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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kelleris" data-source="post: 3305808" data-attributes="member: 19130">Oh, this sounds like a perfect situation for the stuff in the book.  You can present his craft points as scavenged resources from the ship rather than as ongoing projects.  You could even, either you or the player or both, decide ahead of time which devices are available on the ship.  They're all in perfect working order, more or less, but stranded on this magic-lousy planet he has to figure out a whole new way to use them.  Trust me when I say it can be fun to carry around a disintegrator wand from first level and finally figure out how it works at an opportune moment.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> And you have a ready-made reason why the ship crashed if you use the "magic interferes with technology" rationale.  It could be completely intact and still be totally nonfunctional in such a situation.  The technologist's goal might be to master this weird new skill to such an extent that he can escape entirely, if you think that might be a fun end-game goal under the circumstances...And even just outfitting the party with high-level masterwork weapons will set them apart from the natives in this setting - you can give them a higher-tech cast even when all of them can't use higher technology directly.  That could be quite interesting as well (how valuable is a heavily masterworked steel sword in such a world?  valuable enough to serve as an adventure hook is how!).  Should definitely be fun freaking out the locals, if nothing else.</blockquote>

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