Crafting / Looting

[Mordred]

Just a forewarning, we're going to have to be very smart about monster drop tables if items are going to be built mix-and-match out of different material types. I don't know if I can muster reserves of cleverness that deep. >.>;

[Diethe]

Chapter: Economy and Crafting

Gil

Gil is the universal currency used throughout the continent and has long existed as gold coins minted with the face of the local monarch. In the game, it is generally used for buying generic equipment and raw materials and can be obtained through battles, selling raw materials to NPC merchants (At a small price depending on the raw material's tier), selling War Spoils (At an even lower price), or trading with Player characters, which keeps the economy stable through the Warrior/Gatherer-Crafter relationship. This allows the player to pursue a different gameplay other than grinding and fighting people left and right and allows one to gather, craft and profit from buying and selling goods and materials.

Tiers

Equipment, Raw Materials and Loot Bags gained from battles are divided into 10 tiers across 50 Character Levels.

Raw Materials

Raw Materials are the rare crafting ingredients needed to be able to craft the different types of equipment in-game. These can be bought at shops at a high price, looted from enemy bodies or acquired randomly from opening War Spoil Loot. While there are different kinds of raw materials that can be found in the land, these materials can reliably be measured according to their tier and amount of RV they cost. A finished product usually requires a certain amount of RV to be crafted and scales up as the item's quality increases. The different categories of raw materials are as follows:

Metal:
Primarily used for physical classes' weapons and armors, these are also required in high level gear for other types of items such as bows and rods.

Diamond:
Chromium:
Mythril:
Pyrite:
Steel:
Iron:
Bronze:
Copper:

Cloth:
Cloth is used for creating clothing and accessories for mage classes and those who stay light-footed.

-Wyrmweave
-Featherweave
-Cashmere
-Damask
-Silk:
-Linen:
-Cotton:

Wood:
Wood is used in a variety of weapons such as bows, spears, rods and staves.

-Dragonwhisker
-Whalewhisker
-Ivory
-Bamboo
-Cypress
-Oak

Leather:
Leather is usually tanned for accessories (shoes and cloaks primarily) and some bulkier clothing.

Pantherskin
Hide

Magicite/Gemstones (Undecided):
Stones and gems containing the mist and the remains from the cataclysm are infused in sticks and staves, as well as expensive gemmed heirlooms and weapons.

(Something about stone size or gemstones? Dunno.)
-Stone
-Crystal

Herbs
These are all the berries and grasses that alchemists use for potions. (Need to edit this if we're going with a different alchemy system for consumables)

Special Reagents:
These are unique items with their own qualities, used for adding special effects to weapons such as Add: Poison or Add: Blind and are not convertible to RV.

-Padding (HP +10)
-Shoulderpads (HP+20)
-Fire Orb (Effect: Fire)
-Mossfungus (Add: Death)
-Stardust (Effect: Gravity)
-Dragonfang (Effect: Fire)

War Spoils

War Spoils are various battle trophies scavenged from your fallen enemies bodies and are mostly a mystery box containing random categorized Raw Materials that might be useful for a different craftsmen. They are the easiest loot to obtain from enemies and are recorded and received after the battle, though it is still possible to obtain either Gil or Raw Materials at a lower chance. The loot bags, along with the gil or raw material gained, scale in level alongside the enemy slain, and contain mostly RV calculated raw materials or the occasional useful weapon or armor stripped off a worthy enemy.

Opening loot bags can be done at the Black Market Thread where your friendly neighborhood fence doesn't mind the morality of taking a king's crown off a corpse. Loot, depending on the tier, will usually hang out Raw Materials from a random Raw Material Category. Loot Bags may also be sold to the Black Market Thread as a last resort for a very low price, taking off that extra piece of baggage from you, but are usually and lucratively sold to crafters who wish to buy raw materials at a lower price, especially when the need for different categories of Raw Materials arise. Even the experienced high level warrior will have some use for lower level newbies and give them opportunities to earn easy gil. Fighting, in a way, sell their loot to crafters who in turn sell their goods to fighters; creating an economy using gil.

Various classes also have different types of ways to gain loot easier or in a more predicable manner. These shall be discussed in the specific class threads.

Loot Table

-Heirloom: Rare pieces of weapons and armor looted from corpses of distinguished heroes or villains. Contains a random piece of weapon or armor. (Not sure if we should scale this too, depends on whether you guys want item drops from enemies to be very rare or not. If we want to have at least 1 item drop per fight, I suggest scaling these heirlooms.

-X: (ilevel 46-50)
-X: (ilevel 41-45)
-X: (ilevel 36-40)
-Silk Bag: (ilevel 31-35)
-Leather Bag: (ilevel 26-30)
-Worn Bag: (ilevel 21-25)
-Satchel: (ilevel 16-20)
-Sack: (ilevel 11-15)
-Pouch: (ilevel 6-10)
-Purse: (ilevel 1-5)

NPC Merchants
The various flea markets, bazaars and tradehalls throughout the continent is home to many merchants who sell and peddle their wares and trinkets at exorbitant prices due to the war going on, so many choose to take up professions instead and forge their own gear. However, many still consider middlemen and merchants reliable, especially the nobles who have no qualms about parting with their gil. NPC Merchants are readily available in cities, and buy or sell lower-quality equipment, raw materials and war spoils.

NPC Merchants are readily available to buy your loot bags or Raw Materials as a last resort for half the value of the item.

Sample Price List for NPC Merchants
Buying
Tier 1 Equipment: 200
Tier 1

Selling
Tier 1 Item: 100

Crafting
Crafting is the process of creating equipment through the use of Raw Materials. The Craftsman I Skill is needed to be able to craft equipment while the Chemist I skill is needed for consumables, as well as the required number of RVs an item might need to be created.

As crafting skills are brought, more Special Reagent Slots are made available for the craftsman to insert into their craft. Iron Swords (WP:5) for example, might need a Metal RV of 100 and a Leather RV of 5 to craft. The player must then accumulate the total number of RV and use their personal turn to craft the item, spending their Raw Materials in the process. The Special Reagents may be added to either an existing item or an item being crafted to add status effects or additional stats to weapons. Crafting also rewards players with JP per each successful creation depending on the item tier.

Generally, a character would probably have a section in their character profile that looks like this:

Crafting Materials:
Metal (550 RV): 2 Iron Ingots, 1 Steel Ingot
Leather (40 RV): 1 Cured Leather, 3 Hide Leather
Cloth (0 RV):
Wood (0 RV):
Magicite/Gemstones (0 RV):
Herbs (0 RV):

Special Reagents: Shoulderpad (+20 HP), Acid (Add: Blind)

Item Types

Weapons
Swords - 80% metal, 20% wood
Claymores - 90% metal, 10% gemstone
Sticks - 75% wood, 25% gemstone
Staves - 85% wood, 15% gemstone
Rods - 80% metal, 20% gemstone
Longbow - 90% wood, 10% metal
Crossbow - 70% wood, 30% metal
Shield - 75% metal, 25% wood
Spear - 60% metal, 40% wood
Polearms - 70% metal, 30% wood
Katana - 90% metal, 10% wood
Instrument - 80% wood, 20% gemstone
Guns - 60% metal, 40% gemstone
Knives - 50% metal, 50% leather

Armor
Heavy Armor
Helmets
Clothing
Hats
etc.

Alright. Let's fill this baby up. Easier if we like...put all the tables we already made into a quotation of this and put like edits. Also, assuming the separation between Craftsman and Alchemy, not only do we need a different skill system, but also a different reward system for that, am I right? I mean, not like we're gonna have Antidote, Hi Antidote, Antidote VII, Antidote VIII or something.