D&D How Crafting Works In The 2024 DM's Guide

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There's a new way to craft in with the advent of the 2024 . The new printing of the brings about a great deal of new mechanics, but also revamps and reestablishes many of those that already existed. One concept getting a total makeover in the new version of the Fifth Edition is that of crafting. Crafting has always been a part of 5e, but the rules around it were previously a little too loose, requiring only the requisite tools, proficiencies, and DM discretion. This made it difficult to craft specific items without a lot of improvisation.

Now, though, in the 2024, the rules around crafting are specific, concrete, and established — though not totally unflexible. Players need to have access to the right materials, tools, and skills in order to craft highly specific items, and there's a definitive way to determine whether the process succeeds or fails. However, they also have access to a much wider variety of crafting recipes, allowing them to create everything from mundane tools, traps, and tackle to potent magical items. Here's everything to know about 's new crafting systems.

The materials and prerequisites for crafting, as well as the items players can craft, have been greatly refined and clarified in the 2024. To begin with, players can craft items across four different categories: magic items, nonmagical items, potions, and spell scrolls. In order to craft any of the above, players must have access to the requisite tools, and must have proficiency in them.

Some staples of D&D 5e adventures up to this point might be going out the window, and experienced DMs probably won't be sorry to see them go.

These basic rules apply to crafting all items, regardless of their nature. However, there are special provisions for crafting magical items, potions, and spell scrolls, as detailed below.

As in earlier printings of 5e, players can also craft potions and spell scrolls using 5e's new crafting rules. Perhaps the most earth-shattering revelation is that players can now craft