[MH] Creating gold with RPM

[starslayer]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

As an element, gold is far simpler than any mundane object. I want 79 protons and electrons with 118 neutrons for stable gold 197. If you need a skill roll for that, then normal objects would be impossibly complex.

not necessarily- if you allow magic to 'fill in the blanks'.

'I want a sword' will happily generate you a sword shaped thing that has a luminescent glow, shows up as not being matter at all if submitted to a mass spectrometer, and generally behaves in a way that will serve adequately as a sword be be impossibly obvious as 'magical' under any scrutiny.

'I want a sword made of steel' is much harder to pull off, because now you need to actually correctly magically generate steel, in the shape of a sword.

If gold should be harder or earlier than steel comes down to your setting, but it is definitely one way to handle this problem (IE- magically created items are functionally those items, but not those items under analysis unless some VERY difficult skill rolls accompany the forgery).