Dungeons & Dragons: Complete Guide to Hades: Oinos



Complete Guide to Hades, chapter one, Oinos, the first ‘gloom’ of the Gray Waste of Hades, featuring the plane’s origin, the main population groups, notable locations, physical and psychological effects, the soul trade and more.

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36 thoughts on “Dungeons & Dragons: Complete Guide to Hades: Oinos”

  1. 8:05 I'm sorry WHAT!? Demonic Tarrasques!?!? Implying there are multiple!?
    Also, I could definitely see an adventure set in a continent-sized laboratory belonging to Mephistopheles. (He could have a demiplane like that for all I know)

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  2. Love that little tip of the hat towards Arthurian legend with the Siege Malicious. The idea of a grand throne literally granting power to the rightful owner rather than simply being a display of it is something I really need to incorporate into my own games.

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  3. The yugolothts have always been the most intrigueing of fiends because of their intentional quietness. Out of the demons that are even capable of thought, most of them haven't really thought about evil, they just do what they're driven to do. And with the devils, when you get them down the rabbit hole, they'll try and convince you and themselves that they're actually the good guys! But the 'loths? From their perspective, the demons and devils don't really even know what evil actually IS. When given freedom and choice, and you DECIDE to be evil, that's the true essence.

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  4. From a given point of view, you can start a Dark Souls campaign like setting and then slowly let the players realize they are in Hades the whole time.

    Normally at my last game shop when a PC dies they roll a charisma check like you would do in the Ravenloft setting to see if the PC becomes a ghost or not. If successful we rolled a 1d8 minus 1hd/level to see what type of undead they become or just apply the 3e half-fiend template to the PC to see how much their original personality remains after death.

    Did a mini campaign of a neutral evil pig farmer that was rogue/sorcerer with add half-fiend template that ended up marrying a night hag. His sense of purpose that grounds his soul is that he is a pig farmer that herds larva. He will eventually screw you over in one way or another but he also hands outside quest and gives minor aid at the cost of temporary ability score points or Xp cost, or some form of magic treasure.

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  5. 16:40 A feind having "pets," in the way we think of them, dosn't track, because it emplys that they care about and have compation for somthing.

    Oh, they keep them starving so they are more usefull? That makes more sense.

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  6. 🎶 "In these gray wastes" 🎶
    🎶 "There's no love, there's no tears to cry" 🎶
    🎶 "While I feel my grip," 🎶
    🎶 "Slipping loose of my will to try" 🎶
    🎶 "So let Hades come, and wash away…." 🎶

    WHAT I'VE DONE!
    Erase myself!
    Exhausted!
    Rip out my tongue!
    Disgrace myself,
    And let go all that I've done!

    🎶 "Put to rest, the memory of me" 🎶
    🎶 "While I changed my shape" 🎶
    🎶 "To a worm, and have ceased to be" 🎶
    🎶 "Now hear Hades come and wash away…" 🎶

    WHAT I'VE DONE!
    Exhaust myself
    Apathy has become,
    My soul reset!
    Destroying all…. I've….. done!

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  7. This is a particularly good and engaging one, AJ. Very appreciated and looking forward to the rest of the series. Coincidentally, I was pondering deep prehistory of a fantasy milieu earlier this very evening, and had just about arrived at the interface b/w Eldritch Outer Space (i.e. The Far Realms) and realms of spiritual dimension (e.g. the Outer Planes) leading me to postulate something very like the old ones and their blue/orange morality.
    Regardless, you inspire. Please, sir, may I have some more?

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  8. I’ve watched this one three times already within the span of a day. I want to see the rest of the series first, but I’m already working on a revised cosmology where Hades is neutral and all the dead travel here before being permitted to go to their reward or punishment.

    It will make it the primary battleground in the blood war, but also a place where the celestial travel to gather up their lost followers. Truly a nightmare for even the righteous dead, who risk being consumed as their god’s agent come to claim them.

    “How dare you come to take what is mine, angel. The dead belong to me. You will pay homage to me if you wish a single soul for your master’s realm.” -Hades, king of the dead.

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