ok... i was thinking...
i'm not an adventurer,i am a human and i've decided to become the village smith. i buy my house,and i put in it a little lab for working. a group of adventurers come to me,they heard i'm the man they need(my father told them). they want a full plate(not a mithril one)! good! now i'm starting to work,perfect.
i'm level 1,so i put 1 rank in the crafting skill,and i took the 3 bonus.
i took the feat:skill focus,3 other ranks.
i put my greatest stat (let's suppose i've 18 on int) on crafting,and that's another 4.
and... wow,i bought the perfect crafting kit,so i have another 2.
i have... 13. wow :D
i can take 10,and i do so,because i cannot afford to fail and lose money.
so it's a 23.
i multiply it for the dc for crafting the armor,19
23 x 19 = 437
wow,lot of money :D now... i have to reach... 15000 O.O
now... i'm going to craft the armor in... a bit over 240 days... what??
i'm a smith! why i cannot craft an armor??
why,if i'm over 20 times my actual ability,like Roberta Yang said... i cannot build it in nearly one week?(or could probably do it in few hours,considering i could be able to defeat some dragons with... a spoon?)
now... a wizard come,level 9,and in round he craft the armor??
(and yes,he could take 10 on the ability,it's not something as fast as you could think.. i'm a wizard,and i'm only doing a spell... my wife is far away from the house... my magical defences assure me enemies are not near my house... and my crow is in the tower,quietly sleeping(just because he decided to). i'm not in a stress situation.)
why!!!
T_T (sorry for my bad english)