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#1 Francky Sep 01, 2014 7:51:53	Can someone explain to me why would i craft something if its costing me the exact same price as buying it ? If i'm a Fighter and i want to buy a plate armor it will cost me 1500g, Thanks shopkeep, walk out and put it on. But if i want to make it it will cost me 1500g 300 days at 5g a day to build it ?! so my character cant do nothing for almost a year ? whats the adventage of crafting something seriously ? If atlease the cost of the build was half the price of the unit your crafting or something.
#2 Polaris Sep 01, 2014 7:59:01	The only real reason IMO is if you can't buy it.  In many cases (esp at low levels) Plate Armor simply won't be for sale but you could still (presumably) make it.   -Polaris
#3 franfron Sep 01, 2014 8:09:14	Francky wrote:
#4 Undrhil Sep 02, 2014 19:37:43	I don't know about the plate armor example, but if you are a Ranger or Rogue in a dungeon where you just killed a bunch of Kobolds but your leather armor somehow got destroyed, I think being able to craft Kobold-leather armor (over a couple of days?) would be amazing.  Sure, I'd have to hunker down and setup a section of the dungeon to allow me for complete security, but after those days, I have my armor and didn't have to backtrack back to town to do it.  No monsters repopulating the area of the dungeon I am maintaining, etc.
#5 erachima Sep 02, 2014 19:44:32	The short answer is that any DM who cares about either historical accuracy or basic gameplay functionality will spend five minutes laughing at the crafting times and then slash them by at least an order of magnitude.