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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Theo R Cwithin" data-source="post: 5343917" data-attributes="member: 75712">Strictly within SRD RAW, that's a pretty tough call, especially if you're trying to keep the magic item to within something "typical" for a young black dragon (ie, less than 4800gp-ish?).You could create a new item *almost* by RAW, for example, an "amulet(etc) of draconic alter self" that allows the continuous use of alter self, but only usable by dragon type, and only changes user's shape into a specific half-dragon humanoid form.  Price would be around (CL3xSL2x2000x1.5) =18k gp, minus say 40% for the limitations, bringing it to around 11k gp  (that calc might be way off, btw!).  But even that is still way over a "reasonable" amount for a young dragon.  Of course you could key the item specifically to the cohort (eg, it's a family heirloom or something and only works for him and his relatives) and avoid the price question entirely, as it becomes worthless for anyone else (as a magic item... although, it might be worth something to a bounty hunter, an estranged brother, or other plot-hook type NPCs <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).Maybe a similar item based on illusion would be possible, with even more stretching of RAW: "amulet of draconic disguise self", again usable only by dragon type, and the illusion is of a very specific half-dragon (default Will save DC11 to disbelief, though DC could be pushed higher if the creator is known to have high Int)).  That might cost around (CL1xSL1x2000x1.5)-40% = 1800gp or so, a fairly good chunk of his hoard.  And ditto for the heirloom stuff applies here.Anyway, my 2cp.  There's probably a more obvious solution in MIC or something!  YMMV <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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