Mano a Mano:Make an Item
Make an Item - Equipment Generation Example
In this example we'll use our Modre Character (see Characters/Character Creation Example) and the rules for making weapons, to make a weapon in 3 easy steps. (See Equipment/Making Equipment.)
1. Add up your Modifiers
Modre's modifiers are his abilities, time invested, industrial influence and tool quality:
- Modre has level 2 Craftsmanship giving him a +2 modifier.
- Modre works on the weapon 4 hours a day for 8 days (a total of 32 hours.) That gives him another +8 modifier, for a total of modifier of +10.
- Modre uses the super science available to him from a crashed flying saucer near his arctic home. We add an additional +8 modifier for his access to this "future age technology." Now the total modifier for making his weapon is +18.
- The laser drills he uses from the saucer count as "state of the art technology," giving him another +4 modifier and making the total modifier +22
2. Roll vs Zero
The next step is to roll the total modifiers versus zero to get the success level of the Modre's attempt. Let's say we roll a 6, for a total of +28, and the opposing roll is a 2, so the success level for this action is +26. We now have 26 CP with which to make Modre's new weapon.
3. Designate the CP
- Since Modre is making an "ice blade," we definitely want it sharp, so we'll designate 6 CP for -1 sharpness. That brings us down to 20 CP left to designate
- Then we need some reach, so we bring our undesignated CP down to 18 by using 2 CP to get 1 meter reach for the ice blade.
- We'll take a power of 2 (9 CP)to bring our undesignated CP to 9. This automatically makes our weapon's Agi -2.
- We'll drop our undesignated CP to 3, by using 6 CP to get 3 absorption.
- Finally we back up that absorption, by using our last 3 CP to get 2 toughness.
In this example, Modre had a +2 ability modifier for making ice weapons, spent 32 hours working on the ice blade, used state of the art tools and future age technology, and did well on his roll (his 6 verses the opposing 2) to give us a total of 26 CP for making the ice blade. With that CP we were able to make an "ice blade."
Item Name CP Mass Agi Reach Cvr Abs Pwr Shp Tgh Spec. Ice Blade 26 0.4 -2 1 0 3 2 -2 2 ____ |
