Eagle Stones in American Gods column


Dragon Magazine General Discussion


I saw the Eagle Stone magic item in issue 324 and though, what a great item for the group to have for emergencies. But in reading about it I notice that it costs 7,650gp and does a true resurection. But true resurection costs 25,000 in material components itself.

So, should the eagle stone cost 25,000 more? The cost of magic items shown is the cost to buy it right?

I also thought a Eagle Stone, Lesser that casts resurection instead of true resurection would be a good item for my group to find. Any guesses on what it's value would be?


The eagle stones are not "created" so there is no true resurrection cost involved in them. They simply work, if you can find them. I do think they are a bit underpriced, since they have an equivalent value to a 25,000gp spell. But this is entirely market value driven, not item creation pricing.

A lesser version should probably have an equivalent market value of any other one-shot resurrection item. Again, this is not a cost-to-create. The market price is what people are willing to pay for an item. Since the stone does exactly what an existing item does, it should cost about the same -- brand name price inflation notwithstanding.

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