I love it when you encounter genuinely friendly versions of normally evil monsters. The gif of Large Luigi holding stuff with his actual eyestalks rather than using his telekinesis eye beams is kinda cursed, though.
Congratulations, your OC is cursed with the horrors of the forbidden knowledge of self awareness...now he has the privileges of becoming a fourth wall breaking deadpool 🤣
I love the twist at the end of the video. That was very funny. If you are interested in Large Luigi, Raeken wrote an article, called At the Sign of the Laughing Beholder, for Wildspace Magazine in the issue WSM3 The Groundling's Guide to Spelljammer. It's free to download, so you might want to grab a copy.
"You roll a Natural 20 to Perception when there's nothing to perceive". A constant fun thing about your channel, AJ: the willingness to acknowledge how *wild* the game's history and foundations are. Even when those foundations are ephemeral and steel-solid all at once. People are never likely to *stop* imagining, after all.
4:25 Large Luigi explains to AJ Picket that people in New Zealand and Australia are standing upside down on the bottom of the world and nearly blows his mind. 🤪
If yer a flatworldwer maybe. Otherwise the way it works on earth is you are pulled to the center of mass. On a flat world that would mean gravity would make the flat world gravitationally seem like a steeper and steeper slope as you move away from its center.
His brother, Mini Mario, is a Tiny but very pugnacious beholder that clashes with a Dragon Turtle in a far of land made of mushrooms run by myconods and ruled over by a surprisingly abduction prone young woman.
I wonder if Luigi saw how you inspired a fellow roleplayer to dream his bar into existence in my coming spelljammer campaign. Maybe I should be especially careful this time when channeling and portraying him… I wonder if he can glean something in the connection 🧐
This is awesome, Large Luigi is one of my favorite 2e characters, my friends and I are going to play Icewind Dale and I'm playing a character who grew up on the Rock of Bral in the Laughing Beholder after his parent passed. Large Luigi was a great adoptive father\employer! I love how you portrayed him as I feel it's the same line of thought I had. (To be clear he didn't actually adopt my character, he just needed someone to help with chores and the kid needed a home, and Large Luigi saw potential (Wizard class) in him.)
I loosely based a Spelljammer Campaign off of your videos on the subject of The Elemental Eye, Beholders, and the fragile existence of imagination characters and NPC's know as: The D&D Universe, and Large Luigi too years and years ago (even a couple years before WotC released their Spelljammer 5e book). It's great to see the Dire-Halfling sage is still keeping on the eternal quest of knowledge and understanding! Been a fan of yours for going on 6 years now. Love you A.J. !
Yeah tbh I find Large Luigi's differences from his kin weird but not for the reason one would initially think. I believe it's weird that beings spawned from the far realm itself, who are said to be constantly changing not just themselves but their surroundings by stray thoughts aren't more diverse. I extend this to the demons of the abyss and the slaads of Limbo. For beings of pure chaos and raw elemental stuff, they sure keep pretty uniform. Sure, there's the joke explanation of even randomness forms patterns and if you could predict they would always be different that's equally as lawful but it still rubs me the wrong way. Creatures like troll mutates or fey are allowed to have tables to roll on for their wildly different features. Why not do that here as well? The closest we get to that is some of the eye beams are randomized for the default beholders. That's why I like that spelljammer art with the various beholderkin. One looking like a tree, another with a tail and rather than stalks just big bulging eyes, one has incredibly thin appendages and even little legs, one has a furry head and a centipede body growing out from it, etc. Do more of that!
it's a bit different than how the fantasy art depicts them... no two beholders look exactly the same, members of the same clan may share what they consider the ideal form, but different clans can look wildly different from each other... wildly different.
I think he's got beholder Brain damage adventures battled him about a century ago he took a wack to the noodle now he's friendly now 😂 started a Business and his beholder ambition transferred to running a business the happy beholder! 🍻
For a second I thought this was going to be about that kaiju sized giant space hamster when I saw the name. Nonetheless I'm not bothered. Also would you be willing to do a video on the orcwort Aj? It's such an interesting plant monster but the wiki only has one line of text about it
While it definitely helps to know more lore about him in spelljammer i still feel it doesnt change that large luigi is the second stupidest name ive ever seen for a fantasy character
I loved the idea behind Spelljammer, but I was really disappointed when the crunch didn’t support the fluff. The mechanics of the ships was pretty crap compared to the setting. I really wish it would have been better when my group tried it out. I loved the Merchant/Corsair character I made using the kits from Al-Qadim, but the swashbuckling space pirate wasn’t as cool when the ships were basically just a means to get to the adventure instead of being the adventure. My group at the time were really into the exploration aspect of the game, so travel was a huge part of every game we played. Spelljammer didn’t deliver that for us.
@ It was one of the coolest settings to date when it was released. It just had crap mechanics. The DM we called Blondie ran it for a little under six months before he switched to a game set in Menzoberranzan instead. That one ran for more than three years, because that setting delivered what it promised.
I never clicked on anything so fast. I hope large Luigi is protecting the folks of Faerûn from the corrupt elites 😂 (I’m 3 minutes in as of writing this comment) Edit after watching the whole thing: All hails Large Luigi.
Hey it’sa me large Luigi what’s this everyone talken about a me for? Health insurance? I don’t even knowa what that is but the guy musta be an amateur if he’s trying to frame me i woulda disintegrated thata guy
Breaking the fifth wall. A shocking ability.
I love it when you encounter genuinely friendly versions of normally evil monsters.
The gif of Large Luigi holding stuff with his actual eyestalks rather than using his telekinesis eye beams is kinda cursed, though.
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Adds to his non conforming actions and approachAbility
Seems appropriate that gaining knowledge that would drive a sane being mad would drive an innately insane being sane.
My favorite beholder. Thanks for covering Large Luigi.
Congratulations, your OC is cursed with the horrors of the forbidden knowledge of self awareness...now he has the privileges of becoming a fourth wall breaking deadpool 🤣
That was such a fun twist better watch out he's got his eye on you.🤣
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7:55 they know his brother Mario would stomp them if they tried
I love the twist at the end of the video. That was very funny.
If you are interested in Large Luigi, Raeken wrote an article, called At the Sign of the Laughing Beholder, for Wildspace Magazine in the issue WSM3 The Groundling's Guide to Spelljammer. It's free to download, so you might want to grab a copy.
I'll check it out!
I do love friendly beholders…
"You roll a Natural 20 to Perception when there's nothing to perceive".
A constant fun thing about your channel, AJ: the willingness to acknowledge how *wild* the game's history and foundations are.
Even when those foundations are ephemeral and steel-solid all at once. People are never likely to *stop* imagining, after all.
When the Luigi is Large.
Your wish has been granted.
love your spelljammer content
Definitely my favorite beholder.
It's an amazing twist, for sure. I am curious if this is how Elminster sees things the same way
I owe Large Luigi money if he asks I’m not here
Great video. This type is my favorite.
Bless the Mighty GlueStick 😊
Large Luigi sounds like the name of a mafia boss!
4:25 Large Luigi explains to AJ Picket that people in New Zealand and Australia are standing upside down on the bottom of the world and nearly blows his mind. 🤪
Large Luigi is one of my favorite characters from spelljammer and he looks so huggable.
Oh wow aj you have outdone yourself. This was truly a mindfudge at the end.
I love your content ! Keep em coming!
Ahh yes, another story by my favorite scholar. Nothing better to analyze samples at the TEM than such tales!
5:08 sounds like an awesome adventuring location especially if you get wrapped into beholder politics to help one faction take over
So if he dreams up another beholder, would that make him Momma Luigi?
I... guess?
Well since beholders are asexual and bud from under the tongue he or rather it could be
4:27 that is technically how gravity works on earth too
Gravity, she's a spicy beast...
If yer a flatworldwer maybe. Otherwise the way it works on earth is you are pulled to the center of mass. On a flat world that would mean gravity would make the flat world gravitationally seem like a steeper and steeper slope as you move away from its center.
@@scotmcphersonWrong. I've read at over 20 Discworld novels that say otherwise and they were written by a real life *"Sir."* What's your bonafides?
Large Luigi and Gromman mentioned! Woot!!!
I wish my players spent more time on the rock of bral. I love this guy.
Grimman are a cool species, much more common in the Dragonlance spelljammer region, Krynspace.
The storytelling in this episode was great. Thanks!
I like those characters that can break 4th wall because it kinds of gives that feel that something is worth staying even if things go bad.
+10 to hit against CEOs
We love ya dude. I've been following for a while and have enjoyed your content
I legit burst out laughing when you said Luigi called you out for being a RUclipsr XD
Large Luigi, brother to Small Mario.
Does he have a brother named Mario who has a rivalry with a fire breathing tortle? Also what are his thoughts on ghosts and haunted mansions?
His brother, Mini Mario, is a Tiny but very pugnacious beholder that clashes with a Dragon Turtle in a far of land made of mushrooms run by myconods and ruled over by a surprisingly abduction prone young woman.
Wow, that was some crazy cosmos-bending lore! 😂
PANR has tuned in.
If luigi wants to be human, all he needs is a crown from his brother mario. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Luigi has been a useful ally and dare I say fine friend to my party in our current game.
That ship looked like the weather light.
it's the weather lite :)
Great story. Hope you're doing well.
Thank you, I am!
Dire halfling... id like to know more. I myself am a dwarf with giantisim, often mistaken for an ogre.
Actually, I would say that was a Verbeeg.
I wonder if Luigi saw how you inspired a fellow roleplayer to dream his bar into existence in my coming spelljammer campaign. Maybe I should be especially careful this time when channeling and portraying him… I wonder if he can glean something in the connection 🧐
Free Luigi! He did nothing wrong! ✊️
That's the most awesome video I ever seen. thank you ,best regards from Poland.
Wow, thanks!
Nice one
Wait, is this the discworld that was the Capitol of the illithid empire at its height?
No.
I have to send you the story of a beholder raised by a druid.
Original beholders laid eggs.
Bro source please? Not asking you to prove anything I just really want to look into this, sounds fascinating. Sincerely a druid.
He's a big guy
This is awesome, Large Luigi is one of my favorite 2e characters, my friends and I are going to play Icewind Dale and I'm playing a character who grew up on the Rock of Bral in the Laughing Beholder after his parent passed. Large Luigi was a great adoptive father\employer! I love how you portrayed him as I feel it's the same line of thought I had. (To be clear he didn't actually adopt my character, he just needed someone to help with chores and the kid needed a home, and Large Luigi saw potential (Wizard class) in him.)
I loosely based a Spelljammer Campaign off of your videos on the subject of The Elemental Eye, Beholders, and the fragile existence of imagination characters and NPC's know as: The D&D Universe, and Large Luigi too years and years ago (even a couple years before WotC released their Spelljammer 5e book). It's great to see the Dire-Halfling sage is still keeping on the eternal quest of knowledge and understanding! Been a fan of yours for going on 6 years now. Love you A.J. !
Yeah tbh I find Large Luigi's differences from his kin weird but not for the reason one would initially think. I believe it's weird that beings spawned from the far realm itself, who are said to be constantly changing not just themselves but their surroundings by stray thoughts aren't more diverse. I extend this to the demons of the abyss and the slaads of Limbo. For beings of pure chaos and raw elemental stuff, they sure keep pretty uniform. Sure, there's the joke explanation of even randomness forms patterns and if you could predict they would always be different that's equally as lawful but it still rubs me the wrong way. Creatures like troll mutates or fey are allowed to have tables to roll on for their wildly different features. Why not do that here as well? The closest we get to that is some of the eye beams are randomized for the default beholders. That's why I like that spelljammer art with the various beholderkin. One looking like a tree, another with a tail and rather than stalks just big bulging eyes, one has incredibly thin appendages and even little legs, one has a furry head and a centipede body growing out from it, etc. Do more of that!
it's a bit different than how the fantasy art depicts them... no two beholders look exactly the same, members of the same clan may share what they consider the ideal form, but different clans can look wildly different from each other... wildly different.
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Def featuring this guy in my next campaign. Will make a nice intermission encounter!
I think he's got beholder Brain damage adventures battled him about a century ago he took a wack to the noodle now he's friendly now 😂 started a Business and his beholder ambition transferred to running a business the happy beholder! 🍻
Is there stat block for Large Luigi?
He is a fairly 'standard' Beholder, as mentioned, swap the Death eye ray with Detect Lies eye ray.
For a second I thought this was going to be about that kaiju sized giant space hamster when I saw the name. Nonetheless I'm not bothered. Also would you be willing to do a video on the orcwort Aj? It's such an interesting plant monster but the wiki only has one line of text about it
I can look into it for sure, also, check this homebrew plant monster out, its very similar ruclips.net/video/lt_0GfoO5zc/видео.html
@AJPickett ah yes I remember that video thanks
Impressive. Most impressive.
Where do you get the Diablo like music?
It is the actual diablo II music for the Tristram area.
While it definitely helps to know more lore about him in spelljammer i still feel it doesnt change that large luigi is the second stupidest name ive ever seen for a fantasy character
Ok i appreciate the content but that ai image of Luigi with mfing LEGS threw me off so badly
it's an animation of some real art, sorry if it offended you.
Oh I'm not offended at all. I just wasn't expecting that. An absolutely cursed gem.
No CEOs left in his city.
dang.
actual hellish abominations, are less scary that that stuff.
Beholder?. More like be BOLDER.
For halfling you say? That got me interested... What size class does that work out to?
Dire halflings are roughly human sized, but have large feet and hands.
I loved the idea behind Spelljammer, but I was really disappointed when the crunch didn’t support the fluff. The mechanics of the ships was pretty crap compared to the setting.
I really wish it would have been better when my group tried it out. I loved the Merchant/Corsair character I made using the kits from Al-Qadim, but the swashbuckling space pirate wasn’t as cool when the ships were basically just a means to get to the adventure instead of being the adventure. My group at the time were really into the exploration aspect of the game, so travel was a huge part of every game we played. Spelljammer didn’t deliver that for us.
Yeah, Spelljammer has a lot of cool ideas, but the mechanics left a lot to be desired.
@ It was one of the coolest settings to date when it was released. It just had crap mechanics.
The DM we called Blondie ran it for a little under six months before he switched to a game set in Menzoberranzan instead. That one ran for more than three years, because that setting delivered what it promised.
I never clicked on anything so fast. I hope large Luigi is protecting the folks of Faerûn from the corrupt elites 😂 (I’m 3 minutes in as of writing this comment)
Edit after watching the whole thing: All hails Large Luigi.
Hey it’sa me large Luigi what’s this everyone talken about a me for? Health insurance? I don’t even knowa what that is but the guy musta be an amateur if he’s trying to frame me i woulda disintegrated thata guy
Does he have a side gig as a ceo whacker on the side by any chance?
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