they're just too cute ^^ "aww, of course you can keep the town" *pat pat* "I'm dangerous, fear me! I am death incarnate" "of course you are, here's a cookie"
Imagine a paranoid paladin at that battle raising their fist and shacking it whilst yelling "Damn you Kibble Frick!" while kobolds shoot across the fort just stealing anything not nailed down.
Kobolds: We have canon but our troop aren't surviving launch. Let's put them in baskets so the survive Also Kobolds: let's propel them with deadly explosives!
@@cornmaized Thats amazing, I did a similar thing had a Kobold paladin named Grit the Pipes of bag the 13th, he was a 2'1'' Kobold who played the bagpipes, it was glorious :)
Trixie Gearknuckle, Gnome Artificer, yelling: "You incompetent kobolds! Your 3rd gear is so misaligned, it causes you to miss every shot!" Kiep, Kobold Artificer, yelling back: "So THAT'S why it's doing that... Well what's YOUR excuse for missing?!"
I don't remember gnomes having a way to launch themselves, not including gnome punting but that was invented by orcs and minotaurs as a sport similar to golf driving.
@@beastwarsFTW Gnomes are known as incredible tinkerers and mechanical builders, but they're also known to purposefully put flaws in their designs so that it isn't perfect. If you want, Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes for 5e talks about this.
I like the idea that the Kobolds slaughtered the Guards and the town just went "Oh those plucky 'bolds!" And went along with everything is hilarious to me. Like, that's not a criticism, I actually think the town hating the guards that much is hilarious, and a good hook to future stories.
Considering that kobolds are _reptiles_ and shouldn't have breasts in the first place, I doubt that you can tell how many female kobolds were demonstrated here.
@JC Denton To be fair we have never encountered any species like the Kobolds in reality, maybe they are a weird alien hybrid of mammal and reptile? I mean I've seen weirder creatures on earth, you ever seen Trump, I mean I'm just saying...
This is brilliant. I love the idea of a Kobold man cannon and I think I could incorporate this into an encounter similar to the story. The Town is either being attacked or defended by the Kobolds and the party has to either stop the siege or take back the city, with the cannon being the centerpiece. Also, that Kobold Artificer is adorable. I wish only success upon her inventions.
I've been waiting a while for the party to go to the nearest kobold tribe, I love the idea but I dimmed it down and turned it into a catapult for my lvl 3 players. I would slowly introduce the upgrades every time they encounter kobolds to get a sense of "what have these morons added this time".
@@attackonponyproductions4927 Oh they're a fire safety hazard in more than just the south. They're a hazard across pretty much the entirety of the great plains and then some. CGP Grey actually has an excellent video on just how widespread the tumbleweed menace is in North America.
I am in a campaign were I am friends with a female Kobold named "ada" who downed our ranger in one round by tripping him. Needless to say I help the Kobold overthrow the leader of nest. Now the smartest NPC we have meet is the Kobold, she has also assisted in fighting off a vampire and has gave us a airship she made. I can say that Ada the Kobold is my favorite Kobold in all the games I have played
Reminds me of one of my NPC’s in my current campaign, a ratfolk, “Mister Atchyoo”, who is the local gunsmith, and “mad scientist”, that runs a gunshop called “Rat-tat-tat-Atchyoo Shop.” He used to stutter a lot, and the name stuck, and now a days he pretends that the fact his shop’s name sounds like a rapid fire gun shooting, with a ricochet was intentional
I’d use it for the backstory to a Fort that was once controlled by evil mages and Mercs. Being taken by surprise the Kobolds overwhelmed the Mercenaries and the Mages were forced into Melee. Thus Kobold Kitay was born.
This is why we love Kobolds, 1st their are the design possibilities, then there is the fact that they are beings of focus, commitment, and sheer flipping will
This inspired me. In my campaign, the party is currently stuck within the Far Realm (banished there by Larloch, the Shadow King), and while they're stuck in there, Larloch tightens his grip on the world; he's ending a war for publicity and has been manipulating the world's leaders into fighting that same war. However, a kobold colony (who have developed a city over the course of roughly five months) is having none of it, since they believe that dragons are the true overlords, and are planning to start a rebellion against Larloch. They will certainly be utilizing the kobold kanun.
I have a comic relief villain in the game I'm currently running, who calls himself "Kobold Commander" (get it?). I might give him one of these. That said, I still need lots of additional ideas for dumb things he can build.
Kobold Tank- its a wagon with scrap metal nailed onto it, and the bottom removed so kobolds can push it flintstones style, with how small kobolds are you can fit a lot of them, or other stuff in there, like a big crossbow or argonel as a turret equivalent. The iron serpent- basically an armored version of the dragon's from parades for chinese new year- the head has a flamethrower like device, using either oil or alchemist's fire, and the outside is covereed in actual armor, or imitation scales depending on how stupid you want this idea to be, the inside should be made of flamable materials so if the fire breath malefunctions all the kobolds flee the inferno. the Great Kobold of Kursk- a giant obviously fake kobold, set on waggons and puppeted on the inside via pulleys and a lot of kobold muscle, it is actuall dangerous if its similarly sized weapon or arms actually hit something, but that is unlikely, its main purpose is morale, the kobolds take way more risks with it as their backup making it actually dangerous if you get bogged down so the pilot in the head can organize the crew to line up a hit.- basically a combination of the great mouse of minsk from american tail, and the gargants orks have in warhammer The floating mountain- basically a medieval tech ironclad, its a shoddily built boat coated with cement and rock bits, and maybe some plants, so it can be disguised as a small island, you can either have it really small like a kobold attempt at stealth, or go big- have it the kobold equivalent to sheild's helicarier, big as an actual island, big enough to have farms and stuff inside, a self sufficient community, that uses it as a base for raids since it looks nothing like a ship from the outside- but have it also be a constant battle to keep it afloat, so raids are largely for mateirals for repairs- but also so if players actually board it for some reason, they risk going down with the ship themselves if they do too much damage fighting- but doing damage could redirect the hordes of kobolds on board towards repairs and away from the pc's- It could be a great encounter where kobold ingenuity, and idiocy combine to threaten the heroes at every turn, especially if they need to recover something or someone safely from the ship
Another idea, the Great Drill *(needs better name) think the giant drill from Avatar the last Airbender, but in a world that doesn't have the steam engine, its huge, powered via muscle and or magic, it is also very slow, use it to drill through walls, only to have the challenge be for heroes to figure out how to stop it without hurting themselves on the mass of irregular and rusty metal- its too big to stop, but too slow to realy be a threat, so they have to assault what is basically a small moving fort- or have it go underground and the real risk is the collapsing of land and structures as it passes as it is still super slow- like the town guard aren't worried about the kobolds invading so much as the walls and houses of the town collapsing into a sinkhole or something, for that scenario for extra fun, have it be a sneaky mission for the kobolds, like tunneling into a bank to rob or something, but it is so loud and slow every human in town knows, their target loot was moved but the aformentioned danger to buildings gets the pc's called in- they then have to risk cave ins and rock falls while trying to stop the kobolds
@@timothycarney9652 These are all great ideas. Since I posted my original comment, I already started developing the game mechanics for a Kobold tank, drill, and mech suit strikingly similar to the ones you described, (I guess great minds thing alike) but adding a fake dragon and an armored riverboat to the mix sounds like a lot of fun.
@@Nikolapoleon The boat idea was for my own take on a kobold empire as a concept- in 3.5e at least kobolds are an interesting mix of tribal and comunisitic- tribs split equipably when they grow too big for an area to support and go and found a new mine/colony like ants, I had the idea "what if a kobold leader manged to keep the groups under his control after the split" following that the idea was basically massive infrastructure to support the already huge kobold population and keep seperated groups in contact so he coulld keep control- the end game was a kobold empire- which is something I havent heard of in any D&D setting, which is weird considering even orcs and gnolls have examples. the boat idea was basically a floating mountain, a way for that empire to expand to teh seas, my original concept was less silly, basically a floating fortress powered by a steam engine (heat metal as a permanent enchantment to make it work) to sail and start exploiting sea resources for the Dragon Blood empire
@@timothycarney9652 I considered adding steam power to my setting, but eventually decided to reject it on the grounds that it would have too big an impact on the world. Nevertheless, I've decided that I like the idea of having the kobolds experiment with the science of compressed air. Specifically, I think certain items such as their drill could be powered by bellows that pump air either into a metal tank, or directly into the pistons that drive the machine.
“It’s also capable of launching items” yeah but who’s going to use it like that? I ask as I load in a gnome to fire at the dart board I painted on the ground
Tamara Stroyan exactly, I used the spoils of the battle to have this contraption built for me to remind them never to cross me. And as I bonus I have a new game to play, their pointy hats help them to stick in the ground target perfectly
It reminds me of a webcomic- one alien race had every crime be punishable by catapult, the severity of the crime determined how far you were thrown- in the setting's history one corporations egregious missuse of something like copyright law had the aliens borrow a more advanced species' railgun, to launch the offenders at their sun. so that is what I envison, the kobols are so pround of the kanun that they use it for everything- crimes are punished via kanun launch without the parachute, teh sevarity determines whether it is aimed at a lake, or the side of a cliff, or invaders
Every kobold scenario "kobolds are actually scarily intelligent, they just lack experience and are often tripped up because of this." Wizards: what if we gave them only one plus stat, minus their strength, then give them sunlight sensitivity despite their dark vision being the same as everyone else's.
To my knowledge, they're actually the only playable race in 5e that had a minus in any stats. They get -2 strength, in exchange for pack tactics which is... Admittedly, a really good ability, but still. They deserve more love than that
@@archsteel7 them and orcs, orcs getting a -1 intelligence. It annoys me to know end. The argument I constantly get is "it's a monster race, it doesn't need to be good." So stupid.
Enter the wonderful land of homebrew statblocks! I've DM'd for a couple kobold PCs before and I've offered an optional replacements for their kit They get an additional +1 to any mental stat (still keep the -2 str and +2 dex) Darkvision increased to 120ft (still keep sunlight sensitivity, just makes them more in-line with Drow) Grovel Cower Beg replaced with the goblin's Fury of the Small.
That was great, I love the Kobolds, the cannon and wish them the best! Human: oh noooo, lol Kobold 1: They aren't taking us seriously! Kobold 2: I say we roll wit it and take their country, :D Also I am reminded of the Joan of Arc episode of simpsons: "Rather than launching frail men at the walls, why not launch larger, sturdier men, or.. How about rocks?"
I like the idea of magical sniper vs tinker artillery duel, the sniper has to manuver to a spot they can actually hit the engineer from, and if they fail any stealth check the kobolds start their bombardment, probably not very clos to hiting the sniper but as the bombardment continues your sniper has to deal with more and more environmental hazards, and wandering kobolds spotters.
Stupendous as always I always love when you come up with more bits of world building. Don’t stop keep it up. Every time you make a new video you keep getting better and better.
One use for items is flinging care packages to the kobolds, in a future campaign I may run this as the party has to defend a stronghold with the help of a kobold task force
Me: “Okay, this is out of the ordinary, but more Kane is always welcome, and he just got back from really bad tablet troubles so he’s earned this-“ Kane: “The Kobold KANUN is a simple encounter...” Me: “...This is a _real_ encounter that he uses?!” Me, a little later: “...This is actually a really cool idea. Maybe I should stealthily send this to my DM...”
My GM just took your idea and ran with it in our Clone Wars era, Star Wars campaign. Jawas (star wars kobolds) took over a resort city... and proceeded to ambush us with jawa launchers in much the fashion you described here. Later we had to infiltrate the guard station and attack the BOSS version... and I got to experience Mr. Jawa's Wild Ride when I failed my coordination check and was swept up and bucked around with two other players. Thank you for sharing this and inspiring our GM
I have a 6 int Kobold character. Their backstory is that they got lost after being shot through the Kanun, and then started working for the mafia... In a front. They didn't know it was the mafia.
Welp, I've officially made a modified version of the "Kobold Kanun" part of my Homebrew campaign. I'm calling it the "Kobold Kanun Mark 5", and instead of a giant sling-shot crossbow thing, it's a steam-powered cannon that launches spherical terracotta shells full of Kobolds, essentially acting in a similar way to ODST pods from the Halo video games. (Although the terracotta part is actually inspired by the fact you can craft terracotta bombs in Assassin's Creed: Revelations.) The shells have cushioning on the inside to try to protect the little kobolds, but they still shatter on impact with anything, doing 1d8 slashing damage in a 5ft radius from the jagged shards of terracotta spraying everywhere. Also the Kobolds still have to pass a CON save or be knocked unconscious when they hit the ground.
Oh, I need to use this at some point. Maybe like an escape sequence where the Kobolds are sending an endless supply of reinforcments from an unreachable perch.
Yeah, so I have one PC who despises dragons and any creature relating to them, and another that is an old engineer who is gathering artificers and tinkers from across the world together in the hopes of pulling an Einstein by combining their different specialties to make some great breakthroughs. This encounter sounds perfect, and I hope will lead to some great party dynamic stuff, because on one hand you have a character who would not take kindly to these little draconic looking creatures, yet on the other you have a character who would be very interested in recruiting this clever, spunky kobold artificer. Also it just sounds like a fun encounter in general. I particularly like the idea of the ball launched through the air leaving a trail of oil to be lit ablaze by someone. Given that there is an actual dragon empire in my campaign populated by kobolds, dragonborns, half dragons and a ruling class of dragons, having some fire breathers on hand for that wouldn't exactly be difficult.
This reminds me of a cannon I made when I was a blacksmith in a home brew campaign, it was the legendary bucket cannon, capable of propelling a bucket filled with water over 200ft able to hit even the finest of fire wizards with water during their magic demonstrations. The fire wizard found me though so R.I.P bucket cannon, rest in a single melted piece.
As someone who frequently builds fantasy tech with deeply disturbing R&D history everything about this was fantastic. Instant subscribe. Please don't let me down on the road to 100K.
You've inspired my players to shoot their Kobold with a ballista modified by their artificer the night before. The Kobold then used Thunderwave, their wildmagic went off, and instead they became a living fireball shot from a ballista... honestly one of the funnest things to dm.
I'd like to imagine that if kobolds took over a town the townspeople would keep living there and the kobolds would be more of an inconvenience to them than anything. Traps randomly going up overnight, kobolds living in their houses and eating their food, that sort of thing. It becomes a real problem once trade caravans stop coming in, due to the increased danger for them (the kobolds attack the caravans and steal everything.) As for local leadership and anyone they call in to deal with the problem, they're directly targeted so it's far worse for them. In other words, kobolds are a menace to the elite and an annoyance to the proletariat.
I love this so fucking much, and I especially love how you adapted the Kobolds' ingenuinty and skills with traps into a full on Kobold artificer, and I genuinely just adore it
Jesus, this is absolutely Rekobodulous! Considering I'm building a campaign setting where Kobolds would be an actual 'intelligent' civilization and an actual military threat, this will see heavy use. Thank you for this, Kanekuo.
As a DM currently running a Goblin/Kobold centric campaign, this gives me a great idea!!! The perfect defense for a encampment nearby the ghost-ridden mansion...
@@pawemarzec5764 Kobold Kanun firing Goblin Grenadiers! :-) Which is kinda similar to v2, except that the explosives are *on* the ammo, rather than propelling them...
I have a recurring session that comes up in my campaigns called “Hoardcon” where a bunch of dragons from across the multiverse gather together to show off and celebrate their unusual hoards. This year, I’m adding some events to the Con, and this shall be one of them lmao
I put a bunch of them in a captured citadel covered by an anti-magic Obelisk. So every once in a while, it would shoot a Kobold Druid that would wild-shape into an owlbear as soon as they left the aura, protecting the Kobold Kanun from stuff like fireballs the entire time.
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“As the engineer panics” is the phrase that most accurately describes this plan
Davis Hatler and team fortress 2
Foxy Dash love TF2
Davis Hatler yassss
Kibble frick: yep, I built that
@@enderpup9289 *makin' bacon'*
It shall only be a matter of time until adventurers go to the entrance of a Kobold cave and hear the words: "Stand by for Titanfall."
"Kobold 7274, ready for Titanfall."
Dragonfall* there's no way they wouldn't use the opportunity to worship the dragons
[tom and jerry rube goldberg machine noises]
Now I can't stop imagining kobolds breaking the sound barrier
@@owenkegg5608 Kobolds inventing the nuclear bomb
they put it on a stick and hit people with it
their model for nuclear physics involves dried peas
God, I love how the townsfolk were just humoring the kobolds.
they're just too cute ^^ "aww, of course you can keep the town" *pat pat* "I'm dangerous, fear me! I am death incarnate" "of course you are, here's a cookie"
You say that until the labor camps finish construction lol
remember, they installed a 4th one to prepare for invasion. They probably know it's an act
Careful man, he’s got a blunt dagger
@@15098D DEAR GOD IS THAT A STICK!?
Imagine a paranoid paladin at that battle raising their fist and shacking it whilst yelling "Damn you Kibble Frick!" while kobolds shoot across the fort just stealing anything not nailed down.
How would mere nails stop a race that can make a "Kanun" :)
@@leobracken2316 Good point they'll just steal the nails too! XD
...I'm just imagining some fly-by kobolds, shot out of a kanon, with enough levels put into Pickpocket to rob you of your armor mid-flight.
@@marcusdaloia2974 I'm viewing "Dinkleburg" levels of Bullshittery
She is a very cute engineer
Kobolds: We have canon but our troop aren't surviving launch. Let's put them in baskets so the survive
Also Kobolds: let's propel them with deadly explosives!
Kobolds: We're smart, but no one ever said we had common sense.
@@vazak11 Kobolds: we are learning by doing. Trust us, we are engineers.
And we wonder why they have such a low life expectancy
Kobold thought it was playing minecraft (tnt cannon)
@@Equinox2149 Actually, barring injury and disease, a healthy kobold have a life expectancy of 120+Cha years...
It will be a terrible day whenever they reveal their newest contraption:
*The Orbital Kobold Strike*
We will all be doomed
50 K/D achieved, tactical kobold nuke incoming
Those shot are hailed as heroes, whether they survive or not.
Terrible? You mean wonderful!
TACTICAL KOBOLDS INCOMING
Me if I were one of the guards: "They're so dumb; I love them! Open the gates."
The funny thing is, kobolds are actually really intelligent
@@deadman3824 Intelligence doesn't always mean smart in common sense manner.
Siper intelligence vs wisdom
@Siper Which is absolutely adorable.
@@RubyCarrots3232well
Yeah
Even if genius
Not means that you can't be an idiot
My kobold ranger just installed ballista's onto his airship. Makes me tempted to make some modifications
DO IT!
Ask the kobold for kobold launcher upgrade.
Do it.
Quick and easy boarding action
Serious suggestion: carnivorous slime is a more suitable ammunition for ship-mounted anti-personnel weapons.
There’s inevitably gonna be some group of players who will try to steal the kanun instead of breaking it
*y e s*
Me
Two words: Self. Destruct.
Definitely me
@@JaelinBezel have one guy steal the self destruct mechanism and another steal the kanun.
Kobolds are really intelligent and rather adorable. I love them, especially since I play one.
Seconded!
So did i my dude, it was siiick :)
I play a kobold artificer named Toast the Tinker. They are so freaking fun
@@cornmaized Thats amazing, I did a similar thing had a Kobold paladin named Grit the Pipes of bag the 13th, he was a 2'1'' Kobold who played the bagpipes, it was glorious :)
Those who know what is good play dragonwrought kobold Cloud Anchorites.
This could also be used for gnomes which makes me think of a kobold vs gnome cannon battle and I love it.
I am actually frustrated I didn't think of that myself. That sounds absolutely hilarious. XD
Trixie Gearknuckle, Gnome Artificer, yelling: "You incompetent kobolds! Your 3rd gear is so misaligned, it causes you to miss every shot!"
Kiep, Kobold Artificer, yelling back: "So THAT'S why it's doing that... Well what's YOUR excuse for missing?!"
I don't remember gnomes having a way to launch themselves, not including gnome punting but that was invented by orcs and minotaurs as a sport similar to golf driving.
@@beastwarsFTW Gnomes are known as incredible tinkerers and mechanical builders, but they're also known to purposefully put flaws in their designs so that it isn't perfect. If you want, Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes for 5e talks about this.
Kobolds: Has The Kobold Kanun
Gnomes: Has Ben, Explosive Gnome Sorcerer
Me:
*Sees Video
Also me, playing a Kobold Artificer in Eberron at the moment: He he he...
Update: My DM said I can’t make it until we have a permanent base.
How much is an Eberron airship?
@@MrPC-ql9sn Are you suggesting launching Kobolds from a flying airship?
DeonteDoesStuff! Firestone Launch me
@@divergentdreams1951 remember to bring fetherfall
I also played a kobold artificer...
Still wish that game didn't die on me
I like the idea that the Kobolds slaughtered the Guards and the town just went "Oh those plucky 'bolds!" And went along with everything is hilarious to me.
Like, that's not a criticism, I actually think the town hating the guards that much is hilarious, and a good hook to future stories.
Not enough cute girl kobolds.
Joking aside this was a lot of fun, and has some good ideas :P
Considering that kobolds are _reptiles_ and shouldn't have breasts in the first place, I doubt that you can tell how many female kobolds were demonstrated here.
@@stretopovermind9680 It was obvious and he did draw them with such. So yeah
With an avatar like that I'd think you'd be happy with just cute Kobolds period, reguardless of gender.
@JC Denton To be fair we have never encountered any species like the Kobolds in reality, maybe they are a weird alien hybrid of mammal and reptile? I mean I've seen weirder creatures on earth, you ever seen Trump, I mean I'm just saying...
Also, I'd hit that. With legal consent of course.
This is brilliant. I love the idea of a Kobold man cannon and I think I could incorporate this into an encounter similar to the story. The Town is either being attacked or defended by the Kobolds and the party has to either stop the siege or take back the city, with the cannon being the centerpiece.
Also, that Kobold Artificer is adorable. I wish only success upon her inventions.
try making the kobolt good-ish and other worse treaths
Ok I want like 3!kobold kanuns now
I've been waiting a while for the party to go to the nearest kobold tribe, I love the idea but I dimmed it down and turned it into a catapult for my lvl 3 players.
I would slowly introduce the upgrades every time they encounter kobolds to get a sense of "what have these morons added this time".
All fun and games until they recruit them into making player launchers
Me and my friend who are both DMs love kobolds. We are absolutely using these.
please do
This is so ingeniously chaotic. I love it. Thank you Kanekuo.
As for spicing it up?
Put it on top of a mountain. Have it hurl snowballs below.
Or ice trolls!
@@kathrynrovito6855 Ya!
We use kobold Kanun to spread seeds....SEEDS OF DOOM! “These are wheat-“ DOOM!
Replace "wheat" with "tumbleweed" and you can have a deceptively terrifying bioweapon.
@@webbowser8834 Dear God
@@webbowser8834 thank you for the next bioweapon of my evil Lizardfolk artificer.
@@webbowser8834 especially since tumbleweeds are actually a fire safety problem down south.
@@attackonponyproductions4927 Oh they're a fire safety hazard in more than just the south. They're a hazard across pretty much the entirety of the great plains and then some. CGP Grey actually has an excellent video on just how widespread the tumbleweed menace is in North America.
I am in a campaign were I am friends with a female Kobold named "ada" who downed our ranger in one round by tripping him. Needless to say I help the Kobold overthrow the leader of nest. Now the smartest NPC we have meet is the Kobold, she has also assisted in fighting off a vampire and has gave us a airship she made.
I can say that Ada the Kobold is my favorite Kobold in all the games I have played
Reminds me of one of my NPC’s in my current campaign, a ratfolk, “Mister Atchyoo”, who is the local gunsmith, and “mad scientist”, that runs a gunshop called “Rat-tat-tat-Atchyoo Shop.” He used to stutter a lot, and the name stuck, and now a days he pretends that the fact his shop’s name sounds like a rapid fire gun shooting, with a ricochet was intentional
Damn, I just made my kobolds snipers, but you just made the best weapon ever XD
sniper and altylllery... keep practicing
I'm just in love with this all. Kobolds are the cutest race for me in D&D.
They’re fricking adorable.
I love this more than words can accurately describe.
I’d use it for the backstory to a Fort that was once controlled by evil mages and Mercs. Being taken by surprise the Kobolds overwhelmed the Mercenaries and the Mages were forced into Melee. Thus Kobold Kitay was born.
This is why we love Kobolds, 1st their are the design possibilities, then there is the fact that they are beings of focus, commitment, and sheer flipping will
This inspired me. In my campaign, the party is currently stuck within the Far Realm (banished there by Larloch, the Shadow King), and while they're stuck in there, Larloch tightens his grip on the world; he's ending a war for publicity and has been manipulating the world's leaders into fighting that same war. However, a kobold colony (who have developed a city over the course of roughly five months) is having none of it, since they believe that dragons are the true overlords, and are planning to start a rebellion against Larloch. They will certainly be utilizing the kobold kanun.
I have a comic relief villain in the game I'm currently running, who calls himself "Kobold Commander" (get it?).
I might give him one of these.
That said, I still need lots of additional ideas for dumb things he can build.
Kobold Tank- its a wagon with scrap metal nailed onto it, and the bottom removed so kobolds can push it flintstones style, with how small kobolds are you can fit a lot of them, or other stuff in there, like a big crossbow or argonel as a turret equivalent.
The iron serpent- basically an armored version of the dragon's from parades for chinese new year- the head has a flamethrower like device, using either oil or alchemist's fire, and the outside is covereed in actual armor, or imitation scales depending on how stupid you want this idea to be, the inside should be made of flamable materials so if the fire breath malefunctions all the kobolds flee the inferno.
the Great Kobold of Kursk- a giant obviously fake kobold, set on waggons and puppeted on the inside via pulleys and a lot of kobold muscle, it is actuall dangerous if its similarly sized weapon or arms actually hit something, but that is unlikely, its main purpose is morale, the kobolds take way more risks with it as their backup making it actually dangerous if you get bogged down so the pilot in the head can organize the crew to line up a hit.- basically a combination of the great mouse of minsk from american tail, and the gargants orks have in warhammer
The floating mountain- basically a medieval tech ironclad, its a shoddily built boat coated with cement and rock bits, and maybe some plants, so it can be disguised as a small island, you can either have it really small like a kobold attempt at stealth, or go big- have it the kobold equivalent to sheild's helicarier, big as an actual island, big enough to have farms and stuff inside, a self sufficient community, that uses it as a base for raids since it looks nothing like a ship from the outside- but have it also be a constant battle to keep it afloat, so raids are largely for mateirals for repairs- but also so if players actually board it for some reason, they risk going down with the ship themselves if they do too much damage fighting- but doing damage could redirect the hordes of kobolds on board towards repairs and away from the pc's- It could be a great encounter where kobold ingenuity, and idiocy combine to threaten the heroes at every turn, especially if they need to recover something or someone safely from the ship
Another idea, the Great Drill *(needs better name) think the giant drill from Avatar the last Airbender, but in a world that doesn't have the steam engine, its huge, powered via muscle and or magic, it is also very slow, use it to drill through walls, only to have the challenge be for heroes to figure out how to stop it without hurting themselves on the mass of irregular and rusty metal- its too big to stop, but too slow to realy be a threat, so they have to assault what is basically a small moving fort- or have it go underground and the real risk is the collapsing of land and structures as it passes as it is still super slow- like the town guard aren't worried about the kobolds invading so much as the walls and houses of the town collapsing into a sinkhole or something, for that scenario for extra fun, have it be a sneaky mission for the kobolds, like tunneling into a bank to rob or something, but it is so loud and slow every human in town knows, their target loot was moved but the aformentioned danger to buildings gets the pc's called in- they then have to risk cave ins and rock falls while trying to stop the kobolds
@@timothycarney9652 These are all great ideas. Since I posted my original comment, I already started developing the game mechanics for a Kobold tank, drill, and mech suit strikingly similar to the ones you described, (I guess great minds thing alike) but adding a fake dragon and an armored riverboat to the mix sounds like a lot of fun.
@@Nikolapoleon The boat idea was for my own take on a kobold empire as a concept- in 3.5e at least kobolds are an interesting mix of tribal and comunisitic- tribs split equipably when they grow too big for an area to support and go and found a new mine/colony like ants, I had the idea "what if a kobold leader manged to keep the groups under his control after the split" following that the idea was basically massive infrastructure to support the already huge kobold population and keep seperated groups in contact so he coulld keep control- the end game was a kobold empire- which is something I havent heard of in any D&D setting, which is weird considering even orcs and gnolls have examples. the boat idea was basically a floating mountain, a way for that empire to expand to teh seas, my original concept was less silly, basically a floating fortress powered by a steam engine (heat metal as a permanent enchantment to make it work) to sail and start exploiting sea resources for the Dragon Blood empire
@@timothycarney9652 I considered adding steam power to my setting, but eventually decided to reject it on the grounds that it would have too big an impact on the world.
Nevertheless, I've decided that I like the idea of having the kobolds experiment with the science of compressed air. Specifically, I think certain items such as their drill could be powered by bellows that pump air either into a metal tank, or directly into the pistons that drive the machine.
0:58 Well i guess you could say it was ko-bold of them to lunch themselves with explosives
Not gonna lie that joke is kob-old
“It’s also capable of launching items” yeah but who’s going to use it like that? I ask as I load in a gnome to fire at the dart board I painted on the ground
Not a garden gnome, an actual living gnome you captured in the last battle with them
Tamara Stroyan exactly, I used the spoils of the battle to have this contraption built for me to remind them never to cross me. And as I bonus I have a new game to play, their pointy hats help them to stick in the ground target perfectly
Makes me wanna incorporate some sort of junk jet inspired contraption for my artificer
It reminds me of a webcomic- one alien race had every crime be punishable by catapult, the severity of the crime determined how far you were thrown- in the setting's history one corporations egregious missuse of something like copyright law had the aliens borrow a more advanced species' railgun, to launch the offenders at their sun.
so that is what I envison, the kobols are so pround of the kanun that they use it for everything- crimes are punished via kanun launch without the parachute, teh sevarity determines whether it is aimed at a lake, or the side of a cliff, or invaders
This comment screams kobold in many ways
Every kobold scenario "kobolds are actually scarily intelligent, they just lack experience and are often tripped up because of this."
Wizards: what if we gave them only one plus stat, minus their strength, then give them sunlight sensitivity despite their dark vision being the same as everyone else's.
To my knowledge, they're actually the only playable race in 5e that had a minus in any stats. They get -2 strength, in exchange for pack tactics which is... Admittedly, a really good ability, but still. They deserve more love than that
@@archsteel7 them and orcs, orcs getting a -1 intelligence. It annoys me to know end. The argument I constantly get is "it's a monster race, it doesn't need to be good." So stupid.
@@calebkopp7636 the orcs in eberron offer a mew version, which is essentially the same
Just minus the intelligence penalty and they get an extra skill
@@tbonevideos23 that is awesome.
Enter the wonderful land of homebrew statblocks!
I've DM'd for a couple kobold PCs before and I've offered an optional replacements for their kit
They get an additional +1 to any mental stat (still keep the -2 str and +2 dex)
Darkvision increased to 120ft (still keep sunlight sensitivity, just makes them more in-line with Drow)
Grovel Cower Beg replaced with the goblin's Fury of the Small.
That was great, I love the Kobolds, the cannon and wish them the best!
Human: oh noooo, lol
Kobold 1: They aren't taking us seriously!
Kobold 2: I say we roll wit it and take their country, :D
Also I am reminded of the Joan of Arc episode of simpsons: "Rather than launching frail men at the walls, why not launch larger, sturdier men, or.. How about rocks?"
Kanekuo:"It consist of a space that takes several turns of full movement to cross"
Me:*laughs in spellsniper eldritch blast*
I like the idea of magical sniper vs tinker artillery duel, the sniper has to manuver to a spot they can actually hit the engineer from, and if they fail any stealth check the kobolds start their bombardment, probably not very clos to hiting the sniper but as the bombardment continues your sniper has to deal with more and more environmental hazards, and wandering kobolds spotters.
Obviously the way to stop that kind of cheesing is to put the Kanun behind a hill or something that blocks direct line of sight.
god i love how adorable you make the kobolds in your art. it only makes sense that even though people were displaced, they were still amused.
Idea for another incounter, Orc Ortillery: Same thing but without saftey
I had one called the orc a' polt. The orcs would use shields as sleds to "block the ground" when they landed.
It actually is still run by the Kobolds, they just appreciate that the orcs are so willing to be literal cannon fodder
@@beastwarsFTW Good old bollywood physics
www.reddit.com/r/BollywoodRealism/comments/6s1r9w/baahubali_2/
"OI YA GITZ, GET IN THERE! WE GOTZ US A TOWN TA PLUNDA!" Wait what do you mean wrong Orc?
Stupendous as always I always love when you come up with more bits of world building. Don’t stop keep it up. Every time you make a new video you keep getting better and better.
Why Tf did I not think about playing a Kobold artificer until now? That’s an amazing Idea and I hate that I didn’t think of it on my own
One use for items is flinging care packages to the kobolds, in a future campaign I may run this as the party has to defend a stronghold with the help of a kobold task force
Derg Team 6
Ye
Me: “Okay, this is out of the ordinary, but more Kane is always welcome, and he just got back from really bad tablet troubles so he’s earned this-“
Kane: “The Kobold KANUN is a simple encounter...”
Me: “...This is a _real_ encounter that he uses?!”
Me, a little later: “...This is actually a really cool idea. Maybe I should stealthily send this to my DM...”
as someone currently thinking up a war-themed campaign which will heavily include goblinoids and kobolds: **Y E S**
How'd the campaign go?
Crow man, your Kobold voice is damn near perfect.
This, my good sir, is being recommended to my DM right away.
Rolling up too a castle taken by kobolds
DM: kolbold kanun
The Players: a what canon?
DM: KOLBOLD KANUN
I just love the idea of a poor villager hearing a high pitch scream and see a scalie boi face plant into a wall and pass out
WAAAAAAAH *Thud* *rubbing sound of scales slideing against glass*
My GM just took your idea and ran with it in our Clone Wars era, Star Wars campaign. Jawas (star wars kobolds) took over a resort city... and proceeded to ambush us with jawa launchers in much the fashion you described here. Later we had to infiltrate the guard station and attack the BOSS version... and I got to experience Mr. Jawa's Wild Ride when I failed my coordination check and was swept up and bucked around with two other players.
Thank you for sharing this and inspiring our GM
Kobolds rule because they're the best! Go little dragons!
I love this video very much, not only because it's a good video, but because it introduced me not only to dnd, but to Kobolds. Thanks. :3
I’m making a kobold dungeon now!
Kobolds are what peak character design looks like. Change my mind.
Thank you for your continued service towards kobolds.
3:45 "get flung around while the engineer panics" 😂
Kobold Kanun Kanun: Launches an engineer with supplies to make a smaller/another Kobold Kanun Kanun, then uses the old one as a Kobold Kanun...
I have a 6 int Kobold character. Their backstory is that they got lost after being shot through the Kanun, and then started working for the mafia... In a front. They didn't know it was the mafia.
Welp, I've officially made a modified version of the "Kobold Kanun" part of my Homebrew campaign. I'm calling it the "Kobold Kanun Mark 5", and instead of a giant sling-shot crossbow thing, it's a steam-powered cannon that launches spherical terracotta shells full of Kobolds, essentially acting in a similar way to ODST pods from the Halo video games. (Although the terracotta part is actually inspired by the fact you can craft terracotta bombs in Assassin's Creed: Revelations.) The shells have cushioning on the inside to try to protect the little kobolds, but they still shatter on impact with anything, doing 1d8 slashing damage in a 5ft radius from the jagged shards of terracotta spraying everywhere. Also the Kobolds still have to pass a CON save or be knocked unconscious when they hit the ground.
Of all the races it's the Kobold stupidity that makes me love them the most
Oh, I need to use this at some point. Maybe like an escape sequence where the Kobolds are sending an endless supply of reinforcments from an unreachable perch.
I LOVE KOBOLD'S....
LIKE A UNHEALTHY AMOUNT!
AND YOUR CUTE DRAWINGS ARNT HELPING!....
Yeah, so I have one PC who despises dragons and any creature relating to them, and another that is an old engineer who is gathering artificers and tinkers from across the world together in the hopes of pulling an Einstein by combining their different specialties to make some great breakthroughs.
This encounter sounds perfect, and I hope will lead to some great party dynamic stuff, because on one hand you have a character who would not take kindly to these little draconic looking creatures, yet on the other you have a character who would be very interested in recruiting this clever, spunky kobold artificer.
Also it just sounds like a fun encounter in general. I particularly like the idea of the ball launched through the air leaving a trail of oil to be lit ablaze by someone. Given that there is an actual dragon empire in my campaign populated by kobolds, dragonborns, half dragons and a ruling class of dragons, having some fire breathers on hand for that wouldn't exactly be difficult.
I feel like adding some grapeshot would be great because one wizard with fly seems to be kind of unbeatable in the current iteration
My brain still cannot understand how you can make everything you draw so cute. Like goddamn, your art style is fantastic.
This reminds me of a cannon I made when I was a blacksmith in a home brew campaign, it was the legendary bucket cannon, capable of propelling a bucket filled with water over 200ft able to hit even the finest of fire wizards with water during their magic demonstrations. The fire wizard found me though so R.I.P bucket cannon, rest in a single melted piece.
So now I am imagining an army of kobolds vs the skaven (from warhammer)
Warplock jezzails will win-win that battle-fight any day! (not biased at all)
@@the-letter_s i know, it just seems like a funny idea to me
there are feral ratfolk in DnD , right?
As someone who frequently builds fantasy tech with deeply disturbing R&D history everything about this was fantastic. Instant subscribe. Please don't let me down on the road to 100K.
I never noticed before.
2:10
The Irken Empire. 😃
Wait. So this amazing story I just watched, was all to introduce an encounter for D&D? That was amazing! Absolutely great work on this!
Why not use it to launch bees? Their just as tenacious.
The engineer shouts : "plan B!"
Why not hornets?
Imma just gonna leave this hear:
knowyourmeme.com/memes/not-the-bees
Gods, i love kobolds
They're the mostest funniest goodest scaly tinker chaos gremlins
I'm addicted to watching this video over and over, Kanekuo's Kobold voice is just too hilarious. XD
Finally a transportation that doesn't use gas and has the 50 percent chance of death on impact and over all its a good deal
Ooh this is awesome, a story, adorable kobolds and a great game idea!
Kobold Artificer, Kobold Artificer, what will he do?
A weapon to surpass metal gear
You've inspired my players to shoot their Kobold with a ballista modified by their artificer the night before. The Kobold then used Thunderwave, their wildmagic went off, and instead they became a living fireball shot from a ballista... honestly one of the funnest things to dm.
Her: *exists*
*MEET THE ENGINEER*
I love the art style.
Kobold: We make gooder kanun.
Me: No, no, no... it's beautiful.
I'd like to imagine that if kobolds took over a town the townspeople would keep living there and the kobolds would be more of an inconvenience to them than anything. Traps randomly going up overnight, kobolds living in their houses and eating their food, that sort of thing. It becomes a real problem once trade caravans stop coming in, due to the increased danger for them (the kobolds attack the caravans and steal everything.) As for local leadership and anyone they call in to deal with the problem, they're directly targeted so it's far worse for them.
In other words, kobolds are a menace to the elite and an annoyance to the proletariat.
I love Kobolds
I love this so fucking much, and I especially love how you adapted the Kobolds' ingenuinty and skills with traps into a full on Kobold artificer, and I genuinely just adore it
0:48 I Need to meet khamzat kibble frick
Mage: I cast... fireball
I'll clap that
Something tells me that someone is going to make a Kobold character and name him Spike at some point.
I came as fast as I could.
Fresh out of the oven is the best, isn't it?
@@LakeHaliFerryman Heck ya
maybe you should see a doctor about that
Earn a bit more endurance
Title of your sex tape
Yapyap likes the sound of this invention, it will go well with operation locusts especially when mounted on a siege carriage.
Conclusion: Kobolds are the best D&D race
One more reason to love the angry Iguanas
This is STILL wholesome!
Jesus, this is absolutely Rekobodulous! Considering I'm building a campaign setting where Kobolds would be an actual 'intelligent' civilization and an actual military threat, this will see heavy use. Thank you for this, Kanekuo.
As a DM currently running a Goblin/Kobold centric campaign, this gives me a great idea!!! The perfect defense for a encampment nearby the ghost-ridden mansion...
Used this on my group and they loved it! Thank you and keep up the good work!
This sounds more like goblin lore to me, although your goblins forfeit any "tinkerer" description for their adaptability feat
I'd like to see them cooperate
@@pawemarzec5764 Kobold Kanun firing Goblin Grenadiers! :-) Which is kinda similar to v2, except that the explosives are *on* the ammo, rather than propelling them...
The artwork for this was phenomenal. I didn't realize kobolds could be cute!
Ah, kobolds. The imperial army of dnd.
I have a recurring session that comes up in my campaigns called “Hoardcon” where a bunch of dragons from across the multiverse gather together to show off and celebrate their unusual hoards. This year, I’m adding some events to the Con, and this shall be one of them lmao
How do you say that name without cracking a smile 0:40
I put a bunch of them in a captured citadel covered by an anti-magic Obelisk. So every once in a while, it would shoot a Kobold Druid that would wild-shape into an owlbear as soon as they left the aura, protecting the Kobold Kanun from stuff like fireballs the entire time.
Is that town
Whiterun?
Oh damn. Just noticed that
*clears throat*
Kobold City.
Beautiful. And you can not change my minds. And thank you for doing more with kobolds.
I'd simply seduce the Kobolds and move back into the town. male, female, doesn't matter to me, I'm gonna have lots of lizard lovers.
Just randomly found your channel, and I have to say, this has given me several ideas for my homebrew campaign.