| Quaeryt |
I ran into an issue recently and I'm hoping that many minds are greater than one. Under the rules for crafting staves it says that you must provide any expensive material components as if casting 50 times. Does this additional cost increase the crafting time of the staff?
And on a related note (and truly in relation to all crafting) if an item to be created requires a spell with an expensive material component, does providing that spell for every day of crafting use up the material component? Put another way, when crafting do you actually cast the spell, or just provide the magic (i.e. spellslot) necessary to do so without actually casting?
I was going to create a staff with true seeing (250 gp worth of ointment) and I can afford the 12,500 for the material component. What I can't afford is the additional 250 gp per day of crafting (especially if the crafting is going to take an additional 13 days).