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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 4221253" data-attributes="member: 1331">Emphasized a part I think is important. To me it seems perfectly reasonable that a crafter could break an item down into its component parts, and recover some of those rare materials.Out of character we work abstractly, and say the wizard can tear up some old items and get 2000 gp toward a new item. But in character, the wizard may say something like: "To craft my new magic scimitar I need this long list of special materials. I can purify just enough Astral Iron from the links of the dead orc chieftain's magic armor. This magic dagger we looted from a tomb has a suitable Feywild Ruby as its pommel-stone, which I can extract and reuse. So since I don't need to buy either of those things at the merchant, I only have to spend 8,000gp on ingredients instead of 10,000gp."Even if the books explicitly say that you're taking out the "magic essence" of the old item, you can safely ignore or change that; I probably will. As long as the game mechanics are sensible, I'm quite willing to eliminate fluff I dislike.</blockquote>