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Enjoy a video about surprisingly complex snake monsters with a lot of potential. If you can figure out what they are exactly... honestly I'd use their stat blocks but keep the crowned humanoid version, that's awesome.
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Ah the snake people
Not to be confused with other snake people, lizard people, dragon people and little dragon people
Except the Dragon people arent even Dragons
There are dragon people and not-actually dragon people
Or the people-dragons.
And that meme of the humanoid silver dragon in human form who mated unknowingly with a dragon of another color in human form creating a human half dragon/half dragon.
Don't forget the other dragon people and the dragons that turn into people.
Man, guardian nagas would make for sick celestial warlock patrons.
Right?
The spirit naga is actually said in a dragon magazine to work as an Undying Warlock.
You should do basically sphynxes, because the D&D art for them looks really cool
YESSSS
I made an Egyptian-based character and intend on him having a Sphinx-flavored Mount ~
I love sphinxes
and also the weird way the mating process worked in older editions.
Lamia would also fit as a video after that since they bring so much confusing around the fact that they are neither Snakes or Sphinxes.
They look so fluffy in 5e lol
I'm a fan of any creature vaugely reptillian. This brings me great joy.
Does Mark zuccerberg count as vaguely reptilian?
@@callumjones2417 Dont insult the reptillians. They want nothing to do with him.
@@LeuvahkTrigger 😂😂😂😂
@@callumjones2417 Not quite what I had in mind xD
Just got done running _Against the Cult of the Reptile God_ for my group. They killed Explicitica Defilus after accidentally wrecking the water pump system for the dungeon. They barely escaped before the dungeon collapsed into a massive sinkhole, burying Explicitica Defilus under dozens of tons of mud, earth, and swamp, inadvertently and effectively preventing her from returning to trouble the party or the village of Orlane ever again (she’s stuck resurrecting in the same place, buried deep under the swamp, only to die and do it all over again and again every six years like clockwork).
*_Task Failed Successfully_*
six days, is the respawn time, not years. theres also nothing saying it has to re-appear in the same spot.
@@companyoflosers Are you saying a DM is wrong about their own setting ? Lol
@@hadrien5684 we arent talking about the setting, we are talking about a setting agnostic creature with established traits, none of which say the naga must reappear in the same place it was killed.
She is gonna be rage unleashed if anybody ever digs that place up
I'm interested in adding Nagas in my fictional universe as a race and these D&D designs are cool and distinct. As much as I'd like to be more faithful to the original myths and legends, Nagas are so diverse in appearance and other things that it's hard to decide which one to pick!
Yeah I first really found out about them in world of Warcraft back in the day, I’ve always been super into mythology since I was a kid but I can’t recall Any nagas in any of that but every since then I’ve loved them. I find them quite intimidating too, I’m not scared of snakes I’ve grown up with ball pythons and stuff but there is something very intimidating to me about reptiles and snakes and such, being intelligent and bipedal or whatever slithering would be xD
There is a playable naga race in planeshift amonkhet but they're unrelated to the original DnD nagas, it's worth to look at though
After some thinking, I've decided to make my Nagas look fully serpentine (inspired by cobras, of course) with maybe a few human-like facial features, like front facing eyes. I'll see if I can flesh this out a little more.
@@anthonyporche8110 That's the one I told you about, that's how the naga is in plane shift amonkhet. What I meant by "they're unrelated to the original DnD nagas" I meant lore-wise, appearance-wise they are basically the DnD nagas but medium sized with arms
@@Pjoutotheminer I understand that. I meant "fully serpentine with some human-like features" as in something like the spirit and guardian nagas in dnd. Except the face is less human and more reptilian. My idea is that Nagas are basically a sentient relative of the wyrm dragon. Look at the wyrm from William O'Connor's Dracopedia and you'll see what I mean.
1:43 It actually occurs to me that a highly magical society might never actually develop a writing system? If their magic was entirely based on focused willpower or spoken incantation, they might instead rely entirely on oral tradition, communicated across long distances via Sending and archived via Magic Mouth or something.
(Saving the hell out of this concept for myself...)
Like the speakers from Netflix's Castlevania
@@shanggodaygang8388 It makes even more sense if the magic is either divine in origin or perceived as such (like it's part of a cultural identity) and didn't want it to be put into the hands of their enemies.
@@Groovebot3k I agree that it could be seen as divine, the Bible was originally spoken verse until an English king had it written down. I don't think they'd be so worried about others getting their information, if they had great magical power. There is magic that determines the criteria necessary before a spell is cast. Anyone powerful enough to trick those spells may be part of a threat great enough for them to hide from or fight.
I think a "Gibbering Archives" could be a great place to explore. Or perhaps they don't need to speek at all. Maybe they have a way of casting Legend Lore esque spells onto people, brain blasting them about subjects.
> a highly magical society might never actually develop a writing system
Every wizard: get a load of this guy
@@danksterdan1682 That's actually the funniest thing to imagine IMO: A bunch of arcane academics could never conceive of a society of sorcerers what didn't write down all their magic.
Had a game where party killed a spirit naga by dumb luck on a random chance encounter. Then they raided it's stronghold and found blackrazor. Getting into the vault where blackrazor was was harder than the naga encounter. Any way, the naga came back and hunted the party down to get it's soul sucking dagger back. Why? Because of the razor was used on it, it would not come back, it's soul would be trapped.
1. Ive always been kinda interested in these monsters so this is gonna be a neat video
2. Holy fuck i misread that video title so horribly i nearly spat out my food
Don't worry, you're not alone lmao
You thought you said Nigga lol
Naga please
This Naga here
Sitting I am because stand you Nagas I cannot
In D&D, one should NEVER boop the snoot.
Always boop the snoot.
Except for a guardian naga. It would probably let you.
My favorite part of the snake races is that the chief god is named Seth. And not in the "oh this god's named Kurtelmack so we'll call him kurt," I mean just straight up Sseth, it's just seth while hissing. And the best part is, he's not even the real Sseth! SET, the Egyptian god, just kinda showed up one day when he heard they were trying to wake Sseth up from his nap. Everyone believed he actually WAS Sseth with a scuffed nametag, so he went "um yeah definitely." They believed SO HARD they actually stripped the real Sseth of his power and bricked him up in his own realm! Only a few priests even know this happened, and only found out recently when the real Sseth finally woke up and started banging on the bedroom wall.
hey hey people
and Set is even kinda the god of snakes, too.
Seth in indian languages mean, lord.
Legit, I thought to myself while eat breakfast this morning, "Hmmm, what if Runesmith did a video on Nagas?... Nah that won't happen for a while." This was a pleasant suprise.
Gotta hear about these snakes. Love these Basically videos and hope to eventually see a firbolg one one day as they seem half elf, half giant, and half cow that can turn invisible and is apparently has a inside route with animals and anything vaguely green and planty
I read the title wrong...
Naga please
Naga what
@@kjmudkipzofthemudkipdynast2657 my Naga
What's this Naga on about?
"NNNAGAAA!!" - A deranged King with a forfeit crown on an aircraft.
"try finger but hole" I can see someone's been playing Elden Ring
I like the little Elden Ring reference at the end.
Strong foe ahead
Armament ahead
and then that one asshole,
Try finger,
but hole
And at the very beginning, you would see, _"Liar ahead"._
Anyone else look at the notification real quick like and has misread it for something completely "different"
Naga please.
So what i am getting from this is that Naga's are a good counter play to a murder hobo party, since it will just revive after a few days and probably track down the party who stole its magic artifact, and the party will slay it again and again with them loosing years off of their lives every time.
yeah...no players ever really think of the long-term consequences of killing a naga and stealing it's shit. I mean, mechanically speaking, they're never going to think of these characters again after the campaign ends except to share fond memories. So, what happens to the descendants of those characters, or even just the characters themselves in their old age, is never even going to cross the player's minds. Not unless you decide to run a campaign set in the distant future and actually make your players be descendants of those original characters. Which is always fun but rarely happens.
Why wait that long? Just have the naga be really fucking spiteful and stalk the players, making their lives absolute hell. They can kill it as much as they like, but it will always be back.
@@theposhdinosaur7276 because it's not a threat at that point. just a nuisance.
@@clericofchaos1 the little anotation runesmith added. "Im about to dox these players" it can easily conspire with stronger forces than itself to hassle the players. They have the recorces to hire or convince other big bads to help it fight the party.
They make good bbegs/ recuring villains. Or they are a great way to introduce a bbeg. Have one subordinate itself to your big villain and you have the perfect way to tie seperate events in your campaign together
@@boserboser6870 ...no. After they've killed it once it stops being a real threat. They don't have the resources to do anything if you steal all the shit they were guarding. Even if they do, being constantly attacked by npcs is way more of an annoyance than an enjoyable experience. They are also NEVER subservient to anything except a straight-up deity. That's the lore, don't fuck with established lore unless you're making a homebrew world from the ground up, and even then if you make a naga serve anything else you're running it wrong. It can't deceive it's way into something's service, it can't manipulate things from the shadows, that's not how they work.
@@clericofchaos1 the party may be able to take some of their hoard. But there may be stuff that the party was unable to access. Their a smart creature thats gaurded their treasure for ages. And unlike elder dragons they can be defeated by a descent size raid.
Yea doing the same thing over and over again is boring treating monsters disposably is generally boring. They can use political power to cause other problems for the party. Especially if the game features yaun-ti.
They dont need to decieve their way into working for someone else. When i said subordinate i meant it a story sense. They can easily work as equels to a litch, dragon or beholder somthing as simple anyone of the monsters which player is the healer could let them prepair better when fighting the players.
They are a monster that doent die. So their most dangerous trait becomes the ability to tell the players enemies what their abilities are.
They wont usually serve any other moster. But for example guardian nagas love thawting the plans of those they percieve as evil. So running a naga that views itself as a hero putting an end to the partied evils is a valid use
Video: 30 trillion years ago
Geology brain: ok can't recall how old multicellular life is estimated to be atm, but iirc life at all is 1 billion years old, the planet earth I know is like 4.3 billion years old, and the entire universe is estimated at 13 billion years old, so that makes this... uh, really fucking old
Actually life appeared as soon as the Earth cooled down enough, but it just sort of sat there for like three billion years. Multicellular life is a little over half a billion years old I think?
Ah, my bad, thanks for the correction 👍
Warlock whose patron is a guardian naga. He is sworen to watch over an enchanted sword. One day a guy gets the sword and becomes a hexblade, the warlock chooses to follow the hexblade with the sole intent to retrieve the sword should the chance ever raise
Even better: his job is just to watch over it, so he doesn't care about trying to get it back. You're free to use it but you're gonna have this guy awkwardly keeping an eye on you like a middle school dance chaperone.
@@ryankunst668 That dynamic between the two of them would be hilarious. Celestial warlock is by the hexblade's side on every adventure for decades, saves his life on countless occasions, is basically his best and closest friend in the world, meanwhile the celestial warlock is like buddy I'm just here for the sword.
I used a Guardian Naga in a campaign, the Naga was watching over a vault of ancient magical items, and a peculiar even more magically sealed vault. Inside of the vault was a constantly sequestered BBEG that was released when the players broke into the vault thinking they would get some super cool magic stuff. Up until that point, we were doing more episodic stuff and exploring of the world...
That changed very quickly when the BBEG was released upon the world.
(my DM condones this , but I am in NO WAY stating this as absolute fact)
An interesting thing that I have discovered is that, unlike the Lich's rejuvenation ability, it does not state that the naga will gain a new body, or that it will regain its body parts. (Disclaimer: its description does state this, but its actual Rejuvenation ability does not). So I came up with a solution to deal with nagas. After you kill them, remove their brain, feed it to a pack of wolves and throw the body somewhere else. The body cannot do anything without a brain, not even cast magic. And the wolves will tear apart the brain and leave pieces of it in their excrement. When the Naga "rejuvenates", it's individual parts will all return to life. But what's a body with no brain. What is a fragment of a lobe of a brain with nothing to command.
This is all assuming you're using rules as written. And assuming your DM will of course, accept this reasoning. But its mostly just something to consider.
A Spirit Naga is one of my party's most loathed recurring enemies. If y'all want a different explanation for their history, in my campaign, they were created by the gods as guardians of great artifacts, who would dole them out to only those worthy of wielding them. Some deemed themselves the only ones worthy of the power they held. They were promptly stripped of their celestial endorsement for their heresy but since they can't die, they just picked up wizardry and became Spirit Nagas. The remaining Guardian Nagas just became more selective and reclusive.
The current spirit naga plaguing my party takes it upon himself to erase pretty much every trace of his enemies from history. He's only had to do so once before, and the party is currently coming across artifacts left by warriors of old that nobody remembers. That's because he's using a device similar to the Soulmonger from Tomb of Annihilation, except it eats memories, and I have no clue if it's also gonna power an atropal or what. He's already enslaved a mind flayer colony by getting its Elder Brain to consume his brain after he got killed by it. He's stolen research from my players' chronurgist, and I've levelled him up and given him 6th level spells to help face the party at 10th level. Who knows what I'll do once he regenerates and gets to juice on some Illithid brains...
In our current game we released a spirit naga by accident assuming them to just be some poor test subject or previous adventurer that ran a foul of the dwarf forts traps and monsters.
This was not the case. She then immediately dominated person me as I was the only one who spoke the same language and I then tried to deceive my friends and the fought my battle buddy the paladin. Who while we where crossing blades told me that evil snake lady wasn't no good, and my character went into a error 404 kinda feed back loop because my bro the paladin never lies, I know this. But the nice lady said fight him. Fun time and has resulted in a inside joke in the party.
We learned the hard way 6 days later it comes back. But hey that's not our problem anymore, it's the Drow and Conquistdor Dwarfs problem. We grab our Kobolds we befriended and left settling them some where safe.
"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU SAY????"
" _Nagas!_ I said _Nagas!_ "
"Oh."
This is the video ive been waiting for! I love Nagas!
The try finger but hole joke killed me here but if I see it in game one more time i'm going to lose
Love the uploads recently, glad you are full on back in your groove, also cant wait for the kickstarter to go off, I remembered to back it this video.
Out of curiosity any chance for a Basically of some of the weirder fey out there like darklings, blights, etc. Or maybe a basically Lycanthropes, even though most lycanthropes arent wolves/lycans?
I love the Dark Souls reference at the end
Try tongue, but hole.
As the great books fortold
“don’t step on snek “
An alternative to defeat forever a Spirit Naga would be making an adventure to find a Genie and make a wish to stop the Naga immortality.
Yay, more snursons!
Okay. Knowing more about the plot and adversaries to this campaign you're launching has me interested. I am also realizing that the way you describe worlds and details matches nicely with my loose everything at once DM style. I'm going to look at it closer.
You did Lizardfolk and Warforged
Soo i guess Aasimar next? Also known as
Tiefling but instead of a Devil its a Angel
Its honestly one of my favorite Race
It's times like these when I am scared, because he is literally one syllable away from getting banned every three seconds.
An interesting homebrew character I made probably 10 years ago could actually fit pretty well with the reason for nagas having half human half snake looking people amongst their ranks. I liked to think they captured some of the dungeon delvers and others trying to encroach on their land. Using a ritual along with a scale of their tail that is embedded into their lower spine to turn them into a half human half snake. The scale acting as a link to the naga in question that did the ritual and as a result they are bound into service of said naga. With how hard they are to kill and being prevented by the scale from harming them. It makes their service one for life lest a group of adventurers free them via killing the naga and interrupting the link long enough for them to get away far enough to not be recharmed via the scale. But with them being used as Cannon fodder and guards for said nagas. They more than likely perish before that would happen.
Naga-nna lie, this video made me put Yuan-ti my list of favorite RUclipsrs. Keep up the good work, and I’ll be Chwinga for your success!
"Ah Naga don't hate me cause i'm beautiful Naga, maybe if you got rid of them ol' yee-yee ass magic items, you'll get some less people coming after you, oh, better yet maybe the Yuan-Ti will call your snake ass if their stupid enough to think you're their god or something, ~Naga~."
Nagas are not Yuan-ti because they were born snakes and thus the Yuan-ti got jealous... I guess
imagine going to sleep on a local tavern and waking up in the middle of the night with a big snake on top of you asking why you killed him
(Misreads the title out of the corner of my eye)
“I beg your pardon?…I beg your pardon?”
You know... I was in the middle of writing a very rude comment attacking you before i payed attention to the title. I'm very glad to see i was wrong.
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I love the idea of a Spirit Naga secretly controlling a kingdom that lives above it’s ruin
*its
It's always heartwarming to find another Grumps fan when you least expect it. Nice ref!
Read that title wrong the first time i saw it and nearly spit my drink out
I saw the notification out of the corner of my eye and thought it said something else.
Ok so I’m so glad you did this video because nagas are my favorite mythological creature ever. To add to this video, nagas are basically dragon-snakes and they can also live in rivers and other bodies of water which they can control (along with rainfall apparently) because they’re deities of the water. In SE asia they tend to be depicted as statues guarding temples instead of treasure hoards and magical items. I also vaguely remember a video of them shooting giant balls of fire out of their mouths and into the night sky, but take that with a grain of salt because I was like 6 and couldn’t understand the video because I don’t speak Thai. I grew up in the US and this is just the extent of what I know so if anyone can correct or add onto this that would be really nice 🙏 I really want to learn more about nagas they’re so sick
Also I understand this video covers the dnd version of nagas I just like how they’re depicted in southeast Asian mythology
OK THEY SHOOT FIREBALLS OUT OF THE RIVER ONCE A YEAR IN OCTOBER AT THE END OF BUDDHIST LENT AS A WAY OF ASKING THE BUDDHA TO RETURN TO THEM IM NOT CRAZY
Couldn't have timed this better, I'm planning on having my party encounter a Naga this will definitely help out!
I lost it at "My phase 2 fight involves doxing the player."
Wish isn't the only way to kill them. There's also the bone naga spell.
What does the charm person spell do?
It charms a person.
What does the locate object spell do?
It locates an object.
What does the bone naga spell do?
It... um...
I read the title wrong at first and my heart nearly stopped
Tactics of soldiers, royal guards and knights? plsss
It's good to catch up on these, Rune. 😂
Bless the Runesmith
1:50- ironic. They could save their magic snake friends from death, but not the themselves
Thanks for the next session content
To be fair, if I found a super chill all powerful giant snake I would a million percent build my city around it. Even if it doesn't help directly that seems like it would be super intimidating
when will 'Basically Runesmith" happen, gotta know
You know what you (or Davvy Chappie) should cover? Oriental adventures, Rokugon, and the cool/troubling history around Samurai and Yokai in DnD. Call in Gaijin Goomba to Cameo, maybe?
Wanna dedicate this one to all my Naga's in the hood!
The only reason I know the naga exists is because of minecraft’s twilight realm mod
I'm glad I wasn't the only person to misread the title and get very scared.
Supported the Kickstarter, can't wait to play it with my friends
I loved the quote a bunch of small snake people gathered around a naga and chant really really fast and delete its skin before its imortalitly kicks in that was brilliant
Great ARK video, loved the raid gameplay, you really showed em what for!
So some things that make a fair amount of sense with nagas is that the unnamed mystery race is in fact the Sarrukh one of the creator races of most reptile races. And the reason that Yuan-ti hate the Nagas is that they are both remnants of the shattered empire. (With Yuan-ti taking over the nation similarly to how the Roman empire fell to the goths)
O Smith Of Runes I pray to gain you opinion on if the tarasque figure forged by the dingo of doodles is safer as a doorstop or a garden gnome.
When I saw the notification for this video was caught off guard for a quarter of a second.
Looking forward to the misunderstanding when I am overheard in public saying that I hate them. :D
Basically danger noodle! 💜💜💜🤩
Perfect timing!
D&D Nagas look so weird to me because I grew up thinking of the Monster Rancher design for Nagas, which were basically snake mermaids.
You know, with all the Naga and Dragon similarities, I'm surprised they're not the ones constantly fighting each other.
Sifu Reference, AND Snake People?
Nice
Just backed. Wasn’t able to back the amount i want but hey, every lil amount helps
Actually there was a Greco-indian civilazation so a lot of budhist depictons have helenistic elements like Hercules protecting Budha.
Dam, a prisoner's are well employed in dnd.
Love the videos. Wish they were longer at times lol
I was just in search for the perfect D&D creature to fit in the role of Frampt and Kathee in my homebrew Dark Souls setting. Thank you.
I am faster then god to say this man is a legend
i miss his energy back when he was in college
Ok, so that dragon lair I had planned for my players to collect treasure from could plausibly, and even better to be a repurposed guardian naga summer lair (after killing the dragon inhabitant a couple thousand years ago, of course).
New players, new DM, I've no idea how to run flying creatures O_O' plus, a naga would make for a nice encounter at the end of the dungeon, if htey know how to deal with it.
A Nagas greatest enemy, the snerson
My players have just LEFT the sage of Orolunga... this video would have ceertainly helped me a week or two ago ;)
The wording in the thumbnail nearly made me choke. Thought it was the n-word
Pretty much the only time you’ll use the imprison spell without bankrupting yourself on the material components. Immortal creatures are much harder to beat in the long run.
Ok I read the title really wrong
kinda missing a shoutout to WoW's version of nagas. Was prolly the first contact of many w/ a snake race. But nevertheless, great video!
The elves are the ones who retroactively killed the sarukh empire (the ones who made the Naga). The ritual that caused the sundering also caused another apocalypse that happened in the days of thunder.
Boy am I glad when that KS campaign is finally over
I'd like to think that real and fantasy ancient civilizations actually did write everything down, but the records were either impermanent or impossible for us to access because we don't have the technology
Oh NAGA'S ok that makes sense
I read that title a little too fast l and thought runesmith was going in a very different direction suddenly.
Spirit Naga is making the "Pog" face. Let it be known. I am sorry.
I could have sworn you posted this months ago.
I read the title and for a second though it said something completely different for a second 💀
i read the thumbnail horrifically lol
There are also Water Nagas, which are the "Neutral" variant. They protect magic and treasure just for the sake of protecting it.
Yay, Dark Souls messages!