Samuel Wise
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Post by Samuel Wise on Aug 11, 2015 0:26:35 GMT
Learned a lot of great stuff from this episode. Mindflayers forever! - Seems like, in story time, the gang caught evil furbies... - Minotaur: body of a man with the head of a bull. Does anyone remember the Minotaur in Wrath of Titans. That one was strange looking. - Poor Gandalf. Forget one passage and you'll never live it down. - Horror movie Mindslayer, wasn't my first idea for a D&D version of pac-man. - What if the King (in one of mindflayer story ideas) was a mirror man. And when he dies he just passes the title down to another mirror man... An immortal king. - Ice shriekers are almost exactly like the Snow Wolves I created for Älmara. They have the same powers (minus the quick-sand ice which is awesome!). - Great DMnastic. Cloakers have always terrified me as well. One of these days I still want to create a cloaker/terrasque mix for my world. Again, great episode and after reading through all my notes I'm surprised how much I got from this one! Great job!
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Post by kjmagle on Aug 11, 2015 1:43:07 GMT
I didn't know that much about mind flayer... Now i do. And their favorite treats
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Post by Samuel Wise on Aug 11, 2015 4:34:46 GMT
And I swear that's how I look when a player rolls a natural 20 and gets to skip the puzzle I spent a whole half hour prepping...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2015 5:45:37 GMT
Pronunciation on Baphomet: link
Not Boffomutt! You can't be a demon prince with a name like a clown's dog.
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Post by joatmoniac on Aug 11, 2015 7:37:25 GMT
Really liked this episode. Love using mind flayers, but it's hard to use unless it's a higher level campaign. I have plans for a minotaur in the near-ish future for my players because what would a super dungeon be without a minotaur?
Thanks on the DM-Nastics compliment. It was a fun one to record because of how great the idea was. Super creepy freaking cloakers! The Cloaker/Tarrasque would be pretty interesting. I imagine it rolling in like a storm, but ends up so much worse.
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Post by kjmagle on Aug 11, 2015 14:13:20 GMT
Also forgot
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Samuel Wise
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Post by Samuel Wise on Aug 11, 2015 14:20:23 GMT
Way better then a Cloaker, apparently. At least these would give you a good laugh before you died...
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Post by joatmoniac on Aug 11, 2015 15:59:20 GMT
I feel like this picture of the goblicorn has it naked because I assume that they are crazy enough to think they don't need no stnkin armor! I would gladly take on those guys before a cloaker, haha.
I really want to place a mirror man into my campaign to mess with m players. Turning their powers against them just feels like the DM thing to do. Or a mirror man at the end of a labyrinth full of minotaurs, and he has a mind flayer lackey for good measure.
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Post by Samuel Wise on Aug 11, 2015 22:12:49 GMT
Or a mirror man at the end of a labyrinth full of minotaurs, and he has a mind flayer lackey for good measure. Or, better yet a mirror man that is also shaped and has stats like those of a Minotaur... A Mirrortaur!
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Post by friartook on Aug 12, 2015 16:48:04 GMT
Great episode! Joatmoniac and Mainprize: The DM-Nastics segments are improving every episode. Keep up the good work!
Mindflayers: Love 'em. There was a lot of talk about their xenophobia; I see it like this: They are a hive mind, not individuals in the strict sense we think of. They can all hear each other's thoughts and they all hope to reach the singularity of the Elder Brain. Their hate and fear of "aberrations" would stem from a hate and fear of anything outside the hive. These aberrations are especially threatening because they have the potential to become part of the hive and taint the singularity.
Minotaurs: One bit of setting-specific lore: On Krynn (Dragonlance) the Minotaurs are a sea faring race. So, Minotaur pirates are a thing. I played in a group many years ago (one of my few times being a player) where another guy played a Minotaur fighter. I was a Chaotic Neutral Elf Bard who was insane. It was an..."interesting"...group dynamic.
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Post by dmgrendel on Aug 13, 2015 4:38:13 GMT
I can die happy because my favorite podcast mentioned me in an episode.
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Post by dmgrendel on Aug 13, 2015 4:39:27 GMT
Also, do we have stats for Mirror Men anywhere? I assume they don't take in the HP of the players in addition to their powers.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2015 5:57:15 GMT
Finally finished the episode. Good stuff! One of the things I really appreciate about these Monster (and deity) profiles is the guys dig up some lore that I never even knew about.
Further thoughts... Mind Flayers seem to enjoy a certain immutable evilness shared by few other creatures in the DnD mythology. I can readily enough imagine a Beholder or Red Dragon of good moral standing, but every aspect of the illithid is riddled with obligatory nastiness. From their diet of sentient creatures' brains, to their unwavering superiority complex and penchant for slavery, to an Elder Brain's readiness to squelch even subconscious murmurs of dissent, they are irredeemably evil. Hell, I think a balor has a better shot at grace than one of these guys.
I think Order of the Stick had a 'good' mind flayer, but they're silly on purpose. I wonder if anyone can find a more serious example of such a creature. I'd be curious to see the author's angle.
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Post by Samuel Wise on Aug 13, 2015 6:16:40 GMT
I think Order of the Stick had a 'good' mind flayer, but they're silly on purpose. I wonder if anyone can find a more serious example of such a creature. I'd be curious to see the author's angle. Actually, I believe that Death D4 Dishonor had a "good" Mind-flayer (who was once bad and is now imprisoned, righting his wrongs). The exact episode is episode 69, I believe the party had just met a group of good Minotaurs (oh my goodness! The coincidence!) who took them into an underground city of some sorts and had them meet this good Mind Flayer who was imprisoned (of course) and that tested them by reading their minds. www.deathd4dishonor.com/?p=420I learned a few things after listening to all 140 or so episodes of DD4D...
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Post by Tesla Ranger on Aug 13, 2015 23:39:25 GMT
The Ice-shriekers sound an awful lot like the Entombed in the 3.5 Frostburn book. It's seems like the same basic idea it seems like but they look a bit different. Did ya'll adapt them from that or was it just another case of convergent imagination?
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