Laboratory (5e Equipment)

Cost: 1000 gp and 500 gp monthly expenses The laboratory is a business that a player can build and own, the main mechanic of the laboratory is scientific breakthroughs which allows a player and a DM to work together to make a new item or technology, at the end of every day you may make a roll d20 + your intelligence the DC being chosen from the table by the DM to see if you or your staff make a breakthrough allowing you to make a new item or technology available to you. This roll cannot be crit failed or succeeded. Upgrades and additional labs can help by increasing your laboratory level Breakthrough table Basic (example, Creating gunpowder or basic flintlocks) * Player level 3 DC 6 Advanced (example, Creating the radio and television) * Player level 6 DC 10 Expert (example, Curing cancer or inventing computers and the internet) * Player level 9 DC 14 Futuristic (example, learning how to create new alloys like nanocarbon or nanite compounds) * Player level 12 DC 18 Space Age (example, non-magical constructs like robots and clones or spaceships) * Player level 15 DC 22 Arcane (example, creating non-magical liminal spaces like the backrooms or antimatter weapons) * Player level 18 DC 26 Eldritch (example discovering non-magical planar travel or creating magitech) * Player level 20 DC 30 Upgrades/Additional laboratories General sciences lab: Costs 1000 gp, this is a basic beginning lab that studies the general concepts of life that not many people put thought into in a general day like "why is the sky blue? what is the sun? and how much wood could a wood chuck, chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?". +5 to your laboratory level. Physical Sciences wing: Costs 3000 gp, this lab studies the material world and things like metal density and liquid viscosity. +5 to your laboratory level. Medical Sciences wing: Costs 3000 gp, this wing is dedicated to discovering and curing all the ailments that curse the world and understanding how the world works. +5 to your laboratory level. Theoretical Sciences wing: Costs 3000 gp, this wing is dedicated to understanding possibilities and how to make those possibilities become reality in theory of course. +5 to your laboratory level. Organic Sciences lab: Costs 4000 gp, this lab is focused on the idea of making the world better by breaking the building blocks of life. +5 to your laboratory level. Metalurgical Sciences lab: Costs 5000 gp, and increase monthly costs by 500 gp, this lab mainly focuses on the idea discovering space age metals and creating unknown alloys. If you own a Factory (5e Equipment) and a Ore Mine Variant (5e Equipment) negate the monthly cost of the lab and gain a +500 gp per month. +5 to laboratory level. Arcane Theoretics wing: Costs 10000 gp, this wing is dedicated to understanding the magical and phenomenal, the things that one could only dream of is what is studied here. +5 to your laboratory level. Personal lab: Costs 1000 gp, this is your personal laboratory where you work with others to bring tomorrows future today. + your prof bonus to laboratory level. Patent Office: Costs 5000 gp, this building basically keeps all the patents for your breakthroughs safe from public and prosecutes anyone who dares steal it. Your breakthroughs can't be stolen or recreated.

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