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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8689168" data-attributes="member: 82106">As a chemist by education, yeah maybe I could suggest some things, but since alchemy is 'magical' it COULD include most anything in terms of say, reagents. In terms of say climbing gear, I have very little idea beyond 'ropes, pitons, and carabiners', but I have only really a notional idea how those are used, not having done any serious climbing. I suspect anyone could suggest some plausible carpenter's tools. One difficulty is that many of these items have a wide variety of potential 'off label' uses. I mean, hammers are surely part of carpenter's tools, but they also make a serviceable emergency weapon. The way games like 5e and TB2 handle this there's no provision for using them that way. It certainly isn't disallowed, but its not exactly clear how that would work. Beyond that, couldn't my carpentry hammer and some spikes help with a climbing task? I mean, maybe that kind of 'cross label use' isn't SUPER effective, but it could be better than nothing! You can see why classic early Dungeon Crawl D&D wasn't super excited by the idea of having these sorts of 'kits', since it primarily wanted to use a pure 'solve problems narratively' kind of approach. Obviously that is where the whole 'everything must be exactly specified' point of view comes from.</blockquote>