Craft Magical Arms question of cost calculation [Archive] - Wizards Community

Craft Magical Arms question of cost calculation [Archive] - Wizards Community

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paulb104
09-27-05, 09:26 PM Hey :)

One of my players wants to create a magic weapon for his pc, a 12th level elf wizard. He wants a magic longbow that, with a command word, converts to a staff. He's thinking specifically a +2 flaming bow/staff. We concluded that the Fabricate spell is required to do the transformation (the folding boat is a perfect correlation).

The purpose of this post is confirm, or correct, my math on the cost to create the item.

According to the rules,

Spell Effect...........................Base Price
masterwork longbow...............100gp + 300gp for masterwork...........(400gp)
Weapon bonus (enhancement)..Bonus squared × 2,000 gp................(8,000gp)
Command word.......................Spell level × caster level × 1,800 gp..(108,000gp)

That brings the total to 116,400gp.

Forgetting the weapon aspect of this, is the math for the command word correct?
spell level (5) x caster level (12) x 1800?

That seems awfully expensive, especially considering that the example the core rules offers, Cape of the Mountebank, has a price of 10,080 gp. The Capes' cost does not 'work' with the chart. For the Cape, the spell Dimension Door is needed and is 4th level for all casters. The earliest level to cast a 4th level spell is seventh level, so therefore the cheapest the Cape *should* cost is spell level (4) x caster level (7) x 1800 = 50,400gp.

Could someone please correct me?

Thanks!!!!

Paul

PS the page with the rules/charts is
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/creatingMagicItems.htm
SALDAR
09-27-05, 11:18 PM The Cape of the Montebank is usable only one time per day. This may be why they took the price generated by the tables and divided by 5, 10,080 gp is 1/5 of 50,400 gp. Wondrous items tend to be hard to price sometimes and do not follow the tables quite often.

If the bow/staff has unlimited uses per day then the price you calculated may seem high, but could be appropriate.
paulb104
09-28-05, 09:46 AM Thanks!

That's exactly the kind of answer I was looking for :)

Paul
Jaid
09-28-05, 11:19 AM for the record, if you play in FR and have the underdark book, apparently there is an enchantment for weapons in there called morphing which allows a weapon to change shapes. dunno if that's what you're looking for, but it might help, i guess.

oh, and i might reduce the price of the fabricate a little, 'cause it's a rather limited version of fabricate. i mean, it goes between two shapes, and can only effect the one item... that's nowhere near as versatile as an item of infinite fabricate spells...

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
paulb104 09-27-05, 09:26 PM	Hey :) One of my players wants to create a magic weapon for his pc, a 12th level elf wizard. He wants a magic longbow that, with a command word, converts to a staff. He's thinking specifically a +2 flaming bow/staff. We concluded that the Fabricate spell is required to do the transformation (the folding boat is a perfect correlation). The purpose of this post is confirm, or correct, my math on the cost to create the item. According to the rules, Spell Effect...........................Base Price masterwork longbow...............100gp + 300gp for masterwork...........(400gp) Weapon bonus (enhancement)..Bonus squared × 2,000 gp................(8,000gp) Command word.......................Spell level × caster level × 1,800 gp..(108,000gp) That brings the total to 116,400gp. Forgetting the weapon aspect of this, is the math for the command word correct? spell level (5) x caster level (12) x 1800? That seems awfully expensive, especially considering that the example the core rules offers, Cape of the Mountebank, has a price of 10,080 gp. The Capes' cost does not 'work' with the chart. For the Cape, the spell Dimension Door is needed and is 4th level for all casters. The earliest level to cast a 4th level spell is seventh level, so therefore the cheapest the Cape should cost is spell level (4) x caster level (7) x 1800 = 50,400gp. Could someone please correct me? Thanks!!!! Paul PS the page with the rules/charts is http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/creatingMagicItems.htm
SALDAR 09-27-05, 11:18 PM	The Cape of the Montebank is usable only one time per day. This may be why they took the price generated by the tables and divided by 5, 10,080 gp is 1/5 of 50,400 gp. Wondrous items tend to be hard to price sometimes and do not follow the tables quite often. If the bow/staff has unlimited uses per day then the price you calculated may seem high, but could be appropriate.
paulb104 09-28-05, 09:46 AM	Thanks! That's exactly the kind of answer I was looking for :) Paul
Jaid 09-28-05, 11:19 AM	for the record, if you play in FR and have the underdark book, apparently there is an enchantment for weapons in there called morphing which allows a weapon to change shapes. dunno if that's what you're looking for, but it might help, i guess. oh, and i might reduce the price of the fabricate a little, 'cause it's a rather limited version of fabricate. i mean, it goes between two shapes, and can only effect the one item... that's nowhere near as versatile as an item of infinite fabricate spells...