ArtifactsForStupidPeople

The Guide to Writing Artifacts for Stupid People

• by Telgar

No, this isn't about writing Artifacts for use by stupid people. It's a down, dirty, disgusing and hateful system for creating Artifacts if you're just flat bad at it. I do not use the system that I will construct and demonstrate here. I will never use it for anything but examples in here. I hate it. I'm writing it half as a huge example of what not to ever do. But some people may actually like it. Someone might use it! I hope not. I'd rather people used my OTHER Artifact Creation Guidelines. They're nice and happy. This is the evil cheating way of hideousness. So, ya know, be aware of that.

Artifact Points by Level

Each dot in the Artifact Background that an item costs provides a certain number of points which may be distrubted amongst things like stats for weapons and armor or abilities. Artifacts don't have to use all their alloted points, but it's generally a good idea to do so.

• Level 1 - 50 points
• Level 2 - 100 points
• Level 3 - 200 points
• Level 4 - 500 points
• Level 5 - 1000 points

Spending Points on Stats

• Stats
  • Accuracy - costs 5 stat points
  • Damage - costs 3 stat points
  • Speed - costs 3 stat points
  • Rate - costs 2 stat points
  • Defense - costs 4 stat points
  • Soak - costs 2 stat points for Bashing or Lethal, must be bought seperately
  • Fatigue - each Fatigue penalty adds 1 stat point
  • Mobility - each Mobility penalty adds 2 stat points
  • Hardness - costs 2 stat points, may never exceed the lowest soak score of whatever it applies to.
• Powers
  • Dice-Adding - costs 5 points for combat abilities, 3 for non-combat
  • Penalty Removal - costs 4 points per removal
  • Charms - Charms have a point cost of their combined Trait Mimimums, plus 1 per pre-requisite Charm
  • Spells - Spells have a point cost equal to their Circle (1, 2 or 3) times 100
  • Motes - The ability to hold or generate 1 mote costs 5 points
  • Stat Increases
    • Attributes - 30 points
    • Abilities - 15 points
    • Virtues - 20 points
    • Willpower - 50 points
    • Essence - 400 points
  • Other - Special, as defined by ST and Player.

Spending Points on Tags

Tags are qualities in an Artifact that give it some special, pre-determined power. Wooo.

• Piercing
• Holy
• Poisonous
• Strike Immaterial
• View Immaterial
• Magic Resistant
• Magic Vulnerability
• Elemental Resistance
• Elemental Vulnerability
• Life Eating
• Underworld Forged