Thanks for watching everyone! What monster would you like to see on the channel next? 🤔

A drug cartel that's always on the move since their field is mobile.

Imagine a chia golem covered in Oz poppies. One moment, the character sees this cute animal with these beautiful, brightly colored flowers on it, and the next, they are falling asleep. Also, when he was talking about them having grasping vines to pull characters in, was anyone else imagining a bulbasaur?

A traveling nature preserve! A Chia planted with endangered plants wandering the wasteland, slowly leaving behind a trail of seedlings to repopulate.

okay, so hear me out, you make a small army of Chia Golems, and seed each one with the seed of the infamous Hura Crepitans, aka 'The Grenade Tree", now the tree instead of a 60ft poison cloud on a 5-6 recharge chooses 1d6 points within Range and centers a Shatter upcast to 3rd level on the points of impact. Now the creature is a walking potential anti civilization siege engine, is immune to mundane combat options, and systematically bombs everything in it's path.

Right so here's the plan: Guard my castle with Chia Golems planted with the local equivalent of Poison Oak and Poison Ivy. Trespassers gonna have a bad time.

I'm running a winter post apocalyptic campaign, and there are Druids whose mission is to preserve endangered plants by making a huge magical green house. I am SO putting chia golems as their guardians of special and fragile plant life in this green house, holding the plants in their back. I love this

Or maybe the plants on the Chia Golem are just normal flowering plants, but it also has a series of small holes in the pottery body leading to an interior space holding a swarm of monstrous insects that attack any opponents of the golem.

Now I will definitely add a suspicious merchant selling poisoned clay kitties to my campaign

Giant oak with a treehouse, manned by half a dozen Wood Elf archers.

In a desert-centric campaign they could work as kind of a mobile oasis: there's a legend of an oasis that never stays in the same place, but in reality it's a pack of chia golems moving along an old riverbed looking for upwellings of subterranean water; if someone studies the golems they can find clues of an ancient civilization in the middle of the desert.

Perfect timing...My druid was in need of a familiar. I'm making a tiny, adorable version of this.

You mentioned the idea of a hedge maze with Chia Golems inside, but what if we take that one step further? What if the hedges that make up the walls of the hedge maze were themselves Chia Golems? Imagine you walk into a hedge maze, and you hear someone laughing. Before you can react, the hedges move to seal the exit shut, trapping you and your party inside to be ambushed by druids.

A little cocktail for the grove guardian: bull nettle, briar, poison oak and (just to make sure you piss off everyone as much as possible) a little ragweed

Me: time to sleep, it's sodding late Dungeon Dad: No, I don't think you will

'... some other kind of plant...' - half expected another cut to the Willie Nelson chia at that one.

Hmmm it appears I have got here before it was supposed to go up

The gympie gympie tree golem. I don't think I need to say much more...

Wizard: My ultimate enemy...The Chia Golem. Our battle will be legendary! *contracts Moldervine*

I'm thinking some crazy chilli plants. Fog cloud with chillies would basically be pepper spray.

Planting psychedelics into this thing could allow its spore attack to mimic the effects of a variety of spells from Confusion to Phantasmal Killer to Illusory Terrain at random

WAIT HOLD ON. Sandbox tree golem

susser bloom on its back would be every magic caster’s worst nightmare

Idea: giant pitcher plant chia golem used by a nefarious wizard to dispose of the bodies from his latest experiment

Sold! I'm making a Venasaur golem, say no more.

hear me out: a chia golem with a night twist planted on it.

Naturally the druid that created the chia golem would decide on Dendrocnide moroides as the specific type of plant growing on the golem's back. XD

First idea that came to mind, an adventure on a moving island that is actually a massive chai golem turtle.

The kitchen golem the chef owns to help cook :)

Story Idea: As a way to protect sacred medicinal herbs, druids would create and gift these chia golems to temples dedicated to nature and healing gods. And the disease caused carries an additional curse to make those killed by it plant guardians of the Chia Golem. The only way to approach the Golem would be in the presence of a high ranking clergy member that knows the right command phrase

I think it'd be particularly fun if you as the dm introduced chia golems as a friendly entity within the world first, and then betray your players later with an evil one, or three.

I love how half this episode is spent saying this is a joke monster but it's legit one of my favorites he's covered in a while! I love goofy monster ideas that can take a wicked turn!

Razorvine from Planescape on the back of a Chia Golem. it's basically a golem with blender

I don’t know why, but my brain keeps picturing one covered in desert plants, like prickly pear cactus and aloe plants.

These things are walking gardens. Biuld one of these thing to move at a respectable speed and you can have a traveling caravan or nomadic tribe that doesn't have to worry about were to find thier next source of V-C.

Torterra with a manchineel tree. Forbidden fruit.

I’ve been currently working on a D&D campaign with completely homebrew lore and monsters. After a week of work, I beginning to realize how difficult this actually is. Besides that though, I’m finding it quite fun, so I’d like to thank you for getting me into homebrew D&D!

What a great premise for a Druid subclass

The Paladin will be the only one that doesn't have to worry about getting the disease. Hopefully your party have minor and greater restoration prepared.

Variant: the Kudzu Chia Golem Like the base version, but with three changes. First, its overgrowth is a recharge 9-10 instead of once per day. Second, the saving throws for its overgrowth and grasping vines abilities are 17 instead of 15 Third, while in direct sunlight, it can take an action to regenerate 5 HP Now you got an extra difficult and slightly tanky guardian.

Okay so I'm definitely using this in a campaign I'm running, and, I have an idea for a variant of a Chia golem: Carnivorous plants. Make use of all of the restraining features of the golem, and then chuck the part members into a pitcher plant, or on top of it is a giant sundew that will wrap around them and further restrain them, venus fly traps that lunge out and bite at things, restraining them of course, all all of which deal acid damage over time as the players are slowly dissolved. Hell yeah, cool golem idea.

I'm thinking of a wandering druid using one of these as a cart and herb garden. It's dinosaur shaped but with a Hobbit-hole type round door in the back that leads to a little sleeping chamber. Both druid and golem are just a bit weird.

14:14 hanging gardens chia golem.

I'm loving the idea of these things taking on the properties of the plants that are grown in them, it gives a lot of potential to tack on weird abilities and features depending on the environment they were constructed in. A chia golem made in the Feywild to guard a hag coven's lair could include some kind of illusory magic or a spore cloud that causes fear or hallucinations (which could replicate something like the phantasmal killer spell), or one made with foliage touched by the Shadowfell or a domain of dread might have decaying necrotic properties, and be accompanied by the raised corpses of those who tried to trespass in its territory before. Or even a community of nomadic desert druids could construct one with cactus seeds as a renewable water source, making them a roaming, magical reservoir.

What a fun monster. I got an idea of a sidequest to retrieve healing herbs from a chia golem that resides in a abandonded alchemy lab. The players however must be cautious how they fight to not ruin the herbs fir example no fire or acid damage. And perhaps its possible to make checks with herbalist tools to harvest from the golem during the fight and then skedaddle when they have enough as a alternate win condition.

And this is why dungeon dad is the G.O.A.T.. anyone can cover one joke golem but this man gave us all 3.

Two things: 1: Reverse the concept, make the plant a parasite that lives on golems. 2: Make them small cute wondering golems that just hang around a druid's hut for flavor... and give them breath attacks.

I'm going to have the Chia Pet jingle in my head for the next day or so now. With the chia golem and Topiary Guardians a druid grove has more than enough plant based monsters for generations to come.

The plant with dead bodies in it is called a "corpse flower" and smells as bad as it sounds

the first thing i thought of was a chia monkey, where the "chia" part is its hair, it would have long vines as its plant and i'd probably make it more "agile" and give it so more vine themed actions

I remember back in grade school my friend Chris gave a chia pet Homer Simpson to my friend Jose for xmas and Jose accidently dropped it that cold december day. He cried when it broke.

“The wheat fields are moving.” “That’s just the wind.” “But this is potato country. And wheat fields don’t normally sprout overnight.”

Desert setting: party is tasked with protecting a few of them that carry specific plant that have healing properties, across a known very dangerous region of the desert

Ohhh my god...what if a chia golem as a druid or ranger's companion...or as a familiar....

Omg that disease is real life fear inducing. Great job making this one.

A D&D monster based off The Gentlemen from Buffy would be sick

Mh, I can see a Chia Forest being the final weapon of druid enclave. I can immagine a low-mid level campain wich sees the players trying to convince the druids to help with their colossal chia golem to defeat the Terrasque that is rampaging in the nearby kingdom. Kaiju fights are alwais dope.

This seems like A good familiar for a druid class player putting in a healing plant. Or a offensive plant to help the party.

Make it a large humanoid tree and make the party think it's an elder treant.

Imagine if someone planted a night twist in one of these.

My first thought was a golem with like 10 assassin vines on it But also, what if Zuggtmoy started using these golems to spread her spores and shrooms around? Like sending them into the material plane as some sort of walking demonic fungal infection, taking over forests and towns with fiendish fungi I also thought of a big one with trees

You’re completely right, and that’s all that matters

gulthias tree torterra chia golem… giant turtle with a tiny mausoleum shaded by a tree in the garden on its back. vampire living in the mausoleum.

life-sized Dragon-turtle with a 40 foot tall greenhouse, twin cherry blossoms supporting a hammock, sunflowers, vanilla, various wildflowers, fruits and veggies, chickens, bees, butterflies, fish, pond, log cabin, and it is self-sustaining.

The thumbnail transition at the very start of the video is a very, very nice touch, looks extremely satisfying

Fighter:It's a ...a...."Ch-ch-ch-chia!" DM: Roll for Initiative

I object , can't be a chia pet without chia.

Ridiculous, but so much potential! Opening up the whole world of botanical variety can make this golem go anywhere. Anyway, my first thought was a floating, jellyfish-shaped chia golem with blossoming vines as tentacles: an aerial pollenizer seems like an efficient way for a druid to keep up a wide swath of vegetation. Honestly, I tend to think of food when I think of chia seeds...so that poison curse is pretty freaky: sprouts growing out straight from your gut does not sound like a good time 😅 I love it! The idea of that disease turning someone into a plant is probably the most interesting part though...I could see that making for a really interesting plothook with a healing druid obsessed with "purifying" everything into a plant-like state. They could cleanse covens, lycanthropes, or even just regular people with this illness to keep everything in line with the natural order. Anyway, thanks as always, DD! Looking forward to the next one 🫡 P.S. It's great hearing Doxy narrate the outro again!

Chia Golem shaped like a bear, with an Awakened Shrub shaped like a bird growing off it. The golem and shrub noticeably banter.

This has gotta be the cutest version of a golem to exist. I’m definitely going to have my Druid make a tiny chia golem as a familiar/ pet

So you want some horror added to this little thing put in the plants from the movie The Ruin that have perfect mimicry and infect people killing em from inside and propagating that way. Would also make the disease that much worse as it perfectly represents it. Also personally wouldn't let restoration cure it and instead maybe delay it

I love the idea of a Chia Golem being a mobile den for twig blights. Like the source of a dangerous plague that was previously just a nuisance. A "burn humanity down except those who live in harmony with nature" type druid found a manual of clay golemcraft and decided to alter the design a bit.

Ngl the tan looks pretty good DAD

Giant Hogweed sap is photosensitizing - as in, it causes horrible burns when exposed to sunlight. I suppose a regular sunlight would deal acid (?) damage. And if a character was dealt radiant damage after getting sap on their skin, I'm sure they'd be in a world of pain.

I have to give you credit, this is my favorite video that you have made. I love druids and this has so much potential. A forest could have a grove of druids that have made hundreds of golem of all sizes throughout the woods. Small box turtle chia golems could surround an encampment without raising attention and with a combination of different seeds they could be put to sleep all in the encampment. Then the druids can go walk through the camp and murder hobo everyone. Since they are slow, I would make an Ankylosaur version as a walking tank. Some GM's allow items to be applied to the golems, a +5 spiked mace at the end of the tail would make that wicked. If you make on big enough. Have a fea circle on the golem. The fea and the golem would work together and defend the forest. Mobile strike team.

Warforged artificer NPC who likes cute things + Chia Golem = endless annoyance for my players. Thank you for the inspiration!

Day 37 of asking for the Grue from Zork to get an episode of MotW. Last time i made a typo, sorry about that.

Honestly, this is pretty cool. I might have these Golems have a form of true intelligence, animalistic though it may be. After all, my view on Warforged is that they are crafted from Wood and Stone, Wood for the spark of life and Stone for the enchantability. Chia Golems would be similar, with some quirks due to being made from living matter and shaped clay instead of carved wood and stone. The "Artificer Lich" idea from that one "liches for every class" series really ties in to that idea as well (part of the reason I really like that idea), where the bodies are crafted but hold a living part inside.

Absolutely a chia golem with oak trees growing out of it. Once it gets old enough the chia golem becomes a dryad as well, making a moving dryad golem combo which has an immense amount of potential. Imagine a traveling enclave of chia oak golems! That could be so cool, like a moving fey-like forest. I hope someone finds this and gets cool ideas with/ for it!

Perfect! My players are going to encounter a mysterious old green witch (a good type of witch) in a "wheelchair", who runs a magic pet store in feywild. Those babies will fit right in her store environment, as guards :)

I imagine either a story where a Druid used one of these golems to keep the last plant of their forrest alive and then look for a new place to restart. Either the plant can grow too big for the golem before they could replant it, so they had to make do. Or the golem is made in such a way so it’ll add earth to itself as the plant grow. While they still didn’t find a place either, the golem is now big enough to sustain its new forrest on its back. It wanders aimlessly around and grows bigger bit by bit, since the Druid who made it is long gone. It could also be a way for players to always have fresh vegetables and such on long adventures

The gimpy-gimpy chia golem , the golem that make you miss fighting a ropper.

14:25 maybe a beholder chia golem

I have two ideas for potentially really nasty plants: 1. A magically enhanced version of dwarf mistletoe, dwarf mistletoe berries BURST when they gain enough water or are stimulated by outside force, launching their seeds at around 50mph. I imagine this could either be a close range AOE to use once it pulled a few people in or a reaction against being attacked within 5ft. 2. The Dynamite tree/sandbox tree, which has poisonous spikes and fruit that explodes hard enough to shoot it's seed at 160mph.

Elephant-sized golems serving as a mount for an Audrey II

Plush golem now im interested 0.0

I just want to say thank you my man. Discovering your videos has leveled up my dmming game. Especially seen as some of these monsters my friend who has been playing years hasn't even heard of. I really wish you could have been there when I used the false hydra you designed against the party. This video had leveled up my story dungion immediately as this monster fits comfortably in there XD so thank you again XD

Machineel Trees. Gympie-Gympie shrubs. Sandbox Trees. Any plant-based druid that doesn't terrify enemies and allies alike, is holding back.

I like to imagine rich nobles might have chia golems in their gardens to impress and wow guests since it's like moving topiaries but they can be used to restrain thieves

Hair looks great bud. Enjoyed the video, and I can't wait to snag the fancy stat block from the patreon

LoL your new imagery for the Chia Golem is amazing. I really want an old wizard who lives in nature who has hundreds of these things as friends. He would obviously be constantly smoking a long Gandalf pipe full of “Herbs” and regularly talking to all his plants / chia golems.

I would love a plush version of the one on the thumbnail 😂

Manchineel tree chia golem time. 👀

That opening animation is amazing! I dont think I've ever seen such a smooth transition when tapping on a video. Bravo!

I was already planning to bring the vril to 5e but I can't wait for the next episode. Also, I'm thinking a cactus covered chia golem that can do a 100 needles attack, cactuar style.

Holy crap that seamless transition from thumbnail to video was slick af great work

Druid king with a giant Chia golem castle, but everyone thinks it's just a decorative choice. It could either be used to fight in endgame boss, or the king could be the big bad and it would be the end game battle ground where you have to work your way through rooms of plant soldiers and other trials

A Chia Golem with weed on it, casting Calm Emotions at will ...

A fungal variant of this could be cool too, something made by druids from the Underdark.

Esper the Bard created a demonic patch of mold for his Esper's Emporium of Esoterica book called the vicemold, which can cause a number of detrimental effects on its enemies, each effect based on one of the Seven Deadly Sins. I personally would LOVE to put one of those in a chia golem for added mobility.