Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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Hi Folks,
I don't know if I need clarification or not because I think I understand how this works already. But, just for my sanity's sake I wanted to go over the 2024 Forgery Kit, specifically it's first Utilize property. I can't find any information on this anywhere, or a discussion about it.
Does no one find it strange that a Forgery Kit only allows you to mimic 10 words or fewer of someone else's handwriting? This seems like a huge downgrade from the 2014 rules, and especially the Xanathar's rules. In fact, it makes very little sense. The only "kit" you would require to mimic someone's handwriting is a pen, or maybe Calligrapher's Supplies since I'm assuming there's a quill and ink in them. I guess you could stretch the logic a bit and say there are things like a magnifying glass or something in the kit to help you mimic the handwriting.
It doesn't even really make any sense in the established structure of Supplies/Kits/Tools. Most of these, especially artisan's tools have a "craft" feature, not all of the "other" tools have this feature, like Thieve's Tools and Gaming Sets. But, all the ones that make sense to have the Craft feature, do have it(tools that would logically make things). With the exception of the Forgery Kit, which I would assume crafted forgeries...
I don't know, thoughts?
The tools instances given are examples, not the absolute be-all-end-all of what they can do. It's DC 15 to run off a quick blurb of text, whereas trying to forge a whole letter would be a higher DC.