Congrats you win the prize! I was waiting for this comment. To the Slug, SALT IS AN ACID, that doesn't make salt an acid attack, it just has the same effect as acid would have to another creature.
Stealing the abilities of real life slugs(or snails) like shooting sticky goo (web or tanglefoot bag) or a contact poison on their slime, the aquatic slugs getting a poison dart (paralysis) and then enveloping the affected player. Slimey and leathery hides to increase AC or even catch weapons. I see a ton of potential with these as replacements for carrion crawlers and otyughs.
My head canon for why there are giant versions of normally small animals in fantasy settings like spiders and rats is due to magical exposure. Either the creatures live in an area with a lot of magical energy naturally present or they get exposed to the magical waste of a nearby wizard or their diet could consist of magical plants or animals that cause the creature to grow because that's the only way their body knows how to process this alien energy it has consumed.
Jeez, with all these monsters you'll be hard pressed to find a liar in t this society... "Run! RUN!! A GIANT PANCAKE MONSTER IN THE FORM OF A GIANT AXOLOTL HAD BEEN RAMPAGING THE BEACHES LOOKING FOR BEANS!!!" Everyone: Bro are you on drugs. My mad scientist occultist druid: *nervous sweating*
Haha, Being a kid that grew up on Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, I was wondering if you were going to touch on the "love harpoon" that slugs actually have😂 You never disappoint
Conjure Elementals, 4th level spell. Minion master of the salty bois. Plane Shift, 7th level spell. Banish an unwilling target to a plane of your choice. SALT DEMIPLANE.
The adventurers come across a friendly flail snail but then, oh no, it's actually a giant slug finishing off a snail appetizer and the adventurers are looking like a main course.
The other morning as I stumbled through my house toward my coffee maker, I stepped on a slug in my hallway in the carpet that was roughly the size of my index finger. The revulsion, the morning ruining contact, that I felt even making contact with this substantial, weirdly-stringy, sticky, clammy body would translate quite fiercely into a gigantic form. You've earned horror points with me sir, just because of life experience.
6:10 Aaaand there it is. I wondered if this was going to come up. Id you feel particularly evil on that harpoon you could have a clutch of slug eggs. Make it work the same as rot grubs.
Kinda funny to see this video. I actually thought about including a giant slug into my campaign but my giant slug would have been more like a trap. It would shoot out a harpoon filled with paralyzing poison and draw its victim into its maw like those sea slugs.
For anybody who thinks that mollusks as monsters is a lame idea I point towards the Pink Wolf Snail. You need look no further for a carnivorous mollusk. I've been toying with the idea of an Alienist who summons variant monsters with his conjuration spells like psudonatural oozes. Now I can add psudonatural giant slugs to that list. I can only imagine that would be the most terrifying thing ever.
I'm going to use this as a monster where the players are actually different types of bugs. Rangers are ants, Rogues are spiders, monks are mantids, fighters/barbarians are beetles, etc.
Ohhhhh i like this one, its full of story material. Maybe its a failed or run away experiment of a mad wizard/litch. Or a case of magic gone wild in ab area ect.
I am using this creature against a level 5 party. However, I am making its mutation forced, by a drow mage working in service to ghaunadaur. He I jests a magical goop extracted from various oozes and jellies and grows the slug and has a lot of large slugs smaller than the big man. I used the aquatic version, and made it so the puddings and oozes were both by products of the creatures growth and a weird molting it undergoes, and also symbiotic organisms that assist in cleaning up after it.
I'm surprised that they didn't give the water version a ability to have a aoe inc attack that either does acid or poison damage. Maybe a 60 foot cube centered on the slug or something like that, the sea hare can use purple inc irl so it feels like a worth while way of closing the gap between the aquatic and land varieties. That and more mobility likely as well.
Love the expansion in the concept. I might have to add this to the arsenal of my chaotic neutral villain who works mostly with oozes... I might even expressly have him say, "Sure, it's not technically an ooze and it's multicellular nature is perhaps a touch too organized for my love of 'pure chaos', but how could I resist? Just look at how beautifully gargantuan it is!"
lol the circle of the moon druid wildshapes into a giant slug. the cleric throws a bag of salt onto the druid for a D6 of acid damage, The druid in turn just found his reason the rage. next level up..... barbarian.
I agree that the Giant Slug sounds like a good start for an amazing nightmare. If they had a "charm ooze" ability or a "conjure ooze" ability they'd get pretty powerful very quick. Going with the real world biology, giant slugs that eat plants should gain poisons from their prey. Adding a D&D analog to that, maybe have them gain resistances, magical abilities, and/or psionic abilities from their prey. Amping up a giant slug might be kinda hard actually, because it's easy to over do it. Additionally, they sound like a good base for an ooze demon of some sort or for the Incubus. If Incubi are non-tenari in your cosmology, they could be both, especially with that mating spear deal. At a minimum, mating spears that create aberrations seem like a given.
It would be fun to listen to you when you become a 80 years old grandpa, and talk about d&d as if it was something that happened to you a long time ago.
I was like "ugh, giant slug" watched it anyway... You NEVER cease to upstage my expectations with these kinds of videos. Great work This would be a fantastic critter in my prehistoric game. Would you suppose that a beast like this would migrate or hibernate in a seasonal world model?
Depends on how much the weather changes, and how much food there is. A slug this size could generate a serious amount of heat just by digesting its food, so I imagine that cold would only be an issue if it means other animals aren't around. In which case I would say that they dig a hole and incase themselves in a cacoon of slime hibernating until food becomes plentiful again. With this method, they might be a plague that descends on an area once per century. They wake up, eat absolutely everything than go back to sleep like a mini tarrasque. If you make it so that hundreds come out at once, this might be even harder for 1 party to handle than a tarrasque.
Yeah, a cone of mucus that halves movement, with an alternate variant that's a single target jet that silences and paralyzes on a failed Dex save. Could also have a cloud variant that reduces visibility for to 10ft (in water, doesn't effect giant sea slugs) with no movement penalty, used by deep sea slugs.
Great video. I love using giant slugs. They make really great adversaries for characters under 5th level. Mundane boring animal that can be turned into something disgusting and horrifying. Just my opinion but you should have a slide which details how you wrote up the monster within the video. Keeps your viewers on your channel to get info from you rather than them following a link. Also presenting an encounter demonstrating how monsters may use their abilities may be of interest to viewers. So many D&D gamers have the “do it for me” mentality today. Might as well take advantage of it 😊
*Relevant and Supportive Comment* (Sorry about being so late to this strangefest, but I don't have internet right now and am currently using a neighbor's connection.) Edit: This also makes me wonder what else can be done with mundane organisms, like a monstrous creature made from a pillbug?
Not a realted species but if you where to hybrid the slug with something like say a glowworm i terms of tactics to catch prey you might be able to make the giant slug a slightly more menacing predator. Just a though
I am imagining an army of giant slugs maybe made by an order of Wizards to destroy a new flora or fauna that would consume everything even Slimes so they made a possibly worse threat to slay it.
Really cool monster, I already want to use it. Although I don't know about CR 10. My party is level 9 and if I threw it at them, even in a hard terrain they would kill it in one round with 120 health and no usable resistances (come on, almost no one uses bludgeoning weapons). It would basically Acid Spray once, that is if it doesn't get stunned or smth and then die. I'd say smth like CR 7-8 would be closer.
Hey, I am currently reading the avatar series about time of troubles and I feel like people have already asked this but what is your opinion on tablets of fate? If Ao is so damn powerful he would have known who stole them right? He is the most powerful being in that universe so he should have known who the thieves were? Maybe he just wanted an excuse to toss the gods from heavens because they became too disinterested or something. Thanks man.
These are my favorite creatures to alter. I think I had a total of 2... maybe 3... giant slugs not altered from their base stats by me. I even had one instance where the players cleared all the giant slugs from a place they never left. The town put a price on their heads for ruining the fertilizer company that paid the town for its garbage.
Jump on with a slab of bacon on a stick XD. Constantly make dex/grapple checks to hold on as it is like riding a mechanical bull and holding onto a greased pig at the same time. I just came up with a goblin pit game.
I use salt . Unless you plan on tricking the thing into a salt mine or salt water you can blind it by salting the eye stalks. If the players do this I throw the slug into a thrashing rage. It so heavy it crushes off any limbs or body parts it goes over.
I’m a little over half way through, and I must say that it would be a big missed opportunity to not include a shelled, snail-like variant. I’ll delete this comment if it’s included.
AJ Pickett Well, by technicality slugs aren’t exactly 100% aggressive across all species, with most being herbivorous as far as I know. And I’d say it would be made as close to the giant slug as possible, but with a significantly higher overall protection from damage, and less variety in attacks.
Salt does one d6 acid damage, also the slug is immune to acid 😋
Congrats you win the prize! I was waiting for this comment. To the Slug, SALT IS AN ACID, that doesn't make salt an acid attack, it just has the same effect as acid would have to another creature.
@@AJPickett fair enough lol
What's the prize?
@@AmigoRoberto Getting the comment pinned :)
Doesn't salt draw water out of slugs while throwing off their electrolyte balance? How were desiccating attacks treated again?
Just found a cantrip in Dragon Magazine #59, Salt. "Salt up
to perhaps 4 square yards in area." I'm ready for these slugs, I am the slug slayer now.
I never thought someone would be able to squeeze a 10 minute lore video out of these things.
"Flail snails will try to flee from giant slugs."
That would be the slowest high speed chase the world has ever known
Regular slugs eat waterbears, Giant slugs eat regular bears.
Stealing the abilities of real life slugs(or snails) like shooting sticky goo (web or tanglefoot bag) or a contact poison on their slime, the aquatic slugs getting a poison dart (paralysis) and then enveloping the affected player. Slimey and leathery hides to increase AC or even catch weapons. I see a ton of potential with these as replacements for carrion crawlers and otyughs.
Nathtou Lightbringer agreed there’s tons of ways to make them really horrifying
My head canon for why there are giant versions of normally small animals in fantasy settings like spiders and rats is due to magical exposure. Either the creatures live in an area with a lot of magical energy naturally present or they get exposed to the magical waste of a nearby wizard or their diet could consist of magical plants or animals that cause the creature to grow because that's the only way their body knows how to process this alien energy it has consumed.
Jeez, with all these monsters you'll be hard pressed to find a liar in t this society...
"Run! RUN!! A GIANT PANCAKE MONSTER IN THE FORM OF A GIANT AXOLOTL HAD BEEN RAMPAGING THE BEACHES LOOKING FOR BEANS!!!"
Everyone: Bro are you on drugs.
My mad scientist occultist druid: *nervous sweating*
Haha, Being a kid that grew up on Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, I was wondering if you were going to touch on the "love harpoon" that slugs actually have😂 You never disappoint
Tatsusama “Love Harpoon” is the name of my band.
The joke had to be made. I’m sorry, I’ll leave now.
I was just considering a "honey a shrunk the adventurers" one shot. Final boss: slug. But the players are tiny so giant slug stats here we come
"Nowhere near as interesting as a giant slug should be"
Sounds like a challenge
Conjure Elementals, 4th level spell. Minion master of the salty bois.
Plane Shift, 7th level spell. Banish an unwilling target to a plane of your choice. SALT DEMIPLANE.
The adventurers come across a friendly flail snail but then, oh no, it's actually a giant slug finishing off a snail appetizer and the adventurers are looking like a main course.
have a little added spice of some kind of freaky mutant cordycep mushroom to the mix and things get real funky
escaped from the Slurm Factory.
"Hey guys, excited for more realm space videos? Great, here's one about a giant slug"
One of my books lists a stat block for a Salt Golem.
hee hee hee....
When I read my notification, I had to see this for myself. I learn more about dnd with this channel
The other morning as I stumbled through my house toward my coffee maker, I stepped on a slug in my hallway in the carpet that was roughly the size of my index finger. The revulsion, the morning ruining contact, that I felt even making contact with this substantial, weirdly-stringy, sticky, clammy body would translate quite fiercely into a gigantic form. You've earned horror points with me sir, just because of life experience.
You should visit Brazil then. Twice I've found snails sized around the two inches
6:10 Aaaand there it is. I wondered if this was going to come up.
Id you feel particularly evil on that harpoon you could have a clutch of slug eggs. Make it work the same as rot grubs.
Kinda funny to see this video. I actually thought about including a giant slug into my campaign but my giant slug would have been more like a trap. It would shoot out a harpoon filled with paralyzing poison and draw its victim into its maw like those sea slugs.
Sorry for a nat 20? No, they will be laughing hysterically while TPKing the whole party. Those are DnD players
True
I wanted a big dragon style monster without using a dragon. giant slug was perfect. 9/10 need a breath weapon.
Here wuz Seamus!
Seanus will send this video to the plane of Salt!
For anybody who thinks that mollusks as monsters is a lame idea I point towards the Pink Wolf Snail. You need look no further for a carnivorous mollusk. I've been toying with the idea of an Alienist who summons variant monsters with his conjuration spells like psudonatural oozes. Now I can add psudonatural giant slugs to that list. I can only imagine that would be the most terrifying thing ever.
Three words: Giant Land Conch.
I bet the flesh of a "Giant Slug" can be used as a component to make potions.
Just a few minutes of being submerged will kill them....wait are we talking about the players or the slug?
What if I summon a salt mephit?
would that work?
like a charm. Problem is the salt mephits are second only to the steam mephits in being pains in the ass.
One might say my morning is a bit sluggish lol
I’m not interested in giant slugs, but I will watch this anyways because aj will tell me something I need to write down
I'm going to use this as a monster where the players are actually different types of bugs. Rangers are ants, Rogues are spiders, monks are mantids, fighters/barbarians are beetles, etc.
I'd run that adventure as a one shot for sure.
Ohhhhh i like this one, its full of story material. Maybe its a failed or run away experiment of a mad wizard/litch. Or a case of magic gone wild in ab area ect.
I am using this creature against a level 5 party. However, I am making its mutation forced, by a drow mage working in service to ghaunadaur. He I jests a magical goop extracted from various oozes and jellies and grows the slug and has a lot of large slugs smaller than the big man. I used the aquatic version, and made it so the puddings and oozes were both by products of the creatures growth and a weird molting it undergoes, and also symbiotic organisms that assist in cleaning up after it.
I'm surprised that they didn't give the water version a ability to have a aoe inc attack that either does acid or poison damage. Maybe a 60 foot cube centered on the slug or something like that, the sea hare can use purple inc irl so it feels like a worth while way of closing the gap between the aquatic and land varieties. That and more mobility likely as well.
Love the expansion in the concept. I might have to add this to the arsenal of my chaotic neutral villain who works mostly with oozes... I might even expressly have him say, "Sure, it's not technically an ooze and it's multicellular nature is perhaps a touch too organized for my love of 'pure chaos', but how could I resist? Just look at how beautifully gargantuan it is!"
Aaaahh yes, Giant Slugs, boneless monstrosities, mortal enemies to Bones Malone and the Spooky Bois.
I cast king size salt shaker 🧂
lol the circle of the moon druid wildshapes into a giant slug. the cleric throws a bag of salt onto the druid for a D6 of acid damage, The druid in turn just found his reason the rage. next level up..... barbarian.
If it’s an Underdark creature Mind Flayers tame one and use it in some manner?
Mind flayers make a sentient version... O.o 10/10 do not want.
I would say the Slug lacks the necessary brain power to be truly tamed, but Flayers may herd/ corral/ drive them for something or other...
Waste disposal unit, also, they like having slime on the floor.
Giant slugs to clean the sewers...
I agree that the Giant Slug sounds like a good start for an amazing nightmare.
If they had a "charm ooze" ability or a "conjure ooze" ability they'd get pretty powerful very quick.
Going with the real world biology, giant slugs that eat plants should gain poisons from their prey.
Adding a D&D analog to that, maybe have them gain resistances, magical abilities, and/or psionic abilities from their prey.
Amping up a giant slug might be kinda hard actually, because it's easy to over do it.
Additionally, they sound like a good base for an ooze demon of some sort or for the Incubus.
If Incubi are non-tenari in your cosmology, they could be both, especially with that mating spear deal.
At a minimum, mating spears that create aberrations seem like a given.
There used to be a giant skunk in the lore. Skunks eat slugs. The encounter just got more complicated.
I just made giant riding snails last week. This is awesome!
Totally running this guy soon.
It would be fun to listen to you when you become a 80 years old grandpa, and talk about d&d as if it was something that happened to you a long time ago.
I was like "ugh, giant slug" watched it anyway...
You NEVER cease to upstage my expectations with these kinds of videos. Great work
This would be a fantastic critter in my prehistoric game.
Would you suppose that a beast like this would migrate or hibernate in a seasonal world model?
Depends on how much the weather changes, and how much food there is. A slug this size could generate a serious amount of heat just by digesting its food, so I imagine that cold would only be an issue if it means other animals aren't around. In which case I would say that they dig a hole and incase themselves in a cacoon of slime hibernating until food becomes plentiful again.
With this method, they might be a plague that descends on an area once per century. They wake up, eat absolutely everything than go back to sleep like a mini tarrasque. If you make it so that hundreds come out at once, this might be even harder for 1 party to handle than a tarrasque.
MarvAlice: love it. Thanks for the tips
This is a cool one I’ll use in one of the next couple sessions, thanks for this!
To help with the aquatic version perhaps it could have a stream of entangling protein to paralyze or reduce movement
Yeah, a cone of mucus that halves movement, with an alternate variant that's a single target jet that silences and paralyzes on a failed Dex save. Could also have a cloud variant that reduces visibility for to 10ft (in water, doesn't effect giant sea slugs) with no movement penalty, used by deep sea slugs.
A hormonal, chitinous spear that used in foreplay....sounds horrible 😂
Darkhorse13Golf Gaming that’s not even part of the fantasy, that’s just how slugs roll in real life.
Would Destroy Water have an adverse effect on the slug? It serves the same purpose as salt in dehydrating the beast
I await the cr 55 devistation beatle
Great video. I love using giant slugs. They make really great adversaries for characters under 5th level. Mundane boring animal that can be turned into something disgusting and horrifying.
Just my opinion but you should have a slide which details how you wrote up the monster within the video. Keeps your viewers on your channel to get info from you rather than them following a link.
Also presenting an encounter demonstrating how monsters may use their abilities may be of interest to viewers. So many D&D gamers have the “do it for me” mentality today. Might as well take advantage of it 😊
Good idea, thanks Erik
*Relevant and Supportive Comment*
(Sorry about being so late to this strangefest, but I don't have internet right now and am currently using a neighbor's connection.)
Edit: This also makes me wonder what else can be done with mundane organisms, like a monstrous creature made from a pillbug?
I have been waiting for this day
Not a realted species but if you where to hybrid the slug with something like say a glowworm i terms of tactics to catch prey you might be able to make the giant slug a slightly more menacing predator. Just a though
I could be sleeping or I COULD be learning about a fake giant slug.
This is the way
Jumbo monster slug for the win! 🤘😎💀🐌
Imangine just a colossal slug going up a moutoin
Made by a crazed Wizard who mastered a polymorphic spell that makes them bigger
Would extra (functional) eyestalks boost perception?
Probably.
More giant animals, please.I am amazed at how big animals get.
Got too many giant slugs? No prob. Invest in giant ducks!!. Now off I go... to develop Salt and Rust dragon stats...
It's weird that they dont have a mucus coating like in real ones, the mucus is extremely sticky and hard to remove and encumbers attackers
I think I know what my next monster encounter will be. 😈
Excellent video. I’m definitely going to use this when my party goes to underdark
Thanks for the vid sir.
Im going to run it as a giant trash compactor hopefully having it around for the pcs to try and bait it into eating hords of undead
Loved it. Now I will use them for sure. You nailed the ending. Will share.
Just feed it a cucumber to tame it
The cucumber's name is Kevin.
Love these videos ❤️
These things are bloody terrifying.
I swear I'm going to develop a salt spray spell for these....
Glad to see the Conan reference because there is a memorable encounter in one of the stories.
my gnome druid just found his new mount.....
How bold
I am imagining an army of giant slugs maybe made by an order of Wizards to destroy a new flora or fauna that would consume everything even Slimes so they made a possibly worse threat to slay it.
Really cool monster, I already want to use it. Although I don't know about CR 10. My party is level 9 and if I threw it at them, even in a hard terrain they would kill it in one round with 120 health and no usable resistances (come on, almost no one uses bludgeoning weapons). It would basically Acid Spray once, that is if it doesn't get stunned or smth and then die. I'd say smth like CR 7-8 would be closer.
Have it attack them from a bunch of burrows, just popping up and spraying them, then moving around to another spot.
Hey, I am currently reading the avatar series about time of troubles and I feel like people have already asked this but what is your opinion on tablets of fate? If Ao is so damn powerful he would have known who stole them right? He is the most powerful being in that universe so he should have known who the thieves were? Maybe he just wanted an excuse to toss the gods from heavens because they became too disinterested or something. Thanks man.
This would have been really fun to fight against with my character who was a salt trader on the side.
These look like the product of me cooking...
How many times have you been cooked?
@@andrewamann8855 If you count the oil incident, twice
Please do the gods now. They are monsters too.
Avatar of Ghaunadaur 🐌
Takin the Nope Train to Nopeville here. Nope nope nope
All the nope
BIG
WIGGLY
BOI
Good video AJ
Get the salt
More giant bugs! Plz... like if the vids are doing well. And whenever is a good time for you..
These are my favorite creatures to alter. I think I had a total of 2... maybe 3... giant slugs not altered from their base stats by me. I even had one instance where the players cleared all the giant slugs from a place they never left. The town put a price on their heads for ruining the fertilizer company that paid the town for its garbage.
Yeah there are a few varieties, such as the blade slug, I may do a bid on them.
@@AJPickett Sweet. Keep cranking 'em out, my man!
Can I use it as a mount?
Nope
Jump on with a slab of bacon on a stick XD. Constantly make dex/grapple checks to hold on as it is like riding a mechanical bull and holding onto a greased pig at the same time.
I just came up with a goblin pit game.
...why would you even WANT to?
I DIDN'T GIVE RIGHTS TO USE MY LIKENESS!!! SOMEONE IS GETTING SUED!!!
It's all about the flail snail man...
I feel like we're setting up for a strange, gastropod-centric campaign...
See deltora quest gem guardian the glus. A giant slug.
Please pass the salt!
I use salt . Unless you plan on tricking the thing into a salt mine or salt water you can blind it by salting the eye stalks. If the players do this I throw the slug into a thrashing rage. It so heavy it crushes off any limbs or body parts it goes over.
I’m a little over half way through, and I must say that it would be a big missed opportunity to not include a shelled, snail-like variant. I’ll delete this comment if it’s included.
Flail Snail minus Flail and Magic deflection. Also, snails are not aggressive.
AJ Pickett Well, by technicality slugs aren’t exactly 100% aggressive across all species, with most being herbivorous as far as I know. And I’d say it would be made as close to the giant slug as possible, but with a significantly higher overall protection from damage, and less variety in attacks.
Must ride
Quick pass the salt!
I like the old slug art have u done a video of the astral dreadnought yet
Kind of, they are part of a special project of mine.
Awesome maybe death giant also they look badass
*aggressive note taking*
Deltora quest had a fearsome slug monster if i recall correctly.
Slimily brilliant :)