Materials

Some abilities (notably Crafter and Merchant) make reference to materials. Ordinary stuff, like clay, paint, beads and so on are just that and a crafter may bring along as much as they like to work with. Specific perks may allow the use of special materials, however, which need to be sourced. For example a Whitesmith can bring along as much silver wire and jewellery fixings as they want to make his friends well made or mastercrafted necklaces, but if they want White Gold to make a special magic pendant with, they'll need to have the right perk or be a Merchant and allocate some of his allowance to it. The price of such things is normally indicated in the perk which allows for it's use but in general unusual materials are 1s per lot and rare materials are £1 per lot.

A 'Lot' is a notional amount of that material. Generally it will take 1 lot to make a Well Made thing, 3 for a Master Crafted thing and 6 for a Superlative thing. The actual physical amount doesn't matter (although obviously rule 7 applies).