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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patryn of Elvenshae" data-source="post: 5498616" data-attributes="member: 23094">80,000gp is the out-of-pocket expense to the character to create the golem; it is not used in the calculation of how long it'd take to make.  Similarly, you base how long it takes to make a longsword on its 15gp total price, not the 5gp of materials it'd cost its creator to make it.As for the specific question, "An iron golem’s body is sculpted from 5,000 pounds of pure iron, smelted with rare tinctures and admixtures costing at least 10,000 gp."This fits with the math on the creation cost: 150,000 gp total price, 80,000 gp cost to create, works out to 10,000 gp of "base item cost" and 140,000 gp of "magic item cost."[Magic item cost / 2 = 70k, 70k + 10k = 80k cost to create; compare with a longsword +1, which has a total price of 2,315 gp, and a cost to create of 1,315 gp, which is a MW longsword (315gp) plus half the magic item cost (2,000gp / 2)]So, in this case, you'd have to make your checks against a DC of 20, and the total progress you'd need to make is 100,000 sp, rather than the 800,000 sp you initially estimated.  Assuming you could reliably hit DC 25, you'd make 500 sp of progress each week, and it'd take you 200 weeks - a little under 4 years - to make the golem's body.  If, instead, you could reliably hit DC 30 (get some magical tools, hire some assistants, etc.), then you could up the DC by 10 to speed things up, and make the golem's body in about two years, or about half the time.  If you could hit DC 40, then you could up the difficulty twice, and get it done in about 14 months.Or, you know, cast a bunch of fabricate spells, and get it done in a couple weeks, at most.</blockquote>

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