Magic Items that Grant Telepathy?

[Bad Paper]

let's not forget the splat spell

Lesser Telepathic Bond. I think it's maybe in Complete Divine. Third level spell, like Rary's, but exactly two creatures are connected for 10 min/level.

So now you invent a pair of Bracelets of Telepathy or whatever you want to call them, where each person wearing one of the pair is connected like the spell. Call the pair worth about 45,000gp.

If instead you wanted to make the above pair activated once per day for an hour at a time, then the pair is 9,720gp. Check my math; I was a little sloppy about this, but 10,000gp for one hour per day of telepathy between the wearers of these keyed bracelets seems kinda reasonable.

 

[Amal Shukup]

... until the first Area Dispel...

A Staff of Telepathic Bond works out to about the same price. Lasts 90 minutes minimum, gets 4 characters minimum, 50 charges, and a Dispel Magic costs you about 675gp, rather than 40k.

-Hyp.

True.

But an Area Dispel still requires a Caster Level check vs each effect currently in place on each person/object in the area until one effect per person/object is dispelled or no more effects remain. And at the cost described the DC would be 24.

Only those individuals who were in the area of effect AND who happened to have that particular effect dispelled would need it re-applied later - and that cost is incremental (12500 x (#of characters-1)), not the whole 40K.

But yes, absolutely, cheaper items could be crafted - Wand, Staff or the described Wondrous Bracelets. Just not as much fun IMHO...

A'Mall

 

[ARandomGod]

I think that the best custom item to be made from spells would be the "cell phone of sending". Always works on the same plane and a good (95%) chance that it will work even on different planes. Now THAT's communication!

 

[Hypersmurf]

There IS a zero level spell that (basically) does the trick...

It's called message. 100+10ft/level, and affects the whole party.

Damn - I forgot how cool Message is these days!

Was it 1E where you only got to send one sentence?

-Hyp.

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

That's almost perfect, and all for a lowly 0-lvl spell. The only hitch is that the caster would need to initiate all messages, but that's fine; the caster can just keep asking what the scout sees and everyone will hear the response.

Cool!