The real question is... When a mouther splits... Do the souls split apart with it? Or do they split in tact? Are mouthers full mixtures of souls, or more like stitched together souls that they can pull apart? My boy John is already forever insane because of being liquified into this thing, but just imagine how worse it would feel feeling your actual soul being ripped into shreds because this thing reproduced another.
No, the two mouthers spawned from one mouther still count as one single entity sharing souls between them. The mouther that ate John’s body and all mouthers it spawned and all mouthers they spawn and so on need to be destroyed before resurrection can happen.
So what I'm taking away from this is...have a BBEG or nutso wizard who seeks only people possessed of the finest singing voices to feed to a gibbering mouther and create the Ultimate Acappella Being.
They also make for amazing barbershop quartets and choirs. There's nothing quite like hearing that maddening gibbering suddenly break out into Tenor: By the light Bass: By the light Tenor&bass: of the silvery moon!
I used one of these as a sub plot years ago, wherein the party had to get vital information from a wizard who had been absorbed by a greater mouther, and somehow managed to retain his sanity. They had to figure out how to somehow either stun the rest of the mouths, or extract the wizard's soul from the beast. Good times.
Exactly what I was thinking of. That SCP is like an intelligent mouther. Maybe these were the inspiration. One of my players is an SCP fan & adding one of these to a campaign sounds very fun. Maybe make it intelligent & a devil. 😈
Ugh dude, stop, you’re just too good at this lore stuff! Absolutely love your D&D content, best in the business by far. I’d love to see a video on the elemental planes or the archomentals if they peak your interest!
He basically just repeats stuff he googles, gets out of previous editions, and out of old Dragon magazines that are online. You can easily find it too. It's not like this is some secret lore he researches 😂
@@staticcharm3808 Not trying to win or anything... but research + recording + editing is a lot of hard work It's pretty handy to have content of this good quality around
@@staticcharm3808 yes, because I'd so much prefer to put in all the hours and resources to find all of this myself instead of having it summarized so nicely in an entertaining video. Convenience is quite the factor you know. It's so much better to just look up one of these on RUclips than to spend hours scouring resources.
@@thomastruant8837 this won't apply to everyone obviously, but I struggle with AJ's videos. They're waaaaaaay less engaging. Mr. Rhexx is much better at keeping things interesting and engaging.
"there is no size limit on a gibbering mouther" now I'm going to make a dungeon for my players that is just a massive, possibly dead, gibbering mouther that the players go inside.
What if its not dead but frozen, because it ate an ice elemental, that's also the "final boss" of the dungeon... The gibbering mouther thaws when the party defeats the elemental. Pants are shat.
@@BaalFridge If it’s frozen then it’s fucking dead. No immunity to cold damage and no regeneration means that it’s various fluids have frozen and ripped it’s entire circulatory system apart. It’s basically just a frost bitten corpse at this point. If it unfreezes instantly after the elemental is defeated then it’s just gonna be what happens at the end of Super Metroid.
@@jonathanwells223 well yes but what if the mouther was so big that the elemental was only able to freeze the surface of it, like how ponds don't freeze all the way through. That way there can be the Super Metroid escape and during the dungeon, there can be traps involving mouther bits.
@@idontno6d105 but it ate it, that means at least that section will be dead. Which is for the best, cause when it thaws the players would be in a stomach most likely, so it should just rip off the frozen bits and keep going.
I've been using those in a campaign. Tweaked their gibbering a bit, adding words or short phrases foreshadowing the return of an ancient being (Fhtagn!) . Then I tweaked them again because one of the players used a spell to understand languages, and while I said it was mostly gibberish, I did say he would identify parts of chants to an ancient deity no longer revered, in a dead language. Then the players wanted to see if they could identify some hidden communication (I made a cult that was trying to get a shared consciousness, so they wanted to identify that). We rolled dices (I let a lot of decisions to the dices when the players come up with some unique idea) and the dices said yes... so they started using mouthers as a way to spy the Cult... You would never believe how this progressed... I already liked a lot of your other videos and a lot of the lore presented in them aligned so well with the campaign that I refer to them often. Just subscribed. Don't know why I hadn't.
These D&D videos are part of the bedtime routine for my 9yr old son and I. We play D&D together and it's always exciting when MrRhexx uploads a new vid. To be fair they aren't usually as dark as this one. Thank you for keeping it family-friendly ;) not every RUclipsr has that much class. Keep up the great work.
Run a hardcore, apocalypse-esque campaign that kicks off with, for some...odd reason, a few select places inexplicably having a case of "they all just kept joining together....and....growing on purpose....", and things escalate from/need to be solved from there. Sounds like a blast to me.
“They didn’t originate from the Far Realm and were created by sorcery” this is only half true in the Forgotten Realms and harkens back to basically a single footnote from _Empires of the Shining Sea. The Gates of Firestorm Peak_ written for the Greyhawk/universal setting asserts that they are Far Realm creatures and as far as I’m concerned that’s canon because it features the Vast Gate which is also mentioned in the Forgotten Realms explanation as to how the Kaorti came into the world from the Far Realm in _Dragon Magazine 358._ 5e really just likes to pick and choose what’s canon and what’s not regardless of what has more merit doesn’t it?
As 'eclecticbibliophile' alludes to, 5e tends to leave things open to interpretation by the DM mostly instead of telling the DM how they should run things. If they simply say "they were created by sorcery drawing from the Far Realm", then WoTC thinks this would stiffle many DM's creativity and such. Mr. Rhexx's videos are about telling us the viewers how past editions and D&D media have portrayed these creatures, races, civilizations, etc. Sometimes he expresses his opinion on what he'd do or view things, but everything is up to a DM to decide anyway. 😅
@@camerongunn7906 Maybe that actually happened already.... The mouther was already so insane that the mindlflayers experiments could only improve this things mental state, and with it's improved mental state came an improved ability to control it's form.... Thus the Ooblix was born....
Fact : I was very young when I started playing. Monster Manual 2, original AD&D version, I hated the pic of the mouther. Scared me. I stapled those pages together.
Bro you never even mentioned the best part, the archwizard who was turned into an intelligent 12 mile long gibbering mouther and survived, hiding on the bottom of the ocean to scheme
@@empoleonmaster6709 I'm afraid I don't know the exact source, but look up the gibbering mouther on "Forgotten realms wiki" and you'll find out about it. There should be a source for it there!
Another perfect delivery. I've watched you forever. And I've never made a request upon anyone. I used to hate elves with their elitist crap, until you enlightened me about their lives, now I more so pity them. I'd love to see what you have on dwarves.
Such a great monster! An especially good one to throw at lower level characters. One of the best things about them is that they scale to the party. The information about what happens to the nervous system and soul is pure nightmare fuel. Imagine the look on the players faces as some elderly mage explains this to them when they can't resurrect John.
Thanks for the lore! ^^ Really one of the worst fates in D&D to be eaten by one of thoses. Make me wonder if there is jobs dedicated to slaying them in order to give rest to the tortured souls. I for sure if I were an adventurer in a party, would be doing all in my power to slay this creature if one of my party was eaten alive.
Hmm, they can grow infinitely? BBEG ideas. Gibbering Mouther that grew so big that its maddening voices can be heard from far away but at reduced effect, turning the nearby town into a cult of half-insane people that lure in people to feed the Mouther as living sacrifices. Make it so massive that it takes up a whole underground cavern, so you've got villagers tossing people into it like the Sarlacc pit. It can turn a large area of the ground around it into that doughy rough terrain, and the maddening voices have new effects and higher DC. (Instead of just Confusion, give it Antipathy/Sympathy, Dissonant Whispers, and Tashas Hideous Laughter.. And if you want to be particularly mean, give it Phantasmal Force and Phantasmal Killer or even Weird) And of course give it some level of insane intelligence. It could communicate with the players through Magic Mouth spells that they find all over the place. Maybe even use insanity optional rules for the whole adventure.
7:38 that’s not a gibbering mouther, that’s the wall of flesh from Terraria . Now that I think about it, the gibbering mouther does fit the wall of flesh in design.
Thanks dude loved it A small campaign idea free to use A gladiatorial campaign for orcs, goblin kids , lizard folk, kobolds and others, you are prisoners on the Arena and the Guard take you to a sewer entrance , they tell you that the winner of the battle will be free, but they must travel to the arena through the maze first finding the weapons they will use, once inside the sewer the party will notice how polished and clean the walls are , in the sewer the party will find Oozes, gelatinous cubes, mimics and gibbering mouther. Thus making a maze made to slowly eat the party
How do you always manage to put these video's out about creatures RIGHT before I start diving into them because Im going to use them in my campaign?! Perfect timing!
I feel like any good cleric or paladin would be duty-bound to slay any Gibbering Mouther they're aware of, as willingly leaving it alive seems like an act of evil.
One thing of note about the Mouther is you can cast Dominate on them (at least I think you can) and have them as a companion that eventually drives you mad...lol Also, Wall of Force and Wall of Fire can stop a Mouther's advance.
I know everyone hates that place, but dnd wiki has an intelligent gibbering mouther race known as the "Embodied Mouther" With some spell flavoring you CAN add Alex mercer to dnd Ex: Thorn Whip- Tentacles Alter self- shapeshift into someone you ate Primal Savagery- The claws
I love how I keep accidentally nailing monster lore, especially aberrations. Had one of these bad boys eat an entire dwarven city before the players found it
I just went through like my 3rd fight with these nightmare end-using shits, kinda nice to learn more of this enemy, especially since I don’t think my dm is done with them, nice work keep it up man
Are they fun or meh for players? I was planning on using them in one of my next sessions, and my players didn't encounter them before... Would like your opinion on that!
@@meinkanal60 there ok i mean it was fun to fight but a little annoying, and if your having trouble deciding how to make them encounter one just do what my asshole of a dm did and make it a whole room, trust me was kinda hard to avoid that, and if that doesn't work just put a magic item in the room or something shiny to lure them in, sadly worked on me all three times
@@meinkanal60 what really helps determine if it is fun or not tends to be how good the dice rolls are however (in my opinion) cause the first time was scary but fun cause it was kinda balanced on luck, however, the second time I couldn't roll higher then a 10, and due to weird shit and my dm homebrewing this second one I kept getting disadvantage and it wasn't so fun, third time was ok, aka don't try to make it stronger then it has to be and also how well or not well both sides do might really determine how fun this encounter may be (unless of course, they love a challenge) hope this helps
@@btecxwolf Thanks for the advice, i wont overdo them, maybe one, classic and with a lure. I just need to find a way it wont get oneshot by my assasin player🙃🙂🙃keeping the balance between making it fun for the players but also scary is hard at times!
Excellent episode. Arcane Forge has a fantastic episode about this one as well. After this expounding information watching the Monster Monday about them is greatly improved.
This is perfect, I'm in the middle of making an item-using ranger rather than a spellcasting one. I've been looking at alchemy/chemistry for reference. Great video!
Question: If a gibbering mouther often has many souls; does this mean that they are prime hunts for demons? If a demon comes across a gibbering mouther it must be like a form of jackpot. Bonus points as the gibbering mouther can't even run.
Hmm. Could you charm a gibbering mouther from the inside while being absorbed? Essentially becoming the dominant personality if successful? If your brain and anima are in tact then in theory your spellslots sgould be too right?
Probably wouldn't work even if you could somehow perform any gestures and speak the right words while the thing is driving you mad and eating you, if you've got spellcasting abilities, you'd be better off trying to escape or kill the thing before you become one with it.
@@whiskeyhound So you'd need to be either a Sorcerer using metamagic or have the Subtle Spell feat and probably pass a rather difficult Wisdom save as well as pass a rather difficult Arcana(?) roll or something similar. This would put it in the realm of "exceedingly unlikely but still technically possible" yes? I kinda want to use that concept for a future NPC...
@@BertoxolusThePuzzled A easier way of having an npc gibbering mouther would be that they got polymorphed, same result but maybe not as interesting for a story.
An idea! A grand wizard or psion gets eaten, either purposefully or accidentally, by a mouther and was able to retain their intelligence/will in the mouther, now it wants to grow in power either by creating a larger mouther monster to controlling to to gree in size itself.
Could ou imagine though..You walk through the barely illuminated cave. A sound unlike something you have ever heard in your life hits you..humans..screams of pain..sorrow..anger..even lust..different languages all mixed making no real sense just a bunch of random words strung together..except one voice..one very clear older man voice carving through the rest "For fuck sakes! stop screaming! What the fuck! Being able to control the body is easy but why the fuck is stopping you morons from screaming so hard?! Ugh stop! You are distracting me!" Turning the corner you see it..the huge abomination..mouths screaming constantly yet all the eyes seem to be focused down onto the book on the ground seemingly reading. A single mouth away from the others right below the eyes sighing deeply as one eye turn in your direction "Oh god no! Fucking get out of here! I don't need more screaming mouths! Piss off!"
It's actually pronounced Jibbering, it's a hard G because of what it's namesake is: gibberish, aka, nonsense, because since they're insane, that's all they can speak.... So to speak. I've often feared walking across one of these, they're quite possibly the most terrifying of monsters since you don't die, you become part of it. They're essentially walking purgatories!
What do you think about making a video about the languages of the Forgotten Realms (which are these languages, at least the major ones, who speaks them, what they roughly sound like etc)? It's a fascinating subject that isn't talked about much
I fully understand there's a language barrier and a way to pronounce D&D creatures our own way so I say this with the utmost respect; Gibbering is best pronounced with a soft "g" as is a "j" in the word joy. But that's just my American accent at work and found the hard "g" pronunciation distracting to absorbing the content. Either way, I totally love your channel and love the hard work you do 😎👍
As a Dm, and a lover of H.P. Lovecraft I like the idea of these creatures. I made a mid level boss monster that was lab made by only ever feeding the creature living wizards with frighten resisting abilities to make one giant insane, yet surprisingly fuctional gibbering mouther so it's not just a instinctual devourer of everything it touches. The core 'brain' of the creature was placed inside a crystal skulls mouth with a nifty looking adamantine headband of Intellect as a added bonus to whom ever defeats Gibby Maw the usurper of mouth and eyes.
We ended up fighting one of these after it absorbed a Lernean Hydra. It kept the ability to regrow heads. We lost a lot of interns that day.
lol @ interns 😂
*takes notes*
Use more D-Class before you waste MTFs on it, Overseer.
INTERNS!?
well, im gonna miss John, my best friend...i cant even say he is in better place now
John Dies In The End
@@ernestlam5632 Given the circumstances, that sounds more hopeful than you probably intended.
@@rayanderson5797 well technically he's in the same place but now he's been amalgamed
NO! You keep John and put him in a glass jar. We don't just let our friends go that easy. WE keep him!
Don’t worry I’m better now
I can sing 12 songs at once now
So the Flesh That Hates, Chaos Spawn, Lowercraftian horror and ooze walks into a bar... and this comes out of the bar
Yep.
I think it would eat the bar before it would come out lol
They are probably just inspired by shoggoths, and the scp/games workshop stuff is too.
I see you are a man of culture.
I'm sure the Lovecraftian Horror is a Shoggoth.
Mhm. Yes. The Lovecraftian Terror is strong with this one.
12:54 The dude uses Azathoth as an example of a gibbering mouther that's the size of a moon. Funny.
Tekeli-li!
what happens if we throw a tadpole in there
Should I make them proxies for Azatoth / Tharisdun? Eg. Some cult creation
@@miquando5033 it is closer to the Shoggoth, Azathoth is a bit ... powerful...hence he represents Existence as a whole, more or less.
The real question is... When a mouther splits... Do the souls split apart with it? Or do they split in tact? Are mouthers full mixtures of souls, or more like stitched together souls that they can pull apart? My boy John is already forever insane because of being liquified into this thing, but just imagine how worse it would feel feeling your actual soul being ripped into shreds because this thing reproduced another.
According to the books with Alias Wyvernspur a soul being split in two leaves one as the original, and the second as an entire new soul.
No, the two mouthers spawned from one mouther still count as one single entity sharing souls between them. The mouther that ate John’s body and all mouthers it spawned and all mouthers they spawn and so on need to be destroyed before resurrection can happen.
It's also possible that if a gibber has 6 souls, it'll split into 3 and 3.
I imagine they sort of just swirl around inside
I find it easier to imagine that they’re soulless.
Still waiting for the "What They Don't Tell You About Mr. Rhexx" episode.
Ditto
@@benkayvfalsifier3817 I remember that Pokémon.
@@Bofrab Pepperidge farm remembers
@@Bofrab lol, ditto means "me too"
@@benkayvfalsifier3817 I know, I was just making a funny.
I'm sorry John... we are so hungry... there isn't enough lasagna to go around...
*you must J O I N U S...*
Bad Ending.
So what I'm taking away from this is...have a BBEG or nutso wizard who seeks only people possessed of the finest singing voices to feed to a gibbering mouther and create the Ultimate Acappella Being.
Damn man, I don't know how they did it. They perfectly captured how I look when I'm finding snacks at 2am
This is definitely how the shredded cheese at 2am sees me
They also make for amazing barbershop quartets and choirs. There's nothing quite like hearing that maddening gibbering suddenly break out into
Tenor: By the light
Bass: By the light
Tenor&bass: of the silvery moon!
Monster concept: A Gibbering Mouther that ate a choir and acquired Bard levels as a result
@@potato4dawin1 An intelligent humanoid gibbering mouther bard. That enters the stage, sings, turns everyone around them insane, profit
@@potato4dawin1 oh and it eats other bards to gain their singing voices
I used one of these as a sub plot years ago, wherein the party had to get vital information from a wizard who had been absorbed by a greater mouther, and somehow managed to retain his sanity. They had to figure out how to somehow either stun the rest of the mouths, or extract the wizard's soul from the beast. Good times.
you're walking through a dungeon then suddenly hear "FLASHBANG OUT"
COD:MW PTSD Flashback
😐😧😨😱☠
And since this is a gibbering mouther, you also hear a cacophony of "Frag out!" "The bomb has been planted!" "Counter-terrorists win!"
@@Reddotzebra "Tactical nuke incoming"
@@letsplaysvonaja1714 DOOR STUCK
Feeding someone to a gibbering mouther sounds like one of the worst tortures ever. How long is its lifespan btw?
Indefinitely. It will live forever if properly fed and cared for.
right? They're walking insane asylum purgatories basically.
I believe 'a fate worse than death' is quite appropriate a description, here.
In some ways it resembles an autonomous, weird cancer. 😅
@@megamanx466 fairly certain that cancers were actually the original inspiration for it
MrRhex: John gets eaten
Me: why me?
It’s a warning
dont get eaten. solid advice.
Another victim don’t worry we shall unite together and teach all these foolish creatures the gibbering Way
"I am a monument to all of your sins"
"I am a timeless chorus, join your voice with mine, and sing victory everlasting"
“And yet, perhaps a part of her remains...”
(Voice of recently eaten party member laughs)
Friends, it is time we band together and save Jon.
Thank you
Would love to play in a campaign to save John 😂😂
Imagine like a world of these things, "When Day Breaks" -SCP. God this is the type of thing that just terrifies me.
Exactly what I was thinking of. That SCP is like an intelligent mouther. Maybe these were the inspiration. One of my players is an SCP fan & adding one of these to a campaign sounds very fun. Maybe make it intelligent & a devil. 😈
Ugh dude, stop, you’re just too good at this lore stuff! Absolutely love your D&D content, best in the business by far. I’d love to see a video on the elemental planes or the archomentals if they peak your interest!
He basically just repeats stuff he googles, gets out of previous editions, and out of old Dragon magazines that are online. You can easily find it too. It's not like this is some secret lore he researches 😂
@@staticcharm3808 Not trying to win or anything... but research + recording + editing is a lot of hard work
It's pretty handy to have content of this good quality around
I prefer aj Pickett his lore and ecology videos are very in depth if you don't mind longer videos
@@staticcharm3808 yes, because I'd so much prefer to put in all the hours and resources to find all of this myself instead of having it summarized so nicely in an entertaining video.
Convenience is quite the factor you know. It's so much better to just look up one of these on RUclips than to spend hours scouring resources.
@@thomastruant8837 this won't apply to everyone obviously, but I struggle with AJ's videos. They're waaaaaaay less engaging. Mr. Rhexx is much better at keeping things interesting and engaging.
I like how a Tarrasque can't digest a slime, but a gibbering mouther can.
But a Tarrasque can digest a god
Oh look, the monster from Carrion.
This creature reminds me of the hospital monster in season three of Stranger Things, since they like to reference D&D monsters.
Oh shit
"there is no size limit on a gibbering mouther"
now I'm going to make a dungeon for my players that is just a massive, possibly dead, gibbering mouther that the players go inside.
What if its not dead but frozen, because it ate an ice elemental, that's also the "final boss" of the dungeon... The gibbering mouther thaws when the party defeats the elemental. Pants are shat.
This. is. awesome.
@@BaalFridge If it’s frozen then it’s fucking dead. No immunity to cold damage and no regeneration means that it’s various fluids have frozen and ripped it’s entire circulatory system apart. It’s basically just a frost bitten corpse at this point. If it unfreezes instantly after the elemental is defeated then it’s just gonna be what happens at the end of Super Metroid.
@@jonathanwells223 well yes but what if the mouther was so big that the elemental was only able to freeze the surface of it, like how ponds don't freeze all the way through. That way there can be the Super Metroid escape and during the dungeon, there can be traps involving mouther bits.
@@idontno6d105 but it ate it, that means at least that section will be dead. Which is for the best, cause when it thaws the players would be in a stomach most likely, so it should just rip off the frozen bits and keep going.
I've been using those in a campaign. Tweaked their gibbering a bit, adding words or short phrases foreshadowing the return of an ancient being (Fhtagn!) . Then I tweaked them again because one of the players used a spell to understand languages, and while I said it was mostly gibberish, I did say he would identify parts of chants to an ancient deity no longer revered, in a dead language. Then the players wanted to see if they could identify some hidden communication (I made a cult that was trying to get a shared consciousness, so they wanted to identify that). We rolled dices (I let a lot of decisions to the dices when the players come up with some unique idea) and the dices said yes... so they started using mouthers as a way to spy the Cult... You would never believe how this progressed... I already liked a lot of your other videos and a lot of the lore presented in them aligned so well with the campaign that I refer to them often. Just subscribed. Don't know why I hadn't.
These D&D videos are part of the bedtime routine for my 9yr old son and I. We play D&D together and it's always exciting when MrRhexx uploads a new vid. To be fair they aren't usually as dark as this one.
Thank you for keeping it family-friendly ;) not every RUclipsr has that much class.
Keep up the great work.
A lot of these are not family friendly. I guess you could say its a rool of the dice ;)
Nice!
Icewind Dale + Gibbering Mouther = The Thing.
Run a hardcore, apocalypse-esque campaign that kicks off with, for some...odd reason, a few select places inexplicably having a case of "they all just kept joining together....and....growing on purpose....", and things escalate from/need to be solved from there.
Sounds like a blast to me.
I see you, Junji Ito reader
“They didn’t originate from the Far Realm and were created by sorcery” this is only half true in the Forgotten Realms and harkens back to basically a single footnote from _Empires of the Shining Sea. The Gates of Firestorm Peak_ written for the Greyhawk/universal setting asserts that they are Far Realm creatures and as far as I’m concerned that’s canon because it features the Vast Gate which is also mentioned in the Forgotten Realms explanation as to how the Kaorti came into the world from the Far Realm in _Dragon Magazine 358._ 5e really just likes to pick and choose what’s canon and what’s not regardless of what has more merit doesn’t it?
Gibberlings are also creatures of the Far Realm. The Gates of Firestorm Peak is a great adventure and explains their origin as well
So they were created by sorcery... that drew from the Far Realm
As 'eclecticbibliophile' alludes to, 5e tends to leave things open to interpretation by the DM mostly instead of telling the DM how they should run things. If they simply say "they were created by sorcery drawing from the Far Realm", then WoTC thinks this would stiffle many DM's creativity and such.
Mr. Rhexx's videos are about telling us the viewers how past editions and D&D media have portrayed these creatures, races, civilizations, etc. Sometimes he expresses his opinion on what he'd do or view things, but everything is up to a DM to decide anyway. 😅
This is a dictionary definition of "a fate worse than death".
I just realized you have a similar inflection in your voice to Christopher Walken and now I cant unhear it. Help
Oh no, i cought it too.
How the fuck does he sound like Christopher Walken?!
@@jonathanwells223 The inflection... not the actual voice. 😅
hahah oh god can't unhear
This reminds me of the anime parasite, an interesting potential evolution, possibly with the manipulation with mindflayers
Ooooo, that is gooood!
@@camerongunn7906 Maybe that actually happened already.... The mouther was already so insane that the mindlflayers experiments could only improve this things mental state, and with it's improved mental state came an improved ability to control it's form.... Thus the Ooblix was born....
Dwarves and Magic runes please. I will keep asking as I have done for years on these d and d videos sense the elf videos.
Yes
Yes yes
Really need Dwarfs done, been looking forward to something like that ever since he did Elves.
Absolutely yes!
Fact : I was very young when I started playing. Monster Manual 2, original AD&D version, I hated the pic of the mouther. Scared me. I stapled those pages together.
Bro you never even mentioned the best part, the archwizard who was turned into an intelligent 12 mile long gibbering mouther and survived, hiding on the bottom of the ocean to scheme
Where was that from? That sounds extremely interesting.
@@empoleonmaster6709 I'm afraid I don't know the exact source, but look up the gibbering mouther on "Forgotten realms wiki" and you'll find out about it. There should be a source for it there!
These are my favourite monsters within the D&D universe, they definitely don’t get enough playtime
Another perfect delivery.
I've watched you forever. And I've never made a request upon anyone.
I used to hate elves with their elitist crap, until you enlightened me about their lives, now I more so pity them.
I'd love to see what you have on dwarves.
Such a great monster! An especially good one to throw at lower level characters. One of the best things about them is that they scale to the party. The information about what happens to the nervous system and soul is pure nightmare fuel. Imagine the look on the players faces as some elderly mage explains this to them when they can't resurrect John.
Gotta blow that thing _past_ kingdom come before any resurrections start working :P
@@yoshifan33
Disintegrate spell spamming
Thank you for yet again fueling my nightmares.
Finally this is my favorite monster never gets enough coverage
You know, your videos are basically the best stuff on D&D lore out there.
The deep art dive on these videos is amazing
Thanks for the lore! ^^
Really one of the worst fates in D&D to be eaten by one of thoses.
Make me wonder if there is jobs dedicated to slaying them in order to give rest to the tortured souls. I for sure if I were an adventurer in a party, would be doing all in my power to slay this creature if one of my party was eaten alive.
Gibbering Mouther: "I was cool before the Flood was a thing..."
You have no idea how much I have wanted this!
Heck yeah! This is one of my favorite monsters
Man you're a magician. Everytime i think something for my campaign you appear with the perfect monster lore
Hmm, they can grow infinitely? BBEG ideas.
Gibbering Mouther that grew so big that its maddening voices can be heard from far away but at reduced effect, turning the nearby town into a cult of half-insane people that lure in people to feed the Mouther as living sacrifices.
Make it so massive that it takes up a whole underground cavern, so you've got villagers tossing people into it like the Sarlacc pit. It can turn a large area of the ground around it into that doughy rough terrain, and the maddening voices have new effects and higher DC. (Instead of just Confusion, give it Antipathy/Sympathy, Dissonant Whispers, and Tashas Hideous Laughter.. And if you want to be particularly mean, give it Phantasmal Force and Phantasmal Killer or even Weird)
And of course give it some level of insane intelligence. It could communicate with the players through Magic Mouth spells that they find all over the place. Maybe even use insanity optional rules for the whole adventure.
Good idea. I shall now steal it.
7:38 that’s not a gibbering mouther, that’s the wall of flesh from Terraria .
Now that I think about it, the gibbering mouther does fit the wall of flesh in design.
And the thumbnail is an actual shoggoth.
Are you sure this is a dnd monster this just sounds like my brother he talks a lot
Does your brother eat people? Does your brother look like this? If you answered yes to either wuestion, call the police
Watching this video in the mix makes me appreciate how much Rex we still get these days.
Hearing you say Gibbering wrong 100 times had the same effect as listening to one gibbering mouther for a round
I really needed me some MrRhexx right now and i love his entusiasm and voice
love you dnd content dude, been watching for months, just wanted you to know
I live that he pronounces gibbering givering it’s adorable
Thanks dude loved it
A small campaign idea free to use
A gladiatorial campaign for orcs, goblin kids , lizard folk, kobolds and others, you are prisoners on the Arena and the Guard take you to a sewer entrance , they tell you that the winner of the battle will be free, but they must travel to the arena through the maze first finding the weapons they will use, once inside the sewer the party will notice how polished and clean the walls are , in the sewer the party will find Oozes, gelatinous cubes, mimics and gibbering mouther. Thus making a maze made to slowly eat the party
12:07
"I am the very model of a monster truly horrible,
I devour all vegetable, animal, and mineral..."
I really miss my best friend John......
How do you always manage to put these video's out about creatures RIGHT before I start diving into them because Im going to use them in my campaign?! Perfect timing!
I feel like any good cleric or paladin would be duty-bound to slay any Gibbering Mouther they're aware of, as willingly leaving it alive seems like an act of evil.
Basically, as a gibbering mouther essentially trivializes any mortal crimes and evils you can think of by comparison.
One thing of note about the Mouther is you can cast Dominate on them (at least I think you can) and have them as a companion that eventually drives you mad...lol Also, Wall of Force and Wall of Fire can stop a Mouther's advance.
I still miss John though...
Discount Alex Mercers turned lesser Elder gods later on down the line.
I know everyone hates that place, but dnd wiki has an intelligent gibbering mouther race known as the "Embodied Mouther"
With some spell flavoring you CAN add Alex mercer to dnd
Ex: Thorn Whip- Tentacles
Alter self- shapeshift into someone you ate
Primal Savagery- The claws
I love how I keep accidentally nailing monster lore, especially aberrations. Had one of these bad boys eat an entire dwarven city before the players found it
Cheers to John! The best friend you dind't you you had until a Gibbering Mouthers ate him... *raises glass* cheers John
Love those wall of flesh pictures. Really brings in how terrifying of a boss it is.
I just went through like my 3rd fight with these nightmare end-using shits, kinda nice to learn more of this enemy, especially since I don’t think my dm is done with them, nice work keep it up man
Are they fun or meh for players? I was planning on using them in one of my next sessions, and my players didn't encounter them before... Would like your opinion on that!
@@meinkanal60 there ok i mean it was fun to fight but a little annoying, and if your having trouble deciding how to make them encounter one just do what my asshole of a dm did and make it a whole room, trust me was kinda hard to avoid that, and if that doesn't work just put a magic item in the room or something shiny to lure them in, sadly worked on me all three times
@@meinkanal60 what really helps determine if it is fun or not tends to be how good the dice rolls are however (in my opinion) cause the first time was scary but fun cause it was kinda balanced on luck, however, the second time I couldn't roll higher then a 10, and due to weird shit and my dm homebrewing this second one I kept getting disadvantage and it wasn't so fun, third time was ok, aka don't try to make it stronger then it has to be and also how well or not well both sides do might really determine how fun this encounter may be (unless of course, they love a challenge) hope this helps
@@btecxwolf Thanks for the advice, i wont overdo them, maybe one, classic and with a lure. I just need to find a way it wont get oneshot by my assasin player🙃🙂🙃keeping the balance between making it fun for the players but also scary is hard at times!
Would have liked a mention of the epic variant of the Gibbering Mouther 😁
Same, the 4e variants could've also been mentioned in passing.
Just for the record: John had it coming.
Gee thanks a lot
Excellent episode. Arcane Forge has a fantastic episode about this one as well. After this expounding information watching the Monster Monday about them is greatly improved.
now do Chaos Spawn, like this and a shoggoth mixed together
Ah yes
Wall of flesh
This is perfect, I'm in the middle of making an item-using ranger rather than a spellcasting one. I've been looking at alchemy/chemistry for reference. Great video!
I like the way of explanation not overacting.
Ived known ghibbering mouther but i didnt know they melt the floor.
ah yes, the wall of flesh, my favorite gibbering mouther
omg a new MrRhexx What They Don't Tell You video .... must watch
I haven't used gibbering mouthers in my game in decades, but your video has ne re-inspired.
Question:
If a gibbering mouther often has many souls; does this mean that they are prime hunts for demons?
If a demon comes across a gibbering mouther it must be like a form of jackpot. Bonus points as the gibbering mouther can't even run.
That is a great point! But the demon had better watch out. Otherwise, the Gibberer might just acquire itself some fiend parts.
I second Cameron's point. The demon would probably jump for joy right before being assimilated by this thing.
i saw this and immediately decided it was going in my next dungeon. the setup was good and my players liked the reveal :)
The g in gibbering makes a j sound.
Yes. I came to the comments to say that no one pronounced it like that.
I can't believe he made an entire video pronouncing it wrong. It's like nails on a chalkboard.
@@skaetur1 I'm pretty sure that's the only reason any of us came here.
@@snorgonofborkkad I can, he does it all the time. English isn't his first language. The fact he makes these videos makes me so happy, though.
Hmm.
Could you charm a gibbering mouther from the inside while being absorbed? Essentially becoming the dominant personality if successful?
If your brain and anima are in tact then in theory your spellslots sgould be too right?
Probably wouldn't work even if you could somehow perform any gestures and speak the right words while the thing is driving you mad and eating you, if you've got spellcasting abilities, you'd be better off trying to escape or kill the thing before you become one with it.
@@whiskeyhound So you'd need to be either a Sorcerer using metamagic or have the Subtle Spell feat and probably pass a rather difficult Wisdom save as well as pass a rather difficult Arcana(?) roll or something similar.
This would put it in the realm of "exceedingly unlikely but still technically possible" yes? I kinda want to use that concept for a future NPC...
@@BertoxolusThePuzzled A easier way of having an npc gibbering mouther would be that they got polymorphed, same result but maybe not as interesting for a story.
This monster was so cool on Critical role
A personal favorite monster to use. Keep this wonderful series going!
Ah yes, SCP "When Day Breaks".
Literally a fate worse than death
the most lovecraftian monster of the monster manual , I just Love it!
An idea! A grand wizard or psion gets eaten, either purposefully or accidentally, by a mouther and was able to retain their intelligence/will in the mouther, now it wants to grow in power either by creating a larger mouther monster to controlling to to gree in size itself.
Could ou imagine though..You walk through the barely illuminated cave. A sound unlike something you have ever heard in your life hits you..humans..screams of pain..sorrow..anger..even lust..different languages all mixed making no real sense just a bunch of random words strung together..except one voice..one very clear older man voice carving through the rest "For fuck sakes! stop screaming! What the fuck! Being able to control the body is easy but why the fuck is stopping you morons from screaming so hard?! Ugh stop! You are distracting me!"
Turning the corner you see it..the huge abomination..mouths screaming constantly yet all the eyes seem to be focused down onto the book on the ground seemingly reading. A single mouth away from the others right below the eyes sighing deeply as one eye turn in your direction "Oh god no! Fucking get out of here! I don't need more screaming mouths! Piss off!"
I guess Garfield got tired of lasagna and decided to eat Jon instead.
rip John, always in our hearts
Curious about what their dead body looks like, how it rots , it's effect on the environment.
Probably like a massive corpse, but strangely enough their trace would be gone in a few months because they don't have a skeleton.
@@fateless3239 They would just become a collection of teeth after the flesh rots away.
Thanks for this Rhexx! Keep up the good work!
Those are definitely the inspiration behind the Devourers of Souls and, to a lesser extent, Quivering Pools from Anvil of Dawn.
Liquefaction of rock can actually be done by sound, so maybe when all it’s voices join together, they resonate in a way that makes the rocks melt.
It's actually pronounced Jibbering, it's a hard G because of what it's namesake is: gibberish, aka, nonsense, because since they're insane, that's all they can speak.... So to speak. I've often feared walking across one of these, they're quite possibly the most terrifying of monsters since you don't die, you become part of it. They're essentially walking purgatories!
Excellent video as always mr.rexx! Also can you do a video on Ixitxachitls?🧙♂️
Time to implement this into my campaign! :)
What do you think about making a video about the languages of the Forgotten Realms (which are these languages, at least the major ones, who speaks them, what they roughly sound like etc)? It's a fascinating subject that isn't talked about much
I fully understand there's a language barrier and a way to pronounce D&D creatures our own way so I say this with the utmost respect; Gibbering is best pronounced with a soft "g" as is a "j" in the word joy. But that's just my American accent at work and found the hard "g" pronunciation distracting to absorbing the content. Either way, I totally love your channel and love the hard work you do 😎👍
As a Dm, and a lover of H.P. Lovecraft I like the idea of these creatures. I made a mid level boss monster that was lab made by only ever feeding the creature living wizards with frighten resisting abilities to make one giant insane, yet surprisingly fuctional gibbering mouther so it's not just a instinctual devourer of everything it touches. The core 'brain' of the creature was placed inside a crystal skulls mouth with a nifty looking adamantine headband of Intellect as a added bonus to whom ever defeats Gibby Maw the usurper of mouth and eyes.
I like the red pointer for where you are reading from. Thanks
using one of these in a horror one shot I'm running. They can be terrifying.
I thought the title said "Gibbering Mothers" and lemme tell you man, I know a thing about those!.....video bout Bullete when???