Item- Portable Workshop?

[RUMBLETiGER]

Does 3.5 have anything like a portable workshop item? Something that will compact, either magically or mundane, that counts as a workspace to do crafting and magical crafting, that can be carried upon a person?

I'm sure I can build something within a Portable Hole, and I know I can always design some sort of pimped out wagon, but I was hoping for something specific among all the books that would serve a traveling adventurer, wherever he may go.

 

[Herzog]

I don't think so. And believe me, I looked when I was playing an artificer.

I also considered an alternative: portable two way door to an actual location where i had my workshop but couldn't find that either.

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

Alright thanks. I may need to revamp my Portable Apartment idea into a workshop, probably turn the hole sideways. Find a way to have it repel/block out Bags of Holding and other extradimensional objects.

 

[Herzog]

I re-submit my idea for a portable door (based on the magic item http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/wondrousItems.htm#ringGates) to a 'real' location.
This will allow you to have (and create, as that is what I assume the workshop is for) items like Bags of Holding in it without problems.

 

[MDK]

I used to have a partly homebrewn item (totally forgot the original source, though either D&D or I.C.E are most likely), which is a scroll with a painting of a furnished room. I think the original contained a table set for two and 2 sets of swords and shields. When the scroll was fixed to a wall or other vertical surface, the picture could be touched, command word spoken, and the user would be transported inside the room, free to use what was inside as desired. One wall (the one invisible on the painting) would contain an open door back into the normal world.
Items from the room were always mundane (a heap of diamonds would turn out to be glass), except for those put in by the owner himself (if you're worried about abuse you can rule that the original painting is of a bare room and *everything* needs to be provided by the owner of the scroll).
At any point, anyone outside the room could simply take the scroll down and store it, after which the room has enough air to last 1 medium sized creature 1 day.
We used it largely as our own deluxe portable bedroom (and occasional prison/hideout/storage facility), but of course a workshop could also be made this way.

Oh, the room was not considdered an extra-dimensional space or anything like that, so no issues with storing it in a bag of holding or the other way around.

 

[Blammoh]

Not sure if money is a limiting factor, but you can always kit out a demiplane to your liking and Gate to it whenever you need to.

 

[MarkB]

Not sure if money is a limiting factor, but you can always kit out a demiplane to your liking and Gate to it whenever you need to.

Choose one with the Slow Time (or is it Fast Time?) property, and you could Gate there, carry out several days' crafting, then Gate back just a few minutes later Prime-Material time.

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

At the point when one could access a demiplane, having a convenient place to setup a bench and chair is moot.
Thanks for all the input, I'll have to come up with something creative. [MENTION=6705182]MDK[/MENTION], that scroll idea seems cool. I'll toy around with something like that.

 

[Samloyal23]

Someone needs to make a spell that allows transdimensional spaces to fuse together into a larger space instead of ripping each other to pieces...

 

[scott2978]

You could use the Shrink Item spell. If your workshop is a small, free standing structure, like a tool shed, a reasonably low level wizard could shrink it.

A 10th level wizard could shrink a 20 cubic foot "workshop" shed to a patch of cloth about 16 inches wide, fold it up and put it in his pocket. It would stay that way for 10 days, or until he tosses it on the ground or gives a command word. Since Shrink Item is a 3rd level wizard spell it would be pretty easy to re-prepare the spell every couple weeks, or just make it permanent with the Permanency spell. You might need to ok it with your DM that all the shed's contents shrink with it, but even if not you can carry them around in a wagon, set up shop as part of normal daily camping duties, and pack up after last watch. Plus it gives the whole group a safer place to sleep that can be well secured with magic and is very safe from the elements and inclement weather.

Just watch out for antimagic fields

Scott