Heya! Been a while huh! Took some time off in the middle of this one, kinda had a brain fizzle along the way, but I got it done! Hope you all enjoy, I'm gonna try to get myself back onto a normal schedule.

Hey Dwarf Yea? Are we the baddies? Don't be daft. Now shut up and finish sowing my goblin skin slippers.

So this is basically how to turn D&D into MH:W JoCat would be proud.

"How to craft stuff from monsters parts" *Lizardfolk players scribbling down notes*

Necromancers don't even need to pillage graveyards when an adventuring party leaves behind so many fresh corpses.

"You shouldn't go around touching people corpses" -Words to live by

"You shouldn't go around touching people corpses" *[Laughs in Necromancy]*

Cooking and crafting monsters adds a whole new level to dungeon crawling. That is so awesome

That goblins girlfriend is gonna love there new necklace 😊

Kanekuo: "You could make so many incredible items from harvesting monsters! Your imagination is the only limit." Lizard Man: "I'm gonna beat this goblin to death with this other goblin's leg."

Lizard Folk: allow us to introduce ourselves (Scale skins are masters of cadaver crafting, that bards femur looks like it could make a flute)

That moment you're invading the homes of sapient monsters to murder them to wear their skins and bones and you realize you were the monster all along.

The fan service has also become MANSERVICE, which i cool

Oh, so it's "Crafting with Cadavers" as in PCs making *items* out of dead monsters. I thought it was going be a lot more necromantic-y, about a BBEG making new monsters out of the ones the party kills, like, say, a Flesh Golem. Or a Bone Spider.

2:24 I...hum... Can we have more drawing of this magnificent creature For "research" purposes of course

I run evil campaigns. Yesterday a player asked me: "Do halfling bones work as a substitute for children's bones for crafting this cursed knife?"

4:05 killed me instantly. Thanks Kane, can't wait

1:36- Monster Hunter. Y-you just described a D&D x Monster Hunter campaign.

new video NEW VIDEO YESSSSSSSS im so happy rn

I already have a character who makes fashion from monster corpses. You've just elevated his thinking.

'You shouldn't go around touching people's corpses' My Lizadfolk Hunter: It's free real estate. But really, this vid really helps me a lot to spice up my scaly boi. Gonna suggest this vid to my dm.

Nooooo not King Dalton!

Kanekou: making things with monster parts. Kilton from botw: ( unholy giggles)

"You shouldn't go around touching people's corpses." The party's Necromancer: *heavily sweating*

I live to see your buff ass dragon guys

Something I would like to add is that if an item a player would like to craft from a monster has a effect that requires a saving throw, you could always use the saving throw DC's of the monster in question for the item.

0:47 "it’s a very different boat than cooking monster parts…" Lizardfolk: _"Suuuure_ it is Mr. Chicken-man."

Hey, bones have been awesome tools for my alchemist grave cleric- hes been making glowsticks from them and glowing flora dyes, crushing them into bonemeal or ash to use for potion crafting, and splintered bone makes decent trap or shrapnel mats. Ive also given thought to using them to make money maker crafts for towns and gifts for friends of the character. You can narratively make wonderful things by seeming a little morbid.

This combined with the prosthetics immediately makes for a VERY interesting idea for a world

Fabian seems concerned as he doesn’t wear a hat

This is making dnd even more realistic by making every bit of a monster useful in some way or another

For a moment at the start I thought this would have to deal with how your adventurer's corpse making business can cause negative consequences and how it'd come back to haunt them albeit maybe quite literally but this topic of crafting with monster pieces also delights me so I am equally satisfied by this outcome since I always love making use of monster corpses ala Monster Hunter as a player. Thanks for such an inspiring video

As someone who's majorly into taxidermy and does a little bit of it here and there - I gotta say, is that all you can think of making out of a cockatrice? I can think of more you can do with a regular rooster! Also something I feel like might be something to consider: damage. A fireball killing a creature will not leave behind any kind of leather that you want to harvest, and chopping something through with a sword will damage bones and organs too, and depending on what spills out, it might also leave a much larger area unsuitable for work.

Honestly, I am loving these more practical videos. Having new and interesting ideas to apply outside of combat is so nice

I love how Monster Hunter crafts stuff, this looks like a very nice mechanic to add to have.

THIS WAS SO HELPFUL Everytime I DM I always have that one guy who wants to make shit out of EVERYTHING and I'm never equipped to think up stuff on the spot

6:24 I don't know who that is but I hope they have a long, wonderful life.

Just wanna say as someone who plays a tailed Dragonborn monk, I adore how you draw Dragonborn and now want to get him some shock-gauntlets.

Reusing and recycling, one dragon bone at a time.

I would love for my players to think more like this. Sometimes, I've made encounters specifically thinking that one of them would pick out something of the creature and try to make it into an object. Use to have this one player from WAY back. In a dungeon with inevitables, we had found a destroyed Zelekhut along with some demons it had managed to slay. Said player was a Dex based Rogue and REALLY wanted the bladed whip the construct had cause he was big into Prince of Persia at the time. By the end of his crafting and the party resting, he had made a +1 holy bladed chain that stored in a gauntlet on his arm. Was pretty rad.

These idea videos make me want to run an open world “do whatever you want” campaign with tons of stuff to do what they want as a crew. Using mechanics and fun exploits like the double tenser’s floating disc vehicle or the speed cat. Just letting them explore and make their own objectives

"Diminishing returns" this is a tightrope between railroad DMing and OP crew. I think DMs need to reward for ingenuity, but punish assumptions without research in RP

Threw some hook horrors at my party, and our eldritch knight harvested the hooks, and had an interesting idea. He crafted a special gauntlet for our rogue. I decided that he'd be able to lock the gauntlet while climbing, acting as a natural 20 to remain in place while it was locked, and it would also give him advantage on athletics checks to climb and grapple.

As someone currently running a survival game style short adventure, thank you for this. I have been having some trouble with how to make crafting fun and engaging and the gauntlet example provided me with some insight into how to improve my own cobbled together system.

Gives me an idea of a lizardfolk merchant, following an adventuring party around, creating gear and items out of the valuable corpses they leave behind. Sorta like how some arctic foxes live off the scraps a single polar bear leaves behind.

So I seen this at work and was thinking of listening to it on the ride home. Then I thought listen and not see THAT art work... glad I waited. Good video. I'm going to *cough* and put this in my discord.

Character idea; lizardfolk merchant that only buys parts of dead animals to make into useful magical items. However, nobody wants to buy anything from him because everything looks incredibly grotesque and morbid, and they have to pass a dc13 fear check in order to even approach his wagon made of heartstrings and bones, with a cover made of skin from god knows what.

New video! It felt like an eternity, but I'm glad there's one at all! May the bird have an amazing life, And lots of videos for us!

Im surprised there was no mention of lizardfolk. As far as i remember its even in their description that they will use parts of fallen enemies or even just parts of their hunts to craft things.

So basically you want us to create Monster Hunter. Sweet! I’m not alone when it comes to this.

0:51 I'm loving that stink eye though

My players defeated a Manticore and decided to carve it and make their own gear Monster Hunter style. Before watching this video I actually had them go through the same process you presented. They made some Manticore leather archery arm guards +1 to hit with bows. A spiked tail staff as a spell casting focus and a D6+Str pokey end. And a Australian style hat lined with chipped Manticore teeth +1 on Charisma checks. I like the NPC crafting the items for you idea, I should've offered them the choice to pay an NPC cuz they accidentally broke the claws, plus they already have a stockpile of gold they never use besides buying more arrows. Anyways great video and art Kanekuo! it helped me conceptualize the process more next time they wanna craft something. More monster girls please.

Remember the blader. Never forget the blader. That's possibly the best way scary anyone. You dragon carving freak.

What's really useful with this sort of thing is that a lot of options for items made from monsters or upgraded by parts of them already exist in prior editions. Using dragon leather for armors would add resistance to the energy type of their main breath weapon, dragon bone weapons tended to be 1 extra damage, but that would be the energy type of the dragons main breath weapon, Bows would have either a 50% or double maximum range. The 3rd edition draconomicon was great for that sort of thing. You might also look at the 3.5 Unearthed Arcana book for another use of parts with spells being modified by using specially collected materials of different things. On top of that, monster parts are a way to work in equipment upgrades for players more interested in improving what they have than just looking for their shiny new sword to acquire, or for those crafting gear...you might need to collect the "essence" of a fire elemental for your flaming sword or there might be ritual "spells" that might require regents that are a pain to get and need to be quested for (A spell put together to purge a mystical plague from a city might require the players to be sent out after the tears of a unicorn as part of it).

Kanekuo: Paving the way for a monster hunter style DnD session.

In my second ever D&D game, we killed a couple Ankhegs and my half/elven Ranger ripped off the mandibles to use as a scimitars, and later fashioned the other two mandibles into a longbow. Both deal acidic damage, due to the acid glands being later enchanted to not wither away. Later, he skinned a couple Yuan-Ti and fashioned their scales into a suit of leather armor, making it into Scale-Studded Leather Armor (AC 12 + Dex, Magic Resistance) for himself and his wolf.

I love everything you do kanekuo, and i have to thank you for all of your videos about crafting! It really gives me alot of ideas and i love that. Keep up the great work!

I LOVE YOUR ARTWORK!!!!! And the ideas for my roleplaying adventures 😉 Thank you for the inspiration, in art and for our gaming sessions

Love these videos! They never fail to inspire!

I like the look of the GM, nice hair and glasses there.

"This one uses bones for making comfy fire while party sleep.This one prefers keeping claws and teeth as arrow heads and dagger, if this one is hungry this one will eat the meat of corpse as this one isn't picky for as long as it survives longer" My lizard man fighter explains where he got the meat from, after last night's dinner and the new arrows for the Half elf Ranger.

love your series so much! after every episode im sitting for a couple of hours creating new stuff for my own campaigns! you are awesome and please keep making awesome stuff!

Diplomacy. This is literally Diplomacy. I now have a strong desire to begin crafting my own Diplomacy.

This is basically making dnd into monster hunter and I love it

This is DEFINITELY something I’ve got to keep in mind for my games! Planning a Homebrew campaign, and while that’s being worked on still, I want to run Curse of Strahd. I have to wonder what kinds of things the players can make during those

Someone’s been playing Monster Hunter.

Something else to keep in mind: if a player seems hellbent on trying to game it up by crafting 50 dragonhide backpacks to sell, maybe have an NPC that travels with the group willing to take the material off their hands (for a cut of the profits, of course). This also introduces the age-old D&D issue of "how are we going to get all this loot back to town to sell it?" which can either make things more interesting or bog things down, depending on your game. If you're afraid of the party getting too much gold from selling monster bits, you can always deduct costs from things like special treatments required to preserve or prepare the monster parts, allowing you to contain the surely boundless profits the players are imagining.

Back in 3.5 there was an obscure creature type that was essentially a construct made of harvested undead tissue, with rules for how big and how custom you could make it dependant on how many hit dice worth of undead and how many different kinds of undead you could gather. At the time, we were running a new campaign while our old, high level characters manipulated events in the world around the characters we were focusing on, so I decided to have my conjurer wizard start teleporting the corpses of any and all undead our party defeated to his lab. I ended up creating three colossal construct worms that used earth necroelemental powers to phase through the ground. These were designed for the express purpose of protecting a dwarven fortress from assault by a lich we had pissed off earlier in the higher level campaign, so I gave them several anti-undead and anti-army features.

this is a super cool idea! the idea of modifying a cart is something ive got to try

I created a character that was built around this mechanic. It was a arcane archer fighter kobold. By the end of the campaign, my level 14 kobold had a dragon scale shield, a bear pelt cloak, enchanted steel legs, a makeshift tail Morningstar, arrows made with multiple different poisons and runes and a small longbow (small enough so my tiny kobold could use it) that could fire multiple shots all at once. Note, my DM was hating me when i skinned the dragon and made arrows with its highly potent acidic blood.

Holy cow, I love your style of anatomy

6:23 "Necklace for girlfriend" Gods... So adorable.

Awesome! Thats great as always.

This show is like a drug

I love your videos, wish i had you as a dm, your videos especially about encounters and crafts among other things are great, and always leaves more for people to think about

6:22 That goblin. I like that goblin.

that's a really good idea actualy... I wanted to put a bit more crafting in my games but creating a whole system is pretty long (I do full homebrew RPG). I'll try to put more varied ennemies for my players so they can be creative with them. Hopefully something good will come out ! Also, thanks a lot for your videos, they help me a lot with my games. They are a great way for me to find new ideas !

I tried this and I was bad at it. I allowed people to use spider silk, collected from a giant spider mini boss, to craft spider silk gloves allowing them to scale vertically at full movement. Considering the next area visited was a cliff side filled with flying snakes, it gave them a major advantage and required additional enemy’s and tougher variants to make the encounter interesting. The additional enemy’s back fired however as the party began to loot with extremely high roles and collected a significant amount of teeth and snake skin which the sold off to the friendly town tailor for a small amount of gold and a promise that minor gear repair and modifications could be done for reduced price (or free if the job was easy enough). This all snowballed as the party began to take advantage of every item they could savage from every dungeon they visited. The players did this due to a side goal I had set up. This was to begin investing into a piece of property left to them by their teacher and restore it to its former glory. The property was a school dedicated to training even the lowest of peasant on how to defend themselves and survive on the road as the path through the mountains and out of the valley was extremely dangerous but a more profitable trade route than selling goods to the local lake side shipping companies who extorted the towns people due to the lack of alternative options. This made the towns people automatically more receptive to the player party as they provided a great service to the people. I encouraged the obsessive looting at first after a player requested if she could loot some giant rats following the opening combat encounter. I agreed as I believed that it made sense that a person would wastes potentially useful fur and meat. I then realised that my pre planed later encounters would offer a chance to collect luxury resources such as flying snake skin or spider silk that could be profitable to collect, maybe even more profitable than the few coins the locals payed to have the pests removed. The game took place in a small valley surrounded to the east, north and west by mountains and by a lake to the south. The base of the mountains were only a day and a half walk from this small lakeside town so transportation of goods within the valley it’s self was a simple and easy task. The players could mover easily between the dungeons and town by wagon and once the ball began rolling the party were able to make two trips through the purchase of mounts. In the end the players even began returning to ruins and caves to collect scrap metal and rusted armour/weapons of the fallen adventurers/travellers killed by a nest of tribal goblins. they would have this armour repaired for relatively cheap (30% of what I felt I would charge for its creation from scratch) by the town blacksmith (who owed a favour to a party member for events that occurred in the back ground of the campaign). They then used this restored armour and weapons to equip low level “adventures” level 1 basic NPC’s trained at their school. These adventures I had planned to use to follow one shot story’s that I could lift and re work from other people’s games in case I hadn’t finished creating my plan for the next main quest. The balance issue came because I made the skill checks too low and harvesting animals required no special equipment just a common dagger. I should have taken into consideration potential damage done to ingredients during combat and had a system of grading the quality of ingredients the party could collect in order to at least make them put thought into how they went about looting. Instead they became a bunch of magpies looting anything the could transport and selling them off in town for a significant amount of bonus cash. I never got to proceed with the campaign as it was played during quick 1-3 hour session and over 4 different sessions totalling about 6 hours of total play time, not including two 30 minute sessions to run the party characters through some combat and other encounters to see how powerful they were. This was my first game as a dungeon master and I wish I had stuck to the basics. Btw my campaign was totally a reworked bastardised version of the free to play campaign on the roll 20 website. I had so little understanding of how to create and run a campaign to the point I had explain away the fact that the skeletons had grouped hit points in an encounter because I had copied and pasted them in and their hit points we all sharing the same pool 😑. I love these videos as they contain so many interesting ideas that really make me want to go off and get into playing the game again with a group a bit more experience that the first timers me and my friends were.

thanks for all the new ways to "loot that body"

Chromatic dragon parts are also good to fuse into your body... don't question it. Oh and I did make an enhancement to add a slashing damage to my shocking grasp by combining a mithril gauntlet with two blue dragon claws and its scales. Just a little bonus, but nice flavour.

Some other considerations for GMs: 1) Limiting volume of material for GMs - When considering which bits are intact enough to be used, consider the dichotomy between Monster Hunter Logic and Realism: With how popular MH is, some players may think that crushing the horn into tiny pieces guarantees the whole, unbroken horn as a loot drop. Decide for yourself whether that IS the case, and perhaps inform them before they start taking extra pains to fight in certain ways. Realism isn't always better: it can disproportionately favor poison and kiting builds. It might even be preferable from a lore perspective for body parts to be broken in particular ways to retain maximum magical might. - As mentioned in the video, you can treat a good chunk of a monster's corpse as vague scrap and just file it away as "necessary for the final crafting product" so you don't need spreadsheets upon spreadsheets of past kills to track. Let the player pick the one(or a few) good things and end it there. - There's a big difference between food-grade, equipment grade, and improvised structure grade materials. Not every scale and bone is going to be durable enough to be worthy of the name "Dragonscale Shield" even if the entire corpse is intact. For example, a common chinese trope is the reversed scale, a single scale on the dragon that is tremendously more powerful than all the other scales. Maybe a magical pendant can only be made with that scale, or a truly legendary dragon armor is made of hundreds of said scales implying hundreds of killed dragons. 2) Planned Obsolescence - This is generally a tactic to counteract hoarding, and is a compromise between wanting to give players something useful from a corpse without giving them a literal library of tools. You don't need to enforce it, it's just another way to balance the scales according to your needs. - One justification is based on the freshness of the kill. The magical effects imparted by the equipment were maintained by the living creature, and now that it's dead the magic eventually fades away. This can double as the reason why markets aren't flooded with similar such equipment. Your regular leather armor may have come from a griffon, but it's been 8 months since it died and the leatherworker just bought the skin in bulk. - Another is due to lack of processing. The players do what they can when carving up the corpse, but it's not like everyone carries 2 liters of tanning liquid, 3 different dying agents, and several pairs of very small scissors. The stuff they make is unprotected from the wear and tear of serious adventuring, and maybe even literally rotting off their backs. There's a lot of different penalties you can impose as time goes on, and taking it to actual craftsmen to process gives you the opportunity to quickpatch broken synergies and properly charge them for making the item a permanent addition to their arsenal. 3) Culture and Interaction - There's a lot to be said about a man who wears a kilt made of goblin faces. Don't be shy to have NPCs react to the various trophies and trinkets. Elves who are quite impressed that you managed to kill a giant spider cleanly enough to use its undamaged chitin for a bow, or a dragon enraged that you're wearing its brother-in-law as a coat. In that sense, there's also reason for players to NOT interact with a corpse or go out of your way to dispose them without a trace.

Idea for a campaign. The party starts out with nothing but some cotton clothes and basic weapons like a dagger or rusty short sword something like that, and in order to get better gear they have to make it using the parts of the monsters they kill. Could be either a good way to set them up for a hard campaign of dungeon crawling or it could be the entire point of the campaign itself which has the PCs going from place to place looking for monsters to get parts from or exploring ancient ruins for runes and the like. And who knows if they help out some villages along the well that's just fine isn't it? Edit: and it would be a good way to help work out the murder hobo tendencies that some parties tend to have issues with.

This is why i really like lizardmen. They have this kind of ability as a base racial ability, and it helps make the world feel more realistic, because in real hunting no one leaves that much unused material. If you kill an animal, you use all the parts.

In the game I've been playing in we fought a giant basilisk with stone skin (Turns out the dude drank a potion of stone skin and a potion of grow/reduce, and due to the venom in the stomach it made a unique concoction.) While we were carving it up we accidentally punctured the stomach and my carving knife grew to the size of a great sword, which has thus been dubbed "Big Knoife" by the party and is used by our fighter. Meanwhile we managed to get 4 10 pound stone spikes, and 60 pounds of stone basilisk scales and skin. I have been turning the spikes into "Great Arrows" Dark souls style, and I have been making armor out of the skin.

A clever thing my DM does is that the more Corpses we leave behind the higher chance that those corpses will get corrupted by the game's version of Terraria's Crimson. So basically everytime we exceed the corpse limit of 4 the DM adds a d6 into the health of the "Amalgam". We made the mistake of leaving too many corpses and had to fight an amalgam with 127 health.

Me: *buys whole homebrew book about crafting* Also me: oooo 8 minute video with crafting rules!

I'm actually playing an Artificer that's been using monster parts in weaponry, armor, etc So far I've made: Remorhaz Half-Plate and Chitin Choker Winter Wolf Cloaks to keep us warm in the colder region we're going to Umberhulk Claw Daggers, one of which is +1 Catoblepas Maul and two Tusk Warpicks Chimera that has multiple uses; Goat Horn Tankards, Lion pelt, and Dragon Wings I'm still trying to think about how to use, though the tent is a genuinely good idea It comes down to the creativity of the player and I hope these give ideas :)

This is almost better then the main series

Great work! Hopefully I can do this in my campaign. Also WHY ARE ALL THE MEN WAMEN HOT?!?!?!

My Lizardfolk Barbarian used once Troll poop to poisen his longsword. DM found this idea so good he turned that sword into a magical weapon called "Blade of Disgust" It has the normal dmg for a longsword + 1d2 (coin flip) acid dmg. It also gives my character -1 to all charisma checks besides Intimidation.

As someone who plays rimworld. Human skin makes great cloths, and tents. Especially couches!

When you mentioned the dragon tent it reminded me of a drawing a did in high school of a massive dragon corpse (think terrasque but twice the size and its body is used as a fortress for a civilization of viking like folk (like from How to train your dragon.) Just thought I'd mention this

0:34 Lizardfolk: (slowly takes off human skin cloak)

Infernal... Druid... ?! Fascinating.

3:40 OR make a pimp-ass Flintstone car. Complete with funny driving feet running sounds

So The Kobold King was slain... Fran and Anya has invoked the Dragon Fury within every Wyrmspine Kobold out there

You keep making hot goblins dude

"Really nice tent, I'll give you $50 gold for it.... does the cute goblin come with it?"

My lizard folk fighter who build his armour and wepons from monster parts aproves this video

You know, from the title I was expecting frankenstein's guide on crafting abominations. But this is great as well