Editing Downtime Activities (section)

=== Tools ===
Gaining proficiency with a tool is significantly shorter than with other skills, but requires more investment due to the increase in material consumption for practice, and the lack of valuable product that can be gained by learning (as an example, training in animal handling is free because while you are learning to handle animals, you are also caring for animals and basically paying for yourself, whereas learning how to smith, you will make some really shitty swords wasting a lot of material that nobody wants).

The tool proficiencies are as follows:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Tool !! Cost !! Time to train*
|-
| [[Alchemist's supplies]] || 100 gp || 12 weeks 
|-
| [[Brewer's supplies]] || 40 gp || 16 weeks
|-
| [[Calligrapher's Supplies]] || 20 gp || 12 weeks
|-
| [[Carpenter's tools]] || 20 gp || 8 weeks
|-
| [[Cartographer's tools]] || 30 gp || 12 weeks
|-
| [[Cobbler's tools]] || 10 gp || 8 weeks
|-
| [[Cook's utensils]] || 3 gp || 8 weeks
|-
| [[Disguise Kit]] || 100 gp || 24 weeks
|-
| [[Forgery Kit]] || 60 gp || 24 weeks
|-
| [[Gaming Set]] || 20gp || 8 weeks
|-
| [[Glassblower's tools]] || 60 gp || 8 weeks
|-
| [[Herbalism Kit]] || 10 gp || 8 weeks
|-
| [[Jeweler's tools]] || 150 gp || 12 weeks
|-
| [[Land and Water Vehicles]] || 80 gp || 12 weeks
|-
| [[Leatherworker's tools]] || 20 gp || 8 weeks
|-
| [[Mason's tools]] || 30 gp || 8 weeks
|-
| [[Musical Instruments]] || 10gp || 24 weeks
|-
| [[Navigator's tools]] || 50 gp || 32 weeks
|-
| [[Painter's supplies]] || 20 gp || 8 weeks
|-
| [[Poisoner's kit]] || 150 gp || 32 weeks
|-
| [[Potter's tools]] || 20 gp || 10 weeks
|-
| [[Smith's tools]] || 100 gp || 10 weeks
|-
| [[Thieves' tools]] || 75 gp || 24 weeks
|-
| [[Tinker's tools]] || 100 gp || 12 weeks
|-
| [[Weaver's tools]] || 5 gp || 8 weeks
|-
| [[Woodcarver's tools]] || 5 gp || 8 weeks
|}

Unlike other skills, gaining a tool expertise (double proficiency bonus) costs double the training time, but the material cost is the same.

As an example, Proficiency with [[Smith's tools]] costs 100 gp and takes 10 weeks of downtime. A pre-requisite to Expertise is Proficiency, so once you gain proficiency in Smith's tools, you are now eligible to train Expertise, which takes twice the time, but the same additional cost.
So after you have proficiency with Smith's Tools, you can spend an additional 100 gp and 20 weeks of downtime to gain expertise in Smith's Tools. This provides you with twice your proficiency bonus with any check associated with those tools, and it also allows you to use them for crafting with higher efficiency, halving any crafting time associated with them.

Tool Proficiency: X gold, Y weeks
Tool Expertise: Prerequisite: Tool Proficiency in the same tool, X gold, and 2*Y weeks.