I don’t play and never got past the create a character stage but one of my first memories is finding a monster manual at a garage sale as a kid in the 80’s and reading it a million times. Now in my 40’s I listen to these videos before bed. Explaining it to people I always enjoy their wtf responses.
I can relate. After an older cousin introduced me to Dungeons & Dragons around 89-90 I had almost no one to play with(my friends were not into it, too much reading lol)and zero competent DMs but that didn't stop me from compiling a large collection of books(thanks mom and dad)that I read over and over and created characters. To this day when I see a monster in my head even after decades of development chances are it's a Todd Lockwood drawing.
I totally get it. I've never played 40K other than the video games and have no intention to do otherwise. But I started ravenously consuming the lore a couple of years ago and am still going. I haven't played D&D in decades either other than video games. And really it's the lore and the vibe that is D&D. I don't consider the rules, of any edition, to be all that great.
@@Jeremycook_Yeah I was a dungeon master when I played. Frankly, it's far too much work that the players take for granted. At least I put in tons of prep work, probably 4 hours prep for every hour of play time. It was almost a full-time job at the hight of my gaming. And the players I had just made min maxed characters I started referring to as "dungeon lawn mowers." One night I was just sick of it and let them encounter an enemy mage. I had played mages my entire time as a player and took one all the way to archmage. I was actually scared to use one against the players for fear of a team wipe. Well that night I didn't pull any punches. I didn't fudge any roles against them but I didn't overlook any that would kill them. Quickly turned into a party wipe. I never played again. :p
I love that the Demonic Goddess of Sea Storms also has earned the title of “The B!+¢h” among local sailors. It is little world building things like that which makes these fantasy worlds feel alive.
I had a triton paladin that worshipped Umberlee. My back story was that my father had become obsessed with a book which caused him many sleepless nights and to hear voices. One night my character saw his father set himself and home on fire. I woke up outside clutching the book. I decided to read the book to try to learn what it is that ailed my father. Since then I started hearing voices. They would whisper terrible things which would cause me to have outbursts. Roleplaying it out I was randomly saying things like "no we cant kill them." When the other players would look at me I would just tap my trident on the ground twice (I brought with me an aquaman trident prop) then I would say a light prayer to Umberlee: "bitch please." I was to be an oathbreaker paladin subclassed with pact of old one warlock because eventually I would give in to the knowledge given by the book and fully accept the madness.
when I bought the dnd Lore and Legends book it came with a gorgeous map I framed and hung on my wall - every now and then I look up at the map and pick a place I haven't been to before, and research to see if anyone else has explored the region and has stories to tell - Today it was the Nelanther Isles - thank you for sharing!
Hey AJ me and the guys put you in our games you're one of a few lvl 20 people we have in the world equal parts tranmutation wizard and light cleric we normally have our players do erends for you like fecting monster parts and items for your experiments and of course the most valuable of currencies information and lore witch now everyone just calls you the lore mage at the table😂 if so what do you think and how could we improve this as using you for info dumps and monster information has been very handy
I think he has touched on them previously, though I couldn't tell you which video it's in. One regarding an Outer Plane, IIRC. I'm tempted to say Bytopia, but that doesn't sound right. What I do remember is that they are incredibly powerful, even by draconic standards, so long as they remain within the upper planes to which they have become naturalized.
In 3.5, both Mammon and Baalzebul have special _prestige_ classes for their followers and both seem to run very similar and master liars and manipulators. The main difference is that Disciples of Mammon lie to get rich, Disciples of Baalzebul lie to hurt you.
Also, you describe how particularly radiant and perfect Triel was… if he was part of the Hebdomad, that would be a wild revelation. Seems he was “just” a throne, though.
I’m seeing a lot of people saying they put Sage Pickaroon in their games. While I haven’t done the same, they HAVE gotten ahold of one of your texts expanding on how undead function through emergent entropic pseudoforces. The bathtub analogy is now my go-to.
According to the 3.5e Draconomicon, Battle Dragons are a type of planar dragon native to Ysgard. What one was even doing on the astral plane is anyone's guess. 😄
AJ, don’t you know that sailors shouldn’t whistle while on board a ship? They might provoke the wind, or a god of storms might take their action as a challenge! The only one allowed to whistle is the captain, who if there’s no wind at all, might go aft and whistle a small tune in hope that it will please the wind, and it will join in….
This one is strangely appropriate. I was thinking of a pirate isles campaign lately. I’ll be disappointed if I have to run it, because I have an amazing character concept I want to play out in it. I pictured a Druid of the waves on a trimaran built on the back of the multiple ship’s boats that need never make landfall. The trimaran would skip across the stormiest seas by the use of levitation magic on its hulls. Food and water would never be needed, because it carries fishing nets and a 2 gallon cask that refills daily with a Create Water enchantment. A Fog Cloud or Obscuring Mist enchantment on the mast would keep it permanently hidden from view at anchor. A spear and sling enchanted to give lightning damage would make it look like a storm itself was attacking as lightning bolts arc out of the fog. Since it uses levitation to skip across the waves, it could beach on any island and be easily pushed back into the sea. It would be such a giggle to play that character at the tiller of the Stormwrack, but I don’t have a game that it would fit into currently.
I seen another comment about them putting you into their game as a npc, i feel like your videos have been such a huge launch point in helping me make my own world, if its all the same to you id like to include you in the list of legendary sages recorded in my setting
@@AJPickett i wonder if the ones in the island are tainted, i paid attention correctly right? Those vines were in the island of the su-monsters? i went to check, turns out the su-monsters are some kind of psyonic monkey monstrosity, dont' seem particularly chalanging fora well equipped party, but that 'plague" whatever it is sound like trouble, magical or physical? or are they somehow using psionic power to sicken the inhabitants, an extermination would be possible but preparations and more infromation would be needed. although, i can only expect a church or kingdom to pay for it, a wandering band of adventurers can try....not sure about the sucess chances, maybe if they had some kind of usefull material to bargain with. special fishing spots with rare catches perhaps?
Watching youd videos has me thinking I should write out notes in mych the same way for my own world. I need a scholarly individual for my game world who would go around the world like so. I have a character for that who's a human. Hd is part of a guild of knowledge, so he'd be the one to go around the world like that.
I'm curious about the law of absolute obedience. They have to follow the orders of their Archduke, certainly, but other Archdukes are above most other devils, so shouldn't a lesser devil respect the orders of other Archdukes? If they don't go against the orders of their Archduke. I doubt they can just say :" you are not my Archduke so sit on a trident !" to an Archduke without getting severely punished. Another thing: could a very skilled rogue fake the " sign" of a pit devil (or other high ranking devil) to gain passage through a particular layer? Won't work 100% of the times, but still could get you out of some low to medium level encounters.
Lucifer doesn’t exist in D&D. That’s part of that “no real world religions” rule. Even the ones named after the real world religion demons are changed in the spelling.
He was last seen about 20 years ago in the City of Angels, if Demon: the Fallen is anything to go by. It stands to reason, as I don't see how Lucifer could be anywhere but LA.
I didn't know Baalzebul had such a deep backdrop. And I didn't know it was connected to the Wolf spiders and the Queen of Chaos.. Will you be giving us more info? You as a Sage has been added to my future campaigns.
@@AJPickett to get were i'm coming from, imagine illithids. they are out of time. psionics, comes from them, and their actions, in the present that is their past. their future no longer exists, effectivelly they were cut off from the timestream and THEM injected back again, were they were never have ever being, and now can NEVER BE, also because of their actions. is why they are so eldrich and bizarre, they are from a future that desappeared.
18:05 never fuly understood you say? i can try to guess. Suffering creates a reverberation, an energy wavelength, and that is a reverberation of negative energy, is not the sound, is not the pain, is the suffering, that means psychological and "physical", or rather metaphysical, devils demons and the like being entities *made* of negative energy, so they absorb that energy and grow in power and strenght from it, effectivally, they become heavier, and harder, a deeper shade of black, so to speak. also, why would you care if a lich encounter a few notes? All in all they just need an excuse, and they are very creative, i'm sure one already imagined to get power in the way devil do, but them inevitably concluded it would be a fool's errand, the only way that can suceed is if the lich willingly become demonic, but doing so, might, not will, but *might* bind his soul to the abyss or teh nine hells, on top of what he already has, what makes you think its not going to screw around with the phylactery?
@@AJPickett why would they, tough? they would be stuck in the nine hells, or sent there, i know demons are tied to the abyss, are devils also tied in the same manner?
Okay I need sources on both Beelzebub working with Umbrelee and on Lucifer being architect of Pact Primeval. If this is something you made for your game, that is ok too, but if there is a source I want to check it.
I remember a 3rd edition source book with Lucifer in it and how he was the original king of hell. Book of vile darkness page 143 mentions him. But there was an actual stat block elsewhere. He had better stats and challenge rating than asmodeus, but lost to baalzebub due to a lack of political support
IMO it stands to reason that there can be an arduous path to redemption, but a spell sounds like too simplistic a fix. As outsiders, archons and devils are manifestations of the cosmic forces of Good or Evil, plus Law.
On the off chance that you might see this comment AJ, do you have a discord server? If not have you considered making one? I feel like this would be a great way for us lore nerds to discuss things amongst us, share sources on infos that may be hard to find and provide a place for players and dms to help each other with things regarding the game.
@@AJPickett Oh! Thatnk you for the reply :D Were can i find the link? I checked the video descriptions as well as your youtube channel main page and i cant find it...
I kind of prefer the older style videos. I feel like while it’s nice to have the character, I think it distracts from the topic a lot by adding really off topic fluff. Kinda disappointing when i get exited for a topic and most of the video is unrelated, and then I know that topic won’t get revisited for years if ever.
I don’t play and never got past the create a character stage but one of my first memories is finding a monster manual at a garage sale as a kid in the 80’s and reading it a million times. Now in my 40’s I listen to these videos before bed. Explaining it to people I always enjoy their wtf responses.
I can relate. After an older cousin introduced me to Dungeons & Dragons around 89-90 I had almost no one to play with(my friends were not into it, too much reading lol)and zero competent DMs but that didn't stop me from compiling a large collection of books(thanks mom and dad)that I read over and over and created characters. To this day when I see a monster in my head even after decades of development chances are it's a Todd Lockwood drawing.
I totally get it.
I've never played 40K other than the video games and have no intention to do otherwise. But I started ravenously consuming the lore a couple of years ago and am still going.
I haven't played D&D in decades either other than video games. And really it's the lore and the vibe that is D&D. I don't consider the rules, of any edition, to be all that great.
@@Jeremycook_Yeah I was a dungeon master when I played. Frankly, it's far too much work that the players take for granted. At least I put in tons of prep work, probably 4 hours prep for every hour of play time. It was almost a full-time job at the hight of my gaming. And the players I had just made min maxed characters I started referring to as "dungeon lawn mowers."
One night I was just sick of it and let them encounter an enemy mage. I had played mages my entire time as a player and took one all the way to archmage. I was actually scared to use one against the players for fear of a team wipe. Well that night I didn't pull any punches. I didn't fudge any roles against them but I didn't overlook any that would kill them. Quickly turned into a party wipe. I never played again. :p
I love that the Demonic Goddess of Sea Storms also has earned the title of
“The B!+¢h” among local sailors. It is little world building things like that which makes these fantasy worlds feel alive.
I love your lore videos so much.
All hail the mighty gluestick
Well, what an excellent way to start a Saturday. Thank you, Mister Pickett!
I had a triton paladin that worshipped Umberlee. My back story was that my father had become obsessed with a book which caused him many sleepless nights and to hear voices. One night my character saw his father set himself and home on fire. I woke up outside clutching the book. I decided to read the book to try to learn what it is that ailed my father. Since then I started hearing voices. They would whisper terrible things which would cause me to have outbursts. Roleplaying it out I was randomly saying things like "no we cant kill them." When the other players would look at me I would just tap my trident on the ground twice (I brought with me an aquaman trident prop) then I would say a light prayer to Umberlee: "bitch please." I was to be an oathbreaker paladin subclassed with pact of old one warlock because eventually I would give in to the knowledge given by the book and fully accept the madness.
when I bought the dnd Lore and Legends book it came with a gorgeous map I framed and hung on my wall - every now and then I look up at the map and pick a place I haven't been to before, and research to see if anyone else has explored the region and has stories to tell - Today it was the Nelanther Isles - thank you for sharing!
Painted a really cool backdrop for a campaign, great job, as always.
Hey AJ me and the guys put you in our games you're one of a few lvl 20 people we have in the world equal parts tranmutation wizard and light cleric we normally have our players do erends for you like fecting monster parts and items for your experiments and of course the most valuable of currencies information and lore witch now everyone just calls you the lore mage at the table😂 if so what do you think and how could we improve this as using you for info dumps and monster information has been very handy
Clearly the time has come to make a video on the sage..
Become a thoroughly embedded feature of the wider DnD landscape these days.
@@AJPickett sounds interesting
@@AJPickettThat sounds like a project.
@@AJPickett
BleuSage
1:39 You know the rules Aj. When you mention a new type of dragon you have to do a video on it in the future
Oh, I know 😄
I think he has touched on them previously, though I couldn't tell you which video it's in. One regarding an Outer Plane, IIRC. I'm tempted to say Bytopia, but that doesn't sound right. What I do remember is that they are incredibly powerful, even by draconic standards, so long as they remain within the upper planes to which they have become naturalized.
@@D--FENS That would be the Adamantium Dragons, and yes, they are very powerful indeed.
In 3.5, both Mammon and Baalzebul have special _prestige_ classes for their followers and both seem to run very similar and master liars and manipulators.
The main difference is that Disciples of Mammon lie to get rich, Disciples of Baalzebul lie to hurt you.
@2:00 That troll war picture is awesome.
Also, you describe how particularly radiant and perfect Triel was… if he was part of the Hebdomad, that would be a wild revelation. Seems he was “just” a throne, though.
I’m seeing a lot of people saying they put Sage Pickaroon in their games. While I haven’t done the same, they HAVE gotten ahold of one of your texts expanding on how undead function through emergent entropic pseudoforces. The bathtub analogy is now my go-to.
AJ, 26 minutes???!!
HELL YEAHHH
I always love to sojourn into Hell... which is an odd thing to say, even with context.
Bloodwar is a favorite for me ...
As long as we are island hopping in the Sea of Swords, I would hope to see a Mintarn deep dive one day.
Well, as the location the Sage choose to build Highhand Spire, it will certainly get a mention
Baalzebul and Mammon are my favorite arch devils to use as bbeg. Thanks AJ!
I would love a more in depth video on Pale Night if you feel up to it!
Awesome thank you for the tale
According to the 3.5e Draconomicon, Battle Dragons are a type of planar dragon native to Ysgard. What one was even doing on the astral plane is anyone's guess. 😄
Most planar dragons know how to navigate the astral plane, mind you, the dragons in Bytopia don't travel much at all.
Good morning/afternoon/evening!
Great video, I always like the ones that have planar tie-ins
When a mage doesn't want visitors.
HE DOESN'T WANT VISITORS
The magic, of avoiding taxes.
AJ, don’t you know that sailors shouldn’t whistle while on board a ship?
They might provoke the wind, or a god of storms might take their action as a challenge!
The only one allowed to whistle is the captain, who if there’s no wind at all, might go aft and whistle a small tune in hope that it will please the wind, and it will join in….
No, it's "Never take a banana aboard a scuba diving trip." *Clockwork Dive Club 1988*
😄
Would love to see a Zariel and Baalzebul team up campaign.
This one is strangely appropriate. I was thinking of a pirate isles campaign lately. I’ll be disappointed if I have to run it, because I have an amazing character concept I want to play out in it.
I pictured a Druid of the waves on a trimaran built on the back of the multiple ship’s boats that need never make landfall. The trimaran would skip across the stormiest seas by the use of levitation magic on its hulls. Food and water would never be needed, because it carries fishing nets and a 2 gallon cask that refills daily with a Create Water enchantment. A Fog Cloud or Obscuring Mist enchantment on the mast would keep it permanently hidden from view at anchor. A spear and sling enchanted to give lightning damage would make it look like a storm itself was attacking as lightning bolts arc out of the fog. Since it uses levitation to skip across the waves, it could beach on any island and be easily pushed back into the sea.
It would be such a giggle to play that character at the tiller of the Stormwrack, but I don’t have a game that it would fit into currently.
Great story AJ
Thank you Chris!
I seen another comment about them putting you into their game as a npc, i feel like your videos have been such a huge launch point in helping me make my own world, if its all the same to you id like to include you in the list of legendary sages recorded in my setting
Aww, thanks, its an honor
Extremely good!!
Thank you 😊
What an absolute boss.
Thanks AJ!
Bloodthorn vines, i wonder if they can be used to offer security.
maybe enchanted.
sounds like a good candidate for a "fence on the cheap"
They certainly can. Fun fact, they are related to the vines found in Sigil
@@AJPickett i wonder if the ones in the island are tainted, i paid attention correctly right? Those vines were in the island of the su-monsters?
i went to check, turns out the su-monsters are some kind of psyonic monkey monstrosity, dont' seem particularly chalanging fora well equipped party, but that 'plague" whatever it is sound like trouble, magical or physical? or are they somehow using psionic power to sicken the inhabitants, an extermination would be possible but preparations and more infromation would be needed.
although, i can only expect a church or kingdom to pay for it, a wandering band of adventurers can try....not sure about the sucess chances, maybe if they had some kind of usefull material to bargain with.
special fishing spots with rare catches perhaps?
I love your videos!
Watching youd videos has me thinking I should write out notes in mych the same way for my own world. I need a scholarly individual for my game world who would go around the world like so.
I have a character for that who's a human. Hd is part of a guild of knowledge, so he'd be the one to go around the world like that.
I'm curious about the law of absolute obedience. They have to follow the orders of their Archduke, certainly, but other Archdukes are above most other devils, so shouldn't a lesser devil respect the orders of other Archdukes? If they don't go against the orders of their Archduke. I doubt they can just say :" you are not my Archduke so sit on a trident !" to an Archduke without getting severely punished. Another thing: could a very skilled rogue fake the " sign" of a pit devil (or other high ranking devil) to gain passage through a particular layer? Won't work 100% of the times, but still could get you out of some low to medium level encounters.
A very skilled rogue could, yes. The oath of loyalty restricts and enforces the strict heirarchies of the Nine Hells also.
Welcome back AJ.
Lucifer ruled at one time, but now he's gone and nobody knows where... 😮
Lucifer doesn’t exist in D&D. That’s part of that “no real world religions” rule.
Even the ones named after the real world religion demons are changed in the spelling.
@@almitrahopkins1873 he's in that article in Dragon magazine, so, its canon
@@AJPickett Really? That’s odd. I thought they followed through with the decision from 1st Ed on that.
He was last seen about 20 years ago in the City of Angels, if Demon: the Fallen is anything to go by. It stands to reason, as I don't see how Lucifer could be anywhere but LA.
wasn't there a mention of Asmedous absorbing the power of lucifer, which explains his humanoid aspect?
I didn't know Baalzebul had such a deep backdrop. And I didn't know it was connected to the Wolf spiders and the Queen of Chaos..
Will you be giving us more info?
You as a Sage has been added to my future campaigns.
Very Nice🎉
The devil who seems much more like a demon.
So good. ❤
a few devils to go and then i can ask about the outer planes again.
Two Archdevils in a row? Hope we get a third one.
I don’t get the ending… 🤔 someone help… so they went to another island? And what happened to red jack?!
And now i have to ask, is psionic power really evil?
Will you make a video or already made a video on the subject?
because if yes, i'd like a link.
It's complicated.
@@AJPickett last i checked is just...unnatural, not inherently evil, but odd, displaced.
@@pensador6953 nothing is outside of nature.
@@AJPickett how about......a power outside of due time?
like winter, in spring.
@@AJPickett to get were i'm coming from, imagine illithids.
they are out of time.
psionics, comes from them, and their actions, in the present that is their past.
their future no longer exists, effectivelly they were cut off from the timestream and THEM injected back again, were they were never have ever being, and now can NEVER BE, also because of their actions.
is why they are so eldrich and bizarre, they are from a future that desappeared.
6:00
Jabba the Hutt said, " .. dammm .. ! "
18:05 never fuly understood you say?
i can try to guess.
Suffering creates a reverberation, an energy wavelength, and that is a reverberation of negative energy, is not the sound, is not the pain, is the suffering, that means psychological and "physical", or rather metaphysical, devils demons and the like being entities *made* of negative energy, so they absorb that energy and grow in power and strenght from it, effectivally, they become heavier, and harder, a deeper shade of black, so to speak.
also, why would you care if a lich encounter a few notes?
All in all they just need an excuse, and they are very creative, i'm sure one already imagined to get power in the way devil do, but them inevitably concluded it would be a fool's errand, the only way that can suceed is if the lich willingly become demonic, but doing so, might, not will, but *might* bind his soul to the abyss or teh nine hells, on top of what he already has, what makes you think its not going to screw around with the phylactery?
Liches certainly can become devils
@@AJPickett why would they, tough?
they would be stuck in the nine hells, or sent there, i know demons are tied to the abyss, are devils also tied in the same manner?
Okay I need sources on both Beelzebub working with Umbrelee and on Lucifer being architect of Pact Primeval. If this is something you made for your game, that is ok too, but if there is a source I want to check it.
I remember a 3rd edition source book with Lucifer in it and how he was the original king of hell. Book of vile darkness page 143 mentions him. But there was an actual stat block elsewhere. He had better stats and challenge rating than asmodeus, but lost to baalzebub due to a lack of political support
I read that as brazillian at first
AJ, have you ever considered writing a book? You seem to excel at storytelling.
You are watching me do it
Free books! 🎉
I made it "early" to one of your vids!
Is there a spell or method where a corrupted evil creature can become good again? Baalzebul should definitely have it.
I was wondering that myself.
IMO it stands to reason that there can be an arduous path to redemption, but a spell sounds like too simplistic a fix. As outsiders, archons and devils are manifestations of the cosmic forces of Good or Evil, plus Law.
Basically Peator Baelish's Persona.
Even worse
@5:55 Um. The text is inaccurate. Baalzebub means lord of the flies.
Or is the meaning opposite from our world?
@@Kargonethdepends upon what part of the Dawn War we're experiencing 😂
MoonSh....
On the off chance that you might see this comment AJ,
do you have a discord server?
If not have you considered making one?
I feel like this would be a great way for us lore nerds to discuss things amongst us, share sources on infos that may be hard to find and provide a place for players and dms to help each other with things regarding the game.
I certainly do
@@AJPickett Oh! Thatnk you for the reply :D
Were can i find the link? I checked the video descriptions as well as your youtube channel main page and i cant find it...
@@rotschadel3574 You can't see it in the video description? Hmm well here we go discordapp.com/invite/HP8wgrq
@@AJPickett thank you :D
Can you do something about the audio of your content? I love your narration but even at max volume I can hear you very well.
I think that might be an issue on your side; I have no issues on my computer or phone.
PANR has tuned in.
(No longer Seamus, Saoirse now).
That's a lot of vowels
@@AJPickett thank you. I decided I'd keep an Irish name to replace Seamus.
Most of this video didn't even have the titular devil in it hardly
You gotta slow the talk down my man. Can't sleep to this
You can reduce the playback speed
10:00 . . . [sigh] Would
Fan service (tick)
Arrhhh 🦜
of Zombicide? Wierd
I kind of prefer the older style videos. I feel like while it’s nice to have the character, I think it distracts from the topic a lot by adding really off topic fluff.
Kinda disappointing when i get exited for a topic and most of the video is unrelated, and then I know that topic won’t get revisited for years if ever.
Good feedback, thanks.
@@AJPickettNo thank you! I have been falling asleep to these for years sir!
I kinda enjoy the frame narratives while reluctantly agreeing with this.
I have mixed feelings. Sometimes I love the extra flavor sometimes I find myself distracted from the main lore.