| Text | These special tools include the items needed to pursue a craft or trade. Proficiency with a set of artisan's tools lets you add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make using the tools in your craft. Each type of artisan's tools requires a separate proficiency.
Potter's tools are used to create a variety of ceramic objects, most typically pots and similar vessels.
Components: Potter's tools include potter's needles, ribs, scrapers, a knife, and calipers.
History: Your expertise aids you in identifying ceramic objects, including when they were created and their likely place or culture of origin.
Investigation, Perception: You gain additional insight when inspecting ceramics, uncovering clues others would overlook by spotting minor irregularities.
Reconstruction: By examining pottery shards, you can determine an object's original, intact form and its likely purpose.
Potter's Tools:
Activity | DC
Determine what a vessel once held | 10
Create a serviceable pot | 15
Find a weak point in a ceramic object | 20
Source: Player's Handbook p. 154,
Xanathar's Guide of Everything p. 84 |