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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paraxis" data-source="post: 6510644" data-attributes="member: 13009">Rules Cyclopedia had enchantment creation costs and formulas, it takes up a good 3 pages and is pretty detailed.1st edition had creation costs for individual items in the DMG.2nd edition had the Encyclopedia Magica 4 volume set that had xp cost and gold cost, for each individual magic item in all of D&D's history up to that point.3rd edition had creation cost and sales cost for each item.4th edition had creation cost and sales cost for each item.5th edition has a very loose simple tier system based, so again what edition is the outlier here?  What system took the least amount of thought or effort to put together?  I don't know what you are returning too, but item creation has been in almost every edition of D&D with detailed individual creation costs.  Item selling/purchasing prices has been around since at least 1994 with the Encyclopedia Magica for 2nd editon. Just because the suggested costs for creation or purchase are in a book doesn't mean individual DM's need to use them.  It would have been better to get individual prices and ignore them, than to go through and set the price as a single individual instead of a design team.</blockquote>