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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 5888126" data-attributes="member: 92305">Another Crafting Question....   Caelis has Craft (Weaponsmith) +8, and he needs to make a dagger.  Using Conan RPG pricing, the dagger costs 3 sp. Caelis pays his 1 sp in raw materials cost, then he makes his Craft check, rolling a 17 for a total of 25.  It's a DC 12 check. Caelis needs a mere 15 to complete the weapon.  His prodution total is (25 x 12 = 300).     Question 1.  Every multiple of 5 cuts time to make the item in half, right? Thus a production of 15 gets the dagger made in a week.  A 30 production gets it made in half a week.  A 45 production gets it made in a day and a half.  A 60 production gets it made in 3/4 of a day.  A 75 production gets it made in 1/3 of a day.  A 90 production gets it made in about 2 hours.  A 105 gets it made in 1 hour. A 120 gets it made in half and hour. A 135 gets it made in 15 minutes... A 150 gets it made in 7.5 minutes.... A 175 gets it made in 225 seconds... Wait!  Wait!  Wait! C'mon...really?  Caelis rolled so high that it virtually took him no time at all to make this dagger?  Heck, firing up the forge probably to 15 minutes by itself.  Question 1 is: Are there no minimums on Crafting?  Shouldn't there be a minimum amount of time that it takes to make a dagger? Or, am I doing something wrong here?     Question 2:  Barring an answer to Question 1, is there anything else that the character can do with those production points? Let's say Caelis stopped at the 150 mark.  Caelis still has another 150 points to go.  If he paid the second raw materials cost, could Caelis make two daggers in 7.5 minutes?     Question 3:  Explain to me what I'm doing wrong here.  Please.</blockquote>

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