One of the aspects of Fifth Edition Dungeons & Dragons that I enjoy is the looseness of it. The game doesn't bog you down with knowing all the minutia that make up a thief's toolkit and that's great - but there are times when I actually want to know what goes into a kit because there might be something there that's integral to how it's used or that makes choosing one preferable to another. I mean, what is actually different between a smith's traveling tool set and a mason's? How do I know that one can't be used in substitution with the other? I don't know the answer; but I want to find out. So over the course of the next few days I'm going to be looking into the Artisan Toolkits and making them into a more defined list that should help answer those questions and a few others that arise in the process.
This guide will lay out what is actually contained in each toolkit, how much those contents might actually weigh, and then come to a reasonable price for those items using the gold standard we're all so familiar with. Once I'm done with everything I'll collect it all in a free PDF that will be available at the end.
I'm releasing this series under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
This guide will lay out what is actually contained in each toolkit, how much those contents might actually weigh, and then come to a reasonable price for those items using the gold standard we're all so familiar with. Once I'm done with everything I'll collect it all in a free PDF that will be available at the end.
I'm releasing this series under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Artisan Toolkit Series
Introduction
Cobbler
Cook
Glassblower
Jeweler
Leatherworker
Mason
Painter
Potter
Smith
Surveyor
Surveyor
Tinker
Weaver
Woodcarver
Final
Is this kind of detail really important to your game?
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. Both as a player and as a Dungeon Master I tend to play more with my wits than with just a simple roll of the die. Knowing what I have gives me an advantage and allows me to expand the possibilities of what I do instead of limiting it to just what the die says is possible.
ReplyDeleteThese are really interesting. I encourage you to combine the lot into a final set into pdf format we can all easily use. I really appreciate the thought and through descriptions. This level of detail can provide inspiration for a full evenings story line. My players will love it - many ways to solve problems and it make their background skills and gear far more useful.
ReplyDeleteThat's the plan Kurt!
DeleteOh, and I'm so glad that you're enjoying them! I should be wrapping up the series in September, 2015
I'd love to see this continued, if it's something you're still interested in doing. :)
ReplyDeleteFor me personally, you've done the one I was interested in (calligraphy), so I've found this project quite useful, as I'm sure others would as well.
My character will be scribing spell scrolls so personally I think it makes sense for him to have a really nice, possibly magical set of scribing tools and inks.
Working on it my friend. Should see it completed in 2017.
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