How much does it cost to hire a cleric to channel energy for you?

[doc the grey]

The thread name is pretty self explanatory but to elaborate now that we have abilities like channel energy floating around how exactly are they priced if a party were to want to pay for someone to use them on themselves or their party in a similar capacity to when someone wants to buy a casting of a spell?

[Kvantum]

Figure it as per a spell of the maximum a Cleric could cast at that level? At least that's how I'd Rule 0 it. 3 + Cha mod times per day is usually about all you could hope for with highest level spell slots. Maybe as a spell 1 level lower than the max the cleric could cast, but around that sounds right.

[TheInnsmouthLooker]

Price goes down in late evening if he still has uses left...

[doc the grey]

I think it would be like 1/2 channeler level x 1/2 channel dice x 5 = gp cost. Other churches might offer up discount prices before they do their prayers to restore their channels or no cost depending on the church.

[BigDTBone]

I can't find anything in my pathfinder material, but in my DMGII there is a section on hiring services from "adventurer" NPC's (read NPC's with PC class levels) price is level squared in gold pieces per day, plus a split of share of loot. However, if the NPC is the same level or higher than the PC's then they charge 10x that amount and a full share of the loot.

I would say a fair middle would be (level squared x 10)/(number of channels per day)=amount charged.

Using this method I have determined the following:

Level #d6 Daily Uses Cost Per Channel Avg Cost/Point Healed
1 1(3.5) 6 1.67gp .47gp
3 2(7) 6 15gp 2.14gp
5 3(10.5) 8 (feat) 31.25gp 2.98gp
7 4(14) 9 (attribute) 54.44gp 3.89gp
9 5(17.5) 10(attribute) 81gp 4.63gp
11 6(21) 10 121gp 5.76gp
13 7(24.5) 11(attribute) 153.64gp 6.27gp
15 8(28) 14(both) 160.71gp 5.74gp
17 9(31.5) 15(attribute) 192.67gp 6.12gp
19 10(35) 16(attribute) 225.63gp 6.45gp

I was figuring a channel focused character so they took extra channel twice and bought charisma boosting items and took level up increased in CHA as well.

Edit: Well, that looks like hell. Linky Linky Easier to Read

[j b 200]

I would say same cost as the highest level spell the channeler can cast. A good comparison would be a level 9 cleric. At level 9 a cleric can cast Masss CLW 1d8 +9 (average of 13.5) vs. channel at 5d6 (average of 17.5). Pretty equivalent.

[Quantum Steve]

I would price it the same as spells.

Spells cost: Spell Level x Caster Level x 10gp.

Similarly, channels would then cost: Channel Dice x Caster Level x 10gp.