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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James McMurray" data-source="post: 1424986" data-attributes="member: 743">he item is vastly underpriced. Starmantle IRC lasts one round per level. The item is priced without using the duration multipliers in the DMG. If it used them it would cost 4 times as much. It also doesn't account for the 100 uses of its material component. The cost via the guidelines should be 530,000gp. And even that is probably too little. Starmantle is an unbalanced spell, especilly in the absence of any house rules preventing it from working in conjunction with Evasion. The entire magic item section of BoED is suspect. Amulet of Retribution: A forced shield other for your foes that grants no save and no SR for only 56k. Enfeebling: For +2 you can get an extra d10 fire damage on a crit. Or for +1 you can get an extra d6+2 strength damage on a crit. Blessed: For only +1 you get a good weapon that always confirms criticals on evil creatures. Not everything in the section is bad, but the author of that chapter definitely should have done a bit more playtesting. For the most part the book is good, well balanced, and interesting. But the items and afew of the spells weren't playtested and/or weren't exmined closely for their effects on a game.</blockquote>