Tools and Tool Feats

Detailed below are several new tool kits that can be
used to enhance your game and bring new concepts
and ideas to life. The world of Drakkenheim is a grim
place full of cosmic horror and dark fantasy. These tools and
tool feats look to explore the professions and expertise of man y
who dwell in the setting.

New Tool Kits

Characters may purchase these tool kits for 50 gp.
Each weighs 5 lbs.
Investigator’s Kit
This small black satchel contains a spyglass, a notebook and
a quill, pliers, tongs, a small blade, and a magnifying glass.
Proficiency with this kit lets you add your proficiency bonus
to any ability checks you make to investigate a crime scene,
examine a dead body, or spy on someone from a distance.

Vampire Hunter’s Case

This small wooden briefcase is engraved with holy glyphs and contains
3 vials of holy water, a wooden stake, a mallet, a small book of
prayers, a holy symbol, and prayer beads. Proficiency with this kit
lets you add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make
to track a vampire, or protect an area from a vampire.

Exorcist’s Kit

This leather bag contains various holy symbols of several different
gods, prayer papers from several religions. A holy book of the
prominent religion of your choice, a bottle of holy water, a jar of
salts, three candles, a tinder box, a sachet filled with various dried
herbs and flowers, and a few scraps of silver. Proficiency with this
kit lets you add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you
make to investigate or track undead or fiends, to protect a location
from such creatures, or to aid in removing possession.

Occultist’s Tools

This blood red case has three locks on it and a ring of keys.
Inside is a sacrificial ornamental dagger, a shrunken head, a
book of prayers in a dead language, a talisman representing an
entity of unknown origin, a small statue of a bizarre being, three
vials of blood, a set of incense and a censer, a chalice, a mortar
and pestle and some dried herbs and flowers. Proficiency with
this kit lets you add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks
you make to determine the presence of celestials, fey, or fiends.

Cosmologist’s Tools

This small lockbox contains a star map, a scroll of known
constellations, an armillary sphere, sun dial, astrolabe, and a
spyglass. Proficiency with this kit lets you add your proficiency
bonus to any ability checks you make to determine time of
day, location, or direction, as well as recalling any relevant
information related to stars, cosmos, gods, or planes.

Doctor’s Bag

This black leather medical bag contains a magnifying glass,
pliers, a needle and thread, a jar of leeches, a bone saw, a pouch
with 5 syringes and 3 scalpels, measuring cups, clamps, distilled
alcohol, and various dried herbs. Proficiency with this kit lets
you add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make
to determine the symptoms of diseases, poisons, and debilitating
conditions, as well as what is required to relieve them

Tool Feats

Advanced Palate

Requires proficiency in cook’s utensils or brewer’s supplies
Whenever you take a short rest, you and up to 6 allies can enjoy
a quick meal prepared by you. When they do, any hit dice they
use during that rest count as if they had rolled their maximum.
Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you
can use it again.
During a long rest, you can prepare a hearty meal for up to
eight creatures using any ingredients at hand. Creatures who
consume the meal gain a hearty resistance for 24 hours. While a
creature has this hearty resistance, if that creature fails a saving
throw, it can choose to succeed instead. It can use this benefit
once, then the hearty resistance expires.

Arcane Fletcher

Requires proficiency in carpenter’s tools, tinker’s tools,
or woodcarver’s tools
Whenever you take a long rest, you may spend 1 hour using
your tools to imbue a number of arrows or bolts with elemental
“While it’s important for everyone to know how to
use tools, you should avoid acting like one.”
power. The maximum number of magical arrows or bolts you
can imbue is equal to twice your proficiency bonus.
You choose the damage type from either fire, cold, lightning,
acid, or poison. The arrows or bolts deal an additional 1d4
damage of the chosen type. Any previously imbued arrows or
bolts lose this magic if you use this feature again.
At 12th level, the additional damage increases to 1d6.

Demolitions Expert

Requires proficiency in alchemist’s supplies
Once per day after finishing a long rest, you can spend one hour
working with your chosen tools to create a special concoction
or infusion using materials harvested or found in the field. You
must have access to your tools during this time. As you gain
levels, you learn how to create a more powerful item, as shown
on the table below. This creation becomes inert after 24 hours.
See the Core Rules for more information on the items below.
Level 1 — Alchemist’s fire
Level 5 — Bomb
Level 11 — Grenade

Expert Armorsmith

Requires proficiency in smith’s tools or leatherworker’s tools
Your advanced knowledge of your craft allows you to barter and
talk shop with others in your profession, you gain proficiency in
Charisma checks you make when speaking with armorsmiths.
Additionally, you can identify the make, origin, and traits of any
set of armor if you spend 1 minute examining it.
Whenever you take a long rest, you are able to improve one
piece of non-magical armor for you or an ally. You must spend 1
hour to do so, and have access to your tools during this time.
You may choose one of the following damage types: fire, cold,
lightning, acid, or poison. The armor grants its wearer resistance
to that damage type until you use this feature again.
Starting at 12th level, your smithing skills now grant
immunity instead of resistance to the chosen damage type.

Expert Bowyer

Requires proficiency in carpenter’s tools or
woodcarver’s tools
Your advanced knowledge of your craft allows you to barter and
talk shop with others in your profession, you gain proficiency
in Charisma checks you make when speaking to professional
archers or bowyers. Additionally, you can identify the make,
origin, and traits of any ranged weapon if you spend 1 minute
examining it.
During a long rest, you may spend 1 hour working with your
tools to tune up a non-magical ranged weapon. You increase
the long range of that weapon by an amount equal to 10 × your
proficiency bonus and no longer have disadvantage when firing
your weapon at long range. Additionally, the weapon now scores
a critical hit on a 19 or 20. The improvements last until you use
this feature again.

Expert Weaponsmith

Requires proficiency in smith’s tools
Your advanced knowledge of your craft allows you to barter and
talk shop with others in your profession, you gain proficiency in
Charisma checks you make when speaking with weaponsmiths.
Additionally, you can identify the make, origin, and traits of any
melee weapon if you spend 1 minute examining it.
Whenever you take a long rest, you are able to improve one
non-magical melee weapon for you or an ally. You must spend 1
hour to do so, and have access to your tools and at least 100 gp
worth of metal or other materials.
The improvement you grant is equal to one half your proficiency
bonus (rounded down). For example, at level 5, with
a proficiency bonus of +3, you may make a +1 weapon.The
improvement lasts until you use this feature again.

Investigative Mind

Requires proficiency in exorcist’s kit*,
vampire hunter’s case*, or investigator’s kit*
Increase your Intelligence score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
You gain proficiency in the Intelligence (Investigation) Skill,
and your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you
make that uses that proficiency.
When you are investigating an area, object, or creature, you
can ask the Game Master a number of questions equal to your
proficiency bonus. The Game Master must give a truthful reply,
but will only respond with “Yes,” “No,” or “Unknown” if the
answer to the question is unknowable or impossible for mortal
investigators to deduce.
Once you ask questions about an object, creature, or area, you
can’t ask any more questions using this ability again until you
finish a long rest.

Medical Expert

Requires proficiency in occultist’s tools*, exorcist’s kit*,
or doctor’s bag*
Increase your Intelligence or Wisdom score by 1, to a
maximum of 20.
During a short rest you can tend to the sick or wounded.
You can remove one level of exhaustion, cure one disease,
or remove the charmed, frightened, paralyzed, or poisoned
condition from up to six creatures you can tend to during
the rest. Additionally, you may choose up to 6 creatures you
can hear and see, they gain a number of extra hit dice to use
during the rest equal to your proficiency bonus.

Occult Practitioner

Requires proficiency in occultist’s tools*,
or exorcist’s kit*, and the spellcasting ability
Increase your Intelligence or Charisma score by 1, to a
maximum of 20.
When you finish a long rest, you may touch your tool kit and
imbue a spell you know inside it. The spell must have a level
equal to or lower than your proficiency bonus and a casting time
of 1 action. While holding your tool kit, you can use an action
cast this spell without expending a spell slot. You can cast the
spell in this manner once, then must finish a long rest before you
can do so again. The item remains imbued until you cast the
imbued spell, or until you finish a long rest.

Potions Expert

Requires proficiency in alchemist’s supplies,
occultist’s tools*, or herbalism kit
Your practice with potion brewing has given you an eye for
the small details that distinguish ingredients and effects within
potions. You gain proficiency in Charisma checks you make
when speaking to potion sellers, alchemists, or herbalists.
Additionally, you can determine the properties of potions by
spending 1 minute examining them.
Once per day after finishing a long rest, you can spend one hour
working with your chosen tools to create a special concoction or
infusion using materials harvested or found in the field. You must
have access to your tools during this time. As you gain levels, you
learn how to create a more powerful item, as shown on the table
below. This creation becomes inert after 24 hours. See the Core
Rules for more information on the items below.
Level 1 — potion of healing
Level 5 — potion of greater healing
Level 11 — potion of supreme healing

Proficient Poisoner

Requires proficiency in poisoner’s kit,
occultist’s tools*, or herbalism kit
You gain resistance to poison damage, and can detect the presence
of poison by spending 1 minute examining a substance or object.
Once per day after finishing a long rest, you can spend one hour
working with your chosen tools to create a special concoction or
infusion using materials harvested or found in the field. You must
have access to your tools during this time. As you gain levels, you
learn how to create a more powerful item, as shown on the table
below. This creation becomes inert after 24 hours. See the Core
Rules for more information on the items below.
Level 1 — basic poison
Level 5 — serpent venom
Level 11 — wyvern poison

Scribe

Requires proficiency in calligrapher’s supplies,
investigator’s kit*, or cartographer’s tools,
and the spellcasting ability
After finishing a long rest, you can spend one hour working with
your chosen tools to create a spell scroll.
The scroll you create can be any spell you know of a level
equal to or lower than your proficiency bonus. Any scroll created
this way loses its magical potency if you use this feature again.

Trapmaker

Requires proficiency in tinker’s tools or thieves’ tools
After finishing a long rest, you can spend one hour working
with your chosen tools to create a special trap using materials
harvested or found in the field.
These traps can be placed on the ground as an action and take
up a 5-foot-by-5-foot square. A creature who investigates the area
must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) or Intelligence
(Investigation) check in order to see the trap. If a creature steps
on the space where a trap is located that creature immediately
triggers the trap. You can make any of the traps listed below.
h Ensnaring trap. The triggering creature must make a
Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, it is restrained until
it escapes by spending an action to make a strength check
against your trap save DC.
h Spiked trap. The triggering creature must make a Dexterity
saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 2d6
piercing damage.
h Sonic trap. The trap makes a sound audible out to 300 feet
Starting at 10th level, you can make the following advanced traps.
h Exploding trap. The triggering creature must make a
Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes
4d6 fire damage and is knocked prone.
h Poison trap. The triggering creature must make a
Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes
3d8 poison damage and becomes poisoned until the end of its
next turn.
h Gas trap. The triggering creature must make a Wisdom
saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is incapacitated
until the end of its next turn.
The saving throw DC for your traps equals 8 + your proficiency
bonus + your Intelligence or Dexterity modifier (your choice)