My party: Morticia, your minions smell awful! My necromancer: Okay then. *Starts using mummies.*

"as you can hear I am very sick" so THAT'S how you learned so much about the Mummy Curse/Rot

So you’ve done Mummy Lords “undead Clerics,” and Liches “undead Wizards.” Why not give our undead Paladins a little love aka Death Knights.

• a Mummy can remember what it knew when it was alive. • a normal Mummy has no will of its own. • therefore you can make an unliving library with the Mummies of the greater sages of your culture.

As mummy lords merely "retain there memories and personality" rather than the soul, does this mean you could combine a mummification ritual and a lichdom ritual?

I hate that in more recent editions they've made mummies "always" evil. I've always liked the idea that *every* god potentially employs them for either penitents or the *extremely devoted* of their faith as a way to 'work off' their sins or earn a greater place in the afterlife by guarding holy places even in death, until eventually they earn their eternal peace and are welcomed into their gods realm. Mummies with class levels are extremely fun. Tomb Stalkers that are rogues, tomb guardians that are warriors or barbarians, arcane guardians drawn from either sorcery or wizardry. Hell even warlocks can be great fun as mummies. Hell even mummified sages and scholars that could be consulted for knowledge are great fun. In particular I like the "clay mummy" variants for those that are extremely devoted - they maintain their appearances as though they were living as eternal "holy" champions that guard the most sacred places of their faith. These are the sorts of people that you see their tomb and read the translations of who they were and why they're here and start shitting your pants over. Its especially hilarious when you run into a mummy from a culture that you wouldn't expect - like Vikings and their Draugr. "dont mind me just robbing some tombs" and then boom, 13th level pissed off "mummy" paladin.

What they don't tell you about mummies: They love you no matter what you do" or "The can blow on any wound and make it all better" :D

Wait. If the retain their memories and personality.... Could their be a good benifial mummy lord? Could one be in charge of a city full of nice people? There could totally be a benevolent mummy lord based on this...

Fun fact: if you're a 14th-level wizard following the school of necromancy, a mummy lord can be brought under your control permanently with nothing but an action and a failed saving throw on their part. This is because the mummy lord is one of the few undead with a high challenge rating (in this case, CR 15) that doesn't have amazing Intelligence. A mere 11 (equal to a standard human or any other humanoid with a natural +1 Intelligence), which makes it fair game for the necromancer's Command Undead ability. The nightwalker from MToF is even dumber (6 Int) and stronger (CR 20). Go nuts*. *warning: the stats presented in any official D&D book are mere guidelines and your DM is able and likely to make small adjustments to a creature's stats to make them fit your campaign. Any strategies made prior to a game are subject to varying effectiveness if the specifics of a campaign are not taken into account.

Bard: tells mummy it smells nice

This was wonderful. Definitely gonna use a mummy lord in a campaign now.

My DM just brought the party out of the Feywild and into a desert. I’m hoping to see some mummies.

*Laughs in nehekharan.*

There is also a THIRD even more powerful grade of mummy not even in 5th edition. The Hunefer is the mummy of a demigod who seek to regain their full divine spark. They lack their soul, yet being divine even their bodies contain a glimmer of power. Unlike Mummy Lords, the Hunifer can immediately transform people into Mummies.

I remember learning that the Egyptians threw out the brain in embalming cuz they thought it was useless. Yet in dnd they smart boyos

“They smell quite nice” I see where he enjoys his nights

literally every 'What they don't tell you' video I watch gives me two or three entire campaign ideas. I like using the extra info you give to make both unique BBEGs and interesting modified NPCs.

Mummy: Kharis Mummy Lord: Imhotep

"So tell me again about the raise undead spell"-Ganondorf

even if i never end up playing any DnD i like your content and i like to rewatch them from time to time

I feel like Mummy Lords are a great way to have a big villain that isn’t as strong as a Lich. Especially in a desert setting.

Does that mean a player that’s a high enough level cleric can ask their god of death to bring them back as a mummy? Or if there were two clerics then one can turn the other into a mummy? If so a clay mummy variant race would be tight as hell.

Clearly mrhexx, you have been aflicted by mummy rot

Mummy told me yes she told me I'd meet ghouls like you She also told me "stay away you never know what you'll catch"

I am wondering what they do not tell us about Yuan-ti, I want to make a campaign set around them. I don't know if you do requests, but figured it might be worth a shot. Your choice if you want to obviously.

My d&d character is a mummy. He is a warlock who worships Anubis and has a cult of Anubis. He can convince lower level enemies like bandits and goblins to join his cult. He also has a pimped out sarcophagus that has pillows, a matrice, and a body pillow. I'm basically a mummy with an army of fanatical cultist wrapped up in toilet paper.

Just here to give the Mummy Lord some love! Notice how the description of the 'lair' and 'region' are both the tomb/temple that is filled with traps and lesser undead guardians? USE THAT! This is one of the largest 'lair' territories! If you want to make your Mummy Lord a great threat, give them a simple Crystal Ball to turn them into a general strategically commanding their troops from a command center in the heart of the lair, manually activating traps to trick the party, and activating its lair action REMOTELY (potentially every 6 seconds, if you really want it to be a slog). Time is the Mummy Lord's ally, and battles of attrition and crowd control are their bread and butter. Their regional effects really shine when an invading force has to stop to rest or fall back to regroup. A heavy stone gate at the entrance that closed behind the party can make the fouled food and water a big problem. Leaving small treasure rooms for the party to raid act as hidden traps if they manage to successfully retreat, since the treasure is all cursed until the Mummy Lord is killed. Liches focus their power in themselves, while Mummy Lord's disseminate it into the domain they control.

I had a session once in my own story where in an area that used to be a desert a thousands of years prior was now a vast plains. And there used to be an old civilization of humans back then. One of my player's was awful, at first they went on and on about how the setting was wrong for a Mummie to exist despite other players finding out that the place's history. Then the guy later argued why he couldn't use Raise Dead to kill the Mummy Lord which was the final boss of the mission, even though i gave him two reasons Reason 1: It takes an Hour to cast. Reason 2: The Mummy Lord had been dead for several thousand years. After they ended up in several different fights with the Mummy Lord they eventually found his heart and destroyed it, no one died and that one trouble player was never allowed back into any game i hosted.

The weather will do that to you. Take a long rest and feel better soon

This is giving me campaign ideas.

“And the Spirit within it are lost forever” Where dose said spirit go? The endless mazes below the 9th layer of hell? Ahriman is the only place for them to go if they are supposed to be lost forever.

I love how you seem to have gotten a rot, of some sort, at the end of this video :D

I remember something from the Ravenloft guides stating that the quality of materials used in the embalming process could determine how strong a mummy would become.

"Multiple level 9 spells" *Thinks back to how previous editions of D&D are cannon in 5e* Huh. Guess that means all the mummy lords are left over clerics who made themselves pre-spell plague

I'm preparing to run The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan as part of my campaign and this video provides a lot of useful information.

AD&D2e Ravenloft: Van Richten guild to the Ancient Dead 3.5e Ravenloft core book campaign setting. Both of these books has rules on building mummy npc and ideals on playing mummy characters. You can get these at the DungeonMasters Guild.com Also a high level cleric can make a bunch of Scrolls, and after they died their followers can bring them back from the dead as a mummy.

Wow I didn't realize the awesome npc potential with these monsters so cool thanks Rhex get well soon.

This is awesome to know! Would be cool to have a Mummy Lord cleric subclass, similar to the grave domain. Please do a video about vampires!

There is this very interesting thing that appears in the monster manual. There is a way for several of the player classes to cheat death. The Wizard most famously has Lichdom but clerics/maybe Paladins have mummification. But the one that doesn’t seem as obvious is Bard/rogues have the Medusa’s curse. The Medusa’s curse begins as a ritual that makes you incredibly attractive (presumably increasing your charisma) and then let’s you live forever before eventually transforming into a monstrosity. So just saying you could definitely have a BBEGs that are a group of immortal former adventurers “who were once just like you” intrepid adventurer!

thnx for this. Been mostly reading libris mortis to get lore on undead, and a few wiki articles. Something in depth like this is nice for my 3.5 necromancer, which I'd like to incorporate a lot of rituals into creating a few badass undead. Especially mummy lords. The part about several level 9 spells cast at the same time is what really adds flavor. Epic level spells in 3.5 allow you to create spells, and one of the variables to make the spell easier to cast is to have other casters use their spell slots durring the casting. So a pope offering their undying servitude to their god can use 1 9th level spells, have his archbishops sacrifice level 2 7th spells, his bishops do 4 5th level spells, his priests 8 3rd level spells, and deacons 16 1st level spells. Would require at least one 9th level spell, level 17 as a cleric, and mummy lord has 18 HD. Cooperative spell casting will allow anyone with a 9th level slot to increase the effective spell caster level by 1, maybe a character at level 30-40 would be able to do so with a single 9th level spell, fairly close to the number of levels a diety would have. Though a little worse than a lich, as after killing a mummy lord, they become ash right where they stand, and enough holy shit being cast on the ashes will perma-kill it, while a lich will return to its hidden phylactery.

This makes me think that a Mummy lord dragon who rules an undead kingdom would be awesome.

I want to thank you for giving us your sources in the description. It'll help us out a lot when following along!

Yes! more detail, more lore, more more more MrRhexx!! genuinely love delving into the lore of D&D with your videos the longer the video the better as i generally end up watching it 4 or 5 times

There are irl monks that mummify themselves alive and volunteer to be encased in statues while meditating, mummies with monk adventurer levels would be something.

Thank you for making this vid when sick it was very informative.

A crazy thought popped into mind, like the Mummies mentioned in the video. Chances of a Were - Beast, Wolffolk, Dragonborn, Kenku, Tortle, an so on of animal looking humanoid being turned into said Mummy character to be used? to maybe something like the Thundercats villain Mumm-Ra be created or used in the D&D game? Plus using the character animal looking humanoid characters mentioned above used as a Lich to, extra add on between using Mummies an Lich characters with the Were - Beast, Wolffolk, Dragonborn, Kenku, Tortle characters.

That was probably one of my favourite so far, along with some dragons, aboleths and the general giants. But Im extremely excited to a Hag video

I am totally making a peat bog mummy lord for my undead warlock’s patron now. The story perfectly suits the story my DM and I came up with for her background (she’s not just an undead warlock but also a life domain cleric). Basically there is a tragic love story between the goddess and the future patron of the character. When the patron dies and returns as an undead though, their memories are wiped clean. This has to do with the rival of the goddess for the patron’s affection (think the story of hyacinthus, but instead of becoming a flower they rise as an undead and the god who caused their accident wipes their memory, and the goddess can’t fix it, that’s where my character comes in when they enter the patron contract and why they can hold the blessings of the life goddess and the contract with the patron). Funny side note, I named my character Myosotis which is the name for forget-me-nots.

Very interesting. The thing that especially intrigued me was about the bog mummy. I’m definitely gonna use that

I discovered you 2 days ago, and have already burned through all your D&D lore videos. Love what you do! Keep up the great work. =)

Huge fan of these videos, always make my sessions a bit better! Thanks for another great upload!

Kick ass video man! I love your content please keep it up and feel better soon!

"5e makes old monsters more manageable," Worgs would like to have a word with you.

6:58 -> You could technically also create a mummy in space if im not mistaken. There are no organisms to decay the body, and even though you wouldnt find them, bodies would preserve the best in outer space outside of atmospheres.

"They smell really nice." Okay, there is something new for me I never really thought about lmao

Love this video and your work. I look froward to your next video!!!

I was watching all this series and then suddently I saw my mummy in it. It has been a happy surprise XD They're all well made.

Great Quality and Review of these classic monsters.

Is it a great day when a new MrRhexx video is released! Superb! All the best to you and yours!

Hey man, you make some freaking awesome videos. I love the depth of your information.

Great video. Hope you feel better soon.

Enormous shout out to everyone that makes this a thing.

I love your videos, they help me write encounters for my campaigns.

Is a "Dracomummy" possible?

in the Rudolf Von Richten guides for 2nd addition Ravenloft he believes Mummy Rot actually has a connection to the Positive Material Plane

This was great and super useful as I'm going to have my players encounter a Mummy Lord, now you have to do Vampires and Werewolves.

It’s so fitting getting a mummy video this time of year

0:49 Create Dead is my favorite spell. I would say it would be my most used one as well.

I was waiting for a new one so much:) thx!!

Neat video! Thank you for putting it together.

Hey Rhex, what's up? hope you're feeling better alredy! loving your dnd content, hoping to hear about the genies and genasi stories at some point. thanks and keep up the awesome work see you in the next one!

feel better my dude, I only just found your channel, but am loving it. Me and my friend both GM and your videos have been amazing tools to use for baddie research, and your video's have already spawned a story that is in progress. :)

By the way, this video is missing from your D&D lore playlist. VERY informative and interesting as always!

Nicely done. Couple notes: Another climate that works is westward facing high plateaux near coasts with cold currents. The Peruvian Andes frinstance. This literally gives a freeze dried mummification. Next, Egyptian mummies had their brains dragged out through the nose with hooks, and the skull was then flooded with cedar oil to remove scraps. Ditto that it was cedar oil, not palm, used to anoint the body cavities.

This video is not on the playlist. Just telling you in case it was overlooked. Thank you for the great work! Love these videos!

just in time for halloween! thank you, sir! feel better soon!

i remember a homebrew story where a mummy lord desided to protect the last temple of his god and the clerics incide, idk if that possible in normal games but still cool stuff

I was waiting to more work from you! To many good channels die and im glad your still popping out content!

I appreciate you citing your sources

Mummy lords, the dragons of humans.

Divine casters get all the coolest stuff... Except for prestidigitation.

I made a mercy monk who was mistaken for a powerful cleric and when cultists tried to turn them into a mummy lord it failed and they're whole body is covered in regenerating bandages that they use to use healing or necrotic abilities. I also added some flavor like they can be used like a weaker mage hand or can make symbols and gestures in the air like shadow puppets and if I get a grappling feat we'll it writes itself.

0:52 Create Dead? So will fireball work, or does it need to be a more specific spell?

Love the detail you put into these, cant wait till i start putting my lore into youtube videos.

"Freeze fried" - some guy we love listening to

If a mummy is a cleric, and a lich is a wizard, what would a sorcerer turn into?

Love your vids ty for doing this even though you are sick hope you are well now.

This was a good video, keep up the good work

12:17 I absolutely love this art style and picture. Precisely what I'm trying to achieve for a personal comic project.

Thank you heaps for these videos. I had my 13th level high elf wizard instantly turned into a mummy via the deck of several things and the DM and gave her the mummy lord legendary actions and abilities...naturally she is now a NPC. Between this and the high magic videos you've inspired much of her recent antics including her current spelljamming mission to Athas to 'fix' Dark Sun by using high magic to restart its star ...which I'm sure will end well....

Dude thanks, loved it

An very interesting video. Thank you for sharing it.

These videos are so amazing please do more

Love your commentary sir, keep up the good work

I once played in a dnd campaign that had all the pcs play monstrous races. One of the players was playing a elven vampire lord. She was a young girl who ruled as a head of a clan of vampires, after being turned at a young age due to her frailty and backstory reasons. One of the other players was a weretiger bodyguard for her. The third player was a specter that haunted an item that the vampire lord carried. And the forth character was a half fiend rogue. Finally, we get to my character, the mummy monk who was the butler to the vampire lord. Good times.

I wouldn't mind having this the the end goal of my cleric. The Lich route is nice, but like you said, they are for wizards. Vampirism is pretty easy to get, but it has a lot of drawbacks.

I love that the "dry lich" is literally just a lich if it was a mummy. You can find it in the Sandstorm supplement book for 3.5e.

What a fantastic video, MrRhexx! Great job - as always! 👍👍 Do you wanna know how it makes me feel? I'm WRAPPED !! Ha ha ha 😂😂😉😉

I've been working on a campaign that involves the combination of Warhammer necrons and mtg eternals. This video is very helpful thank you.

“Don’t get hit by Rotting Fist, you’ll die by disease!” (Laughs manically in War-forged)