<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=346006.msg16336639#msg16336639">Quote from: HairyHeretic on 11-11-2022, 23:18:33</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Not quite sure I understand what you're saying here. Can you elaborate for me?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Okay, so, Daiklaives are in the core, and are listed as Artifact 2.  They cost five motes to attune.<br/><br/>A Windblade is from Wonders of the Lost Age, page 35.  It's a repair 3 object that's usually like a belt buckle or something, but can be activated to turn it into basically a hoverboard.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote from: Wonders of the Lost Age page 35</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">A few<br/>particularly exotic daiklaves can unfurl into Windblade craft.<br/>Such daiklaves are rated Artifact 4, and have the statistics<br/>of normal daiklaves while not in fl ight mode. Attuning such<br/>a device requires the usual fi ve motes instead of one.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>So, the question has often arisen over the over a decade since Ex2 came out: what else can we combine?<br/><br/>One answer, given not by Hairy but given by various Storytellers: since the fourth and fifth dot of Backgrounds (including Artifacts) cost double, then it costs you 5bp to get an Artifact 4, the same way it costs you 5bp to get an Artifact 2 and an Artifact 3.  Ergo, if it makes sense for those two items to be combined, maybe it can just take the combination of the two objects.<br/><br/>Now, where things break down is that I'm looking at the book right now for a Concealed-Knife Brace and it's Artifact 2.  When I looked it up online to toss the idea in the first place, the website had it as Artifact 3.  So, this one doesn't work as well.<br/><br/>However, the basic idea would be: if there's two artifacts that are worn in similar ways, one is Artifact 2 and costs X motes, one is Artifact 3 and costs Y motes, it may be okay to have an Artifact 4 that does the same thing as both the other two and costs X+Y motes to attune.  However, it'd certainly be a case by case basis and need Storyteller approval.