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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 227931" data-attributes="member: 1264">The Craft rules are NOT mechanically broken.For the longest time, I thought about it the same as you do: crafting a simple items should not take longer than crafting a more complicated one.But then I realized... we're really looking at the problem backwards. In other words, in reality it's not that the time to create is determined by difficulty class and price, rather the price is determined by difficulty class and time to craft!So... Price = difficulty x time.Now, for simplicity, we just want to have a straightforward table of item market prices, and a couple of straightforward rules to determine how hard certain items are to craft. From this, we can "reverse engineer" how much progress you make on an item per week:time = price / difficulty.Yes, if you're crafting two items with the same listed market price but different DC's, the cheaper one will take longer. However, the reason that item has the same price although it's easier to craft is precisely that it takes *longer* to craft than the higher DC one. Think of an item that takes a lot of busy-work: low DC, but it takes time. For example, putting all those teeth on a saw must take an enormous amount of time, but once you get the hang of it, any apprentice could do it. On the other hand, a good pair of scissors takes careful precision work (higher DC), but a master crafter can probably crank them out much faster that the apprentice can finish saw blades.Now, we could argue about how bloody *long* it takes to craft anything, but that's a whole different discussion...</blockquote>

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