Making Things

This is as easy as assigning a difficulty and making a roll.

If the Roll is twice the Difficulty, the item created is a superior product, and grants a +1 bonus to any who use it as intended. If the Roll if 3x the Difficulty, the item is +2 and so forth. Less than 5% of items are superior.

Here are some general guidelines:

Easy: Paper airplanes. Children's crafts. Coffee.

Medium: Anything from a kit with good instructions. Furniture assembly. Eggs. Basic painting. Installing doorknobs. Basic pottery. Making a website in Google Sites.

Hard: Assembly with poor or incomplete instructions. Installing doors or windows. Basic computer programming. Default for most hobbies. Default for most common cooking.

Very Hard: Default for most construction trades. Default for mechanical engineering and black-smithing. Database management programming. Default for farming. Default for preparing real cuisine. Default for most fine art.

Extremely Hard: Anything that requires actual calculus. Software system engineering. Default for electronic invention. Default for chemical invention.

Brutal: New materials invention. Default for AI programming. Default for robotics or cybernetics.

Unbelievable: Creating magic items or other artifacts. Default for any item that otherwise could only be purchased by Fate.

Impossible: Anything involving the very fabric of time and/or space. Anything involving gravity control.

There are a few factors to consider:

• Facilities - difficulty assumes adequate facilities (tools, instruments, research material, a clean,well-lit space, etc.). Superior facilities can subtract up to 3 DD. Poor facilities add up to 3DD. It is simply not possible to fabricate things without some sort of material to work with.
• Helpers - qualified helpers subtract 1DD for up to 4DD. Well-meaning but unqualified helpers can only subtract 1DD regardless of their numbers or efforts.
• Technology level - if the end goal is beyond the researcher’s tech level of origin, add 1DD per tech level cumulatively. So 2 levels beyond would be +3DD, and 3 levels beyond would be +6DD. Conversely, if the tech in question is below the researchers level or origin, subtract 1DD per level - though this is not cumulative.