The Final Word On The Rules For Item Creation

[hong]

Re: My opinion on rules interpretation

Hi Anubis (and everyone else, of course)!

I tend to agree with you. No level 3 wizard creating a Vorpal longsword +1 in my game! (He would have troubles casting the required spells, but scrolls can make up for that).

Given that death spell (the prerequisite for the vorpal enchantment) doesn't exist in 3E, finding scrolls for it might be a bit of a problem. Even assuming that it's an error and should be power word kill, the creation time of 72 days for a +1 vorpal sword implies a lot of PWK scrolls. If you're willing to give a 3rd level caster in excess of 275,000 gp to buy the perquisite scrolls, I'd say that your campaign has more problems than a tweak to the creation rules will fix.

 

[Shard O'Glase]

Re: Re: My opinion on rules interpretation

Given that death spell (the prerequisite for the vorpal enchantment) doesn't exist in 3E, finding scrolls for it might be a bit of a problem. Even assuming that it's an error and should be power word kill, the creation time of 72 days for a +1 vorpal sword implies a lot of PWK scrolls. If you're willing to give a 3rd level caster in excess of 275,000 gp to buy the perquisite scrolls, I'd say that your campaign has more problems than a tweak to the creation rules will fix.

I assume it's an error and the answer wouldn't be PWK, but the spell that is a clear take off of death spell from 2nd edition, but called something different in 3rd. I think its now called circle of death or something like that.

 

[hong]

Re: Re: Re: My opinion on rules interpretation

I assume it's an error and the answer wouldn't be PWK, but the spell that is a clear take off of death spell from 2nd edition, but called something different in 3rd. I think its now called circle of death or something like that.

There's that; however, the 17th caster level listed for vorpal suggests that the writers were thinking of a 9th level spell as a prereq.