Downtime Overview

Mystara of the Five Spheres D&D Downtime Items - Crafting Magical Item

USES ONE OF THE DOWNTIME ACTIVITIES FOR THE DURATION

The downtime activity is for characters who want to create magical items. This can be a lengthy and expensive task. To start, a character must have a formula that describes the construction of the item. Second, they must have access to the spells the item produces. Third, they need to be of a minimum level for the rarity of the item to be produced.

While crafting. you can maintain a modest lifestyle without having to pay 1 gp per day, or a comfortable lifestyle at half the normal cost. You make a craft check to determine how fast and how long the item takes to build, with a character being able to take a complication instead of a failure.

If the item produces a spell, the spell’s material components must be at hand throughout the process. If the spell normally consumes those components, they are consumed by the creation process. If the item will be able to produce the spell only once, as with a spell scroll, the components are consumed only once by the process. Otherwise, the components are consumed five time each week of the item’s creation.

Each item requires ingredients from a creature of the appropriate CR range. While crafting a magic item, a character can maintain a modest lifestyle without having to pay the 1 gp per day, or a comfortable lifestyle at half the normal cost. At the end of each week the character makes an item crafting check.

Check - The check, with the help of assistance, can craft the item in a number of weeks up to the cost of the item.

Multiple characters can combine their efforts toward the crafting of a single forula, provided that the characters all have proficiency with the requisite tools and are working together in the same place. Each character must make the crafting check, and the total progress of the group is divided by the total cost to determine the time it takes.

At the end of the period you make a skill check usuall Charisma (Persuasion) with the extra week bonus. A natural 1 means work ruined and needs to be restrted. A natural 20 provides an extra week worth of effort completed. You can choose to upgrade to the next level on the chart if you also take a complication. The sale does through in 1d12 weeks plus any due to the complication upgrade.

For the check you can choose any of the skills you can convince the GM is appropiate for the check. Quality of items are standard quality with the standard cost, you can make it with poor quality for half the price, or masterwork for double the price. Poor items tend to break, and allow you to make the use of the item with disadvantage, where as masterwork items are less likely to break and provide advantage with their use.

Magical Items Creation Chart - Week and Cost are halved for consumable items Note - The costs assume two days of prepareation each week, which can be ignored when using assistants and make items more rapidly.

Item Type	Cost (Daily / Weekly / Total)	Weeks Requited	DC	Level Required	Ingredients
Common Magical Item	10 gp / 50 gp / 50 gp	1 (week)	DC 12	1st Level	Creature CR 1-5
Uncommon Magical Item	20 gp / 100 gp / 200 gp	2 (weeks)	DC 14	6th Level	Creature CR 6-10
Rare Magical Item	100 gp / 500 gp / 2,000 gp	4 (1 month)	DC 16	11th Level	Creature CR 11-15
Very Rare Magical Item	500 gp / 2,500 gp / 20,000 gp	8 (2 months)	DC 18	16th Level	Creature CR 16-20
Legendary Magical Item	1,700 gp / 8,500 gp / 102,000 gp	12 (3 months)	DC 20	21st Level	Creature CR 21-25
Artefact	25,000 gp / 125,000 gp / 2,000,000 gp	24 (6 months)	DC 30	26th Level	Creature CR 26+

Event breakdown
• Requirements (What you need to make the check in session)
• Note - Can't be done while travelling
• Base Check DC = 10 + crafting cost increase + quality.
• The Item Formula
• Workshop appropriate to the item
• Tools appropriate to the item
• Time (What you need to make the check in session)
• 1 week (additional weeks adds +1 to the roll)
• Cost per Week (What you need to make the check in session)
• Cost of the materials for the week. For every multiple of the crafting cost in that week add +1 to the DC of the item. Can only increase the DC for a single item.
• Check (What you need to make the check in session, between sessions the d20 in the check is replaced by 10)
• Skill Check = d20 + skill bonus + Settlment Modifier + Lifestyle Modifier + Renown

CREATING A MAGICAL ITEM TABLE - Check / Result (Note - If the item exceed the settlements money limit, then you gain knowledge of where you can obtain such an item)

less than DC by 10 or more – Item ruined.

less than DC by 5 or more – Item ruined, or wastes the weeks worth of progress (if not the first week) and there is a complication.

less than DC – Wastes the weeks worth of progress (if not the first week) or half the progress is made for the week and there is a complication.

Equal to DC – You make progress on the item equal to the amount you spent on the weeks worth.

Equal to DC +5 – You make progress on the item equal to the amount you spent on the weeks worth plus 50% more

Equal to DC +10 – You make progress on the item equal to double the amount you spent on the weeks worth

Complications - Something interesting has happened and you get to roll on the complications table below. For every point you increase the check by, you add the cost of an extra week. Each week added in this way is how extra long the item takes to sell in weeks.

CRAFTING A MAGICAL ITEM COMPLICATIONS TABLE
d10 / Complications (* Might involve a rival)
1. Rumours swirl that what you’re working on is unstable and a threat to the community *
2. Your tools are stolen, forcing you to buy new ones *
3. A local wizard shows keen interest in your work and insists on observing you.
4. The is a material shortage, work stops until your replace half the cost of material to complete.
5. One of the gods takes an interest in your work
6. A powerful noble offers a hefty price for your work and is not interested in hearing no for an answer *
7. A dwarf or gnome clan accuses you of stealing its secret lore to fuel your work *
8. A competitor spreads rumours that your work is shoddy and prone to failure *
9. There is was a fire, your work was damaged *
10. The item is cursed

Brewing Potions of Healing - If you want to make potions of healing, a character who has proficiency with the herbalism kit can create these potions. The times and costs for doing so are summarised on the Potion of Healing Creation table.

Healing Potions - Week and Cost are halved for consumable items Note - The costs assume two days of prepareation each week, which can be ignored when using assistants and make items more rapidly.

Item Type	Cost (Daily / Weekly / Total)	Weeks Requited	DC	Level Required
Healing Potion	5 gp / 25 gp / 125 gp	1 (week)	DC 12	1st Level
Greater Healing Potion	20 gp / 100 gp / 100 gp	1 (week)	DC 14	6th Level
Superior Healing Potion	50 gp / 250 gp / 1,000 gp	4 (1 month)	DC 16	11th Level
Supreme Healing Potion	170 gp / 850 gp / 10,200 gp	12 (3 month)	DC 18	16th Level

BECMI Rules

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5th Edition D&D Rules

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Level Up Advanced 5th Edition D&D Rules

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GM Notes on Rules

OLD VERSION

The character must succeed on a renown check to begin this downtime activity.

Table - Moved the item ranges into the Tiers instead of when the proficiency modifier changed as it was originally set up as. I have also added in Artefact building as that is part of the immortals storyline.

Check - To craft an item, you need spend enough downtime to craft the item, and make a tool proficiency check so see how quickly you crafted the item. The base DC is 10 and if you beat the result of the check gives you the progress per week which lets you know how long the item will take to craft based on the total cost of the item divided by the progress per week. A natural 1 ruins the item wasting the material. A failure means you can reuse the material and try again. A natural 20 doubles the work you did that week. You can choose to upgrade to the next level on the chart if you also take a complication.

Each week of work can craft multiple items with a market cost up to a cost of 50 gp, or progress on a single item worth more than 25 gp that can take a number of weeks to make.

Check Result
• Critical Failure – Loose double the weekly costs for the check for no result or take a complication with no result.
• Success – Check the result of the roll against the Sell a Non-Magical Item Table
• Critical Success – Gain the next level on the check table

CRAFTING A NON-MAGICAL ITEM TABLE - Check / Result

Less than DC by -10 – material, time and effort all wasted

Less than DC by -5 – bad failures you lose progress equal to the amount you would have gained this week

Less than DC – bad failures, item costs for the week does not progress and time increased as a result due due to errors

Equal to DC – Basic progress made with no additional costs

Equal to DC +5 – Good progress made increase the production by 1 gp per day spend working that week

Equal to DC +10 – Excellent progress made increase the production by 2 gp per day spend working that week

Equal to DC +15 – Amazing progress made increase the production by 3 gp per day spend working that week