Wealth limits and Selling made items

[kreynolds]

...XPP...

*grabs books* [flip, flip, flip, flip, flip...]

 

[loviatarfrostbringer]

I play a 14th wizard with (Scribe Scroll, Craft Misc. Items, & Forge Ring) and my cohort has Craft Wand. We sell items to the group for full market price, unless I feel that the item would really take the burden of spellcasting of of ourselves. To that effect, I buff up or create magic tiems that would help out with hit points (i.e. + Con items, + Res save cloaks) as well as specific items to help my survival (like a ioun stone to store spells). I also give bulk discounts as well as "payday loans".

I know it seems cruel to charge your own party (or offer a loan), but it is my xps I am spending. There is only soooo much a wizard can take being a magic-whore (pardon my French) before you lapse too far behind the rest of the party in xps and then die and lose even more xps. Vicious cycle it is.

And remember that the conversion rate for xps to gold should be 12.5 gp to 1xp spent, on a good day...

That was my 10 cents. My two cents is free.

 

[kreynolds]

And remember that the conversion rate for xps to gold should be 12.5 gp to 1xp spent, on a good day...

I thought it was 5.

 

[Petrosian]

also, if you make a magic item...what's to keep YOU from being the vendor by setting up shop in a city and selling the item to an npc (nonmerchant of course) for full price? besides the DM that is...

Well lets see... to become a shop owner thatbturns a profit usually takes a large investment in time... building up a reputation and customer base does not ahppen as soon as you hang a sign.

While your guy is playing "merchants and bartering" are your former allies out playing dnd?

Also, did the bad guys all decide to play merchants and bartering too? Are you gonna sit there and say...

"look i would love to go save the prince's young cousin from the necromancer's clutches but I am swamped. i have three wands to get done by next tuesday and the darned caravan with my fresh ghoul dirt got snagged by some orcs in the foothills so i gotta scramble on that too. Sorry, my schedule might open up in the fall. See me then."

the life of a merchant... thats what I yearn to roleplay.

 

[AuraSeer]

"It's this new RPG called Papers & Paychecks. We take on the parts of merchants, accountants, and businessmen in an advanced and technological society."

 

[Dr_Rictus]

what can you use fabricate to do? make a sword out of a hunk of metal by casting a spell...but it's still just a sword, at the best masterwork. could you use fabricate to make a golem body for less? i don't see how you could use the spell to make a magic item cost less...i'd love to be proven wrong though!

You've missed the point. Fabricate was brought up because its money-making potential puts magic item creation to shame, thus implying that the wealth issue in making magic items was not particularly relevant in comparison.

 

[the Jester]

"It's this new RPG called Papers & Paychecks. We take on the parts of merchants, accountants, and businessmen in an advanced and technological society."

Oooh, old school reference!