Crafts Skill
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- Possessed by: Contractors, mechanics, plumbers, sculptors, welders
- Specialties: Automobiles, Aircraft, Forging, Jury-Rigging, Sculpting, Sewing
The Crafts skill has been House-Ruled for the Vampire Venue. |
General Roll Results
- Dramatic Failure: Your character makes a horrible mistake in creating the piece, ruining it in the process. The chisel hits a flaw in the stone, shattering the statue, or he over-tightens the pipe, stripping the threads. He must begin the job from scratch.
- Failure: Your character makes no progress in creating the item in question.
- Success: Your character makes progress in crafting the piece (apply successes rolled toward the total needed).
- Exceptional Success: Your character makes substantial progress in crafting the piece -- a sudden burst of inspiration or a breakthrough in fabrication speeds up the process dramatically (apply successes rolled toward the total needed).
Create Art
- Dice Pool: Intelligence + Crafts + equipment
- Action: Extended (4-15+ successes, each roll represents 30 minutes of work)
- Suggested Equipment: High-grade tool set (+1), high-quality marble or clay (+1), high-tech tools (laser leveler, saws with laser guides) (+2), specialized sculpting tools (+2), extensive reference library (+2), garage (+3), carpentry shop (+3)
- Possible Penalties: Poor-quality tool set (-1), poor quality materials (-1), lack of reference library (-1), improvised work area (-1)
Your character sets out to create a piece of art, whether it's a painting, drawing or sculpture. It's quicker and easier to create a clay bowl or doodle than a life-size replica or mural. The former may call for only four successes while the latter may call for 15 or more, and hours of effort.
Creating poems, songs, novels or speeches calls for the Expression Skill.
- Dramatic Failure: There's a terrible accident and your character's work or tools are destroyed or the creation bears an inherent, embarrassing flaw that he cannot see.
- Failure: Your character makes no headway in his project.
- Success: Your character makes progress in his project.
- Exceptional Success: Your character makes dramatic progress in creating the item, likely well ahead of schedule.
Repair Item
Much like making an item from scratch, repairing an item requires varying amounts of time and effort. Typically, for repairing damage to a broken object, one success equals one point of damage repaired.
- Dice Pool: Dexterity + Crafts + equipment
- Action: Extended (4-10 successes, one roll equals 30 minutes of work)
- Suggested Equipment: High-grade tool set (+1), high-quality materials (+1), high-tech tools (laser leveler, saws with laser guides) (+2), specialized sculpting tools (+2), extensive reference library (+2), garage (+3), carpentry shop (+3)
- Possible Penalties: Poor-quality tool set (-1), poor quality materials (-1), lack of reference library (-1), improvised work area (-1)
Repairing a damaged item is an extended action, requiring a number of successes depending on the extent of the repairs and the overall difficulty of the job. Changing a spark plug in a car might require only four successes, while rebuilding the entire engine might demand 15 or more. As a general rule, one success is required on an extended roll to repair one point of damage to a broken object's Structure. (See Objects.)
Many repairs require specific tools and/or facilities. If your character does not have all the necessary equipment available, a -1 modifier applies. If he does not have any of the necessary tools to fix the item, the Storyteller may declare that the task is impossible.
- Example: Mace is asked by a friend to fix a damaged computer. Mace's Dexterity is 3 and her Crafts (with a Computer Specialty) is 2. She has all the proper electronics and tools to make the repair, so there is no negative modifier to the rolls, but her equipment is of average quality and doesn't give a bonus. Her dice pool therefore consists of six dice. Repairing the computer is a fairly complicated task, so the Storyteller determines that it will take seven successes to complete. Five rolls (and two-and-a-half hours) later, the necessary successes are accumulated and the computer is fixed.
- Dramatic Failure: Your character fails to make any repairs on the item and actively worsens its condition. Each dramatic failure increases the number of successes required to complete repairs by one or more.
- Failure: Your character fails to make any headway in repairing the item.
- Success: Your character makes progress in completing the repair.
- Exceptional Success: Your character makes dramatic progress in repairing the item, likely well ahead of schedule.
Application
- Required By: Ancient and Accepted Order of Bridgemasons, Crafters Sense, EOD, Guild of Goldspinners, Knights of the Knowledge of the Tongue
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