Magical Item Creation: Another Desperate Cry for Help

[Marvin the WarLord]

Hello all again,
as usual, the SRD has managed to confuse me as soon as it uses multiplication and division. I'm trying to create 3 magical items and I've come up with a few possible answers using the SRD formuli but I don't trust any of them. I was hoping some individual, in a fit on noble heroicism, would throw out a workable amrket price for the following-

Tablecloth of Natures Bounty
This tablecloth is 21 feet long and 5 feet wide. If the user opens the cloth, it becomes covered in a delicious banquet of food and drink of enough quantity to comfortably feed 20 people. The food and drink created will always be of the type desired by the user. However, the user cannot desire food items the user themselves cannot east, such as a human wanting a golden apple, and the food item must exist of the plane the user is on (making it quite difficult to use in the Abyss). This item can only be used once per day.
Caster Level: 7th; Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, create food and water; Market Price: ???

Whispering Torc
This unwrought iron torc informs the character of the surrounding territory. The character instantly gains knowledge of up to three facts, choosing from among the following subjects: the ground or terrain, plants, minerals, bodies of water, people, general animal population, presence of woodland creatures, presence of powerful unnatural creatures, or the general state of the natural setting. In outdoor settings, the spell operates in a radius of five miles. In natural underground settings the range is limited to 500
feet. The spell does not function where nature has been replaced by construction or settlement such as in most cities. Useable at will.
Caster Level: 5th; Prerequisites: Craft Wonderous Item, Commune with Nature; Market Pricet: ???

Staff of the Living Forest
The staff changes a specially prepared quarterstaff into a Huge treantlike creature, as in the spell Changestaff. Unlike the spell, if the treant is defeated, the staff remains and can be recalled one month later. The treant also can speak with and control trees and a real treant. This treant can be summoned once per week.
Caster Level: 7th; Prerequisites: Craft Wonderous Item, Changestaff; Market Pricet: ???

 

[AuraSeer]

The tablecloth is simply a use-activated item of create food and water, a 3rd-level spell. The spell feeds 3 people/level, so to feed 20 people, it'll be at caster level 7. Limited to one use per day cuts its cost to 20% of normal. So, standard market price is about (3 x 7 x 2000 x 0.2) = 8400 gp.

The Whispering Torc just invokes the 5th-level spell commune with nature. The minimum caster level for that spell is 9th, so we'll use that. Assuming it's command-word activated, the calculated price is (5 x 9 x 1800) = 81,000 gp.

The last item just casts changestaff on command. Spell level is 7th, minimum caster level is 13th, and there's the discount for limited uses; again assuming it's activated by command word, the calculated price is (7 x 13 x 1800 x 0.2) = 32,760 gp.

 

[dcollins]

I'm trying to create 3 magical items and I've come up with a few possible answers using the SRD formuli but I don't trust any of them.

Could you point to exactly what you're looking at in the SRD when you say this? As I recall, the "new item" pricing guidelines are only in the DMG, not the SRD...

 

[AuraSeer]

Re: Re: Magical Item Creation: Another Desperate Cry for Help

Could you point to exactly what you're looking at in the SRD when you say this? As I recall, the "new item" pricing guidelines are only in the DMG, not the SRD...

They're in the "Creating Magic Items" section. Here's a link to the appropriate RTF.

 

[Datt]

[Staff of the Living Forest
The staff changes a specially prepared quarterstaff into a Huge treantlike creature, as in the spell Changestaff. Unlike the spell, if the treant is defeated, the staff remains and can be recalled one month later. The treant also can speak with and control trees and a real treant. This treant can be summoned once per week.
Caster Level: 7th; Prerequisites: Craft Wonderous Item, Changestaff; Market Pricet: ??? [/B]

This one is incredibly close to a new magic item in the Arms and Equipment guide. I think it is called the sapling staff or some such. The main difference I can see, and remember off the top of my head, is that with yours if the Treant is killed you can summon the staff again. I can't remember the price off the top of my head, but when I get home I will look it up.

 

[Datt]

Okay it is called the Sapling Club in the Arms and Equpment guide pg 115. You hold it to the ground for a full round action and it transforms into a treant. It can spend up to 12 rounds per day as a treant. If the treant is killed the club is destroyed.
It looks like this:
Caster Level: 12th; Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, changestaff ; Market Price: 32,540; Cost to Create: 16,420 gp + 1,290 XP

Hope that helps and gives you some basis for your staff.




edited for spelling

 

[dcollins]

Re: Re: Re: Magical Item Creation: Another Desperate Cry for Help

They're in the "Creating Magic Items" section. Here's a link to the appropriate RTF.

Thank you for the link. It's unfortunate that they snipped out the DMG p. 243 sidebar which describes how to actually use that table.