Herbalism Kit

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Proficiency with an herbalism kit allows you to identify plants and safely collect their useful elements. Herbalism kits can be used to brew healing potions only and not any other potions.

Components. An herbalism kit includes pouches to store herbs, clippers and leather gloves for collecting plants, a mortar and pestle, and several glass jars.

Arcana. Your knowledge of the nature and uses of herbs can add insight to your magical studies that deal with plants and your attempts to identify potions.

Investigation. When you inspect an area overgrown with plants, your proficiency can help you pick out details and clues that others might miss.

Medicine. Your mastery of herbalism improves your ability to treat illnesses and wounds by augmenting your methods of care with medicinal plants.

Nature and Survival. When you travel in the wild, your skill in herbalism makes it easier to identify plants and spot sources of food that others might overlook.

Identify Plants. You can identify most plants with a quick inspection of their appearance and smell.

Finding Ingredients

Locating an ingredient within any given biome is a Survival or Nature check. The DC for finding ingredients is dependent upon the rarity of the ingredient. Characters looking for ingredients can make one check per hour of searching: successful checks yield a number of ingredients equal to the character's proficiency bonus. For every 5 points of success above the DC of the environment you find 1 additional ingredient.

Harvesting Ingredients

Once ingredients have been found they still need to be successfully harvested in order to be useable. To harvest an ingredient a character must make a herbalism check. Herbalism modifier = WIS or INT Mod + Proficiency if you are using a Herbalism Kit. The DC to harvest an ingredient = 8 + the ingredient's modifier.

Cost: 5 gp Weight: 3 lbs