Defining Magewrights
Magewrights could be written up as a Professional Edge, but I think leaving it as a title for an archetype would be good enough. One could suggest that a magewright is simply a character who only has the Arcane Background (Weird Science) Edge but not the Gadgeteer Edge.Defining Schemas
For schemas, we simply create a new magic item called that is something of a mix between a scroll and tome (see Treasure in the Savage Worlds Fantasy Companion) that doesn't disappear after use (note: tomes don't disappear, but scrolls do). In other words, a schema is a scroll for creating a device, but acts as a tome in that it effectively gives a new power to the character who uses the schema; however, the character cannot recreate the device if the schema is lost.I'd also require a character to have the Arcane Background (Weird Science) Edge to understand the designs and notations of schematics rather than allow anyone with any Arcane Background to use it as this would maintain the distinction of its function and flavor.
Here is the final result written in the context of Eberron:
An artificer or magewright can create a schema just like any other device using the Arcane Background (Weird Science) Edge. Only an artificer may use the Gadgeteer Edge to create a rough draft of a schema with the limitations inherent to the Gadgeteer Edge itself. An artificer or magewright may duplicate a schema with a successful Weird Science roll.
I really like that model. The problem I have with a lot of Savage World conversions is that they add too many new rules to the game instead of using what's already there.
ReplyDeleteYou have made good use of existing SW rules and still it feels like Eberron to me. Great work.
I tried to bring out the economy of low-level magic as an industrial product and service in Eberron with schemas and magewrights while using what already existed. Thanks for confirming my success with achieving that goal. :)
ReplyDeleteI really try to adhere to the core rules as much as possible and only change what's absolutely necessary. Some of the earlier 'Savage Eberron' stuff could be streamlined as I had designed those at an earlier stage of my understanding of the Savage Worlds core rules.
Warforged are one particular piece that I want to revisit. I tried too hard to emulate the living construct concept from D&D v3.5, but I feel like it's far too clunky. That was an effort to do exactly what you dislike in most conversions. Many suggest just making the warforged a construct and leave it at that, but I think there is still something important about identifying it as a living construct as they are made out of organic matter rather than just buckets of metal parts.
I digress though. That's a conversation for the Races post.