Nocker Chimera Creation

By Russell Neal (r.neal@az05.bull.com) (19 December 1995)

Author's Notes

It was so user friendly to give Nockers the ability to create simple chimera, then not give us a system to do it with. Anyway, I haven't seen a system posted yet, so here is the system we use, at least where ancient weapons and armor are concerned. I may work up a set for modern weapons later if I need it...

Nocker Weapon/Armor Chimera Creation Chart

Item	Material	Difficulty	Successes
Sap	1	5	5
Knife	1	5	6
Sling	1	5	5
Sling stone	1	5	5
Foil	2	6	6
Arrow/quarrel	2	6	6
Saber	3	6	6
Broad sword	3	6	6
Club	3	5	5
Javelin/spear	3	5	5
2 handed sword	4	6	7
Bow	4	7	8
Staff	4	5	5
Mace	4	5	6
Ball & chain	5	7	8
Pole weapon	5	6	7
Lance	6	5	6
Crossbow	6	8	9
Armor rating 1	2	5	5
Armor rating 2	3	5	5
Armor rating 3	4	6	6
Armor rating 4	5	6	7
Armor rating 5	6	7	8
Armor rating 6	7	7	9

Description

All Nocker chimera start with a banality resistance of 6. To boost it to 7 requires 1 extra unit of material. 8 requires 3 extra units, and 9 requires 5 extra units.

This is done as an extended roll requiring 2 hours per roll. A botch sets accumulated successes to zero, and wastes half the material being used.

Destroyed chimera usually provide one unit of chimerical material per glamour rating. This could lessen depending on how they were destroyed. Chimera destroyed by banality usually leave no material.