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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dog Moon" data-source="post: 2750825" data-attributes="member: 23023">I think perhaps the items should be a little more expensive and perhaps drop the cap.  A cloak of elvenkind grants +5 to Hide and costs 2,500gp.  AND it uses a magical item slot.  An item which doesn't take up an item space is supposed to cost twice as much, meaning that item would cost 5,000gp.  The fact that it is a permanent bonus and cannot be taken away, stolen, dispelled, etc, means it should probably cost about a little more, say about 7,500gp.[Bonus squared x100 is for a normal skill item such as the Cloak of Elvenkind]I think the cost should be about Bonus squared x300, which would mean that +5 to a skill would cost 7,500gp.  You wouldn't have to learn them in order, however, and since competence bonuses wouldn't stack, reading a +1 book and then a +3 book would only grant a total of +3.  [It means that the book of Hide would also NOT stack with the Cloak of Elvenkind, to prevent someone from increasing their Hide by a LOT easily].I suppose this is the way you might go if you were thinking of magical items similar to the Book/Tomes/Librams of stat increases.  It may not be desirable to have them as magic items instead of something like normal textbooks, but by the magic item creation process, I believe this is more accurate to what the items should cost in comparison to other magic items.</blockquote>