Differently-sized items of special materials.

[RangerWickett]

A mithril shirt is 1100 gold pieces.

How much is a small (or large) mithril shirt? Is it half (or double) price, plus 1000, or is it half (or double) of 1100?

What about barding?

Because I want to get my dire eagle animal companion a mithril breastplate.

 

[Thurbane]

Note: the table for mithril says "+ 1000 gp", so I would say that infers that you calculate the cost as per normal (including masterwork and size), and then add 1000 gp to that total.

Although I think a DM would be entirely within his rights to add the size mutiplier after special materials cost, as it is going to use siginificanlty more mithril than a medium sized suit.

 

[Kaodi]

Pricing

Come on, we should all know by now that the price of items in D&D has absolutely nothing to do with anything.

A colossal suit of mithral armour would cost the same +1000 as a medium suit. Same as an adamantine dagger costs as much as an adamantine greatsword. Reality has little meaning.

( I've wanted to see an economic system in D&D that made some internal sense for years.)

 

[Bad Paper]

The additional cost of special materials seems to be for more intensive skilled labor or something, not so much the raw material.

 

[ElectricDragon]

A large mithral shirt for a non-humanoid creature would cost x4 and would have a weight of x2 normal armor of that type. I would figure the cost of the medium humanoid armor plus special material and then apply multipliers for size and shape. Masterwork costs are already figured into the cost of mithral, so 450 gp (150 times 3) could be subtracted from this amount (the cost of masterwork does not get multiplied). Thus a large mithral shirt for a non-humanoid creature (mithral shirt barding) would cost 3,950 gp and weigh 20 lbs.

As a DM, though, I usually take the easy route and just multiply the cost of the mithral shirt by 4 and say that's the price (4,400 gp).

Ciao
Dave

 

[Jarrod]

That's the way we've played it as well - so the formula is

(base cost + materials) * size + enchantments

... and man was that full plate for the size Large PC expensive. Adamantine spear, too.

 

[mvincent]

The 3.5 FAQ says that special material costs are multiplied by size.

 

[RangerWickett]

The 3.5 FAQ says that special material costs are multiplied by size.

Fooey. Foiled again.

Okay, I think I'll use studded leather barding and enchant it, instead of getting mithral. The main issue is that my dire eagle mount has a 20 Dexterity, I need a high max dex bonus.

 

[ElectricDragon]

What you need is EN Armoury: Light Armours; awaiting layout AFAIK. The book introduces different armors and special materials especially for light armors and high Dexterity scores.

Ciao
Dave

 

[RangerWickett]

Touché.

E.N. Publishing is getting back on track, slowly, because Hellhound (the president) burned out in the wake of a friend's death. Now he's handed over the reigns, and we're hoping to get old projects off the ground, but we're not certain the contributors took the 6-month hiatus very well.