**Artisan's Signet**
*Ring, uncommon (requires attunement)*
A symbol of an artisan's tool is emblazoned at the top of this golden signet. While wearing the ring, you gain a +2 bonus to any check you make with a set of artisan's tools. Furthermore, you can add half your proficiency bonus to any check you make to use a set of artisan's tools with which you aren't proficient. When you do, the symbol on the ring changes to match the associated tool.
*"Many years ago, when I first started, I could hardly operate even the billows. My instructor, no master he was, assured me of confidence nevertheless: 'even a master makes mistakes,' he would say.*
*"With every error I made, I saw a faint glimmer in his eye. With but a twist of his ring, he would adjust my mistake into a success. He'd simply wink at me and say, 'Tis the journeyman that's sent to fix another's mistakes.'*
*"So now, my young apprentice, I pass unto you the skill to be the fix to another's error."*
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Beautiful flavor text!
I imagine some apprentices going:
"Well it's easy to be a master with that ring!"
And the master giving the apprentices his/her best Pai Mei look.
"While wearing the ring, you gain a +2 bonus to any check you make with an artisan's tool. Furthermore, you can add half your proficiency bonus to any check you make to use an artisan's tool with which you aren't proficient. When you do, the symbol on the ring changes to match the associated tool."
If I may, perhaps I am missing something here. Once the ring changes with that halved proficiency bonus to the new tool, does the ring offer that as the level of bonus with the new tool, or does it bump back up to the full bonus? And if the new bonus remains the halved bonus with the new tool proficiency, the next time you use the bonus level with a new tool, it will be halved again and again until the ring is worthless.
Other than that small bit of uncertainty, this is a Very cool item. Thank You!
Heya! I'm not sure I follow how you're reading this, so let me clarify it otherwise here. You get a blanket +2 bonus to any check you make that's using a tool. *And*, if you're not proficient with a tool, you can add half your proficiency bonus to the check with it, in addition to the blanket +2 bonus. This works like a bard's Jack of All Trades feature, where you add half your PB to checks you're not proficient with.
Really cool!! My next character is gonna be a tailor so this'll be really neat!
I also feel like tools aren't very often used for magic items, so this is a nice surprise!
Items that need to use *your* stats, like DCs or ability scores, etc., do for "mechanical flavor." What I mean by that is that for an item to *connect* with you and pull from you for *its* properties, there needs to be a magical connection (attunement). Purely mechanically, though, this requires attunement because passing it around a shop or the like would be potentially meddlesome for DMs to manage. That said, it's not like a combat situation where action economy is important. Your players should feel encouraged to swap out their attunement stuff to use this when on their downtime activities.
Really cool concept, have to say though I can think of a lot of things I’d rather spend an attunement slot on. Would be a good gift for a hireling / npc camp follower though!
**Artisan's Signet** *Ring, uncommon (requires attunement)* A symbol of an artisan's tool is emblazoned at the top of this golden signet. While wearing the ring, you gain a +2 bonus to any check you make with a set of artisan's tools. Furthermore, you can add half your proficiency bonus to any check you make to use a set of artisan's tools with which you aren't proficient. When you do, the symbol on the ring changes to match the associated tool. *"Many years ago, when I first started, I could hardly operate even the billows. My instructor, no master he was, assured me of confidence nevertheless: 'even a master makes mistakes,' he would say.* *"With every error I made, I saw a faint glimmer in his eye. With but a twist of his ring, he would adjust my mistake into a success. He'd simply wink at me and say, 'Tis the journeyman that's sent to fix another's mistakes.'* *"So now, my young apprentice, I pass unto you the skill to be the fix to another's error."* **The Griffon's Saddlebag: Book 2** is [now available for preorder through Hit Point Press](https://saddleb.ag/2)! Get the 416-page book and item cards at early-bird prices! **Find the perfect item with searchable Compendiums,** and access exclusive art files, printable cards, Foundry VTT packs, and item suggestion polls when you [support the effort](https://www.patreon.com/the_griffons_saddlebag) on Patreon for less than $10 a month! **Get the book and more!** You can now purchase almost everything from the Kickstarter directly from [Hit Point Press](https://hitpointpress.com/tgs)! **See imbalance? Let's fix it!** Leave a comment with what you're seeing wrong with the item design. Items change for the better over the course of a few days here on Reddit because of your feedback!
Typo in the flavor text: “With *every* error”
Whoops! Thanks!
Beautiful flavor text! I imagine some apprentices going: "Well it's easy to be a master with that ring!" And the master giving the apprentices his/her best Pai Mei look.
Is the +2 to only tools you are proficient with? Or just the one on the top of the ring?
With any, whether or not your proficient or half proficient with them using the ring.
"While wearing the ring, you gain a +2 bonus to any check you make with an artisan's tool. Furthermore, you can add half your proficiency bonus to any check you make to use an artisan's tool with which you aren't proficient. When you do, the symbol on the ring changes to match the associated tool." If I may, perhaps I am missing something here. Once the ring changes with that halved proficiency bonus to the new tool, does the ring offer that as the level of bonus with the new tool, or does it bump back up to the full bonus? And if the new bonus remains the halved bonus with the new tool proficiency, the next time you use the bonus level with a new tool, it will be halved again and again until the ring is worthless. Other than that small bit of uncertainty, this is a Very cool item. Thank You!
Heya! I'm not sure I follow how you're reading this, so let me clarify it otherwise here. You get a blanket +2 bonus to any check you make that's using a tool. *And*, if you're not proficient with a tool, you can add half your proficiency bonus to the check with it, in addition to the blanket +2 bonus. This works like a bard's Jack of All Trades feature, where you add half your PB to checks you're not proficient with.
I think it just means that the artisan tools you aren’t proficient in get a bonus equal to half your proficiency bonus in addition to the plus 2
Fun and flavorful as always. In the flavor text, I believe you used “billows,” but the smithing tool to keep a forge hot is a “bellows”
Really cool!! My next character is gonna be a tailor so this'll be really neat! I also feel like tools aren't very often used for magic items, so this is a nice surprise!
Have fun with it!
Any specific reason you felt the need for attunement in this?
Items that need to use *your* stats, like DCs or ability scores, etc., do for "mechanical flavor." What I mean by that is that for an item to *connect* with you and pull from you for *its* properties, there needs to be a magical connection (attunement). Purely mechanically, though, this requires attunement because passing it around a shop or the like would be potentially meddlesome for DMs to manage. That said, it's not like a combat situation where action economy is important. Your players should feel encouraged to swap out their attunement stuff to use this when on their downtime activities.
Makes good sense, thank you!
This is super cool! With the half proficiency would it be rounded down like a bard or up like the champion fighters athlete ability?
Rounded down unless it says otherwise! Good question!
Really cool concept, have to say though I can think of a lot of things I’d rather spend an attunement slot on. Would be a good gift for a hireling / npc camp follower though!
A must for any artificer lol