Magic Item Pricing - Recharging Staff

[Pyrex]

*nod*
How about this for another option/baseline:
This'll get 50 charges, and 3charges/day for each ability as well.

Weapon Properties:
+1 Flaming [8,300]
+1 Ghost Touch [8,300]
WpnTotal: 16,600

Staff Properties (50 Charges):
- Transdimensional Scorching Ray (CL 9th) (1 charge) [3x9x750 gp = 20,250 gp]
- Transdimensional Fireball (CL 9th) (2 charges) [4x9x750x1/2x3/4 gp = 10,125 gp]
- Fire Brand (CL 9th) (3 charges) [5x9x750x1/3x1/2 gp = 5,625 gp]
StaffTotal: 36,000

Wonderous Properties (3 Charges/day):
- Transdimensional Scorching Ray (CL 9th) (1 charge) [3x9x400x3 gp = 32,400 gp]
- Transdimensional Fireball (CL 9th) (2 charges) [4x9x400x 1/2 x 3/4 x3gp = 16,200 gp]
- Fire Brand (CL 9th) (3 charges) [5x9x400x 1/3 x 1/2 x3 gp = 9,000 gp]
WonTotal: 57,600

Wonderous + 1.5xStaff + 1.5xWpn = 136,200

Comes out more expensive than my first costing, but it's arguably more powerful as well.

 

[Thanee]

It also works completely different, since staff charges and charges/day are completely seperate.

Besides, you mix the staff pricing guidelines with the wondrous item guidelines in the last bit (the extra charges used and 75%/50% cost for second/third abilities), that seems to be kinda besides the point of using seperate costs.

Hmm... so would 100k be an appropriate price for the initial item? Or the 70k I came up with? Or even more than 100k?

If about 100k is cool, then the recharging (1 charge/day) quality should have a +100% cost, I guess.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Pyrex]

Yeah, it does work completely different, but it's the closest to "rules supported" I could come up with.

Yep, I mixed them up on purpose. There are 50 staff charges that can be used 1, 2 or 3 at a time to activate abilites. There are also 3/day wonderous item (i.e. rod) charges that can be used 1, 2 or 3 at a time to activate abilities. Seperate pools of charges that activate operatively identical effects.

100k (+100% for the recharging property) is probably a reasonable cost for the item and should be not too unbalanced in most games. (i.e., I'd probably give it the ok in my game)

 

[Thanee]

Seperate pools of charges that activate operatively identical effects.

It's only the same, tho, as long as the staff charges are not expended.
But more importantly, I see it more like two completely seperate items that way.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

I'll just use the +100% if it comes up. Seems like a pretty reasonable estimate.

Bye
Thanee