make as many videos as you want, it's your channel. Just don't burn out. Don't feel pressured into making content you don't want to or pressured into make more to hit some magic number for engagement. Quality over quantity.
They give the expanded rules option to allow it in. That said if the DM says no there is the crafter feat. Three tool proficiencies and a 30% cost reduction on mundane items. This can make for some fun, especially since I would think that anything mundane you could craft you can also fabricate with the spell
I saw a comment somewhere that pointed out that they'd have needed to put magic items in the Player's Hamdbook and that makes their exclusion make more sense.
As long as you don’t get burnt out, I’m down for whatever. Personally I think it would be cool to get 1 video about D&D per day and then 1 video about another TTRPG that you’re interested in per day. But that’s just me.
Don't forget that you can schedule video releases, so you can still film a bunch of content, upload it and set the time and days they become available.
Screw what anyone says about "Filling my feed with your videos" We watch YT as a consumption platform. The MORE VIDEOS you upload Ted, the more videos we have to enjpoy and Consume. Please upload multiple times a day, there is no downside other than people complaining about seeing you more often. Is that a bad thing? No. Thanks for the great content Ted!
I found your channel quite recently, and you are a great source of information when it comes to upcoming content and D&D information. I would prefer you upload more than less, but your current pace is also good too, and I won't mind either way.
First, you can make multiple uploads a day that's cool. Second the monster parts effecting your magic item is really cool. I like the new rules because they're definite rules...
In one of the books I think it was xanathars had a table for magic item rarity to Monster CR. So for instance if you wanted to make armor of fire resistance you would need to slay a monster of a certain CR that had fire resistance. They completely miss the opportunity to refine those rules
I kinda want to set up multiple tables you can roll on for magic materials. Like, sure, 75% in the market for the materials to craft a bag of holding, right? But if a character is related to a thieves guild they can try the black market, or if a character was/is a merchant, they can try their supplier connections for another roll. Heck, if there's a character who is or is associated with a noble, they can try to roll there. You could even make different conditions apply depending on the source for materials, like the black market connections could be cheaper but carry heat from them being stolen or illegal, or the noble connection could have a 90% chance of the materials being available, but would be more expensive
Another interesting tidbit, is that the range of values for magic items is now always near the maximum of what it was before. A very rare item used to cost between 5,000-50,000, now it always costs 40,000. A rare item was 501-5000gp, it is always 4,000gp now. I forgot that their listed crafting prices were always the absolute maximum value for that magic item, so they could in theory be purchased for significantly cheaper than crafting them yourselves in the old handbook, but that's now fixed.
I recently came across a video by Dungeons & Drams that uses Chatgpt to craft magic items from Monsters. The prompt you feed it can be tailored by the specific monster and per character; for example a dagger for a level 5 Rouge from a Blue Dragon and it will list basically everything you as a Player and DM need to know in order to craft said Item. Check them out if you want a easy way to Monster Hunter D&D! Great Video BTW
In terms of videos per day: As a fan of you, I say go for as many as you want. As a person who can't always watch everything, 2-3 videos a day is about as muach as I'd think one can watch. I know that if I see someone post 5 20-30 minute videos a day, I'd get a bit overwhelmed and anxious on if I could get caught up. That being said, if its 1 longer video along with several shorter videos or shorts, I'd think that'd be much easier and consumer friendly to digest. Ultimately, its up to you, these are just my thoughts
Go ahead and do multiples. As soon as I see you post I usually save it to a list to watch later rather than watch it then & there. A lot of times your vid might live on the list for a few days before I watch it depending on what I have going on in IRL.
I'm not opposed to certain monster parts counting as materials for a magic item, so you'd deduct some or even all of a magic item's cost with enough monster parts.
The cleanest way of using monster bits is: the monetary worth you gain as loot, is the quality of body parts that body is worth. Fewer charts and clunky rules
Yeah "a GP worth of fitting Raw Material as treasure" is a really good way to make something with magic items. At the end of the day it's flavored treasure but you get to give out more of it if you make it specific to a type of magic item, using the player's ideas for inspiration, and make selling it inefficient. The three Dragonshards in Eberron are already a great way of setting some rules for specific raw materials.
In the TTRPG I am writing, it is assumed that you collect everything of value from slain creatures and trade for the GP value of what the encounter says (plus enough to cover general expenses).
I do think having crafting costs described this way makes the crafter feat much more attractive. It's still "only" a 20% discount, but at especially rare+ the amount of money you save on materials is enough to make a magic item of the tier below it. The minimal crafting time becomes much more of a factor at that point, but if you are in the style of game where you have a lot of down time making magic items becomes more reasonable. I can't tell from the video if a helper needs to meet all of the requirements for a magic item. It does just say someone can help but I'd say its reasonable a skilled hireling in arcana (wizard apprentice or something) or in an applicable crafting skill (blacksmith for magic armor) could reasonably help. Consider a rare item, you save 400 gold on materials, and a skilled hireling is 2gp/day. You just halved the craft time, and still have leftover money. If your DM says its reasonable you could have more than one (I think of something like a cauldron of plenty, where more than one hireling would be reasonable) you can decrease that time to craft by 3 and still have extra leftover money that you saved. Conveniently at 2gp/day listed in PHB24 the time to craft is equal to the cost to have someone halve the craft time in gp.
I made a 2024 Ranger who will make Wands and Staves for magic items. He can't imbue them with the spell but he will be the wood apparatus whole sale supplier. I am excited to play him.
I added a easy way for salvage. Survival with a dc of 10+CR (fail ruins the corps). you then ear based off the CR 4 or less is CR in gold (max 4), 5-9 is 10xCR (max 90), 10-14 is 100xCR (1,400max), 15-19 is 1,000xCR (19,000 max)and 20+ is 10,000xCR. This does not mean it is good for all crafting like killing cat will not help for crafting a nonmagical sworld. Some monster may be worth more or less in the world (dragon are normal more).
I don't mind multiple videos at once. As for crafting, I don't think the "crafters" at WotC have a solid grasp on time. Keep in mind, none of what I am about to say is a reflection on you at all. The length of time required to craft some of these items in the real world under the same conditions used during what is considered the medieval era is a fraction of what is suggested. If it really took most of a year to craft plate armor, most smiths would go out of buisness. Some of the fanciest most high end armor took between 6 - 9 months and a majority of that time was spent on fine detail work such as filigree and ornate design. When a smith was hired to make such a masterpiece, it was usually for a king or nobleman and they were hansomely compensated for it. This offset all of the standard buisness they would have otherwise completed. Hence the ridiculous cost normally affiliated with such a piece of work. I have always operated under a sliding scale for creation of items, magic or otherwise, based on the complexity of the world the players are in. Saying that the cost of creation in a low magic/low tech world is the same as a high magic/high tech one is just foolish. I realize the old system with a massive variable was not the solution either, but hundreds of days to make a dagger just because it has a magical property added to it is madness.
Crafting time is the worst. I want to go out, farm the monsters and collect the raw materials, maybe saving up over multiple quests and adventures, and then when I have a few weeks of down time craft that item I've had my eye on. A year or more of down time is crazy.
I'd probably change the 10gp per day to 5gp x Proficiency bonus per day. Speeds up crafting at higher levels. I'd probably also allow characters to work together to meet requirements. A Fighter with Smithing Tools could assist a Wizard with crafting a magic sword, even if the Fighter doesn't now the spell and the Wizard doesn't have smithing tool proficiency. Also, interesting note: In official DnD lore, weeks are ten days, which explains why a weeks worth of work is 10x the amount. Finally, a question: Do magic items have the spells required for crafting listed?
Question: do people look at the crafting requirements in days or hours? I see a lot of people assuming you can work 16 hour days to count as 2 days of work. Real work doesn't work that way, at least not long term. I just see people making assumptions about micro managing hours of their day assuming they can dedicate 16-20 hours each day during their downtime to craft and knock things out.
I’ve heard people say that because elves sleep four hours less they should be able to get 12 hours in, but 16 is definitely unreasonable Unless they’re specifically using some thing like catnap to account for it
I think it depends on the intended feel of your campaign. Some people run things more realistically, with characters that get tired, have to take bathroom breaks, and are actually in limping pain at 1hp. Others have characters basically ignore human(-oid) failings unless the rules say they apply.
So my question is, how does this effect the outlook of the artisan background since you're given a bunch of tools? Does it make it more appealing than before?
It's not bad, IMO. The discount from Crafter is meh, but if you want to be able to craft whatever, then 4 Artisan Tools Proficiencies gets you most stuff (Woodcarver's Tools, Tinkerer's Tools, Smith's Tools, and Jeweler's Tools all added together let you craft almost any magic item you like). It doesn't come with Arcana so it only works if you have that already from something else, but if you wanted to craft whatever, then you're good to go. If the DM is generous, the Crafter discount might also apply to the materials to craft magic items, and that would make it quite a bit better.
How is the spyglass still 1000GP? Why does it take 100 days to craft a cylinder and a few glass slides? A character can create 10 sets of Eyes of the Eagle in that same timeframe just by adding arcana proficiency.
To answer the question at the beginning, I don't mind. However, it's if TH-cam actually sends the notification as that's an issue I've noticed when a channel uploads around 3 or more in a day. Though, being in the Discord should alleviate that issue
So if I wanted to make a First level scroll, it would take 8 hours to make. Would I have to take the full 8 hours or could I do an hour here and there?
Unfortunately it seems you have to have at least 8 hours in one go, and can only split up time if it's multiple days. I hate this for the mundane crafting too, and plan on asking my DM to allow me to work by the hour. I'd rather take a few days longer and not halt the game.
I wonder if they may suggest 500-1000 gp/CR of monster with a sliding scale survival check to harvest...10+ is success with maybe max at 30. 5% per point over 10? Advantage/ disadvantage based on availability of tools, help, knowledge of anatomy (lore skill), how mangled is the beast.
As usual with WOTC I'm 50/50. On the good side, I appreciate the expanded rules for crafting. Though will probably still use Hammund's Guide to Harvesting for "monster bits" On the other hand that rule that you must be able to cast the spell the magic item grants - **I am straight up going to ignore** because that is risible nonsense. Rogue. Ooh a ring of invisibility! Oh wait, I'm a thief. Nevermind *toss* Or as happened in our Curse of Strahd game my Celestial Warlock picked up a staff that could cast Cone of Cold, but Cone of Cold isn't a Warlock spell so I guess that wouldn't have worked unless I gave it to the sorceror. I think that misses the whole point of some magic items that they let you do things you otherwise cannot.
I could be wrong, but the spell requirement is to create a magic item, not to use it. A rogue can use a ring of invisibility. They can't craft it unless they have a casting feature that allows them to cast the invisibility spell. Your celestial warlock can cast a cone of cold from the staff. If you want to create a rod that allows cone to cone casting, you need to prepare it for crafting.
Yeah... having the spell isn't a requirement to use the item, is a requirement to craft the item. You couldn't craft that staff without knowing cone of cold, but your warlock could absolutely still use it
A wand/staff of fireball but like the gemstone is like made of a bejeweled dragon eye or heart would be cool and instead of it shooting a "fireball" like an apparition of a dragons head made of fire appeared and exploded. I would hope my fireball would do more than just fireball though since I had to kill a dragon for it, maybe ignore resistances and immunity?
Have it do what dragons do. If you defeated a dragon maybe it uses the dragon's saving throw or gives resistance to fire. Maybe when you use it the the dragon head appears roars and causes the fear aura before it goes and splashes fire damage. Dragons are also subjected to fire resistance, as in, fire resistant enemies are resistant to dragon fire damage. So I would not go in that direction.
So what would my (2014) Wizard need to upgrade his Arcane Grimoire from +1 to +2? He has Expertise in Arcana but no tool proficiencies. Time? Money? Etc?
Personally, I crave good content, so post away!! But of course majority rules.. though I doubt you'll see much complaining since you're really good at what you're doing here. I've learned a LOT from you and your videos. ❤✌️
Brings up a good question. Isn't it a Magic Action to use a scroll? Shield isn't as useful as a scroll, not useless obviously but you can't do it as a Reaction at that point.
Scroll uses the casting time of spell per the PHB 2024. However you need to have the scroll in hand. You can’t draw a scroll as part of the reaction. Also if you’re blinded you can’t read the scroll if the character has the Blinded condition.
I feel like this system doesnt truly works because the gap of price is astronomical It works for low price items but 100 days on a spyglass? In that time an average dnd 5e adventuree has reached level 20 and has thousands of gold to spend on mundane stuff
Depends on the campaign. I have played in games where the party is running from dungeon to dungeon slaying monsters. I have also played in games where we sit around in a city for a month waiting for work. If you let your DM know ahead of time that crafting is something you want to do, they can generally slow the pace of the game down enough to allow time for it. Also, with Bastions, you can have your hirelings craft stuff for you while you adventure. Finally, a spyglass is NOT trivial to make. It requires at least two perfectly shaped and polished lenses set at the perfect distance from each other in a (usually collapsible) tube.
I personally do not mind multiple videos a day. Can't you schedule the less time sensitive ones for a when you'll have a lull, and release the time sensitive ones immediately?
I never understood spell scroll scribing, and I think I never will. How are you supposed to invest even 10 days x 8h for ONE lvl4 spell scroll? In what world and what kind of scenario is this a feasible thing to do?
I hate the time duration that Crafting in PHBs takes... the campaigns I play (have played) never go on for months etc...they are usually tighter timelines. I much prefer how the Dungeon Dudes with Dungeons of Drakkenheim are creating their crafting: You have to collect components through adventuring (not grinding mats) and once you have the necessary components - craft it right away ... boom, done. They have added difficulty levels by needing more rare forges or magic academies to craft higher rarity items - totally fair and cool. But I love that it's just "if you have the stuff, make it then and there." Hundreds of days to craft Plate Armour = What's the point ?!? 1) my campaign will never last that long 2) why not just buy it outright because looting 1500GP will take far less than 150 days of adventuring. I want crafting to be an activity that I can do to forego either gold costs or, much more importantly, time. otherwise.. f it - i'll just buy it.
Ted, did they change the rules in the DMG24? I am pretty sure that a spell scroll says that it uses an action to cast from. So any spell with a casting time of Reaction would make very poor spell scrolls unless you intend to ready the casting, which really isn't that good either.
No it says it uses the casting time in the spell in the 2024 PHB page 228. However you need to be able to read it. So the scroll would have to be in hand, as you can’t draw it with the reaction.
@@GodwinXZ I found my mistake. There was an Errata on the DMG that I missed. It did in fact take an action originally but they changed it. My DMG is just an old print and i missed the Errata.
With all the discussions about crafting. They left a big void between the difference of NPC shops and shops the players own. Crafting things yourself (player), will be better because it's always around half the cost and time. Because almost everything you create is based on tool efficiency and proficiency. NPC associates for player shops should be based on players proficiency. That way when you assign jobs to work on. You can get a cut of time chipped off per associate assigned to that job. Another weird thing is that the NPC shops don't have a skill rating assigned to them. Also everyone will hunting for expert NPC artificers or specified craftsmen.
If only the DMs could make up things for their own tables for the gathering bits for crafting... hmmm. No, we have to have the Overlords at WotC write that for me so I can argue with my players that I don't like that so I am not using it.
There is a small oversight in the scribe spell scroll section that I'm sure is not RAI. Technically, you can't craft cantrip spell scrolls because you need to have the spell prepared and cantrips are not prepared.
It doesn't bother me. Nor do I think it bother anyone. Issue is that people may have limited time per day. So they only watch one of the videos. This means the algorithm thinks people are less interested and recommends less so you see less views
I definitely don't like that it takes so long to make nonmagical items. At best, it should only take you as the amount of days as the half cost, not the full cost. A spyglass shouldn't take 100 days or 50 with help. It should be closer to 50 and 25 with help. Maybe someone has smith's tools for the device itself and another does the glass blowing for the lenses. Unless you're going getting a year of downtime, you're always just going to buy it. Magic items, however, definitely better to craft. I'm shocked that it seems WotC got rid of the need for magic item recipes. Which, I might just add back to reduce the time needed to craft. As for video releases, I prefer daily uploads. I get so many videos that I end up missing a bunch. Regarding Tales of the Valiant, I'd love to know about that book's crafting and bastions. From what I've been seeing online, Kobold Press is blowing WotC out of the water for those.
Hey, I'll just point out that the volume in some of your recent videos is really low (like this one). I have to double my volume to get to normal levels and then ads blast my ears.
I played a more urbin Stars Druid more Royal Diviner and court advicer. He was Kinku but looke like a peacok normaly but when his starry form started his feathers darkened his tail feathers fanned and the constolations fallowed his bome like a consinlation shadows around it. But relating with is vid I traded the Hebilism kit profiancy for coligiphers tools he would make scrools in place of healing potions. It threw people for a loop that the druid know little about nature but could be a decent face with political skills as well
Do people really want "fixed" recipes for crafting? That seems to me that you'd start seeing people hunting the same creatures over and over across campaigns even for specific Critters. *Everyone* is going to be chasing down Behir for those Wands of Lightning Bolts. I like leaving it in the DM's hands so people can be more creative on being able to do *something* with what players come across
10:00 See, here's my thing about these crafting rules so far... They Suck! I don't know why they didnt bring back the 3.5 crafting rules, they are perfectly fair and functional! Making a scroll takes 1 day for 0-4th level spells, 2 days for 5-6th level spells, 3 days for 7-8th level spells, and 4 days for a 9th level spell... because crafting is done by 1,000 Gold per Day. This also makes Mundane and Magical crafting line up with the kind of crafting time we *would* see in a fantasy world... In the real world, a Medieval Armoursmith would take between 3 weeks and 3 months to make a suit of armour...depending on the period and resources... If we consider a just pre-Renaissance Armoursmith working in a stocked workshop on a single order? ...3-5 weeks. ...this is why its absolutely stupid what they're doing with 5.5... *sigh* And don't even get me started on the fact that there's no Artificer! They put their precious "Warlock" in as a core class, once again, but they abandoned the Artificer, which has been part of D&D *LONGER* then the stupid Warlock! ...this is why I hoist a Black Flag, instead of sailing the WotC seas...atleast KP know the Artificer should be a core class! And they know that they should be a master of magic items!
Is it just me who hates crafting and sees players going after monster bits as a way of breaking the game or crafting a specific item to break the game or to gain undue advantage or to trick the gm who didn't see x interaction
i guess thats possible. my experience in groups with it, is ppl just collect parts from stuff they are facing already. however, you could have like a hunter guild or special weaponsmith in a city that sends expeditions out to find specific rare creatures (and the players could do that as an interlude for the main adventure if the DM likes?). my players like detailed crafting but we play older editions so a lot more stuff they can do with it
love your videos, but please don't use AI for your thumbnails- especially when there's so much wonderful work that celebrates human artists in the new core rulebooks!
make as many videos as you want, it's your channel. Just don't burn out. Don't feel pressured into making content you don't want to or pressured into make more to hit some magic number for engagement. Quality over quantity.
Your videos are amazingly detailed and extremely helpful. I have no problem receiving multiple videos. Great work, as always!
Man, all this makes me wish Artificers had made it in, either to the PHB or DMG somehow.
While the Tasha's Artificer should work pretty well with the 24 5e I think it should get at least 1 weapon mastery.
They give the expanded rules option to allow it in. That said if the DM says no there is the crafter feat. Three tool proficiencies and a 30% cost reduction on mundane items.
This can make for some fun, especially since I would think that anything mundane you could craft you can also fabricate with the spell
@@OddLiam Battle Smith should definitely
Battlesmith 2 mastery(like rougue), Armorer 2 , 1 per built in weapon. The others ? . Thats what Ive been thinking.
I saw a comment somewhere that pointed out that they'd have needed to put magic items in the Player's Hamdbook and that makes their exclusion make more sense.
Shamelessly plugging heliana’s guide to monster hunting. The best 5e supplement for crafting magic items
Have Hellianas - good stuff!
Honourable mention for Hammund's Harvesting.
I don't mind the extra videos every day, love the content
As long as you don’t get burnt out, I’m down for whatever. Personally I think it would be cool to get 1 video about D&D per day and then 1 video about another TTRPG that you’re interested in per day. But that’s just me.
More content!!!
Keep them coming! Very curious about ToV vs DMG2024
Don't forget that you can schedule video releases, so you can still film a bunch of content, upload it and set the time and days they become available.
Screw what anyone says about "Filling my feed with your videos" We watch YT as a consumption platform. The MORE VIDEOS you upload Ted, the more videos we have to enjpoy and Consume. Please upload multiple times a day, there is no downside other than people complaining about seeing you more often. Is that a bad thing? No. Thanks for the great content Ted!
Man I’m glad monsters of drakkenheim exists
Yeah man, we love your stuff! It’s great when we have multiple drops in a day, but also keep it sustainable for yourself.
I found your channel quite recently, and you are a great source of information when it comes to upcoming content and D&D information. I would prefer you upload more than less, but your current pace is also good too, and I won't mind either way.
First, you can make multiple uploads a day that's cool. Second the monster parts effecting your magic item is really cool. I like the new rules because they're definite rules...
In one of the books I think it was xanathars had a table for magic item rarity to Monster CR. So for instance if you wanted to make armor of fire resistance you would need to slay a monster of a certain CR that had fire resistance. They completely miss the opportunity to refine those rules
As a trucker who listens to all of your videos you put out, the more the better for me.
I love the rapid fire videos. It gives me more to listen to throughout the day
I kinda want to set up multiple tables you can roll on for magic materials. Like, sure, 75% in the market for the materials to craft a bag of holding, right? But if a character is related to a thieves guild they can try the black market, or if a character was/is a merchant, they can try their supplier connections for another roll. Heck, if there's a character who is or is associated with a noble, they can try to roll there. You could even make different conditions apply depending on the source for materials, like the black market connections could be cheaper but carry heat from them being stolen or illegal, or the noble connection could have a 90% chance of the materials being available, but would be more expensive
Another interesting tidbit, is that the range of values for magic items is now always near the maximum of what it was before. A very rare item used to cost between 5,000-50,000, now it always costs 40,000. A rare item was 501-5000gp, it is always 4,000gp now. I forgot that their listed crafting prices were always the absolute maximum value for that magic item, so they could in theory be purchased for significantly cheaper than crafting them yourselves in the old handbook, but that's now fixed.
I recently came across a video by Dungeons & Drams that uses Chatgpt to craft magic items from Monsters. The prompt you feed it can be tailored by the specific monster and per character; for example a dagger for a level 5 Rouge from a Blue Dragon and it will list basically everything you as a Player and DM need to know in order to craft said Item. Check them out if you want a easy way to Monster Hunter D&D! Great Video BTW
I was immediately coming to the same conclusion as you were speaking about it in regards to monsters haha
In terms of videos per day: As a fan of you, I say go for as many as you want. As a person who can't always watch everything, 2-3 videos a day is about as muach as I'd think one can watch. I know that if I see someone post 5 20-30 minute videos a day, I'd get a bit overwhelmed and anxious on if I could get caught up. That being said, if its 1 longer video along with several shorter videos or shorts, I'd think that'd be much easier and consumer friendly to digest. Ultimately, its up to you, these are just my thoughts
The amount of videos you release and their frequency will never bother me. Do what works for you my dude 😎
Go ahead and do multiples.
As soon as I see you post I usually save it to a list to watch later rather than watch it then & there.
A lot of times your vid might live on the list for a few days before I watch it depending on what I have going on in IRL.
I'm not opposed to certain monster parts counting as materials for a magic item, so you'd deduct some or even all of a magic item's cost with enough monster parts.
The cleanest way of using monster bits is: the monetary worth you gain as loot, is the quality of body parts that body is worth.
Fewer charts and clunky rules
Yeah "a GP worth of fitting Raw Material as treasure" is a really good way to make something with magic items. At the end of the day it's flavored treasure but you get to give out more of it if you make it specific to a type of magic item, using the player's ideas for inspiration, and make selling it inefficient. The three Dragonshards in Eberron are already a great way of setting some rules for specific raw materials.
seems kinda boring though if you cant really customize things as the player wants without DM creating their own system for it.
In the TTRPG I am writing, it is assumed that you collect everything of value from slain creatures and trade for the GP value of what the encounter says (plus enough to cover general expenses).
I do think having crafting costs described this way makes the crafter feat much more attractive. It's still "only" a 20% discount, but at especially rare+ the amount of money you save on materials is enough to make a magic item of the tier below it. The minimal crafting time becomes much more of a factor at that point, but if you are in the style of game where you have a lot of down time making magic items becomes more reasonable. I can't tell from the video if a helper needs to meet all of the requirements for a magic item. It does just say someone can help but I'd say its reasonable a skilled hireling in arcana (wizard apprentice or something) or in an applicable crafting skill (blacksmith for magic armor) could reasonably help. Consider a rare item, you save 400 gold on materials, and a skilled hireling is 2gp/day. You just halved the craft time, and still have leftover money. If your DM says its reasonable you could have more than one (I think of something like a cauldron of plenty, where more than one hireling would be reasonable) you can decrease that time to craft by 3 and still have extra leftover money that you saved. Conveniently at 2gp/day listed in PHB24 the time to craft is equal to the cost to have someone halve the craft time in gp.
Even if i dont watch all the videos the same day they are released i can still watch them when i have time
I made a 2024 Ranger who will make Wands and Staves for magic items. He can't imbue them with the spell but he will be the wood apparatus whole sale supplier.
I am excited to play him.
Bring on the videos I just add them to my watch later list and give them a go when I have time 👍🏻
I added a easy way for salvage. Survival with a dc of 10+CR (fail ruins the corps). you then ear based off the CR 4 or less is CR in gold (max 4), 5-9 is 10xCR (max 90), 10-14 is 100xCR (1,400max), 15-19 is 1,000xCR (19,000 max)and 20+ is 10,000xCR. This does not mean it is good for all crafting like killing cat will not help for crafting a nonmagical sworld. Some monster may be worth more or less in the world (dragon are normal more).
Agree. Love seeing you in the feed…send it!
I don't mind multiple videos at once. As for crafting, I don't think the "crafters" at WotC have a solid grasp on time. Keep in mind, none of what I am about to say is a reflection on you at all. The length of time required to craft some of these items in the real world under the same conditions used during what is considered the medieval era is a fraction of what is suggested. If it really took most of a year to craft plate armor, most smiths would go out of buisness. Some of the fanciest most high end armor took between 6 - 9 months and a majority of that time was spent on fine detail work such as filigree and ornate design. When a smith was hired to make such a masterpiece, it was usually for a king or nobleman and they were hansomely compensated for it. This offset all of the standard buisness they would have otherwise completed. Hence the ridiculous cost normally affiliated with such a piece of work. I have always operated under a sliding scale for creation of items, magic or otherwise, based on the complexity of the world the players are in. Saying that the cost of creation in a low magic/low tech world is the same as a high magic/high tech one is just foolish. I realize the old system with a massive variable was not the solution either, but hundreds of days to make a dagger just because it has a magical property added to it is madness.
Crafting time is the worst. I want to go out, farm the monsters and collect the raw materials, maybe saving up over multiple quests and adventures, and then when I have a few weeks of down time craft that item I've had my eye on. A year or more of down time is crazy.
I'd probably change the 10gp per day to 5gp x Proficiency bonus per day. Speeds up crafting at higher levels.
I'd probably also allow characters to work together to meet requirements. A Fighter with Smithing Tools could assist a Wizard with crafting a magic sword, even if the Fighter doesn't now the spell and the Wizard doesn't have smithing tool proficiency.
Also, interesting note: In official DnD lore, weeks are ten days, which explains why a weeks worth of work is 10x the amount.
Finally, a question: Do magic items have the spells required for crafting listed?
Question: do people look at the crafting requirements in days or hours? I see a lot of people assuming you can work 16 hour days to count as 2 days of work. Real work doesn't work that way, at least not long term. I just see people making assumptions about micro managing hours of their day assuming they can dedicate 16-20 hours each day during their downtime to craft and knock things out.
I’ve heard people say that because elves sleep four hours less they should be able to get 12 hours in, but 16 is definitely unreasonable Unless they’re specifically using some thing like catnap to account for it
I think it depends on the intended feel of your campaign.
Some people run things more realistically, with characters that get tired, have to take bathroom breaks, and are actually in limping pain at 1hp.
Others have characters basically ignore human(-oid) failings unless the rules say they apply.
So my question is, how does this effect the outlook of the artisan background since you're given a bunch of tools? Does it make it more appealing than before?
It's not bad, IMO. The discount from Crafter is meh, but if you want to be able to craft whatever, then 4 Artisan Tools Proficiencies gets you most stuff (Woodcarver's Tools, Tinkerer's Tools, Smith's Tools, and Jeweler's Tools all added together let you craft almost any magic item you like). It doesn't come with Arcana so it only works if you have that already from something else, but if you wanted to craft whatever, then you're good to go.
If the DM is generous, the Crafter discount might also apply to the materials to craft magic items, and that would make it quite a bit better.
You aren’t going to be able to draw the scroll as part of a reaction to use it. You’ll need it in hand as it says you have to read it to use it.
I was coming here to say exactly this. You can't draw a scroll as part of a bonus action either.
How is the spyglass still 1000GP? Why does it take 100 days to craft a cylinder and a few glass slides? A character can create 10 sets of Eyes of the Eagle in that same timeframe just by adding arcana proficiency.
I imagine smiths collaborating to craft a weapon resembling the Man at Arms TH-cam show.
To answer the question at the beginning, I don't mind. However, it's if TH-cam actually sends the notification as that's an issue I've noticed when a channel uploads around 3 or more in a day. Though, being in the Discord should alleviate that issue
So if I wanted to make a First level scroll, it would take 8 hours to make. Would I have to take the full 8 hours or could I do an hour here and there?
Unfortunately it seems you have to have at least 8 hours in one go, and can only split up time if it's multiple days. I hate this for the mundane crafting too, and plan on asking my DM to allow me to work by the hour. I'd rather take a few days longer and not halt the game.
With monster parts, make it a theme like a flame tongue sword, find a dragon tongue, but it will account wg for 150gp of your Crafting cost?
multiple videos a day is completely fine
I wonder if they may suggest 500-1000 gp/CR of monster with a sliding scale survival check to harvest...10+ is success with maybe max at 30. 5% per point over 10? Advantage/ disadvantage based on availability of tools, help, knowledge of anatomy (lore skill), how mangled is the beast.
As usual with WOTC I'm 50/50.
On the good side, I appreciate the expanded rules for crafting. Though will probably still use Hammund's Guide to Harvesting for "monster bits"
On the other hand that rule that you must be able to cast the spell the magic item grants - **I am straight up going to ignore** because that is risible nonsense.
Rogue. Ooh a ring of invisibility!
Oh wait, I'm a thief. Nevermind *toss*
Or as happened in our Curse of Strahd game my Celestial Warlock picked up a staff that could cast Cone of Cold, but Cone of Cold isn't a Warlock spell so I guess that wouldn't have worked unless I gave it to the sorceror.
I think that misses the whole point of some magic items that they let you do things you otherwise cannot.
I could be wrong, but the spell requirement is to create a magic item, not to use it.
A rogue can use a ring of invisibility. They can't craft it unless they have a casting feature that allows them to cast the invisibility spell.
Your celestial warlock can cast a cone of cold from the staff. If you want to create a rod that allows cone to cone casting, you need to prepare it for crafting.
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As I said, a rule I intend to flat out ignore.
Yeah... having the spell isn't a requirement to use the item, is a requirement to craft the item. You couldn't craft that staff without knowing cone of cold, but your warlock could absolutely still use it
Crafting is going to be king & absolutely worth it.
A wand/staff of fireball but like the gemstone is like made of a bejeweled dragon eye or heart would be cool and instead of it shooting a "fireball" like an apparition of a dragons head made of fire appeared and exploded. I would hope my fireball would do more than just fireball though since I had to kill a dragon for it, maybe ignore resistances and immunity?
Have it do what dragons do.
If you defeated a dragon maybe it uses the dragon's saving throw or gives resistance to fire. Maybe when you use it the the dragon head appears roars and causes the fear aura before it goes and splashes fire damage.
Dragons are also subjected to fire resistance, as in, fire resistant enemies are resistant to dragon fire damage. So I would not go in that direction.
@@ODDnanref the fear aura after the fireball went off would be pretty fucking sick ngl.
Multiple videos per day are totally okay!
So what would my (2014) Wizard need to upgrade his Arcane Grimoire from +1 to +2? He has Expertise in Arcana but no tool proficiencies. Time? Money? Etc?
Personally, I crave good content, so post away!! But of course majority rules.. though I doubt you'll see much complaining since you're really good at what you're doing here. I've learned a LOT from you and your videos. ❤✌️
Brings up a good question. Isn't it a Magic Action to use a scroll? Shield isn't as useful as a scroll, not useless obviously but you can't do it as a Reaction at that point.
Not true it uses the regular casting time.
It used to be an action n the 2014 DMG but I’ve heard that they changed this.
@@mrsamiam7872 that is crap. I can see it for like a wand or staff in hand but scroll? Yuck.
Scroll uses the casting time of spell per the PHB 2024. However you need to have the scroll in hand. You can’t draw a scroll as part of the reaction. Also if you’re blinded you can’t read the scroll if the character has the Blinded condition.
I feel like this system doesnt truly works because the gap of price is astronomical
It works for low price items but 100 days on a spyglass? In that time an average dnd 5e adventuree has reached level 20 and has thousands of gold to spend on mundane stuff
Depends on the campaign. I have played in games where the party is running from dungeon to dungeon slaying monsters. I have also played in games where we sit around in a city for a month waiting for work.
If you let your DM know ahead of time that crafting is something you want to do, they can generally slow the pace of the game down enough to allow time for it.
Also, with Bastions, you can have your hirelings craft stuff for you while you adventure.
Finally, a spyglass is NOT trivial to make. It requires at least two perfectly shaped and polished lenses set at the perfect distance from each other in a (usually collapsible) tube.
I personally do not mind multiple videos a day. Can't you schedule the less time sensitive ones for a when you'll have a lull, and release the time sensitive ones immediately?
Yup
I would never let someone read a scroll as a reaction or bonus action.
More videos? No problem with me!
binge watching while playing ESO is normal. drop them all at once if you want
I never understood spell scroll scribing, and I think I never will.
How are you supposed to invest even 10 days x 8h for ONE lvl4 spell scroll? In what world and what kind of scenario is this a feasible thing to do?
I hate the time duration that Crafting in PHBs takes... the campaigns I play (have played) never go on for months etc...they are usually tighter timelines. I much prefer how the Dungeon Dudes with Dungeons of Drakkenheim are creating their crafting: You have to collect components through adventuring (not grinding mats) and once you have the necessary components - craft it right away ... boom, done. They have added difficulty levels by needing more rare forges or magic academies to craft higher rarity items - totally fair and cool. But I love that it's just "if you have the stuff, make it then and there." Hundreds of days to craft Plate Armour = What's the point ?!? 1) my campaign will never last that long 2) why not just buy it outright because looting 1500GP will take far less than 150 days of adventuring.
I want crafting to be an activity that I can do to forego either gold costs or, much more importantly, time. otherwise.. f it - i'll just buy it.
Ted, did they change the rules in the DMG24? I am pretty sure that a spell scroll says that it uses an action to cast from. So any spell with a casting time of Reaction would make very poor spell scrolls unless you intend to ready the casting, which really isn't that good either.
No it says it uses the casting time in the spell in the 2024 PHB page 228. However you need to be able to read it. So the scroll would have to be in hand, as you can’t draw it with the reaction.
@@GodwinXZit was an action in the 2014 DMG, but that has changed.
@@GodwinXZ I found my mistake. There was an Errata on the DMG that I missed. It did in fact take an action originally but they changed it. My DMG is just an old print and i missed the Errata.
I'd prefer one a day otherwise I miss videos
Based on how you read it you're supposed to divided in half first and then divided by 10
I say two "normal" length videos and a short which now is expanded to 3 minutes.
Can a PC with help brew a basic potion of healing during a long rest if both have cure wounds spell
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I dont mind several videos.
With all the discussions about crafting. They left a big void between the difference of NPC shops and shops the players own.
Crafting things yourself (player), will be better because it's always around half the cost and time. Because almost everything you create is based on tool efficiency and proficiency.
NPC associates for player shops should be based on players proficiency. That way when you assign jobs to work on. You can get a cut of time chipped off per associate assigned to that job.
Another weird thing is that the NPC shops don't have a skill rating assigned to them.
Also everyone will hunting for expert NPC artificers or specified craftsmen.
The more videos the better
If only the DMs could make up things for their own tables for the gathering bits for crafting... hmmm. No, we have to have the Overlords at WotC write that for me so I can argue with my players that I don't like that so I am not using it.
There is a small oversight in the scribe spell scroll section that I'm sure is not RAI. Technically, you can't craft cantrip spell scrolls because you need to have the spell prepared and cantrips are not prepared.
It doesn't bother me. Nor do I think it bother anyone. Issue is that people may have limited time per day. So they only watch one of the videos. This means the algorithm thinks people are less interested and recommends less so you see less views
Still be cheaper and easier to pay to cast fabricate spell to make plate
I definitely don't like that it takes so long to make nonmagical items. At best, it should only take you as the amount of days as the half cost, not the full cost. A spyglass shouldn't take 100 days or 50 with help. It should be closer to 50 and 25 with help. Maybe someone has smith's tools for the device itself and another does the glass blowing for the lenses. Unless you're going getting a year of downtime, you're always just going to buy it. Magic items, however, definitely better to craft. I'm shocked that it seems WotC got rid of the need for magic item recipes. Which, I might just add back to reduce the time needed to craft.
As for video releases, I prefer daily uploads. I get so many videos that I end up missing a bunch.
Regarding Tales of the Valiant, I'd love to know about that book's crafting and bastions. From what I've been seeing online, Kobold Press is blowing WotC out of the water for those.
no worries in the content amount for me
Hey, I'll just point out that the volume in some of your recent videos is really low (like this one). I have to double my volume to get to normal levels and then ads blast my ears.
Wss it 3e that had the spell that needed to make a make a magic item in the DMG
So, mundane crafting is still just 5gp of progress per day, is what I'm hearing
I'm ok with more video's, but you do you man, if you don't want to do a bunch of videos don't, i'm ok with that too.
I like the extra content. But I've heard uploading more than like twice a day kills your Algorithm stuff if that matters to you...
It doesn't bother me to get multiple videos a day
I played a more urbin Stars Druid more Royal Diviner and court advicer. He was Kinku but looke like a peacok normaly but when his starry form started his feathers darkened his tail feathers fanned and the constolations fallowed his bome like a consinlation shadows around it. But relating with is vid I traded the Hebilism kit profiancy for coligiphers tools he would make scrools in place of healing potions. It threw people for a loop that the druid know little about nature but could be a decent face with political skills as well
More the merrier love the videos
I prefer less videos with more work behind but it's your shot just don't burn out.
Maybe 1 long video and up to 2 shorts per day I think 🤔
Do people really want "fixed" recipes for crafting?
That seems to me that you'd start seeing people hunting the same creatures over and over across campaigns even for specific Critters. *Everyone* is going to be chasing down Behir for those Wands of Lightning Bolts.
I like leaving it in the DM's hands so people can be more creative on being able to do *something* with what players come across
Send me all the big content whenever you have it. It would not overwhelm me i can watch it later if it is too much
Does not make sense to have reaction spells in a scroll. Can not use a reaction to read a scroll. Shield may be the exception as it last a round
Not true, uses regular casting time
@@mrsamiam7872It uses the regular casting time now, but in the 2014 DMG, it was an action.
However you’ll need the scroll in hand. You can’t draw a scroll as part of the reaction.
Do multiple videos a day
Except soldier that get a gaming tool profiency... Not sure how that's used for crafting :)
Maybe you gamble with someone who can craft :P
>prices for magic items still strictly based on item rarity,
understood, they've done nothing of value for this party of the system..... again
Anybody got any suggestions for 3rd party poison crafting these stock poisons suck! Lol
10:00 See, here's my thing about these crafting rules so far...
They Suck!
I don't know why they didnt bring back the 3.5 crafting rules, they are perfectly fair and functional!
Making a scroll takes 1 day for 0-4th level spells, 2 days for 5-6th level spells, 3 days for 7-8th level spells, and 4 days for a 9th level spell... because crafting is done by 1,000 Gold per Day. This also makes Mundane and Magical crafting line up with the kind of crafting time we *would* see in a fantasy world...
In the real world, a Medieval Armoursmith would take between 3 weeks and 3 months to make a suit of armour...depending on the period and resources... If we consider a just pre-Renaissance Armoursmith working in a stocked workshop on a single order? ...3-5 weeks.
...this is why its absolutely stupid what they're doing with 5.5...
*sigh*
And don't even get me started on the fact that there's no Artificer! They put their precious "Warlock" in as a core class, once again, but they abandoned the Artificer, which has been part of D&D *LONGER* then the stupid Warlock!
...this is why I hoist a Black Flag, instead of sailing the WotC seas...atleast KP know the Artificer should be a core class! And they know that they should be a master of magic items!
TBH, I hate how magic item crafting is still dependent on arcana. Just make it use Arcana, Nature, or Religion.
As long don't lead to burn out.
Is it just me who hates crafting and sees players going after monster bits as a way of breaking the game or crafting a specific item to break the game or to gain undue advantage or to trick the gm who didn't see x interaction
i guess thats possible. my experience in groups with it, is ppl just collect parts from stuff they are facing already. however, you could have like a hunter guild or special weaponsmith in a city that sends expeditions out to find specific rare creatures (and the players could do that as an interlude for the main adventure if the DM likes?). my players like detailed crafting but we play older editions so a lot more stuff they can do with it
Make as ment as you want
It's an improvement over what 5e had, but it's still much, much worse than most of the 3rd-party rules for crafting out there.
love your videos, but please don't use AI for your thumbnails- especially when there's so much wonderful work that celebrates human artists in the new core rulebooks!
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I just don’t think it’s easy to make room in the game for crafting. It takes too much time and gold.
Honestly ? Kinda shaitty