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What irritates me about crafting is generally that it renders the point of specialization useless. If someone's a glass cannon, they can just craft shit and become both ridiculously tanky and strong as fuck.Well firstly, don't let Alanis just enchant stuff with no additional materials at all. At the very worst she'll end up earning credits buying, enchanting and reselling for a profit, spending it on better gear. My recommendation would be to force all crafting to use Materials. Alanis wants force-shielded armor? She better have a piece of sufficiently high-level Armor and a Magical Material.
Want to streamline crafting? Consider making all crafting Materials come with some sort of Nature, basically what it gears the effect to. So say, a Demon Core would make anything using it deal damage over time to its user, but also permit some sort of charge/recharge based effect. This will be stated in the Material's description. Want something that does that but don't have any Demon Core-equivalents? Too bad. Want charging/recharging without whittling down Alanis' HP but only have a Demon Core? Too bad.
Also, give each character Natures that determine how they flavor their crafting and prevents them from deviating from it. This also means that the crafting people will have their own specialties. Permit Perks and Actions to grant or enhance Natures. Motya's would be Flesh). Alanis' Kinetic Magic). Gozer's Minerals or Earth Magic. Et cetera.
FAFNiR looks downcast. "Unfortunately, I only have knowledge in use of the weapons I currently have. Ability to do unarmed combat has been taken away from me. I very likely am unable to dance or do yoga to a level satisfactory enough to teach others."Kyle nods as he slurps up a noodle.
Avalanche Team((Wouldn't have heard Kate say anything otherwise it would have said it.))
"Avalanche two here. Ok, avalanche eight, according to the person paying you to kidnap people, the most important thing is to shoot at your most powerful teammates for temporarily failing minor and irrelevant tasks, gamble with the lives of as many civilians as humanly possible, tell people to stop whinging on the comms, then go off with some other team and play bad music over the speakers. That's general ARM policy, at least, but you're allowed to show initiative."
"Of course, Mister Kyle." She selects an empty table at random.She's left to people watch for a few minutes before Kyle returns with a bowl of ramen and a bottle of coke.
Bullshit it will.Well, Only if we don't want any long term allies. Which we do.During conversation, one may either Intimidate, using their primary attack stat (i.e. Mio would use STR or Alanis SYN) as the roll or Persuade, using INT as their base. Both gather the same result.
