Questions tagged [crafting]
For questions about the process of creating items within the game fiction or mechanics. This may include various types of smithing, alchemy, magic item creation, and other durable or consumable goods, depending on the game.
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What's more efficient: crafting Cure Potions or buying Cure Wands
My alchemist has some downtime coming, and I wondered:
If I want to be cost efficient: should I craft Cure Light Wounds potions or should I buy a wand of Cure Light Wounds? Which of them heals more HP ...
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Can you Enchant Natural Weapons
As the title says, can you enchant Natural Weapons?
With such things as +1/2/3 or [...] Dragon's Wrath or Weapon of Warning.
In my mind this seems illogical but as Natural Weapons are considered ...
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Can you give a construct a natural weapon? Can you craft it with special materials?
I'm not a crafting/construct expert by any means, so please excuse any rookie mistake I might make even when asking the question.
I looked everywhere to see if I could add a bite attack to a construct ...
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Using masterwork transformation spell on broken non magical items
I am playing Pathfinder 1e and i had this thought...
If I have a non magical tool, armor or weapon and it has Broken condition. Is it possible to cast Masterwork Transformation spell on it to remove ...
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How does Magic Item creation cost differ between Sorcerer and Wizard?
I know that Potions, Scrolls and Wands vary in price, depending on class making them. This is explained by the fact they are usually made at lowest possible CL and have a fixed CL of spell being ...
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Is it RAW that Fabricate can be used to "fabricate" a material that goes outside the purview of artisan's tools?
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You convert raw materials into products of the same material. For example, you can fabricate a wooden bridge from a clump of trees, a rope from a patch of hemp, and clothes from flax ...
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A question about arrow breaking and crafting: pathfinder 1e
A question about arrow breaking and crafting in Pathfinder 1e.
Assuming when your arrow breaks from normal use you recover the arrowhead, how much time would it take to craft and arrow if:
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Potions crafting - homebrew ideas [closed]
I am not satisfied entirely with DnD 5e potions crafting. I am considering to implement simple system, which doesn't take so much time of downtime activity to craft, but needs specific ingredients. ...
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Is the Arch Psion's Psionic Energy Discharge sufficiently similar to the Warlock's Eldritch Blast for item creation purposes?
3.5 Item creation rules specifically call out Eldritch Blast a having no psionic analog, and thus psionic characters cannot create or assist in creating items that use that class feature as a ...
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Find Familiar magical item [closed]
I want help to create a magic item. I am a Bard 1/Sorcerer 2 with a (Faerie Dragon) pet. I would like to make an item in-game. I'm not quite sure how to proceed.
I want an item (or a set? Like when ...
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Acquiring Formulas to Enable Scrounger Archetype
The second paragraph of the Scrounger Dedication states:
You can Craft temporary items out of anything, anywhere, with whatever
materials happen to be on hand, spending only 10 minutes to perform
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Item Bonus From Ancestral Geometry
The second level tattoo Ancestral Geometry reads as follows:
Geometric precision and perfect angles signify that an artist with exemplary knowledge of dwarven tattooing traditions created this body
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What is the definition of an "item" in 5e?
When it comes to the word "item" in D&D it can be quite confusing.
Foe example, for a vial of acid, there are 3 potential items to consider:
Is the 4 ounces of acid the item?
Is the ...
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Which skill feat is necessary to craft Gadgets?
Craft as a Downtime activity specifies that you need specific skill feats for different types of items:
You need the Alchemical Crafting skill feat to create alchemical items, the Magical Crafting ...
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How does an Artificer obtain mundane objects for infusion/replication?
I've been trying to figure out how to go about 'creating' the non-magical items needed so you can tinker them into trinkets, or infuse them into a replication of a magic item.
Things like Needles that ...
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Does a creature with Ability Focus produce poison crafting materials with a higher DC than normal?
If you have ready access to the main ingredients of a poison (such as a trained creature that knows the "bestow poison" trick), you only have to pay 1/6 of the market price when crafting it instead of ...
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When multiple Smiths work together to create items, can one apply feat to reduce the total cost?
If multiple characters are working together to meet the prerequisites for crafting an item and only one of the characters has a feat to reduce the cost, are they allowed to apply it? For instance if ...
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How do you create a new formula?
One of my players is an Inventor, and has come up with some ideas for brand-new magical and mundane items. I've found guidance on how to homebrew magical items, and I feel pretty confident on our ...
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What is the record for the greatest discount to item creation costs?
What is the record for the greatest discount to item creation costs? Basically, just how low can the price go? Open to psionics and magic methods.
(For DM reference regarding a possible upcoming ...
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Are there any classes across the d20 systems with really good crafting abilities? [closed]
Long story short, my DM is giving us access to class abilities outside of D20 modern/future and D&D 3.5. Are there any other systems with futuristic tech crafting abilities that would mesh well ...
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Can PCs cause thunder damage or a related condition with simple purpose-built non-magic items?
I would like one of my player characters (I am the player, and I will collaborate with my DM on this) in D&D 5e to craft (or possibly buy) a device that is intended to cause damage or a harmful ...
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Can you make a giant sized weapon using 'Creation'?
I want to create a weapon out of thin air to be used temporarily.
My idea would be, As a 14th-level bard, to cast tenser's transformation into a glyph. Then polymorph into a Giant Ape (a Huge creature)...
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Creators Level Requirement for Gloves of Dexterity [duplicate]
Is there any requirement on the creators level for, say, creating Gloves of Dexterity? IE if you can create Gloves of Dexterity +2 can you also create +6 as well?
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Can you use Fabricate on 13 Adamantine crossbow bolts to make a short sword?
Can you use the Fabricate spell on 13 adamantine crossbow bolts to make a short sword?
The average crossbow bolt is 15-22 inch long and avg. diameter of 0.003 inch – about 0.14 pounds each, coming to ...
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An epic weapon with non epic special abilities
According to the SRD a weapon with a weapon enhancement bonus of +6 is an epic weapon and has a market price of 720,000 gp. Supposing a non epic special ability is added to the weapon, say for example ...
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