Expanded Equipment

• Bedroll: A heavy woolen blanket with a small pillow.

• Bell: A 1” brass bell.

• Belt pouch: A leather pouch that holds up to 50 coins.

• Block and tackle: Used for hauling or lifting heavy objects. Reduces the effective weight by 75%. Requires 4 times as much rope.

• Box, iron: A solid iron casket. A large box can hold up to 800 coins; a small box can hold up to 250 coins.

• Bucket: Holds 5 gallons (40 pints).

• Caltrops: Small metal spikes sufficient to cover a 5’ × 5’ area. Creatures moving through the area have a 2-in-6 chance of treading on a spike. Victims suffer a 50% reduction of movement rate for 24 hours (or until they receive magical healing).

• Candle: Casts dim light in a 5’ radius and burns for 1 hour.

• Chain: A 10’ length of heavy iron chain.

• Chalk: Useful for making markings on stone.

• Chest, wooden: A large chest can hold up to 1,000 coins; a small chest can hold up to 300 coins.

• Chisel: Used with a hammer for chipping away stone.

• Cooking pots: Pots and pans for campfire cooking.

• Firewood: A bundle of dry wood. Burns for 8 hours.

• Fishing rod and tackle: A rod, line, hook, and bait box.

• Ink: A vial of black ink. Colored ink costs double. Sufficient for about 50 pages of writing.

• Ladder: Simple wooden construction. Very encumbering.

• Lantern, bullseye: Casts light in a narrow beam, 60’ long and 20’ wide at the end. Can be closed to hide the light. Burns one oil flask every four hours (24 turns).

• Lock: A basic iron lock with a key.

• Magnifying glass: Used for studying fine details.

• Manacles: Iron manacles with a chain. Used for binding hands or feet.

• Marbles: A bag of colorful glass beads.

• Mining pick: For breaking rock.

• Musical instrument: A stringed instrument (e.g., a lute or mandolin) or a wind instrument (e.g., a flute or pipe). The listed price is for an instrument of basic quality. Higher quality instruments can cost up to 10 times as much.

• Paper or parchment: Approximately 1’-square sheets.

• Quill: A large feather sharpened into a writing point.

• Saw: A hand saw for cutting wood.

• Scroll case: An oiled leather tube with a cap. Not completely watertight.

• Sledgehammer: A big heavy hammer for breaking rock.

• Spade or shovel: For excavating earth.

• Tent: Large enough for 2 adult humans.

• Twine: A wound ball of thin cord or string. Can support up to 300 coins of weight.

• Vial: A glass vial that can hold up to half a pint of liquid.

• Whistle: Useful for signaling or faking bird calls. 

• Wineskin/Waterskin: A container for drinking water or wine; though generally water is taken into a dungeon or wilderness environment. The standard waterskin holds one quart of liquid, which is the minimum amount required by a normal character in a single day. If adventuring in the desert or other hot, dry areas, a character may need as much as ten times this amount. Note that the given 2-pound weight is for a full skin; an empty skin has negligible weight.

• Writing Ink: Stored in a small ceramic jar or tin and sufficient for 50 pages of normal writing. 

• Spyglass: A sleek and compact telescopic device, crafted with precision lenses and fine metal or wooden detailing. Objects viewed through a spyglass are magnified to twice their size. spyglass allows for long-distance viewing, making it indispensable for surveillance, navigation, and observing distant objects or events.

• Coal Keeper: A small, lined ceramic pot designed to hold and keep a small coal or ember lit for several hours. While this will resist moisture and wind, immersion will extinguish the coal immediately.

• Cord/Strap: A short length or thin rope, leather, or a short belt for tying something to an arm, leg, or other accessories. This can secure a scabbard to an arm or leg, or attach a pouch to a baldric, or the strap of a backpack.

• Flasks: Metal containers that hold between 8 and 12 oz. of liquid. Includes stopper.

• Iron Spikes: Useful for spiking doors closed (or spiking them open) and may be used as crude pitons in appropriate situations.

• Jars: Includes stopper, with 8-16 oz. volume (double or halve price for larger/smaller volumes). Good for wet or dry materials, but prone to breakage.

• Rope Ladder: A regularly knotted rope, or two lengths of rope, strung with rungs, with a single line at the top for a hook. 850 lb capacity.

• Lantern: Provides light covering a 30' radius; dim light will extend about 20' further. A lantern will consume a flask of oil in 18+1d6 turns. A Hooded Lantern has a shutter mechanism to close off the light and prevent it from being seen.

• Lantern (Bulls-eye): Similar to a hooded lantern, only closed on all but one lensed side. This projects light up to 30', and 30' at its widest; includes a shutter.

• Lens and Magnifying Glass: Both allow for magnification of objects; lens is smaller, limited to 2-3x, magnifying glass is framed, higher quality, minimum 5x. Both can be used to attempt to start fires (requires strong sunlight).

• Mirror: Useful in a dungeon environment for many reasons; for instance, it is the only way to look at a medusa without being turned to stone. Mirrors are also useful for looking around corners, and can be used outdoors to send signals using reflected sunlight.

• String / Twine: Holds up to 30 lb.

• Cooking Supplies: Cooking supplies odds and ends needed for cooking on the road, including some basic sundries, common seasonings, smoking wood, etc. 

Personal Items

• Journal: Leather-bound, paper, 6” x 9”, 50 pages. Good for making notes, sketches, or small maps. The paper is NOT spellbook quality.

• Map or Scroll Case: A tubular oiled leather case used to carry maps, scrolls, or other paper items. The case will have a water-resistant (but not waterproof) cap which slides over the end and a loop to allow the case to be hung from a belt or bandolier. A standard scroll case can hold up to 10 sheets of paper, or a single scroll of up to seven spells.

• Mess Kit: The essential utensils for eating while camping. Most often this is a trencher (something between a bowl and a plate), spoon, knife, fork if appropriate, and a small cup of wood, tin, or brass.

• Hemp Rope: 1⁄2 inch in diameter and has a breaking strength of 1,600 pounds. Safe working load for a rope is normally one-quarter of the breaking strength. One or more knots in a rope cut the breaking strength in half. This does not affect the safe working load, because knots are figured into the listed one-quarter ratio.

• Tinderbox: Generally purchased with a flint and steel; the flint, a piece of hard rock, is struck vigorously against a C-shaped piece of high-carbon steel. When done correctly, hot sparks will fly from the flint and steel into the tinder, hopefully starting a fire. The best tinder is a dried piece of prepared tinder fungus, carried in the tinderbox to keep it dry; char cloth, hemp rope, or even very dry grass can substitute if prepared tinder fungus is not available. The time required to start a fire should be determined by the GM according to the prevailing conditions; under ideal conditions, starting a fire with a flint, steel, and tinder takes about a turn.

• Torch: Sheds light over a 30' radius, with dim light extending about 20' further, and burns for 1d4+4 turns. Of course, a torch is also useful for setting flammable materials (such as cobwebs or oil) alight.