Kibbles Crafting

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.

Loot: 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.

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

The crafting roll is a d20 + your related ability score + your related tool proficiency. Each profession lists the related ability score, tool, and what the variants thereof might be. If you attempt to craft without tools, you do not add your proficiency to the roll, and at your DMs discretion, the craft may be impossible or made with disadvantage.

You cannot add temporary bonuses to your roll (such as Bardic Inspiration or Guidance) as the crafting roll represents the entire time you spend working the item. You can gain can advantage if another player with proficiency in the related tool helps for the whole crafting time.

Taking 10

When you craft something, double the crafting period (from 2 hours to 4 hours per check) to "take a 10" on the crafting roll, meaning that your crafting checks are 10 + your related ability score + your related tool proficiency. This provides a floor level that you can always succeed on if you choose to take your time.

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.

Notation

Some things within the document are marked with a ^K. This symbolizes that I've directly changed something and this document refers to my version, or denotes things from my content (such as my classes), either replaced an item, or straight out changed the rarity of an item to be more compatible with templates.

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.
• 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.

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.

Materials: Reagents

The materials for Alchemy is reagents. As there are many different ways to make a potion. Consequently, the materials are sorted into categories. These categories include curative, reactive, poisonous, and exotic. These each come in the standard material rarities: common, uncommon, rare, very rare, and legendary.

A potion may require "3 uncommon curative ingredients", in which case any three ingredients can be used so long as they are uncommon and curative.

Reagents can be rendered into Primal Essence. Three of any reagent can be rendered into one Primal Essence of the same rarity with a crafting action during a long rest (4 hours if done during downtime).

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:

Exotic Ingredients & Potions

While standard potions are made from curative, reactive, or poisonous ingredients, exotic ingredients have specialized effects. When making a potion from these ingredients, the potions effect is a combination of the effect of the exotic ingredients added.

An Exotic Potion (potion brewed entirely from exotic ingredients) does not need a recipe and has a crafting time of 1 hour, and a difficulty of the difficulty of all the exotic ingredients used added together, with 1 check needed per exotic ingredient added.

An exotic ingredients can be combined with a standard potion by adding the DC of the standard potion to the combined difficulty of the exotic ingredients. This can result in very powerful potions, but will frequently result in unattainable high difficulty to make it work, as adding random new components to potions typically wrecks the effect.

Foraging Materials

Many of the magical ingredients to alchemy can simply be found grothing in the wild, and can be gathered by someone that knows what to look for and spends the time doing just that. When traveling at a slow pace through wilderness for 8 hours or more (i.e. not urban land or farmland) you can make a gathering check with disadvantage. If you dedicate 8 hours to gathering without traveling, you can make two checks (without disadvantage).

If you have a Herbalism Kit and proficiency with it, you can add your proficiency modifier to the roll.

If more than one ingredient is available for the terrain type you are traveling, roll a d4 for each ingredient found. Each 1 is a curative ingredient found, each 2 is a reactive ingredient found, each 3 is a poisonous ingredient found, and each 4 is an exotic ingredient found.

Monster Harvesting

Another somewhat more gruesome source of the essential catalysts needed for magical ingredients can be harvested from magical monsters. Typically a magical monster will be from the categories dragon, monstrosity, elemental, or plant. Aberrations are too twisted, while beasts are too typically mundane.

For harvesting ingredients from monsters, the monster must be freshly slain (within the last 8 hours) to make a check. Depending on how the monster was slain, the check may be made with disadvantage or even be impossible at the DMs discretion (for example a CR 1 creature slain by a fireball may be too charred for any useful remains to be solved).

In order to harvest, you make a harvesting check (one per qualifying monster corpse), make a Wisdom (Medicine) check. If you meet the DC needed to harvest from that creature, you gain the ingredients listed in the Gathered Ingredient column. On a failed check, nothing alchemically useful can be harvested from the monster. You can optionally refer to Appendix C for specific results based on the monster type.

If you roll 5 over the DC of a gathering check, you are additionally able to harvest primal essence of equal rarity.

Purchasing

The easiest and quickest way to gather reagents is to simply buy them. The problem with this approach is that you are generally not going to be saving much money over simply buying the potions themselves, as most places that would have reagents to sell would have a competent Alchemist capable of making them. However, sometimes it can be cheaper or more flexible - for example, if you aren't sure what potions you'll need, you can buy reagents and make them later, or sometimes you will have all but one of the reagents to a potion and just need to complete the recipe.

The standard pricing is following, but modifiers may apply based on locale - generally speaking more remote locations will sell at a better price, as cities have lower supply and higher demand, but rare or rarer reagents are generally only found in cities.

Reagents with the special property have a pricing multiplier based on their rarity as defined in the special property. Exotic ingredients have individual pricing listed on the ingredient.

Healing Potion

Potion, common

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

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

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 Diminution

Potion, rare

When you drink this potion, you gain the “reduce” effect of the enlarge/reduce spell for 1d4 hours (no concentration required). The red in the potion’s liquid continuously contracts to a tiny bead and then expands to color the clear liquid around it. Shaking the bottle fails to interrupt this process.

Potion of Flying

Potion, very rare

When you drink this potion, you gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed for 1 hour and can hover. If you're in the air when the potion wears off, you fall unless you have some other means of staying aloft. This potion’s clear liquid floats at the top of its container and has cloudy white impurities drifting in it.

Potion of Fire Breath

Potion, uncommon

After drinking this potion, you can use a bonus action to exhale fire at a target within 30 feet of you. The target must make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw, taking 4d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The effect ends after you exhale the fire three times or when 1 hour has passed. This potion's orange liquid flickers, and smoke fills the top of the container and wafts out whenever it is opened.

Potion of Gaseous Form

Potion, rare

When you drink this potion, you gain the effect of the gaseous form spell for 1 hour (no concentration required) or until you end the effect as a bonus action. This potion’s container seems to hold fog that moves and pours like water.

Potion of Growth

Potion, rare

When you drink this potion, you gain the “enlarge” effect of the enlarge/reduce spell for 1d4 hours (no concentration required). The red in the potion’s liquid continuously expands from a tiny bead to color the clear liquid around it and then contracts. Shaking the bottle fails to interrupt this process.

Potion of Heroism

Potion, rare

For 1 hour after drinking it, you gain 10 temporary hit points that last for 1 hour. For the same duration, you are under the effect of the bless spell (no concentration required). This blue potion bubbles and steams as if boiling.

Potion of Invisibility

Potion, very rare

This potion’s container looks empty but feels as though it holds liquid. When you drink it, you become invisible for 1 hour. Anything you wear or carry is invisible with you. The effect ends early if you attack or cast a spell.

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.

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.

Sticky Goo Potion^K

Concotion, common

When broken and exposed to air, it creates a very sticky rapidly expanding web like foam, with the effect of the spell web centered on where the flask breaks. You can reliably throw the flask to a target point within 30 feet, shattering it on impact.

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.

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 8 + the crafter's proficiency modifier. 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 8 + the crafter's proficiency modifier. 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.

Ingredient Effects

Each ingredient has an effect on it's own. If used as part of a standard recipe, these effects are ignored, but these effects determine what an ingredient does when being added to a Custom Potion.

For Curative, Reactive, and Poisonous effects, these are standard effects. For exotic effects, each ingredient has its own effect. Almost anything can be an exotic ingredient at the discretion of your DM, though many things may not have much effect, or the effect you hoped for.

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.
• 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.

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.

Materials: Reagents

The material for Poisoncraft is reagents (like Alchemy). Reagents come in the categories include curative, reactive, poisonous, and exotic, though poisoncraft mainly uses the poisonous variety. These each come in the standard material rarities: common, uncommon, rare, very rare, and legendary.

A poison may require "3 uncommon poisonous ingredients", in which case any three ingredients can be used so long as the are uncommon and poisonous.

Reagents can be rendered into Primal Essence. Three of any reagent can be rendered into one Primal Essence of the same rarity with a crafting action during a long rest (2 hours if done during downtime).

Crafting Roll

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

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.

Drow Poison (Injury)

Poison, rare

Applied to a melee weapon or up to 5 pieces of ammunition. A creature subjected to this poison must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC equal to 8 + the crafting proficiency bonus of the creator.

On failure, the target becomes poisoned for 1 hour. If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the creature is also unconscious while poisoned in this way. The creature wakes up if it takes damage or if another creature takes an action to shake it awake.

Once applied, the poison retains potency for 1 minute before drying, and wears off of a weapon after that weapon has delivered the effect 5 times.

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.

Sharpen Weapon

Blacksmithing Improvement

You spend some time maintaining a weapon - this includes sharpening edged weapons, adjusting and maintaining balance of hammers and polearms, etc, taking care of the wear and tear put on it by adventuring and putting it in peak condition.

This peak condition is represented by giving the wielder of that weapon the ability to reroll damage dice equal the Blacksmith's proficiency bonus. You can reroll one or more dice at a time, but once each reroll is expended, you cannot do so again until the weapon is maintained again. You must use the new result after rerolling the die.

You can maintain a number of weapons in 2 hours equal to your proficiency bonus divided by 2 (rounded down), and can have a total number of items benefiting from your Blacksmithing Improvements equal to your proficiency bonus.

Maintain Armor

Blacksmithing Improvement

You buff and repair a set of metal armor, bringing it to peak condition. This peak condition is represented giving the armor special durability hit points; while wearing this armor whenever you take bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage, these hit points are consumed first (functioning like an Abjuration Wizard's Arcane Ward). If this damage reduces the durability hit points to zero, you take any remaining damage as normal. These hit points are equal to your proficiency bonus.

You can maintain a number of sets of armor in 2 hours equal to your proficiency bonus divided by 2 (rounded down), and can have a total number of items benefiting from your Blacksmithing Improvements equal to your proficiency bonus.

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 15 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 the heavy property to a weapon without the light 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.

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.

Foraging Materials

Mining is generally out of the scope of something that can be accomplished during an adventure - the process is labor intensive and requires quite a few steps to process ore into usable metal. That said, on rare occasions you may find a vein of some rare ore during your travels. Fortunately, you can often find preworked metals that can be subsequently salvaged.

Salvaging

Metal is one of the more recyclable materials out there, but the process of trying to salvage worked metal into something usable is fraught with some difficulty. You can salvage complete metal items, incomplete crafts, or damaged metal goods. When salvaging things, you need access to a forge to smelt it back down to ingots.

Salvaging an item takes 2 hours, and returns a number of ingots equal to half the number it would take to craft the item. Magical materials can only be salvaged at the discretion of the DM, and may require skill checks.

Monster Harvesting

Typically speaking, metal ingots cannot be harvested from monsters. That said, there are cases where monster parts can be substituted for metal components - most often scales, but occasionally scales or claws. This is only rarely possible, but consult your DM if you believe something might be harvested from a monster and you can consult the list of exotic ingredients or argue that case for a new one, though the DM would determine the effectiveness it might have.

Harvesting requires a Survival check with a DC equal to 15 + half the monster's CR (rounded up); you can make this check multiple times, but each time you fail a harvesting check, the amount that can be harvested is halved (rounded down).

Purchasing

The easiest and quickest way to gather materials is to simply buy them. The problem with this approach is that you are generally not going to be saving much money over simply buying the gear itself, as most places that would have materials to sell would have a competent Blacksmith capable of making them. However, sometimes it can be cheaper or more flexible - for example, if you are interested in making something unusual or customized, you can buy materials and make them later, or sometimes you will have the materials you need, and can just buy the rest cheaper than making the gear.

The standard pricing is following, but modifiers may apply based on locale - generally speaking more remote locations will sell at a better price, as cities have lower supply and higher demand, but rare or rarer reagents are generally only found in cities.

Reagents with the special property have a pricing multiplier based on their rarity as defined in the special property. Exotic ingredients have individual pricing listed on the ingredient.

Tower Shield

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 in that direction.

Ring

This has no default statistical modifier, but can be enchanted or slotted for additional benefits. May look pretty.

Bracers

While wearing bracers, as a reaction to being hit by an attack, you can attempt to parry the attack with your bracer, adding gaining +1 AC bonus AC against the triggering attack.

• Adamantite Bracers: Adds +2 AC against the triggering attack. Successfully parrying an attack (turning a hit into a miss) with adamantite bracers destroys the attacking weapon if it is made of a common metal (Steel, Iron, Bronze).

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.

Cooking

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.

Heroes' Feast

Food, feast, rare

A magnificent spread of food. Cooking this has the effect of casting the spell heroe's feast, expect it's made of real food and not poofed by into existence strange magics.

Flaming Tongue 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.

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:

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Harvesting Essences

Harvesting Essences can be found under "Acquiring Reagents" under the Monster Harvesting session. An essence is harvested when you roll 5+ over the DC of harvesting an Reagent. As such, they are very difficult to harvest in such a manner, as even successful checks generally result in Reagents.

Salvaging Essences

You also may be able to salvage magical essence from unwanted or broken magical items, though such a reclamation process can be difficult, and rarely results in more than a fraction of the essence infused into the original item. An item returns one essence equal to its rarity when harvested. The process takes 2 hours to complete, and does not work if the item is currently attuned to any creature. An essence cannot be salvaged from items that do not recharge, or for items that currently do not have full charges or uses of the item.

The item becomes nonmagical after the essence is salvaged from it. If it required magic to function or exist, it is destroyed.

Synthesizing Essences

In addition to harvesting essences from magical monsters fully intact, a more approachable and incremental way is to combine several reagents to get an essence. You have to combine three essences of the same rarity to gain one essence of that rarity. You can combine essences in the following ways:

Making Essences

Another potential source of an Essence is being created by a spellcaster. This process is long and arduous, and typically only suited to downtime. A creature with the spell casting feature can create 1 essence during 1 workweek (5 days, 8 hours a day); this process cannot be completed faster and for the duration they are considered to have spent all of their spell slots.

At 1st level or higher can make a common essence in this way, a caster 5th level or higher can make an uncommon essence this way, a caster at 11th level can make a rare essence in this way, and a caster at 17th level or higher can make a very rare essence this way. Legendary essences require special rituals requiring more casters and take far longer - they are exceedingly hard to make.

The type of essence produced depends on the source of the spell casting levels as per the table below:

Purchasing Essences

Like with many materials, one popular method of acquisition is to simple spend gold. Remember that when dealing with purchasing essences, essences

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 scroll in its most basic form:

• Select the a spell you know that you would like to craft from spells you are able to cast, or through Alternate Methods (see "Magic Formula").
• Acquire the items listed in the materials column for a scroll of that level and type.
• Use your Calligraphy Tools to write the scroll 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 proficiency with Calligraphy Tools.
• 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

Scrollscrafting works using Calligraphy Tools. Attempting to craft a scroll without these is impossible.

The related ability score is Intelligence. While spellcasters of any stripe can make scrolls of the spells they know, the process is one of systematic application of magical theory to lay down the spell in a function that can later be used.

Additionally, like it's skin Wand Whittling and Enchanting, proficiency in Aranca is required; without proficiency in arcana, you cannot add your Tool proficiency to the crafting rule.

Materials: Ink & Parchment

The Materials for Scrollcrafting are Ink and Parchment. Ink and Parchment used in scrolls is typically purchased, and below are the table prices. Some types of rare parchment may be processed from rare alchemical ingredients by an alchemist or from the hides of magical creatures by a leatherworker. If they are found as part of treasure, they are calculated as any other precious non-currency treasure would be calculated.

The ink used to create scrolls must be a special formulation that allows it to contain the magical essence behind the glyphs, script, runes, and words that make up a magical scroll. This ink is created by alchemist, but can be purchased at the below rates:

Crafting Roll

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

Magical Formula

To craft a spell scroll, you must know the Magic Formula of the spell you want to make a Spell Scroll of. The easiest way to do this is to be able to cast the spell. You always know the Magic Formula of a spell you know how to cast. Otherwise, you need to have deep knowledge of the spell to be able to make a scroll of it. The following are some ways you can gain that knowledge:

• Have it in your spellbook as a Wizard.
• Have it in your spellmanual as an Infusionsmith Artificer.
• Have it your ritual book as a ritual caster.
• Have a spell scroll of it (DC +2)
• Study its magical formula and record it. To learn a spell in this way requires proficiency in arcana and 1 day (8 hours per day) of study per level of the spell, as well as access to a teacher or book that records the spell. Once learned, you can record it in a Magical Formula book and can subsequently make scrolls of it.

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 wand in its most basic form:

• Select a wand from the Greater Wand Table you would like to make, or a spell you would like to make a Lesser Wand of.
• Acquire the items listed in the materials column for a Wand from the appropriate table.
• Use your Woodcarver’s tools to create the wand 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 proficiency with Woodcarver’s tools.
• On success, you mark 2 hours of completed time. Once the completed time is equal to the crafting time, the wand 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

Scrollscrafting works using Woodcarver’s tools. Attempting to craft a wand without these is impossible.

The related ability score is Intelligence. While spellcasters of any stripe can make wands of the spells they know, the process is one of systematic application of magical theory to integrated the spell into a wand in a function that can later be used.

Additionally, like it's skin Scroll Scribing and Enchanting, proficiency in Aranca is required; without proficiency in arcana, you cannot add your Tool proficiency to the crafting rule.

Materials: Wood & Essence

The Materials for Wand Whittling are wood and essences. The wood used in wands is typically purchased, and below are the table prices. If they are found as part of treasure, they are calculated as any other precious non-currency treasure would be calculated. Low level wands can use common woods that are not magically attuned, but more powerful magic will cause such mundane wood to instantly splinter or catch fire, requiring the use of rare and exotic woods.

Essences are varied in nature, but are what power wands. Essences are shared with Enchanting, and more details can be gleaned from the Essences section under Enchanting.

Crafting Roll

Lesser & Greater Wands

Many adventurers are most familiar with greater wands, forged with such skill and power that their power regerates each day at dawn, providing nearly unlimited ability to wield magic. These are however the more rare exception; Greater Wands. Their weaker cousins (Lesser Wands) work in a similar fashion, but do not naturally recharge, and must be recharged to be used again.

Lesser Wand Essence Type

The type of Essence is determined by the spell list the spell comes from; if it is on multiple spell lists, it is determined by how you have access to the spell. If you have access to the spell via multiple lists or the written form of the spell, you can pick which Essence to use for spells that have multiple options.

Quick Reference

Related Tool & Ability Score

Materials: Ink & Parchment

Crafting Roll

Quick Reference

Related Tool & Ability Score

Materials: Ink & Parchment

Crafting Roll

Quick Reference

Related Tool & Ability Score

Materials: Ink & Parchment

Crafting Roll

Old School

Experience-Based Crafting

In the olden days crafting checks took experience as a fundamentally component. This is not a feature of this sytem, but the following is a variant for those that want to run a hateful and archaic system that will cause great suffering. In this system, certain components can be (or must, as per your DM), be replaced with experience, using the following ratios:

Assistance

Group Based Crafting & Minions

When being assisted by a skilled craftsman (who has proficiency in the related tool and skills of the crafting branch), you gain advantage on the crafting roll. If one roll succeeds, the check passes and the crafting continues as normal. If both of your rolls succeed, it counts as twice as much progress. If both of the rolls would be a failure, it counts as two failures and no progress is made. Too many cooks in a kitchen can be dangerous! More than one helper when crafting this method does not have additional benefits.

If you are using the "Take 10" approach during downtime crafting, you can pick the most skilled crafter's modifier to the crafting roll to use. Each additional person assisting during downtime crafting, the period crafting time per check is reduced by 1 hour to a minimum of 1 hour (with three helpers). People can only qualify as helpers if they have proficiency in the tool being used for the crafting project.

Actual Blacksmithing

Actual Blacksmiths have opinions

Since posting this system, I've heard from plenty of actual blacksmiths, letting me know blacksmithing is hard. This system is a model that balances game mechanics, fun, practicality, and realism in equal parts, but if you want a system that will make them happier, double all blacksmithing times, and triple armor crafting time per check. This means that making 1 check would for weapons or items would be 4 hours, and making 1 check for armor would take 6 hours.

I would recommend only using this variant when downtime is plentiful, or when combined with the "Assistance" variant rules. When combined with the assistance variant rules, the maximum number of helpers remains 3 (each reducing the time to make a check by 1 hour still).

Alchemy Pricing

Blacksmithing Pricing

Additional Credits:

• Bow of Magic Missiles: TheArenaGuy of SpectreCreations

Art Credits

All art is commissioned artwork for this document, copyright KibblesTasty.

• Dwarven Blacksmith by Trung Tin Shinji
• Blacksmith Shop by Alifka Hammam
• Alchemist by Alifka Hammam
• Potionsmith by Trung Tin Shinji
• Metal Samples by Alex Gavrilas
• Cook by Alifka Hammam
• Enchanter by Alifka Hammam