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You gain the abilities, not the possessions.

Besides, there are a lot of lower level spells that can give you "unlimited" salable goods. Magnificent Mansion, for example, gives you gourmet food enough to feed hundreds. (In earlier editions this was supposed to be illusory food and drink, but that qualifier vanished when 3.0 came out.) And there's nothing in the spell that says you can't take the food out of the Mansion. Just throw your feast, or make sure it's served before the spell goes down.

We had to include a house rule regarding Major Creation: 5th level spell, requiring a 9th level caster, allowing you to produce a cubic foot of gold per caster level. For an 11th level caster, at 1026 pounds per cubic foot, it totals to 564,300 gp per casting. Close enough to "unlimited"? Or perhaps you should create platinum, which is actually heavier (1,336 lbs). That produces 7,348,000 gp in value per casting.

It only lasts a little over three hours (20 minutes per caster level), but that's plenty of time to spend it on real goods. Like, the kingdom of your choice? :) Gems last half as long, but since there's no rule on weight to value for them, it's best to leave that aspect alone.

Our house rule on it was that it's "fairy gold", and can be dispelled by contact with cold iron. Pretty much every vendor in any town of any size has a cold iron plate on their counter, where they count out the money they're paid. The spell specifically says that you can't create cold iron with it, hence the basis for our house rule.
 

You gain the abilities, not the possessions.

Besides, there are a lot of lower level spells that can give you "unlimited" salable goods. Magnificent Mansion, for example, gives you gourmet food enough to feed hundreds. (In earlier editions this was supposed to be illusory food and drink, but that qualifier vanished when 3.0 came out.) And there's nothing in the spell that says you can't take the food out of the Mansion. Just throw your feast, or make sure it's served before the spell goes down.

We had to include a house rule regarding Major Creation: 5th level spell, requiring a 9th level caster, allowing you to produce a cubic foot of gold per caster level. For an 11th level caster, at 1026 pounds per cubic foot, it totals to 564,300 gp per casting. Close enough to "unlimited"? Or perhaps you should create platinum, which is actually heavier (1,336 lbs). That produces 7,348,000 gp in value per casting.

It only lasts a little over three hours (20 minutes per caster level), but that's plenty of time to spend it on real goods. Like, the kingdom of your choice? :) Gems last half as long, but since there's no rule on weight to value for them, it's best to leave that aspect alone.

Our house rule on it was that it's "fairy gold", and can be dispelled by contact with cold iron. Pretty much every vendor in any town of any size has a cold iron plate on their counter, where they count out the money they're paid. The spell specifically says that you can't create cold iron with it, hence the basis for our house rule.

The weapon in question IS ability.
 

I thought this was brought up in Sage advice or something and he said to treat the whip and sword as possessions, despite the monster entry, precisely to avoid...this.
 

I think it should be totally permissible. And, that a DM should set things up that after a few of these get sold, some Demon's catch wind and start getting pissed off, so the PC begins to encounter the business end of some Real Balor swords.
 

Do you keep the (su) abilities you got from shapechange, after the spell is over?

I mean, what kind of merchant able to afford buying that won't be pissed of when it just disappears?

Edit:
Evil mode: Or when it transforms to a ripped off hand :devil:
 

I must point out that you're a balor. You don't need to sell the sword to generate tons of money, you can just walk into town and demand a tribute of gold, magic items, and virgins.
 

Come on. A true chaotic balor would demand a tribute of wagonloads of spicy mango chutney, a living chinchilla trenchcoat, a barbershop quartet of gnomish mimes, and green wall-to-wall shag carpeting. Delivered by next Tuesday. And change his mind on Monday: papaya chutney. No wait, make it mango, after all. Or else.
 

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