[3.5] Errata/FAQ not included? Confirm or deny.

[dcollins]

Sean, thanks so much for your comments. I'm hoping you can see why I consider this to be an issue -- the variable caster level allowance to "official" items seems to involve a lot of subjective DM evaluations to the price. It seems like if the rule is changed, those modifications need to be codified if they indeed count as "official items" (as opposed to "new items").

{- What is the market price of a minor circlet of blasting at caster level 10 (instead of 6), }

Since the CL has a direct effect on the item's power (the damage is as per searing light, which has CL-based scaling damage), it would increase as per the formula.

{or a major circlet of blasting at caster level 10 (instead of 17)?}

Well, you can't do it at CL 10 since a maximized searing light is a 6th-level slot, requiring CL 11, but otherwise as the minor form of the item.

Good point, I totally missed that the major version was maximized.

However, should the price for the major version follow the formula for the scale from 17 down to 11 (since that doesn't actually alter the damage)? Should the minor version stop scaling price up after caster level 10 (since it no longer increases damage from that point)?

(Degenerate example of strictly following the formula for both:
Minor circlet of blasting @ CL 15, price 6480 / 6 * 15 = 16,200.
Major circlet of blasting @ CL 11, price 23,760 / 17 * 11 = 15,374.
Both do 5d8 damage, but the maximized one winds up actually less expensive.)

It seems like these choices get fairly complicated, and aren't currently dealt in the rulebooks. Thanks again for commenting.