Player of mine wants weapons similar to the Sun Blades property of being a bastard sword but wielded as a short sword. He doesn't want the rest of the properties of the sun blades. Is there an existing property out there or how would one recommend breaking the sun Blade down for cost and create magic item requirements?
As the Gm I would like to keep all of the properties on the blade except the Sun power and without the good alignment properties. part. He is a Dhampir so the Sunlight power really doesn't make sense for him. Thinking of adding something else instead or nothing else.
So what would requirements be and cost for a sun Blade without the Sunlight power.
Parsing the abilities is difficult.
The +2 bastard sword part is easy. That's 8,335 gold.
If you count the +2 vs evil and double damage against negative energy as roughly equivalent to a greater bane enhancement (if bane is +1, this is +2), it's another 24,000 gold.
Then you have the alignment restriction and negative level, which are suggested as a 30% reduction in price. Meaning the whole thing should cost 71,428 gold (and some change), assuming the price of a masterwork longsword isn't changed by that calculation.
This leaves 39,428 gold for the other properties. The price of the daylight-like ability, priced as a command-word spell once-per day, is 10,800 gold, but the ability it more complex than just a fire-and-forget spell, since it requires maintaining the whirling blade to continue expanding the radius of the light. But, let's assume that trades fairly with the maybe-underpriced pseudo-bane ability.
This leaves us with the weapon size spoofing ability to be priced at 28,628 gold, which seems expensive to me, but it's what my math is telling me.
tl;dr
If you just want to strip out the daylight ability, deduct 7,560 gold from the price (10,800 reduced 30% for the alignment restriction). This gives you a price of 42,775.
When it days negative energy plane creatures does that mean evil outsiders? Or what exactly does that include?
I would invent comparable abilities to the one's the Sunblade has that suit the needs of your player, for example, a different enemy for it to increase it's enhancement by, and charge him the same price.
It means creatures native to the Negative Energy Plane.
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This leaves us with the weapon size spoofing ability to be priced at 28,628 gold, which seems expensive to me, but it's what my math is telling me.
That ability do plenty of things:
- it allow you to use a bastard sword 1 handed without the exotic weapon proficiency- it allow you to apply to a bastard sword "Weapon Focus and Weapon Specialization in short sword and bastard sword". Maybe even weapon finesse.
So it amount to 1 full feat for free and something like 2 half feats.
Or put it another way, it is a 2 increase in the dice of damage done by a short sword. 1d10 instead of 1d6.
I wasn't considering the feat combinations that are now available with the size spoofing, so 28k might be reasonable. Pricing access to feats (not even feats themselves) with gold pieces is something that isn't very intuitive.
In Return to castle ravenloft there is a Sunsword for 3000GP thats a +1 Bastardsword thats treated as a Short Sword.