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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BSF" data-source="post: 1076678" data-attributes="member: 13098">Hmm, it looks like I might need to take a closer look at the book.  I clearly missed a lot in my quick perusal on vacation.  Too bad my LGS is less than robust in terms of inventory and service.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />One of the big areas that annoys me about the core item creation rules is the apparent inability to create an item that works less than 1/day.  The 1/month affect of the Dreamstone is more for flavor.  It is an item that one of my characters will give another character as gift.  It will be made from moonstone.  It will have little impact on the game since it is usable so rarely.  It is more because the Druid may end up as a guardian in a very secluded area by the time the campaign winds down.  With the Dreamstone, she could still contact some of the other characters in "retirement".  But, there is no way to positively build such an item in the core rules.  You guess at the cost.The sword is an artifact-type weapon granted to a character in the game that I run.  It was a gift from a nature God.  True Reincarnate is from Master's of the Wild, but it stats as the Druid equivelant of True Ressurection.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  The special limitation reflects the trickster/practical joker aspect of this particular god.  The 1/year use limits the number of times this will be used in a campaign, and is indicative of the nature of a sword (to kill, not to heal).  While I can easily arbitrate DM's perogative, I prefer to be able to back it up in game terms and to get a feel for how valuable a gift like that is worth.Both of these are examples of a mechanic that is just missing from the rules.  1/day is handled, but not anything beyond that.  (Yes, some of you will think this is just silly.  "Make it charged" you say.  Sure, that works for most things.  But, charges can be used multiple times over a very short period of time.  Charges have the wrong flavor for these items. YMMV)  I may look at the pricing for the Dreamstone and think it is a bit high priced, since the spell isn't applicable in all but the most secure circumstances, but at least I can start with a base price and decide a suitable discount if I disagree.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Out of curiosity, how would the Orb of Storms (From the SRD - either 3.0 or 3.5) stat out?  This has been the closest thing I have found to an item with an extended, recurring "charge".  I have tried to reverse engineer it to see if somebody just made a guess, or if there was a formula that was never published in there.  My conclusion is that it was a guess.</blockquote>

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