Figuring out How Much of the Item can be Harvested

Some creatures will have more scales and pounds of fat than others. Simply reference the “Creature Size” table for most of these. Most creatures will have a set number of a certain item, like eyes, teeth, or tongues, which is why the table doesn’t list all of them. Use your discretion for how much of a certain thing a creature will have, probably by looking at its reference pic. Also consider the following:

Some creatures won’t have enough of an item to be considered worth selling, like the fat of a mouse. Will a monster even have the item and would it be worth selling? Deer don’t have shells, but they do have hooves and hide. They also have teeth, but you’re probably not going to find someone walking into a store looking for deer teeth. Did the characters damage anything in particular? If the fighter killed the creature by skewering its heart, that heart probably won’t be sellable, however, if a Wizard fireballs a creature, is anything even going to be left except ashes?

Finding the Cost of an Item

1. What item is it? Get the base cost from the “Base DC and Base Cost” table.
2. What CR? Take the base cost and multiply it by the modifier in the “CR Modifier” table. After all, it’s easy to go and kill 20 deer and selt their hides, but that’s very common, since they’re easy to hunt. The hide of a pegasus, on the other hand, is something much harder to find and will definitely go for a higher price.
3. What type? Take the current cost and multiply it by the modifier in the “Creature Type” table. A humanoid may not go for much, but if ya bring in a celestial, you’ll be rolling in dough.
4. What features may affect the cost? Check out the “Extra Modifiers” section to see if the creature has any features that may cause the item to be worth more money. The hide of a creature that is immune to cold damage would definitely be worth more than one that isn’t.
5. Consider the rarity of the item. People aren’t going to be that interested in a pair of rat eyes, but the eyes of a basilisk are gonna have people drop their money on your counter as if it had turned to stone. Keep in mind certain special items may go for more than the tables would have you believe, but on the other hand, certain, mostly useless items might not be of much interest to your customers.

Keep in mind that this table assumes many things will come from certain special creatures to be valuable. Nobody will buy the feathers of a pigeon, but they’ll buy the feathers of a griffon. You should make it clear to your players that some creatures’ items just won’t be valuable enough to bother selling.

Senses

• Keen: If a creature has a feature that grants it a heightened sense in the form of Keen Hearing, Keen Smell, etc, the body part that corresponds to the sense gains a cost modifier of x2.
• Darkvision: If a creature has a feature has darkvision, its eyes gain a cost modifier of x2.
• Superior Darkvision: If a creature has superior darkvision, or darkvision to a range of 120 ft, its eyes gain a cost modifier of x3.
• Blindsight: If a creature has blindsight, its ears gain a cost modifier of x2.
• Truesight: If a creature has truesight, its ears gain a cost modifier of x5.
• Devil’s Sight: If a creature has the feature Devil’s Sight, its eyes gain a cost modifier of x20.

Damage Vulnerabilities, Resistances, Immunities

• Bludgeoning, Piercing, or Slashing Vulnerability: If a creature is vulnerable to bludgeoning, slashing, or piercing damage, its hide and/or shell gain a cost modifier of 0.5x.
• Bludgeoning, Piercing, or Slashing Resistance: If a creature is resistant to bludgeoning, slashing, or piercing damage from nonmagical attacks, its hide and/or shell gain a cost modifier of 3x.
• Bludgeoning, Piercing, or Slashing Immunity: If a creature is immune to bludgeoning, slashing, or piercing damage from nonmagical attacks, its hide and/or shell gain a cost modifier of 10x.
• Fire, Cold, Acid, or Lightning Resistance: If a creature is resistant to fire, cold, acid, or lightning damage, its hide and/or shell gain a cost modifier of 3x. Fire, Cold, Acid, or Lightning Immunity - If a creature is immune to fire, cold, acid, or lightning damage, its hide and/or shell gain a cost modifier of 10x.

Damage Dealt

• Poison Damage: If a creature deals poison damage or causes a harmful condition through a melee attack, poison can be harvested from it.
• Acid Damage: If a creature deals acid damage, the part of the body which it deals acid damage with (if it deals the damage with a “bite” attack, then the teeth, for example) gains a cost modifier of x3.
• Psychic Damage: If a creature deals psychic damage, its brain gains a cost modifier of x5.

Meat Creature Types

* Some monstrosities have meat that is edible (DM Discretion)

Eating Meat

Cooked meat can be eaten safely. Cooking meat requires a campfire or oven. Eating raw meat requires a DC 10 Constitution Check. A successful check results in a filling meal. A failure results in debilitating stomach cramps, causing 1 level of exhaustion (disadvantage on ability checks).

Ghost Harvesting

Ghost hunting is a topic that could definitely be delved into very deeply and that could create a very interesting adventure or even campaign. I’m 100% sure this has already been done by multiple people, so I’m going to only cover harvesting the remains of an incorporeal being. To make the process non- complicated, I have a spell, a magic item, and a description of what can be harvested from an incorporeal being. First, I’ll describe what can be harvested.

Using the spell or magic item below, you can harvest an incorporeal being’s “essence,” a residual remain of their ghastly body. The magic item and spell cover how much can be harvested depending on the way the spell or magic item is used. 1 vial of this “essence” can be sold for a base cost of 1 GP, which is subject to the cost modifier determined by CR. It is not subject to the cost modifier determined by the Creature Type - only incorporeal, undead creatures can produce essence, so there is no reason to increase the price based on that fact. Use item "Container of Essence Collection" and spell "Essence Bolt".

Ooze Harvesting

It isn’t easy to harvest the remains of an ooze, which to most people isn’t a problem, considering the acidic remains of an ooze don’t sound appealing when you first hear of them. However, all oozes have certain properties that can be more helpful than one may expect. When harvesting an ooze, take note of the following:

• The ooze must be dead. Living oozes can be great for selling, but that’s not what this is about. When an ooze such as a Gelatinous Cube is defeated, the consistency of the cube will collapse. With the others, if they aren’t defeated, they’ll probably be looking for a way to escape their prison - having an ooze play dead for an unsuspecting party trying to harvest it could be interesting.
• The ooze must be gathered using tools that won’t dissolve based on its type. Ochre Jelly and Gelatinous Cubes can be harvested using anything, since they only dissolve flesh. Gray Ooze can not be harvested using metal, as it will corrode, but any other material is fine. Black Pudding will corrode any material except for stone.
• Ooze can’t just be shoveled into a bag of holding with other items inside. To store them, a separate container of the appropriate type that is non-magical can be used or a magic item such as a bag of holding that is otherwise empty can also be used. Magic items will not be corroded by the ooze, so that is not a concern, however, the items inside a magic item can definitely be corroded by ooze, so keep that in mind.
• If oozes are mixed together... well, you have three options:
  • The oozes don’t merge or anything, similar to how oil doesn’t dissolve in water. This is the most simple and easy way to do things, though it doesn’t make a ton of sense.
  • The oozes do merge and decrease in value because of it, perhaps turning into Gray Ooze remains, the least valuable type.
  • When the oozes collide, roll on a Wild Magic Surge table. After the effect ends, the remains explode backwards. This one is the most fun if you ask me.
• For the sake of selling ooze remains, consider them to be similar to poison for the sake of cost and how much can be harvested. The remains can be called “Gray Ooze Remains” or “Black Pudding Remains” in the inventory.

For the DC required to harvest each one, the base DC is 10 + one point depending on how corrosive it is.

• If it corrodes only flesh, +1.
• If it corrodes metal, +2.
• If it corrodes a multitude of materials, +3.
• If it corrodes everything except one type of material, +4.
• If you’re wondering about the practical application of ooze remains, depending on what type of material they corrode, the ooze can make an extremely effective cleaning solution. They can also be used to make particularly powerful Vials of Acid which deal the same amount of acid damage that the ooze dealt while still alive (Gray Ooze would deal 2d6, Black Pudding would deal 4d6). As for the crafting of this, I would recommend one of the following:

The acid can be used raw to deal the normal amount, or Alchemist’s Supplies can be used to concentrate it more and increase the damage by, say, 2d6. This rewards a character that can use Alchemist’s Supplies.

The acid can be used raw to deal half the normal amount, or Alchemist’s Supplies can be used to concentrate it more and deal the normal amount. It’s up to you if this makes more sense.