Workshop tweaks

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A Workshop is a small operation, comparable in size to a Tier One Company. A Workshop’s growth in tier reflects increasing prestige and expertise in a specialized field.

A Personal Commission thread involves providing your Workshop's specialty products or services. This might include creating a product, delivering a service, discussing a character's relevant needs, or obtaining necessary materials.

A Mastercraft Project thread is an extensive mission that involves providing an especially innovative product or service, in keeping with your Workshop’s specialty. The completed thread must center around filling one of the following objectives:

• Your character endures great personal sacrifice to learn from the legacy of a past master in their field;
• Your character defends their Workshop against near-impossible odds;
• In desperate circumstances, your character must use their specialty to improvise a solution using extremely insufficient/unsuitable resources.

Both Personal Commissions and Mastercraft Projects must directly benefit a PC or NPC controlled by another writer (e.g. no ‘I made myself a sword to protect them’ rationalizations), and may be completed by a single writer. Threads cited to increase the tier of a Workshop cannot be used to increase the tier of a Company, and vice versa.

Tier I to Tier II

• 3 Unique or Semi-Unique products
• 3 Personal Commissions

OR

• 4 Personal Commissions

Tier II to Tier III

• 4 Unique or Semi-Unique products
• 4 Personal Commissions

OR

• 6 Personal Commissions

Tier III to Tier IV

• 5 Unique or Semi-Unique products
• 5 Personal Commissions
• 1 Mastercraft Project

OR

• 8 Personal Commissions
• 1 Mastercraft Project

Note: At Tier IV, a Workshop’s owner may request the Master Crafter rank tag.

Tier IV to Tier V

• 6 Unique or Semi-Unique products
• 6 Personal Commissions
• 1 Mastercraft Project

OR

• 10 Personal Commissions
• 1 Mastercraft Project

Tier V to Tier VI

• 7 Unique or Semi-Unique products
• 7 Personal Commissions
• 2 Mastercraft Projects

OR

• 12 Personal Commissions
• 2 Mastercraft Projects

Note: At Tier VI, a Workshop may choose one Restricted Material (specifically beskar, phrik, cortosis, songsteel, Echani graphite, ionite, or pyronium) to add to its Specialty list. The Workshop is exempt from RM objectives for that material at a Semi-Unique production level in the Technology forum only. This benefit is Limited to 1 workshop per writer.

Spoiler: Workshop Template

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Image Source: (Please link to where you found the image, or to the original artist if possible. TinEye or Google Image Search can help.)
• Canon Link: (Please link the canon link if your Workshop is a canon company.)
• Primary Source: (Please link and cite the sources which you are modifying for your use in your submission.)

WORKSHOP INFORMATION

• Workshop Name: (Straightforward. What's the Workshop called?)
• Location: (Where is your Workshop? For example, Shug Ninx was based at the Spacebarn on Nar Shaddaa, and Tem Madog was based at Vur Tepe on Tython. A Workshop usually has only a single location. If your location has an approved Codex or Factory submission (such as a starship), link it here.)
• Specialty: (What is your Workshop’s claim to fame? A Workshop of any tier can have up to two specialties, such as ‘personal weapons and vehicles,’ or ‘personal starships and armour.’)
• Tier: (How skilled is your Workshop? New Workshops start out at a maximum of Tier II. Tiers increase on a scale of I-VI (1-6), with Tier I being a very small or new Workshop, with little support or influence in the galaxy. Think ‘mom and pop shop’. Tier VI could be a big, big name in the galaxy, or could keep a low profile, known only in certain circles. Even at Tier VI, though, your Workshop would only create Unique and Semi-Unique products.)

DESCRIPTION
(Describe your Workshop in at least one good-sized paragraph. The higher the tier of the Workshop, the more we expect from the description. If we feel like the description isn't adequate for the requested tier, you may be asked to include more detail or lower the tier. Particularly for player-made Workshops, this should detail some of the processes of how the Workshop does business. How does it handle special commissions? Is it loyal to a particular government or faction? Does it craft and sell to anyone, or does it restrict the distribution of its wares by allegiance, wealth, or personal worthiness? It's the little details like this that we're looking for.)

RATIONALE
(How did your character come to own and control the Workshop? Did they make it? Inherit it? Hostile takeover? Or does your character play a supporting role in the Workshop, such as apprentice to a master crafter? Please write at least five sentences in this field)

PARENT CORPORATION: (If this Workshop is a subsidiary of a Company of Tier III or higher, please name and link that parent corporation here.)