Help Me Understand Craft-Alchemy

[RUMBLETiGER]

I have learned the tricks to making magical items with the appropriate item creation feats. It's some of the mundane crafting that I'm fuzzy on.

What is the cost to create alchemical items (and other mundane crafting)? Is it 1/2 the selling price like magical items? How much time, materials, do you require tools, etc. to do these things?

Specifically, I'm looking to craft Shapesand (Craft Alchemy DC 25), Sandstorm p.25, 99, 102. That stuff is awesome.

 

[Vegepygmy]

What is the cost to create alchemical items (and other mundane crafting)? Is it 1/2 the selling price like magical items?

No, it's 1/3 the price.

How much time, materials, do you require tools, etc. to do these things?

These questions are all answered by the Craft skill description. Have you read it?

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

No, it's 1/3 the price.

These questions are all answered by the Craft skill description. Have you read it?

I'm sorry, yeah, I sound like a noob with these and I should know better.

I guess I just have a hard time wrapping my head around the concept that something that seems magical (Like Shapesand) can be manufactured by mundane means. I just figure it should be more complicated.

So, I grab a pile of sand. For 12lbs, worth 100 gold (1000 silver pieces), I gather up 33 gold pieces worth of other raw materials.

I roll my Achemy check. If I meet 25, (25x25=625), I'm more then halfway there in a weeks time. If I make another 25, I'm done in 2 weeks.

And now I have a psychokeneticly-controlled sand that I manipulate with my wisdom-fueled willpower? No magic necissary? It just seems too easy.

It's probibly that easy. RAW says it's that easy. But this means a Commoner can make this stuff. Out of dirt.

 

[Dandu]

Keep in mind you have to be a spellcaster to craft with the alchemy skill.

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

Keep in mind you have to be a spellcaster to craft with the alchemy skill.

THANK YOU.

that tiny little 1 and the footnote is exactly the thing I was looking for to help me make sense of Alchemy. Commoners cannot make this stuff, good to know.

 

[Omegaxicor]

just to add to this rather than making a new thread, if the stuff is made at 1/3 of the market value, do you sell it for 1/2 of the market value (a small amount of difference but when you're a low level and can Take 20 on the checks you can make some money from them)

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

2 quick questions on this topic, now that I know you must be a spellcaster to Craft Alchemy:

1- Can a single level dip into a caster class fulfill this requirement?

2- Can an Artificer qualify?

 

[Dandu]

Yes

 

[Sekhmet]

2 quick questions on this topic, now that I know you must be a spellcaster to Craft Alchemy:

1- Can a single level dip into a caster class fulfill this requirement?

2- Can an Artificer qualify?

Yes.

 

[Vegepygmy]

just to add to this rather than making a new thread, if the stuff is made at 1/3 of the market value, do you sell it for 1/2 of the market value (a small amount of difference but when you're a low level and can Take 20 on the checks you can make some money from them)

DM's discretion. My answer would be no, earning money by using your Craft skill is handled by making a Craft check to earn one-half your check result in gold pieces for a week's work. But it probably wouldn't break anything to do it the way you're suggesting.