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Crafting

🌎 The Starry Shore 2024 Crafting System 🌎

Crafting DCs and Costs

The difficulty class (DC) of a crafting check is determined by the item’s price, more powerful items are harder to craft. Crafting an item requires gold and downtime points (DTP), which represent material costs and time spent crafting.

  • Gold Cost: Half the gold cost of the original item
  • Downtime Point (DTP) Cost: Item cost ÷ 2 ÷ 25 (1 DTP = 25 gp)
  • Crafting DC: 10 + (item cost ÷ 450), rounded down

You can use the following tool to see all of the above once you put the item cost and click the "Calculate Crafting Costs & DC" button

Items Crafting Costs Calculator
Invalid item cost entered.
Gold Cost: ? GP
DTP Cost: ? DTP
Crafting DC: ?
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Downtime Log Generator

Crafting Restrictions

There are some restrictions on what items can be crafted and how they can be crafted. These are:

  1. Artifacts cannot be crafted.
  2. Session-required items can only be crafted in a live session.
  3. Any buffs from items do not apply to crafting rolls.
  4. Outside of live sessions, only passive buffs from race/class/background features are allowed.

  5. In live sessions, only the following buffs are allowed (where applicable):

    • Help action from another player (they must also have an applicable tool proficiency)

Tool Proficiencies Needed

To craft an item, a character must have proficiency with the appropriate tool for the item type. The tool proficiency determines what kind of check is made to craft the item. P.S. In sessions, DMs have freedom to decide what stat is used

Item Type Tool Proficiencies Applicable Ability Scores
Armor Cobbler's, Leatherworker's, Smith's, Tinker's, Weaver's STR / DEX
Adventure Gear Carpenter's, Leatherworker's, Smith's, Tinker's INT / WIS
Ammunition Smith's, Tinker's, Woodcarver's DEX / WIS
Potion / Poison Alchemist's, Brewer's, Herbalist's, Poisoner's CON / WIS
Ring Glassblower's, Jeweler's, Tinker's DEX / CHA
Scroll Calligrapher's, Forgery, Arcana Check DEX / INT
Shield Carpenter's, Smith's, Woodcarver's STR / CON
Wand / Rod Tinker's, Woodcarver's, Arcana Check INT / WIS / CHA
Weapon Smith's, Tinker’s, Woodcarver's STR / DEX / CON
Wondrous Item Any applicable tool, Arcana Check INT / CHA

Crafting Outcomes

On a successful check, the item is crafted and the character spends the gold and DTP required for the item.

On a failed check, the GP and DTP costs are spent and the item is not crafted, however the character can attempt another check for an additional 1/4th the original GP and DTP cost.

Each subsequent attempt to craft the item reduces the check’s DC by 5, to a minimum DC of 5.

How to use tools

To learn a tool proficiency, use the command: !tool pro <tool_name>.

For expertise, use exp instead of prof.

Example: !tool pro alchemist

To make a check with the tool, use the command: !tool <tool_name> <stat>

Example: !tool alchemist wis