Forging Guide: Page Three

The Grinder
The grinder is used to shape the head and handle of a forging-hammer and the handle, hilt or haft of a weapon. Successful use of the grinder is dependent upon the character's Crafting skill. The verb used to start the grinder is TURN.

Grinders are available within forging workships, which must be rented in order to use. When a character's rental time is complete, the grinder will stop working.

To use the grinder a character must be in good enough health to operate it, must be wearing a crafting apron, and must be holding the raw weapon material which has been scribed by the glyph material in his or her left hand.

A character's level of success at the grinder is dependant on their health, crafting skill, strength, agility and discipline bonuses, the material difficulty, their profession and race, and a random element.

Successfully using the grinder on a material will result in a rough weapon part, however, if a failure occurs, the material will need to be scribed again before the grinder may be used. Extraordinary failures will destroy the material altogether.

If more material was used than necessary, the remaining material will be left in the character's right hand.