Weaponcraft is the making and repair of arms and armour. It is the most exacting of the metal trades because the product is expected to survive being used as intended, and the difference between a sound blade and a brittle one is invisible until somebody is depending on it.

Crafting

Arms and armour are made by the common crafting routine — workshop, expense, test, result, masterwork rolls, repair. A weaponsmith works in a workshop matching the skill tested below. What follows is what is particular to this bench.

Weapons

Expense.

Test. The formula depends on what is being made.

A flaw costs the weapon one Weapon Quality and one impact for every point of Success Value below 3.

Masterwork reads as Weapon Quality and impact — impact being this trade’s modifier. Applicable successes are capped at the weapon’s base Weapon Quality minus eight, so a WQ 10 weapon takes at most two.

Armour

Armour follows the same shape, with the test set by the material rather than by the article. It carries no separate expense table; the article’s catalogue entry gives its cost.

A flaw costs the article one Armour Quality and one Armour Value — two of each at SV 0 or less.

Masterwork reads as Armour Quality and Armour Value in place of weapon quality and impact, and the material itself caps how many successes can actually be applied:

There is only so much that can be done with a quilted coat, however good the tailor.