I was browsing ultimate equipment looking for water-breathing magic items for our campaign and I stumbled across the Slippers of the Triton, and their insane price of 56,000gp
This has to be a mistake right? I'm asking because there are other magic items that provide faster swim speeds and/or have other benefits like not taking up an item slot (pearl of the sirines, twice the speed, no item slot, almost 1/4 the cost) or giving an extra means of attack (cloak of the manta ray, twice the speed, tail natural attack almost 1/8th the price)
Why are the slippers of the triton so overpriced for water-breathing and swim speed? Especially if they give less than other swim items, the only real unique thing they have is to give creatures with a swim speed +10 movement in water which isn't really anything to write home about, and the closest comparison the Boots of Striding and Springing only cost 5,500gp
This has got to be a misprint, like there was one too many zeros added and no one caught it. I think a price of 5,600gp is a more balanced price for the Slippers of the Triton considering, again, that there are other items that provide better swim speed, waterbreathing and often more benefits for a lower price.
Oh no, it's absolutely the right cost... provided that you use the standard spell-in-a-can pricing (4*7*2000). Whoever made it forgot the first rule of making magic items, compare to similar items first. If you're going to complain about something, complain about the fact it was originally an Undine-only item. Undine have a swim speed, so the item is worth even less for them (and yes, it was still 56,000 gp).
No, no that still makes no sense. Pricing of "Spell in a can" isn't or shouldn't be a universal rule and again, comparing to the prices of other items that grant the same or more benefits for a fraction of the price, 56,000gp is still too much.
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Oh no, it's absolutely the right cost... provided that you use the standard spell-in-a-can pricing (4*7*2000). Whoever made it forgot the first rule of making magic items, compare to similar items first. If you're going to complain about something, complain about the fact it was originally an Undine-only item. Undine have a swim speed, so the item is worth even less for them (and yes, it was still 56,000 gp).No, no that still makes no sense. Pricing of "Spell in a can" isn't or shouldn't be a universal rule and again, comparing to the prices of other items that grant the same or more benefits for a fraction of the price, 56,000gp is still too much.
Whether it should or shouldn't be is irrelevant, those are the general item creation rules. Again, though, they should've compared it to other similar items before going with the boilerplate creation table.
The cloak of the manta ray also give you large size (you gain a +4 size bonus to your Strength, a -2 penalty to your Dexterity, and a +4 natural armor bonus +3 NA), but you do not get the ray's blindsense, only low light vision.
/cevah
I got one. :-)