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Can the sapphire crushed as part of the Drawmij's Instant Summons spell be mended and sold for the original price?
The spell Drawmij's instant summons states (emphasis mine):
[...]
Components: V, S, M (a sapphire worth 1,000 gp)
Duration: Until dispelled
You touch an object weighing 10 pounds or less whose ...
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How much profit can a low-level caster make by offering Mending as a service during downtime?
How much profit can a low-level caster make by offering Mending as a service during downtime?
A low-level spellcaster without tool proficiencies would like to earn some money in downtime. How much ...
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How big is a 5000 gp diamond? [duplicate]
I play a teleportation and extra dimensional sorcerer in my group and I'm getting close to obtaining the spell Gate which requires "a diamond worth at least 5,000 gp". How big would a ...
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What would be the approximate price to modify the DC on "Goggles of the Golden Sun" from the Magic Item Compendium?
Goggles of the Golden Sun (MIC p. 205) allow a caster to use one of their spell slots to cast fireball. It provides a flat save DC of 14, which is kind of lame.
They normally cost 4000 gp. How much ...
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Are expensive material component costs too specific?
Reality Revision requires a crystal worth 25,000 gp.
Wish requires a diamond worth 25,000 gp.
"Grand Jewels" in the treasure tables peak at 5,000 gp.
Perhaps there is a work around for Reality ...
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Spellcasting services profit for a PC with healing spells on different caster levels
One of my player is playing a Healer (a class similar to cleric, but based mainly on healing spells from Miniatures Handbook) and he would like to run a business selling spellcasting services. He ...
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How much should you pay a wizard for casting your Wish spell scroll for you?
I have a human fighter who possessed a wish spell scroll. He had an NPC wizard use the wish spell scroll to undo a nasty spell-like effect on one of the other characters. The wizard wants just ...
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Is the material component of the Protection from Evil and Good spell supposed to be that pricey?
The Protection from Evil and Good spell has a material component of
holy water or powdered silver and iron, which the spell consumes
So, to make use of this spell we have to spend holy water (or ...
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What is the monetary worth of a captured spellbook? [closed]
In my last game, the players defeated two wizards, and captured their spellbooks.
The party wizard crowdsourced gold from the other players and copied the spells he wanted onto his own spellbook.
Now, ...
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How much should NPCs charge for cantrips cast as services to PCs?
I've read through some of the other threads and came across an official (kind of) formula for calculating the cost of spells found in How much should NPCs charge for spells cast as services to PCs?:
$...
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Is there a listed value for a soul gem?
In one of the campaigns I play an evil wizard. My PC recently learnt the spell lesser planar binding. I'm considering binding a cacodaemon to my service and having it use its supernatural ability soul ...
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Why is the Clone spell so cheap to hire?
From what I can see, other than a level difference and longer "casting" duration, clone works the same way as resurrection but for a fraction of the cost.
Clone costs 1500gp to cast and, if another ...
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How do I determine the value of spellbooks placed as treasure?
I am trying to develop treasure for my players and figure out how much a spellbook is worth based on the level and number of spells held in it. For example, how much is a spellbook that contains one ...
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How much should NPCs charge for spells cast as services to PCs?
As the title suggests, I need to know how to compute the appropriate cost for spells that NPCs provide as services (components included) to the party.
My search has come up with the following:
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What are the prices for Permanency when you don't know the spell yourself?
I want to make an item, say a sword, permanently invisible and I am a little unsure as to the pricing required for this.
The price of the item doesn't need to be figured out.
Having an NPC cast a ...
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