View source for Craft Explosives (3.5e Skill)

==== Craft (Explosives) ([[Int]]) ====
[[Summary::An engineer merges knowledge gained from pyromania and trap making into making explosives.]]

This skill can only be gained as a class skill.
=====Check=====
You can practice your trade and make a decent living, earning about half your check result in gold pieces per three days of dedicated work. You know how to use the tools of your trade, how to perform the craft’s daily tasks, how to supervise untrained helpers, and how to handle common problems. (Untrained laborers and assistants earn an average of 1 silver piece per day.)

The basic function of the Craft skill, however, is to allow you to make an item of the appropriate type. The [[SRD:DC|DC]] depends on the complexity of the item to be created. The [[SRD:DC|DC]], your check results, and the price of the item determine how long it takes to make a particular item. The item’s finished price also determines the cost of raw materials.

Unlike the normal craft skills, one cannot use spells to replace or buff a check. 

All crafts require engineer tools to give the best chance of success. If improvised tools are used, the check is made with a –4 circumstance penalty. On the other hand, masterwork artisan’s tools provide a +4 circumstance bonus on the check.

To determine how much time and money it takes to make an item, follow these steps.

#Find the item’s price. Put the price in gold pieces.
#Find the [[SRD:DC|DC]] from the table below.
#Pay two-thirds of the item’s price for the cost of raw materials.
#Make an appropriate Craft check representing three days work. If the check succeeds, multiply your check result by the [[SRD:DC|DC]]. If the result × the [[SRD:DC|DC]] equals the price of the item in gp, then you have completed the item. (If the result × the [[SRD:DC|DC]] equals double or triple the price of the item in gold pieces, then you’ve completed the task in one-half or one-third of the time. Other multiples of the [[SRD:DC|DC]] reduce the time in the same manner.) If the result × the [[SRD:DC|DC]] doesn’t equal the price, then it represents the progress you’ve made this week. Record the result and make a new Craft check for the next three days. Each three days, you make more progress until your total reaches the price of the item in gold pieces.

:If you fail a check by 4 or less, you make no progress for next three days.

:If you fail by 5 or more, you ruin half the raw materials and have to pay half the original raw material cost again.
======Progress by the Day======
You can make checks by the day instead of by three. In this case, your progress (check result × [[SRD:DC|DC]]) is in silver pieces x two instead of gold pieces.
======Creating Masterwork Items======
You can make a masterwork item — a weapon, suit of armor, shield, or tool that conveys a bonus on its use through its exceptional craftsmanship, not through being magical. To create a masterwork item, you create the masterwork component as if it were a separate item in addition to the standard item. The masterwork component has its own price (twice normal price for ammo or thrice for projectiles) and a Craft [[SRD:DC|DC]] of 20. Once both the standard component and the masterwork component are completed, the masterwork item is finished. ''Note:'' The cost you pay for the masterwork component is one-third of the given amount, just as it is for the cost in raw materials.
======Repairing Items======
Generally, you can repair an item by making checks against the same [[SRD:DC|DC]] that it took to make the item in the first place. The cost of repairing an item is one-fifth of the item’s price.

When you use the Craft skill to make a particular sort of item, the [[SRD:DC|DC]] for checks involving the creation of that item are typically as given on the following table.
{| class="zebra d20"
|-
!Item!![[SRD:DC|DC]]
|-
|align="left"|[[#Bullets|Bullets]], Fuse, Frag Grenade||5
|-
|align="left"|Specialized Grenade, Sticky Grenade, IED||10
|-
|align="left"|[[#Detonator|Detonator]]<sup>1</sup>, [[High-Explosive Rocket (3.5e Equipment)|High-Explosive Rocket]], Mine, Mortar Cartridge||15
|-
|align="left"|Artillery Shell<sup>2</sup>, [[#Mortar|Mortar]]<sup>1</sup>||20
|-
|align="left"|Dirty Bomb||25
|-
|align="left"|[[#Howitzer|Howitzer]]<sup>1</sup>||30 
|-
|colspan="2" class="foot"|
#A trigger mechanism (like a detonator), or a projectile (like a mortar). None create explosions independently, requiring a charge to have an effect.
#All except dirty bomb.
|}

'''Action:''' Does not apply. Craft checks are made by the hour, day or three-day period (see above).

'''Try Again:''' Yes, but each time you miss by 5 or more, you ruin half the raw materials and have to pay half the original raw material cost again.

'''Synergy:''' If an engineer had 5 ranks in the Craft (alchemy or trapmaking) skills, they gain a +2 bonus on Craft (explosive checks).
Author	Franken Kesey +
Identifier	3.5e Skill +
Rating	Unrated +
Summary	An engineer merges knowledge gained from pyromania and trap making into making explosives. + and A remote detonator can be used to detonate traps and explosives up to a mile away. +
Title	Craft Explosives +