Continual Flame and Market price Ever burning Items?

[Christian]

Rest assured that if I had a good explanation, I'd have screamed it out by now. ;-)

 

[rhammer2]

The torch costs 110gp in 3.5, the cost in 3.0 was calculated incorrectly at 90gp.

The Everburning Torch costs less than 110 gp because the price is brought down by the fact that sometimes wizards cast lesser planar binding and conjure Lantern Archons, and get them to work for a few hours making one Ever Burning Torch per round. This works out to 600 'Torches per hour - at the cost of a single fifth level spell.

A 5th level spell costs 450 gp to get cast, so assuming that that the Lantern Archon is himself paid 26,550 gp for an hour's work we can easily see that the total cost for creating all 600 torches is 27,000 gp - from which we get their combined market price of 54,000 gp. Spread out amongst those 600 torches the average market price per torch is therefore 90 gp - which is precisely the listed value.

-Frank

 

[Pbartender]

(Actually, since it says it's a 'normal torch', it should really be 110 gp + 1 cp. )

Torches are sticks that are specially prepared with cloth and pitch or other flammable materials to burn only at one end for an extended length of time.

An Everburning Torch is a stick (or practically any object you desire) with a Continual Flame spell cast on it. Look at it more as a club (free!) with Cont. Flame, than a torch.

Of course, wouldn't it be more useful to have an Everburning Hooded lantern, so you close the shutters easily to mask the light? Or even an Everburning bullseye lantern, that provides light out to twice the range, but only in a cone in one direction.

 

[Jeph]

Does it ever state the speed at which Ioun stones rotate? Might an Everburning Grey Ioun Stone spin so fast that it creates a halo of light, like one of those glowy wands they hand out at Bar Mitzvote bent into a circle and hovering above your head, rather than a constantly flickering and incredibly irritating pulse of luminescence?