While I generaly aprove of how hard they make crafting, I do sugest a 'liberal intepertation' of the PRotege merit to make it a little easier.<br/><br/>The merit protege lets you buy a single skill at 1/2 price, and get an extra dice whenever you use it.<br/><br/>I've let my players use that to buy craft dots at 2/1, even with base ponits, and also eplicity let it apply to all cafts.