Symbol Drawing and Artist

[DangerousThing]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Finally a purpose for Artist: Illumination.
The text is unimportant. It's the hidden information in the overly intricate illumination that matters.

Illumination was a true art when it was practiced. Though sometimes I think it was just the monks having too much time on their hands.

[Refplace]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Finally a purpose for Artist: Illumination.
The text is unimportant. It's the hidden information in the overly intricate illumination that matters.

There ya go.
I can see this for security type defense spells as well as the curese or just make it look pretty.

[Prince Charon]

Artist, Calligraphy, and so forth, could also serve as Complementary Skills, as described in Social Engineering p21, and Action 2: Exploits p5. In other words, successful roles grant a bonus. Depending on the material you're working with, craft skills like Carpentry, Jeweler, or Smith could also be complementary, for the purpose of getting the runes onto the item - and as pointed out above, could also be useful for finding hidden runes, or hiding them.

I prefer to use the House Rule suggested by JCurwen3 for Complementary Skills, but it's quite useful either way.

[messiah]

Thaumatology states in particular about enchanting that one must make two rolls one is against the Symbol Drawing and another against the skill in working with the material: Armoury, Artist, Jeweler, or Smith.