building alchemical items quickly. [Archive] - Wizards Community

building alchemical items quickly. [Archive] - Wizards Community

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shades of eternity
05-21-07, 01:10 PM building alchemical items quickly.

I have a feeling I'm going to have to make a # of alchemical items quickly, but not sure how to do so.

I originally looked at fabricate, but that "single material" makes me believe it will not work.

any ideas on how to speed up alchemical production?
RavenDrake
05-21-07, 01:51 PM Under the "Epic" rules for Craft(but I can't see any reason not to allow these rules in normal construction) it says that you can increase the DC in multiples of 10, which will increse production times since you multiply the check result by the DC.

For example, Alchemist's Fire costs 20gp normally and has a DC 20 craft check.

Thus with a successful craft check at, say 30, with the normal DC of 20 you would be able to do 600sp worth of work in a single week, or 3 vials.

If you increase the DC by 10 to represent "working quickly" to DC 30, then with that same craft check of 30 you'd produce 900sp worth of work, or 4 and half vials worth.

Of course, this really only helps for alchemy if you can consistantly produce craft checks in excess of 30.
mvincent
05-21-07, 02:29 PM I originally looked at fabricate, but that "single material" makes me believe it will not work.The fabricate ("single material") spell does not appear to use the term ""single material".

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
shades of eternity 05-21-07, 01:10 PM	building alchemical items quickly. I have a feeling I'm going to have to make a # of alchemical items quickly, but not sure how to do so. I originally looked at fabricate, but that "single material" makes me believe it will not work. any ideas on how to speed up alchemical production?
RavenDrake 05-21-07, 01:51 PM	Under the "Epic" rules for Craft(but I can't see any reason not to allow these rules in normal construction) it says that you can increase the DC in multiples of 10, which will increse production times since you multiply the check result by the DC. For example, Alchemist's Fire costs 20gp normally and has a DC 20 craft check. Thus with a successful craft check at, say 30, with the normal DC of 20 you would be able to do 600sp worth of work in a single week, or 3 vials. If you increase the DC by 10 to represent "working quickly" to DC 30, then with that same craft check of 30 you'd produce 900sp worth of work, or 4 and half vials worth. Of course, this really only helps for alchemy if you can consistantly produce craft checks in excess of 30.
mvincent 05-21-07, 02:29 PM	I originally looked at fabricate, but that "single material" makes me believe it will not work.The fabricate ("single material") spell does not appear to use the term ""single material".