Ring of Maximized Fire Ball?

[Biren Firebelly]

Ok, if anyone remembers trying to make a custom magic item for the first time you can understand it's abit confusing. We tried to make a ring of Maximized Fire Balls, Use Activated, Unlimited uses.

Our total price was 72,000 gp.

Are we crazy?????

 

[Thanee]

Use activated makes no sense for such an item. It must be command activated.

Use activated items work automatically, once you wear them, hardly a reasonable activation method for a ring of fireballs.

So, here's how it works:

Maximized fireball is a 6th level spell, requiring 11th caster level, thus the cost for this item is 6 x 11 x 1,800 gp = 118,800 gp for a command word activation and unlimited uses.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Plane Sailing]

Unless they were building a cursed item - put it on and a 60 point fireball explodes on you. Yeah!

 

[Darklone]

Unless they were building a cursed item - put it on and a 60 point fireball explodes on you. Yeah!

The group in which I played the bard multiclass crime found a broken wand of fireball... it always exploded around the wand.

DM had a good laugh till I put the wand to good use with Evasion and Refl save +13

 

[Drow Jones]

Use activated makes no sense for such an item. It must be command activated.

Use activated items work automatically, once you wear them, hardly a reasonable activation method for a ring of fireballs.

What about a ring that maximies all fireballs the wielder casts? Like a metamagic Rod, but which has no times/day limit, but only applies to specific spell?

- DJ

 

[Thanee]

Yeah, that would make sense as a use activated item.

Do you think he meant something like that?
Figuring out a cost for that one would be tricky, tho.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Otterscrubber]

All magic item costs are guidelines. With the D&D system you can create just about anything you want and obviously there will be some ideas that are way more useful/overbalanced than would be indicated using any of the formulas for magic item creation. I would use a lot of caution in my campaign before letting anyone find, much less make, an item that has unlimited uses of any commonly used combat spell. I wouldn't assume you are crazy for allowing such an item to exist, but I hope you have thought out the implications of it.

Even assigning a cost in gp is relative as gold may be plentiful in one campaign and scarce in another. Using the guidelines as written though 118k is accurate as far as I can tell for the ring of unlimited fireballs. I have no clue what the cost is for building feats into a magic item.

 

[UltimaGabe]

118,000 gp for unlimited uses of a DC 14 Fireball that automically does 30 points of damage?

Fine by me. I'd actually think it'd be a waste of money, to tell you the truth.

 

[Eraslin]

118,000 gp for unlimited uses of a DC 14 Fireball that automically does 30 points of damage?

Fine by me. I'd actually think it'd be a waste of money, to tell you the truth.

??? It requires an int/cha of 16 to cast a sixth level spell -- which a maximized fireball is. Thus, the save for the fireballs that come from the ring will be DC 16. Still not great, but better than 14.

Additionally, the caster level of a sixth level spell has to be at least 11. Thus, the maximized fireball will be cast at a caster level of 11. Yielding 60 points of damage.

-Eraslin

 

[MerakSpielman]

I can see such a thing being not-so-useful for standard adventuring wizards (who by the time they can craft this thing are facing monsters with very good saving throws), but imagine a few wizards aiding in the defense of a castle against a horde of low-level troops. These things could get nasty quick.

It could also be used as a piece of a magical, infinite-ammo trap.