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I'm sure the answers buried in here somewhere but I can't find it. As far as we can tell from the rules you can only craft one potion per day even if it's a level 1. Most of the players at that table argue that makes crafting potions not cost effective but the GM won't budge on this. My roommate thinks there's a feat that will let you brew two potions at once but we can't find it. Is there such a thing? Thanks!
Looks like you're stuck with a 1 per cap unless you homebrew something. I searched through the fears and found nothing.
Looks like 1 to 4 potions depending on cost
Brewing a potion takes 2 hours if its base price is 250 gp or less, otherwise brewing a potion takes 1 day for each 1,000 gp in its base price
Keep reading. A little past that it says there is still a limit of 1 magic item per day.
Dude, the rules are explicit. One potion per day. Don't call him inexperienced just because he follows the rules, even if you happen to disagree with those rules.
The crafting feats aren't designed to make the PCs rich.
I didn't call him inexperienced, I only asked. I'm not saying that crating feats are designed to make PCs rich, but rather that brew potion is particularly weak compared to every other item crafting feat because of it's limitation of one potion per day.
Scribe scrolls is a bit weak as well, but at least the spells are half the price, and can be any spell rather than just 3rd level non-self spells.
Other item creation feats provide large and/or efficient bonuses to PCs, such as much cheaper spell use (wands), or powerful magic items that are worth far more than any potion crafter will typically even approach in value even with unrestricted potions per day. The crafter of a potion still needs to pay an inefficient amount of gold for the spell and has to expend the spell for each potion, which itself are significant limitations.
For balance sake, it makes sense to help weak things like brew potion, and hinder strong things like craft wondrous item. It's not part of the rules, but I wouldn't allow a single player to craft all the items for their party since it's too strong. Brew potion is not like that however.
You called him irrational so its not much better, and what is rational is often subjective. I understand that you dont like the rule. I think staves are overpriced also, but I would not call someone irrational for following the pricing rules on them.
You don't let one person craft everyone's magic items because you feel its too strong. I really dont see why not. I have never had a problem with it. <---More evidence that what makes sense is subjective.