One of my favorite is when the party I was in made a base of a town. I was a wizard and I would practice magic out in the fields and entertain people in the tavern with cantrips. When a kid came up to me and asked to be my apprentice so my character would do research in the town and teach the kid from then oh when he came back to the village and it was cool to see how the kid became more powerful as the campaign went on and I taught him spells.
Oh this is a great idea! (which i'm adopting btw lol) The wizard in my current game is a teacher IRL, she would love the idea of teaching a kid in D&D and watching him grow. Thanks for sharing!
I'm a first time dnd player and I picked a gnome artificer. That gave me the idea of hand crafting my team's own magic items. And since I picked the Alchemist subclass I want to make healing potions. My guy is the only one with a tool proficiency, having 6 of them. Downtime? Jeff Jeffry doesn't know the meaning of downtime.
I’ve always hand waved in town activities but I’m currently world building (about a week or two from completion) where my 4 players basically start off in their “Home Cities” and it will be a VERY realistic type thing where they’ll eventually meet each other or they won’t. But if I manage to keep the whole thing running smoothly it would turn out like 4 1-on-1 campaigns that have the potential for players to live out their stories and meet one another, become friends, decide if they want to party together so-forth and so-on blah blah blah, but I hope that it will have a very real-world feel and this episode was SUPER helpful and gave me some insight into ways I can accomplish this goal, thinks SOOO much.
Way late to the party, but I kind of laughed when you mentioned clothes shopping. My current character is a cleric of Wee Jas... who, in the Greyhawk campaign setting, is the goddess of death, but ALSO the goddess of vanity. So my DM was all "oh so yeah you're our grave cleric but your goddess also wants you to be fashionable."
I laughed about the clothing too cause one of my groups has 2 changlings in it, who are obsessed with clothing lol it's like first question in any new town lol
Edit: Sorry for the long read, but I think it'll be useful information for any players/DMs interested in crafting. There are unconventional ways to make magic items that aren't discussed much in the core rulebooks. In the past, I had a Ranger that helped kill some Ankhegs. He ripped off the mandibles and used them as scimitars, and as a bonus the DM said that the acid glands gave them acid damage until the glands disintegrated. So, eventually I took them to a Wizard and payed him to use preservation magic so that the acid damage was permanent. I took the material from the other two mandibles and scales from Yuan-Ti than we killed (for flexibility) and made a longbow out of them. I took the remaining scales and fashioned them into leather armor to make scale-studded armor. It has the same AC as studded leather, but has a minor buff against magic, as Yuan-Ti have resistance to magical effects. Matt Mercer has his own ideas on crafting in Critical Role campaign 2, in which an entire arc is spent trying to reforge a legendary weapon, starting episode 70 something. The way Matt Mercer handles it was through Exotic Materials. I won't get into spoilers or anything, but an example of these materials would be, say, from Skyrim. The snow at the very peak of The Throat of the World is magical by nature, and it never melts. Use that as a crafting material and it can create wonderful effects. Maybe you need a legendary bow to slay an ancient evil. A certain Exotic Material, Hartwood, may do the trick, though it is difficult to attain. When a tree dies, its life force recedes into the core and fades out of existence. If it falls in the Feywild, there's a chance the core will remain intact, and it makes for an incredible crafting material. I'd recommend looking into the Unearthed Arcana on Exotic Materials, or looking into Exotic Materials from previous editions and looking at their effects on items when used in crafting. It may take a lot of homebrew and creativity, but you can do some cool things with it.
I just want to start out and say that you guys are doing an amazing job! I am fairly new to Dungeons & Dragons and I cannot be happier that I found you guys. I am starting a campaign that is 7 deadly sins apocalypse. I feel like you guys would really like my character ling chili fire. He is a halfling sorcerer who all he wants to do is chili and his ultimate goal is to own a tavern. Keep up the great work guys!
I play a bard that has focused on nature music. I own a A vineyard and a brewery, the rogue and I own multiple taverns and inns. We have slowly monopolized the lands wine and ale, along with where people buy the drinks and stay. Needless to say we’ve become rich!
well in specific detail I only allow the ranger can collect parts required to make the object and few npc who can make it for them or if they take tinkering or blacksmithing proficincy to make it themselves. the npc would make it for them for gold but if they make it themselves it would have a bonus feature or something.
I love this Video Guys. I am currently in a Homebrew campaign with some friends I met in Neverwinter. Only 4 sessions in I am at level 4 Male Dragonborn Barbarian/ Weaponsmith Named 'Puffin' Stuff DainkGrass'. In the second boss fight while enRaged I rolled a Natural 1 on a hit to an undead Goblin Warlock... Screaming while my Great Axe slipped out of my hand and went sailing through the Portal that the Warlock was summoning Gouels and Plague rats from... The Rogue in the Party Downed him with the next arrow from her crossbow. Closing the Portal!!!! My Great Axe gone... forever! Now weaponless I spent the next week of downtime forging a weapon. My First MorningStar I named 'Genisis'. Had to trade all the weapons to the townsfolk for use of the forge, which had sat idle for years. my only tool a worn-cross pein hammer. I had to first forge tools... Gather resources scouted out a mine for future iron ore.... etc... ~ Lord Anvil Iron of the Ironwood Clan ~ William J. Fuller Jr.
Honestly the way you describe down time days. Sounds fun. I mean I would love a whole group that has an open world withoout adventure hooks and a plot at all and we spend all the sessions just rp immersion in the world. Like a whole semester of taking a foreign language in college but 3 months of dnd rp through infernal language classes would be awesome. Oh and I'm studying fashin in college so naturally my first time playing dnd was side tracking away from the group when we got to a big city with a market, just to browse textiles. I could spend hours browsing textiles and touching and feeling and than sitting with a sketchbook irl and I deff drove the group crazy esp the dm. He wanted to skip downtime entirely and he hates shopping, and in our gaming sessions I kept trying to wander off and rp my shopping on him
I want to create a character who is a Tiefling blacksmith and his motivation in life is to create legendary weapons that go down in history so that he can prove to the world that Tieflings are more than just thieves and killers. I want him to be a character that can create magical weapons. Is that allowed? And how does crafting actually work in dnd? I can’t find a guide anywhere.
Edit: Sorry for the long read, but I think it'll be useful information for any players/DMs interested in crafting. There are some pretty fun, albeit unconventional ways to make magic items. In the past, I had a Ranger that helped kill some Ankhegs. He ripped off the mandibles and used them as scimitars, and as a bonus the DM said that the acid glands gave them acid damage until the glands disintegrated. So, eventually I took them to a Wizard and payed him to use preservation magic so that the acid damage was permanent. I took the material from the other two mandibles and scales from Yuan-Ti than we killed (for flexibility) and made a longbow out of them. I took the remaining scales and fashioned them into leather armor to make scale-studded armor. It has the same AC as studded leather, but has a minor buff against magic, as Yuan-Ti have resistance to magical effects. Matt Mercer has his own ideas on crafting in Critical Role campaign 2, in which an entire arc is spent trying to reforge a legendary weapon, starting episode 70 something. The way Matt Mercer handles it was through Exotic Materials. I won't get into spoilers or anything, but an example of these materials would be, say, from Skyrim. The snow at the very peak of The Throat of the World is magical by nature, and it never melts. Use that as a crafting material and it can create wonderful effects. Maybe you need a legendary bow to slay an ancient evil. A certain Exotic Material, Hartwood, may do the trick, though it is difficult to attain. When a tree dies, its life force recedes into the core and fades out of existence. If it falls in the Feywild, there's a chance the core will remain intact, and it makes for an incredible crafting material. I'd recommend looking into the Unearthed Arcana on Exotic Materials, or looking into Exotic Materials from previous editions and looking at their effects on items when used in crafting. It may take a lot of homebrew and creativity, but you can do some cool things with it.
@@hungryghost8954 *are better at making items in general. A wizard may be smart enough to make that amulet of true sight,but an artificer is going to be able to make the amulet and then some
I've been trying to run a business and craft in almost every game I've played. I would love to play in a game were the DM supports that whole heartedly!
My character has the skilled feat and I took the tools option the last thing I crafted was a suit of heavy samurai armor and a pair of katana that actually also have the ability to fire crossbow bolts without using the crossbow giving me the same ranged damage of a light crossbow as well as a slash attack equal to that of a longsword
I'd like to think of downtime as the time to actually level up, whether by working out, studying or whatever. This way, on the next adventure, your character has some new things to show off when the time comes. It would seem kind of odd to me to make all your PCs only level up by questing. Downtime just offers optimal study-time and recovery. So that characters can fully concentrate on the need for newer, better skills.
The party I'm campaigning with will most likely be making use of our tools during our next session: 1. My character has smithing tools 2. Another has either woodcarving or carpentry tools 3. The third has stone-masonry tools Since we lost our metal gear due to a corrosion/rust spell and our Dwarven stone-mason got us banned from a local gear shop due to being an idiot, scavenging for new equipment with possible repairs will be needed before we can return to where we had to retreat from; I'd rather not risk being banned from another shop.
My 2 of my PC's(my younger brothers) characters don't care about adventuring they just want to run their farm, they just can't afford to run their farm with out adventuring money. It's really fun, I plan to give them a black dragon egg. Also I'm going to have one of the villains attack their farm to make it personal. Not anything substantial just kill afew chickens maybe a gaint rat, hurt sqiy(kobold buddy) and burn the out house. Just enough to piss them off.
I've spent a bunch of time planning this. I can't do it all here, but here's some basics: -General Labor: doesn't consume whole day, just enough to sustain cost of living. -Create your own stuff/services to make profits. -Learn/Study/Train: I allow people to train Tool Proficiencies, and use them in many ways. From making money to creating new things, Tools help you do that. If you want to create an automobile, or a crazy bomb, or a new spell, you have to spend the learning, researching, or apprenticing with people educated in that field. -Everyone needs prestige, making friends, doing favors, collecting useful contacts, friends in high places, people who will owe you one, charity. -buy/build a house. Buy/build a town. Buy/build a business. Start a family. Use the Tool Proficiencies that exists as a good way to diversify tasks people can get into during downtime. I even made up a bunch of new ones.
Sup dudes. Just gotta say I'm glad I found you nerds so I can listen as I'm being a nerd. Just fyi, I'm creating an in depth dnd crafting system. So yeah I mean msg me if ya care.
I'm playing a triton artificr with 6 different tool proficiencys, so I always have sh*t to do currently crafting a heavy crossbow to turn into a basically machine gun.
I found sms don't want to run downtime adventures they rather jump from one adventure or campaign to the other. Then they complain that my 6 characters are walking around with 269k gold pieces.
One of my favorite is when the party I was in made a base of a town. I was a wizard and I would practice magic out in the fields and entertain people in the tavern with cantrips. When a kid came up to me and asked to be my apprentice so my character would do research in the town and teach the kid from then oh when he came back to the village and it was cool to see how the kid became more powerful as the campaign went on and I taught him spells.
Oh this is a great idea! (which i'm adopting btw lol) The wizard in my current game is a teacher IRL, she would love the idea of teaching a kid in D&D and watching him grow. Thanks for sharing!
I'm a first time dnd player and I picked a gnome artificer. That gave me the idea of hand crafting my team's own magic items. And since I picked the Alchemist subclass I want to make healing potions. My guy is the only one with a tool proficiency, having 6 of them. Downtime? Jeff Jeffry doesn't know the meaning of downtime.
I’ve always hand waved in town activities but I’m currently world building (about a week or two from completion) where my 4 players basically start off in their “Home Cities” and it will be a VERY realistic type thing where they’ll eventually meet each other or they won’t. But if I manage to keep the whole thing running smoothly it would turn out like 4 1-on-1 campaigns that have the potential for players to live out their stories and meet one another, become friends, decide if they want to party together so-forth and so-on blah blah blah, but I hope that it will have a very real-world feel and this episode was SUPER helpful and gave me some insight into ways I can accomplish this goal, thinks SOOO much.
Way late to the party, but I kind of laughed when you mentioned clothes shopping. My current character is a cleric of Wee Jas... who, in the Greyhawk campaign setting, is the goddess of death, but ALSO the goddess of vanity. So my DM was all "oh so yeah you're our grave cleric but your goddess also wants you to be fashionable."
I laughed about the clothing too cause one of my groups has 2 changlings in it, who are obsessed with clothing lol it's like first question in any new town lol
Edit: Sorry for the long read, but I think it'll be useful information for any players/DMs interested in crafting.
There are unconventional ways to make magic items that aren't discussed much in the core rulebooks.
In the past, I had a Ranger that helped kill some Ankhegs. He ripped off the mandibles and used them as scimitars, and as a bonus the DM said that the acid glands gave them acid damage until the glands disintegrated. So, eventually I took them to a Wizard and payed him to use preservation magic so that the acid damage was permanent. I took the material from the other two mandibles and scales from Yuan-Ti than we killed (for flexibility) and made a longbow out of them.
I took the remaining scales and fashioned them into leather armor to make scale-studded armor. It has the same AC as studded leather, but has a minor buff against magic, as Yuan-Ti have resistance to magical effects.
Matt Mercer has his own ideas on crafting in Critical Role campaign 2, in which an entire arc is spent trying to reforge a legendary weapon, starting episode 70 something.
The way Matt Mercer handles it was through Exotic Materials. I won't get into spoilers or anything, but an example of these materials would be, say, from Skyrim. The snow at the very peak of The Throat of the World is magical by nature, and it never melts. Use that as a crafting material and it can create wonderful effects.
Maybe you need a legendary bow to slay an ancient evil. A certain Exotic Material, Hartwood, may do the trick, though it is difficult to attain. When a tree dies, its life force recedes into the core and fades out of existence. If it falls in the Feywild, there's a chance the core will remain intact, and it makes for an incredible crafting material.
I'd recommend looking into the Unearthed Arcana on Exotic Materials, or looking into Exotic Materials from previous editions and looking at their effects on items when used in crafting.
It may take a lot of homebrew and creativity, but you can do some cool things with it.
I just want to start out and say that you guys are doing an amazing job! I am fairly new to Dungeons & Dragons and I cannot be happier that I found you guys. I am starting a campaign that is 7 deadly sins apocalypse. I feel like you guys would really like my character ling chili fire. He is a halfling sorcerer who all he wants to do is chili and his ultimate goal is to own a tavern. Keep up the great work guys!
I play a bard that has focused on nature music. I own a A vineyard and a brewery, the rogue and I own multiple taverns and inns. We have slowly monopolized the lands wine and ale, along with where people buy the drinks and stay. Needless to say we’ve become rich!
in my game i let my pc's craft weapons monster hunter style, so its like magic weapons that arent magic
This is awesome! Lizardfolk is a great race to play that compliments this.
well in specific detail I only allow the ranger can collect parts required to make the object and few npc who can make it for them or if they take tinkering or blacksmithing proficincy to make it themselves. the npc would make it for them for gold but if they make it themselves it would have a bonus feature or something.
I want to do that in my dnd games. Where are the rules that govern player crafting items?
@@Vospader21 sadly, I don't think they officially exist... It's all homebrew
@@Vospader21 Dungeon master guide page 128 is the closest you get.
I love this Video Guys.
I am currently in a Homebrew campaign with some friends I met in Neverwinter. Only 4 sessions in I am at level 4 Male Dragonborn Barbarian/ Weaponsmith Named 'Puffin' Stuff DainkGrass'. In the second boss fight while enRaged I rolled a Natural 1 on a hit to an undead Goblin Warlock... Screaming while my Great Axe slipped out of my hand and went sailing through the Portal that the Warlock was summoning Gouels and Plague rats from... The Rogue in the Party Downed him with the next arrow from her crossbow. Closing the Portal!!!! My Great Axe gone... forever!
Now weaponless I spent the next week of downtime forging a weapon. My First MorningStar I named 'Genisis'. Had to trade all the weapons to the townsfolk for use of the forge, which had sat idle for years. my only tool a worn-cross pein hammer. I had to first forge tools... Gather resources scouted out a mine for future iron ore.... etc...
~ Lord Anvil Iron of the Ironwood Clan ~
William J. Fuller Jr.
Honestly the way you describe down time days. Sounds fun. I mean I would love a whole group that has an open world withoout adventure hooks and a plot at all and we spend all the sessions just rp immersion in the world. Like a whole semester of taking a foreign language in college but 3 months of dnd rp through infernal language classes would be awesome.
Oh and I'm studying fashin in college so naturally my first time playing dnd was side tracking away from the group when we got to a big city with a market, just to browse textiles. I could spend hours browsing textiles and touching and feeling and than sitting with a sketchbook irl and I deff drove the group crazy esp the dm. He wanted to skip downtime entirely and he hates shopping, and in our gaming sessions I kept trying to wander off and rp my shopping on him
Hey hey, please link that unearthed arcana template!!
I want to create a character who is a Tiefling blacksmith and his motivation in life is to create legendary weapons that go down in history so that he can prove to the world that Tieflings are more than just thieves and killers. I want him to be a character that can create magical weapons. Is that allowed? And how does crafting actually work in dnd? I can’t find a guide anywhere.
I think the Unearthed Arcana Artificer class can make magic items, if you're still interested you should look into that :)
Edit: Sorry for the long read, but I think it'll be useful information for any players/DMs interested in crafting.
There are some pretty fun, albeit unconventional ways to make magic items.
In the past, I had a Ranger that helped kill some Ankhegs. He ripped off the mandibles and used them as scimitars, and as a bonus the DM said that the acid glands gave them acid damage until the glands disintegrated. So, eventually I took them to a Wizard and payed him to use preservation magic so that the acid damage was permanent. I took the material from the other two mandibles and scales from Yuan-Ti than we killed (for flexibility) and made a longbow out of them.
I took the remaining scales and fashioned them into leather armor to make scale-studded armor. It has the same AC as studded leather, but has a minor buff against magic, as Yuan-Ti have resistance to magical effects.
Matt Mercer has his own ideas on crafting in Critical Role campaign 2, in which an entire arc is spent trying to reforge a legendary weapon, starting episode 70 something.
The way Matt Mercer handles it was through Exotic Materials. I won't get into spoilers or anything, but an example of these materials would be, say, from Skyrim. The snow at the very peak of The Throat of the World is magical by nature, and it never melts. Use that as a crafting material and it can create wonderful effects.
Maybe you need a legendary bow to slay an ancient evil. A certain Exotic Material, Hartwood, may do the trick, though it is difficult to attain. When a tree dies, its life force recedes into the core and fades out of existence. If it falls in the Feywild, there's a chance the core will remain intact, and it makes for an incredible crafting material.
I'd recommend looking into the Unearthed Arcana on Exotic Materials, or looking into Exotic Materials from previous editions and looking at their effects on items when used in crafting.
It may take a lot of homebrew and creativity, but you can do some cool things with it.
@@hungryghost8954
*are better at making items in general.
A wizard may be smart enough to make that amulet of true sight,but an artificer is going to be able to make the amulet and then some
I've been trying to run a business and craft in almost every game I've played. I would love to play in a game were the DM supports that whole heartedly!
My character has the skilled feat and I took the tools option the last thing I crafted was a suit of heavy samurai armor and a pair of katana that actually also have the ability to fire crossbow bolts without using the crossbow giving me the same ranged damage of a light crossbow as well as a slash attack equal to that of a longsword
Excellent episode, guys! Really enjoyed it!
I'd like to think of downtime as the time to actually level up, whether by working out, studying or whatever. This way, on the next adventure, your character has some new things to show off when the time comes.
It would seem kind of odd to me to make all your PCs only level up by questing. Downtime just offers optimal study-time and recovery. So that characters can fully concentrate on the need for newer, better skills.
Oh no, I need that Unearthed Arcana and there's no link!
Edit: Found it! dnd.wizards.com/articles/unearthed-arcana/downtime
EmethMatthew thanks!
The party I'm campaigning with will most likely be making use of our tools during our next session:
1. My character has smithing tools
2. Another has either woodcarving or carpentry tools
3. The third has stone-masonry tools
Since we lost our metal gear due to a corrosion/rust spell and our Dwarven stone-mason got us banned from a local gear shop due to being an idiot, scavenging for new equipment with possible repairs will be needed before we can return to where we had to retreat from; I'd rather not risk being banned from another shop.
My mom always told me my dad was just on a grand adventure saving the world and his dm never gave him down time. Now I know it could be true!
i was hoping you would go over how different downtime activities work
The only thing I really didn't like about 3.x ed. was how broken the craft skill rules were. I'm still trying to come up with a better way.
Where is the link to that unearthed arcana template?
^
My 2 of my PC's(my younger brothers) characters don't care about adventuring they just want to run their farm, they just can't afford to run their farm with out adventuring money.
It's really fun, I plan to give them a black dragon egg.
Also I'm going to have one of the villains attack their farm to make it personal. Not anything substantial just kill afew chickens maybe a gaint rat, hurt sqiy(kobold buddy) and burn the out house.
Just enough to piss them off.
So what are the ways to let’s say give a dagger lightning damage from a players point of view
Anyone got a list of events for downtime? I'm very bad at coming up with that kind of thing.
I've spent a bunch of time planning this. I can't do it all here, but here's some basics:
-General Labor: doesn't consume whole day, just enough to sustain cost of living.
-Create your own stuff/services to make profits.
-Learn/Study/Train: I allow people to train Tool Proficiencies, and use them in many ways. From making money to creating new things, Tools help you do that. If you want to create an automobile, or a crazy bomb, or a new spell, you have to spend the learning, researching, or apprenticing with people educated in that field.
-Everyone needs prestige, making friends, doing favors, collecting useful contacts, friends in high places, people who will owe you one, charity.
-buy/build a house. Buy/build a town. Buy/build a business. Start a family.
Use the Tool Proficiencies that exists as a good way to diversify tasks people can get into during downtime. I even made up a bunch of new ones.
Pls link the unearthed archon page you talked about in the video.
Here you go!
dnd.wizards.com/articles/unearthed-arcana/downtime
The Dungeoncast you guys ROCK!!! Keep killin it!!!
Sup dudes. Just gotta say I'm glad I found you nerds so I can listen as I'm being a nerd. Just fyi, I'm creating an in depth dnd crafting system. So yeah I mean msg me if ya care.
my character has carpentry and he made his own bow.
I'm playing a triton artificr with 6 different tool proficiencys, so I always have sh*t to do currently crafting a heavy crossbow to turn into a basically machine gun.
I've never gotten to be first before another great video guys
damn you beat me xD
Congrats and thanks!
My pcs have decided to fix up this tavern and use it to disguise there thevies guild underneath
I found sms don't want to run downtime adventures they rather jump from one adventure or campaign to the other. Then they complain that my 6 characters are walking around with 269k gold pieces.
The fact that XGtE came out mere days later is really tragic to me
King's high mage peasant foreign adventurer lolol
If only will wrote the dmg
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