Lamias | D&D Monster Lore | The Dungeoncast Ep.201
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2020
- Will and Brian discuss a creature obsessed with controlling their surroundings with power, seductions, and wicked magic. Come learn about the Lamia and its multitude of troubling abilities this week on The Dungeoncast!
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Just a few things about the Geas spell:
1) The word is from the Irish language, so it's usually pronounced "gesh."
2) With the spell, even though you only take the damage once per day, you are still under the effects of the charmed condition for the duration, with no saving throws after the first one. In your scenario, if the party were to find themselves all under the spell after being captured, they would have to escape without harming the lamia in any way. The lamia could simply tear into the party with all her attacks and damage, and the party would not be able to do any harm to her in response thanks to the spell. That's why it's a 5th-level spell, the charmed condition lasts for *30 days* without any further saves.
That is really Goddamn Powerful. Kind of how I turned my Pathfinder Party Chad into a Subservient of the Arks BBEG Succubus . (He is a Lizardfolk Void-user that achieved God-like strength through intense Gravity Training!) Also Neutral Evil who Hates Paladins and Only speaks lizardfolk
i would personnelly push it to 6th level, thats really powerful.
@@bleddynwolf8463 It definitely is one of the more powerful effects at 5th level, but there are other spells at that level are also insane. Animate objectss, dream, legend lore, modify memory, and wall of force can all warp either combat encounters or entire campaigns. It seems like 5th level is where the campaign-defining spells begin, both for PCs and for the DM too.
@@prophetisaiah08 fair enough
I hear lamia and I think of monster musume
Technically a more accurate version than D&D's
@@keeperofdragons456 Also ONE HELL Of a Body Pillow!
Jay Pittman well the Lamia Nobles are part snake and much stronger.
@@epiccthulu true but I am still baffled by leonine centuar lamias existence
Straight to horny jail
I have liked and commented! I continue to serve the hedonistic dungeoncast! And so the cycle begins anew once more, and the journey to the next hundred mark has begun. Of course I'll be here for these next 100 episodes, from lamias to whatever foul creature awaits at 300 milords. Speaking of lamias, I've got to keep an eye out for those too now. Why are there so many cursed creatures out there to threaten our lands?well, I've suffered the presence of far more foul creatures than the lamia in my time, and their seductive ways will have no effect on me, I am a paladin who can not be tempted by a lesser evil! . . .though maybe a greater evil could. A succubus could probably do it, not going to lie the erinyes are also quite appealing with how lawful they are, ok enough of that! Can't think of falling to such monstrosities, need to stay focused on stopping them should the threat ever arise. Anyway, see you next week for another boon of knowledge milords!
And another episode down, always brighten up my day guy's, been dealing with power outages over here where I live all day. So this was nice to relax too and eat dinner while watching, until the power turned off again just a few minutes into the video. Had to finish my dinner in almost pitch blackness.
It's a shame this wasn't a Saturday upload like last week, then I could have had a dungeoncast video on my birthday to watch yesterday, lol.
Have a good day guys, always good seeing another video. :)
So I recently used a lamia in my game, and it worked exactly as planned. The party of low level characters had escaped from a dungeon into a harsh desert, and the druid that took them in introduced them to his weretiger buddy, Saleem. The party went on its merry way, found 3 hellhounds attacking a giant tiger, and they threw in with the tiger, because they guessed it was Saleem. They kill the hellhounds, tiger leads them to his hideout, and they all rest and heal up in Saleem's crib. Saleem needed their help again, though: manscorpions were besieging his girlfriend Karen's mountain home, there were too many of them for him to take out, but they hadn't gotten in yet. The party agreed to help their boy Saleem, went to the mountain, didn't see any manscorpions outside, so Saleem screamed in horror that they must already be inside! They rushed to ascend the mountain, made it to her lair, and in the great cave overlooking the desert below, they found a manscorpion. Battle ensues, they kill the manscorpion, and then hear from an adjoining cave a female voice calling, "Erik. Whatcha doing out there?" Then Karen, a friggin lamia, comes walking on out, sees the dead manscorpion, and freaks out. Turns out the party had just murdered her boyfriend Erik the Manscorpion, at the behest of her jealous ex-boyfriend Saleem the Weretiger. Saleem pleaded, "Baby baby, take me back, Erik was no good for you!" She yelled at him about what a jealous, controlling prick he was and never let her have any friends. The former lovers argued, while the players' eyes grew wide when they realized what they had just been duped into. They got the heck out of there ASAP!
Lamias sound like a great monster for my Greek Campaign . I never put two and two together that they were a Greek monster since I did not have the lion body pictured in my mind.
Geas takes 1 minute to cast. so she's 100% not gonna cast it in a fight unless she has like 10+ minions to hold the fight for 10 rounds. so intoxicating touch is for sure a setup for charms and suggestions.
Shadow puppet lamia! The ultimate enemy xD
I imagine that when geas is cast and they decide to "take the hit", you then have members with possibly half their health gone and if the lamia is still there they're not going to let you just walk away.
You guys are awesome.
Can't sleep, but she can take out her eyes... hell of a parlor trick.
I’ve heard the Geas spell also pronounced as “gesh”,from the Celtic origin.
Lamia are really a build-around monster.
I’d give them a legion of mind-controlled slaves and monsters, then use illusions to conceal deadly snares and traps or cause players to make bad decisions/waste actions. One lamia isn’t enough. I’d probably have a whole pride of lamia, to really layer on the illusions!
They deserve to have a whole dungeon built just for them, with their mirages and slave soldiers!
By build-around, do you mean in terms of physique as well?
This episode reminded me of the baddies you’d run into in act II of diablo II in the desert.
I've been watching you guys for a year now and I love your guy's duality. You guys do a great job and you guys talk and explain DnD to a great level. I always wanted you guys to talk about the Bloodhunter it reminds me of Bloodborne so hard.
We want to keep the show focused on Official content for the most part. We may one day start to venture out into homebrewed and playtest content though.
@@Thedungeoncast oh okay. It's just the Bloodhunter is a powerful and interesting class on DnD beyond and it's super dope. It likes a mash between a Warlock,Wizard,Fighter Ranger.
In the original monster manual the lamia was only a quarter lion (the front part of it's quadruped body) it was also a quarter goat (back half of it's quadruped body)
When you use this spell in that circumstance, you have to be careful not to tell the players what spell it is, when they take the damage to try and break the commands they gonna get scared and not try anymore.
I was really looking forward to hearing Will's Sean Connery voice for Geas, (ghesh). I'll just have to watch the Carter Huttenburg arch of Superquest Saga.
Not first!!
15:42 dam i guess drow and Lamia have the same kinks
I heard Labia 😂
Geas is like a weird old word. I heard it’s supposed to sound like “Gesh”
You aren't wrong, Geas is very weak for what it is meant to do. The strongest effect is a 30 day charm, which gives the caster advantage on social checks (persuasion, intimidation, deception) against the target and the target can't hurt the caster.
My first thought on fixing it is have another wisdom save to even attempt the action that breaks the geas. Fail and you can't do it.
Succeed, then you take the damage and you are free to take the action you wanted to take... But if you want to do it a second time, make that save again.
"Leotaur"
Bros, The geas spell is to control NPCs against their will. NPCs that will die, immediately with 5d10 dmg. So all the villagers turn on the PCs against their will...
Add exhaustion levels to the Geaz spell
The show Code Geas pronounces it as “Gee-Az”. Also the issue of the Geas spell is that it is underpowered compared to the previous editions. In 3.5 there was a lesser Geas spell which did damage to the ability scores like a cumulative -2 to each of its ability scores for every day it failed to follow the task. The standard Geas/quest spell did 3d6 damage and left you sickened all day which was a -2 to all rolls. Personally the lesser Geas was more dangerous but it could only affect creatures with 7 or fewer hit dice.
That's because the show is called Geass not Geas.
On the topic of the Lamia nobles, I saw on the forgotten realms wiki that older editions had an actual stat-block for them, separate from the regular lamia stat-block. I have not been able to find any confirmation on this however, does anyone here know the answer?
Isn't the lamia supposed to be half-snake not half-lion?
More like Lamemia
Its not lame, its lamè.
guess there are worse fates then death by snu snu
I hear Lamia i think of half human half serpents.... like in the Elder Scrolls games.
But since we already have the Yuan-ti I guess they couldn't go that route
Same, but I was thinking of Final Fantasy. Not seeing a half-snake lady confused the heck outta me. XD
Personally, I fucking HATE IT when people cut my baby-slaying abilities in half...
First!
¿Como te... Ceno te Llamas?
Edit: Bad Spanish pun is bad pun. Something about centaur llamas, that's all
I don't get that one, but congrats for getting to the top of the ordining of puns this time ashen. You beat la me a here.
Thank you. I started off like I was asking "what's the name?" But stopped part way through. The next part is a bad version of first part. Ceno and te supposed to sound like centaur and instead of llamos(name), I said llamas like the funny animal. Ceno refers to something about the anatomy I think, as in a llama man body
@@ashenwuss1651 what do you call a lamia who can't walk properly. A lame ia
Alan Scott
It's "gesh"
Geass is pronounced like the gee of geese and then ah s
So gee ah s
Wemic like
Geas is pronounced Gesh