New Feat: Permanent Permanency

Modified and compared to wondrous items:

PERMANENT PERMANENCY

Prerequisites: Ability to cast Permanency; ability to cast 7th level arcane spells (including the use of Miracle to cast 7th level arcane spells).

Benefit: Whenever a spell that was made permanent upon the caster's person would otherwise end due to a dispel effect, the magic is instead only suppressed for 1d4 rounds. This benefit only applies to spells the caster has done himself, and only to those spells made permanent after taking this feat. In addition, these permanent spells are treated as items for the purposes of eliminating them so that, for example, they get a Will save vs. Mage’s Disjunction. Finally, the experience cost table is replaced by the table below:

Code:
Spell Name		New XP Cost
Arcane sight		5,000
Comprehend languages	250
Darkvision		1,000
Detect magic		200
Read magic		150
See invisibility	2,000
Tongues			4,000
Enlarge person		350
Magic fang		350
Magic fang, greater	2,500
Reduce person		350
Resistance		200

Normal: Permanent spells are subject to being dispelled by any caster one level higher than the caster level when created, and they are automatically disjoined just as any other spell would be. Note that Telepathic Bond must be cast upon two creatures, and so in ineligible for this feat.

The below is a comparison of experience point cost of a slotless wondrous item (use activated or continuous) to Permanency’s cost.

XP = Spell Level x Caster Level x 2,000 x Duration Modifier x 2 (Slotless Modifier)/25
Code:
Spell Name		Item Experience Point Formula	Item XP		Perm XP
Arcane sight		(3 x 5 x 2,000 x 2 x 2)/25	4,800 XP	1,500 XP
Comprehend languages	(1 x 1 x 2000 x 1.5 x 2)/25	240 XP		500 XP
Darkvision		(2 x 3 x 2000 x 1 x 2)/25	960 XP		1,000 XP
Detect magic		(1/2 x 1 x 2000 x 2 x 2)/25	160 XP		500 XP
Read magic		(1/2 x 1 x 2000 x 1.5 x 2)/25	120 XP		500 XP
See invisibility	(2 x 3 x 2000 x 2 x 2)/25	2000 XP		1,000 XP
Tongues			(3 x 5 x 2000 x 1.5 x2)/25	3,600 XP	1,500 XP
Enlarge person		(1 x 1 x 2000 x 2 x 2)/25	320 XP		500 XP
Magic fang		(1 x 1 x 2000 x 2 x 2)/25	320 XP		500 XP
Magic fang, greater	(3 x 5 x 2000 x 1 x2)/25	2,400 XP	1,500 XP
Reduce person		(1 x 1 x 2000 x 2 x 2)/25	320 XP		500 XP
Resistance		(1/2 x 1 x 2000 x 2 x 2)/25	160 XP		500 XP

That's a fascinating table. I assumed that all are double price for slotless and are "always on" and applied the appropriate spell duration modifier.

That table how I derived the new costs.
 

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Sounds reasonable - though I almost think it is just better to change it so Permanency really is permanent without that - seems cheesy to charge XP for something like that when it can just be dispelled.
 


Piratecat said:
Fascinating table, Artoomis.

I thought so. The Permanency costs are a bit - bizarre - when compared to the costs of making an always-on slotless item.

I wonder if anyone at WotC has seen this before? i would think not.
 
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