Questions tagged [pricing]
For questions related to determining the value or cost of a good or service in-game.
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Downtime Business Plan Help?
DMs, I need your expertise.
I have a 1 year downtime between campaigns (ingame) and I'm in Waterdeep.
I want to become something between Littlefinger and Varys (from Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and ...
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What is the price for a non-empty spellbook?
One of the NPCs in the campaign I run doesn't have enough time to teach their spells to adventurers, but they have most of their spells carefully written into books they are ready to rent.
Their ...
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Is there a price list for goods outside of the core book?
Rokugan is a very varied place, and characters might want to acquire a lot of things that are not covered in the core book.
Like, recently I came into the pickle that a painting samurai wanted to ...
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Is the price of a waterskin mentioned anywhere?
In the book for the The Witcher Pen & Paper RPG, there is a list of suggested items for Witchers to buy when they create their character. In this list, "a waterskin" is one of the ...
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How should the price, hit point and hardness (and aura) be calculated for a magical weapon & armor shield?
The core rule mentioned that each enhancement bonus granted to a weapon/armor would also grant it additional hardness and hit points.
It also mentioned that while shields can be enchanted as armors, ...
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How much would a +7 AC magic item be worth?
For context: A DM in this multi-DM run D&D 5e campaign I'm in said she would be doing very difficult sessions with very high level loot if we succeed in said sessions. Well, disregarding the fact ...
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Would 6000 gold be a fair price for a use-activated weapon with the launch item spell that functions 30 times a day?
The suggested pricing rules for creating magic items suggests that items that are continuous or use-activated should cost 2,000 gold * the level of the spell they duplicate * the Caster level of that ...
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When multiple Smiths work together to create items, can one apply feat to reduce the total cost?
If multiple characters are working together to meet the prerequisites for crafting an item and only one of the characters has a feat to reduce the cost, are they allowed to apply it? For instance if ...
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Are there any writing implements cheaper than an inkpen and cleaner than charcoal?
I have a first-level character who would like to keep a journal, but is on a very tight budget, and I am dissatisfied with the idea of using charcoal, given how easily it smudges and smears in real ...
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Why would anyone buy a Pony over a Mule?
Here are the statistics from the Mounts and Other Animals Table in the DMG:
Item
Cost
Speed
Carrying Capacity
Pony
30 gp
40 ft.
225 lb.
Donkey or mule
8 gp
40 ft.
420 lb.
The pony costs 30 gp, ...
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How to put a price on the Captain's Stockings of Treasure Finding?
Our group is playing a 15th-level adventure. I usually allow them to create custom magic items that are within reason, and so far that had been fine with the regular Wealth-by-Level (WBL) rules. ...
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Are there any ways to reduce the market price of magic items?
By RAW the only thing I know of that reduces the market price of magic items is the 10% or 30% discount item restrictions in the creating magic items section of the Dungeon Master's Guide page 282. ...
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Is the necklace of fireballs underpriced in the Sane Magic Items pdf?
I gave my third-level party 900gp and told them they could buy start equipment from the Sane Magic Items pdf.
One of my characters bought a two-bead Necklace of Fireballs and personally demolished two ...
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Are there published guidelines for pricing magic items based on class abilities?
There are a handful of items that emulate (Ring of Evasion) and/or augment (Monk's Robe) class abilities. However, "class ability" isn't one of the effects on the estimating magic item ...
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Construct modification cost
When using the modifications listed under Building and Modifying Constructs, are the costs of the modifications, the price you pay to craft it, or to purchase it? IE: Construct armor has a cost of ...
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