Items

All items have a level and a quality. The quality can not be higher then the weapon level.

Level

if a character finds a new item, it will always underperform, unless the character identifys it or uses it on a shooting range, a dojo or something like this for 1 week outside of a adventure. bad or destroyed items do not under perform, their are just bad or destroyed.

Steam items

Steam items harvest the power of heat, boiling water and steam, to create complex and powerfull engines. A character has to light a fuel, to power the enigine and so creates a stack of a certain number of stamina chips, which can be used for skills using the steam item. Depending on the layout of the steam engine, the character has to reduce this steam stamina every few minutes to keep it burning. If the character has the steam power skill, he may use this skill instead of a other to test with the steam item. Also if a action normally reduces the quality of the item, steam stamina can be used instead.