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Ah yes. The only thing worse than a gnome: A gnome _made_ by a gnome.
...Who may or may not have gone Battle Smith Artificer, _just_ so he can have a Steel Defender... that's shaped like a gnome.
...And who may or may not have then multiclassed into Wizard, so he can use Mirror Image in order to conjure up _more_ gnomes.
...Along with casting Major Image, Clone, countless Programmed Illusions, etc. _That_ would be the worst. >:3
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@@LucanVaris You know, the hidden joke for new arrivers to this channel is that at first you think the reason he hates Gnomes is because he's a kobold. Some of us such as myself suspect that there is a bigger reason.
Oh there is, but incase newbies are reading this I won't spoil it. He does actually explain it in some episodes.
@@rachdarastrix5251 ngl I forgot he’s a kobold and just thought he thought there was something systematically wrong with gnomes. Also, which video does he explain it in?
All gnomes are made by gnomes.
Glittergold may disagree
Some by biological means
Nobody else would be bothered to do so.
@@HisLordsh1p you mean gnome body else?
Warforge Gnome: "Hmmm... Very well... ... ... Join our Gnominion. We will rule the Gnomcro-Gnomicon TOGETHAAAA!!!"
Pulls out a miniature rusty red great sword from its mechanical gnome hat.
One advantage that a lot of people (DMs included) don't often give credit to construct PCs is that, in general, constructs are not made of delicious meat. This means that lurking monsters that are out to make a meal out of the party will probably be less interested in attacking the one they can't eat... Now at a lot of tables that won't really cross the game master's mind, but still it's fun to watch in horror as the rest of your party is dragged off by ghouls who decided you weren't worth taking.
yep, playing a gearforged in Midgard, been left alone from bloodsuckers a lot! good DM!
Some cookie cutter sharks will bite rubber, confusing it for blubber.
I actually tend to remind my DM of this when it comes up, and DMs when its pointed out to them, will often times give you that for weaker creatures. However if you bring this up, the DM will often have the rust monsters focus you HARD, which makes total sense but yeah. Double edged sword.
An autognome artificer's Steel Defender can act as a mount, provide additional healing, and also regular disadvantage to one attack per round.
Great now i want to try this lol
@@yueffstueff6542 that could be useful for fixing your steel defender atleast
Pretty sure most artificers can do this..
@@anotterwithaphone3077 most can, the unique autognome advantage is that the repair feature the steel defender gets applies to itself or a nearby construct. Which if you’re an autognome, is also you
@@matthewcrowther890 now that I hadn't considered
Hear me out:
A time traveling artificer autognome who goes back in time and builds himself.
That's pretty metal
@@doogan3180 I get it. It's because he's a robot
By any chance are they named Skynet?
Brilliant.
I’m adding this to my list of fun character ideas that will make my party cry laughing.
I bet Space artificer Kobolds could pirate the idea, I mean, get inspiration from a totally different construct and create a race of Mechanized Kobolds called DeceptiKobolds that would fight the AutoGnomes.
Underrated comment
Deceptibolds! (ust making a bit shorter and catchier)
This is an amazing race for reflavoring, if you want to play a living doll or something along those lines, or maybe a mining robot gained sentience!
Time for Robolds to rise to fight the autognome horde
My kobold Artificer in an Ebaron(spelling) campaign was trying to do just that.. he was obsessed with studying Warforged so he could try and create his own kobold versions
@@anotterwithaphone3077 last week my group played a one shot called Mecha Koboldzilla, a gnome had his Mecha suit plans stolen by kobolds and they made a gigantic mech kobold
@@benjin3993 that sounds fun!
When I get that Kobold Quest campaign I should add a quest where my players gotta steal those gnome plans!
Honestly I would just personally say fuck it that yeah I’m called an autoGnome by the book, but my character is a roboKobold or RoboGoblin, who is gonna stop me? The DM that says you can’t ride your pet direwolf on its back into battle as a halfling or Gnome Barbarian? Yeah sure, they can try.
Deceptibolds you mean?
Kobold hates gnomes so much he accepted a hero wars sponsorship for the auto-gnome video
I'm sorry, I'm really confused on why they are bad. Having a cantrip for healing can be powerful, even if it uses your HD.
Wait just remembered how Kobolds see Gnomes
On the topic of cantrip healing, I will say that there's not a lot of difference in D&D between a one-minute timeskip and a 10 minute timeskip, so unless you've got a way to speed up Mending's 1 minute cast time then chances are you've got time for a short rest if you're casting it.
Edit: Oops, I did manage to get 10 minutes from somewhere. I do think that the comparison is still apt though: You need to spend a significant time casting mending to get it's benefits, which doesn't make it *that* much stronger than a short rest.
dude... HE IS A KOBOLD! THATS A JOKE!
@@makaramuss did you not see my edit?
@@kevingriffith6011 I'm sure there a ways to get a cantrip a faster cast time than that.
@@kevingriffith6011 short rest is an hour not 10 minutes
Kobolds and Autognomes are natural enemies
Like Kobolds and Gnomes
or Kobolds and Fey
or Kobolds and poor optimization
or Kobolds and MoM Kobolds
Dam Wizards, they ruined Kobolds
How? Arguably MoM Kobolds are like better than regular Kobolds. They got rid of a really annoying weakness of Kobolds that also wouldn’t make too much sense and even if it
Does it’s still annoying to work around, they got rid of a racial ability everyone forgets about unless they abuse it heavily or center their character around it and they got rid of Pact tactics which we can live without it and gave us better things in the long run. And look at it this way, you can still play as the Old kobolds no one will stop you and an even better idea if your DM allows it, just combine the powers of the regular Kobold and the MoM kobolds and boom, Ultimate Kobold.
@@joxyver Kobolds ARE pack tactics.
I seriously love your holding to Roleplay by hating Gnomes as a Kobold
Autognome sorcerer with the blood well vial. You always get the effects of mage armor without using a spell slot, Did you run out of sorcery points and you're slightly damaged? Cast mending on yourself, You get a small heal and 5 sorcery points.
ummm do autognomes have the blood to attune to that item.. real issue... rai one at least
@@bradlyhaskell9821 Oil?
Gnomes created by Gnomes? The Double Gnome, the bane of every kobold!
All gnomes are created by gnomes tho :p
We all know gnomes are made of 5 curses and spite.
A comic I love showed a kobold glowering at an autognome, getting an idea, and then reflavoring with one of those dust clouds to make the Kobot.
I love it. I'm now going to make a crystal sphere where gnomes and kobolds, as well as the rest of the conventional living races have gone extinct long ago; however the gnome and kobold grudge lives on through their creations- the autognomes and kobots respectively. Their wars have raged on and off across the centuries as each side regularly seeks to overcome the other.
Now I just can't decide if either side should treat a living gnome or kobold as a living god returned, or as a shocking and fascinating curiosity.
@@barbatosmcmurderton4209 take a page out of Warbreaker and call them the Returned and have them revered as gods, but they don't feel very godly.
Petition for Robot Kobolds, because despite the fact that normal Kobolds breed very quickly and produce a lot of offspring, we can't let Glittergold's progeny get a leg up like that!
Ko-Gnomes and Gno-bolds exist... In OneDnD.
Metallic Kobolds.
Kobold with the optimized racism as opposed to the casual one
I wouldn't underestimate the unarmored defense. Heavy armor still slows you down if you're a full caster and is expensive. Not needing to cast mage armor every day or invest hundreds of gold into armor is very useful.
Yea, it's also the equvalent of a +1 studded leather like Kobold said, but it's unaffected by something like an Anti-Magic Barrier. So any boss that can counter magic like a Beholder's Anti-Magic ray won't be able to affect it. That's up to an 18 AC that straight up can't be negated at all. Not even being captured and being stripped of items stops it. It's not exactly an exciting feature, but it's nice to have.
@@sagatario58
Now imagine one Autognome on top of two Autognomes with two other Autognomes being held by the center one as a different Autognome is on top of the center one.
All while riding a medium sized "domesticated" Kobold who is "not" acting against their will.
Autokobolds are gonna be much better
They should remake the warforged so they could be medium/small and/or plant type, even if they would be similar, the integrated defence and specialiced design can make them soo different in focus, ones are warriors, the other crafters...
That was in UA. Down to weapon prosthetics as well. But we have the base Warforged. Not as flexable but very defensive.
What if, WHAT IF, we hijack one of those and rebuild it and made it a kobold like?! We can call them KO-Bolts or something?
That's an amazing idea!!
OneDnD Warforged Dragonborne: "Is this my people?..."
Bladesinger Autognomes can cast Mending in place of one of their attacks for some decent in-combat healing. Unlike Warcaster, Bladesinger's extra attack doesn't specifically place a restriction on a cantrip's casting time to one action, so along with Blade Ward this makes a much beefier wizard, even if you never go into melee. And the extra attack still works even if you never even pop Bladesong to use two handed weapons. Crossbow, mending, bonus action, movement
I love the idea but it would still take a full minute to cast, which even if a DM lets them cast mending it wouldn’t take effect until after combat is over anyway
Unfortunately it says nothing about the cantrip taking effect, only that you cast it. So unlike war caster you CAN cast a cantrip with a casting time longer than an action but that doesn’t mean that the cantrip will finish that turn.
@@rylanfitzgerald6085 I'm in the camp that it wouldn't take a minute, but just one of your attacks as the feature says. Warcaster knocks an action casting of a spell down to a instantaneous reaction, similarly I read the specific wording of the Bladesinger's extra attack "in place of one of those attacks" to mean the cantrip is cast in the moment you would have made a second attack. Although like everything it does fall to DM discretion of course!
@@adamstadick2044 This is a distinction argument I haven't seen yet. A very good point. Given this is a weird interaction to begin lol. I'm gonna have to check the wording of casting a spell vs taking effect in a weird instance like this
Page 202 of the PHB might counter that. "When you cast a spell with a casting time longer then a single action or reaction, you must spend your action each turn casting the spell, and you must maintain concentration while you do so." To me, this would imply that you could replace an attack with Mending, but you have to keep casting it every turn for 10 turns until the minute duration is up. It's definetely not the most clear interaction, but I think the way it would work is that you could keep using that extra attack to cast Mending each turn until it resolves. Honestly, if a player wants to spend one of their two attacks and their concentration on a minor healing effect like this, I don't see why not. Sure, Specific beats Non-specific, but the extra attack also doesn't say that it speeds up the casting of the cantrip. And since there is a rule that specifically states how a longer casting time works, that's how I think it would work.
I love autognomes! I made one that is a based around the concept of the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland. The story is that my character was made as a companion for a sick child of a rich/noble person. But that’s not all they do, they also were made as a bodyguard for said child. They did outlive their child charge though.
They are a multiclass of arcane trickster rogue and fighter (though primarily fighter). Their weapons are rapier and they use a shield. I think my autognome turned out very well.
That sounds very familiar;
I think I read your comment somewhere else too? Your whole Party were hired as bodyguards for the noble kid, right?
@@dsargus3 nope. I haven’t actually used this character in a campaign yet but I’m talking with my dm and figuring out a campaign that it will work for. But I have posted before about this character on another channel.
I’m not sure if I see a lot of the Alice in Wonderland inspiration in the character. Maybe, I’m missing something.
Though I wanted to say I have an extremely similar character concept for an autognome fighter. Except he’s based on Tik-Tok from Return to Oz. He’s basically an old, discarded automation that was once the personal bodyguard/companion to a princess from a faraway land, who he spends the whole campaign searching for. But he can’t remember her name, where she is, or even that she’s royalty; he barely remembers what she looks like, but he knows he was built to keep her safe and accompany her wherever she goes. Think of him as looking exactly like Tik-Tok but with more of a Prussian/German soldier aesthetic, with spike helmet, Kaiser-stache and even the accent to match. His multiple attacks on a turn that he gets as he levels up as a fighter could be reflavored as him doing that spinning arm attack that he did against the wheelers (imgur.com/gallery/WqMf9). His sentry’s rest could be the wind up key that powers him running out.
@@anthonynocera3846 I put the looks and personality from the books into character. I decided to keep my description short in how I integrated the White Rabbit together with the autognome but know he is a white rabbit in a coat and has red heart designs are part of his look since the book one is part of the queen of heart’s court. I drew a picture but unfortunately such a thing can’t be posting in TH-cam comments.
Where is my metal scaled kobolds that dig in asteroids and turn them into mobile bases?!!!
Reflavor the race?
Flavor is free!!
Knowing gnomes “built for success” is kinda odd for a feature name lol.
Autognome seems fun until you have to roll a save against shatter
I'm just going to pretend this is the return of the Warforged Scout from 3.5 most of the time.
Warforged: "Autognomes inferior... Warforged superior..."
Autognomes: "Inferior???... Autognomes, unite!"
Large Warforge fighting a Large Constructicon Autognome.
I honestly feel like the race implies that the other healing spells do/should work on you but they just didn't want to put down 5+ spells and racial abilities that heal cause of text space or something.
Sounds like they’re designed to be wizards - I like them. Free non magical mage Armor, and a boost to my hit and saves when I need it? Awesome.
What you want to do is be an Autognome Divine Soul Sorcerer. Then you get built for success AND favored by the gods, take the magical guidance feature from Tasha's and then learn Guidance and Resistance for a prepared equivalent. Then you can just add d4s to everything, and occasionally reroll a 1 or a 2 on the d20. Then take the Lucky feat. Because why not. Now you basically succeed as long as you have resources.
i find more interesting that the final judgement is "The race is OK compared to others, but weak compared to the ones in the book"
Just goes out to show the amount of powercreep
the final judgment is "this race is 'good' but gnomes are bad bc im a kobold so this race is the worst"
Nah man I agree this stuff with more and more gnomes is fricking nuts.
We got 1 kobold race and like 3 gnomes and a construct of gnomes.
Dnd is clearly a world of evil if there is only 1 variant of the good race and 4 of the evil.
#AddUrds
I agree, doesn’t make sense how Tieflings can have a variant of themselves that allow them to have wings but a Dragonborn and Kobold who are both essentially dragon decedent’s can’t have wings? Kinda sounds like BS to me. I mean even in like the monster manual and stuff there are literal stat blocks of a Winged Kobold (Urd)
Can we reflavor this race as Mechakobolds?
After all.. flavor is Free
And of course you can always reflavor the autognome. My favorite is turning the autognome into a living puppet. So you have the creepy puppet doing creepy puppet things, its great. Makes for an insane necromancer wizard or enchantment wizard.
Just out of curiosity, what do you think of giant space hampsters?
wouldnt heat metal be extremely effective against autognomes becouse they are made of metal?
Raw heat metal targets objects not creatures. But I’d allow it at my table 🤷🏻♂️
@@joeandrade721 That's why my autognome is made of some sort of high density ceramic polymer, or it's fantasy equivalent.
In the new material, we’ve seen uses of Hit Dice other than ooc healing begin to be a thing. The option to use mending instead of hit dice to heal ooc may be very valuable to get more uses of these abilities in the near future, increasing this race’s power level. We’ll see!
Losing out on Heal at higher levels suck because counter to what some people say, 1d4+5 hp from 0 is basically never enough when everything has multi attack, legendary actions, and/or some sort of AOE to tag you.
Suppose I played an autonome named Hal, or maybe Chucky, who turns on his gnome creators? Would Kobold find that more palatable?
My fave Race/class to start off at level 1: Autognome Twilight cleric.
I agree with gnome hate, but playing a small consrtuct is fun
I'm currently playing Spirits-Bard/Undead Warlock Multiclass, made by a hexblood necromancer (My Warlock Patron) who just wanted a bf, now I gotta find him a new body and write love poems for him.
Great to see Auto Beings covered by ya
the gnome hate is just because kobolds hate gnomes in the lore
interesting how there's an auto-gnome but no auto-kobold. society really has some nasty double standards
@@24601st Flavor is Free.
Use the stats but be a robo-kobold made by a kobold who stole autognome plans.. and clearly improved on them
come one pack tactics, do an autocobold counterpart homebrew
Imo it's more fun to make a construct by taking the human race and adding an equal number of resistances and weaknesses, and vulnerabilities for an immunity. For example resistant to piercing damage but weak to blunt damage, resistant to fire but weak to lightning, doesn't need to breathe but is harmed (5dmg per round) by getting wet, immune to poison but is harmed double by salt water. As for healing flavor the short rest and long rest as repair actions that are functionally equivalent and give the construct ten extra hitpoints per level, that sounds like a lot but it's not really compared to losing access to all healing spells and items, it just means the construct player has to make do with what they've got because until the next rest that's all they're going to get. The point of all this is that it makes playing a construct a very different experience to playing a normal race.
Honestly for me personally, I would just make it that yeah you are a construct and yes mending heals you because it’s logical that it does to a construct, but this is D&D, magic can do a lot of shit that it shouldn’t be able to and would be logically incomprehensible to the human mind if made real, so why the hell wouldn’t I let you heal your giant gash on your metal chest with a cure wounds? Sounds like a double standard of logic to me in a game that already throws most logic out the window. I’m able to punch a ghost in the face, fuck a dragon and make a wish for an infinite amount of toasted bread that never goes bad but you draw the line that a robot can’t heal from healing magic?
This video has convinced me that Pack Tactics is run by an IRL for real actual kobold
Gnomes created by Gnomes, clearly an original idea.
Play a Robold (robot kobold) insted 🐊
Is it armor casing like casting? Pretty sure it's casing like case
Love the bagpipes in the background.. keep them coming.
I agree with the gnome hate.
Why Half Plate when Spint exists for almost a quarter of the price?
I have an autognome warlock hexblade thats actually a sentient weapon with a puppet body to comunicate
Glad Health Potions also works on Auto Beings
Dang, it... you beat me by a week, Touche` sir. Touche`
I was mortified when I skipped a fake ad by hero wars just for that creature to appear on my screen once again
Is your background music Itchy Fingers?
I was having a D&D conversation with a noob and a jerk, and I think you should read it.
Noob: why does your creature type matter?
Me: It matters because Spelljammer gives us an ooze, a construct, and a monstrosity to play. **pulls up screenshot of this video** Here’s a list of spells that only effect humanoids or beasts.
Jerk: Aren’t constructs held together by magic?
Me: Yeah
Jerk: Then wouldn’t autognomes collapse inside an antimagic field?
Me: Let me check.
Antimagic Field: Creatures and Objects: A creature or object summoned or created by magic temporarily winks out of existence in the Sphere.
Jerk: I just thought their body would collapse in the sphere. That’s even worse!
Hype for thrykreen!
What had Glittergold done to you?
Well he's a Kobold...
Glittergold did nothing wrong!
Hmm I suspect our Kobold friend here might be a bit biased against the autoGNOME a bit.. nah he's a professional he wouldn't do that lol.. ok jokes aside informative vid as always. :D
Are't there also spells that deal double damage to constructs? (I think Shatter was 1 of them)
Not shatter, inorganic creatures have to make the spell saving throw with disadvantage. Which can be slightly mitigated by the Autognome's built for success ability.
@@godofzombi that sounds like it's a spell that the autognome has a problem with compared to other races. It's not as bad as double damage but it's still not fun.
@@woutvanostaden1299 True. But How many npc spellcasters will have Shatter? The DM is more likely to just give them Fireball and blow up the entire party rather than just the Autognome. Having a few spells be worse for you is still a good trade off for natural armor, saves agains poison and getting paralized. Plus not having to eat, drink or breath makes them really good survivalists.
Gnomes making Gnomes....madness!
The ubergnome destroyer of kobolds.
Bladesinger after lv. 6 can cast a cantrip after an attack, so you can cast Mending without wanting for the full combat.
We have a Flesh Golem Giant Barbarian who’s a reflavored autognome.
So when will Kobold invent the Ro-bold? Add some competition to the artificial adventurer market.
I will never understand the kolbald’s predilection toward gnome racism. I mean, I know we have an ancient rivalry but it’s the 1500’s… this is what the tall races want, buddy, for us to be fighting amongst each other when we should unite… and take them out at the knees…
The Rise of the Machines are upon us...
*Gnome noise*
When I think auto gnome I see short cyborgs
a rat requires 2 x 5 inches or 5 x 12 centimeters of space to move without much issue.
ask to be turned into a mouse and you only need half of that space.
I own rats and have been fighting a blood war with the mice eating my supplies in the basement
You know, this brings up a question, how would rust monster interact with autognome
An amazing idea.. should catch one and unleash it on them.
But Kobald, your healing chart missed the best healing spell in the game.
I can tell by ur voice that ur nephew is Henrik Muth
I hear it too. Lol
So....can a Monk capitalize on Armored Casing?
Short answer without citation because I’m on my first cup of coffee: no. Monk offers you one way to calculate your AC, features like Armored Casing offers you another. Pick the most advantageous one, but you can’t stack them.
Fyi my party is on a quest to free Kurtulmak from his unjust imprisonment.
Is the “heat metal” spell just an evil thing to do to an autognome asking for a friend
As far as I'm concerned, the fact that autognomes can take poison damage at all means they're still partly biological.
Some things poisonous just work thru chemical reactions. If a poison was acidic or alkali or had a damaging enzyme it could damage metal. Not to mention the rubber or leather or what ever was used for movement.
@@adrianwilson7536 That's acid, then.
@@adrianwilson7536 there's literally another type of damage called acid
@@adrianwilson7536 "If a poison was acidic." ....so an acid. That deals acid damage.
autokobolds when?
The Chad Kobold vs the Virgin Gnome
Get that bread.
Why would gnomes create an entire race of sentient constructs in their image in the first place? Wouldn't using them for anything be a huge moral dilemma?
And remember: they can be druids too
For the allmighty A!
A divine soul sorcerer autognome
Anyone else up pondering their orb, or just me?
Size. 'You are small' 🤣
The Hero Wars ad nearly made me barf, I know money is important considering this is your job but I really wish someone else had sponsored you
Remove gnome chassis, install 'bold chassis, perfection!
Aw Kobold, don't advertise for Hero Wars, you're better than that.
I miss the dScryb ads
Re-flavor it as a construct kobold built by gnomes who suffers from an identity crisis.
You can be a Deskbot from Yu-Gi-Oh
You need to let it go about Glittergold
its very difficult to like gnomes and kobolds like myself.
For Gnomes, by Gnomes. And they should have pack tactics.
AOE mend spell?
At least gnomes aren't as bad as elves
oh, it's WALL-E.
Ah yes, the clear inferiority of autognomic devices.
You complain aboot Gnomes, but not the blight that is Elves.
Not gonna lie, I almost closed the video because of the ad.
9:43 like in real life?