Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6558279" data-attributes="member: 22779">And that, right there, that quote right there, is why you will likely never, ever see such a list.  Because if you put five people together and asked them to price a given item, you would get six different answers.  Is a Hat of Disguise worth more, less or the same as a Rope of Climbing?  How much more or less?  Good luck creating a formula for that.  See, the 3e rules didn't give you a formula based on utility at all.  The formula, such as it was, was still largely guesswork.  And, despite hundreds of hours, actually thousands of hours of game play and TWO major play tests, they still haven't gotten it right (between 3e, 3.5 and Pathfinder).The odds that four or five guys sitting in an office in Renton will succeed when hundreds of people working for thousands of hours failed are very, very bad.So, WOTC's pretty much screwed no matter what they do.  If they give you what you want, they'll get crucified and "held accountable for any errors".  The last four or five years have proven just how far people will go to crucify WOTC for perceived mistakes.  If they don't give you what you want, but, instead give broad guidelines, the worst thing that happens is people bitch about not having fixed prices.I honestly hope that they can satisfy you.  I really do.  Everyone should get what they want.  But, I'm also not holding my breath here.  Satisfying you will mean that fifteen other people are really pissed off because they got the numbers wrong.AFAIC, I'd simply use the 3e numbers.  They might be a bit off, but, at the end of the day, they're probably pretty close.  Certainly workable.</blockquote>

Verification