Stone of Good Luck

[Galfridus]

I have a player who wants to make one of these, and I'm having trouble deciding if the cost is balanced. Has anyone had one of these in their game?

 

[pontus]

I find the price quite reasonable. It's a bit expensive, but then again it stacks with almost anything.

 

[CRGreathouse]

Except for Luck of Heros, which was a bad idea anyway.

 

[mmu1]

I'd say it's reasonably well balanced in most cases. It's obviously of much more use to a rogue than to a fighter, for example, but overall, I think most classes are better off on spending the 10k on something that gives a big boost in one area they're really bad at, than a tiny boost to everything... 9k will buy you a +3 cloak of resistance, after all.

Just don't ever let a high level character make both a luck-stone and a pale green ioun stone... for a non-spellcasting class, that's like going up a level for 30k (minus the extra hitpoints)

 

[Zhure]

... and a potion of Heroism sees to some of that.

Greg

 

[CRGreathouse]

Just don't ever let a high level character make both a luck-stone and a pale green ioun stone... for a non-spellcasting class, that's like going up a level for 30k (minus the extra hitpoints)

Add 8k for a pink ioun stone, and you might as well have leveled...

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

You guys actually memorized the ioun stones? I have to check my copy of the SRD whenever I want to do that. Yikes!

On the other hand, I do the same thing for StarCraft and Alternity, so maybe I should say cool or some other positive buzzword.