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Message: <blockquote data-quote="genshou" data-source="post: 2286570" data-attributes="member: 13164">Since you don't know the history of the item, your second qualm is correct but unfounded.  If you must know, however, the first of these staffs was crafted by the owner of a magic wagon which utilizes Shadow to travel between worlds.As for the first qualm, it seems there was a typo on my part.  You see, there is an alternate version of this item (a wondrous architecture) which can only perform the countercasting ability of the item.  I believe the price I posted is the price of the wondrous architecture plus the weapon enhancement bonus <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" />17*9*1800=275400 (though an ad hoc adjustment is necessary for the countercasting ability, which I base on percentage of overall price in order to accommodate the countercasting function with weaker spells)2*(2000+300)=4600 (thanks for reminding me to charge for enchanting both ends of the staff; forgot that the first time)I would apply a flat multiplier of +10% to +30% to the item's spell function cost, depending on the prevalence of magic in the campaign.  I'd reserve the +30% for campaigns where magic is as common as water, so in a standard D&D game I'd use 16%.  That would adjust the price to 324,064 gp (at least, according to my 16%).  But remember that the POWERS an item has are what makes it an epic item, NOT the price.  It's just that usually only epic-level characters can afford a single magic item with a cost above 200,000 gp.Still, it's a handy item for your magic-laden, epic-level, plane-wandering Spellfire Channeler, isn't it?Hey, thanks for noting the price discrepancy.  I'm glad I was able to fix that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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