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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 2150474" data-attributes="member: 2525">No, really, it isn't.  It's not a house rule.  It's the actual rule itself.  There is an unstated basic reasonableness in intepreting ALL written game rules (and all rules for that matter, and text in general).  If you KNOW what the author meant by a typo, you read the rule as it was meant, and not with the typo.  That isn't a houserule...it's the actual rule.We all know what the author of the Prayer Beads meant by their formula, and that it was simply a typo error that caused it to come out that way.   A clean line would be "What would I have to inform my players about in advance concerning what our houserules will be, before they make their character".  If your players are starting characters at higher levels, they very well might want a Prayer Beads: Karma Bead Only item.  However, it is totally unecessary to inform them of the "houserule" concerning the price of that item, since ANYONE reading the rule knows what it means without having to claim it is a houserule to "fix" it.  Nobody is going to honestly claim the item is free (or, in fact, that they get paid gold pieces by the DM for taking some other versions of the item in fact, since they have a NEGATIVE value if calculated as written).  Everyone knows what the rule means.  It isn't a houserule if everyone already knows it without having to ask simply by reading the rule.</blockquote>