Krakens | D&D Monster Lore | The Dungeoncast Ep.132

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5 жыл бұрын

Will and Brian ask one of the most crucial questions in all of this show's history: "What's crackin'?" Listen and you shall find the answers you seek. The Kraken has reared its horrible cephalopodous form this week on The Dungeoncast!
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@rylog8 3 жыл бұрын

Can't believe they accurately predicted Genie Pact

@thomasalegredelasoujeole9998 4 жыл бұрын

Had one of these as the final boss of my latest campaign. It swallowed the rogue of the party (they were all lvl 14) unfortunately for my kraken, the rogue was the party member carrying the group’s instant fortress...

@wagnus1923 5 жыл бұрын

Kraken the Rum is very much still made and is infact my favorite rum to drink. You can find it at pretty much any liqour store, its also not made by the same company that makes captain morgan, but they have their own variation of dark spiced rum called Captain Black

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@fracros95 5 жыл бұрын

Omg! Thanks for also letting us know the sizes and weights in the metric system, wasn't a big problem really, but still thanks! Really appreciate it!

@saulthomas6532 2 жыл бұрын

i guess it is quite randomly asking but does anyone know a good website to stream newly released tv shows online?

@Ironiclast1312 5 жыл бұрын

Comparing the Dragon to the Kraken gave me the image of a team getting ready for the final fight against a dragon near the ocean, then a Kraken just coming out of the sea, curb stomping the dragon, and becoming the boss out of nowhere

@williethenerfherder2193 5 жыл бұрын

Bronze dragons will stomp krakens any day of the week.

@NamelessKing1597 5 жыл бұрын

Like Jurassic World

@deepspacecreative 5 жыл бұрын

When you hit that Poseidon Ultimate just right

@shamrockshnake1366 5 жыл бұрын

*pops sanctuary*

@stephenclements6158 5 жыл бұрын

Haha, listening to you guys talk about your love for us is the most bro-mantic wordsmithing I've ever heard. :)

@sanddry738 5 жыл бұрын

The image of a kraken choking down a fighter while yeeting a wizard in its tentacle at the barbarian 60ft away is glorious. Definitely a creature all about being creative with how it attack!

@knightghaleon 5 жыл бұрын

I've used a Kraken as a Warlock patron and head of a cult for an end of the game campaign where the cultists (because the party ignored them for so long) unlocked the final chains holding this thing so it began attacking this kingdom built along the sea and a coastal cliff. So fighting cultists in the streets while these arms were ripping apart buildings from the water below the kingdom walls was interesting. It ended in them having to wipe out as many cultists as possible while coordinating the remaining ships to sail along the shallows till a coordinated attack could be made. They still ended up having to contract earth and mud elementals to help raise it from the floor while the Trident player got his kingdom to assist from the sea below. It basically turned into a multi-tiered battle to wound its tentacles enough to drive it to the sea so they could attack it enough and drive it to the shallows to really finish it. All the while the NPCs around them were dropping or being flung around. Image what a kraken could do to an old time navy and that was basically the fight. If it wasn't for the water speed armor they ended up having to make, theyd have been flopping around in plate armor and sinking like an anchor.

@InquisitorThomas 5 жыл бұрын

In a video from D&D Beyond they essentially stated that every Kraken is unique, and they aren't standardized. I had an idea for a Kraken that was kinda like a bioluminescent tentacly grey alien.

@sagemcchesney4734 5 жыл бұрын

So they sound a lot like beholders

@lawaern3474 4 жыл бұрын

@@sagemcchesney4734 If we take earlier editions as gospel, then the main difference is that beholders are all naturally different. But krakens are all born the same, but change themselves with magic for various reasons.

@InquisitorThomas 5 жыл бұрын

Clash of the Titans is based off the Myth of Percius, and he did fight a sea monster, but it wasn't called the Kraken, it was one of those long difficult to remember Greek Names.

@brycekirkland9779 5 жыл бұрын

cetus I believe

@devinsamuel3612 4 жыл бұрын

@@brycekirkland9779 Yeah it was Cetus, which is just Greek for "whale"

@jdrvargo287 3 жыл бұрын

@@devinsamuel3612 Actually it means "sea monster." But it came to be used for whale because cetus was often applied to any large monstrous sea creature (though the cetus of myth were often portrayed as this blend of fish and reptile).

@MySerpentine 2 жыл бұрын

Never liked Perseus, but then most Greek heroes were jerks.

@cadecook8067 5 жыл бұрын

At my high school we ended the year at our tabletop club with 20 or so level 10s fighting a buff up kraken. We were in the ocean and I was a guy on a horse

@benway23 Жыл бұрын

Everyone loves Krakens!

@paulh3892 3 жыл бұрын

This monster is a THICC BOI! This episode was funny and informative... pure Dungeoncast gold. Your oceanic themed episodes are really inspiring me to make some more aquatic adventures for our table!

@romanespinosa4084 5 жыл бұрын

Loved the episode! Fun fact, there is a unearthed arcana kraken patron for warlocks!

@adriennebrown2941 8 ай бұрын

Idea for warlock with a kraken patron who was a former swashbuckler who was a survivor of a shipwreck caused by the monster who they made a pact with to get them off the island and can summon tentacles from an aquatic portal netherrealm in battle of course they'll need the control weather spell with plenty of lightening. I'm imagining them as a water-based tiefling with gills and webbed hands gifted to them by the patron

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@fracros95 5 жыл бұрын

I 100% anticipate a pirates of the caribbean reference

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@fracros95 5 жыл бұрын

0:43 Wuhu~

@Born-Bitter 5 жыл бұрын

I believe that was a quote from Clash of the Titans.

@shaderunner8220 5 жыл бұрын

YAY! A very important episode imo. I actually really liked the conversation of warlock patrons. I have wanted a genie/elemental patron forever. These are creatures that enjoy making deals almost as much a devils. Variance in powers depending on the element type sounds fantastic. I really, really hope in the next supplement, we get a genie patron for the warlocks (along with hopefully, a dragon patron).

@christophershoup6598 Жыл бұрын

They are originally giant inteligent squid like beings. They change themselves using dark rituals and magic. They can apear as anything really. Chtulu could just be a kraken.

@demonpunch2 5 жыл бұрын

Release the Kraken joke reference

@simorote 5 жыл бұрын

I knew they'd be Kraken that joke.

@sonichalo1527 5 жыл бұрын

Fun Fact: like beholders, all krakens are supposed to look unique. so the monster manual one is just an example. you could have it more squid-like, reptilian like, shark like, etc.

@buttface1202 5 жыл бұрын

I love you guys show. You seriously rock.

@MrShark-gi7ii 5 жыл бұрын

I have a character that is a sorcerer/warlock multi class. But the sorcerer is a homebrew dragon origin in the sense that it is a Kraken origin, so as sorcerer levels go up it becomes more squidy. The warlock is a homebrew kraken pact. It’s a spin off of the fiend pact. Just found it cool ya’ll finally did something on the Kraken.

@haasztamas 5 жыл бұрын

Non-American audience represent! Hello from Hungary!

@darkcrane78 5 жыл бұрын

Fucking love your podcast Pluss channel!

@gho5trun3r68 2 жыл бұрын

I'm throwing a Kraken at my players and I was incredibly disappointed at how much it steps on the aboleth's toes. One of my players upon hearing the telepathic voice, asked if they were facing an aboleth. Idk why they made the Kraken so similar but stronger than an aboleth. Especially since I figured an aboleth was the stuff of nightmares and yet here is this kraken doing a bunch of tentacle stuff and brute forcing it's way to the top.

@fearrection4465 4 ай бұрын

I learned metric for drugs, you can learn imperial for D&D.

@Elyseon 11 ай бұрын

So they're a cross between beholders and hentai monsters that hate everything, including their own kind.

@maniakal24 5 жыл бұрын

I believe you were thinking about Captain Morgan Tattoo Rum that got discontinued. That was my favorite dark rum and was a sad day when I found out it was discontinued :-(. The Kraken is still available and a pretty good dark rum. Not as good as Tattoo, but still good.

@Ambers128 2 жыл бұрын

The 5e drawing looks like the sea dragon from subnautica (game)

@gabejamez7064 5 жыл бұрын

this is awesome

@lamarledennis3220 3 жыл бұрын

Thumbnail reminds me of my blue black mill deck

@xreaperxiii 5 жыл бұрын

Good news, Kraken Black Rum wasn't a Captain Morgan product and it's still on the market.

@puddleshark247 5 жыл бұрын

I just discovered this channel a week ago and absolutely love it! Any chance we could get a Succubi episode!?

@spyder1775 5 жыл бұрын

Can confirm they still make kraken rum

@darkasp1 5 жыл бұрын

Raistlin

@PlaneWalker18 5 жыл бұрын

William Humphrey honestly, you would need a hour to cover everything that arse has done.

@darkasp1 5 жыл бұрын

PlaneWalker18 Sounds like a plan

@thefloridaman41 5 жыл бұрын

Good episode Would love to here your thoughts on Dragonturtles v Kraken per the lore. Also off topic but I’m looking towards doing a bloodwar based campaign and I’m a little hung up on Tharzidun, any chance that God gets an episode?

@comeonoverandshootit 3 жыл бұрын

krakens are almost as scary as karens

@tishabyte 5 жыл бұрын

Kraken slap fight lolol hate sex lmao

@kyleellis9177 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah basically the director of the original movie liked the kraken and put it in even though it wasn't greek. i resolved this in my head by saying the greeks attacked the vikings at one point and captured a young kraken on the trip.

@rippertrain 4 жыл бұрын

Where are you getting the weight of these creatures? I dont see it in my mm 5e

@fistimusmaximus6576 3 жыл бұрын

Lol tidal wave of white froth

@jeffcook360 4 жыл бұрын

Underwater giraffe fight!

@ashenwuss1651 4 жыл бұрын

Powerful beings can grow to godhood through worshippers. Perhaps raising folks in the depths of oceans, they have growing cults of worshippers

@PlaneWalker18 5 жыл бұрын

It is 3 in the morning. 😑. Good thing i work 2nd shift.

@yojimboeastwood5602 2 жыл бұрын

Wait…krakens doodoo that?

@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZ 2 ай бұрын

Clash of the titans IS based on Greek myth that was inspired by Greek history. Thr kraken however is NOT Greek, he had other similar creatures but not a kraken

@justincarlozmaxino1100 5 жыл бұрын

I could swear I read the earliest Kraken is mentioned in Greek Mythology So scandanavian krakens pre date greek ones?

@Thedungeoncast 5 жыл бұрын

I looked into it after this episode was recorded and apparently there is NO kraken in any greek mythology. Earliest records of the Kraken come from ancient Icelandic manuscripts. The creators of Clash of the Titans just said "Fuck it. Throw a kraken in this mix!"... essentially.

@deviousmile669 5 жыл бұрын

It's a matter of name and form, the greek called it differently and also had a different form, basically almost all ancient culture have a krakenesque creature