Ahhh the Gambado,from the old days! A great monster! The Gambados fleshy sinew can be used for stringing bows and crossbows. Those things are quite strong! With the help of a good bowyer/fletcher that is!
I love how you can easily see the IRL influence in certain monsters. In this case the writer seeing a bovine skull in the desert and wondering what would happen if there was a DnD monster hiding inside.
I love these obscure dnd monsters. Please do more of these, even if its homebrew. I'm still a relatively new dm, but I love flexing on my players with stuff like this.
Since you are apparently looking for the most bizarre D&D monsters to make a video about, might I suggest the campestri, elemental vermin, brain golem, laraken, lock lurker, lythlyx, nishruu, noran, opinicus, suwyze, death head tree, wind ghost or xaver for your next one? Man, old D&D had some weird ass critters!
Magical Artifact idea: The Mighty Gluestick. This artifact secretes a powerful substance capable of repairing any damage and restoring the magical energy of any mundane or magical item it's used on except other artifacts. It's even rumored it can revive constructs and warforged from death provided all the pieces of their body can be gathered in one place or suitable replacement materials are gathered to replace the missing pieces. The item has six charges with it replenishing 1d 6+1 each week provided it doesn't have all six charges filled.
This is like the evil version of that spring pig and that one pokemon who wears the skull. Interesting. Sad thing is that I don't mind collecting skulls, although I'd prefer to extract them from my dinner. But still, that means it has a chance to swipe at me. Good thing I keep a great shield on hand!
Interesting. So the wolf-in-sheep's-clothing would be the dominant ambush predator in forest biomes, and the Gambado would dominate in desserts and terrain with less solid soil and where bleached skulls would be more common. Giant ant lions would compete with them, but the gambado's superior intelligence would give them an edge. Old D&D has so many "curiosity killed the cat" monsters. XD
Out in the desert, your players encounter a few of theses. A few sessions later they are exploring a sandy tomb and come across a room of skulls and shiney objects scattered throughout and the body of a half eaten explorer.
It would be interesting to see if a particular group of gambado adapted to living in old ruins/battlegrounds. Trying to find the shiniest or best helm available, (complete with skull of course) and waiting for less armored looters to come.
You know if these things were a little bit smaller they would make excellent pets! Like you can make them like their own little funny heads and hats and stuff, teach them little jumping tricks, and I'm sure there a real cuddlers!
It's not too ridiculous actually, skeletons and carcasses attract a surprising amount of attention. Remember that nearly everything is an opportunistic carnivore.
You say it would love to procure a dragon skull to wear but it usually just uses whatever's lying around like that of cattle. My question is, how would it even use the dragon skull? That's quite the size discrepancy...
I never used nor even considered these beasties. I did use homebrew versions of them in certain situations. My versions attacked in massive groups, did a large amount of HP, had a large range (attack range leap), but were easily killed (1 HP to actually kill, not drop nor disable). Every one in the mass had one job and did not fear death in doing it. My "Gambado" in this way was a swarm of "gambados" that fed a lot of people to a giant "ant lion".
Hi AJ how are you today? and what have you been doing this week? Gambado sounds like a good creature to have in my next campaign or a subspecies that live in the far north that has something on there head other than a normal skull like a frozen solid skull instead of a normal one or a tamed Gambado.
You can’t just knock prone without a save. You’re telling me that if this medium creature jumps five feet and smashes into Tiamat she’s just prone now? I don’t think so.
The scenarios almost write themselves. A: A primitive tribe of monstrous humanoids always "accidentally" tell low level adventurers about all the unguarded treasure to be found strewn about their "idol" that is basically a treasure encrusted mound of dirt with a spiky skull on top. When the adventurers start sneaking to the idol, the humanoids point and snicker. B: The seemingly unguarded treasure room of an unpleasant wizard has 8 or more "trophy" skulls set in decorated earthen displays on the floor. C: Imagine one of these things turned into a mummy and set in an ancient treasure room. its real form is obscured by bandages and is "head" is a jeweled gold plated crocodile skull. It is set in the center of the room in an upright open sarcophagus.
Could you cover some herbivores? Something that doesn't want to killed everything. As of now dnds ecosystem seems like a myriad of apex predators with some being more apex. I want to know what fantasy cows they eat and what not
"Gamba" most commonly means "prawn" in Spanish. If you look at the one-legged, fin-toed gambado, the comparison to a prawn is rather fitting. Gamba can mean "leg", but it's a much rarer usage of the word, akin to using the word "member" to describe one's limbs. While technically correct, the connotation doesn't fit. By making it a past participle and thus an adjective used as a noun, though, the actual complete word "gambado" doesn't mean leap. The fact that so many sources claim is does merely means there was a translation error, or someone took some artistic (and blatantly incorrect) liberties with the linguistics. "Gambado" means "bow-legged".
Or a “land prawn” monster. In English, a fish is a fish, regardless of where it is or what condition it’s in. In Spanish, however, the word “pez” describes a fish freely swimming in water. The verb “pescar” means “to fish/to go fishing”. When a fish has been fished, which is to say, pulled from the water, the word used to describe it becomes “pescado”, the past participle of “pescar”, which literally means “fished”, though you wouldn’t translate it that way, because it’s nonsensical in English. But applying the same logic to “gamba”, or “prawn”, gambar would be to fish for prawn or to go shrimping. Gambado, then, would be a prawn pulled from the water. Gambado: A prawn out of water, or “land prawn”.
Trying to think of the most humorous "head" for this encounter..giraffe..hippo or perhaps just a pumpkin??? Any thoughts?? Great job as always aj..you're the best!!!)
Ahhh the Gambado,from the old days! A great monster! The Gambados fleshy sinew can be used for stringing bows and crossbows. Those things are quite strong! With the help of a good bowyer/fletcher that is!
Imagine it: A gambado minefield, littered with hundreds of skulls, but only a handful of gambado skulking beneath the earth.
I love how you can easily see the IRL influence in certain monsters. In this case the writer seeing a bovine skull in the desert and wondering what would happen if there was a DnD monster hiding inside.
Coily and his army of darkness returns! Damn spring monsters.
I love these obscure dnd monsters. Please do more of these, even if its homebrew. I'm still a relatively new dm, but I love flexing on my players with stuff like this.
Since you are apparently looking for the most bizarre D&D monsters to make a video about, might I suggest the campestri, elemental vermin, brain golem, laraken, lock lurker, lythlyx, nishruu, noran, opinicus, suwyze, death head tree, wind ghost or xaver for your next one? Man, old D&D had some weird ass critters!
Magical Artifact idea: The Mighty Gluestick. This artifact secretes a powerful substance capable of repairing any damage and restoring the magical energy of any mundane or magical item it's used on except other artifacts. It's even rumored it can revive constructs and warforged from death provided all the pieces of their body can be gathered in one place or suitable replacement materials are gathered to replace the missing pieces. The item has six charges with it replenishing 1d 6+1 each week provided it doesn't have all six charges filled.
So that's why you don't see a full skeleton in the desert.
A one legged butt kicker! I'd never have dreamed it. Thx AJ! :-)
"Because if it's worth describing, it's worth investigating." DAMMIT AJ never have I been so offended by something that's 100% true. xD
Dude you have been on fire with the diabolical monsters. I can only have so much potential maniacal laughter in the future.
Well, I have been brewing a lot of seriously strong hooch in my kitchen lately...
@@AJPickett I just imagined a drunk AJ doing session prep for his players. As much as I feel bad for them I am also laughing.
"Gambado" sounds like an Italian American slang of some sort. "Ehh, look at this gambado!" 😄
This is like the evil version of that spring pig and that one pokemon who wears the skull.
Interesting. Sad thing is that I don't mind collecting skulls, although I'd prefer to extract them from my dinner. But still, that means it has a chance to swipe at me.
Good thing I keep a great shield on hand!
I feel like they would be in conflict with other subterranean monsters like Ankhegs and Bulettes over territorial disputes and food supplies.
I'd love to see a video about the Dune Stalker! Good job AJ.
Oh, *hell* yes. My players might utter curses upon your name for showing me this
Tell them I say Hi
@@AJPickett They've heard that before ( *ahem* onmouraki)
Interesting. So the wolf-in-sheep's-clothing would be the dominant ambush predator in forest biomes, and the Gambado would dominate in desserts and terrain with less solid soil and where bleached skulls would be more common. Giant ant lions would compete with them, but the gambado's superior intelligence would give them an edge. Old D&D has so many "curiosity killed the cat" monsters. XD
Exactly
Incredibly inventive, I’ll take it for a spin.
Out in the desert, your players encounter a few of theses. A few sessions later they are exploring a sandy tomb and come across a room of skulls and shiney objects scattered throughout and the body of a half eaten explorer.
I am totally giving them a cartoon spring sound effect when they jump if I ever use these.
It would be interesting to see if a particular group of gambado adapted to living in old ruins/battlegrounds. Trying to find the shiniest or best helm available, (complete with skull of course) and waiting for less armored looters to come.
Very plausible!
You know if these things were a little bit smaller they would make excellent pets! Like you can make them like their own little funny heads and hats and stuff, teach them little jumping tricks, and I'm sure there a real cuddlers!
now I wanna pocket Gambado. I'll name him mr.bones
I remember these guys from the Forgotten Realms Box set adventure "Beneath the Twisted Tower." Nasty ones, they are.
This was a new one on me. Thanks for bringing it to light!
It's not too ridiculous actually, skeletons and carcasses attract a surprising amount of attention. Remember that nearly everything is an opportunistic carnivore.
Jack-in-the-box ambush pogo nightmare
I remember these vile little guys, may need to use them more. Thanks for the info on them.
No problem 👍
one of my first exposures to d&d was trying to figure out what these things were
and when you thought the giant alien frog monster or the Magneto slug was a weird one.
I'm just gettin started!
You say it would love to procure a dragon skull to wear but it usually just uses whatever's lying around like that of cattle. My question is, how would it even use the dragon skull? That's quite the size discrepancy...
Young dragon skull
For some reason i feel like this is what would happen if Sobek and Chernobog had babies.
I’ve never heard of this creature and what a weird one at that but still pretty interesting.
I applaud those who take the time to update some of the classic DnD monsters into 5E. Thanks.
Love it, perfect for strange encounter near the long abandoned wizard’s tower my pcs are likely going to investigate in a week or two!
I never used nor even considered these beasties. I did use homebrew versions of them in certain situations. My versions attacked in massive groups, did a large amount of HP, had a large range (attack range leap), but were easily killed (1 HP to actually kill, not drop nor disable). Every one in the mass had one job and did not fear death in doing it. My "Gambado" in this way was a swarm of "gambados" that fed a lot of people to a giant "ant lion".
You said it would be weird and damn, you delivered! Excellent work as always!
Springy Beasts
Hi AJ how are you today? and what have you been doing this week?
Gambado sounds like a good creature to have in my next campaign or a subspecies that live in the far north that has something on there head other than a normal skull like a frozen solid skull instead of a normal one or a tamed Gambado.
Cursed cubone
Agreed
My thought too
I will use this monster tonight! I needed a "random" monster to guard the lair of Morte'Zart the evil undead bard.
Awesome man, I love your videos. They've brought me many hours of joy and relief at work! Gives me loads of inspiration for my own games too.
My head canon is that they actually started out with two legs but they fused into one.
Dr. bright what have we told you about fusing creatures
Need the riff from horned devil episode. Music was heavy as fuck.
Last time I was this early, that skull wasn't laying right ther-HOLY SHIT! WUTTHEFUKISTHAT!
So the Gambado do like the bower bird does. Build aesthetically pleasing displays and hope they attract a mate ( or food in the gambado’s case)
Excellent video! What weird monster are you thinking of doing next aj? If you need a suggestion I'd recommend Thought Eater, decapus and cat lord.
Shit, I didn’t know magic sproing was so spooky.
Oh man, I need a statblock for these things
*not 30 seconds later*
Ahh, dndbeyond statblock. Bliss
Yes, you’ve covered Gambado... But have you covered the dreaded Gazebo, hm?
Or a gambado eating gumbo in a gazebo?
Or a gambado eating gumbo with a gazelle in a gazebo in Giza?
Creepy jack innhe box from hell
I love these weird monsters!!! It’s such a fun way to shake things up
You can’t just knock prone without a save. You’re telling me that if this medium creature jumps five feet and smashes into Tiamat she’s just prone now? I don’t think so.
Maybe it should only work on large or smaller creatures.
But with a save a baby gnome could roll a nat 20 and just deny it (not arguing just pointing out it goes both ways
I mean that’s what legendary resistance is for
What a goofy monster, LOL. I'm sure it would be terrifying in person though, what do you think about doing the Ecology of toejam & Earl next?
The scenarios almost write themselves.
A: A primitive tribe of monstrous humanoids always "accidentally" tell low level adventurers about all the unguarded treasure to be found strewn about their "idol" that is basically a treasure encrusted mound of dirt with a spiky skull on top. When the adventurers start sneaking to the idol, the humanoids point and snicker.
B: The seemingly unguarded treasure room of an unpleasant wizard has 8 or more "trophy" skulls set in decorated earthen displays on the floor.
C: Imagine one of these things turned into a mummy and set in an ancient treasure room. its real form is obscured by bandages and is "head" is a jeweled gold plated crocodile skull. It is set in the center of the room in an upright open sarcophagus.
Could you cover some herbivores? Something that doesn't want to killed everything. As of now dnds ecosystem seems like a myriad of apex predators with some being more apex. I want to know what fantasy cows they eat and what not
Look up rothé and watch his video. It's a dnd cow video
Yep, Rothé
Thank you.
"Gamba" most commonly means "prawn" in Spanish. If you look at the one-legged, fin-toed gambado, the comparison to a prawn is rather fitting. Gamba can mean "leg", but it's a much rarer usage of the word, akin to using the word "member" to describe one's limbs. While technically correct, the connotation doesn't fit.
By making it a past participle and thus an adjective used as a noun, though, the actual complete word "gambado" doesn't mean leap. The fact that so many sources claim is does merely means there was a translation error, or someone took some artistic (and blatantly incorrect) liberties with the linguistics. "Gambado" means "bow-legged".
So, bow legged monster? Alrighty. Thank you for the clarification Daidekapai
Or a “land prawn” monster.
In English, a fish is a fish, regardless of where it is or what condition it’s in. In Spanish, however, the word “pez” describes a fish freely swimming in water. The verb “pescar” means “to fish/to go fishing”. When a fish has been fished, which is to say, pulled from the water, the word used to describe it becomes “pescado”, the past participle of “pescar”, which literally means “fished”, though you wouldn’t translate it that way, because it’s nonsensical in English.
But applying the same logic to “gamba”, or “prawn”, gambar would be to fish for prawn or to go shrimping. Gambado, then, would be a prawn pulled from the water.
Gambado: A prawn out of water, or “land prawn”.
I thought it was a silly monster when you community posted its image, but now I can't wait to find an excuse to use one of these.
I think my players are going to encounter one of these, tonight in the Underdark.
I like everything but what it looks like
Hey, why don’t you Upload These as Podcast too? Video is amazing as always and a great inspiration for my upcoming campaigns
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Mainly because I do this for a living and I enjoy this format.
Trying to think of the most humorous "head" for this encounter..giraffe..hippo or perhaps just a pumpkin??? Any thoughts?? Great job as always aj..you're the best!!!)
have you ever SEEN a hippo skull? that shit's terrifying
@@evankurasu3190 true I was thinking of the game hungry hungry hippos
I agree this is a odd one, still the bestiaries of old did also have creatures with only one leg.
I guess i am slow to notice, but what happened to "the mighty gluestick" part? why was it removed?
Probably because he’s not doing DIY crafts anymore.
@@tomsawyerpiper9412 Correct.
Post before watching. Is it the blood eating birds from the planes?
The Thumbnail is illustrative of how sneaky this monster really is.
A very fucked up cubone 😱🤣
Does it ever use humanoid skulls?
Yes.
@@AJPickett that could make interesting gameplay if players think its undead but their anti undead methods don't work on it.
Good video AJ
Another good'un. Keep it up, Man!
Super early!!!
I keep reading the title as Gambino...
You are so Childish 😉
@@mooncake387 I am dyslexic...
@@archer9338 😅 there's a very famous actor/ rapper named 'Childish Gambino '
Can you make a item video
Sure, anything in particular?
@@AJPickett magic weapons
@@lassemadsen6718 OK
MORE MORE
Yay!
What part of nz you from bro
Bay of Plenty.
@@AJPickett oh damn a kiwi
Way late!!! Lolz
Aj, I am sorry.... Your likes for the video where at 420, but I had to like. The video was to good not too.
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