Holy Water overpriced

[karkon]

rat_ bastard wrote:

Ravingdork wrote:

karkon wrote:

OT a bit but I thought I might calculate the outside example of commoner gold. 20th level commoner (unlikely I know but hey his city sees a lot of fighting), 10 pt build -all into WIS so 10 in everything but 16 in WIS.

He own MW tools, he has a Headband of Inspired Wisdom +6. WIS =21 (all ability increases into it), +6 from headband=28.

He has Profession (baker):

Wis: +8
Class Skill: +3
Skill Rank: 20
Tools: +2
Take 10: Roll=43

GP per week = 21, 52 weeks a year gives us 1,092 gp per year.

I could have gone a little crazier with a higher point but and some sort of magic oven but I though I would keep it within a range of possibility.

Why on earth does this guy have a +6 headband, but not Skill Focus and a +4/+4 feat? He could have an additional +10 bonus!

What else is he going to do with his feats anyways? He could be making 1,378go per year easily! Make him a human and he can have both feats at 1st-level.

Not to mention various racial mods, with heart of the fields the baker in question can bake 60.78 gold of bread a day!

This thread started as something else didn't it...

I guess he could. I mean with master craftsman he could be making and selling "magic" pastries.

[thomas nelson]

Remco Sommeling wrote:

thomas nelson wrote:

Diego Rossi wrote:

I never liked the use of silver to make holy water as it has the same problem of the endless stream of diamonds consumed to cast resurrection, raise dead and restoration.

Using a non renewable resource.

As spell components are mostly fluff I go for the oils worth X gp used in reincarnation.

The caster use oils and balsams imported from far away lands or requiring long preparations and sold by his church. At the end of the day the cost is the same, but there isn't the problem of procuring several flawless 10.000 gp diamonds to resurrect your friends killed in combat.

Silver can be imported indefinitely from the plain of earth, just like diamonds can.

Still I bet risking war with the local shaitan overlord will inflate prices.. a bit

or you could just trade with him.

[Dragonsong]

@ thomas nelson

+1 and adds a whole new layer of fun to using the planar ally/ summoning/ planar travel type spells

As the earth elemental you summoned to wail on a monster says right before he returns to his plane.

"Shaitan Majid says that the next shipment will be delayed a week due to a border dispute. The beneficent Shaitan hopes this will not inconvenience the followers of X too much"

@ OP MDT is right about the difference between blessed/ sanctified water for laity rituals and holy water.

While not RAW I would allow a font in a church to be Hallowed (lvl 5 cleric spell) with bless water that could make 1000 GP of holy water in a years time.