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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 2252152" data-attributes="member: 12332">I did something similar-but-different for my current setting (a low-magic yet integral-magic setting) by removing the spell components from items, leaving only XP, time, and sympathetic sensibilities.  They needed something that made SENSE as a component before they could build something ... they needed a "Craft Magic" feat ... and they needed time and ranks in a proper Craft.  The guy with Craft (Clothing) could make magical shirts and gloves and cloaks, but nothing else without taking another feat. etc.I say that if you have enough of a story component to it, then you might not need a mechanical component at all.  If real magic is so inhuman, perhaps it isn't weilded by humans at all.  Or if it is so ephemeral and specialized, perhaps a specific Craft (Alchemy) check and an Action Point is all you need to brew up a batch of Lucky Potion.  Eye of Newt, Toe of Frog, a little mumbo jumbo and BOOM.The XP rules in D&D are there because of how magic functions in D&D.  It's common, but needs a controlling mechanism.  It's mundane, yet needs something as a limiter that hits the PCs where it counts.  If your magic doesn't function in the same role as magic in D&D, then the D&D rules don't really apply.  Think about what these items will be worth to the party, and where.  Will they be useful mostly outside of combat, in specific story-related ways?  Then I'd say they should have more story-components and some skill stuff tied to them ... Research to disover methodology, Knowledge (Arcana) to make sense of it, Craft (______) to produce it ... If they'll have some sort of in-combat manifestation ... is it worth, say, a feat?  Is it on par with the value they'd get from taking a feat?  Do you want to make it risky?  Perhaps each magical item they make gives them a negative level for a week, a "month and a day", or something of that sort.  I had my crafting rules leave the caster Fatigued for a certain number of days, giving them a noticable in-combat penalty for the pleasure of having made the items.  Perhaps crafting an item leaves the crafter Fatigued for a week or two, letting him feel the burn for a while but not really leaving any horrible lasting effects.--fje</blockquote>

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