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Message: <blockquote data-quote="William_2" data-source="post: 2505247" data-attributes="member: 13925">A couple of things spring to mind for me.  One is: would anyone who built such a device see any advantage in requiring such incredibly valuable gems to be used to activate it?  That is, who would want to throw such wealth away- was there no way to build it without that feature?The other is: can there even BE such valuable gems?  The absolute most valuable gems in the world might be described as priceless, but they can actually be bought for amounts that really don't move wealthy people too much.  Such gems are rare, though, at the same time.  So my questions would be: is any gem in your D&D economy worth that much, and how many of them could characters come by?  They might have the money, but are the gems there?Along the same lines, if the very largest and rarest gems of certain types are worth 10,000 gp, how is it possible to have less rare gems be of that value?  Each gem type should have some sort of ceiling, really, once you are way out there.Your players might end up spending more time hunting down extraordinary gems than anything else, and that might or might not be fun.Not much of an answer to the specific question about gems and planes, I know, but maybe some help on the broader idea.   I would suggest lowering the top value a lot, and maybe have some variation in value among gem types.  Finally, how are PCs to know what quality of gem they require?  The magic can't really be based around current market value, so a price tag can't help.  There must be some record of the gems required.  I'm really blathering on here.  Basically, I suggest a list of activation words instead.  I am trying to be helpful.OK, I stole these lists off the web- there are lots of similar ones out there.Water: Aquamarine, blue topaz, chalcedony, aventurine, moonstone, amethyst, fluorite, rose quartz, sodalite, turquoise, jasper, lapisAir: yellow topaz, amber, clear or smoky quarts, flourite, rhodochrosite, rose quartzFire: fire opal, agates, bloodstone, carnelian, sunstone, dark amberEarth: agates, amber, jet, bloodstone, geodes, malachite, obsidian, tiger eye, hematite</blockquote>

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