Help Me Price This Item: Sack of Monkeys

[Shayuri]

Alrighty...technically my GM and I have already worked this item out, and I'm very happy with it. I'm curious to see what the Will of the Board is though. I pose to you an item that is based on the Bag of Tricks. However, instead of a random roll, when you pull the ball of fur out, it grows into a small monkey. Every time. Aside from that, it's exactly like a normal Bag of Tricks.

Basically it uses the "monkey" stats in the SRD...a spider or rhesus monkey, no doubt.

Again, this is just an academic exercise...don't tell me that item pricing is up to the GM cuz he and I already did that. This is just to satisfy curiosity.

What do you think is good pricing for this item, and why?

 

[Mistwell]

Alrighty...technically my GM and I have already worked this item out, and I'm very happy with it. I'm curious to see what the Will of the Board is though. I pose to you an item that is based on the Bag of Tricks. However, instead of a random roll, when you pull the ball of fur out, it grows into a small monkey. Every time. Aside from that, it's exactly like a normal Bag of Tricks.

Basically it uses the "monkey" stats in the SRD...a spider or rhesus monkey, no doubt.

Again, this is just an academic exercise...don't tell me that item pricing is up to the GM cuz he and I already did that. This is just to satisfy curiosity.

What do you think is good pricing for this item, and why?

Hmmm.


I'd price it at the bag of tricks price. It's less flexible but more consistent than the bag of tricks, which is a wash in my mind.

 

[DarkKestral]

It shouldn't be a bag though. It should be a barrel.

After all, what's more fun than a barrel of monkeys?

I think it shouldn't be priced too much less than a bag of tricks, but certainly not more. I'd be ok w/ pricing it the same or a little less personally.

 

[blargney the second]

That's hilarious! I just put in an order this afternoon for a barrel of monkeys to be crafted for my character. We came up with 1000gp. A single non-random result is much more reliably useful than the default bag of tricks.

Incidentally, my main reason for buying it is that I love watching traps go off, but hate being on the receiving end of them.

*toss*
"Ook, ook....?"
BOOM!
"That was cool!"

 

[Shayuri]

Hahaha! That's -exactly- what I wind up using it for most of the time!

"Go little monkey! This corridor looks suspicious!"

*meep* KABOOM!

"...good monkey."

And now whenever the group finds something that looks remotely suspicious, the first thing they do is ask, "Hey, do you have any monkeys left?" Even the GM likes it, because he gets to describe horrible, sadistic things happening to them without any of the PC rage that would ensue if he described it happening to one of us. Hee...

 

[AnonymousOne]

Hahaha! That's -exactly- what I wind up using it for most of the time!

"Go little monkey! This corridor looks suspicious!"

*meep* KABOOM!

"...good monkey."

And now whenever the group finds something that looks remotely suspicious, the first thing they do is ask, "Hey, do you have any monkeys left?" Even the GM likes it, because he gets to describe horrible, sadistic things happening to them without any of the PC rage that would ensue if he described it happening to one of us. Hee...

This is great .... Might I also suggest that it could be a great distraction if the party needed to steal something in a city setting ... let loose a bunch of monkeys in the kitchen and then filch the item from the study... After all, we all know there is little worse than a monkey infestation.

 

[Nifft]

"Bad dates."

I like this idea a lot. It will be stolen.

Thanks! -- N

 

[Shayuri]

Heee

Sadly, only one monkey at a time, per the Bag of Tricks rules.

Still, it lasts a lot longer than a summon would, and even one monkey can do quite a bit of havoc in a noncombat situation.

Also good for:

Retrieving things (like keys) through passages too small to get to otherwise.

Exploring dank holes that you're just SURE are full of horrid things.

Climbing up to get fruit, items, etc that you want but that are out of reach.

Poor man's telekinesis; push buttons, pull levers, take off lids, open things...all at range.

And much much more.

In fact, a monkey is a useful enough critter that I paid 2 grand for the Sack, and never looked back.

 

[lottrbacchus]

Poor monkeys! Just be careful; one day you'll pull out a bit of fur and it will turn into the avenging monkey from hell, with levels!

 

[Erywin]

Poor monkeys! Just be careful; one day you'll pull out a bit of fur and it will turn into the avenging monkey from hell, with levels!

*yoink*