Questions tagged [equipment]
For questions about items usable by a character, sometimes carried on their person.
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What is "unholy water"?
Commune divination spell mentions "unholy water" as its material component:
Components: V, S, M (incense and a vial of holy or unholy water)
This is the only "unholy water" mentioning I've found ...
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What is the maximum number of tool proficiencies a character can gain?
For the purposes of this question, we're going to ignore the rules, found in either the Player's Handbook (pg. 187) or Xanathar's Guide to Everything (pg. 134), that allow a character to learn a tool ...
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Have different types of normal clothes ever done anything in DND?
In 5e there are common clothes, travellers clothes and fine clothes, but I don't think they actually have any rules around them.
I have found there isn't much in the way of clothing materials on older ...
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Do worn or carried objects count as additional targets for a spell if they are also affected by the spell?
The Jeremy Crawford tweet that @Psyntax referenced here has gotten me wondering what exactly constitutes a target of a spell.
The PH states:
A typical spell requires you to pick one or more targets ...
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What is the point of a shield proficiency?
PHB describes the downsides of wearing an armor you are not proficient with:
Armor Proficiency.
Your class gives you proficiency with certain types of armor. If you wear armor that you lack ...
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What is the price for a non-empty spellbook?
One of the NPCs in the campaign I run doesn't have enough time to teach their spells to adventurers, but they have most of their spells carefully written into books they are ready to rent.
Their ...
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Does a Bullseye Lantern require a hand?
A Fighter PC without Darkvision who has donned a shield in their left hand and wishes to attack with a sword in their right hand. Their ally, a Gloomstalker Ranger, bought them a Bullseye Lantern so ...
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What NPC skill or ability should be used to oppose a PC's Intelligence check made when using the Disguise Kit?
The Player's Handbook states that "The DM might call for an Intelligence check when you try to accomplish tasks like [...] Pull together a disguise to pass as a city guard." However, it's ...
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How do the items and sizes rules apply to consumables
A tiny character, such as a Sprite, can have their weapon and armor adjusted to their size.
When the adventuring party now loots Healing Potions, I assume they are regular sized potions. They will be ...
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How long does Alchemist's Fire burn?
Looked and looked, can't find the answer anywhere (maybe I'm blind):
How long does Alchemist's Fire burn for?
In the item description within the Adventuring Gear section of the rules, it says:
On ...
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If I drop a bag containing 15 flasks of alchemist's fire on a giant and it hits, will it take 15d4 fire damage and so on?
While flying over a giant, I drop a bag containing 15 flasks of alchemist's fire and hit them. Will the giant take 15d4 fire damage and so on? Will the damage also be 15d4 for the following round?
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Is there a price list for goods outside of the core book?
Rokugan is a very varied place, and characters might want to acquire a lot of things that are not covered in the core book.
Like, recently I came into the pickle that a painting samurai wanted to ...
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What happens when a sniper picks up a bigger gun in Mutants and Masterminds?
In Mutants and Masterminds 3rd edition, on page 25 of the Hero's Handbook, the rule for balancing attack bonus and effect rank is as follows;
Attack & Effect: The total of your hero's attack ...
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How does the Necklace of Adaption's bubble of air work out in practice underwater?
A recent question about the necklace of adaptation reminded me of an old question of my own that I've never been able to answer: Can a character wearing a necklace of adaption swim?
It might seem a ...
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How long does it take to set up a Hunting Trap? How does it work?
Can you affix the heavy chain to an immobile object when you use your action to set a Hunting Trap (PHB p. 152), or is it just the opening of the teeth that takes an action? The text says:
When you ...
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Can clerics create holy water?
I'm running a 5th edition campaign that's going well. I'm not very versed in the system just yet, and my group has run into a little bit of a bind - it's not game-breaking, but it tends to come up ...
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Do you have to have thieves' tools in order to pick a lock?
Does a character have to have thieves' tools (TT) in order to pick a lock? Not necessarily proficiency in the tool, but at least have the tool itself?
I'm confused about picking locks and whether or ...
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How much does a day's ration really weigh, one or two pounds?
In the PHB, the equipment list says that a day's ration weighs 2 pounds (p. 150), however, page 185 says that only 1 pound of food is required per day:
A character needs one pound of food per day ...
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Would Spell Storing (weapon) be a superior option than Spell Storing, Minor (ring) for self buffing?
In DND 3.5e, both can contain up to 3 levels of spells in total.
Spell Storing, Minor (ring) costs 18000GP.
On the other hand, Spell Storing (Weapon) costs +1 bonus, which makes the minimum cost ...
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Does proficiency with a Poisoner's Kit protect you from exposure while Harvesting Poison?
The Dungeon Master's Guide (p. 258) describes a risk if you badly fail to harvest poison from a creature:
A character can … attempt to harvest poison from a poisonous creature … The creature must be ...
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Is there a way to temporarily gain tool proficiencies?
Is it possible for my character to gain proficiency with a tool temporarily?
I'm playing an Artificer, so I can create the tools I need using The Right Tool for the Job, but that doesn't give ...
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Is the price of a waterskin mentioned anywhere?
In the book for the The Witcher Pen & Paper RPG, there is a list of suggested items for Witchers to buy when they create their character. In this list, "a waterskin" is one of the ...
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Is there a standard way to create homebrew monsters stat blocks?
Let's suppose that I want to create a homebrew monster with some equipments, like magic items such as necklaces, potions, ecc. My question is: is there a standard way to add to the monster stat block ...
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Does pointing a bullseye lantern away from you illuminate you as well, or keep you in darkness?
Suppose my character is in darkness. I light up a bullseye lantern:
A bullseye lantern casts bright light in a 60-foot cone and dim light for an additional 60 feet. [...]
If I point the bullseye ...
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Where can I find the hit points of armors?
I see an ability like this in monster manual:
Rend Armor (Ex): If a bebilith hits with both claw attacks, it pulls apart any armor worn by its
foe. This attack deals 4d6+18 points of damage to the ...
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Can a Wizard cast a spell as a ritual without physically accessing a spellbook?
Part of the answer to this question what can a wizard do without a spellbook got me wondering. It states that you, as a wizard, can't cast a ritual spell without your spellbook.
And I can't help ...
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Can you temporarily extinguish a non-magical light source to conserve it?
A lamp and two lanterns are described on page 152 of the Player's Handbook as follows:
Lamp. A lamp casts bright light in a 15-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet. Once lit, it burns ...
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The Enlarge spell only effects one creature or object and its wording is ambiguous. What happens to a creature's armor or clothing if it grows?
In AD&D 1e Player's Handbook, the Enlarge spell description specifically states:
It can be cast upon only a single creature or object.
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Can a level 1 character start with a magic item?
I was wondering if it would be possible for a level 1 character to start with a magic item if it wasn't a campaign requirement. I am the DM. Is it possible?
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What are the specifics for a Block of Incense?
This never really occurred to me, but I never noticed that the Block of Incense was missing from the Player's Handbook, where it should have been in the adventuring gear list. (Dungeons and Dragons, ...
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Where do adventurers keep all their stuff?
This is a bit of an equipment logistics question so might not be all that interesting to everyone but... Reading the 5e PHB, the backpack weight listing says:
Backpack: 1 cubic foot/30 pounds of ...
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How much does string weigh?
I'm creating a rogue character and I've looked through all the equipment I can get with my class and decided to get the burglar's pack. Within this, I get 10 feet of string. I'm calculating my ...
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Are a Wizard's “spells known” what they have in their spellbook or what they can prepare?
I'm unclear on what a wizard's “spells known” means. Namely, are they the spells they can prepare, or the spells in their spellbook?
This is probably really obvious, but I'm just not figuring it out. ...
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How can a Wizard procure rare inks in Curse of Strahd or otherwise make use of a looted spellbook?
For information specific to the Curse of Strahd campaign, please use spoiler tags because I am a player and not the GM.
Two notes first:
We are playing the Curse of Strahd, but I don't know what ...
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What's the difference between silk rope and hempen rope besides price and weight?
We know that only the sailor background in D&D 5e is given silk rope. Any pack made for adventuring provides hempen rope. Based on the weight and cost of silk rope and the use in the sailor ...
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How is the number of spells limited in a spellbook?
Previous versions had rules about the total number of spell that a spellbook could include calculated using the level of the spell and number of pages in the book.
5e mentions that a spellbook has 100 ...
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What are all of the armors and shields that are legal in 3.5e?
I want a complete list of every 3.5e-legal type of armor and shield published by Wizards of the Coast, or in Dragon or Dungeon magazine. (To be clear, I mean base type of armor or shield, not every ...
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How much do several pieces of parchment or paper weigh?
Okay, similar question to my previous one. The equipment and weight table in adventuring gear says:
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Paper(one sheet)
2 sp
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Parchment(one sheet)
1 sp
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It has nothing about ...
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Is the Healer feat overpowered?
A healer's kit has 10 uses, weighs 3 lb. and costs 5 gp; therefore, each use weighs 0.3 lb. and costs 5 sp. Normally, it allows a player to do the following:
As an action, you can expend one use of ...
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Optimizing Torso/Body slot when restricted to light armor, no metal with high WIS [closed]
As a DM I am asked about his optimization by one of my player who plays a Healer. I found the question interesting because as far as I know there is no relevant resource for divine caster than wear ...
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What's the best way to handle new objects placed inside a permanent shrink item chest?
A caster has Leomond's secret chest and casts shrink item to carry it around (while it's not on the ethereal plane) regularly enough to warrant spending the experience points to cast permanency on it. ...
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How much weight can the standard 50' rope hold?
If I'm climbing down a rope, and get near the bottom, how much would I have to be carrying to break the rope?
What is the strength of a standard 50 foot rope from the equipment list?
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How heavy are ingots?
Pathfinder 2's Travel Guide set prices for multiple trade goods including ingots of different metals (iron, copper...). Is there an indication somewhere of how much bulk would each of those ingots ...
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Does banishment banish carried or worn equiment?
A commonly accepted interpretation rule for spells is that spells only do what they say they do, nothing more. Shocking grasp does not electrify water, fireball does not evaporate it.
So a spell that ...
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What happens to gear and clothing when you use the Kitsune’s Change Shape ability? (Or other polymorph effects in general)
I was trying to search on the Archives of Nethys for what happens to a character's clothing/gear when they use change shape . I couldn't find anything on the specific ability or even polymorph rules ...
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Looking for a DM solution to a Squishy group
I've been playing tabletop RPGs for a while off and on, only a little as a DM, but I get the basics of it. I've convinced some of my immediate and extended family (most of whom are NOT gamers, let ...
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Are there no RAW effects of a saddle, bit, or bridle?
The players recently acquired a figurine of wondrous power (elephant) and are considering using it as a combat platform in an upcoming boss fight (rather than just commanding it to attack).
I noted ...
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Is this armor the best my character can get?
I have an epic character in a game where epic armors and shields can go up to a +20 effective bonus and up to a +10 enhancement bonus at most, with enough money to buy a +20 armor and eventually a +20 ...
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Can you use Alchemist Supplies to make infinite money?
So just for the sake of this question, I'm going to assume you have proficiency and the kit itself.
In the description of Alchemist Supplies it states the following:
Alchemical Crafting. You can use ...
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After a TPK, we are re-doing the adventure at 2nd-level. Are there any guidelines for what the items and equipment the PCs should have?
After finishing the first part of an adventure and leveling up, the party continued to the next part but all of them died. Now, we are trying the adventure again but without redoing the first part ...
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