Azers | D&D Monster Lore | The Dungeoncast Ep. 384

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4 ай бұрын

William and Brian continue on with the Year of the Elemental to talk about a monster that could be so much more than just a stat block. Learn about the hot bodied Azer's ability of skilled craftsmanship, whether its making weapons or manipulating their own figures, this week on The Dungeoncast!
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@duanebradway1627 4 ай бұрын

Azers being elementals fall more to the primordial side of things. That would make them oppositional to most gods. There would more likely be a greater version of the Azer to act as a "Diety" the way that a cinder swarm can eventually become an elemental titan of some form.

@agentchaos9332 4 ай бұрын

Im sure you'll touch on this in the Brass City episode, but the Efreeti Sultan works to limit who natives to the Plane of Fire are allowed to worship. This is because he himself is deified by the Efreeti and doesn't wanna share, which means he's one of three beings you're allowed to worship in Efreeti territory...the other two being Surtr, because theres a large fire giant population in the city of brass and they provide important labor, and Kossuth because even the Sultan is canonically afraid of what will happen if he tears down Kossuth's temples in the city. This wouldn't necessarily apply to the para-elemental plane of magma, but at least for the large Azer population in the city of brass, thats why they don't have their own designated god as a species...or if they do they can't speak about him in public

@ericorzhov8869 4 ай бұрын

Low ki you have no idea how long Ive waited for Azer.

@DiMadHatter 4 ай бұрын

Same!

@LoreMaster1997 4 ай бұрын

This comment made me have to check if low key was a dragon ball reference

@craigschnibben6543 4 ай бұрын

Azers have bred with dwarves during the time of Shanatar. The kingdom's patron goddess was Sharindlar. Check out info on Wyrmskull throne. It is 2e lore.

@davidrobertson5996 3 ай бұрын

Great episode guys. Particularly agree with Will's comment about how 4e provides a range of statblocks for each entity. Sure, if you feel like it,, you can make these up yourself, but it's far more convenient to have a bunch that you can just drop into your game. Keep up the good work guys!

@TheNinjawithboots 4 ай бұрын

In my homebrew world, Azers are the form dwarves who worship Byrl, Elemental King of Fire and Chaos, take when they die and their souls are found to be worthy. They are known for making taffy steel (think Damascus, but they stretch and pull it like candy to make the layers)

@notjohnbrown6740 3 ай бұрын

I actually love this ty

@reakumi 4 ай бұрын

I discovered your channel and your podcast last week, and since then I have been binging your episodes! Thank you guys for your work!

@captdrastic 3 ай бұрын

In an underdark campaign I ran a couple of years ago, Azer reproduction came up. I stole the way Korg in the Thor movies had a baby, by meeting a dude and holding hands with him while looking at some lava, sculpting a baby out of love and magma. The players helped defend the two Azer dads and their baby from a firenewt invasion. Those guys were known as the Gayzers for the rest of the campaign, and our artificer made it her personal quest to gain immunity to fire damage so she could hug them.

@LoreMaster1997 4 ай бұрын

Brian-"God damn it Dagonzo we're back" don't remember the context but I'm reminded of it every time he says God damn it

@Kevin-fe4kp 4 ай бұрын

Making beautiful sculptures who would win, Stone giant or Azer

@smileydurango9508 3 ай бұрын

The visual of an Azer falling into water gives me a visual of a steam powered Azer, looks identical to a standard Azer but with steam instead of fire

@LoreMaster1997 4 ай бұрын

Downloaded the 4E monster manual and looked at the art while I listened to the video

@Walupof 4 ай бұрын

So that's what that 4th level Baldurs Gate spell summon is

@cameronpearce5943 3 ай бұрын

Great way to handle creatures with immunities or resistances to BPS that you wanna make into a Player lineage. When they take an instance of that damage they can chose to (Proficiency Bonus times per long rest) gain immunity for that round to that damage time. Similar to how they handled Kendar fear immunity in 5e Dragonlance

@phoenixiwaki 4 ай бұрын

Believe until it works! - the Kuotoa way! We recently ran a one shot of Goblin Punks as a side story for our Phandelver campaign in which a new Goblin fire 🔥 god was born!!

@sharondornhoff7563 3 ай бұрын

In my homebrew games, where elemental beings arise as animistic living embodiments of Material Plane instances of their element, azers are just the tip of the lavaberg. There are dozens of elemental beings which are shaped like Material animals or sentients, as fits the type of instance they manifest from. So the MM azers, being embodiments of the forge, resemble dwarves: the race that invented metalwork. But there are also hospitable halfling-like fire beings that embody the hearth, destructive gnoll-like ones derived from acts of arson, ever-galloping centauroids who manifest seasonally from wildfires, ashen fire-ghouls spawned from crematoria, etc.

@kyleoverkill3423 4 ай бұрын

This is one of the few monsters I’ve never heard of. Time to learn from professor Will and Brian !!!

@littltheyjack 4 ай бұрын

Here’s an idea: Could throwing materials that burn in “unusual” colors on a fire elemental poison them, or heal them, or cause any variety of other effects that one would typically need use a potion or ointment or something else for in these fantasy worlds?

@notjohnbrown6740 3 ай бұрын

I've stolen this idea I'm afraid, thank you for supplying it

@bobobobobo9355 4 ай бұрын

Just had my first “holy crap” moment in my campaign. My ancients Paladin used a dragonslayer long sword with blinding smite , lvl 3 divine smite and critted on a ancient white dragon doing about 140 dmg in one attack. The dm forgot I got the dragonslayer from a random loot table he used months ago. Dragon done at the start of round two, dm sad

@beastyness1206 4 ай бұрын

Been watching yall for years, I'm going through and watching all the videos in a row. I miss Sage DM lmaooo

@OlympusPublicAffairs 3 ай бұрын

We could blend your idea of an Azer army with them not having a progenitor god. The Azers themselves could "craft" their own god by shaping its body and powering it with the inner fire of fallen Azers. Then, once that god is powerful enough, it redistributes peices of its combined soul to craft new Azers. Introducing a more reincarnation type of existence, but with the added layer of an artificial god. Sort of like the Dwemer for Elder Scrolls attempting to craft their own god.

@JGPlunder 4 ай бұрын

I would say that they have no swim speed and sink to the bottom of water, which will cause them to suffocate soon. Also steam

@HumanoidCableDreads 4 ай бұрын

Never ask an Azer if fhe carpet matches the drapes.

@gustaafargoan 4 ай бұрын

Maybe they have tile instead of carpet.

@DiMadHatter 4 ай бұрын

AH, Finally! was waiting a long time for this one! :)

@jprp999 4 ай бұрын

Surely Imix would be the Azer god equivalent?

@blainechaney8617 4 ай бұрын

Huge fan of the show. Been listening for a couple years now. In the process of listening to all the back log and just finished episode 353 and had a couple questions. How exactly did you guys meet/start making content together and what is the extent of your relationship? I noticed a lot of the campaigns you guys run aren’t in tandem. Just curious, sorry for the long comment. Lol

@wesleybutcher3389 4 ай бұрын

oh hell yeah!!!!

@thewholesomecultist6702 3 ай бұрын

i wonder when the next hag episode will be ive been trying to do a deep dive into them but theres lacking content on specfics

@notjohnbrown6740 4 ай бұрын

Will, can Azers contract sickness?

@Thedungeoncast 4 ай бұрын

Hmm not mundane sicknesses I would think

@notjohnbrown6740 3 ай бұрын

@@Thedungeoncast if they're made of brass, can they even get magical sicknesses?

@sharondornhoff7563 3 ай бұрын

Perhaps azers that come into contact with their element's opposite, water, can develop tarnish as a nasty skin condition if they neglect to dry their brass surfaces completely?