Plane Shift "tuning fork" costs?

[Aluvial]

The description of the Plane Shift spell says that you need a "tuning fork" associated with each of the planes you want to travel too.

Obviously, as the DM, I can make these other planes as accessible as I'd like.

But does anyone have any guidelines for this spell already, or some suggestions about the costs for various planes?

thanks

Aluvial

 

[green slime]

When the clerics in the party gained access to this spell, their churches gave them an inlayed box with some tuning forks in them, these forks were tied to the plane their divinity resides in.

Of course, with one of them being a Fharlanghn priest, he didn't get a box...

I set the price otherwise of between 500 and 5000 gp according to how accessible I wanted the plane to be, and how rare the materials were.

 

[andargor]

Too bad Eschew Materials doesn't cover foci.

Andargor

 

[daTim]

I agree with the above, make it as expensive or hard to get as you want the plane to be unaccessable.

 

[wingsandsword]

The old Priest's Spell Compendium Volume 2 (the big compilation of all pre 3e spells) had a table for this. Sure it's pre 3e, but it is an official answer (er suggestion, whatever) to Plane Shift fork costs if you've got no idea what to charge.

There was a cost and time it would take to research the fork, and the cost to actually produce/buy it once you knew the frequency and compositions.

The first cost is the research cost if the plane is well known to casters in the setting, or if it's a common planar destination, the second cost is for research if the plane is obscure in the setting, and the final cost is the actual cost to make the rod (all costs in GP):

The first time listing is how long it will take to research if the plane is well known, the second listing is how long it it's an obscure plane (local to the campaign, this is 2e so no DC is listed). This of course assumes an appropriate library (probably one of spell-research quality).

Inner Plane/Transitive Plane: 500/1,500/100 1 Week/6 Weeks
Outer Plane: 1,000/3,000/300 2 Weeks/3 Months
Demiplane: 5,000/15,000/400 2 Months/1 Year
Alternate Material Plane: 750/3,000/250 3 Weeks/9 Weeks

 

[Ferret]

I can imagine some street seller floggin mislabeled tuning forks....He he.