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Looking for suggestions on how to price an armor special ability.
I have a oread druid in my game who uses the crystalline form alternate racial trait and has Wild armor. He spends most of his time wild shaped and was wanting to retain his crystalline form's ability while wild shaped. SO the ability would look something like...
Oread crystal armor - This ability when applied to armor allows an Oread to retain the benefits of his crystalline form when under a polymorph effect.
My initial thought was to just make it like two or three thousand GP flat cost since it's so very specific. Suggestions on this?
Use-activated or continuous spell-effect cost = Spell Level x Caster Level x 2,000gp. Depending on the normal duration of the spell in question, the price is multiplied or divided, as appropriate. In this case, multiplied by 1.5 for barkskin because it's 10min/level, resulting in a price of 18,000gp. I chose barkskin because it was the cheapest spell that gives a similar effect. Because the intended armor is only granting its bonus against Ray attacks instead of adding to regular AC, I'd say the price could be cut in half or to one third, resulting in a 9,000gp or 6,000gp final value, respectively (plus the base cost of whatever armor you're enchanting). If you instead wanted to say the spell used in construction was mage armor, it would come to 2,000gp, but I don't think that's similar to crystalline form at all.
How common are Oreads in your world, and how likely would it be that your player would be able to buy such an item from them instead of making it themselves? If they're uncommon, then it being such a specific and niche item would actually increase its cost on the market, not reduce it.