@@gaymerxtem4298 there's a very old story about a dnd campaign where a player attacks a Gazebo because he thought it was a monster the GM was describing. I suspect he thought it was a Glabrezu.
True story. I had a player decide to eat a crawling claw. They failed their CON Save (it was LOW), and so their hand started to slowly turn into a crawling claw. That derailed the campaign and it was so good.
Fantastic story, but seriously: WHY DO PLAYERS TRY TO EAT EVERYTHING? I keep having to come up with damage values for hunks of metal and glass that someone decides to snack on.
@@Skulanus SOOO TRUE! This was a group of high schoolers, so it tracked with their personality. Had one of them wanting to lick everything. The best part of the whole session though was that when they were confronted with a Zombie Beholder, it asked "What do you want?" and a player responded, "your mom." He was the first to die.
Video was a treat, it teased just enough inspiration for future undead campaigns. Also, have some timestamps: 0:00 Introduction // Why Fans Love Undead 2:45 Vampires 6:20 Ghasts and Liches 9:10 Revenants 12:35 Swarm of Crawling Claws 14:30 Death Knights and Dracoliches 16:15 Undead Rebalances 18:10 Story Tables 19:40 Zombies, Skeletons and Conclusion
CoS? Ppl should give a chance to the new starter set adventure: Stormwreck Island. I made this changes: - Swap Kobolds for children - Swap blue dragon and evil kobold for cultists - and the lore with dragons for wizards haunting the entire isle. Man, my players though i was running a CoC module.
The graveyard revenant called to mind a variation: a battlefield revenant, where essentially the site of a great and horrific battle is haunted by the animated corpses of some ancient army.
How about TWO ancient armies? Forever locked in war, like a horrific mirror of Valhalla. Neither side is willing to let go of the injustice or insult that caused the war to begin with.
I know these are all already recorded and the monster manual is already written but I really hope Lycanthropes get a huge section in the book and a video like this.
I’ve heard it put this way: angels are good guys. Devils and demons are bad guys. In a game that’s typically about good guy PCs fighting evil monsters, which of those 2 groups are you going to focus on more as a game maker? But, yeah, I’d love more angel/celestial stuff, too 🙃
The fiends and celestials are their own categories. Each will likely get their own video. So far there is a dragon video and undead video. So if this trend continues, each creature group would get its own video. Just stay tuned. I am eagerly watching these videos as they come out.
Count me as excited. My favorite monster is the lich. I love their spy networks, magic unbound by mortality or time constraints, & the alienating nature of power. Until, of course, I realized that dragons could perform all my favorite lich-aspects, but could also shapeshift, terraform, soak damage, & y'know, become dracoliches. So maybe that second sentence was a lie.
@@haydenbsiegel It's a reference to the movie/show What We Do In The Shadows (which is also where the Familiar is from). High rec. It's not very long and it's ended now, so you can binge it.
Dude. The Graveyard Revenant looks like an undead Hecatoncheires. And the haunting revenant is not only a literal haunted house, but just straight up reminds me of the movie: Monster House.
@@TheMightyBattleSquid I always hated how boring old Giants were. Ogres, Hill Giants, Ettins, and Cyclopes were all big dumb brutes. Orcs were pretty similar, too. Hopefully the new Cyclopes is a sign that all of them will be more unique and less redundant.
@levithompson478 agreed! Not just giants but so many monsters were just a random stat generator followed by a bite and claw attack or, after a certain CR, a multiattack of bite and claw. Hopefully wotc has learned their lesson from 3rd party books and content creators by giving the monsters actual niches both mechanically and narratively.
just started a tier 1 vampire campaign where i was homebrewing a variant of cultists as not-yet-undead vampire wannabes, just like the new vampire familiar! excited to see the new mm expanding the range and depth of these different creature subtypes, so players of all levels can experience classic monsters without having to wait years for a campaign to hit the right level :)
What’s funny is not only is the art of the haunting revenant cool and probably inspired by the classic movie Monster House. But I would argue the entire monster idea is based on that movie, because a spirit driven to undeath by their tragic death and or unresolved life describes the plot of that movie very well.
Zelda's giant Floormaster and Wallmaster hands suddenly drop into rooms and drag you "elsewhere" or hold you as other monsters attack you; it's great material!
The Undead are some of my favorite monsters. I have to homebrew a lot of them. I hope they give us a lot more interesting and hard hitting undead. Maybe some undead with some good spell casting that's not a lich. Also make the lich better because the new lich monsters have been very disapointing.
I actually like the idea of templates that go onto existing statblocks to make them different. It is an easier way to multiply existing statblocks in little space. I liked the Half Dragon and Dracolich templates, even if they could be improved. Like you could make a whole swath of half dragons that are different, half dragon half ogre, half dragon half dwarf, half dragon half giant could all be together and different.
I've had a Vampire/Necromancer noble lady with an unbrella made out of a swarm of Crawling Claws cooking for a while. Now I don't have to homebrew as much to get there.
The haunting revenant hit me with an idea for a haunting revenant in a tree that is cunning and disguises itself as an animate tree instead. It asks players to bring justice to some foul and evil people in the town, but they can discover that it is targeting the descendants of those who wronged it long ago.
Wait… should we take the flaming skeleton description as a sign that at least some creatures not only have changes due to the "bloodied" condition but also have death throes?! 🎉
There are some that already do, like mephits. But man, the first thing I imagined was flaming skeletons charging forward ahead of an army. Better shoot them down quick! Terrifying.
Death Knight sounds like it should be a fighter subclass. I'm hoping we get a horror themed player's book with things like the Grave Domain Cleric and the Necromancer Wizard.
I just think of thr Necromancer knights from Diablo 2 and Death Knights from wow. Doe if you ask me, i say ya lets make it just dont expect my head to remain in one piece.
I am curious about the new Slaymate, Lich and Revenant And all the other undead and I’m curious of the new one so there’s gonna be a few new ones, that be so cool.
"we didnt have enough space for the house" uh...have you heard of the thing called "adding another page"? . I KNOW REVOLUTIONARY!!! But very effective!
Hope they give us necromancy spells that go beyond small/medium skeletons/zombies, and the occasional ghoul or mummy. Really want to get a zombie dire wolf or a skeleton horse, or a shadow or ghost. Maybe some spells for bringing undead under our fold
I envision the haunting revenant house's "teleport everyone in a cone to inside itself" as sucking you in and closing the wall/door behind you, but as a teleportation, you can wind up anywhere inside the house, separated from your party...
i have THREE liches in an upcoming game. One is technically a dracolich. And also one is a good guy lich (a death guide, a cleric-y lich, who's service to his god is remaining on the material plane and helping guide people through death. You can trust him, he's literally been there)
I'm curious if anything changed about the creatures you can summon with Create Undead (ghoul, regular ghast, wight, mummy). At least, it seems like wights are getting a neat new artwork
I’m so glad we’re getting more vamp stat blocks. They’re so crucial to dnd, and I was so disappointed to see the old monster manual only had two stat blocks
Graveyard revenant is what happens after the bad guy makes a entire town eat taco bell. 😂 Also isnt it like a lower "greek monster that outpunched Zeus?"
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"The original revenant has returned." Yup, that's what they do
Hahahaha very nice. 😂
Gazeebos!
Good joke, but he said "the traditional revenant" 😜
"the bird flu? yeah they tend to do that"
That Haunting Revenant going straight into a Gazebo
Doing this now
Reference? Or why a gazebo?
@@gaymerxtem4298 there's a very old story about a dnd campaign where a player attacks a Gazebo because he thought it was a monster the GM was describing. I suspect he thought it was a Glabrezu.
@@zippomageor he just didn’t know what a gazebo was and assumed that it was some sort of monster
I am happy to inform you that there is a free mini that you can 3D print of a monster gazebo already out there
True story. I had a player decide to eat a crawling claw. They failed their CON Save (it was LOW), and so their hand started to slowly turn into a crawling claw. That derailed the campaign and it was so good.
Evil Dead vibes right there.
Fantastic story, but seriously: WHY DO PLAYERS TRY TO EAT EVERYTHING? I keep having to come up with damage values for hunks of metal and glass that someone decides to snack on.
@@Skulanus SOOO TRUE! This was a group of high schoolers, so it tracked with their personality. Had one of them wanting to lick everything.
The best part of the whole session though was that when they were confronted with a Zombie Beholder, it asked "What do you want?" and a player responded, "your mom." He was the first to die.
If they don't include a recommended CON save DC for eating a crawling claw in the new Monster Manual, I don't think it's worth buying...
@@samuelsexton2417 Good line, though! If you gotta go, go out like a champion!
Video was a treat, it teased just enough inspiration for future undead campaigns. Also, have some timestamps:
0:00 Introduction // Why Fans Love Undead
2:45 Vampires
6:20 Ghasts and Liches
9:10 Revenants
12:35 Swarm of Crawling Claws
14:30 Death Knights and Dracoliches
16:15 Undead Rebalances
18:10 Story Tables
19:40 Zombies, Skeletons and Conclusion
I was hoping for another Ghost version
Running a 2024 CoS campaign next month and could not be more excited.
Running a CoS campaign and just went to the Wizards of wines. I think the party is gonna find level a bit more interesting
Same! Definitely gonna include some of the new vampire stuff.
I finished CoS last year with my party and it was a great time overall - good luck, have fun!
Please share your time machine, I wanna go back even farther than just last year
CoS? Ppl should give a chance to the new starter set adventure: Stormwreck Island.
I made this changes:
- Swap Kobolds for children
- Swap blue dragon and evil kobold for cultists
- and the lore with dragons for wizards haunting the entire isle.
Man, my players though i was running a CoC module.
A vampire familiar and energy vampires? I have an excellent new campaign idea: What We Do in the Shadowfell
Dew it !
if you do a live play I will DEFINITELY watch!
The graveyard revenant called to mind a variation: a battlefield revenant, where essentially the site of a great and horrific battle is haunted by the animated corpses of some ancient army.
The Dead Marshes in LotR
I just picture my Eldritch Knight quickly pulling out all the gunpowder she has stashed.
"Nope, N o p e! Not today" and just tosses it at the mass 😂
How about TWO ancient armies? Forever locked in war, like a horrific mirror of Valhalla.
Neither side is willing to let go of the injustice or insult that caused the war to begin with.
@@seidmadr2024Love it!
I know these are all already recorded and the monster manual is already written but I really hope Lycanthropes get a huge section in the book and a video like this.
Me too.
I suspect the lycanthrope family will get their own video. It is a major curse\creature for them not to do one.
I hope they give more insight in what I can do when a player character becomes a Lycan
It's Monster House! Amazing.
I came here to say this but new in my heart it had already been said
I am hoping for a Deva and Angel update with this book love the concept but it weird that devils and demons have so much more lore than the angels
Angels got some really cool updates too, there's a few sneak peek videos you can search up.
I’ve heard it put this way: angels are good guys. Devils and demons are bad guys. In a game that’s typically about good guy PCs fighting evil monsters, which of those 2 groups are you going to focus on more as a game maker?
But, yeah, I’d love more angel/celestial stuff, too 🙃
There's always more lore on things that people want to fight.
The fiends and celestials are their own categories. Each will likely get their own video. So far there is a dragon video and undead video. So if this trend continues, each creature group would get its own video. Just stay tuned. I am eagerly watching these videos as they come out.
I would love more celestial Lore!
1 Heroic Inspiration for Todd's joke!
Energy vampire - WWDITS reference!
Count me as excited. My favorite monster is the lich. I love their spy networks, magic unbound by mortality or time constraints, & the alienating nature of power. Until, of course, I realized that dragons could perform all my favorite lich-aspects, but could also shapeshift, terraform, soak damage, & y'know, become dracoliches. So maybe that second sentence was a lie.
The Energy Vampire stuff 🧛♂️🙌
Caught it
That pun got me. I am stealing it!
@@haydenbsiegel It's a reference to the movie/show What We Do In The Shadows (which is also where the Familiar is from). High rec. It's not very long and it's ended now, so you can binge it.
@governor_explosion yeah I know but I just meant the joke the pun was about was great. Not the pun itself. I watched the show. Enjoyed it.
A creature type sorely missing from the Monster Manual was plants, so I hope we get some more ones!
“Love of vampires bleeding over… “
Pun intended? lol!
Dude. The Graveyard Revenant looks like an undead Hecatoncheires.
And the haunting revenant is not only a literal haunted house, but just straight up reminds me of the movie: Monster House.
i hope they gave some love to the giants and plants
Have to buy to find out. I am excited for these new changes ,and sure they added to all classics
They at least made Cyclopes more interesting for Giants.
Based on the cyclops, they probably did. Cyclops used to just be "hill giant but with 1 eye" now it has an actual niche.
@@TheMightyBattleSquid I always hated how boring old Giants were. Ogres, Hill Giants, Ettins, and Cyclopes were all big dumb brutes. Orcs were pretty similar, too. Hopefully the new Cyclopes is a sign that all of them will be more unique and less redundant.
@levithompson478 agreed! Not just giants but so many monsters were just a random stat generator followed by a bite and claw attack or, after a certain CR, a multiattack of bite and claw. Hopefully wotc has learned their lesson from 3rd party books and content creators by giving the monsters actual niches both mechanically and narratively.
just started a tier 1 vampire campaign where i was homebrewing a variant of cultists as not-yet-undead vampire wannabes, just like the new vampire familiar! excited to see the new mm expanding the range and depth of these different creature subtypes, so players of all levels can experience classic monsters without having to wait years for a campaign to hit the right level :)
What’s funny is not only is the art of the haunting revenant cool and probably inspired by the classic movie Monster House. But I would argue the entire monster idea is based on that movie, because a spirit driven to undeath by their tragic death and or unresolved life describes the plot of that movie very well.
Would love a hill giant crawling claw or formorean crawling claw.
Lycanthrope Crawling Claw or a Dragon Crawling Claw......
You just traumatized all the Elden Ring players by suggesting a giant, animate, severed hand....
I'm excited to get my hands on this book... I have so many new videos in mind
10:41 monster house has prepared me for this encounter
So many monster house memes incoming.
0:48 "Hey Lich!" will summon one in my campaign now, instantly.
That bit at the end and JC's reaction was peak Todd. Never change.
Shoutout Collin Robinson!
~_~
I love the concept of a flaming skull who retains its whole skeleton
A horde of vampire goblins that roam the lands stripping it of all life is my next challenge for my players....
It would be cool to see a crawling claw of a giant imagine a human sized hand bursting into a room
Zelda's giant Floormaster and Wallmaster hands suddenly drop into rooms and drag you "elsewhere" or hold you as other monsters attack you; it's great material!
Ok Todd get to work on the book of D&D dad jokes. 😄
I would buy it for myself and my brother, who also loves dad jokes.
The Undead are some of my favorite monsters. I have to homebrew a lot of them. I hope they give us a lot more interesting and hard hitting undead. Maybe some undead with some good spell casting that's not a lich. Also make the lich better because the new lich monsters have been very disapointing.
I actually like the idea of templates that go onto existing statblocks to make them different. It is an easier way to multiply existing statblocks in little space. I liked the Half Dragon and Dracolich templates, even if they could be improved. Like you could make a whole swath of half dragons that are different, half dragon half ogre, half dragon half dwarf, half dragon half giant could all be together and different.
Todd is Colin Robinson, confirmed.
The real monsters were the friends we made along the way.
Especially if you use Matt Mercers Lingering Soul class, i'm dying to play it
so glad that last joke made the cut lol
I wonder if more lower CR undead could combine well with a revised school of necromancy wizard
Is there a Vampire Ascendant stat block ?
Loving those shots of the pages! I can't wait to see the layout!
Bro, Monter House in D&D!? Lettssggoooo!!!
I've had a Vampire/Necromancer noble lady with an unbrella made out of a swarm of Crawling Claws cooking for a while. Now I don't have to homebrew as much to get there.
The haunting revenant hit me with an idea for a haunting revenant in a tree that is cunning and disguises itself as an animate tree instead.
It asks players to bring justice to some foul and evil people in the town, but they can discover that it is targeting the descendants of those who wronged it long ago.
A haunting revenant tree with its victims still limply hanging from its branches is also a horrifying image
@@RaptorsVevo Damn that is good I love it! Writing that down...
@@RaptorsVevoi remember hearing something like that in the SCP item "A crack in the trench" and ya, nah. Instant flamer tier the lot of them.
Does Strahd get an upgrade? Asking for…a friend.
14:38 that art is AMAZING!
Wait… should we take the flaming skeleton description as a sign that at least some creatures not only have changes due to the "bloodied" condition but also have death throes?! 🎉
There are some that already do, like mephits. But man, the first thing I imagined was flaming skeletons charging forward ahead of an army. Better shoot them down quick! Terrifying.
Amazing illustrations btw.. thanks Wizards!
Death Knight sounds like it should be a fighter subclass. I'm hoping we get a horror themed player's book with things like the Grave Domain Cleric and the Necromancer Wizard.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think one of the Grim Hollow books has a Death Knight subclass.
A death knight is basically the lich equivalent for martials so it definitely isn’t a subclass
@@ce5122Yeah,in older edtions,in the 5e,they are Fallen Paladins,exclusive paladins.
I just think of thr Necromancer knights from Diablo 2 and Death Knights from wow.
Doe if you ask me, i say ya lets make it just dont expect my head to remain in one piece.
People know what their job is:
If it's a zombie, get rid of it.
If it's a vampire, try to seduce it.
I am curious about the new Slaymate, Lich and Revenant And all the other undead and I’m curious of the new one so there’s gonna be a few new ones, that be so cool.
Did they say that the slaymate was gonna return? Colour me intrigued!
"we didnt have enough space for the house" uh...have you heard of the thing called "adding another page"? . I KNOW REVOLUTIONARY!!! But very effective!
At last, Gizmo has a stat-block
I love the What we do in Shadows reference at the end 😂 Energy Vampire
My reborn devotion paladin loves this
5:38 HA, I see what you did there.
Get it?
I want to know the glow ups for Mummies…
Hope they give us necromancy spells that go beyond small/medium skeletons/zombies, and the occasional ghoul or mummy. Really want to get a zombie dire wolf or a skeleton horse, or a shadow or ghost. Maybe some spells for bringing undead under our fold
4:38 "whenever you wanna use a vampire there is just one waiting for you.", cuts to illustration of two sexy vampires... *sweating intensifies*
12:40 Whenever I see the Crawling Claw, I can't ever not think of Thing Addams.
I thought it was a dad joke setup too...
jeremys audio is much better today
Awh, no mention of wights? They are my favourite undead. I just love "ancient angry dead" as a idea
I envision the haunting revenant house's "teleport everyone in a cone to inside itself" as sucking you in and closing the wall/door behind you, but as a teleportation, you can wind up anywhere inside the house, separated from your party...
Expanding the monster manual list for lower CR undead is promising for Necromancer player class expansions, hopefully.
i have THREE liches in an upcoming game. One is technically a dracolich. And also one is a good guy lich (a death guide, a cleric-y lich, who's service to his god is remaining on the material plane and helping guide people through death. You can trust him, he's literally been there)
Looking forward to new versions of old standbys
Know the have higher/lower CR of the Vampire hopefully they'll do the same for other types of undead
That joke at the end was fangtastic.
Cart of Cabbages = Haunting Revenant. Its the new mimic!
1:47 isn’t that what lemurs are? Human souls becoming devils? Oh ig just the soul.
No, lemurs are a family of prosimian primates endemic to Madagascar
No clarification on how these guys are affected by daylight spell? It's way too low level a spell to stop all vampire abilities from working...
That house......Looking forward for golems & constructs video!
The ghast gravecrawler is basically Rasputin from the animated Anastasia movie.
I love how they were just like, yes, we love monster house too, the haunting revenant is monster house, have fun
I'm curious if anything changed about the creatures you can summon with Create Undead (ghoul, regular ghast, wight, mummy). At least, it seems like wights are getting a neat new artwork
good old monster house campaign 12:10
I’m so glad we’re getting more vamp stat blocks. They’re so crucial to dnd, and I was so disappointed to see the old monster manual only had two stat blocks
So excited for the 10 year anniversary remake of Curse of Strahd!
Flameskull might have been the only monster from the original monster manual that was actually too deadly for its CR. interested to see if it changed.
I wonder where Strahd sits in the vampire pantheon now. 4:14
Umber ... Hulk?
I’d imagine on a similar level to whatever the upper level generic vampire is
That is very good what you did with the vampires!
Graveyard revenant is what happens after the bad guy makes a entire town eat taco bell. 😂
Also isnt it like a lower "greek monster that outpunched Zeus?"
so awesome, i cant wait for the revenants and mimics xD everything is dangerous
Love the what we do ín the shadows reference!
11:35 someone watched the film monster house in the creation of this 😂 cool and pumped for it
The music is kinda good
0:36 Yeah, you spelled Spectre wrong.
a charriot possessed by a haunting revenant of a jealous possessive maiden called christine
Thank you for bringing back Exploding Flaming Skeletons. my 2025 is made.
No reference to the Soul Shaker from Journeys through the Radiant Citadel? Basically a swarm crawling claw
dang this cool!
at 1:38 did they derail the entire afterlife petitioner system ?
I wonder what a Death Elemental would look like.
I picture one of the Grim Reapers but bro is still stuck in the casket or in thr dirt lol.
I imagine sort of like the old Entropic Reapers
Ah yes, the undead bandits.
My fav is the Deathknight! A martial commander bbeg
I am kinda keen to learn about lycanthropes, and shapechangers.
Why was the vampire tan?
Speaking of "clarity" do we get a Baelnorn Statblock?
Will crawling claw be a necromancer familiar?
So there still won´t be any big like weakness/resistance/imunities overhaul?
So creature wont be weak to anything is what i mean to say,
Very promising for this book. And here i thought the 500 stat blocks would be mostly filler.
Please let the examples of the Haunting Revenant include a gazebo.
I love undead!
What if the Revenant was a player character option as well, though 🤔