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This puts a tremendous amount of value in abilities like Reliable Talent.

As an artificer main... I llive for crafting!

If you make use of some kind of inventory management, you don't need to arbitrarily make the parts expire. You could just let players harvest as much as they can carry. If they were to come back later, others will have looted parts, any soft tissue can be eaten by wild animals or start rotting and be unusable that way.

I would love to get to use these rules with an artificer. Getting to put the double prof with tools to use and be able to actually _make_ things with the class that is meant for making things.

I think at this point I’ve backed 3 different dnd books using this system, (Heliana’s Guide to Monster Hunting, L’Arsene’s Ledger of Treasures and Trinkets and Ryoko’s) and I love this system. I’m using it in a campaign at the moment and it works great!!

THIS IS HOW YOU WRITE A ROLE PLAYING GAME. Seriously man, I don't know why WotC can't even produce a tenth of the good ideas people like you bake in their mind, DnD5e is like a first draft of a real game, where they added all the stuff like "alchemy tools" and then totally dismissed any rules to actually use them, leaving just the joke of giving some classes the option to have proficiency in those, just to discover that there's no use to any of it. You made an amazing ruleset for something many players were dying to have in the game. In my campaign it's far too late, but I'm so happy for all those players who will have the option of using this for their fantasy harvesting characters ❤

I use a system that covers material, quality, and craftsmanship, but for magic items quality is the clintcher, as it determines how many effects can be added to it

As an Adventure Time fan, I like the idea of some badass creature just being chill and saying " you wanted my tusk, why didn't you just ask ?" dropping a tusk and growing a new one in seconds before leaving.

This is the same system as Heliana's Guide To Monster Hunting book for harvesting and enchanting, it is excellent and we have been using it at my table since last March

Getting ready for an amazing series

Great system, easy, fair and fun ! If you’re searching for more drops(like fangs of a giant spider or eyes of a beholder or maybe zariel’s heart) than crafting as player or a gm,I recommand the loot guides from Anna Gregersen, available for every monster in 5e on dm’guild. Great work as always, curious to see the martial’s enhancements

Wow - love it! We’ve been using my own homebrew crafting ‘rules’ for the past year or so, and it’s my player’s favourite part of our game. Keep up the great work 😊

I like 2nd Ed ideas for crafting magic items. Not only do you get components from creatures but also from strange areas or even concepts. Like the first tear of joy shed by an elven princess, a stone that has never seen daylight since its creation, a bottled idea etc. The more powerful the item, the stranger and harder to collect the material

So it's basically like Hamund's Harvesting Handbook 1,2 and 3.

Fun fact, this system is actually something that loot tavern, the makers who helped make ryoko guide, used before in both "heliana's guide to monster hunting" and "L’Arsene’s Ledger of Treasure and Trinkets". interresting to note is that the manufacturing flaws here are different than in the 'Heliana's guide' since that book introduced this concept. it also goes into a lot more into the concept since that book has some more rules on this concept, like rules for hiring craftspeople, optional rules like volatile components or damage rules for harvesting, and third form of crafing called 'forging', which is kind of like a combination of manufacturing and enchanting. the book goes really into detail on this, as well as recipes for srd items. Still i am excited for ryoko's guide, keep up the good work!

Finding you and your videos has been a real blessing to my dnd games!

I am sooo excited for ryokos guide!!!! This was fortuitous as I was working on a Japanese inspired campaign and then you and everyone working on the books have made this dm's life easier! Congrats on crushing your goals!!!

Can't wait for more content from Ryoko's Guide! Really looking forward to play testing in December.

Hi from Brazil! Dude, you are just the best! thank you for all that help you give us players and DMs. I will use this system in my campaign for sure!

Thank you for making the lite rules available for all. Its a great system.

Omg I found this video at the perfect time, I plan on doing a Monster Hunter based campaign that even includes homebrewed MH monsters I've made but I was struggling on how to work the carving/crafting system to make some of the custom weapons I've also made. This works perfectly, thank you so much.

Finally, some rules with a little heft! Very well thought out. Thanks!

Awesome rules man, great work!

I 100% will be steali- uhh, I mean creatively testing some of this PDF material in my campaign. I feel like players making their own magic items can make a player more sentimentally attached to an item which makes giving up that item or that item being destroyed even more devastating. This ultimately adds and feeds into having immersion in a game. The players in my campaign haven't made any magic items yet, but with the harvesting rules and my own thematic mechanics I should be ready for it. Now all I need to do is the figure out how to deal with my Shepard circle druid breaking an encounter with 8 panthers pumped full of temporary hit points form the bear totem (maybe time for a fireball).

Tweaking the rules from the PDF to fit my campaign right now! Well done!

My ranger is just now getting into potion/poison making so so I extremely appreciate this video and I hope my DM will let us use these rules

This looks really good, better than what I've been using to do harvesting and enchanting. I think you've just earned another customer.

So excited for this, it comes just at the right time for my campaign!

That looks great, thank you !!!

really really cool concepts mate. great work

Thank you SO much for this. i was discussing this sort of option in my DnD group. and i am going to try my best to convince them to use it.

Love the trickle of content. I went “all in” and I’m fiending for any bits and pieces I can use in my campaigns (plus the Sorc subclass in one in currently part of).

I'm super excited for the crafting rules in Ryoko's Guide. Can't wait to get the book in hand.

you are by far the best content creator i have seen....its incredible. thank you so much for all of this!!

Looking forward to getting my copy.

OMG, I'VE BEEN WORKING ON A HARVESTING SYSTEM FOR A WHILE AND THIS IS SO AWESOME

This is really cool, there is a few changes I would make, like Herblism kit should go off of wisdom so that it is Ranger and Druid focused a bit more, like it could either be survival or nature

This was the best pubblicity you could do to your book, I'm definetely going to suppport it now

Def gonna use this. Thx bro

Love the clapping start!

When I was making my artificer I was really disappointed with the lack of crafting system. Love this!

Great stuff! Love your work

I' 'm not easily persuaded but this seems great! And it solves a real problem I have in my game. Thanks!

This channel is somehow nostalgic to me? Maybe because of the music that plays in the background, it reminds me of playing smash bros melee and brawl with my big brother.

I've been using these rules since Helliana's was in beta. This really helped clarify a few things I'd been running wrong. Thanks for making this! SUPER happy RGttYR is going to use these as well. its a VERY solid, easy to understand system!

Literally going to be using this in my campaign on Saturday

This is super cool. I'm going to have to read the pdf

Adding to that, I like the following variance for potions; When gaining proficiencies in the Alchemist kit, Herbalism kit, or Poisoner's kit, you can pick up to 3 common magical potion recipes (at the DM's disgression) to memorize. For every player level you gain, having crafted 10 of your memorized potions, you gain 1 mastery level and are able to replace the number of dice rolled with twice the proficiency bonus on the table (mastery table is the same as any class). However, due to the nature of your craft, your potions will remain identifyable as the base potion with equivilent retail value. This means: ~healing potions will take the same crafting time, but maintain the same potentcy as the ones your DM might give you. ~ One cannot cheese the game by marketing this, as it would be a relatively common skill ~ This entices a player and the party to pencil in some crafting, and rewards players who want to pick up multiple proficiencies to play that alchemist. ~It also makes these kits feel more worth taking, as there is now a substancial gain to them.

I just came here to say, this is the first ever kick starter I've backed. I'm so excited for this!

Great video, already back Ryoko's. HOWEVER.... The tag on Will's hat perfectly matches up with his eyebrow and looks like a devil horn and now I can't unsee it.

Seems pretty well thought out

I can't wait to use this crafting system with my players!!

Super exciting!

A cool interaction is Artificer and it’s infinite bird combo. Basically, you make a spellwrought tattoo of find familiar, use it to make a familiar(now no longer consumes infusion slot), then add a spellwrought tattoo to your familiar with find familiar. You either can make the command word a hoot, or find/make a draconian longsword(depends on dm). You continue the chain, marking each bird sequentially with a number. Finally, you command the first bird to command the second bird to obey your commands and command the third bird to obey your commands. Then you go to a small village and slaughter the residents, getting your birds to harvest the commoner’s flesh and the flesh of any livestock/pets.

basically this is a phd for you man, you've moved the discipline a notch in a direction no one else has. keep looking for those! love it!

Must implement this.

I can't wait to use these in my Pathfinder 1e Solo games! The tables I play at don't allow content in playtesting, so I will be testing it by myself, and I can't wait to do so!

Thanks, just thanks ❤

This is great for use with the forge of spells after completing the lost mines of phandelver

Amazing. I love a good craft

You actually made it in perfect time, my players are in a place were it's really natural to include this mechanic I ve got my hands on a Witcher board game mini figures, so my players can harvest really cool stuff

These are really good and would do well with my drow horizon walker (who crafts his own weapons) and any lizardfolk (finally fulfilling that crude cultivation into a tribal leader with higher levels).

i used the free bakuryo adventure you posted and to be honest it may have been the most engaging session my group ever had

Tbh ever since I first saw the Ronin Ranger I slowly learned more and more about D&D, and now that Ryoko’s is almost here, I can’t wait to drag my friends (who also never played D&D) into the Yokai Realms. Big Thank You for creating and releasing this masterpiece 🙇🏽‍♂️

This... These are the rules I've been waiting for

The first thing my character ever harvested was the skin off a minotaur that my warlock used leather tools to turn into a cattle print vest/chaps cambo

Best dnd content creator

If you get a chance, I think it would be cool to cover two build concepts: 1. A Sorcerer with one of the following feats: Artificer Initiate or Magic Initiate. Use those feats to gain access to spells the Sorcerer normally can’t, allowing for some whacky combos (e.g. being able to Transmute the druid’s Primal Savagery cantrip or Distant cast any cleric healing spell that is touch-based). 2. Take any caster (even the Paladin) and slap on the Metamagic Adept feat. Which metamagic options would you choose for the various classes?

I can hear the MH ost in the background of this vid. Very nice.

Whoa! Those are the item arts for Risk of Rain 2! I love that game!

using this for my dragonlance campaign

Just backed ryokos can't wait to let my players use this stuff and use some of it myself

I was in a campaign in the 3.5 days that used this idea, and it was freaking awesome. Give us a reason for short adventures as a side effect of letting us make the custom gear we want? Perfect! The DM also used an optional rule (which I think was officially printed somewhere) about randomized cosmetic traits for magic items. It made magic items more memorable by giving you an idea how this specific Ring of Evasion looked, and it meant you might be able to identify who made an item by its appearance. My character ended up crafting Cinematic weapons and armor, which sparked excessively whenever they were hit. This also led to a hilarious moment after our fighter looted a Ring of Evasion with the 'Gaudy' appearance: "Why is the guy in armor wearing a drag queen ring?" [Fighter immediately paints the ring matte black]

This system makes the Artificer class specific Arcane focus the All Purpose Tool even better than it already was, since you can literally turn it into any crafting tool and you become proficient with it so you always have someone with the proper tool and proficiency. Not to mention at level 6 Artificers gain an ability which gives the expertise in any tool they are proficient in.

One of my favorite characters any of my friends ever played was an Artificer in old 3.5. The dude had a life goal for his character of *building a hover tank*! And he figured out how to do it, too. He also figured out how to build the MK-II Iron Man armor.

For amazing crafting rules, look at Forbidden Lands. Every single item in the game has rules for what it takes to craft it in regards to time, raw materials, ans required feats (called talents). Furthermore, every weapon and armour can be enhanced with the appropriate talents. Also, every raw materials has rules for obtaining it as well.

loot tavern rules for this are so cool ^^

Im waiting for my paycheck to go thru then im getting ryokos guide im so excited for it

So... when I was at PAX East a few years back, one of the vendors actually had a book called "Creatures from Fairy-Tale and Myth" with a Blacksmith class and a crafting system. Honestly I love the book and the intention of the aforementioned, but it can be complicated/ CRAZY OP with how it is worded. I am SUPER happy you addressed that VOID for crafting.

the faust cameo caught me off guard

this is genuinely so cool and inspiring. one idea i had while watching was that some creatures might come with complications while harvesting: rolling a 1 while harvesting a dragons breath might cause it to burst, dealing damage to the harvester(s) harvesting from a unicorn might bring a lingering sadness to the party for a few days and other stuff idk :)

Considering a provided one or my players a book on how to infuse items, with my take on refined magic dust. This is fun, I like the reason that disadvantage would be applied if one player does it solo.

Definitely going in my water world campaign, this will make it much easier to put magical items into the parties hands.

OMG HE DID IT! Finally an actual crafting system that isnt impossible to make magic items with! I love everything about this!

I'm a DM who has both an Artificer PC and a Blacksmith PC in my campaign. I was wondering how to execute this system and you delivered. You're the MvP sir.

This alone is worth backing your Kickstarter!

Thanks for the monster Hunter music!

23 years of 24/7 work to make an attunement artefact-level enchanted thing. Parse it out to working on it for 8 hours a day every day, you're up to 69, nearly 70 years. Not for the faint of heart, although you could have some incredible story potential that 'this is a project that has been handed down from my grandmother to my father and now to me, and I would finish it if the goblins hadn't stolen all my crafting material and tools' or some such thing. But I won't expect my ultra-legendary Coat of the Mesa this session.

Huge lifesaver for me coming up on my new campaign. Players are all monster slayers part of an organization, so this'll save me lots of time.

The idea at the end is the master stroke here. Failing forward with crafting

I would be tempted to add some kind of bonus for rangers favoured enemies and harvesting bits

After the bastion system came out today for OneDnD, it feels like they need to tackle crafting next, or at least try to start.

I was actually toying with harvesting rules that are surprisingly similar to these. The main difference from mine is that the assessment check tells the players what parts of the creature are useful instead of contributing to the carving. Also, the characters would make separate carving checks for each part. But frankly, I really like your version too.

LOVE this system!! One small opinion i have is that the assesment check could be Wisdom based. For the simple fact that Survival is wisdom based and is often utilized at tables ive been at for body part harvesting. i feel there is a good way to tie the same ability score in for assesments if they have proficiency. Especially for classes like Ranger. Monster hunter subclass seems so ideal for this, but i can also appreciate that knowing creature anatomy doesnt always translate to understanding crafting viability, but just a thought.

Quirky items are the best... Handed out a defective Sunblade once, it was named Eclipse... On an attack roll of 5 or 15 (on the die, not counting modifiers), the blade fizzled out and needed to be turned on again with a bonus action as per the usual description. Essentially, a light saber that needed irregular percussive maintenance to reignite... This was in AL, and at a later game, one could hear from another table, "Dammit, 15!" "Well, that's enough to hit." "No, my sunblade turned itself off!" "What? Let me see that... who gave you this thing?" And I just raised my hand, "Yo. Problem?" And *both* tables, the unlucky wielder included, cracked up. :D

I’m curious if 1e was researched to help with these rules because it sounds related to stories from my father and his D&D days. I love these crafting rules.

Xanathar's says that you need arcana OR a tool proficiency, and a schematic, and a magical item from a location with a high enough CR rating for the rarity you want to craft (legendary item 19+). The item you need doesn't have to be farmed directly from the monster. The monster could just be guarding the item or attracted to magic at the location in some way. Here's a quest I had an idea for (some of it is more for flavor or to improve the quality of the item being crafted). A Rune Knight (with the smith tools) goes searching for a fire giant smith and impresses him with his skill and gets extra training in smithing. Uses this knowledge to craft better smithing tools and a forge based on giant knowledge. The fire giant gifts him with a schematic for a sword or armor. You travel to the site of an active dragon lair (or other relevant monster), kill the dragon, mine some ore that should be enchanted from being at a dragon's lair and grab a tooth or fang from the dragon (and maybe some blood). Take an extended amount of time crafting the sword or armor and use the claw or tooth to engrave runes onto the item on a daily basis and quench the item in the blood of the dragon. And (according to some of these crafting systems) at the end of this process, you have a plain item that you have to give to the spellcaster to enchant? How would the extra train and improved tools affect these systems? According to the rules in Xanathar's, all of these steps could just be part of the crafting process, and you should have a magical item.

Love it!!!! Also it is "desc" not "disc" when you put your text in that the "full pdf is in the disc" :P

Can’t wait to get the guide! Question, are there rules for upgrading items? Lets say i make a sword with weak essence and het the uncommon version, is there a way to upgrade it later to a very rare version?