<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Which craft skill would you need to create a laser falcon?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Well, in Complete Champion, you can make a Spark Guardian with Craft Construct and Profession (engineer).  In Complete Arcane, you can make an Effigy with Craft Construct and Craft (woodworking/leatherworking/metalworking) or Knowledge (engineering).  I could buy an Effigy falcon for 2500, then put a command-word<em>scorching ray</em>on it for 10800, for a total of 13300.  Of course, that's just speculative, and assuming you want to build one rather than train a falcon to use a Circlet of Blasting, or enchant it.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Chloe: I'm going to be taking armorsmithing, blacksmithing, and sculpting myself in varying capacities, while gemcutting seems completely useless.  I'm not going quite so heavily into blacksmithing early on, but I'll probably ramp that up considerably later on for making construct minions.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I guess I'll do gemcutting.  If nothing else, one can make "scrolls" out of gems according to Magic of Faerun or Complete Arcana.<br/><br/>Woah, lots of in-character thread.  I'll catch up today.