Quite often the BIG spider that owns a web doesn't sit in the middle. They sit on the edge where you can't see it just feeling the vibrations. It makes sense (at least to me) that Lolth wouldn't be in a predictable and obvious spot.

For those of you who have not encountered a New Zealander going into "speaking faster than a were-squirrel" that two minute summary of the Abyss was fast even by my standards.

6:25 - Absolutely killed me. The sheer whiplash of hearing AJ talk about Eldridge horrors, to then seeing a picture of Spongebob, and then realizing it's a goatse reference. Magnificent.

Seeing as how the Demonweb Pit is such a soul crushing plane, I can’t tell whether any Drow would consider it a blessing to walk amongst it’s sticky strands of doom. Almost all Drow wish to be so close to their deity, but seeing as how Lolth treats her own subjects so harshly I can’t imagine how long your basic Drow would last down there. Dressing in arachnid motifs and sacrificing hapless innocents can only carry so much weight in the Demonweb Pits, it sure as hell won’t stop stray monstrosities from preying on a unsuspecting Drow.

Omg this is perfect - my part is going here soon omg I was gonna have to research it my self - you are a god send

Demon Weeb Pit....now that is more terrifying.

You've peeked my interest with that eclipse order of vampires sworn to some kind of vampire demon lord. Now where's the button to learn more?

I played all those modules when I was a kid, right when they came out, 1981 or so. The D1-3 were cool, because there was lots of opportunities for the DM to add his own stuff.

Love of DnD and the war of the spider queen books brought me here. I hate spiders but I can't get enough of the dark elves lore and anything underdark related.

Every time you mention those old old modules, I feel like old DnD was more complex, and likely a lot harder. I also find myself really wanting to try out the ancient ways of playing the game...even though I have hardly any actual playing experience with even modern DnD.

The Abyss is basically the meat grinder campaign setting. Everything could kill you. Short rests are few and far between. If you live long it will only be long enough for you to see yourself become the villain... or a mad man... or undead if you piss of Orcus.

The War of the Spider Queen series was really good! The characters descending the plane on MASSIVE spiderwebs was so cool!

I'm not even 10 minutes into the video, and the amount of cosmos-breaking knowledge you've dropped on me it astounding! Drinking from my TMG mug as I listen. :)

According to Monsters and Mythology, Kanchelsis is a full-blown Intermediate Power, not a demi-power, unless something has changed since then and I missed something, which I very well may have.

I love the art on the cover of "Queen of the demonweb pits".

Lolth when heroes enter her lair: execute order 66

Something in my gut is telling me that far more than we know is centered around Our Queen and it is unsettling.

Can we take a second to appreciate how far Aj has come, being able to summarize the Blood War situation in a neat 1 minute and 10 seconds? 2:25

She entered the creatures ... body opening ... to make a deal. How very drow.

God of The Ropers? I shouldve known Norman Fell was associated with an evil Deity 😂😂😄😄😊😊😞 .. Don't judge me for being old enough to know why that's funny

The last time I was this early, Tharizdun was still sane. :)

•Lolth is one of the 4 Fearsome Ladies (along with the Lady of Pain, Pale Night, & the Raven Queen, all of the 3 are far more powerful & important than we imagine); •Lolth has one of the biggest & most intricate Abyssal domains; •Lolth is just a subracial supreme deity. one of these doesn't match the other 2.

You have me fasinated with ghuanadaur and tharizdan and the origins of the planes.

Satispidering

Lolth: I'll teach those impudent adventurers the price of defying me. Fire the photon torpedos! XD

Played these modules when I was 13. Made friendships that have lasted to this day. Glad to see that there's still interest in it. Oh yeah I'm old😁

I really wish you had rattled off weird encounter locations all day!

LOVE these descriptions of abyssal layers, can't wait to hear more. There's too little of this. This and the Franz Urbloob or whatever vid are some of my favorites because of that.

"wheezing, splattering, sphincter" with the SpongeBob.. Has me crying

Scariest team-up ever? Lolth, and Anthraxus. I know, he's not the oinodaemon any more, but he totally rocked. Venom and pestilence, the ultimate nightmare

This is exactly what I've been waiting for!!!!! Love it, the Drow, Lolth and the entire pantheon!! My campaign involves the affects from the temporary death of Lolth herself. So this gives my mind more fuel about the setting before my party goes snooping!

The Abyss is okay, the B&B's aren't the greatest but if you can block out the screams of the damned its easily 7/10

21:40 so organic matter is chaotic in nature dope. Makes you wonder where the obyrith came from in their own world, and if they were as we are.

A new video from AJ? Gotta love it.

An alliance between Lolth and Vecna...that is a few steps past terrifying and i honestly don't want to think about it. Well done sir.

This is a fine video Mr. Pickett.

I only just now realized that the nine hells were likely a recaptured layer of the abyss thanks to this video. It honestly makes too much sense that they’re a complete shithole for more reasons than just the devils therein.

This Spider Week(s) 🕸 series is the best ever!!! I love hearing about the Abyss. Keep it up!

Always found the concept of a web to be too lawful for the Abyss but it's still terrifying

A video on vhaeraun would be amazing!

War of the Spider Queen is a fun series for anyone interested in drow or their pantheon.

Wondering if you have read the trilogy of novels.... White Plume Mountain.... Descent into the Depths of the Earth... and Queen of the Demonweb Pits..... Lilith actually dies towards the end of the Demonweb Pits.... The books are a fantastic read.... Paul Kidd wrote those and did a great job.....

That was a fascinating exploration of a place I always skipped over! Thank you, oh mighty sage :)

Imagine if Black Spiderman (With the simbiote) was transported there.

Does Lolth have a presence in Chitinspace, the Crystal Sphere inhabited by only insectoid creatures? And if so, how is she viewed there?

I got my snack of siracha and tater tots ready

Im finding a new respect for Lolth here

This lore is good, its so very twistingly intricate and well created... why does it have to be spiders though.

When I heard that a branch of the lower pits led to ''a dimension of yellow sand and purple scry, formed out of chaos stuff- located there was a massive machine fortress in the shape of a colossal spider. Said to be where Lolth's lair resides.'' I immediately thought of Achaea, a 'MUD' text based rpg game that's played on line. Basically it's a spinoff of Pathfinder's Dark/Black Sun.

I like the way you are building up to Lloth.

Terrifyingly terrific. And great art selection.

Thanks AJ. Loving all these spider videos.

Thank you so much AJ, rediscovered your channel after a few years away from D&D and you've completely reignited my passion for the hobby and even got me DMing again. I'll be supporting you more directly henceforth but thought you also might like to know you'll be featuring in my campaign as a wandering monster ecologist. Thank you again!

This is one best vids yet

I loved the giants/drow series when it came out and I spent my paper route money on each module. I dm'd it, our party played it and loved it. So much fun! I remember the guy that played a Paladin coming up to me after the fire giants saying hey, this is going to get a little easier, right? And I don't remember what I said but apparently I laughed so evilly that we had two new players the very next time. Good times, good memories. New subscriber, really enjoying your videos. Great stuff!

Wonderful, you uploaded right on time! 🤙🤙🤙

Love this channel

The Drow are a weird topic for me. I've been into D&D for the better part of 30 years, reading monster manuals, and lore sources; mostly Forgotten Realms, but because the 2e Drow were such Saturday morning cartoon villains, and on the other side Drizzt was basically just a giant fan-meme, I didn't pay too much attention to them. It's funny because, since I love FRCS, I feel I actually know a decent amount about the Drow, but since so much of them seems to be the RA Salvatore books, I know next to nothing about the Drow of NOT Faerun. I think that Oerth has an Underdark, too, but without things like Drizzt, the Baenres, and Menzobarannzen, it can be tough to find details about the Drow of the Greyhawk setting. I know Eclavadra, but only because she is in my 3e ELHB, and nothing else comes to mind. 😊 At some recent point, however, the Drow drew an incredible amount of focus from me, and a number of story characters I have written, or backup characters I might want to have for unexpected gaming opportunities, have been Drow. I'm nor sure if it's because of the recent push to steamroll their current lore, to replace it with "kinder" fare, which I mostly don't support, or just because my mindset can eek out various RP opportunities with them, but they have strolled around in my head a lot,of late. As to Lolth's domain, I personally find it a difficult place to make use of. I find it funny that OotA suggests having the party of that campaign storm the Demonweb, and seek revenge on Lolth, as if theyvare leveled for the exercise, and striking a deity in their home plane is simple, but I'm not sure how to do anything with it. I'm also somewhat surprised that none of the other Demon Lords can't try and seize it from Her, since ownership of layers can, and does change, and a bit surprised that Lolth never found an opportunity to co-opt the Spider-Fiends to Her service, with Miska MIA, and the Queen of Chaos sort of doing nothing, these days.

Thanks AJ.

Thanks AJ. Just finished my campaign with a heavy focus on Lolth and the Demonweb pits are this video helped me to no end. You rock!

Wow, great video!

As a fan of horror, I could use and abuse a dark and scary setting like this one. My poor players (Evil Smile Intensifying).....

So Oogershek is the name of the disgusting portal in the Demonweb Pits; And it is also the name of this Drayden that lets Lolth dig around in its brain for forgotten memories? In exchange for letting it know if she finds where the other Drayden are located? If I got any of that wrong, please clarify. This one was kinda hard to follow.

I was surprised that Zarassu wasn't brought up 🤔

Thank you, sir! That was rather informative. Imagine that army of Bone Dragons! Terrifying if you were on the wrong end of thar war, to say the least. I doubt I could keep my composure in such company. Winning that ordeal would require divine intervention. "Lolth, darling. We need to talk about your recent hobbies..."

Awesome job per normal AJ, keep up the great work😊

Love these realm/ God reviews

i love this kind of lore thanks a lot!

Thank you sir, perfect to get some more info on lolth since im running out of the abyss, having 3 drow players, lolth has had a huge impact thank you🕸🕷

Please do more of those encounters. They are really interesting. I'd love to play in this setting. I'd love a 5e module of it

can you please do a video on the one Good Drow Goddess Eilistraee

You're a marvel, AJ Pickett. Like an alchemist, creating a distilled concentrate of listenable researched lore, where previously was a, much conflicted, mangle of sourcebooks and adventures. Thanks 👍

So deep so nerdy 💯

Nice, very nice.

oh snap i have been waiting for this one chief

Love it gimme more

I was wondering if you could do a video on the the well of darkness, I can't find much on it but the idea of a prison in the abyss seems interesting.

Right in time while I was looking into this one for a new campaign.

Thanks.

Good video AJ

Ooh the dark web.

I'm watching this to refresh myself and I realized something I didn't know the first time I watched this At the time I didn't know what a bebilith was Now that I do.... The fire suddenly starts to make more sense.......

You talk about the chromatic dragon devils

To be fair if we're talking faerun after war of the spider queen... Lolth kicked Ghaunadar several times mocked him for being a mewling whiny jealous simp then as he spazzed tossed him back to his hole and sealed it shut.(much like the eiliastrean(sp?) priestesses did to his oozes and avatar).

Beautiful video! As always I should say. Can you do a video on Ghaunadaur? I would like to know more about this sneaky god

Wow thanks for this Video! Will you do a Video on the draeden, the ancient evils etc that were there before every thing else?

Ave amicus! Made me want to go back and read the war or the spider queen again!noice

I shouldn't be amazed but as always the great D&D repository that is TMG and it's world renowned Curator A.J. Pickett leave me in awe.

Please do more on elder evils and far realm stars

Imagine if your character is an arachnophobe but HAS to explore this layer. Also, who wants to explore the Abyss?

interesting video gets me thinking what would be the best way to get rid of that spider web

28:05 oh that's cool. When did it happen? Are Ghaunadaur and Juiblex aspects of Tharidzun in the end? Was it ever confirmed?

Just in time for my PCs to meet a metric ton of Dark Elves and other lovely things. This series(? I suppose) is carrying the entire first 1/2 or so of the campaign. The 2nd Bit is Mind Flayers. Or Vecna, not too sure yet.

Ah yes, the Dark Web. Mmmmmm

All the spidery things leading to the Queen herself! 😊🤓🕷

surely when she became a god again it would hamper her ambition as you are constrained by laws set by Ao so have less interaction with the physical plane. Explains why Acererak never decided to follow vecna's example.

"This was pretty high level back then". Still is. Statistically level _ten_ is pretty high for a campaign, simply due to natural wine-down. Which is also why I consider starting under level 3 pointless and sadistic.

Wait, Ghaunadaur is an aspect of Tharizdun? I read somewhere that Juiblex is an aspect of Ghaunadaur. So the mad god is less chained that I thought. Dude gets around.

This is so awesome! I'd love to see invidual videos on the Dark Selendrine! As well as the expanded, and updated, videos on dragons! Particularly the Chromatic, including Deep/Purple Dragons. I personally don't care about the good ones! They're not as fun, in my opinion! Hope you're well, AJ! I've not commented much, lately, but I'm still watching, and loving, your work!!!

When he hasn't even said the "grab a bewerage" line, and already you have to pause the video to absorb what you've just been told. On another note, I really wanna play a cleric of Eilistraee in a campaign centered around Lolth now.