Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Animated Object
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- Marvelous mundane objects that can mystically move under their own magical motivation, there are three examples in the 5th edition core monster manual for the Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game, but the possibilities are endless!
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An animated suit of armour or other clothing that is programmed to activate if the wearer goes unconscious or otherwise limp, it then animates and books it. Good fail safe to being rendered immobile then killed by a party or monster with a lot of CC.
One of the most mundane uses I ever saw for it was an everfull mug, with the main instructions given being "if set down on a solid surface, remain still", "if called, come to the last person to touch it" & "if released in midair, hover & follow the last person to touch it at the same relative position", it had a 5ft per round movement speed so it wouldn't spill the drinks & basically was to ensure the wizard owner always had a drink to hand whenever he wanted it.
I'm a simple man, I see a new video from AJ Pickett, I upvote.
Same
@@felixrivera895 Yeah, me to. ;)
Now imagining a monk or kensei that has two or more animated metal or stone hands that when activated float near them and act as extra limbs
An animated cog became an insane power source for my Artificer. On command it would spin on it's sprocket, and stop on another command word. It powered my workshop equipment (power tools), my chariot and wagon. I could make it power nearly anything, it was the best.
heres a crazy thing he could power with it
1:get as many portable fortresses as possible
2:use the adamantine in the fortresses to build a MASSIVE ADAMANTINE TOWER
3:TURN THE ADAMANTINE TOWER INTO A MASSIVE WALKING ADAMANTINE TOWER GOLEM AT YOUR COMMAND(powered by magic cog)
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Rugs of smothering were one of my old clerics specialties.....great defense for my inner sanctum! Cool video kiwi!!!
Sounds like you could have a family of famous sword masters who were secretly using an animated heirloom weapon all along. The weapon could've been given simple commands like keeping the edge aligned or attacking anyone that tries to attack from behind. Might make for a neat little subplot to throw in somewhere for the players to maybe find.
Imagine breaking into a mages house only to find that literally everything is animated
We had a rogue/monk who wooed the animated sword in nightstone in Storm kings thunder with an awaken scroll he got from his background rolling from xanathars. It didn't awaken it but the sword stopped being hostile. later on (lv 15ish) the rogue learned construct as a language (basically vibrations and using ki to emit RF) to communicate with it. We got high level, and to keep it useful, he socketed it with expensive ass magic gems and psionic grafts over time, and when we fought the BBEG of the campaign[far and away departed storm kings at this point] The sword became powerful, and so the BBEG grabbed it, passed a high strength check and killed the Rogue, but this destroyed the sword [they're supposed to be unintelligent but it was just very low, and it felt nice that it broke it's heart to kill its caretaker]. The rogue was brought back to life soon after, and the blade was reforged, but a piece of the shattered silverysteel couldn't be removed from the rogue and he had to retire.
..liek if u cry everytim
if you have a highly skilled mage maybe you can have him combine unseen servant and an animate spell to create an animated object that can do slightly more complicated things, but in turn requires someone to command it nearby. maybe a good option to trow at some more "advanced" players who think they know how animated objects work, and them maybe allowing the mage to figure it out.
neither unseen servant nor mage hand require concentration
INVISIBLE ARMIES
Can you discuss how a mage or bard can make a permanent enchantment on a device? How would it be given the minimal intelligence to carry out commands? How do you make it move or fly?
*MAGIC*
I would make a giant pair of scissors as two great-swords.
Magic "smart" tools and appliances. A wizard could make the magic equivalent of "The Home of Tomorrow".
I'd start with the coffee service myself.
Wireless, floating computer monitor, and yes.. self filling coffee plunger and hot water kettle.
@@AJPickett Heck, a wizard of an industrious mind could put together a tireless assembly line to crank out any mundane items they like. A magic Industrial Revolution. Tools, weapons and armor, housewares, BOOKS! It's the Renaissance!
You know once one genius (mad man?) figures it out the floodgates are open and it's a whole new age.
There's the toilet that runs from you and screams for the police.
A animated floating lantern would be very useful not only as a light sources but an alarm as if set to follow anyone in a set are or as a decoy
just animate you entire base
1:get as many portable fortresses as possible
2:use the adamantine in the fortresses to build a MASSIVE ADAMANTINE TOWER
3:get as many powerful wizards as possible to help with the next step
4:TURN THE ADAMANTINE TOWER INTO A MASSIVE WALKING ADAMANTINE TOWER GOLEM AT YOUR COMMAND
(would make a pretty good BBEG's evil scheme to take over a kingdom)
I could see someone making traps animated. put a fake trigger down and have command set so the trap attacks/activates when it senses so many people in target range. make the party not trust the rogue lol
ohhh, thats evil. I love it
Also it is hard to figure out which of the person traits it has learned. A bard may make armour that hits on women, drink, and dance by mistake. Imagine expecting a battle but instead get caught up into a non-lethal slap dance. Imagine distracting armour with a mug of oil. Its not actual distracted but it is imprinted to act like it is. Imagine a flying castle imprinted with too much of the mages excitement to fly and it as a resault does flips.
I crafted a suit of animated armor that has developed a sense of self based on the influence of a magic tome. The tome was a paladin's code of honor that he had enchanted to magically influence the reader to take up said code. It ended up in the treasure hoard that the animated armor was guarding. Over the course of a century or so, the impression magic of the tome was absorbed by the armor as it recharged its reserves which basically imprinted the ideals of the paladin on the armor. When the hoard was eventually discovered and the armor defeated by the group of adventurers, the armor offered itself up to be worn by the man who defeated it. And thus, my player's fighter wears a suit of armor that quotes the arts of war and chivalry and applies the help action three times a day.
Why not take a person or being with psionic abilities and make a mind gem that is aligned with that persons mind, copying exactly the mental map of that person, and actively interlacing the object with runes and enchantments so that you could drastically reduce the time it takes to enchant an object by developing a rough neural network for the object to animate from.
This would be at somewhat a disadvantage due to this form of animating being tied to a central point however it would allow the object to be more precisely controlled and in tune with the psionic being that created it and even somewhat intelligent.
These mind gems would be crafted through crystallized brain matter and certain rock, charged with psionic and magical energy and willpower, or just psionic energy and lots of willpower, and must contain an Ample amount of spirit from the creator in order to be truly made.
It then takes on a unique shape based on the creator, and the psionic energy and willpower (basically the thoughts carve and form different formations) and it can then be expanded and cast into a certain shape to fit into whatever the creator desires through applying a "film" of thought, which allows it then to bond, contain and channel the raw energies within.
Every mind gem is not complete and cannot be made without some of the soul of the user being instilled into the gem, as it is the very essence of how personality is formed or its bare elements, and thus cannot simply be made cast, but formed from the soul itself.
This process was invented by a homunculus drow, who observed mind flayers and aboleths and was thusly inspired taking what he learned from his people of the spare alchemical and magical abilities and combined that with his monk and psionic abilities he was mainly learned in to develop this unique technique.
This process would be taxing for the wearer, unless you bond and fuse mind gems with the user (specifically the forehead to the brain), in which your psionic and mental abilities are greatly enhanced and you can suffer the process much easier and complete it in a much cleaner process.
The effect mind gems have on a body can be very dangerous and have diminishing returns if not handled correctly, so separating them throughout the body and syncing them with one another along with having them be of different intensities allows them to be manipulated fluidly and safely (after all, you can't "think" with your hand, only have nerve endings and muscle memory)
This comes back to manipulating objects because when you are able to use your psionic abilities through your mind gems to control other mind gems, its almost like computers talking to each other, and you get a complete extension of your will, yet a preprogrammed disposition in which the mind gem programs itself to manipulate the object.
Of course, when a mind gem is set to an object, it becomes useless for any other thing and can almost never be salvaged, as it's specifically suited to that task and cannot be changed in form, so ultimately complicated the process is, and the remaining material is fried and devoid of life that it's just useless.
So while incredibly powerful, it is also incredibly nuanced and niche in its use as well as extremely draining and tedious to make, with very specific skills and abilities needed to even attempt, that makes this item special.
Soulknife with extra steps. but the flavor is good
May your videos continue to level along with your in-dept content😎
Thanks for explaining how "flexible" this is.
To be honest I was not expecting to get anything except more fine details from this video with how straightforward the versatility of animated objects are however I did find the experience payment for crafting animated objects and the passive intelligence concept very interesting and to be honest there is always something useful from your videos. Thank you AJ.
I like the idea of a sentient Animated Suit of armor...One which, should a character don it somehow, would either replace the player's strength with it's in-built strength score (Like Gauntlet's of Ogre Power), or maybe even walk an unconscious character away from battle. Because it's sentient (per the DMG), it may come into conflict with a PC who owns it. Essentially it becomes an NPC akin to Jarvis from Iron Man with it's own motivations and flaws.
This gets me thinking of magically animated replicas of people, potentially with its own consciousness or at least decision-making capabilities. Perhaps a spurned or grieving lover makes or commissions a wooden, cloth or mechanical replica of someone they used to love or a family member or friend. I can imagine all kinds of fun stories and quests that such creations could make.
Like I said maybe they can think, perhaps even feel. Or maybe they’re just a programmed automata. Maybe someone just can’t let go and treats them like the real thing, slowly going crazy. Maybe it’s not based on someone the person once knew, but the ideal someone they never did.
I love the picture backgrounds in this series - many I recognize from old DnD books or other fantasy sources. The books from Unseen University's library (Discworld) were certainly a nice considered touch here re: Animated Objects (:
An animated sleeping hat(or whats the name) that is a bit too observant. Whenever someone opens their mouths a little to wide it thinks you are yawning, flies on your head and starts humming lullabies till you lie down and close your eyes for 5 rounds. Sweet dreams;)
How to assassinate almost anyone in your D&D world:
Step 1) Have a rogue steal a fork from the persons house.
Step 2) Animate the fork and give it the instruction to fly down the throat of your target when they eventually attempt to eat off of the fork, otherwise act like a regular fork.
Step 3) Have the rogue place the fork back into the house.
Step 4) Wait until the funeral.
That's fot the next incounter for my pc's
Thanks not that's
Ian Davis works great for killing an NPC who’s been around too long that your players are keeping alive. They’ve been hired to protect someone, keeping them alive through three sessions of combat encounters and getting them to a safe village. Then at the start of your fourth session, the NPC gets murdered to death by a fork at the local inn while everyone is eating breakfast. The look on your players faces will be priceless. You can’t heal your way out of someone having a magically animated fork their lungs stabbing them to death from the inside.
I know this just uploaded but I can't help but think of the spell Animate Object and how it can potentially be one of the best damaging spells in the game.
Also the concept of imprinting your mind and personality into the animated object through the delicate and difficult process reminds me A Lot of Cortana from Halo.
Btw. How to Be A Great Game Master, ran by Guy, posted a video forever ago about how someone could build a fantasy castle that would actually work to protect its inhabitants from nearly anything. More or less it's a circular pit with a dungeon in its walls but that's an over simplification.
Yeah, I mean, get it a LOT wrong and you end up with a phylactery.
make the massive metal box YEET itself at enemies
In pathfinder you can make a floating chair that can fly at 40 miles/hour using animated objects.
flash VS chair
Animate Object, grabs 10 coins made a medieval machinegun, cheaper than a flying sword.
what if you animated...say... metal balls, about fist sized... could you send them out to fly into and bash into and smack people around?
one is coming at you from eye level, one heading for the stomach shot, one to your lower back, one to the back of one of your knees...just horrible metal balls zipping all over the place, they may not even need to kill the person, just keep them busy and off balance while the Bard shoots them with a crossbow.
I'm thinking of a cross between that Flying Muder Ball from the movie Phantasm (but no spikes or drills) and the patterns of that Human Gyroscope...but close enough to hurt.
Animated pants or trousers (depends on which version of the english language) and us them as a wheelchair. Also it would be funny for a party to end up fighting a platoon of pants that fight like rugs of smoldering.
smothering
FIGHT THE ENTIRE CLOSET!
IF YOU START; THEN YOU MIGHT AS WELL FINISH.
I have an animated item that you might find amusing. Mighty Right Hand. It's an armored gauntlet. Its original owner (a mighty warrior) lost his right arm and had his archmage put some of the warrior's essence into a gauntlet to give him back his hand. When attuned to, the gauntlet works as the owner's right hand, floating about within the same motion he would normally have, but not needing a hand or even an arm to be attached to. Its strength is equal to that of a stone giant or +2 to the owner's STR score, whichever is higher. Here's the catch. If someone with a right arm uses it, the animating magic of the Hand has his right arm shred apart all the way to the shoulder socket. If you want to use it, forget about actually having a right arm. The Mighty Right Hand replaces it. At least a magical ring can be worn on it, forget about using paired arm wielding objects or anything that straps on the right arm. At least nobody can cut your right arm off to stop you from using your right arm, right? I actually had one player who LOVED this, every other player considered it a cursed object. It responds to the user's will, but it uses the original owner's combat ability. Level 22 fighter with a specialization in bastard sword and dual specialization in styles (single one-handed weapon and two-handed weapon).
Another reoccurring animated item was the Bag of Dancing Daggers, but that is (obvious and) lame compared to the one I just posted above. Oh, did the Mighty Right Hand make you giggle or groan? ;)
Emergency escape suit:
Except for if you never field tested it and the suit of armor starts backwards crab walking away and all the bones in your body are broken 6 ways from sunday.
Maybe 50 feet of roped that grabs you when unconscious and runs /Smithers to a predetermined location . Also works as regular rope
I want to play a sorcerer that got stabbed in the back with his own magic dagger by a rival colleague. this particular dagger was the character's phylactery-in-progress, and it now houses his consciousness. or is that just an ordinary intelligent object?
Only castles as we make them today. Castles in a magic heavy fantasy setting would have evolved to accommodate that. Mundane fortifications would still be relevant as the threat of spellcasters is there, but you're not likely to have one attack you of significant power to invalidate the fort for dozens of years if at all, until you get to serious full on castles protecting particularly important resources or people, which would be designed accordingly. Whether it be an enchantment, a ward, substance, or the layout and techniques in construction. Castles will always be relevant in fantasy, even sci fi. In reality for us though, we don't have the benefit of magic or technobabble.
Then of course as you mentioned, pride, in which case Cathedrals and Palaces would still mark capitols and they'd certainly be well enchanted at the least. Not to mention political-social protections alone, with the destruction of great structures being tantamount to war crimes and a waste. Because honestly, why fireball and ruin ancient wonders when you could just as easily design an Arcane virus / plague or an outright Mass Death spell to purge life from the walls without destroying them. (Hence why enchantments and wards would surely be universal)
For intrigue you might have wards function kind of like modern security with "wires" or otherwise conduits of the effect running throughout the structure from a core that keeps the magic going, allowing plots to sabotage or infiltrate them.
I imagine castles essentially being great works of magic and design to the extent that castles might all have various quirks while legendary castles might have incredible effects such as flight, teleportation, walking, animated interiors with moving walls, minor sentience / possession by the architect or old king(s).
I think I need to put some serious thought into the subject and make a video about it.
ADAMANTINE TOWERS
1:get as many portable fortresses as possible
2:use the adamantine in the fortresses to build a MASSIVE ADAMANTINE TOWER
3:get as many powerful wizards as possible to help with the next step
4:TURN THE ADAMANTINE TOWER INTO A MASSIVE WALKING ADAMANTINE TOWER GOLEM AT YOUR COMMAND
5:do this repeatedly until you have an adamantine castle
What do you think of an Animated Sword as a familiar?
The Wizard in a campaign I DM uncovered a scroll with a variant form of Find Familiar. When he cast it, an Earth Elemental was pulled into meteorite iron and shaped itself into the sword. It cannot attack, but has many other uses. The player enjoys it as a companion.
Look, I once had a Gnome Druid decide to "heal" a broken mead barrel, she just kept pumping primal energy into it until I decided she had actually Awoken the thing, they named it Barry, I sculpted a miniature of it, the Mead inside it had magical healing properties and eventually, Barry reproduced and burst apart, releasing a bunch of little kegs, each with different fluids magically generated inside them. The players were very attached to Barry, it was an emotional moment.
AJ Pickett: Here’s to good old Barry! Let’s crack open a keg and drink to...
sorry, I should have thought that out better. 🤦♂️
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1:get as many portable fortresses as possible
2:use the adamantine in the fortresses to build a MASSIVE ADAMANTINE TOWER
3:get as many powerful wizards as possible to help with the next step
4:TURN THE ADAMANTINE TOWER INTO A MASSIVE WALKING ADAMANTINE TOWER GOLEM AT YOUR COMMAND
(would make a pretty good BBEG's evil scheme to take over a kingdom)
Other people: makes a flying rug or automated scissors to be generally useful to society as a whole
Me: Makes armor that Default Dances when someone wears it
*DISPEL MAGIG*(9th lvl)
I have created alot of animated objects over the years,golems seem to be my favorite!
heres an idea
1:get as many portable fortresses as possible
2:use the adamantine in the fortresses to build a MASSIVE ADAMANTINE TOWER
3:get as many powerful wizards as possible to help with the next step
4:TURN THE ADAMANTINE TOWER INTO A MASSIVE WALKING ADAMANTINE TOWER GOLEM AT YOUR COMMAND
(would make a pretty good BBEG's evil scheme to take over a kingdom)
it could be your magnum opus
Animated automatic quill, pen, or pencil should be a thing. This should be equipped by every wizard or bard.
just use mage hand
In most editions of Dungeons & Dragons adamantium team produces a natural anti-magic field meaning you can't actually use it for anime object purposes it can be use for golems because your binding a spirit or entity or something to it usually an elemental and you could probably make one out of clockworks what's the clockwork soldier but you can't make one with a shield guardian or animate object as its natural properties prevent it
I'm playing a forge cleric soon and plan to get a lot of use out of the animate object spell so this video was very helpful.
animate this
1:get as many portable fortresses as possible
2:use the adamantine in the fortresses to build a MASSIVE ADAMANTINE TOWER
3:get as many powerful wizards as possible to help with the next step
4:TURN THE ADAMANTINE TOWER INTO A MASSIVE WALKING ADAMANTINE TOWER GOLEM AT YOUR COMMAND
(would make a pretty good BBEG's evil scheme to take over a kingdom)
I do miss some things about the older editions.
My first character in 2nd ED was a female tiefling that had a madness that would take over upon witnessing a mother breastfeeding a infant.
Only came up once...but it was my undoing :(
Still cool to be able to use a tail sweep and fly at 60ft at first level.
My DM made me roll on a table to find out what each ov my body parts looked like which was fun (goat legs, scaled forearms, curled ram-horns and bat wings. Yes please. Had a negative to my social skills but I could cast a few minor fire-based spells. And my father was a devil which reflected some ov my background, which i found cool).
..I know exactly the table and I am hella jealous that you started with a DM who used planescape.
Wait, so you are telling me I could animate my tablet so I don't have to worry about dropping it on my face whilst I am reading in bed? This is a marvelous invention I will take 20!
Savior plate armor: Magical plate armor that gives +1 bonus of wearers ac and if character attunet to the armor falls below 0 hp armor animates and juses disengate action and seeks healer or aplies given healing item to stabilise the armor wielder.
Companion's of wain sword master: set of 2-9 either daggers or enny sword of one handet variety attunet to command item wielder can control the weapons to attack or defend himself as in defence mode the weapons juse their actions to parry eny incoming melee attack, as in combat the weapons attack eny foe in 30f radius.
Thanks for the vid A.J. it's nice to have a old fashioned vid
I really like the idea of a character that is protected by animated sword. On wizards creating animated steaks knives as a test of the techniques involved: The first time I built a PC, I built the best gaming PC I could. I wouldn't have considered building a limited less useful one just to see how it works out because that would feel like a waste of time and money to me. If I had to spend months on the process, rather than a couple of days, that's reinforce it for me.
One of the coolest spells ever
Animated assembly line is making a wizard super wealthy while at the same time driving hundreds of workers into poverty. Workers guild goes in to shut it down only to find that it has been producing more dangerous animated objects.
Aj if you only knew what I am planning to do with this knowledge. :)
Thought about making an animated golden comb that was created by a beautiful wizard with extreme OCD. One of our PC's is a Red-headed Monk with very messy curly hair.. This will be used for annoying the character and laughs, or a deadly distraction during combat... This comb is sentient and moves about the wizard's tower freely looking for hair to "fix".
Been developing an entire island where all the citizens are animated objects of all kinds.
make their king a living castle
happen to be watching harry potter in the back round and makes me think of that scene where harry sees the weasley's animated pot scrubber. classic
Animated levitating APC used to shuttle strike teams around the world while providing ranged support when possible
4:20 cool Wizard of Legend art!
That's really fracking cool. That's a really creative use.
I wonder if I can *wear* a set of animated armour to bypass certain restrictions or gain some sort of combat advantage
The armor will want to do one thing when you want to do something else.
You might have to do a str check vs the armor to walk the direction you want to go and if you succeed you move as if in difficult terrain. (as one of the less obnoxious results)
The 5e animated object rules are probably to limited for it. Look into the pathfinder construct creation rules. They shouldn't be too hard to port across.
what if the armor doesn't let you out?
Power armor of krwalish I belive 5e?
I had this really interesting idea for a homebrew creature, which is basically a eusocial dragon. I might go into further detail in the comment section of another video.
Love all of this. Question, have you done a video on felgolos the unluckiest lucky dragon in all of DND yet?
DnD's very own magical Jarvis suit. Pretty cool.
It's strove Tuesday AJ!! you make the best videos bro👍🙏👍
Take a slime, or a corpse of a slime, separate its parts and mix it with water and other useful substances, drain your blood, plasma, tears, and other bodily fluids into it, then make parts of it luminescent.
Add and dissolve magical articfacts into it, drink the substance and only that substance in the span of a day, then take what has passed from your system and use it in a dye in a paint that you also instill magical properties onto, as well as various perfumes and medicinal herbs. Now take an animation ritual onto the paint, then once you tattoo it into your skin in the shape of one of your body parts, using all the letters of the alphabet of as many languages you can use to form the shape of the tattoo, use another animation ritual just to make sure that the tattoo is in constant flux and able to change shape from something other than the body part (Note: the first animation ritual is to have the letters that make up the eye move, the one after the tattooing process is to change the shape of the tattoo altogether.)
Repeat this process until all of your limbs are represented through tattoos, which can be imprinted upon the length of your arm, leg, or any limb available.
This process is used to form a "bond" with the substance in question, made from you, by you, apart of you and through you. This bonding process is important.
Next add the teeth of a vampire, a finger of a succubus, a holy instrument of any sort, and various body fluids of other races and creatures, preferably with as little toxins as possible in the slimy substance. After being dissolved and mixed thoroughly, consume only a drop of the liquid, and if you administered the tattoos and spells correctedly, you should see the toxins bleed slowly through the tattoos. This time, make sure you eat until you are absolutely full beforehand, preferably starchy substances.
By now, you're either half dead or extremely resilient to a lot of poisonous stuff, and are most likely humming with magical energy.
Use your blood to create a seal over a jar filled with a mix of alcohol and holy water, and then poke a hole into the lid of the jar and drain the water and alcohol mix into the slimey substance. The alcohol is used to "sedate"the substance, while the water cleanses it, turning it into a clear, slimy substance.
It will simmer and burn at this point, so be sure to cap the substance as tightly as possible to trap the vapors.
Finally you are ready for the last ritual.
Perform half of a ritual for a small animation spell on the slimey substance using a soul of great intelligence and wisdom, with mixtures of strong loyalty and obsession, and a slightly submissive nature. If you can't find a soul or can't put such qualities into a soul, then focus such traits onto an object to produce such a personality through your own psyche, and yours alone. If you must do this, then the spell must be altered to include a transfer of consciousness as well, to make sure that what is transfered to the slime stays there until the next step.
After your done with the first half, ready a binding ritual and a powerful animation ritual all in one as you proceed to the final phase.
Take the slimy substance and funnel it through a tube connected to the base of your spine, as all the spells complete.
From there, use familiars or other talented magicians and/or sorcerors to complete the rest of the spell as you pass out from the pain. Then they should complete the second half of the minor ritual, permanently animating the slime into you as the slime travels to the rest of your body and out your pores, upon which it will bond with and assimilate the tattoo as well.
Congratulations, not only do you now have the ability to have an extreme tolerance to a multitude of multiple poisons, you now have a living breathing slime that you actively generate as a living organ and as a second layer of skin, its ability to cast spells through any part of your body based on the tattoos you created lend a huge boon to your magical capacity and versatility.
Imagine your character glistening, you see a small rainbow of colors over their clothes and skin as you can see shapes appearing and disappearing under the watery surface lighting up the cave, or reflecting the moonlight or shining brillantly in the sun.
Due to the tattoos being able to shapeshift with the letters you transcribed, you can almost instantly use a spell through any body part
The slime can hide itself within you, leaving only a bare surface on your skin, which is able to completely hide the tattoos as well if need be.
The slime's intelligence allows you to think on multiple levels, both through it and seperately from it, and you can sense things through it as well, in which through its ability as a slime you can dissolve substances and consume them through the slime, eliminating the need to eat.
You can also breathe underwater, and could move through it extremely well by utilizing the surface tension of the slime to pass the water through you like a jet. Such surface value might also allow you to walk on water.
Due to the malleable nature of the slime and the way it was reborn, you could always, "upgrade it" by incorporating new features within it either through spellcraft or otherwise.
Maybe like an ability to withstand great heat or something who knows?
So yeah, have fun with the idea of being part slime by animating a slime within you.
How did it take so long for a talking glue-stick to get around to animated objects?
I know right?!
Probably because on some level its very personal and embarrassing for him.
I tried asking my magic paperclip helper on my computer about how he was born and he shut down my computer, sensitive bastard.
9:46 "Say your bard was a skilled swordsperson, they could program it to use a sword but nothing else."
Y'know that moment in the old/good Star Wars EU when Luke used the force to wield like a hundred lightsabers at once against the Yuuzhan Vong?
Bladesingers creating animated swords just became that much scarier.
On that note, given how the animation process is described in this video, imagine how much time Acererak (or any lich) really has on his hands, based on a certain hallway. If you're familiar with ToH you know the one I mean.
[Some Objets] covered in some magic super glue, if someone falls for it the [Some Object] tries to dive deep down into a lake/river/gelatenous cube
(inspired by the sword in a stone at the bottom of the lake with glue on the grip, thanks reddit)
I don't have a lot of programming knowledge myself, but imagine an animated object to be pretty limited by what the creator could program into it, with rather basic tools. It is not like they have something like computers improving that have allowed it to be built on more advanced stuff. And not the likes of golems that take a semi-sentient elemental in them as short hand. Probably should be ways they can be semi hacked.
I was recently talking to a friend about new Unearthed Arcana, that introduced something called Sidekicks, that allow you to give classes to a monster that the player can kind of have in control. Animated Armour looked like a kind of perfect addition, as long as you could work around the 1 intelligence and Charisma and low wisdom while needing to count as friends. I put forward the idea of a player who is an apprentice wizard, could be given an animated armour by their master to provide some protection. Although I guess growth being tied to making it more complex. Maybe said player needing Mending and some smithing and arcana proficiency.
Great job AJ!
Nice work on the video!
Older descriptions say that the HP value is the physical damage required to break the item's bond to the magic. Disjunction bypasses that, as the HP damage has the same effect as the Disjunction and does the same thing.
I used 2 sets of animated armor and 2 animated swords to great affect as a DM. Party came upon the suits holding swords. They stepped in range and began fighting. After the first swing or so the suits would "throw" the sword and now in flight the swords would act on their own accord while the suits began slamming. It turned out pretty nasty and a really fun set up.
I did something very similar but i did it where once my party killed the suits the sword continued fighting
@@kodypalmer7079 I got that exact same idea. Right when the party relaxes after the fight, a nasty surprise.
Animated castle
My first thought: "The Singing Sword" from "Knighty Knight Bugs" cartoon.
Also A.J. what animated object are you talking about at 2min in? Sounds like a large animated object, or a special one. An animated lamp won't cost 200k in gp to buy for sure.
Old school D&D, where they knew full well the merry havoc that D&D players can get up to with animated objects.
Animated noose with advantage on stealth, Now that has to be over powered.
In my well hidden thoughts on my gnome wizard's leveling progression there is an idea where the little arcane craftsman create a repeater crossbow and have it animated. So during the battle it would fly over his shoulder like a drone and shoot bolts at the target :D I mean is this even possible? :D
( one of my characters is a support gnome wizard, who's a little weaker, and that is why I want something to protect him, and a golem/shield-guardian is too expensive right now :D )
mage hand doesn't require concentration ,it is a cantrip ,lasts for one minute and there's no restriction on how many you can have at any given time.
just cast it twice and use that to fire the crossbow
The bidet was invented in Toril when an old wizard animated his chamberpot for ease of wiping, as vellum did not make for good toilet paper.
Not a Dog: That’s funny! The Prestidigitation cantrip would be a lot easier, though.
@@alanschaub147 mage hand would also help (but not as much)
Earlier today I found myself in a nerd store and found ALL KINDS of dnd books and magazines. Like so so much. And all I thought about was aj pickett. " this must be what aj's room looks like". " reading these makes me feel like aj." Weird but thats some of the thoughts i had going thru. You were the first thing that came to mind and stayed. And I just thought you might enjoy that. That when I see lore and info on dnd I think of the wise and mighty glustick. Keeper of lore and playful ideas.
If all my digital books were printed and stacked next to the existing books, there would be a paper cave in.
Are u saying you would rather have your digital copies? Cuz I for one think paper cave of awesome sounds super cool
You what I love most about these videos? Your imagination. :)
About flooding castles with oil and such: I'd imagine that's the kind of thing that magically advanced and.. less then moral civilizations such as ancient Imaskar did. And that for the civilizations that would be capable of those sorts of things it would carry the same weight as, say, chemical warfare does on our world. So, a good thing for your bbeg to do.
This reminds me of a time i had skeleton, which i gave order to act as my shield. Literal bone shield i was carrying. Never came in use and i never get to give it order to grapple anyone, still neat detail i think
I can't tell if it's weird or not that I think of the animated version of Beauty and the Beast whenever I think of animated objects. That movie could have easily turned dark if the Beast had just commanded all his animated objects to attack any interlopers (the armoire of death comes to mind).
Isn't that kind of how the movie ended?
I could see an animated portable hole making a good non lethal trap. Set to swallow any intruders and then dump them out inside a locked cell. This would allow a rogue to break free later, but simple instructions are the only thing keeping animated objects from being OP.
just get the "marvelous pigments" magic items and summon a spike pit out of nowhere
I just seen somebody make a Bard video with animated objects and singing to the song of a remake of meet my friend
Favorite use for object animation: Having your wizard animate his spell book such that it floats around with him and is telepathically linked to the wizard so that it turns to the page that has whatever spell he’s trying to use. Sounds menial, but I’ve seen DMs fuck wizards up while they’re looking through there spell book and it prevents you from losing the book or having it stolen. It can still be destroyed, but if it’s just stolen or dropped it will eventually catch back up to you.
I'm halfway through the video so I don't know if you cover it, but if a 5e DM wants dispel magic hitpoints, I'd suggest dispel magic deal 10 points per spell level, or 1d8 per level if flat damage is a bit much
Edric Leggett What are “magic hit points”? Do you mean something like the temporary hit points gained from a spell such as False Life? I would use Dispel Magic just as the spell describes. There is no need for extra rules, such as “up to 10 magic hit points”.
Or are you talking about using Dispel Magic on an Animated Object?
Binding enchantment and runes, are great way to get you weapon back in you hand if you drop it,
You know there's that degenerate that's gonna animate their sex doll.
On the other hand, they would make convincing maids as well...
That's a good enough excuse for me... (Insert lenny face)
You mentioned how deadly an animated rope would be but imagine an adamantine thread! It could behead something before they even have the chance to wake up. And if that metal doesn't work just substitute it for any other incredibly durable metal
alchemical diamond thread.
Hmm…gave my players an animated battleaxe that he ‘wrestled’ successfully and then he ended up selling it for 75 GP as a moontouched weapon lol
But they are not immune to the stun condition. Lol this is why Monks are OP lol.
You might be doing some things wrong if you think that. A Monk has to spend KI for *each* strike that they want to be a Stunning Blow. A natural one on a Saving Throw is not an automatic fail in 5e and most Monks tend to have low save dc's.
@@bahhumbug2072 A Monk only needs to get one successful stunning strike to completely change the action economy considering it makes an enemy skip a turn entirely. "A Monk has to spend KI for each strike that they want to be a Stunning Blow," You say that like ki points are some rare resource, they come back after a short rest. "is not an automatic fail in 5e" And so what? These creatures are not CR 30s with a bonus of +15 to a save. If they roll a 1 their total is still going to be less than even an 8 and if you are playing a Monk correctly you will have a save of 11 even at 1st level. What is even the point of anything you just said?
@@thejamaicanempire3561 Yes stun is powerful but so is every single other save or suck spell in the game. In actual play a Monks Ki is used up insanely quickly. If your Monk is able to save there Ki all the way to the BBEG then he has either not been challenged or is exercising some serious restraint. Regardless of which it is this is a encounter building/pacing problem.
I can't remember off the top of my head but i think the Adventuring day is supposed to be around 6-8 encounters with 2 short rests.
The Saving Throw matters because if the Monk Stunning Blow is causing a problem then throw in an enemy that has that bonus. Or hell just give them a minion that adds to his saves while it's alive like the Paladin does for the party.
Oh Jesus i need charscter that rides a giant sword now
Like a surf board or a witch's broom? Just curious how you imagined it.
Like asta in black clover
I want to make a character that looks just like Jesus (I guess the more common white guy Jesus that most folk are used to seeing) that rides around on a magically flying & levitating surfboard (instead ov a magic carpet). And gives out copper coin, bread & fish to the hungry, and heals disease.
A question for fellow fans: How do you personally deal with the creation of Vorpal weapons? Does it have to be made by one of a few specific specialists? Can any enchanter of high enough level do it? Or are Vorpal weapons imbued a soul from a Devine/Diabolic power? Or is your solution something completely different? How do you or your DM cover this tricky subject in your games?
A couple of days ago, one of my friends told me a story of how his D&D character slept with a woman, and, later in the campaign, he found out (much to his dismay, shock, and horror) that the woman was a steel dragon in disguise. Im not entirely sure whether or not I want to know anything more about the campaign, but, given the quite frankly gag-worthy information I already know, Id say Im about 94% sure.
I don't get it. What's wrong with sleeping with a dragon that was clearly in a perfectly attractive and functional human body, and fully intelligent (More so, typically, than humans)? Is it something about "Steel" dragons in particular?
@@supercalifragic1551 If you see it that way, fine, I guess. You do you. But for the rest of us, thats referred to as ophidiophilia
Good video
You know that item I proposed in the comment section of your second magical Items video which is a hammer that turns whatever weapon it hits into another hammer? Well, I decided it would be interesting if it could do that to living things, too. The resulting hammer always takes up traits of what creature you hit (for example, if you hit a beholder, the resulting hammer would have writhing eyes on stocks on the head, and would inflict random status effects.)
In a puff of smoke, or in a horrific bone cracking, flesh ripping wet mess? I should think any creature affected should need to make a save vs death magic or become permanently insane unless extreme measures are taken.
@@Zasek2112 That profile pic is amazing.
@@purplehaze2358 Do you know what it's from? ;p
@@Zasek2112 Presumably the vengeful one.
@@purplehaze2358 It's the cheshire cat from Alice in wonderland ;)
Animated Gulliotine ;3 Aka how your pc learned to live without a head.
Bonus points if you add chains on the side to pull them in and hold them down. In other words this is just another roper variant 🤣
Ok how about intelligent weapons like a singing sword?
Ya... but a hanging rope though
....animated printing press makes spell scrolls?
would still have to be finished by someone with the scroll creation ability, to add the magic. Unless it's enchanted, and that would need to be enchanted for each scroll it can make. Make scrolls a lot faster, though.
Although an animated writing table that, if fed scroll-making inks and an example scroll (up to a certain level), can copy it including its magic. Add the ability to copy a spellbook entry to a scroll. Not cheap, seriously useful.
so how would drow armor for house class work .
Animated adamantium chain
TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL!
1:get as many portable fortresses as possible
2:use the adamantine in the fortresses to build a MASSIVE ADAMANTINE TOWER
3:get as many powerful wizards as possible to help with the next step
4:TURN THE ADAMANTINE TOWER INTO A MASSIVE WALKING ADAMANTINE TOWER GOLEM AT YOUR COMMAND
(would make a pretty good BBEG's evil scheme to take over a kingdom)
@@filipthunell8631and have the bottom of the adamantium tower be made like a tunnel bor-ing machine, now that would be epic.
@@wailandkarisma4279 I ment more like massive adamantine legs but that could work too.
wonder how difficult it would be to make a bound weapon, with a spirit or demon or something inside it, thats fully sapient?
I'm imagining the wielder eventually befriending the spirit or whatever who genuinely likes the wielder...even offering up some of their personal power...
Trap the Soul of the demon/spirit into a gem... magically implant that int the weapon, Add the other magics. Wish it to be able to communicate.
Note that the trapped being wants out and will work toward that goal.
The being may be either grateful or it may wish to seek vengeance upon all living things in some range when it gets out...
For items i would start with a fruit peeling knife less sharp slightly less likely to murder me.