Magic Item Pricing - Help

[Kirowan]

Okay, I thought I understood magic items and how much they cost to create. I thought you paid 1/2 the market price in gp and 1/25 the market price in XP. Additionally, you pay any material component costs and xp costs of the spell used to create the item as many times as the item has charges.

In the DMG, each magic item has a market price. Some have cost listings that I thought indicated the gp and xp costs of the spell used to create the item. So, I look at the ring of three wishes and see a cost of 11,475 gp and 15,918 xp.

Where did those come from? Shouldn't it just be 15,000 xp for the three castings of wish? Shouldn't the total cost to create this item be:

97,950*1/2gp and 97,950*1/25xp + 15,000xp?

What am I doing wrong? Can someone clear up the differences between the market price listing, base cost, and cost to create listing?

Thanks,

Nick

 

[Gilwen]

The 15000 is the xp cost for casting the spells not for creating the base item.

The cost to create is 11475. Double this to get the market price before the XP cost is added in. This is the price the DMG uses to take the 1/25th from yeilding 918 xp to create this item before the Wishes xp is added in.

Price:
15000 (XP from spells) x 5 = 75000
Market price of item (before xp cost)22950
Total Market price of item : 97950

XP costs:
1/25 of 22950 = 918
15000 (from spells)
Total XP Costs: 15918

It appears the DMG is using (Spell level x caster level x 127.5)/2 to get the 11475gp that is cost the wizard pays to make the ring. The 127.5 is not listed on the magic item creation charts. This just goes to show you it's not a exact science. The price was probably arbitrarily adjusted to be balanced with other items.

IMC I reserve the right to decided the final costs that my players pay. I may adjust the cost up or down after running what they want through the tables in the DMG.

HTH,

Bryan

Okay, I thought I understood magic items and how much they cost to create. I thought you paid 1/2 the market price in gp and 1/25 the market price in XP. Additionally, you pay any material component costs and xp costs of the spell used to create the item as many times as the item has charges.

In the DMG, each magic item has a market price. Some have cost listings that I thought indicated the gp and xp costs of the spell used to create the item. So, I look at the ring of three wishes and see a cost of 11,475 gp and 15,918 xp.

Where did those come from? Shouldn't it just be 15,000 xp for the three castings of wish? Shouldn't the total cost to create this item be:

97,950*1/2gp and 97,950*1/25xp + 15,000xp?

What am I doing wrong? Can someone clear up the differences between the market price listing, base cost, and cost to create listing?

Thanks,

Nick

 

[Kirowan]

That makes it very clear.

Thanks!

Nick

 

[dcollins]

Note that this specific example is broken down in the 3.0 DMG, top of page 242.