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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Magesmiley" data-source="post: 5491743" data-attributes="member: 26292">The biggest difference between the Hand of Glory and the item you want to create is that you are actually gaining a slot. (The hand takes a slot and essentially turns it into a different type of slot). Which essentially doubles the value of an item placed in this new slot (as otherwise it would have to be created slotless, which doubles the item's cost). How valuable is an extra slot? As was pointed out, an epic feat can grant an extra slot. I generally peg regular feats as worth around 10k or so (roughly) myself, assuming that there aren't prereqs. An epic one should be worth more than that. How much more? I think 30-40k would be a good number for one which doesn't have a bunch of prereqs. As was also pointed out there is also the extra rings feat, which which isn't epic and has a prereq of Forge Ring as well, so this is probably at the low end of the Epic range. I think 30k for an extra slot is not an unreasonable number.So I'd probably make a belt like this 38k (8k to get a similar effect to the Hand of Glory, and another 30k for the extra slot).As to the sword from the Arms and Equipment Guide, it is probably undercosted, in my opinion. As I don't have the book handy right now, there may be some hidden limitations there as well - i.e. the sword may have to be in hand (which can limit its usefulness, in some cases, and also makes the sword and ring easier to disable, via disarm, sunder, falling unconscious, etc.).</blockquote>

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