[malloyd]

One I've found fairly useful for this sort of thing are craft tricks that give you an effect that a skilled craftsman could do without magic, but it's easier for you, uses different stuff, skips steps or whatever. For example TL3 smiths might know how to case harden axes (you bake them in a pot full of carbon for hours). You can do it in 5 minutes by rubbing them in red berry juice and singing a hymn to Vulcan. Ordinary spinners need to rot flax for a while and crush it to get out the fibers, you can pull up the plant and spin it directly into linen thread. Skilled herbalists can brew a fever reducing potion from willow bark, you can make the same thing by boiling any green herb at all in not too polluted water.