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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kerrick" data-source="post: 3329144" data-attributes="member: 4722">Oh, I know. The original materials list, before I went over it, had things like rhodium and vanadium, which are toxic in large amounts and quite hard to smelt. But there's nothing to prevent you from ruling that titanium (or any other metal) is slightly different in a fantasy campaign world and can be mined/smelted like iron, for instance.Ahhh. So what's dragonscale? Yeah... I went back and looked our mastercrafting rules, and I realized that the low-end items, like daggers or clubs, remain really cheap in relation to things like greatswords. Not sure how I missed that the first time (or maybe I didn't and just chose to overlook it). It works well enough for armor, since the cheapest there is 5 gp (and MW padded armor should still be fairly cheap). I gotcha. If you're paying 5 gp a day for a smith, and he takes 3 days to make a MW dagger and 10 to make a MW greatsword, you're shelling out 35 more gp for an item of the same quality.Yeah, I went back and reread that... the first time I read it, when you first posted this system, I thought you had come up with a crafting system independent of prices, but that's not the case. You should check out <a href="http://shtar.pbwiki.com/Crafting" target="_blank">our system</a>. I'm not saying it's better, but you might find some ideas there that would be useful. Ours uses flat crafting times*, and I also adapted the size/complexity rules from d20 Modern, so, for instance, a dagger (Small Simple) will be easier to craft (DC 12) and take less time (2 days) than a greatsword (Large Moderate, DC 15 and 10 days). Masterwork levels increase the item's "complexity" - higher quality means better craftsmanship, more complex processes, and more knowledge in general, which increases the base DC along with the time. *I just thought of something - adding a modifier based on the gp cost, like there is for magic items. I don't currently have anything beyond an optional variable you could add to crafting time, but I think this would be a good idea - right now, making a greatsword out of adamantine only increases the DC and cost, but not the time.Or the DMG interpretation for mithril and adamantine, that because the metal is such high quality, any items made from it are automatically masterwork.</blockquote>

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