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 your +POWER plus 10. When you’re encumbered, you speed is halved and all rolls are made at disadvantage 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.

Conduit

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

Heavy

Requires +POWER of 1 or greater to wield.

Piercing

Damage rolls with +n piercing deal n extra damage.

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.

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.

Conduits

Conduits are special weapons specifically for spellcasters that let you substitute your +SPELL for attack and damage rolls. Each conduit has a set of properties that affect your spellcasting when equipped. In addition to the conduits below, any simple melee weapon can be used as a conduit and have the assail property—a few common weapon conduits are presented below. Some conduits have weapon properties like two-handed and versatile—refer to those properties for definitions.

Conduit Properties

Assail

Can be used as the normal weapon, or can Use Item to channel one of your domains through the weapon. While channeled, change its damage type to the domain’s (if it has one) and cast effect charms for that domain that have no AP cost or casting duration as a melee Strike. You can Use Item again to turn the channel off or change to another domain.

Expand

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

Extend

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

Span

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

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 defending ability to your DT when you wear it. Medium armor provides a moderate amount of protection but is bulkier—you can add up to 2 of your defending ability, to your DT when wearing it. Heavy armor provides the most protection, but it’s cumbersome—you don’t add your defending ability to your DT when you wear it.

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

Wearing armor you’re not proficient with restricts your movement: all ability checks that rely on movement are made at disadvantage.

Armor Properties

Bulky

Subtract your +POWER from this armor’s bulky score. For each remaining point, reduce your speed by 5 feet.

Discreet

Can be concealed under clothing.

Noisy

Ability checks made to sneak or be stealthy are rolled with disadvantage.

Armor Mastery

Absorb

As a reaction to taking damage, you can reduce the damage you take by one threshold. You can do this a number of times equal to your Prowess, and recover all spent uses as part of your daily preparations.

Barbed

As a reaction to taking damage from a creature within your reach, mark 1-fatigue to deal damage equal to your +POWER to it.

Deflect

As a reaction to taking damage below your low threshold, you can prevent yourself from marking fatigue. You can do this a number of times equal to your Prowess, and recover all spent uses as part of your daily preparations.

Flexible

Increase the amount of your defending ability you can add to your DT by 1 while wearing this armor.

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 five categories: adventuring gear, kits, tools, and musical instruments.

Adventuring Gear

Gear and equipment an adventurer may need throughout their travels.

Kits

Specialized equipment to perform a specific task, but has a limited number of uses.

Musical instruments

A tool to play music. If you are proficiency with a musical instrument, you can typically earn extra gold when you perform with it when you use the Get a Job downtime activity. Under some circumstances, a GM may let you use a musical instrument as an orb conduit.

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.

In order to use a kit, musical instrument, or tool, you need to be proficient with it. If you aren’t proficient with one you’re using, your rolls are made at disadvantage.

Packs are specially priced collections of predefined equipment. 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

Adventuring Gear

Gear and equipment an adventurer may need throughout their travels.

Kits

Specialized equipment to perform a specific task, but has a limited number of uses.

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.

Musical Instruments

A tool to play music. If you are proficiency with a musical instrument, you can typically earn extra gold when you perform with it when you use the Get a Job downtime activity. Under some circumstances, a GM may let you use a musical instrument as an orb conduit.

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, as well as for attack rolls made with it. 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 against their Cunning, treating 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 readied that the charm can affect—a readied 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 conduit a spellcaster channels their own spells through.)

Healing Potions

Healing potions aren’t magic—they’re potent herbal remedies brewed with a apothecary’s tools, 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. Mithril items gain 1 rune slot and has their 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. The following items can be made of mithril:

• Weapons
• Conduits
• Armor
• Shields
• Amulets
• Belts
• Boots
• Bracers
• Circlets
• Cloaks
• Hats
• Gloves
• Goggles
• Necklaces
• Fine Clothes

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, and any mithril item can be made a masterwork item, so they gain all the benefits of mithril equipment. Additionally, they all gain 1 seal slot; weapons and conduits also gain +1 piercing, armor +1 DT, 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

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

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 roll; on a miss it is drawn into the Fade and consumed, otherwise it escapes back out. Reaching in to retrieve something risks the same.

Bag of Holding

500g

A worn satchel whose mouth opens into an extradimensional space. It 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

25g

A small, flavorless sphere that sustains the body for a day. Eat it (Use Item) 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

500g

On command (Use Item) the flask fills with a drinkable liquid of your choice—water, weak wine, vinegar, oil, honey, or beer—producing up to a 5 gallons over a day.

Decanter of Endless Water

500g

A stoppered flask that never runs dry. When you use it (Use Item), it pours fresh or salt water 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 roll—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

2500g

Rune-etched manacles that anchor a captive to the here and now. 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

300g

A fist-sized sphere of clouded crystal with a core of solid mithril that weighs almost nothing in the hand. When activated, it hovers in place. Whoever activated it can give it one of 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

1000g

A pinch of fine grey powder. Thrown or flung into the air, the dust bursts in a 30-foot radius. Each creature there makes a Power roll; on a miss it is Stunned by uncontrollable sneezing and choking, repeating the roll at the end of each of its turns to end it. Single use.

Eversmoking Bottle

500g

A brass bottle that when opened (Use Item) pours out thick smoke that heavily obscures a 60-foot radius, spreading 10 feet further each round, until it is stoppered again (Use Item). A strong wind disperses it.

Folding Boat

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

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

1000g

While you wear these gloves, they’re invisible, and you have advantage on ability checks to pick locks and pockets and to disarm traps.

Goggles of Night

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

2500g

A backpack with three extradimensional pockets. A central pocket holds up to 50 weight and two side pouches up to 20 weight each, yet the whole pack always has a weight of 1. 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

500g

A flat iron rod with a single button. 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

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

1000g · Attunement

A lustrous pearl that when used (Use Item) lets the user recover 2 fatigue. Once used, it cannot be used again until the next dawn.

Periapt of Health

1000g · Attunement

A small heart shaped pendant. When used (Use Item), the wearer regains 2d4+2 HP. While you wear it, the duration of the Weakened condition on you is halved, rounded down. Once used, it cannot be used again until the next dawn.

Periapt of Proof against Poison

5000g · Attunement

A black gem on a fine silver chain. While you wear it, the duration of the Weakened condition on you is halved, rounded down, and you are immune to poison damage.

Periapt of Wound Closure

1000g · Attunement

While you wear it, you have advantage on death saves, and you double the HP you regain from supplies spent as part of a downtime activity.

Portable Hole

2500g

A folded silk 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. 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

5000g · Attunement

A ring shaped like a ram’s head. It has 3 charges, regaining 1d3 as part of your daily preparations. Spend 1–3 charges (Use Item) to make a ranged attack (+4) against a creature within 60 feet; on a strong hit it takes 2d10 force damage and is shoved 5 feet for each charge spent, on a weak hit, half damage and it is not shoved. Nonmagical objects take double damage when hit.

Robe of Eyes

5000g · Attunement

A robe with eye patterned fabric. While you wear it, you see in all directions: you have advantage on ability 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

500g

A robe 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

500g

60 feet of rope that obeys a spoken command (Use Item): 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

1000g · Attunement

While you wear soft velvet black slippers, 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.

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 have thirteen cards; some have twenty-two.

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 death saves 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: attacks against you land at +1 step. 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.

Tome of Bodily Might

Its regimens of strength, breath, and endurance reforge the body that follows them. You can Work on a Project, Countdown 16, to study this tome: if you complete the project in a tenday, your POWER increases by +1, to a maximum of +10. The tome then loses its magic for the next century.

Tome of Boundless Luck

Its verses and rituals court fortune itself until chance bends toward the reader. You can Work on a Project, Countdown 16, to study this tome: if you complete the project in a tenday, your LUCK increases by +1, to a maximum of +10. The tome then loses its magic for the next century.

Tome of Clear Thought

Its meditations and exercises discipline the mind to perfect clarity and unshakable will. You can Work on a Project, Countdown 16, to study this tome: if you complete the project in a tenday, your FOCUS increases by +1, to a maximum of +10. The tome then loses its magic for the next century.

Tome of Deft Cunning

Its drills of reflex, sleight, and quick wit hone every motion to a razor’s edge. You can Work on a Project, Countdown 16, to study this tome: if you complete the project in a tenday, your CUNNING increases by +1, to a maximum of +10. The tome then loses its magic for the next century.

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 heritage or feat). 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, apothecary’s, glassblower’s, drafter’s, and brewer’s tools.

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, with a +2 bonus 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, conduits, 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.