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<blockquote data-quote="martynq" data-source="post: 6537956" data-attributes="member: 9852"><p>I'm trying to get my head around how magic item pricing is actually supposed to work in 3rd edition/v3.5 Dungeons & Dragons.</p><p></p><p>As my first example, I can't seem to retrofit the rules in the 3rd edition Dungeon Master's Guide to match with the figure for the <em>acid fang dagger</em> in the <strong>Arms and Equipment Guide</strong>. (In particular, I'd like to work out how to update it to v3.5!)</p><p></p><p>It's a +1 dagger which does an additional +1d6 acid damage, permits the use of <em>animal friendship</em> once per day but only on reptiles and snakes, and <em>speak with animals</em> when holding the dagger but again only with reptiles and snakes. </p><p></p><p>(Obviously, the <em>animal friendship</em> will become <em>charm animal</em> in v3.5, but that's not going to help sort out the pricing.)</p><p></p><p>Final price should be 19,102 gp.</p><p></p><p>Right - the easy bits: a masterwork dagger is 302 gp and the +1 modifier contributes 2,000 gp to the price.</p><p></p><p>The rest needs to be priced presumably according to Table 8-40 in the Dungeon Master's Guide (or Table 7-33 in v3.5 version). But I've no idea which row to use to price the +1d6 acid damage. For the other two, I presume we treat them as requiring command words?</p><p></p><p>If so, the <em>animal friendship</em> prices as: 1 (level) x 4 (CL) x 1800 = 7200, divided by 5 for charges per day (it can be used once): giving 1440 gp</p><p></p><p>The <em>speak with animal</em> prices as: 2 (level) x 4 (CL) x 1800 = 14,400gp.</p><p></p><p>When I add that all up, I get: 23,902 gp + whatever the +1d6 acid damage is worth.</p><p></p><p>Which is already 4,000 gp more than given in the original book.</p><p></p><p>So what am I doing wrong / not understanding?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="martynq, post: 6537956, member: 9852"] I'm trying to get my head around how magic item pricing is actually supposed to work in 3rd edition/v3.5 Dungeons & Dragons. As my first example, I can't seem to retrofit the rules in the 3rd edition Dungeon Master's Guide to match with the figure for the [I]acid fang dagger[/I] in the [B]Arms and Equipment Guide[/B]. (In particular, I'd like to work out how to update it to v3.5!) It's a +1 dagger which does an additional +1d6 acid damage, permits the use of [I]animal friendship[/I] once per day but only on reptiles and snakes, and [I]speak with animals[/I] when holding the dagger but again only with reptiles and snakes. (Obviously, the [I]animal friendship[/I] will become [I]charm animal[/I] in v3.5, but that's not going to help sort out the pricing.) Final price should be 19,102 gp. Right - the easy bits: a masterwork dagger is 302 gp and the +1 modifier contributes 2,000 gp to the price. The rest needs to be priced presumably according to Table 8-40 in the Dungeon Master's Guide (or Table 7-33 in v3.5 version). But I've no idea which row to use to price the +1d6 acid damage. For the other two, I presume we treat them as requiring command words? If so, the [I]animal friendship[/I] prices as: 1 (level) x 4 (CL) x 1800 = 7200, divided by 5 for charges per day (it can be used once): giving 1440 gp The [I]speak with animal[/I] prices as: 2 (level) x 4 (CL) x 1800 = 14,400gp. When I add that all up, I get: 23,902 gp + whatever the +1d6 acid damage is worth. Which is already 4,000 gp more than given in the original book. So what am I doing wrong / not understanding? [/QUOTE]
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