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Message: <blockquote data-quote="azhrei_fje" data-source="post: 4856545" data-attributes="member: 12966">Hey folks.  I've got a player whose PC wants to create a ring of dispel magic.  I'm a little leery about his prereqs for the item as it seems too much like a ring of true strike! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />1.  Usable once per day2.  Minimum caster level (5th level)3.  Immediate action to useI started by calculating the cost of such a ring if it were command word activated and usable multiple times per day.  I get 5*3*2000 gp = 30k gp.Then I divided by 5 (for the once-per-day limit) and got 6000 gp.Now the stickler:  what about an immediate action?  First, changing the item from command word to move action should add about 100% to the cost, maybe more.  Then from move action to swift should be an additional 100% (of the original price).  And then to make it immediate?  Wow.So 6000 gp + 100% + 100% = 6000+6000+6000 = 18000 gp for a swift action ring.  And to turn it into an immediate action?  Maybe another 9000 or so?I've got a couple weeks to make a decision, but I'd appreciate the input of other GMs.(Edit:  It appears there's an item called a ring of spell-battle that is very similar that costs 12k gp.)(Oh, and this is for a Pathfinder beta game.  No XP cost for making magic items, so the cost is important because there's nothing else to stop a bunch of mages making these things and flooding the world with them.)</blockquote>

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