I started a blog to talk about GURPS and started writing examples of inventing. I feel like there is some missing information somewhere where it comes to inventing.
http://pseudoboo.blogspot.com/2015/1...basic-set.html
In this post, I describe three people with a skill of 16, a nominal inventor, an inventor with normal gadgeteer, and an inventor with Quick Gadgeteer inventing a $3,000 automatic lockpick in a Dungeon Fantasy style tech level.
I won't post the whole article here, but I will paste my results of the simulation. 'I'rene is a normal 'I'nventor; 'G'ary is a regular 'G'adgeteer; 'Q'uin is a 'Q'uick Gadgeteer.
Irene required 5 dice rolls to get a 9 or less, so she took 5 days of planning. Gary and Quin both succeeded on their first tries because they didn't have to shoot so high. Quin only took a minute to come up with her idea.
Irene created five failed prototypes before succeeding by rolling number greater than 8. On the 6th time she made it. She had to pay costs for the lab and 6 prototypes. It took her 45 days.
Gary succeeded on his first prototype. He took 7 days because he didn't have the HT to try going any faster. He had to pay the cost of 1 lab and 1 prototype.
Quin found most of her materials from scrounging, and only needed to provide $100 worth of parts besides. It took her 3 hours to assemble the working prototype.
I'd like to know if I understood the rules correctly. I'm kinda confused what the $100 means for Quin. Does she pay someone for parts? But if she needs to pay people for parts, does she need to pay 1% of the cost like Gary? Does $100 mean she needs to scrounge again for $100 worth of parts? Is the first scrounging roll just her inventorying what she needs to scrounge?
I also was a bit confused on the lines about "Gadgeteers can potentially work out of a garage or basement per GM discretion" followed by "Gadgeteers need to pay almost as much money for facilities as a mundane inventor"
I await answers with undying anticipation.