Ring of Three Limited Wishes

[Kexle]

I'm trying to figure out how much a Ring of Three Limited Wishes should cost.

The obvious place to start is the Ring of Three Wishes. The Ring of Three Wishes cost 120,000pg. 75,000gp for the material components and 45,000gp on top of that. Basically a cost of the material component of the spell plus 15,000gp per wish.

The component cost of limited wish is much less than wish (1500gp instead of 25,000gp). That part of the cost is obvious and easy to figure out. My real problem is how much extra to add for each limited wish.

I have a few thoughts, but would like to hear any input you may have.

1. The additional cost per wish is 60% of the cost of the materials, so if we apply the same standard to limited wish, we would arrive at an additional 900gp per limited wish. That would give a cost of 7200gp (5850gp to create). This seems a little under costed to me.

2. Treat the spell effect as a single use, use-activated item (similar to a potion). That would give a cost of spell level x caster level x 50 gp per limited wish. In this case, 7 x 13 x 50 = 4550gp. That would give a cost of 18,150gp (11,325gp to create). This seems close. However, since it takes a body slot, it feels a little overpriced to me

3. Since the Ring of Three Wishes seems to not follow the chart, but rather is just given a price that seems appropriate for the power, we could try that here as well. 15,000gp seems about right to me. (9750gp to create)

I've looked around and haven't seen any rules regarding this item, but it seems like something that is useful and should exist.

[O11O1]

Duplicating effort, let me break down my view of that item.

Cost of one Wish spell: diamond worth 25,000 gp
Cost of Limited Wish: diamond worth 1,500 gp

So three of those.

Single charge, use activated: Spell level x caster level x 50 gp
Wish is a 9th level spell, thus:
9th level x 17 caster levels times 50 gp.

So a 9th level oneshot is 7650 GP. A single Wish is that plus the diamond, so 32,650 GP. Triple that is 97,950 GP. Checking the Item, that matches up, so it seems our item creation cost is... Huh. It lists 120,000 gp as the base price, and I'd been lead to believe that chart was for the base price. If so, a ring of three wishes costs double what the chart says, or I've missed a multipler somewhere.

Any way, for Limited Wish:
This is a 7th level spell, thus:
7th level x 13 caster level times 50 gp.

So a 7th level one shot is 4550 GP. Adding the diamond, we have a cost 6050 GP per limited wish. Tripling that, I get 18,150 GP as my base price.

That said, the fact the Ring of Three Wishs is double that of my calculations, suggests the Limited Wish ring would likewise be double (36,300 GP), for a reason I've not yet determined.

[Drejk]

For ring of three wishes the price is 120,000 while cost is 97,500. 75,000 gp of both price and cost is actually the cost of the components required to cast wish: 25,000 gp per casting. This makes the base price of ring of three wishes 45,000 and base cost 22,500. It seems that worth of one full wish bound in ring was deemed to be 15,000 gp. I can't divide it by the 9th spell level into meaningful number so it seems to be ad hoc pricing to represent rarity and power of such items.

[Kexle]

The Ring of Three Wishes seems to be an ad hoc pricing scheme to me as well.

I guess the question then becomes, if Wish was deemed to be worth 15,000gp each, what is a reasonable amount for Limited Wish to be worth?

My original third suggestion was 3500gp. Using a price similar to a potion gives 4550gp. Perhaps 5000gp is reasonable.

I'll have to discuss it with my DM. Thanks for the input guys.