price of enchanted arrows

[Piccolo]

Hello,

I am running Giantslayer, and the giants are using +1 human or dwarf bane bow ammunition. How the heck do I price these? What's the price of a single arrow?

[Jeraa]

Piccolo wrote:

Hello,

I am running Giantslayer, and the giants are using +1 human or dwarf bane bow ammunition. How the heck do I price these? What's the price of a single arrow?

Ammunition is enchanted in blocks of 50. So find the price for a normal weapon with the same enchantments, then divide by 50 to get the price for a single piece.

50 masterwork arrows: 300gp (plus a bit for the arrow itself, but it is negligible)
+1 bane: 8,000gp

So 8,300gp for 50 +1 bane arrows, or (8300/50=) 166gp each.

[Diachronos]

The cost of the arrow itself is indeed negligible. 20 arrows comes out to 1gp, so 50 would be 2gp and 5sp. Divided by 50, it comes out to a whopping... 5cp.

[Piccolo]

I thought the price might be divided by 20, since that's how much arrows come in?

[Diachronos]

Piccolo wrote:

I thought the price might be divided by 20, since that's how much arrows come in?

I divided by 50 because I was starting at the cost of 50 arrows (2gp 5s). If you're starting from the base 1gp for 20 arrows, it still comes out to 5cp each (1 arrow = 5cp = 1/2 sp = 1/20 gp).

[Piccolo]

Oh, how do you price a Large mithral breastplate?

[Fuzzy-Wuzzy]

Piccolo wrote:

Oh, how do you price a Large mithral breastplate?

You want the Armor for Unusual Creatures table, which says armor for a Large humanoid is double the normal price (and weight). So a Large breastplate is 400 gp. Making it mithral doesn't depend on size (don't think about this too hard), so that just adds 4000 for medium armor, for a total of 4400.

[Piccolo]

That's just messed up. What about the price of all that extra mithril that goes into making Large sized armor? Oh well. I suppose rules are rules.