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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aboyd" data-source="post: 4896491" data-attributes="member: 44797">The flame/frost properties allow for energy resistance, so that's a (very) fuzzy match for the Inflict spells allowing a save for 1/2 damage.  So I'd probably leave the pricing as roughly matched.  However, the DMG & MIC make it clear that pricing is less science and more art, so the DM should play with the numbers until they feel right.  You could really mitigate the price downward, depending upon how you wanted to apply some effects.For example, consider the "use activated" effect that I mentioned in my previous post.  The flavor text for that says that the spell effect gets activated on use -- swing a sword, drink a potion, etc.  Right?  Well, it also says that in "many" cases, activation takes a standard action.  So how can that work with a sword getting swung 5x in a round?  None of the swings are standard actions, yet "use activated" specifically mentions swinging a sword as an activation method.  OK, well, there is no mechanic.  So the DM gets to decide.  So watch this:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Using "use activated" effects you could rule that the effect only occurs on a standard action swing, not on a full attack.  You keep the price low because of this -- take the "use activated" price and add nothing to it, maybe even lower it a little bit since this is a very harsh reading of the rules.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Using "continuous" effects and the high-end pricing that goes with it, you could create a sword that will dish out the Inflict damage on every swing every time.</li> </ol>That would be one way to sorta use the rules to justify variations in price.  There's a lotta hand-waving going on here, though.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /></blockquote>

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