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For some classes, you realy have to get more into the role play aspect to have fun in the down time. I was in a game with a uncommonly dumb barbarian in it, hardly had any skill points (I think he was getting 1 or 2 at the most). Well any ways, he had his fun by role playing his lack of int. We taught his character to read at one level and had him read anything that we could, and he went with it. It was the high light of the game. Best moment ever, he picked up a peice of paper in a dungeon and started reading it. I said "So, what are you reading their?" Gm: "Hes reading a scroll of fireball outloud" other random player: Oh... shit *insert explosion*.

So sometimes, you might consider that the rp could be thrown in instead of just the g all the time.

Peace out!

You could always do what I like to do, avoid the forging system all together.

I generally allow items to be crafted on skill checks alone (though the skills are more precise than just blacksmithing). The kicker, make the components for magical items (or perhaps the place of forging) a questing goal. Perhaps you need specific gems that are only aquired at place X, or can only be made on a certain forge (Hey, the One Ring could only be made in mount doom).

Of course in my games, not every shop keeper has a Vorpal Sword laying around, and magic items are rare. I just feel that it bypasses rules that other wise never would get used in my games. Honestly, what game master is going to give you 200 - 1500 free days doing nothing. I know mine never did and so wasting feats on that sort of thing would be pointless. The questing to get components may take some time in my games, but once you have the components it does not take any longer than it would take to forge a normal sword. The bests swords in the world do not take nearly as long as it takes to craft a sword in any of the d&d rules.

I guess I just always thought the crafting rules where something that needed to be seriously looked at in the first place. Honestly, I am more likely to FIND a +2 flaming burst sword in the time it would take me to craft one, in fact Im more likely to find something better in that time.