<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=111184.msg4830757#msg4830757">Quote from: ReijiTabibito on 24-06-2011, 05:21:10</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Okay.  Alex, question.  I know we're given twice as many dots for Backgrounds as standard, but here's a rules question.  Dragonbloods get 2x as many dots in the background as they actually have - Artifact 3 gives 6 dots.  Do we have to maximize Artifact before we can take another instance of it?<br/><br/>Example:<br/><br/>A character takes Artifact 4, and uses it to buy a Foe Clearing Halberd (Artifact 4), and a suit of Dragon Armor (also Artifact 4).  Now, he wants to get a <em>standard</em> set of Yoroi Rapid Response Armor (Artifact 3), which would give him 11 dots of Artifact.  How do we work this?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Could you point me to the Dragonbloods get 2x as many dots as they actually have bit?  I don't doubt it's there, I just want to consider how it might work here.<br/><br/>As to Artifacts, perhaps just make each one as a separate purchase, dot-wise- so, in this case, it's 11 total dots, though with this doubling factor 6, with one more one dot artifact.<br/><br/>Unless there's a trick I'm missing, which I could well be.