Wonderous Item Creation Question?

[Scorba]

What if your item requires a chart?

Example: Bag of Tricks

Are there any rules for that or does it just have to meet the 300 word minimum?

Thanks

[Starglim]

The chart should be readable in the message board format. You could look at Dementrius's Starborn Seeds of Manifest Denial.

[Neil Spicer]

And even with such a chart, your item still needs to be under 300 words. As Starglim indicated, the starborn seeds of manifest denial are a good example to follow from last year.

[Scorba]

Neil Spicer wrote:

And even with such a chart, your item still needs to be under 300 words. As Starglim indicated, the starborn seeds of manifest denial are a good example to follow from last year.

mine is close....i will do a word count..but all looks good.

thanks

[Matthew Morris]

Scorba wrote:

Neil Spicer wrote:

And even with such a chart, your item still needs to be under 300 words. As Starglim indicated, the starborn seeds of manifest denial are a good example to follow from last year.

mine is close....i will do a word count..but all looks good.

thanks

Word counts can vary. 299 might not be 'under' depending on what Sean and Co use. Good luck!

[Andrew Christian]

Matthew Morris wrote:

Scorba wrote:

Neil Spicer wrote:

And even with such a chart, your item still needs to be under 300 words. As Starglim indicated, the starborn seeds of manifest denial are a good example to follow from last year.

mine is close....i will do a word count..but all looks good.

thanks

Word counts can vary. 299 might not be 'under' depending on what Sean and Co use. Good luck!

How does word count vary?

[Neil Spicer]

It depends on whether you perform a word count in Microsoft Word vs. Open Office, etc. They sometimes come up with different counts, based on various rules for hyphenated words, eliminating small words like "a"..."an"...or even "the"...so it just varies. Be advised that Paizo implemented a word counter feature in the submission tool last year. Most folks should be able to rely on that. I believe MS Word is a reliable count, too. That's what they used in the earlier years.

[Sean K Reynolds]

Be sure you spell "wondrous" right....

[Neil Spicer]

You know...I kept staring at that and asking myself if I wanted to mention the misspelling or leave it alone. Thanks for going there. ^_^

[Reddevil]

question, rings are not technically wondrous items, so would you get denied for submitting one.

[Neil Spicer]

Yes. Yes you would.

Know your magic item categories! See the one labeled Wondrous Items? That's what your item should be. Anything else and you've failed to follow the rules. Hence, auto-reject.

[Noteleks]

Reddevil wrote:

question, rings are not technically wondrous items, so would you get denied for submitting one.

As already stated rings would be auto rejected but it doesn't mean you couldn't make a amulet or necklace with the same properties.

[Reddevil]

i figured but thought i would double check anyway

[cynarion]

Noteleks wrote:

Reddevil wrote:

question, rings are not technically wondrous items, so would you get denied for submitting one.

As already stated rings would be auto rejected but it doesn't mean you couldn't make a amulet or necklace with the same properties.

Having said that, as has been mentioned earlier, making something use the ring slot (that isn't a ring) is not necessarily a problem:

Sean K Reynolds wrote:

5b) ...It's okay to broaden the use of a slot, such as saying "this earring counts as one of the wearer's ring magic item slots," because that's not increasing the number of slotted items the character can wear...

Just don't submit a ring.