Artisan Tool

Rare

This tool is used for creating tattoos. Proficiency allows you to utilize the tool safely and ink the skin of most creatures. However, making designs or unique art will also require the use of Painter's, Calligrapher's or Cartographer's tools to draft up a sketch. Next someone proficient with an Inker's Needle can turn the design into a tattoo.

Tattoo Size	Base Cost	Base Time
1" diameter	10gp	30 minutes
6" diameter	50gp	4 hours
12" diameter	300gp	3 sessions of 8 hours each

These costs and time are minimums. It is possible to spend more for higher quality materials, or allow the artist additional passes to improve the quality. Exceptional inks can be used to cover the material cost, some will even have additional properties.

The base DC for giving a tattoo the natural AC of a creature +4. Modified by the pain tolerance of the recipient. Subtract the Constitution modifier of the recipient from the DC. A negative Con mod will result in a higher DC.

Some creatures have particularly pigment absorbing skin, it grants advantage on any attempt to tattoo them. Cave Lotls, Fruggefolk, and other amphibians usually fall into this category.

Cost: 23gp