Pathfinder: Burnt Offerings

[Insight]

What kind of bow and what kind of arrows? Just checkin'.

I was thinking of making a Longbow and about 40 regular-type arrows. The Longbow would cost 25gp in raw materials, and I could make it in 4.4 weeks if I take 10 on the Craft checks. I'd like to make a Composite Str +1 Longbow if possible. That would cost 66gp in raw materials and take 11.9 weeks if I take 10 on the Craft checks.

Dang, I need to raise my ranks in Craft!

EDIT: I'd like to see about hiring assistants to speed this up. According to the text in the Craft skill, assistants cost 1sp per day, but it doesn't say what having assistants does to this process. Do they make their own Craft checks and reduce the time to make the item?

 

[CanadienneBacon]

How many ranks did you put into Craft? By how many ranks are you considering increasing Craft?

I'll say no to hiring assistants to craft the bow before we begin play. The cost-to-benefit ratio for hiring assistants to craft the bow before we begin play is too slanted toward PC favor, sorry. That said, if anyone wants to do it during play, we can look into it if/when it comes up later down the road. The time entailed to craft items during play would be a sufficient counter to the decrease in cost.

 

[Insight]

How many ranks did you put into Craft? By how many ranks are you considering increasing Craft?

I'll say no to hiring assistants to craft the bow before we begin play. The cost-to-benefit ratio for hiring assistants to craft the bow before we begin play is too slanted toward PC favor, sorry. That said, if anyone wants to do it during play, we can look into it if/when it comes up later down the road. The time entailed to craft items during play would be a sufficient counter to the decrease in cost.

That's fine. I'll probably just buy the bow. The crafting rules are insanely difficult. Taking 4 weeks to make a bow is ridiculous. In order to make a normal longbow in a week by yourself (which is about how long it should take *at the most*), you'd need 50 ranks and a masterwork kit!

I'll keep the ranks I have in Craft, since that fits with the character concept, but these rules are just dumb. I guess I never crunched the numbers before. How the heck could a crafter ever make money using this system?

 

[CanadienneBacon]

I too dislike the overly complicated silver base to the crafting rules in the 3.5 PHB. I'm open to a revision. Does anyone have a simpler, more streamlined system that they'd be interested in seeing in play? Lacking time, I'd be more inclined to crib someone else's good idea(s) on this issue than I would revamp how Craft works myself.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Would it be OK if my paladin, Rainer Scarnetti, is a little-liked nephew of Titus Scarnetti, or should he be a more distant relation? (A second or third cousin, perhaps.)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Actually, never mind. For the greatsword I want to have my character to inherit with the Ancestral Weapon feat, it'd get awkward if his uncle was Titus. Rainer will be the son of one of Titus' cousins.

 

[Kaodi]

*bump*

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I have posted half of my character on the character thread. I still have to add his skills (which I have already worked out) and his equipment (which I haven't looked at apart from his weapons). I also have to do a bit of work on appearance, mannerisms, etc.,

Olaf the Stout

 

[CanadienneBacon]

I take my discrete mathematics final exam this week, Thursday or Friday. I haven't yet received my copy of Burnt Offerings, but I'm hopeful it will arrive in next week's mail. After I clear the math final off my plate, I'll start posting more regularly. Thank you very much to all of you who've kept this thread going by posting and bumping when needed.

 

[Kaodi]

Good luck with that, CanadienneBacon.