
Maybe the glassworker will let them freely use the furnace, but he has a problem as his glass cullet supplier hasn’t delivered his stock yet. This is great to help make the players more involved in the city. This means, our adventurers can only work on their glass projects while in a large enough town to have a glassblower and be able to rent out a workspace there.
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That’s pretty damn hot, and as I discussed on smith’s tools, a campfire only gets around 2,000 ☏… not quite warm enough for our purposes plus the glass needs to sit in a crucible for hours to get the bubbles out. To get glass to melt, you need to get it to around 2,300 ☏ or higher. Blow Meīefore we get into the tool, let’s go over a bit of information about glassworking. I guess being able to determine how old or where a glass jug came from in the treasure hoard can be useful, but that feels highly situational and probably isn’t information you should be hiding behind a skill check with a niche tool.

Pretty sure any double damage you were going to do can easily be accomplished in the minute you spent staring at it.Īll the examples it provides is just lacking and doesn’t do much.
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Oh boy, you can learn how to deal double damage to a glass object! Of course, you have to study it for a minute, meanwhile, the barbarian just walks over to it and starts slamming it on for a solid minute. Any damage dealt to the object by striking a weak spot is doubled. With 1 minute of study, you can identify the weak points in a glass object. When you study an area, your knowledge can aid you if the clues include broken glass or glass objects. (A potion might leave behind a residue, deform the glass, or stain it.) For instance, you can study how a glass potion bottle has been changed by its contents to help determine a potion's effects. Your knowledge of glassmaking techniques aids you when you examine glass objects, such as potion bottles or glass items found in a treasure hoard. You need a source of heat to work glass.Īrcana, History.

The tools include a blowpipe, a small marver, blocks, and tweezers. Someone proficient with glassblower's tools has not only the ability to shape glass but also specialized knowledge of the methods used to produce glass objects.Ĭomponents. Flip to page 82 of Xanathar’s Guide to Everything: Glassblower’s Tools As is tradition, let’s check in with Xanathar and say mean things about their tools.
