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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zarquin" data-source="post: 3388060" data-attributes="member: 50386">Using your tables, if I try to design a +100 weapon, my cost is 100*100*95*2000, which is close enough to be bonus cubed.  Yes, the difference may be noticable at the low bonuses, but by the higher bonuses it becomes effectively bonus cubed.I agree that it is an utterly ridicuolous item, however barring the ad-hoc multipliers to make it a more expensive weapon, I fail to see how it breaks the rules at all. It was created through the DMG magic item creation rules, and while I agree that many of the effects on the sword don't make sense to be placed on a sword, it has a compensating cost which is LARGER than the DMG recommends.  Although if you'd prefer it should only cost... 185,000*bonus² if we want to make sure to follow the rules exactly, which even spending at most 1/4th wealth would give a higher bonus than the original sword gave.  Although, I think the reason no DM would ever allow this item is because no player would ever want this item, you can do everything this sword could do much cheaper if you just use the 8 items that were designed to do what it does, seperately.I mentioned about ignoring the rules of spending more than 1/4 of starting wealth by the fact that if bob didn't spend all of his money he would have more than 2x the bonus that the sword of win would give him since he would just split the cost into the 8 equivalent items which would reduce his cost from 800,000*bonus² to 100,000*bonus².  And my point was far more directed towards the inherient flaw in epic wealth progression far more than anything else, the sword of win was just a silly silly example, because according to the ELH character wealth is supposed to double every 7 and a half levels, and if you double the cost of a bonus² item you increase the bonus by ~40%.Yes, using your system of wealth progression this solves the example, but so would using any system of wealth progression that increases at the same rate of magintude as the costs.  Or just removes costs/wealth and gives the user a set bonus to their items which increases at level and ignores costs all together.  Which seems more like what U_K is doing with his system.Althoguh, I'm not sure how his system deals with things like disposable items, or the flat cost items like putting a spell into an item.</blockquote>

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