Pricing and CL help

[Meatboy]

Ok I am not to familiar with the item creation rules but I like to have interesting items. So I am in need of some help pricing and figuring out the caster level stuff for this item.

Thanks in advance.

Assassin's Shroud

This suit of matte black cloth covers one from neck to feet. Strange black ceramic plates decorated in runes cover the chest and fore arms. An eyeless mask of the same material covers the face and despite lack of eye holes does nothing to impede the wearers senses or breathing. This suit grants a +2 armor bonus as well as a +2 bonus to all Climb, Intimidate, Hide and Move Silently checks. Also the mask is enchanted to conceal the wearers voice and grants low light vision to the wearer or doubles the effects of low light vision if the wearer already possesses it. This suit does not count as armor for purposes of class abilities and takes up the magic item slots for helmets, goggles, armor and bracers.

 

[ceratitis]

hello.
if you price this item by the rules its gonna cost a bomb. multiple effects double the price for each one. for example an item that grants +5 to a skill check costs 2000 and one granting a +10 costs 10000, however a single item granting +2 to five different skills will cost about 20000. my suggestion is think of a price you feel a char you play in your campgain would be willing to pay and adjust it acourding to the situation.
on a different note i dont like the last part about this not counting as armour, do you mean it stacks with everything?? can you wear armour over it?
simply give it armour stats w/o spell fail, dex limit exc...
best of luck
Z

 

[Meatboy]

Thanks for a response on this. My estimations put the suit at about the same price. It adds an armor bonus like bracers of armor and it takes up the item slot for armor but it if a character has class benefits that say "can only be used while unarmored", such as a monks fast movement, then the item doesn't count as armor.

 

[ceratitis]

got it.
btw- the 20k was only an estimate for the skill bonuses, to callculate the rest was too much of a headache and i have a problem with the pricing rules. i usually try to think what price i'd be willing to pay for such an item and maybe calculate the major magic parts and throw in the rest for flavour. say the hood you can see through is for free but you pay for low light vision, maybe the hide and silence bonus are competence for fabric quelity and not magic ect..
Z