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I imagine a Deathdrinker creating more of themselves is an expression of narcisism, like a living mirror of themselves that while not perfect at least contains a drop of their own perfection.
Exactly. Since they believe they're the perfect being, they may want to clone themselves. The reproduction doesn't involve a mate, since that would dilute the perfection. However, I imagine upon completion, the original and clone will see each other as inferior, and both go their own separate ways.
@@vee1267 Beholders are very narcissistic and dislike Beholders that are only slightly different from themselves. I believe they procreate through dreams, because what they dream becomes reality (?)
He feels like the ultimate counter to Doomguy. A demon with charisma, a lot of leisure, and instead of being mindlessly brutal, or brutal with a singular focus (Doomguy’s not mindless, sorry), he’s just a demon who knows he’s the shit.
So glad it's perfectly viable for Graz'zt to have a posse of half-naked Deathdrinkers who act as his praetorian guard who are also required to pose and flex when Graz'zt requests it
Okay, when you brought up bards, I had an idea. Death Drinker followed around by an band of undead bards, who constantly sing about how cool he is. Oh and the Deathdrinker talks in third person. Posibly like Macho Man Randy Savage. Sometimes it's not the stats, or abilities or Challenge ratings that make you want to use a monster. Sometimes it's the personality. And this fella has it.
The Death Drinker is too hot to handle! Too cold to hold! And you adventurers are but grains of sand in the desert that is the Death Drinker! OOOOOOHHHHHH YEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!
"Brave bold Sir Ger'z'gast road forth from Kalimdor! He was not afraid to die, oh brave Sir Ger'z'gast! He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways, brave brave brave Sir Ger'z'gast! He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp! Or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken. To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned out away, and his limbs all hacked and mangled oh brave Sir Ger'z'gast! His head smashed in and his heart cut out and his liver removed and his boweled unplugged and his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off and his penis-" "That's... that's enough singing for now, lads."
you've gave me two simultaneous thoughts 1)your making me think of samurai champloo there was a samurai who had a beatboxer in his entourage following him about with a beat 2) if the deathdrinker's name could rhyme with Gaston, well..... it writes itself :p
My party: “I don’t mean to pry, but you don’t happen to have six fingers on your right hand?” The death drinker: “…Do you always begin conversations that way?”
My immediate thought is that a Deathdrinker sets up near the site of a bloody battle and just watches two armies go at each other like he's watching a football game, cheering at a great kill or shouting angrily when something they find foolish happens. The party can either deal with them conventionally, or if they simply end the violence between the armies somehow, the Deathdrinker will just shrug, grab their stuff, and leave.
@@gamediverbr Listen, I'm convinced at least 85% of the fun in this game is coming up with whatever rediculous nonsense we can try to finangle a DM or the players to try.
I once made a mage who was a fan of beholders and would keep performing surgeries on his dormant clone, grafting more and more pieces (mostly exotic eyes) onto the body, with a goal to be reborn as a unique eye tyrant next time he dies. So, unusual yes. But powerful wizards are unusual by default, so that's exactly a thing to do.
@@brettwood1351 Most of my most memorable characters were the most insane. I have fond memories of my Minotaur warrior in the only Mystara campaign I played...
I just have to imagine a layer of the Abyss for these dudes: A vast, bloodstained plain of eternal battle, where undead legions battle for their overlords glory. The Death Drinkers residing in large castles made from bone, plotting the downfall of their enemies so they can rule the layer. But with every drop of blood spilled in battle, be it their own or their rival's, just new Death Drinkers arise, challenging the old lords.
There's actually a lot of artwork in 3/3.5 that's... questionable. The example that always pops into my head is the artwork for the werewolf, it's like she's running with a broken back because they needed to make sure she showed off that absolute unit of a butt she's got. My theory (backed up by about 25 years of being artist) is that the people at WotC were used to Magic: the Gathering art, where it's just a single figure or action you're trying to evoke and can do whatever you want to the details of the rest of the art box to accentuate it; so when they started working on a book with its own artistic arcs, they were completely out of their depth. So they just told the artists "don't have them just standing, if everyone makes their creatures just stand it'll be very boring" and the artists had no other choice than to do a Google Image search for "dynamic monster poses" and do what they could. The fact that WotC was notorious for screwing over their artists at the time probably didn't help, I imagine a lot of the artists were looking for ways to be as subversive as possible, as well.
Could you imagine a Death Drinker that's manged to summon a Nightwalker into existence, revering it as a personification of death itself? The chaos and destruction that follows would be wacky.
I feel like if any Demon Lord had a bunch of these in his army, it would be Orcus. The Prince of Undeath is such a beacon of unlife that Deathdrinkers must see him as some kind of messiah or daddy to impress. Or, maybe they're just empowered by an unprecedented channel of negative energy. Or Orcus finds them useful to his armies and will yeet corpses at them continuously.
Considering that Deathdrinkers spawn from pits of corpses, I can't help but immagine that very first Deathdrinker was a result of some sort of a science experiment made by Orcus.
I was playing during the satanic panic but I actually liked the new names created. It was different and more world-building to me. And a little, "demon is not our term for us, hoooman."
Actually funny thing about them teleporting to spellcasters. I had a wizard who would tattoo glyphs of warding onto himself locked by a contingency spell (it was a complicated process but the GM gave the ok with the plan) where essentially if an enemy were to quickly make its way up to him he would just burst explosion with a bunch of targeted damage spells as well as a haste and false life spell. It worked once during a fight with another wizard and the poor lad didn’t stand a chance. So this demon would face a similar issue if a wizard prepares like that
@@ImmortalLemon I miss my 3.5 Wizard. Energy Immunity to the 4 elements and sonic + ray deflection + shield + master's touch + tenser's transformation = better paladin than paladin on top of wizard fun.
@@nuruisake d20 is a hell of a drug. I run a 3.5/mythic Pathfinder 1e/Starfinder game, incorporating Monte Cook's Arcana Unearth and some other d20 Sword and Sorcery stuff, plus d20 Call of Cthulu and some AD&D stuff I've converted. The things you can do with such a breadth and depth of options, especially factoring in things like gestalt multiclassing (which I allow if the player can justify it), are just staggering. Vital Strike gets a lot scarier in the Starfinder setting, when you can purchase or make weapons that deal like 18d8 by themselves. Sure, 72d8 per swing is a fair and balanced amount of damage. Why not be able to cast a meteor swarm that fires eight smaller meteors instead of four larger ones, except you've applied the War spell template on it and now for two 9th level spell slots you can fire *fourty meteors in a single standard action*. My archmage NPC could quite literally take on the avatars of every Elder Mythos outer god simultaneously. He probably wouldn't win, but he'd hold his own long enough to banish several of them, and would respawn upon death. Because of things like Clone, and the ability to make any spell contingent (Arcana Unearthed is such a blast but man are those spell templates easy to abuse with the options from other games).
you should do the time dragon and the chronomancy spells that it directs you to in a side bar of that dragon magazine entry. time magic is such a cool thing and there isn’t much in 5e and you could just do an interlude like you did for the tanari and demon types in this video covering the cool spells that would need very little conversion
It occurs to me that between the Death Drinker's undead minions and it's fondness for magical trinkets, a DM really can customize what this encounter is like. And if they want to challenge the players give it a party and loadout that covers it's weaknesses.
Does anyone else think that it would be funny as hell if a trio of deathdrinkers were introduced to the characters like the Piller Men or the Fabulous Custodes from Text-to-Speech?😈
I really like the idea of a Death Drinker collecting a bunch of powerful magical weapons, but only using them to flex on people by opting not to fight with them.
The loss of the distinction between Tanar'ri, Obyriths, etc. is one of the biggest and saddest casualties of the transition to 5e. There were whole *books* worth of lore there, and *multiple* entire campaign modules worth of potential material. And there's no apparent POINT, other than it being a victim of those times 5e went *far* overboard with its simplification of everything. Obyriths used to be Ancient things even other demons feared, Eldritch horrors that literally caused madness (or outright death in one case) to look upon. And 5e just treats them all like kind of haphazard collections of numbers. It's possible to clumsily edit some of their danger back in, but it's still astonishing to me that demons got done *so* dirty by 5e. It's great for RUclips channels, but an incredibly pointless, poor choice for the game overall.
My biggest disappointment with Mordenkainin's Monsters of the Multiverse was that instead of fleshing out / bringing over lore for races and monsters it instead simplified them even more and made them bland "they all be special, you play them how you like them" Bruh, if I wanted to make up everything on my own, I wouldn't be buying your books, stupid wizards on a stupid coast!
Agreed, the idea of the demons having an entire precursor to their race and each one being a cosmic horror or proto-demon with a powerful memetic effect is AWESOME!😎👍 (I still make the distinction between the two)
The corpse horns are definitely a bold fashion statement. I'd love to see some videos on the Obyrith and Loumara, I bet there's some wild stuff in there. Thanks for the great video!
Really love the goofy edits of the Deathdrinker's head on attractive human bodies lol. Silly art aside, This monster definitely seems intimidating! And if you're looking at 3.5 monsters, I'd love to see your takes on some of the Aberrations from that era. Especially the Uvuudaum. But hey, I love whatever you put out! Keep it up!
I like the idea of facing multiple Deathdrimkers and defeating them all by asking which one is in charge causing them all to fight each other. Like the group wasn’t even trying to trick then they just wanted to know which one to address in an attempt to finish things peacefully.
One of the Coolest ways I ever saw this Monster used was in a Campaign I played in a few years ago. The party was somewhere around 16th to 18th Level, it was a 3.5 Game in Faerun. I was a Quaggoth with 2 lvls of Fighter, 3 lvls of Barbarian, and the rest in Ranger. The rest of the party was a Human Paladin / Hellreaver named Andess, a Human Samurai / Kensai named Ignacio Bandito, an Eberron Psionic character of some kind named Alyssia, a Human Red Dragon Shaman named Richard, and a Half-Elf Druid / Wizard / Weird Druid Wizard Prestige Class named Gwain. The Death Drinker had slain the entire Home Town of Andess when he was a boy, and has ruled the heap of a Town ever since. We had to confront this Absolute Combat Beast, underleveled, but we were all clever Veteran Players so we managed to pull it straight of our asses, despite the Fact the my Character, Mok Go'Rah literally pointed at him as soon as we got to his lair and called him out by straight up calling him a beeyotch. I almost died in one Round, but I also Critted with my Large-Sized ×3 Axe / Hammer and did like 93 damage in 1 hit, after Damage Reduction and everything. He teleported to the convulsing pile of bodies that was the townspeople, and in a Blur healed back up to full before turning his attention to us again... Did I mention we had a Red Dragon Shaman (3.5 Players Handbook 2 Base Class)? He got to the pile of writhing bodies, and while the rest of us were drawing his attention, Richard Breath Weaponed onto said pile of Bodies, dealing Lingering Fore Breath Weapon Damage to a bunch of Weenie Zombies... he got really pissed, but somehow much easier to deal with after that...
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So, his lair is basically a Diablo III map? Also...I think they should get an urge to have an offspring, and for most of them they will see the offspring as "The only creatures truly worthy of being My equal...or...maybe even better than Myself", like that would be natural change in their thinking that drives their procreation.
Or they would think that they are the still the best representative of their species so another one wouldn’t be a threat because it surely must recognize this to
Plothook: an evil wizard has stolen the blood of a deathdrinker and managed to escape back into his own realm and hidden himself with magic. He plans on creating and enslaving a Deathdrinker. Your job is to prevent him from doing so.
This dude is so so cool, I love the idea of one of them working with a Mummy lord or a lich. Also that end smash or pass bit was amazing. Also also, I'm not sure if I've said this or not, but you should do the Night walker, they are so damn cool looking and awesome, also they're kind of creepy as hell.
Interesting take on this monster I may incorporate into a campaign. They are in love with death because it is what they crave yet also what their devilish nature forbids them. They long for nothing more than to meet the rival who will finally slay them and deliver them into the embrace of their love, yet each inwardly fears they are the best of their kind and will simply never die. They cannot take their own life because their love would shun them, as it's a bit like calling too soon... just reeks of desperation.
I personally LOVE the idea of people using creatures that are usually enemies as friendly NPCs, heard about a magic item merchant that if the party decides to try and kill in an out of the way place then they will be fighting Terry The Tarrasque, if they don’t act like murderhobos then they get some nice early magic items but if they all act like murderhobos then they get the TPK. Best part is Terry will only reveal his true form if they try to kill him without witnesses otherwise he just calls for the guards and if it is just one player then he is the only victim. That is from a fairly new DM too. Terry is also meant to be a quest giver too.
I imagine starting the party off with a TPK, the parties souls are then snagged by the death drinker who makes them run a maze/game show for his entertainment
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I am so glad I backed you guys' book. If it enables amazing videos like this, it's 1000 percent worth it. You and your team put in hella effort in this and it shows. And I am gonna use this guy as a campaign anchor 100 percent. Party starts as undead in his service after the apocalypse, with the end goal of un-apocalypsing the world. High level, high magic, unorthodox starting point... think I could sell it to the right group of folks
Every time i get back into watching some of your videos, i get an urge to DM again. there's always something that comes up to stuff a game I'm running, so if i cant be consistent having something like this channel around to get me back up on the horse really is great. Thanks for all your hard work.
"Nowhere on the same plane are you safe from a Deathdrinker" Can they burrow? because if not then I'm just going to sit under the ground and kick their ass from there.
See this is where the undead minions come in handy. Figure out what undead can deal with that situation, put some around the Death Drinker, and fill in it's weaknesses.
0:41 “Paint Me like one of your French fiends.” 19:17 WAIT, remember those crow dudes with two brains that LOVE hoarding magical artifacts? Sounds like, the perfect conflict.
Honestly, the idea of this creature doing someone a favor just because they complimented it enough and because it genuinely believes that they are it's fan is bizzarly wholesome
The way they reproduce sounds a lot like hag magic. Maybe the reason they don't fit in with other demons, is that they started as (possibly failed) creations of the Night Hags, figured out the secret to their own creation, and escaped to the Abyss.
You reworked them to have a recharge on their teleport, it might be better to restrict how they teleport instead. Like only allowing them to teleport to/from/within the sites of violent death, either incredibly recent or with lots of deaths. So on battlefields they basically have free reign, but if your party angers one and escapes, it can't just teleport to their location until there's a murder nearby.
Okay this is really bugging me. They're *only* 20 ft tall (yes, I know how that sounds) but those corpses are TINY. What are they slaying? It has to be smaller than a halfling!
Reason for a Deathdrinker to reproduce: When you believe you are the epitome of sapient life and only others of your own kind even come remotely close to your own perfection, then only another Deathdrinker would be suitable for a task that fits in that niche of "important enough that it has to be done right" and "I need this done soon, but I don't have the time to do it myself." Where do you find a Deathdrinker that can be tasked to do something for you without betraying you before the task is done? A newborn that hasn't built its own loyal army yet.
Can we talk about the editing in the beginning though? Title Card, zoom through into bloody cloud backdrop for a little cartoon wizard, explosion cut to the cover of the MM3 which pulls back to a flat spinning render of that image when it is referred to as a "book". Its so good.
We had one of these show up in a campaign I was in! There were a few HB Spell inclusions, swapping out the Teleport to True Polymorph He had Polymorphed himself into the slain leader of a Centaur tribe in the mountains, stirring the pot to try and cause unrest and destruction -- whilst not aligned with the BBEG of the campaign of Demogorgon, his goals were unintentionally yet coincidentally mutually beneficial. He was discovered, and most of our party and allies panicked when he revealed his true form. We were mid-high single digit levels at this point. This was not meant to be a fight... until our fool of a Sorcerer used our 1 endgame item against it that barely scratched it and angered it into combat. Then our party Rogue managed to RP AND Crit Success convince the Deathdrinker that she could be all he needs, and would personally worship him as long as he pleased if the fight could end before it started. The pair went out on "a 5-day lesbian date", became an oddest of oddball couples (he had Polymorphed into a regular Tiefling whenever he'd show up), helped even the playjng field in the final boss battle, and they even have a kid in the post game. 10/10 - highly recommended using in-game!
This is actually perfect. I was looking for a boss to use in my next arc of the campaign im running and this arc follows the players and their familial ties. Well, one is a Tiefling whose people hold back the gates of hell and another s a bard who is good at flattery. It just perfectly fits in so many ways. Thanks (Dungeon) Dad!
I had an idea for a deathdrinker plot hook: The local kingdom used to be under threat of a powerful deathdrinker. That is until the kingdom struck a deal with said deathdrinker. Ever since then there has been an annual parade where the strongest warriors of the kingdom go to test their might against the deathdrinker. None of come out alive. Yet every year there are so many young fighters eager to prove themselves.
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Happy V-Day. Super early on this one. Having internet issues so will have to try watch later when I have a better connection.
You with your hair like that is doing things. Hope you're a curious, unmarried dungeon daddy ;p
Could we have an Obsidian dragon video?
I think it's kinda sus you chose to talk about this guy and his pose on V-Day.
And I-am-lovin' it! xD
I imagine a Deathdrinker creating more of themselves is an expression of narcisism, like a living mirror of themselves that while not perfect at least contains a drop of their own perfection.
MORE OF ME... *drip*
MORE OF ME...*drip drip drip*
And the parent child relationships dissolve frequently over arguments
Exactly. Since they believe they're the perfect being, they may want to clone themselves. The reproduction doesn't involve a mate, since that would dilute the perfection. However, I imagine upon completion, the original and clone will see each other as inferior, and both go their own separate ways.
Isn’t this literally also how Beholders work?
@@vee1267 Beholders are very narcissistic and dislike Beholders that are only slightly different from themselves. I believe they procreate through dreams, because what they dream becomes reality (?)
"Son. I am the GOAT. And someday, you will be after I'm gone, because.....you came from my blood."
Ah Jecht's final words to his son Tidus in FFX.
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Finally a monster with DJ Khalid's IQ, a Beholder's ego, and a Demon Lord's strength!
Khalid’s ego is beholder level.
And a ROCKIN' bod.
and an estus flask
Did you just describe a monster as a himbo?
Truly a vicious creature xD
After hearing its lore. That pose is perfect for the death drinker. He's a badass and he knows at least one person in the party finds him hot.
Probably the bard.
@@spencersholden Who else?
*teleports inside you*
He feels like the ultimate counter to Doomguy. A demon with charisma, a lot of leisure, and instead of being mindlessly brutal, or brutal with a singular focus (Doomguy’s not mindless, sorry), he’s just a demon who knows he’s the shit.
My tiefling sorcerer is blushing right now
So glad it's perfectly viable for Graz'zt to have a posse of half-naked Deathdrinkers who act as his praetorian guard who are also required to pose and flex when Graz'zt requests it
That would be EXCELLENT
And when they do, jojo music starts playing.
I connected them with Graz'zt when it was mentioned that they had six fingers on each hand
@@umbreonmaster8921 Oh man, I laughed so hard when I read this.
@@ilajoie3 We Ivans are on the same wavelength
Okay, when you brought up bards, I had an idea. Death Drinker followed around by an band of undead bards, who constantly sing about how cool he is. Oh and the Deathdrinker talks in third person. Posibly like Macho Man Randy Savage. Sometimes it's not the stats, or abilities or Challenge ratings that make you want to use a monster. Sometimes it's the personality. And this fella has it.
The Death Drinker is too hot to handle! Too cold to hold! And you adventurers are but grains of sand in the desert that is the Death Drinker! OOOOOOHHHHHH YEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!
"Brave bold Sir Ger'z'gast road forth from Kalimdor! He was not afraid to die, oh brave Sir Ger'z'gast! He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways, brave brave brave Sir Ger'z'gast! He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp! Or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken. To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned out away, and his limbs all hacked and mangled oh brave Sir Ger'z'gast! His head smashed in and his heart cut out and his liver removed and his boweled unplugged and his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off and his penis-"
"That's... that's enough singing for now, lads."
I think there was a undead bard in one of the previous monster of the week
@@zionurias7875 Yes, this exactly what I imagined.
you've gave me two simultaneous thoughts
1)your making me think of samurai champloo
there was a samurai who had a beatboxer in his entourage following him about with a beat
2) if the deathdrinker's name could rhyme with Gaston, well..... it writes itself :p
a deathdrinker who trades weapons in exchange for corpses would be a very fun merchant
That’s where Dr. Schultz got that nifty sleeve derringer 🤔
My party: “I don’t mean to pry, but you don’t happen to have six fingers on your right hand?”
The death drinker: “…Do you always begin conversations that way?”
See my father was slaughtered by a six fingered man.
My immediate thought is that a Deathdrinker sets up near the site of a bloody battle and just watches two armies go at each other like he's watching a football game, cheering at a great kill or shouting angrily when something they find foolish happens. The party can either deal with them conventionally, or if they simply end the violence between the armies somehow, the Deathdrinker will just shrug, grab their stuff, and leave.
This is like if a Prince of Khorn and a Prince of Slaanesh had a love child.
that would be some hate fucking I am glad Not to witness
i totally felt khorne boy energy too
@@wernermarais8493 Yet it seems entirely possible…
But who is the small spoon?
Seems like pic of skarbrand trying to impress khorne moments before disaster.
Could a Lich try and hijack the brood process of a Deathdrinker to create a self guarding phylactery, or would that be unlikely?
I think that is entirely in the realm of possibility
You are a madman, and I loved it.
@@gamediverbr Listen, I'm convinced at least 85% of the fun in this game is coming up with whatever rediculous nonsense we can try to finangle a DM or the players to try.
I once made a mage who was a fan of beholders and would keep performing surgeries on his dormant clone, grafting more and more pieces (mostly exotic eyes) onto the body, with a goal to be reborn as a unique eye tyrant next time he dies.
So, unusual yes. But powerful wizards are unusual by default, so that's exactly a thing to do.
@@brettwood1351 Most of my most memorable characters were the most insane. I have fond memories of my Minotaur warrior in the only Mystara campaign I played...
I just have to imagine a layer of the Abyss for these dudes: A vast, bloodstained plain of eternal battle, where undead legions battle for their overlords glory. The Death Drinkers residing in large castles made from bone, plotting the downfall of their enemies so they can rule the layer. But with every drop of blood spilled in battle, be it their own or their rival's, just new Death Drinkers arise, challenging the old lords.
I think in Ebberon they rule of the plane of death
That's literally just a description of Khorne the God of blood and battle in Warhammer haha.
I thought the demon we didn't talk about was Hasbro?
*Nestlé*
*Laughs in the deepest of evils*
The chances of getting attacked by a death bringer in the same plane of existence is low but never 0%
There's actually a lot of artwork in 3/3.5 that's... questionable. The example that always pops into my head is the artwork for the werewolf, it's like she's running with a broken back because they needed to make sure she showed off that absolute unit of a butt she's got. My theory (backed up by about 25 years of being artist) is that the people at WotC were used to Magic: the Gathering art, where it's just a single figure or action you're trying to evoke and can do whatever you want to the details of the rest of the art box to accentuate it; so when they started working on a book with its own artistic arcs, they were completely out of their depth. So they just told the artists "don't have them just standing, if everyone makes their creatures just stand it'll be very boring" and the artists had no other choice than to do a Google Image search for "dynamic monster poses" and do what they could.
The fact that WotC was notorious for screwing over their artists at the time probably didn't help, I imagine a lot of the artists were looking for ways to be as subversive as possible, as well.
I just looked up that art of the werewolf and dear god what's wrong with her shoulder
Could you imagine a Death Drinker that's manged to summon a Nightwalker into existence, revering it as a personification of death itself? The chaos and destruction that follows would be wacky.
I feel like if any Demon Lord had a bunch of these in his army, it would be Orcus. The Prince of Undeath is such a beacon of unlife that Deathdrinkers must see him as some kind of messiah or daddy to impress. Or, maybe they're just empowered by an unprecedented channel of negative energy. Or Orcus finds them useful to his armies and will yeet corpses at them continuously.
You have given me terrible ideas. Thanks!
Considering that Deathdrinkers spawn from pits of corpses, I can't help but immagine that very first Deathdrinker was a result of some sort of a science experiment made by Orcus.
He wouldn't just have them as generals in his army, he'd have constant sweaty gay sex with them.
Imagine what the puddles would smell like.
@@Dahaka-rd6twnot experiment, but rather an accident since wizard never have anything good happen intentionally
As a necromancer who worships or us I approve this
I was playing during the satanic panic but I actually liked the new names created. It was different and more world-building to me. And a little, "demon is not our term for us, hoooman."
It took me awhile, but eventually liked them.
This is perfect for my "oops I killed the party" arc. Lol
This is the caption on his instagram picture
I now wish to make a bard/warlock whose patron is a death drinker with the personality of Jack Horner from Puss in Boots 2.
fiend or undying pact?
@@benthomason3307 Probably fiend but undecided at the moment
Actually funny thing about them teleporting to spellcasters. I had a wizard who would tattoo glyphs of warding onto himself locked by a contingency spell (it was a complicated process but the GM gave the ok with the plan) where essentially if an enemy were to quickly make its way up to him he would just burst explosion with a bunch of targeted damage spells as well as a haste and false life spell. It worked once during a fight with another wizard and the poor lad didn’t stand a chance. So this demon would face a similar issue if a wizard prepares like that
That is a smart player!
Are you telling me that wizards are just Batman with powers? Prep time = win?
@@brandonk1297 yeah actually. Giving a wizard player who knows what they’re doing prep time will create some insane situations
@@ImmortalLemon I miss my 3.5 Wizard. Energy Immunity to the 4 elements and sonic + ray deflection + shield + master's touch + tenser's transformation = better paladin than paladin on top of wizard fun.
@@nuruisake d20 is a hell of a drug. I run a 3.5/mythic Pathfinder 1e/Starfinder game, incorporating Monte Cook's Arcana Unearth and some other d20 Sword and Sorcery stuff, plus d20 Call of Cthulu and some AD&D stuff I've converted. The things you can do with such a breadth and depth of options, especially factoring in things like gestalt multiclassing (which I allow if the player can justify it), are just staggering. Vital Strike gets a lot scarier in the Starfinder setting, when you can purchase or make weapons that deal like 18d8 by themselves. Sure, 72d8 per swing is a fair and balanced amount of damage. Why not be able to cast a meteor swarm that fires eight smaller meteors instead of four larger ones, except you've applied the War spell template on it and now for two 9th level spell slots you can fire *fourty meteors in a single standard action*. My archmage NPC could quite literally take on the avatars of every Elder Mythos outer god simultaneously. He probably wouldn't win, but he'd hold his own long enough to banish several of them, and would respawn upon death. Because of things like Clone, and the ability to make any spell contingent (Arcana Unearthed is such a blast but man are those spell templates easy to abuse with the options from other games).
you should do the time dragon and the chronomancy spells that it directs you to in a side bar of that dragon magazine entry. time magic is such a cool thing and there isn’t much in 5e and you could just do an interlude like you did for the tanari and demon types in this video covering the cool spells that would need very little conversion
It occurs to me that between the Death Drinker's undead minions and it's fondness for magical trinkets, a DM really can customize what this encounter is like. And if they want to challenge the players give it a party and loadout that covers it's weaknesses.
Does anyone else think that it would be funny as hell if a trio of deathdrinkers were introduced to the characters like the Piller Men or the Fabulous Custodes from Text-to-Speech?😈
Finally, the Rizz Demon
I knew that it wasn't just me
Turns out, Sin City *was* made for him
Red Skin demons be like:
I really like the idea of a Death Drinker collecting a bunch of powerful magical weapons, but only using them to flex on people by opting not to fight with them.
That art is fitting for the monster despite being kinda goofy.
the quality of your vidoes just seems to go up and up very cool monster, cool editing , cool guy talking about it
“Draw me like one of your French demons”
The loss of the distinction between Tanar'ri, Obyriths, etc. is one of the biggest and saddest casualties of the transition to 5e. There were whole *books* worth of lore there, and *multiple* entire campaign modules worth of potential material.
And there's no apparent POINT, other than it being a victim of those times 5e went *far* overboard with its simplification of everything. Obyriths used to be Ancient things even other demons feared, Eldritch horrors that literally caused madness (or outright death in one case) to look upon. And 5e just treats them all like kind of haphazard collections of numbers.
It's possible to clumsily edit some of their danger back in, but it's still astonishing to me that demons got done *so* dirty by 5e. It's great for RUclips channels, but an incredibly pointless, poor choice for the game overall.
That is one of the reasons why I stayed ate 3rd and M&M system.
My biggest disappointment with Mordenkainin's Monsters of the Multiverse was that instead of fleshing out / bringing over lore for races and monsters it instead simplified them even more and made them bland "they all be special, you play them how you like them"
Bruh, if I wanted to make up everything on my own, I wouldn't be buying your books, stupid wizards on a stupid coast!
Agreed, the idea of the demons having an entire precursor to their race and each one being a cosmic horror or proto-demon with a powerful memetic effect is AWESOME!😎👍 (I still make the distinction between the two)
5e itself is a travesty. D&D was better in 3.5 and should have stayed that way.
Wait please I need to know which Obyrith caused death. I need the statblock, please!
The corpse horns are definitely a bold fashion statement. I'd love to see some videos on the Obyrith and Loumara, I bet there's some wild stuff in there.
Thanks for the great video!
Vampire Bard who sings the Deathdrinker's glory as a way to arm it's best weapon(the Deathdrinker)
Really love the goofy edits of the Deathdrinker's head on attractive human bodies lol. Silly art aside, This monster definitely seems intimidating!
And if you're looking at 3.5 monsters, I'd love to see your takes on some of the Aberrations from that era. Especially the Uvuudaum. But hey, I love whatever you put out! Keep it up!
I like the idea of facing multiple Deathdrimkers and defeating them all by asking which one is in charge causing them all to fight each other. Like the group wasn’t even trying to trick then they just wanted to know which one to address in an attempt to finish things peacefully.
One of the Coolest ways I ever saw this Monster used was in a Campaign I played in a few years ago. The party was somewhere around 16th to 18th Level, it was a 3.5 Game in Faerun. I was a Quaggoth with 2 lvls of Fighter, 3 lvls of Barbarian, and the rest in Ranger. The rest of the party was a Human Paladin / Hellreaver named Andess, a Human Samurai / Kensai named Ignacio Bandito, an Eberron Psionic character of some kind named Alyssia, a Human Red Dragon Shaman named Richard, and a Half-Elf Druid / Wizard / Weird Druid Wizard Prestige Class named Gwain. The Death Drinker had slain the entire Home Town of Andess when he was a boy, and has ruled the heap of a Town ever since. We had to confront this Absolute Combat Beast, underleveled, but we were all clever Veteran Players so we managed to pull it straight of our asses, despite the Fact the my Character, Mok Go'Rah literally pointed at him as soon as we got to his lair and called him out by straight up calling him a beeyotch. I almost died in one Round, but I also Critted with my Large-Sized ×3 Axe / Hammer and did like 93 damage in 1 hit, after Damage Reduction and everything. He teleported to the convulsing pile of bodies that was the townspeople, and in a Blur healed back up to full before turning his attention to us again... Did I mention we had a Red Dragon Shaman (3.5 Players Handbook 2 Base Class)? He got to the pile of writhing bodies, and while the rest of us were drawing his attention, Richard Breath Weaponed onto said pile of Bodies, dealing Lingering Fore Breath Weapon Damage to a bunch of Weenie Zombies... he got really pissed, but somehow much easier to deal with after that...
P. S. Our DM told us that if Richard had not done what he did, the Death Drinker had at least 4 more Full Health Bars just waiting in that pile.
Arcane hierophant by any chance? That's the only wizard/druid prestige I can think of.
When you talk about why they would want to make another death drinker, I am picturing the mauler clones from invincible.
Absolutely, this is a perfect way to look at it I think. I wish I had seen invincible before I made this video.
At least I know this demon will take me out for drinks, before he takes my soul.
"Being Evil doesn't mean one can't look Good."
The cleric death drinker sounds like a Thanos build
The Rizz Demons partner: *”why is it spicy”*
Hello! I just wanted to say I recently found the channel and have been watching the backlog! of videos. It is awesome to see that the quality of the content has only gotten better. Your editing, music choices, and the confidence you bring now versus a year ago have vastly improved. Thank you for continuing to make some great DnD content!
You had me at "shot-for-shot remake of the Evangelion intro"
So, his lair is basically a Diablo III map? Also...I think they should get an urge to have an offspring, and for most of them they will see the offspring as "The only creatures truly worthy of being My equal...or...maybe even better than Myself", like that would be natural change in their thinking that drives their procreation.
Or they would think that they are the still the best representative of their species so another one wouldn’t be a threat because it surely must recognize this to
Plothook: an evil wizard has stolen the blood of a deathdrinker and managed to escape back into his own realm and hidden himself with magic. He plans on creating and enslaving a Deathdrinker. Your job is to prevent him from doing so.
8:05 'A vat of ground up corpses'
So like a chili bowl? Chicken nugget paste.
This dude is so so cool, I love the idea of one of them working with a Mummy lord or a lich. Also that end smash or pass bit was amazing.
Also also, I'm not sure if I've said this or not, but you should do the Night walker, they are so damn cool looking and awesome, also they're kind of creepy as hell.
Interesting take on this monster I may incorporate into a campaign.
They are in love with death because it is what they crave yet also what their devilish nature forbids them. They long for nothing more than to meet the rival who will finally slay them and deliver them into the embrace of their love, yet each inwardly fears they are the best of their kind and will simply never die. They cannot take their own life because their love would shun them, as it's a bit like calling too soon... just reeks of desperation.
I'm putting one of these in my campaign as a friendly NPC and giving them a pet Charnel Hound and nobody can stop me!
I personally LOVE the idea of people using creatures that are usually enemies as friendly NPCs, heard about a magic item merchant that if the party decides to try and kill in an out of the way place then they will be fighting Terry The Tarrasque, if they don’t act like murderhobos then they get some nice early magic items but if they all act like murderhobos then they get the TPK. Best part is Terry will only reveal his true form if they try to kill him without witnesses otherwise he just calls for the guards and if it is just one player then he is the only victim. That is from a fairly new DM too. Terry is also meant to be a quest giver too.
Dungeon Dad seeing the death drinker: “He f*cks but he ain’t f*cking around.”
the Magnus the Red-esque platemail tubetop is always SUCH a design choice
Man I just want to see this Death drinker with that interior designer personality.
I imagine starting the party off with a TPK, the parties souls are then snagged by the death drinker who makes them run a maze/game show for his entertainment
I'm so happy that you could get back to your monsters (after all the ogl stuff). And with such quality! The last videos have been increasingly good
"Son. Today, you will learn how to wield terror. You will drink in the fears of your foes, and the world will tremble. And tomorrow. Gem setting"
Sir your Meme quality rolls a static natural 20 ever time. 😂
Also top tier quality videos. Well done indeed. I find myself looking through video after video after work and its just great.
"So how should I do the art for The Death Drinker?"
"So, like, Have you ever seen a deamon of Khorne?"
"Say no more, fam"
I am so glad I backed you guys' book. If it enables amazing videos like this, it's 1000 percent worth it. You and your team put in hella effort in this and it shows.
And I am gonna use this guy as a campaign anchor 100 percent. Party starts as undead in his service after the apocalypse, with the end goal of un-apocalypsing the world. High level, high magic, unorthodox starting point... think I could sell it to the right group of folks
Omg the nostalgia you just triggered from your intro theme. I'll be looking for my gba and sonic pinball now. Awesome video, thanks!
So basically, they don’t think they’re better than everybody, they know they are better than everybody.
Thinking of themselves as the best of their kind and the best race of all, is a lot like how Dragons and Beholders.
Every time i get back into watching some of your videos, i get an urge to DM again. there's always something that comes up to stuff a game I'm running, so if i cant be consistent having something like this channel around to get me back up on the horse really is great. Thanks for all your hard work.
*teleports behind you*
"Nothing personel kid"
"Nowhere on the same plane are you safe from a Deathdrinker" Can they burrow? because if not then I'm just going to sit under the ground and kick their ass from there.
See this is where the undead minions come in handy. Figure out what undead can deal with that situation, put some around the Death Drinker, and fill in it's weaknesses.
0:41 “Paint Me like one of your French fiends.”
19:17 WAIT, remember those crow dudes with two brains that LOVE hoarding magical artifacts? Sounds like, the perfect conflict.
As an older DM I still use the terms Tana'ri and Baatezu, but I tend to use the terms when a Scholar or academic of some kind is talking about fiends.
This sounds so much like a Warhammer Bloodthirster and I am very okay with that!
He has six fingers, he's a sick guitarist and pianist!
6:20 So they're red dragons. Got it. XD
Honestly, the idea of this creature doing someone a favor just because they complimented it enough and because it genuinely believes that they are it's fan is bizzarly wholesome
The way they reproduce sounds a lot like hag magic. Maybe the reason they don't fit in with other demons, is that they started as (possibly failed) creations of the Night Hags, figured out the secret to their own creation, and escaped to the Abyss.
I like this idea a lot.
I have a feeling these things have an affinity with Orcus.
I can see a deathdrinker chilling at Arbys. After all, they've got the meats...
This is my first time listining to one of your videos, and i think you make awesome videos, can't wait to see what other videos you can make.
I can't get over the mental image of Strahd having a Jojo posing Death Drinker dudebro.
it really has the same energy as that one Jeff Goldblum picture
You reworked them to have a recharge on their teleport, it might be better to restrict how they teleport instead.
Like only allowing them to teleport to/from/within the sites of violent death, either incredibly recent or with lots of deaths.
So on battlefields they basically have free reign, but if your party angers one and escapes, it can't just teleport to their location until there's a murder nearby.
I am completely obsessed with this fancy lad
Out here looking like RNGesus. Hair looks insane man 🤩
Okay this is really bugging me. They're *only* 20 ft tall (yes, I know how that sounds) but those corpses are TINY. What are they slaying? It has to be smaller than a halfling!
I know! This is definitely a situation where the art does not fully represent the creature in question.
Fairies? Imps?
Well maybe it is. It's D&D, after all.
It’s possible that the corpses have shriveled up like a shurken head
Reason for a Deathdrinker to reproduce: When you believe you are the epitome of sapient life and only others of your own kind even come remotely close to your own perfection, then only another Deathdrinker would be suitable for a task that fits in that niche of "important enough that it has to be done right" and "I need this done soon, but I don't have the time to do it myself." Where do you find a Deathdrinker that can be tasked to do something for you without betraying you before the task is done? A newborn that hasn't built its own loyal army yet.
This has to be a reference to Bloodthirsters and I am here for it
Yes but what if Deathdrinker riding a Crawling Apocalypse?
Deathdrinkers have such chad energy. They just need big poofy hair. XD
Can we talk about the editing in the beginning though? Title Card, zoom through into bloody cloud backdrop for a little cartoon wizard, explosion cut to the cover of the MM3 which pulls back to a flat spinning render of that image when it is referred to as a "book". Its so good.
Death drinker and a lich having a turf war, and the church has make the decision to warm up to either the evil wizard or a 12-foot demonic narcissist.
I really liked your outfit in this video ngl. Big comfy DM vibes
We had one of these show up in a campaign I was in! There were a few HB Spell inclusions, swapping out the Teleport to True Polymorph
He had Polymorphed himself into the slain leader of a Centaur tribe in the mountains, stirring the pot to try and cause unrest and destruction -- whilst not aligned with the BBEG of the campaign of Demogorgon, his goals were unintentionally yet coincidentally mutually beneficial. He was discovered, and most of our party and allies panicked when he revealed his true form. We were mid-high single digit levels at this point. This was not meant to be a fight... until our fool of a Sorcerer used our 1 endgame item against it that barely scratched it and angered it into combat. Then our party Rogue managed to RP AND Crit Success convince the Deathdrinker that she could be all he needs, and would personally worship him as long as he pleased if the fight could end before it started.
The pair went out on "a 5-day lesbian date", became an oddest of oddball couples (he had Polymorphed into a regular Tiefling whenever he'd show up), helped even the playjng field in the final boss battle, and they even have a kid in the post game.
10/10 - highly recommended using in-game!
I need this on a valentine's card
Warlock with a Death Drinker patron who receives his powers in exchange for being the Death Drinker's magical hype man
This! More of this!! DungeonDad is so fun to watch!!!!!!
Wow, that spaghetti sauce is actually stomach churning given the topic at hand.
Brb gonna go puke.
These are the best video essays I've ever seen
This is actually perfect. I was looking for a boss to use in my next arc of the campaign im running and this arc follows the players and their familial ties. Well, one is a Tiefling whose people hold back the gates of hell and another s a bard who is good at flattery. It just perfectly fits in so many ways. Thanks (Dungeon) Dad!
I feel like sirens would be a perfect counter to a creature like this! It would also make for some interesting character interaction
"There's alot more from where that came from" What? More fingers?
thank you!
love your stuff :)
I imagine a Deathdrinker would love being a Warlock Patron, and would demand worship and praise like a god in return for the powers.
The best individual D&D monster review I have seen!
I had an idea for a deathdrinker plot hook:
The local kingdom used to be under threat of a powerful deathdrinker.
That is until the kingdom struck a deal with said deathdrinker. Ever since then there has been an annual parade where the strongest warriors of the kingdom go to test their might against the deathdrinker. None of come out alive. Yet every year there are so many young fighters eager to prove themselves.