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<blockquote data-quote="Bagpuss" data-source="post: 2749412" data-attributes="member: 3987"><p>I'm about to join a Iron Kingdoms campaign in progress at 8th level so I've been given X amount of gold to spend for gear. I originally suggested a +1 Keen Falchion, Gaunlets of Ogre power and +2 Chain shirt as part of my gear but the DM wants me to convert them to Mechanikal items.</p><p></p><p>First it sounds cool, flavourful mage-tech like items. Also no need to have the +1 enhancement to have a keen weapon so I can spend it on shocking, and have a shocking keen Falchion.</p><p></p><p>But then you get into charges, and accumulators, a standard accumulator (such as in a sword) holds 10 charges and takes 10 days to charge up. It burns 1 charge per bonus per day so it would only have the Keen and Shocking features for 5 days before it became a completely mundane masterwork weapon. Well until you put a charged accumulator (500gp) in it.</p><p></p><p>Now you could hang around for 10 days to get your old accumulator charged for a cost of 200gp. So its either going to cost you 100gp a day to keep the sword running, maybe a bit less if you can get return value on a dead accumulator, or 40gp a day and not adventure with it for 2/3rds of the time.</p><p></p><p>Then its the same for magic armour, and other items. At the moment it's looking like I'm going to have to be earning something like 500gp a day, just to keep my items working, and spending only one week in three actually adventuring, and the whole thing becomes a massive book-keeping exercise tracking battery usage.</p><p></p><p>And at one point I was actually looking forward to playing in the Iron Kingdoms setting. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bagpuss, post: 2749412, member: 3987"] I'm about to join a Iron Kingdoms campaign in progress at 8th level so I've been given X amount of gold to spend for gear. I originally suggested a +1 Keen Falchion, Gaunlets of Ogre power and +2 Chain shirt as part of my gear but the DM wants me to convert them to Mechanikal items. First it sounds cool, flavourful mage-tech like items. Also no need to have the +1 enhancement to have a keen weapon so I can spend it on shocking, and have a shocking keen Falchion. But then you get into charges, and accumulators, a standard accumulator (such as in a sword) holds 10 charges and takes 10 days to charge up. It burns 1 charge per bonus per day so it would only have the Keen and Shocking features for 5 days before it became a completely mundane masterwork weapon. Well until you put a charged accumulator (500gp) in it. Now you could hang around for 10 days to get your old accumulator charged for a cost of 200gp. So its either going to cost you 100gp a day to keep the sword running, maybe a bit less if you can get return value on a dead accumulator, or 40gp a day and not adventure with it for 2/3rds of the time. Then its the same for magic armour, and other items. At the moment it's looking like I'm going to have to be earning something like 500gp a day, just to keep my items working, and spending only one week in three actually adventuring, and the whole thing becomes a massive book-keeping exercise tracking battery usage. And at one point I was actually looking forward to playing in the Iron Kingdoms setting. :( [/QUOTE]
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