SKo.4882 XP to Level 3
@@SKo.4882
The XP to Level 3 guy, aka. Fireball Wizard
@@FancyMcSchmancy Thanks I didn’t know his name
@@tavishannandale Thanks I didn’t know his name
My last year in college I lived in an apartment with 3 of my friends. Over the summer I was the only one there.
My mom bought us a bunch of food including a few pounds of hamburger in the freezer.
I took a trip with my family, and while gone the circuit breaker tripped. I found out later that the owners bought the cheapest fuses they could find which were too small for the actual draw of the appliances in the apartment. Wiring was also aluminum so it was bad to begin with.
It was a hot week while we were gone.
The smell was indescribable. I called the landlords and told them that the refrigerator had to be replaced because every time you open it up the stench was just horrific. So they came to the apartment and the one said" well the smell isn't that bad."
I asked him to open up the freezer, and when the smell hit him he puked. We got new fuses and a new fridge within 3 days.
Nothing quite like being a warforged with a catoblepas mount. All the people wave and scream your name when you ride into town, and then out of respect they leave and trust you with all their stuff.
Grandfather Nurgle approved of this video.
Most rpg players are blessed by nurgle tbh, i once saw a dnd player pick out some earwax and eat it. Stinky monsters are bad but the stinky players are worse
indeed.
Black Dragons are like Tamir Khan's toad dragon.
I don't know what its called, but that CR 20+ Cronenberg demon that mutates you and attacks with chains is an honorable mention.
That thing looks putrid asf, as if Nurgle from Warhammer created a DnD character.
The Sibriex!
@@DrakleStudios YES.
That thing HAS to be stinky!
@@yamato9753 Not only should it be stinky, it's a spawning ground for demons. So smelling it should infect your airways with microscopic demons. (Because all smell is triggered by having airborne particles of the material you're smelling enter your nose. Also, you will now never be able to smell poo again without retching, b/c you've got poo in your nostrils. Sorry about that.)
The reek of rotten vegetation hung off their misshapen bodies, and they constantly exuded streams of blood and bile, polluting the ground and causing plants to wither wherever they went.
Flavour wise, it might have more in common with Tzeentch considering its love for mutation.
- Neat observation on the black dragons, that reminds me of how vultures are able to eat carrion because of their stomach acid being so potent
- Otyughs breath is likely to be utterly vile, their bite attack inflicts a life-threatening bacterial infection that kills people over several days if not treated
Diaper furries are something I've been blissfully unaware of, and now you need to take it back so I can go back to my happy ignorance.
Same here, though they smell less once they're on fire
@@brianmoyachiuz905
Wrong, have you ever smelt burning hair and flesh? It's nasty.
I don't know what's worse here. That there are diaper furries, or that somebody thought putting them on fire with a good idea and they somehow smelled worse.
@@bubbly_ghostWait you smelt that before???
@@brianmoyachiuz905 You're going back to the psychward
It's "cat oh bleh pahs." Matt is regrettably incorrect considering this isn't a DND creation.
I just got the idea of making a skunk-themed character today, and then saw this video come out on the same day. Coincidence? Yeah, probably, but I still thought it was neat nonetheless.
OH MY GOD IT'S THE CATOBLEPAS! I actually love the concept of this monster, and almost no-one knows about it. Something inspired slightly by it is going into my book. Yeah, so, think death ray ankylosaurus warthog that hangs out in swamps.
I once had a group of players choose to leave a Decanter of Endless (spoiled) Milk completely unattended in a dungeon under the city they were questing in. When they remembered a number of weeks later, there was lots of fun subterranean spoiled milk lakes they got to get pulled into. I'm very glad they forgot, it was a great opportunity. Also I remember in Pathfinder, Otyughs communicate to each other with a suite of scents.
#0: The DM.
#0.5: The players.
#0.99 While they're high on weed like my brother
Uh Oh, Stinky.
Pooop, ah ah ah ah!
Dunwich - pretend the W isn't there, "DUN-ich"
Insmouth - pretend the O isn't there, "INS-muth"
Love the channel!
I knew kine was plural for cow!
We had a pathfinder session a little while back where we saw an Acererack mural which included kine in Mezro.
5:36 Of course he's gonna cover the poop monster smh
I was expecting a Cadaver Collector mainly duo its already heavy smell of a back end of a truck with some added rotting bodies (interplaner likely) still neat to see some funny critters.
I waiting for Wicked Warlock’s city sewer scent so I can finally fully immerse my players into the real experience of being a low level adventurer.
Your fridge story reminded me of one of my own. I was on the train home for winter break during my second year of college and I suddenly remembered that I had left some chicken nuggets in the tiny freezer drawer of my mini fridge.
My mini fridge that I had to unplug before leaving for break. In a building where I could swear the heat in the winter was kept well over 80.
There wasn't even anybody I could get in contact with who could have accessed my room to toss them for me. Everyone had left for break, housing staff included. So the whole time I was home, I could do nothing but dread the stench I'd be returning to.
The one slight bit of luck I had was that I'd be returning a bit earlier than everybody else. I'd been hired as an RA starting the next semester and had to move all my stuff to my new room on another floor before everybody else came back. So at least I was the only one who had to deal with it.
And yes, it was every bit as bad as I feared. I don't think I was able to eat chicken nuggets at all for over a year afterwards.
This is great! I've been trying to convert the Catoblepas from its 2e incarnation into a dinosaurian creature without a functional death ray (it's more of a nocebo ray that kills you if you fail a Wis throw), which ended up nerfing it in terms of combat. The acrid stench is really going to save it from becoming a pushover.
You forgot about the DMs who kill your new cute pet, they are the stinkiest of monsters.
You see in an upcoming mini boss fight in my campaign I have my Mini boss commanding Stench Kows and Dretches. This is for both story and because I want it to be difficult yet not too deadly (they're low leveled). The story behind it is that how I envision people who summon demons and devils to command do so having them be a reflection of themselves. So although this Mini-boss is seemingly pure and proper, he commands creatures with horrendous odors showing his more putrid insides.
I'll just set this horrid memory here. I grew up kinda rough. I had to work as a preteen onwards. So... When I was 14, I had to help my boss remove a dead cow from the back pasture. It was at least a week old. I grabbed the back legs to wrap the chains around it's ankles. Three possums immediately squirted out the cow's ASS. All covered in blood and shit. You simply cannot imagine the smell. Literally NOTHING else stinks to me.
Reddit and discord mod are so happy you forgot they existed. The lich king to good smelling things.
I'm happy to finally see a video featuring Troglodytes
Ed Greenwood, creator of the Forgotten Realms, actually covered the pronunciation of Catoblepas on his channel. He uses the French origin of the word, hence "ca-TOH-ble-pah". I don't care what WotC thinks, I'm going with the original source.
Just a quick mention; I once lost power to my 16 cube freezer in the basement when a board fell behind it and knocked the power plug out.
It was at least a week before I noticed since it was summer and we were buying meats and other food sporadically.
Long story short, if I had not owned a gas mask to wear while cleaning it, I was going to strap it shut and throw the entire freezer & contents out.
Even with the mask, it was a terrible ordeal. Fortunately, with bleach washes and multi baking soda thick rinses, I was able to bring it back into service.
Short of cleaning an out-house pit with a shovel, can't imagine a worse scenario... :o
Alright now were talking about the content I'm here for. I need to know exactly what stinky boys to use during the 10 hour fart video combat.
My family went on holiday and the power went out while we were away. Cut to two weeks later, we came back, realised the power went out, and I went to investigate the freezer, which had A LOT of frozen fish in it. I opened the door and it was like being physically hit. Somehow I didn't throw up, but it was like instant nausea directly to the face.
I remember when someone was explaining the process to get the Roman Purple dye that Ancient Roman nobility used, they mentioned offhandedly that it was “one of the five great terrible smells of the pre-dark ages world”.
And that sentence has always stuck with me.
I don’t know what the other smells were, but the fact that it was somehow known as such implies so many things.
I also recall that once a cheaper alternative dye without the scent was invented, the nobility maximized the horrid stench as proof that they were wasting large amounts of money to get their purple colored clothing.
Which is just another reason I will never understand rich people. They literally sought out paying more to make themselves suffer all day to prove they were easier to get money out of. Bizarre.
I have Troglodytes as a staple race in one of my worlds so I've switched their "haha I'm always stinky" to a gland that they can open up for defense
I listened to this video while driving and no lie I passed a roadkilled skunk that I smelled long before I saw
Leucrotta is funny to see in fantasy stuff because it stems from Leucrocotta which is a cool mythical creature that when examined is actually just a hyena.
My part legit killed a catoblepas today and my lizardfolk managed to perfectly harvest it with a nat 20 and is now the proud owner of “The Cloak Of Stink”
Would have loved a cutaway at the end of #4 to Jacob singing, "Killin' thaaat corpse flower an' drinkin' beer with the boys!" 😂
Oh, I didn't know Catoblepus were in DnD. I love their depiction in the Aberdeen Bestiary.
As I was watching this video my neighbor was drilling... something. Long enough that the drill was giving off the smell of smoke.
I never knew that about black dragons so I'm really happy to have learned that. Influences one of my pc ideas I've been working on
One of the things I like about Troglodyte is that there language is smell, not sound
Why did I decide to watch this while eating breakfast?
Fun fact: at the time of posting this comment, the heat death of the universe hasn’t happened yet 👍
Fun fact: the cold death of the universe hasn’t happened yet either
Thank god, i was getting worried for a sec
Fun fact, we're not sure about the lukewarm death of the universe yet.
Having dealt with black mold in rancid fridges, I feel you
Now imagine a group of evil druids/rangers that go from village to village saying " nice village you have, it would be a shame if a catoblepas started living nearby.." Or get paid by rival families to ruin the others crops(nobody is buying the grain that smells horribly, not at full price anyway..).
love how you manage to sneak in a One Piece reference in the videos XD
"Their acid is like bleach" i mean, that technically couldn't be further from the truth, as it's a base, but im nitpicking
The funny thing is, I literally don't have a sense of smell, so I could probably deal with any of these. Or at least the bottom five, after a point some of them might even get to me.
4:50 - damn i done learned something today
I love the corpseflower my favorite pokemon was designed after it.
I got an axe body spray ad on this video
The reason for the catoblepas having a death ray is that in their real world mythology they are so utterly ugly that it kills you if you look them in the eye.
1:44 Sounds like you were on your way to having a few toys in the attic.
Great vid to watch while eating!
Made it all the way to 0:54 before the fart sound effect was used
kisses? that’s how you become a prince… prince of the land of stench!
I once had to remove a fridge from a storage unit in the middle of summer.
It had no power. It had been in there for months.
Whoever put it in, had left a gallon of icecream & a whole turkey in the freezer.
Now, I've been around the body of a deer that's been rotting for a week in the sun. It is one of THE most wretched stinks I've had to endure.
I think for the smell itself, the deer tops the list. But for the absolute POTENCY and RANGE of what was dubbed "the turkey fridge", it is hard to compare. Even closed, it had to be set FAR away until we finished loading everything from the unit onto the trailer. We dropped it in the desert with the door open to let everything bake & dry out so we could clean it without risking a biohazard.
So yeah, rotting bodies really stink.
And sorry you've got that fridge-situation. I hope that, gross as it is, it's not as bad as my story.
Surprised there's no sibriex on there ;O
This is why any Necromancer worth their salt uses Skeletons, not Zombies. If you only have zombies make two, then have them rip the flesh off of each-other and bury it again.
To be fair to the catoblepas death ray its probobly because of it's mythical origin, where a singe look from it can kill you.
If you want to immerse yourself in stinky monster smells, just take a whiff of the player next to you
Disrespect Flumphs again and I'm going to GET you
I feel like the Catoblepas could easily have an additional 300ft aura that makes perception checks that rely on smell impossible. Your nose is just too busy disciphering whatever the fuck the Catoblepas smells like to even bother trying to make out any other smell
So what your saying is to annoy the devils of the nine hells or halister the mad mage, just keep teleporting in catoblepas until their respective areas and realms smell so bad that even stink demons would avoid them?
Funny thing that with the fridge; I mean, the exact same thing happened to me.
I'm proud of you not making a stinky pro gamer joke
I recognize that the Mercer has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it.
imagine getting a small vial of that chemical for a 1 off fight against a catoblepas
0:59 I didn’t need to see that.
Surprised no Sibriex on the list.
Ok, but, I have an idea:
Durian Golem
in my first campaign as a DM they killed a hezrou and my sister skinned it and made a coat, it gave her stench powers twice a day
8:13 Acrid Stench.
I once played a druid who had an obsession with the Stench Kow. We ended up marching a herd through a school district killing 200 children.
Hey Logan, i was just wondering when the new Seekers guide book is coming out.
CHEESE CAVERNS MENTIONED!!! LETS GOOOOO!!!
I love your videos. So good 🎉
Never forget the Kuwaiti tire fire
I originally read the title as 'Top 10 Kinkiest Monsters in D&D' and let me tell you, that was quite a weird thing to find in my reccomendations.
... still kinda of disppapointed that this video wasn't that, though...
Your. Nerd so you have most likely seen one of my favorite episodes of Cowboy Bebop "Toys in the attic".
Gnomes had better be #1. I know those bastards haven't showered in a decade.
On a successful saving throw, the creature is immune to the stench for an hour???? I'd say that's pushing it lol I think if you were in an environment like that, every breath would deduce less and less to be more susceptible to being affected....think Black Mold. Somebody with a higher constitution might be able to handle a longer duration inhaling it but will eventually succumb if in that environment for too long......maybe tone it down to "this creature is immune to the stench for 10 minutes?" still pushing it but mechanically I think it would work better. It would be a natural hazard timer the players have to kill or shoo away this thing.
my most evil thing i have ever done was Flock of Familiars and the Arctic stink squirrel in a dwarf room no window and a arcane locked door
I am the stinkest dnd monster
another common nurgle W
Fantasy and fiction have seemed to have forgotten that dead flesh on rotting zombies smells disgusting.
Fallout is probably the worst. Trying to make us think ghouls are just ugly looking.
"to bathe in alcohol"? i wouldn't recommend that...
Black Dragons according to Logan: Bathe in a stinky swamp and eat right out of their own bath mud
So Black Dragons are Shrek in the opening of Shrek 1?
EDIT: Wait, Bleach breath??? isn't bleach basic? Like, the OPPOSITE of acidic?
I wonder how Logan came up with this.
Which came first, the Sponsor or the Video Idea?
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Ahhh yes monke