To create game items such as potions, scrolls, elixirs, Weapons, traps, and armor, you must first buy the appropriate Skill with your XP. Each time you buy a Production Skill, you get five Production Points (PP) of that type to spend in each LP. Production Points do not carry over from day to day or event to event. You cannot transfer or combine your Production Points with another player.

Items can be made in two ways. The simplest is to create items at Logistics. You will be asked to show your Battle Board with your Skill level. You must also pay a copper piece per Production Point. This game money represents the raw materials and other costs associated with producing the item.

Alternatively, you can make an item at a Crafting Station. This is a specific on-site location designated by your chapter’s staff (often this will be the same as where you go for Logistics). You will find a Production Sheet there, on which you must fill out one row for each type of item you are building. If you are using a Workshop, add the Workshop ID in the appropriate column. Put the correct amount of IG coin into the box or envelope provided for that purpose and fill out one of the blank tags left on the table as appropriate for the item you are building. The item tag must be signed by a Crafting Marshal (a player who has been authorized for this purpose) who witnesses you filling out the Production Sheet and dropping off your IG coin. Keep in mind that costs for additional batches or additional coin requirements (like for Strengthening or Silvering) must be paid just as if you were producing the item at Logistics.

Individual Chapters may have slightly different layouts and expectations for their Crafting Stations based on their specific site needs. If you have any questions, ask a Marshal.

After you have purchased ten levels of any Skill, you are considered a Journeyman, and after twenty levels, you are a Master. These levels will provide extra bonuses, such as being able to make items at a reduced cost or being able to identify them quicker.

Workshops: It is possible to become more productive in making Production Point items if you have access to a workshop that specializes in making them. A workshop will double your base Production Points, thus making it possible to produce more of an item than normally possible. There are specialized workshops for each type of Production Skill. You can purchase these specialized workshops for ten gold pieces each. You must still pay the proper amount in copper pieces in order to get your Production Point items even with a workshop. 40 Production Points of anything made will cost 40 copper pieces whether done in a workshop or not. Workshops can only be used by one person per LP. Your workshop tag will list your character’s name and the location of the workshop, as well as a unique ID for the workshop which must be written down when going to a Crafting Station.

A workshop can only be used when the game takes place in the location noted on the tag. For instance, if you buy a workshop in IG location A, you will not be able to use it in IG location B. You can, of course, buy a new workshop. Further, there may be plot reasons why you cannot use your workshop at a particular event.

You can buy several workshops located in all of the towns in which the game may possibly take place. Unlike all other treasure, workshops cannot be stolen.

A workshop can be sold or loaned to another character but can never be used by more than one character per LP. In other words, you cannot use the workshop, sell it to someone else, and then have the buyer use that same workshop on the same day. The new owner must wait until the next LP.

The selling of a workshop must be done at Logistics with both the seller and the buyer present to confirm the sale. A new tag with the new owner’s name on it will then be issued while the old tag will be destroyed.

Batches: Another way to increase the number of items you can create in any one gameday is by making large “batches.” Batching gives a character a new set of production points (at double cost in copper pieces) to be used as they see fit. These points do not need to be spent identically to earlier batches. After you use your normal Production Points for the day (whether with or without a workshop), you can then create a second “batch” at double the cost. The same limitations apply as per the first batch. You can use your workshop for each of these batches. A third batch may be made at triple cost, a fourth batch at quadruple cost, and so on. There is no limit to how many batches can be made other than the coin required.

Production Points from different batches may never be combined. In other words, you cannot combine your two 40 Production Point batches to make one item worth 80 Production Points. You are always limited by your Skill and your workshop.