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🛠️5e - Tools🛠️

Tool proficiencies are a useful way to highlight a character’s background and talents. At the game table, though, the use of tools sometimes overlaps with the use of skills, and it can be unclear how to use them together in certain situations. This section offers various ways that tools can be used in the game.

A tool helps you make specialized 🎲Ability Checks, 🧖‍♀️Craft certain items, or both. A tool’s description includes the tool’s cost and weight, as well as the following entries:

Ability: This entry lists the ⚙️Ability to use when making an 🎲Ability Check with the tool. If more than one ⚙️Ability is listed, the GM decides which score is applicable in a certain situation.

Utilize: This entry lists things you can do with the tool when you take the ⚔️Utilize action. You can do one of those things each time you take the Action. This entry also provides the 🎲DC for the Action.

Craft: This entry lists what, if anything, you can 🧖‍♀️Craft with the tool.

If you have 🎲Proficiency with a tool, add your 🎲Proficiency Bonus to any 🎲Ability Check you make that uses the tool. If you have 🎲Proficiency in a 💃Skill that’s used with that 🎲Check, you have ADV on the 🎲Check too.

Your features might give you 🎲Proficiency with a tool. A monster has proficiency with any tool in its stat block.

All Tool Categories

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Art: Created by Tithy from Noun Project
Rules: Player’s Handbook 2024; Xanathar’s Guide to Everything