Creating of Non-magical (masterwork) items and traps

Well, did a really REALLY good job so far... but there are some things he either missed or altered.
Elmwood comes from Elm trees, which are pretty common just like Oak trees.
Elmwood Planks are typically made into Elmwood Bowshafts, and normally those are used for bows.
However instead used oak pole, which doesn't make much sense in regards to making a bow.
So, why not use Elmwood Bowshafts for making bows instead of a solid, non-bendable pole.

Also, Elmwood is more useful for making things like arrows, and in the case of this game, bolts.
So, why not allow the making of projectile shafts.
could allow a projectile shaft with feathers to be a arrow, and made into masterwork arrows (which aren't on the list).
could allow a projectile shaft with iron spikes to be a bolt, and made into masterwork bolts (which also oddly aren't on the list).
Next, why not allow Bolt of cloth to be made into a cloth torso like normal, which could be made into almost any of the normal, basic, 1 gp clothing types (rogue, commoner, warrior, priest, wizard, etc outfits and robes).

Also, the current forumale for traps doesn't make sense... shouldn't it be something like,
1 ingredient for minor, 2 for weak, 3 for average, 4 for strong, and 5 for deadly?
Right now it is 1 for minor, 3 for average, 4 for strong, and 4 for deadly... kinda odd.

Kinda odd also because some traps don't rely on leather strings but metal (sorta like mines and such).
So can holy, negative, sonic, and fire use either metal bands, rings, or similar?

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I looked and steel axe heads make more sense for axe weapons than large blade...

In scripting this system, I went for a mix of versatility and simplicity. Here's how things are so far (and are subject to change as time goes on)...

elmwood - I thought about this, but nothing drops elm. I went with oak, since lots of stuff has the potential to drop oak. Sure, oak is considered "rigid", but for simplicity I went with only one type of wood.

arrows/bolts - These are so cheap (1 gp for 99 of them) that I wouldn't consider them worth the effort of gathering materials for. There are no masterwork arrows/bolts in Aenea...regular arrows/bolts are the ones used for enchanting.

cloth - I figured the cloth itself can be made into cloth items, without having to bother with a cloth torso. I put in the steel chain and plate versions because they are so different from each other.

traps - These I thought about for a while. The entire crafting system works off 1 to 5 "ingredients". With traps, I wanted something to non-magically connect everything, serve as "tripwires", etc...so I went with leather strings, the closest thing already on the materials list. As far as the progression of 1-4 of the base material...I was just figuring on effectiveness vs. hassle of collecting materials. The big scaling is actually on the DC to create the traps (straight from the old trap crafting code).


Keep up the suggestions! There are things I may use in the future in this section of the forum.

Hrmm, with bolts and arrows though, how about the possibility of crafting some of those really nice bolts and arrows I see in Entrom's every so often? The mithril tipped, platinum tipped varieties, ect?

MannyJabrielle wrote:Hrmm, with bolts and arrows though, how about the possibility of crafting some of those really nice bolts and arrows I see in Entrom's every so often? The mithril tipped, platinum tipped varieties, ect?

Genious! Adamantium, Mithral, and Ironwood arrows would be awesome!
The material for making such things can be found in game shopping or searching, and it is expensive enough to make the crafting balanced.