Apathy. You are not important enough for Juiblex to stop angsting in corner of creation. Until you poke him with a stick, that is. Then he is gonna go full Jojo
As the literal aspect of the creation of the Abyss, it's pretty nifty how, according tot he other demon lords, such an unsuspecting and minor demon lord is one of the most ancient and probably the single most important demon in all of the Abyss. Demogorgon's self imposed demon prince tittle be damned if Juiblex ever decided to actually get up and do something. He's basically the truest "Demon" of them all presently except maybe the few obrynths left such as Dagon and the former prince Obox-ob that still remain. Also ont he count of other demon lords trying to classify Juiblex as Tanar'ri or Obrynth, the explanation here as the "wound of the abyss" seems more like he is a completely unique demon unto himself which I love.
The Prince of demons is far from weak. Demogorgon secured his title by slapping the other two contenders silly. And Juiblex doesn't care who the leader is so long as he gets to cause his own brand of wanton destruction just like a good demon. Juiblex just has no patience for politics. Or any being he cannot completely dominate like he does his slimes. If anything it is strange that there are at least three demons who have the inclination to enough tolerance to form kingdoms...
In Pathfinder, Jubilex (this spelling is canon in D&D but only Juiblex is licenced) has been expanded on somewhat. He is still a slob of a power, originating as a mindless qlippoth (obyrith) lord which simply consumed all it happened across until he absorbed a belligerent forgotten demon lord of poison and caverns and gained his powers and connection to sin. As such, Jubilex is associated with sloth, poison, and also substance abuse - alcoholics and drug abusers, poisoners of own bodies and minds, can find their way into his cults in indifference for anything but things that can net them more craven stuff. Pathfinder also introduces omoxes, the ooze demons, the desecrators of beauty - these humanoid-shaped molten piles of filth often act as Jubilex's evangelists, though they could be found in employ of most demon lords. It is also stated that Jubilex's domain is connected with most of Abyssal metropoli via portals in their sewage systems and dump pits - thus, an unfortunate escape can net your plane-hopping adventurers in far greater heap of trouble than they might realize at first.
I wonder why no one has seemed to point out that as a being that was formed from the chaos of the abyss being made and is in fact an avatar and representation of the chaos and depravity of the abyss, that Juiblex's nature and abilities to translate into more abstract areas. Not only is he physically shapeless and chaotic but you could even go further and add that as he was the first thing formed by the shard of evil and manifested from the abyss itself, he has the ability to connect to the abyss that no other demon lord has and also doesn't have the same restrictions as other demon lords. It reminds me of the line from the Immortal Hulk when the Devil Hulk says, "I don't do rules" then proceeds to break the laws of nature by almost breaking vibranium with a punch or being alive and able to move even when his body is cut to pieces while then reforming after the pieces are released. Take what Juiblex is to the abstract level and you've got a thing with almost no restrictions. Hell, I'd make him like The Thing from John Carpenter's movie and have Juiblex able to take any form and gain the abilities of those he consumes as he would be able to copy and adapt to anything. I'd love to see a situation where a demon lord realizes what Juiblex actually is and frighteningly exclaim, "You shouldn't be able to do things like this. It's impossible!", only for Juiblex to say, "Rules and restrictions are for those bound to shape and crafted by the intelligent hands. I was born from chaos itself. I AM THE ABYSS!"
Keep in mind Juiblex is just as shattered as the Abyss itself. He hasn't conquered all because he can't bring himself to focus enough to begin consumming all in earnest. What we see are the brief moments of coherency he has. Those are enough to achieve what he has. Should he ever manage true self mastery he could potentially take control of the whole Abyss and do what Obox-ob failed to do.
There’s a homebrew alchemist class with a subclass called slime rancher. You have a pheromone that charms oozes and can bottle them up to throw at enemies. Tempted to call him that!
Juiblex has been one of my favorite Demon Lords since I first started playing almost ten years ago. He's the embodiment of the body horror one witnesses from Oozes and Slimes. The other Demon lords call him Lord of Nothing yet no one challenges him. Great video AJ. Also isn't it weird that the 5e stats for him don't have immunity to acid?
I have a different idea of the relationship between the faceless lord and the oozes. They are literal extensions of him. He simply cannot divide his attention sufficiently to control them all at the same time. Thus there are uncounted numbers that are left to their own devices until something of interest happens near them. It doesn't matter to him if any one is destroyed because he is vast on an unimaginable scale. Are you aware and concerned when some dead skin flakes off? Same thing.
So in away Jubilex could be seen as the most dangerous of all demon lords, whean others throw their follows at eachother in great wars in some grasp for more and temperor power, jubilex takes the long view. After all, life in the material plane came from single celled forms, or "primordial Ooze" and thus it all shall return to him. The lord of ooze might work slowly, but since his mineons are among the most unseen and neglected of all DnD denizens it might be he who stands triumphant in the end.
Recently, I ran a campaign where we were playing as a faction known as the Brotherhood Of Realms. It's basically the space program, but instead of space it's other realities.
When I think of Juiblex, I think of Oozemasters (Masters of the Wild Pg.67). A cadre of Oozemaster cultists of the slime lord would be a fantastic encounter. A cavern with walls lines with slimes, oozes and jellies. All swirling around a chanting circle of Oozemasters summoning some avatar of Juiblex just as the adventurers walk in.
I like to think of jubilex as the heart of the abyss. Cant really destroy him... starts with trash becomes oozing muck, desire to judge turns into acceptance for wickedness
is there a spell like " flesh to ooze"? if not it should be and specific to Jubilex´s followers. also, i think that demon lords should have a physical influence on demons in their service, that they take on aspects of their masters, like a marilith under Lolths control has arachnid features like spider fangs,eyes,arms and maybe even segmented snake tail. might be the case though.
Jubilex definitely reminds me of the Dark souls boss Aldrich. A mass that does nothing but grow and consume. Slow but with purpose. It's given me inspiration for a few original demon lords of my own
You know. The part of the Abyss where the Sibriex live is considered by some to be the elemental plane of flesh, and the Tanari to be flesh elementals, thus the concept that Juiblex is the festering of the wound where the shard of ultimate evil pierced the world.
Grandaddy Poo! My favorite demon lord! Some years ago I ran a mock campaign called The Age of Slime and the levels of disgust were exceptional. Like Zugtmoy's marriage there was a conspiracy for unholy matrimony between Juiblex and Bwimb II in a giant mixer device of mind flayer design.
I've been sitting on a seed for an Abyss adventure for a while and now, having watched some of your vids, I got something REAL nasty and fun to plot out. I may never run a game again but I think this info, especially about the gooie boi, is crucial to a new adventure.
Literally setting up for this right now. My players wanted to do a 9 Hells Campaign. Players picked a layer & decided to serve under Bael & try to help him conquer the 9. While this is happening, trough some sick ass intrigue & deals gone wrong Orcus has slain Graz'zt & now rules 4 layers of the Abyss. Bael, Lord of the 1-3rd & the players cant hold off the undead hordes forever so I'm working in Juiblex offering an tentative alliance to Bael bcz the spread of undeath kills off his food source & his long term goals to consume all living matter.
This just makes me wonder why there aren't more creations of Juiblex all over the multiverse. He's always supposedly cranking out new slime monsters but the ooze category of monster in the books is woefully under-populated. Not to mention there's only a single ooze at CR 10 (Elder Oblex) and nothing beyond that, with most of them being lower than CR 5. Just begs the question of where all the supposedly big bad ooze experiments are at.
Liked this video before i watched it, was not disappointed, infact i was pro-pointed. Maybe all the demonlords really do "know" about juibilex, but they're just in denial to protect their egos as juibilex doesn't attack them. Playing the abyssal game of thrones, "pretending" as hot stuff, compensating for the inevitablility they'll never admit too. That said i doubt much in D&D could stand up to a demogorgan and dagon tag team.
Ever wonder how Demogorgon is gonna fuck up his ego/intelligence reintegration? Dagon is gonna be spying on them and get sucked in at the worst possible moment and thus, Demodagon is born🤐
It is actually quite apt, when dealing with toxic substances, fungi often adopt this approach of staying as close to the surface as they possibly can. That's for example why old developing fluid gets covered in mold despite being horribly toxic to most microorganisms, the fungus can skim the surface and only absorb the nutrients while avoiding the toxic silver ions.
I respect Juiblex for doing what he loves and just fully ignoring literally everything that attempts to get in his way; nothing anyone does affects what he is doing in anyway. They think he doesn't matter, he is just trash without any will; and he knows they don't matter, they are just trash with will. reminds me of Bobby from King of the Hill, in the episode 'an officer and a gentle boy'; after failing the 'break' Bobby's willpower using every possible method, Hank and Cotton Hill muse that '[Bobby is like mush], you can't build him up, but you cannot break him down either. In a funny way, mush kind of has the edge.' the possible merging of the 528th layer of the abyss (6:19) with the 222nd (8:19, not 220th, despite what it says in the captions) layer makes me wonder about the nature of the abyss; it pulls locations, places, into itself by corrupting them, creating new 'layers' which are disconnected or connected together chaotically. of course random merging and splitting could occur, it is just pure chaos, but perhaps as things and places fall deeper into the abyss they will 'merge' more and more.
As the guy who always asks dragon related question I have to ask. Has there ever been a slime dragon or drake? Just asking has me thinking of a cult that uses a conglomeration of slimes to animated a dragon skeleton thinking it would gather them favor from juiblex. Or, actually just a cult that uses slimes and skeletons like that in general... My players are going to me. :-)
I love Jubilex lore, so watched this when it came out, but was glad to have it to come back to as a refresher, just started a campaign as a cleric with the Ooze domain, thanks for an easy way to get a bunch of Jubilex lore without hunting it down over multiple sites.
That sounds super interesting. Do you mind me asking more on your homebrew/reflovor? I've been wanting to run a "cursed" hybrid PC who is part slime/ooze. Their "goal" is to find a cure to their curse but are merely a puppet to Jubilex looking for a special magical item to add to his collection. Been thinking about reflavoring the Echo Knight and they just summon a slime version of themself instead of a shadow. Also maybe the Unearthed Arcana Warlock: Lurker in the Deep and reflovor with Slime. Appreciate your time and hope you have a blessed day.
Early April 2020; using juiblex as the bbeg of a high level campaign for a discord corona distancing campaign. Oinoloths and spawns of kyuss, plus custom ooze mephits and larva mages. It's pretty great. My players united as a group of paladins. I killed 2 of them with a former silver dragon, current custom ooze dragon.
I have a theory That when the queen of chaos attacked the first ruler of the abyss She did it on a conceptual level right? What is what she did was split him in to many pieces and this is one of them It would explain a lot Following from that I think what she actually did was to break up the different domains of evil into their own grouping So originally the first ruler of the abyss was and almost all-powerful singular who held the domain of evil but when she did whatever it was it created a paradox which split him into many forms
Pretty much, yes. When you kill or imprison an elder god, the avatars of that god remain, now as seperated entities bereft of their original guiding purpose, but still as powerful as a god.
In many of my campaigns this particular Demon Lord has embodied the remains, or entrails if you will, possibly even the spiritual imprint, of The Shard of ultimate Evil, and therefore, the obyrith universe. Almost as though it was the excrement left over after all of the chaos of their dying Universe entered the mind of the Mad God, excreted, into the Elemental chaos. Always good to think about while eating.
@@AmigoRoberto I'm thinking just taking more than one subclass for a melee character would be ideal. 20 Barbarian for the two +4s and some rage then maybe 80 fighter? Lol
@@AfroChef I agree that would be super cool. But by a 100 level you have to have some age under your belt as well and with age comes wisdom so slap em with Druid or wizard 20 I'd say
i hope to one day hear tale of all the devils and demons to ever exist in all sources. the forgotten the defeated and the yet unknown this video just proves i'll just have to be patients.
This sounds like the the ultimate power. Anything that has no interest on obtaining other things will dominate everything. Coolest character IMO and I don't even play D&D.
The massive lore of D&D is just awesome. They truly need to turn it into some kind of tv/streaming show. Everything about this video is just interesting and awesome.
Could they do it justice though? Same thing for 40k, it's too grand(and deep) to be done justice by alot of existing TV/streaming producers. Yeah this vid is epic.
@@thedarkmaster4747 maybe,maybe not. I just want them to try. Maybe do like AHS and instead of every season being a horror movie trope/theme,every season can be a different setting?. Start with a season based around Forgotten Realms, next can be Greyhawk,then Spelljammer,etc.
M Perez That said, i've seen some pretty good 40k shorts - that nail it. So i'm not saying it's impossible. But it'd probably get cancelled... Then again if "invader zim"(my favourite cartoon of all time) can come back - it's plausable. There are afew DnD movies out there though, but the overall quality(depth) isn't exactly and mostly on point. You could definitely find the actors for such an endeavour quite readily(if not in desperation to play such a part.) - so ofcourse i'd love to see it. But only in high fidelity and consistency(high quality). You could even connect each season through plot points/objects/spelljamming helms or prime plane travelling characters - feeding into a meta plot in a final season.
Great video AJ. And to think, this AD&D demon lord is the great-great-great-grandson of The Blob. Who knew a mass of jelly animated amoeba-like to eat all organic life some science fiction horror movie people made would inspire such diverse monsters then their Abyssal lord?
Based on the info given to me in MTOF, I was under the impression that Juiblex was essentially just a mindless Demon that was only a Demon Lord by default simply because he was just so strong that no other Demons around him could compete.
He has been described that way. I believe his intelegence is more animal cunning. Just slink around, and seem uninterested, and enemies will ignore you.... maybe anyway.
His intelligence arose gradually, but his awareness was incredible even from his first moments of existence. All the knowledge and no idea what to do with it, aside from a horrific realization, that he was the worst life form in the multiverse.
Damn. That is deep AJ.... being a Demon Lord sucks. I will just stick with my ant like existence, serving a deity I will never truly comprehend. Ignorance is bliss.
I love Juiblex when he is sentient as he's much more interesting than a Demonic slime mold. there just something so intriguing about this cunning, Lovecraftian, all loathing horror who prefers mindless oozes that he can use as both slaves and avatars although I personally believe that he uses his Oozes because he finds the independent minds of mortals are too much of a variable to be relied upon in his multiverse wide schemes.
I had an amazing idea where jubilee and the other person who’s basically his roommate, the mushroom lady, teamed up and the players had to deafest them while the demons lords created awful marsh room-slime creatures.
Oooooh boy. This guy here. My brother loved him, and seemed to find savage deligh in throwing his.... children at us in large numbers. Because..... I guess he hates armor, and slashing weapons.
AJ: You, Sir, do your homework! I love the many details you provide that most of us would never know about. It makes me wonder how you manage to squeeze into all the inaccessible corners of the world in order to find this knowledge. Hmmm... 🤨
"... a shapeless and utterly evil mass spawned from the very birth of the Abyss itself ..." so, are you saying that Jubilex is essentially the intelligent afterbirth left over from the birth of the Abyss? if so, perhaps the Abyss intends to eat Jubilex, or is even actively and constantly trying to eat Jubilex, in the way that mothers of some human cultures eat the placenta after childbirth. and the only thing that keeps Jubilex going is its own voracious and single-minded quest to consume everything else first. no wonder it doesn't have time to get involved in the schemes of other demons!
Awesome review on Juiblex Aj looking forward to Pazuzu and hope to see a more in depth Dagon love the Lovecraftian flavoured demon lords also would a review on a Yellow King demon lord or whatever be an idea you'd be interested in?
Im impressed we didnt had a slime race nor a jubilex patron for warlock or something like that. You could become slime and pass through cracks, damage on grapple, split your hp into lesser clones etc.
Instead we have 50 flavors of basically the same thing, everyone has a celestial and undead subclass, genie, probably dragon etc. The dragon monk was a disappointment, it should have more and different stuff, not being a worst draconic blood sorcerer.
Juiblex, patron Demon Lord of "I'm not getting involved in this".
Why are these giant oozes the most reasonable demon lords?
Apathy. You are not important enough for Juiblex to stop angsting in corner of creation. Until you poke him with a stick, that is. Then he is gonna go full Jojo
It’s not apathy. He’ll get around to you when he does, not a moment sooner.
Of Switzerland lol
He reminds me the Great Old One Tsatoggua. The same attitude
I imagine a creature like The Blob would be a servant to Juiblex, a formidable servant
A demon/ooze hybrid. That would be a doozie
LOL! LOVE IT! 💚
I see what you did there 😏
A real oozeden of the abyss
Juiblex being one of the secret final bosses of the DnD world is something I love so much. Legit maybe the most dangerous demon lord in the long term.
As the literal aspect of the creation of the Abyss, it's pretty nifty how, according tot he other demon lords, such an unsuspecting and minor demon lord is one of the most ancient and probably the single most important demon in all of the Abyss. Demogorgon's self imposed demon prince tittle be damned if Juiblex ever decided to actually get up and do something.
He's basically the truest "Demon" of them all presently except maybe the few obrynths left such as Dagon and the former prince Obox-ob that still remain.
Also ont he count of other demon lords trying to classify Juiblex as Tanar'ri or Obrynth, the explanation here as the "wound of the abyss" seems more like he is a completely unique demon unto himself which I love.
The Prince of demons is far from weak. Demogorgon secured his title by slapping the other two contenders silly. And Juiblex doesn't care who the leader is so long as he gets to cause his own brand of wanton destruction just like a good demon. Juiblex just has no patience for politics. Or any being he cannot completely dominate like he does his slimes. If anything it is strange that there are at least three demons who have the inclination to enough tolerance to form kingdoms...
In Pathfinder, Jubilex (this spelling is canon in D&D but only Juiblex is licenced) has been expanded on somewhat. He is still a slob of a power, originating as a mindless qlippoth (obyrith) lord which simply consumed all it happened across until he absorbed a belligerent forgotten demon lord of poison and caverns and gained his powers and connection to sin. As such, Jubilex is associated with sloth, poison, and also substance abuse - alcoholics and drug abusers, poisoners of own bodies and minds, can find their way into his cults in indifference for anything but things that can net them more craven stuff. Pathfinder also introduces omoxes, the ooze demons, the desecrators of beauty - these humanoid-shaped molten piles of filth often act as Jubilex's evangelists, though they could be found in employ of most demon lords. It is also stated that Jubilex's domain is connected with most of Abyssal metropoli via portals in their sewage systems and dump pits - thus, an unfortunate escape can net your plane-hopping adventurers in far greater heap of trouble than they might realize at first.
I wonder why no one has seemed to point out that as a being that was formed from the chaos of the abyss being made and is in fact an avatar and representation of the chaos and depravity of the abyss, that Juiblex's nature and abilities to translate into more abstract areas. Not only is he physically shapeless and chaotic but you could even go further and add that as he was the first thing formed by the shard of evil and manifested from the abyss itself, he has the ability to connect to the abyss that no other demon lord has and also doesn't have the same restrictions as other demon lords. It reminds me of the line from the Immortal Hulk when the Devil Hulk says, "I don't do rules" then proceeds to break the laws of nature by almost breaking vibranium with a punch or being alive and able to move even when his body is cut to pieces while then reforming after the pieces are released. Take what Juiblex is to the abstract level and you've got a thing with almost no restrictions. Hell, I'd make him like The Thing from John Carpenter's movie and have Juiblex able to take any form and gain the abilities of those he consumes as he would be able to copy and adapt to anything. I'd love to see a situation where a demon lord realizes what Juiblex actually is and frighteningly exclaim, "You shouldn't be able to do things like this. It's impossible!", only for Juiblex to say, "Rules and restrictions are for those bound to shape and crafted by the intelligent hands. I was born from chaos itself. I AM THE ABYSS!"
Keep in mind Juiblex is just as shattered as the Abyss itself. He hasn't conquered all because he can't bring himself to focus enough to begin consumming all in earnest. What we see are the brief moments of coherency he has. Those are enough to achieve what he has. Should he ever manage true self mastery he could potentially take control of the whole Abyss and do what Obox-ob failed to do.
That bit about the Aboleths, I would guess they have been deliberately infected by some madness as part of an intraspecies war.
Robbin William’s character in Flubber was a Pact of the Chain Warlock with Juiblex as his patron. Convince me otherwise.
There’s no reason to. You speak the truth.
Robin Williams is the exact wizard in 3e whose 'bizarre summoning ritual went awry'.
There’s a homebrew alchemist class with a subclass called slime rancher. You have a pheromone that charms oozes and can bottle them up to throw at enemies. Tempted to call him that!
@@17joren disappointed they didn't call it "Ooze Shmoozer"
@@harley8047 x) that could be the official in-setting title. I think it’s a reference the the video game of same name
Juiblex has been one of my favorite Demon Lords since I first started playing almost ten years ago. He's the embodiment of the body horror one witnesses from Oozes and Slimes. The other Demon lords call him Lord of Nothing yet no one challenges him. Great video AJ. Also isn't it weird that the 5e stats for him don't have immunity to acid?
Indeed it is.
I have a different idea of the relationship between the faceless lord and the oozes. They are literal extensions of him. He simply cannot divide his attention sufficiently to control them all at the same time. Thus there are uncounted numbers that are left to their own devices until something of interest happens near them. It doesn't matter to him if any one is destroyed because he is vast on an unimaginable scale. Are you aware and concerned when some dead skin flakes off? Same thing.
Like muscle tissue etc. valid
"He despises himself almost as much as everything else in the multiverse"
Poor guy just sounds like me....
*hugs*
@@AJPickett Ah, thanks.
Maybe give 999 A hug? I believe he would be the ONE ooze Juiblex has no dominion over.
So in away Jubilex could be seen as the most dangerous of all demon lords, whean others throw their follows at eachother in great wars in some grasp for more and temperor power, jubilex takes the long view. After all, life in the material plane came from single celled forms, or "primordial Ooze" and thus it all shall return to him. The lord of ooze might work slowly, but since his mineons are among the most unseen and neglected of all DnD denizens it might be he who stands triumphant in the end.
I don’t know why but Juiblex has always been my favorite Demon lord. More akin to a force of nature than a mustache twirling embodiment of evil
Juiblex was my favourite since his 1e Monster Manual picture hit my tender eyes. Hail the Slurpy Lord
He's swell.
@@papanurgle8393 also, He swells
I needed this today. Thanks Professor.
Zuggtmoy is a "good" girl for fighting this sickly nonsense, while blessing beer, wine & cheese!
Recently, I ran a campaign where we were playing as a faction known as the Brotherhood Of Realms.
It's basically the space program, but instead of space it's other realities.
Dr Bright that’s a dope idea
When I think of Juiblex, I think of Oozemasters (Masters of the Wild Pg.67). A cadre of Oozemaster cultists of the slime lord would be a fantastic encounter. A cavern with walls lines with slimes, oozes and jellies. All swirling around a chanting circle of Oozemasters summoning some avatar of Juiblex just as the adventurers walk in.
That throne of bloodstone was rare and expensive. Original copies of that cost you a shit ton of money back in the day.
$9.99 Softcover book, available from the DM's Guild www.dmsguild.com/product/16805/H4-The-Throne-of-Bloodstone-1e Good things never die!
Juiblex demon lord of that stuff they serve in public school caffeterias
Fun fact, we don't have those is most of the rest of the world :)
@@AJPickett huh, didnt know that. They arent really that bad, its more of a meme.
School pizza is pretty ok
I like to think of jubilex as the heart of the abyss. Cant really destroy him... starts with trash becomes oozing muck, desire to judge turns into acceptance for wickedness
Him actually physically "beating" afew times - at random would be epic. 🖤😎
is there a spell like " flesh to ooze"? if not it should be and specific to Jubilex´s followers. also, i think that demon lords should have a physical influence on demons in their service, that they take on aspects of their masters, like a marilith under Lolths control has arachnid features like spider fangs,eyes,arms and maybe even segmented snake tail. might be the case though.
Juiblex may not have that influence due to his unique origin
Juiblex: the patron of *"OH GOD NO"*
Ben Thomason patron of slime girls
Jubilex definitely reminds me of the Dark souls boss Aldrich. A mass that does nothing but grow and consume. Slow but with purpose. It's given me inspiration for a few original demon lords of my own
You know. The part of the Abyss where the Sibriex live is considered by some to be the elemental plane of flesh, and the Tanari to be flesh elementals, thus the concept that Juiblex is the festering of the wound where the shard of ultimate evil pierced the world.
Grandaddy Poo! My favorite demon lord! Some years ago I ran a mock campaign called The Age of Slime and the levels of disgust were exceptional. Like Zugtmoy's marriage there was a conspiracy for unholy matrimony between Juiblex and Bwimb II in a giant mixer device of mind flayer design.
It seems to me that Jubilexx acts much more like a great old one than a demonlord. I could see a Jubilex Warlock pact. Also Slime hybrids= Slybrids.
My Favorite Adventure League Module is, the first foreign con created content; the CCC-Ooze-there.
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Everybody gangsta 'til the flubber start shankin'
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I knew that dungeon I threw together was missing something.
I've been sitting on a seed for an Abyss adventure for a while and now, having watched some of your vids, I got something REAL nasty and fun to plot out.
I may never run a game again but I think this info, especially about the gooie boi, is crucial to a new adventure.
This is a dynamic villain that you can do so much with even use as a circumstantial allie for an adventure against another demon lord.
Literally setting up for this right now. My players wanted to do a 9 Hells Campaign. Players picked a layer & decided to serve under Bael & try to help him conquer the 9. While this is happening, trough some sick ass intrigue & deals gone wrong Orcus has slain Graz'zt & now rules 4 layers of the Abyss. Bael, Lord of the 1-3rd & the players cant hold off the undead hordes forever so I'm working in Juiblex offering an tentative alliance to Bael bcz the spread of undeath kills off his food source & his long term goals to consume all living matter.
This just makes me wonder why there aren't more creations of Juiblex all over the multiverse. He's always supposedly cranking out new slime monsters but the ooze category of monster in the books is woefully under-populated. Not to mention there's only a single ooze at CR 10 (Elder Oblex) and nothing beyond that, with most of them being lower than CR 5. Just begs the question of where all the supposedly big bad ooze experiments are at.
Probably hidden away in his lair, secret weapons he has yet to deploy.
he just wants to gloop
Liked this video before i watched it, was not disappointed, infact i was pro-pointed. Maybe all the demonlords really do "know" about juibilex, but they're just in denial to protect their egos as juibilex doesn't attack them. Playing the abyssal game of thrones, "pretending" as hot stuff, compensating for the inevitablility they'll never admit too. That said i doubt much in D&D could stand up to a demogorgan and dagon tag team.
Ever wonder how Demogorgon is gonna fuck up his ego/intelligence reintegration? Dagon is gonna be spying on them and get sucked in at the worst possible moment and thus, Demodagon is born🤐
It is actually quite apt, when dealing with toxic substances, fungi often adopt this approach of staying as close to the surface as they possibly can. That's for example why old developing fluid gets covered in mold despite being horribly toxic to most microorganisms, the fungus can skim the surface and only absorb the nutrients while avoiding the toxic silver ions.
Seriously my favorite demon lord
I respect Juiblex for doing what he loves and just fully ignoring literally everything that attempts to get in his way; nothing anyone does affects what he is doing in anyway. They think he doesn't matter, he is just trash without any will; and he knows they don't matter, they are just trash with will.
reminds me of Bobby from King of the Hill, in the episode 'an officer and a gentle boy'; after failing the 'break' Bobby's willpower using every possible method, Hank and Cotton Hill muse that '[Bobby is like mush], you can't build him up, but you cannot break him down either. In a funny way, mush kind of has the edge.'
the possible merging of the 528th layer of the abyss (6:19) with the 222nd (8:19, not 220th, despite what it says in the captions) layer makes me wonder about the nature of the abyss; it pulls locations, places, into itself by corrupting them, creating new 'layers' which are disconnected or connected together chaotically. of course random merging and splitting could occur, it is just pure chaos, but perhaps as things and places fall deeper into the abyss they will 'merge' more and more.
When i have a hard day of work,i chew Juiblex gum! Cool vid,AJ! Thanks.
it comes in several flavors. Sewer, Slaughterhouse Gutter, Gangrene, Bone Rending Vat and Exploded Rotting Corpse Innards.
@@AJPickett that last that last one sounds delish
Peter Venkman's worst nightmare. He hates being slimed.
Sounds like who ever created thus was a big fan of H.P Lovecraft.
As the guy who always asks dragon related question I have to ask. Has there ever been a slime dragon or drake? Just asking has me thinking of a cult that uses a conglomeration of slimes to animated a dragon skeleton thinking it would gather them favor from juiblex. Or, actually just a cult that uses slimes and skeletons like that in general... My players are going to me. :-)
There is a template that can be applied to any dragon type.
_if Juiblex allowed a slime to become heroic... that would indicate a probable move towards his end goal_
*Sage Slime is Juiblex: Endgame!*
This morning I did something I rarely do and ate breakfast while commuting to work..... thanks 😐
Well... it's Juiblex, were you expecting it to be pretty?
@@AJPickett I'm still kind of new to the lore, so I didn't know what to expect 😂
@@darkhorse13golfgaming Fair enough :)
I love Jubilex lore, so watched this when it came out, but was glad to have it to come back to as a refresher, just started a campaign as a cleric with the Ooze domain, thanks for an easy way to get a bunch of Jubilex lore without hunting it down over multiple sites.
That sounds super interesting. Do you mind me asking more on your homebrew/reflovor? I've been wanting to run a "cursed" hybrid PC who is part slime/ooze. Their "goal" is to find a cure to their curse but are merely a puppet to Jubilex looking for a special magical item to add to his collection. Been thinking about reflavoring the Echo Knight and they just summon a slime version of themself instead of a shadow. Also maybe the Unearthed Arcana Warlock: Lurker in the Deep and reflovor with Slime. Appreciate your time and hope you have a blessed day.
@@callmeb.o.b.824 Isn't mine, it is from Mage Hand Press' Middle Finger of Vecna post: mfov.magehandpress.com/2016/08/slime-domain.html
32:26
"Juiblex is an ancient horror knowing unfathomable secrets and seeking to bring ruin to all"
Juiblex:
:)
Little known fact: Most kings are level one-hundred aristocrats.
:p
Oh, yeaaa! Been waiting for your treatment of Juiblex 🤙
Excellent, as always
Can't get enough of your vids. My wife uses them to fall asleep but the keep me wide awake. Amazing work
LOL,. this is why some folks call me the Bob Ross of monsters.
Early April 2020; using juiblex as the bbeg of a high level campaign for a discord corona distancing campaign. Oinoloths and spawns of kyuss, plus custom ooze mephits and larva mages. It's pretty great. My players united as a group of paladins. I killed 2 of them with a former silver dragon, current custom ooze dragon.
He's literally me
You are so cool 👍🏼
I've always thought that darkness given hunger has to be one of the best names ever given to a demon lords' servant. Great video as always AJ. 🍻
I kinda wonder how Jublex feels about the Oblexes? Like will they be his commanders in his armies against the formed creatures?
Certainly!
I have a theory
That when the queen of chaos attacked the first ruler of the abyss
She did it on a conceptual level right?
What is what she did was split him in to many pieces and this is one of them
It would explain a lot
Following from that I think what she actually did was to break up the different domains of evil into their own grouping
So originally the first ruler of the abyss was and almost all-powerful singular who held the domain of evil but when she did whatever it was it created a paradox which split him into many forms
Pretty much, yes. When you kill or imprison an elder god, the avatars of that god remain, now as seperated entities bereft of their original guiding purpose, but still as powerful as a god.
In many of my campaigns this particular Demon Lord has embodied the remains, or entrails if you will, possibly even the spiritual imprint, of The Shard of ultimate Evil, and therefore, the obyrith universe. Almost as though it was the excrement left over after all of the chaos of their dying Universe entered the mind of the Mad God, excreted, into the Elemental chaos. Always good to think about while eating.
I think after level 50 I might start forgetting all of my abilities but level 100 sounds crazy
Had to rewind and make sure I didnt mishear him
@@AmigoRoberto I'm thinking just taking more than one subclass for a melee character would be ideal. 20 Barbarian for the two +4s and some rage then maybe 80 fighter? Lol
@@AfroChef I agree that would be super cool. But by a 100 level you have to have some age under your belt as well and with age comes wisdom so slap em with Druid or wizard 20 I'd say
At lvl 100, your character sheet is a Hardback Novel.
i hope to one day hear tale of all the devils and demons to ever exist in all sources. the forgotten the defeated and the yet unknown this video just proves i'll just have to be patients.
Juiblex's realm is like living in Mexico City's sewer system during a World Cup Championship.
There are far fewer dead Goldfish and no albino alligators at all.
Just watch out for the rats feasting on drug cartels' stashes. These rats will always want to stay up way late at a party talking your ear off.
Crystal ooze, grey ooze, and black puddings are crazy.
The idea of olive slimes is one of my favorite ideas.
I'm surprised he hasn't sent out an email requiring the gelatinous cubes to be less shaped and symmetrical.
He's like a god-Shoggoth
MOre like Abhoth the Source of All Uncleanliness .
He may be the Lord of Slime, but man...Juiblex makes the best dubstep and gets the floor bouncing.
So he's essentially the closest thing to Nurgle(WH40k's chaos god of stagnation and entropy) in DnD's verse/multiverse.
Pretty much
Being a warlock patron for this thing would be...unique.
This was fascinating! I hadn't really thought much of Juiblex prior to this video, but boy is it horrifying.
cool definitely will include some of this in a game one day
juiblex and dagon are my favorite demon lords! also 4:48 that's a kickass image!
On the world of Nirn, Juiblex is known as Peryite.
This sounds like the the ultimate power. Anything that has no interest on obtaining other things will dominate everything. Coolest character IMO and I don't even play D&D.
Wonder how Jubilex will react to a pepper spray on him
Just use Fireball
Just Fireball
Just Fireball
Slime Princess's domain of the slime element in Adventure Time
Rootsnoot Thnute oh my blob.
The massive lore of D&D is just awesome. They truly need to turn it into some kind of tv/streaming show. Everything about this video is just interesting and awesome.
Could they do it justice though? Same thing for 40k, it's too grand(and deep) to be done justice by alot of existing TV/streaming producers. Yeah this vid is epic.
@@thedarkmaster4747 maybe,maybe not. I just want them to try. Maybe do like AHS and instead of every season being a horror movie trope/theme,every season can be a different setting?. Start with a season based around Forgotten Realms, next can be Greyhawk,then Spelljammer,etc.
M Perez That said, i've seen some pretty good 40k shorts - that nail it. So i'm not saying it's impossible. But it'd probably get cancelled... Then again if "invader zim"(my favourite cartoon of all time) can come back - it's plausable. There are afew DnD movies out there though, but the overall quality(depth) isn't exactly and mostly on point. You could definitely find the actors for such an endeavour quite readily(if not in desperation to play such a part.) - so ofcourse i'd love to see it. But only in high fidelity and consistency(high quality). You could even connect each season through plot points/objects/spelljamming helms or prime plane travelling characters - feeding into a meta plot in a final season.
@@thedarkmaster4747 exactly! Mindflayers would make for great villians spaning all the realms and seasons!
The demon lord whose lair is where he says it is. Zuggtomy can try to exterminate him all she tries... but there will always be more slimes.
Me: watching and learning about Juiblex, thinking he’d be a cool antagonist... then the image at 19:56 happens and OH GOD NO
Once again I wish I had listened to this before running the Pudding King - great background.
Lord wise Juiblex may be my favorite demon lord but I’m torn because mechanically in game I hate running oozes 😂
Its funny how the seed of the abyss was guarded by juiblex who came out at the birth of the abyss and asmodius needed to get it from him
Great video AJ. And to think, this AD&D demon lord is the great-great-great-grandson of The Blob. Who knew a mass of jelly animated amoeba-like to eat all organic life some science fiction horror movie people made would inspire such diverse monsters then their Abyssal lord?
I'm suffering from an upper respiratory infection and tmg releases a video on the slime lord...juiblex illuminati slimily confirmed.
Get well soon!
Juiblex goes to the doctor of the gods and says: *cough-cough* "doc, it hurts when I pee." *sniffle*
Based on the info given to me in MTOF, I was under the impression that Juiblex was essentially just a mindless Demon that was only a Demon Lord by default simply because he was just so strong that no other Demons around him could compete.
He has been described that way. I believe his intelegence is more animal cunning. Just slink around, and seem uninterested, and enemies will ignore you.... maybe anyway.
I like to think of him like a slimy version of the grave mind from the halo franchise
His intelligence arose gradually, but his awareness was incredible even from his first moments of existence. All the knowledge and no idea what to do with it, aside from a horrific realization, that he was the worst life form in the multiverse.
Damn. That is deep AJ.... being a Demon Lord sucks. I will just stick with my ant like existence, serving a deity I will never truly comprehend. Ignorance is bliss.
AJ Pickett the only way we can improve is to know how terrible we are, so this guy has had a leg up on self improvement from the get go.
so Juiblex's Domain is Portland OR
Ha!😂
Hey! It’s Nurgle’s drinking buddy!!!
Grandaddy of Nurgle
I love Juiblex when he is sentient as he's much more interesting than a Demonic slime mold. there just something so intriguing about this cunning, Lovecraftian, all loathing horror who prefers mindless oozes that he can use as both slaves and avatars although I personally believe that he uses his Oozes because he finds the independent minds of mortals are too much of a variable to be relied upon in his multiverse wide schemes.
Juiblex sound even more weird and funny when said with a Mexican accent. “Huibleh”
😂❤️
I tried saying "the Mexican pronunciation" out loud and it think I've made a similar noise while slipping on ice😂
I* think
I’ve always found it funny that Spanish has 3 letters that essentially make the “H” sound, and none of them are “H”.
Man, after watching all of these videos I'd LOVE to play in a campaign of yours!
I had an amazing idea where jubilee and the other person who’s basically his roommate, the mushroom lady, teamed up and the players had to deafest them while the demons lords created awful marsh room-slime creatures.
I can see Juiblex and Wiliam Birkin in his final G form being poker buddies.
Oooooh boy. This guy here. My brother loved him, and seemed to find savage deligh in throwing his.... children at us in large numbers. Because..... I guess he hates armor, and slashing weapons.
I liked Jubilex but this is like favored frosting on pudding cake.
AJ: You, Sir, do your homework! I love the many details you provide that most of us would never know about. It makes me wonder how you manage to squeeze into all the inaccessible corners of the world in order to find this knowledge. Hmmm... 🤨
Hmmmm. 😅
yes, you do have to make a vid on the Lv.100 character!
I second this.
14:00 The Far Realm Personified. All maws, eyes, tentacles.
Yep
- sees thumbnail and braces for "nope" -
"... a shapeless and utterly evil mass spawned from the very birth of the Abyss itself ..."
so, are you saying that Jubilex is essentially the intelligent afterbirth left over from the birth of the Abyss?
if so, perhaps the Abyss intends to eat Jubilex, or is even actively and constantly trying to eat Jubilex, in the way that mothers of some human cultures eat the placenta after childbirth. and the only thing that keeps Jubilex going is its own voracious and single-minded quest to consume everything else first. no wonder it doesn't have time to get involved in the schemes of other demons!
Woot! I will be using Jubilex this campaign. Great inspiration.
Awesome review on Juiblex Aj looking forward to Pazuzu and hope to see a more in depth Dagon love the Lovecraftian flavoured demon lords also would a review on a Yellow King demon lord or whatever be an idea you'd be interested in?
I can't think of much else I could say about Dagon really. Plenty more demon lords to cover :)
@@AJPickett good deal, thanks for sharing your take on the crazier Lovecraftian fiends and in general for all the stuff you put out
I love jubilex, thanks an good to see your vid!
*Relevant and Supportive Comment*
Agreement
Im impressed we didnt had a slime race nor a jubilex patron for warlock or something like that. You could become slime and pass through cracks, damage on grapple, split your hp into lesser clones etc.
Instead we have 50 flavors of basically the same thing, everyone has a celestial and undead subclass, genie, probably dragon etc. The dragon monk was a disappointment, it should have more and different stuff, not being a worst draconic blood sorcerer.
Juiblex is the patron of weird hentai