Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Troglodyte
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Dating back to the earliest history of the D&D game and the ancient history of the various settings for Dungeons and Dragons tabletop roleplaying games, the Troglodytes are primitive, wide spread but often poorly understood reptile folk who find most mammal humanoids to be delicious.
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Sewers must be a very confusing concept for them then. Just imagining a trog questioning why noone else is frolicking in the sewers besides the local thieve's guild.
And the were-rats.
@@AJPickett I like to think that the wererats actually help keep the sewers clear of the more monstrous creatures
The three words that best describe them are as follows, and I quote, "STINK, STANK, STUNK!"
Froglodytes. Followers of the froghemoth.
Only you can reveal the true potential of a creature as mundane as the Troglodyte. This is why you're my go to guy for ideas.
Finally, a video about me ! :)
Troglodytes, also known as the internet's collective spirit animal.
They sound like the perfect followers for a Black Dragon.
They use smell to communicate.
So, maybe they stink so bad because they hate humanoids, and they "tell", how much they hate us?
Makes a LOT of sense.
Outstanding! I was planning on making trogs a significant presence in an upcoming game, so extra deatails are always welcome.
I remember reading somewhere that trogs don't necessarily 'worship' Laogzed but more regard him as an ideal - because he is notoriously lazy and doesn't do much besides eat and laze about. So trogs look up to Laogzed as a sort of personal aspiration
I believe that is entirely correct.
“Hope you’ve eaten your dinner”.
It’s 5 in the morning here Aj. I’m bout to eat breakfast.
I am totally putting Otyugh riding Troglodytes under one my main cities. Our Desert Storm Barbarian will be anathema to them exploding fire all the time.
Holy crap dude you've made over 250 monster ecology videos...
I've watched over 250 monster ecology videos!?
There should be a certificate or something.
Toglodyte Perfumer pulling components out of a small pouch and placing them in a peppermill in preparation for a cutting insult
Rotting human flesh is the worst smell ive ever smelt. I'd rather do laps in a pool of sewage than be stuck in a cave full of bodies in various stages of decay.
If you havent smelt it, you cannot really imagine it. :( Even other animal meat rotting isnt as bad imo.
When my players roll treasure in a Trog lair, I roll a "Trog item" chance of 60% for each special item, usually potions. Trog potions do the job, but are horrible and require a feat of will to consume. Trog worn gear is absolutely noxious. Trog weapons are "accidentally" magical primitive weapons. Low-level players keep and use them, often just throwing them away as they advance.
That80sGuy1972 That’s great. I’m probably gunna be stealing this idea.
@@Im-Not-a-Dog You're welcome. ;)
I would really love a video on ratfolk! Thanks for all your hard work!
Our group once ran an Underdark campaign, back in the days of 3.5. we all played members of the lesser vassal-races: the group consisted of a quaggoth barbarian, a drider ranger, an ettercap rogue, and myself -- a troglodyte cleric. Our endgame goal was to topple the major regional powers of the Drow, Illithids, etc. And establish a place where these subservient races would be free of the influence from their masters.
I played my cleric as extremely sadistic and borderline feral, a true and fervent acolyte of Laogzed. Eventually the DM awarded me with an artefact of my God, the _Glutton's Gauntlets._ They possessed the ability to grant me temporary HP equal to the max hit die of any creature who's heart I consumed, as well as any racial abilities they possessed. Aesthetically they would also alter my appearance to give me ghostly, ephemeral features similar to them: so eating the heart of a mind flayer would cause spectral tentacles to grow from my chin, etc.
We eventually instigated a three-way war between the dark elves, illithids, and an insane beholder. In the chaos my character found a tribe of fellow trogs subjugated by the beholder, and rallied them under the banner of Laogzed to rush and slaughter their overlord. He would go on to establish the largest cultic power to the demon frog in the Underdark, ruling as priest-king for years to come and receiving his Gods favor by ascending to minor demonhood himself.
17:30 Laogzed is little more than an abomination that other divine beings regard as a living garbage disposal, and at best, trogs only have shamans (not true Priests). Possibly it used to be more powerful eons ago, but lack of worship has caused it to degenerate.
I had no idea there were so many different kinds of Reptile people. I always assumed, Lizardmen and Dragonborn were the same for the longest time. I was oblivious to Kobolds and Troglodytes. Don’t even get me started on the Yuan-ti!
One of my absolute favorite creatures in D&D
Seems like a Trog lair could easily blur the line between the prime material plane and some of the nastier abyssal layers, those putrid layers than no one really wants to go to.
Now that would be an adventure, from a troglodyte abyss of unholy stomach destroying abominations. To the actuall abyss... #WhyIsThereSkyInACave. #DoNotLoseTheWayYouCameIn. Maybe you could even have a nabassu eatting rutterkin as a culmination... I suppose after the party leaves the cave your going to want to ceal the cave entrance and remove the memories of the said - "events".
You could always attach the Paragon template to your troglodyte tribe leader to make them a serious threat or give them a few levels in the class druid cleric or shaman though I think it might be hard to find the stats for shaman anymore but a cleric or druid or warlock would definitely work
A troglodyte ranger who takes the underdark as his favorite terrain and humans as his favorite enemies 😂 and dumps all skill points into track, make traps and Alchemy for making poisons
Love troglodytes, my reflavoured Lizardfolk cleric of laogzed is pretty fun!
Got to say, wasn't what I voted for - "troglodytes, how much info could he really dig up...." Well, clearly I was mistaken. Good freakin' work. New respect for trogs
Could a lizard-folk wizard with a specially Enchanted olfactory sensor in the form of a nose ring with a chain that goes to the side of the head where the ear would be be able to improvise communication with a troglodyte with a combination of prestidigitation in minor illusions to generate proper smells
Yes.
Nice work on the background track, & your voice is clean enough to talk over more than I expected. To my ears it's just barely there, fading in & out, with the "did you just hear that" effect sharpening my attention on your video.
Captured by Troglodytes.... they don't preserve their food, it's not slavery......... It's their pantry.
I like the primitive races - remember, just because they're primitive doesn't necessarily mean they're stupid or unaware of things, it might just be that they have a very different set of priorities :)
I also kind of like the idea of a particularly investigative wizard who, after taking appropriate precautions & transmutative magic to be able to understand their stenches & culture decides to investigate them more thoroughly & actually becomes rather attached to them, even being able to 'get' some of the meaning behind them then realising that what to most creatures is just the worst & most filthy hole imaginable is, in their sense spectrum, something approaching the Sistine chapel.
YES! 🧙♂️😵😇🙏😍😪💒👨🎤😰😱🤢🤮💀👻 I couldn't agree with your comment more.
I've always thought of Trogs as simply skinny, subterranean versions of Lizard Folk. Stink glands aside, I always thought they were more ferocious than most reptilian races because of their environment. There are plenty of things in the swamp that slither and crawl which makes Lizardfolk hardy and rugged, but Trogs live in the Underdark (far worse than any above ground marsh). In one of Paul Kidd's books the leader of a Trog tribe is bargaining with Drow to trade away captured slaves (a few of which were Troglodytes themselves) for sacrifice. When the Drow informed him that the slaves were in too bad of a condition the Trog leader and his band ripped the slaves apart and ate them were they stood. Savage AF.
@@citycrusher9308 I stand corrected. They may trade their excess food.
^listening to this as i plan a troglodyte lair, it will be a charnal pt of meat slurry,bones, mold and decay
Love the viashano at 1:31 lol. I might make my troglodytes onto viashano though, they're brutal, especially the one pictured. They're from shards of alara, the shard named jund, a land of beasts and dragons, brutal to the smallest Goblin.
An idea for thinning out trog numbers before enter their lair. First, gather up a large amount of dried wood and branches and a few fresh branches with the leaves still on. Wait until a particularly windy day when the wind is blowing towards the entrance to the trogs cave. Pile the wood in front of the cave with the fresh wood completely surrounded by dry wood on all sides in order to create more pungent smoke(add dung if possible), light it up and stand back a ways. The smoke will disturb the trogs sense of smell and some will come to put the fire out. Kill these with ranged weapons from the other side of the fire. As the wood burns more should eventually come out, kill them in the same manner. Repeat the process until the fire nearly out, then light torches and proceed into the cave to kill off the remaining trogs. Be cautions as the trogs that remain will be waiting for you, luckily the lingering smoke will help to conceal your presence, but they will still hear you and see your torches.
NButler1993 Goblin Slayer is that you?
Not a Dog or the smell and smoke doesn’t bother them a bit and they move deeper into the caverns, drawing curious party goers into the narrow passages that opens into a ambush
Great lore video.
Soon, this will replace zoology books.
Reading "Troglodite" makes my mind create an image of Aphrodite's homely sister. While it's not that funny, I still give a single "ha" to that.
Edit: I realize I spelled Troglodyte with an I, it was purposefully done, due to the common misspelling ("Troglodite") reminding me of a Greek/Roman deity name.
For whatever it's worth, the mental image that conjured gave me a good laugh. ☺️
"Wild thing, you make my heart sing!"
Ive always wondered where the saurials fall in the evolutionary line of Toril's reptilians.
Saurials are quite specifically their own line, they are not reptiles per se.
@@AJPickett thank you for the answer, that has bugged me ever since I read Song of the Saurials so many, many years ago!
If I recall correctly, they were slaves from another material plane brought to Toril by followers of Moander.
With how their layers are constructed, you could probably light a non fire at the cave entrance and smoke them out
Der Rabbit I assume that’s how you get at them
Deeply Nerdy. Just might get that mug....
I've always found these guys eerily fascinating, especially their primitive spiritualism and portrayed in versions 3-3.5. Even though subjectively the weakest of the standard underdark-races, they still clove to their tribal beliefs.
In one campaign our DM had us roll up characters from the various subjugated races of the Underdark, and I ended up playing as a troglodyte cleric/rogue. Eventually the tribe Priest blessed me with gloves that, when worn while eating the heart of a slain enemy, I would gain a bonus hit die from that creatures and temporary access to their racial traits. They became stupidly OP, especially when I got to the point of backstabbing Mind Flayers and sacrificing their hearts to Laogzed.
Funny, I was thinking of playing a Troglodyte Shaman who sought the ideal gumbo recipe to earn the favor of Laogzed. Where'd you get the pc stats?
@@HumbleMemeFarmer
I used the ad-hoc rules in the "Savage Species" splatbook for making monster characters. I don't think they apply now, but I'm sure you could find someone in some message board or Mongolian knitting forum to point you in the right direction.
Never played this but sounds like they put alot of old history/stories in this game.... is there a any books y'all 🤔
The rule books for the game are the "Players handbook", "Monster Manual", and "Dungeon masters guide". There are also a lot of novels.
Nice. This race seems like a great encounter adversary to build in a war against another monster tribe (like Goblins).
I agree, when you're in those caves, you can never be too sure as for what's exactly down there.
@@thedarkmaster4747 I could see a campaign where a Goblin tribe more intelligent than normal could send you out on a quest to deal with these things.
Mr Red Fox And by the time you get back from the septic monster kitchen, all the goblins are "ruined" and the quest giver is the last surviving baddly injured member, who is just begging for death, but before you get within 10 meters a troglodyte emerges from a crevice in the cave wall and just eats him alive. Then combat begins, amist... the "remains". 😈
@@thedarkmaster4747 Actually, I've already just implemented this into a campaign recently. An intelligent group of neutral(ish) goblins are being decimated by something coming from outside their territory killing their tribe members, live stock, and wolves (they have wolf riding goblins). A closer investigation is leading to Troglodytes... let's see what happens next.
Mr Red Fox There is always a worse monster. Infact a troglodyte could be a good critter to emerge out of a subterrianian fissure inside a partial or fully stone structure, just under the bridge of a childs bed. From "the nobody will believe you" horror trope, to the primordial invasion from the pre historic cavernous deep. All because of a rather inconspicous earthquake... Who would of thought that it would've "opened the way..." To a world that the gods have almost forgot? And it all culminating in a cauldron for people, and shamans using and adorned in the magic of people parts.
Love the vid A.J. these are one of my fav monsters
Yay I wake up to find a new video and this one's on troglodytes yay
Welp, time for a trog campaign
How about doing one on bullywugs?
Swamp ninjas, done and dusted that vid a while ago.
thanks for the video, I've been trying to fit troglodytes into my campaign setting for a while now and this helped a lot
Dude that intro at the start is the one! Definite keeper.
For all this lore being almost entirely about how much they stink and how good their sense of smell is. It’s kinda weird that they don’t even have keen smell. Nor a high wisdom or perception proficiency
Then again. Neither do shark. And cats don’t have dark vision nor keen vision or hearing
D&d 5e does a poor job at accurately representing a creatures actual senses
Correct.
Anytime I went aquatic my sharks could pick you up miles out. They also were not unintelligent. I played lizard folk like something out of warhammer. Never know you might get a cameo in elders 6.
As always, Very Nice
Nice work AJ! Keep it up!
Great info, loved it. Always loved the reptilians best!
Thanks for covering these guys. Can you do lore on frostburg next?
Did you mean the Frostburn supplement for 3.5 edition? Like.. a video about arctic/winter conditions?
@@AJPickett 3.5 frostburn supplement. But I feel like some other cold weather stuff can be thrown in. Thanks Aj!
Good video AJ
"You'd be racist against troglodytes too..." fact. I would ._.
Great video aj! I love the especially loathsome creatures. Them being sentient is just icing on the cake!
Question, were does a troglodyte go when they die? Does celestia have a smelly basement for especially good troglodytes? Truly a question for the ages
At least insofar as 3.5, troglodytes were worshippers of the demon Laogzed. He was depicted as a massive dragon-toad, and the only thing he cared about was eating. So in that regard: troglodytes probably end up in the Abyss, where their souls are swiftly devoured by a giant demon that literally cannot stop eating.
@@chesterstevens8870 interesting
Hmmm, it would be interesting if they occasionally stole or traded for especially smelly cheese's and the components used in making perfumes to use decoratively and for the psychological effects. There's actually an old tradition of making cheese's so potent they have mild mind altering effects much along the lines of how brewing spirits came about in europe, could you potentially use one of these cheese's to mess with some troglodytes who are attacking you? Cheese can be RIDICULOUSLY strong in quite nuanced ways... it's amazing the things we come up with when you give an entire social class way to much free time and a guaranteed income.
About you do a video about the sarrukh. They seem like a very interesting race to do, maybe even play as a player.
Great one AJ!
In my campaign I will add these monsters in my cursed desert area, I will let my party members make clothes and armor out of them when killed. The weather in the cursed desert is a ghostly cursed sandstorm with a ghostly howl to it.
To me the 5th edition Troglodytes are a bit too basic when all they're depicted as evil humanoids who kill and eat to become fat like their master Laogzed.
So for my version of the Troglodytes that live on my homebrew world Taxavear; they're still evil creatures, but they are now slightly smarter than basic Gnolls. However they are split between 2 groups:
The typical Loagzed followers.
And the followers of a new Troglodyte deity Qersanul (Kur-Sen-Null), a more lawful deity. He resembles a humanoid/demonic chameleon and is the Troglodyte deity of gatherings and hunting.
Picture this as a Old ways vs New ways kind of system.
I have noticed some redundancy in the Qersanul's epithets, so instead of gatherings and hunting, I went with unity & crafting that way there's no accidental copying.
For simplicity sakes, it's my way of mixing old lore with current lore. As well as being Taxavear specific lore to it. I've been looking at the old lore for them just now actually.
Troglodytes are literally just lizardfolk neckbeards. I don't even know why they're considered a separate race.
Maybe they are descendants of the same ancestor, but diferences in the enviroment changed them so drastically that they are effectivelly diferent species.
TY ! I will be sure to run them with full gory detail tomorrow.
Have you done a video on the Airy? I know I spelled that wrong, but I’m referring to the original bird people. And if you haven’t it would be a good topic.
Oh, I have a nice series of videos on the way for you :)
AJ Pickett I think I see a creator races playlist coming down the pike. Yippee!
Oh shit those gian ice lizard are gorgeous
Cave Fisher Video Please :)
are Troglodytes related to the surface dwelling lizard folks? Are troglodyte the reptile version of Drows? it be cool if Troglodytes was the progenitors of lizard races but fell intot heir current state at the end of dinosaurs. Dinos vs dragons...
So Thunderers are dinosaurs? hmmm DnD 1 000 000 million B.C cave-man,cave-elves ,cave dwarfs and cave orcs vs reptilian races
SavageLand-style
@@gabrielshervo678 Oh yes indeed
@@markusnavergard2387 Negative, they were already biologically quite advanced when they escaped the Aboleth and other horrors of the deep. They spread and adapted to the land extremely quickly, suggesting some degree of unstable mutation going on. The Trogs, Lizardfolk, Pterafolk and many others (most extinct now) didn't have the same sort of evolution as Terrestrial creatures of Earth, so they are related to each other, but are quite different, with even more of a gap between them than, say, there is a gap between Chimps and Humans.
Do you ever read pathfinder I just notice you use a lot of the awesome trog art from pathfinder. As a pathfinder player and dnd player I would love to see you layout the rise and fall of the xulgaths into trogs on golarian
Trogs need to make a hot comeback.
A video of AJs I have never watched because I have zero interest in Troglodytes. Smelly lizardfolk. And? ..... Let's see if the sage of candlekeep can't change my mind. :)
Okay.
Troglodyte Swamp-Land Druid / Swarmkeeper Ranger. Not as a PC, but a bad guy. D:
And, yeah, given how putrid and disturbing their lairs can be, those should be traumatizing to characters. Definitely NOT just smelly lizardfolk.... :(
They can live in sewers of civilized races? Maybe a group of ranger/rogue trogs can hunt townsfolk at night. No one ever catches on and condemns many innocent lives with convictions of murder until the trog lair is discovered. Think these just became far more appropriate to use as Black Dragon minions as well, versus Lizardfolk. Shit, some lizardfolk are in towns making a living.... Rare, but possible. That is NOT the case with troglodytes. They'll eat everyone. D:
love your vids
Troglodyte are have many enemies oh poor troglodyte they have been enslaved by there own lizard brethren
I like the look of this race in the Heroes of Might and Magic III
As if anything you could say would stop me from enjoying my food. 😅
HE KNOWS I WATCH THIS ON MOBILE! Pickett sees ALL
Was wondering what pests other than cranium rats I could task my players to remove from the sewers of Sigil next campaign. I now know 😉
The smell experience sounds just too fun. Hope I can make them feel sick
I'd be down to play a saurok reptiles only campaign
The Twitter users?
Do you have any advice for stranger thing troglodytes?
Nice warhammer fantasy image.
Since they do not hate reptilian species (at least not instinctively) dose that mean that they may treat a party better if they have a dragonborn (probably close enough), lizardfolk, or kobold with them, calming the party as their property, or are they just to violent and feral to deal with, or dose it vary?
They might give the Dragonborn and Kobold a bit of latitude, but they are Draconic, thus, an alien species from their point of view. They would tolerate Lizardfolk a bit, but they are an aggressive species none the less.
Only if they’re not for sale or trade
AJ Pickett they should try avoiding most dragonlike creatures risk of acid to face or fire or lightning
Thanks for this one man I was a little bitter about the rangers winning the poll lol 😊. Outstanding as always 👌👌
Normally the polls are just me gauging general interest and determining what video to do first. :)
Lol good to know 😊
So troglodyte use tyrannosaurus in thier fights I think
Troglodyte AKA lizard skunk
Please make a video about Tritons
Well...this is a great video if you're going on a diet.
My god the adds are crazy
Your refund is in the mail :)
Yeahy troglodytes won
I want to ask you one question who is the natural enemy of troglodyte
The Army of Light
Basic hygiene. If you were to create a water weird from soapy water, you'd have the ultimate anti-troglodyte weapon.
14:20 that doesn't sound tasty
First
*flint tipped spear appears out of the darkness, with a hiss and the potent smell of gym socks* First, pink skin?
I started watching the video when there was one view and no comments which has never happened to me before. I couldn’t think of any better comment than first to commemorate this.
@@Oldkingcole1125 I often reply to the first comment in the role of the subject matter of the video.
The good the bad and the nasty . ..
Oooh, I thoughta one! Can a troglodyte and a saurial (like Dragonbait) communicate?
To a limited extent, they would both speak in a form of lizardfolk langauge
I ask because they both use scents, and would both be expected to have highly developed sense of smell. I feel like Troglodyte might be an elective at Saurial High School.
In D&D can I have Troglodyte skin boots?
Yes.
You would have to make a con save every couple of hours to keep from passing out to the smell though...
Kyle Mendoza stinky feet
@@twilightgardenspresentatio6384
Lol
I was going to suggest Saurials but I just looked them up and they seem... disappointing.
Maybe their god just smells... *evil voice* "divine..." 😈😂🤣
Why does the pollution demon from Ferngully come to mind when I read this?
PhantomDragon1992 👍 To align... Is to manifest... 😵🤫🧙♂️
Pyroclastic Naga Dragon........
Hey hey, looks like it's time for me to barge in with Pathfinfer stuff.
So, in Pathfinder, troglodytes follow the usual D&D mold except one major point - they are degenerate descendants of an ancient subterran race named Xulgath, powerful psionicists and qlippoth (obyrith in D&D speak) worshipers. Xulgath still persist in Deep Tolguth, one of the Vaults of Orv, massive lost worlds of the deepest layer of Golarion's equivalent of Underdark. The qlippoth-turned-demon lord (still old enough to be considered an obyrith lord in D&D) that is still worshiped by degenerates, Zevgavizeb, is probably my favorite in whole Pathfinder, though. Not only he appears as a massive dinosaur-dragon thing and can grant a fiendish tyranosaurs for summoning, his layer of the Abyss, Gluttondark, consists of countless hollow worlds connected by caverns where countless troglodytes, dinosaurs, and sea monsters wage war of survival against each other and creatures of other such worlds. When one world finally prevails over other, Zevgavizeb appears, consuming all life within it as tribute, after which the suns at the world's center explode, destroying all that remains! Whew! Fortunately, that also means he is not all that concerned of the Material Plane, for now.
I'm planning to start a Pathfinder Lore channel because I'm more familiar with that.
Anyone else thought troglodytes where basic humanoids?
AJ, my apologies for my request. It was supposed to be tongue in cheek comedic, however the replies started to get political. I doubt you want your channel being used for political argument, so I deleted my post.
no worries.
@@citycrusher9308... No I deleted it. I didn't mean for the discussion to turn from comedic to political
@@citycrusher9308 no problem Trevor, honest mistake.
Ah my troglodyte nephews have more family I see.