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<blockquote data-quote="Blacky the Blackball" data-source="post: 7427612" data-attributes="member: 6688526"><p>Utility-based pricing and rarity-based pricing can go hand-in-hand, if the more powerful things are rarer (presumably because more a more powerful item needs a more powerful creator and more time to make than a less powerful one).</p><p></p><p>To an extent, that's what I've done anyway, since my measure of utility/power is mostly based on how powerful the spell effects that the item replicates are (most items replicate spell effects to a greater or lesser extent).</p><p></p><p>So is an item that replicates a fifth level spell more expensive than one that replicates a first level spell because people who can make items with fifth level spells in are rarer than people who can make items with first level spells in? Or is it more expensive because fifth level spells are more useful than first level spells?</p><p></p><p>The answer, I suppose, is "some of each". After all, the spells themselves were mostly designed so that more powerful/useful effects were higher level!</p><p></p><p>But I've made no judgement between the utility of spells other than their level. Two items that give access to a spell of the same level will be the same price, regardless of how subjectively useful we find one or the other spell.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm not sure I'd agree with either of those points of view. A trope that is very common to fantasy settings is that of the lost golden age, where ancient empires were more advanced both magically, and technologically than the present day, and ancient artifacts are more powerful than recently created items. So I wouldn't expect older items to necessarily be older tech.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blacky the Blackball, post: 7427612, member: 6688526"] Utility-based pricing and rarity-based pricing can go hand-in-hand, if the more powerful things are rarer (presumably because more a more powerful item needs a more powerful creator and more time to make than a less powerful one). To an extent, that's what I've done anyway, since my measure of utility/power is mostly based on how powerful the spell effects that the item replicates are (most items replicate spell effects to a greater or lesser extent). So is an item that replicates a fifth level spell more expensive than one that replicates a first level spell because people who can make items with fifth level spells in are rarer than people who can make items with first level spells in? Or is it more expensive because fifth level spells are more useful than first level spells? The answer, I suppose, is "some of each". After all, the spells themselves were mostly designed so that more powerful/useful effects were higher level! But I've made no judgement between the utility of spells other than their level. Two items that give access to a spell of the same level will be the same price, regardless of how subjectively useful we find one or the other spell. I'm not sure I'd agree with either of those points of view. A trope that is very common to fantasy settings is that of the lost golden age, where ancient empires were more advanced both magically, and technologically than the present day, and ancient artifacts are more powerful than recently created items. So I wouldn't expect older items to necessarily be older tech. [/QUOTE]
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