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Harry's Duster and the dangerous world of Chicago
WereElephant:
--- Quote from: Quantus on May 15, 2018, 01:24:03 PM ---It's not a market exchange rate, its an ongoing design project. At the beginning it's enchantments didnt last as long, and in the save of his canvas duster the entire process was different. By Changes he thought he'd refined the design enough that the enchantments would last most of a year. And even THAT is only based on the design he'd worked on which did not use any of the expensive materials known to make enchantments last longer (per bob in BR).
You cant get a standardized Man-hour requirement any more than you can reduce actual real-world crafts to that sort of hard-line repeatable schedule cost.
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I was thinking more of credit-hours in the university sense. They don't translate to literal time you spend during the week, but they represent a portion or percent of how much you can take on. I'd like a list like this as a benchmark for how much is considered a full load to Harry.
As for it being an ongoing design, this is true. However, it is also an ongoing maintenance project. Maintenance is more regular in time cost. I imagine most weeks Harry simply restores the enchantments on his items as they wear away due to use. He would only decide to alter the enchantment on something (which would probably make it temporarily unusable until completion) when he saw a deficiency in the pattern he'd come up with or had an idea for a better way.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: WereElephant on May 15, 2018, 03:34:39 PM ---I was thinking more of credit-hours in the university sense. They don't translate to literal time you spend during the week, but they represent a portion or percent of how much you can take on. I'd like a list like this as a benchmark for how much is considered a full load to Harry.
As for it being an ongoing design, this is true. However, it is also an ongoing maintenance project. Maintenance is more regular in time cost. I imagine most weeks Harry simply restores the enchantments on his items as they wear away due to use. He would only decide to alter the enchantment on something (which would probably make it temporarily unusable until completion) when he saw a deficiency in the pattern he'd come up with or had an idea for a better way.
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Only when the design changes/improvements stop, at least in my experience.
Ananda:
--- Quote from: Lost Merlin on May 15, 2018, 12:43:11 PM ---Jim has also mentioned that harry spend roughly 20 hours a week working on magic gear maintenance. I would assume that some of this is work on the duster. To do this for additional items may just be too much of a time investment.
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After they all got bags of diamonds, they can afford to pay someone to make and maintain some thingies, I am sure. I’d spend it on clothes and so, but I don’t participate in supernatural battles. :)
groinkick:
Could be wrong but didn't Harry use Soulfire for his duster, and it later became known that such an object could be dangerous to the magic user because of this intimate connection with the object?
Quantus:
--- Quote from: groinkick on May 17, 2018, 04:39:46 AM ---Could be wrong but didn't Harry use Soulfire for his duster, and it later became known that such an object could be dangerous to the magic user because of this intimate connection with the object?
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No he didnt, and yes it would. So far he hasnt (as far as we know) done any Creating with Soulfire, and Jim said that a mobile piece of his soul like that would be a huge and dangerous Thaumaturgic link should anyone hostile get their hands on it. As of CD Harry just said that he'd been avidly avoiding any actual experimentation with Soulfire, viewing it as akin to "swallowing nitroglycerine and jumping up and down" for Science!
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