What monster is next?

I'd say Dekanter goblins are even more ignored, but if we're gonna play that card, Varags definitely get the honour of being the most forgotten, ignored gobbokin to exist

Big fan of Vril joining the Duragar as part of the "Screw the Drow" club, but still not happy about helping anyone else either

And here I've been thinking i got a misprinted Drow of the Underdark all these years. Thanks for the intel

I see the drow took a page from the mind flayers's book and as expacted, it backfired horribly as well.

Silly drow! You can't improve perfection. Or goblins, but just look around, there are so many of us. You'll probably find what you're looking for.

My favorite goblinoid is the Blue from the Psionic Handbook. This Vril kind is pretty awesome.

I am absolutely loving what youve done with the opening, and how the show has evolved over the years

The sheer love and nerdy joy that went into John Vril’s tweet says everything there is to say about how fucking awesome this channel is. Dungeon Dad = Pure Platinum

In Forgotten Relms there is a variation of Goblin called the Dekantor Goblin that is stronger, smarter and has a more bestial face with a rhinoceros horn on its snout. In Pathfinder there is a variation of Wikkawak, which is a "Snow Bugbear". These two are forgotten and deserved a Monster of The Week.

they look so artificial grape flavoured i wanna eat one

Suggestion: The Thoul They are vary obscure, underutilized, and deserves some love. They are the product of mad sorcery, being a hybrid of hobgoblin, troll and ghoul, possessing paralyzing touch and regeneration. Much like the Vril with Goblins, they have an odd relationship with Hobgoblins. While they are great for catching unknowing players flatfooted, they can make for a lot of role-playing and world-building opportunities if they can be given more limelight to develop.

Therapist: "Vril Krenko doesn't exist, he can't hurt you"

Love these!! The best way to throw off veteran players who think goblins are a simple one-hit is to send a nilbog into their camp. Total chaos and such an underutilised creature. Love these types of videos DD. Expanding on the simple stuff to make ordinary encounters interesting is so amazing

Was so excited when I saw this guy in an upcoming video. These are my favorite goblinoid but I could never find any good hombrew for their monster statblock

"Forced to toil and die for a society you're not welcomed in" As a millennial that hits too close to home.

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👍👍 And I think about eleven thousand years later the Vril have become the Gith and the Drow have become the Illithid 🙂

Vril in the thumbnail? Let's go!

Grom campains in total war taught me the best way was to collect food and feed it to them for wacky effects.

Vril was a secret society in WWII Germany, so I must conclude they were created as a secret weapon.

The problem with most goblins in pop-culture nowadays is that they are not treated seriously, they are the comic relief in most media, and if they are not they are treated as just another type of humanoid. I will always put out the flavor text from Magic: the gathering's 2010's Goblin Chieftain as what goblins should be/treated as “We are goblinkind, heirs to the mountain empires of chieftains past. Rest is death to us, and arson is our call to war.” They should be a threat, a equal and opposite to the dwarfs, where the Dwarfs have smithing and stubbornness the goblins have numbers and cunning, where dwarfs have great ancient kingdoms that are slowly falling goblins have numerus clans that are broken & created all the time.

Your videos are always awesome! So, re: the Drow, I fell into an interesting Forgotten Realms rabbit hole earlier regarding the Jaezred Chaulssin, and a unique kind of half-shadow dragon drow called a zekyl. There's a lot of cool lore there, and just so many names with apostrophes.

I got an idea for a plothook! As poison was used to subjugate the Grill, maybe a sect of them are killing all the toxic creatures in a certain area to... I'll give some examples bellow. But! The players need one of those toxic creactures for a potion or the creatures have a toxin that the BBEG is susceptible to! Leading to a confrontation were they could negotiate, sneak or fight to get access to the creatures! So, I thought of some possibilities for why the Vrill would risk confrontations with creatures that attack in ways they are vulnerable to: - to cut off supply lines that Drow need to make the poisons they use to subjugate them. - to collect the poisons to make antidotes or resistance potions, or simply collecting the poison to develop natrual resistance to it through small repeated doses, like some allergy treatments - because they see any poison as an affront to nature in a religious sense, because of their history as being subjugated by poisons. (That last one could be a Player character motivation too, I think.)

That is funny, I ran short 6-sesh underdark campaign a while ago that featured vrill and the kuatoa leviathan, and here you are giving them to us back to back!

Vrill and Bugbear become friends and each one has a buddy-cop dynamic assigned at birth

I love my Vril. Always use them in my homebrew setting. Thanks for shedding light on these bat boys!

i love your videos! planning on running a one shot all about goblins in 3 days so this came out right when i was doing some research!

I got about 10 straight minutes of enjoyment from your inclusion of a 1 second clip of the Cheddar Goblin from Mandy.

I wasn't planning on including underdark creatures in my campaign, but now I'm definitely going to find a way to incorporate the Vrill. Purple bat goblins are just too good

I think it would make an interesting twist to have the Vril trying to gain favor with a god/goddess of good. Eilistraee comes to mind, or maybe one of the Dwarven gods. "After being used by the Drow, dying at the hands of Orcs, and then being turned into canon fodder by the Goblin god the Vril decide to make all the Underdark their enemy."

Seriously, great job on this video! this is one of my favorites for sure that you’ve made in recent times. Always impressed how you continue to one up yourself!

I know PC options are a bit more work but I’d love to see more. I wish we’d get more monstrous races for 5e.

I have a feeling that end up being Mercenaries serving all of the different factions may be equally while being their own masters

I figured the vril always worshipped Magubliyet because of their goblin ancestors worshiping him. Maybe he even helped them escape enslavement when he saw they'd be useful to him. Now they're in the underdark pestering the drow and growing their numbers. Personally I think they'd rank beneath hobgoblins because they're smaller and hobgoblins can move around on the surface without issues and are thus a more useful soldier there whereas vril can be used in the underdark for guiding goblinoid forces and acting as assassins

I'm just imagining a Grung Monk hearing about these guys and just grinning his head off in manic glee...

I just recently read through this book and spent 20 minutes looking for this stat block. Thank you for confirming I'm not insane

These are my favorite videos of yours! The monster of the week that focuses on a new/old sub-type of creature like a new dragon, giant, golem, genie or in this case goblinoid. Great video! I also really appreciate you making all the stat blocks and game mechanics free.

Sick intro, idk why it took almost 2 weeks for this vid to pop in my feed

Goblins are really just the d&d evolution of the celtic legendary "red cap". Which has appeared in the editions for decades. Imo these are the goblins that never get discussed. Great video though! Thank you for your effort!

Long time user of Dekanter and Gibberlings, love these little guys too. Who says goblins can't be terrifying? ^.^

Huh. I'd forgotten about them. I should definitely revisit an old adventure idea I had decades ago. work them into the backstory. Way back in 3e I came up with a 'team build' that would allow a group of 3+ 'Blues' (psionic goblins) and one or more regular goblins (if they were necromancers) to essentially tie their souls together in a knot and prevent it from leaving the Prime Material plane, while becoming a very minor demigod. Wrote a whole adventure about these breakaway goblins building their own goblin utopia in rejection of Maglubiyet, turning instead to ancestor worship and every one of their number joining The Council as a prime-bound ghost telepathically linked to the collective after they die. With goblin breeding patterns augmented by basic sanitation and a lack of petty infighting, they rapidly gained souls and power until they were in the minor leagues of deities, but Mags couldn't do anything since they were on the prime, and knew how to fight goblins better than regular goblins. Suddenly there's a neo-rome filled with shintoist goblins on the border of an established human kingdom, and they're not just mud-splattered maggots throwing poo at each other, but a credible society, even minting their own coinage.

I used these in an under dark arc a few years back, and they were so much fun! They became a great reoccurring problem for my party.

One day I hope to see the Ondonti orcs make a reappearance. They were the pacifist branch of orc, who had cleric spells.

Nice! Friends wanted to put together a goblin party, we have a goblin, bugbear and hobgoblin. Thank you for giving us a 4th!

Frost men / frost folk. They have the stat block of a monster, but have historical ties to the little-known Sossal (and the Sossrim who hail from that nation) and darker powers that be. Information is so scarce that learning more about the Sossrim (which in of itself is spread out across many books and articles) is the only way to infer the history and habits of the Frost Men and Frost Folk.

From the thumbnail, I thought this was gonna be a Mind Goblin episode.

I am of the opinion that goblins are one of, if not the most, dangerous low level CR monsters on hand if used correctly, so color ME thrilled to find out there's a new subrace that I can play around with which are specifically, and, amazingly, much more intelligent than your average goblin? Oh man, my players are never going to know what hit them when it comes time to unleash a goblin horde!

There are also Bhukas, Dekanters, Norkers, and Blues. There used to be so many different goblins. The Norker does have a 5e statblock but its hidden away in Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio with the crabfolk, mite, etc.

Immediately I’m imagining a character that’s like a fusion between Experiment 626 from Lilo and Stitch and Koba from Planet of the Apes.

This video just helped me figure out what the journey of self discovery of my goblin barbarian is leading up to. Shunned from her tribe for reasons unknown (being annoying and "different"), she gravitatied toward the barbarian class (screaming when going into a rage and weilds a warpick), and is on the path of the zealot (in service of a (undecided but now maybe decidedl god). Plus I LOVE bats so. This is the perfect race for me. Thank you for bringing it to light (even if they're better suited for the dark xD)!

Omg I just found this channel and I'm bout to binge watch all of them

I know you do monster of the week, but I can see the Virl being a race in DnD as well 😊

Do these guys have any (cannon) connection to Goblin Blues? Blues were (if i remember correctly) first discussed in 1e as being random mutants that sometimes occur in goblin populations. Especially those in the underdark. While being even smaller and frailer than conventional goblins (described as the runts of a litter) they would rapidly develop psionic powers (or ingrained magic ala sorcerers) which made them useful enough that they'd be allowed to live unlike most unhealthy children in goblin society. I dont think they ever got stats until 3e (2e maybe?) but i always thought they were cool. From a homebrew perspective i could see maybe making them the root for these guys. Maybe the drow deliberately bred them for those genes? As always thanks for doing this, love your work!

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When I first clicked I thought this was going to either be the Blues (the psionic goblins) or the Bhuka (the peaceful desert goblins from Sandstorm). Defiantly even more gobbos need to be uncovered.

Very cool ep, vampire bat vril would be my pick.

I want a video about vampire muses. Feywild vampires who inspire artists, at the same time as they slowly drain their life away.

I'm running Lost Mines of Phandelver and these guys are definitely making an appearance as Mind Flayer creations.

Ah. I thought we were going to hear about Blues from the Psionics Handbook (/Expanded PA). Lots of races and race variants out there for you to make videos on too. Tibbits, Gloamings, Fey'ri (elven-tieflings), Tanarukk (orc-tieflings), Diopsid, Wolfen, etc. Looking forward to seeing what you cover next.

So this is one of the best videos you've made. Lots of creative options and having another gonlin with a little higher CR is always welocme.

I thought it was going to be about mind goblins. Givin the vril's intelligence, i guess they could be mind goblins? Is that where the idea of vril came from?

Lyssendrith, the main Big Bad Evil Satan God in my homebrew setting, thoroughly enjoys kicking (or rather, tail-whipping; she’s a mountain-sized Marilith, after all) Lolth in the shins, and stealing her favorite toys* through trickery is a favorite pastime for the Furnace-Serpent. I could totally see the Vril turning on the Drow to defect to Lyssendrith’s side in return for the smog-choked, SUNLESS skies of Condassa (the “Evil Continent”). Thank you for the idea, Dungeon Dad! Very cool! *read: the greatest advantages and champions of the Drow

Next time, you should cover my favorite sub-race of goblins. The mind goblin

11:44 the story got funnier when 3,0 made Gruumsh go from Lawful to chaotic evil, because to fight Maglubiyet he's STILL on a Lawful-Lawful-Evil plane (Between pure law and Baator)

Another great video, more humanoid monsters are always fun! I have a player whose character is a hobgoblin prince and another campaign playing Out of the Abyss, so my mind is immediately racing with how can I add vril into those stories. Also, if you swap the climb speed for a fly speed, these things could make PERFECT batfolk. I'm sure there's plenty of fun stuff you could do there. Perhaps some kind of night stalking vigilante... his parents killed by drow so now he stalks the shadows to fight evil.

Great channel, informative content, and engagibg delivery. I enthusiastically subscribed and am gonna deep dive this channel

Goblins in our new Kickstarter next yr are a cross between red caps & Vrill called "Mulkiers." And not something a DM can throw at a low level party! 😂

Nice to know of more goblins beyond the homebrew scene (okay the Dankwood Goblins exist too) too bad the Bhuka from "Sandstorm" aren't unique enough stat wise to make the cut for a video.

Personally i think we need a video about Variant Phoenixes. My brother had a scrip to Dragon magazine among others and he showed me the Autumn Phoenix. i heard there was like...half a dozen variants, but before he could show me the others his basement got flooded and the flood claimed his stash of 3rd party lore. not sure if you cover 3rd party stuff here but these need to be covered somewhere cause they were amazing.

I think Vrill are their own whole thing. They hate the Drow but also hold animosity toward all other goblinoids. Vrill would be highly territorial as well

With goblinoids having joined the fae I like the idea of a faction of oath of ancients vril hunting mages in the underdark. Plus this would make it so this particular group can be friend or foe to the party.

I could see the vrill also joining up with the gnolls and worshiping yeenaguh

there are a LOT of forgotten goblinoids that i wish would make a comeback. blues and varags are interesting parts of goblinoid society and the undead bonedrinkers were an interesting addition to the necromantic traditions of their shamans and such

Great episode! Ever consider doing the Thouls? Starting out as a typo in the first printings of the White Box, they evolved into a race of hobgoblin/troll/ghoul hybrids, and they really have some interesting lore. I recommend checking out their 4e incarnation from Dragon issue #418, which drastically expanded upon the meagre lore from 2nd edition's Mystara Monstrous Compendium Appendix.

My thought with regards to the Vril and the armies of the god of goblins is, they might end up at *the same* rank as the hobgoblins - but fulfilling different roles. the hobgoblins being more prone to and focused on direct assaults and strategies for full on battles, while the vril focus more on subterfuge, intelligence gathering, and generally lead relatively small groups on targeted attacks - say, on supply lines.

I like the idea that they (or at least some) just fully leave the underdark and like go (back) to the Feywilds like naw we blend in here and they are having fun (for those who don't know goblins are actually derived from the fey)

“But what if we…” “gave goblins a new twist? " I almost gaged

Not sure how I feel about the race being balanced by a massive weakness. I feel like if you play this race your character will either die quickly or feel OP. I think this is because if people and creatures know about the weakness they will take advantage but if no one knows about the weakness (which can be the case because this race is unknown) this race will feel OP. Personally I would nerf the race overall and make the poison vulnerability be lessened, not gone just less detrimental. I love every other thing in this video though keep up the great work.

In my mind, a huge plot hook could be that they try to "Take in" the Kuo-Toa race. They use their higher intellect to slide into their society and become absolute rulers of it. Eventually they use the poison resistance of the fish-folk to their advantage, and finally use their God-making madness to craft a pantheon of their own to rival the gobliniod one. That would be their plan anyway.

Maybe the vrill won that civil war vs the hobs considering the hobs are now fae? they lost so bad they had to retreat into the faywild

The Evangelion preview music at the end threw me for a loop.

My favorite Goblins are from Artemis Fowl; Fire-controlling reptile-frog fey that tend to be gangers. Love it.

Giving them a rock-splitting shriek and super sensitive ears seems like a cruel joke... but I guess this is the Drow, so that checks out.

ok my adventurers are exploring the underdark and not high level and more goblins are always welcome in my DM arsenal so this video is very welcome.

I can see the Vril worshipping one of the Drow Gods other than Lolth as they build their numbers for a war against the Drow. The Drow Pantheon is strange.

How’s this for a plothook: A group of Vril have emerged from the underdark into a swamp they are determined to claim as their new home. The residents of said swamp, the Grung, take umbrage with these strange goblins trying to claim their home and are fighting back, and clearly winning. All the while a Grung soldier and a Vril soldier have fallen in love. They are kept divided not only by their species waring with one another but also that they cannot physically touch one another. I would love to see how players would interact with this scenario.

How hecking DARE you reveal my favorite 3.5 goblinoid race to use as a player OR a dm like this 😂😂

I'm diggin this one. I always admire your work but this one deserved a comment

WotC releasing a monster statblock without freaking stats has got to be the biggest Epic Fail since NASA launched a telescope with no lens (yes, that actually happened when they launched the Hubble telescope)

Funny thought if using these guys in Pathfinder 1e, you could have one that became an Alchemist. This would make him resistant or immune to poison, explaining how they broke away from the Drow...

"Lets talk about what they can do at the game table" Me: They're mechanics? Wow they -are- pretty smart.

seeing the thumbnail, i thought it was some kind of psionic goblin. Like a Mind Goblin

Hey love your work man

One goblin deity that remains free from their original pantheon is Kikanuti, someone who's story seems like she might be very happy to recruit some of the Vril into her fold.

I wonder how many editors had to pass the final draft that's missing a whole stat block. Well done WoTC

There are other forgotten subtypes of goblins out there as well. I like the Norker, because, well, just look at their face and you'll see why.

love the plot hook ! keep it up !

9:55 Ironically because of the way DR works in 3.5, being "Resistant to anything BUT the exception '--' meaning no exceptions" is the default, so in order to show resistance to ONLY slashing let's say. You had to list it as either "DR5 '--' vs slashing" Which is how the KotOR CRPG did it. Or "DR5, Bludgeoning and Piercing"