"I sense a disturbance in the ferns." ~Fighter.

Dang that mini game is actually genius

Kneeling over the track in the red soil, the ranger at once felt a chilling pang run down her spine. Something big shifted, far to close, in the foliage at the rim of her periferal vision. Then she felt hot, gory breath, ripple in the humid air. "Clever girl!".

Displacer Beasts are hunted for their pelts in my setting. They're popular as a fashion piece for the wealthy, and one person I'm working in as a side villain is Cruella de Ville inspired.

"Raise your eyebrows, go hmm, and jot something down" is one of the best tools at your disposal as a dm. For added effect roll your heaviest, loudest dice.

I sense a great disturbance in the ferns... as if several fronds suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly trampled.

Deal's "but it would be dramatic though" is such a vibe and mood and a new motto

A fun thought to add: the party thinks they are fighting one displacer beast, because maybe your party is used to the other fluff, or they google all your enemies the second you say their name, or you intentionally put that into their minds. Its actually four of them, and you let them believe its just one until a beast dies.

This is so brilliant I had to write the mechanics down: Goal: find and kill displacer beasts before sundown since they are stronger at night Setup: * 6x6 Grid * Create pathway in forest that displacers have followed away from village * Traps set up along the way by the townspeople. Roll 2d6 3 times to see where 3 traps are set on the grid. * DM has a marked grid and players have the same grid but empty * Players roll a stealth check at the beginning. Anyone proficient in survival or nature may add their modifiers for one of those skills to their total or to the total of another party member. DC set to 14: passive perception of a Panther. * Number of stealth check successes sets the number of perception checks Displacer Beasts need to make before they realize that someone is encroaching on their territory. * Players start in a random location along the A column. Mechanics: * 10 hours before nightfall * Each square is 1 hour of travel * Skill challenge to track displacer beasts. Characters choose a cardinal direction and then make a skill check, DC 16 to gather information about that cardinal direction. Note: East covers Northeast and Southeast squares, etc. * One skill check is included in each square’s worth of travel. Each additional skill check from the same square adds another hour. * Displacer beasts take their turn every hour. DC 14 perception check. * Once Displacer Beasts realize the players are in the forest, they know where the players are and can take their turn after the players take theirs every hour and plan their attack. They may split up, with one group attempting to lure players in a certain direction and set up an ambush.

Every time I watch one of your videos I go: "Damn, I should use something like this in my game." This time I didn't. I went: "Damn, I should use exactly this in my game." Great idea, love the raptor hunt vibes.

I felt like the displacer beast hunt could be like the hunt of the Beast of Gévaudan in France. A single creature whipping out cattle and farmers. The king sent down hunters, but they all failed. Until one claimed to have slained the beast. You could set up that the adventurers arrive after that claimed victory. The village is still ravaged because the beast wasn't gone. The hunt won't be recognized or bring glory, but it's needed to protect the villagers.

I grew up in the 90s. On the computer I had Solitaire and Minesweeper, and that was it. I NEVER knew that's what the numbers were for. I was Today Years Old when I found out that that's what the numbers were for.

I could never hunt Big Cat and you know that

YES! Actual monster hunting! Did a Wyvern hunt and they learned some zoology to help them.

I was recently thinking about running a displacer beast session and I took inspiration from the Tsavo Man-Eaters: two real-life lions which attacked railroad construction workers in Kenya in 1898, killing upwards of a hundred people over their several months of frequent attacks. I wanted to use this idea as a way to introduce the party to my greedy industrialist bad guy; someone who just kept allowing people to die rather than resolving the problem or suspending construction. I also decided to give the displacer beasts the Umbral Sight feature of the Gloomstalker Ranger from Xanathar's Guide. Basically, the displacer beasts would be invisible in darkness, even to creatures with darkvision. I think this really amps up the sense of danger and paranoia and forces the party to make a decision about whether to use light sources or not. If they carry lit torches, then the beasts will be able to easily hunt them down. If they don't, they might walk right into the beasts' trap without even knowing it.

Wait a second... this isn't BIG SPIDER!?

a long video, but nothing could have been cut. absolutely packed with useful info.

Death in a sack! That episode of The Storyteller was always my favorite. I’m definitely stealing this for my Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign. I see a ship smuggling displacer beasts for a fantastical menagerie wrecking on an island...

20:12 implying that there is something in that forest that can disturb them. That's the scariest part.

I threw some new gamers up against a displacer beast once. They had already been through a couple rounds of combat, nothing too dangerous, but used up some of their resources. When the displacer beast first attacks, they're in close quarters, they move to a more defensible position. All of a sudden, the displacer beast appears behind them and attacks (it had been behind them the whole time). The mage puts up an illusion of a brick wall in between the beast and the PCs. The (image of) the displacer beast leaps atop the wall and lashes out at the PC directly behind the wall. From the player's perspective, there is now a large, extra-limbed cat beast perching on a wall that doesn't actually exist. They freak out and flee. They could have killed it easily.

Yes channel your inner Big Cat with max ferocity "Claw-Claw-Tentacle-Tenacle-Glock-AK47"

so im kinda the opposite idea about displacer beasts. i see them as more 'predator' style ambush hunters. i like your idea with the sprint ability. although i'd probably have it recharge more (maybe 5-6). but i do agree they should have offense, and they definitely should have some cool tail things. but i'd rather go with more of a rogue theme. the way i'd do that is to give it features that are more tied to displacement. so first of all 'ambush predator': while displacement is active, the displacer beast has advantage on all attack rolls, can hide as a bonus action, and has advantage on stealth checks. the idea being that there's almost 2 separate cats moving around. so more like 'mirror image' than 'blur'. and while there are 2 cats, its obviously hard to keep track of which is real and so on. 'extra limbs': as part of the attack action the displacer beast may attack with its tentacles, or perform a shove, or grapple. if both tentacles attempt to grapple or shove the same target, teh displacer beast has advantage on the check. If attacking with them they deal 1d4 damage (no mod). if displacement is active, the tentacles instead deal 1d8+str damage. again, the idea being that the tentacles aren't super dangerous if you know where they are and can easily keep track of them. but can be absolutely devastating if they're able to get in just the right position. i'd probably then combine this with a rogue, or maybe bugbear style sneak attack damage just to really nail home the idea that it can (and will) one shot you if it gets the chance. combined with your idea of the hunting mini-game this would (i think) really enhance the clock. like, the players *really* don't want the beast to find them before they find it. or one of them might be toast. Edit: for flavor, i really like the idea of narrating a displacer attack from one direction, describing to one of the players this large beast and its fangs leaping down at them. rolling to attack, then asking an entirely different player what their AC is. as, obviously, the beast they watched attack was not the real one.

“At night... whooh, your gone!” 😆

I like the idea that a wizard discovering displacer beasts, hunting them with his adventuring party, and then researching the remains is how the school of Illusions magic might have started, or at least that it was a major contribution to the study of illusions.

28:50 "Death in a sack" great reference!

Dael, I'd love so much to have you in my party. Running, playing, it doesn't matter! Your ideas ROCK!

Hearing Dael say "you activated my trap card" in the most nerd voice she could pull off is all I needed today

I would pay money for a print version of this on DMsGuild or similar.

I think "Clever Girl" is my new nickname for Dael.

Nice design! The main thing is that the author understands what purpose each design/choise serves. Just half an hour of joy.

Truly excellent video, Dael! The tentacles grappling fits right in with them dragging off victims to eat while still alive, and their general love to drive fear into the hearts of their prey before killing them. The only other idea that comes to mind to fit the bill for this is to give their tentacle spines the wounding property, so they grapple and do a single point of damage, but that opens up a bleeding wound that you need to make a Medicine check to staunch, or magical healing to close. In this way, the displacer beasts will hide and wait for their prey to close. Then launch a surprise attack, inflict bleeding wounds on their prey, and then Sprint away back into the darkness and underbrush before starting their stalking again. Their prey, meanwhile, bleeds and bleeds and bleeds for a bit, readying actions for when they return, but they never do. By then they've lost some blood and risk medicine checks and magical healing to keep the damage minimal before continuing on. Rinse and repeat until the prey succumbs to their wounds, their prey somehow forces them to fight, or the approach of dawn forces them to attack to finish off their play things.

I am here to report that this exploration game (1) works with large groups and (2) is sound enough to build on top of. I added multiple trails to follow (using a printed map and different colored, numbered chips), integrated rolls (failed rolls still revealed the square and revealed what passed through the hex, just not the number), and added actions (making camp, etc.), and (3) as suitable for long explorations taking place over many days. Just here to offer a field report. And to Dael, every single GM who has seen me run this system has asked to steal it. It's absolutely changed the way we play. Many thanks.

This “Mind-Seeeper” mini-game is so neat and inventive. Bravo, Dael.

Literally will have an encounter with displacer beasts next session and this video is ginna help a lot! Thanks! Sidenote, I think the displacement ability just imposing disadvantage ist really boring, so I'll make a variant where instead they make an illusiory copy of themselves. Displacement will be an Action they'll take (maybe with recharge); when casting the copy, I'll take the token away and place two identical tokens 5ft away from where the the displacer beast used its ability. So the fight will be about finding out which ones are real.

I love this Dael. I feel like this could be adapted for a search/chase in a heavily urban area and many other areas as well.

The Divine Ether, whispering into Dael's ear: "...Mind Sweeper..." This was such a good video, Dael! I definitely enjoy your usual "vague & evocative" style, but this foray into "defined & evocative" was really good, too! I hope the next 3 go smooth for you, and we get to see more of these. This was super helpful and...I really want to run this session for my friends. I already have some ideas I can add I think they'll really enjoy. Thank you for another great video!

I had a Feywild based campaign where a modified displacer beast was the bbeg, where it was the product of an experiment done during the war between the Seelie and Unseelie courts. The displacer beast was genetically modified to incorporate some of the abilities of local fauna. So its skin had shifting colors that made it blend into the forest (advantage on stealth) and its tentacles had a mushroom spore that would release on a hit that would be a CON save to not be paralyzed for 1d4-1 rounds (or can make a save as an action at the end of each turn). It also had a rapid teleport technique where it could teleport up to three times during its turn up to its movement in order to make things chaotic. Obviously boosted stats since the campaign ended at level 10. All that to say is that displacer beasts are a lot of fun to run as an encounter and you can change so much from them to make them more interesting and scary and an actual threat. I love this idea as well, and that mini game is definitely something I will probably use. Already have a couple of ideas for it

"Why aren't you rolling?" is exactly the type of thing I'd love to hear as a DM. This is a great minigame, Dael! Simple enough to be versatile, specific enough to not be too easy. Definitely gonna use this in the future.

Hah I just bought 2 "phase cats" from Reaper minis in anticipation of a displacer beast encounter. Thanks for doing my DM work for me Miss Kingsmill 👌

Lions are the exception to the rule among big cats though. Its a panther. Panthers are melanistic leopards in Africa or melanistic jaguars in South America. Jaguars are all terrain killers who can swim, climb trees, and overland travel. They can drop down on you from above, and kill alligators by biting through their skulls. Personally I think a single displacer beast or perhaps a mother and almost adult juveniles is terrifying enough. You want to allow blink dogs to be the pack animals and lion based creatures I feel. The minesweeper mini game is really cool though.

I remember when this first came out and I thought "I'm gonna have to do that one day." Last night was that day, it was a lot of fun. I found that keeping track of which displacer beasts had displacement currently active and which ones didn't was a HUGE pain, so it quickly became "once hit it was over". Then I added an Alpha Displacer which was a huge creature that could grab and throw characters with it's tentacles. They were not expecting that. Good times.

Clever Girl, that mini-game is pretty cool. I like your ideas for a pride of Displacer Beasts. I ran a game where people were disappearing in the slums of Waterdeep. Then someone claims they saw a person dragged into the sewers by a black Tentacle, Turns out a Mama DB is stalking the slums to feed her kitten.

For some reason "da pwide are none da wyzuh" really made chuckle. The whole video is aces, but I have played that tiny segment over a bunch of times.

How have you not yet been hired by Wizards of the Coast?

Loving the minigame. If I were running this, I'd give the displacers disadvantage on the first couple turns because they're nocturnal and probably sleeping at that time. I also don't like that they seem to know exactly where the players are at all times. Maybe they should do some tracking checks of their own, but at the very least, they should have to be in an adjacent square to perceive the players. Finally, I'd allow either party to use their turn to hide/ambush.

I love videos like this cause there's so much that can be applied in other situations or put into more of a general philosophy. Like I typically don't plan on doing any kind of animal hunting stuff for the most part because that just doesn't vibe with how I view fantasy conflict and just animals in general. But now I'm itching for an opportunity to use that minigame system for fighting a group of dark fey that have been taking people into the night, or an enemy party that have been giving the players trouble and targeting them

Displacer Beast. Allocatoin Owl. Installation Imp. Demolition Donkey. And the Blinking Banana. ;P

So many great ideas on this channel. I leave your videos so inspired but also overwhelmed with all of the details you have come up with that I fear I would forget in the moment. Regardless, you continually provide excellent resources for me. Thank you for the inspiration!

For years I have struggled to make displacer beasts anything more than a slight nuisance. Thank you so much, this is amazing! This weekend one of my groups will be traveling to a collection of jungle islands, shrouded in mist, and this was the perfect thing to put it over the top.

That game is such a cool idea. I can imagine using it as an Alien-style paranoid stalking scene in Traveler or Starfinder.

SO CLEVER I imagine adapting the size of the grid to the length of the trail, or changing the square/time/check numbers ratio to fit different trail sizes, quarries and terrain Maybe adding a gimmick for the more territorial beasts like owlbears.. MY CREATIVE JUICES! They FLOW! Thank you !

Something I've considered for "shift panthers" is to give them the equivalent of the Fae-Pact warlock's Misty Escape (once per encounter).

I have nothing to add, other than that indeed, "Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!" is a very weird movie.

It's a shame we can only give you 1 thumbs up- great work. The displacer beast is so iconic and this scenario is so well thought out. I am a big fan of your work. Keep it up!

I love Displacer Beasts, they're my favorite creature in the game (aside from the ridiculousness of the Ogre Goblin Hucker). I'm also loving this idea how to spice up encounters with these magical beasties and will totally be using this one day.

This is an incredible idea!! My one suggestion would be using hexagons instead of squares, as it allows easier visualization on the part of the players (considering diagonals and pathing).

It's D&D, there are totally flying monkeys in D&D. They can just take flight with the birds, no problem. xD

One thing you could do to vary the displacer beast encounter is add pack leaders and minions. Have clear pack leaders/alphas that have all your homebrew additions. Then fill out most of the "pride" with either default monster manual displacer beasts, or even 1hp minions of your homebrew versions. Or you could even throw in a bunch of "lesser" displacers with no homebrew stuff and only 1hp. In your mock up encounter you had the displacers split into two groups. Maybe the number of times they split up is limited to the total number of pack leaders in the pride. The leaders might even be the source of all the extra powers you gave to the displacers. The party might only be there in the first place because the locals hired them to clear out the new pair of super cats that moved into the region. Once those 1d4 displacers are gone the local militia will again be able to handle the regular displacers.

If your session is centered around the displacer beast, it could be cool to invite another friend to play the displacer beast, and have them hunt the party. Also, neither the beast nor the party are allowed to see each others grids, so it's genuine battleship.

I love this so much. I especially love the idea of how the mood at the table would change when the players realise that they're being hunted too - there's a huge amount of dramatic tension there :)

I love displacer beasts. This is amazing. I always get the feeling that "Dael doesn't seem to want to play 5e. She should make her own system and play that. And also sell me a copy because I also want to play that system"

This is a fantastic way to adapt a different game mechanic to D&D to create a distinct encounter/adventure!

It’s when I make complicated mini games like this that I’m most reminded that locate creatures is a spell

I liked the mini grid search too. Even hex grid is good. But it needed some landmarks like hill, cliff, taller trees, stream, meadow, etc... so players can move towards or away from landmarks using their own judgements instead of solely relying on skill rolls.

I've been trying to figure out how to format a Monster Hunter (The Video game series from Capcom) DnD game and this cracked the code for me. I ran a mechanics one shot to see how it worked with the Monster Hunter Stat Blocks and it worked amazingly.

This is really excellent stuff! This is one of those deceptively simple frameworks that requires a lot of creativity to invent, but feels obvious once someone else shows it to you.

This has been "The Phantom and the Shadow" by Dael Kingsmill. A oneshot drama and thriller.

Love the concept, both for the minigame and the statblock ! This will be put to use for sure ! I went ahead and added a reaction and a bonus action to the night beast, mostly because I'm running 6 players and I'm afraid 2 or 3 beasts would be a tad too easy for them due to their sheer number. Maybe some would find it useful or inspiring, so I thought I'd share :) Reaction is "Trapped! If a creature within 10 feet of the beast leaves that area, it must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or be immobilized by one of the tentacles." I think it plays on the tentacle ability and gives the beast something more to do on the PCs turn. Bonus action is "Nimble shadow. After using its whole movement, the night beast can move an additional 5 feet in any direction. The distance becomes 10 feet when in dim light or darkness." I thought giving the beast some more area control would suit the hunting style of the creature, and the extra distance is cool for the displacement flavor !

Having learned tracking from the Lead Ranger Program, I feel that on anything but like, a very high success, there should be multiple possible paths that can be followed, because you may find a broken branch in one direction, but also a trail of miscoloured leaves leading in another (when leaves are stepped on they often flip over, the bottom side being a different colour to the rest of the leaves that haven't been flipped over), and some clues could indicate a direction, like if you're tracking through grass, you may be able to see a light colored path of grass leading to the woods, or if you come from the other direction, it'll be a dark coloured path. With grass, following the light path will lead you in the same direction as the query, whereas the dark path will lead you the opposite direction. (This is due to grass bending in the direction of travel, when it's bent away from you, light reflects off of it and at you, making it appear lighter, but if it's bent away from you, you'll get less reflection from the stalks and it'll appear darker) this would make it so that you could give an indication of direction of travel, but only if the players have the knowledge needed to follow in the right direction. Another thing is if you're tracking over a long period of time, the query may need to rest and may stay in one area for a while, and when they leave, clues to what they had been doing can be left. If you're following a mercenary group, for instance, maybe they set down their weapons, this could have left an imprint on the ground, giving you some indication of what you're working with, maybe they made a map and we're careless enough when covering it that you can still kinda read bits of it, maybe they have hostages and you can count based on some markings how many mercs there are and how many prisoners, any extra information that can be found is good. I think that the whole mini game is really really cool! You introduced it and I got a bit scared that it would mess with the tone of the game, sort of not making it D&D-is enough, but I was pleasantly surprised that it both holds true to the game AND is a fairly accurate model for tracking!

Loved it. Mini game is amazing. Displacer changes make sense. You literally got me excited to run Displacers and spawned an entire earning trust with a tribe in the area my players are exploring idea. THANK YOU

This automatically came on after watching your other video and your tracking minigame blue my mind. Completely changes how I'd run survival and tracking. Could even be the basis of a hex crawl campaign where the heroes wake up lost.

Finally a beast that mechanically feels like the fluff attached to it. The mini monster hunter game is good as well and may be used at my game table. Thanks for all you give us.

This is one of my favorite game design videos of all time, let alone a D&D video -- such excellent work!!

"Death in a sack" - for a throwaway reference, that was outstanding. 👏

How am I only just seeing this? I love it! Once again, reshaping the way we think about D&D. I'm excited thinking about whether this framework could be adapated to accomodate other creatures too. This could make "hunt the beast" adventures actually interesting and a worthy endeavour. So evocative too. I loved when you were describing how the Displacers already figured out where the traps are, really selling them as these highly intelligent apex predators in their natural environment. I think what could add to that is if the players learn this from the villagers. One of them commenting that they tried setting traps for the beasts but the Displacers are too cunning. Also gives the players the opportunity to learn where, or at least get a clue as to where, some of the traps are. But while the villagers might be able to tell them where one, or maybe even two trap sites are... they then tell them, solemnly, that the last team that went in to set traps... never came back. Did they manage to set their traps before being ambushed? If so, where? No-one knows... well, the DM and the Displacers do but yeah...

Thank you so much for this! I'm cooking up a series of jungle encounters for a forthcoming "Road to the Tomb of the Heart of El Darkness of Annihilation" campaign (complete with a Mr Kurz "The Horror! The Horror!" scene), and I want to set up a situation where the party might realise that they're being hunted... Think Jurassic Park / The Predator / Alien... The mini game is going to take place in a 10-mile hex. For reasons.

Awesome idea Dael! The dice gods clearly wanted you to do this with sending you the dream vision. If I was to use this, I think I would add in a chance that on some of the off the trail spots a chance to find some herbs for potions if they were using nature or medicine checks. Just to add a little distraction to the party from the main objective to eat up their time.

Awesome! I like how you "exit stage left" at the end of each video-true theatre style

Your displacer beasts really sound cool. Weirdly, they're giving me vibes of the Hexapumas from the Honor Harington universe? *scratches head*

If there was a GMbinder version of that minigame, I could feel heaven

I've been going through a purge of my DnD content lately. So glad I kept this sub. This is my favorite of your videos so far. Love it.

So, I've got two ideas to add to this - both inspired by moments from the first book in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series - that I think would be good additions to this First, it might be cool if the players found some discarded kills at some point. Like, to really sell that "they kill for sport" thing, make it so that on a couple of map squares there's the carcass of something or someone that the displacer beasts killed for fun, not for food. And to add an extra creepiness factor, you could say something like "you notice an absence of decay... like all the creatures that would normally scavenge on this carcass are staying far away" Second, say one of the players makes a perception check and notices some claw marks in a tree trunk, but isn't sure what made them, say another player rolls a nature check to see if they can get more information, and they roll well, you could tell them that 1. these marks were definitely made by some sort of big cat, but 2. there are small birds nearby that do not seem scared or agitated, like they would if there was a dangerous predator nearby. The displacer beasts *were* here, but not recently

Oh Hell yeah! I’m stealing this for a werewolf encounter I’ve been planning in my grim dark 5e game! I was feeling the perfect vibe throughout the entire video. Great stuff!!

Hahaha I was *so* happy when you finally said your dream-wisdom out loud: “It’s like... minesweeper!” 😂 But damn that tracking game is excellent! So good! Thankyou!

I made some small tweaks to this system and ran it for my Fairy Tales campaign (the players were hunting the Jabberwock and the displacer beasts were the Bandersnatches hunting the party) and it went great! Awesome idea! Thanks Dael!

This is a very cool hunting/tracking minigame! I'm sure it would work for other creatures too, with a handful of monster-specific tweaks. And your displacer beast lore is good too.

Fan.Tas.Tic. As a DM, this was perfect.

This is AMAZING! After my group gets back together (after we all get our shots) I am 100% using this. I love the feel of the old mine sweeper game mixed with hunting them while they hunt you. Keep up the great work!

Your cat sounds like it was invented by Schrödinger.

It was kind of rushed through, but having the last monster standing in an encounter get super-multiattack is actually a great balancing mechanic.

D&D activity is gonna be picking up for me this summer, so will definitely try an encounter like this. Maybe with a twist, like the townsfolk are actually using the displacers to weaken the party for blood sacrifice to their fertility demon god. Thanks Dael youre a genius

I did a monster hunt once with this monster in 2nd ed. called IIRC a darkenbeast. It's created by a spell an evil spellcaster put on livestock. At night it transforms and engages in slaughter but the PCs have a devil of a time tracking it because by day, it's back to being Grandma Ethel's cow. That session was more like Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow than Jurassic Park or The Ghost in the Darkness though.

This is a great, simple, hex-crawl-like system for long hunts. I'll definitely use it.

For more inspiration, watch a little, ol’ movie called “The Ghost and the Darkness.” You may not be afraid now, but - to quote Yoda - “You will be; you will be!”

This makes me want to run a witcher style game. Where successfully hunting the monster drastically changes the challenge of fighting them. Very inspiring!

Love the Yu-Gi-Oh reference. Gotta be careful of those face downs.

This is so good...I'm gonna be thinking about this mini game and what other monsters or travel/exploration things could be done in that way for so long. I'd love to expand on some of this stuff and try it out as a way to make quick, easy, and interesting hex/dungeon crawl explorations. And it's interesting to think of something like a flying monster that maybe gets to move two squares a turn or some impassable chunks of squares that represent obstacles that monsters can travel through but unprepared players can't. I'm probably overcomplicating it already, but that's what my brain does on cool d&d ideas.

Your idea about the successes on a group check setting the number of successes needed to counter the group's success is pure gold. Much more interesting than a simple pass/fail result, and I'll bet it could be applied to other group skill checks besides Stealth vs. Perception. As a biology teacher, though, I feel obligated to point out that a) *most* big cats are solitary, not just tigers (lions are the exception, not the rule) and b) there really isn't a lot of undergrowth in the jungle, because the canopy blocks out most of the sunlight which plants need to grow. Also, a rules quibble: the beast's displacement ability is actually *less* useful in the dark (unless the PCs have darkvision, which, to be fair, a lot of PC races do) because disadvantage from two different sources doesn't stack. But apart from those nitpicks, this was an awesome video and I eagerly await the other monsters on the list!

I once ran a game with something that looked like this. Basically I had the aprty walking through a dense forest looking for a nomad barbarian small tribe who had an artefact that'd open a temple. So the forest was a 6-6 square, and they had about 2 days to locate theIr camp that'd move everyday before the apocalypse, so they had to check for print, tracks and good ol' poop trenches. Tons of fun

You should totally send this mini game in to MCDM for their next issue of Arcadia! It would be a perfect fit!