Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Rothé

An ancient breed of cattle in Faerûn's northern areas, highly important to humans living in the northern lands around the Moonsea and to the drow of the Underdark below. Dwarves also tend their own herds of these hardy and remarkable animals.

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[lysander]

Mr. Rhexx: let me tell you about Gods
AJ: let me tell you about cows

[purplehaze]

I love how the D&D content on this channel can jump from a weapon that can instantly kill any dragon to a cow. It’s glorious.

[TheHornedKing]

Can't believe I enjoyed a video about bovines this much.

[adrianithhenwood]

Wasn't expecting a lovely bovine history lecture.🐄 Just full of surprises as always.

[aubreyackermann]

I'd imagine their coats would make a thick felt ideal for tents or insulation layers in quilts, sturdy stuffing and padding for dolls and clothes, paintbrushes, shoes, and nets/ ropes. Why not?

[adreabrooks]

This is the most interesting video on fictional cattle I've ever watched.

[sanddry]

I never thought I could be so interested in a fantasy cow species

[DevKerrigan]

What a wonderfully mundane critter. I would very much appreciate a playlist of such critters, if there's even enough to populate one.

[Im-Not-a-Dog]

As someone with a background in anthropology/zoology, I frickin love it when you get all scientific.

[roberthill]

I like this one. However, being a bit of a biologist, instead of going the cattle/bison route, I might have gone more to the goat-antelope direction. Specifically, the Takin.
Takin are within the size ranges of Deep Rothe, and are far more agile over uneven ground than cattle, oxen and bison, which would suite the Underdark perfectly. And their temperament and physicality also matches well.
I've stood with cattle, oxen, and bison before. Bison are the most intimidating of the lot, until you get close to a bull Takin. I swear it feels like a bear that's thrown a hide around itself.

[nullvoid]

This is one the pieces of my underdark campaign ecology that I was missing. Now I can describe the intense smell of the districts in the underground cities that cultivate these. It’s the little things in world building. Thanks AJ!

[jallyraja]

First domesticated by a famous bard referred to as, David Lee Rothé.

[johngleeman]

Ghost Rothe hold a special place in my heart. In 3rd edition they have a staggering 26 strength for a CR 2, which makes them a perfect candidate for the tauric template. It's basically a mix and match template that lets you make centaur-like creatures. The new creature's strength is a function of the quadruped partner's strength, so it makes for a fantastically strong new sapient being. XD

[rootsnootthnute]

You know what's cool about Muskox is that they aren't bovine at all, they're bovids, which includes cows, but they're actually caprine, like goats.

[iainzo]

The real life history would be a nice fallback if you ever run out of dnd or other roleplay to talk about. Great content! You should work more of this into your videos.

[PauloGarcia-spws]

I just started reading The Legend of Drizzt and am on book III and I was wondering what Rothe looked like. Literally perfect timing.

[VerityAran]

Yay! Was hoping this would still be a thing! Thanks AJ!

[rylog]

Deep Rothé should be a language. You're telling me Circle of the Land Underdark Druids never cast Speak with Animals and learned how to sign with lights? Drow can also innately cast Dancing Lights, anyway...

Imagine how useful a shepherd literally talking to it's flock using semaphore would be.

[moonringXD]

Extremely well done video aj! I enjoyed the mixture of real world facts with the lore of the video very well done! ❤ 🐂🐃🐄

Also make one wonder what stingrays facts you'll put in the Ixitxachitls video, dosen't it?😏

[Lazycandle]

Just one of those important patches to fill your world with