🛠️ Artisan Tools
Tools are about what a character can do, not what they cost or weigh. Each kit below lists the kinds of things its owner can attempt; how hard any given task is comes from the Difficulty Ladder, translated to your own system.
| Tool Kit | What a character can do with it |
|---|---|
| 🔨 Smith's Tools | Forge and repair weapons, armor, tools, and fittings; shoe a horse; work a lock open with brute craft; judge the quality and origin of metalwork. |
| 🪚 Carpenter's Tools | Build and brace structures, bar a door, raise a palisade, repair a wagon or boat, and spot where a building is weak — or rigged to fall. |
| 🧱 Mason's Tools | Cut and set stone, find a loose block or hidden passage in a wall, judge whether a ruin will hold, and breach one that won't. |
| 🥾 Leatherworker's Tools | Make and mend armor, harness, packs, and boots; treat hides; recognize the maker or region of a piece of leatherwork. |
| 🍲 Cook's Utensils | Turn poor rations into a morale-lifting meal, preserve food for a long road, detect spoilage or poison by taste and smell. |
| 🍺 Brewer's Supplies | Brew ale and spirits, purify questionable water, and read a crowd well enough to know what a tavern is really about. |
| ⚗️ Alchemist's Supplies | Identify substances, brew tonics and reagents, neutralize a known poison, and recognize the signs of alchemy at a scene. |
| 🌿 Herbalist's Kit | Find and prepare useful plants in the wild, treat illness and wounds with them, and tell a healing herb from a deadly one. |
| ⛑️ Healer's Kit | Stabilize the gravely hurt, set bones, stitch wounds, ease fever and pain, and judge how a body came to die. |
| 🗝️ Thieves' Tools | Pick locks, disarm and set traps, force a window quietly, and tell a cheap mechanism from a master's work. |
| 🔧 Tinker's Tools | Patch and improvise small mechanisms, jury-rig a temporary fix, and make a noisy, dubious device do something useful once. |
| 🖋️ Calligrapher's Supplies | Produce fine documents, recognize a hand or a forgery, and read worn or coded script others can't. |
| 🗺️ Cartographer's Tools | Draw accurate maps from travel and survey, read old or foreign charts, and spot when a map has been altered to mislead. |
| 🧭 Navigator's Tools | Hold a course by stars and landmarks at sea or in the wilds, estimate position, and recognize when you're being led astray. |
| 🎭 Disguise Kit | Alter a face and bearing convincingly, assemble a believable persona, and see through another's disguise. |
| 📜 Forgery Kit | Copy seals, signatures, and official papers; age a document; and detect a forgery in someone else's hands. |
| 💎 Jeweler's Tools | Appraise gems and fine metalwork, cut and set stones, spot a fake or a hidden compartment in a piece. |
| 🪕 Musician's Kit | Set a mood, earn a meal or a welcome, pass a signal in a tune, and recall the lore carried in old songs. |