Hello.  I was working on designing my own city and I noticed something.  There are two city sheets in the game, the High Level sheet and the Locations sheet.  That's it.

That may be sufficient for some, possibly even most, but I an into real estate and thus I also identify neighborhoods.  Therefore I created an intermediary sheet that allows for the grouping of locations into neighborhoods, districts (wards, community areas, whatever), municipalities, and townships.  The reason is that most sufficiently large metropolitan areas are actually made up of a sequence of other areas that are often grouped together, each having unique features, threats and so forth.  By adding an extra layer I feel I have a better view of locations, NPCs and how they tie together.  I will start with an example of why I think and added sheet is useful ...  and given most have read Dresden Files I will use Chicago as an example:

• In the book Harry mentions "The Loop" community area (aka official designated community area 32), which is the main business district and includes locations such as the Art Institute, Carson Pirie Scott, Chicago Board of Trade, McCormick Place, Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower, which had its own zip code), Buckingham Fountain, Grant Park etc, and is actually a collection of 5 neighborhoods, including the main area known as "the Loop".
• The Field Museum is also referenced, but that is just one location in the 57 acre Museum Campus (aka, the SE corner of Grant Park), which also includes the Shedd Aquarium and the Alder Planetarium ... so is it one location, three separate locations, or four?
• Rush Street ... it isn't just one location, but in a way it is.

I could go on with many more examples (I used to work in Chicago) but I think people get the picture.  Most Locations are conceived as a single place:  Harry's Apartment, Harry's Office, the Field Museum, Buckingham Fountain, etc. But some areas are also collections of other areas (Museum Campus, Grant Park and The Loop being great examples as Grant Park is east of The Loop and contains Museum Campus as well as other named parks and areas it is considered part of the Loop Community Area (Community Area 32) said community area does NOT include Museum Campus).

Due to such areas like that existing in real life I felt the Locations sheet did not capture the essence of a city as a collection of districts that in turn are collections of neighborhoods which are collections of locations.  Each level has different people (neighborhood watch captains, aldermen, police & fire stations and their personnel etc.) that the players may need to interact with.  By limiting it to just Locations and High Level all that layering of the middle ground is either lost or more easily overlooked, IMHO, thus allowing for a disconnect for players.  Yeah, I am a structure type of GM.

  I have attached a JPG image of the PDF I created.
I hope people find it useful and if Jim's people or the DF RPG people want a copy of the PDF feel free to contact me.

Locations/scenes straight out of Andrew Langs "<color> Book of Fairy" series:

“It grew in the midst of a wonderful garden, all the paths of which were strewn with pearls as big as peas. The roses were crimson diamonds, with emerald leaves. The pomegranates were garnets, the marigolds topazes, the daffodils yellow diamonds, the violets sapphires, the corn-flowers turquoises, the tulips amethysts, opals and diamonds, so that the garden borders blazed like the sun. The Golden Branch itself had become as tall as a forest tree, and sparkled with ruby cherries to its topmost twig.”     From “The Golden Branch ” in The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.


“These good people had a little window at the back of their house, which looked into the most lovely garden, full of all manner of beautiful flowers and vegetables; but the garden was surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to enter it, for it belonged to a witch of great power, who was feared by the whole world. One day the woman stood at the window overlooking the garden, and saw there a bed full of the finest rampion: the leaves looked so fresh and green that she longed to eat them.”     From “Rapunzel in The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.


“She told him that her brother Norka was then at her youngest sister's. So he went on to the youngest sister, who lived in a golden palace. She told him that her brother was at that time asleep on the blue sea, and she gave him a sword of steel and a draught of the Water of Strength, and she told him to cut off her brother's head at a single stroke. And when he had heard these things, he went his way.”    From “The Norka” in The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.


“`But how did you get across the fiery river?'
`Why, I've a handkerchief of this kind--when I wave it thrice on the right hand, there springs up a very lofty bridge, and the fire cannot reach it.' ... When he came to that river he waved the handkerchief three times on the right hand, and suddenly, springing goodness knows whence, there hung across the river, high in the air, a splendid bridge. The Prince rode across the bridge and waved the handkerchief twice only on the left hand; there remained across the river a thin, ever so thin a bridge!”     From “The Death of Koshchei the Deathless” in The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.


“After climbing higher and higher, till he grew afraid to look down for fear he should be giddy, Jack at last reached the top of the Beanstalk, and found himself in a beautiful country, finely wooded, with beautiful meadows covered with sheep. A crystal stream ran through the pastures; not far from the place where he had got off the Beanstalk stood a fine, strong castle.
Jack wondered very much that he had never heard of or seen this castle before; but when he reflected on the subject, he saw that it was as much separated from the village by the perpendicular rock on which it stood as if it were in another land.”     From “Jack and the Beanstalk” in The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.


“`That beast which thou wishest to overcome is my brother. He is staying just now with my second sister, who lives not far from here in a silver palace. I bound up three of the wounds which thou didst give him.' ”    From “The Norka” in The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.


"He rubbed his watch and wished for a carriage ornamented with gold and silver, and drawn by six horses, with harness glittering with precious stones. The father did not dare to sit in this gorgeous coach, but went to the palace on foot. The King and his daughter were immensely surprised with the beauty of the carriage, and mounted the steps at once to go to Jenik's banquet.”   From “The Enchanted Watch” in The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.


“When Jenik heard the wheels of the carriage, he rubbed his watch and wished for a still more beautiful house, four stories high, and hung with gold, silver, and damask; filled with wonderful tables, covered with dishes such as no king had ever eaten before. … and left Jenik with his wife in the enchanted house.”      From “The Enchanted Watch” in The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.


“One lovely summer evening, as they sat together on a shady lawn shaped like a star, from which radiated twelve splendid avenues of trees”)     From “Rosanella” in The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.


“The Prince thought they had better find their way to the Fairy of the Beech-Woods and put themselves once more under her protection, and they had hardly agreed upon this course when two little chariots wreathed with jasmine and honeysuckle suddenly appeared, and, stepping into them, they were whirled away to the Leafy Palace.”   <<more enchanted chariots …>>)     From “Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine” in The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.


Me again.
For anyone interested in creating diverse areas in the Nevernever I can not recommend the Andrew Lang <color> Book of Fairy series strongly enough.  It has creatures, locations, descriptions, names & titles, and so forth galore and all the books can be downloaded for free from Project Gutenberg.

Good luck and happy hunting!

No, the OP's math was correct.  Extra frequency is not a bonus to crafting strength; those are separate things.  You may sacrifice a point of strength to gain an extra use/session, but that's the only direct interplay between the two stats.

Crafting Strength is equal to the sum of your Lore, your Crafting (Strength) specialization bonus, your Crafting (Strength) Focus Item bonus, and the number of extra EI slots spent on Strength, minus the number of Strength points sacrificed to gain extra uses/session.  This total is capped at 2x Lore.

Then one of the better potential limiters is lost IMO.

I will have to consider what you have stated, go over it with my friend who is doing the Crafter, and figure out what the rules seem to be telling us before we bring what you have opined up with our GM.

Has anyone mentioned that for the OP's example to be valid the character would have to have a Lore of 7?

(p.280:  item's crafting strength with all bonuses added (extra frequency is a bonus) = or < 2x Lore)

Therefore if Lore is 5 then max power would be 10 (usable 1x/session) and max power usable 4x/session would be 7.

At least how the player of the Alchemist (Crafter) in out game read the sentence on p.280 c1 paragraph 2.

I have a character who is looking to run a high-tech character.  I am running a 1930's-1950's era campaign and am looking into ideas on how to structure it.

Right now he is running around in a clockwork car.  More gadgets later.

The other PCs ...

... just walked into the Summer Court ...

... with an Oath-Breaker?!?

  LOL 


HOSE THEM ALL and hard!

Violating PC is put to the irons like described of the Winter Knight or to similar to Ancient One in the old "Doctor Strange" movie.  Bam, in Summer it happens UNLESS a greater power is working against Aurora OR if the matter was one in which Aurora was working against one of the greater powers in Summer.

Associated PCs are virtually classified as Oath-Breakers (technically "Associates of the Oath-Breaker") and will have a LOT of trouble in the future unless they do a favor for Summer to clear their reputations.

I think you have some good intrigue potential there!

You forgot D3s.

Yep, 4d3-8 works out exactly the same as Fudge dice