Good afternoon! It’s time for another Wednesday Rules Ramble from your pal Jonathan.
This week, we are going to be discussing Blueprints & Augments!! This weekend we will be playtesting some new Temporary Augments and Blueprints that are early versions of some new blueprints you might eventually see in the game. You might also have heard that our 3.0 Blueprints are in the process of being updated!
You can find the specific details on temporary augments HERE…
Go ahead and check out what we’ve posted there, but I’ll take a moment here to explain the process we will use this weekend.
Kyle and team are hard at work at updating the Blueprints, but they aren’t quite ready yet for live play. In the meantime, we are going to use these Temporary Augments as a neat playtest until these are officially released. Don’t worry, you’ll hear a lot more once we get ready for the big Blueprint update to roll out.
Let’s look at an example of one of the Temporary Augments you’ll see this weekend:
Slappi Lead Knuckleplate (Brawling Augment)
Nothing says ‘get out of my face’ more than a fistful of lead in the gut. Allows the wielder of this weapon to call “KNOCKBACK, 3 STEPS” once per every other flurry, or 10 seconds (whichever comes first) for 1 Mind per knockback.
Augments can be added to an appropriate item to increase it’s abilities. This one can be attached to any Brawling weapon card to allow you a super cool Knockback effect that you can use over and over during a fight. You can only have one augment per item, and this includes existing augments in game like the Shredzilla Grind Gears.
When you are at Check-In, you will have an opportunity to select ONE of the new Temporary Augments or Blueprints of your choice for free. You will get this on a strip of paper as a temporary “item card”, and it can be used in game much like any other item card. It can be traded, sold, taken, etc.
Once you’re in game, you’ll be able to craft additional Temporary Augments and Blueprints at a crafting station in the Terminal Station Depot (the Dining Hall at Kachina). There will be a yellow sheet of paper near one of the workbenches with all the details once you get to game, but I’ve also posted the rules in the link above.
We’ve also introduced a very efficient Culinary blueprint that restores Mind, and the first of new Procedure prints that are specifically for those with Faith-based Anomaly skills, called Benedictions. This is the first example of some new blueprints that open up new ways to use Skills, and you’ll see some more neat options in the future!
All of these new items expire at the end of the event, so we encourage you to try them out and let us know what you think. Your feedback is important!
Crafting in September
Since Blueprints will be updating soon, we will have a slightly different procedure for Crafting and Item Cards for our September event.
If you had virtual Blueprints and crafted items, instead of writing out cards we’d have to rewrite in the next month or so, we have given you your LIT inventory sheet along with your character sheet in your pre-registration packet. If you are buying a ticket at the door, we’ll print out the LIT inventory for you then.
For all intents and purposes, these items in your LIT inventory act as cards, and can be marked off at the Post Office for crafting. When you create a new item, it will likewise go into your virtual inventory and you get it marked off on a LIT transfer sheet. If you trade or give an item on your sheet to another player, write it on that sheet as well, and turn it in with you character sheet at the end of game.
Once those new blueprints come out, we’ll proceed with cashing out the rest of your virtual inventory items and converting item cards that have changed. Until then, we’re using RADICAL TRUST to just get on with playing in the meantime.
If you have any questions about this crafting policy, or basically anything Logistics related, you can find our wonderful Aesa at the Post Office throughout the weekend.
Only a few more short days until we are home again in Bravado. I can’t wait to see you there!