Magic Item Creation & Ability Bonuses

[Staffan]

Also, an unofficial rule is that bonuses to stats should almost always be even numbers, because otherwise different people will get different effective bonuses from them (since it's the modifier that matters in 95% or more of cases). So you should probably make the item either +4 or +6, not +5.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

And don't forget about a possible cost increase because of... [bleh] ...Slot Affinity. (Yeah I'm not a big fan of that.)

Rings have an affinity for everything.

 

[saucercrab]

Rings have an affinity for everything.

Or they don't have an affinity with anything.






...Wait, does it state somewhere that they do have omni-affinity?

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

...Wait, does it state somewhere that they do have omni-affinity?

It's "negatively" stated, in that the rules very strongly imply that slot affinity only affects Wondrous Items:

BODY SLOT AFFINITIES
Each location on the body, or body slot, has one or more affinities: a word or phrase that describes the general function or nature of magic items designed for that body slot. Body slot affinities are deliberately broad, abstract categorizations, because a hard-and-fast rule can’t cover the great variety among wondrous items.

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Wondrous items that don’t match the affinity for a particular body slot should cost 50% more than wondrous items that match the affinity.

http://www.wizards.com/d20/files/v35/MagicItemsI.rtf

 

[saucercrab]

It's "negatively" stated, in that the rules very strongly imply that slot affinity only affects Wondrous Items

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, hadn't thought of it like that.

Makes me say "[bleh]... Slot Affinity" even more.