Chapter 6: Equipment

Equipment Icons

	Cost
	Weight
	Countdown

Weight and carrying capacity

While adventuring, you’re going to pick up stuff, and that stuff has weight. How much weight you can lug around is your carrying capacity, and how much you’re currently carrying is your load.

Each 1 weight weighs approximately 5-10 lbs. There are some items, though, that have a negligible effect on your load; they have 0 weight. Other items only have an effect on your load when you’ve got a bunch of them, those are marked as light weight. 10 light weight items, in any combination, weighs 1 weight. Some items, like a backpack, make it easier to carry more; their weight is negative. Any combination of 1000 gold and gems that don’t have their own weight has 1 weight.

Your carrying capacity is the most you can carry before becoming encumbered and is equal to double your +POWER plus 10. When you’re encumbered, you have -1 movement and take -1 ongoing to all rolls until you’re no longer encumbered. Your load can never be more than your carrying capacity +3.

Weapons

Weapons deal damage! If you have mastery with a weapon, you can use its mastery property whenever you hit a creature with that weapon. Some weapons also have properties describing how they can, or need to, be used. All PCs have proficiency with simple weapons.

Unarmed and improvised attacks deal 1 damage.

Some weapons have special weapon properties—every property always applies to the weapon when wielded. All weapons also have a mastery property—if you gain weapon mastery of that weapon, you can use the mastery property.

Weapon Properties

Agile

Rewards quick strikes over brute force—can use +CUNNING instead of +POWER for attack and damage rolls.

If wielding two agile weapons and you hit a creature with your primary weapon, you can spend 1-fatigue to attack the same creature with your secondary weapon. This damage does not include your ability score.

A ranged weapon with this property must use +CUNNING for its attack and damage rolls.

Assail

Can be used as the normal weapon, or can Use Item and channel one of your cantrips. While channeled, the weapon takes on a magical appearance in line with the cantrip being used, you can cast spells with that cantrip at melee range, and you can substitute a base level cantrip for a weapon attack taking reactions. You can Use Item again to change your weapon back to its normal form or to another cantrip.

Expand

Increase the size of a targeting charm by 5’ in one dimension.

Extend

When you apply a condition with a spell through this focus, you can mark 1-fatigue per target to extend its duration by 1 round. You can choose how many targets to extend.

Focus

Can be used as a weapon focus—can use +SPELL for attack and damage rolls.

Heavy

Requires +POWER of 1 or greater to wield.

Piercing

Damage rolls with +n piercing ignore n of a creature’s AC.

Precise

Rewards careful strikes over brute force—can use +FOCUS instead of +POWER for attack and damage rolls.

A ranged weapon with this property must use +FOCUS for its attack and damage rolls.

Reach

Melee weapons only. Your reach with this weapon is increased by 5’.

Reload

Takes extra effort to reload—it can only be fired once per turn.

Simple

Basic weapons anyone can use.

Span

When you attack a creature at range through this focus, increase the maximum distance by 10’.

Thrown

Can be thrown. If thrown, it and has a range of 30’.

Two-Handed

Unwieldy and must be used with two hands.

Versatile

Can wield with one hand or two; if wielding with two, add +1 damage to damage rolls when used as a melee weapon. Can swap between one handed and two handed by using Use Item.

Weapon Mastery

Cleave

When you strike with this weapon, mark 1-fatigue to deal half the damage you dealt to your target to another creature within the weapon’s reach.

Graze

When you strike with this weapon and miss, deal damage equal to the ability used to roll the attack.

Nick

When you strike with this weapon, mark 2-fatigue to apply sundered.

Pinpoint

When you strike with this weapon, mark 1-fatigue on a hit to become prepared for your next attack roll against that creature.

Ring

When you strike with this weapon, mark 2-fatigue on a hit to apply impaired.

Sap

When you strike with this weapon, mark 1-fatigue on a hit to apply weakened.

Foci

Foci allow you to channel your magic, letting you cast spells as a spellcaster. In order to cast spells, you must have at least one focus equipped. Each focus has a set of properties that affect your spellcasting when equipped. In addition to the foci below, any simple melee weapon can be used as a focus and have the assail property—a few common weapon foci are presented below. Some foci have weapon properties like two-handed and versatile—refer to those properties for definitions.

Foci Properties

Armor

Armor is your level of protection against incoming blows, and comes in three types: light armor, medium armor, and heavy armor. Light armor provides the least amount of protection, but it’s the easiest to wear—you add your full +CUNNING to your AC when wearing it. Medium armor provides a moderate amount of protection but is bulkier—you add half of your +CUNNING to your AC when wearing it. Heavy armor provides the most protection, but it’s bulky—you don’t add your +CUNNING to your AC when wearing it.

Some armor is bulky enough that you need a minimum amount of +POWER to wear it. If your +POWER is less than the required amount, you can’t wear that armor. If it’s equal to your +POWER, you take -2 ongoing to all rolls to attempt to be stealthy or sneaky while wearing it.

You can also equip a shield. Shields provide a bonus to your AC while wielding it. Unlike armor, shields are part of your loadout.

Gear & Packs

Weapons and armor aren’t the only things you need to survive on your adventure, you need gear too! Gear can be broken down into four categories: adventuring gear, musical instruments, and tools.

Adventuring Gear

Gear and equipment an adventurer may need throughout their travels.

Musical instruments

A tool to play music. If you have a talent that would give you proficiency with a musical instrument, you can typically earn extra gold when you perform with one when you use the Get a Job downtime activity. Under some circumstances, a GM may let you use a musical instrument as a focus.

Tools

Let you Work on a Project that requires special tools when you’re not in a settlement that has a permanent workshop dedicated to the required craft.

Packs are specially priced collections of predefined adventuring gear (presented weights are approximates). When you start your adventure, you get 50 gold to spend on gear and packs.

Packs

Packs are specially priced collections of predefined adventuring gear (presented weights are approximates)

Adventuring Gear

Gear and equipment an adventurer may need throughout their travels.

Musical Instruments

A tool to play music. If you have a talent that would give you proficiency with a musical instrument, you can typically earn extra gold when you perform with one when you use the Get a Job downtime activity. Under some circumstances, a GM may let you use a musical instrument as a focus.

Tools

Let you Work on a Project that requires special tools when you’re not in a settlement that has a permanent workshop dedicated to the required craft.

Potions, Spell Scrolls, and Wands

Potions, spell scrolls, and wands are all containers for magic. A potion or wand lets anyone trigger the magic stored within; a spell scroll is a caster’s tool. A potion or wand is a fixed spell—when its spell calls for a casting modifier (+SPELL), use a value set by its rarity instead of your own: +2 for a common item, +4 for a rare one, for both its attack rolls and the save total it sets. A spell scroll is the exception: you cast it yourself, using your own +SPELL.

Each is common unless the cantrip or charm bound into it is rare, in which case it’s rare—a spell’s power is paid in the fatigue you spend to use it, so price reflects only how scarce its ingredients are. You pay that fatigue when you use the item, not when it’s made. Potions and wands have a light weight; spell scrolls have a 0 weight.

Item	Rarity
Spell Scroll	Common	300g
Spell Scroll	Rare	1500g
Potion	Common	400g
Potion	Rare	2000g
Wand	Common	1500g
Wand	Rare	7500g

Potions

A potion holds a spell that targets the drinker or emanates from them. Anyone can use a potion with the Use Item action—you mark the spell’s fatigue when you drink it, and its effect lasts the spell’s full duration without requiring concentration.

You can also throw a potion, treating the creature it strikes—or the point it bursts on, as the consumer or spell’s origin. If it’s a willing ally, they can choose to have the potion activate when it hits them. Otherwise, make a ranged attack: if the contained spell normally requires a save, treat a strong hit as a missed save and vice versa, otherwise treat the ranged attack as the spell’s attack. On a miss, the potion shatters, wasted.

Rituals cannot be stored in potions, and any material component that has a cost must be paid as part of crafting the potion.

Spell Scrolls

A spell scroll holds a cantrip, a charm, or a cantrip-and-charm combination. You must have a spellcasting feat to use one—to anyone else, the instructions are just ink.

You can cast a scroll’s cantrip or combination as written, or, if it holds a charm, apply that charm to a cantrip you have prepared that the charm can affect—a prepared Fire Bolt and a scroll holding a haste charm together cast one hasted Fire Bolt. Pay the spell’s fatigue as normal; the scroll disintegrates once cast. Its spell is fixed at the level it was scribed, so you can’t upcast it further, though you can concentrate on it.

Because a scroll’s instructions are legible and durable, a spellcaster can study one to copy or learn its cantrip or charm without using it up.

Wands

A wand holds a cantrip, a charm, or a cantrip-and-charm combination—any spell, like a scroll, not only self-targeting ones—and anyone can use it, no spellcasting feat needed.

Activating a wand costs a fixed 2 AP (you trade the spell’s gestures for channeling it through the wand) plus the spell’s fatigue and 1 charge; if the stored spell is cast as a reaction, the wand is used as that reaction instead of spending AP. A wand has 3 charges and regains them all during your daily preparations. Its spell is fixed at the level it was made and can’t be upcast.

(A Wand of [Spell] is a distinct item from the plain wand focus a spellcaster channels their own spells through.)

Healing Potions

Healing potions aren’t magic—they’re potent herbal remedies brewed with a herbalism kit, meant for quick healing outside of a rest. They come in three forms, all with a light weight. The health and greater health potions are common; the Potion of Invigoration is rare and needs a measure of Elementalis to brew:

Potion	Healing
Health Potion	1d4 HP	50g
Greater Health Potion	2d4 HP	150g
Potion of Invigoration	4d4 HP, recover 2 fatigue	1000g

Upgrading Equipment

As you adventure, you’ll want to upgrade your gear to be able to take on tougher and tougher foes. There are upgrades you can make to your equipment: you can plate a weapon with silver, you can improve it with mithril, you can refine it into a masterwork item, and you can enhance it with runes and seals.

Silvered Weapons

A weapon can be plated or alloyed with silver by any blacksmith. Attacks with a silvered weapon ignore a creature’s resistance to physical damage. Ammunition is silvered in batches of 20.

Silvering a weapon costs a flat 100g and is permanent.

Mithril Equipment

While Mithril comes in many forms, at its core it’s a material that’s been seeped in magic, resulting in an incredibly strong and light material. Any mithril item—a weapon, armor, focus, or a wondrous item like a cloak or ring—gains 1 rune slot and has its weight reduced by 1 (reducing light weight to 0 weight and 1 weight to light weight). For armor, this also reduces the +POWER requirement to wield it by 1 (minimum 0). A mithril weapon also ignores a creature’s resistance to physical damage, as a silvered weapon does.

Working with mithril is as easy as working with common materials, so an item’s countdown is unchanged—but the material is rare and a spoiled piece is costly to replace, so mithril equipment is priced well above its raw stock. Its purchase price is the cost of its mithril material times 2½ for a simple item, 3 for a normal one, or 3½ for a complex one. To craft mithril equipment yourself, replace all of its materials with mithril, keeping the same amount.

Masterwork Equipment

Masterwork equipment is the pinnacle of craftsmanship—perfectly fit and balanced, finely decorated, and of the highest quality. All masterwork equipment at their core are made of mithril, so they gain all the benefits of mithril equipment. Additionally, they all gain 1 seal slot; weapons and foci also gain +1 piercing, armor +1 AC, and other items (a cloak, a ring) gain only the slot. A masterwork cloak with a Seeking seal, for instance, is a cloak of protection.

The attention to detail required to create masterwork equipment requires a significant time investment, and its cost shows. Masterwork equipment costs twice as much as its mithril equivalent, and if you wanted to craft it on your own, its countdown would be doubled (but the material amount would remain the same). You can only attempt to make masterwork equipment yourself if you have expertise in the talent that lets you craft.

Runes & Seals

Runes and seals are magical enhancements set into a slot on an item—any item, including wondrous gear. Runes generally modify an item’s existing properties, whereas seals generally add new ones. Runes and seals are not permanent—if you have a talent that lets you craft the kind of item it’s attached to, you can remove them intact and replace them as a countdown 1 project per item. Some items you find in the wild may have runes or seals on them and aren’t mithril or masterwork equipment—while you can remove the runes and seals from these items, you can’t replace them once you do.

An item’s first rune slot comes from being mithril and its first seal slot from being masterwork. To add further slots, you imbue the item—a Complex crafting project, requiring expertise in the relevant craft, that grants one extra rune or seal slot. Each added slot of a kind is dearer than the last: the next rune slot needs (current rune slots + 1) × 2 mithril, the next seal slot (current seal slots + 1) × 2 fadeite. An item can hold at most 3 rune slots and 3 seal slots.

Runes

Seals

Attunement

Some magic asks to be bonded before it works. You can be attuned to a number of magic items at once equal to your Prowess (2 at Journeyman, up to 5 at Legendary). Attune to, or release, your items during your daily preparations; an item that requires attunement does nothing for you until you do.

Attunement is required by:

• Any item bearing one or more runes or seals—the whole item is a single attunement, however many it holds.
• Wondrous items marked Attunement in their entry—the ones granting a strong ongoing benefit.

Everything else is yours to use freely: most wondrous items (including passive grants like darkvision goggles), consumables, and one-time items like the Tomes.

This is the second of two brakes on stacked magic: the three-rune / three-seal slot cap limits power within a single item, and attunement limits how many magic items work at once.

Wondrous Items

Wondrous items are bespoke magical objects—made, not enchanted onto ordinary gear. Each is built from its own recipe, and its rarity reflects how readily it turns up, not what it’s made of. Anyone can use one.

Amulet of Proof against Detection and Location

Rare · 5000g · Attunement

While you wear it, you can't be targeted by divination magic or perceived through magical scrying or location, and creatures can't read your thoughts by magic.

Bag of Devouring

Rare · 500g

A cursed bag that looks and acts like a bag of holding, but its interior is the maw of an otherworldly creature. Objects placed inside are devoured over a few minutes. A creature pulled or climbing inside makes a POWER save or is drawn into the Fade and consumed; on a success it escapes back out. Reaching in to retrieve something risks the same.

Bag of Holding

Common · 500g

Holds up to 50 weight of gear but always counts as 1 weight to carry; reach in with the Retrieve Item technique. It holds about 10 minutes of air divided among any living things sealed inside. If the bag is destroyed, everything within is lost to the Fade. Placing it inside another extradimensional space (a portable hole, another bag of holding) ruptures both: everything within 10 feet is torn into the Fade and lost.

Bead of Nourishment

Common · 25g

Eat it (a Use Item action) to gain a full day's food and water—even where you normally can't eat, drink, or breathe—and recover 1 exhaustion. Single use.

Cordial Flask

Common · 500g

On command (a Use Item action) the flask fills with a drinkable liquid of your choice—water, weak wine, vinegar, oil, honey, or beer—producing up to a few gallons over a day.

Decanter of Endless Water

Common · 500g

A Use Item action pours water, fresh or salt, in one of three streams: a trickle (1 gallon per round), a gush (5 gallons as an action), or an aimed geyser (30 gallons per round). A creature struck by the geyser makes a POWER save—on a miss it is shoved 10 feet and knocked prone, on a weak hit shoved 5 feet, on a strong hit unmoved.

Dimensional Shackles

Rare · 2500g

Locked onto a creature (it must be willing or restrained), the shackles prevent it from teleporting or traveling to or through other planes, the Fade, or extradimensional spaces. They open with their key or a Cunning check to pick.

Driftglobe

Common · 300g

When activated, hovers in place. Whoever activated it can It answers five spoken commands, each costing 1 AP: follow, and it keeps within 10 feet of you; come, and it travels up to 20 feet toward you; stay, and it holds where it is; rise or fall, and it travels up to 20 feet straight up or down.

Dust of Sneezing and Choking

Rare · 1000g

Thrown or flung into the air, the dust bursts in a 30-foot radius. Each creature there makes a POWER save or is Stunned by uncontrollable sneezing and choking, repeating the save at the end of each of its turns to end it. Single use.

Eversmoking Bottle

Common · 500g

Open the stopper (a Use Item action) and the bottle pours out thick smoke that heavily obscures a 60-foot radius, spreading 10 feet further each round, until you stopper it again (also a Use Item action). A strong wind disperses it.

Folding Boat

Rare · 2500g

A box the size of a brick that, on command, unfolds into a 10-foot rowboat or a 24-foot keelboat, and folds back to a box at a word.

Gloves of Swimming and Climbing

Common · 1000g

While you wear these, you have a climb speed and a swim speed equal to your walking speed, and climbing costs you no extra movement.

Gloves of Thievery

Common · 1000g

While you wear these—and they're invisible on your hands—you have advantage on ability checks to pick locks and pockets and to disarm traps.

Goggles of Night

Common · 1000g

While you wear these, you have darkvision out to 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, its range increases by 60 feet.

Handy Haversack

Rare · 2500g

A central pocket holds up to 50 weight and two side pouches up to 20 weight each, yet the whole pack always weighs 1. Its contents ride at the top, so a Retrieve Item from it costs no AP. It holds about 10 minutes of air divided among any living things inside; if destroyed, everything within is lost to the Fade, and placing it inside another extradimensional space ruptures both as a bag of holding does.

Immovable Rod

Common · 500g

Press the button and the rod fixes in place in midair, bearing up to 100 weight before it slips; press it again to release. A fixed rod makes a foothold, a bar, or a lever.

Instant Fortress

Rare · 2500g

A small cube that, on command, grows into a square stone tower 20 feet on a side with a single door that opens only at your word; it shrinks back to a cube on command, refusing to close on anything larger than it can hold.

Pearl of Power

Common · 1000g · Attunement

Use Item once per day to recover 2 fatigue.

Periapt of Health

Common · 1000g · Attunement

Use Item once per day to regain 2d4+2 HP. While you wear it, you also have advantage on saves to avoid or end the Poisoned condition.

Periapt of Proof against Poison

Rare · 5000g · Attunement

While you wear it, you are immune to the Poisoned condition and to poison damage.

Periapt of Wound Closure

Common · 1000g · Attunement

While you wear it, you have advantage on death saves, and you double the HP you regain from any rest or recovery die.

Portable Hole

Rare · 2500g

A folded cloth that unfurls into a 10-foot-deep, 6-foot-wide extradimensional pit; fold the cloth to close it, sealing anything inside. A closed hole holds 1 hour of air divided among the creatures within. A creature can climb out of an open hole with an Athletics check. Placing it inside another extradimensional space ruptures both, opening a one-way gate to the Fade that pulls everything within 10 feet through.

Ring of the Ram

Rare · 5000g · Attunement

3 charges, regaining 1d3 at your daily preparations. Spend 1–3 charges as a Use Item action to make a ranged attack (+4) against a creature within 60 feet; on a hit it takes 2d10 force damage and is shoved 5 feet for each charge spent. Alternatively, spend 1–3 charges to batter a nonmagical object within 60 feet (a POWER check at +5 per charge).

Robe of Eyes

Rare · 5000g · Attunement

While you wear this, you see in all directions: advantage on Perception checks that rely on sight, and you can't be surprised by anything you can see. You also have darkvision and truesight out to 120 feet. A bright-light effect cast on the robe, or sudden daylight, blinds it—and you—for 1 minute.

Robe of Useful Items

Common · 500g

Covered in cloth patches that each peel off to become a real object: it always bears a lantern, a dagger, a mirror, a pole, a coil of rope, and a sack, plus a handful of stranger patches (a ladder, a chest, a window, a rowboat, a pit) chosen by the GM. Once a patch is used, it is gone.

Rope of Climbing

Common · 500g

60 feet of rope that obeys a spoken command (a Use Item action): it climbs and anchors itself to a point you name, knots or unknots at 1-foot intervals, or holds fast up to 50 weight.

Slippers of Spider Climbing

Common · 1000g · Attunement

While you wear these, you can move up, down, and across vertical surfaces and along ceilings with your hands free, with a climb speed equal to your walking speed. They fail on slick surfaces such as ice or grease.

Tome of Bodily Might

Rare · 50000g

Studied as a Work on a Project (Countdown 16) completed within a tenday, it permanently raises your POWER by +1, to a maximum of +10; the tome then loses its magic for a century.

Tome of Boundless Luck

Rare · 50000g

Studied as a Work on a Project (Countdown 16) completed within a tenday, it permanently raises your LUCK by +1, to a maximum of +10; the tome then loses its magic for a century.

Tome of Clear Thought

Rare · 50000g

Studied as a Work on a Project (Countdown 16) completed within a tenday, it permanently raises your FOCUS by +1, to a maximum of +10; the tome then loses its magic for a century.

Tome of Deft Cunning

Rare · 50000g

Studied as a Work on a Project (Countdown 16) completed within a tenday, it permanently raises your CUNNING by +1, to a maximum of +10; the tome then loses its magic for a century.

The Deck of Luck and Loss

A legendary deck of fate, found in a box or pouch, its cards cut from ivory or vellum. Most such decks hold thirteen cards; some hold twenty-two. Use the matching column of the table when you draw.

Before you draw, you must declare how many cards you intend to draw, then draw them at random; any cards drawn beyond that number have no effect. Otherwise, the moment a card is drawn its magic takes hold, and you must draw each card within an hour of the last. If you fail to draw your declared number, the rest fly from the deck on their own and take effect at once. Once drawn, a card vanishes—except the Fool and the Jester, which return to the deck and so can be drawn twice.

Card	13-card (d100)	22-card (d100)
Balance	—	01–05
Comet	—	06–10
Donjon	—	11–14
Euryale	01–08	15–18
Fates	—	19–23
Flames	09–16	24–27
Fool	—	28–31
Gem	—	32–36
Jester	17–24	37–41
Key	25–32	42–46
Knight	33–40	47–51
Moon	41–48	52–56
Puzzle	—	57–60
Rogue	49–56	61–64
Ruin	57–64	65–68
Sage	—	69–73
Skull	65–72	74–77
Star	73–80	78–82
Sun	81–88	83–87
Talons	—	88–91
Throne	89–96	92–96
Void	97–00	97–00

Balance

Increase one of your abilities by +1 (to a maximum of +10) and decrease another by −1; or leave them unchanged, in which case this card does nothing.

Comet

The next time you enter combat against hostile creatures, you may name one as your foe. If you bring that foe to 0 HP during the fight, you have advantage on saves to cheat death for a year. If you name no foe, or someone else fells it, this card does nothing.

Donjon

You vanish, entombed in suspended animation in an extradimensional cell. Everything you wear and carry stays behind, save artifacts. You remain imprisoned until found and freed; no divination can locate you, though Wish reveals your prison. You draw no more cards.

Euryale

A petrifying curse settles on you: you take a −2 penalty to all saves. Only a deity or the Fates card can lift it.

Fates

Reality’s weave unravels and re-knits. You may avoid or erase one event as though it never happened—when you draw the card, or any later time before you die.

Flames

A powerful fiend becomes your sworn enemy, savoring your suffering before it sets out to destroy you. The enmity lasts until one of you is dead.

Fool

You have disadvantage on every roll for the next 72 hours. Draw another card; this draw does not count against your declared number.

Gem

Treasure spills at your feet: twenty-five pieces of jewelry worth 2,000g each, or fifty gems worth 1,000g each.

Jester

You have advantage on every roll for the next 72 hours—or you may instead draw two more cards beyond your declared number.

Key

A rare or finer magic weapon you are proficient with appears in your hand.

Knight

A loyal Knight appears in an open space within 30 feet and serves you faithfully until death.

Moon

You gain 1d3 castings of the Wish charm, which you may cast with no fatigue.

Puzzle

Your mind dulls: permanently reduce your FOCUS by 1 (to a minimum of −2). Draw one more card beyond your declared number.

Rogue

An NPC of the GM’s choice turns secretly hostile to you. You won’t know who until they—or someone else—reveal it; nothing short of Wish or divine intervention ends their hatred.

Ruin

Every form of wealth you hold, save magic items, is lost—coin, gems, portable goods, and any business, building, or land you own slips away, along with any proof you ever owned it.

Sage

Within the next year, you may pose one question and receive a truthful answer.

Skull

An Avatar of Death (scaled by the GM to your tier) appears in the nearest open space and attacks only you. If an ally aids you against it, a second Avatar appears to attack that ally instead. Anyone an Avatar slays cannot be restored to life.

Star

Increase one of your abilities by +1, to a maximum of +10.

Sun

A magic item of the GM’s choice appears in your hands, and each dawn until you die you wake with 10 temporary HP.

Talons

Every magic item you wear or carry crumbles to nothing; artifacts in your possession vanish instead.

Throne

You gain proficiency and expertise in a social or knowledge skill of your choice, and the rightful deed to a small keep—though monsters hold it now, and you must clear them out to claim it.

Void

Your soul is torn from your body and bound into an object hidden by the GM. Your body falls inert—ceasing to age, needing no food, air, or water. Wish cannot return your soul, but reveals where it is held. You draw no more cards.

Crafting

Who buys stuff nowadays when making your own is so easy.

Crafting Material

As you adventure, in addition to picking up gear and weapons, you’ll pick up crafting material that can either be sold or used to create new equipment. Crafting material comes in two varieties: standard crafting material and rare crafting material.

Material
Junk	1g	light
Standard
Textile	3g	light
Wood	3g	light
Metal	6g	1
Stone	2g	1
Rare
Elementalis	150g	light
Mithril	200g	light
Fadeite	400g	light

Standard crafting material is fairly common to buy and sell—most towns and cities should have a store where you can buy them. Junk can generally be sold to general stores and taverns as well—think of it like rotten food, or silverware or plates.

Rare crafting material is harder to come by. You typically need a speciality vendor, and it typically sells for three times its value. There are three kinds of rare crafting material, Elementalis, Mithril, and Fadeite.

Elementalis

Usually the easiest to come by—think fire sacks from a red dragon or poison glands from a purple worm. The material hums with elemental essence that can be extracted to recreate elemental effects

Mithril

An unusually hard, light, and flexible material—think dragon bone or or wood from an ancient tree. Mithril is versatile enough that it can equally be spun into textiles or replace metal in buildings.

Fadeite

Fadeite is the most rare of the three. It’s usually a cutting or a piece of an item that’s been so deeply steeped in magic that it can bend the Fade itself—think a piece of a lich’s robes, the horn of a devil, or floorboard from a centuries old magical academy.

Time and Cost

To craft an item you either need to be under the instruction of an artisan of the kind of item you’re making (like a blacksmith), or have a background or proficiency in crafting it yourself (usually from a talent or a class). You also need the relevant tools on hand.

With those met, you craft by taking the work on a project downtime activity and making a skill check with the ability your tools rely on, adding any relevant talent:

Power

Forge and stonework—blacksmith’s, mason’s, and carpenter’s tools.

Focus

Fine and technical work—jeweler’s, tinkerer’s, alchemist’s, glassblower’s, drafter’s, and brewer’s tools, and the herbalism kit.

Cunning

Quick, deft work—weaver’s, leatherworker’s, potter’s, and cook’s tools.

Every craftable item has a countdown (), the amount of work needed to finish it. Each time you work on the project, make the check and resolve it by tier:

Result	Countdown	Material
Miss	—	ruin a unit
Weak hit	−1	ruin a unit
Strong hit	−2	—
Critical hit	−2	save a unit

To ruin a unit is to spoil one of the project’s materials—it’s wasted and must be replaced before the item can be finished. It can be any of them, including a lone rare reagent, so a fumble on costly stock stings. To save a unit is to finish needing one less; a save can never reduce a material to 0, so you always need at least one of each.

When you work on a project during an extended rest, you lower its countdown twice instead of once, taking +2 forward on each roll. Multiple people can work on the same item—each must meet the prerequisites, and they share its countdown.

An item’s countdown is the number of crafting materials it requires plus a value for its complexity:

Simple (+1)

Quick, simple work, like clubs, daggers, and other basic weapons, padded armor, and most household goods.

Normal (+3)

Skilled but routine work, like most martial weapons, bows, leather and mail armor, foci, tools, and instruments.

Complex (+6)

Exacting work, like the rapier, crossbows, breastplates and fitted plate, fine tools, locks, and bound books.

You need all of an item’s materials to finish it, and crafting consumes them.

Crafting with scraps. Some cheap goods need only a fraction of a material. Total the materials your project needs—across every item in it—then round each kind up to the next whole unit; that’s what it consumes. Crafting one such item on its own rounds its scrap up to a full unit, but batching several so their fractions add up to whole units wastes nothing. You don’t get anything until the project’s whole countdown is complete.