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Thursday, October 30th, 2008 184 views
Introduction
This document is designed to be both an overview of the Vanguard crafting system and a guide toward being a good crafter.
The crafting system in Vanguard rewards proper crafting builds. If you simply begin crafting with no understanding of the system than at best you’ll be a crafter who obtains ...
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There are four crafting attributes: problem solving, reasoning, ingenuity, and finesse, (Figure 6.2.1) these contribute greatly to the effectiveness of your crafting actions.
All characters will begin with 90 points in all attributes. No attributes are rewarded from 2nd to 9th level; you essentially start with 9th level attributes. Beginning with ...
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There are two types of skills: parent skills and process skills. As you gain experience and levels you can control how these skills advance. You cannot directly change their value. You set whether they trend upward (plus), downward (minus) or stay as is (locked) in the skills tab of the ...
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Process skills define how effective a crafter you are. There are three types of process skills: station skills, utility skills and tool skills (Figure 6.2.2). These skills are set and controlled independently for both refining and finishing processes. You never have sufficient skill points to maximize all three process skill ...
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As you increase your parent and process skills you learn new actions.
Increased parent skills will grant the ability to make multiple secondary components. For example carpenters will learn to make 3 or 5 wooden grips at a time. Increased parent skills also grant the ability to make uncommon versions of ...
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The equipment tab or the crafter pane on the character sheet (c) (Figure 6.2.1) has a slot for one utility pouch and 3 crafting tool belts. When you receive your first pouch and tool belt during the crafting introductory drag them to the appropriate slots in your crafter equipment pane. ...
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There are six types of workbenches; each of the three primary trades has a refining and finishing workbenches. Recipes must be undertaken at the appropriate workbench, for example there is a blacksmith refining bench and blacksmith finishing bench. Pressing 'n' will cause names to appear over workbenches (as well as ...
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