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 Jul 14 2013, 04:07 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 170 Joined: 13-July 09 Member No.: 17,386  |
Hey Bull,
Will you be including artificing in season 5? |
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Jul 15 2013, 06:13 AM
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Grumpy Old Ork Decker Group: Admin Posts: 3,794 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Orwell, Ohio Member No.: 50 |
Alchemy stuff, yes. Spell preparations and the like, not an issue.
Artificing (aka, making your own foci dirt cheap)? Hell no (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) THat way leads to madness and power gaming, since there's no direct GM oversight on characters and downtime. Same will hold true for all other "classes" and any creation rules, building from scratch, or pirating off the Matrix. |
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Jul 15 2013, 09:18 AM
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Running Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,003 Joined: 3-May 11 From: Brisbane Australia Member No.: 29,391 |
QUOTE (Bull @ Jul 15 2013, 04:13 PM)  Same will hold true for all other "classes" and any creation rules, building from scratch, or pirating off the Matrix. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) |
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Jul 15 2013, 11:00 AM
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Grumpy Old Ork Decker Group: Admin Posts: 3,794 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Orwell, Ohio Member No.: 50 |
Sorry.
It's one of those areas that's ripe for abuse if you don't have GM oversight. Even with some of the downtime limitations Season 5 will be implementing, it would be really easy to maximize how much you "make" each month via crafting (Or whatever). The problem ultimately is that doing Crafting, you're trading Nuyen and possibly Karma for Time. In a home game, the GM gets to manipulate this. He can interrupt this, he can introduce problems and complications into the crafting, he can make it part of the story. In Missions, it's just numbers on a chart because it all happens out of game. And, also an issue... It's not fair to everyone. Because not every game role has a crafting mechanic for their prime gear... thing. Though that's secondary to the above, regardless. Bull |
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Jul 15 2013, 12:10 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 251 Joined: 7-September 10 Member No.: 19,020 |
I liked Season 4's FAQ answer on that - why the hell are you running if you can craft foci, anyways? You can make tons more money just opening a talismonger shop.
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