Wanting to know the cost of a custom magic item for Mind Blank


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I'm wanting to know how much it'd cost and what type of item it should be, to be able to cast Mind Blank on myself 1/day? FYI I've got a 13th level character who needs it.

I'm getting tired of everyone seeming to have a pet/familiar or spell-like ability that allows them to constantly have Divination spells up and running non-stop. Nobody seems to put skill points into Sense Motive or Bluff anymore in my campaign.

We had a handful of leaders of a crime syndicate, in a city campaign that ran around with Glasses of True Seeing on. That was totally annoying and wouldn't allow me to infiltrate said gangs with my disguise/bluff skills and Hat of Disguise. Instead it turned into just a "see enemy mob, slay mob" scenario.

I just want to be able to bring the roleplay back into certain social interactions or at least force some tactical thinking of others in the group. It almost feels at times like 2 of our characters are being subjected to the fantasy equivalent to Polygraph machines, DNA testing and fingerprint/retina scans. It's been like this for the last 6 levels or so.

The party isn't evil but one player acts like we are, the way he's so secretive about what his rolls are, his race/feats/abilities/spells and only shows/tells the GM what he's doing. He'll cast/use divination on everyone in the group. Annoying.

Now the GM has been doing the same thing back and knowledge skills hand out super vague answers whenever you make your rolls, constant on abilities from foes...

I've tried talking about this to the GM but he says it's a lot easier for him to run his game that way and to figure a way out around it. He strives for people to try and counter him. It's like a mental chess match with him at times inside his pathfinder campaign and the other secretive guy is like trying to play checkers with made up rules with a child who runs home when he's upset.

Anyway TLDR: what kind of item would it have to be and how much would it cost?

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Well, there is an item in existence, in the CRB, that does something similar to what you want, and that is an AMULET OF PROOF AGAINST DETECTION AND LOCATION.

It uses Nondetection instead of Mind Blank, it is always on, and it only costs 35,000 gp, so 17,500 to create. CL 8, uses the neck slot, so trying to scry on you would take a caster level check against a DC of 19.

Nondetection is Sorcerer/Wizard 4, compared to Mind Blank's Sorcerer/Wizard 8.

You can talk with the GM to see if he would allow customization to raise the caster level, and therefore the opposed caster level check, for a higher price.

Edit: Mind blank is too high level for a wand, but scrolls, if you can cast it yourself, would cost: 3,000 gp apiece.

For an item that can cast Mind Blank once per day:
Use-activated or continuous: SL * CL * 2,000 gp, so 8 * 15 * 2,000 = 240,000
Charges per day: 1 divide by (5/1) = 240,000/5 = 48,000 gp
Neck slot = 48,000 gp, 24,000 gp to craft
Unslotted would be 96,000 gp, 48,000 gp to craft.

I would probably increase the cost, since the duration per cast is already 24 hours, so that is not accounted for above.

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