Items to create expensive material components

[Vahktang]

So, if you make an item for a spell that has an expensive material compenent, one is to multiply the cost times 50 and add it to the item.
How about an item that just produces the expensive material?

An incense creator for legend lore, once/day, or an ointment dispenser for true seeing once/day?
Doable?
Allowable?
Any cost adds to the basic 50 times?

 

[skelso]

An interesting question, though I don't think you'd like the answer.

What I always tell my players is that, "In D&D, anything is possible, but it's probably expensive."

This is entirely up to your DM, but if you follow the magic item creation guidelines in the back of the DMG, such an item would have a base price of 1,305,080gp. [Creation 27,540gp and 252,203xp]

The only wizard spell that can create an item suitable for expensive material components is Wish. At least as far as I'm aware of from the PHB. As you can imagine, an item that is usable once per day and based on wish is pretty expensive. Because of the way the spell is worded, it wouldn't really matter how expensive the item it makes would be, as long as it's not more than 25,000gp.

When I think about it though, that price should probably be for an item that grants one wish per day. It might be a bit cheaper for creating a specific item, once per day.

 

[Jack Simth]

Well, if you branch outside of Core, you've got True Creation at Artifice 8, which costs the items gold piece value in XP (minimum 1).

So a 1/day command-word item of create X would market at ....

Spell cost: Spell*caster*1800/5 = 8*15*1800/5=43,200
Material XP cost: 50 * XP cost once * 5 gp

Now, making a single type of item is probably worth a bit of a discount from the base market price; call it 30%:
30,240 gp + 50 * XP cost once * 5 gp

For a 250 gp material component, that's....
92,740 gp market value.

 

[Haffrung Helleyes]

I think

that this is a prime example of why one shouldn't rely too much on the magic item creation formulas.

Ken

 

[akbearfoot]

Or it could be a prime example of how having expensive material components serves a purpose.

IE...they are supposed to cost you something to use them. If you could spend 50g to cast free stoneskins every day who wouldnt buy it. It's supposed to be expensive to keep it balanced.