Monster LOOT & Crafting in D&D

Here's my favorite, simple system for harvesting monster loot and crafting weapons, armor, and other useful equipment in Dungeons & Dragons 5e! ▶️ More below! ⏬

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00:00 my obsession with looting monsters
00:54 best 5e monster loot rules!
01:51 quick monster loot example
02:35 monster loot rules breakdown
05:53 looting a cockatrice!
06:38 looting a blue dragon!
07:33 looting a fire elemental!
08:18 looting a hag, mimic & owlbear!
09:05 looting a TARRASQUE!
09:33 looting a troll, giant spider & wolf!

#dnd #dungeonsanddragons

[klee]

With my newer group of players, there’s a fine line between telling them they can do anything in this game and giving them ideas about monster loot. I give it two sessions before that entire goblin family’s skin becomes matching fedoras for the party.

[AnneOfManyNames]

I wrote this series! It's wild that this compendium that started as a tool for my home games has become so popular and well-liked. I hope it can inspire some other tables to make monster entrails into fashion accessories. Thank you Bob for featuring it on your channel, it truly means the world to me.
-Anne (fellow world builder)

[JonathanHStone]

Gygax's written modules frequently included treasure in the monster's ailimentary canals. It would make sense that monsters might eat their foes whole and magic items, gold, and such may as yet still be undigested.

[Abelhawk]

I made a Google doc like this a few years ago. An easy way to do it on the fly is to award:
- poison ingredients
- potion ingredients
- magic item components
- body parts that acts like weapons
- spell components that add a metamagic twist to a spell
- items that act like spell scrolls or charged items
It's also fun to give them the weapons wielded by Large creatures, which can be wielded with disadvantage one-handed but deal more damage than normal. And any magical effects can wear off over time if they're too powerful.

[davidjennings]

Tools like this are pretty useful, I would still encourage DMs to use their imagination (as always) but it's good to have a resource to help prompt you when your mind goes blank.

My first ever campaign we were up against a Basilisk, it turned one of our party to stone. After defeating it we decided that the Basilisk's stomach must have some acid inside that dissolved the stone so it could eat it's prey. After a confused "I guess" shrug from our DM who was still in the "this book must tell me all!" Early stages of DMing, we cut out the stomach and coated our friend in the pretty corrosive stomach acid and freed them...and then dunked them in a lake to get that acid off.

[Abelhawk]

If you don’t want your players constantly asking what each creature drops, you can just automatically reveal it to players who have tool proficiencies based on what drops. So a smith would notice ingredients that could be made into weapons, leatherworkers would notice useful hides, and so on.

[loophoss]

For fixing broken items I'd imagine you could use the Mending cantrip if your party has access to it.

[CharoGaming]

I run this in my campaign! Our local goblin dissects every monster the party kills!

[TheSoling]

Thanks Bob -- just bought the 4 generic ones .. cheers
thanks for the code --

[DungeonMasterpiece]

Wow it's great to see supplements like this in 5e. This style of creativity is everywhere in the OSR, so it's great to see this stuff here.

[reaganduggins]

Wonderful video (as always).

I just have to share, the add placement could not have been better. I was listening and I hear Bob say "hags... you can harvest their hands, their tongue" and suddenly, a hello fresh add comes on and says, with very zen music "dinner." It was priceless 🤣🤣🤣

[thehubbleton]

The Monster Loot books are definitely dope.

[crisisOstrich]

Good also to consider the social implications of some of this stuff, wearing red dragon armor is very impressive! Wearing gold dragon armor means you probably murdered a good-aligned gold dragon! Some NPCs may not appreciate that

[Keovar]

My players fought some harpies and manticores, so they collected feathers and spines, which the cleric/archer used to make some arrows of slaying.

[emiljansson]

Don't forget to use promo code "BOBLOOT", yes Bo Bloot

[Mars]

I got these with your code because your last video. Can't wait so use it.

[djhollowman]

Bob, thank you so much for this. You sold me on the DM's Guild, which I just signed up for after watching your video. You also sold me on this product, which I proceeded to buy... all of them. What a great addition to have. Thanks again Bob.

[digitaljanus]

Aw yeah, Anne Gregersen! I haven't read the Monster Loot books yet but I use her Bloodied & Bruised supplements all the time to make my combats more interesting. Maybe now's the time to take a look at those Loot titles and throw Bob some affiliate credits.

[TheShelbyTheShelby]

Wow this is amazing. My party loves to loot/dissect creatures and I just kinda make it up but this will make it so much more exciting for them!

[jakobnuernberger]

So I saw your last video (I think it was the One DnD thing with the Bard, Ranger etc.) yesterday and you mentioned this supplement in an ad kind-of-thing and you got me hooked right there and then. So i skedaddled over to the DMs Guild and got me the PDF for Dragon of Icespire Peak, which I intend to run as a first time DM (no worries I already played some DnD as a player so I kinda know what I'm doing...or maybe not, who knows). Anyway, quite funny that you made a video about those supplements for a mechanic that I am really missing in the game