Crafting with Cadavers - Intermission Episode 3
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- After a little break, I return with a new video! In this one, we go over how to think about re-purposing the stuff you or your players do in on the battlefield and turning said stuff into useful items!
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Heya! Been a while huh! Took some time off in the middle of this one, kinda had a brain fizzle along the way, but I got it done! Hope you all enjoy, I'm gonna try to get myself back onto a normal schedule.
Definitely enjoyed this, and I'm glad to hear you're back on schedule, looking forward to the next great video!
Don't worry, we don't want you to burn out! It's ok to take time off.
Is it true? What they say about King Dalton?
Hey, Kanekuo!
I would love to see your take on Bugbears!
liar. they didn't kill king dolton at all!
Hey Dwarf
Yea?
Are we the baddies?
Don't be daft. Now shut up and finish sowing my goblin skin slippers.
There was a guy in Goblin slayer who wore a goblin leather mask. He was also a reference to Bilbo, so ..... ye.
Necromancers don't even need to pillage graveyards when an adventuring party leaves behind so many fresh corpses.
Great opportunity to have a necromancer sneak after a party for several sessions, collecting what they kill.
That's a good encounter
We are very happy for the adventurer's leaving us so many supplies for our armies of the dead
*insert spongebob saying “write that down, write that down” here*
I have made a necromancer who uses the shit lying around for charity (system where magic ain’t evil unless used for evil)
"How to craft stuff from monsters parts"
*Lizardfolk players scribbling down notes*
*rips out spine, skull still attached*
Improvised flail!
*Takes spine and tail bones from a creature with long tail*
Neat whip.
*Reinforces lute with Sahuagin ribs and femurs, studs it with teeth and turns it into a HH*
Lizardfolk might be difficult to rollplay but god damn are the fun to play with.
Yes
*realizes I can make shit out of those pesky kobolds*
my main weapon is basically two giant crab claws tied to a stick, so a glaive.
"You shouldn't go around touching people corpses" -Words to live by
and you know some sick and twisted player with a chaotic neutral/evil character is going to want to make clothing out of human skin
Or if your necromancer
@@SilverGuard if you do find a dead people is it really all that wrong to make a skin nice belt out of it. It's not like dead people need skin.
Aww, but I want an undead minion
@@an8strengthkobold360 really, if corpses were never used for anything then the whole world would be full of them.
So this is basically how to turn D&D into MH:W
JoCat would be proud.
Monster hunter in general,but Yes,I know JoeCat would Love it
Toss a Sword and Shield in the mix and he'll get a Boner
@@giovannialoisio4523 As long as he doesn't get out the fireballs...
Cooking and crafting monsters adds a whole new level to dungeon crawling. That is so awesome
Yeah, got a lizardfolk gourmet/crafter character lined up that uses as much of his kills as he can.
"I strife to slay the strongest monsters in the world!"
"Oh, to prove your might?"
"Nah, just wanna see how they taste. Maybe make a cool sword."
@@2MeterLP the environmentally friendly adventure, I can only imagine what slime "corpses " do to the environment.
You should check out Delicious in Dungeon. It is a manga that follows an adventuring party that forages all their food from monsters in the dungeon.
@@tysonnw Read the whole thing already, though thanks for recommending :)
My group hates when i do this. Takes too much time but when we get into town i make bank.
That goblins girlfriend is gonna love there new necklace 😊
"You shouldn't go around touching people corpses"
*[Laughs in Necromancy]*
[Chews in Lizardfolk]
@@2MeterLP halhhahauahshah
Laughs maniacally as edgelord rogue
The fan service has also become MANSERVICE, which i cool
That moment you're invading the homes of sapient monsters to murder them to wear their skins and bones and you realize you were the monster all along.
That was pretty much my reaction when he said dragon.
"Turns out it's man!"
Or playing Monster Hunter
Ah yes, the Rimworld experience.
You were a Monster Hunter
Lizard Folk: allow us to introduce ourselves (Scale skins are masters of cadaver crafting, that bards femur looks like it could make a flute)
Hell yeah, Cunning Artisan!
Ironic
Thats why i love them. It makes it feel more like a real world. You use every part of the animal if you go hunting, you dont just kill it and let it rot there
2:24 I...hum... Can we have more drawing of this magnificent creature
For "research" purposes of course
Made my jaw drop too
Kanekuo: "You could make so many incredible items from harvesting monsters! Your imagination is the only limit."
Lizard Man: "I'm gonna beat this goblin to death with this other goblin's leg."
Since Lizardfolk are known for eating other humanoids, would that be like tenderizing meat? While tendering another meat (the currently living goblin)?
@@matteussilvestre8583 won't be a living goblin for long.
@@catcher717 You're going under the assumption that at least one of the goblins was dead at the start. Beating a goblin to death using another, still living, goblin, using the legs and feet like a flail is still fairly economic use of goblins.
GAAAAWWWBLINS!!
@Ray Bans Depends on if you're a goblin or not.
Oh, so it's "Crafting with Cadavers" as in PCs making *items* out of dead monsters.
I thought it was going be a lot more necromantic-y, about a BBEG making new monsters out of the ones the party kills, like, say, a Flesh Golem. Or a Bone Spider.
That's horrifying. I'm gonna use that now
Yeah, that's what I was expecting, too. Of course, you can certainly go off the rails yourself with this sort of stuff.
I had an idea a while ago where a terrasque beheaded by a gate spell addressed to the abyss closing around it's neck could several years later create a high class demon or demon lord that was literally a terrasque head with disproportionately sized chicken legs sprouting from it's lower jaw. Think of Baba Yaga's hut, but it's a fucking gargantuan maw that redefines armageddon.
Well, if you offer this to players, and they take to it, a necromancer scooping up what remains would be a neat encounter. Players can use corpses, so can the NPCs.
Take the giant they fell, remove everything below the waist, attach it to the the neck-stump of the dragon they slayed, bam, you got the worlds scariest artificial centaur.
@@kylestanley7843 omg I’m using this lmao
new video NEW VIDEO YESSSSSSSS
im so happy rn
4:05 killed me instantly. Thanks Kane, can't wait
Noooooooo my boy noooooo!
1:36-
Monster Hunter.
Y-you just described a D&D x Monster Hunter campaign.
I wonder how a D&D X Monster Hunter game would look like.
@@garrickberry3175 Basically a lot less on treasurefinding/nationsaving/goddealing shenanigans and more nature exploration and combat with creatures (aka a Ranger's wet dream). RP's not as much but you deal with more crafting shenanigans from what kanekuo described to entire crafting systems
I run evil campaigns.
Yesterday a player asked me: "Do halfling bones work as a substitute for children's bones for crafting this cursed knife?"
Nooooo not King Dalton!
Ornstein R.I.P.
Wait what happened to the kobald king
@@RustyUNITB 4:05 "Fran and Anya have just killed King Dalton of the Wormspine Kobolds and... whoops wrong book"
Ornstein well fuck
Im from the future where that fate did not occur...
I already have a character who makes fashion from monster corpses. You've just elevated his thinking.
'You shouldn't go around touching people's corpses'
My Lizadfolk Hunter: It's free real estate.
But really, this vid really helps me a lot to spice up my scaly boi. Gonna suggest this vid to my dm.
I live to see your buff ass dragon guys
Monster Hunter: DnD edition
why do you draw every female of every race, even the kobolds, so damn sexy?
He likes the female figure
Im surprised there was no mention of lizardfolk. As far as i remember its even in their description that they will use parts of fallen enemies or even just parts of their hunts to craft things.
They even get a racial that lets them make poor weapons out of dead things, like swords that deal 1 less damage or bows that snap on their first use.
@@suitguy969 Cunning Artisan says nothing about items made from corpses being fragile or subpar in any way. Are you not referring to 5e DnD?
@@kylestanley7843 I swear it did. I'll have to check it again.
Fabian seems concerned as he doesn’t wear a hat
Hey, bones have been awesome tools for my alchemist grave cleric- hes been making glowsticks from them and glowing flora dyes, crushing them into bonemeal or ash to use for potion crafting, and splintered bone makes decent trap or shrapnel mats.
Ive also given thought to using them to make money maker crafts for towns and gifts for friends of the character.
You can narratively make wonderful things by seeming a little morbid.
6:24
I don't know who that is but I hope they have a long, wonderful life.
Someone’s been playing Monster Hunter.
4:05 HOW DARE YOU
Kanekou: making things with monster parts.
Kilton from botw: ( unholy giggles)
"Diminishing returns" this is a tightrope between railroad DMing and OP crew.
I think DMs need to reward for ingenuity, but punish assumptions without research in RP
Well ingenuity often involves exploiding the rules that dms set so... Yeah tigh rope. You make it unfair and they not gonna bother, you make it "fair" and they WILL try exploid it.
@@rocket_sensha4337
I agree with making it "fair" concern, just being able to discern "curiosity/trying to understand" from an exploitive player is important too.
Not all players are exploitive, there are just players who try to understand what they 'can' do, and its the DMs ruling to constrict if need be, but ingenuity
@@UndeadDragonWarrior Note that i didn't meant they exploiting as something bad. examples like the one kanekuo put were they farm it to the point of making their own "Bard 'n co" are even great. Its a testament for both the dm and the players ingenuity.
Something I would like to add is that if an item a player would like to craft from a monster has a effect that requires a saving throw, you could always use the saving throw DC's of the monster in question for the item.
Great work! Hopefully I can do this in my campaign. Also WHY ARE ALL THE MEN WAMEN HOT?!?!?!
22 comments, not one saying first. My, how we've evolved
Are you saying human corpses are more important than monster corpses? Monsters are people, too!!!
Only the ones that join the party
@@OhNoTheFace But what if they're already in your party? And besides, almost any monster can be convinced to join if you roll high enough. My ongoing campaign managed to get an ogre and a mimic to join us.
"You shouldn't go around touching people's corpses."
The party's Necromancer: *heavily sweating*
0:47 "it’s a very different boat than cooking monster parts…"
Lizardfolk: _"Suuuure_ it is Mr. Chicken-man."
4:05 *Fren and Anya just killed King Dolton of the Wyrmspine Kobolds..*
Me: Wait, isn't that... KANEKUO, F*CK YOU
Reusing and recycling, one dragon bone at a time.
You made reference to the Kobold king... and he might be dead?
3:40 OR make a pimp-ass Flintstone car.
Complete with funny driving feet running sounds
I'm starting to think your videos are cursed. Last time I watched your Appendages video and my window got broken right as my cousin was in front of it now my lamp almost fell over and would've if the wire wasn't tangled. Weird
Edit: and my mother burned 2 cakes today
Character idea; lizardfolk merchant that only buys parts of dead animals to make into useful magical items. However, nobody wants to buy anything from him because everything looks incredibly grotesque and morbid, and they have to pass a dc13 fear check in order to even approach his wagon made of heartstrings and bones, with a cover made of skin from god knows what.
The lizard in the thumbnail is TOO handsome. I tried not to click but I just had to.
So I seen this at work and was thinking of listening to it on the ride home. Then I thought listen and not see THAT art work... glad I waited. Good video. I'm going to *cough* and put this in my discord.
4:05 WAIT THEY KILLED THE KOBOLD KING HOW DARE YOU KILL MY AMAZING KOBOLD SHINY MESSIAH
So basically you want us to create Monster Hunter. Sweet! I’m not alone when it comes to this.
I’m going to do this as a ranger only thing so that my players will actually play ranger.
I love how Monster Hunter crafts stuff, this looks like a very nice mechanic to add to have.
So Basically monster hunter
One absolutely terrible example: so my party had just finished slaying one of the big bads of my campaign, an ancient red dragon and had for whatever reason decided to take the scrotum of the beast and turn it into a quilt. They called it the squilt.
3:23
I swear kanekuo makes these videos solely to draw cuTE GIRLS *D:
uwu
You keep making hot goblins dude
ok i kinda want a mini seires about anya and fran also i see the koblold king is dead in your cannon thing
I've personley used dead wyverns to make cloaks and potions before,
what kind of potion?
@@uncannyfairy8071 using there poison glands to create a tar like substance. to throw at enemies. 2d6 poison against con sav.
As someone who's majorly into taxidermy and does a little bit of it here and there - I gotta say, is that all you can think of making out of a cockatrice? I can think of more you can do with a regular rooster!
Also something I feel like might be something to consider: damage. A fireball killing a creature will not leave behind any kind of leather that you want to harvest, and chopping something through with a sword will damage bones and organs too, and depending on what spills out, it might also leave a much larger area unsuitable for work.
He did briefly mention this as "special hunting procecures".
1:38
Dragon intestine=cosey sleeping bag
"You shouldn't go touching people corpses." Dragons are people.
:eyes: that dragonborn barbarian...
Big Tiddy Goblin wife and Daddy Dragonborn. Hellyeah
I like the look of the GM, nice hair and glasses there.
3:27 man you are just on a mission to draw thicc goblins..............i dont DISlike it
Dang rip the kobold king
4:05
(*sharp inhaling*)
This combined with the prosthetics immediately makes for a VERY interesting idea for a world
Oh, shit...
I like where your head's at. Biological transplants.
Thats it,i wanna play godrick the grafted
This show is like a drug
This is DEFINITELY something I’ve got to keep in mind for my games! Planning a Homebrew campaign, and while that’s being worked on still, I want to run Curse of Strahd. I have to wonder what kinds of things the players can make during those
0:51 I'm loving that stink eye though
As someone currently running a survival game style short adventure, thank you for this. I have been having some trouble with how to make crafting fun and engaging and the gauntlet example provided me with some insight into how to improve my own cobbled together system.
0:34 Lizardfolk: (slowly takes off human skin cloak)
i've always wanted to give my players weapons that are made from creatures. like a flame tongue that is actully made from the tongue or fang of a dragon
This is a fun idea but how do I implement something like this into my game?
Play a lizard folk. Its one of their base racial abilities. Then after you kill something, start thinking. Get creative. That manticores tail would be a good spear, and its wings a good cloak. Stuff like that. The limits really are just your imagination and how much material you can get from one creature
I would love for my players to think more like this. Sometimes, I've made encounters specifically thinking that one of them would pick out something of the creature and try to make it into an object. Use to have this one player from WAY back. In a dungeon with inevitables, we had found a destroyed Zelekhut along with some demons it had managed to slay. Said player was a Dex based Rogue and REALLY wanted the bladed whip the construct had cause he was big into Prince of Persia at the time. By the end of his crafting and the party resting, he had made a +1 holy bladed chain that stored in a gauntlet on his arm. Was pretty rad.
What's really useful with this sort of thing is that a lot of options for items made from monsters or upgraded by parts of them already exist in prior editions.
Using dragon leather for armors would add resistance to the energy type of their main breath weapon, dragon bone weapons tended to be 1 extra damage, but that would be the energy type of the dragons main breath weapon, Bows would have either a 50% or double maximum range. The 3rd edition draconomicon was great for that sort of thing.
You might also look at the 3.5 Unearthed Arcana book for another use of parts with spells being modified by using specially collected materials of different things.
On top of that, monster parts are a way to work in equipment upgrades for players more interested in improving what they have than just looking for their shiny new sword to acquire, or for those crafting gear...you might need to collect the "essence" of a fire elemental for your flaming sword or there might be ritual "spells" that might require regents that are a pain to get and need to be quested for (A spell put together to purge a mystical plague from a city might require the players to be sent out after the tears of a unicorn as part of it).
5:12 I i ship it.
I think I'm currently going through the item creation process right now, actually, though let make items and more attaching body parts. My kobold stripped some wings off a dragonborn. :D
I think he said immediately leave humanoid corpses alone lol
I LOVE YOUR ARTWORK!!!!! And the ideas for my roleplaying adventures 😉
Thank you for the inspiration, in art and for our gaming sessions
Remember the blader. Never forget the blader. That's possibly the best way scary anyone. You dragon carving freak.
More... more cute kobold girls... I MUST HAVE MORE
A clever thing my DM does is that the more Corpses we leave behind the higher chance that those corpses will get corrupted by the game's version of Terraria's Crimson.
So basically everytime we exceed the corpse limit of 4 the DM adds a d6 into the health of the "Amalgam".
We made the mistake of leaving too many corpses and had to fight an amalgam with 127 health.
THIS WAS SO HELPFUL
Everytime I DM
I always have that one guy
who wants to make shit out of EVERYTHING and I'm never equipped to think up stuff on the spot
*whispers while screaming* FLESH GOLEMS
An entire video about making weapons and armor out of corpses and not a single mention of lizardfolk? I'm disappointed, Kane
Good video though, sent this to my dm so he can help and/or hinder my lizardfolk character in his quest of becoming a bonelord
I LOVE your videos but I HATE the shaky cam you've started adding. It gives me motion sickness.
So The Kobold King was slain... Fran and Anya has invoked the Dragon Fury within every Wyrmspine Kobold out there
Always thought of corpses as simple disposable soldiers, but now...necromancy never was this fun
take the idea from this episode and the one about magic mutation : get an armour made of powerfull magic beast with powerfull bonuses but can have a big drawback if you wear theme too much. i like the idea.
I'm actually playing an Artificer that's been using monster parts in weaponry, armor, etc
So far I've made:
Remorhaz Half-Plate and Chitin Choker
Winter Wolf Cloaks to keep us warm in the colder region we're going to
Umberhulk Claw Daggers, one of which is +1
Catoblepas Maul and two Tusk Warpicks
Chimera that has multiple uses; Goat Horn Tankards, Lion pelt, and Dragon Wings I'm still trying to think about how to use, though the tent is a genuinely good idea
It comes down to the creativity of the player and I hope these give ideas :)
Yo whaddup kane? I've been wondering how you would draw the big ol' bugbear in the cute way you draw goblins. I got a character in a campaign that's a human teen stuck in a bugbear body and I wanna do some art that makes her a bit more... approachable.
Starts video by bringing up that an Adventuring Party leaves Bodies Behind.
Me: Isn't that literally why the Gelatinous Cube exists?
In my second ever D&D game, we killed a couple Ankhegs and my half/elven Ranger ripped off the mandibles to use as a scimitars, and later fashioned the other two mandibles into a longbow. Both deal acidic damage, due to the acid glands being later enchanted to not wither away.
Later, he skinned a couple Yuan-Ti and fashioned their scales into a suit of leather armor, making it into Scale-Studded Leather Armor (AC 12 + Dex, Magic Resistance) for himself and his wolf.
Here's something for the chaotic comrades and artificiers out there
DoomPowder
If your campaign has access to gunpowder and you recently killed a dragon
Mix a few barrels of gunpowder with its heart
You just gotta dry the heart then turn it into a fine powder and mix it
Amplifying Its power like....
10 times
In other words a small nuke
It could also work like a spell component that makes your fireballs become small suns
You could build small suicide golems
Explosive arrows
Add a explosive charge on a war hammer so when it hits, bloody fireworks
Explosive flintlock rifles
A bloody artillery golem
Anti tank mines
Threat an entire kingdom into becoming the next volcano
Let your mind blow up
Enjoy
Disclaimer, I dont play dnd, im just a dood that creates stuff
New ideas for my wizard/artificer build brewing here. Might want to dabble into necromancy...
As someone who plays rimworld. Human skin makes great cloths, and tents. Especially couches!
My Lizardfolk Barbarian used once Troll poop to poisen his longsword. DM found this idea so good he turned that sword into a magical weapon called "Blade of Disgust"
It has the normal dmg for a longsword + 1d2 (coin flip) acid dmg. It also gives my character -1 to all charisma checks besides Intimidation.
I think I would implement a business that specializes in Cadavers. The Corpus Collection, and there would be an agreement that the Adventurers Guild kill things and the Corpus Collection would go through and take what's left.
I like your Dragonborn drawings! (And the Dragonborn character you drew)
Makes me sad that Spell Caster's suffer from the blessings of Arcane Foci and weak material requirements.
It would be more fun to scavenge for spell component's in the wild even rediscovering/customizing spells based on the properties of the material gathered and type of arcane energy passed through it. So far the only Material Component's from defeated encounters I could think of are:
Animate Dead: Piece of Flesh
Fireball: Bat Guano & Sulfur
Mass Suggestion: Snake's tongue
Like everything else is inorganic and can be bought at an in game Walgreens on Sale. I'd love it if a Wizard could use the beak of a mocking bird to cast Mimicry or a Gills from any animal for Water Breathing with the quality and duration scaling to either the spell slot used and/or the quality of the material component. Maybe rogues gaining advantage without stealth on enemy races they dissect to study over 1d4 days (cost for note taking as well similar to spell book copying) for vitals for both medicine and attack rolls since they'll know where else to stab besides the neck and what poisons could do the most damage based on metabolic panels.
I mean I feel the organic nature of D&D is heavily unexplored do to the level of complexity you can get to if you push things to their logical conclusion in such a fantastic world!