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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7348975" data-attributes="member: 12731"><p>By this time I feel the thread has collected much of the essential gotchas we need to take into account. Here's one more before it's time to create a first draft.</p><p></p><p>If we end up placing a price on a standard item such as the +1 weapon that considerably differs from the d20 baseline (for instance at 5000 gp instead of 1000 gp), should we or should we not consider "moving up" all/most/some items of equal value?</p><p></p><p>I mean, if a +1 attack bonus, a +1 AC bonus, and Cloak of Elvenkind previously all cost 1000 gp, it stands to reason we should at least ask ourselves the question:</p><p></p><p>Did that cloak cost 1000 gp because it was deemed of equal utility of a +1 sword? If so, it <em>should</em> be bumped up in price.</p><p></p><p>Or did that cloak cost 1000 gp because that was what it was worth. Then the fact it had a similar price to the +1 sword was coincidental, and its price should <em>not</em> be bumped up in price.</p><p></p><p>On the third hand, the relative differences of prices is just as important than the absolute prices, so even if the changes that 5E has brought about makes a +1 sword relatively more valuable than the 5E implementation of the cloak, a case can still be made to have the cloak move upwards if the sword moves upwards, at least part of the way, simply because we deem it undesirable for our pricing structure to let one sword cost as much as five cloaks. </p><p></p><p>On the fourth hand, we might be prepared to argue that, yes, the 5E cloak is indeed only 20% as useful as the 5E sword, so it <em>should</em> be priced at only 20% of the price.</p><p></p><p>Thoughts? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 7348975, member: 12731"] By this time I feel the thread has collected much of the essential gotchas we need to take into account. Here's one more before it's time to create a first draft. If we end up placing a price on a standard item such as the +1 weapon that considerably differs from the d20 baseline (for instance at 5000 gp instead of 1000 gp), should we or should we not consider "moving up" all/most/some items of equal value? I mean, if a +1 attack bonus, a +1 AC bonus, and Cloak of Elvenkind previously all cost 1000 gp, it stands to reason we should at least ask ourselves the question: Did that cloak cost 1000 gp because it was deemed of equal utility of a +1 sword? If so, it [I]should[/I] be bumped up in price. Or did that cloak cost 1000 gp because that was what it was worth. Then the fact it had a similar price to the +1 sword was coincidental, and its price should [I]not[/I] be bumped up in price. On the third hand, the relative differences of prices is just as important than the absolute prices, so even if the changes that 5E has brought about makes a +1 sword relatively more valuable than the 5E implementation of the cloak, a case can still be made to have the cloak move upwards if the sword moves upwards, at least part of the way, simply because we deem it undesirable for our pricing structure to let one sword cost as much as five cloaks. On the fourth hand, we might be prepared to argue that, yes, the 5E cloak is indeed only 20% as useful as the 5E sword, so it [I]should[/I] be priced at only 20% of the price. Thoughts? :) [/QUOTE]
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