Custom Magic Item Creation: question

[alarich]

Let's say a wizard wanto to craft a stone that cast mnemonic enhancer spell 1/day on command word.
Item price: (spell level*casterlevel*1800)/5. Ok, that's the price, fine.
But the command word and the "casting time" are giving me headace: if a magic item has command word as way of activation, it's a standrad action, ok.
But mnemonic enhancer has a casting time of 10 minutes.
So...
...the wizard uses a standard action to activate the magic item, the item is activated and it "cast" the spell, so 10 minute later start the effect?
Thanks in advance :)

[ZomB]

PRD: "Activating a magic item is a standard action unless the item description indicates otherwise. However, the casting time of a spell is the time required to activate the same power in an item, regardless of the type of magic item, unless the item description specifically states otherwise."

[LazarX]

Custom magic items are a doorway to trouble.

Remember just because you can come up with a formula to price an item by RAW, that doesn't mean that you should allow it. This is one case where I would not.

[kyrt-ryder]

LazarX wrote:

Custom magic items are a doorway to trouble.

Remember just because you can come up with a formula to price an item by RAW, that doesn't mean that you should allow it. This is one case where I would not.

Mnemonic Enhancer is a 4th level wizard spell, 4x7=28, 28x1800= 50,400/5= 10,100 gold for 3 levels of spells per day.

A 3rd level pearl of power costs 9,000 gold, you're paying an extra 1100 gold for the versatility of being able to choose a 2nd and a 1st or three 1sts instead.

Also keep in mind a Pearl of Power only takes a standard action to work, while Mnemonic Enhancer requires that standard action activation and you still don't get the spell(s) back for 10 minutes.

[LazarX]

Power Creep isn't always just one item, it's a collection of items that in total break the designed economy of the game in this case spell slots.

The spell is a tradeoff of a 4th level slot for 3 levels equivalent.

I keep a reign on magic item creation on making a requirement that item creators obtain a formula for each item to create or spend much in research trying to invent one. Custom items receive a GM determined bump in DC for either path.