Gator's guide to Baboons! - Dnd 5e!
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acid vials are great thrown weapons
Alright he actually pointed out the difference between an Alligator and a Crocodile, no way he’s not a Florida man.
Or an Australian. We wrestle crocodiles daily!
@@Spahki yeah there's a huge difference between them
Florida and Austrailia are probably siblings
They're all in the "Crocodilian" family.
@@rixaxeno7167 that or kissing cousins.
Nice to see gator learning, finally gator doesn’t want to run into melee immediately
I kind of thought you were going for a Bloons reference with dart throwing monkeys. What if the gnomes bring out hot air balloons?
Aim spells at the Ballon!
Gravity is a great weapon
Don't forget to bring darts, bombs, rifles, nukes, and an actual god!
@@jansolo4628 and ninjas, ace pilots, the terminator, wizards, boomerangs, etc
My favorite is the pilumbata. It is a size in-between of the small plumbata and the large pilum. More accurate and more impact than the plumbata and much easier to carry many of them than the pilum. You could have up to 15 to 25 of them on your character.
You forget the "Sniper Monkey" meme
"I'm not a monster, I'm a murder hobo"
Genius
Honestly, I appreciate Gator's mischievous nonsense. It's very entertaining.
Babe wake up! New Gator video!
Edit: why tf do baboons do so much damage
I want to know why they only have an 8str. I’m pretty sure they’re stronger than an average person 🤷♂️
Hands
Advantage on attack rolls is quite useful when you calculate averages, innit? By themselves, they aren’t that great. But give them some darts and they’ll be able to fire them quite well! An artillery of darts from the backlines, that sounds fun.
Costly in darts though, you’ll probably need 40 per encounter, or more if it lasts more than 5 rounds.
They can't lift much because they are small, maybe that limits their strength score.
8 crossbows will always do a lot of damage if you have 16 free hands
Comments section in a nutshell:
33%: Bloons jokes
33%: Appreciation for Gator's shenanigans
33%: Appreciation for Kobold
1%: Free real estate
“You had me at GNOME”
Never trust gnomes!
Kobold and gnomes have beef
@@jackmakila3776 that’s the joke
Confirmation that Gator is an Awakened Animal...
Wait does this mean Kobold is confirmed a Druid?
Kobold hearted my comment! Does That mean I'm right? I mean Kobold could also be a bard.. which makes sense with the bagpipes, but.. he hearted the druid suggestion...
Kobold awakened him, to help him destroy gnomes.. and make content.
What was Gator like those first 30 day being charmed?
Lore bard with good berry and awakened animal from magical secrets? (Maybe a few other spells but these two make sense.)
@@cagneyingram6116 maybe. Awaken is a Bard spell thou so he might not have needed it from Magical Secrets
PackTac just uses the optional spells UA that gave Rangers Awaken. Gator was probably a Beastmaster companion before the awakening.
Another masterpiece Kobold! I'm going to keep this in mind for our upcoming sky pirate campaign! Thanks!
🏴☠🐊
You see a ship in the distance which appears completely empty, just drifting.
Insight check fail: The ship is completely barren. Weird.
Insight check success: Even though the ship is empty you feel as though it might attack at any moment.
Shouldn't be a perception check, because they are invisible and too far away.
Then when they get to close: "An invisible spell Caster (or a few) reveal/s themselves, Summoning an army of Baboons that quickly man the cannons.
All hands on deck.
I am very invested in Gator’s ability to defend against the evil gnomes
Kobold: explain right now
Gator: there were these gnomes that-
Kolbold: Im in
“Sniper monkey!” in a booming announcer voice. I’m glad you found a way to do character videos I know that was your original intention with this channel.
Tactically uses 9th level slot to have 1 hour baboon army
Gator, don’t tell kobold but everyone likes you more than him!
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OH
GATOR IS LITERALLY A CROCODILE/ALLIGATOR/WHATEVER
I thought he was a kobold resembling a crocodile/alligator/whatever. And since Kobold has already taken the name of his species/race/whatever, Gator was given a different name based on how he looked.
OOPS
EDIT: Oh okay, an alligator. Got it. It was just the adventurers being stupid. Makes sense, given the name.
My DM just invented the slime tank. Which we call the Gank because the weapon was initiated by a Giant Slime named Gus.
The monkeys have artillery! I repeat! The monkeys now have artillery!
Is Gator getting ready to play BloonsTD?
This reminds me of the meme about how children are suited to operate crew served weapons
But kobold, you're a monster. You said it in your oversized weapons video. Players are monsters
Kobold is indeed a monster. But he doesn't like being called a monster in this context from the Gnomes.
"The camera is on... Well, content is content i guess."
My man, I LOVE your sense of humor.... Your videos are the best.
By the way.... I listen to all of your videos are 1.75 speed... You are VERY "excited" at that speed, it's amazing you should try i :)
For pack tactics to work, wouldn’t you need a “forward observer” baboon to basically be danger close?
Yes, in my party we call that the barbarian
or you could have a party member who stands near the targets and dodges
Gator's flipping castles? Somebody call Shad, he might want in on this.
The fu-... That statblock!
CR0? 8 Strength!?
Baboons are *way* stronger than humans, and are notorious for being incredibly dangerous. Those things in DnD are only slightly stronger than a house cat! Like, with only slightly good luck, a house cat could reasonably kill a baboon.
If I saw a house cat a baboon going at it, my money is on the house cat
HA! I love gator. You’re good bean.
College of Conjuration Bard, use Magical Secrets or Mark of Handling Human to get Conjure Animals. At level 12, you can summon 5 anti matter rifles. Or cannons
More realistically, 3 players can cast Magic Stones. Go wild
As a DM, I wouldn't let them use crossbows or even bows, it would effectively be Alien Technology to a baboon. Give them all daggers though, that would be nasty enough
There is literally a phrase called monkey see monkey do show them once or twice bam done
They're not baboons that showed up from the nearby woods, they're fey spirits assuming the stat block of baboons. Plenty of very low CR fey use weapons.
*Sends you video of monkey driving golf cart*
Or you can organize a baboon field artillery team around a single cannon for snappy cannon reloading and a designated baboon spotter.
Don’t forget, they aren’t real animals, but Fey spirits that take the form of animals. And Babboons have a +1 Wisdom, assuming the Fey transformation is like Polymorph. Therefore, baboons could wield these weapons, even without proficiency since these aren’t the Fey’s natural forms.
I would take into acount their 4 int and rule they can't. Understanding what a weapon is is more about deductive reasoning, not noticing things about the enviroment.
@@Niyucuatro A Giant Ape also has a negative Int and +1 Wis.
They're fey spirits only so WotC doesn't have to explain why it's OK to summon actual animals just for the purpose of having them slaughtered. It's pure flavor, there's nothing mechanical intended or implied.
If they don't behave like actual baboons why summon them in an animal form at all??
@@Niyucuatro Baboons are already using wooden spears in our reality.
The irony of all of this is that while a baboon can potentially fire a cannon, or indeed a crossbow, the starting premise of them throwing darts is impossible. Humans tend to assume that anything with hands can throw things, but that's actually anthropomorphising them, humans are almost *uniquely* good at throwing things because of the way our shoulders work. Baboons can't throw for shit, they're anatomically incapable of it.
among your best videos so far ... awesome to see Gator learning and using your advice
Wholesome Kobold-Gator friendship
“Oh, we’re fighting gnomes? Frick it, I’m in. Bring the cannons!”
Winged monkeys do this but with flight in the mix. I see druid shenanigans in Chult now.
One of my favorites of yours. More like this! It's like humor as a gateway to optimizing.
in a while crocodile, see you later aligator, when we're old kobold
I can't believe I spent the last few moments of this video going, "no, Gator! You'll destroy your own castle!"
Kobold's understanding of the mechanics of the D&D universe he exists in makes him, at the very least, a demigod.
Assuming your DM lets you pick your own beast for conjure animals, baboons would "obey any verbal commands" and have an intelligence of 4. Equipping them with weapons and expecting them to know how to use them feels like a stretch.
Which is why necromancer are superior. Mental link. They know what you actually want. If you can figure it out then so can they. Best of all you only need the base amount of slots to keep your personal guard under your control, allowing you to be your parties covering fire while using the remainder of slots to do really devious things.
A 4 intelligence dumbie can swing an item without proficiency just fine in dnd. Other spells specify that the summoned creatures follow your command "to the best of their abilities" or specifies that they can pervert the intent, implying that normal conjured creatures follow specifically what YOU ordered them for the intent you ordered them
If you are a party of 3 or more just assign 3 baboons to each party member and command them to repeat anything they do in each cannon
That way your party just have to load,aim and shoot one time to make the monkeys repeat the steps and the DM would approve it because it's funny and ingenious
Why? Player characters can have an Intelligence of 4 if you roll stats, and still use any weapon. And baboons already use tools in real life.
This is a really bad view on Conjure Animals. Intelligence 4 tells us that they have a -3 to Arcana and Nature checks, nothing more. If the spell tells us that they obey the commands, they do. If it is not possible to have an animal that "obey verbal commands" but still have the same mental capacity of an animal, clearly they don't. If you assume that animals conjured with Conjure Animals act as normal animals, _all_ verbal commands would not be understood. Also, conjured animals are actually fey.
This kind of DM nitpicking trying to thwart the PC plans is really toxic and create a very bad tension at the table, while the PC do not feel cool and they feel that the DM is acting to protect his encounters, as an opponent in a tabletop.
Gator just turned D&D into Planet of the Apes. Also, as you said in your oversized weapons video, player characters technically count as monsters. Therefore, you are technically a monster.
Idea: Eight baboons armed with Rapiers (the highest damage finesse melee weapon). Same damage (38.8dmg vs 15AC w/ advantage) as light crossbows.
Would be easier to transport 8 rapiers than 8 light crossbows on a horse or cart, for example. And also simpler to use, if the DM rules that a 4 Int is not enough to operate crossbows effectively.
Alternatively, an adventurer could easily carry 8 daggers on them at almost all times, which is still a significant boost over their Bite attack (25dpr vs 8.9dpr).
Somewhere, out there, Fearne Calloway nods in approval
It takes a fair deal of training and effort for a human to fire a cannon, a Baboon would be lost trying to figure out which brush to use first between the wet one, the dry one, the squiggly one and so forth. A creature with a 4 INT who’s greatest show of tool use is crushing a scorpion with a rock or poking around a termites nest with a stick would have no chance of loading and firing a cannon in correct sequence. A DM could choose to allow it of course but it would be a pretty monstrous stretch.
Skeletons however would be able to be trained in advance since they unlive for more than 1 hour and can specifically use siege weapons as part of their description. Necromancers rejoice.
They are fey and you control them. Int has nothing to do with this.
Baboon tips the face and family jewels off gnome sewing terror among the surviving gnomes
Well, time to prestidigitate some cannons.
lol Wonder whats gator stealth roll is to sneak? Must be high, "I love stealing" and money must be a rouge muti-classed with omg he's a Ranger!
I loved this video of Gater! This was a funny idea I'm probably going to use now XD
9th level conjure animals. summon my baboon army of like 24 baboons. next turn give them all cannons. let the druidic seige begin.
Everybody gangsta until the Baboons pull out the antimatter rifles.
I see the rivalry between Gnomes and Kobolds are still going strong.
Wait, why do baboons have a negative str modifier? I’m pretty sure baboons are stronger than an average human 🤔
Baboons are monkeys, definitely smaller and weaker than a human. Pretty much any actual ape (chimp/orangutan) is far stronger than most humans
A 10 STR doesn't represent an average human but a default adventurer who is a rip off of every action movie hero. By carrying capacity rules, a character with STR 10 can lift 30xSTR which is 300 pounds.
@@lordzaboem That's why a fighter at level 6 could basically carry a compact car with ease.
@@lordzaboem thats false theres a commoner statblock and they have 10 in every stat
300 lbs isn’t that much. Plenty of irl people can lift 300 lbs. Baboons can definitely lift more than 300 lbs.
All of Gators guides should be on his own channel because it already exists
Oh, gnomes? okay I’m in.
Kobold is lucky to have a cool sidekick like Gator.
ITS FUCKING BLOONS DAMNIT!
I love it good job.
Gator: I want to give monkeys weapons.
Kobold: Why
Gator: Well the Gnomes...
Kobold: You son of a bitch, I am in!
Thank you. My enemy druid is going to do bonkers against my party!
I love gator so much. So precious
If you are doing baboons, might as well upgrade to flying monkeys for that sweet sweet fly speed.
Monkeys with darts with the task of defense- does that sound like a certain flash game to anyone?
Based and Gator pilled
💊🐊
Got a real Doc and Dean Venture dynamic
Ah hell nah he's boutta stop the bloons
If you want Conjured Animals with Ranged Attacks, you can always get Apes. They can throw Rocks!
Gator flipping castles? By themself? Using kobolds money? Without kobold noticing?!
Something smells fishy kobold, and I dont think it's the gnomes this time...
You should make your own names for spells, otherwise you would be using... gnomenclature
For giving weapons to poor damage summons, what you really want is Boggles (and a picture frame).
Wands of magic missile are pretty easy to get.. Get your hands on 2 of them and eight rapiers (peacock plume hats optional), and every other day (so you don't risk burning them out) hello Mr. Miniboss, enjoy your Round One 88 points of force damage, followed by having your swash severely buckled for the rest of the fight!
Baboons with sacks if magic stones.
I mean this could be used to make a pirate themed druid or something similar
If you hire villagers, they are much less likely to shoot themselves by accident. Plus you get to use your 3rd level spell slot protecting them rather than conjuring them.
Baboons with cannons? More like Babooms.
ok what if you hired 16 commoners to load and aim the cannons so your baboons could spend all of their actions firing? that could triple your dpr.
If you could convince your DM to let you get your hands on 8 wands of magic missile, it’s 84 DPR. It might be more appropriate with something like Tiny Servant though.
Sniper baboons! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Reminds me of Borderlands 3
Catapults or other siege machines could be very interesting… and some could definitely semi-automate reloading…
This is why i go for familiars with hands
im disappointed we didn't get a battle report in the end, awesome vid as always
I just had a conversation about baboons with my friend last night I don't appreciate being spied on
Oh. Gnomes? Alright I'm in.
Lord Gator
As a DM running Light of Xaryxis, I pray to whatever god will listen to me that my party’s Druid does not find this. Yo Dionysus, we chill?
I love gator
I love gator so much❤😂❤
Magic stone
Also beast master rangers
Hey if anyone wants it this is by FAR one of my favorite creatures I've made.
It's an ogre holding a cannon with kobolds or goblins arming the cannon each turn
VERY fun to use
the gnomes are right to stop gator this is how capitalism started
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Mad gator is very scary
One problem with the light crossbow and anti-matter rifle calculations, they would need to be out of 5-feet to not have disadvantage, so to get pack tactics, either one monkey would need to be shooting with disadvantage or two neutral (or you could give those two rapiers or smt).
have either a melee party member or someone just run up and dodge
@@Hazel-xl8in true, I was going under the assumption that the only protection was the baboons tho.
Gator will be going through his baboons quickly because he'll be maybe sacrificing one to friendly fire with every shot, but maybe the courage of gnomes will run out before the baboons do.
As soon as I heard “why don’t we give them darts?” I thought of bloons td…
Hey Kobold! I have a Question for you. Since you were talking about oversized Weapons in your add or sponsor or wathever. So i wanted to ask you, can you improve the Size of the Blade created by the Shadow Blade Spell (Like you cast Shadow Blade, and then Someone else casts Enlarge/Reduce on you)? And if yes, does that also double or triple the Damage dice (Assuming you are a Medium Creature)? It's been bugging me for a while, which is why i asked you...
Good question. This is a fun one. It been talked about in optimization for a long time before I even made the video. It does counts as a simple melee weapon and you double the weapon dice if the creature is large so it would work in theory. Now, I say theory because I haven't sat on it long enough or argued enough with it to be 100% convinced but I do believe people should talk about it. You know?
The reason why I didn't bring it up in my oversized weapons video is because oversized weapons is already a hard pill to swallow for people.
People are usually afraid of a lot of dice. They're still having a hard time accepting that oversized weapons is rules as written and players can absolutely use them.
Typical Gnomes always ruining the fun! You’d think they could tell the difference between Crocodiles and Alligators, but that just goes to show they aren’t always as smart as they claim to be. That and they probably aren’t from Florida, Australia or Louisiana.
Any discussion of firearms in D&D might include a mention of which campaigns have guns. It's not quite as straightforward as simply "Yes unless your DM says No." Certainly worlds have established guns in the lore and artwork thus.an expectation that murder-hobos will encounter guns from time to time.
Canon D&D Settings in which one can probably purchase black powder weapons: Eberon, Forgotten Realms (only available to nobility though), Wildemount (Exandria), Spelljammer, Ravnica, and Planescape
Settings which probably don't have firearms available for purchase: Faewild, Grey Hawk, Al Quadim, and generic "world of D&D"
I don't know: Ravenloft, Dark Sun, Theros, Dragonlance, Birthright, Kalamar,.Lankhmar, Mystara, and your dingeonmaster's homebrew world
Giving ranged weapons to nonproficient monsters because they have better Dex than their STR+Prof. That's hilarious.
Baboons with darts, what is this, Bloons?
I would probably rule that baboons don't have a high enough int to be able to properly understand weapons
the poor, poor gm that rules that a baboon is somehow able to fire and reload a crossbow, or worse, a cannon.
though, I doubt they exist.
Darts is a maybe.
YES!!! The most broken spell at its level, ever!!!
Silvery Barbs would like to challenge Summon Animals for that title.
@@lordzaboem attack 10 timez, 8 vvith advantage, in a round, or zilvery barbz?