Research Technology

Research Technology

The regent may improve the level of technology affecting one item in his domain. This is a broad action, basically allowing the regent's sages to research new technology. The regent may either improve existing technology, or invent new technology.
Improving an existing item costs 1d4 GB to research, inventing new devices costs 2d4 GB.
Improvements might be a better windlass for the heavy crossbow, or better arrowheads, while an invention would be the creation of gunpowder.
Work proceeds at a rate of 1 GB per action round. As inventions are a completely new device, research proceeds at 1 GB per domain turn. Success rates are 15+ for improvements, and 20+ for inventions.
Regents may improve success rating by spending Gold Bars in place of Regency. All of this assumes that the regent has the necessary minds to come up with the improvements.
For example, improving the ballista would require an engineer skilled with it, while creating better longswords would require a master weaponsmith.
So is it with researching new technology. Gunpowder, suggested above, would require an Alchemist (or just chemist) to research the chemical components.

Research Facility: This is a catch-all term for a new type of structure the regent may build to facilitate inventions. The exact details of the building are left to the player and the DM, but due to the nature of the building, it costs 150% of a similarly constructed building using the build action, and work proceeds at 1d4 GB per domain turn. The facility requires 1 GB of maintenance per domain turn, similar to a castle. The effect of such a facility is that it allows the research to proceed at a greatly advance rate. Rather than proceeding at 1 GB per action round, research progresses at 2 GB per round. The rate is doubled for inventions as well.

Another "Response to Players" This one can REALLY unballance the game unless you are prepared for the sudden influx of MacGuyverisms bound to happen. Once gain, I'd like some input on what you all think.

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