> Well, I was talking about cementing items. Someone suggested an
> extremely poor variant rule of not allowing improvement of items.
Well, I suggested the narrator should be allowed to disallow improvement, but it wasn't at all poor, so you must mean someone else :-)
> Correct. The rules state that you can buy a new ability at 12 for 1
> HP (or 2 HP if unrelated to the episode). The rules state that you
> can cement an item for 1 HP.
>
> The rules imply, but do not state, that (special and magic) items
are
> just like abilities once bought.
I do not see that implication.
>For example, the example character
> sheet on page 28 lists Sack of Black Winds 13 in the character's
> Wealth section. This is evidently and treated as an ability.
Wasn't that part of his 100 words? If so, that wasn't Cemented, it IS an ability, just one with a 'prop'. The difference to me is, an item created & defined by the narrator, & introduced in a game, can be cemented, and comes with a predefined rating(s), set of powers, and possible restrictions (like how, or if, it can be improved). You can 'create' new items of your own, or redefine an item found during play that wasn't specified for cementing but might be useful (our lot have 'Amulets of the EWF' - no-one has any idea what use they might be), and those would start at 12 as usual.
Wulf
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