#What skill/difficulty in 5E to determine type of bones?

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smoky star
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I have a kind of creepy situation in mind where the players will be able to discover that a small object is made out of bone (a whole bone, not just part of a bone). But it is just a single bone - in this case the leg bone of an infant. What skill would you use for them to determine this, and how difficult do you think it would be? This just being a single bone without a lot of other context.

wanton harness
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I assume that anyone with proficiency in Medicine might gather that it is bone, and with a successful check determine the source.
Similarly, someone who has proficiency in woodcarver's tools may be knowledgable enough about sculpting to realize this isn't stone or wood.

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Around DC 15 I reckon.

deft panther
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tbh the difference between bone and those other materials is pretty obvious just handling it

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and with the shape too

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i personally wouldn’t even have that require a check