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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ARandomGod" data-source="post: 1889322" data-attributes="member: 17296">I've seen a number of house rules that allow this to happen... basically if the non caster has a caster party member, it's assumed that the other party member can assume the life force part and pay only what the caster would pay to make the magic items.It cannot be done with merchants and stuff.It's an OK ruling. It's the only way I can see a party member wizard not charging at least 85%-90% of the base market price to make it. I mean, those XP are valuable! In one campaign we made a magic item that cost 2500 gold (base) and no XP. Not paying XP is an intregal part of the item, because the void wants to be filled... but there's a magical funnel that keeps the XP from actually achieving it's goal, so any XP drawn into the item can be siphoned off to create magic items (only for item creation). If someone holds the item, they have to make a will save DC1 each round, or 100 XP will be drawn into the item. It had a maximum capacity of 4000 XP. In this case, unconcious people are considered to automatically attempt to make the save. In a different campaign there was no excuse... just whoever first wore/attempted to activate the item would incur the XP cost of the item. When I joined that game I immediantly saw several problems with this, and asked what would be the mechanic that would stop an artificer from making a powerful magical item that's never been activated, leaving it around looking like normal loot, hire some "adventureres" to clear out the cave... and waiting for someone to put it on, thereby draining a LOT of XP... after which the magiker would simply kill the party and take the item. I just wanted a better mechanic. There were several discussions as to what it could be, but in the end it couldn't be settled on, so it's just a "I will it SO" GM fiat. I hate those... I need a good, well planned out story. But, really, I like the rest of the game. So I can forgive some inanity.PS> In that game darkness creates light. As I'm sure you could have guessed.</blockquote>

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