Prerequisites for making an Intelligent Item- are there any?

[UltimaGabe]

Does anyone know what the requirements are for making an intelligent item? I was looking through the DMG today, and they seem to focus entirely on how to generate the abilities and such for including one as random treasure, but never do they mention how one is made. Can any person with the correct Craft feats make an intelligent item? If so, is a certain spell needed (such as Wish or Miracle) to make the item intelligent, or does it happen like any other item? Is there a caster level requirement? I seem to remember the old DMG listing requirements (such as Caster Level 15, or something).

The reason I'm wondering this is because I'm putting a rather large treasure haul into my next adventure, and I rolled to see if any of the items in it were intelligent. One of them turned out as such- a Lawful Good Gauntlet of Rust with Speech, 60ft Darkvision, Locate Object 3x/day, 10 Ranks in Bluff, and Minor Image 1x/day. I decided to come up with a backstory to it, and I decided it was created by some sort of Druid or something- being a Gauntlet of Rust, and considering that Rusting Grasp is a Druid spell- but I was wondering if you needed to be able to cast the special powers (such as Locate Object or Minor Image, in this case), and figured it would be an obvious assumption- and yet, nowhere in the Intelligent Item section does it say you need to be able to cast these spells. In fact, looking at the Intelligent Item examples, none of them list any of the special powers as prerequisites (the Giantbane Intelligent weapon, for example, uses Song of Discord as its Dedicated power, but the only spell prerequisite is Summon Monster, which is required for the Bane ability).

I know it isn't really an issue because I'm the DM, but I'm trying to make its backstory credible. The books make no mention of PCs ever making intelligent items, so I have nothing to base anything off of. What if a PC wanted to make an intelligent item? What would be stopping him?

 

[dcollins]

I seem to remember the old DMG listing requirements (such as Caster Level 15, or something).

That's what it says on 3.0 DMG p. 246.
Alignment is same as the creator's.

 

[IceBear]

Mmmm - nm, I read too fast

 

[AGGEMAM]

An intelligent item is basically no different than other magic items. And the DMG does have the general guidelines to create one stated.

INTELLIGENT ITEM CREATION

To create an intelligent item, a character must have a caster level of 15th or higher. Time and creation cost are based on the normal item creation rules, with the market price values on Table: Item Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma, and Capabilities treated as additions to time, gp cost, and XP cost. The item’s alignment is the same as its creator’s. Determine other features randomly, following the guidelines in the relevant section.