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<blockquote data-quote="DreamChaser" data-source="post: 3843856" data-attributes="member: 1190">Yes...in theory they have enough money, but that is the equivalent of saying that because the average person will earn $40k x 40 years = $1.6M that they would have the capital to buy a million dollar house. They would not. Why? Because the vast majority of that $1.6M goes to paying for the person's life.Those tables assume what ACTUALLY happens and that is that people spend their money when they get it. At no point does a pre-epic character have enough money at a single level to create, let alone buy, this item.That fact makes it clear that this is not an appropriate item for a non-epic character.So, as I said, it is powerful enough that the concern over whether or not it is appropriately priced becomes somewhat academic. The Epic level rules did little to better codify power curves post level 20 (heck, 3e barely managed to codify them post level 10). Epic spells are not really balanced with non-epic spells character level for character level and this item is not well balanced with non-epic items.That said, I don't believe that it is game breaking. Just that it is in that point of fuzzy determination between the helm of brilliance (125,000) and staff of the maji (???).DC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DreamChaser, post: 3843856, member: 1190"] Yes...in theory they have enough money, but that is the equivalent of saying that because the average person will earn $40k x 40 years = $1.6M that they would have the capital to buy a million dollar house. They would not. Why? Because the vast majority of that $1.6M goes to paying for the person's life. Those tables assume what ACTUALLY happens and that is that people spend their money when they get it. At no point does a pre-epic character have enough money at a single level to create, let alone buy, this item. That fact makes it clear that this is not an appropriate item for a non-epic character. So, as I said, it is powerful enough that the concern over whether or not it is appropriately priced becomes somewhat academic. The Epic level rules did little to better codify power curves post level 20 (heck, 3e barely managed to codify them post level 10). Epic spells are not really balanced with non-epic spells character level for character level and this item is not well balanced with non-epic items. That said, I don't believe that it is game breaking. Just that it is in that point of fuzzy determination between the helm of brilliance (125,000) and staff of the maji (???). DC [/QUOTE]

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