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Rules for equipment and gear, magical or not.

Item Price Limits by Level

The cost of items that PCs can buy or craft are rather arbitrarily limited by level. This is a balance and ease-of-play issue, not a simulation. Rather than using the very rough price guidelines and levels of the DMG, this table is to be used. This gives the lowest level at which a character can purchase items of the listed price. This is also the highest value item a character can craft. A character is somehow able to find an item of this cost or lower on the market. At the GMs discretion, more expensive items might be available.

Level This is the level of the character and restricts what items the character can make - you can buy or craft anything up to the price listed for your level. This is also a limit on what items you can purchase. It reflects that your prestige gives you access to new markets. This is somewhat artificial, but an easy way to maintain game balance.

Consumables This is the maximum cost of each consumable item you can make or buy. Items like wands, that have charges and a small chance to fail when overused, are not considered consumables. This number is inflated so that it is possible to pack more omph into a single-use item. Watch out for overspending in this category, which can make a character powerful at lower levels and then poor at higher levels.

Permanent This is the cost limit for all items that are not consumables.

Resale Prices All items that are in a condition to sell at all can be sold at half purchase price.

**Maximum Price By Level**
Level	Consumables	Permanent
1	30	160
2	50	250
3	80	400
4	120	600
5	200	1,000
6	320	1,600
7	500	2,500
8	800	4,000
9	1,200	6,000
10	2,000	10,000
11	3,200	16,000
12	5,000	25,000
13	8,000	40,000
14	10,000	60,000
15	20,000	100,000
16	32,000	160,000
17	50,000	250,000
18	80,000	400,000
19	100,000	600,000
20	200,000	1,000,000

Item Prices and Levels

We will be using the values for magic items given in 5A Magic Item Prices. For items not on this list, the GM will set the prices.

Crafting

These rules apply to any crafting project, with a focus on magic item creation. The monetary cost of crafting magic items is the same as the purchase price. People making a living crafting magic items might charge a higher price on commission have developed cheaper means to create certain specific items.

Prerequisites

In order to perform a crafting project, you must fulfill some requirements.

The item must have a cost permitted at your level by the Maximum Price By Level table.
You must have the right tools and possibly access to a workshop.
If the item is to cast spells, each such spell must be cast once per day of work on the item. Ignore any costly components of spells cast in item creation, those are a part of the item creation cost.
The GM may require special materials, such as gems, adamantine, or mithral. You can use the value of any such components to offset the cost of the crafting project.
If you want to enchant a specific item of value, such as a robe granted by the emir, you can count the value of such items against the cost of the crafting project.
Other possible materials include monster parts, such as the heart of a dragon or the horn of a unicorn, as negotiated with the GM. Creatures with legendary or lair actions are more likely to provide components this way. Such components can serve as adventure hooks and also reduce the cost of the project. The value of such a component is that of a consumable item of the monster's level. Gathering components might require proficiencies and/or die rolls or an entire adventure. See also Exploration.

Material Components, Armor, and Weapons

These are special cases in that only part of the cost is in the magic itself, with the remainder being in the material component, armor, or weapon. This might apply in similar cases not foreseen, but is not the general trend.

Scrolls and fetishes of spells with costly material components are a special case. To create a scroll of a spell with a costly material component, you must provide that component. This adds the cost of the component to the value of the final scroll.
Another special case is armor and weapons. To create magic arms and armor, you must provide the armor or weapon itself before you can make it a magic item.
The cost of the armor, weapon, or material component is not included in the cost of the magic, the original item and the enchantment on it are considered separately against the maximum cost of items you can create. Such special parts are crafted separately in their own projects.

Crafting Speed

You have to calculate a Crafting Speed used to measure the progress of your crafting projects. Your Crafting Speed will be different for different projects, depending on your level and proficiencies. In cooperation with the GM, select a tool proficiency that will govern the project. GMs are encouraged to be liberal in the selection of tool proficiencies, fairly flimsy argument about a different proficencies are acceptable.

Multiply the relevant proficiency modifier with your level and them multiply the result by five, the result is your crafting speed measured in gp per day.

**Rate of Production**
Value crafted per day
Tool Proficiency Modifier * Level x 5gp

Each day spent crafting, you must use an amount of raw material equal to your Crafting Speed. You must also pay living expenses for this period. When your accumulated crafting value matches the cost of the item it is finished.

Mundane Projects

When crafting non-magical items, including alchemical items, the cost is 50% of the list price of the item.

Assistants

You can have assistants that help you by contributing their Crafting Speed to the project, but having more creatures participate incurs additional risks. Assistants need not fulfill any prerequisites and add their Crafting Speed to your effective Crafting Speed. Expect to have to pay each assistant 20% of their Crafting Speed each day. This includes room, board, taxes, and fees (the assistant then pays half this amount in taxes and guild fees) but not security arrangements. Finding willing workers is a separate task. Contacts, guild memberships, and other social perks offer great advantage when looking for reliable assistants.

Upgrading Items

An existing magic item can be upgraded as long as the finished item is approved by the GM and includes all the item's current abilities. The cost of the upgrade is the difference in cost between the old and new item.

Crafting Examples

Examples of what you can create using various crafting tools.

**Crafting Examples**
Tool Set	Example items
Alchemist’s supplies	Alchemical items, poison, salves
Brewer’s supplies	Potions
Calligrapher’s supplies	Scrolls, books
Carpenter’s tools	Wooden weapons, bows, vehicles
Cartographer’s tools	Maps, teleportation effects
Cobbler’s tools	Shoes
Cook’s utensils	Potions, waybread
Glassblower’s tools	Glass items
Jeweler’s tools	Crystals, rings, spell gems
Leatherworker’s tools	Light armor, bracers, accessories
Mason’s tools	Buildings, wards, stone sculptures
Musical instruments	Musical instruments
Painter’s supplies	Pigments, images, visual illusions
Potter’s tools	Ceramic items, sculptures
Smith’s tools	Medium and heavy armor, metal weapons, metal utensils
Tinker’s tools	Clockwork, traps, gadgets (mechanical fetishes)
Weaver’s tools	Clothes, banners, cloaks
Woodcarver’s tools	Spell foci, wood sculpture, fetishes, wands

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 == Crafting ==
-These rules apply to any crafting project, magical or mundane, except those that are a class feature.
+These rules apply to any crafting project, with a focus on magic item creation.
 The monetary cost of crafting magic items is the same as the purchase price.
 People making a living crafting magic items might charge a higher price on commission have developed cheaper means to create certain specific items.
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 * If the item is to cast spells, each such spell must be cast once per day of work on the item. Ignore any costly components of spells cast in item creation, those are a part of the item creation cost.
 * The [[GM]] may require special materials, such as gems, adamantine, or mithral. You can use the value of any such components to offset the cost of the crafting project.
-* Other possible materials include monster parts, such as the heart of a dragon or the horn of a unicorn, as negotiated with the [[GM]]. Creatures with legendary or lair actions are more likely to provide components this way. Such components can serve as adventure hooks and also reduce the cost of the project. The value of such a component is that of a consumable item of the monster's level. Gathering components might require proficiencies and/or die rolls or an entire adventure.
+* If you want to enchant a specific item of value, such as a robe granted by the emir, you can count the value of such items against the cost of the crafting project.
+* Other possible materials include monster parts, such as the heart of a dragon or the horn of a unicorn, as negotiated with the [[GM]]. Creatures with legendary or lair actions are more likely to provide components this way. Such components can serve as adventure hooks and also reduce the cost of the project. The value of such a component is that of a consumable item of the monster's level. Gathering components might require proficiencies and/or die rolls or an entire adventure. See also [[Exploration (5A)|Exploration]].
-=== Scrolls, Armor, and Weapons ===
+=== Material Components, Armor, and Weapons ===
 These are special cases in that only part of the cost is in the magic itself, with the remainder being in the material component, armor, or weapon.
 This might apply in similar cases not foreseen, but is not the general trend.
-* '''Scrolls''' (and thus fetishes) are a special case. To create a scroll of a spell with a costly material component, you must provide that component. This adds the cost of the component to the value of the final scroll.
+* Scrolls and fetishes of spells with costly '''material components''' are a special case. To create a scroll of a spell with a costly material component, you must provide that component. This adds the cost of the component to the value of the final scroll.
 * Another special case is '''armor''' and '''weapons'''. To create magic arms and armor, you must provide the armor or weapon itself before you can make it a magic item.
-* The cost of the armor, weapon, or material component is not included in the cost of the magic, the original item and the enchantment on it are considered separately against the maximum cost of items you can create. Such parts are crafted separately in their own projects.
+* The cost of the armor, weapon, or material component is not included in the cost of the magic, the original item and the enchantment on it are considered separately against the maximum cost of items you can create. Such special parts are crafted separately in their own projects.
 === Crafting Speed ===
-You have to calculate a Crafting Speed used to measure the progress of your crafting projects. Your Crafting Speed will be different for different projects, depending on your level and various proficiencies.
+You have to calculate a Crafting Speed used to measure the progress of your crafting projects. Your Crafting Speed will be different for different projects, depending on your level and proficiencies.
 In cooperation with the [[GM]], select a tool proficiency that will govern the project.
 [[GM]]s are encouraged to be liberal in the selection of tool proficiencies, fairly flimsy argument about a different proficencies are acceptable.
 Multiply the relevant proficiency modifier with your level and them multiply the result by five, the result is your crafting speed measured in gp per day.
-Each day spent crafting, you must use an amount of raw material equal to your Crafting Speed.
-You must also pay living expenses for this period.
-When your accumulated crafting value matches the cost of the item it is finished.
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 |valign="top"| Tool Proficiency Modifier * Level x 5gp
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+Each day spent crafting, you must use an amount of raw material equal to your Crafting Speed.
+You must also pay living expenses for this period.
+When your accumulated crafting value matches the cost of the item it is finished.
 ==== Mundane Projects ====
-When crafting non-magical items,including alchemical items, the cost is 50% of the list price of the item.
+When crafting non-magical items, including alchemical items, the cost is 50% of the list price of the item.
 === Assistants ===