Skills, Kits and Crafting

Ability Checks

When you try something whose outcome is in doubt, the GM names a skill (or a raw ability) and a DC, and you roll.

d20 + ability modifier + proficiency + kit help + any other bonus

Proficiency. Add your full proficiency bonus if you are trained in the skill. If you are not, add half of it, rounded down. Everyone has picked up a little of everything on the Frontier.
Kit help. If you carry a kit that fits the task, it adds +2. If you are also proficient in Craft, it adds your full proficiency bonus instead.
The right tool. Some tasks are simply done with the right kit in hand, no roll needed: lighting a fire with a fire tube, cutting a snare with a knife. The GM says when.

Task	DC
Easy	10
Moderate	13
Hard	15
Very hard	18
Nearly impossible	20 or more

Trying again

A check that can simply be tried again costs time instead. Every repeatable task says how long one attempt takes: a recipe in its Time column, gathering in parts of the day. A failure spends that time, and you may try again once you have spent it again. The GM can let you take as long as you like, but the days are real: food runs down, encounters are rolled, and whoever was waiting for you keeps waiting.

Helping

An ally can help you with a task only if both of you are proficient in the skill or kit it calls for. If you are, you roll with advantage. An ally can make a Survival check to tend your wounds on your behalf.

The Eight Skills

Acrobatics (Dexterity)

Balance, tumbling, landing a fall, slipping out of a hold, keeping your feet on ice or a pitching deck.

Athletics (Strength)

Climbing, swimming, jumping, shoving, hauling, and breaking a grapple by force.

Craft (Intelligence)

Making and mending. Every crafting check is a Craft check, and with Craft a kit adds your full proficiency bonus instead of +2.

Influence (Charisma)

Persuasion, deception, intimidation and performance. Bargaining, bluffing, steadying a crowd or frightening one.

Lore (Intelligence)

History, the Church and its doctrine, the Spark and the Totems, and the natural world. What you know, and what you can work out from what you know.

Sage (Wisdom)

Perception, insight and investigation. Noticing what is there, reading what a person is not saying, and working out what happened.

Subterfuge (Dexterity)

Stealth and sleight of hand. Moving unseen, lifting a purse, palming a card at a Gambit table.

Survival (Wisdom)

Tracking, foraging and reading the land, handling animals, and treating wounds in the field. Survival is the skill you roll to spend a hit die on a short rest.

Kits

A kit is a set of tools and the training to use them. You can carry a kit you are not trained in, and it still helps your checks. Only training unlocks its recipes.

Kit	Holds	For
Apothecary	Ceramic vials, a heating stone, dried herbs, a bone needle.	Tonics, salves, venoms, powder and shot.
Artisan	Fine gravers, a polishing stone, small iron files.	Smithing, ingots, repairs, bone and wood work, reforging weapons.
Bushcraft	Flint chisels, hide scrapers, sinew, a fire striker.	Arrows, darts, waterskins, rations, leather, making camp.
Frontiersman	Snare wire, trigger pegs, bait tins, a map of game runs.	Traps and snarelines, salvage from a carcass, quiet nights on watch.
Mercantile	A ledger, weights, a star-stamped coin scale.	Records, appraisal, knowing what a thing is worth.
Performance	A worn deck, a reed flute, carved dice.	Turning a room, running a Gambit table, a night's lodging for a song.
Wayfarer	A carved compass rose, measuring sinew, marked hide.	Charting the way and reading the pull of the nearest Totem.

A companion can carry a kit you lack and lend it to your checks.

Crafting

Nothing is bought on the Frontier that cannot also be made. To craft something you need three things, in order:

Training in the recipe's kit.
A station lit where you stand.
Every ingredient, in the listed amount.

Then, if the recipe has a DC, make a Craft check. A recipe with no DC always works once you have the rest.

A failed check is forgiving. Nothing is used up but the time. You do not get the item, and can try again when the recipe's time has passed once more. Knapping and powder work are the exceptions (see below).

Most recipes take an hour or less of real work. Poisons are slow reductions and take half a day. Weapons and armor take days, and steel takes longest of all: a week at a settled forge for a suit of plate.

Ingredients by kind

Many recipes do not care which plant you use, only what it does. Every alchemy ingredient carries one or more tags:

Tag	What it does	Examples
Healing	Mends, soothes, strengthens.	Yarrow, willow bark, comfrey, bone marrow
Toxic	Sickens, numbs, blinds.	Nightshade, foxglove, ragweed pollen
Binder	Carries the rest: a base, a medium, a smoke.	Tallow, pine resin, spirits, reed pith
Catalyst	Changes the strength or the speed.	Oak gall, leyline water, fresh blood

A recipe that asks for "any healing ingredient" takes any of them, and two of them can be two different plants. A recipe that asks for "a fat base" or "a smoke medium" lists what will do.

Ingredient	Kind	Found	Notes
Adrenal Gland	Catalyst	off a carcass	A small gland cut from beside the kidney. A drop of it quickens the heart.
Arnica	Healing	mountain	A daisy of the high slopes. Worked into a bruise, it draws the deep color out faster than rest alone.
Ash Bark	Catalyst	mountain	Bark from a tree that survived a fire, hard and grey. Steeped into a brew, it keeps a volatile mix from turning.
Ashbloom Fruit	Toxic	mountain	Small green-yellow fruit that smells faintly sweet and looks like forage. Eaten, a DC 17 Constitution save or 4d6 poison damage, violent sickness, and incapacitated for an hour; on a success, half damage and disadvantage on Strength and Dexterity checks for an hour.
Ashbloom Petal	Toxic	mountain	The vivid orange petals of the Ashbloom tree, found in sheltered ravines and crater hollows. Harmless to look at, dangerous to handle. A creature that handles them without care makes a DC 13 Constitution save or takes 1d6 poison damage and has disadvantage on fine work with that hand for an hour.
Ashbloom Sap	Toxic	mountain	A milky resin that seeps from any break in the Ashbloom's bark. On bare skin, a DC 15 Constitution save or 2d6 poison damage and poisoned for an hour. In the eyes, blindness until washed with clean water and treated with field salves (Survival DC 14). Harvesting it is a DC 15 Lore or Survival check; failure means contact.
Ashbloom Wood	Toxic, Binder	mountain	Near-black heartwood, dense and slow to burn. Its smoke is thick and yellow: each creature within 20 ft makes a DC 15 Constitution save each round or takes 2d6 poison damage and is blinded until the end of its next turn.
Beast Liver	Healing	off a carcass	The liver of a healthy beast. Reduced, it is the base of every antidote.
Bitterroot	Healing	mountain	A pink-flowered root from the scree slopes. Boiled, it settles a sick stomach.
Blackcap Rot	Toxic	forest, dark forest	A sooty cap that grows from dead wood and spoils whatever it touches. It saps the strength from a body slowly.
Blindroot	Toxic	forest, dark forest	A pale root that weeps a stinging juice when cut. Burned, its smoke closes the eyes of anything that breathes it.
Blisterpod	Toxic	mountain	A seedpod from the plants that take burned ground first. Its juice raises blisters on contact.
Bog Myrtle	Healing	lake and marsh	A sweet-smelling shrub of the wet ground. Brewed, it brings a fever down; burned, it keeps the biting flies off.
Bone Ash	Catalyst	made or bought	Bone burned white and ground to powder. It sweetens a sour brew and stiffens a glaze.
Bone Marrow	Healing	off a carcass	Rich marrow scooped from a split long bone. It feeds a recovering body like nothing else.
Bone Mold	Catalyst	mountain, forest, dark forest	A grey fungus that grows on old bones. It hurries rot along in anything it is mixed with.
Cattail Pulp	Healing	lake and marsh	The starchy pulp of a cattail root. Packed into a festering wound, it draws the infection out.
Charcoal	Binder	made or bought	Hardwood burned slow under a sealed mound until only the black heart is left. The hot, clean fuel a forge needs.
Clean Moss	Binder	forest, dark forest	Soft green moss stripped from a north-facing trunk. Packs a wound and holds a poultice in place.
Comfrey Root	Healing	forest, dark forest	Black-skinned root, white and slick inside. Pounded to a mash and bound over a bruise or a cracked bone.
Core-Steeped Bone	Catalyst	see its entry	Bone from a beast that lived for years inside a Totem's Core Zone, heavy and faintly warm. Ground, it becomes Ashbone Dust. Bone from anywhere else makes only ash.
Dandelion Root	Healing	forest, dark forest	Bitter taproot dug from any clearing. A tea of it clears the liver after bad water or worse drink.
Death Angel	Toxic	forest, dark forest	A pale, clean, handsome mushroom. One cap is enough to ruin a liver over three bad days.
Egg Yolk	Catalyst	off a carcass	Yolk from a wild nest. It binds oil and water into one smooth mix.
Etherblossom	Toxic	lake and marsh	A pale, nodding flower that opens only at dusk. Its scent, concentrated, shows a body things that are not there.
Fat Tallow	Binder	off a carcass	Rendered beast fat, poured warm and set hard. The base of every salve and a slow, honest fuel.
Feverfew	Healing	lake and marsh, forest	Small daisies with a bitter smell. Chewed, they break a fever and ease a pounding head.
Fireweed	Healing	mountain	The first green to climb burned ground, magenta against the ash. The young shoots mend what the heat took.
Fish Oil	Binder	off a carcass	Oil rendered from fish guts and kept in a sealed jar. It carries a poison onto a blade and a salve into skin.
Flax Fiber	Binder	lake and marsh, forest	Retted flax, combed to a soft hank. Binds a dressing and thickens a paste.
Foxglove	Toxic	forest, dark forest	Speckled bells on a tall stem. A pinch steadies a weak heart; a little more stops it.
Fresh Blood	Catalyst	off a carcass	Blood drawn warm from a kill and kept in a stoppered skin. It strengthens a brew, and it does not keep.
Frost Ivy	Toxic	mountain	A pale vine on cold rock, cold to the touch even at noon. It slows the blood in whatever it gets into.
Goldenrod	Healing	lake and marsh, forest	Tall yellow plumes along the wet meadows. Dries to a tea that loosens a tight chest.
Hemlock	Toxic	lake and marsh, forest	Purple-spotted stalks and lacy white flowers. It numbs from the feet upward.
Hide Glue	Binder	made or bought	Hide scraps boiled down to a clear, stiff jelly. It thickens a salve and glues a fletching.
Ice Moss	Binder	mountain	A pale moss of the high, cold places. It cools a burn and holds a salve stiff.
Juniper Berry	Healing	mountain	Blue-black berries with a resin bite. Steeped, they clean a wound from the inside.
Lantern Moss	Healing	leyline	A moss that glows faintly blue in the dark, found only near leylines. Slept beside, it deepens a rest.
Leyline Water	Catalyst	leyline	Water drawn where a Totem stains the ground. It holds a faint charge on the tongue and will not sit still in a reaction.
Marshmallow Root	Healing	lake and marsh, coast	Pale root from the reed beds, slick when cut. Soothes a raw throat and thickens a draught.
Midnight Bloom Flower	Toxic	lake and marsh	A black-violet flower that opens after dark on still water. Its poison does nothing until midnight.
Milkweed Sap	Toxic	lake and marsh, forest	White latex that beads from a snapped stalk. Bitter, blistering, and best handled with the hide between it and skin.
Mineral Salt	Binder	mountain	Grey salt chipped from a dry seep. Keeps meat, keeps a tincture, keeps a hide from turning.
Mireblossom Spore	Toxic	lake and marsh	Fine grey spores from a fungus that blooms on rotting reeds. Breathed in, they set the mind wandering.
Nettles	Healing	forest, dark forest	Stinging leaves, gathered with a wrapped hand. Boiled, the sting goes and the strength stays.
Nightshade	Toxic	forest, dark forest	Glossy black berries on a drooping stem. Sweet enough to tempt a child, which is how everyone learns to fear it.
Oak Gall	Catalyst	jungle, forest	A hard knot grown where a wasp wounded the branch. Ground down, it fixes dye and sharpens a reaction.
Peat Char	Catalyst	lake and marsh	Peat cut from the bog and charred black. Mixed into a brew, it lets the effect out slowly.
Pine Resin	Binder	forest, dark forest, mountain	Amber sap wept from a scored trunk. Binds a salve, seals a seam, and catches a spark when nothing else will.
Plantain Leaf	Healing	forest, dark forest	A broad, ribbed weed that grows wherever people walk. Chewed and pressed to a cut, it draws it clean.
Prairie Sage	Binder	lake and marsh, forest	Silver bundles that burn with a clean, sharp smoke. Smudged over a wound or a sickroom, it keeps the rot out.
Puffball Spore	Binder	lake and marsh, forest	Brown dust from a ripe puffball. It spreads anything mixed into it through the air.
Ragweed Pollen	Toxic	lake and marsh, forest	Yellow dust shaken from late-summer weeds into a cloth. It closes the throat and waters the eyes.
Razorleaf	Toxic	mountain	A low shrub whose leaves cut like paper. Its juice keeps a wound from closing.
Red Clover	Healing	lake and marsh, forest	Round purple heads in the meadow grass. A tea of them thickens thin blood.
Reed Pith	Binder	lake and marsh	The soft white core of a marsh reed. It smolders slowly and carries a smoke wherever the wind takes it.
Reishi	Healing	forest, dark forest	A lacquered shelf fungus on old hardwood. Steeped long, it deepens a night's rest.
Rotweed	Toxic	lake and marsh	A marsh plant of stillwater pockets and shaded banks. Its stem blackens in the air. Cutthroats and unlicensed apothecaries brew it into Rotweed Extract.
Saltpeter	Catalyst	prospecting	Grey crust scraped from cave walls and old middens. The temperamental heart of black powder.
Silvervein Moss	Healing	leyline	Moss threaded with metallic filament, found only inside a Totem aura. Glows when bruised and closes a wound clean.
Snowcap Fungus	Healing	mountain	A white-capped mushroom that grows at the snow line. Powdered into a wound, it slows the bleeding.
Spirits	Binder	made or bought	Clear, harsh grain spirit. It draws a tincture, cleans a wound, and carries a mist.
Spruce Needle	Healing	mountain	Green needles stripped from a young spruce. A tea of them keeps the winter sickness away.
Stillroot Bark	Toxic	forest, dark forest	Bark from a low shrub that grows in the deep shade. Brewed strong, it puts a body down and keeps it there.
Stone Lichen	Catalyst	mountain	Grey crust scraped from a north-facing rock. Slow to gather and stubborn in the pot, but it holds a reaction steady.
Sulfur	Catalyst	mountain	Yellow crust scraped from a venting seam. Stinks of struck matches and rotten egg. Half of what makes powder go.
Thistle Sap	Toxic	lake and marsh, forest	Milky juice from a cut thistle stem. It raises welts on bare skin and carries an oil into a wound.
Totem Vein Powder	Catalyst	leyline	Stone from a leyline's vein, ground fine. A pinch makes any brew stronger, and the Church would like to know where you got it.
Turkey Tail	Healing	forest, dark forest	Thin banded fungus fanned along a fallen log. Boiled down, it keeps a fever from taking hold.
Veinsap Bloom	Healing	leyline	A red flower whose sap sets like a scab within a breath. Pressed into a wound, it closes it.
Venom Sac	Toxic	off a carcass	The intact gland cut from something that bit to kill. Worth more whole than the rest of the carcass to the right buyer.
Water Hemlock	Toxic	lake and marsh	The deadliest thing growing in clean water, dressed up as wild carrot. Knowing the root is the only safe way to know it.
Wild Carrot Root	Healing	lake and marsh, forest	The true wild carrot, not water hemlock, its deadly double. It puts strength back into tired legs.
Wild Herbs	Healing	jungle, forest, lake and marsh	Bitter leaf, resin bud, and root gathered from the understory. The base of every tonic and salve.
Willow Bark	Healing	forest, dark forest	Stringy inner bark peeled in spring. Chewed for fever, steeped for the ache that follows a long march.
Wormwood	Toxic	forest, dark forest	Silver-grey, deeply lobed, smelling of sage. A little settles the gut. Rendered to an oil, it turns on the nerves.
Yarrow	Healing	jungle, forest	Feathered leaf that staunches a wound pressed against it. The first thing a field-healer learns to find.

Stations

Station	What it is	Where
Workbench	A log, a flat stone, a set of hands.	Anywhere.
Apothecary bench	A mortar and a low fire.	Anywhere you can make camp.
Field forge	A clay hearth around a salvaged anvil.	Wherever you set one up. It can be crafted and carried.
Settled forge	A permanent forge.	In a town or settlement with a smith. The only heat that folds steel or quenches manasteel.

Recipes

Bushcraft

Make	From	Yields	Station	Time	DC
Waterskin	2 Hide Scrap	Waterskin	Workbench	2 hours	none
Trail Rations	1 Wild Herbs, 1 Hide Scrap	Trail Rations	Workbench	1 hour	10
Fire Tube	1 Hardwood, 1 Hide Scrap	Fire Tube	Workbench	2 hours	13
Charcoal	3 Hardwood	3 Charcoal	Workbench	A day	none
Cordage	3 Plant Fiber	3 Cordage	Workbench	1 hour	none
Leather	2 Hide Scrap, 1 Hardwood	2 Leather	Workbench	3 days	none
Pack Satchel	2 Hide Scrap, 1 Cordage	Pack Satchel	Workbench	2 hours	12
Bone Ash	1 Bone	2 Bone Ash	Workbench	1 hour	none
Hide Glue	2 Hide Scrap	Hide Glue	Workbench	1 hour	none
Torch	1 Hardwood, 1 fat or pitch	2 Torch	Workbench	2 hours	12
Bark Float	2 Hardwood, 1 Plant Fiber, 1 Pine Resin	Bark Float	Workbench	2 hours	12
Bone Tools	1 Bone, 1 Sinew	Bone Tools	Workbench	2 hours	12
Signal Marker	1 Bone, 1 Charcoal, 1 Fresh Blood	Signal Marker	Workbench	2 hours	12
Makeshift Tent	3 Hide Scrap, 2 Hardwood, 1 Cordage	Tent	Workbench	2 hours	12
Hide Sled	2 Hide Scrap, 2 Bone, 1 Sinew	Bushcraft Sled	Workbench	2 hours	15

Bows, slings and hide armor

Make	From	Yields	Station	Time	DC
Arrows	1 Hardwood, 1 Flint Shard	Arrows	Workbench	1 hour	none
Atlatl Darts	1 Hardwood, 1 Flint Shard	Atlatl Darts	Workbench	1 hour	none
Shortbow	1 Hardwood, 2 Sinew	Shortbow	Workbench	A day	13
Composite Bow	1 Hardwood, 1 Bone, 2 Sinew, 1 Hide Glue	Composite Bow	Workbench	A day	16
Longbow	2 Hardwood, 1 Sinew	Longbow	Workbench	A day	15
Sling	1 Hide Scrap, 1 Cordage	Sling	Workbench	4 hours	none
Atlatl	1 Hardwood, 1 Bone	Atlatl	Workbench	4 hours	12
Whip	2 Leather	Whip	Workbench	4 hours	12
Blowgun	1 Hardwood, 1 Plant Fiber	Blowgun	Workbench	4 hours	12
Blowgun Needles	1 Bone, 1 Plant Fiber	Blowgun Needles	Workbench	1 hour	none
Net	3 Cordage	Net	Workbench	4 hours	12
Leather Armor	3 Leather, 1 Fat Tallow	Leather Armor	Workbench	2 days	13
Padded Armor	3 Hide Scrap, 2 Plant Fiber	Padded Armor	Workbench	2 days	12
Hide Armor	4 Hide Scrap, 1 Sinew	Hide Armor	Workbench	2 days	13
Wooden Shield	2 Hardwood, 1 Hide Scrap	Wooden Shield	Workbench	2 days	12

Apothecary: remedies and powder

Make	From	Yields	Station	Time	DC
Healing Tonic	any 2 healing ingredients	Healing Tonic	Apothecary bench	1 hour	12
Field Salves	any 2 healing ingredients, a fat base	Field Salves	Apothecary bench	1 hour	14
Antitoxin	any 2 healing ingredients, 1 Charcoal	Antitoxin	Apothecary bench	1 hour	13
Clearblood Serum	1 Antitoxin, 1 Venom Sac, any catalyst	Clearblood Serum	Apothecary bench	1 hour	16
Powder and Shot	1 Gunpowder, 1 Lead Scrap	Powder and Shot	Apothecary bench	1 hour	15
Gunpowder	3 Charcoal, 2 Sulfur, 2 Saltpeter	5 Gunpowder	Apothecary bench	1 hour	14
Dusk Venom	2 Milkweed Sap, 1 Venom Sac, 1 Fat Tallow	Dusk Venom	Apothecary bench	1 hour	13
Vapor Balm	2 Arnica, 1 Goldenrod, 1 Pine Resin	Vapor Balm	Apothecary bench	1 hour	14
Hexbark Toxin	2 Water Hemlock, 1 Nightshade, 1 Oak Gall	Hexbark Toxin	Apothecary bench	1 hour	16
Ashbone Dust	1 Core-Steeped Bone, any healing ingredient	Ashbone Dust	Apothecary bench	1 hour	16
Serpent Oil	1 Venom Sac, a fat base	Serpent Oil	Apothecary bench	1 hour	12
Spirits	2 starchy roots	Spirits	Apothecary bench	1 hour	12
Bomb Arrow	1 Arrows, 1 Gunpowder, 1 Pine Resin, 1 Cordage	Bomb Arrow	Apothecary bench	1 hour	17

Powder work is done downwind and far from sparks. A Bomb Arrow is the one recipe that punishes a failure: fail by 5 or more and it goes off in your hands.

Apothecary: poisons

Make	From	Yields	Station	Time	DC
Rotweed Extract	1 Rotweed, any binder	Rotweed Extract	Apothecary bench	4 hours	10
Viper's Fume	1 Venom Sac, 1 Puffball Spore	Viper's Fume	Apothecary bench	4 hours	11
Wailsmoke	any 2 toxic ingredients, a smoke medium	Wailsmoke	Apothecary bench	4 hours	13
Slickveil Oil	1 Milkweed Sap, 1 Thistle Sap, an oil	Slickveil Oil	Apothecary bench	4 hours	13
Blindsap Oil	1 Ashbloom Sap, 1 fish oil or thistle sap	Blindsap Oil	Apothecary bench	4 hours	14
Etherblossom Mist	1 Etherblossom, 1 Mireblossom Spore, 1 Spirits	Etherblossom Mist	Apothecary bench	4 hours	15
Blindroot Gas	1 Blindroot, 1 Ragweed Pollen, 1 Pine Resin	Blindroot Gas	Apothecary bench	4 hours	15
Stillroot Brew	1 Stillroot Bark, 1 Nightshade, 1 Spirits	Stillroot Brew	Apothecary bench	4 hours	15
Blackrot Sap	1 Blackcap Rot, 1 Bone Mold, 1 rotting flesh or bone	Blackrot Sap	Apothecary bench	4 hours	16
Chokebloom Resin	1 Ashbloom Wood, 1 Pine Resin, 1 Puffball Spore	Chokebloom Resin	Apothecary bench	4 hours	16
Midnight Bloom	1 Midnight Bloom Flower, 1 Foxglove, 1 Pine Resin	Midnight Bloom	Apothecary bench	4 hours	17

Toxins are slow, careful reductions. What each one does is in Equipment and Coin.

Frontiersman

Make	From	Yields	Station	Time	DC
Snare Trap	1 Hardwood, 1 Bone	Snare Trap	Workbench	1 hour	12
Pitfall Cover	2 Hardwood, 2 Plant Fiber	Pitfall Cover	Workbench	1 hour	13
Deadfall Trap	3 Hardwood, 1 Cordage	Deadfall Trap	Workbench	1 hour	15
Ward Effigy	2 Bone, 1 Charcoal, 1 Pine Resin	Ward Effigy	Workbench	1 hour	15

Wayfarer

Make	From	Yields	Station	Time	DC
Marked Trail Map	1 Hide Scrap	Marked Trail Map	Workbench	2 hours	12

Artisan: materials, kits and repairs

Make	From	Yields	Station	Time	DC
Sling Stones	1 Flint Shard	Sling Stones	Workbench	1 hour	none
Iron Ingot	2 Iron Scrap, 1 Charcoal	Iron Ingot	Field forge	4 hours	12
Steel Ingot	2 Iron Ingot, 2 Charcoal	Steel Ingot	Settled forge	A day	15
Manasteel Ingot	2 Manasteel Ore, 1 Mana Shard	Manasteel Ingot	Settled forge	A day	18
Bellows	3 Leather, 2 Worked Parts, 1 Hardwood	Bellows	Workbench	2 hours	13
Field Forge	1 Bellows, 3 River Clay, 1 Salvaged Anvil	Field Forge	Workbench	A day	14
Iron Shortsword	1 Obsidian Blade, 2 Iron Ingot	Iron Shortsword	Field forge	4 hours	13
Iron Warspear	1 Flint Warspear, 2 Iron Ingot	Iron Warspear	Field forge	4 hours	13
Bushcraft Kit	1 Leather, 2 Cordage, 1 Hardwood	Bushcraft Kit	Workbench	2 hours	14
Apothecary Kit	1 Leather, 2 Bone, 1 Wild Herbs	Apothecary Kit	Workbench	2 hours	15
Frontiersman Kit	2 Cordage, 2 Sinew, 1 Bone	Frontiersman Kit	Workbench	2 hours	14
Hide Barding	2 Leather, 2 Cordage	Hide Barding	Workbench	2 days	14
Saddlebags	2 Leather, 1 Cordage	Saddlebags	Workbench	2 hours	13

Artisan: knapping, carving and shaping

Make	From	Yields	Station	Time	DC
Obsidian Blade	1 Obsidian Nodule, 1 Hardwood	Obsidian Blade	Workbench	2 hours	15
Obsidian War Knives	2 Obsidian Nodule, 1 Bone	Obsidian War Knives	Workbench	2 hours	15
Obsidian Macuahuitl	2 Obsidian Nodule, 1 Hardwood, 1 Pine Resin	Obsidian Macuahuitl	Workbench	2 hours	15
Obsidian Spear	1 Obsidian Nodule, 1 Hardwood, 1 Sinew	Obsidian Spear	Workbench	2 hours	15
Vein-Obsidian Blade	1 Vein-Obsidian, 1 Hardwood	Vein-Obsidian Blade	Workbench	2 hours	17
Flint Knife	1 Flint Shard, 1 Bone	Flint Knife	Workbench	2 hours	13
Flint Shortsword	2 Flint Shard, 1 Hardwood	Flint Shortsword	Workbench	2 hours	15
Flint Scimitar	2 Flint Shard, 1 Hardwood, 1 Pine Resin	Flint Scimitar	Workbench	2 hours	15
Flint Battleaxe	2 Flint Shard, 1 Hardwood, 1 Sinew	Flint Battleaxe	Workbench	2 hours	15
Flint Greataxe	3 Flint Shard, 2 Hardwood, 1 Sinew	Flint Greataxe	Workbench	2 hours	15
Flint Warspear	1 Flint Shard, 2 Hardwood, 1 Sinew	Flint Warspear	Workbench	2 hours	15
Stone Hand Axe	1 Flint Shard, 1 Hardwood, 1 Sinew	Stone Hand Axe	Workbench	4 hours	12
Hardwood Spear	1 Hardwood, 1 Flint Shard	Hardwood Spear	Workbench	4 hours	12
Hardwood Staff	2 Hardwood	Hardwood Staff	Workbench	4 hours	none
Greatclub	3 Hardwood	Greatclub	Workbench	4 hours	none
Bone Club	2 Bone	Bone Club	Workbench	4 hours	none
Antler Club	2 Bone, 1 Cordage	Antler Club	Workbench	4 hours	12
Bone Javelin	2 Bone	Bone Javelin	Workbench	4 hours	12
Bone War Axe	3 Bone, 1 Hardwood, 1 Sinew	Bone War Axe	Workbench	4 hours	15
Bone Punching Dagger	1 Bone, 1 Cordage	Bone Punching Dagger	Workbench	4 hours	12
Bone Punching Claws	2 Bone, 1 Cordage	Bone Punching Claws	Workbench	4 hours	13
Stone Mace	2 Flint Shard, 1 Hardwood	Stone Mace	Workbench	4 hours	12
Stone Light Hammer	1 Flint Shard, 1 Hardwood, 1 Cordage	Stone Light Hammer	Workbench	4 hours	none
Stone Warhammer	2 Flint Shard, 1 Hardwood, 1 Sinew	Stone Warhammer	Workbench	4 hours	13
Stone War Maul	4 Flint Shard, 2 Hardwood, 1 Sinew	Stone War Maul	Workbench	4 hours	13

Artisan: smithing

Iron work needs a field forge; steel needs a settled one. An iron bar is a great deal of money on the Frontier (see The Price of Iron), and these recipes eat them.

Make	From	Yields	Station	Time	DC
Plated Barding	2 Iron Ingot, 1 Leather	Plated Barding	Field forge	3 days	16
Iron Dagger	1 Iron Ingot, 1 Leather	Iron Dagger	Field forge	A day	13
Iron Handaxe	1 Iron Ingot, 1 Hardwood	Iron Handaxe	Field forge	A day	13
Iron Javelin	1 Iron Ingot, 1 Hardwood	Iron Javelin	Field forge	A day	13
Light Hammer	1 Iron Ingot, 1 Hardwood	Light Hammer	Field forge	A day	13
Iron Mace	2 Iron Ingot, 1 Hardwood	Iron Mace	Field forge	A day	13
Sickle	1 Iron Ingot, 1 Hardwood	Sickle	Field forge	A day	13
Iron Spear	1 Iron Ingot, 2 Hardwood	Iron Spear	Field forge	A day	13
Punching Dagger	1 Iron Ingot, 1 Leather	Punching Dagger	Field forge	A day	13
Punching Claws	2 Iron Ingot, 1 Leather	Punching Claws	Field forge	A day	14
Hurlbat	1 Iron Ingot	Hurlbat	Field forge	A day	15
Darts	1 Iron Ingot, 1 Hardwood	10 Dart	Field forge	1 hour	13
Battleaxe	2 Iron Ingot, 1 Hardwood	Battleaxe	Field forge	A day	15
Flail	2 Iron Ingot, 1 Hardwood	Flail	Field forge	A day	15
Glaive	2 Iron Ingot, 2 Hardwood	Glaive	Field forge	A day	15
Greataxe	3 Iron Ingot, 2 Hardwood	Greataxe	Field forge	A day	15
Halberd	3 Iron Ingot, 2 Hardwood	Halberd	Field forge	A day	15
Lance	2 Iron Ingot, 3 Hardwood	Lance	Field forge	A day	15
Iron Longsword	2 Iron Ingot, 1 Leather	Iron Longsword	Field forge	A day	15
Steel Longsword	2 Steel Ingot, 1 Leather	Steel Longsword	Settled forge	3 days	16
Iron Greatsword	3 Iron Ingot, 1 Leather	Iron Greatsword	Field forge	A day	15
Steel Greatsword	3 Steel Ingot, 1 Leather	Steel Greatsword	Settled forge	3 days	17
Iron Maul	4 Iron Ingot, 2 Hardwood	Iron Maul	Field forge	A day	15
Morningstar	2 Iron Ingot, 1 Hardwood	Morningstar	Field forge	A day	15
Pike	2 Iron Ingot, 3 Hardwood	Pike	Field forge	A day	15
Iron Rapier	2 Iron Ingot, 1 Leather	Iron Rapier	Field forge	A day	15
Steel Rapier	2 Steel Ingot, 1 Leather	Steel Rapier	Settled forge	3 days	17
Iron Scimitar	2 Iron Ingot, 1 Leather	Iron Scimitar	Field forge	A day	15
Steel Scimitar	2 Steel Ingot, 1 Leather	Steel Scimitar	Settled forge	3 days	16
Trident	2 Iron Ingot, 2 Hardwood	Trident	Field forge	A day	15
War Pick	2 Iron Ingot, 1 Hardwood	War Pick	Field forge	A day	15
Warhammer	2 Iron Ingot, 1 Hardwood	Warhammer	Field forge	A day	15
Light Crossbow	1 Iron Ingot, 1 Hardwood, 1 Sinew, 1 Worked Parts	Light Crossbow	Field forge	A day	15
Hand Crossbow	1 Iron Ingot, 1 Hardwood, 1 Sinew, 1 Worked Parts	Hand Crossbow	Settled forge	3 days	17
Heavy Crossbow	2 Iron Ingot, 2 Hardwood, 1 Sinew, 1 Worked Parts	Heavy Crossbow	Field forge	A day	16
Crossbow Bolts	1 Iron Ingot, 1 Hardwood	Crossbow Bolts	Field forge	1 hour	13
Flintlock Pistol	2 Iron Ingot, 1 Hardwood, 2 Worked Parts	Flintlock Pistol	Settled forge	3 days	18
Flintlock Rifle	3 Iron Ingot, 2 Hardwood, 2 Worked Parts	Flintlock Rifle	Settled forge	3 days	18
Studded Leather	1 Iron Ingot, 3 Leather	Studded Leather	Field forge	3 days	14
Chain Shirt	4 Iron Ingot, 1 Leather	Chain Shirt	Field forge	3 days	15
Scale Mail	6 Iron Ingot, 3 Leather	Scale Mail	Field forge	3 days	15
Breastplate	5 Steel Ingot, 1 Leather	Breastplate	Settled forge	4 days	16
Half Plate	8 Steel Ingot, 2 Leather	Half Plate	Settled forge	A week	17
Chain Mail	8 Iron Ingot, 2 Leather	Chain Mail	Field forge	3 days	16
Splint Armor	10 Iron Ingot, 3 Leather	Splint Armor	Field forge	3 days	16
Full Plate	12 Steel Ingot, 3 Leather	Full Plate	Settled forge	A week	18
Buckler	1 Iron Ingot, 1 Hardwood	Buckler	Field forge	3 days	13
Iron Shield	2 Iron Ingot, 2 Hardwood	Iron Shield	Field forge	3 days	14

Knapping

Flint and obsidian are knapped with an antler billet, a small stone hammer and a leather pad for the hand. An arrowhead takes ten or fifteen minutes, a knife or a spearhead an hour or two.

Knapping does not forgive the way other crafting does:

Result	What you get
Fail by 5 or more	The blank shatters. The stone is lost.
Fail by 1 to 4	It works, but the edge is imperfect: -1 damage until it is re-knapped.
Success	A clean edge.
Natural 20	A razor edge: +1 damage for its first three hits.

Obsidian cuts deeper than flint and chips sooner.

Edge	Damage	Chips after
Arrowhead or dart	+0	One hit. It breaks.
Knife or dagger	+0	Three light uses (skinning, cutting hide), or one hard one (bone, armor).
Spear tip	+0	Two thrusts, or one heavy blow.
Axe head	+1	One or two strikes.
Blade or macuahuitl	+1	One to three strikes. It can shatter if parried by metal.

A chipped edge loses its bonus and takes -1 damage until it is re-knapped, at the same DC. Each re-knap shortens the blade; after two or three, it is too small to use.

Obsidian is found in volcanic ground, old lava flows, and glacial deposits. Finding a vein or scattered nodules is a DC 12 Survival check, 14 outside volcanic ground. On a natural 1, a shard splinters for 1d4 slashing. Vein-Obsidian forms only in mana-saturated flows and shows faint hexagonal glyphs in the glass; it holds its edge twice as long.

Hunting and Gathering

Gathering takes a part of the day: the morning, the afternoon, or the night, the same parts the GM rolls encounters for. Each traveler makes one check, of one kind, for each part they spend on it, and a part spent gathering is not spent on the road. Ground gets picked over: each check after the first in the same place on the same day is at +2 DC. Working at night outside a Totem's aura is at disadvantage, unless you see in the dark.

Foraging

Search for herbs, roots and other useful plants. Roll Survival.

Ground	In a Totem's aura	Outside
Easy (lush, known land)	DC 8	DC 12
Moderate (mixed terrain)	DC 10	DC 14
Hard (rocky, arid, sparse)	DC 12	DC 16
Extreme (barren, cursed, toxic)	DC 14 or more	DC 18 to 20

Success: 1d2 usable components.
Success by 5 or more: 1d4, and something rare to the region: a root, a spore, a fungus.
Failure by 5 or more: spoiled or toxic material. Handling it may sicken you.

Hunting

Track and take game. Roll Survival. Subterfuge or a way with animals may give advantage.

Ground	In a Totem's aura	Outside
Easy (plains, known herds)	DC 10	DC 13
Moderate (wooded, semi-wild)	DC 12	DC 15
Hard (mountains, flooded)	DC 14	DC 17
Extreme (chaotic, Hollowed land)	DC 16 or more	DC 20 or more

Success: one small animal (a day of meat), or a crafting pelt, or a trail to bigger game.
Success by 5 or more: large game, or the trail of an alpha.
Failure by 5 or more: you scare off the game, or draw something worse.

Harvesting a carcass

After a kill, a Medium or larger beast can be butchered for meat and material. Roll Survival, once for a Medium beast and more for bigger ones.

Size	Checks	Time	Takes
Medium	1	10 to 15 minutes	Up to 2 kinds of material
Large	2	30 minutes	Up to 4
Huge	3	1 hour	Up to 6, and needs tools
Gargantuan	4 or more	2 hours or more	Spoils if not preserved

Where	DC
Inside a Totem's aura	10
Outside	13
Hollowed land	15 or more, and the flesh may be tainted

On a success by 5 or more the material is pristine. On a failure by 5 or more it is ruined, or worse.

What a beast yields depends on what it is.

Material	Mammal	Reptile	Bird	Used for
Pelt or fur	Yes			Clothing, warmth, trade.
Scales		Yes		Armor, reinforcing tools.
Feathers			Yes	Fletching, charms.
Claws or talons	Yes	Yes	Yes	Weapon tips, trade.
Teeth or fangs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Crafting, tokens.
Horns or tusks	Yes			Handles, carving, idols.
Bone	Yes	Yes	Yes	Tools, grinding.
Blood	Yes	Yes	Yes	Alchemy, tracking scents.
Marrow	Yes	Yes		Salves, rituals.
Glands		Yes	Yes	Poisons, lures.
Organs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Catalysts, mana infusions.