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<blockquote data-quote="Pax" data-source="post: 1283929" data-attributes="member: 6875"><p>If you're concerned with Item Creation, consider the MAster Arcane Artisan PrC (WOTC website, under Epic Insights -- it's in the Compilation you can download from there, too). You can get a BIG boost in item-creation that way.</p><p></p><p>For example, for Wondrous Items ... get Craft Wondrous Item, Magical Artisan (Wondrous Item), and [Epic]Efficient Creation (Wondrous Item). Magical Artisan is in the FRCS hardcover, and gives a 25% discount to crafting costs (GP and XP alike) for the specified type of item.</p><p></p><p>Wiz(3)/Cle(3)/MT(10)/DwK(5)/MAA(3) will then give you a pool of 6,000XP <em>free and clear</em> of level advancement, with which to craft maghic items. And each level of MAA you acquire, will give you 1,000XP times your MAA level in additional points. With the 25% discount from Magical Artisan, that stacks nicely. Craft items that wold normally cost 8,000xp and 100,000gp to craft (200,000gp market price), for 75,000gp and <strong>NO XP AT ALL</strong> (though your MAA "pool" will be drained dry in the process). Essentially, that comes to 125,000GP market-value worth of items for <strong>free</strong>.</p><p></p><p>Further, the MAA gets single items of ever-increasing value, <strong>free</strong> ... starting at 100,000gp maximum value at 4th level, and another item every 4 levels after that (each one worth 100,000gp more than the one before). Epic bonus feats are earned once every 3 levels, and spellcasting is earned at every even-numbered level.</p><p></p><p>Entry requirements are:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Eventually, you even get the ability to cannibalise other magic items, to refill that pseudo-XP pool (you get back about half as many XP as went into making the item, IIRC). And the pool KEEPS growing, with every MAA level you get ...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pax, post: 1283929, member: 6875"] If you're concerned with Item Creation, consider the MAster Arcane Artisan PrC (WOTC website, under Epic Insights -- it's in the Compilation you can download from there, too). You can get a BIG boost in item-creation that way. For example, for Wondrous Items ... get Craft Wondrous Item, Magical Artisan (Wondrous Item), and [Epic]Efficient Creation (Wondrous Item). Magical Artisan is in the FRCS hardcover, and gives a 25% discount to crafting costs (GP and XP alike) for the specified type of item. Wiz(3)/Cle(3)/MT(10)/DwK(5)/MAA(3) will then give you a pool of 6,000XP [i]free and clear[/i] of level advancement, with which to craft maghic items. And each level of MAA you acquire, will give you 1,000XP times your MAA level in additional points. With the 25% discount from Magical Artisan, that stacks nicely. Craft items that wold normally cost 8,000xp and 100,000gp to craft (200,000gp market price), for 75,000gp and [b]NO XP AT ALL[/b] (though your MAA "pool" will be drained dry in the process). Essentially, that comes to 125,000GP market-value worth of items for [b]free[/b]. Further, the MAA gets single items of ever-increasing value, [b]free[/b] ... starting at 100,000gp maximum value at 4th level, and another item every 4 levels after that (each one worth 100,000gp more than the one before). Epic bonus feats are earned once every 3 levels, and spellcasting is earned at every even-numbered level. Entry requirements are: Eventually, you even get the ability to cannibalise other magic items, to refill that pseudo-XP pool (you get back about half as many XP as went into making the item, IIRC). And the pool KEEPS growing, with every MAA level you get ... [/QUOTE]
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