Creating Trinkets

Trinkets are temporary magic items that are created by imbuing an item with the abilities of a magic spell. In order to create a Trinket you must have the Spell or Prayer to be imbued within the item as a Mastered Power. Additionally, you must have a Skill Rank equal to or greater than the rank of the Trinket: Eldritch Arts for items imbued with Eldritch Spells and Religious Arts for items imbued with Divine Prayers.

Obtaining Trinket Recipes

Trinket recipes are rare and generally considered closely guarded secrets by the Artificers that create them. They can sometimes be purchased, at a cost of [Rank of Item]² x 100gp, or if lucky can be found while adventuring. The recipe can also be reverse engineered from the item itself, though the research process destroys the item and requires an appropriate skill check (usually Eldritch Arts or Religious Arts) with a Difficulty equal to the [Rank of Item + 4].

When a Trinket is identified (using the Identify ritual, Analyze Dweomer power, or similar ability), the caster may learn any Skill Requirements necessary for creation of the Trinket, but no other information about its creation.

Creating Trinkets

Creating the Trinket requires combining a Masterwork quality item with various other components and multiple castings of the imbued Spell or Prayer. The process of creating a Trinket is long and arduous, requiring 1 week of successful progress per Rank of the Trinket (at 8 hours per day). For each week of creation, three skill checks must be made (Eldritch Arts for Spell imbued trinkets, Religious Arts for Prayer imbued trinkets) [DC = 10 + (5 x Trinket Rank)]. If one or two checks are failed, no progress is made that week. If all three checks are failed, the creation fails and all components are lost. Additionally, for each day of the Trinket's creation, the creator must spend [10+ Trinket Rank] Stamina Burn and [10 + Trinket Rank] Resolve Burn during the process. Finally, at the end of the creation process, once all weeks of progress have been successfully made, the creator must spend 1 Karma to seal the magic within the item. Only then is the Trinket complete.

Unfortunately, the magic within a Trinket still wanes over time. Each time a Trinket is used, it has a 1 in 6 chance (i.e. a roll of 1 on 1d6) of the magic depleting, after which point the Trinket no longer functions.

Recharging Trinkets

When the magic is depleted from a Trinket, it may be recharged using the same process (requiring the same time, components, energy costs, and Karma cost). A Trinket that is being recharged with the same Spell or Prayer that imbued it before gains a +5 bonus to the Eldritch Arts or Religious Arts checks required to complete its creation.