Your tools are used to craft structures made of stone, granite, marble, clay and other materials from smaller, individual units that are layered on each other. These structures can provide greater protection than just wooden constructs, though are quite more expensive to build.
Mason's Tools
Mason's tools consist of a trowel, a hammer, a chisel, brushes, and a square. Proficiency with this tool lets you add your proficiency bonus to any Mason's Tools (Strength) checks you make for your structures.
Mason's Tools weigh 8 lbs and cost 10 gp.
Building Materials
Unlike other tools, you need access to large quantities of stone, clay, mortar and other materials. If you find yourself wanting to create a massive castle in the middle of the desert, you may have to ship materials in to work with. This may increase you costs per the DMs discretion.
Structures
If you can dream it, you can probably build it with the help of your Mason's Tools... though it may require a large purse of gold and a lot of time.
If you aren't proficient in Mason's Tools, you can still hire others to build the structure, you just can't help.
Land
To begin building your structure, you need a plot of land. If the land lies within a kingdom or similar domain, a royal charter (a legal document granting permission to oversee the estate in the name of the crown) is needed, a land grant (a legal document bequeathing custody of the land to the character for as long as he or she remains loyal to the crown), or a deed (a legal document that serves as proof of ownership). Land can also be acquired by inheritance or other means.
Building
Once you have the necessary paperwork, you can begin construction of your structure. Each day you spend working on your structure, you must expend 25 gp to cover the costs of materials. If you are unable to cover the costs, you are unable to purchase the needed materials and your day of work is wasted.
Workers
As an adventurer, you aren't always willing to stay in one spot for a year to build a small fort. By hiring skilled workers, they can keep the progress moving forward on your structure going, though their services cost 2 gp per day. With multiple skilled workers on site, they can expedite the building process, but structures have a maximum number of workers that can work on it at a time.
By hiring skilled workers, you must pay the worker's wage of 2 gp per day. If you are unable to pay this, than no work is done on your structure.
Proficiency
Only characters and hirelings that are proficient with Mason's Tools can build structures made of stone.
Materials
The assumption is that you are building your structures out of simple stone native to the area. By importing or building with expensive materials, like marble, granite, or even adamantine, the cost can increase drastically.
Exotic Materials
Damage and Repairs
Each structure is abstracted out to be built up by 10" x 10" x 6" panels of stone, or whatever material you used to create your structure. Upon your structure being attacked, the attacker determines which panel they would like to target and must roll against the AC of the structure. On a successful hit, they then roll damage. If their damage meets or exceed the damage threshold for your chosen material, then the damage goes through, otherwise they only deal superficial damage and no effect on your structure.
If you wish to repair your structure, you must spend an hour repairing the structure with your Mason's Tools and succeed on a DC 15 Mason's Tools (Strength) check and repair 1d6 + your Strength modifier in hit points to that panel of wall. For each hit point that you restore, it costs you 1 gp in materials. This cost increases per the Exotic Materials chart for different materials.
Types of Structures
You can build a variety of stone structures with your Mason's Tools, each structure requires a different amount of time and total cost. The cost of each structure can be paid for over time, and you can always go back and work on your structure at a later date.
Large Structures and Teams
Some structures are so large that you could have multiple wings of it being worked on at one time, like a Large Castle. Per the DM's discretion, you can hire multiple teams to work on different parts of the structure at the same time, though each team is limited to the same maximum number of workers as the structure permits. These teams can help build sections faster, but it may not be available if the structure is not large enough.
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