Gear (5A)

Rules for equipment and gear, magical or not.

Resale Prices

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

Crafting

These rules apply to any crafting project, magical or mundane, except those that are a class feature.

Prerequisites

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

The item must have a cost permitted at your level by table Maximum Price By Level.
You must have the right tools and access to a workshop.
If the item is to cast spells, you need to be able to cast those spells.
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, below.
Other possible materials include monster parts, such as the heart of a dragon or the horn of a unicorn. These can serve as adventure hooks and also reduce the post of the project. The value of such a component is that of a consumable item of the monster's level, provided that level of the monster is equal to or higher than the level of the item.

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, proficiencies, and ability scores. In cooperation with the GM, select one tool proficiency and one ability score that will govern the project. GMs are encouraged to be liberal in the selection of ability score and tool proficiencies, the table gives the ideal ability score, but fairly flimsy argument about a different ability score is acceptable. Add the relevant ability score modifier and tool proficiency modifier. Multiply this with your level, and then by 5 gp. The final result is your crafting speed.

**Crafting Ability**
Ability	Approach	Items
Strength	Power	Melee weapons (non-finesse), heavy armor, hard steel
Dexterity	Finesse	Melee weapons (finesse), medium armor, flexible steel
Constitution	Infusion	Light armor, alchemy, potions, leather, toxins
Intelligence	Reason	Firebrands, scrolls, wands, clockwork
Wisdom	Intuition	Ranged & wooden weapons, jewelry, medicine
Charisma	Acclaim	Clothes, banners, finery, accessories

Each day spent crafting, you must use an amount of raw material at least equal to your Crafting Speed (you can spend more), and your progress in the crafting process is the sum of your Crafting Speed and the amount of gold spent. You must also pay living expenses for this period. When your progress matches the cost of the item it is finished.

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 25% of their Crafting Speed each day. This includes room, board, taxes, and fees but not security arrangements. An assistant generally has an ability score modifier equal to their Proficency Bonus. Finding willing workers is a separate task. Contacts, guild memberships, and other social perks offer great advantage here.

Blueprints

A blueprint is a schematic for the creation of an item that reduces the cost of item creation by 25%. The blueprint only covers the exact item is it made for—no modifications allowed. Crafting does not need a blueprint, and most crafting in Greyhawk is done without blueprints. A blueprint can be created as an item that costs ten times as much as making the item it is a blueprint for. Not that this increases the level you have to be to make the blueprint. Blueprints can be copied without restriction, but must be copied in painstaking detail to work. This makes the price of blueprints extremely variable—if the blueprint is a closely guarded secret it is worth up to twenty times the cost of the item it is for. If the blueprint is well known, it might be worth as little as 10% of the cost of a single item.

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.