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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 3231387" data-attributes="member: 4303">How bizarre. I'd assumed that they were priced on the basis of a 3/day item, and was trying to work back from there to a 5/day (= unlimited uses) item for a base price. And ax^2 - bx + c just seems a very oddball way of doing it. I'm thinking about cumulative effects - say you wanted a metamagic rod which both widened and enlarged a spell. Or rods which have a higher daily limit of uses. Or rods which double empower and maximize (= Intensify, old-style). It's hard to know when the epic multiplier should kick in.Epic metamagic rods would be nice, but something which scaled more flexibly would sit better with me. Assuming that all epic metamagic rods are effective on spells of 1st-9th level, how would you feel about this formula:(Total metamagic level adjustment)^2 x (daily uses) x 4,000This agrees pretty closely with a greater quickening rod (192K vs 170K) and your hypothetical +20 metamagic feat rod (4.8M vs 4.73M) but would allow more customizable rods. E.g. a 5/day Intensification Rod would cost 7^2 x 5 x 4000 = 980K etc.I'm thinking that Jake ought to be pondering a backup plan for when he runs out of epic spells.</blockquote>