====== Craft Skill / Item Creation ======

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===== Craft Skill Modifications =====
http://forum.rpg.net/archive/index.php/t-190991.html\\ 
http://forums.white-wolf.com/cs/forums/t/18314.aspx\\ 
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**Standard Book Rules:**\\ 
  * Craft skill ranks must be purchased multiple times, each time with a specific focus (book lists "air", "earth", "fire", "water", "wood").
  * Specializations can be purchased for extra dice, but are still limited by the 3-ranks-max per skill
  * If you don't have the right focus or specialization in a given situation, you can't roll it.
  * Criticism: This makes it way too expensive given how broad other skills are (Linguistics, Melee), completely unversatile, and totally undramatic for godlike beings.

**House Rules:**\\ 
  * The Craft skill generically covers all mundane crafting and need only be purchased once
  * Craft charms only need be purchased once
  * To do any kind of supernatural crafting requires a relevant specialization be purchased
  * No more max of 3 on Craft specializations, but no specialization can be above 3
  * Suggested Specializations for Supernatural Crafting: Jade, Orichalcum, Starmetal, Moonsilver, Soulsteel, Magitech
  * Magitech is needed for any Artifact that isn't solely made of one of the magical materials or for Artifacts that requires spells woven into them

** Jewel of the Master's Hand (Craft) Hearthstone: **
Oadenol's Codex, p90\\ 
  * Book: +4 Craft(earth), +2 Craft(other element), +1 Craft(other)
  * Houserule: +4 Craft(mundane), +3 Craft(jade), +2 Craft(other magical material), +1 Craft(other/anything else)
===== General Mundane Item Creation =====

**Fine Quality Item:** 3-4 Threshold successes on item creation roll\\ 
**Exceptional Quality Item:** 5+ Threshold successes on item creation roll, bumps the resource (sale) cost of the item by 1\\ 
**Perfect Quality Item:** Add +5 to the Difficulty and Creation Time of the "average" version of that item\\ 

===== Create Hand-held Mundane Item =====

This is for creating small, hand-held mundane items.\\ 
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**Die Pool:** (Lowest of DEX/PER/INT) + Craft + Appropriate Specialization + Equipment Bonuses + Enhancement Bonuses (hearthstones, etc)\\ 
**Difficulty:** Resources value of the item (e.g., the target number of successes)\\ 
**Time:** days equal to the resources value of the item\\ 

==== Create Large Mundane Item ====

This is for creating complex or large mundane items such as hand-forged items, buildings, ships, etc.\\ 
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**Die Pool:** (Lowest of PER/INT) + Craft + Appropriate Specialization + Equipment Bonuses + Enhancement Bonuses (hearthstones, etc)\\ 
**Difficulty:** Resources value of the item (e.g., the target number of successes)\\ 
**Time (hand-forged item):** weeks equal to the resources value of the item\\ 
**Time (buildings, etc):** months or years equal to the resources value of the item depending on the nature of the item\\ 

===== Create Artifact =====

Exalted p133-134 and p380, Oadenol's Codex p19\\ 
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^  Rating  ^  Difficulty  ^  Required Threshold Successes  ^  Ability Minimums ((Craft, Lore, and Occult))  ^  Resources  ^  Exotic Materials  ^  Repair Difficulty  ^
|  1  |  3  |  10  |  3  |  2  |  1  |  2  |
|  2  |  4  |  30  |  3  |  3  |  2  |  3  |
|  3  |  5  |  60  |  3  |  4  |  3  |  4  |
|  4  |  6  |  100  |  6  |  5  |  4  |  5  |
|  5  |  7  |  250  |  7  |  5  |  5  |  6  |

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**Die Pool:** INT + Craft + Appropriate Specialization (???) + Equipment Bonuses + Enhancement Bonuses (hearthstones, etc)\\ 
**Aids Bonus:** (+ assistants successes), or (+1 per 5 mortal aids), or (+1 per 2 minor supernatural aids, non-exalts), or (+4 high-level supernatural aids)\\ 
**Workshop Bonus/Penalty:** -4 rudimentary (resources 0), -2 basic (resources 3), 0 master's (resources 4), +2 flawless (realm only has a few total, usually part of a manse), +4 ideal (impossible to find; they're all broke)\\ 
**Time Interval:** 1 season\\ 
**Exotic Materials:** See Oadenol's Codex p26-27. Collection of these materials can entail an adventure in and of themselves.\\ 
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**Jade Type:** The correct jade type must be used for an enhancement item (e.g., blue jade must be used for stealth items)\\ 
**Jade Cost:** 1 lb = resources 3, 9 lbs = resources 4, 25 lbs = resources 5

===== Repair Artifact =====

Oadenol's Codex, p30\\ 
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**Functional, Damaged Artifacts:**
  * **Pool:** Same as Create Artifact
  * **Difficulty:** Artifact's rating +1
  * **Success:** Each success repairs one level of damage
  * **Time Interval:** Small items are days per roll, large items are months per roll
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**Non-Functional, Damaged Artifacts:** 
  * Repairing such an item is the same as creating an Artifact 1 dot lower in rank (needs new exotic materials, etc). See Create Artifact.
===== Breaking a Hearthstone =====

Exalted, p384\\ 
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**Requirements:** Occult 3 and Craft(Spec: Air) 3\\ 
**Die Pool:** PER + Craft + Specialization(?) + Jewel of the Master's Hand Hearthstone (other) 1 (see above for hearthstone houserule)\\ 
**Difficulty:** 1\\ 
**Time:** Book only specifies that it cannot be done in combat. Ergo, minutes.\\ 
**Botch:** Releases wild magical effects similar to the results of a high-circle countermagic spell\\