Craft Questions


Rules Questions


Hi All,

I'm looking over the Craft skill, and I have two questions:
1. Can you craft an item with the Broken condition to reduce the raw materials cost by 75%?
2. Per the rules: "If you fail by 5 or more, you ruin half the raw materials and have to pay half the original raw material cost again." For items that take multiple weeks to craft, is this half the total raw material cost, or half of the remaining raw materials (i.e. excluding progress you've made thus far)?

Thanks,
Chernobyl


1. I think it's a no. First because it sounds really silly, next because it would create a bug exploit where mending makes you save money.

2. No idea.


HectorVivis wrote:
1. I think it's a no. First because it sounds really silly, next because it would create a bug exploit where mending makes you save money.

I'm thinking it might represent shoddy craftsmanship. You can't afford to craft it properly, so instead you build it on the cheap and accept the associated penalties.


Ch3rnobyl wrote:
HectorVivis wrote:
1. I think it's a no. First because it sounds really silly, next because it would create a bug exploit where mending makes you save money.
I'm thinking it might represent shoddy craftsmanship. You can't afford to craft it properly, so instead you build it on the cheap and accept the associated penalties.

Problem is that mend is a 0-lvl spell and it can repair those items free of charge. This means that everyone would be creating broken items and then mending them up because it would be cheaper and therefor create higher profit :D

You could make it a "Flawed" item... ie a broken condition item that cannot be repaired by means of mend or make whole. This would definitely be a houserule though.
As for question 2:

CRB craft skill wrote:
If you fail a check by 4 or less, you make no progress this week. If you fail by 5 or more, you ruin half the raw materials and have to pay half the original raw material cost again.

I think that answers it nicely. It is a full 50% of the raw material cost.

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