Dungeons and Dragons Lore : Nymph
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- Nymph
Medium fey, neutral.
Armor Class: 15
Hit Points: 60 (8d8+24)
Speed: 30 ft.
STR 8 DEX 20 CON 8 INT 11 WIS 14 CHA 20
Saves: Advantage on all saving throws against disease and sleep
Skills: Perception +4, Stealth +6
Immunity: Poisoned and charmed
Senses: Darkvision 60 ft.
Passive Perception: 14
Languages: Common, sylvan, elven
Challenge: 4 (1,100 xp)
Innate Spell Casting. The nymph's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (Spell save DC is 14). The nymph can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components.
at will: druidcraft, animal friendship, goodberry
4/day each: detect good and evil, cure wounds
3/day each: detect thoughts, dispel magic
2/day each: conjure woodland beings, dimension door
Magic Resistance. The nymph has advantage on all saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (142+1) bludgeoning damage.
Unearthly Beauty. The nymph may target all humanoids or beasts within 30 ft. who are able to see the nymph, or focus the effect on one target only. If the target can see the nymph, it must succeed on a DC 17 wisdom saving throw or be magically charmed. The charmed creature becomes infatuated with the nymph and will protect her from any threat, do their best to fulfil every favour the nymph asks of them, as long as it is not entirely contrary to their nature. Each time the nymph or her allies do anything harmful to the target, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself with a success. Otherwise the effect lasts for 24 hours or until the nymph dies, is on a different plane of existence from the target, or ends the effect as a bonus action. If the target's saving throw is successful, the target is immune to the nymph's unearthly beauty for the next 24 hours.
If the nymph concentrates on only one target at full force, the effect is potentially lethal. The saving throw DC becomes 18.
Result of target's saving throw.
Succeed : no effect.
Fail by less than 4 points: Target is charmed, as described above.
Fail by 4-7 points: Blinded for 1d4+2 rounds, and thereafter charmed, as above.
Fail by 8 or more points: Breathing stops, will not resume while charmed unless the nymph asks the target to breathe, usual rules for suffocation apply, the charm is broken if the target drops to 0 hit points and makes the required death saving throws.
Fail with a roll of natural 1: The heart stops, drop to 0 hit points and make death saving throws as per usual.
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With their aversion toward ugliness, and their obsession with the idea that ugliness equates to evilness, I imagine that a nymph who has fallen and turned to evil would transform into a hag, in particular a sea hag with its (her) hatred of beauty. Or, better yet, a nymph under a curse that forces her to spend half her time (maybe the waning moon, or the winter months, or maybe even nightly) transformed into a hag. Hunters in the nearby woods are charmed by the nymph, and as a result attempt to protect the hag from the player characters, and they have to solve the riddle of the hag to free the nymph and surrounding lands from the curse.
I remember playing a campaign where our Wizard was half Fae, and his mother was a Nymph. I remember a quest sequence where we had to meet his mother for help, and heim spending several minutes trying to remind her whom he was. It was a great campaign.
Hahahahahaha I recall an incident with our rogue and a nymph... she charmed the thief because she wanted some gems he was carrying and the rogue is very greedy plus dangerous (NE)... well... this is what happen.
She charmed the thief and demanded he give her his gems for her beauty.
The thief didn't want to do that and gave her several rare potions instead.
Something odd happen because she didn't inspect the potions and their contents, rather was just infatuated with the bizarre twilight twinkling colors.
Now... none of us knew what that potion was except the thief and the player of the thief... oh and the DM of course.
Which lead to something very horrible.
The pound she went back in to secure her treasure turned black... the land around the pound began to wither and die.
The truth of the matter.
The thief was never charmed.
The thief was actually an assassin.
The potion was really a large bottle of some crazy oily poison made to kill nature base foes.
He was there to kill a nymph.
And he got away with it because we were too busy trying to save the forest.
Because we ourselves were charmed instead.
Boy oh boy
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that sounds horrible, well it would sound horrible if i cared at all for the life of fey creatures.....
humanity first!
#theemperorprotects!
Similar thing happend, apart from the oil spread, and monsters appeard.
Something similar happen in our game. Our warlock happen'd to stubble into a Nymph who wanted his necklace which his Fey patron gave him as a gift to obtain his godly beauty do to a curse giving to him by another Fey. Taking off the necklace his beauty will corrupt into necrotic horror.
This is just what I needed for my tiefling cleric backstory :)
Nymphs get their own stat block in the Yawning Portal if I'm not mistaken, but on the whole I do wish we would get a fey book (or at least a dedicated section explaining it all.)
wow, i never thought of a nymph as similar as a lych in any way possible until i heard of the cant be destroyed so im guessing that the Nymph is similar to the Lych in that the glade acts to Nymph like how the Phylactory acts for the Lych . So to kill a Nymph im guessing you destroy the magical beautiful nature place sounds like a job for a lumberjack.
8:20 .... I've become infatuated with this nymph. I will do my best to protect her from any threat and do my best to fulfil every favor asked of me for this nymph.... As long as it's not entirely contrary to my nature... O_O .... What?
Tatsusama that's just a larpy hot red head
She will certainly be highhhhhhh maintenance.
Hello ☺️
Sorry a little late on this but I do believe it is the one the only Lindsey Sterling she plays the violin, wow 😳👍😌😏☺️🙄
Big nymph simpin' spending G's (on her)
Ok but you've only see a photo. What if every sentence she said sounded like a question?
Or every single day she only spoke in terse single word answers EXCEPT after she wakes up where she regales you with hours upon hours of dense description of her dream. Every time you try to change the subject she brings it right back and says, "jeez it felt so real though.. " 45 times a day.
How many days could you put up with that?
What if she's a legit juggalo and tells you she'd only 'b bout it bout it widda homie who down to clown."
Would you convert to Juggaloism for her? What would your parents think?
I haven't even gotten to the scary ones. Have you thought this through? I just have so many questions.
The male counterpart to the Nymph is the Saytr
Grand Admiral Thrawn I don’t see how. They are ugly as hell
Depends on the version. The antiquity version where the Satyr is the counterpart of the nymph has the Satyrs be on the boyish side, or kpop/boy band handsome. Atleast till you get to their goat legs. They started getting uglier as Christianity got more popular.
It's not true for D&D though, unless a DM just has a hardon for mythological accuracy.
The opposite of the nymph is the hag
Thats not true your thinking of dryads which is the counterpart of a Saytr. The only male is the Feyking of Nymphs.
You are all incorrect, first dryads are nymphs while originally the term describes nymphs bound to oak trees the term dryad is used to describe any tree nymph. Secondly; nymphs are daughters of titans and depending on the parents would usually determine what aspect of nature they were bound to, while satyrs are just tricksters and followers of Dionysus or Pan. So a satyr cannot be considered a counterpart to nymph because they are neither bound to nature nor are they an aspect of nature.
Hi AJ. Thanks for covering the Nymph and for providing some homebrew stats. I've been hoping for WOTC to cover it, and waiting is hard. ;>
I would like to request another fey creature that I have used a lot. The amazing fan favorite - THE GRIMALKIN! WoTC published it in the 3.5 Monster Manual II (2002) and it has an interesting mythology. Plus cat pics get youtube hits! :)
Ah yes, I can certainly do that. My sister had a west coast russian blue bush cat named TeePee who had talons that invited no argument if he got on your lap for a snooze, and a purr like a stuttering band saw.. probably fathered half the kittens in that community, the rogue. So yes, I am happy to cover the Grimalkin for you :)
So I noticed that the medusa and nymph both have a CR 7 and a gaze attack.
So then I realized "Why not a nymph whose glade got corrupted, now a medusa?"
Yeah, why not indeed.
It’s called a goragan, not a Medusa, a medusa stuns targets by physically attacking them, like jellyfish and sea anemones, both of which are types of Medusas.
A goragan on the other hand has a human like appearance with snakes for hair and sometimes has a snake tail or legs replaced by a tail, and Medusa was a goragan for Greek mythology with a special ability to freeze targets.
A nymph that is corrupt is a corruption spreader, like the nymphs in terraria they are also aggressive and make themselves look like a young teenage girl and will claim they are lost trying to attract people towards them to help them.
@@opalthediloalt9595 Gorgon*
I guess I just hadn't looked far enough back in your videos.
I have mixed feelings about this one. Nymphs are one of my favorite D&D creatures, not where I expected you go with it.
I like some of these, like the Good Berry at will. That makes sense to me.
Nice and like that new intro!
Thanks Arthur!
Getting some heavy Ophelia vibes out of these pictures.
WHen I think of Nymphs I think of Galadreal from lord of the rings.What if there was a setting where there was only one nymth and she was one of the most powerful beings in the world who was tasked with watching over nature and making sure that civilization does not claim all of the forests and jungles.
Could you do the Leshay race?
Yes
Could a Nymphe be the reincarnation of a Dryad? I’m thinking a human came to the forest and was infatuated with her beauty. Three times he asked her to leave the forest and marry him and every time she refused, saying that she cannot leave this place. The first time, he was hunting and heard her singing and followed the song to her. The second time he brought her a golden flower and wore a green cloak decorated like a willow’s leaves. The third time he brought an axe and took down her tree to “free” her. When he brought her out of the forest, she cursed him on her final breath to rebuild her forest and destroy any civilization that tries to pop up in her forest. He has stats like an Oath of Ancients Paladin and is functionally immortal. He dies if killed or if he breaks his oath with the nymph. He is a devoted servant and is still infatuated with her.
They are fictional man. They can be whatever you want them to be and I think thats as cool a reason as any other.
2nd edition there Charisma was 25 not a 20 , they are not mortal , but i understand this stat was costume made though .
Which is more beautiful? The Nymph or The Succubus? ^^
The nymph, by far.
@@AJPickett Yeah, but what if you are into bad girls?
In witcher lore, they're the same thing
I want a harem of both, but succubus can travel with you and maybe carry you and fly and turn you to a true powerful vampire, succubi win for me.
Nymph pure beauty vs Succubus drop dead sexy and when I say that I'm serious
So it sounds like an exceptionally powerful fey born nymph would make an interesting patron for a fey pact warlock. But are they THAT powerful?
So I thought a while ago a good adventure hook Would be if there was a name who for whatever reason decided to become an a mage And at high-level some incidents of where she cast maybe some sort of mass domination spell somehow infuse into her being and now her concentration power is permanently on all the time. Essentially, she would be like Medusa and would have to spend all of her time cloaked. Maybe once she was covered up she would only have the charm power as she was so beautiful it actually permeated through her clothing. But if she ever showed her face then that concentration power would immediately affect every single person who could see her. I just think it would be an interesting NPC to interact with.
noble eladrin
5th Edition Nymphs... Talk about "drop dead gorgeous!" ;-P
I thought there weren't any in 5. I still play 3.5, so I'm out of the loop.
@@bennysum8252 Curupira wasn’t a Nymph. She was a demon. Her feet 🦶🏼 were backwards… remember?
That's crazy that they can stop your heart! Pretty interesting.
Does anyone else notice the error on the damage for the staff attack written in the description.
Greek myths regarding the Amazons, ..
Wonder Woman's mother Hippolyta is a daughter of a nymph and the war god Aries who is her father and grandfather.
So take a nymph stats and apply the half fiend template twice ?
Aj, wouldn't nymphs ( and all Fey creatures) be immune to sleep spells and have charm resistance since elves have that as well
Quite a few of them do. The Feywild is an enormous, varied and diverse place though, there are a lot of differences between the fey, just as there are with creatures on Prime worlds.
Oh, ok so is it like something that is common but not ubiquitous?
I'd guess that the different fey abilities follow some sort of evolution or at least adaptation to environment.
Thank you for the statistics AJ, very good. Though I do not understand or i have just misheard it. Why does she get a +24 for her HP (8d8+24)?
To give a minimum number of hit points that is not unrealistic.
Oh, so I can give monsters bonus HP, well that is a great thing, my party will appreciate it :D Thank you, AJ :)
@@projectfantasy1385 the hit dice are 1d8+3. A nymph has 8 of those, thus 8d8+24. It gives them a minimum of 32 hp and they are a standard 8 hit dice creature for saving throws, base attack and the like.
2nd edition had a lot of creatures like that.
This is amazing!! :)
lol, would be funny if a nymphs tree was in a urban eviroment. like waterdeep of something. lol,
Are you thinking of a dryad's tree, not a nymph's?
I'd recommend playing Baldur's Gate 2 then.
I'd imagine they'd hate it.
Neverwinter Nights has this plot point.
Yeash those stats are a real step down from 3, 3.5 and pathfinder...
In those they could cast as a druid of 7th level, any spell from the list if prepared, and they can choose to prepare any spell a 7th lv druid could. Which means spells up to lv 4.
They had wild empathy as if they were a druid of 14th level(actually her HD + 6, so at equal level she does it better than a Druid on top of her stupid high charisma), so odds are the animals around her glade were gonna swarm and kill you if you got into a fight with her
They had "divine grace" on steroids, which gave them a bon7s to AC AND all saves equal to their Charisma bonus, as all attacks went out of their way to avoid harming something so beautiful (yes, arrows and spells curved in the air to avoid hitting her)
They had Damage Reduction/Cold Iron, which would translate to "resistance to all physical damage, even magic weapons, unless they are nade of Cold Iron"
3.5 and pathfinder had the unearthly beauty be a CONSTANT EFFECT where it just automatically, and permanently blinded anyone who looked at her and failed their fort save and succeeding the save did NOT make you immune to havingnton make a save roll next round, unless she chose to turn it off. They had a glare attack that caused stun that was reusable at will(in case the unearthly beauty aura failed). And 3.0 as well as editions before that, the unearthly beauty was even more dangerous as if you failed the save you died flat out, and you didn't need to fail the save by a large number either, miss by 1 and you are DEAD. Hope your cleric has some kind of resurrection cause breath of life isn't gonna cut it here since you didn't take any damage, you just dropped dead, so "cure hp, and if it would bring you back to enough hp to be alive, then you come back to life" doesn't do squat. Oh and if you succeed the death save, roll again for blindness...
Also there is no logical reason why a Nymph, a physical manifestation of raw natural beauty, should be restricted to the natural ability caps of mortal races, if there was ever a creature that DESERVES to have more than 20 Charisma, it's a nymph! (In the other editions the basic "generic" Nymph had 25 cha, that rating should be classified as a Bare minimum for unique and more potent ones).
I swear every new edition just nerfs the Nymphs further and further... soon enough they'll be weaker than a non-heroic crippled commoner Kobold! Seems like WotC REALLY hate Fey in general, they keep getting the short end of the stick every time and at every opportunity, even the iconic ones...
The bonus to AC from Charisma is the spell Nereid’s Grace. They just get it all the time and it can go above +3, which is the limit of the spell.
they are a pretty lot them😙
Indeed.. oh hey, I have not done a vid on the Otyugh yet!
Yet another kick-arse vid sir.Having "lost" ( as in the male members were all too happy to wander off and sup nectar from the breasts of the fey critters) a few party members to the classic bewitchment of the Sylvan Nymphs...this vid offers some more interesting motivations for the Nymph's actions regarding interaction with human males. Maybe next time the menfolk will have more of a chance for resistance IF the ladies aren't quite as interested in keeping the men charmed.
Currently in the middle of "White Plume Mountain" and the Nymph-ian critters: Kelpies; have proved to add some spice to the crawl.
White Plume Mountain is such a classic adventure!
It still holds up as a fun module to be run as a one or two session quickie. Of course, being as the monsters are kind of in a suspended stasis until adventures wander thru; there isn't much need to explain the totally wacky non-existent ecosystem inside the mountain.
Cave fungus.. everything eats the magic cave fungus.
Return to White Plume Mountain is also a lot of fun. The sword Blackrazor remains a D&D fan favorite.
I would love to date a nymph
dfhwze you want to literal date nature.
+TraciPeteyforlife
He'd be stuck in the feywild, brain zapped. Never would've thought CR7 would have done him in for good. Geez.
@@draxthemsklonst I guess that's makes em a nymphomaniac...
Is the Unseelie Court (and the unseelie nymph) a thing in newer editions? They were introduced in 2e, but I never saw them make it to 3.5. (I haven't ventured much past 3.5)
in 4e it was, there was a winter prince and some lady called Koliada (iirc) of the Unseelie
I still find it not matching that they are nutral but hate evil cus thats the same as being good thus not nutral at all
They hate ugliness, they tend to dislike evil because it creates ugliness.. a creature of beautiful evil would not bother them much.
Evil makes terrible neighbors.
Based on art alone, I like the dryad video better.
nice video
Thank you :)
Could they become liches?
That would be very very rare
I always liked Piers Anthony's depiction of Nymphs in the Xanth novels as soulless magical constructs with shallow minds. Don't make a Mary Sue. Try SOMETHING that makes it at least interesting.
Yeah, good call. Nymphs are alien beings who have quite a limited understanding of the world outside of their immediate area and may have some very odd ideas about reality. I often depict them like kids who are in some sort of play-mode make believe world, they natter on in their own sort of gibberish and can do some weird, sometimes alarming things, following their own internal narrative and set of rules.
Xanth! Wow, been years since I read that series. .
3:29 She already *looks like she is moaning!*
and what can i say: *Snakes and bitches OwO*
Could you perhaps also give a link to the images used, or upload them to a folder and share that folder with us?
If there is an image you like, pause the video, take a screen shot, crop the image and do a matching image search using google, and you will find the image you like :)
Thats some advanced level web searching... Will try to do so.
Google does all the work for you with the magical power of algorithms! :D
Moac I assume this is for research purposes
I find it disappointing D&D went for blinding/lethal beauty and not shaping nature and polymorphism self and others like in myth.I find it disappointing D&D went for blinding/lethal beauty and not shaping nature or to polymorph self and others like in myth.
You can always home brew :)
That's why I don't interact with these creatures
So she’s kinda like Victor Crowley if Victor Crowley was hot.
She's never been kicked down a flight of stairs by Mark Twain though.
Kardashians
Does their charm still work on homosexual male or heterosexual females though? If you're simply not attracted to them, then their unnatural beauty is somewhat waisted on you >.>
It is a magical effect in the same way that Charm Person is a magical spell, it works regardless of the character's orientation. Also, as a side note, it amuses me that these kind of questions are never about the species of the player character.. I mean, would it work on a Dragonborn or a Warforged? If it works on them, I can assure you, it works on almost everybody.
Also, the charm effect doesn't have to be based in sexual attraction. The unearthly beauty of a nymph can be captivating in the same way as a beautiful sunset or a masterpiece painting.
cassandraoftroy exactly.
A Dragonborn might just see a Nymph as a beautiful Dragonborn female. Its an embodiment of beauty so I would imagine most people would see it as the most beautiful thing they have ever seen. The best part would be that it would not be a glamour, it would just be our mind's eye translating the vast beauty before us into something we can comprehend. But that's just how i think.
Plus fey don't care about gender well usually
This is what I fucking hate about d&d, it appeals to like, the male fantasy.
What would the Female fantasy be?
The appeal to female fantasy is having the nymph be a player race they can choose. I'm developing some ideas for that.
I LOVE NYMPH they'll make love to anything boys girls femboys masculine butch girls transgirls transboys drag queen and drag kings lol guy w/klinefelter symdrome and a girl w/turner syndrome they're all about LOVE they don't discriminate lol
No, nymphs are girls and they aren’t gay.
10:01 Imagine walking down the forest and you encounter THIS on your way. What would you do?
Walk away slowly
Is Belle Delphine is a Nymph?