This D&D Monster Is Bloody Horrific

The blооd elemental from Ravenloft is one of the most vile, disgusting, and brutal monsters to ever grace the pages of a D&D book. Today, I'll be talking all about the lore and ecology of this D&D horror show, and then I'll be converting it from AD&D to 5E Dungeons and Dragons. The blood elemental is sure to make your horror themed, cultists spawning, old god summoning, vampire killing campaign just that much better!

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00:00 - INTRO
00:54 - WHAT IS A BLOOD ELEMENTAL?
06:06 - COMBAT
09:22 - PLOT HOOKS
15:20 - FINAL THOUGHTS // SMOOCHES
17:28 - NEXT TIME, ON MONSTER OF THE WEEK!

[DungeonDad]

Thanks for watching everyone!
What monster would you like to see covered next on the channel? 🧐

[msf]

Don’t forget when describing smells: there is a difference between fresh blood and old blood, because blood *will* begin to rot like most organic materials. Can imagine a blood elemental that smells purely metallic (fresh) would be less dangerous (recently sated), where one that had that sickly-sweet edge of rot would be much, *much* more dangerous (desperate to feed.)

[richardnordlander]

An adventure where a lich summons a blood elemental due to a conflict with vampires with the objective of starving vampires of victims could be a creepy and dark adventure

[multitaskcreative]

I gotta say, I love that you are hiring artists to make new art of all these monsters. Like that’s just such a badass move

[shonLip]

I like the idea of blood elemental hiding from players inside corpses. The blood elemental can animate the corpse, and in battle, players think it's just a normal undead until they actually cut it, and blood begins to pour out of the corpse.

[NonLogicUser]

I am evil enough to make a twist on this creature:

Imagine a spirit that exists in the ethereal plane, and can only exert itself through spilled blood.
Just imagine getting a cut during combat, only for a bloody hand reach out to strangle you.

[VexedVergil]

I ran a blood elemental (my version of it anyway) about a year ago. The party had to delve into an ancient druids tomb in order to learn a ritual needed to get to a specific plane the BBEG was using for his power. In said tomb the party witnessed a band of grave robbers stealing artifacts from the tomb, when the spirit of the ancient druid found them. It cursed one of the robbers and flew off. The robber quickly began to feel ill. Rapidly declining in health until he litterally exploded. His blood and organs began to Rapidly pool together, creating the blood elemental. This elemental killed the remaining robbers getting bigger and more powerful when it spotted the party trying to sneak around it. The party was scared of it and re-enacted a Scooby-Doo scene where they were running all over the tomb while it gave chase. Our trickster rogue did the thing where he went in one door and somehow left at a different door confusing the blood elemental XD

[TheDigitalWeeb]

From the thumbnail I IMMEDIATELY know this is going into my horror themed campaign. See also a fetch who has been killing people by the waterside and Odoopi stalking the caves beneath a city called Carceri.

[robertprueter]

I was recently talking with one of my players about a "blood themed serpent that is basically a magic guard dog." Lo and behold, Dungeon Dad heard me in the wind and does not disappoint. 10/10 my man

[FungiShrooms]

Imagine bringing your own version of the Cool-aid man to your DnD table. Like, imagine this unit of a glass jug crashing through a brick wall screaming, 'OHH YEAAAH' at the top of its lungs and when it finally does go down the liquid poors out and a blood elemental is summoned.

[ninjaspider]

I’m actually running a campaign where the blood moon is eternally up, and I think this would be perfect for an encounter too!

[genocidegames]

i suspect it will be interesting if you look at the other three horror elementals (grave, pyre, and mist)

[josiahws]

What if there were elementals of the four humors? That would be a gross, creepy group of monsters.

Also, could you do a video on the doll golem?

[demiurge]

A really cool idea for a Sorcerer is if a cult replaced a person's blood with a blodd elemental, giving them magic. When they say "My magic comes from my blood", they'll literally mean it!

[עומרשרייבר-לר]

I love elementals based on unusual elements. And the other ravenloft elementals also sound cool as hell and I hope you are planning on making videos on all of them (espcailly the grave elemental).

[marcuswillbrandt]

Sounds like it should be an undead or a golem, not an elemental. Just because an elemental plane of blood existing raises the question why it's not the life goal of every vampire existing to get there. Damn, sounds like a plot

[RubySnipa]

Immediately thought of having a group of mages who removed their souls & created "Warforgeds" as vessels. Failing at attempting to become mortal again & accidentally summoning one of these.

[rpghorrorstories]

I can imagine a slaughterhouse using a blood elemental to help clean up the blood. Discworld has vampires that work at kosher butchers so I something similar can happen here.

[ivanhagstrom]

I feel like a blood elemental should have an ability where it seeps into your wounds and takes control of you. That would be horrifying!

[Mordaris]

Excellent revival of one of the Ravenloft Elementals! In the original 2nd edition printing of these creatures, when you summoned a regular elemental on the Plane of Dread, you took a risk(20% chance) of your elemental being an uncontrolled Ravenloft version.