Jewelcrafting#
A gem is a stone until somebody decides what it's worth. Be the one who decides.
The trade of rings, amulets, circlets and the gems set in them. Jewelers cast small and work fine, cut stones, and know what anything that glitters is worth before the merchant does.
Ranks and quests#
The guild’s hall sets each rank’s quest. Six ranks has what every rank makes, and making something how the craft roll works.
- Level0Rank 1: Inquirer
Trash to Shoddy · ×1 worth · 1d6 craft roll
Sort a tray of the hall's stones into real and glass, and don't get one wrong.
- Level20Rank 2: Hobbyist
Crude to Inferior · ×1.25 worth · 2d6 craft roll
Appraise a merchant's stock and tell the hall which piece he's lying about.
- Level40Rank 3: Apprentice
Shoddy to Acceptable · ×1.5 worth · 2+3d6 craft roll
Cast and finish a plain ring for someone getting married, and don't be late for the wedding.
- Level60Rank 4: Journeyman
Poor to Fine · ×1.75 worth · 4+4d6 craft roll
Cut a stone you prospected yourself and set it in a piece someone will wear every day.
- Level80Rank 5: Master
Inferior to Flawless · ×2 worth · 5+5d6 craft roll
Recut a famous stone someone else ruined, without losing more of it than the hall allows.
- Level100Rank 6: Artisan
Adequate to Masterwork · ×3 worth · 6+6d6 craft roll
Make a circlet for a first-generation family of Tharsis, and get them to pay for it.
The work#
Jewelry starts in the forge like any metalwork, but the pieces are small and the last steps are all by hand. Gems are what the trade is really about: each has its own properties, and the right one makes a ring worth more than the gold around it.
Gems come from prospecting ore. Identify gem tells you what you’ve found, and appraise jewelry tells you what someone else’s piece is worth.
Melting the metal#
Heat the crucible to the metal’s melting point with press bellows, fuel fire and reshape flame, as any smith does.
Casting the piece#
Cast mold pours the melt into a jewelry mold, release mold frees the hot piece and quench cools it in the slack tub, ready for the bench.
Finishing the piece#
The cast piece looks almost done, but a sand mold can’t hold fine detail. Clean flash files off the ragged edges the mold left, and refine form engraves the detail by hand. Then cut gem shapes a stone, which costs 3 material, inset gem sets it, and polish finishes the piece.
Skills and tools#
- ReconditionInquirer
- Recondition is used to fix minor problems in rings and necklaces, turning fair or excellent condition items into mint condition.Tools: polishing cloth
- RepairHobbyist
- Repair is used to fix major problems in rings and necklaces, turning damaged or mediocre condition items into fair condition items so they can then be reconditioned to mint.Tools: polishing cloth, buffing solution
- RebuildApprentice
- Rebuild is used to completely overhaul broken or ruined condition rings and necklaces into damaged condition items so they can be repaired and reconditioned back into pristine shape.Tools: jeweler hammer, workbench
- Fuel Fire
- Issues coal into a hearth or forge.
- Press Bellows
- Increases the heat of the hearth or forge by forcing air into it (forge) or upon it (hearth) through a tuyere.
- Reshape Flame
- Increases the maximum heat potential by assembling a new layer of damp coal around the edge of the hearth or forge.
- Cast Mold
- Use a present mold to cast an item of the molds type by pouring the melted material into it.
- Release Mold
- After the melted metal cools into a solid, releasing a mold clears the hot raw product from the mold making it ready for quenching.
- Quench
- Done immediately after releasing a mold quenching dumps the hot raw product into a slack tub so it can be swagged.
- Clean Flash
- Cleans the hot raw product so its form is more accurate
- Refine Form
- Requiring an engraving rotary, refines a form to be perfect beyond what a mold can do
- Cut Gem
- Cuts a raw gem so it can be placed within jewelry, it uses exactly 3 material amount to make a gem cut for jewelryTools: jeweler hammer
- Inset Gem
- Insets cut gem into non-gemmed finished jewelry (only one gem per jewelry piece)Tools: jeweler hammer
- Polish
- Polishes the item and gem, increasing value.Tools: polishing cloth
- Identify Gem
- Identifies a gem and its worth.
- Appraise Jewelry
- Identifies the value and effects of jewelry.
- Engrave
- Engraves an inscription into a weapon, armor or jewelry, shown to any who look at it. Engraving it again may erase it.Tools: engraving rotary, workbench
Tools and supplies (17)
| Tool | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Master Jeweler’s Magical Polishing Cloth | A linen cloth that brings out a stone’s fire. |
| Apprentice Jeweler’s Magical Polishing Cloth | A linen cloth that teaches the hand holding it. |
| Workbench | A bench is required for some tradesguilds to perform tasks. A bench is generally 36 by 80 stones in surface area, and made of either stone, or a hard wood or metal surface with wooden legs. Few benches have metal legs as the weight of the table would prevent transportation of it. Stone tables are generally carved out of the environment and seen mostly within jewall. |
| Slack Tub | Tub of cool water used to extinguish heat from hot metals after they’re done being cast. |
| Forge | Helps in heating of materials contained as ingots into molds by melting them into a liquid state. |
| Hearth | Very similar to a forge, a hearth is a smaller version where the crucible actually sets ontop instead of within. A hearth heats up to melt the material within the crucible. |
| Tuyere | Item used to breathe air into a hearth or forge to increase the heat. |
| Tongs | Tongs are metallic tools that bend at the top apex, allowing the tips to clamp and surface with the continued force of squeezing the handles together. Tongs are used to hold very hot items, predominately those that need to be transported to the quench tank to cool. |
| File | A tool with a roughened surface or surfaces, typically of steel, used for smoothing or shaping a hard material. |
| Jeweler Hammer | Used to shape a material intricately by bending. |
| Engraving Rotary | Required to refine a jewelcraftings form, increasing the accuracy of the product. |
| Mandrel | A tapered rod that rings and glass beads are shaped around. |
| Pliers | Used to move gems delicately into jewelry insets, whether they are bazel, prong, or channel. Pliers have pincers with parallel, flat and typically serrated surfaces and are used fhiefly for gripping small objects or bending wire. |
| Weights | A nested set of dense reference weights, exact to the grain, used to prove a merchant’s or enchanter’s scale. |
| Tweezers | Small sprung pincers with hair-fine points, used to lift and set stones and fine work. |
| Polishing Cloth | A polishing cloth is a soft square of chamois. Jewelers rub scratches and tarnish out of rings and necklaces with it, and work a buffing solution in with it to repair deeper wear. |
| Buffing Solution | A buffing solution is a fine abrasive paste in oil. Jewelers work it into worn rings and necklaces with a polishing cloth to repair them. |
What it makes#
Gems#
Every gem comes from prospecting ore, at the DC to find it.
Gems (42)
| Gem | DC | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feldspar | 5 | A pink gem |
| Goshenite | 5 | A clear gem |
| Hematite | 5 | A black gem |
| Malachite | 5 | A bright green mineral consisting of copper hydroxyl carbonite |
| Sunstone | 5 | An orange gem, known for its strong ability battle potency. |
| Andalusite | 8 | A gold gem |
| Azurite | 8 | A deep blue precious gem known for appearing near copper. |
| Benitoite | 8 | A blue gem |
| Bixbite | 8 | A red gem |
| Chrysocolla | 8 | A blue gem |
| Chrysoprase | 8 | A green gem |
| Heliodor | 8 | A yellow gem |
| Jade | 8 | A hard, typically green stone used for ornaments and implements, consisting of the minerals jadeite or nephrite. |
| Jasper | 8 | An opaque reddish-brown variety of chalcedony. |
| Kunzite | 8 | Sometimes used as a purifying agent, but also a purple gem |
| Lapis Lazuli | 8 | A bright blue metamorphic rock consisting largely of lazurite. |
| Maxixe | 8 | A blue gem sometimes used as a purifying agent. |
| Moonstone | 8 | A multicolored precious gem commonly attributed to having magical properties. |
| Morganite | 8 | A pink gem |
| Olivine | 8 | A green gem |
| Onyx | 8 | A black gem |
| Opal | 8 | A bright multicolored rock consisting mostly of hydrated amorphous silica. |
| Pyrite | 8 | Used both as a purifying agent and as a red gem. |
| Sugilite | 8 | A purple gem |
| Tanzanite | 8 | A blue gem |
| Topaz | 8 | A precious pale blue stone consisting of fluorine containing aluminum silicate. |
| Turquoise | 8 | A blue gem |
| Zircon | 8 | A blue gem |
| Amethyst | 10 | A precious stone consisting of a violet or purple variety of quartz. |
| Aquamarine | 10 | A blue gem |
| Citrine | 10 | A yellow gem |
| Diamond | 10 | A clear gem |
| Emerald | 10 | A bright green precious stone consisting of a chromium-rich variety of beryl. |
| Garnet | 10 | A red gem |
| Golden Beryl | 10 | A yellow gem |
| Obsidian | 10 | A black material, sometimes used as a gem |
| Quartz | 10 | A semi-precious white crystalline gem. |
| Ruby | 10 | A precious stone consisting of corundum in color varieties usually reddish in hue. |
| Sapphire | 10 | A transparent precious stone, typically blue that is a variety of corundum. |
| Spinel | 10 | A precious stone consisting of corundum in color varieties usually reddish in hue. Known as a cheaper and more abundant version of ruby |
| Ammolite | 20 | A multi-colored gem |
| Tourmaline | 20 | A multi-colored gem |
Jewelry#
| Piece | DC | Material | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ring | 5 | 8 metal and gem | A small circular band of precious metal. |
| Amulet | 10 | 8 metal and gem | An ornament or small piece of jewelry thought to give protection against evil, danger or disease. |
| Anklet | 10 | 8 metal and gem | An ornament worn around the ankle. |
| Circlet | 10 | 15 metal and gem | A circlet is usually metallic and thin, wrapping about the upper circumference of the head, generally pinned to the hair, or with support thorns that drop to rest upon the head securely. |
| Mask | 12 | 15 gem | A mask is a piece of armor worn about the face to conceal ones identity they may resemble jesters, daemune, avarie, or simple facial reconstructions of generic emotions. |
| Spectacles | 18 | 12 gem | Spectacles are a form of eyeglasses that are made much smaller in effort to improve the ability of reading for those with eyesight problems. |
The guildmaster#
Ysolde cut stones for the first-generation families of Tharsis and was never once paid on time by any of them. She keeps a ledger of what every founding name still owes her, and more than one family has decided it would rather stay on her good side than settle it. She has moved her bench to the Merchant Guild Hall in Blithe, where debts are settled before the officers on the dais, and that suits her.
Find Ysolde Marrow at the Merchant Guild Hall in Blithe, in Crecia. It’s the guild’s only hall: you join there, and you come back to it for every rank’s quest, inquirer to artisan.
Trades it works with#
What jewelcrafting gives the other trades.
Alchemy
Powdered kunzite, pyrite, galena and the other stones alchemy purifies its brews with.
Sigildry
Cinnabar and cut stone for the beads and inlays sigildry assembles.
What it takes from them.
A good pair
Mining: Prospecting turns up the gems a jeweler cuts, and the gold and silver to set them in.
Who takes it up#
The classes whose work jewelcrafting fits best. Any class can join any guild.
Pickpocket
A pickpocket who can appraise a ring knows which pocket to pick, and a jeweler's bench is a fine place to change what a stolen piece looks like.
Minstrel
Minstrels play for the rich, and the rich buy jewelry from people they like.
Runescribe
Engraving a ring by hand isn't far from cutting a rune, and a runescribe's hand is already steady.
The guild finder ranks every guild for a class.
How it shows#
None of this changes a roll. It’s how the people around you can tell what you do for a living.
- You look at people’s hands before their faces, and you know what their rings cost.
- There’s a loupe on a cord around your neck, and you use it on coins.
What others say#
Ask a Tharsian jeweler what your ring is worth and she'll tell you. Ask what she'd pay for it and you'll get a different number.
The best stones on Sedia come out of Jewall's mines, and the best cutters are in Tharsis. Nobody in Jewall finds that funny.
The paste necklace
A first-generation family of Tharsis is about to pawn its founding necklace to cover a debt, and Ysolde Marrow swears the stones in it were swapped for glass years ago. If she’s right, somebody inside the family did it. If she says so out loud, she’ll never cut another stone in Tharsis, so she wants the party to find out first.
