*quickly hides his inverted ziggurat tee-shirt* Hello, Timestamps and Spoilers Below! 0:08 Intro, Become a Member or support the channel on Patreon! 0:39 Druniazth Overview (link to video on the Machine of Lum the Mad Below) 1:26 Oerth/Greyhawk 2:50 Artifacts and a Fated Destiny 5:33 The History and Purpose of The Claw of Tharizdun 6:49 +5 Frost Sword of Wounding, Putting you to Sleep, and levels of exhaustion 8:58 Changing the Allignment of the User 9:44 Reappears in the Jotens, and disappears again. 10:36 Destroying the Sword for good. Like, Share, Comment, Subscribe, Hit the Bell Icon, and Check out Teespring for some merch! Interesting point of order: depending on where the lore is coming from, Tharizdun is either bound or just tricked, effectively unaware that Voidharrow is just an illusion created by the gods to keep him at bay. I wonder if the sword is really just the means by which to pierce the veil between the real world and voidharrow, though you would have to be thoroughly insane to even try. Either way, great bad guy and putting this in the campaign would be a great way to seed a Tharizdun plotline or cult. As promised, the Lum the Mad video link, plues a few others for recent videos on the channel. Machine of Lum and Servant of Leuk-O: ruclips.net/video/wPDrpNUVnx4/видео.html Ecology of the Astral Dreadnought (fun connection to Tharizdun): ruclips.net/video/6OAE2JDsPaM/видео.html History of Netheril Part 2!: ruclips.net/video/PfTVMQ6N8wQ/видео.html
@@AJPickett it's TRUE. I watch your channel for the exact same reasons I religiously scoured the magazine racks in our local hobby barn looking for Dragon. You never really knew what they were going to cover that month, but you could be sure that they would hit a wide variety of very entertaining and useful topics. It always had a little something for everyone. It was never irrelevant, just because you weren't going to use it now you could always file that knowledge away. And it was very entertaining. Just like your channel. Man, I thank you, and everyone else who has a d&d channel. I never get to play anymore because, adulthood. But I do live vicariously through your channel. Thank you.
I’ve been writing a campaign involving Tharizdun and will definitely be using this. I’ve been thinking that if the sword however makes it too the demiplain of imprisonment, that will actually be the catalyst of releasing him
I may have commented this before, but I'm currently running Princes of the Apocalypse, which ends at lvl 15. I was going to run the players all the way up to 20, and Tharizdun is my BBEG. As a result, I think I've become obsessed with him, and you, as a result, have become my best friend.
So to destroy it... you plunge it into the demiplane of imprisonment, potentially breaching it to expose the sword to Tharizdun's happy delusion of having destroyed the multiverse, but at the same time making him aware that there are still things out there left to destroy, and drawing his full attention to breaking free from his prison and unmaking creation. Yeah, totally worth it!
@@AJPickett was having this exact conversation last night. Which means I misspoke to my players. I told them max weapon enchantment is *Legendary* at +3... I'll have to correct myself next week.
so all these details are all well and good but lets not forget the most important detail. The fact that you can unscrew the pommel to end them rightly.
6:50 Just like in The Lord of the Rings, an artifact that unique is bound to be stolen by whomever at anytime. Best to not travel with major artifacts by caravan, just throw it in a portable hole, or teleport it someplace safe, or a band of orcs is likely to ambush you and take it
I'm planning a game where it turns out that the demiplane of Imprisonment is _actually_ located with The Spire of the Outlands (the idea that it's in the astral sea being a cover story), Sigil is actually the key to the lock, and the Lady of Pain's entire purpose is to act as the warden. are there any bits of lore that would contradict this?
More on Tharizdun please! I for one have always seen Him as the core behind many refractions of infernal divinity one mask of which is Orcus at least in my game. Thanks for this clip and hope to get your take on my idea somehow.
So, question, is Tharizdun a god who exist across multiple spheres such as Toril, Oarth, and etcetera? Like a multisphere god who exists across all creations like Ao, or was just converted into other settings for the next editions of D&D? Also does his crystal prison exist in the center and bottom of the abyss being the creation of the abyss or is just somewhere hidden in the ethereal plane? I have heard many different theories and just need to know if there is one theory written by WoC or did they write many conflicting theories?
Aiden Pass It seems as though it is another example of DM’s choice, that being said i always imagine it a huge mass of crystal adrift in some vast empty space
As far as i understand Tharizduns history he's not perse a multi sphere god. He destroyed everything in the sphere he originally existed in. He now lives in a cold dead universe. Slumbering thinking that he has won. Thinking that he destroyed all live. If he would be contacted from another universe, he would know that there is still live. And he would do anything to destroy it.
Its been 21 years since i bought that issue of Dragon Magazine ... probably one ofcthe best issues for artifacts, magic items for Greyhawk or that other one ... i forget the name 😮😮
Hey now that we know Exandria is gonna be the newest exclusivy DnD setting in like 16 years, are you gonna do any videos regarding how the cosmos of Exandria differ from that of the other settings? I know for one thing: Most of the settings only prevent dieties from walking the mortal planes because Aao the Dm's Intern said so, but in Exandria the gods created the Divine Gate, which is kinda a cosmicscale wire fence with gaps only big enough for mortal beings to pass through, though Divine Intervention can allow a twmporary gap to be wrenched open so a god can reach through and act upon the world.
I love any Tharizdun related lore. Considering It to be the biggest bad in the game I am running. There's something just so incredibly cool and far more menacing than other standard BBEGs about It.
The weapon sounds similar to Soul Edge from Soul Caliber though I don’t get the inability to attack someone under its poison/sleep effect. Also does the sword have to be drawn to corrupt a person? Either way I would shove it into the sun or throw it into an active lava flow volcano.
I might have to work in a few things for its use in my campaign since Tharizdun is the new starting point for the evil side: merging Druniazth with the handle of Heart Cleaver, the glaive of Baphomet. It may be the first merged weapon, but it definitely will not be the last... just saying
Artifacts are totally awesome rewards to the party. They not only give the party a great magical item but they also have a deal-with-the-devil type kink in their use, like having Han Solo's ship... a freighter with awesome combat abilities but things tend to malfunction. Sword of Cerlethar: Holy Avenger +10, +5 more against Evil, + 5 more against Chaotic. Super-hard crystal in structure that makes diamonds seem as hard as mud and glows like a Light spell all the time with those within the light radius affected as if submerged in holy water and within Protection from Evil. You can use the sword as the holy symbol of Cerlethar. Drawbacks: Grip it and choose either to convert to Lawful Good or take 5d10 damage and drop it, refusing to drop it disintegrates you and moves you instantly to your afterlife. If the sword accepts you, the DM can stop you from alignment violating actions. You cannot act on them. You can only do them if you reject the sword and cast it away. Yes, it allows DM interference in role-playing. No, that is not a small draw-back. To destroy it, it must be cast into a volcano and left there in the lava. It can be recovered during that process at any time and still be fine. However, if while in lava/magma, the entire planet becomes not only dominated by evil but becomes pretty much evil in nature, the sword will disintegrate. The Infinite Anything Weapon +5: It can become any weapon a human or smaller sized being can use. What weapon it is must be declared and the action took at the beginning of the round. If it is a missile weapon, ammo must be provided. There are grey areas. If you make it a musket weapon of sorts, you only need to load it with the projected missile, not the gunpowder and wadding (it has its magical explosions ready). Make it an ancient firearm, it would most likely fire faster because you drop the projectile down into the barrel and can just aim and fire as fast as archers. In the melee, this weapon can get quite deadly. If you roll a natural 20, you can shape-shift the weapon to be brutally gory, inflicting another 5d10 and a save vs. death. Drawbacks: Your weapon changes f^cking shape! It is not only reputed but witnessed. There are stories about it, even a lot of Bard songs about it. It will be coveted by adventures, conquerers, and assassins among others... even demons and devils will want it for their minions. Hostile un-related (to the mission) encounters will happen. You might be able to get out of violent trouble easier but violent trouble will happen more often. To destroy it, be the owner and say "this isn't worth it" and make a move to break it... and be honest about that. The weapon will shatter and move its enchantment and manifest elsewhere... it can only be destroyed in image. The Gold Man & Golden Circlet: The Gold Man is an OP golem controlled with the Golden Circlet. Over time, with each commanded use, the Gold Man gets more intelligent and capable. He gets lighter, faster, and brilliant. His golden status becomes as hard as metal but as light as flesh and blood. Eventually, the Gold Man becomes akin to having a great NPC heroic level ally. Then, at the end of on battle, the Gold Man becomes a flesh-and-blood guy wearing a circlet and says "Yes! I am free!" and turns to dust leaving only a golden circlet. The player character using the Gold Man via the Golden Circlet suddenly becomes an indestructible golden statue. Infinite Wand of Wonders: It's a Wand of Wonders with infinite charges. That alone makes it an artifact that backfires in its nature. Pan's Pouch of Feasts: There are a LOT of these artifacts in my campaigns, so it totally qualifies as a minor artifact. I love Pan and he loves parties. If your party uses this once per day, you are completely nourished for the day but also drunk. If you avoided the wine then you ingested something lotus related and thus high. You are at the -2 everything for a bit (+2 all things for Pan priests). Ingesting the feast also takes 1-4 hours in a pocket dimension that was actually an instant effect. Pan stole the Lotus secrets to inverse the time. In short, use this when thirsty or starving but you will get drunk doing it. Pan's Pipes: They are panpipes of +5 in any endeavor and bestowed upon his most favored bards who can play them. All bard songs and spells can be done with playing this alone unless the material component is something that needs to be transformed or affected. If Pan does not approve of you using it, it disintegrates. He's drunk a lot on his home plane so, once per mission, the first time this is used makes Pan disintegrate it (call it back home) have a 25% chance to do it no matter what. Golden Apples: These are artifacts not because of their level of power but what they grow on, a Loom of Magus Tree of Live. It grows some golden fruit. Each has some special pre-set benefit. The apples, the Golden Apples, only completely restore anyone with an affliction to a non-afflicted state (fully healing, restoring, fully resting, etc). Eating another will allow some knowledge benefits, research tidbits, campaign answers, etc. Eating too many can really, really backfire. Getting a god of many of such said answers to inspire his clerics to see you as someone needing to be killed is a thing.
I actually ran an "evil campaign" based upon players who had conversions to evil alignments. One through an artifact similar to this, the others who were the players who role-played their characters to go along with his ideas and plots. I would have loved to have The Claw of Tharizdun in my campaign, I had something similar but it was a vampiric healing short sword that was awesome as an off-handed weapon... it only missed on a natural 1 and did an extra attack before anyone else at the beginning of each round. Only problem was is that it had the soul of an evil murderous thief and it warped you to be more like him (you become him in personality, eventually picking up a spin on his name). Believe it or not, that was inspired by (and warped from) Doctor Who. Your videos are not just informative, it's like sitting before a great storyteller.
Because everyone who watches this channel each week is pretty much used to it and it makes sense to them without me having to do the conversions, same way I converted all the dates from Netheril years to Dale Reckoning... simplification and clarity.
While travelling thruought aetherial plane with the Claw of Tharizdun would be extremally risky, just travelling to a dream part of deep aetherial seems unwise but doable. There it would be the matter of finding and connecting "dream of pure happiness" with material via gate.
Oerth, home of Castle Greyhawk, you'll quite often hear gamers who played/play 2nd edition refer to The Greyhawk setting, much like Toril is the Forgotten Realms setting.
That's a great idea! I'd also make the sword itself, a sort of key, used as part of the process to unlock Tharizdun! As well as maybe making the person who attunes to it become obsessed with releasing Tharizdun! Whether the character knew that they were being possessed or influenced by the sword! Maybe give the sword the ability to cast sleep, charm, etc., and a few other spells that could help with keeping the other party members unaware of what was happening. Heck! I'd even make it to where the person, upon becoming fully possessed by the sword, was a sort of temporary Chosen of Tharizdun, so that they could be a worthy opponent if and when they have to fight their friends, in order for the party to prevent the character from releasing Tharizdun. And then, allow for new saving throws, that become easier to succeed in, are made for say every 5% of hit points lost in the battle, so that they could be free's from the sword's influence, without them having to be killed. And then have another agent if Tharizdun sweep in, and take the sword, and any other items needed to release Tharizdun, to keep the adventure going a bit longer! That's just what comes to mind at the moment!
@@randallbaumgardt3424. That's just the stuff that came off the top of my head! 😆 I could have written a bit more, however. I wasn't certain that anyone would ever even bother to read it! But, by all means, feel free to use any of the ideas! I'd love that! I'm also going to pass the idea along to some of my friends/family members, who also DM! I think that I might try to find some time to flesh this idea out a bit more! I just need to do my home work! And hopefully anything that isn't in my books, will be available online! I have all, or at least most, of the core and supplemental books! However, the only adventure/module book that I currently have, is Out of The Abyss. Anyhow! I'll see what else I can come up with! If and when I make some good progress, I'll try to remember to come back to this comment thread to see if you're interested in hearing about it! That said, have a great day/night!
I was wondering what type of scary The Sword of Tharizdun was and here we are and all I have to say is HOLY F%*& THAT IS THE KIND OF POWER THARIZDUN GIVES AWAY TO HIS WORSHIPPERS NO WONDER HE ALWAYS FINDS A WAY BACK TO THE WORLDS. In all seriousness that is a really impressive piece of weaponry and the trouble that it can cause is an adventure on its own let alone a cult following the person wielding that nightmare of a sword.
If the Abyss is separate from the Crystal Spheres, and each Crystal Sphere has its own demons and Demon Lords(generally), then do the demons from each Sphere rub shoulders in the Abyss? And if so, what happens when the top Demon from one Sphere meets the top Demon from another Sphere? Is there a death match or is there already a hierarchy of the Demons from different Spheres?
There are infinite demon lords for the infinite layers of the abyss. They fight each other constantly, as each and every demon lord believes that it and it alone is destined to reshape all of creation in its own image. Alliances exist and have been made between demon lords, but they are ultimately temporary.
@@ShadowXardas basically, but demons don't want to reshape creation. They hate it and want it to be destroyed. The only reason they tolerate other demons is that they hate good and lawful beings more, and know that they aren't strong enough to defeat them all on their own. Plus, everybody wants someone to talk to, who agrees with them on most things... Eternity is a long time to be really alone. ..
AJ Pickett This I know. What I meant is do the Demons from different Spheres have a hierarchy when they encounter each other in the Abyss or is it just a “fight-on-sight” type of thing? Or are most of them just the same Demons going by different names in different Spheres?
0:30 Non technically a magic item, the Bible simultaneously exists as both a holy text and toilet paper depending on your needs. 0:55 Rule of combat #15- Moxie only goes so far. 1:09 "Black hair, a beard, more abs, I could make a movie outta this...." thought Zack Snyder, crumpling the magazine he never intended to buy. 1:38 Early attempts at horse levitation. 2:02 Man, Google Earth used to suck. 2:32 "No, I don't want to fight a dragon with thirteen dwarves and a wizard! Get the f*** off my property!" said Bilbo, finally growing a pair of balls. 3:04 Griffins are cool pets, till you have to help it express its glands... [if you don't get this one, go buy an unhealthy cat]. 4:08 "I never regretted getting my nipples pierced till I had kids" Gia the earth elemental. 4:33 "Enough gold to feed every orphan in town for a year!" Her "I'll kill her after she helps me carry this chest most of the way back to town" Him 4:52 What i see when the homeless ask me for money. 5:05 Bro, even my sword has neck tats. 5:31 Even the 10 foot pole couldn't save these pansies. 6:41 The original Disney castle logo. 6:53 "Here, buy me more red hair dye and teenage angst." 7:13 $146 on amazon 7:46 In the end, it was love, not blood, that made the sword tree grow. Thus, the land of Badw Riting was saved! 10:26 Sorry, but if you want to walk between the raindrops you have be REALLY edgy. 10:53 Stabbing a mountain to death is surprisingly easy since it's so hard to miss. 11:31 The one thing in Harry Potter that scared the s**t out of me. 11:51 Shameless gang related graffiti. 12:58 RUclips changes how many asterisks I put in the s*** that I wrote again... Interesting point of odour: depending on where the **** is coming from, Tharizdun is either ***** or just *******, effectively unaware that Voidharrow is just an ******** created by the **** to keep him at bay. I wonder if the ***** is really just the means by which to pierce the **** between the real ***** and voidharrow, though you would have to be thoroughly insane to even try. Either way, great bad guy and putting this in the campaign would be a great way to **** a Tharizdun ******** or ****.
AJ Pickett Thank you AJ, I hope you have a excellent day. (On a side note, you said that the CoT is wider than most bastard swords. Would that be Windlass Arbedo thick, or Albion Alexandria thicc? Which is funny, because both are apart of the type XVIIIc family of the Oakeshott typology.) Edit: Links to relevant videos, in a reply to my comment.
@@AJPickett So, it didn't look anything like the two swords that were used in the videos I linked you by Aikidoka? (In terms of blade geometry/proportions, the length of the grip or shape of the hilt's pommel etc. Btw the reason I linked the Albion Alexandria and not it's "cousin" the Principe, is because of two reasons. One, the Alexandria is more suited to one handed use though your gonna wanna work out them muscles. The second is that I prefer the geometry and proportions of the crossguard on the Alexandria, something about it speaks to me.) */end/walloftext.exe*
@@AJPickett the game has a lot of gameplay and thematic elements based off of dnd. I think that's what he means. But I agree, there isn't enough of a dnd relation to warrant a video. Maybe April's fools?
*quickly hides his inverted ziggurat tee-shirt* Hello, Timestamps and Spoilers Below!
0:08 Intro, Become a Member or support the channel on Patreon!
0:39 Druniazth Overview (link to video on the Machine of Lum the Mad Below)
1:26 Oerth/Greyhawk
2:50 Artifacts and a Fated Destiny
5:33 The History and Purpose of The Claw of Tharizdun
6:49 +5 Frost Sword of Wounding, Putting you to Sleep, and levels of exhaustion
8:58 Changing the Allignment of the User
9:44 Reappears in the Jotens, and disappears again.
10:36 Destroying the Sword for good.
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Interesting point of order: depending on where the lore is coming from, Tharizdun is either bound or just tricked, effectively unaware that Voidharrow is just an illusion created by the gods to keep him at bay. I wonder if the sword is really just the means by which to pierce the veil between the real world and voidharrow, though you would have to be thoroughly insane to even try. Either way, great bad guy and putting this in the campaign would be a great way to seed a Tharizdun plotline or cult.
As promised, the Lum the Mad video link, plues a few others for recent videos on the channel.
Machine of Lum and Servant of Leuk-O: ruclips.net/video/wPDrpNUVnx4/видео.html
Ecology of the Astral Dreadnought (fun connection to Tharizdun): ruclips.net/video/6OAE2JDsPaM/видео.html
History of Netheril Part 2!: ruclips.net/video/PfTVMQ6N8wQ/видео.html
You are the closest thing to a Dragon magazine that I have these days. I really appreciate your channel and the hard work you do for us.
I think that is one of the nicest compliments I have ever had :)
@@AJPickett it's TRUE. I watch your channel for the exact same reasons I religiously scoured the magazine racks in our local hobby barn looking for Dragon. You never really knew what they were going to cover that month, but you could be sure that they would hit a wide variety of very entertaining and useful topics. It always had a little something for everyone. It was never irrelevant, just because you weren't going to use it now you could always file that knowledge away. And it was very entertaining. Just like your channel. Man, I thank you, and everyone else who has a d&d channel. I never get to play anymore because, adulthood. But I do live vicariously through your channel. Thank you.
I feel the exact same way, William Shafer.
@@williamshafer1996 I'd never thought about it before but, your right!
In a lot of ways AJ is the spiritual successor to old-school Dragon magazine.
I’ve been writing a campaign involving Tharizdun and will definitely be using this. I’ve been thinking that if the sword however makes it too the demiplain of imprisonment, that will actually be the catalyst of releasing him
Lums DM sure gives out a lot of magic items. :)
I may have commented this before, but I'm currently running Princes of the Apocalypse, which ends at lvl 15. I was going to run the players all the way up to 20, and Tharizdun is my BBEG. As a result, I think I've become obsessed with him, and you, as a result, have become my best friend.
Embarrassed to admit it took this long to realize you can rearrange the letters for Druniazth and spell out Tharizdun...
These artifact videos are my favorite. I don’t know why. There’s just something about fantasy archeology that’s so captivating.
So to destroy it... you plunge it into the demiplane of imprisonment, potentially breaching it to expose the sword to Tharizdun's happy delusion of having destroyed the multiverse, but at the same time making him aware that there are still things out there left to destroy, and drawing his full attention to breaking free from his prison and unmaking creation. Yeah, totally worth it!
AJ, "it's a +5 weapon"
My jaw involuntarily dropped
Yep, maximum enchantment weapon... an artifact.
@@AJPickett was having this exact conversation last night.
Which means I misspoke to my players. I told them max weapon enchantment is *Legendary* at +3...
I'll have to correct myself next week.
Yeah back in the 1st and 2nd Edition days +5 was a thing but it can still be scaled in 5th Edition but it’s exceptionally rare
@@AJPickett Well sure, but it's directly suggested that a +4 or higher item have no other properties.
@@supersmily5811 Artifacts do not follow those rules. That is why they are artifacts.
so all these details are all well and good but lets not forget the most important detail. The fact that you can unscrew the pommel to end them rightly.
Hey that tactic works, otherwise he would not have put it in his book.
6:50 Just like in The Lord of the Rings, an artifact that unique is bound to be stolen by whomever at anytime. Best to not travel with major artifacts by caravan, just throw it in a portable hole, or teleport it someplace safe, or a band of orcs is likely to ambush you and take it
This was a cool video. The sword seems something a main villan needs to have. I pity the party that faces this enemy. DM evil laugh.
I'm planning a game where it turns out that the demiplane of Imprisonment is _actually_ located with The Spire of the Outlands (the idea that it's in the astral sea being a cover story), Sigil is actually the key to the lock, and the Lady of Pain's entire purpose is to act as the warden. are there any bits of lore that would contradict this?
No conflict. But LoP has a less than hostile relationship with the Raven Queen. What that exactly means, who knows
Like the fact that you used the track for Ruined Tristram from Diablo
Absolutely love these videos on items. Please continue them
More on Tharizdun please! I for one have always seen Him as the core behind many refractions of infernal divinity one mask of which is Orcus at least in my game. Thanks for this clip and hope to get your take on my idea somehow.
AJ any chance of a video on the Doom Dreamers?
Very cool series, I loved all the artifacts from back in the day.
So, question, is Tharizdun a god who exist across multiple spheres such as Toril, Oarth, and etcetera? Like a multisphere god who exists across all creations like Ao, or was just converted into other settings for the next editions of D&D? Also does his crystal prison exist in the center and bottom of the abyss being the creation of the abyss or is just somewhere hidden in the ethereal plane? I have heard many different theories and just need to know if there is one theory written by WoC or did they write many conflicting theories?
Aiden Pass
It seems as though it is another example of DM’s choice, that being said i always imagine it a huge mass of crystal adrift in some vast empty space
Tharizdun is a transdimensional entity that exists in published lore for the Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms settings.
@@AJPickett cool thanks for the clear up on his location. I will take the rest of my questions as DM's choice. Also thanks for the pin.
As far as i understand Tharizduns history he's not perse a multi sphere god.
He destroyed everything in the sphere he originally existed in. He now lives in a cold dead universe. Slumbering thinking that he has won. Thinking that he destroyed all live.
If he would be contacted from another universe, he would know that there is still live. And he would do anything to destroy it.
@@SamaelHellscrem Well this more conflicting information from what I have heard about Tharizdun. The confusion never ends about this guy.
Its been 21 years since i bought that issue of Dragon Magazine ... probably one ofcthe best issues for artifacts, magic items for Greyhawk or that other one ... i forget the name 😮😮
good video AJ I really love these item/artifact videos
Hey now that we know Exandria is gonna be the newest exclusivy DnD setting in like 16 years, are you gonna do any videos regarding how the cosmos of Exandria differ from that of the other settings? I know for one thing: Most of the settings only prevent dieties from walking the mortal planes because Aao the Dm's Intern said so, but in Exandria the gods created the Divine Gate, which is kinda a cosmicscale wire fence with gaps only big enough for mortal beings to pass through, though Divine Intervention can allow a twmporary gap to be wrenched open so a god can reach through and act upon the world.
I have sages I can call on to help me with that lore, so, I am prepared to bring it into the multiverse.
Also, anyone can watch campaign 1 and 2. Yet after campaign 1 I''ll watch the one-shots that were released prior to campaign 2.
I love any Tharizdun related lore.
Considering It to be the biggest bad in the game I am running.
There's something just so incredibly cool and far more menacing than other standard BBEGs about It.
what a coincidence i just was thinking about adding a Tharizdun related artifact to my game.
The weapon sounds similar to Soul Edge from Soul Caliber though I don’t get the inability to attack someone under its poison/sleep effect. Also does the sword have to be drawn to corrupt a person? Either way I would shove it into the sun or throw it into an active lava flow volcano.
thanks for my new wepon mate ill be sure to think of u and let the bows know who gave me such eldritch knowledge
I might have to work in a few things for its use in my campaign since Tharizdun is the new starting point for the evil side: merging Druniazth with the handle of Heart Cleaver, the glaive of Baphomet. It may be the first merged weapon, but it definitely will not be the last... just saying
the Horn of Zargon is also something to consider
Thanks, man. Your videos are great fun!
I appreciate you converting it as you go, I was like holy crap a freaking DC 33 save; but 22 definitly seems more reasonable lol
Great video. Do you plan to cover the Abyssal Plague Demons, or the event itself? Seems like a great topic that would be useful to modern DMs.
Might do.
Artifacts sound really cool
Artifacts are totally awesome rewards to the party. They not only give the party a great magical item but they also have a deal-with-the-devil type kink in their use, like having Han Solo's ship... a freighter with awesome combat abilities but things tend to malfunction.
Sword of Cerlethar: Holy Avenger +10, +5 more against Evil, + 5 more against Chaotic. Super-hard crystal in structure that makes diamonds seem as hard as mud and glows like a Light spell all the time with those within the light radius affected as if submerged in holy water and within Protection from Evil. You can use the sword as the holy symbol of Cerlethar.
Drawbacks: Grip it and choose either to convert to Lawful Good or take 5d10 damage and drop it, refusing to drop it disintegrates you and moves you instantly to your afterlife. If the sword accepts you, the DM can stop you from alignment violating actions. You cannot act on them. You can only do them if you reject the sword and cast it away. Yes, it allows DM interference in role-playing. No, that is not a small draw-back.
To destroy it, it must be cast into a volcano and left there in the lava. It can be recovered during that process at any time and still be fine. However, if while in lava/magma, the entire planet becomes not only dominated by evil but becomes pretty much evil in nature, the sword will disintegrate.
The Infinite Anything Weapon +5: It can become any weapon a human or smaller sized being can use. What weapon it is must be declared and the action took at the beginning of the round. If it is a missile weapon, ammo must be provided. There are grey areas. If you make it a musket weapon of sorts, you only need to load it with the projected missile, not the gunpowder and wadding (it has its magical explosions ready). Make it an ancient firearm, it would most likely fire faster because you drop the projectile down into the barrel and can just aim and fire as fast as archers. In the melee, this weapon can get quite deadly. If you roll a natural 20, you can shape-shift the weapon to be brutally gory, inflicting another 5d10 and a save vs. death.
Drawbacks: Your weapon changes f^cking shape! It is not only reputed but witnessed. There are stories about it, even a lot of Bard songs about it. It will be coveted by adventures, conquerers, and assassins among others... even demons and devils will want it for their minions. Hostile un-related (to the mission) encounters will happen. You might be able to get out of violent trouble easier but violent trouble will happen more often.
To destroy it, be the owner and say "this isn't worth it" and make a move to break it... and be honest about that. The weapon will shatter and move its enchantment and manifest elsewhere... it can only be destroyed in image.
The Gold Man & Golden Circlet: The Gold Man is an OP golem controlled with the Golden Circlet. Over time, with each commanded use, the Gold Man gets more intelligent and capable. He gets lighter, faster, and brilliant. His golden status becomes as hard as metal but as light as flesh and blood. Eventually, the Gold Man becomes akin to having a great NPC heroic level ally. Then, at the end of on battle, the Gold Man becomes a flesh-and-blood guy wearing a circlet and says "Yes! I am free!" and turns to dust leaving only a golden circlet. The player character using the Gold Man via the Golden Circlet suddenly becomes an indestructible golden statue.
Infinite Wand of Wonders: It's a Wand of Wonders with infinite charges. That alone makes it an artifact that backfires in its nature.
Pan's Pouch of Feasts: There are a LOT of these artifacts in my campaigns, so it totally qualifies as a minor artifact. I love Pan and he loves parties. If your party uses this once per day, you are completely nourished for the day but also drunk. If you avoided the wine then you ingested something lotus related and thus high. You are at the -2 everything for a bit (+2 all things for Pan priests). Ingesting the feast also takes 1-4 hours in a pocket dimension that was actually an instant effect. Pan stole the Lotus secrets to inverse the time. In short, use this when thirsty or starving but you will get drunk doing it.
Pan's Pipes: They are panpipes of +5 in any endeavor and bestowed upon his most favored bards who can play them. All bard songs and spells can be done with playing this alone unless the material component is something that needs to be transformed or affected. If Pan does not approve of you using it, it disintegrates. He's drunk a lot on his home plane so, once per mission, the first time this is used makes Pan disintegrate it (call it back home) have a 25% chance to do it no matter what.
Golden Apples: These are artifacts not because of their level of power but what they grow on, a Loom of Magus Tree of Live. It grows some golden fruit. Each has some special pre-set benefit. The apples, the Golden Apples, only completely restore anyone with an affliction to a non-afflicted state (fully healing, restoring, fully resting, etc). Eating another will allow some knowledge benefits, research tidbits, campaign answers, etc. Eating too many can really, really backfire. Getting a god of many of such said answers to inspire his clerics to see you as someone needing to be killed is a thing.
Hey AJ how about taking a look at Black Razor
I actually ran an "evil campaign" based upon players who had conversions to evil alignments. One through an artifact similar to this, the others who were the players who role-played their characters to go along with his ideas and plots. I would have loved to have The Claw of Tharizdun in my campaign, I had something similar but it was a vampiric healing short sword that was awesome as an off-handed weapon... it only missed on a natural 1 and did an extra attack before anyone else at the beginning of each round. Only problem was is that it had the soul of an evil murderous thief and it warped you to be more like him (you become him in personality, eventually picking up a spin on his name). Believe it or not, that was inspired by (and warped from) Doctor Who. Your videos are not just informative, it's like sitting before a great storyteller.
Question, why use DR, when Common Year is the way that time is kept in Flanaess.
Must be a mistake. DR is Dale Reckoning, right?
Because everyone who watches this channel each week is pretty much used to it and it makes sense to them without me having to do the conversions, same way I converted all the dates from Netheril years to Dale Reckoning... simplification and clarity.
@@AJPickett Ah Ok. Sorry my bad
@@sblinder1978 no worries 🙂
Zero dislikes.Well deserved. Keep it that way!
Those four don't count, as they are applied no matter how good or bad the video is, so, rather than Dis-likes, they are Di-spites.
While travelling thruought aetherial plane with the Claw of Tharizdun would be extremally risky, just travelling to a dream part of deep aetherial seems unwise but doable. There it would be the matter of finding and connecting "dream of pure happiness" with material via gate.
I though Earth was a magic dead zone of sorts?
Oerth, home of Castle Greyhawk, you'll quite often hear gamers who played/play 2nd edition refer to The Greyhawk setting, much like Toril is the Forgotten Realms setting.
What's the music playing in the background?
Classic Diablo 1
@@AJPickett Nice, thanks :D
I would make the pommel stone one of the 333 gems needed to free the elder evil itself just for a little extra fun.
That's a great idea! I'd also make the sword itself, a sort of key, used as part of the process to unlock Tharizdun! As well as maybe making the person who attunes to it become obsessed with releasing Tharizdun! Whether the character knew that they were being possessed or influenced by the sword! Maybe give the sword the ability to cast sleep, charm, etc., and a few other spells that could help with keeping the other party members unaware of what was happening. Heck! I'd even make it to where the person, upon becoming fully possessed by the sword, was a sort of temporary Chosen of Tharizdun, so that they could be a worthy opponent if and when they have to fight their friends, in order for the party to prevent the character from releasing Tharizdun. And then, allow for new saving throws, that become easier to succeed in, are made for say every 5% of hit points lost in the battle, so that they could be free's from the sword's influence, without them having to be killed. And then have another agent if Tharizdun sweep in, and take the sword, and any other items needed to release Tharizdun, to keep the adventure going a bit longer! That's just what comes to mind at the moment!
@@gabrieladerre2862 well you took that idea and just ran with it. Great idea, probably will steal it down the road.
@@randallbaumgardt3424. That's just the stuff that came off the top of my head! 😆 I could have written a bit more, however. I wasn't certain that anyone would ever even bother to read it! But, by all means, feel free to use any of the ideas! I'd love that! I'm also going to pass the idea along to some of my friends/family members, who also DM! I think that I might try to find some time to flesh this idea out a bit more! I just need to do my home work! And hopefully anything that isn't in my books, will be available online! I have all, or at least most, of the core and supplemental books! However, the only adventure/module book that I currently have, is Out of The Abyss. Anyhow! I'll see what else I can come up with! If and when I make some good progress, I'll try to remember to come back to this comment thread to see if you're interested in hearing about it! That said, have a great day/night!
@@gabrieladerre2862 I look forward to more of your awesome ideas. Thank you.
I was wondering what type of scary The Sword of Tharizdun was and here we are and all I have to say is HOLY F%*& THAT IS THE KIND OF POWER THARIZDUN GIVES AWAY TO HIS WORSHIPPERS NO WONDER HE ALWAYS FINDS A WAY BACK TO THE WORLDS. In all seriousness that is a really impressive piece of weaponry and the trouble that it can cause is an adventure on its own let alone a cult following the person wielding that nightmare of a sword.
Ugh artifacts are so cool
If the Abyss is separate from the Crystal Spheres, and each Crystal Sphere has its own demons and Demon Lords(generally), then do the demons from each Sphere rub shoulders in the Abyss? And if so, what happens when the top Demon from one Sphere meets the top Demon from another Sphere? Is there a death match or is there already a hierarchy of the Demons from different Spheres?
I imagine they would have a bloody stand off before figuring out who is the stronger and parting ways in their own interest
There are infinite demon lords for the infinite layers of the abyss.
They fight each other constantly, as each and every demon lord believes that it and it alone is destined to reshape all of creation in its own image. Alliances exist and have been made between demon lords, but they are ultimately temporary.
@@ShadowXardas basically, but demons don't want to reshape creation. They hate it and want it to be destroyed. The only reason they tolerate other demons is that they hate good and lawful beings more, and know that they aren't strong enough to defeat them all on their own. Plus, everybody wants someone to talk to, who agrees with them on most things... Eternity is a long time to be really alone. ..
The crystal spheres are part of the same Prime Material Plane.
AJ Pickett This I know. What I meant is do the Demons from different Spheres have a hierarchy when they encounter each other in the Abyss or is it just a “fight-on-sight” type of thing? Or are most of them just the same Demons going by different names in different Spheres?
Question: what would the the opposite of ruinite/ star metal be?
I wonder if a good aligned artifact sword might be as potentially disastrous lol
Give me some ideas, Dawnbringer has zero fricken lore.
Awesome, tharizdun is the big bad in my campaign.
How is your party supposed to defeat him? Or is your campaign destined for a tpk?
@@carlthehatllama8930 they will fight him in avatar form
OMG saw the name, i was so scared that i thought i had to change the name of one of my cute characters, Tharizen
For one second i though it was an Jedi in the thumbnail
Great stuff
0:30 Non technically a magic item, the Bible simultaneously exists as both a holy text and toilet paper depending on your needs.
0:55 Rule of combat #15- Moxie only goes so far.
1:09 "Black hair, a beard, more abs, I could make a movie outta this...." thought Zack Snyder, crumpling the magazine he never intended to buy.
1:38 Early attempts at horse levitation.
2:02 Man, Google Earth used to suck.
2:32 "No, I don't want to fight a dragon with thirteen dwarves and a wizard! Get the f*** off my property!" said Bilbo, finally growing a pair of balls.
3:04 Griffins are cool pets, till you have to help it express its glands... [if you don't get this one, go buy an unhealthy cat].
4:08 "I never regretted getting my nipples pierced till I had kids" Gia the earth elemental.
4:33 "Enough gold to feed every orphan in town for a year!" Her
"I'll kill her after she helps me carry this chest most of the way back to town" Him
4:52 What i see when the homeless ask me for money.
5:05 Bro, even my sword has neck tats.
5:31 Even the 10 foot pole couldn't save these pansies.
6:41 The original Disney castle logo.
6:53 "Here, buy me more red hair dye and teenage angst."
7:13 $146 on amazon
7:46 In the end, it was love, not blood, that made the sword tree grow. Thus, the land of Badw Riting was saved!
10:26 Sorry, but if you want to walk between the raindrops you have be REALLY edgy.
10:53 Stabbing a mountain to death is surprisingly easy since it's so hard to miss.
11:31 The one thing in Harry Potter that scared the s**t out of me.
11:51 Shameless gang related graffiti.
12:58 RUclips changes how many asterisks I put in the s*** that I wrote again...
Interesting point of odour: depending on where the **** is coming from, Tharizdun is either ***** or just *******, effectively unaware that Voidharrow is just an ******** created by the **** to keep him at bay. I wonder if the ***** is really just the means by which to pierce the **** between the real ***** and voidharrow, though you would have to be thoroughly insane to even try. Either way, great bad guy and putting this in the campaign would be a great way to **** a Tharizdun ******** or ****.
Wait... this is Frostmourne!
You speak of cowardness of justice I shall show you the justice of the grave and the true meaning of fear
I love your videos
Yayy another not athas video😉
This is cinders approved 🔥
It sounds like an airport.
*misunderstood. still dope.*
Oh my god. Luz
..I know what Grazz't is dooo~ing.
*Late Relevant and Supportive Comment*
(Sorry, today hasn't been the best.)
Hope it improves
AJ Pickett Thank you AJ, I hope you have a excellent day.
(On a side note, you said that the CoT is wider than most bastard swords.
Would that be Windlass Arbedo thick, or Albion Alexandria thicc?
Which is funny, because both are apart of the type XVIIIc family of the Oakeshott typology.)
Edit: Links to relevant videos, in a reply to my comment.
Windlass Steelcraft's Arbedo
ruclips.net/video/5mxZUAX7dPI/видео.html
Albion Sword's Alexandria
ruclips.net/video/S2XSwCNXHb4/видео.html
@@LurkerDaBerzerker it's more like a bastard sword hilt on a broadsword blade.
@@AJPickett So, it didn't look anything like the two swords that were used in the videos I linked you by Aikidoka?
(In terms of blade geometry/proportions, the length of the grip or shape of the hilt's pommel etc.
Btw the reason I linked the Albion Alexandria and not it's "cousin" the Principe, is because of two reasons.
One, the Alexandria is more suited to one handed use though your gonna wanna work out them muscles.
The second is that I prefer the geometry and proportions of the crossguard on the Alexandria, something about it speaks to me.)
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Yeah I have a request, can you talk about the Stick of Truth?
The South Park game? No I don't think so. I think Pewdiepie would be the channel for that.
@@AJPickett the game has a lot of gameplay and thematic elements based off of dnd. I think that's what he means. But I agree, there isn't enough of a dnd relation to warrant a video. Maybe April's fools?
Meh, the DnD stuff is only surface level anyway. Drow are portrayed as generic elves, for example.
@@AJPickett I was jokingly suggesting the item
The. What?