Spellbond Constructer
Warcaster Armour upgrade (see Gearbooks I or II PDFs for a rules proposal for upgrading warcaster armour)
Cost: 150 gc
Effect: While a suit of warcaster armour fitted with a spellbond constructer is running its arcane turbine at full steam, a Veteran-level warcaster can use a free bond slot to bond to the spellbond constructer and cast an upkeep spell through the device, after which the spell’s upkeep cost is reduced by 1 (This means that, normally, the warcaster will not have to spend any focus to upkeep the spell, though effects like the Lamentation spell (see IKRPG, p. 241) that increase upkeep costs mean the warcaster may have to spend focus to make up the difference when upkeeping the spell in the constructer).
Each spellbond constructer can only support a single spell simultaneously, and casting a spell through the device does not require any of the additional effort that forging a bond normally entails. A suit of warcaster armour can be equipped with any number of spellbond constructers (though there is no point to installing more constructers than the number of upkeep spells known by the warcaster, or greater than the power available from the arcane turbine).
Morgan’s Notes: In most cases, warcasters keep spellbond constructers in reserve for when they start losing their warjacks during a battle, which simultaneously frees up the bond slots and also increases the warcaster’s need to rely more on pouring arcane power into spells and their own attacks and defenses.
Power Requirement: 1
Installation: Installing a spellbond constructer requires two hours of labour followed by a successful INT+Mechanikal Engineering roll against a target number of 13.
Fabrication: The material cost of the spellbond constructer’s parts is 50 gc. It takes one week to construct the device. Fabricating a spellbond constructer requires the Inscribe Formulae ability as well as a successful INT+Mechanikal Engineering roll against a target number of 13.
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