Woodcutting

Woodcutting allows you to gather logs.

To cut trees, you first have to find where it's located. Trees can be found all over the world in forests, jungles, swamps, and other habitats.
Having a higher Woodcutting level will allow you to gather more valuable logs.

Woodcutting Process

You can chop trees once per long rest. This activity takes 1 hour.
For every +5 you beat the DC of the tree by, you get an extra log.
Sometimes, a lucky lumberjack will stumble upon a satyr when out in the forest. When you fail to successfully gather logs from a tree, roll percentile dice. If you roll a 95% or higher, then you find a friendly satyr. This satyr can bestow 1of 8 gifts upon you. Roll 1d8 on the Satyr's Gifts table. These gifts cannot be sold.

• Find the tree you’d like to cut. The DM determines what trees are around you and of what type.
• Roll a Constitution skill check (with proficiency if you are proficient in Constitution saves). If your roll equals or exceeds the trees DC, you chop and gather the logs.
• Roll the corresponding die to determine how many logs you obtain.
• You gain Woodcutting XP equal to the level of the logs you obtained + your current Woodcutting level (If you fail to cut a tree, you instead gain 1d4-1 Woodcutting XP and the logs are destroyed).

Career

Qualifications

To start Woodcutting you will need at least:

• 14 CON
• Handaxe (5 gp – PHB page 149)
• Dedicated Backpack (2 gp – PHB page 150) or any large enough container to hold logs

Career Progression

XP to Level a Profession:

Level	Title	XP required
1	Novice	0
2	Apprentice	10
3	Expert	30
4	Master	60
5	Legendary	100

Other Benefits

Achieving Level 5

• Character gains the Feat: Athlete.

• Character gains access to Woodcutting Guilds and knows the location of any important logging areas such as hidden forests and woodlands.

• NPCs who love to chop wood become friendlier.

Perception

Purpose

To harvest logs for crafting

History

Tree Descriptions

Demetrus
This is a mythical tree, only rumored to exist. It's speculated that the Demetrus tree is what Demeter herself used to craft her torch. No one knows what it looks like, nor what it does. Because of this, there is no wood of this tree in the market.

Ethereal
Ethereal trees have dark grey bark, almost as if it were burned, and are somewhat translucent. They are renowned for their ability to fade in and out of existence, though no one knows how or when it does this.
Items made from this tree retain its slightly translucent quality.


Ethereal logs can be burned in a fire to produce a phantasmal smoke. If a person sits within 10 feet of this smoke for 10 minutes or longer, they start to fade. After 10 minutes, the person enters the ethereal plane for 1 minute, until they choose to come back, or until they walk more than 20 feet away.


Ginsap
Ginsap trees have light brown, almost orange bark. They are renowned for their particularly runny sap. This sap is sweet, but has the same alcohol content as gin. Items made from this tree retain the light brownish-orange color.

Juno
Juno trees have light tan bark, but a deep, dark red interior. They are renowned for being very strong, but extraordinarily flexible. Items made from this tree retain the strange colors, and share the tree's strength and flexibility. Woodcutting

Operations

Tools

Handaxe and Dedicated Backpack
Items That Assist in Woodcutting
Below are items that can assist in Woodcutting.
Woodcutter's Axe +1
Tool, Uncommon
This axe allows you to add a +1 to any Woodcutting skill check you make to cut logs.
Woodcutter's Axe +2
Tool, Rare
This axe allows you to add a +2 to any Woodcutting skill check you make to cut logs.
Woodcutter's Axe +3
Tool, Very Rare
This axe allows you to add a +3 to any Woodcutting skill check you make to cut logs.
Rudimentary Tree Locator
Wondrous Item, Rare
This device looks like a strange compass; circular with a rod pinned by one of its ends in the center.
This item had 4 charges and gains 1d4 charges every day at dawn. You may use an action to expend 1 charge. Upon doing so, the rod springs toward the highest DC tree it can detect within a 10 mile radius. It will then vibrate every time it is shaken. The more intense the vibration, the closer you are to the tree it is tracking. Once you come within 50 feet of the tree, this item shuts back off. When off, another charge may be expended to begin tracking a tree again.

Workplace

Woodcutting in the Local Area
When lumberjacks would like to gather logs without having the entire party follow them into forests, they may spend time searching for trees locally. Typically, this is done when the party is setting up camp or is busy with something else. This adds 2 extra hours to the activity.
The Finding Local Trees table shows the information about finding local trees in a greater area. All rolls made to find trees in this way are made by rolling an Investigation skill check. If you use the Rudimentary Tree Locator, lower all the DCs by 5.
If the player rolls a natural 1 on their Investigation skill check, the DM may decide to incur a penalty on the player for being alone in the wilderness. For example, the DM may have the player's character take some damage because it got attacked by random animals or enemies.
A Woodcutting skill check must still be done once the tree has been found to determine if you successfully gather the logs. To chop any tree, you must still have the appropriate Woodcutting level.
Not all trees can be found using this method.

Alternative Names

Logging, Deforesting

Type

Agricultural / Fishing / Forestry

Satyr's Gifts

Roll	Gift
1	Charlatan's Die
2	Cloak of Billowing
3	Perfume of Bewitching
4	Pot of Awakening
5	Wand of Conducting
6	Wand of Pyrotechnics
7	Wand of Scowls
8	Wand of Smiles

Finding Local Trees

Tree	DC to find
Pine	0
Willow	5
Oak	0
Ginsap	12
Maple	16
Mahogany	18

TREES

Woodcutting Level	Tree	DC	Amount	Value
1	Pine	6	1d10	3 cp
1	Willow	8	1d8	4 cp
2	Oak	10	1d8	6 cp
2	Ginsap	12	1d6	1 sp
3	Maple	13	1d4	4 sp
3	Mahogany	16	1d4	1 gp
4	Juno	17	1d2	4 gp
5	Ethereal*	22	1	1 pp
5	Demetrus*	28	-	-

* High value; hard to sell (treated as magic items).