Crafting Guidance
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Crafting Magic Weapons & Armor Level Minimum Weapon or Armor Bonus 1 1 4 2 8 3 12 4 16 5 20 6 (Tier 2) 25 7 Level Minimum Special Abilities 1 1 4 2 8 3 12 4 16 5 20 6 (Tier 2) 25 7 Note: Add your Weapon Bonus + your Weapons Special Abilities Cost to come up with a Cumlative Enchantment cost = (Total Bonus)^2 * 1500
Example Keen Great Axe +1 Enhancement Bonus 1 Keen Special Ability 1 Total 2 (2)^2 * 1,500 6000 Vorpal Sword +5 Enhancement Bonus 5 Vorpal Special Ability 5 Total 10 (10)^2 * 1,500 150000 Notes:
Not sure why in 3.5 rules the equation for Armor is (Bonus)^2 * 1000gp, and Weapons is (Bonus)^2 * 2000gp so I split the difference and made the math uniform for both armor and weapons; using a 1500 instead.
Also no reason level minimums have to be the same between Weapon Bonuses and Special Abilities tables, I just put something on paper for us to kick around.
Level Minimum - Above assumes Enchantment Bonus which is typical for arms and armor, doesn’t assume other shenanigans like alchemical augmentation, rune magic, sockets, forging skill techniques, manawelders, psionic tempering, etc…
Exceptions: Level minimum is for base bonus, it doesn’t account for special abilities that may increase it beyond level minimum, these are typical temporary affects that endure during a encounter.
Crafting Cost Rules:
Normal Crafting cost is half the base price (50%) of the magic item. Additional crafting enhancers can be provided with items, feats, and spell buffs these additional cost reducers in the game can lower it beyond that. A hard limit has been set for the crafting system within this 10E rule set to go no cheaper than -Tier 1 (Levels 1-24): 40%; Exceptions probably do need to be discussed here as crafting base classes should be able to do better than non-crafting classes. It would be trivial for cleric to get to a 40% modifier without much effort, forging as well as a crafting base class like an artificer. I claim fair and equal pube.
Tier 2 (Levels 25+): 25%; Exceptions do exist in this space, like specific Tier 2 crafting prestige classes called the Ancients.
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So, name the feats and sources for your reductions.
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@halfgiant said in Crafting Guidance:
Not sure why in 3.5 rules the equation for Armor is (Bonus)^2 * 1000gp, and Weapons is (Bonus)^2 * 2000gp so I split the difference and made the math uniform for both armor and weapons; using a 1500 instead.
This makes zero logical sense now that I actually looked at the rules closer. There are zero possible reasons for a suit of armor to be cheaper to enchant than a sword.
So We are going to go with the higher cost value form weapons at a minimum.
Bonus squared times 2000gp
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@halfgiant said in Crafting Guidance:
Err?
You mean armor is the higher factor and weapons is the lower factor?
I mean I was looking at the DMG and disagree with the fact that armor takes less GP value to enchant than weapons.
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@daermadm Yeah from what I’ve been able to glean from past posts, everyone came to that conclusion
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What’s even more jacked up is a suit of +5 Armor costs the same amount as a +5 Shield.
