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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RainOfSteel" data-source="post: 3298603" data-attributes="member: 24460">Overall, I think your system is vastly superior to the core system given in the SRD/books.I have been wondering for a while how to adapt the craft-points mechanics in Unearthed Arcana to what I wanted to do in my future games, and have been particularly uninspired.  Past skill-based systems I tried to invent looked too much like Ars Magica's system.  As a result, I think I'll be using your system, with perhaps a few tweaks.I have some questions/comments, though.-----------------------------------------------------------There might be one or more new Loremaster secrets that can affect these mechanics.There might be new Salient Divine Abilities that can affect these mechanics.Absolutely fantastic on all counts!I despise XP costs for creating magical items.  (Of all the good things 3.x brought to DnD, this wasn't one of them.)This looks ok, but I would have to do some desk testing to find out how it went over time and with die rolls.This appears to suggest that XP are being used to craft the item.  Given the rest of the text, this appears to be a piece of text left over from an earlier version.This is sheer genius, IMO.This fits in perfectly with legend.However, I think you should include a section for creating items that are deliberately cursed.  Some crafters are mad or vengeful, after all.I think you should include a variant system that allows for non-masterwork items to be enchanted at penalty to the DC.(Says the fan of Laurence Watt-Evans', The Misenchanted Sword.)I also think you should include a system that allows for the reduction of the time required via normally inadvisable shortcuts, with penalties to be taken as appropriate.You can also include "production secrets" (more general and weaker than Loremaster secrets) that are possible to learn in-game.  They would be by category (per the original Craft Items feats).  These can either give a bonus of a point or two to the Craft DC or 1 day off of the Crafting Time for sub-week times (minimum 1 day), or 1/10th the days off of multi-week production, round down, where at least one day is removed.  Only one of each time (bonus and time-saving).What does the +5 mean after these Craft DC checks?  If it's simply a modifier, the Craft DC checks should be 27 and 35.Also, I'm not familiar with the category, "High-end magic items4".  It that a new custom category, or one I missed?</blockquote>

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