In our campaign, we have a samurai who wants to armor his mount. In mythral mountain pattern armor. But, we are trying to figure out the crafting cost and time for it. Normally we have this figured out for crafting cost and time, but not the mythral part. And there is mass confusion everywhere about this. Buying it simply isnt an option. Any advice?
It costs 4x as much as for a human.
Mithral Mountain Pattern Armour
4(4000+250)= 17000
Just to verify, he is choosing this armor because his mount has medium proficiency or he is willing to accept the -1 penalty to hit, right? Because the reduction in armor check penalty for being masterwork is included in the -3 mithral provides (since there aren't any nonmasterwork mithral items)
But yes, it is exactly as Aioran said for the base price before you factor in crafting. The increase in price comes from the fact that this armor is for something large (x2) and in a non humanoid shape (x2).
Well, if one wanted to try to make things "realistic" (those quotation marks have such a snarky tone you could not even believe it) the increase due to shape might not factor in through houserule, but the increase due to size absolutely should since you are obviously using more mithral.
Thought so, he does have the armor proficiency on the mount. There was much confusion amongst the rest of us on the mithral. The next issue comes from the fact that we are crafting the armor ourselves. theres the real issue... crafting costs are listed as 1/3rd, but does mithral get cut to one third, or is mithral a straight cost regardless.
Whoops, didn't notice this before: your title says medium mythral barding. Does this mean a small samurai and medium mount? Then if that was the case, it is only x2 in cost at 8,500.
Yeah, because cutting the craft time down to a year and a half is going to prevent it from being a problem. With a high enough craft check, you could even get it done in a third of the time.
..ok, so tag on the price for paying a wizard for fabricate. A high craft check might be necessary (which might either lead to you having to go on a sidequest for this or take extra charges). Admittedly, since fabricate is instantaneous, I would imagine that you could easily rely on more temporary bonuses from spells to help cover the crafting check. I know that Crafter's Fortune is a level 1 spell that gives a +5 luck bonus (which stacks with pretty much anything sine those are rather rare).
Actually looking at it, you might be able to pull a lot of this off by just using a scroll of fabricate and just piling as many bonuses you can get from spells and other special abilities (hire a bard for moral bonuses? Hire a dual-cursed oracle with the fortune or misfortune mystery to save you if you just roll horribly? And yes, both of those forced rerolls can actually save you since they are just "forced to accept the second result" type). The theory crafting for crafting gets fun when you can stuff it with this much cheese.