Magic Item Crafting

[Krith]

Using Craft Wonderous Item, if you have a Headband of Alluring Charisma +2 (2,000 gold to make, 4,000 gold value) and want to add to it a +2 Wisdom bonus to make it a Headband of Mental Prowess +2 (5,000 gold to make, 10,000 gold value), it will cost 3,000 gold, or the difference between the cost to make the HMP and cost to make the HAC.

But how long would it take to make? The rules state:

"Creating an item requires 8 hours of work per 1,000 gp in the item's base price (or fraction thereof), with a minimum of at least 8 hours."

As the base price of the item is 10,000 gold, this sounds like it would take 10 days to add the effect, though I could see this being the difference between the two items and it having to only take 6 days, accounting for the 4 days already spent on the HAC.

Any ruling on this yet? Thanks

[Java Man]

Reading the expanded rules in UC for upgrading and adding abilities to existing items (you could call this either, kinda), you would figure the time based on the added cost, not the total. So six days.

[Gilarius]

Java Man wrote:

Reading the expanded rules in UC for upgrading and adding abilities to existing items (you could call this either, kinda), you would figure the time based on the added cost, not the total. So six days.

Yes, and then you can halve that time by increasing the spellcraft DC by 5. So 3 days at a cost to craft of 3000gp.

[Krith]

Thanks Java and Gil!