The Bulette - The Scariest Monster in Dungeons and Dragons
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If Senshi ever gets to cook this monster, he'd probably make a Creme Bullette
Take my like and GET OUT
My character cooked it in a coal pit, using its super hard hide as a pressure cooker/smoker oven.
Meat was amazing, if you could survive the narcotics.
1) terrible
2) if you’re gonna cook up something as tough as a bulette you’d need to either brine it first, then cook it low and slow. Or, braise it a sauce or liquid. I’d suggest something with strong spices to flavor the meat.
You just gotta love, how the Crème Brûlée joke stays a constant with the Bulette.
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There's one more thing that you won't find without some digging. Bulettes can actually be tamed, and what's even more impressive, they can be trained to speak in the same way that a parrot can. However, for reasons no one has ever figured out all they can remember are curse words. So, have fun making your bulettes swear like sailors during your player's next encounter.
I'm just imagening an extreamlly sweet southerner couple travling merchants, with a bullette that they raised from birth dragging their caravan. The caravan is built using the power of hillbilly enginearing and looks like it'll fall apart at any second, but it's so well built it can withstand cannon balls raining from the sky. Also, the bullette has a tiny cowboy hat and is very sassy, especally towards its parents.
source?
@@R04-v3y it was in one of the old dragon magazines. Captain C&%# and her B@$tard Bulettes.
Second, where's the info on this. This sounds really cool
@@nnickplays9713 Old dragon magazine. i tried to list the name of it to the other guy but i think youtube must've deleted it...not exactly a family friendly name even if they only used symbols instead of the actual letters to spell it out. Which is what i tried to do, but i guess that doesn't fly either. Anyway, it was about a group of colorful desert bandits with a filthy captain who had a filthy name and her trained bulettes who weren't much better.
So they are the living embodiment of "You don't have to outrun the monster you only have to outrun the Halfling"
😂😂
As a halfling who just faced this for the first time, in a party w/ no frontliner due to someone leaving the group... yeah...
Player: "Land sharks aren't real, they can't hurt me"
Gary gygax: "you just gave me an idea..."
I made landsharks in my games inspired by the ones in ratchet and clank and also dune a bit. They are crazy fast on the sand dunes but useless in wet or hard soil. They are pack hunters and pretty violent. Almost more like sand piranas when young and more like a sandworm when fully grown
Knock, knock.
"who's there?"
Landshark!
I believe it may have been arneson but it's been a minute and that may be incorrect.
@@Jeremycook_ "Candygram!"
@@steeldrago73 well the original comment was a joke, but I believe the designers came up with it, after gygax bought a bag of rubber dollar store toys, and asked his players figured out stat blocks for these monsters , with the bullete being designed by Tim kask, which he published in the first issue of the "dragon" (magazine).
Truly the David Attenborough of D&D.
Spreading awareness and assiduously preserving the broken and defiled realms which humans, once loved, so dearly.
Thank you sir.
Bulettes propably have a similar relationship to dragons that honeybadgers have to lions.
Phenomenal comparison. 👌
"Literally nothing that moves is safe from it"
*Moves into the air*
"Hey! That's cheating!"
You must be pretty high up to be outside of its reach.
@@KT-pv3kl it can jump 15 feet vertically, so not really. levitate on its own can go up 20 feet, and any creature with a flying speed can go much higher. this is a monster that can be default killed with a single 2nd level spell slot.
@@thalmorjusticiar1 The bulette is already 10+ft tall. It can jump 15ft up, putting its mouth at least 25ft off the ground. And if the DM is any good, the bulette would catch the PCs by surprise, erupting from the ground directly beneath them, mouth open, ready to swallow them whole.
In fact, the way I run these is when the bulette erupts from the ground under the player they have to make a DC18 dex save to avoid being swallowed whole. If they pass the saving throw by 10 or more (28+) they completely avoid any damage, but if they pass by less than 10 (18-27) they take 4d12+4 bite damage and are grappled. If they fail, they are swallowed whole and take 3d12+4 crushing damage per round until they die or escape, which is a DC25 str save each round which can be assisted by others reaching into the mouth, if they are brave enough.
So yeah, that levitate spell is only going to work if they see the bulette coming, which they never should unless the DM sucks.
is BG3 canon? because that game gave it's bulettes a ranged attack where the bulette shoots stomach acids at you lol
@@KurNorockme and my group collectively agree to powergame both when dming and as players and have many homebrew rules for PCs and monsters that this rule would fit perfectly with!
If I had to say why young bulettes aren't ever seen I'd say it's because they stay beneath the ground as much as possible to keep safe and hunt smaller game without people noticing. The love for halfling flesh may be just because they're the first humanoid they're large enough to hunt.
That would still have witnesses
That's actually a cool add.
@@averageeughenjoyer6429 Humanoids gather in larger groups than animals, so attacking a halfling settlement is like a buffet to a young bulette. It'd be a thrill that the impressionable creature wouldn't forget, and tasting halfling reminds them of that.
Considering how quickly they hatch, I think they simply grow fast after eating their mother's and sibling's corpses.
I like the way they laugh at you if you miss an attack on them in Baldur's Gate 3.
totally missed this will have to look this up haha
That deep guttural "hurr hurr hurr" pissed me tf off lmao. I killed that thing with extreme prejudice
I noticed that too lol
I had a dwarf character who wanted to use them for mining machines since they throw up valuable resources
Don’t they dissolve most of the stuff they eat though? Youre better off with an Aurumvorax
@@flannellemur4818 I was in a campaign before this video, and we found piles of raw ore
@@flannellemur4818they dissolve like dirt, regular stone, plant matter, stuff like that. Harder and more valuable rocks and ore would probably be fine
If I had to guess, refined metals, crystals, minerals etc would be reverted back to ore after being eaten by a Bulette.
In bg3 there's is an encounter with a Bulle. Thehe encounter is set up, so you are at an advantage. There is a land bridge in the underdark that is to shallow for it to dig their so it must emerge and launch itself out of the ground at you once it can no longer dig. If you're in the wrong spot, you're crushed by it and probably die, if you stand far back enough it'll miss you and do zero damage.
In the encounter it's 4 against one unless you have extra companions and summons present, and it's on a small bridge, preventing it from digging and jumping. The bridge is over a massive chasm, and if you corner it up to the cliff edge and your party has high dexterity, it can barely move and barely damage you. This allows you to surround it and spam attacks against our like a fish in a barrel
That’s weird because it dug and burrowed away on the land bridge when I was about to kill it.
@@jl3303 I've never had that happen
It's fascinating that pretty much all monsters that eat humanoids love the taste of Halflings.
I had to laugh at the spinning mating Bulletes.
I imagine a dragon coming across a bulette would be similar to a person finding a particularly pissed off badger. Sure, you could take it... but you'd much rather not.
Welcome back, dad. Did you bring more milk?
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Bro you stupid lol😂
Depending on the kind of milk increases the difficulty I suppose.
No but I have the cigarettes
BOOOOO!! YOU SUCK!!!
The beholder on the monster manual isnt roaring at the adventurers... thats a face of someone who sees a bulette comming at them
It isn't a Rhexx video unless it talks about the untold horrors of monster mating.
Never pick a fight with this creature. Trust me, you're dodging a bulette 😁
Bit of trivia.
The bullete was designed while the author was looking at childrens plastic dinosaurs.
Pathfinder had a particularly scary Bulette variant known as the Juggerloathe. It was the offspring of a particularly large Bulette and a herald of Lamashtu, the Pathfinder goddess of Monsters. It's a massive, 50-foot long Bulette with hollow black pits for eyes, a cobra for a tail, and the ability to swallow its enemy whole, drain the life from them, and regurgitate them as undead monsters known as Bodaks.
In other word, they’re pathetically weak and is a humiliation of all bulette
Using Dungeon Dad's Grey Dragon, I can see a story where one is contracted to take out the local Bulette, or the reverse Kraven situation where they kept one as a pet, and after the party somehow dealt with the bulette, they now hove to deal with the Grey Dragon who wants to avenge (?) its pet.
the whole standing jump thing is because its ADDITIVE to its movement, basically if someone uses the dash action to get awway the bule can just move and do a standing jump into its dive attack
you are got getting away
never heard of them until bg3, so that jumping move was a huge shock
i think the reason why they would prefer halflings over elves and dwarves is because generally speaking halflings are rotund and pudgy, whereas elves and dwarves are either slender and wiry or tough and hardy.
Sharks, crocodiles, snakes and some other animals never stop growing, but when they reach adulthood their growth rate slows down. But never stop. Except when they die of some complications of old age.
I think the thing about some things not eating dwarves is because dwarves spice their food with reckless abandon for the heath of all other races, my friends dwarf looks as human spices and always insists on adding more that makes it inedible to humans, halflings, goblins, and the party tiefling. It’s one of the things we rule due to their poison resistance. Elves might be the equivalent of eating bread, so plain and boring that you would rather not eat it due to their overly healthy diets that use next to no seasonings. So they’re the opposite ends of the spectrum of being over spiced and under seasoned. Halflings are probably liked so much because you get a lot out of a little package like a donut or a cupcake.
The DC20 actually sounds pretty cool. Love the idea of action points rather than action/bonus action/movement that dnd has.
In Races of Stone 3.5 (the same book that introduces goliaths into 3.5), there are rules for hatching, raising, and training a bulette. It even has prices for buying bulette eggs and fully trained bulettes.
It's good to know that I'll be changing the nonsensical method of reproduction that forgotten realms gave the mysterious bulette. Killing everything for weeks and waiting for a mate is probably the most obvious thing a giant land predator could do. Attacking and killing each other would also leave signs and not be too hard to figure out. The idea that a bulette wouldn't be doing all of this underground where they are most formidable is all preposterous.
I'll give my idea if you want... not that I'm some expert. A bulette could be laying eggs fairly deeply, and tracking down a nest would take a monumental effort. Bulettes are territorial and laying eggs in a well controlled location well suited for their larvae. Somewhere that would keep their young away and protected. Softer soils could also be an important decision for nest. A nest could be anywhere, but I think a place with abundant nutrition in the soil, like worm and roots, would be an ideal location. Possibly ever high moisture. Nothing is stopping us from deciding that the bulette is amphibious or has some sort of nymph stage. Or even that some other creature is actually bulette young.
Last thought just for some clarity. I like that the story about bulette reproduction exists. It's a story. It's untrue and ridiculous, but "no one" has ever seen it. People make shit up and tell scary stories. Untrue things have a place in the narrative.
In Berlin, a "bulette" is a form of pan-fried meat patty that is typically eaten with a bread roll and mustard.
Encountered this thing in a cave full of *magic* mushrooms. We tricked it into eating several kilograms of the stuff until it OD'd and fell over.
Two years later and our drug empire is making us more bank than any dungeon.
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Looking forward to putting a Bulette up against my players in a DC20 campaign!
Thanks for your amazing Lore video and a perfect shout out to DC20.
Its nice to see your favorite RUclipsrs referencing each other.💜💜💜
The real scariest monster is the Murderhobos we met along the way.
that name means "meatball" or "burger patty" in north eastern germany 🤣
One thing the lore never explained is how bulette meat tastes
With how fast it can burrow, it makes sense that it has a powerful leap, it needs to have strong, fast limbs to dig that quick
Haven't checked in a while, but this is a monster that I care about. I really love the new editing! It's obviously more time costly on your side, and that is very much appreciated!
There's probably no children seen because they age to adulthood almost immediately. It's possible they mature after just a month or less as a 9 month process is cut to 2 hours
Or the juveniles simply stay in remote areas of the underdark where nobody has ever searched for them similar to eels hatching their young in the Sargasso sea a specific area in the depths of the Atlantic. It took us over 2000 years to finally figure out where eels lay their eggs.
Still going call them bullet
That's the correct pronunciation but boolay is funnier.
@@yahnservices1978except that the way to pronounce it based on how it's spelled uses rules of French, hence "boo-let" with emphasis on the 2nd syllable.
@@MethosJK9 Nope, I speak French, it's definitely "bullet" which is the closest, other comments are confirming it too. The U sound itself is the same as in luchador.
@@yahnservices1978 wait, bullet (buh-let) or boulet?
@@PhoenicopterusR Not boulet (BOOLAY or BOOLET), it's bullet and the U sound is the same as the first U in ultimatum.
These extra lore tibits, they add so much possible creative gameplay and story telling to the setting
I love how these videos manage to turn monsters I think are dumb into ones I want to use.
17:20 --- They love the taste of WHAT?
17:34 --- Ooooh, horses.
Glad I'm not the only one who heard whores the first time
Love all your videos, brother. Keep up the great work.
The Bulette has been my favorite monster for a good 12-13 years now ever since first learning about them.
In my game the centaur bard and half-elf dao warlock had the bright idea of planting magic beans in secret. One bean grew into magic eggs that increase ability scores and other summoned a bulette, which proceeded to one-shot the bard and eat her on the next turn. Bulette was killed, but the half eaten corpse of the bard couldn't be revived. The warlock chose to ask powerful Demon Lord to break his previous contract and to take new warlock contract under the Demon Lord in exchange for the bard's resurrection :D
I do love the simple lore for slightly out of the box monsters. Some of the more highend like drow and gith lore videos are a little unapproachable. But this fuels well planned and informed monster of the week type encounters and I love it
Great to have you back with the next video so quickly xD I'm really enjoying these monster lore videos, the give great ideas for creatures to use. Although, not going to lie here, I'd also love to see the dragon series continue.
Damn. Bulette mating is brutal as hell.
Love your videos on relatively lower CR monsters like this. They make for perfect one-shot and side quest inspiration ❤
Start a campaign with a session 0 in which the players list 6 races, 6 classes, and 6 backgrounds, and then unleash the bulette!
Every round, the players roll 3d6 to determine which combination of race, class, and background, is eaten, with you narrating the kills.
At the end of the 5 rounds, the players have a race/class/background combination mostly at random.
They're also a really nice crafting material for non-metal armours on the heavier side, especially useful for druids. I do like me some bulette plate.
I theorize the reason creatures that prefer the taste of halfling to the taste of dwarf comes down to the marbling and potential toxins of the meat. Dwarves have extremely dense musculature, probably taste rather gamey- and their poison resistance could perhaps have a side effect of a “tainted meat” taste. However halflings are often depicted as chubby or thicc with higher fat to muscle ratios - leading to better taste.
DC20 looks super interesting! I will definitely be looking into that!
In the old Xbox game Dungeons and Dragons: Heroes the first boss is a bulette. You have to lure it into charging at crystals around the area to break it open and make it vulnerable to your attacks. I'm not too sure how to think about such a universally feared creature getting to be the first major boss. It is a challenging early battle too.
I imagine any old bullettes would be aged bulls who have sired many nests. Any males from those nests would come back to the area where their original nests were to mate. This would create constant evolutionary pressure on the older males in the eventuality of there being 2-3 males surviving the matriarchal cull and ganging up on dad.
Not the scariest monster by a long shot, but a fearsome foe in the right conditions or in numbers.
I got to hear Robert Bulette in Vegas back in the 80's.
I started using these a while ago and they freak the hell out of high leveled parties
Fun fact, in german, a bulette is some piece of minced meat you grill.
I see Amiri from Pathfinder in there. I recognize that lovely... sword anywhere.
The title mentions D&D, but the thumbnail is a picture from Pathfinder lol
I remember my first encounter against a bullette , rough time for sure . It put the fear of Gods in me
DM: "sure i guess you can take gunslinger, but what are you going to do with just one?"
Player: "No not a bullet..."
Are we sure the Terrasque isn't just a overgrown Bulettte?
a Bulette in nature is the hippo of D&D.
As hilariously simple as it sounds, a basic levitate spell sounds like a hard counter to this otherwise formidable beast
My party fought thee Bullettes yesterday! And I'm ironically playing your dragon class in that game lol! Very excited for this video!
BEAUTIFUL animations, you improve every day
Take the agility of a cat, the strength of a large bear, the attitude of a honey badger, and combine them and you basically have the bullette
Such a cool creature! Awesome job as always! Ngl, the way the bulette is described and how it behaves makes it sound like a lesser tarasque. Very scary but very cool!
Another great video, I'm loving the new animations for the monsters! Bulettes are also just awesome monsters too. I already really liked them, but I had no idea how metal they were!
Also, fun fact: I once came upon a statblock on 5e tools for a young bulette from Princes of the Apocalypse that listed them as beasts. I double checked and sure enough, there's a bulette kennel where for the young bulettes it says to use the rhino statblock but reflavor the gore into a bite. You'd need to check with your DM obviously, but you can technically wild shape/polymorph into a baby bulette.
Good to see you back online!
I was honestly expecting you to pronounce it wrong (I'll admit I only knew how to pronounce it right because of the 2e MM). Full props.
Love the new style, its very interactive to watch! Can't wait for more content ^^
Love the videos and can’t get enough! Please continue with these masterpieces
I always thought the first Bulettes were from off world. In Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, in Greyhawk, the Bulettes are expelled from a buried space ship by robots that have gone mad and are clearing the ship. The creatures they clear include intellect devourers and a load of other things that were all collected on the ships travels and stored in a zoo in the ship. They escape after the ship has crashed and are ejected by the remaining robots. There's a big picture of one getting flung out in the accompanying artwork.
I have that adventure, and it is old but it is not the origin of the monsters they were in the “Monster Manual” which was published before that adventure.
Amazing video as always good sir, would love to see one about the seelie and unseelie courts in the future I feel like there's a lot of interesting and obscure lore there
A Bulette was one of the first D&D specific monsters I ever fought. It was a very fun encounter. Nearly died tho.
Calling it now: The Bulette is actually just the attempt of a wizard to recreate the tarrasque.
I have always loved the Bullette. In my campaign, they are known as Earth Bullets, modern setting.
okay dc 20 actually sounds sick
interesting sponsor im really interested in and might use
It's funny for me to think about a bulette as a deadly encounter, cause the DM for my group's current campaign had us fight a bulette as a random encounter while we were traveling between locations, and I think we were about level 8 or 9 at the time, so it was honestly an easy fight. Our biggest concern was just protecting our mounts, but honestly it died so quickly I don't think it got much damage in on anyone.
10:45 on the topic of sharks, it depends.
There are sharks that can live up to 500 years, so yeah, technically they most likely don't die of old age
The fact that Bullette stomach acid being powerful enough to destroy even magic items made me IMMEDIATELY go "oh... So they're related to the Tarrasque" and got hit of a mental image of them living on the Tarrasque like those parasites on the Cloverfield monster.
me too. IMO the tarrasque is just a magic enhanced bullette
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imagine being an adventurer stumbling upon the death match between the mother and children, sounds like the only real shot you've got to see a babylette
The old afvanced second edition boxed sets had a setting called red steel. In one of its introductory adventures book it had a bulette with insect like wings. Allowing the beast to also fly
Someone make a home brew that is essentially the plot of jaws. Maybe in desert area with sand ships that have sails and at one point an NPC says "we're gonna need a bigger sand ship"
I actually got to play an entire campaign as one of these guys once. A buddy of mine was DMing a game and one of the players somehow picked up a pet one of these (long story don't ask) and rather then run it himself he thought it would be neat if he could get another person to essentially play it as an NPC. The conversation went like this.
"So you need me to join a campaign? Any kind of character you need or can I just..."
"Oh no, character's already made, it's technically an npc, but I want to give it some personality so I thought it would be neat to have someone run it themselves. If you're willing anyways?"
"Oh, that's kind of neat! Sure! What is it?"
"It's the party ranger's pet."
"Huh. Why's it need a separate player?"
"Too powerful to let her just control it. This is the caveat to let her keep it. If you don't take it then I'll be playing it."
"Ah, I see. Sure though, sound fun. Never done something like this before. What is it though? A wyvern or something?"
"It's a Bulette."
"... Pardon me?"
"Yeah... she named it Snubblegulp the Mighty."
You're telling me I get to role play a pet Bulette?"
"Yes."
"This is the greatest moment of my DnD career."
The bonemeal fertilizer makes sense for their eating. Overgrow the plant life after despoiling the area. Leave. Animals return to the area for the abundant food. Perhaps, following hunters of those animals, farmers may even move in to take advantage of the fertile soil. The bullette or the offspring eventually return to a well-stocked pantry of animal life or humanoids. And repeat.
Armadillos can hop when they ball up. That may be why the hopping action exists.
I think I've only fought a Bulette once or twice. I couldn't resist making Graboid references.
Dc20 seems like it could be fun. Really interesting way to play around with the actions and turn mechanics of DnD.
I have missed your videos so much. They always give me endless ideas for my own game.
I always like to think, given humans propensity to call things that have evolved to attempt to avoid consumption seasonings, dwarves are likely somewhat toxic themselves and that's why they taste bad.
Your videos have inspired me in how I make my own videos. All I can say is, damn is it a ton of work. Thanks for always putting in an insane amount of effort into your videos constantly.
From the perspective of the really large and powerful monsters, this thing is very literally the ultimate embodiment of the weird phenomenon of obnoxiously hard to hit and tough small creatures (like turtles in particular, ironically enough!) in Rimworld are disproportionately dangerous, with an obscene ability to maim, mutilate, and outright amputate body parts as it eats you alive or n tiny chunk at a time. It’s no wonder even dragons will hightail it out of there rather than deal with it!
The slime mentioned at the end reminded me of an Almudron but far worse for civilization.
Dis guy scared the shiz out of me and my homies on our first visit to the underdark in BG3.