Thank you So much for watching everyone! Let me know what your favourite classic Spelljammer monsters are, and if you want to know more about any of the ones from today's list. They might just show up on Monster of the Week!
Okay, an evil guy who wants to be immortal. He sets off to find a Great Dreamer to make him immortal. He finds one and ends up befriending it. The guy becomes so fond of the Great Dreamer that he forgets about his immortality wish and tries to hide the fact that he was essentially exploiting the Great Dreamer's friendship. However, the Great Dreamer knew the entire time and only befriended the guy to stop him from becoming evil.
Lich: I got my immortality from hundreds of years of research and the darkest of rituals Vampire: Research? I get my immortality from my impeccable diet. Some random guy: I just hung out with a whale for a while. They were chill.
Defiantly the spell weaver. I told my sister about how it could cast 6 first level spells in one round and she took real life psychic damage. Also, they gave us only one clockwork horror and not the rest. This is a perfect setup for the classic 5E monster party: Copper is the goon, electrum is the assassin, gold is the caster, you can add iron as the fighter, then platinum is the the boss. Lastly, they teased the giant space hamster a lot but never gave it to us.
Personally, I’d love to see the astrosphinx because I think they just make for a fun encounter. It’s a psychotic sphinx that challenges any living thing it comes across to answer its riddle. Including bugs, small birds and plants. The riddles it asks are also insane and nonsensical, some examples from the book itself, ‘What is the speed of blue?’, ‘How loud is down?’, and ‘What do a Kobold and the Spelljammer have in common besides triangles?’
The description of Flowfiends totally reminded me of Megatron almost killed by star scream floating through space where instead of dying he is found by Unicron and made into Galvetron.
The dreamer whale sounds like an epic start to a campaign. Like near the end of the game after the party clears the first dungeon at 1st-3rd level they come out to the beautiful ocean front. as they see the sun beginning to set they see a giant fucking whale just plumeting to the waters. (hell could throw a flower pot for a reference to a different scifi series). Then it lands in the water to chat with the local leviathan. Where it remains for a year(means plenty of time for the party to level up) this would be big news specially with how absolutely massive they are. Then where the GM takes it is their choice. Maybe there is a race/group that hunts them for their parts, and the party can join in for an evil campaign or stop them for a good or neutral one. This could give them an avenue to get to space on a crappy ship.
I’d think other moon-aligned creatures with low independence would still fall under the control of a moon dragon, like a Moon Beast, while nightly creatures (Like vampires), might seek out a Moon Dragon under the impression that they might be able to blot out the daytime. Also, evil Druids of the Circle of the Moon might serve this creature
I absolutely adore everything on this list and if they're not in the game i will make them myself. Also, I love that you chose to have the "Great Father" be depicted as Piccolo. Awesome touch, though now I'm going to have to give one "Dodge" as a trigger.
I think the first fail sign was when they wrote 'refer to Tashas' for the character creation section instead of putting the optional rules in making them official like they're planning to anyway. Many players this box set could be the first time they're playing the game and mot having the rule change they made in the book and saying 'oh hey you can find it in this forth book' is a terrible way to introduce potential new players to the game who only joined up for fantasy in space.
Yes, Spelljammer is weird, and I love it. Literally anything can exist in the cosmos, and it somehow makes sense. "You're not my dad." Should have named dropped yourself there, Dungeon Dad. XD Appreciate the Chrono Trigger music. The flowfiend feels like a great PC option for warlocks looking to have its master be its patron. Hopefully WotC does something with that. Probably not, let's be real. Me, personally, I want to see a rogue moon and murderoid.
I mentioned this in the comments of a prior video, the Herculoids with stat blocks. As I said in the prior video's comment, The Herculoids are from an animated series that first aired in the 1960s, so the Herculoids predate D&D, and the series probably inspired some monsters in D&D. The Herculoids would probably fit right in with a Spelljamer setting, especially since Zok is a dragon that can shoot lasers and fly through space. With Spelljammer coming up later this year, a video for giving each of the Herculoids as monsters in current form D&D could be a fun little mini-series on this channel.
Checking Numenera bestiaries for Spelljammer creatures and phenomena is probably a good idea. Most of the things in this video are extremely tame in comparison, though who knows if that is really a good thing.
I am actually planning on making a video about this exact topic. There are so many good settings and games that have monsters which would fit Spelljammer almost perfectly.
The Great Dreamer has given me just the idea I needed for my Spelljammer campaign: Moby Dick IN SPACE. A Spelljammer captain obsessively hunting down a Great Dreamer, and the party that just wanted a ride is unknowingly dragged along in this madman's quest.
Now I wanna write a Spelljammer one-shot, where it's a Spelljamming crew consisting of a vampire captain, android lieutenant, revenant quarter master, and Radiant golem chef, with the bilgewrights and deck crew taken up by other constructs or commanded undead. Basically, with the exception of the chef, they are all premade terrible people trying to change their ways. The goal is to find some great Elder God to grant them true life, or to seek redemption amongst the stars.
@@erinfinn2273 currently working on a dwarven artificer captain with luxury non human passenger space (centaur, minotaur) and a demiplane door that opens into a dimensional dojo full of warlock monks. could be an interesting npc encounter, if you're interested
Great video, I discovered your monster it the week videos a couple of days ago and subscribed today. But dude, are you tucking your shirt in it leaving it untucked? Either is fine but pick a lane 😜
I would love if Allabar or Atropus made a return in Spelljammer. There's something really neat about an evil, sentient planet that just wants to ruin your day, and 5e doesn't have enough of the Elder Evils.
@@nicholasfarrell5981 the closest we've got to any elder evil appearing in anything but name is The Drought Elder in Radiant Citadel. It's not stated to be an elder evil, but reading through the little information we have on it makes it seem similar at least. The only other mentions in the whole edition, that I have seen, are suggested patrons for a great old one warlock.
That early early good good. Glad your channel is still growing, you have fantastic content that you obviously work hard on. Side note: big fan of the slightly different content here.
Hell focoids would be fun. more of an environmental fight than an actual fight. Perhaps have the party escaping the marauders and then a beam of light just blasts past the ship.
Ok, so my dnd charcter is a golem in the 5e campaign. I don't currently have a backstory for him just yet and the radiant golem lore gave me some ideas of what I can do
Damn, I was really hoping to see the Stellar Dragon in here. 😅 Your video with AJ Pickett on the Stellar Dragon was what got me interested in learning about Spelljammer and incorporating elements of it into my world building in the first place. 😅😅(Not to mention that video being my introduction to this channel. 😅)
I look forward to Spelljammer but also have some worries. (They removed the humor from autognomes, that is their charm!). You included some monsters I like to see return (astereater, spirit warrior, great dreamer) but here are some more. Reigar: Androgynous artists who put art into everything, including killing. Grommans: sentient gorillas who like bright colors. Bionoid: Guyver from the Showtime live action movie (and the anime it was based on which I never seen). Dowhar: penguin merchants who see magical goods of questionable quality. Clockwork Horrors: Metal spiders that make metal spiders who make metal spiders who make…. Scro: High Orcs Witchlight Marauders: Orcish doomsday weapons. Slugs that spawn armies of abominations. Gonn: Living singing planets. Though not my favorite singing monster (That would be Zin from Al Qadim, which let me make a choral snake pun) a living planet is needed. Stellar Dragons: a million mile dragon
Some things about this list the Fractine is already in 5e its in the Monstrous Compendium released online when Spelljammer was confirmed and Sun and Moon Dragons have already been confirmed the summary of the book describes some of the monsters in it and 2 of them are described as Solar and Lunar Dragons so Sun and Moon Dragons. Some other fun things in the monstrous compendium: Eldritch Lich is a Warlock or Wizard who made a deal with a Great Old One and now has an Eldritch Parasite living inside of them also they dont need to consume souls, the Nightmare Beast a creature from Dark Sun, Star Lancers are sentient telepathic sharks with 4 wings that are reincarnated zealots of a dead god who are born in the dead gods heart, and the Asteroid Spider I think you can guess what thats about.
You covered things I didn't know much about - I was hoping that you would cover things like the Neogi, which I was always kind of unsure about. Oh well.
The great dreamer is just such a cool concept... imagine there is a campaign that the players do battle with this evil faction trying to capture one to obtain immortality and at the end of it the whale bestows it on a literal shrimp or something silly. You could also make a campaign where the great dreamer is just a background character and you have something like a lunar rat that was made immortal and can thus never be kill making it one of the deadliest creatures in the universe... because even if it can only deal 1-6 damage at a time it can never be killed... so eventually... inevitably it always wins... especially if its allowed to reproduce.
You got the wryback and chattur a little mixed, while wryback are stealthy they don’t go unnoticed when on a ship, they’re more like gremlins that pry open doors to get at food. Chatter go months without being noticed scavenging. As well as the mascot thing is for chattur as they are loved throughout wild space but wrybacks are vermin
Good news, the Solar dragon in the new Spelljammer book is pretty cool. Bad news, the Lunar dragon is pretty meh, even the color change isn't a monthly cycle anymore, it changes from alabaster white to slate black as it ages.
8:30 They are pulling a Star Trek Space Whale and doing the most horrifying thing imaginable to a planet If it doesn't know about alien life, just being an alien that just pops in and talks to the ocean for a while then leaves
Did you know that your shirt is half untucked in this video? Once I saw it I couldn't ignore it. I had a TON of Spelljammer stuff but my players never wanted to play in space. I basically would just pull it out once in a while, read through all of it, then put it back on the shelf. Same with Planescape and Athas. Maybe someday I can talk my players into trying it but it's been like 30 years at this point so I don't have a lot of hope 🙂
A Dad comes to the whale and tells a dad joke. The Whale impressed by such eloquent humor, granted the Dad immortality on the condition that whatever he says it has to be a dad joke. Now we have an immortal Dad going around the multiverse sharing his dad jokes with everyone.
The last one would make for a great plot hook where a villain kills the local leviathan just so it can get one of those whales and grant themselves immortality or the destruction of all life by killing the main space whale and it can be a very climatic massive space battle at the end of the campaign. I am so going to try to shoehorn space fighters and mecha and space battleships the mix just because I can.
I feel like there should be a ruling as to what creatures are unaffected by the radiant golem's death aura: like warforges and other inorganic creatures.
So, months later, a confirmation of each creature from this list. --- Aartuk: Present and terrifying Aster-Eater: Present but renamed to "Eye-Monger" Wryback: Absent, unfortunately Sun/Moon Dragon: Present and awesome (renamed to Solar and Lunar dragons, respectively) Fractine: Present but added only by a DNDBeyond supplemental Radiant Golem: Absent Wizshade: Absent Flow-Fiend: Absent Spirit Warrior: Absent, infuriatingly (GIVE US THE GUNDAM WOTC!!!) Great Dreamer: Absent, sadly (the closest are the Kindori, which are just regular space whales)
Imagine the Great Dreamer descending onto Toril as the basis for a sea-faring Forgotten Realms campaign. You get contracted by a research institution, as protection, to join an expedition to witness this once-a-millennia event. However, an event this insane would obviously draw the attention of a ton of different people and factions, some of which may have bad intentions. That's an easy setup for an adventure on the high seas. Perhaps you're being tasked with assisting the researchers in establishing an observation post and need to defend it from a small mercenary force hired by a royal who wants to exploit the Dreamer for the prospect of immortality. Maybe you have to fight a grizzled old Wizard who wants the same thing without relying on lichdom.
So we can expect more evil geometric shapes, conceptual darkness blobs and pirates. I remember when we were attacked by a giant cylinder, wow it was scary... I was so scared I yawned and walked out on the group 😆.
2:10 was the ultra instinct theme a deliberate reference because 1. War mad race of vegetables 2. Planet destroyed by freaks with death rays Those are sayans, I don’t care, toe to tip that’s a sayan
Someone get the radiant golem another golem philosophy buddy. Maybe golemsmith? Mark of life brings sentience to your golem. And another iron golem wouldn’t take radiation damage. Cmon guys he just wants a friend. Maybe he could be the group pack mule or something as well. Help out people in town for a little coin. As long as the people it’s helping aren’t close for too long. And even then you still have a non radioactive golem that might be able to relay info between squishy people and radioactive golem. Also I looked it up. artificer can be meta gamed to hell, I’m talking 95 hp construct at level 5 with very little effort. Maxed out your golem could probably single handedly clap a giant torrasque. There’s so many loopholes in dnd it’s amazing. Just be sure to raise its const to 18 for the proficiency on saving roles and you’re good.
I really like the idea of a radiant giant kindve acting like a big daddy to a little sister of some child it befriends and then the party could have been sent to retrieve the child no doubt frailed by being exposed to the death aura and if they have to live with the fact of taking away the only friend of this kind soul
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fractine already have been published for 5e, the were in the spelljammer compendium that was released for free
The promo art confirmed the astroeater or giant asteroid sized beholder of some type
Fractine is in the free spelljammer monsters pdf
Thanks for the additional hard work and creating a second video this week.
Okay, an evil guy who wants to be immortal. He sets off to find a Great Dreamer to make him immortal. He finds one and ends up befriending it. The guy becomes so fond of the Great Dreamer that he forgets about his immortality wish and tries to hide the fact that he was essentially exploiting the Great Dreamer's friendship. However, the Great Dreamer knew the entire time and only befriended the guy to stop him from becoming evil.
Aww, he loved it.
Or, guy succeeds and becomes immortal but still evil, kills the Dreamer and now he has to be sealed away inside one of those mirror creatures
Beautiful
Someone get Pixar on the phone, this is a billion-dollar movie
Prismo must have been based on that
Lich: I got my immortality from hundreds of years of research and the darkest of rituals
Vampire: Research? I get my immortality from my impeccable diet.
Some random guy: I just hung out with a whale for a while. They were chill.
The Great Dreamer would make for a great Fathomless Warlock patron for a Spelljammer campaign.
That is SO COOL!
Should be noted Leviathans in 2e were most times just Dire/Giant versions of Whales so - like a 300ft Humpback that knows philosophy
If one of my players try to talk with a great dreamer using "whale talk" like Dory in finding Nemo, I'd give him or her inspiration, definitely
Those friendly golems reminded me of Star Trek: Next Gen, where Data unintentionally exposes a village to radioactive materials.
Loving the more regular uploads! This is amazing!
Thank you so much man!! 😁
Hey it's like my two favorite d&d channels just hanging out together in the comments. Neat.
@@pyrobob5724 Ikr?
@@darklordmathias9405 all we need now is critcrab an it will be complete
Defiantly the spell weaver. I told my sister about how it could cast 6 first level spells in one round and she took real life psychic damage.
Also, they gave us only one clockwork horror and not the rest. This is a perfect setup for the classic 5E monster party: Copper is the goon, electrum is the assassin, gold is the caster, you can add iron as the fighter, then platinum is the the boss.
Lastly, they teased the giant space hamster a lot but never gave it to us.
Well, technically, the garden-variety GSH is in the Space Hamsters entry, though we are missing Wooly Rupert and the other... varieties...
1:29 aartuk
3:40 aster-eater
4:54 wryback
6:24 sun/moon dragon
8:09 fractine
10:04 radiant golem
12:04 wizshade
13:20 flow-fiend
15:05 spirit warrior
16:15 great dreamer
If the gonnlingdaah ("miniature" singing planets) don't return, I will cry. They are by far my favorite monster in D&D history.
Personally, I’d love to see the astrosphinx because I think they just make for a fun encounter. It’s a psychotic sphinx that challenges any living thing it comes across to answer its riddle. Including bugs, small birds and plants. The riddles it asks are also insane and nonsensical, some examples from the book itself, ‘What is the speed of blue?’, ‘How loud is down?’, and ‘What do a Kobold and the Spelljammer have in common besides triangles?’
The description of Flowfiends totally reminded me of Megatron almost killed by star scream floating through space where instead of dying he is found by Unicron and made into Galvetron.
The dreamer whale sounds like an epic start to a campaign. Like near the end of the game after the party clears the first dungeon at 1st-3rd level they come out to the beautiful ocean front. as they see the sun beginning to set they see a giant fucking whale just plumeting to the waters. (hell could throw a flower pot for a reference to a different scifi series). Then it lands in the water to chat with the local leviathan. Where it remains for a year(means plenty of time for the party to level up) this would be big news specially with how absolutely massive they are. Then where the GM takes it is their choice. Maybe there is a race/group that hunts them for their parts, and the party can join in for an evil campaign or stop them for a good or neutral one. This could give them an avenue to get to space on a crappy ship.
You had me in the hitchhiker reference.
So given their presence in the first monstrous compendium, fractines are all but confirmed to be present in adventures in space
I am stoked to see them interpreted into 5E.
@@DungeonDad They're on the official Spelljammer monster list on D&D Beyond. They're a CR 9.
I could swear you said the "ASSEATER" at 3:40, gave me a mini heart attack to imagine a asseater monster in d&d...
The Bard sweats profusely.
I’d think other moon-aligned creatures with low independence would still fall under the control of a moon dragon, like a Moon Beast, while nightly creatures (Like vampires), might seek out a Moon Dragon under the impression that they might be able to blot out the daytime. Also, evil Druids of the Circle of the Moon might serve this creature
Moon rats!!!?
I absolutely adore everything on this list and if they're not in the game i will make them myself.
Also, I love that you chose to have the "Great Father" be depicted as Piccolo. Awesome touch, though now I'm going to have to give one "Dodge" as a trigger.
Whale Immortality might explain my Oath of Ancients Paladin unaging ability at level 15 :)
Fractine was already included in the first compendium so what else would you want in Spelljammer?
As a fan of the original 2E Spelljammer 5E Spelljammer was criminally thin on both page count and rules (I'm looking at you space combat rules!).
I think the first fail sign was when they wrote 'refer to Tashas' for the character creation section instead of putting the optional rules in making them official like they're planning to anyway. Many players this box set could be the first time they're playing the game and mot having the rule change they made in the book and saying 'oh hey you can find it in this forth book' is a terrible way to introduce potential new players to the game who only joined up for fantasy in space.
A great old ones warlock of the great dreamer... This could be so much fun... Or fathomless... Either way this is such a win
Yes, Spelljammer is weird, and I love it. Literally anything can exist in the cosmos, and it somehow makes sense.
"You're not my dad." Should have named dropped yourself there, Dungeon Dad. XD
Appreciate the Chrono Trigger music.
The flowfiend feels like a great PC option for warlocks looking to have its master be its patron. Hopefully WotC does something with that. Probably not, let's be real.
Me, personally, I want to see a rogue moon and murderoid.
I mentioned this in the comments of a prior video, the Herculoids with stat blocks. As I said in the prior video's comment, The Herculoids are from an animated series that first aired in the 1960s, so the Herculoids predate D&D, and the series probably inspired some monsters in D&D. The Herculoids would probably fit right in with a Spelljamer setting, especially since Zok is a dragon that can shoot lasers and fly through space. With Spelljammer coming up later this year, a video for giving each of the Herculoids as monsters in current form D&D could be a fun little mini-series on this channel.
before I looked at the subscriber count with the effort you put I thought they were in the millions
I appreciate that! We’re working our way up haha
Watching from the future! Awesome video!
I very much appreciated the use of lagiacrus art for the leviathans
Checking Numenera bestiaries for Spelljammer creatures and phenomena is probably a good idea. Most of the things in this video are extremely tame in comparison, though who knows if that is really a good thing.
I am actually planning on making a video about this exact topic. There are so many good settings and games that have monsters which would fit Spelljammer almost perfectly.
The Great Dreamer has given me just the idea I needed for my Spelljammer campaign:
Moby Dick IN SPACE.
A Spelljammer captain obsessively hunting down a Great Dreamer, and the party that just wanted a ride is unknowingly dragged along in this madman's quest.
radiant golems need to make friends with nonhostile undead.
Now I wanna write a Spelljammer one-shot, where it's a Spelljamming crew consisting of a vampire captain, android lieutenant, revenant quarter master, and Radiant golem chef, with the bilgewrights and deck crew taken up by other constructs or commanded undead. Basically, with the exception of the chef, they are all premade terrible people trying to change their ways. The goal is to find some great Elder God to grant them true life, or to seek redemption amongst the stars.
@@erinfinn2273 currently working on a dwarven artificer captain with luxury non human passenger space (centaur, minotaur) and a demiplane door that opens into a dimensional dojo full of warlock monks. could be an interesting npc encounter, if you're interested
The Zod mirror thing was definitely mentioned in the Spelljammer confirmed video.
Great video, I discovered your monster it the week videos a couple of days ago and subscribed today. But dude, are you tucking your shirt in it leaving it untucked? Either is fine but pick a lane 😜
I would love if Allabar or Atropus made a return in Spelljammer. There's something really neat about an evil, sentient planet that just wants to ruin your day, and 5e doesn't have enough of the Elder Evils.
Agreed, Spelljammer is perfect for some serious cosmic horror shenanigans.
Wait, have any Elder Evils shown up in 5E? Because I loved that book in 3.5.
@@nicholasfarrell5981 the closest we've got to any elder evil appearing in anything but name is The Drought Elder in Radiant Citadel. It's not stated to be an elder evil, but reading through the little information we have on it makes it seem similar at least. The only other mentions in the whole edition, that I have seen, are suggested patrons for a great old one warlock.
@@Zivillyn 🙁
man, the room where they came up with all this insanity mustve been smoky af.
That early early good good. Glad your channel is still growing, you have fantastic content that you obviously work hard on.
Side note: big fan of the slightly different content here.
Thanks 🙏🏽
The great Whale Patron, Whale-Lock... lvl 20, immortality.😅
That's a VERY fun idea!
the whale-lock: i cast squish "entire party watches as the final boss gets squished by a falling whale
@@jacobdoswalt one whale of a time
Awesome list! I would like to see bionoids, witchlight marauders, and constellates. Although I'm not sure how that last one would work.
Hell focoids would be fun. more of an environmental fight than an actual fight. Perhaps have the party escaping the marauders and then a beam of light just blasts past the ship.
@@MyAramil forgot about focoids! Great idea!
@@heathharris2545 i would totally love constellates to make it in
Spelljammer never really interested me as a setting, but I love the strange creatures! I'll definitely be reskinning them to fit them in to my games.
Ok, so my dnd charcter is a golem in the 5e campaign. I don't currently have a backstory for him just yet and the radiant golem lore gave me some ideas of what I can do
The Radiant Golem is basically a walking Demon Core? Good to know.
I make him some Tungsten Golems to be his friends... way over there.
i think my favorite part of this is that they DID include the carnivorous startfish plant people
I'm getting some nostalgia from two of the best rpgs ever made from the music.
OMG the Great Dreamer is just the most cool thing. So many fun encounter ideas!
The wonder about why sun and moon dragons are a thing can be put to rest by the “They’re fucking dragons, in space”.
Damn, I was really hoping to see the Stellar Dragon in here. 😅 Your video with AJ Pickett on the Stellar Dragon was what got me interested in learning about Spelljammer and incorporating elements of it into my world building in the first place. 😅😅(Not to mention that video being my introduction to this channel. 😅)
I'd let the party artificer craft radiation suits, that poor golem breaks my heart
Or Wish the radiation away.
Man with all those cool monsters Spelljammer is going to be wild. Especially the great dreamer, Im a sucker for space whales.
"theres no way they're going to include the carnivorous plant starfish people right?"
well... about that :P
Cosmic Dragons. Definitely one of my favorites.
I look forward to Spelljammer but also have some worries. (They removed the humor from autognomes, that is their charm!). You included some monsters I like to see return (astereater, spirit warrior, great dreamer) but here are some more.
Reigar: Androgynous artists who put art into everything, including killing.
Grommans: sentient gorillas who like bright colors.
Bionoid: Guyver from the Showtime live action movie (and the anime it was based on which I never seen).
Dowhar: penguin merchants who see magical goods of questionable quality.
Clockwork Horrors: Metal spiders that make metal spiders who make metal spiders who make….
Scro: High Orcs
Witchlight Marauders: Orcish doomsday weapons. Slugs that spawn armies of abominations.
Gonn: Living singing planets. Though not my favorite singing monster (That would be Zin from Al Qadim, which let me make a choral snake pun) a living planet is needed.
Stellar Dragons: a million mile dragon
Clockwork Horrors are already in 5e they are in the Monstrous Compendium that was released online the same day Spelljammer was announced
i cant wait til they add the Zodar to 5e!!!!
Aartuk are back baby
Some things about this list the Fractine is already in 5e its in the Monstrous Compendium released online when Spelljammer was confirmed and Sun and Moon Dragons have already been confirmed the summary of the book describes some of the monsters in it and 2 of them are described as Solar and Lunar Dragons so Sun and Moon Dragons. Some other fun things in the monstrous compendium: Eldritch Lich is a Warlock or Wizard who made a deal with a Great Old One and now has an Eldritch Parasite living inside of them also they dont need to consume souls, the Nightmare Beast a creature from Dark Sun, Star Lancers are sentient telepathic sharks with 4 wings that are reincarnated zealots of a dead god who are born in the dead gods heart, and the Asteroid Spider I think you can guess what thats about.
plant crusades!! plant crusades!!
Astereater, the smaller cousin of Uranuseater
You covered things I didn't know much about - I was hoping that you would cover things like the Neogi, which I was always kind of unsure about. Oh well.
editing and quality of video awesome as always
Flowfiends just sound like super mutants from fallout with the Father just being the Master.
11:50 LOL the guy's face as his friends disappear
Man I didn't like 5e anyway but jeezus their Spelljammer release completely shit the bed.
Radiant Golems sound like aversion of DCs Amazo
Old school Spelljammer is so wacky and I love it!
Radiant golem pilots spirit warrior
A Radiant Golem would make a good friend to a radiation-absorbing kaiju.
you should do a monster of the week video about the constellate i think its a cool concept =)
The Batship - Robot Bat Transformer Mecha Spelljammer
Thats it. Im playing a spelljammer campaign as lobo. Ride my space chopper hanging out with space dolphins.
i have so much ideas for the great dreamer omg!
A Moon dragon capitaine a ship called the Werewever. Full of therianthrope.
The great dreamer is just such a cool concept... imagine there is a campaign that the players do battle with this evil faction trying to capture one to obtain immortality and at the end of it the whale bestows it on a literal shrimp or something silly. You could also make a campaign where the great dreamer is just a background character and you have something like a lunar rat that was made immortal and can thus never be kill making it one of the deadliest creatures in the universe... because even if it can only deal 1-6 damage at a time it can never be killed... so eventually... inevitably it always wins... especially if its allowed to reproduce.
Fun fact I've wished everything I've ever encountered was more like Neon Genesis Evangelion
You got the wryback and chattur a little mixed, while wryback are stealthy they don’t go unnoticed when on a ship, they’re more like gremlins that pry open doors to get at food. Chatter go months without being noticed scavenging. As well as the mascot thing is for chattur as they are loved throughout wild space but wrybacks are vermin
the aartuk are not the first with generational memory lol.. aboleths have that "memory of the parent" thing that aartuk have.
Ok, I NEED to run a Voltron bug campaign.
Can you look at the Gloom from.the 3.5 epic level handbook? It's probably one of the most fascinating assassin type monsters out there.
Good news, the Solar dragon in the new Spelljammer book is pretty cool.
Bad news, the Lunar dragon is pretty meh, even the color change isn't a monthly cycle anymore, it changes from alabaster white to slate black as it ages.
Giant whales flying? Um Lincoln Park video anyone?
8:30 They are pulling a Star Trek Space Whale and doing the most horrifying thing imaginable to a planet If it doesn't know about alien life, just being an alien that just pops in and talks to the ocean for a while then leaves
I actually cried at the radioactive golem
Did you know that your shirt is half untucked in this video? Once I saw it I couldn't ignore it. I had a TON of Spelljammer stuff but my players never wanted to play in space. I basically would just pull it out once in a while, read through all of it, then put it back on the shelf. Same with Planescape and Athas. Maybe someday I can talk my players into trying it but it's been like 30 years at this point so I don't have a lot of hope 🙂
You have to know someone from Wizards was watching this video and saw his comment about the Aartuk and went. "Is this a challenge?" XD
There's a wizshade villain in some 2nd ED Forgotten Realms Modules (See: The Return of Randal Morn)
A Dad comes to the whale and tells a dad joke.
The Whale impressed by such eloquent humor, granted the Dad immortality on the condition that whatever he says it has to be a dad joke.
Now we have an immortal Dad going around the multiverse sharing his dad jokes with everyone.
Here I was expecting Stellar Dragons, giant space owls, Small Jammers, Scro, the plants whose seeds elves turn into spelljammers, etc
The last one would make for a great plot hook where a villain kills the local leviathan just so it can get one of those whales and grant themselves immortality or the destruction of all life by killing the main space whale and it can be a very climatic massive space battle at the end of the campaign. I am so going to try to shoehorn space fighters and mecha and space battleships the mix just because I can.
This is a cool list
Will you ever do stats for the Bionoid (even better, a monster class?), or the Witchlight Marauder??????
I feel like there should be a ruling as to what creatures are unaffected by the radiant golem's death aura: like warforges and other inorganic creatures.
So, months later, a confirmation of each creature from this list.
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Aartuk: Present and terrifying
Aster-Eater: Present but renamed to "Eye-Monger"
Wryback: Absent, unfortunately
Sun/Moon Dragon: Present and awesome (renamed to Solar and Lunar dragons, respectively)
Fractine: Present but added only by a DNDBeyond supplemental
Radiant Golem: Absent
Wizshade: Absent
Flow-Fiend: Absent
Spirit Warrior: Absent, infuriatingly (GIVE US THE GUNDAM WOTC!!!)
Great Dreamer: Absent, sadly (the closest are the Kindori, which are just regular space whales)
Imagine the Great Dreamer descending onto Toril as the basis for a sea-faring Forgotten Realms campaign. You get contracted by a research institution, as protection, to join an expedition to witness this once-a-millennia event. However, an event this insane would obviously draw the attention of a ton of different people and factions, some of which may have bad intentions.
That's an easy setup for an adventure on the high seas. Perhaps you're being tasked with assisting the researchers in establishing an observation post and need to defend it from a small mercenary force hired by a royal who wants to exploit the Dreamer for the prospect of immortality. Maybe you have to fight a grizzled old Wizard who wants the same thing without relying on lichdom.
So we can expect more evil geometric shapes, conceptual darkness blobs and pirates. I remember when we were attacked by a giant cylinder, wow it was scary...
I was so scared I yawned and walked out on the group 😆.
2:10 was the ultra instinct theme a deliberate reference because
1. War mad race of vegetables
2. Planet destroyed by freaks with death rays
Those are sayans, I don’t care, toe to tip that’s a sayan
Someone get the radiant golem another golem philosophy buddy. Maybe golemsmith? Mark of life brings sentience to your golem. And another iron golem wouldn’t take radiation damage. Cmon guys he just wants a friend. Maybe he could be the group pack mule or something as well. Help out people in town for a little coin. As long as the people it’s helping aren’t close for too long. And even then you still have a non radioactive golem that might be able to relay info between squishy people and radioactive golem.
Also I looked it up. artificer can be meta gamed to hell, I’m talking 95 hp construct at level 5 with very little effort. Maxed out your golem could probably single handedly clap a giant torrasque. There’s so many loopholes in dnd it’s amazing. Just be sure to raise its const to 18 for the proficiency on saving roles and you’re good.
Put a radiant golem inside a fractal mirror and you will fulfil his dreams bc he can be near and not fight or hurt its friends
And I thought the space hippos were weird
So Flowfiends are Galvatron. Got it.
I wonder what a Greatfather warlock would look like.
So... The Arrtuk is basically just the fungi from yoggoth.
I hope all oh them get reprinted, but if they didn't, hope to see a "monster of the week" :D
I really like the idea of a radiant giant kindve acting like a big daddy to a little sister of some child it befriends and then the party could have been sent to retrieve the child no doubt frailed by being exposed to the death aura and if they have to live with the fact of taking away the only friend of this kind soul