Creating Magical Items

This is partly house rules, partly a summary of canon rules.

General

• These are general limits that apply in addition to canon rules:
  • How many items can a character create and still get other things done?
  • How many items can a character use and not have anything backfire?
• These apply to items that work permanently (until/unless somehow destroyed or otherwise ruined).
• These do not apply to items that work only once (e.g. talens, alchemical products).

Types of items

• Items must be spelled out in a book (e.g. a specific fetish) or emulate a specific power (or combination of powers)
• Items may require conversion (e.g. if a gift costs Gnosis, then a treasure emulating that gift may cost Glamour instead)
• To emulate a power from a different game line, the creator must have at least 3 dots in the relevant Lore

Level and genre

• The level of an item emulating one or more powers is the sum of the levels of those powers
• The genre of an item is based on its creator's race/subrace

Creation

• Each creator gets a number of tokens per month
• Successfully creating an item uses a number of tokens equal to its level
• Tokens do not roll over from one month to the next
  • Exception: Creating a single item that would use up to two months worth of tokens
  • Exception: If staff takes several weeks to process a request, tokens may be taken from any month within that time

Character	Building limit
Shifter	Rituals x 2
Changeling	Gremayre x 2
Technocrat	Hypertech x 2
Other	Occult x 2

Carrying/use

• Characters are limited by how many items they can bring into a scene
  • Characters can have/use an unlimited number of items at home
• The limit is compared to the sum of the item levels
• To use an out-of-genre item, a character must have at least as many dots in Occult as the item's level
  • Shifters must have Rituals instead
  • Changelings must have Gremayre instead
  • Technocrats using a non-Technocrat item (mage or otherwise) must have Occult and/or RD Data
  • If the item requires spending something (e.g. Gnosis), then the character must also have that thing
  • All items are considered out-of-genre for the 'Other' group below
• Receiving an item made by another PC does not require buying background dots

Character	Carrying limit	Notes
Vampire	Highest discipline + Occult	not x2 (magical items are uncommon for vampires)
Shifter	(Rank + Rituals) x 2
Mage	(Arete + Occult) x 2	Technocrats use Hypertech instead of Occult
Sorcerer/Psychic	(Highest Numina + Occult) x 2
Changeling	(Highest Art + Gremayre) x 2
Wraith/Risen	(Highest Arcanos + Occult) x 2
Demon	(Faith, max 5 + Occult) x 2
Other	Occult x 2	Includes Mortal, Ghoul, Subrace:Kinfolk, Subrace:Kinain, Possessed, Bygone

Discrepancies

• Need to decide on in-between limits for items that work for a fixed duration (e.g. one month) but are reusable within that time

Vampire

(to be filled out: Enchant Talisman, Chanjelin Ward, etc.)

Werewolf

(to be filled out)

Mage

(to be filled out: Artifacts/Inventions, Charms/Gadgets, Fetishes, Periapts, Talismans/Devices, Grimoires/Principiae)

Sorcerer

(to be filled out: Enchantment, Alchemy)

Changeling

(to be filled out)

Wraith

(to be filled out)

Demon

(to be filled out: Enhance Object, Enchant Object, Demonic Relics)