Hi all,
Played a few sessions of BitD now and i’m really enjoying it. I’ve been toying with the idea of my character making themselves a range of arcane trinkets to help in various situations, but there are a few things in the crafting section of the rulebook that aren’t too clear to me.
1. Downtime activities can get +1d if you have a friend or contact to help you, does this apply to crafting too?
2. What are people’s thoughts on using attune instead of tinker when crafting an arcane item, or giving an item an arcane modification? This feels like a yes from a fiction perspective, but i’d like to know what others think
3. How do you draw the line between a modification and an invention? A lot of the ideas I have involve taking a relatively mundane item and enchanting it with additional properties; this seems like the demon harming dagger given as an example of arcane modification, but how far can you go before it becomes a completely new invention?
4. A slightly more general downtime question as my last one; there are a few ways of increasing your effect during downtime (crafting abilities, pushing yourself), if a player does this and then rolls a crit, do they get rewarded beyond the crit amount (6 ticks to a clock, tier +3 item) or is the crit result a cap on what you can get in a roll?