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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8737348" data-attributes="member: 7006">The hard part about divining how useful feats like Crafter are is whether there are going to be any real changes to the whole Tool proficiency system.  The UA does mention that if you have a Tool and a Skill that are both applicable to a situation that you get to both add your prof bonus and roll with Advantage (I presume this comes out of Tasha's?)... but if that's the case I'd want a strong list of which Tool Profs are meant to match up with which Skills (without needing to refer back to Tasha's).  Because if some Tools have natural matches and thus give the player Advantage when they use them (like Herbalism Kit and Nature, and Musical Instrument and Performance)... but other don't (like what Skill does Carpenter's Tool's match up to when building a crate, and without an Engineering skill can Thieve's Tools ever grant Advantage)... then for my money the Tool Proficiencies again won't be that great a system and I probably will strike them from my game.Not that I would have a problem doing that... but I figure if they're still stayng in on Tools, I'd certainly prefer a bit of a system punch-up for them given the choice.  This'll be one of the things I'll be talking about in the survey when it comes.</blockquote>