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<blockquote data-quote="dcollins" data-source="post: 1735510" data-attributes="member: 876">A common oversight is to ignore the section on &quot;Magic Item Gold Piece Values&quot; for the DM where it says to (1) compare the item to an existing item, and if that fails then (2) turn to the formula guidelines. Clearly this is an item to give +12 AC to a monk-type character, the same basic idea as bracers of armor +12 in the Epic rules. Therefore that level of protection is valued at 1.44 million gp in the existing rules.Furthermore it's generally against the spirit of the rules for any item to be lending different types of bonuses to AC. Is there any other item in the core rules that does that? Saying that House-Ruled Variants open the door to things clearly against the spirit of the rules is fairly disingenuous.But of course if you're the DM you can do anything you want. As DM in my campaign, this item would just give an armor bonus +12 and be worth 1.44 million gp, pretty simple, and looks more in line with stuff in the existing books, which is the the first principle of pricing new items.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dcollins, post: 1735510, member: 876"] A common oversight is to ignore the section on "Magic Item Gold Piece Values" for the DM where it says to (1) compare the item to an existing item, and if that fails then (2) turn to the formula guidelines. Clearly this is an item to give +12 AC to a monk-type character, the same basic idea as [i]bracers of armor +12[/i] in the Epic rules. Therefore that level of protection is valued at 1.44 million gp in the existing rules. Furthermore it's generally against the spirit of the rules for any item to be lending different types of bonuses to AC. Is there any other item in the core rules that does that? Saying that House-Ruled Variants open the door to things clearly against the spirit of the rules is fairly disingenuous. But of course if you're the DM you can do anything you want. As DM in my campaign, this item would just give an armor bonus +12 and be worth 1.44 million gp, pretty simple, and looks more in line with stuff in the existing books, which is the the first principle of pricing new items. [/QUOTE]

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