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Cost:
50 gp
Cheap:
40 gp
Expensive:
100 gp
Weight:
8 lb.
Alchemist's supplies enable a character to produce useful concoctions, such as acid or alchemist's fire. Crafting alchemical items can be done by using materials worth half the price of purchasing the item.
This proficiency gives a character knowledge of chemistry as well as other related sciences. To that end, if firearms are allowed in your game this tool would also allow the creation of gunpowder.
Alchemist's supplies include two glass beakers, a metal frame to hold a beaker in place over an open flame, a glass stirring rod, a small mortar and pestle, and a pouch of common alchemical ingredients, including salt, powdered iron, and purified water.
Arcana: Proficiency with alchemist's supplies allows you to unlock more information on Arcana checks involving potions and similar materials.
Investigation: When you inspect an area for clues, proficiency with alchemist's supplies grants additional insight into any chemicals or other substances that might have been used in the area.
Alchemical Crafting: You can use this tool proficiency to create alchemical items. A character can spend money to collect raw materials, which weigh 1 pound for every 50 gp spent. The DM can allow a character to make a check using the indicated skill with advantage. As part of a long rest, you can use alchemist's supplies to make one dose of acid, alchemist's fire, antitoxin, oil, perfume, or soap. Subtract half the value of the created item from the total gp worth of raw materials you are carrying.
DC 10 - Create a puff of smoke
DC 10 - Identify a poison
DC 15 - Identify a substance
DC 15 - Start a fire
DC 20 - Neutralize acid
Cost:
20 gp
Cheap:
16 gp
Expensive:
40 gp
Weight:
9 lb.
Brewing is the art of producing beer and other alcoholic beverages. These supplies also allow for the purification and treatment of water, making it safe to drink. Crafting beer takes weeks of fermentation, but only a few hours of work.
Brewer's supplies include a large glass jug , a quantity of hops, a siphon, and several feet of tubing.
History: Proficiency with brewer's supplies gives you additional insight on Intelligence (History) checks concerning events that involve alcohol as a significant element.
Medicine: This tool proficiency grants additional insight when you treat anyone suffering from alcohol poisoning or when you can use alcohol to dull pain.
Persuasion: A stiff drink can help soften the hardest heart. Your proficiency with brewer's supplies can help you ply someone with drink, giving them just enough alcohol to mellow their mood.
Potable Water: Your knowledge of brewing enables you to purify water that would otherwise be undrinkable. As part of a long rest, you can purify up to 6 gallons of water, or 1 gallon as part of a short rest.
DC 10 - Detect poison/impurities in a drink
DC 15 - Identify alcohol
DC 20 - Ignore the effects of alcohol
Cost:
10 gp
Cheap:
8 gp
Expensive:
20 gp
Weight:
5 lb.
Calligraphy treats writing as a delicate, beautiful art. Calligraphers produce text that is pleasing to the eye, using a style that is difficult to forge. Their supplies also give them 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.
Calligrapher's supplies include ink, a dozen sheets of parchment, and three quills.
Arcana: Although calligraphy is of little help in deciphering the content of magical writings, proficiency with these supplies can aid in identifying who wrote a script of a magical nature.
History This tool proficiency can augment the benefit of successful checks made to analyze or investigate ancient writings, scrolls, or other texts, including runes etched in stone or messages in frescoes or other displays.
Decipher Treasure Map This tool proficiency grants you expertise in examining maps. You can make an Intelligence check to determine a map's age, whether a map includes any hidden messages, or similar facts.
DC 10 - Identify writer of nonmagical script
DC 15 - Determine writer's state of mind
DC 15 - Spot forged text
DC 20 - Forge a signature
Cost:
8 gp
Cheap:
6 gp
Expensive:
16 gp
Weight:
6 lb.
Skill at carpentry enables a character to construct wooden structures. A carpenter can build a house, a shack, a wooden cabinet, or similar items.
Carpenter's tools include a saw, a hammer, nails, a hatchet, a square, a ruler, an adze, a plane, and a chisel.
History: This tool proficiency aids you in identifying the use and the origin of wooden buildings and other large wooden objects.
Investigation: You gain additional insight when inspecting areas within wooden structures, because you know tricks of construction that can conceal areas from discovery.
Perception: You can spot irregularities in wooden walls or floors, making it easier to find trap doors and secret passages.
Stealth: You can quickly assess the weak spots in a wooden floor, making it easier to avoid the places that creak and groan when they're stepped on.
Fortify: With 1 minute of work and raw materials, you can make a door or window harder to force open. Increase the DC needed to open it by 5.
Temporary Shelter: As part of a long rest, you can construct a lean-to or a similar shelter to keep your group dry and in the shade for the duration of the rest. Because it was fashioned quickly from whatever wood was available , the shelter collapses 1d3 days after being assembled.
DC 10 - Build a simple wooden structure
DC 15 - Design a complex wooden structure
DC 15 - Find a weak point in a wooden wall
DC 20 - Pry apart a door
Cost:
15 gp
Cheap:
12 gp
Expensive:
30 gp
Weight:
6 lb.
Using cartographer's tools, you can create accurate 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.
Cartographer's tools consist of a quill, ink, parchment, a pair of compasses, calipers, and a ruler.
Arcana, History, Religion: You can use your knowledge of maps and locations to unearth more detailed information when you use these skills. For instance, you might spot hidden messages in a map, identify when the map was made to determine if geographical features have changed since then, and so forth.
Nature: Your familiarity with physical geography makes it easier for you to answer questions or solve issues relating to the terrain around you.
Survival: Your understanding of geography makes it easier to find paths to civilization, to predict areas where villages or towns might be found, and to avoid becoming lost. You have studied so many maps that common patterns, such as how trade routes evolve and where settlements a rise in relation to geographic locations, are familiar to you.
Craft a Map: While traveling, you can draw a map as you go in addition to engaging in other activity.
DC 10 - Determine a map's age & origin
DC 15 - Estimate direction & distance to a landmark
DC 15 - Discern that a map is fake
DC 20 - Fill in a missing part of a map
Cost:
5 gp
Cheap:
4 gp
Expensive:
10 gp
Weight:
5 lb.
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.
Cobbler's tools consist of a hammer, an awl, a knife, a s hoe stand, a cutter, spare leather, and thread.
Arcana, History: Your knowledge of shoes aids you in identifying the magical properties of enchanted boots or the history of such items.
Investigation: Footwear holds a surprising number of secrets. You can learn where someone has recently visited by examining the wear and the dirt that has accumulated on their shoes. Your experience in repairing shoes makes it easier for you to identify where damage might come from.
Maintain Shoes: As part of a long rest, you can repair your companions' shoes. For the next 24 hours, up to six creatures of your choice who wear shoes you worked on can travel up to 10 hours a day without making saving throws to avoid exhaustion.
Craft Hidden Compartment: With 8 hours of work, you can add a hidden compartment to a pair of shoes. The compartment can hold an object up to 3 inches long and 1 inch wide and deep. You make an Intelligence check using your tool proficiency to determine the Intelligence (Investigation) check DC needed to find the compartment.
DC 10 - Determine a shoe's age and origin
DC 15 - Find a hidden compartment in a boot heel
Cost:
1 gp
Cheap:
8 sp
Expensive:
2 gp
Weight:
8 lb.
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.
Cook's utensils include a metal pot, knives, forks, a stirring spoon, and a ladle.
History: Your knowledge of cooking techniques allows you to assess the social patterns involved in a culture's eating habits.
Medicine: When administering treatment, you can transform medicine that is bitter or sour into a pleasing concoction.
Survival: When foraging for food, you can make do with ingredients you scavenge that others would be unable to transform into nourishing meals.
Prepare Meals: As part of a short rest, you can prepare a tasty meal that helps your companions regain their strength. You and up to five creatures of your choice regain 1 extra hit point per Hit Die spent during a short rest, provided you have access to your cook's utensils and sufficient food.
DC 10 - Create a typical meal
DC 10 - Duplicate a meal
DC 15 - Spot poison or impurities in food
DC 15 - Create a gourmet meal
Cost:
30 gp
Cheap:
24 gp
Expensive:
60 gp
Weight:
5 lb.
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 objects.
The tools include a blowpipe, a small marver, blocks, and tweezers. You need a source of heat to work glass.
Arcana, History: Your knowledge of glassmaking techniques aids you when you examine glass objects, such as potion bottles or glass items found in a treasure hoard. For instance, you can study how a glass potion bottle has been changed by its contents to help determine a potion's effects. (A potion might leave behind a residue, deform the glass, or stain it.)
Investigation: When you study an area, your knowledge can aid you if the clues include broken glass or glass objects.
Identify Weakness: With 1 minute of study, you can identify the weak points in a glass object. Any damage dealt to the object by striking a weak spot is doubled.
DC 10 - Identify source of glass
DC 15 - Produce a glass item (with a viable heat source)
DC 20 - Determine what a glass object once held
Cost:
25 gp
Cheap:
20 gp
Expensive:
50 gp
Weight:
2 lb.
Training with jeweler's tools includes the basic techniques needed to beautify gems. It also gives you expertise in identifying precious stones.
Jeweler's tools consist of a small saw and hammer, files, pliers, and tweezers.
Arcana: Proficiency with jeweler's tools grants you knowledge about the reputed mystical uses of gems. This insight proves handy when you make Arcana checks related to gems or gem-encrusted items.
Investigation: When you inspect jeweled objects, your proficiency with jeweler's tools aids you in picking out clues they might hold.
Identify Gems: You can identify gems and determine their value at a glance.
DC 15 - Modify a gem's appearance
DC 20 - Determine a gem's history
Cost:
5 gp
Cheap:
4 gp
Expensive:
10 gp
Weight:
5 lb.
Knowledge of leatherworking extends to lore concerning animal hides and their properties. It also confers knowledge of leather armor and similar goods.
Leatherworker's tools include a knife, a small mallet, an edger, a hole punch, thread, and leather scraps.
Arcana: Your expertise in working with leather grants you added insight when you inspect magic items crafted from leather, such as boots and some cloaks.
Investigation: You gain added insight when studying leather items or clues related to them, as you draw on your knowledge of leather to pick out details that others would overlook.
Identify Hides: When looking at a hide or a leather item, you can determine the source of the leather and any special techniques used to treat it. For example, you can spot the difference between leather crafted using dwarven methods and leather crafted using halfling methods.
DC 10 - Modify a leather item's appearance
DC 20 - Determine a leather item's history
Cost:
10 gp
Cheap:
8 gp
Expensive:
20 gp
Weight:
8 lb.
Mason's tools allow you to craft stone structures, including walls and buildings crafted from brick.
Mason's tools consist of a trowel, a hammer, a chisel, brushes, and a square.
History: Your expertise aids you in identifying a stone building's date of construction and purpose, a long with insight into who might have built it.
Investigation: You gain additional insight when inspecting areas within stone structures.
Perception: You can spot irregularities in stone walls or floors, making it easier to find trap doors and secret passages.
Demolition: Your knowledge of masonry allows you to spot weak points in brick walls. You deal double damage to such structures with your weapon attacks.
DC 10 - Chisel a small hole in a stone wall
DC 15 - Find a weak point in a stone wall
Cost:
10 gp
Cheap:
8 gp
Expensive:
20 gp
Weight:
5 lb.
Proficiency with painter's supplies represents your ability to paint and draw. You also acquire an understanding of art history, which can aid you in examining works of art.
Painter's supplies include an easel, canvas, paints, brushes, charcoal sticks, and a palette.
Arcana, History, Religion: Your expertise aids you in uncovering lore of any sort that is attached to a work of art, such as the magical properties of a painting or the origins of a strange mural found in a dungeon.
Investigation, Perception: When you inspect a painting or a similar work of visual art, your knowledge of the practices behind creating it can grant you additional insight.
Painting and Drawing: As part of a short or long rest, you can produce a simple work of art. Although your work might lack precision, you can capture an image or a scene, or make a quick copy of a piece of art you saw.
DC 10 - Paint an accurate portrait
DC 20 - Create a painting with a hidden message
Cost:
10 gp
Cheap:
8 gp
Expensive:
20 gp
Weight:
3 lb.
Potter's tools are used to create a variety of ceramic objects, most typically pots and similar vessels.
Potter's tools include potter's needles, ribs, scrapers, a knife, and calipers.
History: Your expertise aids you in identifying ceramic objects, including when they were created and their likely place or culture of origin.
Investigation, Perception: You gain additional insight when inspecting ceramics, uncovering clues others would overlook by spotting minor irregularities.
Reconstruction: By examining pottery shards, you can determine an object's original, intact form and its likely purpose.
Cost:
20 gp
Cheap:
16 gp
Expensive:
40 gp
Weight:
8 lb.
Smith's tools allow you to work metal, beating it to alter its shape, repair damage, or work raw ingots into useful items.
Smith's tools include hammers, tongs, charcoal, rags, and a whetstone.
Arcana and History: Your expertise lends you additional insight when examining metal objects, such as weapons.
Investigation: You can spot clues and make deductions that others might overlook when an investigation involves armor, weapons, or other metalwork.
Repair: With access to your tools and an open flame hot enough to make metal pliable, you can restore 10 hit points to a damaged metal object for each hour of work.
DC 10 - Sharpen a dull blade
DC 15 - Repair a suit of armor
DC 15 - Sunder a nonmagical metal object
Cost:
50 gp
Cheap:
40 gp
Expensive:
100 gp
Weight:
10 lb.
A set of tinker's tools is designed to enable you to repair many mundane objects. Though you can't manufacture much with tinker's tools, you can mend torn clothes, sharpen a worn sword, and patch a tattered suit of chain mail.
Tinker's tools include a variety of hand tools, thread, needles, a whetstone, scraps of cloth and leather, and a small pot of glue.
History: You can determine the age and origin of objects, even if you have only a few pieces remaining from the original.
Investigation: When you inspect a damaged object, you gain knowledge of how it was damaged and how long ago.
Repair: You can restore 10 hit points to a damaged object for each hour of work. For any object, you need access to the raw materials required to repair it. For metal objects, you need access to an open flame hot enough to make the metal pliable.
DC 10 - Temporarily repair a disabled device
DC 15 - Repair an item in half the time
DC 20 - Improvise a temporary item using scraps
Cost:
1 gp
Cheap:
8 sp
Expensive:
2 gp
Weight:
5 lb.
Weaver's tools allow you to create cloth and tailor it into articles of clothing.
Weaver's tools include thread, needles, and scraps of cloth. You know how to work a loom, but such equipment is too large to transport.
Arcana, History: Your expertise lends you additional insight when examining cloth objects, including cloaks and robes.
Investigation: Using your knowledge of the process of creating cloth objects, you can spot clues and make deductions that others would overlook when you examine tapestries, upholstery, clothing, and other woven items.
Repair: As part of a short rest, you can repair a single damaged cloth object.
Craft Clothing: Assuming you have access to sufficient cloth and thread, you can create an outfit for a creature as part of a long rest.
DC 10 - Repurpose cloth
DC 10 - Mend a hole in a piece of cloth
DC 15 - Tailor an outfit
Cost:
1 gp
Cheap:
8 sp
Expensive:
2 gp
Weight:
5 lb.
Woodcarver's tools allow you to craft intricate objects from wood, such as wooden tokens or arrows.
Woodcarver's tools consist of a knife, a gouge, and a small saw.
Arcana, History: Your expertise lends you additional insight when you examine wooden objects, such as figurines or arrows.
Nature: Your knowledge of wooden objects gives you some added insight when you examine trees.
Repair: As part of a short rest, you can repair a single damaged wooden object.
Craft Arrows: As part of a short rest, you can craft up to five arrows. As part of a long rest, you can craft up to twenty. You must have enough wood on hand to produce them.
DC 10 - Craft a small wooden figurine
DC 15 - Carve an intricate pattern in wood
Cost:
25 gp
Cheap:
20 gp
Expensive:
50 gp
Weight:
3 lb.
The perfect tool for anyone who wants to engage in trickery, a disguise kit enables its owner to adopt a false identity.
A disguise kit includes cosmetics, hair dye, small props, and a few pieces of clothing.
Deception: In certain cases, a disguise can improve your ability to weave convincing lies.
Intimidation: The right disguise can make you look more fearsome, whether you want to scare someone away by posing as a plague victim or intimidate a gang of thugs by taking the appearance of a bully.
Performance: A cunning disguise can enhance an audience's enjoyment of a performance, provided the disguise is properly designed to evoke the desired reaction.
Persuasion: Folk tend to trust a person in uniform. If you disguise yourself as an authority figure, your efforts to persuade others are often more effective.
Create Disguise: As part of a long rest, you can create a disguise. It takes you 1 minute to don such a disguise once you have created it. You can carry only one such disguise on you at a time without drawing undue attention, unless you have a bag of holding or a similar method to keep them hidden. Each disguise weighs 1 pound.
At other times, it takes 10 minutes to craft a disguise that involves moderate changes to your appearance, and 30 minutes for one that requires more extensive changes.
DC 10 - Cover injuries or distinguishing marks
DC 15 - Spot a disguise being used by someone else
DC 20 - Copy a humanoid's appearance
Cost:
15 gp
Cheap:
12 gp
Expensive:
30 gp
Weight:
5 lb.
A forgery kit is designed to duplicate documents and to make it easier to copy a person's seal or signature.
A forgery kit includes several different types of ink, a variety of parchments and papers, several quills, seals and sealing wax, gold and silver leaf, and small tools to sculpt melted wax to mimic a seal.
Arcana: A forgery kit can be used in conjunction with the Arcana skill to determine if a magic item is real or fake.
Deception: A well-crafted forgery, such as papers proclaiming you to be a noble or a writ that grants you safe passage, can lend credence to a lie.
History: A forgery kit combined with your knowledge of history improves your ability to create fake historical documents or to tell if an old document is authentic.
Investigation: When you examine objects, proficiency with a forgery kit is useful for determining how an object was made and whether it is genuine.
Other Tools: Knowledge of other tools makes your forgeries that much more believable. For example, you could combine proficiency with a forgery kit and proficiency with cartographer's tools to make a fake map.
Quick Fake: As part of a short rest, you can produce a forged document no more than one page in length. As part of a long rest, you can produce a document that is up to four pages long. Your Intelligence check using a forgery kit determines the DC for someone else's Intelligence (Investigation) check to spot the fake.
DC 15 - Mimic handwriting
DC 20 - Duplicate a wax seal
Cost:
1 sp
Cheap:
8 cp
Expensive:
2 sp
Weight:
—
The dice set consists of several evenly weighted (fair) dice that can be used to play a variety of dice games.
History: Your mastery of a game includes knowledge of its history, as well as of important events it was connected to or prominent historical figures involved with it.
Insight: Playing games with someone is a good way to gain understanding of their personality, granting you a better ability to discern their lies from their truths and read their mood.
Sleight of Hand: Sleight of Hand is a useful skill for cheating at a game, as it allows you to swap pieces, palm cards, or alter a die roll.
Alternatively, engrossing a target in a game by manipulating the components with dexterous movements is a great distraction for a pickpocketing attempt.
DC 15 - Catch a player cheating
DC 15 - Gain insight into an opponent's personality
Cost:
1 gp
Cheap:
8 sp
Expensive:
2 gp
Weight:
½ lb.
A 3-D chess game that is played on 3 8x12 boards stacked above each other. The top board represents the air and features pieces like the Griffon and the Dragon. The middle board represents the land and has pieces like the Oliphant, the Thief, and (of course) the King. The bottom board represents the underworld and contains pieces like the Dwarf and the Elemental.
History: Your mastery of a game includes knowledge of its history, as well as of important events it was connected to or prominent historical figures involved with it.
Insight: Playing games with someone is a good way to gain understanding of their personality, granting you a better ability to discern their lies from their truths and read their mood.
Sleight of Hand: Sleight of Hand is a useful skill for cheating at a game, as it allows you to swap pieces, palm cards, or alter a die roll.
Alternatively, engrossing a target in a game by manipulating the components with dexterous movements is a great distraction for a pickpocketing attempt.
DC 15 - Catch a player cheating
DC 15 - Gain insight into an opponent's personality
Cost:
5 sp
Cheap:
4 sp
Expensive:
1 gp
Weight:
—
This gaming set includes a complete set of playing cards.
History: Your mastery of a game includes knowledge of its history, as well as of important events it was connected to or prominent historical figures involved with it.
Insight: Playing games with someone is a good way to gain understanding of their personality, granting you a better ability to discern their lies from their truths and read their mood.
Sleight of Hand: Sleight of Hand is a useful skill for cheating at a game, as it allows you to swap pieces, palm cards, or alter a die roll.
Alternatively, engrossing a target in a game by manipulating the components with dexterous movements is a great distraction for a pickpocketing attempt.
DC 15 - Catch a player cheating
DC 15 - Gain insight into an opponent's personality
Cost:
1 gp
Cheap:
8 sp
Expensive:
2 gp
Weight:
—
The deck consists of 70 cards (plus two reference cards). The structure of the deck is reminiscent of standard playing card or Tarot decks. Each card in the deck represents either a dragon or a mortal, has a strength between 1 and 13, and a special ability or power. Six cards are initially dealt to each player. There is a maximum hand size of ten cards and players are not allowed to have more than the maximum at any time. Players keep their hands secret from the other players. The undealt cards are placed face-down into a draw pile from which players take new cards.
History: Your mastery of a game includes knowledge of its history, as well as of important events it was connected to or prominent historical figures involved with it.
Insight: Playing games with someone is a good way to gain understanding of their personality, granting you a better ability to discern their lies from their truths and read their mood.
Sleight of Hand: Sleight of Hand is a useful skill for cheating at a game, as it allows you to swap pieces, palm cards, or alter a die roll.
Alternatively, engrossing a target in a game by manipulating the components with dexterous movements is a great distraction for a pickpocketing attempt.
DC 15 - Catch a player cheating
DC 15 - Gain insight into an opponent's personality
Cost:
5 gp
Cheap:
4 gp
Expensive:
10 gp
Weight:
3 lb.
Proficiency with an herbalism kit allows you to identify plants and safely collect their useful elements.
An herbalism kit includes pouches to store herbs, clippers and leather gloves for collecting plants, a mortar and pestle, and several glass jars.
Arcana: Your knowledge of the nature and uses of herbs can add insight to your magical studies that deal with plants and your attempts to identify potions.
Investigation: When you inspect an area overgrown with plants, your proficiency can help you pick out details and clues that others might miss.
Medicine: Your mastery of herbalism improves your ability to treat illnesses and wounds by augmenting your methods of care with medicinal plants.
Nature and Survival: When you travel in the wild, your skill in herbalism makes it easier to identify plants and spot sources of food that others might overlook.
Identify Plants: You can identify most plants with a quick inspection of their appearance and smell.
DC 15 - Find plants
DC 20 - Identify Poison
Cost:
30 gp
Cheap:
24 gp
Expensive:
60 gp
Weight:
6 lb.
A woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
12 gp
Cheap:
10 gp
Expensive:
24 gp
Weight:
2 lb.
Pan pipes or satyr pipes, also known as the shalm, these are sacred to Lliira and popular with wood elf and wild elf bards.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
6 gp
Cheap:
5 gp
Expensive:
12 gp
Weight:
3 lb.
A musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
25 gp
Cheap:
20 gp
Expensive:
50 gp
Weight:
10 lb.
A stringed musical instrument in which the strings are beaten with small hammers rather than plucked.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
2 gp
Cheap:
16 sp
Expensive:
4 gp
Weight:
1 lb.
A musical wind instrument consisting of a tube with a series of finger holes or keys.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
3 gp
Cheap:
2 gp
Expensive:
6 gp
Weight:
2 lb.
Short, curved horns like a cornucopia. Played with valves, glaur sound like trumpets, while those without valves, known as gloon, have a more mournful sound.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
6 gp
Cheap:
5 gp
Expensive:
12 gp
Weight:
3 lb.
A double-headed skin drum fitted with handles along its side.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
3 gp
Cheap:
2 gp
Expensive:
6 gp
Weight:
2 lb.
A musical instruments made of a tube, usually made of metal and often curved in various ways, with one narrow end into which the musician blows, and a wide end from which sound emerges.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
2 gp
Cheap:
16 sp
Expensive:
4 gp
Weight:
1 lb.
A Faerûnian flute of sophisticated make, found only in areas with skilled artisans, as in great cities or elven enclaves.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
35 gp
Cheap:
28 gp
Expensive:
70 gp
Weight:
2 lb.
A stringed musical instrument having a long, fretted neck and a hollow, typically pear or oval-shaped body with a vaulted back.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
30 gp
Cheap:
24 gp
Expensive:
60 gp
Weight:
2 lb.
A stringed instrument of the harp class having an approximately U-shaped frame and used by the ancient Greeks especially to accompany song and recitation.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
12 gp
Cheap:
10 gp
Expensive:
24 gp
Weight:
2 lb.
A musical instrument composed of numerous pipes, lined in a row. The pipes are either of different length or are blocked at different points. The instrument is played by blowing into the pipes.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
2 gp
Cheap:
16 sp
Expensive:
4 gp
Weight:
1 lb.
A medieval form of the oboe. A shawm is a wind instrument with a conical bore and flaring bell, and is played by blowing through a double reed.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
2 gp
Cheap:
16 sp
Expensive:
4 gp
Weight:
1 lb.
A recorder, a simple type of flute, usually carved from wood.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
6 gp
Cheap:
5 gp
Expensive:
12 gp
Weight:
3 lb.
A tambourine, a popular instrument with halflings and humans south of the Dalelands.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
2 gp
Cheap:
16 sp
Expensive:
4 gp
Weight:
1 lb.
Also known as a whistlecane, a simple and easy-to-make wind instrument cut from a reed. They are so simple, in fact, that skilled bards frequently make and give them away to children — to the parents’ delight or regret.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
6 gp
Cheap:
5 gp
Expensive:
12 gp
Weight:
3 lb.
A hanging set of carved oval bells, usually played with a pair of light wooden hammers (or open handed). They are most common in underground cultures, where the resonant tones can carry.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
30 gp
Cheap:
24 gp
Expensive:
60 gp
Weight:
1 lb.
A string instrument that is played with a bow. A viol differs from the violin in having deeper ribs, sloping shoulders, a greater number of strings, usually six, and frets.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
30 gp
Cheap:
24 gp
Expensive:
60 gp
Weight:
6 lb.
A metal gong, traditionally made from a shield, particularly the shield of an enemy. Both goblins and dwarves make and play wargongs, their sound echoing through tunnels in the Underdark.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
0 gp
Cheap:
0 cp
Expensive:
0 cp
Weight:
1 lb.
The grung of One Grung Above are trained to use this new musical instrument. This is a hollow tube with holes cut throughout, much like a flute. You can play music with it for entertainment, but the grung also swing it about by a sturdy cord (attached) to create a sound recognizable by other grung, so they know each other’s approximate location. Additionally, grung that know Thieves’ Cant can use a whistle stick in this manner to communicate over distance.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
35 gp
Cheap:
28 gp
Expensive:
70 gp
Weight:
2 lb.
A southern instrument from Amn and Calimshan that is a Faerûnian analog to the guitar. Numerous variations have spread across the continent.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
30 gp
Cheap:
24 gp
Expensive:
60 gp
Weight:
6 lb.
A complex pump organ that originated with the zulkirs of Thay, who use it in the casting of their spells. It is considered to have a dramatic, but sinister, sound.
DC 10 - Identify a tune
DC 20 - Improvise a tune
Cost:
25 gp
Cheap:
20 gp
Expensive:
50 gp
Weight:
2 lb.
Proficiency with navigator's tools helps you determine a true course based on observing the stars. It also grants you insight into charts and maps while developing your sense of direction.
Navigator's tools include a sextant, a compass, calipers, a ruler, parchment, ink, and a quill.
Survival: Knowledge of navigator's tools helps you avoid becoming lost and also grants you insight into the most likely location for roads and settlements.
Sighting: By taking careful measurements, you can determine your position on a nautical chart and the time of day.
DC 10 - Plot a course
DC 15 - Discover your position on a nautical chart
Cost:
50 gp
Cheap:
40 gp
Expensive:
100 gp
Weight:
2 lb.
A poisoner's kit is a favored resource for thieves, assassins, and others who engage in skulduggery. It allows you to apply poisons and create them from various materials. Your knowledge of poisons also helps you treat them.
A poisoner's kit includes glass vials, a mortar and pestle, chemicals, and a glass stirring rod.
History: Your training with poisons can help you when you try to recall facts about infamous poisonings.
Investigation, Perception: Your knowledge of poisons has taught you to handle those substances carefully, giving you an edge when you inspect poisoned objects or try to extract clues from events that involve poison.
Medicine: When you treat the victim of a poison, your knowledge grants you added insight into how to provide the best care to your patient.
Nature, Survival: Working with poisons enables you to acquire lore about which plants and animals are poisonous.
Handle Poison: Your proficiency allows you to handle and apply a poison without risk of exposing yourself to its effects.
DC 10 - Spot a poisoned object
DC 20 - Determine the effects of a poison
Cost:
25 gp
Cheap:
20 gp
Expensive:
50 gp
Weight:
1 lb.
Perhaps the most common tools used by adventurers, thieves' tools are designed for picking locks and foiling traps. Proficiency with the tools also grants you a general knowledge of traps and locks.
Thieves' tools include a small file, a set of lock picks, a small mirror mounted on a metal handle, a set of narrow-bladed scissors, and a pair of pliers.
History: Your knowledge of traps grants you insight when answering questions about locations that are renowned for their traps.
Investigation and Perception: You gain additional insight when looking for traps, because you have learned a variety of common signs that betray their presence.
Set a Trap: Just as you can disable traps, you can also set them. As part of a short rest, you can create a trap using items you have on hand. The total of your check becomes the DC for someone else's attempt to discover or disable the trap. The trap deals damage appropriate to the materials used in crafting it (such as poison or a weapon) or damage equal to half the total of your check, whichever the DM deems appropriate.
