Forge must be hot cause the audience is thirsty

this has got to be the horniest dnd tip series on youtube

Idk who this dragonborn blacksmith guy is But I like him already

A storm giant = giant Amazon lady with big knockers yep that's why I subbed

Aldus: Okay so- Me: *already pulling out ring *

I love this dragonborn

5 points of damage reduction doesn't sound like a lot, but when you realize that it all adds up, it's worth it. Sure, you won't be as well off for a bigger attack, but think about just how much damage overall that would defend against. Also, that 5 damage might be the difference between life and death.

Kanekuo, I beg you, more hot monster people.

The good mechanics explanations distract me from the hot people, and the hot people distract me from the good mechanics explanations. AND I LOVE IT

Fun fact: in the bronze age, before people could mine iron, iron was only found from pieces that came from meteorites and was called the 'metal from heaven.' It was rarer than gold.

Seriously tho, this is a well done video that I can see actually using in the future, unlike some weirdly heavyweight crafting rules I've seen other places. This seems like a fun way to reward players in a way that doesn't require magic items or gold. I can think of a bunch of interesting monster bits to give my players for upgrades and interesting flavor they can add to their combat experience.

I'm going to save this for when I play a forge cleric.

he IS releasing a book or something with these tables right?

Seriously how is everything you draw just so attractive?!

I like this, but it sounds like something from 4e. Dm “Ok fighter your turn!” Fighter “I swing my Dragon metal Greataxe.” Dm “Ok so you have a -3 to attack penalty due to the person having a parrying dagger, but your Greataxe adds +1 against things that subtract it along with your Paladins aura ability that adds another +1. So roll to hit at -1.” Fighter “uh. 19.” Dm “you crit due to your Weapons ability but the evil knight is wearing platemail to where he takes less damage rolled equal to how many dices you roll for damage and it gives you a -5 to damage.” Fighter “I rolled 37damage.” Dm “Ok so you rolled 4d6 so... his armor decreased the damage by 37-5-4d6. So... that’s 14 damage. And roll 1d4 for bleeding. K so he takes an extra 3. Warlock your turn!” I hope it doesn’t get to complicated.

Aldus kind of reminds me of Gordon Ramsay

I love how you can do such a gruff voice but you can still hear your normal voice underneath all of the gruff

Perfect timing, since I'm running a campaign where the players are about to head to an ancient dwarven stronghold. These rules are perfect for giving them rewards there. Awesome work as always on the video and rules

(1:05) This must be an insanely acomplished Warlock to have enough Patrons to the point he implemented a Freaking VOTING SYSTEM to himself. He's a one man democracy.

>has a minotaur magic smithy Thank you for this blessing sir.

When I’m bored, and surfing through KZfaq, I always come to this channel. Why? Because 1) I fricken love the art style, 2) the stories or random shit he comes up with is fantastic, and 3) It’s just good content! It’s super rewatchable, fun, and inspiring. So I’ll leave y’all with these words... *Subscribe to Kanekuo, like all of his videos, and hit that notification bell or you’ll never see a sexy female goblin ever again.* P.S. Does thinking that drawn female goblins are cute make me a furry of some sort? ... Oh God...

Can’t wait for the monster dating sim

I like this, kind of like a way to give low level players good weapons and bonuses

Hey man! I went to the same high school as you! Been loving the content! Beautiful work!!!!❤️

The Damage Reduction in custom made armor makes kind of sense. You are an adventurer. The kit you wear is quality like a veteran fireman, you're going into danger, expected to take a beating and come out again, you build it knowing there is no question you will get hit. As compared to the guard's armor, always on patrol, most days on a good city, nothing happens. Most of their kit is armingswords and vital-plates. Enough for all to appreciate having it, not enough to encumber them standing around all day. But they definitely want more when the city's under siege.

This is a brilliant idea, definitely using it

I just want you to know how much I love your videos and how much they've helped me add homebrew into my campaign. I always get excited when I see the notification that you uploaded. Thank you keep up the amazing work.

Storm giant lookin thicc doe. But in all seriousness, very helpfull and interesting

I was not expecting everyone to be so heavily attracted to this dragon man but I am also not surprised. That is a pretty -seductive- comfy accent. Being serious, I love how Aldus gives information about the actual smithing information while you give meta details. Little touches like that, among several other things, are what bring this tabletop series above many others. Including hot dragon dudes.

I really like how dr works. It can actually be pretty helpful. Thanks for making this video and I really love this series

I would love an entire series just on this topic. All of that sounds amazing.

I hope you have a wonderful holiday this year, Kanekuo, keep up the great work.

I've actually been playing with an idea for somthing like this with my players. Great video, loved the switching between character and real voice.

This reminds me of a homebrew idea me and my friend came up with for armor/sheilds and weapons being made out of Flail Snail shells, since a large part of our theme was "Mage Hunters" it was a fun way to give the snail new value as the snails shell had Anti-magic properties such a creature and material would be highly sought after by those who had interest in hunting magic. Weapons and armor were a tad bit more difficult to acquire from this method as the shell couldnt be smelted or reshaped traditionally, but where theres a will and plenty of gold, theres a way

I hope my DM will let me use this in our Eberron campaign.

YES! THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR! THANK YOU SO MUCH KANEKO!

>_> I have a sudden need to be hammered by your blacksmith oc

3:30 I love this firbolg blacksmith

Finally, a set of crafting rules that aren't just 'wing it'. Thank you so much, and nice video!

This is something I never knew I needed in my games. Thank you!

Bird man continues to produce quality content, bird man sounded upbeat and chipper, the people hope he is doing well and taking time to look after his health and well-being! The people applaud bird man on his acquisition of the big kobold. The people hope to see more of the big kobold in the future as he too provided much entertainment. Bravo to you birdman, Bravo to you big kobold.

Definitely using this for when I play an artificer. Awesome job!

You know, another place that could work for things like this would be to look at one of the last of Paizo's Dragon Magazine issues for 3.5 (Unfortunately, I can't remember the specific one at the moment) but it had a lot of fun stuff for smithing and weapon/armor modification/personalization along with some of the various materials published along the way (And the dwarven/elven/ect crafted things). A LONG time ago in the pre-Gleemax period when WotC had their message boards, I'd done a whole lot of work at reworking crafting into something that I probably ought to dig up again and see about porting for 5e, a lot of the things there were well received there and seem like they could be used for a system there.

Man, this gives me plenty of ideas to more interesting maror and weapons for my players. Thank you so much for this video :D

This was really cool and can't wait to see that companion book you mentioned. :D

Is the companion module mentioned out yet? All of these modular crafting ideas are really good. Really want to see the rest if it!!!

I would DEFENITLY buy a book with all your DM stuff and exemples in it

This is probably the table tactician that in looking forward to the most when it comes to release

*we* *reary* *be* *smiffin'* *wepunz* *naow,* *aye?*

I liked when I saw the storm giant scene 1:45

Drake friend is cool. Thank you for this mechanic. This is great

Another lovely episode of Table Technician! I would like to suggest for the future of the series, a few things of my own creation that you are welcome to use and tweak. First is language-learning. There aren't many ways in dnd to learn a new language without using magic to learn them all, so I've created a small system for individual words. So, two characters, one of them fluent in the desired language, can spend time teaching new words. The number of words learned is equal to Xd4 plus Y, where X is your Intelligence modifier, and Y is the number of hours spent learning.

Great Work. Wait was totally worth it.

Holy Jesus, what the fuck!!! How have I not seen these before!!!!!! This is a-fucking-mazing!!!!!! This is exactly what I would love in my campaign, Holy Fuck!!!!!

*Laughs in forge cleric*

I have been wanting to design a system like this for my own campaign and I would like to thank you for doing it for me because I was already 2 sleepless nights in and I can't anymore.

I need this Makin’ Stuff More Good companion manual

When you releasing this? And whatever happened to those goblin stat blocks you promised us?

You need to make this a book with a character you made in each video of Table Technician or Monsters Misguided(for this one, choose the ones that make sense and would actually do) talking about it, like an interview.

0:58 AAAAAA SHAPE SHIFTER!..I fuckin knew it. Also credits to you and the fan base of the critical role folks for making me want to play/try D&D

Goddamn both blacksmiths made me as excited as the possible rules, as usual for a birb vid.

I do like the idea where, outside rare dungeon/boss gear, you can make better then the standard fair that you can already buy. A lot of rpg and most MMO have a crafting system where, sure, the crafted isn't better then the dungeon/raid stuff, but it's still better then shop stuff and makes it easier to get the rare stuff.

These guides have a nice dnd3.0 feel to them without being as deep of a pool to dive into for options as that edition was. I like it.

okay idea for a magic item,"sword of the theif" if a creature attacks with a a spell and misses or you succsesfully win the dc,your sword gets embewd with power of that spell and as an action can shoot it out of the sword,idk if this already exists

we need a part 2 of this for bows, throwing weapons, and shields.

Of your videos, I think the table technician ones are my favorite. As a DM, they're great at getting my players to do stuff *other* than just killing monsters.

My brother has a character that really wants to be a blacksmith and inventor. I’ll have to keep this all in mind

Aldis is cute, I hope he comes back soon. Still glad Kane wasn't completely absent in this video though. I'd miss him.

I really like this modular crafting system you've come up with, it's a lot more open-ended than what you see in most tabletop games. That said, I would tread cautiously with the whole Damage Reduction thing, as introducing something that powerful to a system that doesn't natively have it can very easily become wildly overpowered and/or disrupt the intended flow of play. I'll try to explain what I mean somewhat concisely, but keeping stuff like this short isn't exactly my strong suite so sorry in advance. That aside, when homebrewing entirely new mechanics into a game I find it's often helpful to consider why the mechanic doesn't already exist in the game when working on balance. In the case of Damage Reduction, the most fundamental reason I can boil it down to is that it clashes what the dice rolls are supposed to be modeling. Specifically, an Attack roll isn't modeling whether or not an attack physically connects with its target, but if it deals damage (which is why things like Armor and Dexterity factor into your AC), and that distinction is significant. If, for example, your Attack roll succeeds against a target, but your Damage roll comes up as less than the target's Damage Reduction, you have two mechanics that are contradicting each other about whether or not you actually damaged the enemy. Unless you want to totally rebuild the combat model around Damage Reduction, the Attack roll should always determine if you hurt the enemy, and the Damage roll should determine how much you hurt them (putting aside things like immunities and explicitly magical forms of damage reduction for the moment). As I see it, there are two possible solutions to this. The first is to simply say that Damage Reduction cannot reduce the damage dealt below 0, but that's boring so we aren't going to do it. Instead, I propose that Damage Reduction be applied to the Ability Modifier applied to the roll rather than the roll overall, such that the calculation changes from "(Ability Modifier+Roll)-Damage Reduction" to "(Ability Modifier-Damage Reduction)+Roll." This reduction would not be allowed to result in a negative number being added to the roll, but in realistic play that shouldn't come up very often anyway. The end result is a system that functions more or less the same and doesn't make too much of a mess of the combat system while still making sense from a narrative perspective - the higher-quality armor is reducing the impact the physical or mental strength of the attacker has on the damage of the attack while still respecting the fact that the damage happened (as determined by an entirely different roll). Feel free to use this alternate interpretation in your final manual - or don't, it's your book and I don't pay your bills. Credit would be appreciated if you do, but if you want to reserve that for your supporters or something a simple "thanks!" will suffice. Also, if you like the idea feel free to bounce stuff you're working on off me, my brain tends to be well-suited for the task and nothing gets the gears going quite like an actual project (which is unfortunate as I'm terrible at coming up with projects to work on). Love the videos, and can't wait to see what you come up with next! Edit: another math thing to consider if you haven't already - will the Damage Reduction apply before or after existing resistances and vulnerabilities? Which you go for could end up having a big impact on the final result.

Oh boy that storm giant

There's an important point that didn't seem emphasized: Custom equipment is good because they are fitted to the needs of the wearer. Much like tailoring a suit, shaping the armor to fit your warrior's stature exactly dramatically increases the protection it provides and reduces the hindrance it can have to movement or just standing in it for 10 hours straight. It can factor not just the wearer, but even the weapon they use for the best weight distribution for balance and ease of maintenance. Some of these specializations might get TOO specific and require retooling the moment you switch weapons or fight in another environment, but it's up to you to decide if it's balanced as a monetary cost or whether to handwave it for convenience of play.

I feel like this idea could do really well as a 3rd part supplement. Maybe consider a Kickstarter and get it printed!

If you want to play a game that already has all this stuff baked into it, you could try Pathfinder. It's like everybody's particularly in-depth house rule for everything wrapped up into a single package.

Studded leather is perhaps the most grievous sin in fantasy.

How dare you! We didn't even get to see the storm giant's face!

"Doesn't matter, you'll need it."

I'm planning on playing in a eberron campaign I'm going with a cyran battle master and something I read about them they are all artists in something so I was planning making blacksmith character and this video will really helps thanks.

Fun and cute, love the new character!

So, I took this a step further, and created secondary classes that level along side the standard classes which allow for certain benefits when creating items of a specific type with specialized subclasses. For example if a player chose a secondary class of a black smith they can choose between a subclass that would let them make better weapons, armor, or something else within the spectrum of that specific tool.

Still hoping you release a book with all of this stuff in it, somewhere. Love the ideas

good job

Saving this video so I can use Aldus as inspiration for an Aussie Dragonborn Forge Cleric.

One thing I think would be interesting would be to have stat rolls for different stages of the smithing (namely strength roll for the final tempering of the armour/weapon), where a lower roll could give a minute decrease in damage/AC, whereas a higher roll could add a minute increase in damage/AC. Also, with the introduction of a more flexible crafting system for these weapons, personalised gear for different styles of play would be very interesting

"upcoming companion manual" any uhh, any further details on that?

Always a fan of more mundane methods of defending oneself.

For some reason I imagine the dragonborn blacksmith to be Kanekuo alter ego a kinda Jekyll and Hyde thing

I did something similiar when I made armor for a fallout server RP, but instead of tiers of materials, I used 'mods' quite literally. I would have added more, but considering they weren't used at all despite reducing certain damage types by half, I decided to hold off. Same with weapons, with mods adding additional damage dice of a different damage type such as Fire, Poison, Energy, and Bleeding.

Hello! Its nice to meet you buddy! I'm sure everyone will love ya new buddy!!

Having heavier and more damage reducing armor made of metal might be more available and easier to buy, with the downside that it might not reduce damage to lightning damage attacks and is actually easier to hit with cantrips like shocking grasp. Armor made of exotic monster pelts might give that higher ac and other bonuses without fearing lightning damage as much, but good luck getting those monster pelts in the first place. Also Kanekou pls pls show more storm giantess, your talent for drawing monster anatomy is fantastic

I love aldis Edit: and the storm giant

I wish this was implemented in more games or even added to the manual under crafting. what I have always seen in my games is players sticking with those starting weapons until they find magical stuff. this would add a good in-between if the DM want's to make magic items rare. could even make an entire quest line out of getting the unique metal to craft a powerful weapon

Have you ever thought of compiling all this into a book and using the DMs Guild or OGL to publish them? Monsters Misguided working like a Tome of Foes and these table technicians containing your variant rules for stuff like DR, and naturally flavores with your own amazing art.

I like the new blacksmith character

Wish my brain was big enough to understand how to make and balance this stuff

Now with the new official class, Artificer this rules can fit like a glove. Rekki Lightingcoil, Kobold Artificer like this.

Hey @kanekuo could you perhaps make a pdf or doc of this available to view in written form? As it would make the visualisation of it a lot easier for those of us who find it hard to visualise the tables for things like this from quick videos. Please and thank you. Even if you dont end up doing it just wanna say I love all of your content and I smile gleefully when ever I see one of your videos pop up on my youtube feed. :)

Kanekuo we NEED THE TABLES N O W

Love the smithing, do you have an extended guidebook on this?

I like this.

Kanekuo is a ware-dragonborn. Who'd've thought...