Craft Skill

[ss2020]

I was trying to figure out how to craft an item and could not. Can someone explain it to me.


Thanks,

Scott

[ludomastro]

If no one has said it before, Scott, welcome to the boards.

I'll do my best to explain Crafting.

Let's say we want to craft a simple longsword.  Look in chapter 4: Forge and find the longsword and without any upgrades the complexity is 12M.  For this example we are going to assume that we don't want/need upgrades.

A few things to check:

• Do we have the appropriate crafting focus?
• Do we have the minimum amount of downtime?
• Do we have the minimum skill needed?
• Did we make enough money?

And the answers:

• We'll assume that someone making a sword has the metalworking focus.
• The complexity of a longsword is 12M, meaning we need at least one Month of downtime.
  
• If the total crafting bonus + career level is greater than complexity, we can make the item.  Level 4 + 7 ranks in Crafting + 1 (INT) = 12, so we're good.
• Roll the d20, add the bonus (8 in this case) and compare with Table 2.9.  Let's say we rolled a 9.  9 + 8 = 17 which (for a month) gives us 150s.  That is more than the cost of the longsword at 60s, so that means we can make up to two swords and pocket 30s.

Hopefully that helps.

[aegis]

Excellent explanation ludomastro.      I just believe you must apply Prudence to your 30s before pocketing it (hence the intersest of crafting stuff instead of just earning money during Downtime).

[ss2020]

Thanks that was great. Also thanks for the welcome.

S

[Desertpuma]

Excellent job, Ludo