Blueprints

A blueprint is a schematic describing exactly how to prepare a principle to the unenlightened. Creating a blueprint requires a gramarist who knows the principle to spend eight times the normal preparation time. She also needs to have appropriate materials of course, including paper or parchment and some sort of writing implement, and usually engineering tools such as a compass and straight-edge.

Any principle can be scribed into a blueprint, but a principle with the [Specialist] tag can only be read by another gramarist specialized in the same discipline. A principle can be prepared from a blueprint by anyone with an understanding of gramarie at least one tier lower than the level of the blueprint itself:

Tier of Blueprint   Minimum Tier of Reader
Baccalaureate       Untrained
Magisterial            Baccalaureate
Doctorate              Magisterial

Reading the blueprint and preparing the scribed principle requires a key skill check as normal, but it must also meet a certain benchmark. This is DC 20 for a Baccalaureate principle, DC 40 for a a Magisterial principle, and DC 60 for a Doctorate principle. Preparing a principle from a blueprint takes twice the normal amount of time. Upon successful completion of using the blueprint, it can only ever be used thereafter to improve upon the original principle from it; it cannot be used for a separate activation. However, anyone reading from the blueprint can use it to modify or improve the original work, as normal.

Blueprints generally cost the normal rate based on the time it takes for them to be scribed (that is, about eight times the cost of simply hiring a gramarist to prepare the principle in the first place).