Telepathy within 1 mile? Yikes...can you imagine how mentally loud a large settlement could get?! It would be like an endless stream of Craigslist posts and Twitch chat.
You're just walking through a forest with your other party members, and suddenly you mentally login to the hunting equivalent of a COD lobby chat around some Owlbear by a family of Psi Spellcasters.
When it comes to plot hooks, I like the idea of the Braxat in question being in the middle of stalking an npc who runs across the party's path while traveling. You can make the npc more or less important to the party's interests depending on how much you want them to care about protecting them from the beast.
I can also imagine tech-ing them up & throwing them into Spelljammer, with ships that look like HUGE beetles & upgrading their weapons with some kind of blaster, or clubs that deal electrical damage as well, crackling with energy. Basically, Spelljammer Klingons.
@@DungeonDad I think an interesting idea would be a Player Character or NPC Neutral or possibly fully Good version of them. Imagine a Totem Barbarian Braxat Player Character that would be so awesome.
I'm now imagining a seasoned Braxat that secretly aids/grooms a low level adventuring party in subtle ways because it wants them to grow strong enough to provide said Braxat with a proper "challenge" when it decides they are ready to be hunted. The Braxat knows exactly what kind of hunt it likes, and it's clever and patient enough to build it from the ground up. Perhaps it's been doing this so long it actually runs a business selling specially curated Hunts to other, younger Braxats, and the PCs are just their latest unwitting 'product' to be sold.
Considering they were first introduced in Dark Sun I can still picture them in desert environments. Like what if the party comes across a nomadic tribe of Thri-Kreen that's helpful to them and through some clue gathering the party realizes that Braxat made a temporary truce with the Tlincalli to wipe out the Thri-Kreen. I feel like those two monstrous races could work very well together!
I was just thinking about how weird it is that desert creatures have a frost breath, but then I thought that A) deserts are very cold at night B) an interesting explanation of that could be that they psionically evolved and weaponized their natural cooling mechanism, and what they do is spraying their coolant on enemies. Maybe it doesn't even come out of their mouths, and they could have dedicated organs like bombardier beetles (though maybe not on their butts). On B, I really want to go in with the insectoid aspect of these guys for my campaigns if I get to used them. I was thinking of flavoring them as having beetle-like elitrae (the hardened first wing pair that covers the second) and narrating their dimension door as opening them to unfurl this athropied weird wings that can't really lift them BUT channel psionic energy to twist space. You could even make it so that pcs can learn that wounding the wings messes with the teleportation and deepen combat with that notion... And yeah, sorry for the rant, these guys are cool monsters.
I’m working on a D&D setting much like Athas that takes place on another planet, inhabited by Thri-kreen and Tlincalli (along with other stuff, because that’s just realism). This idea could really work there.
Would be a interesting way for a fighter to learn how to be a Rune Knight. Since they know giant. They had to learn it from somewhere. So what else did they learn.
@@harrietr.5073 where did that come from? Besides read the description for Rune Knight. The practice started with giants. I nor Dungeon Dad didnt said anything about resisting telepathy. So your statement is kinda out of left field somewhere.
Oh, interesting! Maybe that character's parents were adventurers who played such a pivotal role in a braxat's bid for leadership that they were basically adopted into a hunting party afterwards, and their child was raised by braxats after they fell victim to being the parents of a future player character.
The only odd thing about converting the bastards is that they use crappy weapons. In Dark Sun it makes sense, but not when metal isn't scarce. Even if their culture denigrates craftsmanship, they could at least pillage from giants and other large creatures to get superior arms. They could even keep slaves to do smithing and building tasks on their behalf.
It could just be their culture. Strength over tools. They are the weapon and the clubs are just better reach. Why would they need metal like weaker races?
Dude, imagine these guys with Blowguns, Longbows, Crossbows, Spiked Chains, Kasuri Gama, Bolas, even a Polearm... still in the hunter Mindset, but terrifying. And that's not even mentioning them dipping into Psionic Character Levels... always a brutal thing to do with intelligent monsters that are not quite rude enough, or take a lower level monster and bring it up to par.
The interesting thing is the Braxat have higher intelligence then mind flayers..an Ultrathid clocks in at 19, an ELDER brain clocks in at 21..these things have intelligence 26 I believe? Going off that I'd twist it around and say the mind flayers got enslaved by someone else for a change
@@agentchaos9332 Clever idea! Although, you could also come up with an explanation for how thralls more intelligent than them. Both work. EDIT: Double-checking it, the Braxat's intelligence is 16, not 26. Still, one could enslave a small colony of normal illithids if the elder brain was out of the way.
@@keylimepython641 huh...so I checked the link and you're correct they're at 16 there but if you go to 4:21 on the video when he shows the stat sheet there they're at 26..either way 16 seems way more reasonable, I was sitting here wondering how these things are literally smarter then most archdevils and demon princes
@@agentchaos9332 5e toned down the ability scores and tankiness of most bigger monters from 3.5, which is good, because some creatures had +20 modifiers
My theory is that the 3E braxats have a tribal society (instead of being lone wolves) because the MM2 entry is for braxats that exist in settings that aren't resource-starved, and that the Dark Sun version would be the same way if they weren't living in D&D Mad Max Land.
this race looks and sounds amazing! so disappointed that such a detailed and versatile race hasn't made it into the 5th edition, would love to see this as an official race :O
I'd like to suggest the Hangin' Judge from the Deadlands RPG. It's a really awesome and deadly dual-gun-wielding undead monster with some cool lore and a kickass design.
Aw yeah! I found these guys while combing through books looking for lesser known monstrous humanoids and thought they were way too cool to be unknown. Glad it's been fixed!
Hell yeah, Dark Sun is an awesome setting. I'm sure we'll see more Dark Sun critters sooner or later! I am a big fun of the minsters from Athas for the most part.
I've been planing a dark sun campaign for quite a while, but I just started curse of straud with a new group, so I'm on hold. Still, I wish there was more Athas videos on youtube!
In my D&D world the Braxat is just a desert-based variant of the Gray Render, it also is very aggressive, but sometimes adopts a little creature as it's pet/master.
Ohh nice. First thing i thought was what a pc that emulates these beasts would be, fighter, ranger? Then i was like "oh. These are Yautja." Or Predators for them not as geeky.
At first glance, being a Mass Effect veteran I thought, "oooo. Spikey Korgan!" Later into the video, "Enough Ogres and Half-Orcs; this is my new bouncer for the popular inn. ...or the town guard? *shudder*"
Thanks!! I am definitely feeling really energized with the new format and the fact that a lot more folks seem to be coming in to check things out has been a big motivator too!
@@DungeonDad especially with the addition of their reprint I guess you could use the krogan as a basis just replace guns with swords and stuff and you basically got it tweak a few culture things maybe and throw em were ever there is a harsh environment would actually be pretty cool I always loved the krogan
Honestly think that another cool way to use them would be as a rival to the group during a quest as Braxat wants to complete the objective to prove themselves either stronger or smarter to the tribe.
Been binging the content just found your channel recently and I wanted to say amazing ideas and concepts. Keep it up. I look forward to using your creative designs in my games.
I was wondering would you be interested in seeing community homebrew content or are you too busy with your channel and different things going on in your life?
great video. this is so much more flavorful than the 5th edition version we got in spelljammer, which seemed to go back to the way of its original AD&D version.
I really enjoyed that take on the braxat, although it's a creature I'd never heard of before (never played darksun). I did once create a somewhat similarly brutish humanoid race with very similar traits (not as big though and somewhat more neutral in alignment). At first glance, they looked like stupid brutes that would want nothing better to tear the PCs apart, but they had a fairly complex society with hunters, clerics and even a mage. The PCs had some good RP interaction with them for several game sessions, including some very intense fist-fights (it was their main form of entertainment and considered rude to decline a challenge). They even worked alongside a hunting party to help take down a tribe of lizard men and a black dragon that neither group could have handled alone. One of the tribe's females even had a crush on the party paladin, but that role-playing opportunity came to an abrupt end when he became dragon-food.
I loved the episode! Wanted to say I've started noticing more and more little transitions and edits I can appreciate in these episodes (ie; disengaging Brittain, blinking away, Dark Souls 'Hunting party' etc) Maybe they were there from the start and I never saw them until recently. Either way I figured I'd leave a comment and be like "Hey! That's good stuff, I like it."
Such an interesting monster to have converted. Could quite the encounter for the poor ranger or druid who are hunting and gathering in the nearby forest, only to discover that a braxat has been waiting for suitable prey. And, yeah, I don't know what's going on with the dimension door thing. Maybe Oprah was feeling generous that day, but also happened to run out of cars to give away.
Could work as a mercenary that can keep its distance from mindflayers with the long range telepathy. Works as the mindflayers don't like non thralls knowing their location.
Braxit kinda sound like a good stand-in for Predator. Also, some ideas how to use them in campaign: BBEG hires Braxit hunting party to hunt down the adventurers. Braxit poses as a brute/bodyguard for some scrawny, small guy you assumed was BBEG, only then we find out actually the Braxit IS BBEG and the guy up front is mind-controlled.
I was listening to this, thinking "gee, these guys sound SO familiar. Didn't they show up in Spelljammer", so I went and checked and yup! Wild how they changed them from 3.5 though! Since now they look like weird triceratops and have acid breath instead of cold
I am absolutely thankful that YT introduced me to this channel because I am absolutely loving the monsters in these videos. These vids also help me be a gremlin and give my party's DM ideas >:)
You could very easily turn these guys into a decent analogue of the Preditors, change them from cruel monsters toying with their pray, to honorable hunters. A quest where the party ends up accidentally taking part in a hunt could be a lot of fun.
In fact, as I've thought about it, I think it would've been much cooler if they were created by an "Enlightened" Society of Psychics who weeded out their own Negative Traits, giving it this form. They could tfen expel them, keeping their Wondrous Utopia in tact or keep it around and Indulge their Denied Vices by watching it terrorize all while living guilt free that it isn't them doing the horrible things. Oh, that's good.
I for sure read 'Nightmarish Rhino Beetle Ogre PRISON' and thought oh cool so its like a armor or a shell put on ogres to torture them and severely reduce their mobility but not take it away completely because they're used as some kind of war-machine or slave soldier unit or something.
I used the Braxat as a Noble's bodyguard. A noble whos wealth allowed the Braxat to pursue and satisfy it's lust for murder and the hunt without consequence. This noble and his minion posed a threat to the party up until early-mid campaign.
Running Decent into Avernus and decided to make one of the Warlords a Braxat riding a heavy monster grinder. needless to say I'm excited for my PCs to meet him and his crew.
Oh I'm so happy you've brought this bad boy out. In the teens my party will be going to fantasy wild Australia, and this will blend well with the fun seeping psionic anger that's poisoning the land.
Got the mini for this and plan to use it in my endgame as Baphomets newest creation. Ill probably give it goristro level attacks and hp so its more lethal
Not usually a dm but damn I love me some lore. Been playing since 2nd and I gotta say thank you for updating some of my fav monsters. Can't wait for my turn to dm. Been working on a campaign where it's basically the SCP foundation and you have given me so many ideas as well as reminding me of the blasts from the past
The Braxat who probes the mind of my Tiefling Warlock, seeing what kind of Powerful Creatures Suffered a Horrible Death by his Hand: ,,ABANDON HUNT! I REPEAT: ABANDON HUNT!"
Love the stat block and the video was amazing! Funny enough, the Braxat are in 5e now as part of the new astral menagerie in the new spelljammer release!
As someone running Light of Xaryxis, who is severely underwhelmed by the Braxat as presented in the Astral Menagerie, I will absolutely be using this in the Arena battle instead.
Now I want to have a campaign where one is running for leadership of a city state, using it's psionic abilities to stack things in their favour, and it's up to the Player party to stop them.
Commenting mainly for the algorithm. But this works perfectly for a campaign I'm running. I want a zone of the map that's just a psionic nebula like death land. It's kinda a check against over reliance on casters. And a way to introduce more variety into the game. This is a perfect moster to have in the area. Ill probably chevk out the book for a few nore creatures as well. thanks
I know I'm a touch late, but here's a fun setup for a Braxat adventure. A young, clever Braxat is trying to test his mettle and hears that a worthy target, an adventuring party, is in a local town. So said Braxat raids the country side, and after killing a few of the residents, he kidnaps one of the locals. After hearing that the party is coming after him, he psychically taunts the party, saying how he's gonna enjoy his meal. Once the party arrives at his camp, they see the captive alive, but unbeknownst to them, the captive is simply bait to expose them and allow the Braxat to get the jump on them
I can imagine these guys being excellent assassin squads sent by devils to kill the party. Or any enemies. They come across to me like brutal mercenaries. I also like the idea that like Aboloths, they telepathically toy with their prey.
I would love to see how a hunting party of Braxat interact with a tribe of kobolds. They both have a passion for traps after all, and if they work together, it could result in a superstructure dungeon loaded to the brim with difficult traps and complex combat encounters with the symbiotic interactions between the pairing.
A weird peace between giant and Braxat. They are allies but every 10-100 years they gather their greatest warriors and hunters and have wargames to see who controls the best hunting grounds for the rest of the cycle. One of these factions commissions the party to join these war games in their favor.
So if a township managed to make an uneasy alliance with a tribe of orcs, awful as they are but paid off or allowed to have a melee once a year to sell them weapons, the idea that a meaner race could come in and make the normally easy-bad-guy orcs become the lesser of 2 evils is interesting. Gotta help out the orcs in order to help the town and the Braxat are notably more interested in wiping out everything or turning them into prey. Mayor: I mean, yeah, the orcs are a constant headache, start fights, keep threatening to attack, but they at least don't go on murder rampages. These Braxat are trying to siege the town as a giant hunting game and telepathicly taunt us in the middle of the night! Go help the murderous horde kill the other murderous horde, please. I'm sure there will be no backstabbing or honor duels.
Been binging for a day since i just found the channel loving it. Not sure if theres already a video on them or not but ide love to see something on the Sinister.despite their name im pretry sure they were good aligned oddly enough.
I can't help but think a party dealing with a group at early levels, then by the end of the campaign the party needs to gather allies for some reason(invasion from the Lower Planes purghaps?) and they go to all the intelligent races/groups they've met before to try and get them on board(like a more extensive DA:O)
Braxat pc battlemage, have to nerf em a bit and get creative with the back story, but it would be super cool to have a sort of int strength paladin to the elder god of the hunt from Lovecrafts dreamscape
imagina a braxat using telepathy to terrorise a party, while acting like a mindless beast whenever exposed to the party. the party would spend all their time trying to figure out what this creature is and who the person in their head commanding it is. only when theyve got it close to defeat does it stun them all with mind blast and then BOOM! massive reveal when the braxat stands upright and just starts talking normally. disappears one second, pops back up a few minutes later loaded to the teeth and horns with gear.
One correction; braxats traditionally have a cone of ACID for a breath weapon; the cone of cold breath weapon is an aberration only seen in its 3rd edition incarnation, with 2e, 4e and 5e all using acid instead.
Man I was really enjoying everything until around the 2-minute mark when the f-bombs started coming in. oh well.
Brutal murder by giant monsters is fine but them cutting words must be too graphic 😭
Sex is counterrevolutionary, tovarisch.
Fair.
The pin of shame has found a lovely victim once again
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Telepathy within 1 mile? Yikes...can you imagine how mentally loud a large settlement could get?! It would be like an endless stream of Craigslist posts and Twitch chat.
holy cow, I never even considered that! Too hilarious lmao
You're just walking through a forest with your other party members, and suddenly you mentally login to the hunting equivalent of a COD lobby chat around some Owlbear by a family of Psi Spellcasters.
😂😂😂
Rogue turning the radio into a cod lobby
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The Braxat talk big, by which I mean they speak giant
Get this person in the writers room.
Dude... Killing it.
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Crushing it like a Braxat!
When can we expect your dark sun monster ecology series AJ?
When it comes to plot hooks, I like the idea of the Braxat in question being in the middle of stalking an npc who runs across the party's path while traveling. You can make the npc more or less important to the party's interests depending on how much you want them to care about protecting them from the beast.
That’s a great idea for a potential quest!
I can also imagine tech-ing them up & throwing them into Spelljammer, with ships that look like HUGE beetles & upgrading their weapons with some kind of blaster, or clubs that deal electrical damage as well, crackling with energy. Basically, Spelljammer Klingons.
Oh hell yeah!
Force weapons for gravity/power mauls
Damn u were spot on lmao
I was thinking something similar but more on the predator side
Spelljammer Predators.
You missed a golden opportunity to say, "Hasty creatures are tasty creatures..." For shame.
I’m working on a homebrew DnD campaign and I can imagine a braxat as an old, grizzled gladiator.
They'd fit the role perfectly
@@DungeonDad I think an interesting idea would be a Player Character or NPC Neutral or possibly fully Good version of them. Imagine a Totem Barbarian Braxat Player Character that would be so awesome.
So basically they're like psionic rhino/beetle goliaths?
I'm now imagining a seasoned Braxat that secretly aids/grooms a low level adventuring party in subtle ways because it wants them to grow strong enough to provide said Braxat with a proper "challenge" when it decides they are ready to be hunted. The Braxat knows exactly what kind of hunt it likes, and it's clever and patient enough to build it from the ground up. Perhaps it's been doing this so long it actually runs a business selling specially curated Hunts to other, younger Braxats, and the PCs are just their latest unwitting 'product' to be sold.
Considering they were first introduced in Dark Sun I can still picture them in desert environments. Like what if the party comes across a nomadic tribe of Thri-Kreen that's helpful to them and through some clue gathering the party realizes that Braxat made a temporary truce with the Tlincalli to wipe out the Thri-Kreen. I feel like those two monstrous races could work very well together!
Ah man, that's a great idea. So many awesome desert creatures that we hardly get to see!
I imagine they'd be pretty happy in stepplands as well.
I was just thinking about how weird it is that desert creatures have a frost breath, but then I thought that
A) deserts are very cold at night
B) an interesting explanation of that could be that they psionically evolved and weaponized their natural cooling mechanism, and what they do is spraying their coolant on enemies. Maybe it doesn't even come out of their mouths, and they could have dedicated organs like bombardier beetles (though maybe not on their butts).
On B, I really want to go in with the insectoid aspect of these guys for my campaigns if I get to used them.
I was thinking of flavoring them as having beetle-like elitrae (the hardened first wing pair that covers the second) and narrating their dimension door as opening them to unfurl this athropied weird wings that can't really lift them BUT channel psionic energy to twist space.
You could even make it so that pcs can learn that wounding the wings messes with the teleportation and deepen combat with that notion...
And yeah, sorry for the rant, these guys are cool monsters.
I’m working on a D&D setting much like Athas that takes place on another planet, inhabited by Thri-kreen and Tlincalli (along with other stuff, because that’s just realism). This idea could really work there.
Would be a interesting way for a fighter to learn how to be a Rune Knight. Since they know giant. They had to learn it from somewhere. So what else did they learn.
An amazing question, I love that line of thinking.
If a Rune Knight naturally resists telepathy, their runes didn't come from some Giant or Dwarf.
@@harrietr.5073 where did that come from? Besides read the description for Rune Knight. The practice started with giants.
I nor Dungeon Dad didnt said anything about resisting telepathy. So your statement is kinda out of left field somewhere.
Oh, interesting! Maybe that character's parents were adventurers who played such a pivotal role in a braxat's bid for leadership that they were basically adopted into a hunting party afterwards, and their child was raised by braxats after they fell victim to being the parents of a future player character.
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The only odd thing about converting the bastards is that they use crappy weapons. In Dark Sun it makes sense, but not when metal isn't scarce. Even if their culture denigrates craftsmanship, they could at least pillage from giants and other large creatures to get superior arms. They could even keep slaves to do smithing and building tasks on their behalf.
It could just be their culture. Strength over tools. They are the weapon and the clubs are just better reach. Why would they need metal like weaker races?
Dude, imagine these guys with Blowguns, Longbows, Crossbows, Spiked Chains, Kasuri Gama, Bolas, even a Polearm... still in the hunter Mindset, but terrifying. And that's not even mentioning them dipping into Psionic Character Levels... always a brutal thing to do with intelligent monsters that are not quite rude enough, or take a lower level monster and bring it up to par.
These would make great Mind Flayer Thralls in a different setting.
Absolutely. They've already got psionic powers baked in, let's get those tadpoles going!
The interesting thing is the Braxat have higher intelligence then mind flayers..an Ultrathid clocks in at 19, an ELDER brain clocks in at 21..these things have intelligence 26 I believe? Going off that I'd twist it around and say the mind flayers got enslaved by someone else for a change
@@agentchaos9332 Clever idea! Although, you could also come up with an explanation for how thralls more intelligent than them. Both work. EDIT: Double-checking it, the Braxat's intelligence is 16, not 26. Still, one could enslave a small colony of normal illithids if the elder brain was out of the way.
@@keylimepython641 huh...so I checked the link and you're correct they're at 16 there but if you go to 4:21 on the video when he shows the stat sheet there they're at 26..either way 16 seems way more reasonable, I was sitting here wondering how these things are literally smarter then most archdevils and demon princes
@@agentchaos9332 5e toned down the ability scores and tankiness of most bigger monters from 3.5, which is good, because some creatures had +20 modifiers
My theory is that the 3E braxats have a tribal society (instead of being lone wolves) because the MM2 entry is for braxats that exist in settings that aren't resource-starved, and that the Dark Sun version would be the same way if they weren't living in D&D Mad Max Land.
this race looks and sounds amazing! so disappointed that such a detailed and versatile race hasn't made it into the 5th edition, would love to see this as an official race :O
Hey everyone! Thanks for watching, catch y'all in the next one. Don't forget to hit me with your best Monster Suggestions!
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Not a monster suggestion. (Sorry)
But do we see the next Theros lore video soon? Can't wait ☺️
I'd like to suggest the Hangin' Judge from the Deadlands RPG. It's a really awesome and deadly dual-gun-wielding undead monster with some cool lore and a kickass design.
Aw yeah! I found these guys while combing through books looking for lesser known monstrous humanoids and thought they were way too cool to be unknown. Glad it's been fixed!
Dude, I’m literally preparing a Dark Sun campaign for later this year. More of these, please!
Hell yeah, Dark Sun is an awesome setting. I'm sure we'll see more Dark Sun critters sooner or later! I am a big fun of the minsters from Athas for the most part.
I'm Gming a Darksun campaign now and my pcs are currently being stalked by one
I've been planing a dark sun campaign for quite a while, but I just started curse of straud with a new group, so I'm on hold. Still, I wish there was more Athas videos on youtube!
You should check out the 4e Dark Sun creature catalogue, it has loads of Dark Sun monsters that can be easily converted to 5e.
Nice, is possible to adapt dark sun for 5e? I started D&D with 5e but learning about srttings of 2e, they are just amazing
The Braxat really seem like telepathic Lizardfolk, both and personality and culture. That's pretty cool
In my D&D world the Braxat is just a desert-based variant of the Gray Render, it also is very aggressive, but sometimes adopts a little creature as it's pet/master.
I love that!
Ohh nice. First thing i thought was what a pc that emulates these beasts would be, fighter, ranger? Then i was like "oh. These are Yautja." Or Predators for them not as geeky.
Ah, good ol' Dark Sun! The Mad Max of D&D!
At first glance, being a Mass Effect veteran I thought, "oooo. Spikey Korgan!"
Later into the video, "Enough Ogres and Half-Orcs; this is my new bouncer for the popular inn. ...or the town guard? *shudder*"
Dude I am loving the new format. You seem to be having more fun. The shirt thing is a thing of the past. Shit you could be a gameshow host now lol.
Thanks!! I am definitely feeling really energized with the new format and the fact that a lot more folks seem to be coming in to check things out has been a big motivator too!
All I can for some reason think of is sadistic krogan especially with the desert environment of dark sun
Oh man, in a spelljammer type campaign these guys would totally be krogan
@@DungeonDad especially with the addition of their reprint I guess you could use the krogan as a basis just replace guns with swords and stuff and you basically got it tweak a few culture things maybe and throw em were ever there is a harsh environment would actually be pretty cool I always loved the krogan
The description of Dark Sun as the Mario level is so accurate, lol.
Play them in a similar vein to the Predators from the film. Honor and brutality.
So you basically took a polar bear, gave it magic, sentient intelligence and a sadistic streak a mile high. Good job!
Honestly think that another cool way to use them would be as a rival to the group during a quest as Braxat wants to complete the objective to prove themselves either stronger or smarter to the tribe.
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Alright, I'm sold. I want to go to this planet immediately. You've already found the perfect free buffet for me, why am I not subscribed?
Been binging the content just found your channel recently and I wanted to say amazing ideas and concepts. Keep it up. I look forward to using your creative designs in my games.
Heck yeah, thanks for watchin'!
I was wondering would you be interested in seeing community homebrew content or are you too busy with your channel and different things going on in your life?
great video. this is so much more flavorful than the 5th edition version we got in spelljammer, which seemed to go back to the way of its original AD&D version.
I really enjoyed that take on the braxat, although it's a creature I'd never heard of before (never played darksun). I did once create a somewhat similarly brutish humanoid race with very similar traits (not as big though and somewhat more neutral in alignment). At first glance, they looked like stupid brutes that would want nothing better to tear the PCs apart, but they had a fairly complex society with hunters, clerics and even a mage. The PCs had some good RP interaction with them for several game sessions, including some very intense fist-fights (it was their main form of entertainment and considered rude to decline a challenge). They even worked alongside a hunting party to help take down a tribe of lizard men and a black dragon that neither group could have handled alone. One of the tribe's females even had a crush on the party paladin, but that role-playing opportunity came to an abrupt end when he became dragon-food.
damn Carnage Kabuto really got his glow up
I loved the episode!
Wanted to say I've started noticing more and more little transitions and edits I can appreciate in these episodes (ie; disengaging Brittain, blinking away, Dark Souls 'Hunting party' etc)
Maybe they were there from the start and I never saw them until recently.
Either way I figured I'd leave a comment and be like "Hey! That's good stuff, I like it."
Thanks for saying so! I've been definitely trying to expariment more with editing and stuff so I'm gald you noticed!
It's like an entire race of beast wars rhinox when he turned the evil for an episode
Would love to see them use twin repeating crossbows after blinking at a advantageous height.
Such an interesting monster to have converted. Could quite the encounter for the poor ranger or druid who are hunting and gathering in the nearby forest, only to discover that a braxat has been waiting for suitable prey.
And, yeah, I don't know what's going on with the dimension door thing. Maybe Oprah was feeling generous that day, but also happened to run out of cars to give away.
You get a Dimension Door! And You get a Dimension Door!!! EVERYONE GET'S DIMENSION DOOOOOORS!
Now, the last question is, how haven't they taken the world yet?
The dragon sorcerers like to eat these beings as sacrifices for their continued ascension.
I'm totally using this. My players are unknowingly dealing with an elder brain, you think this would work as a "summoned guard?"😊
I think that will work beautifully
Could work as a mercenary that can keep its distance from mindflayers with the long range telepathy. Works as the mindflayers don't like non thralls knowing their location.
I think one of these would do grat as a mob Boss
That would be a very unexpected twist
I legit laughed at the photo montage of Braxats in historic paintings.
Culture: It's not just for old timey paintings anymore.
Braxit kinda sound like a good stand-in for Predator.
Also, some ideas how to use them in campaign:
BBEG hires Braxit hunting party to hunt down the adventurers.
Braxit poses as a brute/bodyguard for some scrawny, small guy you assumed was BBEG, only then we find out actually the Braxit IS BBEG and the guy up front is mind-controlled.
Holy shit, this chanel needs more exposure! Amazing work!
Bless you 🙏🏽
"Has nothing to do with the UK exiting the European Union"
(Insert McConaughey meme)
"Be a lot cooler if they did."
Hell yeah! Can't wait to drop this heavy Boi into my Dark Sun game.
Tell your players I said good luck!
I was listening to this, thinking "gee, these guys sound SO familiar. Didn't they show up in Spelljammer", so I went and checked and yup!
Wild how they changed them from 3.5 though! Since now they look like weird triceratops and have acid breath instead of cold
This editing is obscenly good.
Thanks dude
2:10 bard:you best believe i want to fuck with everything
This got recommended to me like half an hour ago. Let the binge commence!
Welcome to the channel!
Listening to this while mining in the wilderness in OSRS; hearing the damage sound effect got my heart pumping just a bit haha thought I'd been shot
I remember being obsessed w the art for these as a kid 😂
AJ Pickett led me here. Good show guys I now have a new channel to binge 😀
Welcome!!
Dude love this channel keep up the great work!
❤🔥Thank you so much!
I am absolutely thankful that YT introduced me to this channel because I am absolutely loving the monsters in these videos.
These vids also help me be a gremlin and give my party's DM ideas >:)
The moment you said, "Australian Ecolution" I imagined them with an Australian accent.
I remember the Braxat from the delightfully unbalanced and poorly tested Monster Manual II! Huzzah!
Poor game testing for everyone! ! !
It's fine if you want to throw challenges at your players. Especially with the dragons from that book.
Still love your channel.
Videos getting better and better.
And the monsters are always great.
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the mini rant on teleporting and then teleporting? comedy gold
You could very easily turn these guys into a decent analogue of the Preditors, change them from cruel monsters toying with their pray, to honorable hunters. A quest where the party ends up accidentally taking part in a hunt could be a lot of fun.
They seemed a whole lot more interesting as a lone creature than just another tribal society.
In fact, as I've thought about it, I think it would've been much cooler if they were created by an "Enlightened" Society of Psychics who weeded out their own Negative Traits, giving it this form. They could tfen expel them, keeping their Wondrous Utopia in tact or keep it around and Indulge their Denied Vices by watching it terrorize all while living guilt free that it isn't them doing the horrible things.
Oh, that's good.
I do wonder if DAD will cover the Lurker Above. Something fun I found going through one of my books.
"Physique of thor, but the cunning of loki" So... Odin?
I for sure read 'Nightmarish Rhino Beetle Ogre PRISON' and thought oh cool so its like a armor or a shell put on ogres to torture them and severely reduce their mobility but not take it away completely because they're used as some kind of war-machine or slave soldier unit or something.
Excellent video!
I used the Braxat as a Noble's bodyguard. A noble whos wealth allowed the Braxat to pursue and satisfy it's lust for murder and the hunt without consequence. This noble and his minion posed a threat to the party up until early-mid campaign.
Calling something from Athas nightmarish is like calling a sword sharp. It's kind of implied.
Running Decent into Avernus and decided to make one of the Warlords a Braxat riding a heavy monster grinder. needless to say I'm excited for my PCs to meet him and his crew.
After watching this, I'm getting the impression that someone had the thought, "what if we made a race of basically Doomsday-lite ultra-pragmatists?"
Oh I'm so happy you've brought this bad boy out. In the teens my party will be going to fantasy wild Australia, and this will blend well with the fun seeping psionic anger that's poisoning the land.
Sounds like a match made in whatever the Australian equivalent of heaven is!
Got the mini for this and plan to use it in my endgame as Baphomets newest creation. Ill probably give it goristro level attacks and hp so its more lethal
Not usually a dm but damn I love me some lore. Been playing since 2nd and I gotta say thank you for updating some of my fav monsters. Can't wait for my turn to dm.
Been working on a campaign where it's basically the SCP foundation and you have given me so many ideas as well as reminding me of the blasts from the past
The Braxat who probes the mind of my Tiefling Warlock, seeing what kind of Powerful Creatures Suffered a Horrible Death by his Hand: ,,ABANDON HUNT! I REPEAT: ABANDON HUNT!"
Rhino Beetle Ogre?
Hey, it’s the Gouki squad!!!
A Braxat tribe would be a very interesting origin either for a player or an NPC that wants to be that anything goes type of character.
Love the stat block and the video was amazing! Funny enough, the Braxat are in 5e now as part of the new astral menagerie in the new spelljammer release!
As someone running Light of Xaryxis, who is severely underwhelmed by the Braxat as presented in the Astral Menagerie, I will absolutely be using this in the Arena battle instead.
Now I want to have a campaign where one is running for leadership of a city state, using it's psionic abilities to stack things in their favour, and it's up to the Player party to stop them.
Commenting mainly for the algorithm. But this works perfectly for a campaign I'm running. I want a zone of the map that's just a psionic nebula like death land. It's kinda a check against over reliance on casters. And a way to introduce more variety into the game. This is a perfect moster to have in the area. Ill probably chevk out the book for a few nore creatures as well. thanks
dude. This is gonna fit into my 5e spelljammer campaign I'm writing.
Hell yeah! Spelljammer is dope!
I know I'm a touch late, but here's a fun setup for a Braxat adventure. A young, clever Braxat is trying to test his mettle and hears that a worthy target, an adventuring party, is in a local town. So said Braxat raids the country side, and after killing a few of the residents, he kidnaps one of the locals. After hearing that the party is coming after him, he psychically taunts the party, saying how he's gonna enjoy his meal. Once the party arrives at his camp, they see the captive alive, but unbeknownst to them, the captive is simply bait to expose them and allow the Braxat to get the jump on them
I can imagine these guys being excellent assassin squads sent by devils to kill the party. Or any enemies. They come across to me like brutal mercenaries. I also like the idea that like Aboloths, they telepathically toy with their prey.
Hmm, interesting. (not to mention several threats in one)
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I'm picturing them like a mixture of Bane and Skullker
I would love to see how a hunting party of Braxat interact with a tribe of kobolds. They both have a passion for traps after all, and if they work together, it could result in a superstructure dungeon loaded to the brim with difficult traps and complex combat encounters with the symbiotic interactions between the pairing.
A weird peace between giant and Braxat. They are allies but every 10-100 years they gather their greatest warriors and hunters and have wargames to see who controls the best hunting grounds for the rest of the cycle.
One of these factions commissions the party to join these war games in their favor.
So if a township managed to make an uneasy alliance with a tribe of orcs, awful as they are but paid off or allowed to have a melee once a year to sell them weapons, the idea that a meaner race could come in and make the normally easy-bad-guy orcs become the lesser of 2 evils is interesting. Gotta help out the orcs in order to help the town and the Braxat are notably more interested in wiping out everything or turning them into prey.
Mayor: I mean, yeah, the orcs are a constant headache, start fights, keep threatening to attack, but they at least don't go on murder rampages. These Braxat are trying to siege the town as a giant hunting game and telepathicly taunt us in the middle of the night! Go help the murderous horde kill the other murderous horde, please. I'm sure there will be no backstabbing or honor duels.
Been binging for a day since i just found the channel loving it. Not sure if theres already a video on them or not but ide love to see something on the Sinister.despite their name im pretry sure they were good aligned oddly enough.
I haven't covered those guys yet. I'll add 'em to the list!
@@DungeonDad awesome cant wait to see them someday. Thanks for all the amazing work.
I can't help but think a party dealing with a group at early levels, then by the end of the campaign the party needs to gather allies for some reason(invasion from the Lower Planes purghaps?) and they go to all the intelligent races/groups they've met before to try and get them on board(like a more extensive DA:O)
"Great club"? uyou mean, Sequoia dont you?!
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This monster is in the spell jammers adventure in space book. It’s really cool.
Braxat pc battlemage, have to nerf em a bit and get creative with the back story, but it would be super cool to have a sort of int strength paladin to the elder god of the hunt from Lovecrafts dreamscape
Thanks for the info
imagina a braxat using telepathy to terrorise a party, while acting like a mindless beast whenever exposed to the party. the party would spend all their time trying to figure out what this creature is and who the person in their head commanding it is. only when theyve got it close to defeat does it stun them all with mind blast and then BOOM! massive reveal when the braxat stands upright and just starts talking normally. disappears one second, pops back up a few minutes later loaded to the teeth and horns with gear.
I can also see these things being some sort of experiment of Mindflayers or some such Aberration
One correction; braxats traditionally have a cone of ACID for a breath weapon; the cone of cold breath weapon is an aberration only seen in its 3rd edition incarnation, with 2e, 4e and 5e all using acid instead.
Good stuff mr dad
Thank you mr wolf 🐺
I think a Braxat could make an interesting PC. Although it might be a bit broken in 5e without 3.5e/PF1e's level adjustment system.