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The materiel costs for spell completion items seems to be wrong.
Staves and wands all have the following costs in the pathfinder SRD.
material component costs sufficient to activate the spell 50 times (divide this amount by the number of charges one use of the spell expends)
This rule was taken directly from the OGL content. That was fine in the 3.5 SRD since each of these items had 50 charges but Pathfinder changed the base items.
A Staff now has 10 charges. If this is not a mistake it is a stealth increase in the cost of staff creation to material cost x charges x 5.
It looks like the charges were reduced on the staff but the item creation rule was never revisited.
The materiel costs for spell completion items seems to be wrong.
Staves and wands all have the following costs in the pathfinder SRD.
material component costs sufficient to activate the spell 50 times (divide this amount by the number of charges one use of the spell expends)This rule was taken directly from the OGL content. That was fine in the 3.5 SRD since each of these items had 50 charges but Pathfinder changed the base items.
A Staff now has 10 charges. If this is not a mistake it is a stealth increase in the cost of staff creation to material cost x charges x 5.
It looks like the charges were reduced on the staff but the item creation rule was never revisited.
However Staves are now rechargable, an ability that doesn't exist in any other similar item. I imagine the discrepancy in price is to account for that, since over the lifetime of a staff you can now technically get infinite benefit from it.
However Staves are now rechargable, an ability that doesn't exist in any other similar item. I imagine the discrepancy in price is to account for that, since over the lifetime of a staff you can now technically get infinite benefit from it.
When you recharge the item you should need to pay any material costs. If you can pass on materiel costs for recharge then I suppose it is fair to pay it up front. That would be worse letting the staff pay 5x material costs and then it is free from then on.
