Im not sure if this has been brought up before but I was thinking about how to make some of the crafting systems of use in other crafting systems, while also expanding our ability to personalise our items.
What if we added a new cosmetic items category to each of the crafting disciplines?
For example, in Engineering, the ability to create weapon hilts/shafts (for Forging), buckles/buttons/toggles (for Outfitting), containers (for Alchemy) and Im not sure what for Enchanting (since Im not sure yet how that will look).
Similarly to how a crafter decides whether to apply their makers mark stamp to an item, or not, there could be an additional step at the end of the crafting process to apply one of these items to the finished product. So you could make a Tempered Steel Bastard Sword as you can now, and then at the end, apply a Silverwood hilt created via Shaping giving you a Tempered Steel Bastard Sword with a Silverwood hilt.
Other examples would be some Heavy Imperial Weave gloves with Senci buckles (created via stone Carving), or some Stomach Tonic in a Granite bottle.
This sort of thing would give us the ability to have a little extra creative flair in our products, while also giving some small scale interaction between the various crafts (Forging and Enchanting when its released already have that in the way of Forging making all the tools all the crafts need and Enchanting applying its various stuff to items).
Good idea? Bad idea?
Cheers,
Arv
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