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Is it possible to intentionally craft cracked or flawed ioun stones based on their market value, or do you have to pay the price of crafting a regular one and then fail the check by the right amount?
I didn't even know failing the check was involved?
Well the page on Ioun Stones says this: "When a magic item creation skill check to create an ioun stone fails by 5 or more but less than 15, there is a 50% chance the result is a cracked stone and a 50% chance the result is a flawed stone."
And when you look at the individual Ioun stones, they all give construction requirements for the regular stone, listing the construction price at half the list price as usual. They never list separate construction requirements for the inferior versions, only the list price.
This lack of explicit construction costs concerns me that perhaps you aren't meant to be able to construct the flawed ones intentionally, they just end up that way when a regular stone is damaged or the creation fails.
I'm hoping that I'm wrong, because some of the inferior ones can be very useful. I'd like to be able to craft them. Walking into a store and expecting them to have a handful of these obscure damaged stones seems a bit implausible, and is also double the price of crafting them.
Yes i think you can, you just a cracked or flawed precious stone for the proccess.