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After reading up about rules regarding enhancing Wondrous Items, there is a clause that says you can combine the effects of multiple Wondrous Items into one item by taking the larger cost, and adding that to 1.5x the smaller cost.
There are 2 items within the UE book that are severely powerful; the Feather Step Slippers and the Boots of the Cat. The first allows the wearer to ignore difficult terrain effects, and is allowed to take 5 foot follow-ups within said difficult terrain; this costs 2,000 gold. The other allows the wearer to take minimum falling damage on each falling damage dice and always land on their feet; this costs 1,000 gold.
By RAW, you can combine the total effects of both items at the cost of 2,000 + 1,000 x 1.5: the result is only a minimal cost of 3,500 gold.
Ultimately, here's what the Wondrous Item would read as:
These high-soled blue boots provide a great deal of comfort and arch support while also making the wearer appear a little bit taller than normal. The boot’s wearer always takes the minimum possible damage from falls (as if the GM had rolled a 1 on each die of damage incurred by the fall) and at the end of a fall always lands on his feet.
In addition, the boots allow the wearer to ignore the adverse
movement effects of difficult terrain as if subject to the feather
step spell, including granting the ability to take 5-foot steps in
difficult terrain.
So let me get this straight...by RAW, I can make difficult terrain a thing of the past, and make falling down long distances a joke? So I can fall 200 feet, take 20 points of damage, and be able to stand up, even if I were to be wearing full plate armor (and not be hindered by it, since I am a fighter)?
Does that even make any sense to you guys? Personally, I would absolutely love it as a character, and as a fighter that wears heavy armor (and a Mobile Fighter, at that). Moving 40 ft. taking 20 points of damage after falling 200 feet, and making a "Death from Above" attack all the while making difficult terrain a complete joke? All for 3,500 gold pieces? Sign me up!
But from a game balance perspective, would you guys ban this combination (or even make it impossible to combine wondrous items and their effects) due to such a game-breaking concept such as what I just described?
For myself, in my game, I will either be increasing the cost of those two boots (and some other UE items), or I'll be ruling that players can't craft or buy them, making them loot items only.
Meh. I really don't see this as a problem.
RAW... Magical custom items aren't more than suggestions in pricing and completely descretionary as per the DM.
RAW they are guidelines not hard numbers.
I would certainly allow such a thing.
It's a nice combination, but game breaking? Hardly. I would allow.
Being able to move across the map with fewer difficulties doesn't seem that crazy.
These things are all at a GM's discretion.
Personally, I don't have much of a problem with them. They are very nice to have, yes, but not game breaking in the slightest.
Boots of the Master Acrobat? Still working on the name
13,600 GP
Spider Climb
Cats Boots
Feather Stepping
Striding and Springing