Something I learned while making this video is that apparently there is an endless supply of stock images with “business people” and they’re all wearing hard hats for some reason? Also there’s a crazy amount of stock photos involving a noose so there’s that.
Huh that is a bit strange really, i wonder what is with all those stock images, anyways good work with this strange golem type, that unravel ability sounds like a great way of tricking the party into thinking they killed it and have them leave or get distracted so the golem can heal up and chase for another ambush. You mind if i request a monster, technically its two but really they are both the same thing just different gender (like Incubus and Succubus) the monsters i would like to request are the Wanyuudo/Katawaguruma (Male/Female), and these yokai are basically the souls of the dammed that are bound to a cart wheel that is burning with hellfire. They are sent out to search for evil souls for them to drag down into hell in exchange for them to be freed once they get "enough", though due to their torment and being well evil souls themselves they tend not to be picky and will take just about any soul they can to hell to buy freedom as fast as they can, they are also known to punish mortals that look at them. The male Wanyuudo tend to look like a mans head that has a monk style hair cut and is stuck in the burning wheel spokes and are the more well known of the two even appearing in video games like "nioh" and "Masamune: the demon blade". Meanwhile the female Katawaguruma looks like the (normally naked) upper half of a woman's body bound to a burning wheel, they are not nearly as well known and to my knowledge the only appearance of them in media is in the upcoming "nioh 2" (and in some demos) where they are being spliced with a Kasha. (cat yokai that steals the corpses of evil people and brings them to hell)
My one quibble with your interpretation of the golem is that I don't think the person controlling it has to be evil. For instance the evil wizard despot of a city-state may attach the rope golem to the office of sheriff. The Despots goes the way of all tyrants and the city is free but the golem may still be attached to whoever is sheriff. I could easily see a good sheriff/paladin using the rope golem with a nickname like deputy Necktie or slim to go after people who left town under suspicious circumstances to bring them back alive for questioning. A quest could start with a party member getting kidnapped by the golem and taken to a city-state. The party follows the golem back to the city-state and finds out the rogue has been accused of a heinous crime. The party must now solve the mystery or watch the rogue swing.
I can see a pirate hunting naval officer keepinga couple of these these in rope form in the rigging of his ship as an ace in the whole in case his ship is ever boarded. Bonus that they're already above it's enemies to impose disadvantage on Strangle saves
the infamous pirate lord Hagvar gallows: "you portdogs chose the wrong ship to board... HAHAHAHA!" *the hangmen golems proceed to noose any and all non crew who boarded the ship even finding a stowaway and hanging them too* (it was a rouge shit out of luck and hunted by just about everyone in the land so no one cared if they died for that stowaway)
@@DungeonDadhand of glory is commonly a magical items that is created by using a hand of a unjustly executed person which is then used by a sneaky person to do all kind of sneaky stuffs like opening doors and is considered a example of necronamatic items and example of evil witchcraft and is a common items found among groups such as thieves guilds.
Coincidentally enough, I was thinking of making a Golem construct made out of hands. Directly inspired by the zygote monster. Check it out on RUclips, it is a fantastic monster.
DM: "It's a humanoid figure that looks to be made of ropes." PLAYERS: "Oh, a hangman golem..." DM: "...and it brandishes a huge, heavy greataxe that glows faintly. It pulls out a wide brimmed hat with a star-shaped badge on the front and places this atop its head as it continues to advance."
Edit: FOUND IT! It's called the "Gallows Golem", and it comes from Sword & Sorcery's Creature Collection III: Savage Bestiary (2003). This reminds me strongly of another construct/undead creature I saw in a book years ago (not sure is it was an official WOTC book or under license). It was basically a walking gallows, created when an innocent person is unjustly condemned and hanged. The spirit of the hanged person possesses the gallows and begins to hunt down and strangle each person responsible for their death. UGH! If only I could remember which book it was from! I'll update this if I find it.
Just guessing here but "the Hand of Glory can only be extinguished by dipping it in milk" might be a "mother's love" thing. If the flames continue to burn magically under circumstances where they'd normally go out, that could possibly be an "anger of the dead fuels the flames" situation, or that "part of their soul remains in the hand, and that is what the flames are burning, making them supernaturally sustained". Either of these, and likely other interpretations of what's going on here, have themes of the deceased person's spirit still having some degree of presence in the hand. I assume you know where milk comes from. The idea of familial affection being able to soften, calm, or redeem raging or malicious persons/ spirits is reasonably popular in stories, both old and new. Dipping the hand in milk to extinguish the fire could be a gesture of connecting the dead with a symbol of motherhood/ maternal care & affection to "sooth the burning soul".
also: a town known for being a cesspit of scum and villainy has suddenly been transformed into a shining utopia... and halfway to a ghost town; a hangman golem that was installed as the town's sheriff by the disgruntled townspeople has turned into a cruel despot that has everyone fearing for their very lives, as every offense has the same punishment, no matter how mild the act- *_death_*
I'm imaging the ruling class of town wrote the laws so that they had the death plenty even for things that shouldn't even be crimes. When these law start being applied to them to they quickly call in the adventurers. When you learn that it follows exactly what is written in the big book for town law in the town hall in the mayors office (which your not allowed in because your not the mayor) you resolve to replace the laws and punishment with more sensible ones.
Very cool video. Count me among those who do not find golems made of ropes to be lame. Rope is one of the most useful things in DND and turning that on the players sounds great. I could even see small sized twine golems or even tiny sized thread golems which attack during sleep to sew up adventurers in their tents or give them Millie vanillie hair extensions that won't come out. (Never underestimate messing with a characters hair. A dwarf I played once lost his beard in a fire. It was so game changing.)
Your videos have absolutely THE BEST introductions. So cool. And, gathering the components to create a Hangman Golem sounds like one heck of a quest idea! Great video!
Wally D.M. Thanks man!! That chair really gave me a run for my money with the ol lasso. And yes! I’m a big fan of creatures that can interact with the party in some way
@4:50 Erik Scott DeBie has a book called Depths of Madness, released as essentially a companion novel for 3.5's Heroes of Horror supplement. A hangman golem appears in it. The scene is impactful enough I completely misremembered the creature's statblock, because... Well, they're ambush hunters. And when they drag someome toward them, they're strong enough to drag straight up. (The supplement is also stunning and deserves a download if you find it, though content warning, 3.5 is less cautious about its subjects than 5e. )
HeadHunter 549 on the one hand I get it, because there are only so many pages you can fit in a new book. On the other hand... there are many awesome monsters!!!
Just from looking at it I think it would work really well as an undead. Imagine a conglomeration of all the criminals being hung at a specific location haunting all the discarded ropes that took their lives seeking to get some semblance of revenge/spiting the living because they can't exist in the same way anymore
Pathfinder just renamed it to the rope golem. Go figure. The Hand of Glory exists in 3.X, but it's not quite like the original lore. It originally gave you a third ring slot and you could use both daylight and see invisibility 1/day.
Could totally see a town where each place of business has a pile of rope in the corner that is actually a dormant hangman golem guard waiting for someone to commit a crime, come to life and drag them off to their punishment.
I just watched this video and your Grey Jester video and they’re exactly what I need. I have a vampire in my game who’s being paid to soften up a city prior to a siege, and he needs some cool allies. The Grey Jester and Hangman’s Golem are perfect. Thank you so much!
yet another hand of glory is in pathfinder, where it's a necklace that gives an extra ring slot. (to those who don't know, 3e/3.5-finder limits magic items by slots based on kind of item, but gives you alot of different slots)
my favorite part of this golem is that, if a golem knew that they were losing, they could intentionally do a Ready action to unravel themselves after taking a hit as a sort of 'play dead' move
Plot hook idea: a dreaded pirate villain with some magic uses these golems to terrorize merchant ships for plunder. Because a place where a bunch of rope won't look out of place is on a ship. 😏 Maybe you can even make it a pirate who hangs governmemt sailors hunting them down as a warning, so now the party has to step in. 🤔
These golems are very cool. I used one on my players just for fun. It was unraveled in a corner of a room with crates and barrels. While they tried to sleep it stood back up and almost killed them... Ahh, good times...lol
I like the idea of a player coming across one of these while it's a loose pile and, not knowing it's alive, kinda just. Taking it. Putting it in their bag of holding or whatever. And then, later, either it bursts out on its own, or reassembles when they try to use it
*breathing heavily while in a panic* “I’m from three years in the future…you wont believe what has happe-“ *loud crashes and muzzled screams* “Sorry about him sir…he’s crazy. Nothing to see here.”
neat!!!! I made a homebrew rope golem once for a campaign based on the crusades lol. I like this version a lot better, and I wish I knew about it 15 years ago.
Welp. Not only am I going to use hangman golems whenever my party attracts the attention of bounty hunters, but now I’m going to homebrew a hands of glory flesh golem. Dozens and dozens of left hands all sewn onto the same body. My players will have you to thank for the nightmares. And the many lootable magic hands.
unravel seems like it could be used in combat as a way to trick the players into thinking they won. player right before the golem in initiative lands a blow on the golem and it collapses into a pile of rope. party understandably assumes they won and go on their merry way only for the golem to reravel and attack them later(more horrifying if the party decides to loot the rope[and it is magically durable rope so why wouldn't they especially if they later learn it seems to repair itself] and thus have a moment of the golem bursting from their bag suddenly)
Ropes that have been used to hang condemned criminals eh? Wizard tries to make a hangman's golem but the process fails, because the ropes were used to hang innocents.
i thought of a slight modification of the unravel ability. Imagine if the golem preserves its movement, and can move each of its ropes separately from its body. Each rope has 1 hp and the amount of hit points it has determines how many separate ropes it can separate into. If it keeps these ropes in a group, the largest group of ropes can still make a lash attack, but so long as the part's got 5 or more ropes it can perform a constrict attack upon someone if it manages to move into a square they occupy. And it could reconstitute _around_ someone and both restrain and incapacitate them as it's literally captured them inside its body.
I can imagin rope trick causing its head to unwind into the portal, then it pulls the rope rope down annoyed also, ability idea: life line, it can- as a reaction to a ally about to take damage- pull a ally 5(number untested, may need tweaking) feet closer the the hangman golem, this dosen't trigger attacks of opertunity, and if it pulls said ally out of the attacks range, they take no damage, if it dosent, the attack deals 1d4 less damage per attack dice, down to the lowest amount of damage possible
Actually fought one of these before in a written campaign that was converted to 5e I was a cleric that dropped 5 massive fire meteors on it ultimately burning it to a ceisp
Have a hangman accumulate strength through number of souls hung; evil neutral, good. Have the party encounter a hangman (or similar golem or construct) accend to semi godhood from worship over time and origin lost to time.
Another cool way I thought of to introduce this golem is a wrong accused person was hanged and when that rope was thrown into a pile I became the golem and seeks vengeance
funny enough a water elemental would make a great spark for imbuing a rope golem, because most hangmen ropes are enfact oiled or wetted before use, to keep it from bunching or catching.
BenBurn 123 dragons are always such a huge undertaking so I don’t know if it’ll be anytime super soon, but I can guarantee you they will happen eventually
@@DungeonDad I get it man. I just hope that that eventually is in the near future. Dragons are crazy, and after the big brain long bois last time I can understand draconic burn out (GET IT!?). Keep up the good work.
@@bardssinisterstories2607 And on this week of Hoarders, Ben really feels the burn as his life changes in three easy steps. Disclaimer: No dragons were harmed during the filming of this episode. But the same could not be said for our second intervention, a father who has turned his house into a dungeon!
Fun fact: Sinister is latin for Left, and Dexter means right, so ambidextrous means both righted. Bigotry towards left handed people is why sinister means evil.
I'm working on a campaign in the plane of air. I'm thinking to include flying ships and some sky pirates. I know it's not lawful, but I love the idea of having a Blackbeard like character that commands one of these on the deck of his massive ship 👀😈
I know this video is old but damn this golem would be a living nightmare to my bard (one of his parents came from a somewhat evil group so he often fears getting hang.ed by someone who lost a family member that his parent killed)
might use this for an assassin group I'm making for my dnd group. so far its an assassin rogue/gloomstalker (the leader, because thats a lot of damage in the first round) and this. 4 more to go
dock guards, i mean a pile of rope is not out of place, very hidden harbor master support. Of course they coul,d be made of the ropes used to hang pirates or other naval criminals.
Been trying to figure it out but not 100% the best at stating homebrew content, so there are Griffins, lion/eagle, and Hippogriff, horse/eagle, years ago for a class I thought up the Taurogriff, Bull/Eagle. So that being said why not do some unconventional Griffins, the Taurogriff, maybe a Moose/Eagle, Wolf/Eagle, stuff like that. Yes they would be very similar but more mounts and creatures like that would always be welcomed
Okay, I've roughed out what the Hand of Glory can do, because it sounds like a neat reward for beating this thing's creator/as a thing to use against the players xD It can be lit 12 times, it's a physical candle, so I'm assuming that it'll eventually burn out over time. It produces bright yellow light out to 10 feet, and dim yellow light out a further 10 feet, only the person who lit the Hand of Glory can perceive this light. At the cost of 1 finger on the candle, it can produce the following effects: * Paralysis, on touch, 1 target for 3 [1d6] turns (DC 15) * Knock (just works like the mundane version of the spell) At the cost of all remaining fingers, with no less than 3 remaining: * The Hand functions as a paralysis trap, and can affect as many creatures as it has fingers remaining, this effect is triggered when they are within 10 feet of the lit hand. It will then paralyse those creatures for 3 [1d6] + the number of remaining fingers (1 ~ 5) turns (DC 15) What makes this a fun trap is that only the person that lit the candle can actually see the light it produces, so someone could hurl it to the ground in a dark place and they'd be able to see their enemies getting trapped, while their foes might be totally blind. Alternatively, the effect of the paralysis could last as long as the candle still burns, but that could be a bit too powerful, but thematically it'd be neat. Please feel free to mess with my numbers, I haven't play tested this thing myself, so it might be a bit on the mean side for what is a potentially mundane item. It'd be a great thing to give a Thief on the run, dashing through some dark/dimly lit sewers, tossing it into the murk (only milk puts out the flame, after all) and ensnaring their pursuers. Also the idea that you pluck the fingers off, or they immediately and magically melt away when you want to use the special effects of the candle is macabre and fun.
If a Flesh Golem, a golem made out of reanimated flesh is officially a construct. Then why isn't a skeleton not just a bone golem and so also a construct and not undead. Also what's the difference between zombie and flesh golem, and should they be constructs or undead?
I think you could pair this creature up with a posse of skeleton desperados the golem hung and now serve as some sort of postmortem indentured servitude The party investigates a ghost town gallows and to their surprise the noose, hanging skeleton, and pile of bones underneath attacks them
I'm only 5 minutes into the video and can't wait to share it. Okay here how you implement the hangman game into dnd. You can try and guess the creatures a name by using your free action to guess a letter, and a bonus action to try guess the name. I'd have the number of letters in their name inscribed somewhere on their body. If you can correctly guess it's name it becomes vulnerable to the guesser's attack. If the party fails 6 guesses, the hangman gets a free crit. How does the party know to do all this, if they roll an arcana check, or they use that one monster slayer or colbat soul feature
There is a very broken way to use this monster. Grapple then.... Restrain. This could simply capture an entire party. However...... There is no way that would be fun to play. If this thing gets a surprise round and hits/grapples a player and then restrains them next turn..... 2 of these would be excellent for all police + bounty Hunters. Need to capture the target just animate the rope in ambush. So needs a reason why it can't easily pull this. Can only carry two medium creatures. So if you need to restrain more then that you need several. An interesting bit would be golm can't move 30 feet from a restrained target. If you restrain a creature the rope loss decreased max hit points. Hmmm 🤔. Oh possibly a restrained creature is pulled behind the golem. Not lifted. This restricts movement speed below thirty. And they can no longer climb. If this restraining ability added on to the hit and grapple attack. ( Definitely a saving throw scenario. ) Have to miss two saving throws. Then all law enforcement bodies would definitely have a few around in any moderately sized city. Slap wrapp. Pick pocket captured. Fire+ slashing weapons would be common among theives.
There is a bit where this thing instead of being lawful neutral.... The noose was used to kill the innocent. .... Then this thing is chaotic good. So essentially a revenant made of ropes that hunts those that abuse the power of law. Those who used the noose for evil are in turn hung by it. Think punisher but rope golem. Damn that sounds epic. Or any killer of corruption with in the law. Black rope. With white stripes. When fully formed the skull over the face. Law men who did evil popping up hung on the tree they killed the innocent on.
The Immutable Form trait contradicts the Unravel action, meaning that it can never use the Unravel action because that would alter its form and Immutable Form makes it immune to any feature that alters its form. Consider altering the Immutable Form description as follows: "The golem is immune to any effect that would alter its form except for its Unravel action."
dragon ball talk unfortunately in same cases (like this one) there are only so many images I can put up. Maybe next time ill dress up as the monster to create the illusion of art
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Something I learned while making this video is that apparently there is an endless supply of stock images with “business people” and they’re all wearing hard hats for some reason? Also there’s a crazy amount of stock photos involving a noose so there’s that.
Huh that is a bit strange really, i wonder what is with all those stock images, anyways good work with this strange golem type, that unravel ability sounds like a great way of tricking the party into thinking they killed it and have them leave or get distracted so the golem can heal up and chase for another ambush.
You mind if i request a monster, technically its two but really they are both the same thing just different gender (like Incubus and Succubus) the monsters i would like to request are the Wanyuudo/Katawaguruma (Male/Female), and these yokai are basically the souls of the dammed that are bound to a cart wheel that is burning with hellfire.
They are sent out to search for evil souls for them to drag down into hell in exchange for them to be freed once they get "enough", though due to their torment and being well evil souls themselves they tend not to be picky and will take just about any soul they can to hell to buy freedom as fast as they can, they are also known to punish mortals that look at them.
The male Wanyuudo tend to look like a mans head that has a monk style hair cut and is stuck in the burning wheel spokes and are the more well known of the two even appearing in video games like "nioh" and "Masamune: the demon blade".
Meanwhile the female Katawaguruma looks like the (normally naked) upper half of a woman's body bound to a burning wheel, they are not nearly as well known and to my knowledge the only appearance of them in media is in the upcoming "nioh 2" (and in some demos) where they are being spliced with a Kasha. (cat yokai that steals the corpses of evil people and brings them to hell)
My one quibble with your interpretation of the golem is that I don't think the person controlling it has to be evil. For instance the evil wizard despot of a city-state may attach the rope golem to the office of sheriff. The Despots goes the way of all tyrants and the city is free but the golem may still be attached to whoever is sheriff. I could easily see a good sheriff/paladin using the rope golem with a nickname like deputy Necktie or slim to go after people who left town under suspicious circumstances to bring them back alive for questioning. A quest could start with a party member getting kidnapped by the golem and taken to a city-state. The party follows the golem back to the city-state and finds out the rogue has been accused of a heinous crime. The party must now solve the mystery or watch the rogue swing.
It's for power point presentations. Corporate types don't get how these things make them look like sarcastic idiots to workers
Great Monster, but I have a question that I think a lot of people also have.
Can you make one of those golems?
I can see a pirate hunting naval officer keepinga couple of these these in rope form in the rigging of his ship as an ace in the whole in case his ship is ever boarded. Bonus that they're already above it's enemies to impose disadvantage on Strangle saves
Oh man what a brutal and awesome idea.
the infamous pirate lord Hagvar gallows: "you portdogs chose the wrong ship to board... HAHAHAHA!"
*the hangmen golems proceed to noose any and all non crew who boarded the ship even finding a stowaway and hanging them too* (it was a rouge shit out of luck and hunted by just about everyone in the land so no one cared if they died for that stowaway)
So a flesh golem made entirely with hands of glory, that communicates and expresses itself like the helping hands from Labyrinth. 🤔
Didn’t know he’ll had a 10th circle. Neat!
You're a real sick dude...
I like the way you think. 😉
Might come in handy. 🤔
@@DungeonDadhand of glory is commonly a magical items that is created by using a hand of a unjustly executed person which is then used by a sneaky person to do all kind of sneaky stuffs like opening doors and is considered a example of necronamatic items and example of evil witchcraft and is a common items found among groups such as thieves guilds.
Coincidentally enough, I was thinking of making a Golem construct made out of hands. Directly inspired by the zygote monster. Check it out on RUclips, it is a fantastic monster.
I can just imagine the paranoia of a party who is being hunted down by these golems. Avoiding cliffs and firebolting piles of rope
sanddry putting these things an a shipyard or something would be diabolical
DM: "It's a humanoid figure that looks to be made of ropes."
PLAYERS: "Oh, a hangman golem..."
DM: "...and it brandishes a huge, heavy greataxe that glows faintly. It pulls out a wide brimmed hat with a star-shaped badge on the front and places this atop its head as it continues to advance."
… Is this a refence to something that Im missing?
@@Oooze3424 Turning the Hangman Golem into an old timey executioner and also an Old West sheriff.
@@RoninCatholic ah
So basically you encountered the spirit of a lawman who was probably evil and is haunting the ropes he used to execute people with?
Milk can be symbolic of maternal love, so putting out the flame could be dousing wickedness with love.
I like that
consider: the rope form creates difficult terrain, and if it reforms while a creature is standing in the space, that creature is grappled
yes!
I can definitely see an artificer making one of these. It would also make sense if the artificer is also a bounty hunter or ruler.
Edit: FOUND IT! It's called the "Gallows Golem", and it comes from Sword & Sorcery's Creature Collection III: Savage Bestiary (2003).
This reminds me strongly of another construct/undead creature I saw in a book years ago (not sure is it was an official WOTC book or under license). It was basically a walking gallows, created when an innocent person is unjustly condemned and hanged. The spirit of the hanged person possesses the gallows and begins to hunt down and strangle each person responsible for their death. UGH! If only I could remember which book it was from! I'll update this if I find it.
FOUND IT! It's called the "Gallows Golem", and it comes from Sword & Sorcery's Creature Collection III: Savage Bestiary (2003).
Just guessing here but "the Hand of Glory can only be extinguished by dipping it in milk" might be a "mother's love" thing. If the flames continue to burn magically under circumstances where they'd normally go out, that could possibly be an "anger of the dead fuels the flames" situation, or that "part of their soul remains in the hand, and that is what the flames are burning, making them supernaturally sustained". Either of these, and likely other interpretations of what's going on here, have themes of the deceased person's spirit still having some degree of presence in the hand.
I assume you know where milk comes from. The idea of familial affection being able to soften, calm, or redeem raging or malicious persons/ spirits is reasonably popular in stories, both old and new.
Dipping the hand in milk to extinguish the fire could be a gesture of connecting the dead with a symbol of motherhood/ maternal care & affection to "sooth the burning soul".
So I wonder what a chain version of this golem might look like. Presumably tougher, and deals more damage.
there is a chain golem.
also: a town known for being a cesspit of scum and villainy has suddenly been transformed into a shining utopia... and halfway to a ghost town; a hangman golem that was installed as the town's sheriff by the disgruntled townspeople has turned into a cruel despot that has everyone fearing for their very lives, as every offense has the same punishment, no matter how mild the act- *_death_*
I'm imaging the ruling class of town wrote the laws so that they had the death plenty even for things that shouldn't even be crimes. When these law start being applied to them to they quickly call in the adventurers. When you learn that it follows exactly what is written in the big book for town law in the town hall in the mayors office (which your not allowed in because your not the mayor) you resolve to replace the laws and punishment with more sensible ones.
Dungeon dad : this is a really strange golem...
2 years later :
Dungeon dad : behold, The chocolate golem and the plush golem !
Very cool video. Count me among those who do not find golems made of ropes to be lame. Rope is one of the most useful things in DND and turning that on the players sounds great. I could even see small sized twine golems or even tiny sized thread golems which attack during sleep to sew up adventurers in their tents or give them Millie vanillie hair extensions that won't come out. (Never underestimate messing with a characters hair. A dwarf I played once lost his beard in a fire. It was so game changing.)
Your videos have absolutely THE BEST introductions. So cool. And, gathering the components to create a Hangman Golem sounds like one heck of a quest idea! Great video!
Wally D.M. Thanks man!! That chair really gave me a run for my money with the ol lasso. And yes! I’m a big fan of creatures that can interact with the party in some way
A murder hobo natural enemy.....
A door golem?
Grappling ropes on the side of the law....
@4:50 Erik Scott DeBie has a book called Depths of Madness, released as essentially a companion novel for 3.5's Heroes of Horror supplement.
A hangman golem appears in it. The scene is impactful enough I completely misremembered the creature's statblock, because...
Well, they're ambush hunters. And when they drag someome toward them, they're strong enough to drag straight up.
(The supplement is also stunning and deserves a download if you find it, though content warning, 3.5 is less cautious about its subjects than 5e. )
11:00 Ah yes, the Darkest Dungeon Bounty Hunter. Great to see you here!
You know looking though older editions dose make one surprised how many monsters have been left in the dust of past editions.
HeadHunter 549 on the one hand I get it, because there are only so many pages you can fit in a new book. On the other hand... there are many awesome monsters!!!
@@DungeonDad Yeah, its bit of a shame but at least they are adding more over time, still they have a long way to go.
Just from looking at it I think it would work really well as an undead. Imagine a conglomeration of all the criminals being hung at a specific location haunting all the discarded ropes that took their lives seeking to get some semblance of revenge/spiting the living because they can't exist in the same way anymore
A barbed wire version of this thing would be lethal
Pathfinder just renamed it to the rope golem. Go figure.
The Hand of Glory exists in 3.X, but it's not quite like the original lore. It originally gave you a third ring slot and you could use both daylight and see invisibility 1/day.
I so NEED to have a hangman golem battle on a pirate ship. Just so much fits together.
Great monster, great idea for the hangman plot
Such a cool golem.
Thanks for sharing this.
Could totally see a town where each place of business has a pile of rope in the corner that is actually a dormant hangman golem guard waiting for someone to commit a crime, come to life and drag them off to their punishment.
Ectacy of gold in the video. I'm happy! great monster I love it.
Coolest golem ever created!
I just watched this video and your Grey Jester video and they’re exactly what I need. I have a vampire in my game who’s being paid to soften up a city prior to a siege, and he needs some cool allies. The Grey Jester and Hangman’s Golem are perfect. Thank you so much!
yet another hand of glory is in pathfinder, where it's a necklace that gives an extra ring slot.
(to those who don't know, 3e/3.5-finder limits magic items by slots based on kind of item, but gives you alot of different slots)
my favorite part of this golem is that, if a golem knew that they were losing, they could intentionally do a Ready action to unravel themselves after taking a hit as a sort of 'play dead' move
Plot hook idea: a dreaded pirate villain with some magic uses these golems to terrorize merchant ships for plunder. Because a place where a bunch of rope won't look out of place is on a ship. 😏
Maybe you can even make it a pirate who hangs governmemt sailors hunting them down as a warning, so now the party has to step in. 🤔
Something about a Rope Golem as a headhunter trying to capture people is exceptionally evocative for me.
These golems are very cool. I used one on my players just for fun. It was unraveled in a corner of a room with crates and barrels. While they tried to sleep it stood back up and almost killed them... Ahh, good times...lol
Imagine a manual of golem for these guys!
I really like the idea of using this as a like magic item companion. Like you have a magic rope, that can turn into a rope golem at will
I like the idea of a player coming across one of these while it's a loose pile and, not knowing it's alive, kinda just. Taking it. Putting it in their bag of holding or whatever. And then, later, either it bursts out on its own, or reassembles when they try to use it
*breathing heavily while in a panic*
“I’m from three years in the future…you wont believe what has happe-“
*loud crashes and muzzled screams*
“Sorry about him sir…he’s crazy. Nothing to see here.”
neat!!!! I made a homebrew rope golem once for a campaign based on the crusades lol. I like this version a lot better, and I wish I knew about it 15 years ago.
Welp. Not only am I going to use hangman golems whenever my party attracts the attention of bounty hunters, but now I’m going to homebrew a hands of glory flesh golem. Dozens and dozens of left hands all sewn onto the same body. My players will have you to thank for the nightmares. And the many lootable magic hands.
unravel seems like it could be used in combat as a way to trick the players into thinking they won.
player right before the golem in initiative lands a blow on the golem and it collapses into a pile of rope. party understandably assumes they won and go on their merry way only for the golem to reravel and attack them later(more horrifying if the party decides to loot the rope[and it is magically durable rope so why wouldn't they especially if they later learn it seems to repair itself] and thus have a moment of the golem bursting from their bag suddenly)
I'm planning on running a Weird West style 5e campaign. This video right here is the whole reason why.
Ropes that have been used to hang condemned criminals eh? Wizard tries to make a hangman's golem but the process fails, because the ropes were used to hang innocents.
Oh my god!
I imagine a giant hangman-golem made from ships rope, commanded by a pirate captain
i thought of a slight modification of the unravel ability.
Imagine if the golem preserves its movement, and can move each of its ropes separately from its body. Each rope has 1 hp and the amount of hit points it has determines how many separate ropes it can separate into. If it keeps these ropes in a group, the largest group of ropes can still make a lash attack, but so long as the part's got 5 or more ropes it can perform a constrict attack upon someone if it manages to move into a square they occupy. And it could reconstitute _around_ someone and both restrain and incapacitate them as it's literally captured them inside its body.
I can imagin rope trick causing its head to unwind into the portal, then it pulls the rope rope down annoyed
also, ability idea: life line, it can- as a reaction to a ally about to take damage- pull a ally 5(number untested, may need tweaking) feet closer the the hangman golem, this dosen't trigger attacks of opertunity, and if it pulls said ally out of the attacks range, they take no damage, if it dosent, the attack deals 1d4 less damage per attack dice, down to the lowest amount of damage possible
Having a hangman golem might be a work around to a moral dilemma of having to kill someone, now you just have to live with giving the order.
Actually fought one of these before in a written campaign that was converted to 5e I was a cleric that dropped 5 massive fire meteors on it ultimately burning it to a ceisp
*time to play as some fuckin string*
Have a hangman accumulate strength through number of souls hung; evil neutral, good. Have the party encounter a hangman (or similar golem or construct) accend to semi godhood from worship over time and origin lost to time.
Another cool way I thought of to introduce this golem is a wrong accused person was hanged and when that rope was thrown into a pile I became the golem and seeks vengeance
funny enough a water elemental would make a great spark for imbuing a rope golem, because most hangmen ropes are enfact oiled or wetted before use, to keep it from bunching or catching.
Consider a halfling battle smith flavored as a wild west bounty hunter. He rides his mechanical horse and has a repeating shit revolver
I still insist on the Oriental or Planar Dragons. PLEASE make it happen my dude.
BenBurn 123 dragons are always such a huge undertaking so I don’t know if it’ll be anytime super soon, but I can guarantee you they will happen eventually
@@DungeonDad I get it man. I just hope that that eventually is in the near future. Dragons are crazy, and after the big brain long bois last time I can understand draconic burn out (GET IT!?). Keep up the good work.
@@bardssinisterstories2607 And on this week of Hoarders, Ben really feels the burn as his life changes in three easy steps.
Disclaimer: No dragons were harmed during the filming of this episode. But the same could not be said for our second intervention, a father who has turned his house into a dungeon!
@@bardssinisterstories2607 Doesn't the MightyGluestick have videos on Dragons? He may have videos on these dragons.
Have you ever thought of doing a video on the ormyrr
ZARATHOS senrab honestly you’re the first to suggest them but I think it’s a great idea. On the list they go!
Hands of glory generally were a murderers hand as well iirc
I suspect the milk required is actually milk of magnesia
Fun fact: Sinister is latin for Left, and Dexter means right, so ambidextrous means both righted. Bigotry towards left handed people is why sinister means evil.
I'm working on a campaign in the plane of air. I'm thinking to include flying ships and some sky pirates. I know it's not lawful, but I love the idea of having a Blackbeard like character that commands one of these on the deck of his massive ship 👀😈
I know this video is old but damn this golem would be a living nightmare to my bard (one of his parents came from a somewhat evil group so he often fears getting hang.ed by someone who lost a family member that his parent killed)
Itd be neat for that grapple choke to make it impossible for casters to use verbal components
Hell yeah crowns are the only currency to go by
might use this for an assassin group I'm making for my dnd group. so far its an assassin rogue/gloomstalker (the leader, because thats a lot of damage in the first round) and this. 4 more to go
The PDF version of this monster's stat block isn't on your Google drive
So what I would do to enhance it during the process is twigs attach lots of twigs to its ropes before I do the ritual process
dock guards, i mean a pile of rope is not out of place, very hidden harbor master support. Of course they coul,d be made of the ropes used to hang pirates or other naval criminals.
Should have given it a fly speed, allowing it to use a large quantity of itself to whip around in the air like helicopter blades to achieve flight.
if it reassembles to its normal form from its unraveled form and someone stands inside of it that thing should instantly be grappled
Thanks.
I know what a hole of glory is
This has some cowboy vibes ngl
But when you cut rope
There are now 2 ropes
Rope wins every time
Been trying to figure it out but not 100% the best at stating homebrew content, so there are Griffins, lion/eagle, and Hippogriff, horse/eagle, years ago for a class I thought up the Taurogriff, Bull/Eagle. So that being said why not do some unconventional Griffins, the Taurogriff, maybe a Moose/Eagle, Wolf/Eagle, stuff like that. Yes they would be very similar but more mounts and creatures like that would always be welcomed
Clayton Dean you have just given me an amazing idea. The Great Canadian Moosgoose
@@DungeonDad please do that
I just got to plot hooks and I'm more inclined to make it an undead
Pretty sure its the left hand of an excuctied criminal
Okay, I've roughed out what the Hand of Glory can do, because it sounds like a neat reward for beating this thing's creator/as a thing to use against the players xD
It can be lit 12 times, it's a physical candle, so I'm assuming that it'll eventually burn out over time.
It produces bright yellow light out to 10 feet, and dim yellow light out a further 10 feet, only the person who lit the Hand of Glory can perceive this light.
At the cost of 1 finger on the candle, it can produce the following effects:
* Paralysis, on touch, 1 target for 3 [1d6] turns (DC 15)
* Knock (just works like the mundane version of the spell)
At the cost of all remaining fingers, with no less than 3 remaining:
* The Hand functions as a paralysis trap, and can affect as many creatures as it has fingers remaining, this effect is triggered when they are within 10 feet of the lit hand. It will then paralyse those creatures for 3 [1d6] + the number of remaining fingers (1 ~ 5) turns (DC 15)
What makes this a fun trap is that only the person that lit the candle can actually see the light it produces, so someone could hurl it to the ground in a dark place and they'd be able to see their enemies getting trapped, while their foes might be totally blind.
Alternatively, the effect of the paralysis could last as long as the candle still burns, but that could be a bit too powerful, but thematically it'd be neat.
Please feel free to mess with my numbers, I haven't play tested this thing myself, so it might be a bit on the mean side for what is a potentially mundane item. It'd be a great thing to give a Thief on the run, dashing through some dark/dimly lit sewers, tossing it into the murk (only milk puts out the flame, after all) and ensnaring their pursuers.
Also the idea that you pluck the fingers off, or they immediately and magically melt away when you want to use the special effects of the candle is macabre and fun.
Would a left handed criminal be even stronger
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If a Flesh Golem, a golem made out of reanimated flesh is officially a construct. Then why isn't a skeleton not just a bone golem and so also a construct and not undead. Also what's the difference between zombie and flesh golem, and should they be constructs or undead?
I think you could pair this creature up with a posse of skeleton desperados the golem hung and now serve as some sort of postmortem indentured servitude
The party investigates a ghost town gallows and to their surprise the noose, hanging skeleton, and pile of bones underneath attacks them
I'm only 5 minutes into the video and can't wait to share it. Okay here how you implement the hangman game into dnd.
You can try and guess the creatures a name by using your free action to guess a letter, and a bonus action to try guess the name. I'd have the number of letters in their name inscribed somewhere on their body. If you can correctly guess it's name it becomes vulnerable to the guesser's attack. If the party fails 6 guesses, the hangman gets a free crit.
How does the party know to do all this, if they roll an arcana check, or they use that one monster slayer or colbat soul feature
All I can hear is dol chang cambna
There is a very broken way to use this monster.
Grapple then.... Restrain.
This could simply capture an entire party.
However...... There is no way that would be fun to play.
If this thing gets a surprise round and hits/grapples a player and then restrains them next turn.....
2 of these would be excellent for all police + bounty Hunters.
Need to capture the target just animate the rope in ambush.
So needs a reason why it can't easily pull this.
Can only carry two medium creatures.
So if you need to restrain more then that you need several.
An interesting bit would be golm can't move 30 feet from a restrained target.
If you restrain a creature the rope loss decreased max hit points.
Hmmm 🤔.
Oh possibly a restrained creature is pulled behind the golem. Not lifted. This restricts movement speed below thirty.
And they can no longer climb.
If this restraining ability added on to the hit and grapple attack. ( Definitely a saving throw scenario. ) Have to miss two saving throws.
Then all law enforcement bodies would definitely have a few around in any moderately sized city.
Slap wrapp. Pick pocket captured.
Fire+ slashing weapons would be common among theives.
Rope trick could release all restrained prisoners.
There is a bit where this thing instead of being lawful neutral....
The noose was used to kill the innocent.
....
Then this thing is chaotic good.
So essentially a revenant made of ropes that hunts those that abuse the power of law.
Those who used the noose for evil are in turn hung by it.
Think punisher but rope golem.
Damn that sounds epic.
Or any killer of corruption with in the law.
Black rope. With white stripes. When fully formed the skull over the face.
Law men who did evil popping up hung on the tree they killed the innocent on.
First?
Artie Pavlov congrats! You win the prize!
Dungeon Dad my heart can’t take so much excitement for one day!
The Immutable Form trait contradicts the Unravel action, meaning that it can never use the Unravel action because that would alter its form and Immutable Form makes it immune to any feature that alters its form. Consider altering the Immutable Form description as follows: "The golem is immune to any effect that would alter its form except for its Unravel action."
Also, what would happen if you constructed a hangman golem with a rope of entanglement?
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I would very much NOT want to see this man's Etsy page. Sorry not sorry
I like the images and voice not the man
dragon ball talk unfortunately in same cases (like this one) there are only so many images I can put up. Maybe next time ill dress up as the monster to create the illusion of art