Item Caster Level

[mdstb]

How do you go about figuring a magic items caster level? Using table 15-29 it gives you the rules to figure out the gold cost but I can't find anywhere about figuring out the caster level of a item that's not in the book. I understand that you can make the cl higher for resistance but just needed to know how you find the base CL to create the item before modification.

[beej67]

mdstb wrote:

How do you go about figuring a magic items caster level? Using table 15-29 it gives you the rules to figure out the gold cost but I can't find anywhere about figuring out the caster level of a item that's not in the book. I understand that you can make the cl higher for resistance but just needed to know how you find the base CL to create the item before modification.

Minimum level to meet all the stuff in the "requirements" line.

[mdstb]

beej67 wrote:

mdstb wrote:

How do you go about figuring a magic items caster level? Using table 15-29 it gives you the rules to figure out the gold cost but I can't find anywhere about figuring out the caster level of a item that's not in the book. I understand that you can make the cl higher for resistance but just needed to know how you find the base CL to create the item before modification.

Minimum level to meet all the stuff in the "requirements" line.

Thank you. I thought it might be, was just verifying before doing anything.

[Sorceror]

I don't get this at all. I've been trying to work out caster levels for intelligent items. At one point, I assumed that the caster level for an intelligent keen sword is 10, as the description of keen says it's CL10, however this appears to be quite broken as you could buy an intelligent item that casts Ray of Enfeeblement for 1d6+5 STR damage for only 1700G above base price.

Should also note, I'm looking at Ultimate Equipment in the PRD (http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/ultimateEquipment/artifactsAndOthers/in telligentItems.html)