Sunblades and Falchions

[Darmanicus]

I was wondering how much it would cost to imbue me falchion with the powers of a sunblade?

I'm not particularly interested in the 'acts as the best of either bastard sword or shortsword' aspect of the cost. I'm just interested in it's undead killin' properties/effects.

Could anyone price this up?

Me falchion is already a +1 Keen, Undead Bane weapon.

Cheers.

 

[RuminDange]

Just a quick look over the sunblade cost, and the cost of a +1 Keen Undead Bane Falchion; to add the abilities of the Sunblade I'd add about 40000gp to the cost of the weapon. (that's daylight at 10th level casting ability which is the only requirement other than being good for creating a sunblade)
Since your weapon is a +3 overall enchancement (3.5e) and the Sunblade is a +2 overall + the daylight or sun effects, I'd go with just adding the 40000gp to the cost (20000gp and 1600Xp creation cost).
I'd say instead of a Bastard Sword/Short Sword it would behave like a Falchion/Scimitar.
This is what I've done in my campaign when using different weapons and the sunblade effort.

RD

 

[Darmanicus]

Just a quick look over the sunblade cost, and the cost of a +1 Keen Undead Bane Falchion; to add the abilities of the Sunblade I'd add about 40000gp to the cost of the weapon. (that's daylight at 10th level casting ability which is the only requirement other than being good for creating a sunblade)
Since your weapon is a +3 overall enchancement (3.5e) and the Sunblade is a +2 overall + the daylight or sun effects, I'd go with just adding the 40000gp to the cost (20000gp and 1600Xp creation cost).
I'd say instead of a Bastard Sword/Short Sword it would behave like a Falchion/Scimitar.
This is what I've done in my campaign when using different weapons and the sunblade effort.

RD

Cheers for that.

 

[Darklone]

Well, scimitar is no light weapon, so it would even be worse... additionally falchion is not useable onehanded...

I'd say it should be a bit cheaper.

 

[RuminDange]

Well, scimitar is no light weapon, so it would even be worse... additionally falchion is not useable onehanded...

I'd say it should be a bit cheaper.

I'd agree, as I did a quick an dirty breakdown of the price of the sunblades ability. Normally I'd work out the exact formula to get the cost of the sunblade exact and then change the weapon types and other enchancements on it. But that is when I am at home and have time and this is one of the many items in the DMG that you cannot easily duplicate or back out the cost of the item without a little ad hoc figured in anyway.

True on the Falchion not being able to be used one-handed and the scimitar not being light... the match up between Bastard/short sword cannot be easily made so a quick relation was considered. I'd probably knock about 10% off the price for the sunblade powers for this and the fact that the creator has to be good.
So far all I've done IMC is increase the other all enchancement of the sunblade from +2 to +5 and gave it other qualities like Keen or flaming, etc to fit an idea related to the deity of the sun IMC. I've also created a hammer/warhammer "Sunhammer" and a Mace that followed similar lines.

RD