Superior Invisibility

[shadowgriffen]

Superior invisibilty is a 9th lvl spell, from Complete Arcane how much would a ring with this spell cost at having the effect last 1-2 hours.

 

[Greenfield]

Hmm. The duration of the spell is normally 1 hour per caster level. Getting that short a duration is actually a problem, since you can't create an item at a caster level below the minimum needed to cast the spell.

So, I'd start with the old base of Spell Level (9) x Caster Level (17) x 1800 (command activated) and come up with 275,400. Make it two uses per day and it's only 110,160. Give a 30% discount for the shorter duration and call it 77,112.

I'm cutting the uses because you probably want to keep it non-Epic.

While two hours instead of seventeen hours per use may seem worth far more than a 30% discount, 30% is as big as it gets by standard rules. Not a lot, but enough to kick it under that Epic threshold.

Others are free to disagree with this assessment, of course, ruling that the item is far more powerful (or less powerful) than the price suggests. Pricing a custom item is always problematic.

 

[Sekhmet]

I think 75-80k is just fine.

 

[Ahnehnois]

If you ever find such a ring, throw it in the Mountain of Doom as quickly as possible.

(Also, I think it was 8th in Spell Compendium).

 

[Empirate]

Lifesense apparently beats Superior Invisibility, judging from the way the Ringwraiths could see the Ringbearer while he was wearing the damn thing...

 

[Tovec]

Lifesense apparently beats Superior Invisibility, judging from the way the Ringwraiths could see the Ringbearer while he was wearing the damn thing...

Yeah I don't know the DnD reason they could see Frodo. But as far as I understand it from a Tolkein sense the reason he could be seen is because the ring didn't turn him invisible so much as it kind of plane shifted him to the ethereal/shadow plane while worn. Add to that that the wraiths were already dead and existed on that world. That's why they looked different from the real world in the movie. Also, anything/anyone on the ethereal/shadow on middle earth is coterminous.

A really small point to the larger thread I just thought I'd clarify.