Crafting time

[Gwiber]

Make an appropriate Craft check representing one week's worth of work. If the check succeeds, multiply your check result by the DC.

If the DC is 15 (for instance), and you roll a 17, you multiply by 2? Or 17?

[Fuzzy-Wuzzy]

Gwiber wrote:

Make an appropriate Craft check representing one week's worth of work. If the check succeeds, multiply your check result by the DC.

If the DC is 15 (for instance), and you roll a 17, you multiply by 2? Or 17?

"Check result" means your natural roll plus all modifiers, so 17.

[Gwiber]

So they would have a 15x17 result towards the "value" of the item. If its 50gp, they would get 255 towards the 500 pts they need to construct the item?

[Fuzzy-Wuzzy]

Gwiber wrote:

So they would have a 15x17 result towards the "value" of the item. If its 50gp, they would get 255 towards the 500 pts they need to construct the item?

Yup. (BTW the "points" are actually silver pieces.)

This is why it is useful-but-dangerous to take the option to increase the DC by 10. It's harder to make the roll, but if you do you make a lot more progress.

[_Ozy_]

Or you could ditch the crafting rules and try to use rules that actually make sense. Mundane crafting in Pathfinder is just stupidly wrong.