## USING MATERIALS TO PAY FOR PROJECTS

If you happen to gather precious materials during your adventures, you may use them to pay for the costs of a Project. The Game Master has final say on which materials and ingredients can help you cover the cost of a Project.

If the Game Master requests a given ingredient or material because of the invention's potency (as described under step 3 of the flowchart on page 134), said ingredient or material cannot also be used to pay for the Project's costs.

### HIRING HELPERS

If an inventor wants to increase the daily amount of progress, or if they want to work on multiple Projects at the same time, they may want to hire helpers.

- Each helper is a competent worker or assistant who will ask for a pay equal to half of the Project’s total cost.
- Each helper will generate 1 additional progress at the end of each day.

The sticky core found inside Elemental Slimes can be used to produce several forms of energy.

The rules for Projects are very flexible, but they are designed to allow characters to create something unique and never seen before, not to craft items that can normally be found or purchased, such as equipment — they should be used to provide innovative solutions to problems and obstacles.

- If the character wants to create multiple copies of an invention, each is a separate Project. Turning inventions into easy-to-produce items will inevitably break the game. For Tinkerers who want to customize equipment, look at the Heroic Skill Upgrade (page 217).
- Projects require time: if the group focuses on a long Project, Villains will certainly not sit idly.
- Interlude scenes are perfect for narrating a Project's development.

## HOW TO USE PROJECTS