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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Grogan" data-source="post: 3455016" data-attributes="member: 45445">I thought I'd got my head around the costing of magic items.  Specifically, the cost to create an item that is command word activated and produces a spell effect a number of times per day.Example: All characters in my Desert campaign have items that cast endure elements 1/day.Cost of a command activated item is spell level (1) * CL (1) * 1800. = 1800.Then divide by 5/charges per day. i.e /5 = 360gp.  Not bad.  Double that for a slotless item = 720gp, command activated, anyone can use it.Or, you could have something which did a constant endure elements for 1,000gp.  SL*CL*2000 and then /2 because the duration is 24 hours or more.Fair enough.  One of my players wants an item that can cast Darkvision once per day.Not a problem.  Spell level 2 * CL 3 * 1800 / 5 = 2,160.  The same item which did it continuously would be 3*2*2000 = 12,000Nice and easy, dont think I have anything wrong there.Then we come to lets say a set of gauntlets which are command activated which cast True Strike once per day.  Takes up a slot, command activated.  Cost should be 360gp?Magic Item Compendium has such an item - True Strike Gauntlets, and the price = 3,500gp.Now, I am aware that a GM should look at each item, compare its usefulness and powerfulness and use the prices as a guidline, but in this, I am out by a factor of almost 10.Is there something overpowering about an item that once per day as a standard action gives you a +20 to hit that it costs 3,500gp?</blockquote>

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