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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmartkdr2" data-source="post: 8210439" data-attributes="member: 7017304">I would suggest that crafting magical items for resale needs to be economically unviable: you shouldn't be able to make a meaningful profit from crafting magic items to sell on the open market. There's a lot of ways to do this, but if it's possible you create a big verisimilitude problem where a sufficiently skilled character is better off not adventuring. It could be a number of reasons (genuinely rare ingredients, no one actually has the cash to buy them, etc) but at least one should be present.In addition to verisimilitude: you don't want a party with a crafter to have more magic items than a party without a crafter, or you create a role that "needs" to be filled by one player or the whole party is weaker. It's a variation on the "the party needs a cleric" problem: the crafting rules need to allow for the fact that sometimes, no one wants to play a crafter.Having a crafter in the party should matter, but the advantage should be more about control than quantity: a fighter who can make her own magic swords gets exactly the sword she wants, whereas a fighter who needs to buy or loot a sword is more subject to what fate puts in front of her.Crafting mundane gear for market can and probably should be profitable, just not more so than any other profession with the same opportunity cost.</blockquote>