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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xorran" data-source="post: 5215694" data-attributes="member: 91508">Since you didn't really explain the initial campaign idea, I'm going to guess that all six of you have been adventuring together for nearly all your levels, even though you started at 12th level? If that is the case, it might be you DM's first mistake, by allowing you to make money off the other players right off the start.   Another thing to remember, is if your DM started you off at 12th level, most DM's would set your XP right at that level, eg. 66,001 XP, which means, from the very first magical item you made (obviously before you were level 12) means that you never even reached level 12, and your max level would have therefore been level 11, easily explained by the fact that you spent several months not adventuring, and just crafting items. Which also means, you only had an initial amount of 66,000 to work with, not 88,00 like everyone else. Which also means you lose out on skill points, one feat, AND an ability score increase. You also have to remember, you would not be able to craft anything that required a higher caster level than level 11, AND you would have had to have those spells in your spellbook BEFORE you ended up with the large chunk of money to purchase spells with.   One last thing that your DM should have done, was put a gold cap on the items you were allowed to purchase per item. I would have made it like 1500gp or somewhere about, basically saying, over the last several years, you never accumulated over 1500gp at any given time, and was basically spending it as you got it.   On a final note, as far as magic items increasing your EL, it shouldn't really be the case, since you weren't able to make any high end items, requiring a caster level any higher than 11.   But congrats on basically convincing your DM that you could do whatever you wanted <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

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