What would you rate Ashardalon?

Adventurer's

What about Monster from older editions? Will you include some of them, or only edition 5?

I'm not sure how some of these creatures are literally more dangerous than gods (i.e. Tiamat). That seems literally incredible: EDIT: That is a measurement of Tiamat's avatar, not her true HOLYOMFGoddess form

Please tell me that bahamut is above 30!

Wisdom saves to ensure that the DM is actually _knows_ what all of their schedules are. Intelligence saves to ensure that the DM can figure out _how the hell can we meet once a goddamn week for, like, two hours._ Constitution saves to ensure that the DM can put up with all of your/our shit without throwing up.

The only CR99 monster in DnD.

I am blessed to have a consistent weekly game. It took years to find though.

Ppsssht. What about that dm who rolls behind the screen ?

Is it now that I should mention that I've played in the same VTM:DA Campaign for 10+ years about every week?

Same with Mordenkainen

Probably the 3rd most powerful lich ever in the D&D multiverse, only below Acererak and Vecna himself.

"Look at her Silver Flame" giggity

Love it. I see it like Asmodeous. So evil that he seems good. If the enemy of my enemies is my friend. Lord of chaos must love good hearted murdering hobos seeking adventure. Thank you for sharing the lore.

@@dogle9258 Glad to be of help! You can find more on him here: forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Larloch I like how evil is shown in different ways in DnD. Devils are often considered less evil than Demons, only because they are more willing to talk in order to squeeze what they can out of you through pacts for a promotion. Hags just enjoy screwing with people, with their exchanges focusing on benefitting themselves, making the other person give up something far more valuable than they realize, and giving them something that isn't as great, either due to the sacrifice or the hag being literal.

skuarf Which Acererak, the original or one of his simulacrum?

Such an underrated game, loved it

This did put a smile on my face.

IKR

WOLVES HUNT IN PACKS, ARISEN!

We'll rout them in a single charge!

Yeah, don't stop at the first word.

Mostly, MOSTLY, it's meaningless. The really deep weird stuff comes from A-D&D and 2nd Ed. The 80s and 90s. 3rd 4th and 5th each seem to go more and more out of their way as time goes on to keep away from this part of the lore. They'll carefully splash in some of the weirder bits for flavor, but they aren't going to fully explain it either. A lot of the old stuff is out modeled. D&D, and fantasy in general, went away from that way of thinking. For instance, there's a lot of Spell Jammer stuff on this channel, cause it's a singular weird book in the lore, not much ever built up from it or into it. It kinda just exists as a complicated rule mechanic answer to a question that didn't need one. If the current D&D brought in space travel they'd probably scrap it and start from scratch. Starting with the name. That's a very 1970s 1980s name. Ravenloft and Eberron have been popular since they were introduced back in the day, so they get books. The adventures for Tales from the Yawning Portal sanitized a lot of Greyhawk. Ravnica happened cause.. of course it did. Wizards of the Coast does own D&D after all. And the new one, Wildemount, well, Critical Role is the most popular D&D campaign of all time. So it gets a book, but it mostly seems to be The Forgotten Realms with a few twists. None of them truly push into the weird or outright player destroying. Current D&D seems to be willing to leave almost all the rest behind as cruft.

@@michaelholloway5646 ok

“But what about dragons?”

@@malachidurant4262 and MACHICOLATIONS

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Roll 20

Dnd beyond

​@@nbs3medic819roll 20 sucks

Neverwinter?

ikr, like he even need that ability with those stats and Magic Resistance ability

Did you fail your saving throw against my powerful spell? Well yes, but actually no.

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I would like to add 'Murder Hobo' as a further description to that.

murderhobos

The strongest is the moon druid. Never let a moon druid hit level 20. N E V E R

Ehmmmm the dm?

dasnerft96 when the dm pulls out boxing gloves, announcing themselves to be the final boss.

There is a few ways, watch his video (there may be several at this point) on lych's and mummies. Other ways of doing it are carefully worded wish spells, there is a pendent somewhere that does it, some gods can grant it (as a punishment or reward), monks just get it at a certain level (in cannon most will become hermits after a while, or die in a fight), and whatever the DM says happened to make someone immortal. The general rule with it is you need to find a way to ether live without a body, or make your body stop ageing. The idea is that your body with age will stop being able to be healed and the person will die even if the spirit is willing to be revived. If your looking as a non-monk player for a way to make your character immortal I would recommend talking to your DM about ideas that make sense within the story. Not having your character become immortal, but wanting immortality is also a way to go about it. You can also look into binding your sperit to a thing (I recommend something you can carry on you) and just becoming a lynch. If your a DM looking for ways to give immortality, create a crisis that involves a god being at risk of getting killed. Have whatever player(s) who are save the god offered immortality, play up that immortality isn't the best thing possible to happen to a person. You can also just make something up.

@@toko099o while this is a very neat and elaborately thought out reply game mechanics wise, I meant more lore wise about immortality itself in the DnD universe. Like how dragons are immortal but still die of natural age, like how things can be revived and essentially live forever but their total lifespan is still finite, or like how elves can essentially become the anti lich (forgot its name) and the limitations to what immortality means for different beings. I'm aware of many ways to achieve it, I wanted to know more about the lore of it in total.

@@toomuchrandy1731 he talks about a lot of these things in the videos on the subjects you want. For instance, dragons do die of age it's just they age by the size of their hoard not by time. the reason some things can't be revived indefinitely is that the body still ages and entropy will kick in eventually. Elf's are fey by nature so they are made of more magic then carbon. I don't know what you are talking about with the anti lych thing, my best guess is someone binds their soul to an object and sustain themselves on something. His lych video covers most of the way entropy works in d&d I would start there if you want to dive via videos.

@@toko099o Well no there is essentially a way for mortal creatures of magic to achieve immortality beyond death of age. Even dragons can achieve this through becoming a Draco lich, elves by bonding with magic of some kind, not an object. Not at all. In fact the elves still keep their natural bodies, and the reason I say anti lich (aside from it just being a place holder name because damn I can't remember), this dorm of elves does in fact live forever like the lich, but it's body supposedly never decays. It just keeps growing older from what I gather. And no, dragons don't age by the size of their hoard. They eat their hoard after they reach the point at which their bodies do actually start to die. Then they have 3 options, only one of which is immortal. That being the Draco lich. If the dragon chooses to eat its hoard it can choose somewhere to bind itself with the natural environment as it dies, kind of enfusing its magic into the landscape. Or it can go to a dragon graveyard and die there. What I actually wanted to learn in this case was the different kind of immortality. Dragons of which are only semi immortal as their body doesn't decay or slow, it's at constant peak condition right up until its about to die. It can choose immortality through lich, or dying or becoming a guardian. Etc. The gods of the DnD universe from what I gather are just existentially eternal. Some of the lesser can be killed and the higher may be trapped, but I don't think there's much able to make their version of immortality vulnerable. A lich will keep aging and rotting away until it becomes a demi lich, pretty much an ever lasting skull. The elven version from what I gather, it's body is immortal as well. Then you have the immortal infusion into objects and such, the list goes on. I want to learn of the different types of immortality , their weaknesses, limitations, etc.

I wonder if Entropy works in DND, like after trillions trillions of years later, what will the fate be for everything?

Neither original, nor funny. Great!

ACCURATE LOL

Sleep is for the weak.

@@Crazy-ll2rf Who hurt you.

@@kadeosborne3937 I just go trough videos, and comment on the last or first comment

And the Hecatoncheires are one of the only non-dragon creatures to bear the 50+ CR ranking.

Annihilation could just remove them

and the time dragons too...cr90 like wtf

boris daanimal Whereabouts could I find the stat block of the CR90 Time Dragon?

boris daanimal Whereabouts could I find the stat block of the CR90 Time Dragon?

Yeah, and I'm not seeing anything about the Abomination type, or Far Realms creatures, or really anything from Epic Level Handbook.

@@andrewcoleman909 epic level handbook page 184. Prismatic dragon cr 66 great wyrm 79HD. Size colossal+ caster level 38. Would you like more?

@@NoESanity I meant I didn't see any mention of creatures from that book in the video. Not to mention the templates in the book- like a pseudonatural creature or a demilich. I am well aware of the epic dragons; I've used them in campaign.

I remeber that floating deamon baby monster. This was in 3rd edition so The list of powers had to follow The rules. Your Epic monster wants a Epic fest that requires a low level one? Then it has to have it. It was a fun read.... "Dont forget his feat Dodge! He has +1ac to The first attack aimed at him each turn!"

@@tommyakesson8858 Atropal? The aborted fetus if a God come back for revenge. Yea. In 5e they are like cr 13. But back in 3rd they were 30, so sad

End battle Lucien of mighty nein campaign was up there too

Specifically a group of four. I'm pretty sure Critical Role runs a party of at *least* six.

@@greylithwolf exactly. AT LEAST

back in the day in 2ed AD&D it was a save or die on Solar's arrows. He was the tier 0 monster, above everyone else on a manual full of insanely OP things like all devils, demons, daemons and such. Edit: Manual in question was Planescape monster manual, STUNNING artwork by Tony DiTerlizzi

Fun fact, in 3rd Edition (and 3,5) it is possible to make a character that has a 50/50 shot of permanently enslaving a Solar to their will. But you need to be a specialist enchanter and pick the right feats and (official) prestige classes in the right order to do it, and you wouldn't be able to do it until your level was in the mid 20's, but it was possible.

Think about this, back in the day wizards only had a d4 of hit dye and had only 1 spell in some cases. You 3.5ers had it easy.

20th Level Druid wrecks solars, since they simply *can't die* (unlimmited shape shifting while casting)

@@toko099o but thats a wizard sorcerer in 3.5 too unless you go minmaxing.

Thats like the equivalent of Dragonball Z but with monsters in a fantasy setting .

If your referring to Tiamat, its because the stat he gave for Tiamat is for 5e, 5e limits CR to 30, whilst all of these stats are from 3.5, 3.5 did not have a limit on CR.

@@alexmcclay8152 lorewise, its because its only an avatar

Which is why the CR system is worthless

Don't worry, we have stronger gods.

I mean, Tiamat can't really exist in the prime material plane, her CR 30 form is her Avatar, wich is nowhere even close to the full power of the goddes, so there's that

Asmodeus nerfs Tiamat

Another thing to note is that CR of 30 on Tiamat is from 5th edition and that 5th edition doesn't have any official creature beyond CR 30.

Pretty simple, all those CR 30+ are from 3.5, and the CR 30 Tiamat is from 5e, 5e has a limit on CR which is 30, 3.5 did not have a limit on CR

The Tiamat that you fight with in 5e adventures is not the real Tiamat, but simply an avatar of her. Gods manifest in the world as avatars, being essentially a fraction of their original power. If it was the original Tiamat, all Faerun would be doomed. A lot of avatars walked Toril, and many of them were slain, some by mortals. But a mortal couldn't simply kill a god true self

They aren't, that's just an Avatar of Asmodeus Or should be, since Asmodeus is literally Infinite Multiversal and Elminsters doesn't even touch Universal level.

This.

@Mikhiel Rearaxin dragon magazine, 359 I think. It's the last physical issue. Time dragons end at CR 90

@Mikhiel Rearaxin From Archive archive.org/stream/DragonMagazine260_201801/DragonMagazine359#page/n27/mode/2up

There was one from Warcraft at the end with the giant dragon and different colored dragons flying to it :>

Elminster is such op with the stats that high that if you try to hit him you cant land attacks, he didnt feel them neither

Go play neverwinter, you’ll get a feel for some locations.

If you are trying to build a campaign in the sword coast. Google a map of it. And choose one city or town you see on the map. Then go into forgotten realms wiki and search that city or town for some background lore. It is easier if you focus on a small bit of the sword coast at once rather than trying to build the entire thing, because there is a good chance the players will not visit 70% of the places youve built. Tldr. Pick a place or a small region in the sword coast and build from there gradually as your story moves forward. For example I started from phandalin which is a small frontier town in the neverwinter region and im soon expanding to the city of neverwinter for some city adventures. Thats like 1/5 of the sword coast and this campaign has been going on for 3 months now.

@@callamburles3075 THE END TIMES ARE NIGH! OURS IS DESERVED DAMNATION!

I agree, humans and other humanoids have no right of potentially being more powerful than demon Lords and the most powerful dragons

@@jahnukainen_8912 agreed. These are creatures entire kingdoms rise against. No 1 adventurer should be a match for an Archdevil or Demon Lord

@@leslieoliverii9035 i agree and disagree at the same time i think player/Adventures should be able to ascend into a lich or something else that can rise above super ratings but normal creatures shouldnt be able to hold that much power

My main issue with overpowered humanoids in faerun is the reliance a lot of Shitty DMs have with them. For a long time I couldn't play any Faerun based games without either Khelben or Elminster being involved, and it was really aggravating.

@@bryanstrahm9961 The worst part is that it would be actually wrong for Elminster not to pop out everywhere because that is what he usually does. It sucks, but Forgotten Realms at later levels gets really annoying because there is absolutely no reason why a novel protagonist like Dritz (who 1v1'd Orcus once) or Elminster to just fix it themselves. Forgotten Realms is mainly a setting for books and novels, but not so much for world ending catastrophe that the players are supposed to fix. Its absolutely full of ridiculous NPCs that just feel like DMPCs.

In 5e, that is true.. cause they screwed up the whole armor and ability progression for heroes and monsters. In old d&d editions like 2 & 3, a solo hero should never be able to take on a monster of its level without great planning, great rolls, and great gear... but in 5e, a lvl 5 warrior can actually hurt an ancient red wyrm on a non 20. That would be impossible at earlier editions, baring divine intervention, demigod status, or the dm not knowing the actual stats..... or cheating.... cheating helps. And heroes have a way higher ability to hit than standard guard on a siege weapon...

@@lanereynolds4567 yea tbh it's kind of a shame. i never played any other edition but like... in 5e the tarrasque can be soloed by an archer with enough arrows and a way to fly for along time... GRANTED it would take a bit... but fully possible

@@wolf-vh4ze In third edition the archer would get impaled by their own arrows due to an effect of the Tarrasques hide that turned away all non-epic level missiles and all spells. Heck, the only way to really deal with a Tarrasque short of getting it down to -50 and using a wish to keep it dead was to lure it through a Gate. We dropped it near Tiamat's lair.

@@Krishnath.Dragon When the group I was playing with had to face the Tarrasque we dropped it in the negative energy plane, so I'd say in that world it's pretty dead.

@@Krishnath.Dragon the tarrasque still has that ability

Its more of a rock-paper-scissors issue past about level 20 As long as you're within 5 levels and are in a good matchup, you can take someone stronger. iE cr25 enchanter vs cr30 brute fighter.

@@arisanodelafuria6795 Yeah I figured it would be something like case-by-case given their abilities and traits are so unique/overpowered. Wasn't sure though since neither I or my group has gotten far enough in our games to deal with challenge ratings this high.

Well I'll tell you right now, Tarrasque is not the most difficult monster and I wish people would stop stating that. A dragon with enough time could kill it. I've had players at level 13-15 take down a Tarrasque using longbows and magical arrows.

I would say that the difference between CR 30 and 31 is the same as between 2 and 10 or something like that. The higher you go, the harder is to go even harder. When you hit those big CR's some could say that the progression between one to another becomes logarithmic, not arithmetic

@@TragGaming It isn't that powerful in 5e, though I've heard about how nasty it was in previous editions.

Most unique monsters and unique NPCs with individual lore come from campaign setting books, adventures or monster manuals long in the run of the edition, like volume 3 onwards.

They come from literally everywhere. We have stat blocks for primordials in Princes of the Apocalypse adventure, Demonic lords in Out of the Abyss, Mordenkainen Tome of foes has a lot of character sheets in there as well.

@@skuarf Good to know, thank you!

@@MrRhexx Sounds like I have a lot of reading to do XD thanks a buch

Yeah and your wallets will feel the pain of acquiring knowledge lol

Who?

There is some good lore on him in Magic of Incarnum, Dragon Magic and especially Bastion of Broken Souls. The last was an adventure module specifically about stopping his attack on the birthplace of souls.

Eleven days!

Elminster is a cool dude like Gandalf He is basically Ed Greenwoods alter ego in Forgotten Realms

Cr40-60 or more there's a big variety of power of gods

I can tell you the most powerful creature or person the creator himself saw his stats one stat read 10D× i think 20 for attack rolls he has the ability to cause existence to simply no longer exist

Abomination, Hecatoncheires EL 162 Outsider, Huge (Chaotic, Evil) 57 Beetle, Devastation EL 178 Vermin, Colossal 50 EL is Epic Level Handbook from 3.5, those are the page numbers

Possibly its that one terrasque that WotC put a real world bounty if a party could legit kill it. Something like dragon lich undead vampire ancient terrasque or some such.

@@alexmcclay8152 also the force and prismatic dragons.

Considering dieties in 5E are supposed to be CR 30-35....

Nigou Le noble Hiboux unstoppable

Its unkillable if you super lucky and super powerful you can stop it for a bit but it just comes back.

"The dad of overgod": CR- Infinite

So this is the DM?

@@toko099o on the contrary. AO in D&D lore is the god Of gods. However there is one thing mighter then it. (unfortunately I cannot remember were I heard it so take this info with a grain of salt.) AO had been quoted as to say that the only person stronger than it is a entity it simply referras to as "the master"

@@evilminion6326 I believe you're talking about the "Luminous Being" that's referenced in the final paragraphs of the Avatar Trilogy forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Luminous_being There's a link in the trivia section of this page that leads to a twitter interaction I had with the author, in which he basically says that they're whoever the reader wants them to be. I choose to believe it's the DM.

Evil Minion sounds like it’s the dm then. I mean come on. “The master”? It’s clearly the dungeon master, as no amount of power can ever even begin to comprehend doing any level of harm to the dm.

She is far beyond measuring and has never been statted out in any edition of D&D.

I feel like if she actually had stats that would mean she could actually be defeated which kind of goes against her purpose. She will never be statted out and she will never be defeated.

She is specifically left without stats for the reason as her power is absolute inside Sigil.

This wish is beyond my capabilities - shen ron. Wish is not actually omnipotent. And tarrasque is specifically immune unless knocked down to 0hp.

@@Oznerock Tarrasque is not immune. Tarrasque has advantage in saving throws against magical effects

@@ryzer4540 read a little more into it. The only way to kill a tarrasque is to stand over it while it's unconscious and cast wish to wish him dead. Why would it specifically ask that it be unconscious if it could do it when he's not. Also, there used to be a 10th level spell called major wish. Also, wish specifically says that the effect has to be roughly on the same tier of power or lower as its main effect of casting any spell of 8th level or lower with no material components (determined by dm tecnically)

Not really. He is making videos on the strongest monsterS in DND. These are amongst them

@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 but they aren't the strongest. The strongest monsters aren't in this video. Simple as that.

@@j4x0l4n73rn among the strongest is what I said.

@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 IDC what you said. The title said "STRONGEST"

@@j4x0l4n73rn and these monsters are 1: the strongest in the MM, and 2: AMONG THE STRONGEST. it's like how you can have multiple smart people in a room and say that they are the smartest people in that room