Crafting Patterns

Crafting Patterns

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Crafting Patterns

The company's pattern book — the standard designs a crafter knows simply by being proficient with the tool. A pattern is the first of the five gates: bring it together with a capable crafter, a workshop, the components, and the gold and days, and the item comes off the bench.

How to read a pattern:

• Rarity is not a separate recipe. The same pattern built around a higher-rarity primary with more CV simply completes at a higher tier — the primary always caps the output.
• Accepts lists the effect tags a primary component must carry. Each tag links to a live Find Components search, so a pattern row shows you what the company holds that can feed it.
• Beyond this book lies improvisation (the general rules — pitch anything the prose suggests) and discoverable formulas found, taught, or researched in play: wands and staves above Uncommon, anything Legendary, and the stranger wondrous work (shadow-veils, invisibility, size-change) are not in any journeyman's repertoire.
• Gootcha's standing Thieves'-Tools ruling extends to the bench: he may work any fine-work pattern (Jeweler's, Calligrapher's, small Smith's work).

Laboratory — Alchemist's Supplies (Xanphina; Karma assists)

Pattern	Tool — crafter	Makes	Rarities	Accepts a primary tagged	Notes
Elemental Draught	Alchemist's Supplies— Xanphina	Potion	Uncommon, Rare, Very Rare	Damage: Fire • Damage: Cold • Damage: Lightning • Damage: Acid • Damage: Thunder	Drink to loose the primary's element once — a breath, burst, or lash; dice scale with rarity per the benchmarks
Ward-Draught	Alchemist's Supplies— Xanphina	Potion	Uncommon, Rare	Resistance: Fire • Resistance: Cold • Resistance: Lightning • Resistance: Acid • Resistance: Poison • Resistance: Spells	Resistance to the primary's element for 1 hour (as a potion of resistance); at Rare, two elements or advantage on related saves besides
Alchemical Bomb	Alchemist's Supplies— Xanphina	Bomb	Uncommon, Rare, Very Rare	Damage: Fire • Damage: Cold • Damage: Lightning • Damage: Acid • Damage: Poison • Damage: Thunder • Afflict: Slow • Afflict: Poisoned • Afflict: Blind	Area burst per the bomb rules; the primary sets element and rider
Fortifying Tonic	Alchemist's Supplies— Xanphina	Potion	Rare, Very Rare	Boost: Strength • Boost: Dexterity • Boost: Constitution • Boost: Hit Points	Hours-long bodily enhancement in the vein of the potions of giant strength ladder; the party has yet to bank a qualifying heart

Laboratory — Herbalism Kit (Karma; Baelgrum assists)

Pattern	Tool — crafter	Makes	Rarities	Accepts a primary tagged	Notes
Healing Draught	Herbalism Kit— Karma	Potion	Uncommon, Rare, Very Rare	Restore: Healing	The potion of healing ladder: 2d4+2 / 4d4+4 (greater) / 8d4+8 (superior)
Antitoxin & Purge	Herbalism Kit— Karma	Potion	Uncommon, Rare	Restore: Cure Poison • Ward: Poison	Uncommon: advantage vs. poison for 1 hour; Rare: ends the poisoned condition and one disease outright
Regenerative Salve	Herbalism Kit— Karma	Potion	Rare, Very Rare	Restore: Regeneration	Applied ointment in the vein of Keoghtom's: heals over rounds, seals wounds; at Very Rare regrows what was lost

Laboratory — Poisoner's Kit (Shade; Gootcha assists)

Pattern	Tool — crafter	Makes	Rarities	Accepts a primary tagged	Notes
Weapon Venom	Poisoner's Kit— Shade	Poison	Uncommon, Rare, Very Rare	Damage: Poison	Injury poison for blades and bolts; damage and save DC scale with rarity, single-target so it runs a notch hotter than a bomb
Debilitating Toxin	Poisoner's Kit— Shade	Poison	Rare, Very Rare	Afflict: Paralysis • Afflict: Slow • Afflict: Fear • Afflict: Sleep • Afflict: Blind • Afflict: Restrain	Save-or-suffer injury or contact toxin — the primary's condition, one round at Rare, a minute (repeat saves) at Very Rare

Forge — Smith's Tools (Baelgrum)

Pattern	Tool — crafter	Makes	Rarities	Accepts a primary tagged	Notes
Warded Plate	Smith's Tools— Baelgrum	Armor	Uncommon, Rare, Very Rare	Boost: Armor Class • Resistance: Fire • Resistance: Cold • Resistance: Lightning	Scale and plate work: +1 at Uncommon; armor of resistance in the primary's element at Rare; +2 with the resistance at Very Rare
Elemental Edge	Smith's Tools— Baelgrum	Weapon	Uncommon, Rare, Very Rare	Damage: Piercing • Damage: Slashing • Damage: Cold • Damage: Lightning • Damage: Poison	Fang, talon, and antler stock: +1 at Uncommon; +1 and +1d6 of the primary's element at Rare; +2 and +2d6 at Very Rare
Trophy Regalia	Smith's Tools— Baelgrum	Armor, Wondrous	Rare	Afflict: Fear • Skill: Intimidation	Helm or mantle from skull and crown stock — advantage on Intimidation, and once per day a menacing presence (frighten on a failed save)

Tannery — Leatherworker's Tools (Keyleth)

Pattern	Tool — crafter	Makes	Rarities	Accepts a primary tagged	Notes
Warded Hide	Leatherworker's Tools— Keyleth	Armor	Uncommon, Rare, Very Rare	Boost: Armor Class • Resistance: Fire • Resistance: Cold • Resistance: Lightning	Light and medium leathers: as Warded Plate, worked in hide, pelt, and wyrmskin
Wingcraft	Leatherworker's Tools— Keyleth	Wondrous	Rare, Very Rare	Move: Flight	Rare: a glide-cloak — fall without harm, move 60 ft. laterally per round of descent; Very Rare: true wings of flying
Deep-Delver's Gear	Leatherworker's Tools— Keyleth	Wondrous	Rare	Move: Swimming • Move: Water Breathing • Utility: Environmental Adaptation	Diving harness and pressure-hide suit — swim speed, an hour's water breathing, proof against crushing depths and killing cold

Arcane Study — Jeweler's Tools (Shade; Gootcha fine work)

Pattern	Tool — crafter	Makes	Rarities	Accepts a primary tagged	Notes
Gem Focus	Jeweler's Tools— Shade	Wand, Staff	Uncommon	Boost: Spell Power	A cut-gem arcane focus: +1 to spell attack rolls while held. Rare and better foci are discoverable, not known — the great work of the jeweler's art
Luckstone Charm	Jeweler's Tools— Shade	Wondrous	Rare	Utility: Luck	Polished pearl or stone in the vein of the stone of good luck: +1 to ability checks and saving throws while carried

Arcane Study — Calligrapher's & Navigator's (Xanphina; Keyleth)

Pattern	Tool — crafter	Makes	Rarities	Accepts a primary tagged	Notes
Spell-Scroll Transcription	Calligrapher's Supplies— Xanphina	Scroll	Uncommon, Rare	Boost: Spell Power	Scribe a spell the caster knows using reagent ink — 2nd–3rd level at Uncommon, 4th–5th at Rare; the ink's element flavors the working
Seeker's Instrument	Navigator's Tools— Keyleth · Xanphina	Wondrous	Uncommon, Rare	Sense: Darkvision • Sense: Blindsight • Sense: Tremorsense • Sense: Heightened Senses • Utility: Divination • Utility: Navigation • Utility: Scrying	Lenses, compasses, and reading-glasses of the primary's sense — heat-sight goggles, a tide-compass, a storm-glass that reads the sky

Tuning the numbers

When a pattern needs damage or effect numbers, benchmark against spells. Spell scrolls fix the official ladder — 2nd–3rd level = Uncommon, 4th–5th = Rare, 6th–8th = Very Rare — but a scroll takes a caster to use. An item anyone can drink or throw runs one spell level behind the scroll ladder:

Output rarity	Effect benchmark	Area damage (bombs)	Single-target (venoms, draughts)
Uncommon	a 1st–2nd-level spell	2d6–4d6	3d6–5d6
Rare	a 3rd–4th-level spell	6d6–8d6	8d6–10d6
Very Rare	a 5th–6th-level spell	10d6–12d6	12d6–14d6
Legendary	a 7th–8th-level spell	13d6+ and a lasting rider	15d6+

Anchors from the book: shatter (2nd, 3d8 in an area) sits at the top of Uncommon; fireball (3rd, 8d6 — famously above the curve) is a strong Rare; cone of cold (5th, 8d8) opens Very Rare. The codified bomb line (2d6 / 4d6 / 6–8d6) is the as-built floor of these ranges — the crafting roll at 20+ climbs toward the ceiling. Conditions instead of damage: one round of a strong condition ≈ 2d6 of damage forgone; a save-repeatable minute is Very Rare territory. Permanent items already have their ladder on the economy page (+1 / +2 / +3 by rarity).

See also

• Crafting via Commission or Bastion — the five gates, costs, CV thresholds, and the crafting roll
• Harvested Materials — the live component bank
• Find Components — search components by effect (every Accepts tag above links into it)
• Monster Harvesting — where components come from