Mining Tools + Deep Delver (Feat)
Artisan's tools, 15 gp
There's a whole world beneath your feet, and these tools are your key to unlocking it. Perfect for dwarves, miners, or anyone who's ever felt the call of the deep dark. With a pick, shovel, and all the gear you need, you can dig tunnels, spot mineral veins, or reinforce crumbling passageways before they come crashing down.
And if you really want to master the depths? The Deep Delver feat turns you into a true underground expert, with tremorsense and uncanny knack for spotting hidden dangers in the stone. Both the tools and feat work perfectly in D&D 5e and the upcoming 2024 rules.
What’s the most valuable thing your party has ever dug up? A lost relic? A dragon’s hoard? Or just enough gold to buy the next round at the tavern?
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In Dungeons and Dragons, we are to make skill checks for when we want to do something like bashing through doors, picking locks, or trying to convince someone that you’re not just three kobolds in a coat. But sometimes the skills you have don’t fit the mold of the situation. For example, you are trying to diagnose somebody with a broken leg, but your wisdom score sucks compared to your intelligence despite being proficient with medicine. Normally, this makes your medicine skill pretty useless, but what if we change what ability score we are using with which skill?
In D&D, you don’t need to use the ability score that your skill is often paired up with. The fact that the books often organize checks as your Ability (your Skill) should tell you that the game allows for you to change which ability score can be used with which skill in any check.
In the example with diagnosing a sick or injured person, it is expected that you would make a Wisdom (Medicine) check, but the more accurate check would actually be Intelligence (Medicine). You are trying to identify the problem with knowledge and logic, so realistically your Intelligence score is more appropriate than your Wisdom which implies you know how to cure the problem rather than learning what it is. In the case where you need to perform a surgery, a Dexterity (Medicine) check would fit as it represents the need for steady hands during a delicate procedure.
It is one of those lesser known rules of the game due to how rare it is that official modules ask for these nonstandard checks. Xanther’s Guide to Everything is one of the rare times an official book tells you can do this, and it is honestly something I wish more DMs other than myself do in their games. That and using tools as checks that isn’t thieves’ tools. Changing what ability scores are paired with what skills also really expands what your character can do.
Here are some more examples:
Charisma (Athletes): You are coaching somebody else into accomplishing an athletic feat like lifting weights.
Constitution (Stealth): You are holding your breath while hiding underwater to stay out of sight from some nasty foes.
Wisdom (Nature): You are doing some gardening.
Charisma (Religion): You are preaching a sermon for your religion/god.
Strength (Animal Handling): You are trying to wrangle an animal that’s out of control.
Intelligence (Acrobatics): You have vast knowledge of how to perform many acrobatic feats and what they are called.
Dexterity (Performance): You are juggling objects for the purpose of entertainment.
Strength (Intimidation): You can break something to show the other guy that you mean business.
The list can go on forever, but the point is that as long as you have the imagination and willingness to stray from the concept of marriage between abilities and skills then your games can greatly improve in quality. Characters who feel like they are pigeonholed into one job can find themselves with more wiggle room. This also breathes new life in skills that barely get any use because either magic or the DM replaces the need for them.
A Masterlist of Instrumental Music for DnD and Fantasy Writing
So! I play dnd (play in 2 weekly campaigns and I’m worldbuilding for my steampunk homebrew). It’s no secret that I’m a GIGANTIC nerd. For a while now, I have had a ton of playlists that I use for various aspects of my (and my cousin’s) homebrew world. I also have a few playlists for writing that I use.
For dnd players, have at it! Add them to your lists if you like them. Play them during your games to add that extra layer of immersion to your RPing experience!
For writers, I find that I write better when I listen to music that has to do with the mood or theme of my topic! And it seems that there are a ton of fantasy writeblrs out there, so I mean, a lot of these playlists are high fantasy-esque!
Anyways, why keep them all to myself; I want to share them with you! Today, I spent a bit of time (a lot, i got carried away) on each playlist to ensure that each have an appropriate title, description, and are roughly an hour long each! Some are harder to make longer, but that’s okay.
So without further ado, below the cut, I have added links to all my Spotify playlists with the Title and information for each!
Thoughtful - A really small playlist of super chill music that is mostly just to get me into a relaxed mental zone. - 7 songs, 29 mins
Nerdy Classical - Mostly orchestral versions of video game music - 47 songs, 2h 31m
Atmospheric - Literally just the entire The Last of Us soundtrack, which the environment of my novel is highly inspired by ( in other words, a very self indulgent playlist). - 56 songs, 1h 57m
DnD
By Location (in the homebrew world)
Cities of Chladný - Music inspired by Russian folk songs - 12 songs, 51 mins
Cities of Félgra - Music with Celtic and Irish themes - 19 songs, 57 mins
Cities of Ghaan - A playlist inspired by India’s culture - 10 songs, 56 mins
Cities of Hjarta - A playlist of music with Nordic themes - 17 songs, 1h 14m
Cities of Sokoku - Music inspired by East Asian cultures - 19 songs, 1h 16m
Cities of Vielejhüegel - A playlist for Vielejhugel, a country with German folk themes. - 18 songs, 1h 10m
the Feywild - Strings and flutes and adventuring through the mystical Feywild. - 10 songs, 44 mins
The Forsaken Mountains - Peaceful music for daytime exploration of the Forsaken Mountains. - 9 songs, 33 mins
The Foggy Felgran Moors - The mist brings with it strange things... Eerie celtic music for eerie Felgra. - 9 songs, 29 mins
The Underdark, the Abyss, and Beyond - Creepy, eerie music for the Underdark, the Abyss, and other creepy asf places. - 17 songs, 1h 3m
Tengoku Temple - Music for Tengoku, the sacred city in the clouds. - 9 songs, 30 mins
Places
Campfires and Long Rests - Relaxing music for when the party takes a long rest or during chill RP moments. - 20 songs, 1h 35m
Ruins - Creepy, eerie music for exploring abandoned ruins and creepy caves. - 21 songs, 1h 11m
Town
Taverns and Pubs - An upbeat playlist with songs featuring lots of strings and flutes (or woodwinds or something i don't know instruments). Perfect for taverns, inns, and pubs. - 24 songs, 57 mins
Town & Shoppe - Music for exploring and shopping in small towns - 23 songs, 52 mins
Town, Creepy - For haunted, abandoned, or generally creepy places! - 34 songs, 1h 51m
General Adventuring - Chill, calming music for when your party is adventuring through rolling hills and other magical shit. - 25 songs, 1h 29m
Temples
Temple, Creepy (Low) - Temple and sacred music with elements of Alto/Bass (i googled that) choirs and creepy vibes. - 14 songs, 1h 37m
Temple, Elegant (High) - Temple or sacred sounding music with elements of Soprano/Tenor (i googled that, too) choirs. - 17 songs, 1h 1m
Temple Combat - Combat music that is fast paced with some songs that have elements of hymns and choirs. - 22 songs, 1h 15m
Sailing
Underwater, Chill/Eerie - A collection of whale sounds and underwater noises for underwater exploration - 11 songs, 30 mins
Sailing, Chill - Relaxed music for sailing - 9 songs, 30 mins
Eerie Waters - Literally just one really long weird whale song. - 1 song, 31 mins
I’m on a BOAT! General Ship Ambiance - General ship/sea music- flutes and piratey stuff! - 21 songs, 1h 2m
FASTER! - Sailing Chase - A playlist for all those chase scenes at sea! - 26 songs, 1h 14m
Ship Combat - A playlist full of upbeat combat music for fighting at sea! - 16 songs, 41 mins
Sea Shanties, Yo! - A collection of sea shanties for all your shantying needs. - 14 songs, 36 mins
Forests
Enchanted Forest - Ambient soothing music with natural sounds like chirping, wind, and water. - 10 songs, 58 mins
Creepy Forest - Creepy instrumental music for forests, hauntey houses, and so on. - 21 songs, 1h 15m
Combat
RUN FASTER! Chase Scenes - A short playlist for chase scenes. - 4 songs, 14 mins
Combat with the Forsaken - Combat for creepy ruins and haunted houses! - 11 songs, 37 mins
Combat, General - Fast, aggressive combat music. - 1h 2m
Combat, Boss Fight - Super heavy combat music for fighting bosses and other BBEGs. - 15 songs, 43 mins
Emotions (i’ll probs add more later)
Death of a Party Member - A short playlist of solemn music for deaths, grief and other sad shit. - 5 songs, 13 mins
.... that’s it for the playlists (for now). Here are some additional notes about the playlists.
So, I have playlists named based off cities in my cousin’s homebrew world so the titles are our fictional countries. My cousin used my Spotify to create the country playlists- each country has a cultural theme, which is in the description!
It should be noted, none of this music is supposed to represent anything other than the fact that she wanted music that has pays homage to the cultures that she has included in her homebrew worlds. She spent a lot of time researching cultures as a way to diversifiy her homebrew world. It’s not meant to actually represent an entire culture or anything of that sort.
Another note, in Spotify I literally have a writing folder, and then a dnd folder, but I use both pretty interchangeably. It’s mostly so that I don’t have to see all 500 of the nerd playlists that I have clogging up my sidebar with my other random playlists.
You may be thinking, “Where’s all the amazing Skyrim music?” (You might not, and good on you). Yes, we all know Skyrim and the other Elder Scrolls games have fantastic soundtracks, but I think a lot of the Elder Scrolls game’s soundtracks are sooo easily identifiable. And when RPing, it really takes me out of the moment when I’m trying to pay attention to another party member and a song comes on and I’m like, yeah I remember STUPID LYDIA dying for the 50th time to this song. So I try not to include them in my dnd playlists. There are so many other great soundtracks out there to choose from anyways, so why not pick them!
Anyways, I love making playlists and I’ll be adding more soon when I start creating my personal homebrew world. That will be more Victorian and Steampunk, so I’ll probably add ton more and reblog this with more down the road (if people find it useful anyways).
If you don’t have the time and would like me to make some fun playlists for types of themes or stuff that I may have missed or don’t have in our worlds, hit me up! Let me know your ideas and I’d be more than happy to give it a shot! I hope you all enjoy the playlists!
oh god i hope all these links work because i spent a ridiculous amount of time adding them in and it’ll be a real bitch to do again but i wasnt about to test them all. so let me know if they dont work.
Here’s a half-page character sheet layout I designed a little bit ago. I wanted something a little more easy to break down and read for new players, or sheets I could quickly print up and fill out for pre-gen and one-shot characters. Unfortunately, there’s only so much simplifying that can be done in 5th edition, but I’m hoping this removes some of the shock value of seeing vanilla character sheet.
I made this dry erase initiative board with laminated status condition magnets (4 of which are blank and dry erase) for my dungeon master @bacoj8 and it was super fun! I might make a couple variations and sell them. Who knows?
