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Price for a extra spell is the square of the spell level X 1000. An extra 1st level spell is 1,000, an extra 6th is 36,000. Your example of one extra of the first five is ( 1 + 4 + 9 + 16 + 25 ) * 1000 = 55,000 gp.

Delay in response Sending is a 5th level spell that allows 25 words to be exchanged, possibly extraplanar. Message allows a conversation to occur for a fair amount of time, and it's 0 level. Hm. To make it more interesting, I like the idea of paired sheets. What's written on one appears on...

Invade the Underdark! The Underdark supports a thriving ecology, and it has no sun at all. Whatever is used underground will be traded/stolen by surface dwellers. Likewise, denizens of the deep will find the surface more congenial.

I'm used to Eberron, which has a PC class (Artificer) and a NPC class (Magewright) who make magic items. Eberron has lower level characters, 11-12 are very high level in the game, but a lot more who make magic items. My gut feelings +1 items, scrolls/potions of no higher than 3rd level...

My take on the phylactery/lichdom: A lich is a being who is determined to continue on. This single minded determination allows an experienced caster to work out what needs to be done. The most common version requires the murder of twelve infants not yet weaned and harvesting their souls so...

If you want both melee and spell casting ability, consider the Eldritch Knight in the DMG or the Knight Phantom (Five Nations, an Eberron supplement)

Build at at-will device that casts fabricate. This is about 90K gold pieces. This could churn out masterwork weapons en-mass, given raw materials. It does require that the operator have a pretty high craft score, but a skill bonus item should take care of that.

6th Level: Disintegrate. When you want the problem to Go Away.

Well, the XP goes into your craft reserve, which evaporates when you gain an Artificer level. So you shouldn't burn items unless you plan to use it immediately. My artificer burned an evil intelligent weapon, and ruled that I needed to make some spellcraft/use magic item rolls. If I was DM, I...

There are constructs in every Monster Manual. You have some some in Eberron, and Magic of Eberron. Search around the Internet and you should come up with a list of all the monsters with the Construct type. There's a lot.

What you are running into is the "superhero" problem. What does government mean when singular individuals are as powerful as a combat brigade? Think of the X-men comics/movies: Magneto. Governments would be deeply threatened by individuals with a high degree of personal power. So...

I like the zombies better, much cheaper and easier than my implementation. Contiuously casting shrink item means spending 1200 XP as part of making an item, and 15K gold. Permanency on a Gust of Wind costs nothing but 1,500XP and a ninth level caster. Animate Dead just is one spell, with...

More fun with Shrink Item. I'd agree with the people that would have it do sling damage, then it expands and creates some sort of obstacle. It does get rude when you can drop it on the roof of a building and then a much heavier stone then falls down to ground level. Another use for Mage Hand...

A friend of mine and I were kicking this around: Shrink Item reduces something to 1/16 on each dimension, so you could make a round boulder 5' in diameter into a sling stone sized rock. From the SRD: Objects changed by a shrink item spell can be returned to normal composition and size merely...

If I'm reading this correctly, you are building a half-elf who has all three levels in Heir of Siberys. That's an ECL of 16 because you need to have attained 12th level before you can enter HoS. You have 7 levels of barb, and need to come up with 5 more levels of something else. Not sure what...