Introduction to Crafting

Gemcrafting

Gemcrafting in our campaign

The game’s previous editions have been an ebb and flow of specificity on what the core rules had to say regarding crafting, which is a mighty quick sentence to breeze through the last fifty years of Dungeons & Dragons. In 5e, crafting professions exist in an abstract way through tool proficiencies and downtime activities, though nothing is specific in how a greater healing potion might be made or what sort of time it takes to craft a longsword. Once that blacksmith has made a longsword, who’s to say what is required timewise to bump the item up to a Longsword +1? We are, that’s who. Through a series of trial-and-error, we produced and tore apart proposed crafting guidelines; in a crucible they cooked, until they were ready for consumption. These are our current crafting professions, listed in no particular order:

Rune Crafting
Masonry
Gemcrafting
Enchanting
Carpentry
Blacksmithing
Angling
Wood Carving
Alchemy
Cooking
Herbalism

Let’s focus on Gemcrafting for most of the rest of this discussion.