Who pays the XP for party created items in your games?
Patryn of Elvenshae
First Post
Other (Option 3): The person designated as the item's creator (being the one chosen from among any number of people providing the prerequisites).
They also set the Caster Level of the item, and determine the arcane / divine / neither nature of any scrolls created.
They also set the Caster Level of the item, and determine the arcane / divine / neither nature of any scrolls created.
shilsen
Adventurer
By the rules, the creator has to be the one paying the XP. I don't house rule that away, so in my games the creator is the one paying it. Sometimes the person with the feat is able to have the end user collaborate in the creation and count as the creator (because the latter can fulfil some prerequisite), in which case the latter pays it.
Michael Silverbane
Adventurer
I have the creator (that is, the person whose Item Creation feat is being used to create the item) pay the experience cost. On some few occassions, I have allowed the use of Power Components (a displacer beast hide for a cloak of displacement, for instance) to mitigate the experience point cost of the item.
Later
silver
Later
silver
Plane Sailing
Astral Admin - Mwahahaha!
My rules are that the xps can come from the caster, a willing participant (so if someone commissions magic items they are expected to incorporate their own soul in there) or, if evil, an unwilling sacrifice (bwa-ha-ha-ha-hah!)
My opinion is that if the creation is shared (eg someone is doing the crafting, and someone else is providing the required spells), then the XP cost can be shared, or paid by one of the two.
Alternately, depending on DM ruling rare components can be used to offset XP cost (or sacrifices/souls in evil campaigns).
If a person is just receiving the item they cannot pay XP cost, they must participate in the creation.
Alternately, depending on DM ruling rare components can be used to offset XP cost (or sacrifices/souls in evil campaigns).
If a person is just receiving the item they cannot pay XP cost, they must participate in the creation.
Sejs
First Post
As I run it in my games there are three options:
A) A single creator pays the full cost in exp.
B) The exp cost is distributed more or less evenly amongst those involved in the crafting (in the case of there being multiple crafters).
C) The exp cost is distributed between the crafter(s) and the intended recipient, at a rate chosen beforehand with the recipient paying up to a maximum of 50% of the cost. The remainder is handled by the crafter(s) as above.
I also implement power components, souls/pain/other as power, and so on.
A) A single creator pays the full cost in exp.
B) The exp cost is distributed more or less evenly amongst those involved in the crafting (in the case of there being multiple crafters).
C) The exp cost is distributed between the crafter(s) and the intended recipient, at a rate chosen beforehand with the recipient paying up to a maximum of 50% of the cost. The remainder is handled by the crafter(s) as above.
I also implement power components, souls/pain/other as power, and so on.
