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Details: Conjure, +1 Hour R, @10 feet, =Instant, *VSM 10GP
You gain the service of a familiar, a spirit that takes an animal form you choose: bat, cat, crab, frog (toad), hawk, lizard, octopus, owl, poisonous snake, fish (quipper), rat, raven, sea horse, spider, or weasel. Appearing in an unoccupied space within range, the familiar has the statistics of the chosen form, though it is a celestial, fey, or fiend (your choice) instead of a beast. Additional animal form choices Your familiar acts independently of you, but it always obeys your commands. In combat, it rolls its own initiative and acts on its own turn. A familiar can't attack, but it can take other actions as normal. When the familiar drops to 0 hit points, it disappears, leaving behind no physical form. It reappears after you cast this spell again. While your familiar is within 100 feet of you, you can communicate with it telepathically. Additionally, as an action, you can see through your familiar's eyes and hear what it hears until the start of your next turn, gaining the benefits of any special senses that the familiar has. During this time, you are deaf and blind with regard to your own senses. As an action, you can temporarily dismiss your familiar. It disappears into a pocket dimension where it awaits your summons. Alternatively, you can dismiss it forever. As an action while it is temporarily dismissed, you can cause it to reappear in any unoccupied space within 30 feet of you. You can't have more than one familiar at a time. If you cast this spell while you already have a familiar, you instead cause it to adopt a new form. Choose one of the forms from the above list. Your familiar transforms into the chosen creature. Finally, when you cast a spell with a range of touch, your familiar can deliver the spell as if it had cast the spell. Your familiar must be within 100 feet of you, and it must use its reaction to deliver the spell when you cast it. If the spell requires an attack roll, you use your attack modifier for the roll.

I have played about dozen PCs over last few years and only two of then died. I barely remember the PCs I've played 6 months ago, but I still remember the two who died 1 and 2 years ago. Those PCs, their last combat and weapon they died holding - these have special place in my hart. That's how i feel about it.

No I don't want any PC to die. I want to feel death is a possibility.
I have played with DM who would summon a god or something to heal my PC when it is KO. I know DMs who would randomly summon enemies if feel it was too easy for players. I prefer fair combat. If we happen to kill big boss in one round - that's not a mistake, that's luck. If a PC die before BBEG combat - that's also not a mistake, just a bad luck or poor strategy.

A character who dies during the course of the adventure
has a few options at the end of the session (or whenever
arriving back in civilization) if no one in the adventuring
party has immediate access to a raise dead or revivify
spell, or similar magic. A character subject to a raise
dead spell is affected negatively until all long rests have
been completed during an adventure. Alternatively, each
downtime day spent after raise dead reduces the penalty
to attack rolls, saving throws, and ability checks by 1, in
addition to any other benefits the downtime activity
might provide.

Create a New Character. If the dead
character is unwilling or unable to exercise any of the
other options, the player creates a new character. The
new character does not have any items or rewards
possessed by the dead character. It will be the same level as the rest,
but it will be at the start of the XP range, so there might be a penalty
compared to the rest of the party.

Dead Character Pays for Raise Dead. If the
character’s body is recoverable (it’s not missing any vital
organs and is mostly whole) and the player would like
the character to be returned to life, the party can take
the body back to civilization and use the dead
character’s funds to pay for a raise dead spell. A raise
dead spell cast in this manner costs the character 1,250
gp.

Character’s Party Pays for Raise Dead. As above,
except that some or all of the 1,250 gp for the raise dead
spell is paid for by the party at the end of the session.
Other characters are under no obligation to spend their
funds to bring back a dead party member.

I will submit one possible option: My IRL table has used a rule where, after establishing a bare minimum cost for materials (steel isn't free, after all) and a bare minimum period of time for crafting, the PC who is crafting makes a skill check at regular intervals, and that impacts the actual cost to build.

The DC gets a bit easier each check, but the cost goes up each check. Eventually, if the cost reaches the listed cost, no roll is needed -- the item is just finished and the crafter pays books price.

Using the pistol as a hypothetical example: It's 250gp. We say the crafter rolls at the end of every work day. A tool set(s) is required to even attempt crafting. Proficiency (based on tools) and a stat modifier are added to the roll. A sword might be STR, a gun would probably be INT due to little parts, a bow might be DEX to carve, etc.

So, we'll say Smith's Tools and Tinker's Tools required, add INT mod and proficiency to the roll.

Day 3: DC 25 - 35 GPs (minimum cost for supplies).
Day 4: DC 23 - 60 GPs
Day 5: DC 21 - 90 GPs
Day 6: DC 18 - 140 GPs
Day 7: DC 16 - 190 GPs
Day 8: DC 15 - 240 GPs
Day 9: DC 1 - 250 GPs

It's fairly simple, but offers a benefit for using/specializing in tools. It also explains how crafters can turn some sort of profit without also flooding the market. Maybe you get lucky and finish it on the first check... more likely though, you'll fail the first couple and fall somewhere in the middle in terms of price and time.

You have two slightly smaller secondary arms below your primary pair of arms. The secondary arms can manipulate an object, open or close a door or container, pick up or set down a Tiny object, or wield a weapon that has the light property.

Beginning at 1st level, you know how to strike subtly and exploit a foe's distraction. Once per turn, you can deal an extra 1d6 damage to one creature you hit with an attack if you have advantage on the attack roll. The attack must use a finesse or a ranged weapon.

You don't need advantage on the attack roll if another enemy of the target is within 5 feet of it, that enemy isn't incapacitated, and you don't have disadvantage on the attack roll.

The amount of the extra damage increases as you gain levels in this class, as shown in the Sneak Attack column of the Rogue table.