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.

During downtime periods, artisan’s tools also let you craft items for yourself or others, or earn a living.

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. An alchemist’s kit comes in a box with velvet-lined cut-outs designed to hold the delicate instruments safely in place.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 leather into clothing and accessories.

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.

Painter’s Supplies. Small pots of paints in various colors, alchemical mixtures for paint thinning, 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.

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.

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.

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.

Tinker’s Tools. Various tools for used for crafting 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.

Weaver’s Tools. A collapsible loom and shuttle used for weaving, plus various dies and tools used to treat and store wool and other types of thread. Weaver’s tools can be used to create and repair certain types of clothes.

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