Fun fact: the bullette deals 6 less damage with its bite than the Tarrasque’s bite. I don’t know if that makes the Tarrasque weak or the bullette strong as hell
Turns out a bulette bite does almost as much damage as a Tyrannosaurus bite, and at least in the real world T. rex had the greatest bite force of any known land animal ever. So a bulette just has disproportionally strong jaws for an animal its size. Also the Tarrasque is an omnivore so that totally fits.
The Bulette's reproductive cycle is actually much more metal than that, the male usually selects a place to nest, preferably with lots of game, then kills EVERYTHING it find and arranges the bodies in a circle around the selected mating ground to attrack predators and scavengers. This are then also killed and added to the pile, and only then will the Bulette begin eating them, but leaving the bones. While it does so it will dig a shallow pit in the center of the circle of carcasses and put there the bones it isnt eating so he can ground them into bonemeal using his heavy weight and caparace. After grinding down all the bones the stench of the rotten flesh and bonemeal will attract a female which will mate with him on top of the bonemeal until he fucks off somewhere else. The female then lays around a docen eggs that same night which will hatch by the next morning, reason why Bulette nests arent seen. The mother then makes a loud noise like an elephant to signal the babies to a challenge, in which they fight to the death of the babies or the mother, usually the latter. The survivors are usually just 2 or 3 babies which then eat the mom and the other dead babies. The babies mature fast so is rare to see them much less the entire process in the short time it happens.
@@kjj26k Irl from MrRhexx. In-universe some info is kept by very rare scholars, not something you see in the common libraries. Like how most people arent aware of monster weaknesses and the like.
The Bulette does have a special place in my heart. Mainly because of the first encounter I had with them as a player. My group was playing Princess of the Apocalypse and we were infiltrating one of the elemental cults. After mkaing it in we got confronted by a boss that had a pet Bulette. I was playing a Bard and we just reached level 5, so I picked up Enemies Abound, I was actually meaning to pick up Antagonize but mixed those two spells up. I outspeeded both the Bulette and its master, allowing me to cast the spell on it. Now, not only did the Bulette hit the boss, it rolled a crit. A scary one. Our DM then described how the creature looked confused around before setting its sight on a nearby figur, charging at its master and quickly devouring him as it rolled over 80 damage and oneshotet the guy. A small part of me wanted to adopt the Bulette as a party pet or let it go free as thanks for taking care of the guy. The majority of me however was screaming at my party to quickly kill that monster that just dealt enough damage to insta kill any character in our group while it was still chewing on the entrails of its owner. Good times.
We ended up breaking in at the garden entrance, which is right next to that stairway leading down to where the bulette is caged. So, we ended up blocking access to it. Which is a gd relief, now that I have context for what it was doing there, right below the monestary. The centaurs messed us up properly, but we ended up clearing the place out without ever dropping guard on that stairwell. We also piqued the benign intrest of the.. err.. non-cult inhabitant of that monestary. Fun times.
How come Wizards get heat for combining creatures to make Bulettes and Owlbears, but nobody ever blames them for combining Dwarves with apes to make humans?
@@alitaher003 You're as much a crime to Dwarvkind as a weird greenskinned Goblin would be to Goblinkind. You shame Moradin, your face will be forever bare, and your clan will be denied any and all alcohol.
There was a Dragon magazine article in the 1980s about the ecology of the Bulette, written from the perspective of a Sage. One part I remember was farmers would coat their plows with dirt left in the furrows created by the fin, because the Bulette secreted a oil that would transmute rock to mud. How those farmers didn't get eaten I dont remember. But that was the mechanism which allowed a Bulette to dig through anything - it was actually constantly swimming through mud, no matter what the surrounding earth was made of.
The details about how it's officially pronounced were very helpful to me. It's a recurring conversation in my D&D group as to what the hell these things are called, now we can settle it (not that it's likely to change how any of us say it). I always went with "bull-et-ees".
New campaign idea: the forces of law and chaos, gith and illithid, metallic and chromatic, devil and demon, and every other great power in the multiverse convene an emergency moot of the utmost importance. What could possibly bring all of them to the table? The Neogi have learned to breed and enslave Bulettes.
Bruh, that the craziest and most hateable idea ever! If i do that i totally could let homebrew stuff like playable demons, playable yugoloths, lore accurate angels, anything balanced to be playable and FCK IT WE BALL into the neogi nest, motivations? I HATE THOSE GUYS, contradictions with normal lore? I HATE THOSE GUYS, why!?!?! I HATE THOSE GUYS!!!
I love Bulettes. They are by far my favorite monster in dnd, as I own 3 miniatures for it. The idea of a land shark that doesn't care about who or what it attacks is awesome.
My favourite part of bulettes is that my party got scared of them after I had one show up to eat a random boar in a mountainside forest one time. It did not even really care about them, it just jumped up to eat and then left but the party of 6 lv2 characters became extremely paranoid to the extent they were trying to figure out how to put a horse in a tree. Even once they got to a point where the land shark was not a danger they still keep a constant lookout for them
One of my favorite dumb D&D encounters came from our GM using a "give monsters a random attribute generator thing" and we ended up fighting a aquatic Bulette. I jumped onto boats/through boats, it was great.
The antagonistic empire captures a large number of land sharks and releases them into the territories of the player characters to cripple the food supply of the player's homeland. This acts as a distraction to lure the main force out so that the antagonist can send their full force to take fort importance more. That's my idea and im using it, thanks for the lore dump pal, God bless
I want to put my players through a Tremors 2 scenario. Job is to catch a bullette, they do so a bit easily. One long rest later, there's 2 dozen small bullette babies running around hunting halflings!
Genius idea: given the land shark was created as an SNL reference effectively, I had the idea of "what if a landshark was given human level intelligence, and the ability to speak. And what if he decides he wanted to become a singer, nay...a crooner” And this is how I came up with ROBERT BOULEEEEEEETTE
Strange personal memory tangent... I'm currently 54yo and have a vivid memory of a reoccurring dream that I'd have as a child (late 70's, God I'm old..😮) where I was being chased by actual land sharks (with arms) just like described, lol.. it was around what was supposed to be my neighborhood but it really wasn't as the houses were all on stilts like the one's build in a swamp or frequently flooded shore.. (tho funny enough, I lived on a tiny island at the South jersey shore near Atlantic City but it didn't have any of these but there were some in the general area).. So the houses were all on stilts and had docks but there was no water just ground.. And I remember the fins peeking out, stalking me through the dirt and grass, as I had to get to house to house like some game of 'the ground is Lava' (tho you could touch the ground but then that'd alert the sharks.. lol, and they'd come bursting out of the ground, muscular arms and big teeth and all.. 😱🤬 ending that part of the dream, sometimes starting over..) Now I did play ADnD (gen 1) as an early 80's kid but this was def before that and the Bullette hadn't been invented yet).. So I think it came from both a mix of seeing 'Jaws' and Chevy Chase's Land Shark Sketch 'Candygram!' from early SNL, lol.. (aside from all the usual psychology of the dreams.. they were scary in the dream but also kinda funny remembering the dream.. Anyway, so my point is just sharing a potentially interesting personal memory really but I've also been playing a lot of Baldur's Gate 3 lately which has an encounter with a Bullette in it and you can imagine it resurfaced those old dream memories.. 😆 Yeah, I was a weird kid. (Who grew up into a weird adult. 😁)
It was covered in a magazine once that after they mate, the babies eat their way out of the mother and then eat each other until there are only four or less of them, which then all go away from each other in opposite directions. Alternatively, if somehow there is a witness, which should be impossible since they only mate once they’ve run out of prey in their territory, then they eat the witness first then each other.
I made a variant called a Turrete. It functions similarly to the bullette but instead of a powerful bite it can spit rocks at high velocities at its pretty. I can't remember if it was a line or a cone but basically just a breath weapon attack that deals piercing damage. Also has a ranged option to get archers or squishy wizards.
Why can I vividly picture a tribe of Troglodytes somehow, sometime, forming a symbiotic relationship with one or more land-sharks, with them working together to raid nearby villages or settlements to get food(mostly from Jeff) and weapons and such for those who no not what grass is.
I'll never forget when my Paladin got one shot by a Bulette. She was level 8 (Paladin 6 Warlock 2) but took 75 damage and was insta killed... I'm traumatized by this monster. Her health was full (something close to 70, i guess 66?)
Instantly on death saves? Or insta-killed? Instant death is reserved for when the attack would have taken you below 0 by your total max HP - in the case where you have 66hp at max it would have to do 132 damage to insta kill (probably over explaining something you already know, but it's something I misunderstood when I first started)
@davidjennings2179 the dm had a houserule that would make you die instantly if your health drops below -10 from damage, plus, bulette has this odd ability when they jump, they do a crazy amount of damage, which added +30ish to the damage i took
I had a town that the players were approaching that used a catapult to fire big rocks out into the field the players were in, which brought the Bulette to them in an attempt to drive them away. Not quite the shark boss, but same idea.
So i had my players encounter two bulletes and i had a hard time describing them so i just showed them a picture. what came next was a screech with joy and one of them begged to try to tame one. Thats how we got a good boy on team.
I used Bulettes as a major plot point in my homebrew campaign. Basically some dwarven mines deep in some mountains were inadvertently also Bullette mating ground (like your salmon analogy) and the party is tasked with helping hold off the assault. The party would only maybe fight one or two if cornered, but it creates a nice combination of dex and athletic checks
Or you could be sent to investigate a sudden disappearance of a halfling village. If these things love eating halflings, then a village of them would be an all-you-can-eat buffet in Candyland.
7:20 I imagine a sentient skeleton mounting them and taming them. They'd not be targeted by the land sharks because of the obvious lack of meat, and the skeleton would supply them with any meat they find, making the sharks like them or putting together that "walking skeleton gives food, walking skeleton good".
I'm genuinely questioning what the thought process behind this supposed monstrosity creating wizard was. I really hope it's not something boring and generic like attempting to create a living weapon or they were just insane. I want to see a DND fantasy monster africanised honey bee type story here. I want to see a horrific monster created by a well meaning wizard from something harmless in a plan that made sense on paper.
Perhaps they lived in an area with sparse vegetaion and were trying to make a creature who could burrow in order to search out mineral and ore deposits, but to make sure the creatures didn't eat said ore, they made them only hunger for meat (the vegetation was too rare to sustain the creature). From there, an arcane variable was out of sorts or perhaps they were distracted, resulting in something that can burrow and has a constant need for meat.
I like the idea that whatever wizard made Bullettes was trying to make something to either aid farmers till the soil in fields while getting rid of small pest animals like moles and rabbits who might steal crops from said fields or make burrows nearby. But when it came time to actually make the creature something went wrong with the spell and his first generation Bullettes ended up way bigger than intended and ate the poor guy.
this is a good and durable creature. i kinda want to make an encounter of one of these, and two smaller ones as minions that jump through the rock like angry missiles.
The Adventures League module DDEX2-04 Mayhem in the Earthspur Mines featured a bulette chasing a minecart! I played it! The DM openly admitted to us that we should take that route out of an option of two because the chase was great.
I once had a party attacked by a bulette, it drug one of the party members underground and buried them while it went back to deal with the others, like an alligator storing its food.
My party bought 2 beans from a bag of beans while investigating a missing person’s incident in an arboretum. Two rolls and a chase scene later, the TWO bulletes that they rolled successfully mated and they had to deal with a forest full of blights and a nesting mama bullete. They were level 4.
In my setting there is a desert-born nation known as "The Aerovian Empire" which through selective breeding has domesticated Bulette's that have gained a more docile nature and they are used as anything from a substitute for horse's to war mounts (think sand seals) and even household pets. Even the emperor himself: King Aeroglaive, the Death Knight (he's not an actual Death Knight, it's just his title) has one, and she's the record-holder for the biggest Bulette in the world!
When most people think of sharks, land sharks included, they hear the Jaws theme. When I think of sharks, land sharks included, I hear "GASHUNK GASHUNK GASHUNK GASHUNK."
A combo monster team up I'd say could be fun is the same idea how some birds team up with wolves to spot prey. The flying monster could scan above ground and drop things like rocks on the ground near prey to signal the land shark to that location. So if the prey tries to stand still the flying monster and help its partner figure out where it needs to chomp.
there is this "supplement" (it doesn't have rules more suggestions) which I like called baby bestiary where having a pet Bulette requires a lot of care to train and keep them trained. I reccomend it as a read. (it has 2 volumes)
My last campaign heavily featured a tribe of barbarians - clan landshark - whose kindred animal was the bulette. They raised them as beasts of burden and war, but also after my party went down an overly detailed line of question we established they also milk them for food. And thus we established in our canon that bulette milk has the consistency of mozzarella….
I have an idea: Bulettes popping out of mountains and cliffsides to provide extra challenge to those scaling cliffs Or we can use Bulettes as Sharkbones for Mario themed campagins
This video appeared for me, I believe entirely because of Jeff the Land Shark. I have consumed enough Marvel Rivals content to get things that aren't really even about the game. Absolute cinema.
6 of them pull Sir Robert's Wagon of Wonders. A traveling magic shop that makes it's way into most of my games...Sir Robert is also a beholder with a thick british accent, a bowler hat, and one giant monocle on his main eye. Full name and title, Sir Robert Beholderton the third Esquire.
So I actually had a similar encounter in one of the games I was playing where it was essentially tremors and what we decided to do was at this point we had accrued a ton of money so we just started throwing the money everywhere in huge sacks of gold to confuse the predators and we just ran across the sand.
They should have a sharks sense of blood, like think Behemoths fight in monster hunter with the targeting mechanic but with multiple land sharks as a target gets injured 😃👍
I feel vaguely disappointed that this video did not have any reference to the longest running recurring joke in SNL history, the "land shark" routine. I am so terribly, terribly old.
So recently I tried your idea of creating a giant ball of skeletons held together by rope and rolling it at the party from a few years ago. Had it so it was at the top of a stair case and tried to pull an Indiana Jones on them but unfortunately they had a cleric with the ability to kill low level undead by looking at them without a roll so it turned to dust.
A long running idea of mine was to use a fun sized box of nerds as a prop mechanic in my game. The bulette is the perfect way to use this idea! Players discover some dead dude and each get one of these candy boxes. Then they figure out that some mad lad had not only found, but stolen a bunch of eggs from the bulette mating grounds and the players are holding the next generation of these abomination. Oh an local reports of earthquakes and ecological devastation sweeping the plane might not be the gods, just pure parental rage coming for the eggs and hungry to devour anyone who has eaten one of those deliciously tempting sweet candies. Basically a D&D version of The Problem with Popplers from Futurama but pissed off land sharks instead of aliens.
Fun Fact: Hippos were mistaken for herbivores for quite some time until scientists saw that they eat corpses so they are actually scavengers and omnivores.
they should team up with harpies the harpies fly so they're out of range and they charm anyone coming by into staying on the ground in shark range not sure what they get out of it but maybe the shiny loot (tho only if it survives being digested ig)
Ay HK callout! Also love mocking the french in my pastime, tis a very entertaining hobby! Edit: For the boss idea, hear me out. What if you had arrows, right, with a hyper potent smell of halflings on it? Like a cat laser pointer, but for bulettes?
My crazy idea is to have three bulettes as a boss and if the players don’t beat all three in quick enough succession the bbeg hijacks the last living one and eats the other two and becomes a super bulette is is this too crazy
ooh i didn't think about bulette in the desert. that said I do really want to throw a wizard made some landsharks that can swim encounter at my players just cuz it would be funny.
Y'know, it's just now hitting me, but if you told me they designed the Diablos in Monster Hunter after someone randomly turned the monster manual to the Bulettes, I'd believe you.
So scientists are stating to think the Hippo might not be a vegetarian after all. As they've been found not just opportunistically eating meat, but actively pack hunting certain prey as a food source.
If the people who invented bulettes had actually studied French, they would know that French people would pronounce bulet as “booLAY,” but as soon as you add the extra T and E, it becomes “booLETT.”
Fun fact: the bullette deals 6 less damage with its bite than the Tarrasque’s bite. I don’t know if that makes the Tarrasque weak or the bullette strong as hell
Turns out a bulette bite does almost as much damage as a Tyrannosaurus bite, and at least in the real world T. rex had the greatest bite force of any known land animal ever. So a bulette just has disproportionally strong jaws for an animal its size. Also the Tarrasque is an omnivore so that totally fits.
Gigachad bulette
The Bulette's reproductive cycle is actually much more metal than that, the male usually selects a place to nest, preferably with lots of game, then kills EVERYTHING it find and arranges the bodies in a circle around the selected mating ground to attrack predators and scavengers. This are then also killed and added to the pile, and only then will the Bulette begin eating them, but leaving the bones. While it does so it will dig a shallow pit in the center of the circle of carcasses and put there the bones it isnt eating so he can ground them into bonemeal using his heavy weight and caparace. After grinding down all the bones the stench of the rotten flesh and bonemeal will attract a female which will mate with him on top of the bonemeal until he fucks off somewhere else.
The female then lays around a docen eggs that same night which will hatch by the next morning, reason why Bulette nests arent seen. The mother then makes a loud noise like an elephant to signal the babies to a challenge, in which they fight to the death of the babies or the mother, usually the latter. The survivors are usually just 2 or 3 babies which then eat the mom and the other dead babies. The babies mature fast so is rare to see them much less the entire process in the short time it happens.
that's brutal, chef's kiss
THAT IS SO COOL
Edit: If you don't mind me asking, where did you get this information from?
How tf did anyone learn this?
Yes, both irl and in-fiction.
@@kjj26k Irl from MrRhexx. In-universe some info is kept by very rare scholars, not something you see in the common libraries. Like how most people arent aware of monster weaknesses and the like.
@@kingdestroyah3204 I believe Mr.Rhexx's video on them explained it. He found it in an older source but I don't recall if he said where in the video
The Bulette does have a special place in my heart. Mainly because of the first encounter I had with them as a player. My group was playing Princess of the Apocalypse and we were infiltrating one of the elemental cults. After mkaing it in we got confronted by a boss that had a pet Bulette.
I was playing a Bard and we just reached level 5, so I picked up Enemies Abound, I was actually meaning to pick up Antagonize but mixed those two spells up. I outspeeded both the Bulette and its master, allowing me to cast the spell on it. Now, not only did the Bulette hit the boss, it rolled a crit. A scary one. Our DM then described how the creature looked confused around before setting its sight on a nearby figur, charging at its master and quickly devouring him as it rolled over 80 damage and oneshotet the guy.
A small part of me wanted to adopt the Bulette as a party pet or let it go free as thanks for taking care of the guy. The majority of me however was screaming at my party to quickly kill that monster that just dealt enough damage to insta kill any character in our group while it was still chewing on the entrails of its owner. Good times.
We ended up breaking in at the garden entrance, which is right next to that stairway leading down to where the bulette is caged. So, we ended up blocking access to it.
Which is a gd relief, now that I have context for what it was doing there, right below the monestary.
The centaurs messed us up properly, but we ended up clearing the place out without ever dropping guard on that stairwell.
We also piqued the benign intrest of the.. err.. non-cult inhabitant of that monestary. Fun times.
5:43 "I forgot this existed" and shows the literal origin of the concept of all the creatures discussed so far. Hilarious miss.
I'd say "Post without rhythm and you won't recall the worm," but Runesmith's been very regular.
If you post without rhythm, you're never gonna earn.
Don’t forget that they have a fifteen foot standing vertical leap that they use to Mario ground pound
How come Wizards get heat for combining creatures to make Bulettes and Owlbears, but nobody ever blames them for combining Dwarves with apes to make humans?
That's going in the book!
@@danielsword4629 Tracking grudges? Like a Duergar? A proper Dwarf is better than that.
@@gabrielrussell5531 Insulting dawii-kind? Also going into the book. THE BIG BOOK!
@@alitaher003 You're as much a crime to Dwarvkind as a weird greenskinned Goblin would be to Goblinkind. You shame Moradin, your face will be forever bare, and your clan will be denied any and all alcohol.
Well dwarves are apes too.
There was a Dragon magazine article in the 1980s about the ecology of the Bulette, written from the perspective of a Sage.
One part I remember was farmers would coat their plows with dirt left in the furrows created by the fin, because the Bulette secreted a oil that would transmute rock to mud.
How those farmers didn't get eaten I dont remember.
But that was the mechanism which allowed a Bulette to dig through anything - it was actually constantly swimming through mud, no matter what the surrounding earth was made of.
The details about how it's officially pronounced were very helpful to me. It's a recurring conversation in my D&D group as to what the hell these things are called, now we can settle it (not that it's likely to change how any of us say it).
I always went with "bull-et-ees".
New campaign idea: the forces of law and chaos, gith and illithid, metallic and chromatic, devil and demon, and every other great power in the multiverse convene an emergency moot of the utmost importance.
What could possibly bring all of them to the table?
The Neogi have learned to breed and enslave Bulettes.
You my friend may just be onto something
Now this is an Avenger's Level Threat.
Bruh, that the craziest and most hateable idea ever! If i do that i totally could let homebrew stuff like playable demons, playable yugoloths, lore accurate angels, anything balanced to be playable and FCK IT WE BALL into the neogi nest, motivations? I HATE THOSE GUYS, contradictions with normal lore? I HATE THOSE GUYS, why!?!?! I HATE THOSE GUYS!!!
I love Bulettes. They are by far my favorite monster in dnd, as I own 3 miniatures for it. The idea of a land shark that doesn't care about who or what it attacks is awesome.
Ahh yes, the bane of my Honor Mode runs now that they've been super-buffed
Great Weapon Master at lv 4 and doing the Underground at lv 5 really helps. CC is also good like Command
My favourite part of bulettes is that my party got scared of them after I had one show up to eat a random boar in a mountainside forest one time. It did not even really care about them, it just jumped up to eat and then left but the party of 6 lv2 characters became extremely paranoid to the extent they were trying to figure out how to put a horse in a tree. Even once they got to a point where the land shark was not a danger they still keep a constant lookout for them
You should that this vesios idea, and have them come across the hellhole that is a bulette breeding ground
"They were really cooking in the first four episodes"
What a perfect summery of Zom 100 lol
One of my favorite dumb D&D encounters came from our GM using a "give monsters a random attribute generator thing" and we ended up fighting a aquatic Bulette. I jumped onto boats/through boats, it was great.
The antagonistic empire captures a large number of land sharks and releases them into the territories of the player characters to cripple the food supply of the player's homeland. This acts as a distraction to lure the main force out so that the antagonist can send their full force to take fort importance more. That's my idea and im using it, thanks for the lore dump pal, God bless
I swear i have lost 4 PC's to this one monster, a DM with more than 5 braincells can make them worse than tuckers kobolds
Running a jaws themed campaign but it takes place in a desert . Think the Shallows but sand
Tremors?
I want to put my players through a Tremors 2 scenario. Job is to catch a bullette, they do so a bit easily. One long rest later, there's 2 dozen small bullette babies running around hunting halflings!
Genius idea: given the land shark was created as an SNL reference effectively, I had the idea of "what if a landshark was given human level intelligence, and the ability to speak. And what if he decides he wanted to become a singer, nay...a crooner”
And this is how I came up with ROBERT BOULEEEEEEETTE
Strange personal memory tangent... I'm currently 54yo and have a vivid memory of a reoccurring dream that I'd have as a child (late 70's, God I'm old..😮) where I was being chased by actual land sharks (with arms) just like described, lol.. it was around what was supposed to be my neighborhood but it really wasn't as the houses were all on stilts like the one's build in a swamp or frequently flooded shore.. (tho funny enough, I lived on a tiny island at the South jersey shore near Atlantic City but it didn't have any of these but there were some in the general area)..
So the houses were all on stilts and had docks but there was no water just ground..
And I remember the fins peeking out, stalking me through the dirt and grass, as I had to get to house to house like some game of 'the ground is Lava' (tho you could touch the ground but then that'd alert the sharks.. lol, and they'd come bursting out of the ground, muscular arms and big teeth and all.. 😱🤬 ending that part of the dream, sometimes starting over..)
Now I did play ADnD (gen 1) as an early 80's kid but this was def before that and the Bullette hadn't been invented yet)..
So I think it came from both a mix of seeing 'Jaws' and Chevy Chase's Land Shark Sketch 'Candygram!' from early SNL, lol.. (aside from all the usual psychology of the dreams.. they were scary in the dream but also kinda funny remembering the dream..
Anyway, so my point is just sharing a potentially interesting personal memory really but I've also been playing a lot of Baldur's Gate 3 lately which has an encounter with a Bullette in it and you can imagine it resurfaced those old dream memories.. 😆
Yeah, I was a weird kid. (Who grew up into a weird adult. 😁)
Another person on here who does D&D lore stuff, Mrrhexx, goes into detail of why no one has ever seen them mate, or have ever seen bullette babies
It was covered in a magazine once that after they mate, the babies eat their way out of the mother and then eat each other until there are only four or less of them, which then all go away from each other in opposite directions.
Alternatively, if somehow there is a witness, which should be impossible since they only mate once they’ve run out of prey in their territory, then they eat the witness first then each other.
I made a variant called a Turrete. It functions similarly to the bullette but instead of a powerful bite it can spit rocks at high velocities at its pretty. I can't remember if it was a line or a cone but basically just a breath weapon attack that deals piercing damage. Also has a ranged option to get archers or squishy wizards.
Surprised it wasn't bludgeoning, still a neat and easily replicated critter hack!
Why can I vividly picture a tribe of Troglodytes somehow, sometime, forming a symbiotic relationship with one or more land-sharks, with them working together to raid nearby villages or settlements to get food(mostly from Jeff) and weapons and such for those who no not what grass is.
That Ren and Stimpy clip.... Jesus 😂
1:30 for Nick
Always gotta cite your sources
I'll never forget when my Paladin got one shot by a Bulette. She was level 8 (Paladin 6 Warlock 2) but took 75 damage and was insta killed... I'm traumatized by this monster. Her health was full (something close to 70, i guess 66?)
Instantly on death saves? Or insta-killed? Instant death is reserved for when the attack would have taken you below 0 by your total max HP - in the case where you have 66hp at max it would have to do 132 damage to insta kill (probably over explaining something you already know, but it's something I misunderstood when I first started)
@davidjennings2179 the dm had a houserule that would make you die instantly if your health drops below -10 from damage, plus, bulette has this odd ability when they jump, they do a crazy amount of damage, which added +30ish to the damage i took
1:01 delicious in dungeon mention
Got to love my fantasy cooking speculative biology anime.
Forgetting about Dune is wild.
7:42 - or be the Evil Elemental Earth cultist
I had a town that the players were approaching that used a catapult to fire big rocks out into the field the players were in, which brought the Bulette to them in an attempt to drive them away. Not quite the shark boss, but same idea.
So i had my players encounter two bulletes and i had a hard time describing them so i just showed them a picture.
what came next was a screech with joy and one of them begged to try to tame one. Thats how we got a good boy on team.
Boolay is the pronunciation of the french world boulet which means cannonball
Best origins story of any d&d monster: kaiju + cheap random toys + _Jaws_ + SNL skit + ribbing the French. Awesome!
The party must face the Loan Shark and his Lone Shark
Remember to ask your DM if you can use the hide of that Bulette to make some next level armor.
I used Bulettes as a major plot point in my homebrew campaign. Basically some dwarven mines deep in some mountains were inadvertently also Bullette mating ground (like your salmon analogy) and the party is tasked with helping hold off the assault. The party would only maybe fight one or two if cornered, but it creates a nice combination of dex and athletic checks
I introduced these creatures in my current campaign and now my players won't stop asking to tame and ride them .-.
7:21 You gave me the idea to have a Neogi or an Evil Gnome command a bulette.
Or you could be sent to investigate a sudden disappearance of a halfling village. If these things love eating halflings, then a village of them would be an all-you-can-eat buffet in Candyland.
7:20 I imagine a sentient skeleton mounting them and taming them. They'd not be targeted by the land sharks because of the obvious lack of meat, and the skeleton would supply them with any meat they find, making the sharks like them or putting together that "walking skeleton gives food, walking skeleton good".
I'm genuinely questioning what the thought process behind this supposed monstrosity creating wizard was. I really hope it's not something boring and generic like attempting to create a living weapon or they were just insane. I want to see a DND fantasy monster africanised honey bee type story here. I want to see a horrific monster created by a well meaning wizard from something harmless in a plan that made sense on paper.
Perhaps they lived in an area with sparse vegetaion and were trying to make a creature who could burrow in order to search out mineral and ore deposits, but to make sure the creatures didn't eat said ore, they made them only hunger for meat (the vegetation was too rare to sustain the creature). From there, an arcane variable was out of sorts or perhaps they were distracted, resulting in something that can burrow and has a constant need for meat.
I like the idea that whatever wizard made Bullettes was trying to make something to either aid farmers till the soil in fields while getting rid of small pest animals like moles and rabbits who might steal crops from said fields or make burrows nearby. But when it came time to actually make the creature something went wrong with the spell and his first generation Bullettes ended up way bigger than intended and ate the poor guy.
this is a good and durable creature. i kinda want to make an encounter of one of these, and two smaller ones as minions that jump through the rock like angry missiles.
The Bullette being named that to mock the French just made that monster even more based.
One of my ever favorite monsters
See, i just gave normal sharks a fly speed.
5:46 I remember thinking about bulettes in the Tundra
The Adventures League module DDEX2-04 Mayhem in the Earthspur Mines featured a bulette chasing a minecart! I played it!
The DM openly admitted to us that we should take that route out of an option of two because the chase was great.
My bulettes will now throw my players off the map. Thanks for giving me a new idea to torment them with, Logan!
Ok, one small thing
Boulettes are meatballs, not dumplings. Unless the French are up to something awful, as they tend to
Fun fact, it's implied in BG3 that the owner of the Arcane tower in the Underdark tried to tame the Bulette living there and got eaten by it! So fun!
I once had a party attacked by a bulette, it drug one of the party members underground and buried them while it went back to deal with the others, like an alligator storing its food.
You'd think humans, halflings, elves, and dwarves would all tase pretty much the same (aside from dwarves maybe being less tender), but whatevs.
died laughing at the opening gag. luckily i can still manipulate small items like keyboards which is neat
4:52 I just watched this episode!!!
My party bought 2 beans from a bag of beans while investigating a missing person’s incident in an arboretum. Two rolls and a chase scene later, the TWO bulletes that they rolled successfully mated and they had to deal with a forest full of blights and a nesting mama bullete. They were level 4.
In my setting there is a desert-born nation known as "The Aerovian Empire" which through selective breeding has domesticated Bulette's that have gained a more docile nature and they are used as anything from a substitute for horse's to war mounts (think sand seals) and even household pets.
Even the emperor himself: King Aeroglaive, the Death Knight (he's not an actual Death Knight, it's just his title) has one, and she's the record-holder for the biggest Bulette in the world!
When most people think of sharks, land sharks included, they hear the Jaws theme.
When I think of sharks, land sharks included, I hear "GASHUNK GASHUNK GASHUNK GASHUNK."
A combo monster team up I'd say could be fun is the same idea how some birds team up with wolves to spot prey.
The flying monster could scan above ground and drop things like rocks on the ground near prey to signal the land shark to that location. So if the prey tries to stand still the flying monster and help its partner figure out where it needs to chomp.
Love the T-Rex vision keyed to movement idea 🦈🦖
this just reminds me of land sharks in sky landers.
there is this "supplement" (it doesn't have rules more suggestions) which I like called baby bestiary where having a pet Bulette requires a lot of care to train and keep them trained. I reccomend it as a read. (it has 2 volumes)
My last campaign heavily featured a tribe of barbarians - clan landshark - whose kindred animal was the bulette. They raised them as beasts of burden and war, but also after my party went down an overly detailed line of question we established they also milk them for food. And thus we established in our canon that bulette milk has the consistency of mozzarella….
I made a dragon derived from one of these badboys. It had a sandstorm breath that dealt piercing damage and scared the hell out of my players.
I have an idea: Bulettes popping out of mountains and cliffsides to provide extra challenge to those scaling cliffs
Or we can use Bulettes as Sharkbones for Mario themed campagins
This video appeared for me, I believe entirely because of Jeff the Land Shark. I have consumed enough Marvel Rivals content to get things that aren't really even about the game. Absolute cinema.
6 of them pull Sir Robert's Wagon of Wonders. A traveling magic shop that makes it's way into most of my games...Sir Robert is also a beholder with a thick british accent, a bowler hat, and one giant monocle on his main eye. Full name and title, Sir Robert Beholderton the third Esquire.
Jawesome!
So I actually had a similar encounter in one of the games I was playing where it was essentially tremors and what we decided to do was at this point we had accrued a ton of money so we just started throwing the money everywhere in huge sacks of gold to confuse the predators and we just ran across the sand.
They should have a sharks sense of blood, like think Behemoths fight in monster hunter with the targeting mechanic but with multiple land sharks as a target gets injured 😃👍
Most sharks can smell blood about as well as most fish.
@ yeah I know. Just using the stereotype to explain the idea
My coworker got a puppy named him Bullet I said for Halloween she need to dress him up as a shark because of the Bullette.
Forgotten Realms does have lore on Bulette mating. Would recommend MrRhexx's video on Bulettes.
I love the Godzilla sound effect
My first ever dnd character died to one of these thing exactly in the carriage scenario u mentioned.
I feel vaguely disappointed that this video did not have any reference to the longest running recurring joke in SNL history, the "land shark" routine. I am so terribly, terribly old.
So recently I tried your idea of creating a giant ball of skeletons held together by rope and rolling it at the party from a few years ago. Had it so it was at the top of a stair case and tried to pull an Indiana Jones on them but unfortunately they had a cleric with the ability to kill low level undead by looking at them without a roll so it turned to dust.
I wanna raise a baby one. Though after you described their lore, them going through puberty sounds like it would suck.
YAY NEW VIDEO! LOVE YOUR BOOKS AND VIDS RUNESMITH!
If you like the idea of mini bulettes that work like hunting dogs for orcs check out MCDM's Flee Mortals. They're called mohlers
Land shark = honey Badger
5:42 Bulettes in Dark Sun how about that?
Perfect dwarf mount
A long running idea of mine was to use a fun sized box of nerds as a prop mechanic in my game. The bulette is the perfect way to use this idea! Players discover some dead dude and each get one of these candy boxes. Then they figure out that some mad lad had not only found, but stolen a bunch of eggs from the bulette mating grounds and the players are holding the next generation of these abomination. Oh an local reports of earthquakes and ecological devastation sweeping the plane might not be the gods, just pure parental rage coming for the eggs and hungry to devour anyone who has eaten one of those deliciously tempting sweet candies.
Basically a D&D version of The Problem with Popplers from Futurama but pissed off land sharks instead of aliens.
Fun Fact: Hippos were mistaken for herbivores for quite some time until scientists saw that they eat corpses so they are actually scavengers and omnivores.
Can‘t escape Jeff slander anywhere on the interest these days
"Because its funny to make fun of the French people"
As someone learning the language yes. Yes it is. Their language deserves it
they should team up with harpies
the harpies fly so they're out of range and they charm anyone coming by into staying on the ground in shark range
not sure what they get out of it but maybe the shiny loot (tho only if it survives being digested ig)
Ay HK callout! Also love mocking the french in my pastime, tis a very entertaining hobby! Edit: For the boss idea, hear me out. What if you had arrows, right, with a hyper potent smell of halflings on it? Like a cat laser pointer, but for bulettes?
1:50 ayo anyone remember the soundtrack to this game?
My crazy idea is to have three bulettes as a boss and if the players don’t beat all three in quick enough succession the bbeg hijacks the last living one and eats the other two and becomes a super bulette is is this too crazy
*...and I dub thee:* "Bulette Bill"
"boulette" is not French mispronouncing anything. It literally means "small ball". "pellet" on the other hand, is directly taken from Old French.
And "boo-lay" is mispronouncing modern French, which is extra ironic
STREET SHARKS!
Love me some good old murder mole puppy!
Also, with the new MM coming out, do you plan on integreting it in the series? or re-do certain videos?
I am quite disappointed in myself as an avid D&D, and now Rivals player, that it took this video for me to realize Jeff is a bullette 😅
Ain't that the thing Wurd tried and failed to blow up with an egg?
ooh i didn't think about bulette in the desert. that said I do really want to throw a wizard made some landsharks that can swim encounter at my players just cuz it would be funny.
Y'know, it's just now hitting me, but if you told me they designed the Diablos in Monster Hunter after someone randomly turned the monster manual to the Bulettes, I'd believe you.
So scientists are stating to think the Hippo might not be a vegetarian after all. As they've been found not just opportunistically eating meat, but actively pack hunting certain prey as a food source.
Deeeeeeeeer (may he rest in peace 🫡 )
If the people who invented bulettes had actually studied French, they would know that French people would pronounce bulet as “booLAY,” but as soon as you add the extra T and E, it becomes “booLETT.”