Silverdisks to Batteries

[raverbane]

Any reason a caster couldn't use Mending or Make Whole to restore silverdisks into batteries?

[Eltacolibre]

Only with Make Whole Greater, the 4th level wizard/sorc spell. Why? Because they made them technological items. Make whole only affects destroyed regular items and magical items. Make Whole greater affects constructs, magical items and technological items.

It's simply a question of wording here. Only reason they even bothered making Make Whole Greater in the first place.

[raverbane]

Ah, gotcha. I didn't realize there was a different between 'regular' non-magical items and technological items. Thanks!

[LazarX]

raverbane wrote:

Any reason a caster couldn't use Mending or Make Whole to restore silverdisks into batteries?

The spells only restore the physical form... they don't make energy. if the silverdisks are merely drained, there's nothing for those spells to do. They can't restore charges any more than they could to an empty wand.

[boring7]

Sorry to animate thread here, but 2 things came up while I was looking at batteries.

First: they weigh 1 pound. This isn't such a big deal except for an item that is supposed to be "interchangeable with a platinum piece" 1 pound is pretty heavy. Changes how you carry treasure and whether or not they're actually WORTH carrying sometimes.

Second: If "The bulk of "silverdisks" in circulation today are destroyed batteries;" are there any guidelines for what percentage can't be recharged in a randomly-found hoard?