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Lets say you're a wizard of indeterminate level and wealth. Somehow you are paralyzed from the waist down. You're unable to locate any magic that can fix your condition. You do, however, have craft wondrous item. You decide to build a chair that will move you about.
Like Professor X's chair, but admittedly it would probably look more like this
Lets build this item together. I have no specific budget, but lets keep it as reasonable as possible. Perhaps a low end version and a high end version.
Lets talk features then we'll move to actually starting this item.
Low end:
Functional: as floating disk or Permanent animated object legs (via scroll or hiring a caster)
Defensive: Null (too expensive and unnecessary)
Offensive: Null (too expensive and unnecessary)/ Just the wizard sitting in it.
High end:
Functional: as flying carpet (perhaps faster) and perhaps teleport X/d
Defensive: Deflection bonus or X/d emergency force shield.
Offensive: Scorching ray firing auto turret dragon heads.
Perhaps even an intelligent item that can move and take action without you.
What do you think?
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Interesting idea, might have to get one for myself...
The low end version would, by the book, cost 2000 x weight capacity (in hundreds of pounds), so 8000 for a normal person, maybe 10-12K with extra space for gear (and weight of the throne). You should probably have an adjustment for it following your directions instead of simply following the caster around, but I think that would be negligible at this point, as long as it takes a move action to move (normal speed).
Low end: 10,000gp Price, 5,000gp Cost
The high end version sounds great!
Flying carpet sounds like a great place to start. A 5'x10' carpet with a 400lb capacity (barely enough!) costs 35,000gp. We can probably trip off 5000gp for the throne only being 5'x5' effectively. Teleporting twice a day as a secondary ability costs 49,000gp (at CL9). Carpets obey verbal commands, so don't take actions to move with (kind of like mounts).
For defenses, lets add permanent entropic shield and, sure, emergency force sphere 1/day. Those are 6,000gp and 15,000gp respectively (as secondary abilities), if we don't set the CL equal to the flying/teleporting part.
For offense, the wizard should be enough, but I like your style. At will Scorching Ray (CL 7 so from both dragon heads): 38,000gp
High end: 138,000gp Price, 69,000 Cost - very affordable!
Is that you Baron Harkonnen?
Low End: A Sedan Chair with a bunch of Unseen Servants.
Low End: A Sedan Chair with a bunch of Unseen Servants.
Thats....Not bad. Though I wonder how many it would take.
Your model is essentially Dr. Loveless from the Wild Wild West movie.
That'd be the steampunk version of the animated object version, but yea.
A mount spell is a low level non-item option. As a GM I wouldn't restrict what you wanted the mount to look like so long as the stats didn't change.
Walking chair mount?
For that matter a halfling with an earth elemental in the shape of a LazyBoy would also get the job done.
Edit: Hell, with a 16 strength a small earth elemental could probably even carry a medium creature around.
I have a cantrip that is a simple modified version of tenser's floating disk. it produces a stationary cushion of force that will adjust to the casters body and support him comfortably in any sort of sitting position. it basically allows him to nonchalantly lounge about at a moments notice with no need for a chair. I would suggest that a mobile version of this spell would be a simple level 1 spell which would allow you to move about at normal speed and ignore terrain modifiers to movement speed. as a use activated or continuous Item it would be fairly cheap. 4k tops.
Sounds like a minor modification of floating disk wherein you can simply direct it where to go.
Arguably you can already do this, but interpretations vary.