Tools and Skill Kits
These items are particularly useful to characters with certain skills and class abilities.
Tools and Skill Kits
| Tools and Skill Kits | Cost | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Abacus | 2 gp | 2 lbs. |
| Alchemist's kit | 25 gp | 5 lbs. |
| Alchemist's lab, portable | 75 gp | 20 lbs. |
| Anvil | 5 gp | 10–100 lbs. |
| Astrolabe | 100 gp | 6 lbs. |
| Balancing pole | 8 sp | 12 lbs. |
| Bear trap | 2 gp | 10 lbs. |
| Bellows | 1 gp | 3 lbs. |
| Cauldron | 1 gp | 5 lbs. |
| Compass | 10 gp | 1/2 lb. |
| Drill | 5 sp | 1 lb. |
| Footprint book | 50 gp | 3 lbs. |
| Fortune-teller's deck, common | 1 gp | 1/2 lb. |
| Fortune-teller's deck, quality | 25 gp | 1 lb. |
| Fortune-teller's deck, masterwork | 50 gp | 1 lb. |
| Leeching kit | 5 gp | 5 lbs. |
| Map maker's kit | 10 gp | 2 lbs. |
| Portrait book | 10 gp | 3 lbs. |
| Pulley | 2 gp | 10 lbs. |
| Saw | 4 cp | 2 lbs. |
| Sextant | 500 gp | 2 lbs. |
| Symptom kit | 25 gp | 5 lbs. |
| Traveling spellbook (blank) | 10 gp | 1 lb. |
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Price: 2 gp
Weight: 2 lbs.
This device helps users perform mathematical calculations.
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Price: 25 gp
Weight: 5 lbs.
An alchemist with an alchemist's kit is assumed to have all the material components needed for his extracts, mutagens, and bombs, except for those components that have a specific cost. An alchemist's kit provides no bonuses on Craft (alchemy) checks.
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Price: 75 gp
Weight: 20 lbs.
This compact version of a full-sized alchemist's lab provides a +1 circumstance bonus on Craft (alchemy) checks.
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Price: 5 gp
Weight: 10–100 lbs.
While anvil sizes vary depending on the type of smithing for which they are used, all anvils have the same basic shape and construction. Blacksmith anvils are typically much heavier and larger (100 pounds) than farrier anvils (50 pounds), and they in turn are much bigger than silver- or goldsmith anvils (10 pounds). Many metalworking tasks are impossible without the proper anvil.
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Price: 100 gp
Weight: 6 lbs.
This device consists of a flat disc upon which two other discs are mounted. The mounted discs can rotate on a central axis, allowing them to spin and move as days pass. The bottom disc represents the latitude of the user; the upper disc represents the sky, and is filled with astronomical features. Anyone can be shown how to use an astrolabe at night to determine the date and time (which takes 1 minute). An astrolabe grants a +2 circumstance on Knowledge (geography) and Survival checks to navigate in the wilderness (and on Profession [sailor] checks to navigate at sea).
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Price: 8 sp
Weight: 12 lbs.
These flexible poles range from 15–30 feet in length and, when used properly, help you keep your balance when crossing narrow walkways. Using a balancing pole grants you a +1 circumstance bonus on Acrobatics checks made to traverse a narrow surface.
Bear Trap
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Price: 2 gp
Weight: 10 lbs.
Although intended for trapping large animals, bear traps work as well for trapping humanoids or monsters. The hinged jaws of the trap are attached to a chain, which in turn is secured to a spike driven into the ground to ensure that the victim cannot simply crawl away. Prying open the jaws or pulling the spike from the ground requires a DC 20 Strength check.
Bear Trap
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Price: 1 gp
Weight: 3 lbs.
Bellows are useful for starting fires, providing a +1 circumstance bonus on appropriate Survival checks.
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Price: 1 gp
Weight: 5 lbs.
This iron pot may have a hook for hanging over a fire, but versions intended for traveling usually have three or four legs to let it stand over a fire. It holds approximately one gallon, and can be used for cooking, potion-making, and other similar activities.
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Price: 10 gp
Weight: 1/2 lb.
An ordinary compass that points to the magnetic north pole grants its user a +2 circumstance bonus on Survival checks made to avoid becoming lost. It also can be used to grant the same bonus on Knowledge (dungeoneering) checks made to navigate underground.
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Price: 5 sp
Weight: 1 lb.
A drill can create a 1-inch-diameter hole in stone, wood, or metal as a standard action. Harder materials wear down or break the drill more quickly. Hearing the sound of drilling requires a DC 15 Perception check.
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Price: 50 gp
Weight: 3 lbs.
This 50-page tome contains accurate drawings of various common animal, humanoid, and monster tracks, as well as notes on stride length, tread depth, and similarly useful information. The book gives you a +2 circumstance bonus to identify a creature by its tracks, though the use of shoes makes identifying many humanoids difficult or impossible. Though the book can't help you identify unique individuals, it can help you tell an ogre footprint from a troll footprint, or an elf's track from an orc's. Books sold in different areas may have different footprints, depending on what creatures are common to that location.
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This deck of illustrated cards is used by those in tune with the spirit world to predict the future—and by charlatans to take money from gullible or desperate people. A common deck only has simple drawings on parchment scraps or simple wooden plaques. A quality fortune-teller's deck is usually of quality wooden plaques with painted color images; it is suitable as a focus for the augury spell, and provides a +1 circumstance bonus on Profession (fortune-teller), Profession (medium), and similar Profession checks. A masterwork fortune-teller's deck may be wood, ivory, or even metal, with painted or carved images and often highlighted with gold inlays or tiny gems; it has all the benefits of a quality deck, except it provides a +2 circumstance bonus on the listed skill checks.
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Price: 5 gp
Weight: 5 lbs.
This sturdy ceramic jar has a heavy lid with a few tiny holes to let air in. It is normally half-filled with water and contains four adult leeches, each about 6 inches long. A leeching kit grants a +2 circumstance bonus on Heal checks to treat poison. Used for medicinal bloodletting, a leech can survive for 6 months between feedings.
Map Maker's Kit
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Price: 10 gp
Weight: 2 lbs.
This small kit contains a simple slate with a grid carved into its surface and a number of different colored pieces of chalk. Anyone using this kit to draw a map as they travel receives a +2 circumstance bonus on Survival skill checks to avoid becoming lost.
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Price: 10 gp
Weight: 3 lbs.
This 100-page book contains face drawings of male and female dwarves, elves, gnomes, half-elves, half-orcs, halflings, and humans. By selecting an appropriate drawing and adding hair, beard, or other small features such as moles or scars, even a poor artist can quickly create a reasonable likeness of a specific person—for example, an inquisitor making wanted posters of a half-elven witch.
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Price: 2 gp
Weight: 10 lbs.
A simple block-and-tackle pulley, when properly secured, adds a +5 circumstance bonus on Strength checks to lift heavy objects. Securing the pulley requires 1 minute.
Saw
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Price: 4 cp
Weight: 2 lbs.
You can insert a saw between a door and its frame to cut through wooden bolts or bars, dealing 5 hit points per round plus your Strength modifier to the sawed object as a full-round action. Hearing the sawing requires a DC 10 Perception check. Saws used to cut ice on rivers have a point on the end to break through the ice before cutting.
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Price: 500 gp
Weight: 2 lbs.
A sextant is used to determine your latitude. A sextant grants a +4 circumstance bonus on Survival checks made to navigate while above ground.
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Price: 25 gp
Weight: 5 lbs.
This small wooden box has many tiny compartments filled with items useful if you want to feign a sickness as well as a handy reference book outlining common indicators for some of the more feared virulent diseases. The kit includes such things as false pustules, pills that cause the person chewing them to foam at the mouth, and herbal concoctions designed to induce fevers or vomiting. Using a symptom kit grants you a +5 circumstances bonus on Disguise checks made for the purpose of simulating illness. A symptom kit is exhausted after 10 uses.
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Price: 10 gp/blank
Weight: 1 lb.
A traveling spellbook is lighter and less cumbersome than its full-size counterpart. It has 50 pages.