Editing Genius The Transgression/Chapter Two: Character Creation (section)

====Equipment:====
Size is useful only insofar as the genius has something interesting to fill that space. That is the laboratory's Equipment, and the rating determines how useful it is. A Lab with no points in Equipment may be pleasantly appointed for visitors, but it has nothing besides empty benches and bare floors for research.

Every point of Laboratory Equipment adds a +1 bonus to all rolls made to build, repair, or fiddle with wonders there, provided that the genius has access to the equipment. It can also, at the Storyteller's discretion, provide the same bonus to mundane repair and construction activities.

0: The laboratory is largely empty, except what the genius brings with her.

●: Outdated and inefficient equipment, badly organized and poorly protected from the environment; the equivalent of junior chemistry sets and astrolabes. The computers look like something out of the 70s.

●●: Serviceable laboratory equipment that is nonetheless outdated and second-hand; computers are slow and clunky, while samples occasionally risk contamination unless the researchers are careful.

●●●: A typical private or university laboratory with a good selection of modern equipment, fast computers with Internet hookups, and reliable technology, but nothing too highly specialized or expensive.

●●●●: A deluxe set-up with top-of-the-line computers networked for maximum efficiency, top-shelf apparatus, and enough specialized equipment either available or on loan to perform even the strangest experiments.

●●●●●: An incredible, world-class lab; if the computers were more advanced, they'd be wonders, while just about any scientific apparatus can be found, built, or ordered in minimum time, and everything works astonishingly well.