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In a World… where resources are not especially scarce, and where manufactured technology is the norm, a practitioner of some skill is still expected to go out and scavenge the materials and parts to hand-make their own tools of the trade. This isn't merely a case of making do, but rather, the expected way to do things. By making an object, it is imagined that you know that one object more intimately than someone who merely purchased off the rack, and were also able to work whatever tiny adjustments you prefer into the manufacture; alternately, the naturalism of crafting a tool by hand appeals to the "Harmony" side of a Harmony Versus Discipline debate. Often a sign of being a True Craftsman as well. While some masters will do this by choice, it could be a cultural requirement. Sometimes part of the testing process to demonstrate mastery includes demonstrating that you know how the tool functions at every level, not just how to use a finished model. Other times this custom stems from the belief that Handmade Is Better and a master shouldn't be using inferior equipment if they want to utilize their potential to the fullest. Nonetheless, if you see a master at using some tool or weapon pull out their tool/weapon of choice, they probably were the one to build it, and probably had to dig up all the materials and refine them too, no matter how easy it would be to just go down the street and order one. |
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Spellforce: The Elite unit of the dwarves is the culmination of a warrior's career, reached when he forges his own armour and weapons from the difficult to work Moonsilver. | |
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Bas-Lag Cycle: In Iron Council, Judah becomes contemptuous of a military golem-creator when she unfolds and animates a pre-fabricated leather-and-metal golem to sic on his allies. Judah, himself, always makes golems from materials found on-site. | |
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In The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Tuco (The Ugly) built his own revolver by taking bit and pieces from a bunch of different guns in a gun store. None of that gun store's best ones was good enough for him. | |
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In Bones season 6 Jacob Broadsky the villain of the Half-Arc Season is an expert sniper who makes his own bullets. | |
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The Simpsons: A spoof of The Natural appears in "Homer at the Bat" when Homer has a homemade bat he uses to play softball. "Something told me this was a very special, very magical piece of wood...that I could make a bat out of." Once the other members of his team see him hit homer after homer they make their own bats too, out of things such as piano legs and artificial legs. Parodied in "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer", when Homer arrives at the annual chili cook-off, he pulls out a wooden spoon from its own special pouch that he uses just for this occasion, which legend says Homer carved himself... from a bigger spoon. |
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The Hunted (2003): An early flashback shows that part of the survivalist Special Forces training that Bonham taught Hallam and other soldiers is the forging, chiseling, and construction of their personal knives. This gets revisited near the end, when the two scavenge materials in the wilderness to build new weapons for their final duel to the death. It also provides some Weapon-Based Characterization that shows where their "mastery" has taken them: Hallam's fire-forged scrap metal knife symbolizes his traumatic descent into a Sociopathic Soldier, while Bonham's fashioning of a rock into a blade shows his connection to nature as an Old Master. | |
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Generally averted in the Lyrical Nanoha, where the vast majority of combat mages prefer to use Devices (magical computers that double as weapons) made by professional Device engineers ("Meisters") over building them on their own. In fact, most characters who use self-made Devices are trained Meisters in the first place (e.g. Reinforce Zwei and Jail Scaglietti). However, two cases stand out: Subverted in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS: both Teana and Subaru start off with Devices they have made for themselves, because no off-the-shelf model fitted their unique combat styles (Subaru also inherited a second Device from her late mother). However, not even half-way through the season, they abandon their old Devices in favor of new ones custom-made for them by a professional Meister Shari. Isis Egret from Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force constructed her Perfume Glove and shows no indication of moving on to a professional-made alternative. This is likely because Perfume Glove is technically not a Device, but a tool for deploying Isis' combat chemicals, which she seems to use to replicate most effects of more traditional magic. In other words, no Meister could possibly manufacture the equipment she needs for her "magic". |
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RWBY: All Signal Academy students are required to make their own weapons, and it's strongly implied that this is the norm for all Huntsmen institutions to ensure they have weapons that are tailored to their personalities and abilities. Ruby forged her hybrid scythe/sniper rifle weapon herself, and Qrow modelled his own weapon on that of the legendary Grimm Reaper. The exception is Jaune, who wields a family heirloom sword-and-shield set that is far simpler in design and function than most. Professor Ozpin's deceptively simple cane also functions as a legacy weapon that is now wielded by his successor, Oscar, having remained with him throughout his many incarnations. | |
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In Dragon Age: Inquisition, this is the point of Prestige Class-unlocking sidequests. In order to take a specific specialization, the Inquisitor first has to construct a set of tools specific to it: for instance, Assassins need to forge a special dagger, Artificers require a trap-making kit, etc. Additionally, you may want to craft custom weapons by the endgame to fit your personal combat style better than any looted or bought ones ever could. | |
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Discussed in Final Fantasy XIV. Trainers for crafting or gathering will often encourage you to make your own tools, citing this trope. You don't get a bonus for crafting your own weapons and gear, But crafting is sometimes the most reliable way to get a High-Quality version of the weapon, item or gear. High-Quality gear has a small stat boost, usually just a little higher than the next level of its type. Funnily enough, most classes can't actually do this, making tools and weapons for other professions but not themselves. Only Blacksmiths can hammer out their own equipment, and options fan out from there. | |
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Food Wars!: Many of the students are known to grow, prepare, or cultivate the ingredients related to their specialty dishes. For example Yuki specializes in wild game, and raises her own animals on the farm and in her dorm room. Shun specializes in smoked dishes, and has his own woodshop for fuel. Ikumi specializes in meat, and her family owns and operates a world class meat distribution company, etc. etc. | |
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The Dresden Files: It is typical of every level of wizardry to craft their own tools, equipment, even spells to their own personal use. The thought and personal beliefs of the mage affect and shape magic. Their foci, magical items of focus, can take the shape of staves, rods, bracelets, or even children toys. Even spells, which are used to keep a disconnect between the magic and the mind, so one doesn't launch fire by just thinking "fire". Wizards use either dead languages, or some mocked form, such as protagonist Harry Dresden using some Latin in the mix. In terms of Ultimate Blacksmith, Captain of the Wardens Anastasia Luccio gets special note. She crafts for her Wardens powerful anti-magic swords able to cut through the enchantments enemy mages might craft. To get this result, she doesn't just enchant a blade, she works the ores into steel and from there makes the blade, and adds in a piece of the eventual user's own magic to sync them together so only the user can draw out the full potential of the blade. Given the above mention, it is likely she even made the tongs and other sword-making tools herself as well. |
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Oblivion: The Player Character's first quest after winning admission to the Arcane University is to create a personal Magic Staff. It's a unique process, unrelated to the standard Item Crafting mechanic. | |
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Discworld: On to the The Truth, all a dwarf ever needs is an axe and a way to make fire. That'll get him a forge (eventually), which will let him make the simple tools he needs to build more complex tools with which to make whatever it is he needs. | |
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Mentioned in a footnote in Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle when Agatha borrows someone's tools. The master craftsman in question objects strenuously, as he had made them himself as an apprentice. The Baron is trying to limit these types of practices in the interest of industrialization, though he does approve of the work ethic that this tradition implies and is working on making sure that doesn't get limited as well. | |
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Skyrim adds the ability for the player to craft and improve weapons out of raw materials for the first time in the series, in addition to being able to enchant them. Dragonbone weapons crafted by a player with a maxed out Smithing skill and the right perks will rival the very best artifact weapons in the game, while also allowing you to customize the enchantment on them. Also Zig-Zagged, in that, with a high enough Smithing skill and the right perks, you can also improve the quality of said artifact weapons, making them even more powerful. (In many cases, these weapons were crafted by the hands of the gods themselves, and you're making them even stronger.) | |
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When one revisits The Hermit Gunsmith in Cave Story with the Polar Star in hand, he will rant about his belief in this trope. Then he sees the mileage you've put on the weapon and is so moved, he makes a complete 180 on his previous stance. He even upgrades the weapon for free! | |
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Pathfinder: You can do this in-game. Even with magic weapons. And even if you're the party barbarian. The feat Master Craftsman (available as soon as 5th level) 'qualifies' non-casters to get the actual crafting feats, so if your barbarian's been sinking points into Craft (weapon), she can forge her own sword or axe, and then eventually enchant it herself too. (And then the other party members subvert the trope by getting their new best friend to forge THEIR weapons at half cost!) A possible gnomish trait allows them to wield any weapon they crafted themselves, even if they wouldn't normally be able to use it competently. The inventor class from guns and gears gives you three potential innovations, being weapon, armor, and construct. 20 levels of modifications leads to a piece of custom gear that can rival anything you find or buy in a campaign. |
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While Iron Man forging his first power armor with primitive tools IN A CAVE WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS does not count, Steel, one of the Superman types to appear immediately after The Death of Superman forged his suit of power armor in the very same way — however, he was a techie living in a major city and working out of his basement, and probably could have arranged some better tools than a hammer and anvil. | |
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Early editions of Dungeons & Dragons, inasmuch as they allowed for qualified player characters creating their own magical items at all, pretty much expected them to go on quests for the required exotic and often dangerous-to-acquire components in person. | |
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Jackie Chan Adventures: "The Ox-Head Incident" has Tohru and Jade work to create a chi spell that will free Uncle's spiritual head from Daolon Wong's Orb of Kwan Lo. When Tohru reads out the next step as "3 spines of urchin", Uncle tells him not to do that, telling him that spell book is only a guide, and a good chi wizard makes a spell his own way. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender "Sokka's Master": Master Swordsman Piandao cites this trope as an explanation for why his protégé Sokka should forge his own sword out of materials he chooses. Sokka then rejects Piandao's selection of ores and goes out to find some Thunderbolt Iron to forge with, creating a black sword unlike any in the world. | |
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Subverted in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS: both Teana and Subaru start off with Devices they have made for themselves, because no off-the-shelf model fitted their unique combat styles (Subaru also inherited a second Device from her late mother). However, not even half-way through the season, they abandon their old Devices in favor of new ones custom-made for them by a professional Meister Shari. | |
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A spoof of The Natural appears in "Homer at the Bat" when Homer has a homemade bat he uses to play softball. "Something told me this was a very special, very magical piece of wood...that I could make a bat out of." Once the other members of his team see him hit homer after homer they make their own bats too, out of things such as piano legs and artificial legs. | |
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Craftknights in the Summon Night: Swordcraft Story trilogy use weapons they have themselves have forged and consider it dishonorable to fight with a weapon crafted by someone else, even in life or death situations. | |
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Shadowrun Returns: Hong Kong: Is0bel made her own deck, and also the crew's on-board computer systems. The latter is run entirely through "The Octopus", a gigantic piece of hardware made from hundreds of machine components scavenged and run together in parallel that occupies the ship's entire bridge. In a subversion of this trope, Is0bel's deck will always be a little below par of what can be bought on the market, and she'll never get the 4 AP of the Farlight Excalibur. | |
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Throughout The Elder Scrolls series, there are many unique Legendary Weapons of immense power to be had. However, in almost all cases, the very best weapons are ones the player self-enchants out of the highest tier crafting material, with the strongest souls, and the most powerful magical effects. To note a few specific examples: Statistically, the single most damaging weapon (per strike) available in vanilla Morrowind is a Daedric Battle-Axe enchanted with Damage Health on strike, using Almalexia's soul for the greatest number of strikes before the item is drained. Other similarly enchanted weapon types of Daedric quality (or Stalhrim in the Bloodmoon expansion) also surpass the strongest artifact weapons of the same type with few exceptions. Oblivion: The Player Character's first quest after winning admission to the Arcane University is to create a personal Magic Staff. It's a unique process, unrelated to the standard Item Crafting mechanic. Skyrim adds the ability for the player to craft and improve weapons out of raw materials for the first time in the series, in addition to being able to enchant them. Dragonbone weapons crafted by a player with a maxed out Smithing skill and the right perks will rival the very best artifact weapons in the game, while also allowing you to customize the enchantment on them. Also Zig-Zagged, in that, with a high enough Smithing skill and the right perks, you can also improve the quality of said artifact weapons, making them even more powerful. (In many cases, these weapons were crafted by the hands of the gods themselves, and you're making them even stronger.) |
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Joe Garelli, the electrician from NewsRadio, prides himself in making all his equipment and components himself rather than buying "mass-produced crap". He even makes his own duct tape. | |
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Bleach offers an example of this trope in the form of Zanpakuto. Sure, the swords themselves are forged by someone else, but that blade is just a shell. Shinigami are encouraged to pour their souls into those swords, giving them their traits to shape an entirely unique weapon that can be released from the shell later. | |
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Statistically, the single most damaging weapon (per strike) available in vanilla Morrowind is a Daedric Battle-Axe enchanted with Damage Health on strike, using Almalexia's soul for the greatest number of strikes before the item is drained. Other similarly enchanted weapon types of Daedric quality (or Stalhrim in the Bloodmoon expansion) also surpass the strongest artifact weapons of the same type with few exceptions. | |
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The Salamanders in Warhammer 40,000 believe this. Their Primarch, Vulkan, was an Ultimate Blacksmith who preached that they should be self-reliant, and taught them all about smithing. As a result they can build, repair, and modify all of their own weapons and armour, whereas other chapters rely on others to do this for them. | |
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Shadowrun. In early editions, "real" deckers built their own cyberdecks from scratch by creating their own deck components. Deckers that bought standard parts to create their deck (or, even worse, a commercial cyberdeck) were looked down upon. | |
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Delicious in Dungeon: Marcille wove her own Magic Staff out of strands from a World Tree in a long-term project as a Wizarding School researcher. This becomes a Chekhov's Skill in the Dungeon when she is able to repair it with dryad wood after it's damaged. | |
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In Fantasy Life, the player is given the most basic level of tool/weapon for each Life, but then has to make any more advanced versions he'd like. It's possible to simply buy them, but bought and found equipment is always of default quality, while player-made equipment can be much better. | |
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This is how retired surfer Geek actually the surfing legend "Big Z" teaches talented upstart Cody Maverick how to surf the big waves in Surf's Up. Geek tells him to find some koa wood, then plane that stock into a surfboard using a clamshell. Cody's first effort looks horrible and snaps in half the second he puts weight on it. After taking Geek's teaching to heart, Cody builds a beautiful, well-balanced board and begins his training. | |
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The Book of Boba Fett: In Tusken culture, every Tusken is expected to make their own gaffi stick, the Tuskens' traditional weapon. During his time living among them, Boba Fett makes his own. | |
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EXTRAPOWER: Attack of Darkforce: Platinum of PMEC, Gadgeteer Genius that she is, makes all her own weapons. She even has enough savvy to adopt new technology from her foes into one of her shoulder cannons. | |
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In the third book of the Inheritance Cycle, Eragon forges his own sword, with help from Rhunön, the elf who forged all the other Riders' swords (Rhunön couldn't do it herself because she'd sworn a magical oath that her hands would never make another weapon; so she uses magic to use Eragon's hand to do it). | |
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Doctor Strange: After the Last Days of Magic event, Doctor Strange was looking for ways to reignite magic on Earth, and restore his own sorcerous strength. His quest led him to the rescue of a dwarf blacksmith, who questioned why all the artifacts of power he used were named for other people. This led to Strange leveling up by taking an apprenticeship under the dwarf to forge his own mystical artifacts, getting an entirely new look in the process as well as a Cool Sword that could cut rifts in space to cross interstellar distances. | |
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Isis Egret from Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force constructed her Perfume Glove and shows no indication of moving on to a professional-made alternative. This is likely because Perfume Glove is technically not a Device, but a tool for deploying Isis' combat chemicals, which she seems to use to replicate most effects of more traditional magic. In other words, no Meister could possibly manufacture the equipment she needs for her "magic". | |
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Dragonriders of Pern Harpers make their own instruments (Kindan even becomes well-known for making his own brooms). In All the Weyrs of Pern, AIVAS has each member of the team dissecting Thread make their own tools, despite the presence of a craft guild that could have easily provided enough tools for the team. |
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