"I can better understand the inert blindness and defiant ignorance of the reactionaries from having been one of them. I know how smugly ignorant I was...I really had thrown all that haughty, complacent, snobbish, self-centered, intolerant bull ,and at a mature age when anybody but a damned fool would have known better! ...It's hard to have done all ones growing up since 33-but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all."-H.P. Lovecraft letter to Catherine L. Moore 1937 a few months before his death.
"WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME, AUNTIE YOGG?! I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS!" "I dunno... I woke up three millennia ago and thought it would be a fun way to kill some time."
I think the coolest part of the GOOlock is that the great old ones of D&D aren't just the spooky aberrations of the deep, it's also the things beyond the stars and in the forgotten realms is actually stars themselves, including at least one undead one.
The best part of the goolock is that you don't have to do anything. There is no reason your patron needs to tell you to do anything. Might be stranger if it did.
When I played one, I had it all more flavored as instinctive needs. Tharizdun wanted to be free. My character, who was trapped on a slaveship, felt the same. Thus, a pact was formed. Later, "instructions" or rather "nudges" for him to get off his ass came in the form of horrible nightmares and later hallucinations that were slowly leading to full-blown psychosis. It was a good time.
Played a himbo GOOlock that was formerly a town guard until they fired him for being too fuckin' terrifying because he'd switch to Deep Speech and telepathic communication on and off mid conversation. His patron, Yogsothoth, being a god tied to gates, saw the painting the Bard made that included a gate and immediately said he needed to follow her and keep her safe. Then he stopped paying attention to him in any way, shape and form, so the warlock kept accidentally spreading chaos fueled justice.
a while ago i kickstarted a dnd 5e submental book called 'out of the maw' that amoung its pages full of terrifying new aberrations, cultish , spells, items and mutation charts can befound a unqunie flavour of cosmic patron for aspiring warlocks that love the flavour of great old one but might be up for something new. there is the subclass called ' the everchanging ' which focuss on body mutation and shape shifing
1:42 To be fair, lovecraft mostly viewed life through the lens of culture. Condeming hitler and exprssing sympathy for those who tried to adapt to Western life and were faced with predjudice. His early racist views were moderated by time and experience. His views that america should be loyal to the british crown and have an aristocracy were just bizzare, and this comes from a British Royalist.
Gonna be honest, I keep thinking he’s a parody of 1920’s racism. I mean, correct me if I get this wrong, he was prejudiced against Jewish people… and married a Jewish lady.
He was also kept in isolation by his Royalist mother & grandmother, heavily abused, and taught an incorrect version of the world he would later enter into. It's amazing he came out as "well-adjusted" as he did, relatively speaking of course.
The one who helped him get over his racism and the other bullshit ideologies that his toxic family forced upon him was his best friend Robert E. Howard. Lovecraft always looked up to him and Howard was the one of the few who could understand him. Both of them inspired each other's work and many times referenced each other. They never met in person yet they were able to bond a strong friendship through letters
finally, my favorite subclass! I've never been lucky enough to play dnd with friends but my first BG3 character was a Great Old One Warlock. beat tactician with this subclass and I'm hoping to beat honor mode with it as well
Honestly, I love how the Great Old One has the perfect fluff for matching with the "your patron isn't even aware they're giving you power" style of pact. A GOOlock who's just consulted the stars and a tome of ancient lore, started worshipping Tsathoggua and gaining alien powers, and goes completely mad...all while Tsathoggua is just lounging somewhere, deadass asleep.
Bg3's tadpole powers feel like they complete the subclass honestly. They are all in theme and feels like the kind of absurd powers channeling a great old one would bring.
I actually love using this subclass when I am multiclassing because of all the flavor options you get. I did a whispers bard/ Goo-lock character based on Robert Johnson selling his soul at the cross roads for musical power. Only instead of selling his soul to the devil, he sold his soul to the king in yellow (or, rather the yellow prince at first and his true nature unfolded with the character story. The DM was even good enough to include the "the time has come to remove your mask" "but I wear no mask" lines from the source material) this turned out to be one of my favorite characters ever and I've gone back to it several times over
yeah it's a shame that Fathomless warlock and Aberrant Mind sorcerer kind of usurped GOO as the tentacles daddy simp subclasses, but i guess it will be getting that new coat of paint this year so that's good.
@@Merilirem Yeah, there's a lack of oomph here, though forcing anyone who gets psionic damage past your resistance to suffer equally is pretty cool, as is the psionic scream... but overall there is a need for big shows of eldritch might.
GOO just don't get anything actually worth having. Fathomless is far more aquatic themed than it is cosmic horror, and GOO definitely lacks the cosmic horror, too.
@@Kylora2112 yeah but aquatic is very much linked with the Lovecraftian side of things at least, like the shadows over innsmouth is just about a town of warlocks with fish people as their patrons.
Goolock seems like a very, very subterfuge and manipulation based warlock with a lot of utility. It doesn't have very much outright damage, but it does have a lot of utility and especially the ability for rituals...I just wish there were more damage or actually impactful options. Like...ghosts at over tenth level? Just...fake ghosts? That's it?
To be fair to HP if you do any amount of research and look at some of the thing he based his stories off of, it becomes pretty clear he was clearly suffering from some kind of mental illness or disability (dude wrote a horror story about *air conditioning* for Pete’s sake)
Man put the phobia in xenophobia. In most modern uses, that word describes someone who hates anything they don't know, but Lovecraft was genuinly afraid of anything strange to him.
I just got Baldur's Gate 3 and picked Great Old One Warlock as my class. Its going pretty well so far. Not for my enemies, they go screaming into the void and my party is wondering whats wrong with me. But its going pretty well for me.
0:52 Feeling called out that my current desktop wallpaper showed up in this video. If you get my lock screen wallpaper too, I'm breaking out the spyware sniffers. 1:05 Really dude?! Literally 7 damn seconds?!
Oh shit, one of my players in one of these... and... well, oet me introduce his lore a bit Half elf bastard from the artic that since kid had the mark of some ancient, forgotten goddess from a misterious plane by some random chance. Gets drunk, accidentaly (while blaked out), desintegrates the whole village. Wakes up, thinks they just left (completely chill about that), so jumps into a barrel and goes for the seas (falls asleep). Wakes up in waterdeep (which I thought it would be funny as a dm to make half of it Las Vegas), manages to win a bet with a wizard by using tricks (doesn't remember the wizard, he was drunk again) andgets teleported to a volcano...xwhich fails cause the wizard was also drunk and appears hanging from a tree and the party finds him, so decides to join. Now, he's in this wierd af "long distance" relationship thing with the goddess (neither of them has seen the other one, they just comunicate in his dreams) and it is, when roleplayed, the most fucking hilarious character I have DMed for.
Tempest Cleric would be a good one to do for a video. They have a lot of fun abilities, including doing max damage on lightning and thunder based spells.
Not the strongest subclass mechanically, but I love it, and I can find any number of inspirations from Lovecraft himself to flavor my GOO Warlock characters. In fact, my first one was a Lore Bard/GOO Tome-lock who ended up being inspired by HPL's story The Music of Erich Zann.
I get it that Lovecraftian is the word to describe this horror, but while he is the most well know, he is not really the true original or first creator of cosmic horror. He was influenced greatly by other authors, one of which was Chambers, who wrote King in Yellow.
Going mad by looking at eldritch entities was never a thing, I hope we can once forget it. It's not their visage but the experience of futility, the smallness for a split second then getting tossed back into your regular life
I am now in dire need of creating a GOO-lock with ties to Hastur. mainly because, King in Yellow is one of my favorite weird fiction novels and a huge inspiration for Lovecraft himself. I do highly recommend it if that's something you're into, it's a chilling and fun read
For those who dig too deep or stay out at sea too long, there is power to be gained, and the final price may not come due for a hundred generations, so why not set out to sign? What's the harm in hearing out the whispers? Who's to actually say what too deep and too long are?
If you specialise into being an Eldritch blaster, GOO with Tomelock is effective as it gives you spell utility with a bunch of rituals for the non combat spellcasting, giving the other spellcasters some downtime. Get a big enough ritual list and you can be very useful to the Party. Throw in a ridiculously OP race like something with Flight such as a winged Teifling or an Owling with a lineage to take advantage of Eldritch Spear and Grasp of Hadar (use when above the target to drop them prone) plus of course Agonising Blast. The difference with Fathomless... Fathomless does have better combat spells and the Tentacles of course, but you're still a Warlock so you're not going to be spamming spell slots but spamming Eldritch Blast and having fun with forced movement. The GOO does has a good spell list (and abilities) for social shenanigans however, and if you get metamagic for some silent spell casting.... Uh oh. Fathomless will be twiddling thumbs outside of combats and whatever your Pact enables. And there are other Great Old Ones besides Ctulthu, you don't need to be a Hentai sub.
It's a bit of a shame that you didn't really go into the amount of flavour the subclass brings. For one, the nature of a GOOlock's pact is often very different from the standard warlock's. In fact, a lot of the time, it isn't even a pact at all, but rather, the warlock found a way to channel the power of a Great Old One without the big fella even knowing. Another good revlavouring of it is that the "patron" isn't really lending the warlock their power directly, but rather acts as a strange kind of teacher that shows the warlock how to channel a particular form of magic. That of the Far Realms, for example. The way I'm currently running a GOOlock is one that gets the occasional "message" from an Uvuudaum, which essentially communicates to him indirectly through his subconscious. So, rather than directly talking to him, he instead gets the feeling of what the entity is trying to convey to him, acting almost more like a strange kind of intuition.
As a home rule, I’ve allowed Goolock players to trade in spells for other spells as a way of beseeching their master. Why Crhulu can’t give you fireball is beyond me. I’ve also allowed them to cross features with the Deep One for the tentacle.
At lot of people like to cling onto the guy was pretty damn racist and ignore: a) the time period he lived in and b) HP was clearly suffering from something that made him irrationally afraid of anything that wasn’t his hometown and\or anything new
Something I don’t like is mine shield because most of the creatures that do psychic damage are resistant to psychic damage do 12 psychic damage will be halved and the retaliation of 6 psychic damage will be halved making it 3 damage
Can i suggest Path of the Depth barbarian for next poll ir for future round poll? Its technically official subclass that was exclusive to DnDbeyond until it was taken off for some unknown reason and was a part of a subclass group based on League Legends Runeterra's region of Bilgewater
I mean... It was posted on Beyond and was official, but has since been removed. Very weird. The classes all needed a little bit of tweaking, but the Barbarian and Rogue subclasses were very cool and flavorful. The pages did get "archived" and can be found in pdf version for download.
Lovecraft was the father of this style of Horror, was a misguided human being with backward ways of thinking? Yes, as a mixed Race man, do i care? No, not really. His horror is one of the reason we fear the dark.
Sure and that's fine. But I still think those who came later have made the genre much better. Lovecraft had some hits, but be had many more god awful books no one really talks about. I'm personally happy just letting him fade away into obscurity.
1:42 in his younger years Lovecraft was super racist, but as he grew older he matured out of it. When he was an adult in american, it becane more of a cultural thing, he thought that someone who has american culture is american, even with different ethnicity And as he grew older hw went out of that too. Becoming someone very progressive for his age
Warlock's are one of the classes that are hated on for no reason in my opninion. Usually, whenever we have a warlock in our party, especially great old one of fathomless, they end up being either really helpful anywhere, or they are super strong
Okay this is some weird ass shit- I was watching the vid for the FIRST TIME, and RIGHT as they started talking about Maddening Hex, my neighbors/partiers started SCREAMING at the top of their lungs, as if they’d been hexed. CREEPY AS BALLS MY GUY!!!!!!!!!!!
I really want all versions of telepathy (class/race/feats) to get standardized wording. It's very DERP that there are so many versions that all interact differently.
Not a super powerful build but scribe wizard GOO tomelock simic hybrid is just falvorfully perfect you mutate from your horifying enlitenment and strive in madness to awaken the conciousness of your master through his tome and your magical caligraphy. Meanwhile you just write all your allies in for sweet buffs which I'm sure wont have any consequences.
I don't know if it's fair to call HP Lovecraft all these names. He was a product of it's time, you are living 100 years later, you can't just assume you'd still be yourself if you walk a mile in his shoes. Most likely you'd be a racist person, because your surroundings and experiences would mold you in such way. Ironically, what you said comes from a place of privilege.
So we can't criticize any racists from the past... is that what you're saying? Klan members, confederate generals... do they get a pass too? I mean I never walked a mile in their shoes either... wouldnt wanna come from a place of privilege... The truth is lovecraft was comically racist even for the time he was alive. The dude was born almost 30 years after the civil war was ended in the progressive north and he still thought the way he did... my guy, why defend him... he sucked...
I'm always surprised when people hate on Lovecraft for being a crazy POS. Did you not read his stories? He was sick most of his life and not just in his head. You can't create that much occult horror without being somewhat diabolical yourself. Look at Steve King. Let the art speak for itself. But it always make chuckle that people interested in reading about alien, monstrous, evil horrors are bothered by the man's racism. Ignore the tentacle monsters, it's his feelings about black people that make him disgusting. LOL. Horrorbabble, a RUclips channel, has people who read these books, if your interested.
Yeah dude. Because racsim is real and actually hurts people. Cthulu is pretend and just silly nonesnese. Is it really hard to understand why somone would be fine with one and disgusted by the other?
@@youmightbeadnd Every time you compare the moral character of someone from the past to the moral standards of today, that someone is going to come up short.
@@trevormcinnis3573 so we shouldn't ever add context to a persons ideology? we should just pretend that everything happens in a vacuum? Lovecraft's stories stemmed from his obsession with "the other," and how scary that concept was. In books it was fish monsters, but in reality it was black people (and also often in his books). It's important to his legacy that this part of his life is not just buried because "old people be like that." No. Lovecraft was cartoonishly racist even for the time he was born.
@@youmightbeadnd I don’t where you got this idea that he was so much more racist than anyone in his time. I’d like to see some citation on that. Regardless, if you’re aware of that detail, that means you’ve put in the research. Which would mean you know that in the later half of his life, he went on record stating how foolish he was to think we were different based on skin color.
@@trevormcinnis3573 Well considering he was so racist he thought the 'celts' where inferior and weren't actually white, I'd regard that as cartoonish. ‘I regard the Celts as an inferior race, but little better than Mexicans, & but little more capable of self-government. They could never maintain an orderly existence save under the domination of some branch of the Teutonic master race-if they could leave England, they would have to take Germany as a master; in fact, I am not sure but that they need a few Prussian methods to curb their ebullient & seditious emotions.’ But since you seem so keen to defend Lovecraft, you should realize that a lifetime of destruction and hurt targeted towards groups of people he deemed as "inferior" by essentially comparing their entire lives to little more than that of an animal is pretty awful. But I guess one letter addressed to his family, that no one he hurt ever read definitely makes up for it!
HP Lovecraft was racist during a time where being insanely racist was just part of regular every day life so do you know how racist you have to be to have other racists tell you that you might need to chill out a little bit during that time ?! Dude was on some next level Klan squared shit 😂
"I can better understand the inert blindness and defiant ignorance of the reactionaries from having been one of them. I know how smugly ignorant I was...I really had thrown all that haughty, complacent, snobbish, self-centered, intolerant bull ,and at a mature age when anybody but a damned fool would have known better! ...It's hard to have done all ones growing up since 33-but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all."-H.P. Lovecraft letter to Catherine L. Moore 1937 a few months before his death.
Better late than never, assuming he was sincere.
Easily the most interesting part of the Lovecraft life story was the small blip of his redemption arc right before death takes him.
@@cyberdoga5728 May his soul escape the hungry maws of the Old Ones.
Love the idea of a great old one giving one guy power just to see what happens.
"Just woke up and thought it might be funny."
"WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME, AUNTIE YOGG?! I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS!"
"I dunno... I woke up three millennia ago and thought it would be a fun way to kill some time."
like in death note lol, ryuk just got bored💀
I think the coolest part of the GOOlock is that the great old ones of D&D aren't just the spooky aberrations of the deep, it's also the things beyond the stars and in the forgotten realms is actually stars themselves, including at least one undead one.
Wait wait wait wait wait…. GOOlocks can possibly have Undead Stars as their patron? Shoot, and I thought the Undead Warlock was the coolest!!!
@@ZaberZlayer7if I'm not mistaken, Hadar from the the hunger of Hadar spell is a star and potential patron
@@uncannyshine4169it's an Elder Evil taking the form of a star, if I recall correctly (hence why it constantly needs to feed)
Honestly, even a 2011 Black Ops lobby might give HP weird looks and tug at their shirt collars.
He was considered "A bit racist." in the 1920's.
@@deanospimoniful Also a weirdo with a education even a 2011 high schooler could call laughable.
@@deanospimoniful And a bit loony/undereducated about other things.
@whiteeye3453 yup, letters he wrote (allegedly) before his death indicate he changed his views.
@@StriderZessei And you can even see that in his later works like In the Walls of Eryx
Worlock has always been my favourite class!!!
Mine too it goes great with voodoo witch doctor concept that I was going for
*bane voice* "Your feet smell better in the moonlight", made me crack a rib from laughing ROFL
The auto-shuffle for comments had this pop up as he said it, I'm dead
That one got me, too
The best part of the goolock is that you don't have to do anything. There is no reason your patron needs to tell you to do anything. Might be stranger if it did.
Is that good, or bad?
When I played one, I had it all more flavored as instinctive needs. Tharizdun wanted to be free. My character, who was trapped on a slaveship, felt the same. Thus, a pact was formed. Later, "instructions" or rather "nudges" for him to get off his ass came in the form of horrible nightmares and later hallucinations that were slowly leading to full-blown psychosis. It was a good time.
It's also the only warlock subclass where your patron might not even be aware that you exist at all, if you want to play it that way.
Played a himbo GOOlock that was formerly a town guard until they fired him for being too fuckin' terrifying because he'd switch to Deep Speech and telepathic communication on and off mid conversation.
His patron, Yogsothoth, being a god tied to gates, saw the painting the Bard made that included a gate and immediately said he needed to follow her and keep her safe.
Then he stopped paying attention to him in any way, shape and form, so the warlock kept accidentally spreading chaos fueled justice.
a while ago i kickstarted a dnd 5e submental book called 'out of the maw' that amoung its pages full of terrifying new aberrations, cultish , spells, items and mutation charts can befound a unqunie flavour of cosmic patron for aspiring warlocks that love the flavour of great old one but might be up for something new.
there is the subclass called ' the everchanging ' which focuss on body mutation and shape shifing
Thanks for the tip! I'll be checking it out!
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To be fair, lovecraft mostly viewed life through the lens of culture. Condeming hitler and exprssing sympathy for those who tried to adapt to Western life and were faced with predjudice. His early racist views were moderated by time and experience. His views that america should be loyal to the british crown and have an aristocracy were just bizzare, and this comes from a British Royalist.
Gonna be honest, I keep thinking he’s a parody of 1920’s racism. I mean, correct me if I get this wrong, he was prejudiced against Jewish people… and married a Jewish lady.
Judging historical figures by todays standards would be questionable even when said standards were not totally overboard already.
He was also kept in isolation by his Royalist mother & grandmother, heavily abused, and taught an incorrect version of the world he would later enter into. It's amazing he came out as "well-adjusted" as he did, relatively speaking of course.
@@TakaD20 Lovecraft was a xenophobe even by 1920s standards though.
The one who helped him get over his racism and the other bullshit ideologies that his toxic family forced upon him was his best friend Robert E. Howard. Lovecraft always looked up to him and Howard was the one of the few who could understand him. Both of them inspired each other's work and many times referenced each other. They never met in person yet they were able to bond a strong friendship through letters
finally, my favorite subclass! I've never been lucky enough to play dnd with friends but my first BG3 character was a Great Old One Warlock. beat tactician with this subclass and I'm hoping to beat honor mode with it as well
If you play as a great old one warlock have your next patron be Bill Cypher.
This one's more of a fey type though!
Honestly, I love how the Great Old One has the perfect fluff for matching with the "your patron isn't even aware they're giving you power" style of pact. A GOOlock who's just consulted the stars and a tome of ancient lore, started worshipping Tsathoggua and gaining alien powers, and goes completely mad...all while Tsathoggua is just lounging somewhere, deadass asleep.
AHHH, KOS. OR AS SOME SAY, KOSM… Grant us eyes grant us EYEEEES
"Fear the old blood
But remember,
A Hunter is never alone"
A bottomless curse, a bottomless sea. Accepting of all that there is and can be.
I was shocked at How the “I fucked Cthulhu” song hasn’t been memed with the “mind blown” achievement in BG3
Bg3's tadpole powers feel like they complete the subclass honestly. They are all in theme and feels like the kind of absurd powers channeling a great old one would bring.
I actually love using this subclass when I am multiclassing because of all the flavor options you get.
I did a whispers bard/ Goo-lock character based on Robert Johnson selling his soul at the cross roads for musical power. Only instead of selling his soul to the devil, he sold his soul to the king in yellow (or, rather the yellow prince at first and his true nature unfolded with the character story. The DM was even good enough to include the "the time has come to remove your mask" "but I wear no mask" lines from the source material) this turned out to be one of my favorite characters ever and I've gone back to it several times over
yeah it's a shame that Fathomless warlock and Aberrant Mind sorcerer kind of usurped GOO as the tentacles daddy simp subclasses, but i guess it will be getting that new coat of paint this year so that's good.
I don't need tentacles myself but I do need unspeakable powers.
@@Merilirem Yeah, there's a lack of oomph here, though forcing anyone who gets psionic damage past your resistance to suffer equally is pretty cool, as is the psionic scream... but overall there is a need for big shows of eldritch might.
GOO just don't get anything actually worth having. Fathomless is far more aquatic themed than it is cosmic horror, and GOO definitely lacks the cosmic horror, too.
@@Kylora2112 yeah but aquatic is very much linked with the Lovecraftian side of things at least, like the shadows over innsmouth is just about a town of warlocks with fish people as their patrons.
Remember, fellas: Sucker For Love is a viable source of GOO patrons
No just no
Goolock seems like a very, very subterfuge and manipulation based warlock with a lot of utility. It doesn't have very much outright damage, but it does have a lot of utility and especially the ability for rituals...I just wish there were more damage or actually impactful options. Like...ghosts at over tenth level? Just...fake ghosts? That's it?
To be fair to HP if you do any amount of research and look at some of the thing he based his stories off of, it becomes pretty clear he was clearly suffering from some kind of mental illness or disability (dude wrote a horror story about *air conditioning* for Pete’s sake)
Man put the phobia in xenophobia. In most modern uses, that word describes someone who hates anything they don't know, but Lovecraft was genuinly afraid of anything strange to him.
@@DerMoerpler man was the *actual* definition of the word
I just got Baldur's Gate 3 and picked Great Old One Warlock as my class. Its going pretty well so far. Not for my enemies, they go screaming into the void and my party is wondering whats wrong with me. But its going pretty well for me.
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Feeling called out that my current desktop wallpaper showed up in this video. If you get my lock screen wallpaper too, I'm breaking out the spyware sniffers.
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Really dude?! Literally 7 damn seconds?!
Great Old Ones play that long game.
I lost it when Cartmen showed up.
It fits too well lol.
I lost it when he showed up then again when tenacious D showed up
The best part in my opinion about the GOOlock is that part of its flavour is that your patron might not even know that you’re drawing off it’s power
Oh shit, one of my players in one of these... and... well, oet me introduce his lore a bit
Half elf bastard from the artic that since kid had the mark of some ancient, forgotten goddess from a misterious plane by some random chance. Gets drunk, accidentaly (while blaked out), desintegrates the whole village. Wakes up, thinks they just left (completely chill about that), so jumps into a barrel and goes for the seas (falls asleep). Wakes up in waterdeep (which I thought it would be funny as a dm to make half of it Las Vegas), manages to win a bet with a wizard by using tricks (doesn't remember the wizard, he was drunk again) andgets teleported to a volcano...xwhich fails cause the wizard was also drunk and appears hanging from a tree and the party finds him, so decides to join.
Now, he's in this wierd af "long distance" relationship thing with the goddess (neither of them has seen the other one, they just comunicate in his dreams) and it is, when roleplayed, the most fucking hilarious character I have DMed for.
Tempest Cleric would be a good one to do for a video. They have a lot of fun abilities, including doing max damage on lightning and thunder based spells.
BG3's GOO Warlock is really great btw. It frightens enemies if you crit on an attack on them.
Not the strongest subclass mechanically, but I love it, and I can find any number of inspirations from Lovecraft himself to flavor my GOO Warlock characters. In fact, my first one was a Lore Bard/GOO Tome-lock who ended up being inspired by HPL's story The Music of Erich Zann.
I get it that Lovecraftian is the word to describe this horror, but while he is the most well know, he is not really the true original or first creator of cosmic horror.
He was influenced greatly by other authors, one of which was Chambers, who wrote King in Yellow.
Going mad by looking at eldritch entities was never a thing, I hope we can once forget it. It's not their visage but the experience of futility, the smallness for a split second then getting tossed back into your regular life
My favorite type of Patron. Thanks for the video!
I love great old ones. So cool and you don't need to deal with prissy light gods n stuff.
You’reanother absolute banger man keep it up
Hell ya, the best flavour of any Warlock class. Good stuff my dude
Finally my favourite subclass :)
An awesome warlock goo is Wrath from the dungeon dude's campaign, really plays into serving the powerful entity.
I am now in dire need of creating a GOO-lock with ties to Hastur. mainly because, King in Yellow is one of my favorite weird fiction novels and a huge inspiration for Lovecraft himself. I do highly recommend it if that's something you're into, it's a chilling and fun read
this channel is the best
For those who dig too deep or stay out at sea too long, there is power to be gained, and the final price may not come due for a hundred generations, so why not set out to sign? What's the harm in hearing out the whispers? Who's to actually say what too deep and too long are?
WILDFIRE DRUID NEXT
Need to do celestial warlock for the flip side of the fiend & great old one definitely 👍🏻
Hya! Shub Nigurath, the Goat in the Woods with a Thousand Young!
This subclass just sounds really cool yeah damage wise I don’t think it holds up but in a low combat campaign I think this is perfect
I love the idea of playing Cartman as a Assasin rogue/GOO warlock multiclass
If you specialise into being an Eldritch blaster, GOO with Tomelock is effective as it gives you spell utility with a bunch of rituals for the non combat spellcasting, giving the other spellcasters some downtime. Get a big enough ritual list and you can be very useful to the Party.
Throw in a ridiculously OP race like something with Flight such as a winged Teifling or an Owling with a lineage to take advantage of Eldritch Spear and Grasp of Hadar (use when above the target to drop them prone) plus of course Agonising Blast.
The difference with Fathomless...
Fathomless does have better combat spells and the Tentacles of course, but you're still a Warlock so you're not going to be spamming spell slots but spamming Eldritch Blast and having fun with forced movement.
The GOO does has a good spell list (and abilities) for social shenanigans however, and if you get metamagic for some silent spell casting.... Uh oh.
Fathomless will be twiddling thumbs outside of combats and whatever your Pact enables.
And there are other Great Old Ones besides Ctulthu, you don't need to be a Hentai sub.
If I was to build a G.O.O. Warlock, I’d try to build one as Dunamcer.
Perhaps the Dunamancy Spell List would help me build an impressive character.
I'm looking forward to your take on the Phanthomless warlock and I'm curious how you compare the vibes between these two.
Keep em coming brother!
It's a bit of a shame that you didn't really go into the amount of flavour the subclass brings. For one, the nature of a GOOlock's pact is often very different from the standard warlock's.
In fact, a lot of the time, it isn't even a pact at all, but rather, the warlock found a way to channel the power of a Great Old One without the big fella even knowing.
Another good revlavouring of it is that the "patron" isn't really lending the warlock their power directly, but rather acts as a strange kind of teacher that shows the warlock how to channel a particular form of magic. That of the Far Realms, for example.
The way I'm currently running a GOOlock is one that gets the occasional "message" from an Uvuudaum, which essentially communicates to him indirectly through his subconscious. So, rather than directly talking to him, he instead gets the feeling of what the entity is trying to convey to him, acting almost more like a strange kind of intuition.
Aberrant Mind Sorcerer next to keep the eldritch train trucking.
Hey man I really hope your sub count skyrockets one of these days. It's only a matter of time now!
Such a good exemple for a power creep in dnd. The Fathomless is so much better in every way
Can't wait for Pact of the Fathomless
This is a horrifyingly cool class 🐙🧙🏻♂️
well if the charm is long lasting, maybe you are the parties merchant and charm a shop keeper for better prices / values
Yes finally.
As a home rule, I’ve allowed Goolock players to trade in spells for other spells as a way of beseeching their master. Why Crhulu can’t give you fireball is beyond me. I’ve also allowed them to cross features with the Deep One for the tentacle.
I made a Plasmoid Goolock for the main campaign, and the pun game was off the hook.
My first dnd character was a Great Old One Warlock.
I think the abilities sound really cool, but I ate the aesthetics
I’m excited for aberrant mine sorcerer
Ive got an idea for a scholarly GOOlock with all the sight affecting invocation
Excellent video!!
What wrong with lovecraft? Please expand
At lot of people like to cling onto the guy was pretty damn racist and ignore:
a) the time period he lived in
and b) HP was clearly suffering from something that made him irrationally afraid of anything that wasn’t his hometown and\or anything new
hella cool as always
I’m sad that it’s great old one, but excited that it’s YMBA
I would probably just take the Telepathic Feat on a Fathomless Warlock.
How about doing the swarm keeper next
Something I don’t like is mine shield because most of the creatures that do psychic damage are resistant to psychic damage do 12 psychic damage will be halved and the retaliation of 6 psychic damage will be halved making it 3 damage
The DM when the Great Old One warlock summons HP Lovecraft’s cat with Find Familiar:😳
LETS GOOOOOOOO
Can i suggest Path of the Depth barbarian for next poll ir for future round poll?
Its technically official subclass that was exclusive to DnDbeyond until it was taken off for some unknown reason and was a part of a subclass group based on League Legends Runeterra's region of Bilgewater
All three of those subclasses were cool!
Is it technically official?
I mean... It was posted on Beyond and was official, but has since been removed. Very weird. The classes all needed a little bit of tweaking, but the Barbarian and Rogue subclasses were very cool and flavorful.
The pages did get "archived" and can be found in pdf version for download.
Hope we get Fathomless soon
Yo man. You mind doing one for clockwork soul sorcerer? Nobody knows much about it and it's really cool flavor wise.
Lovecraft was the father of this style of Horror, was a misguided human being with backward ways of thinking? Yes, as a mixed Race man, do i care? No, not really. His horror is one of the reason we fear the dark.
Sure and that's fine. But I still think those who came later have made the genre much better. Lovecraft had some hits, but be had many more god awful books no one really talks about. I'm personally happy just letting him fade away into obscurity.
Doesnt change the fact he was a piece of crap.
BTW I've contacted the commission and a representative will be in touch about revoking your NAACP card
@@youmightbeadnd And you have every right to do so :) But Lovecraft was a product of his time, if he had been born today, who knows :P
Yeah but even for the time people thought he was pretty crazy lol but yeah maybe in another time or with some access to mental help he'd be ok.
1:42 in his younger years Lovecraft was super racist, but as he grew older he matured out of it. When he was an adult in american, it becane more of a cultural thing, he thought that someone who has american culture is american, even with different ethnicity
And as he grew older hw went out of that too. Becoming someone very progressive for his age
Warlock's are one of the classes that are hated on for no reason in my opninion. Usually, whenever we have a warlock in our party, especially great old one of fathomless, they end up being either really helpful anywhere, or they are super strong
Okay this is some weird ass shit- I was watching the vid for the FIRST TIME, and RIGHT as they started talking about Maddening Hex, my neighbors/partiers started SCREAMING at the top of their lungs, as if they’d been hexed. CREEPY AS BALLS MY GUY!!!!!!!!!!!
Can we have a you might be: long death monk?
Mask of Many Faces + the Actor feat, make your DM never play humanoid villains again.
Maybe multiclass with aberrant mind
I really want all versions of telepathy (class/race/feats) to get standardized wording. It's very DERP that there are so many versions that all interact differently.
I think I might be an Eloquence bard. Could you help me make sure?
Oathbreaker Paladin pls
Yall hating on HP lovecraft but i dont know any black horror authors
White wash or not if the black author was good wed know them 😊
I was hating on him for liking Hitler... no body said anything about black horror authors. What tf are you talking about.
Any chance we’ll see oath of the ancients paladin soon?
Wow, I almost subscribed. ‘Later
ruclips.net/video/Lf6SEkfzEYw/видео.html
Yes
Not a super powerful build but scribe wizard GOO tomelock simic hybrid is just falvorfully perfect you mutate from your horifying enlitenment and strive in madness to awaken the conciousness of your master through his tome and your magical caligraphy. Meanwhile you just write all your allies in for sweet buffs which I'm sure wont have any consequences.
I don't know if it's fair to call HP Lovecraft all these names. He was a product of it's time, you are living 100 years later, you can't just assume you'd still be yourself if you walk a mile in his shoes. Most likely you'd be a racist person, because your surroundings and experiences would mold you in such way. Ironically, what you said comes from a place of privilege.
So we can't criticize any racists from the past... is that what you're saying? Klan members, confederate generals... do they get a pass too? I mean I never walked a mile in their shoes either... wouldnt wanna come from a place of privilege...
The truth is lovecraft was comically racist even for the time he was alive. The dude was born almost 30 years after the civil war was ended in the progressive north and he still thought the way he did... my guy, why defend him... he sucked...
what piece of media is shown at 0:55?
You can say what you want about lovecraft but he knows how to name a cat
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
I'm always surprised when people hate on Lovecraft for being a crazy POS. Did you not read his stories? He was sick most of his life and not just in his head. You can't create that much occult horror without being somewhat diabolical yourself. Look at Steve King. Let the art speak for itself. But it always make chuckle that people interested in reading about alien, monstrous, evil horrors are bothered by the man's racism. Ignore the tentacle monsters, it's his feelings about black people that make him disgusting. LOL. Horrorbabble, a RUclips channel, has people who read these books, if your interested.
Yeah dude. Because racsim is real and actually hurts people. Cthulu is pretend and just silly nonesnese. Is it really hard to understand why somone would be fine with one and disgusted by the other?
@@youmightbeadnd Every time you compare the moral character of someone from the past to the moral standards of today, that someone is going to come up short.
@@trevormcinnis3573 so we shouldn't ever add context to a persons ideology? we should just pretend that everything happens in a vacuum? Lovecraft's stories stemmed from his obsession with "the other," and how scary that concept was. In books it was fish monsters, but in reality it was black people (and also often in his books). It's important to his legacy that this part of his life is not just buried because "old people be like that." No. Lovecraft was cartoonishly racist even for the time he was born.
@@youmightbeadnd I don’t where you got this idea that he was so much more racist than anyone in his time. I’d like to see some citation on that. Regardless, if you’re aware of that detail, that means you’ve put in the research. Which would mean you know that in the later half of his life, he went on record stating how foolish he was to think we were different based on skin color.
@@trevormcinnis3573 Well considering he was so racist he thought the 'celts' where inferior and weren't actually white, I'd regard that as cartoonish.
‘I regard the Celts as an inferior race, but little better than Mexicans, & but little more capable of self-government. They could never maintain an orderly existence save under the domination of some branch of the Teutonic master race-if they could leave England, they would have to take Germany as a master; in fact, I am not sure but that they need a few Prussian methods to curb their ebullient & seditious emotions.’
But since you seem so keen to defend Lovecraft, you should realize that a lifetime of destruction and hurt targeted towards groups of people he deemed as "inferior" by essentially comparing their entire lives to little more than that of an animal is pretty awful. But I guess one letter addressed to his family, that no one he hurt ever read definitely makes up for it!
🗣🗣⛓️⛓️ RAAAA THE CHAINED GOD MENTIONED ⛓️ ⛓️ WHAT IS BEING FREED BY MORTALS ‼️‼️⛓️⛓️🗣🗣
1:00 the hell is this from?
Why are you hating on HP lovecraft?
Cuz he was a bad person.
@@youmightbeadnd lmao, thanks for the context.
He was a racist ant semitic white supremacist who loved hitler and was afraid of race mixing. The guy sucked.
@@youmightbeadnd woah...
The number of people give Lovecraft a pass here is disturbing and disappointing
HP Lovecraft was racist during a time where being insanely racist was just part of regular every day life so do you know how racist you have to be to have other racists tell you that you might need to chill out a little bit during that time ?! Dude was on some next level Klan squared shit 😂