Recharge Magic Items

[Gwaihir]

How do you recharge Magic items? Xp & GP cost? Where can I find rules for this? The DMG seems to not cover this?

Thanks

 

[shilsen]

The DMg has no rules for recharging magic items. Some DMs allow the use of XP and GP (if you can meet the prerequisites to make the item in the first place) to recharge items, basing the cost off the charges being recharged, e.g. putting 10 charges into a Wand of Fly would cost 1/5 the XP and GP to create a fully-charged (50 charges) wand.

 

[Delta]

There's no allowance for it in the core rules.

There's a sidebar in Unearthed Arcana (p. 158) suggesting the following. Meet all prerequisites. Pay 10% of item's base price up front; plus percentage of item's charges expended times base price. Pay time and XP as normal on this expenditure.