| 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.
Smith's tools allow you to work metal, heating it to alter its shape, repair damage, or work raw ingots into useful items.
Components: Smith's tools include hammers, tongs, charcoal, rags, and a whetstone.
Arcana and History: Your expertise lends you additional insight when examining metal objects, such as weapons.
Investigation: You can spot clues and make deductions that others might overlook when an investigation involves armor, weapons, or other metalwork.
Repair: With access to your tools and an open flame hot enough to make metal pliable, you can restore 10 hit points to a damaged metal object for each hour of work.
Smith's Tools:
Activity | DC
Sharpen a dull blade | 10
Repair a suit of armor | 15
Sunder a nonmagical metal object | 15
Source: Player's Handbook p. 154,
Xanathar's Guide of Everything p. 84 |