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Message: <blockquote data-quote="see" data-source="post: 8993455" data-attributes="member: 10531">By a immediate and direct reading of the actual descriptions.Calligrapher's supplies:"Components. Calligrapher's supplies include ink, a dozen sheets of parchment, and three quills.” -- Xanthar's Guide to Everything, p.79.Forgery Kit:"This small box contains a variety of papers and parchments, pens and inks, seals and sealing wax, gold and silver leaf, and other supplies necessary to create convincing forgeries of physical documents." -- PHB, p.154."Components. A forgery kit includes several different types of ink, a variety of parchments and papers, several quills, seals and sealing wax, gold and silver leaf, and small tools to to sculpt melted wax to mimic a seal." -- Xanthar's Guide to Everything, p.81.So, the calligrapher's supplies has ink -- which the forger's kit has. It has parchment -- which the forger's kit has.  It has three quill pens -- which the forger's kit has. And then the forger's kit has a bunch of other things. The calligrapher's supplies are, as a tool, a proper subset of the forgery kit.[HR][/HR]Further, as a simple logical matter, if a forger couldn't duplicate everything a calligrapher can do with calligrapher's supplies, then the forger couldn't actually forge the documents made by the calligrapher. So, it's clear that a calligrapher's core skills (until we get into the "special use" zone in Xanthar's descriptions) are a subset of a forger's skills.</blockquote>

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