Armorer's Tools. As strong as a sentinel are those proficient with Armorer's Tools. These utensils allow a character to craft and enhance armor, barding, and shields. Knowledge of armorer's tools allows one to fix metal parts from vehicles and bastions.

Brewer's Tools. From teas to juices, to alcoholic beverages, brewing is the art of crafting drinks both delicious and enhancing. While this process may take only a few hours of work, most drinks require time to ferment; a perfect moment to plan out how you'd like to serve your creation.

Carpenter's Tools. Carpentry skills enable a character to construct wooden structures, from artillery engines to furniture, bastion rooms, vehicles, and even buildings. A carpenter can build any large structure from wood and resin.

Cobbler's Tools. Although the cobbler's trade might seem too humble for an adventurer, a good pair of boots will see a character across rugged wilderness and through deadly dungeons. Cobblers are masters of shoe-making for any occasion. Some even try their hand at hatting.

Cook's Utensils. Adventuring is a hard life. With a cook along on the journey, your meals will be much better than the typical mix of hardtack and dried fruit. Their knowledge of the culinary is often used to create hearty meals that stave off injury and exhaustion alike!

Glassworker's Tools. Someone proficient with glassblower's tools has not only the ability to shape glass, but also specialized knowledge of the methods used to produce glass and crystalline objects, such as lenses, vials, and windows. Any glass decoration starts with you!

Healer's Tools. Proficiency with healer's tools allows you to care for your companions in time of need. Crafting non-magical medicine from herbs, patching up your companion's wounds, or providing battlefield surgeries, healers do it all!

Leatherworker's Tools. Knowledge of leatherworking extends to lore concerning animal hides, their properties, and how to prepare them. It also confers knowledge of leather armor and similar goods.

Mason's Tools. Mason's tools allow you to craft stone

Drafter's Supplies

Supplies of this category include the required necessities to produce items of both art and trade. While many drafter's supplies can produce enough coin to live off, most drafters see their work as a form of art and hone it to create the most beautiful pieces you have ever seen. Proficiency with a set of drafter's supplies lets you add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make using the supplies in your craft. Each type of drafter's supplies requires a separate proficiency.

 Calligrapher's Supplies. Calligraphy treats writing and the pages they come in as delicate, beautiful art. Calligraphers produce text that is pleasing to the eye, using a style that is difficult to forge or craft an original book with incredible precision. Their supplies also give some ability to examine scripts and determine if they are legitimate since a calligrapher's training involves long hours of studying writing and attempting to replicate its style and design.

Cartographer's Supplies. Using cartographer's tools, you can create accurate and beautiful maps to make travel easier for yourself and those who come after you. These maps can range from large-scale depictions of mountain ranges to diagrams that show the layout of a dungeon level. With proficiency in these tools, you will never get lost again and are capable of telling time-based on your surroundings, planning out intrepid journeys, and predicting the weather.

Chandler's Supplies. Typically a servant of a noble household, a chandler is tasked with the production of candles for that household. Candlemaking is usually a private endeavor, but proficiency with these supplies allows you to kindle even the smallest flames. From magical lights that instill one with bravery, to artful wax works and bee-autiful ceremonies of hearth and home.

Forger's Supplies. Forger's supplies are made to duplicate documents and to make it easier to copy a person's seal or signature. Usually called diplomat's supplies, these items can be used to craft legally binding documents, forms of law, binding contracts, mint currency, or reproduce trinkets of wealth. This craft requires an eye for detail, a penchant for precise scribing, and an agile touch.

Jeweler's Supplies. Training with jeweler's tools includes the basic techniques needed to beautify gems and fine smith in any manner it befits. From an expertise in identifying precious stones and how to cut them, to the ability to craft beautiful jewelry that captures the mind, jewelers know how to facet and drape anything from chain to beads for beauty.

Gathering Kits

 proficiency with the cultivation kit allows you a keen knowledge of the common trades. These folk specialize in the mercer's textiles, the rancher's bandry, and the homesteader's goods.

Cultivators are hardworking laborers with simple aspirations, and the means to make any of them come true. Their care for animals is practical and empathetic, and the warmth they give their friends comes from the very hearth they warm their home with. These folk find strength in the earth they tend to. Some cultivators have even grown bonds between them and the very spirits, powers, and magic that tend to their fields, performing natural rituals to bring out their blessing in everyday life.

Harvesting Kit. Where the dangerous meets the civil world, harvesters walk the boundary between warrior and countryman, skinning their kills to produce monstrous tissues to use in all sorts of products. Specializing in a little of everything, harvesters gain their materials mainly from the living arts of the ecologist, the rancher's bandry, and the scholar's cores; gathering and skinning parts of monsters for magical glands, enchanting hides, and dangerous fangs.

As the most tempestuous kit, those with proficiency with the harvesting kit tend to be passionate thrill seekers, always looking for a new experience or a wild beast to study. Their craft is in a constant motion of living, breathing, dying, and decaying, and harvesters observe its movement with courage and delight. With everything in constant motion, so should they be, and these determined folk never pass up the opportunity for a new adventure.

Mining Kit. In the darkness of the underground, besides the abundance of the hillside, and in the stoic reaches
of the grandest mountains, those with proficiency
with the miner's kit practice
their formidable craft.

Gaming Sets

Gaming sets encompass a wide range of game pieces, including dice and decks of cards. Common categories appear below (board games, card games, dice games, knack games, and tactical games) alongside their common gaming sets, but other kinds of gaming sets exist. If you are proficient with a gaming set, you can add your proficiency bonus to ability checks you make to play a game with that set. Each type of gaming set requires a separate proficiency.

Proficiency with a full category of gaming set allows you to roll an additional proficiency die and add the number rolled to any tool check made with tools of that category.

Gaming Sets (Board). Consisting of a playing board and any variety of playing pieces, these games are often somewhat more expensive, and the height of game entertainment. Fun for the whole party, board game sets have predetermined playing fields and any variety of dice, cards, and tokens. The following board games are common:

• Artist's-Figure Set. Consisting of a board with four quarters and pieces, a set of dice, and a set of cards containing prompts, this gaming set tests one's guessing and creative skills. Drawing prompted images and acting out stories, this cooperative game requires one to five teams of any number of players.
• Board Game Set. While usually played with four, this simple board game can include as many players as wanted. Its board shows a single pathway, with each space holding a different effect or safe space. The players maneuver their token several spaces, as rolled on a die, hoping to be the first to make it to the finish.
• Seven Selves Set. Playing as an otherworldly creature on the outer planes, this game uses movable tiles, figurines of monsters, and a variety of cards and coins. The goal of the game is to be the first to collect all seven pieces of an all-powerful crown. Every player starts with a randomized character with special abilities, collecting coins and cards along the way to salvation.
• Scholar's and Hermits Set. Making use of a board with predetermined spaces, each with their own symbol this game requires the matching and discarding of cards in the     correct order. While playable with friends, it is        often played alone, as a tactical thinking game.

• Tides Set. Based completely on chance, this board game imitates life and its many choices faced along the way. A turning disk is provided, together with several pieces and dice. Spinning the wheel advances your piece and the first to the finish with the most experiences, wins.
• Vendors Set. What is a game without political and economic intrigue? In this game, you take the personage of a vendor in the age of discovery, crafting a kingdom of your own and collecting money from travelers and fellow players. But be careful, should the dice or pieces fall badly, anything from bandits, to crimes, and simple chance can lead you to torment.

Gaming Sets (Cards). These squares of very thick paper are each painted with a letter, symbol, or numerical marker on one side. The back sides of all the cards are identical, whether blank or patterned. The following card games are common:

• Invocation-Acquisition Set. These cards each have original faces, showing an image and the rules of the individual cards below. Utilizing a combat and building system, one can choose what cards fit their playstyle to create their own game. Classically, the winner may choose one card of the losers to keep and add to their own deck.
• Playing Card Set. Showing four simple types of cards and a number of jokers, these playing cards are the simplest of their type. Luckily, that means most people you come across can play any variety of games with you.
• Prophet's Gambit Set. Also known as Tarokka, these special cards are commonly used for fortunetelling, containing four suits and a set of major cards, each with its own image and meaning. It can also be used to play a collection strategy game.
• Shifter's Set. A game of traitors and suspicion, a deck of Shifter's contains cards with roles on them. Each role has an ability, and players attempt to uncover their fellow player's role before all players can be killed by the shifters that hide within the group.
• Tyrant's Scales Set. These numbered chromatic cards depict numbers and is known as Irin by dragonborn. It functions as a discarding game and the player who can put down all his cards first wins.
• Three-Dragon Ante Set. This betting game shows draconic cards, each with their own levels and abilities. Randomly dealt, this game is perfect for those with a penchant for strategy and gambit.

Gaming Sets (Dice). These polyhedral objects are commonly found in cube form, carved from wood or bone. The various faces are marked with numbers or other symbols depending on the type of game. The following dice games are common:

Backgrounds

Assorted Rules

Rune Knight

 Bonus Proficiencies. Instead of proficiency with smith's tools, you gain the following: "proficiency with the quarrying kit and runesmith's tools,"

Battle Master

 Student of War. Instead of proficiency with one type of artisan's tools, you gain the following: "proficiency with one set of tools of your choice."

Alternate: Guardian

 Warrior Smith. Instead of proficiency in leatherworker's and smith's tools, you gain the following: "proficiency with leatherworker's and armorer's tools."

Alternate: Runecarver

 Rune Carving. Instead of proficiency with calligrapher's supplies, you gain the following: "proficiency with the quarrying kit and runesmith's tools,"

Alternate: Tinker Knight

 Analytical Mind. Instead of proficiency with tinker's tools and smith's tools, you gain the following: "proficiency with the salvaging kit and tinker's tools,"

All sections that note the use of tinker's tools or smith's tools, have been replaced by the following: "salvaging kit or tinker's tools".

Way of the Kensei

 Way of the Brush. Instead of proficiency with either calligrapher's supplies or painter's supplies, you gain the following: "proficiency with a set of drafter's supplies of your choice,"

Way of the Mercy

 Implements of Mercy. Instead of proficiency with the herbalism kit, you gain the following: "proficiency with the cultivator's kit and healer's tools,"

Deft Explorer

 Roving. The following is added: "Additionally, you become proficient in one set of journey gear of your choice. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make using the chosen gear.

Survivalist

 Survivalist. The following is added: "Additionally, choose one set of journey gear, or one of: botany kit, cartographer's supplies, navigator's tools, snaresmith's tools, woodcarver's tools, woodcutter's supplies. You have proficiency with this tool."

Bladesinging

 Wizarldy Quill. The following addition is made: "Additionally, you gain proficiency with a talent set of your choice."

Order of Scribes

 Wizarldy Quill. The following addition is made: " • The quill can serve as a set of calligrapher's or scrollscribe's supplies, with which you are proficient."