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(This is one step higher than suggested in School of
Hard Knocks: The Skills Companion - sculptors have
to perform their artistry piecemeal.)
Failures in the Sculpting maneuver will produce an
ugly or grotesque Construct.
With the parts made and sculpted, the remaining
purely mundane task is to fit the pieces together. This
process is akin to completing a three-dimensional
jigsaw, and requires a successful Very Hard
Mechanition maneuver. A Spectacular or Absolute
Failure will add 10% extra cost (representing damage
to parts by incorrect placement) and 10% extra time to
the project. A Failure will add one day to the creation
time.
The mage can have the mundane aspects of construction,
e.g. the Metal Crafting, the Sculpting, and
the Mechanition, undertaken by expert craftsmen.
However these professionals will have to be available
and working on the project throughout the creation
process.
In terms of spells, the creator must cast the appropriate
Construct N spell for an entity of the desired level
each day. If the Construct is to have any mechanical
abilities, the Enhance Construct spell must also be cast
each day. If the entity is to receive any magical abilities,
the creator must cast the spell to be imbedded, the
appropriate Imbed N spell, and one of the Charged
Power, Daily Power N, or Constant Power N spells each
day. A spell failure does not ruin the entire process,
unless the caster is incapable of recasting the miscast
spell that day.
And once the final spell has been cast, the magic will
animate the finished Construct with a spark of life and
a purpose – to serve its creator obediently.
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MAGICAL
ENHANCEMENTS
The Construct Magic and Golem Magic spell lists
enable creators to imbue both types of entities with
spell-like abilities. The process is broadly similar to
that for imbedding spells into other sorts of magic
items.
1.The appropriate Imbed # spell must be cast into the
entity once a day. (A third-level spell will require an
Imbed III spell.)
2.The spell to be imbedded must itself be cast into the
entity once a day. (This spell may be cast by the
creator, an item, or another spell user - see also the
Research spell below.)
3.If the ability is to use charges, then one of Minor
Charged Power, Lesser Charged Power, Greater
Charged Power, or Major Charged Power must be
cast into the entity once each day.
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4.If the ability is to be a “Daily” ability, then the
appropriate Daily Power # spell must be cast into the
entity once a day. (To have a third-level spell usable
by the entity once per day will require a Daily Power
III spell.)
5.If the ability is to be continuously operational (constant)
or once every round (“at will”), then the
appropriate Constant Power # spell must be cast into
the entity once a day. (To have a third-level spell
effect the entity on a constant basis will require a
Constant Power III spell.)
A Charged Power ability uses up one charge for each
use of the ability. The Minor Charged Power, Lesser
Charged Power, Greater Charged Power, and Major
Charged Power spells will imbue an entity with 20, 50,
100 and 200 charges respectively. An entity can be
“recharged” by casting the appropriate Charged Power
spell once a day for a number of weeks equal to the level
of the spell ability. Thus to replace 50 charges of a
fourth-level spell would require a caster to cast Lesser
Charged Power once a day for four weeks.
A Daily Power ability allows the entity to cast the
imbedded spell a certain number of times per day. The
number of times per day depends on the level of the
imbedded spell and the # of the Daily Power # spell
used. A Daily Power III spell could be used to imbed a
1 st -level spell usable three times per day by the entity,
or a 2 nd -level or a 3 rd -level spell usable once per day by
the entity.
A Constant Power ability can be used in one of two
ways. The first is genuinely constant, where the entity
has the continuous and permanent benefit of the
ability. Suitable spells which can be made constant
include Detect spells, Resist spells, Invisibility,
Nightvision, etc. Spells which cannot be made “constant”
include elemental attack spells, base attack spells,
etc., which is where the second means of using Constant
Power imbedding comes in. A Constant Power
ability can be designated as being “at will”, allowing the
entity to use the ability up to once every round. This
variant is suitable for providing golems and constructs
with frequent elemental attack capabilities and so on.
In standard item creation, there is only a single
Constant spell, which in conjunction with a sufficiently
high-powered Imbed spell can render any appropriate
spell effect constant. Conversely for entity creation,
there is a series of Constant Power # spells with the #
limiting the maximum spell which can be rendered
“constant” or “at will”. The net effect is that entities can
receive low-level constant abilities by low to medium
powered casters. This is deliberate and necessary to
simulate the magical abilities of existing beast golems
and constructs without requiring the existence of many
very high-level casters to create the world’s supply of
interesting artificial entities. However, GMs concerned
about play-balance issues should remember that these
constant and at-will abilities are not being imbedded in
inanimate items automatically accessible to the caster,
but in autonomous artificial creatures who may or may
not be obedient to their creators.