Kibbles Crafting 0.9

Crafting has long been a major focus of the game, and something countless players have sought to engage with since the early days - after all, what adventurer wouldn't want to be better outfitted, better equipped and more prepared... and what adventurer wouldn't want the chance to put their personal mark on their gear?

The core principle of this crafting system is simplicity and specificity. Everything works with simple easy to follow rules, but has enough depth to lift the burden from a GM having to fill in every blank by giving specific details for everything. While a GM is always the arbiter of what exists and if a crafting recipe works, by and large, this system can be run with as much or as little input as a GM wants to add - it's a complete package that provides all the necessarily details for your player's to get started - and plenty of tables and guides for GMs as well.

Why do you need Crafting?

Some people may wonder - why do you need a crafting system? Isn't that what loot is for? The truth is, in some games, that's true. Not every adventurer is going to want to pursue crafting. But with a crafting system, not only can you craft what you need without finding it in a dragon hoard, what you find in that dragon hoard can be so much more.

In a game with a robust crafting system, there is no junk, there is just more opportunities and fresh possibilities. A +1 shortsword that no one can use could be the valuable basis of a new spear. Gems, gold, relics, and recyclables... all valid entry points for the crafter's creativity.

Adventurers are inherently innovative folks on a quest for creative solutions to difficult problems. Crafting gives them that toolbox.

So... why do you need crafting? You don't. But you should probably want it.

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Table of Contents

Section	Page Number
Intro	1-3
Crafting Time	4
Materials	5-11
Harvesting & Looting	12-19
Gathering	20-22
Alchemy	23-33
Poisoncraft	34-36
Blacksmithing	37-47
Cooking	48-53
Enchanting	54-79
Scrollscribing	80-81
Wandwhittling	82-86
Leatherworking	87-91
Tinkering	92-96
Woodcarving	97-99
Runecarving	100-103
Jewelcrafting	104-107
Engineering	108-111
Appendices	112-120

Working with your GM

While the system is meant to enable player driven choice, always remember to work with your GM. Check in with them when selecting an item you would like to make and confirm that item exists it exists in their world, and any assumptions hold true.

Some GMs may rule that some items have higher rarity or are simply not available at their default assigned rarity. A common example of this may be something like Winged Boots, which are only rated as Uncommon, but some GMs may feel they are a better fit for rare and adjust their difficulty accordingly.

Generic Ingredients

Above and throughout the document, you will see that ingredients are referred to by generic tags like "common curative reagent" rather than specific natures. For example, you may harvest magical herbs, and find Kingsbane in the forest, a poisonous plant. For the purposes of crafting, this can be recorded simply as a "common poisonous reagent" and used as such in crafting.

This greatly simplifies the process of crafting and recording what your supplies are. Narratively speaking, a skilled alchemist can render down the ingredients they want to use in the form they need.

Each crafting profession will have some profession wide materials that are used in their recipes - reagents for alchemy, metals for blacksmithing, etc.

Some very rare and legendary items will have specific ingredients; this is for flavor rather than balance, though is up to your DM.

Expertise & Bonuses

Your crafting modifier includes expertise in a tool if you have it, but you cannot add any temporary bonus to it (such as guidance, Bardic Inspiration, or other similar features). In general, you should assume that no advantage or bonus applies to a crafting roll outside of the ones specified within this sytem.

Special Reminders:

• Remember that you can "take 10" on a crafting recipe by doubling the crafting time.
• The final say on any item is up to your GM. If they disagree with the written recipe, they are correct!
• Don't be afraid to ask where you can find materials - the GM wants you to engage with the world and find things!

Default Pricing

Crafting During a Rest

During a long rest, you can make up to 2 hours of progress during a crafting project if you do nothing else during the long rest besides craft and sleep. During this time, you have disadvantage on any Wisdom (Perception) checks and a -5 to all Passive Perception checks as you are focused on your craft.

You can make 2 hours of progress on any crafting project by taking this camp action. For most projects, this progress can be banked completing the project 2 hours at a time. For some types of crafting, like alchemy, you cannot make incremental progress, but you can continue for 2 additional hours of crafting before or after a long rest in which you took the camp action "craft" to get 4 hours (for example).

Crafting Rolls

Each profession lists the related ability modifier and tool used to calculate your crafting roll modifier. In many cases, attempting to craft without the applicable tool is impossible. Your DM may allow improvised tools, and in that case the check is made with disadvantage.

Beyond the tool, most branches of crafting require a heat source, and some require more infastructure. These are generally approached logically and are at the discretion of the DM. For an adventure looking for more portable workshop tools, investigate the crafting utility magic and crafting utility items sections - these offer additional avenues for increased portable.

Here is a list of some of the additional requirements by branch:

• Blacksmithing can perform minor crafts with a simple heat source, but requires a forge and anvil to make new items.
• Alchemy and Cooking almost always requires a heat source.
• Tinkering, Jewelcrafting, and Poisoncraft sometimes require a heat source.
• Enchanting, Scroll Scribing, Woodworking, Wand Whittling, Poisoncraft, Leatherworking, Engineering, Runecarving rarely require anything besides the tools of the profession.

Workdays

When a character is spending all day working, they make 8 hours of progress, and cannot exceed 8 hours working on a crafting project during a day. Players will occasionally want to work longer than 8 hours, but this fails to account for the limitations of mortals - player characters still need to eat, sleep, and will eventually lose their focus and ability to work. This is primarily implemented for balance reasons, but also helps model how much productive time a character can spend - they are not just working 8 hours straight and idling for 8 hours, but rather a model of the natural flow of a day, taking breaks, etc.

A DM can choose to overrule this and allow extreme crafting days in special circumstances, but in almost all cases working over 8 hours on a crafting project would leave a character with one or more levels of Exhaustion.

Loot & Salvaging: Nothing is useless when you have a party of crafters. One of the main sources of materials will be the things you find - nothing is useless when you have an expert craftsman in the party.

Gathered & Harvesting: How something is gathered varies on the profession - in many cases, it can only be gathered when the opportunity arises. Dragon scales, for example, are a lot easier to gather when there is a dead dragon nearby. Be it harvesting rare herbs, monster parts, or minerals, gathering is an opportunity you won't want to pass up.

Purchasing: Rarely will everything you need to craft what you want fall into you hands without the assistance of the oldest and most powerful tool of any craftsman - money. When you don't have what you need, frequently you can buy it. For some professions, there will be a lot more materials that can be purchased, while others will rely more on the other routes.

Selling and Buying Materials

In general, the buying price of a material is it's listed value, and its selling price is usually half of that to an interested property.

Between negotiation, market fluctuation, and DM moods, you may get better or worse prices. Note that many materials are simply junk to a party that does not have a use for them, and will only sell to interested parties that can use or resell them.

Threatening to burn down a merchant's shop because they will not offer you the listed price may result in an Intimidation check, but does not change market realities and is typically not beneficial to your reputation - most merchants that have the gold to buy and sell expensive materials have dealt with adventurers before and are not easily intimidated.

The sources of materials are tied to the pillars of the game. Looting and Harvesting are tied into the combat pillar, Salvaging and Gathering are tied into the exploration pillar, and purchasing and rewards are tied into the social pillar. This provides a lot of routes to add these materials to your game based on what works best for your group.

Types of Materials

Reagents

Reagents are huge range of things; most often they are plants that contain some magical essence, but almost as frequently they are harvested from various magically inclined monsters. The exact source of a reagent usually does not matter beyond defining its type, as the part of the reagent used is the fragment of magic contained within that is distilled out.

Reagents are the There are many different ways to make a potion. Consequently, the materials are sorted into categories. These categories include curative, reactive, and poisonous. These each come in the standard material rarities: common, uncommon, rare, very rare, and legendary.

Reagents cannot be salvaged once they have been combined into another form (such as potions, essences, or ink).

Interchangeable Reagents

All curative, reactive, and poisonous ingredients are interchangeable. This is intentional to drastically simplify the crafting process and tracking thereof. Individual names are included only to deepen the immersion of the finding and buying ingredients, and can be treated as interchangeable by their label if preferred.

Magical Ink

While ink has many uses, crafting is mostly concerned with magical ink which has the power to hold the arcane words of scrolls. This is synthesized by alchemists from the magical properties of reagents - as it is concerned with extracting their magical properties, the exact nature of the reagents used do not effect the final ink beyond its potency.

Magical ink is not typically found or harvested on its own, though it may be found as loot, and in some instances a DM could rule that some blood collected from a fiend, celestial or dragon could be counted as such. It is generally created from reagents or purchased from alchemists that create it from reagents.

Magical Ink cannot be salvaged once they have been combined into another form (such as potions, essences, or ink).

Essences

While reagents are substances that contain a glimmer of magical power that can be harnessed through refinement, Essences are more purified forms of magical power.

These come in three types: Arcane, Divine and Primal as well as in the five normal rarities (common, uncommon, rare, very rare, and legendary). These essences are the pure stuff of magic that makes things work.

Special Cases Explained

• Sorcerers produce a type based on their subclass; Dragon or Wild makes Primal, Divine Soul makes Divine, and Shadow makes Arcane.
• Warlocks likewise produce a type based on their subclass; Archfey makes Primal, Celestial makes Divine, and all others make Arcane.
• Occultist can produce any type, but takes 1.5x as long to produce an Essence in this manner. A DM can rule based on the special circumstances of a character their power source may be different than normal. This can stand in for Shaman, Witch, or Oracle classes if you use those instead of Occultist.
• Inventor can stand in for any half-arcane caster of a similar theme.

A 1/2 or 1/3 caster would generate essences at 1/3 or 1/2 their character level.

Salvaging Ingots

Metal items can be converted back to ingots quite efficiently, but require a forge to do so. With a forge and 2 hours per item, a metal item can be rendered down into its component ingots. Advanced metals may require special tools to smelt.

Processing Hides

The process of turning hide into leather takes quite awhile (as per the crafting table), and is often something adventurers can delegate to NPCs (delivering hides to be processed) or do during downtime. If you would like a more expeditated system, there is no balance reason for this, and you can short the leather crafting process to taking 2 hours, it just won't be exceedingly realistic.

Named Components

In almost all cases, named components (such as a "wooden stock" for a crossbow) can be simply abstracted out in the a minor cost, but, as always, the level of abstraction is up to the DM.

Salvaging parts

The other main way to acquire parts is to salvage it. This can be determined by your DM what can be salvaged, but in general common items provide parts, uncommon or expensive items may provide fancy parts, and esoteric parts is found only from esoteric sources at your DMs discretion. Tools, vehicles, and complex items generally return 1d4 metal scraps and 1d4 parts for a small or smaller item, 2d6 metal scraps for medium sized item, and 3d8 metal scraps for large sized item. and more for larger items, though may return less of rare types of parts.

Salvaging

For the most part, wood cannot be easily salvaged. Wood carving is not necessarily a reversible process, and wood cannot be smelted down.

You can render wooden crafted product into wooden scraps equal to 4 x the number of branches used to create it.

Harvesting

The Harvesting tables replace the Individual Treasure for Aberration, Beast, Dragon, Monstrosity, and Plant type creatures.

Remnants

Remnants optional replace the Individual Treasure table for creatures that leave behind no body on death, like Elementals, Celestials, or Fiends (ones that leave behind a body can use the Harvesting table).

Loot

The Loot tables optionally replace the Individual Treasure for Humanoid type creatures - you can use this table in all cases or in some cases.

Hoards

Rather than replacing the hoard tables, simple use the default hoard table and replace an amount of coins, gems, and art pieces with crafting materials. This ensures that players are still getting the sort of loot the expect, but also fills in new materials into things that would often fill little role beside being converted to coinage at a later date.

Basic Harvesting

Beasts, Dragons, and Monstrosities can be harvested using Wisdom (Survival) for meat and hides. As a DMs discretion, a Plant type creature can be harvested for food using the same DC and amount, but providing common fresh ingredients instead of meat. Basic Harvesting takes 10 minutes. At your DMs discretion, it may take longer for larger creatures.

Exotic Creature Harvesting

Applicable Targets: Aberration, Constructs, Dragons, Monstrosities, Plants, Some Undead

A random roll is performed to judge what can be harvested from the monster. For Dragons and Monstrousities, a Wisdom (Medicine) check is required to harvest the material without destroying it, for Constructs, an Intelligence (Arcana) check is required, and for Plants an Intelligence (Nature) check is required. Exotic Harvesting takes 10 minutes. At your DMs discretion, it may take longer for larger creatures.

If a beast is sufficiently magical, poisonous, or vemous, a DM can opt to use the Dragon & Monstrosity table for exotic harvesting, but this should be rare - even a poisonous beast is usually too mundane for the magical properties of harvested materials, and a beast should always be rolled on the 0-4 CR table regardess of its CR.

At a DMs discretion, some Undead may be harvested as well if there is something that would make sense for them provide in this manner, in which case the would use an Intelligence (Arcana) check. Undead are less likely to provide anything of use, simply having a rare chance of providing arcane essences, though some would consider the use of these essences evil.

Exotic Remnants

Applicable Targets: Celestials, Elementals, Fiends, Some Undead

Some creatures typically do not leave behind corpses. While these most often disappear without a trace, sometimes they will leave behind a fragment of the magical forces that powered them as a remnant, in the form of a reagent or essence. These are less likely to result in a crafting item, but don't require any check to gather it successfully. Gathering remnants is simple to do, and requires only 1 minute.

Gather Reagents

Reagents are harvested with making a Wisdom ability check. If have an Herbalism kit and are proficient with it, you can add your proficiency modifier to the roll.

Search for Materials

Materials can be harvested with your choice of a Strength, Dexterity, or Wisdom ability check. If you have proficiency with Survival, you can add your proficiency modifier to the roll.

Hunt Game

Food can be gathered with with your choice of a Dexterity or Wisdom ability check. If you have proficiency with Survival, you can add your survival modifier to the roll.

Quick Reference

While each step will go into more depth, the quick reference allows you to at a glance follow the steps to make a potion in its most basic form:

• Select a potion that you would like to craft from the "Standard Potions Crafting Table".
• Acquire the items listed in the materials column for that potion.
• Use your Alchemy Supplies tool to craft the potion using the number hours listed in the Crafting Time column, or during a long rest using the crafting camp action if the crafting times is 2 hours or less. Alchemy items must be crafted in a single session.
• For every 2 hours, make a crafting roll of 1d20 + your Intelligence or Wisdom modifier (your choice) + your proficiency bonus with Alchemy Supplies. You can abort the craft after a bad crafting roll if you wish, this counts as a failure.
• On success, you mark 2 hours of completed time. Once the completed time is equal to the crafting time, the magic item is complete. On failure, the crafting time is lost and no progress has been made during the 2 hours. If you fail 3 times in a row, the crafting is a failure and all materials are lost.

Related Tool & Ability Score

Alchemy works using Alchemy Supplies. Attempting to craft a potion without these will almost always be made with disadvantage, and proficiency with these allows you to add your proficiency to any alchemy crafting roll.

Alchemy uses your choice of your Intelligence or Wisdom modifier.

Shelf Life & Expired Potions

A unique attribute to alchemy, potions once crafted have a shelf life of 1 year before coming expired. This shelf life is shortened to 1 month if the potion contains any reactive ingredient.

If an expired potion is used or consumed within double its shelf life, roll a d4. On a 1, you become poisoned for 1 minute. On a 2 or 3, the potion will work with reduced effect; it's duration will be halved if it had a duration, and damage or healing it dealt with by halved. On a 4, it works as expected.

Any potion that is older than twice its shelf life has no effect besides causing the imbiber to become poisoned for 1 minute.

Crafting Roll

Putting that together means that when you want to work on Alchemy, your crafting roll is as follows:

Alchemy Saving Throw

Some alchemical creations trigger a saving throw. In instances that they do, the following is the formula for calculating the saving throw. The saving throw is calculated at the time of creation based on the creators attributes and proficiency, and does not change once it is created.

Draught of Damnation^K

Potion, rare This stick red liquid has a living viscosity to it, churning slow within the flask. When you drink this potion, you become a fiend (as if by shapechanged for 1 hour). The type of fiend you become is determined by your level. The new form is a random fiend with a Challenge Rating equal to your level, up to a maximum of 10. If there are multiple options at that Challenge Rating, roll to determine which option is selected).

When the effect ends and revert to your normal form, you take 1d6 necrotic damage equal to the CR of the fiend who's form you assumed as the toxins of pure evil attempt to destroy your body before relinquishing control of it. If this damage kills you, your soul is dragged to the realm of the fiends by malignant will of the fiend.

Healing Potion

Potion, common

You regain 2d4 + 2 Hit Points when you drink this potion. The potion's red liquid glimmers when agitated.

Panacea^K

Potion, legendary

When you drink this potion, you regain all lost hit points, all status effects are removed, all reductions to ability scores are removed, any missing limbs are restored, all diseases are cured, all curses are removed, and all levels of exhaustions are removed, and you cease to age for 1 year. This potion can remove effects that can otherwise only be removed by wish.

If you ever drink a second panacea potion, make a DC 30 Constitution saving throw. On failure, you gain no benefits from it and die.

Potion of Animal Friendship

Potion, uncommon

When you drink this potion, you can cast the animal friendship spell (save DC 13) for 1 hour at will.

A murky, muddy potion, it leaves various animal shapes and tracks on the side of the container as it swirls.

Potion of Clairvoyance

Potion, rare

When you drink this potion, you gain the effect of the clairvoyance spell. An eyeball bobs in this yellowish liquid but vanishes when the potion is opened.

Potion of Climbing

Potion, uncommon

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When you drink this potion, you gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed for 1 hour. During this time, you have advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks you make to climb. The potion is separated into brown, silver, and gray layers resembling bands of stone. Shaking the bottle fails to mix the colors.

Potion of Resistance

Potion, uncommon

When you make this potion, you can make it resist one particular image type. For Necrotic or Radiant resistance, substitute an uncommon divine essence for the primal essence. For Force resistance, substitute an uncommon arcane essence. For psychic, substitute an uncommon psionic essence.

The color of the potion depends on what kind of resistance it is, often having that element swirling within it.

When you drink this potion, you gain resistance to the selected damage type of the potion for 1 hour.

Potion of Speed

Potion, very rare

When you drink this potion, you gain the effect of the haste spell for 1 minute (no concentration required). The potion’s yellow fluid is streaked with black and swirls on its own.

Potion of Water Breathing

Potion, uncommon

You can breathe underwater for 1 hour after drinking this potion. Its cloudy green fluid smells of the sea and has a jellyfish-like bubble floating in it.

Potion of Mind Reading

Potion, rare

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When you drink this potion, you gain the effect of the detect thoughts spell (save DC 13, no concentration required) for 1 hour. The potion’s dense, purple liquid has an ovoid cloud of pink floating in it.

Potion of Poison

Potion, uncommon

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This concoction looks, smells, and tastes like a potion of healing or other beneficial potion. However, it is actually poison masked by illusion magic. An identify spell reveals its true nature.

If you drink it, you take 3d6 poison damage, and you must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned. At the start of each of your turns while you are poisoned in this way, you take 3d6 poison damage. At the end of each of your turns, you can repeat the saving throw. On a successful save, the poison damage you take on your subsequent turns decreases by 1d6. The poison ends when the damage decreases to 0.

Alchemical Acid^K

Concoction, common

A small flask of burbling acid, a strange hissing green viscous liquid. It deals 4d4 acid damage when poured on an object. Can be used as a simple ranged weapon with the thrown (20/60) property, dealing 4d4 acid damage on hit. You do not add your modifier to the damage roll.

Alchemical Fire^K

Concoction, common

A small flask of volatile orange liquid. It deals 2d10 fire damage when poured on an object. Can be used as a simple ranged weapon with the thrown (20/60) property, dealing 2d10 fire damage on hit. You do not add your modifier to the damage roll.

Alchemical Napalm^K

Concoction, common

A vicious sticky flammable substance. It deals 3d4 fire damage when poured on an object. Can be used as a simple ranged weapon with the thrown (20/60) property, dealing 3d4 fire damage on hit. You do not add your modifier to the damage roll.

On hit, the target creature or object continues to burn for one minute, taking 1d4 fire damage at the start of their turn (or at the start of your turn for an object without a turn) until a creature spends an action to put the flames out.

Bottled Wind^K

Concoction, common

As an action, you can open this casting gust without verbal or somatic components. Alternatively, you can breath from it, letting out only a little bit at a time, breathing directly from the bottle, but each time you must make a DC 5 athletics checks. On failure, you cast gust as above and all the air is lost. You can get 10 minutes of breathable air from one bottle.

Burning Oil^K

Oil, common

As an action, you can coat a weapon in this oil and ignite it. For 1 minute, the ignited weapon burns, dealing an additional 1d4 fire to attacks made with it, and providing bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet.

Flametongue Oil^K

Oil, uncommon

As an action, you can coat a weapon in this oil and ignite it. For 1 minute, the ignited weapon burns, dealing an additional 2d6 fire to attacks made with it, and providing bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet.

Oil of Sharpness

Oil, very rare

This clear, gelatinous oil sparkles with tiny, ultrathin silver shards. The oil can coat one slashing or piercing weapon or up to 5 pieces of slashing or piercing ammunition. Applying the oil takes 1 minute. For 1 hour, the coated item is magical and has a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls.

Silver Oil^K

Oil, common

A sparkling chromatic oil. The oil can coat one slashing or piercing weapon or up to 5 pieces of slashing or piercing ammunition. Applying the oil takes 1 minute. For 1 hour, the coated item is considered silvered.

Blasting Powder

Explosive, common

A fine grey powder with large grains and the faint smell of sulfur and charcoal that comes in small packets weighing 1/2 pound.

When ignited by 1 or more fire or lightning damage, it explodes violently. All creatures within 10 feet of it must make a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw. On failure, they take 1d4 fire + 1d4 thunder damage, or half as much on a success. The amount of damage increases by 1d4 (both the fire and thunder) and the radius increases by 5 feet for each additional packet of Blasting Powder detonated in the same spot, up to a maximum of five packets. Deals double damage to buildings and structures. Creatures in range of more than one stack of up to 5 explosives at the same time take damage only from the highest damage effect.

Nail Bomb

Explosive, uncommon

A brutal instrument, this mixes explosive powder and nails to create a devastating fragmentation device. An exceedingly dangerous device. Heavier and more deadly than other explosives, the primary damage comes from the metal shrapnel (nails) flung in all directions. It can be detonated by dealing 1 fire or lightning damage to it. As an action, a packet of this explosive can be accurately thrown 20 feet, but will not detonate on impact (usually). When it detonates, all creatures within 20 feet (for common) of the target point must make a Dexterity saving throw with a DC equal to the crafter's Alchemy DC. On failure, they take 8d4 piercing damage, or half as much on a success.

You can fuse your explosives. When fused, intentionally dealing fire damage to the explosives (or otherwise lighting the fuse) causes it to detonate on a delay, selected from: short (the end of your turn), medium (the start of your next turn), and long (2 rounds, at the start of your turn).

Dwarven Alcohol

Only dwarves really know if the name of this liquid explosive is a joke or not, but must assume it is an acquired taste. An explosively flammable liquid that comes in a flask, this flask can be splashed across a 5 foot square within 5 feet. Once splashed, it can be ignited by 1 or more fire or lightning damage it explodes in a plume of fire, dealing 2d4 fire damage to all creatures within 5 feet of the container, or within a square that has been soaked with it.

Smoke Powder

Explosive, common

A fine grey powder with large grains and the faint smell of sulfur and charcoal that comes in small packets weighing 1/2 pound.

When ignited by 1 or more fire or lightning damage, it releases a blast of thick black smoke that fills a 20 foot radius. Everything in this smoke is heavily obscured for 2d4 rounds. At the start of your next turn after the number of rounds rolled, the smoke begins to fade leaving everything within the radius lightly obscured, and it clears completely at the start of your next after that.

Additionally uses of the smoke powder extend the duration of heavy obscurement for an additional 1d4 rounds.

Simple/Potent/Powerful Explosive

Explosive, common/uncommon/rare

A bundled explosive alchemical preparation. It can be detonated by dealing 1 fire or lightning damage to it. As an action, a packet of this explosive can be accurately thrown 20 feet, but will not detonate on impact (usually). When it detonates, all creatures within 10 feet (for common) of the target point must make a Dexterity saving throw with a DC equal to the crafter's Alchemy DC. On failure, they take 1d8 + 1d8 thunder damage, or half as much on a success. Creatures in range of more than one explosive take damage only from the highest damage effect.

You can fuse your explosives. When fused, intentionally dealing fire damage to the explosives (or otherwise lighting the fuse) causes it to detonate on a delay, selected from: short (the end of your turn), medium (the start of your next turn), and long (2 rounds, at the start of your turn).

Grenade Casing

Explosive, uncommon

A simple construction of a two chambered projectile (typically made of glass). When you add an Alchemist Fire and an Explosive to its separate compartments, it becomes an incredibly dangerous device. As an action, a character can light this bomb and throw it at a point up to 60 feet away. Creatures within the range of the explosive used must make a Dexterity saving throw against the DC of the explosive used, or take damage equal to the explosion + 1d4 piercing damage + 1d4 fire damage.

Magical Ink

Component, common/uncommon/rare/very rare/legendary

Magical ink that is used by Enchanters to create scrolls, made by rendering down magical alchemical ingredients.

Quick Reference

While each step will go into more depth, the quick reference allows you to at a glance follow the steps to make a potion in its most basic form:

• Select a poison that you would like to craft from the "Poison Crafting Table".
• Acquire the items listed in the materials column for that potion.
• Use your Poisoner's Kit tool to craft the option using the number hours listed in the Crafting Time column, or during a long rest using the crafting camp action if the crafting times is 2 hours or less. Poisoncraft items must be crafted in a single session.
• For every 2 hours, make a crafting roll of 1d20 + your Intelligence or Wisdom modifier (your choice) + your proficiency bonus with a Poisoner's Kit. You can abort the craft after a bad crafting roll if you wish, this counts as a failure.
• On success, you mark 2 hours of completed time. Once the completed time is equal to the crafting time, the magic item is complete. On failure, the crafting time is lost and no progress has been made during the 2 hours. If you fail 3 times in a row, the crafting is a failure and all materials are lost.

Related Tool & Ability Score

Poisoncraft works using Poisoner's Kit. Attempting to craft a potion without these will almost always be made with disadvantage, and proficiency with these allows you to add your proficiency to any poisoncraft crafting roll.

Poisoncraft uses your choice of your Intelligence or Wisdom modifier, representing your path of knowledge to the art of making deadly things deadlier.

Crafting Roll

Putting that together that means that when you would like to create potion, your crafting roll is as follows:

Poisoncraft Saving Throw

When a poison requires a saving throw, the following is the formula for calculating the saving throw. The saving throw is calculated at the time of creation based on the creators attributes and proficiency, and does not change once it is created.

Poisons

Given their insidious and deadly nature, poisons are illegal in most societies but are a favorite tool among assassins, drow, and other evil creatures.

Poisons come in the following four types.

Contact. Contact poison can be smeared on an object and remains potent until it is touched or washed off. A creature that touches contact poison with exposed skin suffers its effects.

Ingested. A creature must swallow an entire dose of ingested poison to suffer its effects. The dose can be delivered in food or a liquid. You might decide that a partial dose has a reduced effect, such as allowing advantage on the saving throw or dealing only half damage on a failed save.

Inhaled. These poisons are powders or gases that take effect when inhaled. Blowing the powder or releasing the gas subjects creatures in a 5-foot cube to its effect. The resulting cloud dissipates immediately afterward. Holding one’s breath is ineffective against inhaled poisons, as they affect nasal membranes, tear ducts, and other parts of the body.

Injury. Injury poison can be applied to weapons, ammunition, trap components, and other objects that deal piercing or slashing damage. An injury poison typically lasts 1 minute on a weapon, and lasts for up to 5 hits. A creature that takes piercing or slashing damage from an object coated with the poison is exposed to its effects.

Blacksmithing

Blacksmithing is a popular professional interest of two sorts of adventurers: those that want to hit things with heavy metal objects, and those that want a heavy metal object between them and the thing hitting them.

While often relying on the town blacksmith to do their work for them is a fine option, rolling up your sleeves and doing the work yourself can allow you to express your creativity... and may save you a few coins in the process.

Blacksmithing is slow hard work, but has a higher tolerance for failure than most, and is more dependent on knowing your material, as the templates you work from tend to be common across many of them.

Quick Reference

While each step will go into more depth, the quick reference allows you to at a glance follow the steps to make a blacksmith item in its most basic form:

• Select the item that you would like to craft from any of the Blacksmithing Crafting Tables.
• Acquire the items listed in the materials column for that item.
• Use your Blacksmithing Tools tool to craft the option using the number hours listed in the Crafting Time column.
• For every 2 hours, make a crafting roll of 1d20 + your Strength modifier + your proficiency bonus with a Blacksmithing Tools.
• On success, you mark 2 hours of completed time. Once the completed time is equal to the crafting time, the item is complete.

• On failure, the crafting time is lost and no progress has been made during the 2 hours. If you fail 3 times in a row, the crafting is a failure and all materials are lost.

Related Tool

Blacksmithing works using Blacksmithing Tools. Attempting to craft an blacksmithing item without will often be impossible, though a DM may let you use makeshift tools to make a check with disadvantage. Proficiency blacksmith's tools allows you to add your proficiency to any Blacksmithing crafting roll.

While Blacksmiths can benefit from their skills in small ways such as sharpening their weapons and retrofitting their gear on the go, many of their crafting options require a fully equipped Forge; a fully equipped Forge entails forge, anvil, and blacksmith's tools.

Magical Forges

The world of D&D is a fantastical place with many wonders; sometimes you may find locations that have been constructed in such a way as to leverage powerful primal powers in the forging technique - a forge at the heart of volcano or atop an ever frozen glacial, which might imbue items crafted there with special properties.

Crafting Roll

Putting that together that means that when you would like to smith an item, your crafting roll is as follows:

Blacksmithing Modifier = your Blacksmiths' Tools proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier

Metals

Maintain Gear

One of the major perks of having a blacksmith in the field is their ability to keep gear in its best condition, giving you an edge (sometimes literally) in the quality of your gear and weapons. Over the course of two hours, a Blacksmith can maintain a number of weapons or sets of armor equal to their proficiency modifier, granting each weapon or armor maintained gains a special d6 Quality Die.

For a weapon, this can be rolled and added to an attack or damage roll, representing a case where the perfect state of the gear turned a miss into a hit or dealt a bit of extra damage. For a set of armor, the die can be rolled when hit by an attack, and the damage taken from that attack can be reduced by that amount. Rolling this die does not require an action, but once rolled it is spent and cannot be regained until the blacksmith maintains that armor or weapon again.

Modify Armor

While the field crafting of armor is often not possible, you can make smaller adjustments on. Over the course of two hours, can turn a set of plate mail into a half plate or a breastplate, refit a set of heavy or medium armor to fit another user that is equal in size or smaller than the original user.

Modify Weapon

Every adventure has slightly different preferences in their gear, and your skills allow you make slight modifications to nonmagical weapons made of metal. These modifications take 2 hours, require a heat source, and require you to pass a DC 14 blacksmithing tool's check (on failure, the weapon is damaged and has -1 to it's attack rolls until fixed). You can perform on of the following modifications:

• You can weight a weapon, giving it the heavy property. If it did not already have the two-handed property, it gains the two-handed property.
• You can remove the heavy property from a weapon, reducing its damage dice by d2.
• You can add the light property to a weapon without the heavy property, reducing its damage dice by d2.
• You can silver the weapon (requires 5 silver scraps, doubled for two handed weapons).

Repair Gear

Sometime in the course of adventuring, weapons or armor will become severely damaged, suffering a penalty to it's attack rolls or AC. Over the course of two hours you can repair this damage, though at the discretion of the DM you may need other materials to perform this task if it is heavily damaged. Weapons that are entirely broken (such as a snapped sword) are generally beyond simple repair.

Tower Shield

Common

This is a massive unwieldy shield. While carrying it, your movement speed is reduced by 10 feet. At the end of each of your turns, pick a direction . You have half cover from attacks in a cone that direction. Alternatively, you can pick a single target, tracking the movement. You have half cover against attacks from that target (and only that target).

Spiked Shield

Common

Your shield is considered a martial melee weapon, dealing 1d4 damage on hit.

Bracers

Common

While wearing bracers and not using a shield, as a reaction to being hit by an attack, you can attempt to parry the attack with your bracer, adding gaining +2 AC bonus against the triggering attack.

Adamantine Bracers

Uncommon

While wearing bracers and not using a shield, as a reaction to being hit by an attack, you can attempt to parry the attack with your bracer, adding gaining +2 AC bonus against the triggering attack.. If this causes your AC to be exactly equal to the attack roll and the attacking weapon is made of a common metal, the attacking weapon is destroyed.

Thunder Cannon

Requires attunement

The principle weapon of a Thundersmith. Deals 1d12 piercing damage, and has the Ammunition (60/180), Two-Handed, Loud, and Stormcharged properties.

• Stormcharged. When you use an action, bonus action, or reaction to attack with a Stormcharged Weapon, you can make only one Attack regardless of the number of attacks you can normally make. If you could otherwise make additional attacks with that action, the weapon deals an additional 3d6 lightning or thunder damage per attack that was foregone.
• Loud: Your weapon rings with thunder that is audible within 300 feet of you whenever it makes an attack.

Work Together and be Reasonable

The system is, by it's nature, extremely extensible. Great pains have been taken to make things as "balanced" as possible. But this doesn't mean the rules transcend common sense. As a player, tell your DM what you want to make and be open to adjustments to how it would work. As a DM, tell players how their projects will work from the start, and be open to the idea they can make cool things... these crafted items are part of their "loot" and don't need to be "power neutral" as long as they are breaking anything.

Cooking

Quick Reference

While each step will go into more depth, the quick reference allows you to at a glance follow the steps to make a potion in its most basic form:

• Acquire a fresh ingredient by harvesting or finding it.
• Review the Recipe Tables for Feasts, Snacks or Rations that ingredient would qualify for, and gather the other materials needed listed in the Materials column.
• Use your Cooking Utensils tool to craft the option using the number hours listed in the Crafting Time column, or during a long rest using the crafting camp action if the crafting times is 2 hours or less. Meals must be crafted in a single crafting session. All meals require a heat source (such as a campfire).
• For every 2 hours, make a crafting roll of 1d20 + your Wisdom modifier (your choice) + your proficiency bonus with Cooking Utensils. You can abort the craft after a bad crafting roll if you wish, this counts as a failure.
• If the average of these checks is equal to or higher than the value listed in the Difficulty column for that potion, you succeed. If it is lower, you fail and lose all materials.
• On success, you mark 2 hours of completed time. Once the completed time is equal to the crafting time, the magic item is complete. On failure, the crafting time is lost and no progress is made. If you fail 3 times in a row, the crafting is a failure and all materials are lost.

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Related Tool & Ability Score

Cooking works using Cooking Utensils. Attempting to craft a meal without these will almost always be made with disadvantage, and proficiency with these allows you to add your proficiency to any cooking crafting roll.

Cooking uses your Wisdom modifier.

Duration

The duration a meal remains edible depends on the type of meal made. A feast must be consumed within an hour, a snack lasts for 1 day, and ration lasts 1 month.

Ingredients

The material for cooking are fresh ingredients and supplies. A fresh ingredient is something you harvest that can increase the quality of your food and sometimes provide supernatural boosts beyond mere satiation. Staples include seasoning and spices, but also things like flour and turnips - food that lasts awhile and can cooked into perfectly fine meals, but have no benefits you wouldn't expect from eating a good meal.

Some ingredients additionally have the exotic property, and may confer special effects.

Success and Failure

For cooking, after you make the crafting rolls and succeed (by average), you have a completed meal. If you fail (by average), all materials are lost and the result is unusable.

Common Feast

Food, feast, common

Up to 5 creatures can consume this feast within an hour of it being prepared. After consuming this hearty meal, you become satiated for the next 24 hours. This is a hearty meal well surpassing the benefits of normal meals or rations, and each creature that consumes it regains an additional hit die during the next long rest.

If cooked by a creature with proficiency in Cooking Utensils, creatures that consume this feast regain additional hit dice equal to the cook's proficiency bonus during the next long rest instead.

Uncommon Feast

Enhancing/Wondrous/Superb/Legendary

Food, feast, uncommon/rare/very rare/legendary

Up to 5 creatures can consume this feast within an hour of it being prepared. After consuming this hearty meal, you become satiated for the next 24 hours. You gain the benefits for a common feast, but can gain additional benefits by trading hit dice as part of your next long rest after consuming this meal - these hit dice are consumed after calculating how many you would have after the rest (including the benefits of the feast), but you can trade hit dice in this way you would normally lose if you have more than your maximum hit dice.

You can trade hit dice in this way up to a number equal to your proficiency bonus. The benefits scale based on the rarity on the feast.

Any benefit from a feast fades after 24 hours.

Meat Feast

Meat/Hearty/Superb/Legendary

Up to 5 creatures can consume this feast within an hour of it being prepared. After consuming this hearty meal, you become satiated for the next 24 hours. Consuming the essence of a properly prepared creature of great power confers some of its power to you while satiated by the feast.

You can add +1/+2/+3/+4 to ability checks and saving throws of the prepared creatures highest stat (if multiple stats are tied, the cook chooses which when preparing the meal). Alternatively, the cook can bring forth exotic properties of the creature, conferring one trait of the cooked animal to those that consume it as per the following table (this replaces the benefit to ability checks and saves):

The details from the creature boon can be found on the creature stat block. The cook must be aware of the creature's property to make the meal imbue that property, and the DM may adjust the property in cases where it would not work for players or be too powerful as written. At the DMs discretion, any of ability can be added to this list.

Elementally Fortifying Feast

Food, feast, rare

Up to 5 creatures can consume this feast within an hour of it being prepared. After consuming this hearty meal, you become satiated for the next 24 hours. The magical properties of the meal confer the following special benefits:

These benefits fade after 24 hours. You cannot gain the benefits of another feats until these benefits fade and you are no longer satiated.

Seaworthy Bouillabaisse

Food, feast, uncommon

Up to 5 creatures can consume this feast within an hour of it being prepared. After consuming this hearty meal, you become satiated for the next 24 hours. The magical properties of the meal grant you immunity to sea sickness as well as advantage on Dexterity or Constitution saving throws involving the motion of sea vessels.

Additionally, if you do not have proficiency in Water Vehicles, you can add half your proficiency bonus (rounded down) to any check involving them for the duration.

Flame Breathing Jerky

Food, snack, uncommon

A tough jerky with exotic flavoring. Very spicy, uncomfortable so. After a creature consumes this snack as an action, they gain the following benefits for the next 10 minutes:

• You cannot be put to sleep by magical means.
• You have disadvantage on Wisdom ability checks.
• You have disadvantage on Constitution saving throws to maintain concentration on a spell.
• You can use a bonus action to exhale fire at a target within 10 feet of you. The target must make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw, taking 2d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

You can eat a number of pieces of this jerky equal to your Constitution modifier per day.

Mint Chew

Food, snack, uncommon

A chewy minty candy. You can pop one into your mouth as a bonus action. While being chewed (for up to 10 minutes), are energized and can ignore the effects of up to 3 levels Exhaustion for the duration, and cannot be put to sleep by magical means.

You can only gain this benefit once per day, after which consuming additional pieces of the candy has no effect until you complete a long rest.

Morph Cookies

Food, snack, uncommon

Consuming one of these has the effects of casting alter self, however you cannot change the adaption unless you consume another cookie. This effect does not require concentration to maintain, and can be extended by consuming an additional morph cookie.

If the ingredient came from a mimic, you can additional transform your appearance to creatures with a different basic shape than you, though you remain the same size.

Seeing Sticks

Food, snack, uncommon

A stick of hard tacky substance. You can pop one into your mouth as a bonus action. While being sucked (for up to 10 minutes), you gain expanded senses and have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks, saving throws against a Illusion spells, and Intelligence (Investigation) checks to see through illusions, though because of the bad taste inherent to the formulation, continuing to suck on the seeing stick requires concentration, as if concentrating on a spell.

By adding the optional common supplies ingredient, they can be sweetened, giving concentration checks to keep from spitting them out advantage; this increases the DC of the recipe by 1.

Rations

Elvish Bread

Food, ration, uncommon

A creature can use its action to eat one bite of this bite (1 ration of it). Eating a piece restores 1 hit point, and the bread provides enough nourishment to sustain a creature for one day.

Iron Rations

Food, ration, common

A basic food ration that will keep you from starving for a day after consuming them. Common side effects include a craving for real food after prolonged exposure.

Quick Reference

While each step will go into more depth, the quick reference allows you to at a glance follow the steps to make a magic item in its most basic form:

• Select the magic item that you would like to craft from any of the Magic Item Tables.
• Acquire the items listed in the materials column for that item.
• Use your Arcana skill to infuse the option using the number hours listed in the Crafting Time column, or during a long rest using the crafting camp action if the crafting times is 2 hours or less.
• For every 2 hours, make a crafting roll of 1d20 + your Intelligence modifier + your Arcana proficiency.
• On success, you mark 2 hours of completed time. Once the completed time is equal to the crafting time, the magic item is complete. On failure, the crafting time is lost and no progress has been made during the 2 hours. If you fail 3 times in a row, the crafting is a failure and all materials are lost.

Related Tool & Ability Score

Rather than any one tool, Enchanting primarily off the Arcana. Due to the subdomains of scrolls (Scroll Scribing) and runes (Runecraft) being part of enchanting Enchanting, proficiency in Calligraphy Tools is often useful.

Enchanting uses your Intelligence modifier. While magic comes in many forms (Arcane, Primal, Divine) and many casters are able to control it with other aspects of their talent, the ability to systematically bind it into magic items requires a deep understanding of its inner workings that can only be accomplished through meticulous study and knowledge.

Materials: Essences & Components

The materials of enchanting are Essences and Components. Essences come in three different types - Arcane, Primal, and Divine, as well as five rarities - common, uncommon, rare, very rare, and legendary. What an Essence is can vary greatly, as they are things of innate magic that is used to power the Enchanter's creations. They could be organs of magical monsters (such as the heart of a dragon which would be a rare primal essence) or they can be synthesized from magical reagents into a magical compound. Components are a broad category of items ranging from the base item you are enchanting to any extraneous bits needed to be added. One unique component that is present in many enchantments is a Spell Scroll of various types of spells that form the basis of the sort of the magic the item has.

Crafting Roll

Putting that together that means that when you would like to enchant an item, your crafting roll is as follows:

Success and Failure

For Enchanting, after you make the crafting roll and succeed marks your progress on a crafting project. If you succeed, you make 2 hours of progress toward the total crafting item (and have completed one of the required checks for making an item). Checks for Enchanting do not need to be immediately consecutive. Failure means that no progress is made during that time. Once an item is started, even if no progress is made, the components reserved for that item can only be recovered via salvage.

If you fail three times in a row, all progress and materials are lost and can no longer be salvaged.