Crafting Question-Mantle of Near* Immortality

[Blackperoxide]

Hello

I am looking to craft a item similar to the Mantle of Immortality, except I only need it to use the spell Age Resistance, not the greater version. Since the item has the exhaustion drawback for 24 hours I would like to keep this effect. My problem is I don't know how that effects the cost of crafting it with the negative effect involved. Any help or pointing to a formula would be greatly appreciated.

[LazarX]

What exactly do you intend this item to do? I don't want to be told to look up the spell, I want to know the exact effect you're looking to create. So far the only proper non-epic immortality item I've ever seen was the Rod of Eternity. It was very simple, the Rod suspended aging... as long as you held it.

[DM_Blake]

The usual price for a Use-activated magical item like the Mantle of Immortality is Spell level x caster level x 2,000 gp. As listed, Greater Age Resistance is level 7, requiring a level 13 caster, so 13 x 7 x 2,000 = 182,000 gp. WOW! The book has it at only 50,000 gp so they really underpriced it to about 27.5% of the formula price. It's hard to believe that a nearly 75% price reduction is ONLY because of the added Exhaustion limitation so I assume they were just being very generous with the price.

Applying the same formula to Age Resistance (not Greater) gives a price of 11 x 6 x 2,000 = 132,000 and applying the same discount gives a final price of about 36,500 gp.

Same item, lesser effect.

[darkwarriorkarg]

It's pretty good for an item useless to the majority of PCs.

[Blackperoxide]

Hey thank you guys for the quick responses. Yeah I did the math and saw how massive the difference was if I created the same item.

Thank you DM Blake for figuring this out for me. And yes it it is a great item to the right caster.

[bodhranist]

DM_Blake wrote:

As listed, Greater Age Resistance is level 7, requiring a level 13 caster, so 13 x 7 x 2,000 = 182,000 gp. WOW! The book has it at only 50,000 gp so they really underpriced it to about 27.5% of the formula price.

Age resistance has a 24 hour duration, so the total price in the use-activated section would normally be divided in half. So, it's about half the standard formula price, not a quarter of it.