Background /Experience Cost for Crafted Wonders

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Background /Experience Cost for Crafted Wonders

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Because a mage who creates a Wonder must invest it with energy, and has to go through all of the other necessary steps described below, a player does not have to spend experience and/ or Background points to obtain a Wonder that the mage herself has created. The given costs are for items that have been obtained from sources, rather than for Wonders crafted by the mage.

The Creation Process (BoS p. 152)

The following Wonder-crafting systems can become rather complex. A much simpler process for crafting Wonders can be found in Mage 20, 652-653. Troupes that want to use a more detailed system, however, can employ the following optional rules instead.

As objects of rare craftsmanship, Wonders demand great skill from their makers. A character who wishes to make such things must possess not only the Spheres involved in the magickal Effects, but also the material skills involved in the shaping of the object itself. If you can’t build a normal computer, after all, then you can’t hope to build a hypertech one… and if you don’t know how to use a particular Sphere well enough to employ its effects on your own, how then could you hope to build those Effects into a Device? In short, before you can craft a Wonder, you’ve got to know what you’re doing. A character who tries to work beyond his limits has only himself to blame for his failure.

(It stands to reason, too, that a character who wants to craft a Wonder ought to have at least one dot in the associated Abilities for each dot in the Wonder he’s crafting. Better still, he ought to have no less than three dots in such Abilities. After all, a dude with Computer 1 shouldn’t be able to build a four-dot computer-based Device. For more details, see Minimum

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