Thanks for inventing a new game for me: Fifty Shades of D&D and new exclusive beast: Asster Eater to menacing the new naughty dungeon. For those joining our game, the safety phrase is: Is your Roper circumcised?
I just wrapped up a campaign about this time last year with Atropus as the BBEG. I didn't use him as well as I would've liked, but still, the image of them fighting on a ruined moonlet full of undead, as they attempt to bring down Atropus' aspect, with the planet below them will forever be one of my favorite images from our games. Also, happy birthday.
One of my favorite creatures! Also you guys absolutely crack me up. Happy birthday! This dropped while I was prepping for next session. Now I feel inspired by the light of malevolent stars…
The fact that these things apparently show up right before Great rituals are cast makes me wonder what the world look like right before a dude cast Karsis Avatar. Looked like a hellraiser movie I bet. Could also be that those anti-magic worm things they were fighting may have been star spawn of a type, in a weird self-filling prophecy type of situation. THAT would be cool narratively.
Great episode as always guys! Somebody else mentioned this but the 5e star spawn are really like the foulspawn from 4e, so it is an odd design choice to change their name like this. You also mentioned the fact that the larva mage turn into an insect swarm and that it is a shame that it probably can't escape like that. But what if it turned into a swarm of worms instead (basically an insect swarm but with a burrowing speed)? It would be more in line with the design of the monster and make it easier for it to escape. And, I don't know, a big mass of squirming worms would be really gross xD
Dender lives in Kelemvor’s realm and has devoured a sun before. She was a character in the Avatar series. There are also a lot of sentient stars that count as elder evils even tho they are mostly neutral and one is even good aligned
Ao didn't not create all the gods. Even if we ignore pantheons that are present in other DnD settings like the Dwarven and Elven ones that are present in Greyspace, the Mulhorandi pantheon came from another world to free their people who were kidnapped and enslaved by the Imaskari. The Celestial Empire/Bureaucracy of Kara-Tur is also seperate from all of this, if I remember right. Ao is just the overgod of Realmspace, he's basically just there to manage divine things.
The 5e version of these annoys me because these are not the 4e starspawn (found in MM2 on page 195 and in MM3 on page 184) - these are the 4e foulspawn (found in MM on page 112). The 4e starspawn are so much more interesting in my opinion.
About to run a 1-17 campaign featuring star spawn. Starts after a falling star lands near Waterdeep. Really looking forward to it. Topping it off with the Emissary.
It's sad how the 3.X's Alienist PrC is always so long forgotten. Skip the whole worshipping and sacrificing parts of the deal and get right in to the summoning of Lovecraftian horrors. Hell, even have your familiar be transformed in to an adorable little Shub goatbaby monstrosity. The Star Spawn feel like someone wanted to add Lovecraft monsters to D&D without knowing anything about the history of Aberrations. It's some of the most on the nose, uninspired, stuff to come out of D&D and that's taking it as an aside from 4th as a whole.
Bane’s position might be interesting depending on certain player choices in BG3. The dead three stand to gain or loose everything based on what I can put together
An Atropal, and Atropus, The World Born Dead, are two different things. The first is a monster with stats that you can fight and kill, is most commonly a stillborn baby God, and is definitely NOT an Elder Evil in its own right. Atropus, the actual Elder Evil, is as you said an undead planet, that may or may not be the severed head of the Prime Mover, the missing head (Haha) of the human Pantheon, creator of the human race and one of Ao's lieutenants. Both by virtue of its easily god level power and ridiculous size, Atropal doesnt have stats and can't be defeated in the manner of a regular monster. Similar names, but two very different beings, which you kinda conflated into the same thing. Also you should check out the Star Spawn Emissaries from Van Ritchen's guide to Ravenloft. Adds 2 additional, much higher leveled types of Star Spawn
You guys are awesome!! Love the show. I’m relatively new to the game and have learned so much lore and other cool shit from you guys! You guys know your shit and your fucking funny too!! Thanks for all the knowledge.
Yes do it Ben. Ohhhh no Ben it seems you took 3D10 lighting damage. If freaking dieing over here from Ben's damn lighting damage. LOL 😆 great show today guys
Glad you are enjoying the skits! I know our pronunciation is probably off because of our character voices, but the characters names are "Beern" and "Illian".
the novels covering Fourth edition, the spellplague, were great x.x Each change made to forgotten realms wasn’t the retcon its being made out to be. many of them were stories six books long. It sucks that this narrative exists, many of them are on audible, give them a read
The real truth abouth starspawn isnt that they were foulspawn in 4e, is that theye were an even more obscure thing called an Ushemoi in 3.5 but never mentioned again. I swear if you look them up! they are exacly like the seer, grue, and Hulks
For attacking a creature that's in the same space as an ally, couldn't you just treat it the same as if your ally was grappling it? Maybe I'm not up on the rules but it seems adding a chance of hitting the ally would do the trick.
@@Thedungeoncast oh! My bad. I can't seem to remember when specific content is released (obviously not your problem). Jeez. I just realized that two weeks ago actually feels like a lifetime ago 🤣🤣
There was a time when new Planescape content would have been super exciting but after the way WoTC butchered Ravenloft and Spelljammer i kind of want them to just leave the classic settings alone. The Ravenloft reboot took a deep detailed gothic setting and turned it into a series of shallow scooby doo episodes. Spelljammer wasnt AS bad but had very little of the charm that it originally did..
I always saw them as more bubblegum pop meets emo with other true emo bands like The Used, MCR, etc standing a bit apart from them. But Emo isn't my genre so my knowledge is limited.
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Every time I think I’m over incorporating Lovecraftian horrors into my games you guys drop an episode like this and pull me back in.
Can't have too much Eldritch evil.
Holy hell. Used to watch you guys a long time back. Glad you guys have stuck around. And NG3 has rekindled my interest in DnD lore again.
Yeah we are still at it and will be for as long as we can! Awesome to hear you're getting back into the game! Thanks for the support!
Wait, the grue are psychic minions? I thought Gru HAD a bunch of minions. Little annoying yellow guys? No? Damn, cuz that would be evil AF.
HELLLLLL YEAH, I submitted these guys as a video topic to Dungeon Dad a few months ago.
They're a real... SPAWN-taneous conversation STARter.
Thanks for inventing a new game for me: Fifty Shades of D&D and new exclusive beast: Asster Eater to menacing the new naughty dungeon.
For those joining our game, the safety phrase is: Is your Roper circumcised?
I just wrapped up a campaign about this time last year with Atropus as the BBEG. I didn't use him as well as I would've liked, but still, the image of them fighting on a ruined moonlet full of undead, as they attempt to bring down Atropus' aspect, with the planet below them will forever be one of my favorite images from our games.
Also, happy birthday.
One of my favorite creatures! Also you guys absolutely crack me up. Happy birthday! This dropped while I was prepping for next session. Now I feel inspired by the light of malevolent stars…
Loved the carter episodes of SQS that Brian ran. They were a great time
If I ever run a star spawn Gru, it will definitely have a Polish accent and if it downs a player it will yell “knocked oooover!”
This is so timely! Working out a new campaign having these in mind as support for my BEG great old one
I have the same "Beware the smiling DM" sticker
The fact that these things apparently show up right before Great rituals are cast makes me wonder what the world look like right before a dude cast Karsis Avatar.
Looked like a hellraiser movie I bet.
Could also be that those anti-magic worm things they were fighting may have been star spawn of a type, in a weird self-filling prophecy type of situation. THAT would be cool narratively.
You’re skits are getting better and better
YES! I've been anticipating this episode for so long. It's so good!
I loved the skit with the "Are you a robot?" check prompt 😂😂
Great episode as always guys!
Somebody else mentioned this but the 5e star spawn are really like the foulspawn from 4e, so it is an odd design choice to change their name like this.
You also mentioned the fact that the larva mage turn into an insect swarm and that it is a shame that it probably can't escape like that. But what if it turned into a swarm of worms instead (basically an insect swarm but with a burrowing speed)? It would be more in line with the design of the monster and make it easier for it to escape. And, I don't know, a big mass of squirming worms would be really gross xD
Yeah it is an odd design choice. And I agree on the swarm of Insects being a bit disappointing. The worms sounds like a good homebrew option.
Perfectly executed Baldur's Gate III entry!
The star spawns' appearance remind me more of Irish mythological Fomorians than D&D's actual Fomorians.
What an incredible short rest, that made my day.
Dender lives in Kelemvor’s realm and has devoured a sun before. She was a character in the Avatar series. There are also a lot of sentient stars that count as elder evils even tho they are mostly neutral and one is even good aligned
Ao didn't not create all the gods. Even if we ignore pantheons that are present in other DnD settings like the Dwarven and Elven ones that are present in Greyspace, the Mulhorandi pantheon came from another world to free their people who were kidnapped and enslaved by the Imaskari. The Celestial Empire/Bureaucracy of Kara-Tur is also seperate from all of this, if I remember right. Ao is just the overgod of Realmspace, he's basically just there to manage divine things.
The 5e version of these annoys me because these are not the 4e starspawn (found in MM2 on page 195 and in MM3 on page 184) - these are the 4e foulspawn (found in MM on page 112).
The 4e starspawn are so much more interesting in my opinion.
The star spawn emissary in Van Richeten's guide feels closer to 5e Starspawn - slightly reminiscent of the Emissary to Caiphon
So excited for this episode!
DungeonCast! Always something in an episode that I can use as inspiration.
Thanks team
About to run a 1-17 campaign featuring star spawn. Starts after a falling star lands near Waterdeep. Really looking forward to it. Topping it off with the Emissary.
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It's sad how the 3.X's Alienist PrC is always so long forgotten. Skip the whole worshipping and sacrificing parts of the deal and get right in to the summoning of Lovecraftian horrors. Hell, even have your familiar be transformed in to an adorable little Shub goatbaby monstrosity.
The Star Spawn feel like someone wanted to add Lovecraft monsters to D&D without knowing anything about the history of Aberrations. It's some of the most on the nose, uninspired, stuff to come out of D&D and that's taking it as an aside from 4th as a whole.
Happy happy birthday to both of y'all
Bane’s position might be interesting depending on certain player choices in BG3. The dead three stand to gain or loose everything based on what I can put together
I love these short rests! ❤
Happy Birthday!!! 🎉🎉🎉
An Atropal, and Atropus, The World Born Dead, are two different things. The first is a monster with stats that you can fight and kill, is most commonly a stillborn baby God, and is definitely NOT an Elder Evil in its own right. Atropus, the actual Elder Evil, is as you said an undead planet, that may or may not be the severed head of the Prime Mover, the missing head (Haha) of the human Pantheon, creator of the human race and one of Ao's lieutenants. Both by virtue of its easily god level power and ridiculous size, Atropal doesnt have stats and can't be defeated in the manner of a regular monster. Similar names, but two very different beings, which you kinda conflated into the same thing. Also you should check out the Star Spawn Emissaries from Van Ritchen's guide to Ravenloft. Adds 2 additional, much higher leveled types of Star Spawn
Awesome as always
Big difference from the wee little mention of Starspawn on page 181 of 3.5's "Lords of Madness, The Book of Aberrations".
Happy birthdays, keep up the good work!
You guys are awesome!! Love the show. I’m relatively new to the game and have learned so much lore and other cool shit from you guys! You guys know your shit and your fucking funny too!! Thanks for all the knowledge.
Love this show!!!
Long time listener first time posting 👋
Ad&d is the best.
happy birthday!!! my birthday was August 1st i also turned 34!
happy birthday!!
Waiting on the aster eater episode
Yes do it Ben. Ohhhh no Ben it seems you took 3D10 lighting damage. If freaking dieing over here from Ben's damn lighting damage. LOL 😆 great show today guys
Glad you are enjoying the skits! I know our pronunciation is probably off because of our character voices, but the characters names are "Beern" and "Illian".
I'll join patron just to be part of the Astereatering tbh
Happy Birthday
Calling a Plasmoid a wet fart is a slur!
the novels covering Fourth edition, the spellplague, were great x.x Each change made to forgotten realms wasn’t the retcon its being made out to be. many of them were stories six books long. It sucks that this narrative exists, many of them are on audible, give them a read
In for the 50k hunt!!!
The real truth abouth starspawn isnt that they were foulspawn in 4e, is that theye were an even more obscure thing called an Ushemoi in 3.5 but never mentioned again. I swear if you look them up! they are exacly like the seer, grue, and Hulks
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Let's go 50k!!
Nice comment
What is that lime green mini on the left?
So is atropus what acererak based the atropol off of?
omg the skit confirm you not a construct
For attacking a creature that's in the same space as an ally, couldn't you just treat it the same as if your ally was grappling it? Maybe I'm not up on the rules but it seems adding a chance of hitting the ally would do the trick.
Is "Year of the Artifact" over? I feel like I haven't seen a RUclips notification for one in a while 🤷
We just did the sword of Zariel episode 2 weeks ago.
@@Thedungeoncast oh! My bad. I can't seem to remember when specific content is released (obviously not your problem).
Jeez. I just realized that two weeks ago actually feels like a lifetime ago 🤣🤣
Thanks for the giveaway
I keep getting these mixed up with core spawn from critical roles setting
Did you say "beholder" or "buttholder?"
More skits!
I prefer Spawn star
There was a time when new Planescape content would have been super exciting but after the way WoTC butchered Ravenloft and Spelljammer i kind of want them to just leave the classic settings alone.
The Ravenloft reboot took a deep detailed gothic setting and turned it into a series of shallow scooby doo episodes. Spelljammer wasnt AS bad but had very little of the charm that it originally did..
Is Fall Out Boy emo? That's like asking is water wet
I always saw them as more bubblegum pop meets emo with other true emo bands like The Used, MCR, etc standing a bit apart from them. But Emo isn't my genre so my knowledge is limited.
Does it play in Hot Topic? If so, you’ve answered the question
Happy birthday