You work with fire and steel to create deadly weapons, impenetrable armor and maybe even the occasional horseshoe. You are a master at the forge, even if you are sitting in front of a campfire.
Smith’s tools allow you to work metal, beating it to alter its shape, repair damage, or work raw ingots into useful items. Your tools include:
Your tools weigh 28 lbs and costs 40 gp.
Proficiency with this tool lets you add your proficiency bonus to any Strength checks you make for your smithing.
Many smithing items and recipes may be purchased from local smiths, but these items may take a while to produce, and they could be very expensive when purchasing.
Characters with proficiency in smithing know 3 recipes and may be able to learn new recipes if they can find other smith’s, smith’s notes, or by experimenting with different metal working methods. In addition, if you acquire an item that has been smithed, you can use your smith’s tools to analyze the item. It takes one hour of quiet, careful work to analyze an item. At the end of the work period, roll a Smithing check + Str + PB. If you meet or exceed the DC required to craft the item, you learn the recipe. Otherwise, the item is destroyed, and you learn nothing.
While you are more at home working in a forge, sometimes you can make do with just a campfire. If an item is able to be crafted at a campfire, then it will have a small Fleuron next to the name.
Example: Dagger ❧
Some equipment is more complex than others to craft. There are three different levels, Simple, Moderate, and Complex.
Simple items are very easy to craft and can be created quickly, they have a base DC13 to craft. Simple items are typically made out of a single piece of steel and have a simple form. To determine how long it takes to craft, take the weight of the equipment and divide by 4 and round up, minimum of 1 day.
i.e. If the equipment weighs 1lb, it takes 1 day to craft.
Moderate items can be quickly crafted and have a base DC14 to craft. Moderate items are made from a few different pieces of steel and have a few complicated techniques. To determine how long it takes to craft, take the weight of the equipment and divide by 2 and round up, minimum of 1 day.
i.e. If the equipment weighs 8lbs, it takes 4 days to craft.
Complex items take a lot longer to craft and have a base DC15 to craft. Complex items are made from lots of pieces and have moving parts and complicated forms. To craft the equipment, it takes a number of days equal to the weight of the equipment, minimum of 1 day.
i.e. If the equipment weighs 45lbs, it takes 45 days to craft.
When crafting an item, you need at least 6 hours to dedicate to your work. If you spend more time than that, your GM can determine if you speed up progress on crafting your equipment, but the number of checks required does not change.
When crafting your equipment, you will need to make the appropriate craft check to ensure that your equipment is coming out correctly.
For every seven days you spend crafting your equipment, you must make a Craft check with the DC determined by Complexity, any days that are in excess of the seven days but don’t form another seven days still require a craft check. i.e. If your equipment takes 9 days to craft, you would make 2 craft checks.
If you are working towards crafting and fail any of your craft checks, you have one chance left to save it. On your next craft check, you have disadvantage on the check. If you fail, or have no more craft checks, than the equipment is Scrap quality.
The craft checks are assumed to happen at the end of the seven days or the end of the day when you finish crafting your equipment. If you fail the roll, you can not use those days you spent crafting an item to craft something else.
As a blacksmith, you can create a lot of useful equipment, but it must be mostly metal. Some items may require leather or cloth, if it is an important part of the equipment you are unable to craft it. Some items, like Studded Leather, require putting metal studs in leather. If you have the leather armor available, you can craft Studded Leather, otherwise you can’t.
If something requires a wooden shaft, it is assumed you have a suitable wooden shaft for it.
Certain items may have special properties and they will be addressed in the Special Properties section after the equipment chart on the next page.
Simple Weapons
|
Equipment |
Complexity |
Weight |
Days to Craft |
DC |
# of Checks |
Cost |
|
Dagger ❧ |
Simple |
1 lb. |
1 |
13 |
1 |
1 gp |
|
Handaxe ❧ |
Simple |
2 lb. |
1 |
13 |
1 |
2 gp 5 sp |
|
Light Hammer ❧ |
Simple |
2 lb. |
1 |
13 |
1 |
1 gp |
|
Mace |
Simple |
4 lb. |
1 |
13 |
1 |
2 gp 5 sp |
|
Sickle ❧ |
Moderate |
2 lb. |
1 |
14 |
1 |
5 sp |
|
Spear ❧ |
Simple |
3 lb. |
1 |
13 |
1 |
5 sp |
|
Arrows ❧ |
Simple |
- |
1 |
13 |
1 |
5 sp |
|
Dart ❧ |
Simple |
1/4 lb. |
1 |
13 |
1 |
2 cp |
Martial Weapons
|
Equipment |
Complexity |
Weight |
Days to Craft |
DC |
# of Checks |
Cost |
|
Battleaxe |
Moderate |
4 lb. |
2 |
14 |
1 |
5 gp |
|
Flail ❧ |
Complex |
2 lb. |
2 |
15 |
1 |
5 gp |
|
Glaive |
Moderate |
6 lb. |
3 |
14 |
1 |
10 gp |
|
Greataxe |
Moderate |
7 lb. |
4 |
14 |
1 |
15 gp |
|
Greatsword |
Moderate |
6 lb. |
3 |
14 |
1 |
25 gp |
|
Halberd |
Moderate |
6 lb. |
3 |
14 |
1 |
10 gp |
|
Longsword ❧ |
Moderate |
3 lb. |
2 |
14 |
1 |
7 gp 5 sp |
|
Maul |
Moderate |
10 lb. |
5 |
14 |
1 |
5 gp |
|
Morningstar |
Moderate |
4 lb. |
2 |
14 |
1 |
7 gp 5 sp |
|
Pike ❧ |
Moderate |
18 lb. |
2 |
14 |
1 |
2gp 5 sp |
|
Rapier ❧ |
Moderate |
2 lb. |
1 |
14 |
1 |
12gp 5 sp |
|
Scimitar ❧ |
Moderate |
3 lb. |
2 |
14 |
1 |
12gp 5 sp |
|
Shortsword ❧ |
Moderate |
2 lb. |
1 |
14 |
1 |
5 gp |
|
Trident |
Moderate |
4 lb. |
2 |
14 |
1 |
2 gp 5 sp |
|
War Pick ❧ |
Moderate |
2 lb. |
1 |
14 |
1 |
2 gp 5 sp |
|
Warhammer ❧ |
Moderate |
2 lb. |
1 |
14 |
1 |
7 gp 5 sp |
Armor
|
Equipment |
Complexity |
Weight |
Days to Craft |
DC |
# of Checks |
Cost |
|
Studded Leather ❧ |
Simple |
3 lb. |
1 |
13 |
1 |
17 gp 5 sp |
|
Chain Shirt ❧ |
Complex |
20 lb. |
20 |
15 |
3 |
25 gp |
|
Scale Mail ❧ |
Moderate |
45 lb. |
23 |
14 |
4 |
25 gp |
|
Breastplate |
Simple |
20 lb. |
5 |
13 |
1 |
200 gp |
|
Half Plate |
Complex |
40 lb. |
40 |
15 |
6 |
375 gp |
|
Ring Mail ❧ |
Complex |
40 lb. |
40 |
15 |
6 |
15 gp |
|
Chain Mail ❧ |
Complex |
55 lb. |
55 |
15 |
8 |
37 gp 5 sp |
|
Splint ❧ |
Moderate |
60 lb. |
30 |
14 |
5 |
100 gp |
|
Plate |
Complex |
65 lb. |
65 |
15 |
10 |
750 gp |
|
Shield ❧ |
Simple |
6 lb. |
2 |
13 |
1 |
5 gp |