He died, though. Maybe, simulacrum got better than the original

Necro'ing this, but well, the real Acererak was the boss of Tomb of Horrors. IF you actually encountered him (There was a fake in the ToH as well, a zombie gussied up to look like a mighty Lich), then he really only had one attack. He would use it on the strongest member of the party. Instant Death, No Save, no resist, nothing. He straight up eats your fucking soul and you die with nothing short of a max power Wish Spell being able to bring you back.

@@McDonaldWilliamT even that was only the entrance to the real tomb though

@@antimatterstudios8395 Kinda? I mean the 'real' Tomb was the whole thing, it's just that the whole of the Tomb of Horrors was one big grift by Acererak. He made the whole thing himself as a way to lure in dumb adventurers so the insane logic breaking puzzle traps would kill them and he could eat their souls for sustenance and get a bunch of free magic items from their corpses.

@@canaryinacoalmine1759 I Demi pitch needs a phylactery for their soul, to stop it from going to the afterlife. They must feed this phylactery souls in order to maintain both it and their own soul. A Demi litch if formed in two ways. The first is that a litch fails to feed its phylactery and degrades into a Demi litch. due to the Demi litch description of Acerac for seeing his own degradation, this might be an inevitability rather than a possibility, likely caused by the phylactery slowly failing. These Demi Litches are lesser than litches The second is the path pioneered by acererak, where becoming a Demi litch is used a the next step in a litches undead evolution/life. This involves taking the litches skull and turning it into their phylactery. Important to know is that if a phylactery is destroyed the litch will not reform if defeated, with a Demi litch only having a phylactery for a physical form (their skull), their phylactories destruction cause’s the end of their immortal life, thus The original Acererak is gone for good.

Decoys Morty!!!

I second that. It is one of the less explored but more interesting parts and I love me some jungle adventures.

TheBayzent I agree. There are modules and campaigns always set in either grasslands, mountains, and forests. There is so much that can de done with jungles and combo it with deserts.

ditto! im sick of the sword coast

#1 will shock you!

the absolute meme

Yeah... didn't age well

@@MrRhexx your fate whas sealed when you said *_Sponsored_*

@@Max_G4 how so?

you need replies man

Bravo!

On defeating the lich named Kangaxx, he pulls dat bs on the party as well. Defeating it only makes it turn into a cheating stronger demilich...

@@killereye Kangaxx literally fights like Acererak in Tomb of Horrors. Both pull out the exact same shit of spamming Soultrap, but since BG didn't have that they used Maze, but the effect is the same (only Soultrap victims never come back)

Adventurer, turn the skull over! Boom, big reveal, I turned myself into a demi-lich! I'm Demi-Lich Acererak!

Wanna make some CHARISMA SAVE against PERMANENT DEATH ? Everyone ?

Yes as I sophomore I deeply enjoyed staying up past 11 learning about dragons then dragonborn later the gods and now the planes i always tried to go to bed before 11 but now I go to bed at twelve I hope you enjoy a permanent retirement ten year and much more knowledge

Too*

That aged badly

Now that's the D&D that I legitimately think is better. In 5e you would just recover and never have been in danger.

​@tofu1608 yes, but it requires players that are a good sport and want to play a game, and not have the main character experience

Acererak can't be aan Aarchlich, because those "were good beings during their life" ( Monster Compendium: Monsters of Faerûn, p.90). So Acererak must be lich or demilich. Proof: forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Demilich

"small little" is redundant. That is all. Glad I got that off my chest.

Yeah, Rhexx does some awesome videos, but sometimes they are way off base. Lots of non-canon stuff here. Also, the very different Tomb of Horrors for 4e pretty much established that Acererak had been downgraded from the vestige he was in 3e to demilich again.

Bastian Schöls He is described as an ArchLich in TOA meaning that WOTC changed the meaning. (Vecna in MTOF is also described as an ArchLich) Personally I like define the good ones as ArcLich and very powerful Liches as ArchLich for this edition. But yeah that’s just another contradiction in 5E. I suspect this is because Demi-Liches have been downgraded in 5E yet Acererak is supposed to be a more powerful than normal lich.

@@sanddry738 the demilich article in the MM also states that demilichs who seek this path as Accererak did are slightly more powerful than normal liches

I always find it interesting that a lot of people who grew up on 2e either love or hate 5e. Most seem to love it. I grew up on 3e so 5e was a disappointment to me as it was extremely flat, streamlined, and changed the dynamics of all power to be 100% on the side of players. And the change in player base mentality has been extremely difficult. You'll find players these days find even the possibility of death to be offensive and a sign of a bad DM.

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Wow, you really like him

@@leobracken2316 I don't have enough friends that would be interested in playing D&D nor do I have enough time? This allows me to be able to experience the world of D&D but not actually play and I really appreciate that.

@@muffinman8744 ok. I was trying to say "I was surprised that someone would like Raid" but I'm not sure I worded that very well. Also I'm pretty certain I misunderstood your comment. Sorry if I seemed rude or something.

@@leobracken2316 lol no I was not talking about RSL...never even played. I just know from all the memes about it that its viewed as negative.

the third-best

Curse of Strahd, I think.

Curse of Strahd

Cursed of strahd

CoS is one of the best also, i believe the best has been said to be the mines of phandelver. This is his opinoin if i remember correctly.

Aha I had a game that went from storm King's thunder to tomb of annihilation as well but the party accidently set the death curse in motion so they had to shift gears to face the supernatural threat first.

Oh man that's cool. Ya mine is heavily modified I'm doing sort of a Bermuda triangle thing where they thought it would be Chult but it's actually an island of that exists in between worlds plenty of undead and aberrations. Way less civilization (easier on me as a DM).

@@slickrickard That's smart. Yea, no this game happened very early in Storm King's so it was chaos to try and go from the spine of the world to chult. And rather than explore they blitzed to find the city asap. Unfortunately the party died on the fourth floor due to bad luck and player exhaustion cause the dungeon really kicked their teeth in between rough fights and bad rolls. Ironically their mapped time actual had them perish very nearly lined up with the starting time the ToA book says for how long the death curse has been going.

what is the title of the book ?

Yes. I saw this and then just ran it for my players it was well worth it. Very fun.

No, the SHADOW PLANE ceased to exist and was fused with the shadowfell. The negative plane wasn't affected

And karsus folly caused the spell plague

@@Trapsarentgay133 Pretty sure the Spell Plague was caused because another god killed an old version of Mystra, not the one we've got today, and it was waaaaay later than Karsus's Folly

Tardígrado could be ill be honest its been ages since ive played d and d

@@Trapsarentgay133 Karsus' folly was a different event altogether and had nothing to do with the Spell Plague.It took place a -long time- before the Spell plague. Karsus used his magic to assume the mantel of Mystara, the original goddess of magic. Mystara then killed herself to get her power back from Karsus and became Mystra (the current goddess of magic from 2nd or 3rd edition onward I believe). Mystra then imposed limits on magic so spells of higher then 9th level could no longer be cast. MrRhexx has a video on Karsus' Folly. The Spell Plague is a 4th edition thing and quite recent in Forgotten Realms Cannon History. (the past 150 years or so). The Spell Plague was caused by the god Cyric tricking Tyr into killing Mystra. This caused Magic to go haywire for a while (and Shar stole half of the weave of the magic as well i believe. The part for Shadow Magic). The Spell Plague for Cannon history only ended 10 years prior to the Start point of 5th Edition and was ended with the reforming of the new Tablets of Fate by Ao.