======Tools======

Proficiency with a tool allows you to add your
proficiency bonus to any ability check you make using
that tool, and use any special functions of a tool
provided in its description. Proficiency also implies
knowledge of the trade or profession involved in the
tool’s marketable products.

Tool checks are not tied to a specific ability; the
DM can, for example, call for a Dexterity
(woodcarver’s tools) check to carve a fine detail or a
Strength (woodcarver’s tools) check to make
something out of a particularly hard wood.

====Skills with Tools====
Some skills have overlapping functionality with tools.
Sometimes, using both can provide advantages. This
requires the character to be proficient with the skill and
the tool.

Each tool below indicates one or more skills that
lore, coaction, or synergy may apply to, sometimes
with examples. Even when not specified, some of
these pairings given in the tool descriptions only
overlap in certain circumstances or applications. The
Dungeon Master is the arbitrator of when these
advantages apply.

When deriving Lore from a paring, character need
not possess or make use of the tool to claim the added
knowledge. This is not true of coaction or synergy
between skills and tool.

===Coaction===
If a check could be performed with either a skill or a
tool, the Dungeon Master may choose to apply
advantage to the roll.

For example, harvesting poison from a creature
may be done with either an Intelligence (Nature) or
Intelligence (poisoner’s kit) check. Proficiency with
both (and use of the tools) gives the check advantage.
There are myriad other ways that skills and tools
can overlap in function, thus granting advantage,
subject only to the (reasonable) imagination of the
player and the moderation of the Dungeon Master.

When the abilities called upon for a skill or tool
use in this overlapping area are not the same, the
player determines which ability to use, unless the
Dungeon Master asserts that a specific ability is
needed for the circumstances.

===Synergy===
Often, a successful check that applies to both a skill
and a tool can yield exceptional results. Specific
synergy benefits go beyond just applying advantage to
a check. These are entirely at the Dungeon Master’s
discretion.

For example, a character using Charisma
(Persuasion) to sway a crowd to a certain viewpoint
could synergize the attempt by playing a musical
instrument with proficiency. A patriotic background
tune really jazzes up an inspiring speech. In this case,
the Dungeon Master might decide that the crowd’s
starting attitude is shifted one category before the
Charisma check is rolled.

For another example, proficiency with cobbler’s
tools might let a character roll Wisdom (Survival) to
track a specific person across a busy area like a dirt
road through the center of town, doing so when it
would not be possible for other characters to
differentiate the similar footwear.

Synergistic benefits might make tests easier or
provide better results for successful tests; the Dungeon
Master chooses whether they are the sort that applies
before or after rolling. Many synergy situations also
benefit from a coaction advantage to their rolls.
Some synergistic benefits have no effect on die
rolls whatsoever. Many of these are described in
Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, starting on page 80.

===Lore===
Any time proficiency with a tool would provide
additional information to the user of a skill, or vice
versa, the information derived is specific to the tool or
skill brought in on the check.

For example, an Intelligence (History) check to
determine the origin of a painting might gain
additional insight into the value and age if the
investigator is proficient with painter’s tools. This is
due to familiarity with the appearance of such crafts
when exposed to the ravages of time.

Xanathar’s Guide to Everything lists a variety of
lore opportunities for specific skills, starting on page
80.

====Masterwork Tools====
Any artisan’s tools or miscellaneous tools can be
purchased as a masterwork version for an additional
cost of 150 gp.

The only function of masterwork tools is to negate
disadvantage imposed by the complexity of a subject,
project, or product, if it could be offset by higher precision tools or by a wider-than-normal array of
supplies. This effect applies at the DM’s discretion;
not every situation that imposes disadvantage can be
offset by masterwork tools.

For example, as part of a forgery attempt, a
character is trying to imitate a precise shade of ink
used in military documents. The purpose of this ink,
with its odd mixture of pigments, is to deter just this
sort of forgery! Normally, the DM would impose
disadvantage, but she decides that the wider array of
inks available in the character’s masterwork forger’s
kit is sufficient to offset the penalty.

====Shoddy Tools====
Any type of tools can be acquired in a low-quality
form at a reduced price. These are usually poorly crafted second-hand items, ill cared for or with
missing components. Shoddy tools cost one-fifth the
standard market value and apply disadvantage to any
attack or check made to use them or made in any way
connected with their use.

For example, the cost of a shoddy lyre is only 6
gp. The item is probably cracked so that its sound is
never quite right. A user applies disadvantage to any
Charisma (Performance) checks made to play the
shoddy lyre. This does not apply to rolls other than
ability checks; if a bard were to use the shoddy lyre as
a spellcasting focus, spell attack rolls would not be
impeded.

====Artisan's Tools====
Proficiency with a set of artisan’s tools lets you add
your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make
using the tools of your craft. Each type requires a
different proficiency.

===Professional Work===
During downtime periods, artisan’s tools also let you
craft items for yourself or others, or earn a living.
===Repairs===
When used in the field, each set of artisan’s tools is
assumed to contain a small quantity of important
components useful for repairing and upkeeping
equipment without additional cost. For example, your
smith’s tools might contain extra rings to replace lost
bits of your chainmail armor.

Normally, this means that repairing an item
requires only time, not additional costly materials.
(Repair components are periodically restocked as
incidental, untracked expenses.) The damaged parts of
the gear itself counts as the materials needed for the
project of crafting the item back to its completed form.

In the case of particularly-ruinous breakage, as
suffered by armaments with the ersatz property,
additional materials might need to be purchased,
usually costing 5% of the item’s normal price.
===Descriptions===
Artisan’s tools are described below. Unless otherwise
noted, artisan’s tools come in a satchel.

Alchemist’s Supplies. A collection of crucibles
and glass vials, mortar and pestle, an alcohol-burning
lamp, and other supplies. These come in a box with
velvet-lined cut-outs designed to hold the delicate
instruments safely in place.

Use alchemist’s supplies to produce a thick puff
of smoke (DC 10), identify poison (DC 10) or another
substance (DC 15), start a fire (DC 15), or neutralize
acid (DC 20).

Brewer’s Supplies. Measuring bowls, scales,
hops bags made of muslin, spices, hoses, a funnel, and
other equipment suitable for brewing alcoholic
beverages. Depending on the type of beverage crafted,
kegs, casks, pitchers or other liquid storage devices
may also be required for practicing this trade.
You can use your tools to purify up to 6 gallons
of water as part of a long rest, or 1 gallon of water as
part of a short rest.

Use brewer’s supplies to detect poisons or
impurities in a drink (DC 10), identify alcohol (DC
15), or ignore the effects of alcohol (DC 20). This last
roll is a Constitution (brewer’s supplies) check.

Calligrapher’s Supplies. A set of fine pens,
colorful inks, and fancy sheets of parchment. Also
included are sealing waxes of various colors and
qualities and an array of wax stamps. These supplies
frequently include a specialized subset of tools used
with more durable mediums, like the long-handled
wood-burning styluses or fine paintbrushes used for
sign-making.

Use these tools to identify the writer of
nonmagical script (DC 10), determine a writer’s state
of mind (DC 15), spot forged text (DC 15), or forge a
signature (DC 20).

Carpenter’s Tools. Mallets, nails, measuring
cords, cutting templates or triangles, smoothing
planes, and a small saw. Carpenter’s tools are used to
shape wood on a large scale, crafting furniture,
buildings, large agricultural tools, and the like.

With 1 minute of work and raw materials, you can
make a door or window harder to open, increasing the
DC to do so by 5. As part of a long rest, you can
construct a basic shelter that will last for 1d3 days.
Until the shelter collapses, it will keep up to six small
or medium humanoids dry. Prevailing temperatures
within the shelter are 10 degrees more favorable.

Use these tools to build a simple structure of wood
(DC 10), design a complex structure of wood (DC 15),
find weaknesses in wooden constructions like siege
weapons or walls (DC 15), or pry apart a door (DC 20).

Cartographer’s Tools. This satchel contains
templates of maps and large, blank parchments
suitable for map-making. It includes special inks and
writing tools, particularly tools for drawing objects to
scale relative to one another. Cartographer’s tools
also include collapsible surveying rods, the measuring
tools used to calculate overland distances and
geographic features.

These tools let you map your journeys without
slowing your speed of travel.

Use cartographer’s tools to determine a map’s age
or origin (DC 10), estimate direction and distance to a
landmark (DC 15), determine whether a map is fake
(DC 15), or fill in missing terrain on a partial map (DC
20).

Cobbler’s Tools. These tools come in a box, the
lid of which is reversible and supports a cobbler’s
“last.” The tools include a mallet and nails, sturdy
sewing needles and thread, rolls of soft leather,
stamped pieces of hard leather, molding implements,
and other devices that aid in the construction and
repair of footwear.

As part of a long rest, you can maintain up to six
pairs of shoes, allowing the wearers to travel 10 hours
in the following day before starting forced march
checks.

You can create a hidden compartment in a piece
of footwear for no cost, taking 8 hours for the
construction. You can use an Intelligence (cobbler’s tools)
check in the place of Investigation to find hidden
compartments in shoes.

Use cobbler’s tools to determine a shoe’s age or
origin (DC 10) or find a hidden compartment in a boot
heel (DC 15).

Cook’s Utensils. Pans, knives, bottles of assorted
seasonings, a journal of recipes, and tools used to
produce food.

During a short rest, you can “prepare” up to 5
rations with cook’s utensils to make them more
nutritious and rejuvenating. Anyone who eats one of
these rations during the same short rest may regain 1
extra hit point per Hit Die spent.

Use cook’s utensils to create a typical meal or
duplicate a particular meal (DC 10), spot poison or
impurities in food (DC 15), or create a gourmet meal
(DC 15).

Glassblower’s Tools. This kit contains crimps and
clamps, a pouring block, shears, and a blowpipe, items
used to manipulate glass with a kiln or another source
of high heat. It also contains rods of glass in various
colors.

With one minute of study, you can identify weak
points in glass objects such that your successful
attacks, or the successful attacks of others that you
direct, are automatically critical hits.

Use glassblower’s tools to identify a source of
glass (DC 10) or determine what a glass object once
held (DC 20).

Jeweler’s Tools. This kit contains chisels,
brushes, polish, and other tools used to prepare or
enhance gemstones, plus small-scale metalworking
tools used to shape precious metals into jewelry of
various kinds. A small jeweler’s loupe is included for
examining jewelry and gemstones.

You can identify and appraise the value of
gemstones at a glance, applying your proficiency
modifier to any such checks.

Turning a raw gem into a standard one is a
crafting project that requires 1 day of work per 5 gp of
value added, up to (the missing) half of the standard
value of the gemstone. This is not the same as
modifying a gem’s appearance; that task requires a
Dexterity (jeweler’s tools) check and turns a gemstone
of one shape or cut into a gemstone of another.

Use jeweler’s tools to modify a gem’s appearance
(DC 15) or determine a gem’s history (DC 20).

Leatherworker’s Tools. This kit contains cutting
and edging tools, grommet setters and punches, a
mallet, needles and awls, and other miscellaneous
tools used to craft processed leather into clothing and
accessories.

You can automatically determine what animal a
hide came from and whether any special techniques
were used to treat it.

Use leatherworking tools to modify a leather
item’s appearance (DC 10) or determine its history
(DC 20).

Mason’s Tools. This satchel contains the tools
used to craft masonry. In addition to the trowels and
joint molders, used to apply mortar, the kit includes
telescoping pole braces and measuring blocks used to
measure and precisely align stone and brickwork of
various kinds.

With one minute of study, you can identify weak
points in masonry such that your successful attacks, or
the successful attacks of others that you direct, are
automatically critical hits.

Use mason’s tools to chisel a small hole in a stone
wall (DC 10) or find a weak point in a stone wall (DC
15).

Painter’s Supplies. Small pots of paints in various
colors, alchemical mixtures for paint thinning, a
painter’s palette, and an array of paintbrushes. This
set of tools typically includes brushes sized for the sort
of work the painter intends, from artistic to functional.
These include the small, intricate brushes used to put
paint on canvas, or the larger type of brushes suitable
to painting buildings or murals.

As part of a short or long rest, you can produce a
painting that accurately portrays or illustrates an object
or landscape you have seen that day.

Use painter’s supplies to paint an accurate portrait
(DC 10) or create a painting with a hidden message
(DC 20).

Potter’s Tools. These tools are used to craft and
repair pottery. They include molds, knives, sponges,
and styluses for decorating pottery, alchemical glues
for repairing shattered pottery pieces, and the dyes
and glazes for finishing or resurfacing them.
Examining two or more shards of a piece of
pottery allows you to automatically identify its
original shape.

With one minute of study, you can identify weak
points in ceramic objects such that your successful
attacks, or the successful attacks of others that you
direct, are automatically critical hits.

Use potter’s tools to determine what a vessel once
held (DC 10), create a serviceable pot (DC 15), or find
a weak point in a ceramic object (DC 20).

Sculptor’s Tools. This satchel contains chisels,
mallets, files, and finishing polishes for sculpting
statutes out of minerals (typically stone or clay), or
applying decorative engraving to the mineral surfaces
of walls, doors, and other edifices.

With one minute of study, you can identify weak
points in inanimate sculptures such that your
successful attacks, or the successful attacks of others
that you direct, are automatically critical hits.

Use sculptor’s tools to modify a statute (DC 10)
or detect hidden messages in the designs engraved into
a wall or similar surface (DC 20).

Smith’s Tools. Hammers, dollies, and tongs of
various kinds used to shape metal, as well as the
crimps used for creating rivets or repairing links of
chain.

With access to a hot enough flame, you can make
metal pliable; you can repair up to 10 hp of damage to
a metal object per hour of work.

Use smith’s tools to sharpen a dull blade (DC 10),
make an item repairable if it was previously too broken
to have hit points restored (DC 15), or sunder a
nonmagical metal object (DC 15).

Tattoo Artist’s Tools. This set of tools includes a
variety of needles and inks as well as ointments and
various treatments used to create tattoos on the skin of
animals and humanoids.

You, or another spellcaster you are working with,
can use these tools to inscribe a spell scroll into the
skin of a living creature. Each limb and the torso of a
humanoid is large enough for a single spell scroll. The
costs and time needed for inscription are the same as
for an equivalent spell scroll. A humanoid can read her
own spell scrolls on her body, causing them to
disappear, so long as they are uncovered. Another
spellcaster can read uncovered spell scroll tattoos if
the decorated creature is cooperative, restrained, or
unconscious.

Use tattoo artist’s tools to identify tattooing
techniques or origins (DC 10) or create tattoos with
hidden meanings or messages (DC 20).

Tinker’s Tools. Various tools for used for crafting
or repairing intricate machines. These look like
smith’s tools or thieves’ tools, but in a tiny scale. The
hammers, chisels, picks, and other implements are
typically suitable for application to small projects like
clockwork devices. Most tool sets also include an
array of mundane materials to repair almost any
simple object.

These tools can be used to repair most portable
items made of metal, leather, or cloth, regardless of the
artisan’s tools needed to craft such things. You can
restore 10 hit points to a damaged object per hour of
work. You need access to the appropriate materials for
this task, and a hot enough flame if you are repairing
metal objects.

Use tinker’s tools to temporarily repair a disabled
device (DC 10), repair an item in half the time (DC
15), or improvise a simple temporary item using scraps
(DC 20).

Weaver’s Tools. A small, collapsible loom and
shuttle used for weaving, plus various dies and tools
used to treat and store wool and other types of thread.
These materials are suitable to the creation of clothbased of clothing.
You can repair a single damaged garment as part
of a short rest.

Use weaver’s tools to repurpose cloth (DC 10),
mend a hole in a piece of cloth (DC 10), or tailor an
outfit (DC 15).

Woodcarver’s Tools. A set of chisels, files,
carving knives, small lathes, and other instruments for
making fine impressions on wooden pieces.

Use woodcarver’s tools to craft a small figurine
(DC 10) or carve an intricate pattern in wood (DC 15).

====Gaming Sets====

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.

Some gaming sets, like dice and cards, belong to
a great many games. Others are designed for use with
a single, specific game in mind. But even these single game sets have myriad modifications and regional
variations. Particularly where betting is involved, new
uses for old gaming sets are sure to develop. All this
means is that nine men’s morris is not played here like
it is over in that neighboring duchy. It pays to ask the
rules before you lay your wagers!

Sometimes very complex games catch on in a
community, introducing factors from multiple game
types. DMs are encouraged to introduce a single game
(perhaps with its own game rules) that is incredibly
popular, something that all the locals are playing. This
adds one more facet to a memorable game world.

Wizards of the Coast has previously published
card games including Three-Dragon Ante, Rock-Paper-Wizard, and Prophet’s Gambit (using the
Tarokka deck). These make wonderful props for a DM
looking to have a signature game in her campaign.

Characters can use gaming set ability checks to
gain insight into an opponent’s personality (DC 15), or
catch a player cheating (DC 15) if not using the Fixing
the Game variant rule below.

===Playing Games===

This variant rule introduces complexity into the
playing of games, using gaming sets or otherwise.
Before a game is played, the DM must make several
determinations.

Gaming Set. The first factor is the gaming set
involved, if any. This is important because it is
unlikely that a character is proficient in more than one
gaming set. And often, a character lacks the charisma
to convince his new drinking buddies to switch from
their favorite game to something new. The use of a
proficiency bonus is often the difference between
winning and losing.

Number of Rounds. The next factor is the number
of rounds to be played (the number of ability checks to
be rolled). The number should be an odd one, typically
three or five rounds, but some games are played on a
single roll of the dice. The overall winner is the player
who wins the most rounds, with ties broken in favor of
the one who had the highest total result across all
rounds. Players and bystanders can bet on the winners
of each game, or they can place bets applicable to each
round.

Type of Game. Generally, there are three kinds of
games: games of intellect, games of physicality, and
games of chance.

Games of intellect call for Intelligence (gaming
set) checks each round. These games are the type
enjoyed by intellectuals and scholars. Typical
examples are card games, board games, and other
contests of strategy.

Games of physicality call for checks of Dexterity
(gaming set), Strength (gaming set) or, rarely,
Constitution (gaming set). Games of this nature are
popular in warrior-dominated cultures. Games of
physicality include such examples as dart-throwing,
log-lifting, and drinking games.

Games of chance are truly random. The DM
determines the percentage chance for successful
rounds and the player rolls percentile dice to see the
outcome. While all games include some random
probability, games of chance have no element of skill
to them. (Proficiency bonuses do not factor in.) Coin
flips, dice throws, and high-card draws are all
examples of games of chance.

Bluffing. Many games are made more enjoyable
by the ability to bluff. If a game allows such dynamics,
at the outset, each player first rolls a Charisma
(Deception) check and a Wisdom (Insight). These
results determine the potential for bluffing. A
character can only bluff someone if her Charisma
(Deception) check at the start of the game was higher
than the bluffed person’s Wisdom (Insight) check.
Once during the entire game, each player can reroll her
gaming ability check for a round, but only if the
highest check for that round comes from someone the
player can bluff.

Cheating. Most games have room for cheating; a
game that seems cheat-proof just hasn’t yet run afoul
of the right con artist. Cheating is mechanically like
bluffing but very different morally. It is a choice made
at the outset of each round. The cheater gets advantage
on the appropriate gaming set check, but might get
caught. After the round is played, the cheater must
attempt a Charisma (Deception) check or a Dexterity
(Sleight of Hand) check, whichever the DM
determines is appropriate to conceal the type of
cheating used. This is opposed by the other players’
individual Wisdom (Insight) or Wisdom (Perception)
checks, respectively. Anyone whose roll is higher than
the cheater’s check has noticed the foul play.

===Fixing the Game===
For an additional expense, most gaming sets can be
crafted to produce biased results. Cards can be
manufactured with subtle, hidden indicators on their
backs, identifying each. Dice can be constructed with
varied densities to produce biased results. A dart set
could be built in such a way that one set of colored
darts flies much truer than the other set of colored
darts.

Whatever the method, using a “fixed” game set
allows a cheater to claim advantage on any check to
avoid other players noticing the cheating. A fixed
game set costs an additional 15 gp to acquire. Card-marking and similar alterations can be accomplished
for a much cheaper price (or without cost), but these
alterations are not good enough to grant advantage to
the user’s checks to avoid detection.

This is a good rule to use in combination with the
Playing Games variant rule, described above.
===Descriptions===
Game sets are described below.

Dice Set. These polyhedral objects are most
commonly found in cube form, carved from wood or
bone. The various faces are marked with numbers or
other symbols. Many games are played with dice, too
many to count.

Dragonchess Set. This game consists of three
checkered boards, arranged in three layers, with a
variety of carved playing pieces that move between
squares and boards.
[This game was invented by Gary Gygax and
featured in Dragon Magazine in 1985.]

Hnefatafl Set. A strategy game played on a
checkered or latticed board between two unevenly-matched armies of carved figures.

Kubb Set. Kubb is an outdoor game of skill where
players try to toss wooden batons to knock over a
series of blocks.

Nine Men’s Morris Set. This simple strategy
game is played with two colors of chits on a small
latticed board.

Playing Card Set. 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.
Many games are played with cards, including games
of chance.

Prophet’s Gambit (Tarokka) Set. This card game
is played with a Tarokka deck.
[Wizards of the Coast publishes the Tarokka deck,
which includes a pamphlet for playing the game.]

Three-Dragon Ante Set. This card game is played
with a Three-Dragon Ante deck.
[Wizards of the Coast publishes the Three-Dragon
Ante deck, which includes rules for playing the game.]

Trictrac Set. Each of two players must advance
their own set of 15 chits across various positions on a
board using a combination of luck (dice rolls) and
strategy.

====Musical Instruments====
Each type of musical instrument requires a separate
proficiency. If you have proficiency with a given
musical instrument, you can add your proficiency
bonus to ability checks to play the instrument.

A bard can use a musical instrument as a
spellcasting focus. Spellcasting this way, even without
verbal components, creates sound; a musical
instrument cannot be used as a spellcasting focus
within a zone of silence.

Proficiency also allows you to compose original
music pieces, with or without lyrics.
Use a musical instrument proficiency to identify a
tune (DC 10) or improvise a tune (DC 20).

===Descriptions===
Musical instruments are described below.

Bagpipes. A wind instrument constituting multiple
reed pipes fed by squeezing an air bag. The air
reservoir is replenished periodically by the musician
blowing into it through another pipe.

Birdpipes. Sometimes called pan pipes, satyr
pipes, or the shalm, this set of parallel pipes is a
musical instrument popular with creatures that are
close to nature.

Drum. A cylindrical instrument with a flat hide
stretched taught over each end. The hide produces a
hollow resonance when struck.

Dulcimer. A dulcimer is a flat, trapezoidal
soundboard across which strings of descending
lengths are strung. The strings can be plucked or can
be struck with a tiny hammer.

Flute. This tubular reedless wind instrument
produces sound when air is blown across the hole at
one end. The other end of the tube has a series of holes
that can be covered or left uncovered by the fingers to
produce different notes.

Glaur. This short, curved horn resembles a
cornucopia. If played using its set of valves, the
instrument produces a brassy sound like a trumpet.
Some versions, called gloons, don’t have valves and
produce a more mournful sound.

Hand Drum. A double-headed skin drum fitted
with handles along its side.

Harp. A harp has many parallel strings attached
within a frame. The frame has an angled soundboard
that facilitates shorter strings as it tapers, varying the
notes produced when the instrument is strummed.

Horn. A horn is typically a brassy pipe with a
conical opening at one end and a mouthpiece at the
other. Horns produce loud, far-reaching notes and so
are used for signaling as well musical purposes.

Lute. This plucked stringed instrument has a long
neck and a deep, round back. The hollow portion of
the body has a circular opening under the part of the
strings that get strummed.

Lyre. A lyre resembles a harp, but is smaller. Its
strings are plucked with a pick.

Longhorn. A flute of very sophisticated make,
found only in large cities or areas with skilled
artisans.

Pan Flute. This instrument consists of multiple
closed-pipe flutes of ascending length, attached in a
row.

Shawm. A double-reed instrument like an oboe or
a bassoon. Some versions use attached bellows.

Songhorn. A simple type of flute, like a recorder,
usually carved from wood.

Tantan. An instrument like a tambourine affixed
to a tight drum.

Thelarr. A simple and wind instrument cut from a
reed, sometimes called a whistecane.

Tocken. This resonating instrument is comprised
of carved oval bells hung parallel on a frame and
played by light strikes with a small mallet or with the
open hand.

Viol. A small, six-stringed instrument held
vertically and played with a bow.

Wargong. War gongs are like traditional gongs,
but usually made from the shield of an enemy.

Yarting. This tightly-strung instrument resembles
a shallow-bodied lute.

Zulkoon. This complex pump organ has a
dramatic, sinister sound.

====Miscellaneous Tools====
Miscellaneous tools differ from artisan’s tools in that
they tend to create no product and they are usually not
suitable for generating a stable income.

Each type of tool allows a proficient user to add
her proficiency bonus to uses of that tool. Where a
tool’s use might be ambiguous, some clarity is
provided in the descriptions below.
===Description===
Miscellaneous tools are described below.

Appraiser’s Tools. A satchel containing a multitiered scale with a set of weights, a jeweler’s loupe,
vials of substances for identifying minerals through
alchemical reactions, and a set of thick manuals to
classify materials and index market values.

If proficient, your bonus applies to Intelligence
checks to appraise valuables.

Use appraiser’s tools to identify the techniques
used to refine a gemstone (convert it from a raw state)
and determine the technique’s origin (DC 10) or spot
costume jewelry or costume adornments to clothing
armor, or weapons (DC 15).

Disguise Kit. A box containing cosmetics, hair
dies, and adhesive-mounted facial prosthetics used to
create a variety of disguises.

If proficient, your bonus applies to ability checks
to disguise yourself or others.

You can use a long rest or one day of downtime
to create a disguise. Each disguise weights 1 pound
and takes one minute to put on or take off. This ready-made disguise uses quite a few of your disguise kit
components; you can only keep one disguise together
at a time. When composing and applying a disguise
not previously-created, you must use 10 minutes for
one that involves moderate changes to your
appearance, or 30 minutes for one that involves more extensive changes.

Use a disguise kit to cover distinguishing marks
or injuries (DC 10), spot a disguise in use by someone
else (DC 15), or copy a specific humanoid’s
appearance (DC 20).

Forgery Kit. A forgery kit is a satchel that has
many of the same components as calligrapher’s
supplies, including a variety of pens and inks. It also
boasts a variety of styluses used to impersonate signet
marks in wax seals.

You can produce a forged document that is up to
1 page long or up to 4 pages long, using a short rest or
long rest, respectively. Your Intelligence (forgery kit)
check result sets the DC for an Intelligence
(Investigation) check to spot the fake.

Use a forgery kit to mimic handwriting (DC 15)
or duplicate a wax seal (DC 20).

Fortune Teller’s Kit. This kit comes in a box. It
includes a crystal ball, fortune telling cards, and other
tools of the trade.

If proficient, your bonus applies to ability checks
to tell fortunes convincingly. A fortune teller’s kit can
be used to generate an income like artisan’s tools,
provided they are used in a large enough area and in a
society suitably tolerant of fortune tellers.

Use a fortune teller’s kit to understand someone
you are telling a fortune to, determining a
characteristic or ideal (DC 15), or determining a bond
or flaw (DC 20).

Healer's Kit. This kit is a leather pouch containing bandages, salves, and splints. The kit has enough medical supplies for ten uses. As an action, you can expend one use of the kit to stabilize a creature that has 0 hit points, without needing to make a Wisdom (Medicine) check.

Herbalism Kit. This kit comes in a satchel
compartmentalized for storing myriad herbs. It
includes various tools for safely harvesting plants as
well as the grinding tools, mixing tools, and additives
needed to make potions, salves, and similar curative
products.

Proficiency allows you to identify all common
plants automatically and to add your bonus to checks
to identify rare ones. Herbalism kits are used to craft
several curative products, including potions of
healing.

Use an herbalism kit to find uncommon plants
(DC 15) or identify herbal poisons (DC 20).

Harvester's Kit. This kit contains everything the average harvester needs to prepare and harvest a carcass for usable parts including a skinning knife, a bonesaw, 2 glass vials, pouches of salt, and tweezers. Proficiency with this kit lets you add your proficiency to any check made to harvest a creature.  

Appraising what you can salvage from a monster requires skill relevant to the monster type, as follows: 
^ Creature Type ^ Skill ^
| Aberration | Arcana |
| Beast | Nature |
| Celestial | Arcana |
| Construct | Investigation |
| Dragon | Nature |
| Elemental | Arcana |
| Fey | Arcana |
| Fiend | Arcana |
| Giant | Medicine |
| Humanoid | Medicine |
| Monstrosity | Nature |
| Ooze | Investigation |
| Plant | Nature |
| Undead | Arcana |

In order to harvest a creature, a character must make a Dexterity ability check using the same skill proficiency as
listed in the above appraising table. For example, a character attempting a harvest check on an Aberrant would
receive a bonus equal to their Dexterity modifier and their proficiency in Arcana (if they have any).

This check reflects a character’s ability to not only properly remove the intended item without damaging it, it also involves any ancillary requirements of the harvest such as proper preservation and storage techniques. If a player is harvesting a certain creature, or harvesting a creature of a certain type of material, the DM may allow
them to use a relevant tool proficiency rather than a skill proficiency. For example, the DM may allow a player to add their proficiency with Tinker’s Tools to their attempt to harvest a mechanical golem or use their proficiency with leatherworking tools when attempting to harvest a creature for its hide.  Alternatively, all creature type proficiencies may be replaced by proficiency with the harvesting kit.

Navigator’s Tools. This satchel holds sounding
lines, a sand glass, an astrolabe or telescoping back
staff, a ring dial, or similar instruments needed for
navigation. It also contains a number of relevant sea
charts.

Proficiency with these tools allows you to chart a
ship’s course and follow navigation charts. It also
allows you to add your proficiency bonus to any ability
check you make to avoid getting lost at sea. It can also
be used in some limited cases of overland navigation.

Use navigator’s tools to plot a course (DC 10) or
discover your position on a nautical chart (DC 15).

Poisoner’s Kit. A poisoner’s kit blends some of
the components of alchemist’s supplies and an
herbalism kit, the tools needed to create poisons using
alchemical and herbal techniques. It also includes
tools for collecting poisons from live (or recently
slain) monster specimens.

You may use your proficiency bonus for uses of
poison (poisoning food, weapons, etc.) and checks to
collect or craft poisons. You need not worry about
poisoning yourself merely by handling or applying
poisons.

Use a poisoner’s kit to spot a poisoned object (DC
10) or determine the effect of a discovered poison (DC
20).

Surgeon’s Tools. This set of instruments includes the
blades, saws, and sutures needed to remove shrapnel
or stitch up wounds. Proficiency with these tools lets
you add your proficiency bonus to any checks you
make to stabilize a creature or perform other surgery.

Use a surgeon's kit to remove shrapnel (DC 10) or perform complex surgery (DC 20).

Thieves’ Tools. A complex set of picks and tools
used to disable locks and traps, rolled into a leather
satchel. These tools resemble a highly specialized
segment of tinker’s tools and can be disguised as such.

These tools let you create a trap using parts you
have on hand. The result of your Dexterity (thieves’
tools) check sets the DC to discover or disable the trap.
A new-made trap deals damage appropriate to the
materials used to create it, or half the total of your
check, whichever the DM determines fitting.

Additives like poisons, ball bearings, or bells can add
additional functionality or warning to these makeshift
traps.

You can also reset a disabled trap if your check
meets the original DC to disable it. Reset traps use
their original DCs to discover or disable, along with
their original damage (unless a vital component is
missing, like poison for the spikes).

Use thieves’ tools to disarm traps or open locks,
rolling against variable difficulties (DC 5 - 30).

====Modern Tools====

Modern tools are unlikely to be found in most campaigns, but Arcydea has a wide array of inventive contraptions, crafts, and skills to choose from.

Engineering kit. 50 gp, 8 lb. This kit includes a soldering gun, wires, clips, wire cutters and various diagnostic tools. Proficiency with this kit lets you add your proficiency bonus to any ability check you make to repair electrical devices and to disarm planted explosives.

Forensics kit. 50 gp, 8 lb. This kit includes bindle paper, sterile swabs, distilled water, evidence seals/tape, footwear casting materials, personal protective equipment, test tubes and various other tools for collecting evidence at crime scenes without contaminating it. Proficiency with this kit lets you add your proficiency bonus to any ability check you make to investigate any area or body considered as a crime scene.

Gunsmith's kit. 50 gp, 10 lb. Gunsmith's Kit include a variety of small hand tools, a rotary tool, metal files, a vial of oil, and a hammer. With your kit, you have the ability to craft weapons out of raw materials and to push your creations out into the world, as well as to assemble more modern firearms out of premanufactured parts. 

Hacking tools. 80 gp, 6 lb. This kit contains the hardware and software necessary to allow access into most computer systems and electronic devices such as automatic port scanning, banner grabbing, footprinting, SQL Injection, web application vulnerability search, DDoS tools and data sniffing. Proficiency with hacking tools lets you add your proficiency bonus to any Intelligence checks you make to connect to or make use of a computer system or electronic device. The kit fits snugly in a backpack or toolbox. You might need a computer, a smartphone or a tablet to use some elements of this kit.

Mechanic tools. 50 gp. 8 lb. This kit includes basic tools for repairing cars and motorcycles.

Spy kit. 100 gp. 12 lb. This kit includes items such as camera detectors, sound amplifier, small cameras and microphones, noise generators, frequency and cell phone detectors and tracers. You might need a computer, a smartphone or a tablet to use some elements of this kit.