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<blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5983042" data-attributes="member: 6669384">Hmm.&nbsp; The duration of the spell is normally 1 hour per caster level.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Make it two uses per day and it's only 110,160.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Pricing a custom item is always problematic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greenfield, post: 5983042, member: 6669384"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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