Price Check: Ring of Enlarge Person 1/day

[Hypersmurf]

For instance, resurrection spells sure don't make for very interesting literature. "Noooooo! WHY! WHYYYYYYY! Now we have to spend 10,000gp on a resurrection, damnit Thogg!"

Go read Brust, now.

The main character, Vlad, met his wife when she killed him.

It's not uncommon for him to worry about the expense involved in getting one of his henchmen raised when one of them gets killed...

-Hyp.

 

[Nail]

It's always interested me how much we take raising the dead for granted (those of us that play RPGs or CRPGs). I think such "c'est la vie" towards the subject is cool.

 

[calypso15]

Go read Brust, now.

The main character, Vlad, met his wife when she killed him.

It's not uncommon for him to worry about the expense involved in getting one of his henchmen raised when one of them gets killed...

-Hyp.

Heh. Alright, obviously you can play against the stereotype for comedic value. But my point was that, a lot of things that PCs do isn't very dramatic. If we use that as our metric, we'd all be playing Exalted.

 

[blargney the second]

Ummm...as said earlier, the listing in the DMG is an error.

I don't think the 250gp price tag is an error - in fact I'm pretty sure that it's there for very deliberate reasons.
-blarg

 

[Darklone]

I don't think the 250gp price tag is an error - in fact I'm pretty sure that it's there for very deliberate reasons.
-blarg

Agreed. The spell would be too cheap otherwise.

 

[calypso15]

I don't think the 250gp price tag is an error - in fact I'm pretty sure that it's there for very deliberate reasons.
-blarg

Which is?

If they felt that a Potion of Enlarge Person for 50g was too powerful, perhaps they should have just made Enlarge Person a second level spell.

A Ring of Cure Light Wounds, unlimited use, would be broken, especially for the "list price" of 2000g. And yet, there it is. A first level spell, and the potion of the same costs 50g.

But then you have Enlarge Person, a potion of which should cost 5x as much?

 

[Hypersmurf]

I don't think the 250gp price tag is an error - in fact I'm pretty sure that it's there for very deliberate reasons.

But it doesn't change that any wizard, sorcerer, or appropriately-domained cleric with the spell and Brew Potion can make one at CL1 for 25gp and 2xp.

If the only Potions of Enlarge Person available on the market are CL5, a PC with Brew Potion could clean up selling CL1 or CL2 potions for under half the price... because who really needs a five minute potion for 250gp, when two minutes will do the job for 100?

-Hyp.

 

[blargney the second]

If the only Potions of Enlarge Person available on the market are CL5

The potions in the DMG are CL 1. The 200gp price difference is there because it improves the spell from a 1 round casting time to a single standard action.
-blarg

 

[Hypersmurf]

The potions in the DMG are CL 1. The 200gp price difference is there because it improves the spell from a 1 round casting time to a single standard action.

How odd that the Potion of Lesser Restoration, a spell with a 3 round casting time, suffers no price increase over all the other spell level 2, CL3 potions.

-Hyp.

 

[blargney the second]

I agree.

And I still think the 250gp is right for EP potions.