These kits represent basic sets of tools necessary to carry out important crafts without equipment penalties. Some costs and weights are rounded to account for minor odds and ends.

Tailor’s Kit (TL0). Appropriate to working with any cloth or leather. An awl, a pair of small knives (TL0) or scissors (TL1), four needles with different-sized eyes, 20 pins, a measuring rod (TL1), a thimble (TL2), and 100’ of thread. $95, 2.75 lbs.

Carpenter’s Kit (TL1). An adze, a bow drill, four chisels, a hammer, a hatchet, a level, a measuring rod, a saw, a square, and an abrasive stone for sanding. $250, 21 lbs.

Fletcher’s Kit (TL1). Appropriate to making and repairing arrows and crossbow bolts (TL2) in the field from semiprepared parts. Making arrows from raw materials requires the carpenter’s kit (above), at minimum. Includes a small knife, a large knife, small pliers, an arrow-straightener (a stone or a bone with a long groove; despite the name, it’s used to check a shaft for straightness, not to change its shape), and abrasive for sanding. $95, 4 lbs. For parts (shafts, heads, feathers, and glue or pitch), add half the cost and the full weight of the finished arrows.

Smith’s Kit (TL1). A minimal set of tools includes three hammers, tongs, four chisels, shears, and a file (TL2). $330, 17.5 lbs. The smith must find a flat rock to use as an anvil (for TL2+ smiths: -1 to skill and roll vs. Smith every day of use to avoid breaking it). A full kit with a portable iron anvil is available at TL2: $1,630, 117.5 lbs.

Alchemist’s Kit (TL2). An alembic, two aludels, a brazier, two crucibles, four cupels or scorifiers, a large pot to use as a water or sand bath, several pieces of clean cloth for filtering, tongs, a balance scale, and a small mortar and pestle. $175, 25 lbs. Many societies regard alchemists with mistrust, classifying alchemy as either fraud or black magic; there, this kit is usually LC2, with the “license” being protection from someone in authority.

Stoneworker’s Kit (TL2). A large hammer, a small hammer, six chisels of different shapes, a large crowbar, a small crowbar (p. B289), a square, a level, and an auger. $551, 42.5 lbs.