Well, hopefully the fact that it's prosthetics rather than 'just' mere tools will make the difference.
Because, well, while in both cases a lot of things are being made... Well. A tool is a tool. It's a thing that can be used, that can be passed around (or passed on down the family) or shared. It's something... common, sort of. Tools are useful, and the fact that with tools lives and gold can be saved should not be ignored or overlooked. But in the end, they're, well, tools. (Admittedly, to the Dwarfs, tools probably hold a bigger significance, but anyway...)
But. A prosthetic is something personal. It is a healing or restoration of a Dwarf's limbs, or senses. It's not just something that lets a Dwarf mine or build better than he normally would. It's something that brings back his arm or leg. Or even a nose, ear, or eye. It becomes a literal part of the Dwarf.
So yeah. I feel like there's a slight difference in nature, in terms of what is being built and inscribed with runes. Hopefully, what is being built matters when it comes to the Rule of Pride, too, and not just how much of a thing is being built.
I don't think it will much, since the core point is the Runes and the idea of "making a load of Runes continuously", other than Snorri giving himself ammunition in the vein of "you don't want Masters to have limbs so they can pursue their craft? What nonsense is that?" and basically win the argument for himself. If
others get involved though, that has room to become a problem because its shifting the context and remit of the Rule of Pride since a bunch of Runesmiths are agreeing that the Rune of Prosthesis basically doesn't count if they get in on making them continuously.
Yes, but it's a logical extension of our "I will repeat rune combos if it helps the hold" approach.
And for the puritans, arguing against making fully functional prosthetics for dwarfs injured in defence of the hold is a pretty ridiculous hill to die on. I'm sure some of them will do so regardless. But they can argue themselves until they are blue in the face, they won't convince Snorri that he is in the wrong.
I make that point in the post you quote yeah. I agree.
Personally I don't care about their opinions in this particular context, because its same shit different day and slightly worse for Snorri, as you note.
The run on effects though are what I'm pointing out if this becomes a big Thing that grows beyond Snorri. That I can see landing the whole thing in a much more widespread and troubling problem of some precepts of the Cult of Valaya tugging in one direction while the Rule of Pride of the Cult of Thungni tugging in the other.
Anyway, moving on from this topic, when Turn 27 rolls around we're going to need to finish Mind of Things and make a bunch of progress on Arm them. Then 28 rolls around and we can just finish Arm Them, and do research on that turn. So for turn 28, 29 and 30.
If we go with the idea of Turn 27 having:
-2 Snorri actions, one apprentice action, 3 progress from favor for 7 total progress into Arm Them and leaving it with 1 action remaining.
-2 Snorri actions into Mind of Things, finishing it.
Turn 28 can come out looking like a few things:
-1 Snorri action to finish Arm Them.
-Leaves 3 actions that can be put into a few things.
We can put 1 action into designing the Griffon Princes Armors. That would mean to prevent any icky delays we'd have to give over turn 29's actions to doing part 2 of that. Leaves 2 actions for stuff like Durazkul, which could be finished with the favor expenditure.
We could put 3 actions into research of some kind, like finishing the Spring Water with Church commission.
If we wanted to go nuts we could put 3 actions into the Princes Armors, designing them and building them all in one turn. Slightly less overflow overall, but we might not want much tbh.
If we do spend all of turn 28 doing research then we could use turn 29 to work on the Princes Armors. Could finish them, could just design them with intent to finish them on turn 30 and do more research, could just do more research.
My question then is what seems most appealing to folks?
