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<blockquote data-quote="Ilbranteloth" data-source="post: 7187857" data-attributes="member: 6778044">Yes, I allow it. It's a complex and dangerous process in my campaign, with potential long-term effects.It requires a number of skills (although you can pay others to do many of them), rare and usually expensive ingredients, time (although not as long as some of the items in 5e), and imposes Strength and Constitution drain, which takes at least 3 days to recover, although there's always a chance it will be permanent.Earlier editions sometimes used XP as a cost, but that is of a limited deterrent, if at all, and also doesn't have much of an in-world relevance. My rules are based around the question: why aren't magic items more common? In addition, I wanted to support the old depiction of a wizard with a well stocked library and laboratory performing experiments in magic. This is also used for researching spells, developing material components, etc.Another thing I don't care for in most systems is the idea that and adventurer, who is presumably spending most of their time adventuring, has enough time to make magic items, when the rest of society (including the local wizards) are not, since there isn't a thriving open market for them. The majority of them are made by wizards hired by the local Lords, or the ones doing so under duress to provide items for the Red Wizard's program to attempt to create a market for them (of course, nothing too powerful).Because in addition to having the ability to make them, you have to risk something of value. The exhaustion approach is the same as energy drain in my campaign. Despite the risks, since every player has multiple characters in the campaign, with many involved in downtime activities, there are always a couple making some magic items.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ilbranteloth, post: 7187857, member: 6778044"] Yes, I allow it. It's a complex and dangerous process in my campaign, with potential long-term effects. It requires a number of skills (although you can pay others to do many of them), rare and usually expensive ingredients, time (although not as long as some of the items in 5e), and imposes Strength and Constitution drain, which takes at least 3 days to recover, although there's always a chance it will be permanent. Earlier editions sometimes used XP as a cost, but that is of a limited deterrent, if at all, and also doesn't have much of an in-world relevance. My rules are based around the question: why aren't magic items more common? In addition, I wanted to support the old depiction of a wizard with a well stocked library and laboratory performing experiments in magic. This is also used for researching spells, developing material components, etc. Another thing I don't care for in most systems is the idea that and adventurer, who is presumably spending most of their time adventuring, has enough time to make magic items, when the rest of society (including the local wizards) are not, since there isn't a thriving open market for them. The majority of them are made by wizards hired by the local Lords, or the ones doing so under duress to provide items for the Red Wizard's program to attempt to create a market for them (of course, nothing too powerful). Because in addition to having the ability to make them, you have to risk something of value. The exhaustion approach is the same as energy drain in my campaign. Despite the risks, since every player has multiple characters in the campaign, with many involved in downtime activities, there are always a couple making some magic items. [/QUOTE]

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