Perhaps the most common tools used by adventurers, thieves' tools are designed for picking locks and foiling traps. In each of these paragraphs, the benefits apply only to someone who has proficiency with the tool, not someone who simply owns it.Ībout thieves' tools in particular (p. Paragraphs that begin with skill names discuss these possibilities. As DM, you can allow a character to make a check using the indicated skill with advantage. Every tool potentially provides advantage on a check when used in conjunction with certain skills, provided a character is proficient with the tool and the skill. Having thieves' tools and being proficient with them can give you advantage on checks related to traps if you are also proficient in the skill applied (p. However, I want to mention something from Xanathar's Guide to Everything. You do not have to be a rogue or have proficiency with thieves' tools. But you don't have to be a Rogue to be proficient - you can get the proficiency from your background or gain it during a downtime activity. Rogue class gives you proficiency with Thieves' Tools. He/she has to, apparently, since the DMG requires a burglar to be proficient with Thieves' Tools in order to unlock a door:Ĭharacters who don't have the key to a locked door can pick the lock with a successful Dexterity check (doing so requires thieves' tools and proficiency in their use). It is unclear if the character has to be proficient.
A successful DC 15 Dexterity check using thieves' tools disables the trip wire harmlessly. The trip wire is 3 inches off the ground and stretches between two support beams. Some trap descriptions explicitly say you can disable them with Thieves' Tools: You might call for an Intelligence (Investigation) check for a character to deduce what needs to be done, followed by a Dexterity check using thieves' tools to perform the necessary sabotage. Talking about deactivating mechanical traps, the Dungeon Master's Guide implies using Thieves' Tools in the process:
You probably have to be proficient with Thieves' Tools For instance, Lost Mines of Phandelver from Starter Set has a Pit trap in the forest - it is just a pit 6 feet wide, 10 feet deep, camouflaged with leaves. Some traps, like Hunting Trap, are meant to be disarmed by anyone without any tools. Various adventures describe plenty of magical and mechanical traps, simple and complicated. There is no particular "disarm a trap" action in 5e rules. But there are no general requirements that apply to disarming all traps that require any particular class. There certainly could be a trap that some DM has used somewhere that could only be disarmed by a character with the knowledge that comes from having the Rogue class. That's just a sample of a kind of trap that a DM might use, though, and each trap can be different. 123) says that a "DC 15 Dexterity check using thieves' tools disarms the trap", though I'm not completely confident whether that means that having thieves' tools are required in order to even attempt disarming it, or whether that language is just saying that in the Dexterity check one can add one's proficiency bonus if one has proficiency with Thieves' tools. For example, the sample " Poison Needle" trap (DMG p. So, there may be more specific requirements depending on the specific trap. If the adventurers detect a trap before triggering it, they might be able to disarm it, either permanently or long enough to move past it. You can also compare the DC to detect the trap with each character's passive Wisdom (Perception) score to determine whether anyone in the party notices the trap in passing. A character actively looking for a trap can attempt a Wisdom (Perception) check against the trap's DC. 120):Ī trap's description specifies the checks and DCs needed to detect it, disable it, or both. Under " Detecting and Disabling a Trap" (DMG p.
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