Sorry I didn't think it needed to be mentioned as they were just additions, but yes i know that Silver weapons/silvering weapons exists. (PHB 100gp) And that Adamantime weapons were added in Xanathar's for an additional 500gp. (Attacks against objects are critical hits).
The point of 5e wasn't just to sell new books, it was to simplify the game for the players and for the DM. These are 3rd edition styled hard bonus numbers, which nobody can ever remember or keep straight, thus they have to start looking things up, which slows down combat rounds. Waiting forever for your turn is nobody's idea of fun. Destroying the bounded accuracy system is an even larger betrayal of the core system. In 5e players hit two thirds of the time, and they almost never have to worry about the type of damage they're doing (blunt, slashing, piercing) as on the few occasions where they do have to worry about it, it's only a 50% reduction, not some hard-cap number which could completely eliminate all damage. Unbalancing that is only going to frustrate players when it's a boss ignoring their efforts, and frustrate DM's when it's a player taking zero damage because it means they have to use more dangerous monsters which can actually challenge their players. That's a major problem for DMs because while some players might be able to withstand their brutality, there will invariably be other players who will be outright smoked. This whole book is an example of wastebasket thinking, where stinky old ideas are dug up out of the garbage and thrown back onto the table.
@@LockSteady Using the DMG monster creation table, player are supposed to hit 65% of the time. There is one level where they hit 70% of the time but might be an error in my calculations.
@@LockSteady Yes... kinda... pathfinder and 3.5 are still hugely popular because of some of these customizations. yes they can get complicated but... for more experienced players 5e can almost be too simple. small modifications to weapons or armors can make an item feel unique instead of Rimrun the longsword made by dwarfs... is just a long sword... maybe a +1 longsword. however if you make the fact that it was made by dwarves important it becomes so much cooler. suddenly it doesnt need to be a +1 sword because the sword has its own properties because of who made it. the sword might be different if made by elves or by giants. or simply a master smith made armor special for you with properties that fit your character. I have literally watched players throw away rare magical items because it doesn't fit their character or because the item wasn't what they expected. this allows an item to grow with a character. that heirloom sword left by your mother can now be upgraded so it gets more powerful with you. instead of being thrown away because you have a +1 sword now.
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Hi Ted, thank you so much for taking the time to do a review! To address your final comment: I'm new to the DM's Guild stage, but more such toolkits are coming as time permits! In the meantime, if you or your viewers are interested in more like this you or they can download a copy of my Alchemy Almanac on Google Drive (link: drive.google.com/file/d/16cxfcOsZmQ3jF8lOLvaml_cN2aHqyZvW/view ) for free! As its now been in-use for a few years at my table (and has improved a lot since the linked version), an updated and expanded Almanac is going to be my next major toolkit release.
Now that an official Artificer class exists, how's that balancing act going? - Also, why is Silvered an improvement tag rather than a special material? The way it is here, recreating a basic +1 weapon (100-500 gp) costs a full *_1,700_* gp.
I bought this 2 weeks ago and love it. I'm running a Viking Horror campaign with low magic and I have been looking for runic magic and the ability to make normal weapons that aren't magic, just very well made. I can't wait to add this to my world.
I'm gonna be super honest with ya Chief, I have watched so many of your videos, they started showing up in my recommended quite a while ago. I totally forgot that I hadn't actually subscribed to the channel. I fixed that for us both.
NEED. Both as a player and a DM. Yeah. 5e's crafting is so bare bones that tool proficiency in and of themselves are almost pointless. And what is there isn't practical. You are kind of left hanging. Potions, poisons, gathering herbs, crafting, etc. Always comes up and it sucks when you don't have anything on hand to tell your players.
Oh for sure. Yeah I think I'm going to grab it on pay day. Also looking at Hammund's Harvesting to see it's something I'd like. At a glance, armorer's handbook looks more manageable. Now I just gotta figure out a potion brewing supplement.
@@rudesthazard5769 Look down the comments a bit, the guy who made this is working on an Alchemy supplement and he's put a link to the WIP google drive doc! Scanned it briefly and it looks just as good.
As someone who also misses the Arms & Equipment Guide, this scratches an itch I've had to ignore for a long time. So glad they reached out to you. Looks like a fantastic book.
not gonna lie i was watching this channel for awhile and while I have some misgivings about your attitude towards some things in 5e I watch you plenty enough to get that subscribe. Keep up the good work man.
I bought the book thanks to you. Great video, two of my players are an enchanter and a blacksmith and I’ve been really struggling trying to figure out how to make their talents feel useful. This has really helped, thank you.
As a history buff I saw “leather armor is gambison and studded leather is a jerkin” and immediately went to look to buy the book. I also always disliked how D&D had basically no improvements from design, you just get magic items, and this makes equipment so much more interesting Enchantments should do cool things and +1s should come from “sharpened” or “balanced” and such. Cause that’s how we always describe them anyways. As a dm I say “magically sharpened” and “feels well balanced” for a +1 so intuitively it would make a lot more sense if that weren’t magic
So whats padded armour? And wouldn't it be better for studded leather to be scaled linothorax? Considering how the linothorax was most likely tube and yoke armor
@@colocado6685 "Padded" drops off the list. There is also a proper Brigandine, which replaces half-plate. Half-plate, in turn, becomes step 2 in building your full set of heavy armor. Basically, you get a cuirass, then add tassets and pauldrons to make half-plate, and finally finish with the greaves and vambraces to make the full set. And every set of heavy and medium armor comes with a gambeson, or you can get a discount by already having one.
Amazing. Spent the last 2 weeks reworking an improved weapons with different affects, stat requirements and bonuses, and armor list to be more medieval and culturally accurate, and I just hear about this right now which is just better than what I've been working on... Might have to check it out.
Fantastic man. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I love these reviews for products that are in the $10-$20 range. Honestly, more than that is a real stretch for PDFs costing more than that. Anyway. I have some shopping to do. ;)
I have definitely been one of those among the 74% (or 3.6% - whatever the unknowns are), but since you asked so nicely, I'm now in the sub-column. Keep up the good work and informative/fun videos!
If I may add to this, Esquiel's Guide to Magic Weapons and Xanathar's Extraordinary Vault are two other DM's guild items you may wish to look into for crafting, and I recommend both. E's Guide gives many new weapons, loot tables, a weapon generator, racial designed weapons, blessings and curses, as well as some background lore from the Faerun universe. X's Vault gives many historical conversions to 5e of weapons, armor and gear, many new magical gear variants as well as bringing back some of the things that are missing in 5e from older editions like glamour and shadow weave, and ideas/rule sets for crafting from gathered materials and some very interesting mounts and vehicles, all rolled in with xanathar's snarky little comments. I also HIGHLY recommend Elminster's Guide to Magic as well. A complete book of spells, sub classes, items and lore. Edit: If you would like a preview of some sort, I would be more than happy to provide, as I own all of the above (obviously).
This is by far the best splat I've seen from DM's Guild. They managed to nail the balance on expanding options while not pushing the envelope too far. The Focus on balance at the beginning and end is what really made me happy about this purchase, as it does give one a leg to stand on when presenting new ideas to the group. It also give players something to do with their money which, without being able to chase magic items around the market, was kind of a problem. This adds a needed money sink and downtime activity.
Think they should update “Forge Cleric” so you the player could upgrade your parties arms and armors. Though it would need to be tag you know or learn.
One thing I do for my players in D&D 5e (and earlier editions) is use a gradually increasing (graded) cost increase that the player can pay to have an artisan imbue your base armor from the book to a +1-5 (graded G.P. cost of course) The cost for each of these bonuses increases exponentially based on what the artisan will charge for labor + the cost of the highly magical ingredients for the infusion. This keeps their armor getting better and better, so that it can stay on a relatively equal footing with the increasing power of the monsters they face at higher and higher levels.
Dont know why you thought we didnt like your previous dms lair reviews. I loved the one about taverns, am planning to get it when i can, and have already tried to incorporate a bit of what you showed of it in my game. Please keep showing us any gold you come across. "The Creaking Bough" roudy tap house that is near an ancient oak tree that is actually a treant. The bar keep a red headed gnome who has found a recipy for a vodka like drink from the treants sap. The beverage is very strong but should an adventurer manage to down 3 in a single sitting they will find their constitution has risen by one point and their skin has a bark texturing too it in places.
Some of it is basically a conversion of all the material & weapon rules from pathfinder into 5e. That's not a criticism - as a previous player of pf now DM'ing for 5e, I sorely miss all that stuff & have already used a couple of it's ideas in my games. I will definitely be picking this up & I can even see this along with the runes significantly overhauling my current approach to gear progression in my campaigns. Having said that, I already had plans for it in the base rules, but with this supplement an artificer build I had thought up could be incredibly powerful very quickly XD
Heard the kid at the end, and got up thinking my 2 year old woke up. Definitely appreciated the review was tired of creating house rule changes. Covers most issues I've had.
This looks like an amazing addition to my future campaigns! I'm planning on running a lower magic, grittier feeling campaign and this expansion would really help players feel like they're getting stronger without giving them magic weapons/armor. Also I really enjoy your DM's Guild reviews so keep it up!
Just started using this my last Session I was DMing. Also looking int o Ghesh’s guide to making things (Has a wonderful amount of modifications that could add a lot to this handbook and D&D 5e Massive Profession Addition (Benjamin Brews) as another professions handbook.
Just bought this bad boi. Holy heck if this isnt one the best values ive ever got on dms guild. If u like this product, i really think you should check out the Comprehensive Equipment Manual and its subsequent sister products.
My players and I have just started talking about how we could use different materials and Magic’s to upgrade armour weapons and gear. I was trying to work out how so this is perfect timing to stumble across 😱👍 I love it and I’m hoping to implement it into one of my two campaigns.
Those analytics though, how can UA-cam say "unknown?" I wonder if no profile guests are counted in that category or in the not subscribed. That's weird. Review was cool, and big props to the author here for making the sample file actually long enough and of the correct pages to figure out how the content is supposed to work. Too often I see the preview for a longer item on the DM's guild with a 1 page preview, or an adventure where one monster stat block is all we get. You gotta sell us on it, heavyarms did a great job with this.
My guess would be that because on mobile you can do video previews. Given those can and regularly do, for me at least, happen on accident, UA-cam might not track them as proper views for purposes of the algorithm
I recently found that armor proofing in this system interact extremely well with the feat Heavy Armor master. Since HAM gives a damage reduction, and armor proofing makes any non-magic damage that is 8 or less deal no damage. You basically makes anything that deal 2d6 impossible to deal damage with, as only a max damage roll deal damage without modifiers. If you also add adamantime that lowers any damage by 3, you take no damage on non-magical attacks of 14 or lower. The Champion (CR 9) enemy will have 46% - 36% chance of deal any damage to you at all *IF* he hits all of his attacks when you got 3rd tier armor proofing and HAM.
Bobby Baker oh, sorry that was a super castle super beast/super beets friends reference. When someone is right but you don’t want to hear it they say “yeah but shut up tho” meaning you have no counter point. Didn’t mean it as offensive. I apologize that my joke didn’t land, and if I hurt your feelings in any way, I apologize for saying shut up Tho as well. Have a great day!
I found that the crafting rules in the main books and Xanathars where lack luster. I get that Wizards is trying not to overwhelm people with rules for 100 different things but I still was left wanting. I suppose that is what the DMs guild is there for tho.
I've recently started a guide for myself and my players for crafting and upgrading weapons and potions! As a monster hunter nerd I always wanted to be able to make or improve items using the monster materials from what the party killed. This is great, definitely gonna have to grab it.
Gambeson is already in the game, it's just called Padded Armor (i asume, cause it's wider spread as a word for this kind of armor) ac+11+dex Light Armor
@@NerdImmersion Yea, just poiting that out since u said "no gambeson". Maybe i'll implement this into my homegame, after i rewrite whole Pathfinder to 5e
Honestly, the in game disadvantage on stealth doesn't need to be there, also it was most likely far more common than leather, and given its commonality, was probably superior to leather, and even if not it would be far easier to repair. I read that table as them removing "padded armor" and renaming leather armor as such.
@@JeikobuI agree, padded is better for protection than leather, and the disadvantage makes no sense, it's literally 2 pieces ofcloth with varied stuffing between them. But that's kinda game balance. cheaper=disadvantage same way there are 2 medium armors with same ac, one is cheaper but gives disadvantage. Another thing is, that DnD is a fantasy game afterall, and it's a fantasy trope that best "light" armor=leather, ideally get black or dark brown with optional studs. If u wanna play a gritty realism game? sure go for padded, if u wanna make it full realism, remind that full plate fighter/paladin/cleric that plate is heavy and has no airflow so with gritty realism wearing plate for a day would be 1point of exhaustion (fuck that came out passive agressive, didn't mean to sorry ;-;)
@@The_Yukki gambeson is typically just many layers of cloth sewn together with no excess padding, it's those layers that made it actually a pretty good and cheap armor.
I actually just found out I wasn't subscribed to your chanel, cause I was receiving notification os your videos regularly. But problem solved, I am now
First 20 seconds, you've described something I was trying to fluff doing with one of my characters with this. Now to watch the rest of the video and I may be buying this to see if I can get my GM to allow it.
This is great. I was implementing something very similar like this into my game once the PCs get a HQ. Might have to buy it so I don't have to do anymore work.
The main NPC in my campaign is: - a dwarf - a rune knight fighter - the second best smith of his clan - and loves pimping armour with all the jewels my players find. I NEED this.
would LOVE that proofing thing as part of a character concept built around the heavy armor master feat. truly I do miss the depth of previous editions.. ok it was complicated but 5e has gone so far in the other direction... it just feels very bare bones in comparison to older editions even now after all this time. JuSt RoLe PlAy!!!!
These sound like potential "magic" items but i wouldn't feel too comfortable adding in all of these tags and options as a whole. But it seems good to pick from
That adjustment to make greatclubs count as heavy is such a boon to one of my character plans (possibly my favourite one). It now works without having to fudge in extra multiclass levels or feats that I don't really have space for, just to match the RAW. Of course it also just makes a lot of sense! The only thing that seems missing to me is stone as a weapon/armor material.
Your videos are recommended to anyone who is subscribed to d and d channel. This is good because it means your views mean you will be recommended more, but it’s bad because people have less incentive to subscribe.
I didn't see it mentioned in the comments but you were slightly wrong. There is more than mithral and adamantine. The Ravnica book added mizzium or whatever it's called.
I've picked this up because of your review @Nerd Immersion, I think I'm going to be using the rune and hieroglyph magic from Kobold Press Deep magic to add rarer armor upgrades. Eversense the Artificer became official I feel rules like these are needed more then ever.
I do like the shield options, that was something that has annoyed me that they didn't have it. Sure I could homebrew it, but when I was running adventure league it was a no go. Being strapped to rules as written can be quite difficult due to 5e vagueness
My friends since 3.5E have always wanted weapons that grew with them. If you gave them a material, they'd get it via questing. Oh it needs to be a scale from an iron dragon? Well, guess we're going out dragon hunting. 5E has been very barebones and required a lot of invention and testing to make weapons feel like their progressing while not being too broken.
Brigandine is not half plate. Brigandine is also commonly called Coat of plates best examples of this come from the Battle of Wisby where 3 different types were discovered.
I've watched quite a few of your videos and never subscribed because I find them too long for the content discussed. Subscribed now any way because hey, I've still gotten plenty of good information out of your videos.
I also wanted to say thank you for the thoughtful videos. I know people can eventually benefit *if* a channel grows enough, but I'm getting free content I'm really interested in and I know it takes work. Thanks.
Funny you released this video like maybe 4 days after me buying this pdf. Yea I like some of the stuff in here and plan to use some of it and help inspire some of my own ideas. I'd love to see more content like this. Maybe take a look at harmunds guide, pretty cool idea of monster bits and what you can or how to sell stuff you skin off varies monsters it is Pretty cool. There is a lot of gms guild stuff I'd love to see videos on.
Is there anything said, one way or the other, if Forge clerics can use their channel divinity on any of these upgrades? I did catch the line about NPC's needing to apply tags, just hoping there was more to it.
I recently came back to this book and I am still wondering if I should buy it, but I am not sure if it would be fitting for the campaign I am DMming, since it is a rather high-magic setting
LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE PEOPLE, DON'T BE ONE OF THE 75% Heavyarms needs to link your vid on the listing for this product. Your thorough analysis and review made me purchase something for the first time instead of "paying what I want" for zero dollars. Thanks again for the consistently great content!
I, personally, use Walrock Homebrew's stuff for strongholds. Taverns are included in it. Your mileage may vary, but I think it's great and my players love it.
Sorry I didn't think it needed to be mentioned as they were just additions, but yes i know that Silver weapons/silvering weapons exists. (PHB 100gp)
And that Adamantime weapons were added in Xanathar's for an additional 500gp. (Attacks against objects are critical hits).
The point of 5e wasn't just to sell new books, it was to simplify the game for the players and for the DM. These are 3rd edition styled hard bonus numbers, which nobody can ever remember or keep straight, thus they have to start looking things up, which slows down combat rounds. Waiting forever for your turn is nobody's idea of fun. Destroying the bounded accuracy system is an even larger betrayal of the core system. In 5e players hit two thirds of the time, and they almost never have to worry about the type of damage they're doing (blunt, slashing, piercing) as on the few occasions where they do have to worry about it, it's only a 50% reduction, not some hard-cap number which could completely eliminate all damage. Unbalancing that is only going to frustrate players when it's a boss ignoring their efforts, and frustrate DM's when it's a player taking zero damage because it means they have to use more dangerous monsters which can actually challenge their players. That's a major problem for DMs because while some players might be able to withstand their brutality, there will invariably be other players who will be outright smoked. This whole book is an example of wastebasket thinking, where stinky old ideas are dug up out of the garbage and thrown back onto the table.
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Using the DMG monster creation table, player are supposed to hit 65% of the time. There is one level where they hit 70% of the time but might be an error in my calculations.
@@LockSteady Yes... kinda... pathfinder and 3.5 are still hugely popular because of some of these customizations. yes they can get complicated but... for more experienced players 5e can almost be too simple. small modifications to weapons or armors can make an item feel unique instead of Rimrun the longsword made by dwarfs... is just a long sword... maybe a +1 longsword. however if you make the fact that it was made by dwarves important it becomes so much cooler. suddenly it doesnt need to be a +1 sword because the sword has its own properties because of who made it. the sword might be different if made by elves or by giants. or simply a master smith made armor special for you with properties that fit your character.
I have literally watched players throw away rare magical items because it doesn't fit their character or because the item wasn't what they expected. this allows an item to grow with a character. that heirloom sword left by your mother can now be upgraded so it gets more powerful with you. instead of being thrown away because you have a +1 sword now.
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@Joel Larry Instablaster :)
Forge cleric: *Heavy Breathing*
That's literally me right now!
Artificers are also getting massive boners as well.
Artificer: *Drooling*
Hi Ted, thank you so much for taking the time to do a review!
To address your final comment: I'm new to the DM's Guild stage, but more such toolkits are coming as time permits! In the meantime, if you or your viewers are interested in more like this you or they can download a copy of my Alchemy Almanac on Google Drive (link: drive.google.com/file/d/16cxfcOsZmQ3jF8lOLvaml_cN2aHqyZvW/view ) for free! As its now been in-use for a few years at my table (and has improved a lot since the linked version), an updated and expanded Almanac is going to be my next major toolkit release.
Thank you so much for this. I look forward to your releases, and if they are all this quality I see myself buying them all.
When I was watching the video I immediately thought I needed a potions version of this and here you go dropping it. 😁
Now that an official Artificer class exists, how's that balancing act going?
- Also, why is Silvered an improvement tag rather than a special material? The way it is here, recreating a basic +1 weapon (100-500 gp) costs a full *_1,700_* gp.
Awesome! It's good to know more great stuff is coming!🤓🤓🤓
Just read through the alchemist seems very well done hope to buy the craft book soon and look forward to Future content 😊
I bought this 2 weeks ago and love it. I'm running a Viking Horror campaign with low magic and I have been looking for runic magic and the ability to make normal weapons that aren't magic, just very well made. I can't wait to add this to my world.
I'm gonna be super honest with ya Chief, I have watched so many of your videos, they started showing up in my recommended quite a while ago. I totally forgot that I hadn't actually subscribed to the channel. I fixed that for us both.
Beowulf Odinson Saaaaame
Same here, I just sub and clicked for all notifications.
NEED. Both as a player and a DM. Yeah. 5e's crafting is so bare bones that tool proficiency in and of themselves are almost pointless. And what is there isn't practical. You are kind of left hanging. Potions, poisons, gathering herbs, crafting, etc. Always comes up and it sucks when you don't have anything on hand to tell your players.
Yeah in basically fully incorporating this into my games and all 5e going forward
Do it. I went over this with my group and we all agreed it deserves a place in the game within a day or two of looking things over.
Oh for sure. Yeah I think I'm going to grab it on pay day. Also looking at Hammund's Harvesting to see it's something I'd like. At a glance, armorer's handbook looks more manageable. Now I just gotta figure out a potion brewing supplement.
@@rudesthazard5769 Look down the comments a bit, the guy who made this is working on an Alchemy supplement and he's put a link to the WIP google drive doc! Scanned it briefly and it looks just as good.
@@threadmiser4914 Nice!
I watch as many of these as you make, sir. There needs to be more DMsGuild reviews.
Craftsman backgrounds are underrated.
As someone who also misses the Arms & Equipment Guide, this scratches an itch I've had to ignore for a long time. So glad they reached out to you. Looks like a fantastic book.
not gonna lie i was watching this channel for awhile and while I have some misgivings about your attitude towards some things in 5e I watch you plenty enough to get that subscribe. Keep up the good work man.
I bought the book thanks to you. Great video, two of my players are an enchanter and a blacksmith and I’ve been really struggling trying to figure out how to make their talents feel useful. This has really helped, thank you.
Coming at you from May. Looks like you got your goal and passed it like crazy! 50k by birthday? Keep up the awesome content
I usually shy away from homebrew mechanics but knowing that you're reviewing it puts me at ease. Great video!
As a history buff I saw “leather armor is gambison and studded leather is a jerkin” and immediately went to look to buy the book. I also always disliked how D&D had basically no improvements from design, you just get magic items, and this makes equipment so much more interesting
Enchantments should do cool things and +1s should come from “sharpened” or “balanced” and such. Cause that’s how we always describe them anyways. As a dm I say “magically sharpened” and “feels well balanced” for a +1 so intuitively it would make a lot more sense if that weren’t magic
So whats padded armour? And wouldn't it be better for studded leather to be scaled linothorax? Considering how the linothorax was most likely tube and yoke armor
I mean, yeah. Studded leather is a misinterpretation of the brigandine, but the AC doesn't make sense for it to be brigandine
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"Padded" drops off the list. There is also a proper Brigandine, which replaces half-plate. Half-plate, in turn, becomes step 2 in building your full set of heavy armor. Basically, you get a cuirass, then add tassets and pauldrons to make half-plate, and finally finish with the greaves and vambraces to make the full set. And every set of heavy and medium armor comes with a gambeson, or you can get a discount by already having one.
Amazing. Spent the last 2 weeks reworking an improved weapons with different affects, stat requirements and bonuses, and armor list to be more medieval and culturally accurate, and I just hear about this right now which is just better than what I've been working on... Might have to check it out.
No longer part of the 74%! Thanks for your work! I appreciate your insight/ perspective!
Fantastic man. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
I love these reviews for products that are in the $10-$20 range. Honestly, more than that is a real stretch for PDFs costing more than that.
Anyway. I have some shopping to do. ;)
When you of all people make a recommendation that strong (reading the description) that really gets my attention!
Thanks for the video
I have definitely been one of those among the 74% (or 3.6% - whatever the unknowns are), but since you asked so nicely, I'm now in the sub-column. Keep up the good work and informative/fun videos!
If I may add to this, Esquiel's Guide to Magic Weapons and Xanathar's Extraordinary Vault are two other DM's guild items you may wish to look into for crafting, and I recommend both.
E's Guide gives many new weapons, loot tables, a weapon generator, racial designed weapons, blessings and curses, as well as some background lore from the Faerun universe.
X's Vault gives many historical conversions to 5e of weapons, armor and gear, many new magical gear variants as well as bringing back some of the things that are missing in 5e from older editions like glamour and shadow weave, and ideas/rule sets for crafting from gathered materials and some very interesting mounts and vehicles, all rolled in with xanathar's snarky little comments.
I also HIGHLY recommend Elminster's Guide to Magic as well. A complete book of spells, sub classes, items and lore.
Edit: If you would like a preview of some sort, I would be more than happy to provide, as I own all of the above (obviously).
We will somewhat have equipment "level up" concept in the new book wildmount with vestiges.
This is by far the best splat I've seen from DM's Guild. They managed to nail the balance on expanding options while not pushing the envelope too far. The Focus on balance at the beginning and end is what really made me happy about this purchase, as it does give one a leg to stand on when presenting new ideas to the group. It also give players something to do with their money which, without being able to chase magic items around the market, was kind of a problem. This adds a needed money sink and downtime activity.
Comments like these make it all worthwhile-if you have a minute to leave a rating or review on the site I'd really appreciate it
Think they should update “Forge Cleric” so you the player could upgrade your parties arms and armors. Though it would need to be tag you know or learn.
One thing I do for my players in D&D 5e (and earlier editions) is use a gradually increasing (graded) cost increase that the player can pay to have an artisan imbue your base armor from the book to a +1-5 (graded G.P. cost of course) The cost for each of these bonuses increases exponentially based on what the artisan will charge for labor + the cost of the highly magical ingredients for the infusion. This keeps their armor getting better and better, so that it can stay on a relatively equal footing with the increasing power of the monsters they face at higher and higher levels.
Dont know why you thought we didnt like your previous dms lair reviews. I loved the one about taverns, am planning to get it when i can, and have already tried to incorporate a bit of what you showed of it in my game. Please keep showing us any gold you come across.
"The Creaking Bough" roudy tap house that is near an ancient oak tree that is actually a treant. The bar keep a red headed gnome who has found a recipy for a vodka like drink from the treants sap. The beverage is very strong but should an adventurer manage to down 3 in a single sitting they will find their constitution has risen by one point and their skin has a bark texturing too it in places.
Some of it is basically a conversion of all the material & weapon rules from pathfinder into 5e. That's not a criticism - as a previous player of pf now DM'ing for 5e, I sorely miss all that stuff & have already used a couple of it's ideas in my games. I will definitely be picking this up & I can even see this along with the runes significantly overhauling my current approach to gear progression in my campaigns.
Having said that, I already had plans for it in the base rules, but with this supplement an artificer build I had thought up could be incredibly powerful very quickly XD
I’ve never made a dm guild account, until I saw this video, and I bought the pdf, cause I love this idea.
Heard the kid at the end, and got up thinking my 2 year old woke up. Definitely appreciated the review was tired of creating house rule changes. Covers most issues I've had.
Great review. I will definitely take a look at this pdf.
This video’s thumbnail deserves an award.
This looks like an amazing addition to my future campaigns! I'm planning on running a lower magic, grittier feeling campaign and this expansion would really help players feel like they're getting stronger without giving them magic weapons/armor.
Also I really enjoy your DM's Guild reviews so keep it up!
Just started using this my last Session I was DMing. Also looking int o Ghesh’s guide to making things (Has a wonderful amount of modifications that could add a lot to this handbook and D&D 5e Massive Profession Addition (Benjamin Brews) as another professions handbook.
Just bought this bad boi. Holy heck if this isnt one the best values ive ever got on dms guild. If u like this product, i really think you should check out the Comprehensive Equipment Manual and its subsequent sister products.
I keep getting these videos in recommended and I didn’t realize I wasn’t subscribed until just now
My players and I have just started talking about how we could use different materials and Magic’s to upgrade armour weapons and gear. I was trying to work out how so this is perfect timing to stumble across 😱👍
I love it and I’m hoping to implement it into one of my two campaigns.
Picking this up this week using your Review Code. Thanks for the GUSHING for you sold it well
Those analytics though, how can UA-cam say "unknown?" I wonder if no profile guests are counted in that category or in the not subscribed. That's weird.
Review was cool, and big props to the author here for making the sample file actually long enough and of the correct pages to figure out how the content is supposed to work. Too often I see the preview for a longer item on the DM's guild with a 1 page preview, or an adventure where one monster stat block is all we get. You gotta sell us on it, heavyarms did a great job with this.
My guess would be that because on mobile you can do video previews. Given those can and regularly do, for me at least, happen on accident, UA-cam might not track them as proper views for purposes of the algorithm
The handbook is unquestionably great. But that thumbnail is beyond words. 😂
Thanks for letting me know about this product. I've been wanting something like this for 5e for a while.
I recently found that armor proofing in this system interact extremely well with the feat Heavy Armor master. Since HAM gives a damage reduction, and armor proofing makes any non-magic damage that is 8 or less deal no damage. You basically makes anything that deal 2d6 impossible to deal damage with, as only a max damage roll deal damage without modifiers. If you also add adamantime that lowers any damage by 3, you take no damage on non-magical attacks of 14 or lower. The Champion (CR 9) enemy will have 46% - 36% chance of deal any damage to you at all *IF* he hits all of his attacks when you got 3rd tier armor proofing and HAM.
There are rules to forge silver weapons in the PHB.
There was a rule added in Xanathars for forging Adamantine weapons too.
Yeah but shut up tho.
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My bad, just pointing out misinformation. Didn’t mean to ruffle any bodies feathers.
Bobby Baker oh, sorry that was a super castle super beast/super beets friends reference. When someone is right but you don’t want to hear it they say “yeah but shut up tho” meaning you have no counter point. Didn’t mean it as offensive. I apologize that my joke didn’t land, and if I hurt your feelings in any way, I apologize for saying shut up
Tho as well. Have a great day!
I found that the crafting rules in the main books and Xanathars where lack luster. I get that Wizards is trying not to overwhelm people with rules for 100 different things but I still was left wanting. I suppose that is what the DMs guild is there for tho.
I've recently started a guide for myself and my players for crafting and upgrading weapons and potions! As a monster hunter nerd I always wanted to be able to make or improve items using the monster materials from what the party killed. This is great, definitely gonna have to grab it.
Gambeson is already in the game, it's just called Padded Armor (i asume, cause it's wider spread as a word for this kind of armor) ac+11+dex Light Armor
Yeah though Padded armor is the same mechanically as leather though it has disadvantage on stealth.
@@NerdImmersion Yea, just poiting that out since u said "no gambeson". Maybe i'll implement this into my homegame, after i rewrite whole Pathfinder to 5e
Honestly, the in game disadvantage on stealth doesn't need to be there, also it was most likely far more common than leather, and given its commonality, was probably superior to leather, and even if not it would be far easier to repair. I read that table as them removing "padded armor" and renaming leather armor as such.
@@JeikobuI agree, padded is better for protection than leather, and the disadvantage makes no sense, it's literally 2 pieces ofcloth with varied stuffing between them. But that's kinda game balance. cheaper=disadvantage same way there are 2 medium armors with same ac, one is cheaper but gives disadvantage. Another thing is, that DnD is a fantasy game afterall, and it's a fantasy trope that best "light" armor=leather, ideally get black or dark brown with optional studs. If u wanna play a gritty realism game? sure go for padded, if u wanna make it full realism, remind that full plate fighter/paladin/cleric that plate is heavy and has no airflow so with gritty realism wearing plate for a day would be 1point of exhaustion (fuck that came out passive agressive, didn't mean to sorry ;-;)
@@The_Yukki gambeson is typically just many layers of cloth sewn together with no excess padding, it's those layers that made it actually a pretty good and cheap armor.
I actually just found out I wasn't subscribed to your chanel, cause I was receiving notification os your videos regularly. But problem solved, I am now
First 20 seconds, you've described something I was trying to fluff doing with one of my characters with this. Now to watch the rest of the video and I may be buying this to see if I can get my GM to allow it.
I really appreciate these videos personally. I’ve been disappointed with home brew content so I’m wary about paying for stuff on dms guild
This is great. I was implementing something very similar like this into my game once the PCs get a HQ. Might have to buy it so I don't have to do anymore work.
You know what? I have stumbled upon a lot of your stuff and liked it. you got yourself a subscription.
Yeah, this has actually convinced me to go and get it.
It sounds awesome!
I'll tell them you sent me! 😅
This seems really cool. I’m gonna check it out
Dude much appreciated. This will be a great addition to my game. Thanks for the Video, keep on doing what you do.
This is so amazing! Thank you for reviewing this!
This seems like what I want and need I’ll consider getting it for sure!
A magic item compendium would be amazing.
I'm getting back into 3.5 and the magic item compendium/spell compendium are go to books.
Crafting one of my favorite things in any system, so i like this kinda stuff
This is a great product. I'd love to see a review of the Pugilist class, if you're back to DM's Guild review videos!
The main NPC in my campaign is:
- a dwarf
- a rune knight fighter
- the second best smith of his clan
- and loves pimping armour with all the jewels my players find.
I NEED this.
Congrats on getting to 100K!
would LOVE that proofing thing as part of a character concept built around the heavy armor master feat. truly I do miss the depth of previous editions.. ok it was complicated but 5e has gone so far in the other direction... it just feels very bare bones in comparison to older editions even now after all this time. JuSt RoLe PlAy!!!!
Huh i didn't even know i wasn't subscribed to you. Your videos just came up so frequently that i assumed i was
These sound like potential "magic" items but i wouldn't feel too comfortable adding in all of these tags and options as a whole. But it seems good to pick from
Really? If anything, I'd say the costs seem a tad exorbitant.
Though I guess the Critical tag could be pretty potent for certain builds
I bought the book. Thank you for showing. It is amazing.
This stuff looks awesome so glad to see it
That adjustment to make greatclubs count as heavy is such a boon to one of my character plans (possibly my favourite one). It now works without having to fudge in extra multiclass levels or feats that I don't really have space for, just to match the RAW. Of course it also just makes a lot of sense!
The only thing that seems missing to me is stone as a weapon/armor material.
Need more of this. Are there any good guides on other tooling proficiencies like woodcarving?
gotta increase that sub goal before your bday bud great videos btw really enjoy em
Your videos are recommended to anyone who is subscribed to d and d channel. This is good because it means your views mean you will be recommended more, but it’s bad because people have less incentive to subscribe.
I didn't see it mentioned in the comments but you were slightly wrong. There is more than mithral and adamantine. The Ravnica book added mizzium or whatever it's called.
I have watched this several times. It is excellent. Thank you.
While I would have done a few small things differently, I am OK with just using the book as-is. Nice product, great review!
I've picked this up because of your review @Nerd Immersion, I think I'm going to be using the rune and hieroglyph magic from Kobold Press Deep magic to add rarer armor upgrades. Eversense the Artificer became official I feel rules like these are needed more then ever.
Would love a book on magical items with a story on some of their backgrounds
Coryinnocence take a look at Arcanis
I really like this addition to the game and I love that you cover it!
I do like the shield options, that was something that has annoyed me that they didn't have it.
Sure I could homebrew it, but when I was running adventure league it was a no go. Being strapped to rules as written can be quite difficult due to 5e vagueness
I love this shit. I'd buy it if i ever find a group of vets to play with - my current group is still figuring out the base rules.
This sounds like my kind of supplement.
Unique materials is cool. Growing or living weapons are really cool. Like soul edge from soul calibur series.
My friends since 3.5E have always wanted weapons that grew with them. If you gave them a material, they'd get it via questing. Oh it needs to be a scale from an iron dragon? Well, guess we're going out dragon hunting. 5E has been very barebones and required a lot of invention and testing to make weapons feel like their progressing while not being too broken.
Wow, here I thought the thumbnail would be an exaggeration
+1 for kid calling out at the end
Whoops. Been watching so long I forgot I never subscribed. Here's your updoot
Love your stuff!
I wish I could buy it in hardcover. This was great. I hope the stats show this video gets some attention. Love this kind of stuff!
First time seeing your content, good stuff. Subscribed
Brigandine is not half plate. Brigandine is also commonly called Coat of plates best examples of this come from the Battle of Wisby where 3 different types were discovered.
I've watched quite a few of your videos and never subscribed because I find them too long for the content discussed. Subscribed now any way because hey, I've still gotten plenty of good information out of your videos.
I also wanted to say thank you for the thoughtful videos. I know people can eventually benefit *if* a channel grows enough, but I'm getting free content I'm really interested in and I know it takes work. Thanks.
Funny you released this video like maybe 4 days after me buying this pdf. Yea I like some of the stuff in here and plan to use some of it and help inspire some of my own ideas.
I'd love to see more content like this. Maybe take a look at harmunds guide, pretty cool idea of monster bits and what you can or how to sell stuff you skin off varies monsters it is Pretty cool.
There is a lot of gms guild stuff I'd love to see videos on.
Dude good grab, I am so putting this in all my games.
I liked the thumbnail 🤣
Is there anything said, one way or the other, if Forge clerics can use their channel divinity on any of these upgrades? I did catch the line about NPC's needing to apply tags, just hoping there was more to it.
I bought this before the video was even half over. I also see in the comments that the author is working on potion crafting too.
ahh, the good old arms and equipment guide. still to this day one of the largest pdfs ive ever printed.
I recently came back to this book and I am still wondering if I should buy it, but I am not sure if it would be fitting for the campaign I am DMming, since it is a rather high-magic setting
i do not sub when i first watch someone's vids but i just realized i had been watching for a while without realizing i did not sub.
I wonder how this handbook will work in my games with the introduction of the rune knight subclass in Tashas that my PC's want to play.
No issue that I can see my friend.
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Heavyarms needs to link your vid on the listing for this product. Your thorough analysis and review made me purchase something for the first time instead of "paying what I want" for zero dollars. Thanks again for the consistently great content!
Any sources on improving D&D property ownership? Doesn’t make sense that an inn can make as much money per month as a castle.
I will look into it and see what I can find!
I, personally, use Walrock Homebrew's stuff for strongholds. Taverns are included in it. Your mileage may vary, but I think it's great and my players love it.
Would recognising adamantium weapons and their qualities be a Nature, Arcana or an Intelligence check with a Smith's Tools proficiency bonus?
You use a crown royal bag for dice too or am I mistaken that purple bag