Does Greater Make Whole remove the Timeworn condition?


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Grand Lodge

Technomancer’s Recondition Item (TRI)
Spell: Greater Make Whole (GMW)

As currently written, GMW is able to repair any piece of old, broken or damaged technology just as long as the caster level is high enough to cover the weight of the object being repaired (5lb per clvl).
However, there is a big question – can GMW restore timeworn technology back to perfect working order? RAW suggests that it does, as timeworn tech is described as being damaged. However, with the power of the spell being that great, what does it mean for the Technomancer’s Recondition Item class ability? Surely that becomes useless, as every piece of TW tech found would receive a GMW and thus become back to perfect condition?

One option which I am guessing, is that the timeworn status is also a problem for magic. The magic of GMW recognizes the timeworn status as an ‘original state’ and thus GMW could revert an item to be a new – but glitching – item as it still, technically, ‘works’ and is ‘whole’ (to a certain extent).

How are TRI and GMW meant to interact with one another?
Developer feedback would be adored.

Grand Lodge

Another point: Given that Memory of Function (a lvl 7 spell) can't remove the Timeworn condition, it seems silly that a level 4 spell like GMW with no material components can achieve it.

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No; Timeworn is a condition that should be VERY difficult to remove. The spell Memory of Function can't do it, so anything lower level than that shouldn't as well. A miracle or wish could do it, but otherwise, there's nothing in the game at this point that specifically removes timeworn from an item.


Why would you think that greater make whole can remove the timeworn condition? it doesn't say anything like that.

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