Details

  • Level: 5
  • Category: Creation
  • Component Cost: 100 gp, plus a focus worth 100 gp
  • Market Price: 250 gp
  • Time: Standard action
  • Duration: See below
  • Key Skill: Arcana (no check)
  • Source: Dragon Magazine 380

Description

You examine a lock or trap as part of the ritual and sprinkle residuum on the focus (see below). After enacting this ritual, you can use the focus to make a Thievery check with a +5 bonus on the lock or trap you examined. Even if you fail by 5 or more, you cannot set off a trap with a check augmented by the bonus from this ritual.
Focus: An ornate key or thieves’ tool worth 100 gp.