I have a Collector, a Slayer, and an Artificer in my weekly group now. Between Keeper of Curios, Slayer’s Arsenal, and Jury Rig, they can collectively equipment their way out of any situation.
I may have to adjust my GMing approach a smidge to take this into account.
That’s because the Collector is ba-roken! (Broken)
Jury rig is also crazy powerful
I mean there is nothing stoping you from jury rigging a moon destroying cannon. The wording makes it really abusable.
Collector’s broken in what way? I have one who’s joining my next game.
You know how a Wizard can ritual up everything? The collector can do the same without needing a place of power.
But he’s limited to his type of thing, right? Like, if his collection is antique, exotic weaponry, he couldn’t pull out a Sola-destroying cannon, right?
my collector’s theme is “the wands of slain wizards”.
…so, fair bit of leeway there.
That is why you pick something like wands or curious artifice or something like that. You need a lot of GM influence to knot abuse this but also allow the collector to be cool.
Remember
. You can potentially have anything on hand,
So an ancient spear that once destroyed the second now forgotten moon could work…
Glad to see the artificer in play 🙂
Can you explain how jury rig is not completely abusesble Nathan Roberts ?
Moves are triggered by the fiction. Building a cannon to destroy the moon is a fine goal for an artificer, but you’re not going to build such a machine “on the spot.” So you’re not going to trigger the Jury Rig move.
I mean, sure, this is definitely abusing the rules:
Artificer: “I build a moon-cannon, and use it to destroy the moon!”
GM: “Uh… How do you do that?”
Artificer: “I’m using Jury Rig!”
But so is this:
Fighter: “I rip off the dragon’s wings with my bare hands!”
GM: “What? How are you doing that?”
Fighter: “I’m using Hack And Slash!”
Are we looking at different versions maybe? There are two versions i have seen, one is okay and goes like this:
When you quickly fix, repurpose, or fabricate a device on the spot,
the other one is broken:
When you quickly fix or create a device without proper supplies, tools or time
…I’ve got the “on the spot” version, but either way, the move’s got to trigger. If you can explain how you’re combining a volatile power source, an enormous cylinder, and some sort of projectile, using the limited resources that you have access to, and within the time constraints that you’ve been given, then congratulations: you’ve created a jury-rigged moon cannon, and you trigger the Jury-Rig move.
If you haven’t done all of that stuff, then you haven’t created a jury-rigged moon cannon, so you don’t trigger the move.
Also, Jarrah James , your adventuring party sounds hilarious. You should totally throw stuff like this at them:
“Hey, Collector, how close are you standing to the Artificer while he’s wearing his ectoplasmic reversal suit? That close, huh? Cool. Yeah, Artificer, the astral tether on your suit pulls tight, and starts vibrating like a guitar string. And Collector: the obsidian wand of King Malice is humming too, at exactly the same pitch. What do you do?”