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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 2146938" data-attributes="member: 2011">It thought that too. However:The Base Price on the Estimating Magic Item Gold Piece Values table (7-33)  is used directly by the Summary of Magic Item Creation Costs table (7-32) to calculate the Magic Supplies Cost.Unlike the Armor, Shield, Weapon, Potion, Scroll, and Wand entries, this is NOT multiplied by 1/2 to get the magic supplies cost when talking about Rods, Rings, and Wondrous Items.Hence, the base cost there IS the Magics Supplies Cost AND the Base Cost (or at least the column implies that).However, I think this is a typo (or at least misleading) since there is a sentence on page 283 that states that "Magic supplies for items is always half of the base price in gp and 1/25 in XP".The sentence on page 284 states:"An item's market price is the sum of the item cost, spell component costs, and the base price."So, I think you are basically correct and the Magic Supplies Cost column is just incomplete in Table 7-32.The bottom line is that:Market Value = item cost + spell component costs + base price.Creation Cost = item cost + spell component costs + magic supplies cost (or 1/2 base price).Hence, Creation Cost is only equal to half of Market Value for items that do not have item cost or spell component cost.At least, that is how it reads to me.So, that is where my error came in. I was basing it off the table as opposed to the sentences (but I did not make that mistake yesterday because I only deduced that incorrectly today).A friend of mine in the Editting field once mentioned that tables are better than text at relaying information because they do so much faster. However, when the tables are misleading or in error, they also relay false information faster.Thanks. Surgery can mess up your mind more than your body. <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=";)" /></blockquote>

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