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• Enchanting

• Disclaimer about optional status of enchanting rules.

• Problems and hazards of enchanting rules and systems.

• Goals of enchanting rules in fourth edition.

• Primary methods of enchanting.

• Alchemy skill: blood charms, common magic items, and consumables.

• Role of alchemical enchanting in the setting.

• Talent Knack enchanting: Living Armor, Spell Matrix Items, and Thread Items.

• Knacks can allow an adept to make alchemical items.

• Enchanting Process

• Step One: Obtain the enchanting pattern.

• The recipe or formula used to create a magical item.

• Every formula has a rank that represents the complexity of the process and sets the minimum ability level required to make the item.

• Multiple enchanting patterns can (and do) exist for each item.

• This variety can be used to add color to the world, clues, or other story aspects based on the item’s origin.

• Learned like learning a spell, but no associated Legend Point cost.

• Once learned, can make the item as often as time and materials allow.

• Enchanting patterns can be learned from other enchanters, found in a forgotten kaer or as another reward, or made from scratch.

• Obtaining the pattern should not be difficult unless dealing with potent or rare items.

• Step Two: Gather the Materials.

• Best source for adventure hooks and story content.

• Generic alchemical materials and reagents of a value based on the item being made.

• Expensive, special, or rare materials (e.g., magic creature parts, living crystal, orichalcum, True elements).

• Left flexible for the GM to justify ingredients based on story needs, and the artisanal nature of enchanting.

• Skills and talents that can be used to find ingredients.

• Downtime gathering versus adventure based.

• True elements

• Step Three: Perform the Enchantment

• Relevant skill or talent test against the EDN of the item.

• High results can create additional doses or reduce time of the process.

• Working as a group.

• Living armor and shields follow the process of crafting in the Player’s Guide.

• Designing your own items.

• The more different design aspects you use, the easier the EDN, but the harder it is to create the custom formula in the first place.

• Reiterating tying the enchanting process into adventures and story arcs.

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