@@flyingsquirrell6953 They would be able to, but they would require that someone bring in the resources themselves to craft it. Hey, if the Customer wants something custom, the least they can do is provide the blacksmith all the materials needed... And the fuel to burn through. Quality charcoal and Coal isn't cheap!
@@Victor-056 I was thinking more so the ability to handle the acids required for coating the steel and the large forges that would be necessary to make them.
Yeah, making custom armor is pretty difficult and expensive since It's Not The Standard thing his smithy shop is used to forging. The great thing about Standardizing is that it's quality can be improved a lot quicker, since it's manufacturing the same thing over and over again, and a lot of people are going to default to buying said "high quality" item saving the manufacturer time, effort and more importantly they accumulate years of experience forging a quality standard set of items. Custom on the other hand is like performing rocket science for the first and many times, I don't want to install a high grade enchantment on a sword that has teeth on their blade and holes in their hilt etc...
Sounds like he would likely need to try to hire more staff that would actually like to do custom work so that he still gets this kind of business, and likely offer it as a different service easier, while he gets to focus on the standard business that he already got used to
Fokin YT deleted my fokin comment again, all hail fokin "prevent offense system". Alright let's try without sounding offensive. It'his job and could've turned her down more nicely.
Historically, plate armour would be made to fit an individual, it was extremely expensive, more than the average cost of a house at the time and only highly skilled specialist blacksmiths could make it. So yeah, the average farrier probably couldn't do it.
@Sanderford Which was common, one-size-fits-all armor that was made with the lowest quality materials as fast as possible. And the quality of the craftsmanship ranged from gawdawful paperweight to serviceable.
@@supremecaffeine2633 Oh, absolutely, but it was still better than no armor, or the hodgepodge of often self-supplied kit that had been the norm beforehand. That said, I was mostly referring to what is known as munitions-grade armor, which we know was of decent quality mostly. It didn't have to be top-tier, just good enough to get handed out to large numbers of professional soldier types. Think of the stuff worn by the Swiss and the Landsknechts in the 1500s. That was basically good quality, or good enough that it served the purpose. That said, a girl like in this comic will not be best served by mass produced munition plate. She is a Hero, and they tend to need a degree of specialization.
>Has little armor, seemingly just leather clothes >tries to upgrade straight to plate chausses If she has the money for half a set of plate, she has the money for a full set of chain mail.
@@yc9853 Not sure if you understand the difference between text bubble and panel. Whenever you read a comic, panels are basically the term used for the "boxes/shapes" that split up scenes on a page to show a sequence of events, in this video's case, conversation. Typically this could have been split in 4-6 panels. Text bubbles are usually the dialogue spoken in each panel. But yes, you could also make one large panel on a page or double spread and put all dialogue into it too.
Third generation auto repair and metal fabricator here, I have to wholeheartedly agree with the blacksmith, custom fitted armor like that even with a fully kitted out modern shop with power tools, blast forges, and power hammers it still would take months and enough GP to clean her out for half a year! I've been to an actively operating 1800s blacksmith shop pounding away on a small tool and I literally said to the guy, " with modern equipment I could literally take that multi hour job and do it in five minutes with power tools and a cutting torch"
Fun fact, at the height of plate armor's era, that amount of gp would fit into your hand. Gold wasn't really that common. Kind of useless for a commodity currency. People only started using it as the default when people gave all their silver to China.
Oh noes, the custom fitted armor must've taken years to make in the Medieval-Renaissance era then! Well, not really, no. Unless you're Maximilian I, I guess.
I do leather work as a hobby, mainly also for armor straps, pouches, belts and quivers. The straps and holds on the thigh alone would be so much work, never mind the fastenings to the rest of the armor. It would take so much leather, and you probably would also need a lot more of them than usual, or the armor parts have far too much room for movement. Normally, one cow's leather is enough for strapping for five people with proper plate armor+gambeson, or two people wanting one of these anachronistic "leather armors" that have been all the rage around the 2010s. I would guess you would need about half a cow for strapping alone on that job.
@@chaz706 Considering how much work he has stacked up it sounds like it's his fault for not raising his prices. If we're going by video game logic dude should be asking for at least 1000 gold for plate armor to cover thighs, hips, and a booty that big especially since the average in most Western RPGs is about 1000 for a full armor set. Although if I were her and had thighs like that I'd just rock the Amazon from Dragons Crown look I mean might as well at that point.
@@theninjamaster67Not raising his prices to reasonable numbers is part of the problem, he didn't think to consider dividing his work load into the number of given workers he could've done business with. A fraction of the responsibility involving producing leather. if not metal, stone, wood or glass parts/equipment to sell off shelf regarding having a stock of potential merchendise to profit from. The rest involving similar work like crafting a line up of armor, tools and weapons regardless of what the material is made up of so that's 2 faces in counting so far. Another contributer could be responsible for gathering resources while a forth in counting could be responsible for delivering finished products, if not scouting for armor and weapons to attempt at salvaging on their free time. The leader of the business being responsible for handling trades, making custom orders and taking measurements for said orders. So yea 5 members would be plenty to make a rich entirprise ran sufficiently. The Mind of the team being the one in charge of Equipment service The rest of the members being of the following for the entirprise: Inventory service = Muscle Product service = Heart Business service = Will Delivery service = Spirit
People don’t understand that armor never was mass produced and had to be made to fit. Meaning that the blacksmith would have to measure the person for their armor multiple times. Constantly adjusting the straps after the plate components are finalized and in some cases having to go back and further shape the plates because they don’t fit together properly. Plus chainmail will do the job of protecting from most weapons except for thrusting swords & spears or fine thin tipped arrows.
There was mass-produced plate and brigadine that could reasonably be obtained by MaAs but those were one size fits all and obviously nothing like what the comic implies.
@@alexanderhamilton4258Chain mail, cloth gambesons and good ole bucket hats. The most a simple footsoilder could get is some fancy guantlets and boots.
Depends on time period as well. in the early renaissance they got good at producing a lot of this stuff quickly in-mass. Right before firearms came along and made it all obsolete.
To point: Blacksmiths like this generally didn't make equipment. Making tools and such already took up all of their time. Armor and weapon smiths were a specialized trade that usually were contracted entirely with the government, or just sold to merchants so they wouldn't have to deal with custom jobs in the first place. Not to mention that any smith that had to serve hundreds of customers a year would not have a tiny building like that.
It would be that for a smallish to medium sized village. With at least 3-4 apprentices and prob at least 1-2 journeymen blacksmiths under them. For the kinds of stuff that happens in dnd campaign style worlds the 'blacksmith' would just be the person they interact with. With them relying the order to the crafters guild that uses industrialized magic(likely all the people that can barely do cantrips).
@@Sanderfordpro tip for you, bud: the "you just lost yourself a customer" doesn't work ever... and especially not after the guy just finished telling exactly how much he doesn't want you as a customer.
@devanbrowne8706 It doesn't work...*until* the customer you've lost is a Fantasy Adventurer who becomes stupendously wealthy by adventuring and then makes it a point to never do business with you.
@@Sanderfordthe guy's probably a village blacksmith. He was never gonna blow up to be a big City blacksmith with a whole guild behind him. Not according to Fantasy tropes and conventions. I'd dare say you won't even see him again after you cross the other side of the woods, or you get on a boat. Probably why he's swamped with orders, no one else there to help him or to dope slap him for being an idiot and taking more than he can handle.
she already finished leveling heavy armor for her current level, now she needs to work on light armor or she doesn't get all the points for speed and endurance
Blacksmiths meet almost every adventurer that comes through, between measuring and oftentimes their own careers in that field, they know when to talk down or to shut down
"Hey! Why is my materials list so much bigger than his?" "Wait wait wait... give me a minute here...Alright, I'm good. So, do you want the smarmy answer, the funny answer, the honest answer, or will you take the fate and duck option?" "..." "It's because of your..." "This is why we don't let teens have access to the Wish spell."
They should have asked a fucking dwarf then, also arent dwarfs about making weapons and armor that are very good quality? Not speed of making something
It’s like when you show someone a skill you have (either art or some other creative skill) and suddenly everyone is asking you to make something for them.
I agree with the blacksmith, if I were a blacksmith in a fantasy world where almost every client is different and some of them have ridiculously big body parts, then either I would have a limit of orders like those or you'll have to pay me 20-30% more of the price
I’m pretty sure any blacksmith would absolutely charge a bit more if they’re required to make a more complicated armor that requires even more material. Clothes sorta work the same way even today. I know this because bras that fit me are expensive, and they cost even more if I have them custom fitted.
@@ItsDSP *Narrows eyes* is this the “humblebragging” I’ve only heard legends of in hushed tones upon the webs of Virtual? Congratulations! You win [chronic back pain]!
This! This is realistic fantasy dialog. Some blacksmith venting his frustration in the most crass way possible about how many different body types he has to deal with. Let alone people with thighs bigger than their torso.
I don't know how good he is at his craft, but he's a bad businessman. It would be way easier to make this kind of special armor request prohibitively expensive. Either the client stops bothering them, or they pay a fortune, which is arguably more likely because adventurers tend to be stupidly rich. You can probably figure out how to make a proper 3 foot codpiece if that alone gets you enough gold for the next couple years.
This is why, and understandably not every person who runs a game understands history, metal working and crafting tasks were split amongst different disciplines.
His refusal is justified. His being a D-bag really isn't. Against my current PC, he just ensured he will never see a single coin from her purse, for this or any other job.
"I'm going to remember this when you come bursting into the tavern tomorrow night to prevail upon my heroic nature to save your daughter or whoever who's been abducted by goblins. I'll still help, but we both know how you'll be paying me."
@@damackabet.4611 None of whom will be available. That's how these things work. When he comes rushing into the tavern with a time-sensitive task, either she will be the only Hero immediately available, or the nature of the task will mean she has to be included in the job due to some skill or knowledge she has.
His examples were way more difficult than simply making large leg plates. XD Like, dude, I don't know why you have no confidence for her request, but you can totally pull it off.
Yes but It's understandable To be a little pissed when you have to create armor for someone built like a Upside down wine glass And get less pay or even no pay at all because fucking "hero credit" and shit
@@stork_jogin Nobody in the comic says anything about her not paying him. Nobody even implies it. He's understandably cranky about being overworked, but honestly it is, as @A1998GatewayPC says, his job.
@Sanderford thanks for the correction but it still sucks just because it's your doesn't mean you can't complain about but he probably shouldn't have yelled it out like that
"And I can't take on another client right now because...of everything I literally just told you. I understand you got main character syndrome going on, but I got that too and it's actually very stressful because all of mine goes right into this darn forge!"
@@mayrokratt6195a 9ft tall, 3ft wide berserker orc isn't going to be distracted by her heavenly thighs, nor would an 80ft long fire-breathing dragon. Armor is _always_ necessary.
Clearly she didn't offer him enough gold. Given how easily she seems to be wielding that weapon even with her skinny arms, she should've volunteered to assist in some way or maybe offer to FIND some able assistants for him. Like come on gal; use your brain! Where there's a will there's a way!
It's crazy how just by the character design from the thumbnail alone I automatically knew it was rapscallion😂😂😂 I think ive been on "a certain part of the internet"for too long
No idea why, but og autor calls some elfs like this. Im pretty sure he bases whole thing on dnd, but he adds a lot of his own stuff. Tho if i remeber correctly, in TES they call elfs - "mer". Dark elfs - danmer, wood elfs - bosmer. Maybe he likes tes as well.
Sounds like he should hire employees and make a big blacksmith shop, he got all the demand in the world now he just meeds the supply and he's making BANK!
I had a character who was a thiccboi that would admittedly fit in quite well with Rapscallion's art style. He was a Monk though, so he didn't need armor, and those Ultra Thighs™ were part of the reason he could kick for d10s.
Former professional blacksmith here, although making armor by hand is fundamentally an expensive and labor intensive task it actually isn't much harder to make it custom set using traditional techniques than it is to produce a standardized set using traditional techniques.
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i think thats more a job for a crafters guild then a local blacksmith..
For the common horse and cart driver, can you explain to me the skill and time difference in simple terms.
@@englishtwister More manpower, resources, and usually better equipment.
Ik that’s what I was thinking too: I’m surprised a random blacksmith would even have the capabilities for making plate armor.
@@flyingsquirrell6953 They would be able to, but they would require that someone bring in the resources themselves to craft it.
Hey, if the Customer wants something custom, the least they can do is provide the blacksmith all the materials needed... And the fuel to burn through. Quality charcoal and Coal isn't cheap!
@@Victor-056 I was thinking more so the ability to handle the acids required for coating the steel and the large forges that would be necessary to make them.
I agree with the blacksmith here. My boy has a lot of stuff on he’s plate and yet someone is asking him to make armor for there big ass legs.😂
That's his fokin job. Could've told her to fuck off a bit nicely.
Yeah, making custom armor is pretty difficult and expensive since It's Not The Standard thing his smithy shop is used to forging.
The great thing about Standardizing is that it's quality can be improved a lot quicker, since it's manufacturing the same thing over and over again, and a lot of people are going to default to buying said "high quality" item saving the manufacturer time, effort and more importantly they accumulate years of experience forging a quality standard set of items.
Custom on the other hand is like performing rocket science for the first and many times, I don't want to install a high grade enchantment on a sword that has teeth on their blade and holes in their hilt etc...
Sounds like he would likely need to try to hire more staff that would actually like to do custom work so that he still gets this kind of business, and likely offer it as a different service easier, while he gets to focus on the standard business that he already got used to
that poor blacksmith can't catch a break 😂
Fokin YT deleted my fokin comment again, all hail fokin "prevent offense system". Alright let's try without sounding offensive.
It'his job and could've turned her down more nicely.
Historically, plate armour would be made to fit an individual, it was extremely expensive, more than the average cost of a house at the time and only highly skilled specialist blacksmiths could make it.
So yeah, the average farrier probably couldn't do it.
There was such a thing as garrison plate, but yeah, early plate mail was bespoke, and usually made by specialist armorers.
@Sanderford Which was common, one-size-fits-all armor that was made with the lowest quality materials as fast as possible. And the quality of the craftsmanship ranged from gawdawful paperweight to serviceable.
@@supremecaffeine2633 Oh, absolutely, but it was still better than no armor, or the hodgepodge of often self-supplied kit that had been the norm beforehand.
That said, I was mostly referring to what is known as munitions-grade armor, which we know was of decent quality mostly. It didn't have to be top-tier, just good enough to get handed out to large numbers of professional soldier types.
Think of the stuff worn by the Swiss and the Landsknechts in the 1500s. That was basically good quality, or good enough that it served the purpose.
That said, a girl like in this comic will not be best served by mass produced munition plate. She is a Hero, and they tend to need a degree of specialization.
>Has little armor, seemingly just leather clothes
>tries to upgrade straight to plate chausses
If she has the money for half a set of plate, she has the money for a full set of chain mail.
@@alexanderhamilton4258 That's redundant, mail=chain.
the struggle of a stacked character, no one making armor your size.
Deep lore for sexy adventurers. Too expensive.
Its the reason why they wear Bikini armour, less materials and time needed
@@maskednobody7906Yeah. Less armor = less weight = more agility. Just dodge, lol
Tru 😭
@@maxmanchikAlso a another reason why enemy attack missed so much most of the time.
6 panels worth of dialogue in one? yep thats rapscallion all right
I love how much effort rapscallion puts into making each comic's characters and dialog so charming despite the... content
Those are text bubbles not panels. The whole video is a panel tho
@@yc9853You greatly misunderstand friendo. They mean the amount of dialogue in this video can be PUT INTO 6 individual panels.
@@yc9853 Not sure if you understand the difference between text bubble and panel. Whenever you read a comic, panels are basically the term used for the "boxes/shapes" that split up scenes on a page to show a sequence of events, in this video's case, conversation. Typically this could have been split in 4-6 panels. Text bubbles are usually the dialogue spoken in each panel.
But yes, you could also make one large panel on a page or double spread and put all dialogue into it too.
@@doryu1004 ah my bad I read that as "6 panels of dialogue" but what you said makes sense
Third generation auto repair and metal fabricator here, I have to wholeheartedly agree with the blacksmith, custom fitted armor like that even with a fully kitted out modern shop with power tools, blast forges, and power hammers it still would take months and enough GP to clean her out for half a year! I've been to an actively operating 1800s blacksmith shop pounding away on a small tool and I literally said to the guy, " with modern equipment I could literally take that multi hour job and do it in five minutes with power tools and a cutting torch"
Sir I'm gonna be honest you are massively overqualified for this comment section
@@jaggoff6949I don’t know why but this has “sir this is a Wendy’s” energy
Fun fact, at the height of plate armor's era, that amount of gp would fit into your hand.
Gold wasn't really that common. Kind of useless for a commodity currency. People only started using it as the default when people gave all their silver to China.
Oh noes, the custom fitted armor must've taken years to make in the Medieval-Renaissance era then! Well, not really, no. Unless you're Maximilian I, I guess.
I do leather work as a hobby, mainly also for armor straps, pouches, belts and quivers. The straps and holds on the thigh alone would be so much work, never mind the fastenings to the rest of the armor. It would take so much leather, and you probably would also need a lot more of them than usual, or the armor parts have far too much room for movement. Normally, one cow's leather is enough for strapping for five people with proper plate armor+gambeson, or two people wanting one of these anachronistic "leather armors" that have been all the rage around the 2010s. I would guess you would need about half a cow for strapping alone on that job.
The daily grind of being a blacksmith. His village better appreciate him for he does.
If they did he would be able to expand his operations.
@@chaz706 Considering how much work he has stacked up it sounds like it's his fault for not raising his prices.
If we're going by video game logic dude should be asking for at least 1000 gold for plate armor to cover thighs, hips, and a booty that big especially since the average in most Western RPGs is about 1000 for a full armor set.
Although if I were her and had thighs like that I'd just rock the Amazon from Dragons Crown look I mean might as well at that point.
@@theninjamaster67Not raising his prices to reasonable numbers is part of the problem, he didn't think to consider dividing his work load into the number of given workers he could've done business with. A fraction of the responsibility involving producing leather. if not metal, stone, wood or glass parts/equipment to sell off shelf regarding having a stock of potential merchendise to profit from. The rest involving similar work like crafting a line up of armor, tools and weapons regardless of what the material is made up of so that's 2 faces in counting so far. Another contributer could be responsible for gathering resources while a forth in counting could be responsible for delivering finished products, if not scouting for armor and weapons to attempt at salvaging on their free time. The leader of the business being responsible for handling trades, making custom orders and taking measurements for said orders.
So yea 5 members would be plenty to make a rich entirprise ran sufficiently.
The Mind of the team being the one in charge of Equipment service
The rest of the members being of the following for the entirprise:
Inventory service = Muscle
Product service = Heart
Business service = Will
Delivery service = Spirit
With the clients he listed, her dimensions aren't as unpredictable as a minotaur or a goblin.
That's what I was gonna say! His examples all seemed way harder than just making large leg plates. XD
That just means he's had enough.
It means his task list is full and she'll have to wait for the queue to open up at a later time.
People don’t understand that armor never was mass produced and had to be made to fit. Meaning that the blacksmith would have to measure the person for their armor multiple times. Constantly adjusting the straps after the plate components are finalized and in some cases having to go back and further shape the plates because they don’t fit together properly. Plus chainmail will do the job of protecting from most weapons except for thrusting swords & spears or fine thin tipped arrows.
There was mass-produced plate and brigadine that could reasonably be obtained by MaAs but those were one size fits all and obviously nothing like what the comic implies.
@@flyingsquirrell6953 IIRC most chain mail was also made mass produced for the same reason.
@@alexanderhamilton4258Chain mail, cloth gambesons and good ole bucket hats.
The most a simple footsoilder could get is some fancy guantlets and boots.
Depends on time period as well. in the early renaissance they got good at producing a lot of this stuff quickly in-mass. Right before firearms came along and made it all obsolete.
To be fair plenty of people fought unarmored too just many games don't allow for unarmored fighters since they lack a dodge/parry/block system.
To point: Blacksmiths like this generally didn't make equipment. Making tools and such already took up all of their time. Armor and weapon smiths were a specialized trade that usually were contracted entirely with the government, or just sold to merchants so they wouldn't have to deal with custom jobs in the first place. Not to mention that any smith that had to serve hundreds of customers a year would not have a tiny building like that.
It would be that for a smallish to medium sized village. With at least 3-4 apprentices and prob at least 1-2 journeymen blacksmiths under them.
For the kinds of stuff that happens in dnd campaign style worlds the 'blacksmith' would just be the person they interact with. With them relying the order to the crafters guild that uses industrialized magic(likely all the people that can barely do cantrips).
That's his cousin's house.
“Okay then, I understand how busy you are. I’ll find someone else to diligently measure my hips and thighs by hand with a thin strip of cloth.”
"I will find another blacksmith to assist me, and in future when I need more work done, I will find them again, instead of you."
@@Sanderfordpro tip for you, bud: the "you just lost yourself a customer" doesn't work ever... and especially not after the guy just finished telling exactly how much he doesn't want you as a customer.
@devanbrowne8706 It doesn't work...*until* the customer you've lost is a Fantasy Adventurer who becomes stupendously wealthy by adventuring and then makes it a point to never do business with you.
@@Sanderfordthe guy's probably a village blacksmith.
He was never gonna blow up to be a big City blacksmith with a whole guild behind him. Not according to Fantasy tropes and conventions.
I'd dare say you won't even see him again after you cross the other side of the woods, or you get on a boat.
Probably why he's swamped with orders, no one else there to help him or to dope slap him for being an idiot and taking more than he can handle.
@@janematthews9087 If he's in a place to be taking on so many jobs, I would say he's less isolated than that.
He could use that dope slap.
Yeah I’m with the Blacksmith on this one.
Everyone agree that statement
It would be funny if the blacksmith said "Lady, you get more armor points for LESS pieces covered. Why are you requesting a DOWNGRADE?"
"I need to grind endurance."
"Ohhh... yeah that's gonna be expensive if we can't make something durable."
she already finished leveling heavy armor for her current level, now she needs to work on light armor or she doesn't get all the points for speed and endurance
I ain't no blacksmith but I HAVE to agree here he has so much work every day
Blacksmiths meet almost every adventurer that comes through, between measuring and oftentimes their own careers in that field, they know when to talk down or to shut down
Dude is in high demand. Hire and train an employee or two to make the basic village stuff, expand into this niche armor shape market.
That's why you learn to craft yourself. Then you don't have to put up with churlish NPCs any longer. XD
Problem is forging armor takes months, and most adventurers dont get that much downtime
Insubordinate and churlish!
@@2MeterLP Depends on how good and fancy you want it. Cutting corners could get it done in one. Solid work just a few.
@@chaotixthefoxor if you are a wizard the fabricate spell is a real time saver.
Or you learn to symphatize with them xD
"Hey! Why is my materials list so much bigger than his?"
"Wait wait wait... give me a minute here...Alright, I'm good. So, do you want the smarmy answer, the funny answer, the honest answer, or will you take the fate and duck option?"
"..."
"It's because of your..."
"This is why we don't let teens have access to the Wish spell."
Bro kinda sounded like he was rapping with that music in the background. lmao
The part with the centaur killed me XD
This blacksmith is the only thing keeping the entire town alive and satisfied
That a skill issue. A dwarf can knock those out in a day.
They should have asked a fucking dwarf then, also arent dwarfs about making weapons and armor that are very good quality? Not speed of making something
@@Evcelium There 24h in a day, if you present a problem and poke at his ego, that mf gonna smith without sleep.
@@ufuk5872 thats wild, sounds legit tho
Omg, I've never known how much I needed a voiced version of Rapscallion's works XD Thank you
Her: can i get some leg armor?
The blacksmith: *MF I DONT EVEN HAVE A RULER TO MEASURE YOUR DUMPTRUCK*
It’s like when you show someone a skill you have (either art or some other creative skill) and suddenly everyone is asking you to make something for them.
To be fair he is being paid.
I agree with the blacksmith, if I were a blacksmith in a fantasy world where almost every client is different and some of them have ridiculously big body parts, then either I would have a limit of orders like those or you'll have to pay me 20-30% more of the price
I’m pretty sure any blacksmith would absolutely charge a bit more if they’re required to make a more complicated armor that requires even more material.
Clothes sorta work the same way even today. I know this because bras that fit me are expensive, and they cost even more if I have them custom fitted.
@@ItsDSP *Narrows eyes* is this the “humblebragging” I’ve only heard legends of in hushed tones upon the webs of Virtual?
Congratulations! You win [chronic back pain]!
@@samuellanghus1455 Wow! I feel so blessed 😌
@@samuellanghus1455 *_When the blessing is secretly a curse_*
This reminds me of the time I annoyed my DM by playing as a centaur and asking the blacksmith for armor for my “horse half”.
I've already worked that out. It's just barding as one would buy for an ordinary horse. Doable? Yes. Expensive and requiring a specialist? Also yes.
This!
This is realistic fantasy dialog. Some blacksmith venting his frustration in the most crass way possible about how many different body types he has to deal with. Let alone people with thighs bigger than their torso.
I don't know how good he is at his craft, but he's a bad businessman. It would be way easier to make this kind of special armor request prohibitively expensive. Either the client stops bothering them, or they pay a fortune, which is arguably more likely because adventurers tend to be stupidly rich. You can probably figure out how to make a proper 3 foot codpiece if that alone gets you enough gold for the next couple years.
When Steve Bushemi is the local dwarven blacksmith…
This is why, and understandably not every person who runs a game understands history, metal working and crafting tasks were split amongst different disciplines.
I was going to say the blacksmith was being a bit mean, but after hearing what he already has to deal with, it is 100% justified
His refusal is justified. His being a D-bag really isn't. Against my current PC, he just ensured he will never see a single coin from her purse, for this or any other job.
I dunno why, but having a new song play on every bubble has this sense of humor that I cannot understand or describe.
"I'm going to remember this when you come bursting into the tavern tomorrow night to prevail upon my heroic nature to save your daughter or whoever who's been abducted by goblins. I'll still help, but we both know how you'll be paying me."
He has other customers he can ask, he said he had a lot of orders.
@@damackabet.4611 None of whom will be available. That's how these things work. When he comes rushing into the tavern with a time-sensitive task, either she will be the only Hero immediately available, or the nature of the task will mean she has to be included in the job due to some skill or knowledge she has.
His examples were way more difficult than simply making large leg plates. XD Like, dude, I don't know why you have no confidence for her request, but you can totally pull it off.
The man is overworked, cranky about it, and unwisely taking it out on the first available target.
I mean... that's, like... your job, man
Yes but It's understandable To be a little pissed when you have to create armor for someone built like a Upside down wine glass And get less pay or even no pay at all because fucking "hero credit" and shit
@@stork_jogin Nobody in the comic says anything about her not paying him. Nobody even implies it. He's understandably cranky about being overworked, but honestly it is, as @A1998GatewayPC says, his job.
@Sanderford thanks for the correction but it still sucks just because it's your doesn't mean you can't complain about but he probably shouldn't have yelled it out like that
"And I can't take on another client right now because...of everything I literally just told you. I understand you got main character syndrome going on, but I got that too and it's actually very stressful because all of mine goes right into this darn forge!"
"Do this, make that, and not even a thank you"
~Ornn
Yep.
There's a reason why Plate Mail is so expensive in the Player's Handbook. And also usually requires a lead time.
armored skirts exist for a reason. just attach some metal plates on a mail sheet and call it a day
No need for it if hips makes the opponents distracted :3
@@mayrokratt6195a 9ft tall, 3ft wide berserker orc isn't going to be distracted by her heavenly thighs, nor would an 80ft long fire-breathing dragon.
Armor is _always_ necessary.
I knew its my boy Rapscallion
How can that blacksmith be so ungrateful when THICK THIGHS SAVE LIVES!!
*"That how I met your mother"* -The blacksmith, probably
I feel so much sympathy for this man. Like WHAT ARE THESE PROPORTIONS!?
I love Rapscallion.
If he's done that much specialty work, some modified plate bottoms should be pretty tame.
BRO THE BLACKMSMITH RELATABLE ASF BRO "all that shit"
yes, the "Your hips are wider than your shoulders" type of video i need to watch before sleep
0:16 bg became home designer music
I like how he said an*l beads for the villagers but no one noticed
No, you see the thing is we *did* notice, but we're all too stunned to say anything about it. 🤣
Clearly she didn't offer him enough gold. Given how easily she seems to be wielding that weapon even with her skinny arms, she should've volunteered to assist in some way or maybe offer to FIND some able assistants for him. Like come on gal; use your brain! Where there's a will there's a way!
CLEARLY label this as "AI" voice please, it's the bare minimum.
Most kindest blacksmith
A smith wouldnt usually do both nails and armor. Common goods like nails and hinges are made by blacksmiths, armor is made by armorsmiths.
It's crazy how just by the character design from the thumbnail alone I automatically knew it was rapscallion😂😂😂 I think ive been on "a certain part of the internet"for too long
...what's a relmer?
Other realmer?? Outsider race? A Far Realm denizen perhaps...
No idea why, but og autor calls some elfs like this.
Im pretty sure he bases whole thing on dnd, but he adds a lot of his own stuff.
Tho if i remeber correctly, in TES they call elfs - "mer".
Dark elfs - danmer, wood elfs - bosmer.
Maybe he likes tes as well.
Dwarf/elf I believe. Tall as an elf, thicc as a dwarf.
Ah so okay the artist is making a ttrpg called Vice and Violence. A Relmer is one of the playable races (human + elf)
@@SgtHexProductions I thought that was Alloyan or something.
“I have money.”
“Oh why didn’t you start with that?“
“How much”
“You’re going to have to sell your house for the cost of materials alone.”
I'd 100% watch an anime about this kind of grumpy blacksmith who has to deal with ridiculously proportioned adventurers on a daily basis
Artist ✅
Producer ✅
Voice actor ❎
AI sucks
The guy who thought changing the music every 10 seconds was a good idea: [EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]
@@morgansmith1529uh yeah but were is this coming from?
Later...
"BY OLOFGRIMM'S BEARD, WHERE THE NINE HELLS ARE MY TWO CHAINMAILS?"
That f-off was personal 🤣🤣
Girl, making quality plate armor is the kind of thing you ask a professional city armorer for, not some guy on your village
...or tie a f king goblin to 'em.
Me: SHORTSTACK ARMOR.
“Every business is a f*cking local business. There’s no Walmart dipsh*t”
We all know thiccc thighs save lives
Guess we didn't know the blacksmith is the real hero, doing all the behind the scenes things.
man that was like trying to listen to a radio edit slim shady track on slomo
I love this artist.
I feel sorry for that blacksmith 💀
Bro had to take the centaur's measurements 💀 hell nah
You wouldn't need to tie a goblin onto them thighs, they'll cling onto them themselves like a magnet.
These were AI "voices", huh...?
As they should be. Blessed hips.
why every bubble have own soundtrack 😭😭😭😭
my man needs a vacation and not one of those vacations where you end up doing more than you typically would in upkeep
"F*ck Off" straight kill me 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I recognized the artist frame 1
Nice dub/edit😤😤😤
Rapscallion art on RUclips was NOT on my 2024 Bingo Card
as a revenge she should tell some giants to go order a full armor set there
To be fair, the centaur having a cod piece is probably best for everyone. And we salute you for it.
Good for him. Blacksmith Finally speaks up. Good.
Those legs are individual weapons of mass destruction and she wants armor for them.
I see where he’s coming from, but she IS trying to support a local business.
Listen dude, them slappies are a national treasure and need protection
Should have said, " I have bigger things to worry about than your hips" xD
That man’s the true hero!
got to the end and i was like "i fucking knew it was rapscallion"
Finally a joke about the very strange artstyle anatomy.
Ha, Rapscallion... my secret hero
Sounds like he should hire employees and make a big blacksmith shop, he got all the demand in the world now he just meeds the supply and he's making BANK!
Bionically accurate blacksmith
I had a character who was a thiccboi that would admittedly fit in quite well with Rapscallion's art style. He was a Monk though, so he didn't need armor, and those Ultra Thighs™ were part of the reason he could kick for d10s.
I like how the background music is so schitzo and can't settle on one track.
He's actually just holding out for the money AND a good crushing.
Former professional blacksmith here, although making armor by hand is fundamentally an expensive and labor intensive task it actually isn't much harder to make it custom set using traditional techniques than it is to produce a standardized set using traditional techniques.
She Judo throws you and PUTS YOU IN ORBIT!
XD
I don't know why I find this so funny. But I do.
That's why i try to keep the shoulders as wide as the hips when designing big characters
Had a DND player ask for chain mail for her sentient witch's pot with legs, that request broke me for a second
Sonya from MGQ be like:
“Yo let me get that centaurs info”
This stuff is getting expensive 😂😂😂 poor blacksmith 😂
Don't know why man's complaining. Sounds like he's rolling in work lol