SO... I have a Player who is playing a "Dwarven Wizard" and he is playing him as a "Dwarven Crafter" type, making the players magic weapons and armor and such. He would like to place the Adaptive ability on a Composite Longbow for one of the players.
The problem is Adaptive needs the Warp Wood spell to be cast when enchanting the weapon. There are no druids or Shamans in the group and He would like to not hire outside help when doing this.
It seems totally within character to me, for him to be able to do this but I haven't decided on the best approach...
Here a few ideas I had on how to go about this...
- I could let him research Warp Wood as a new wizard spell. It is a transformation spell and wizards have a lot of those types of spells... and it is completely within the rules to do so.
- Alternatively, I could let him use a different Spell be used to enchant the Adaptive ability... Like Reinforce Armaments, Versatile Weapon possibly even Masterwork Transformation. These spells don't specifically grant extra strength bonuses to any weapons... but then neither does warp wood. Also this option is not specifically within the rules.
- As a third option I could let him research a new spell that does exactly what Adaptive does and temporarily enchant a bow with the adaptive quality. There are lots of examples of this Returning Weapon being just one. AND then, allowing this new spell be used to enchant weapons with the adaptive quality.
I am just wondering what people here think would be the best way to handle this situation? Also do you have any suggestions for alternate ways to do this or do you think I should just make Him hire a druid when he wants to place this particular enchant on a bow?
Just take +5 to the crafting DC to account for the lack of the spell.
While your dwarven wizard crafter certainly *could* hire outside help, use scrolls or a wand or find some other way to have access to the spell "warp wood" there is a far simpler method.
For each missing component (in this case the "warp wood" spell) you simply add +5 to the spellcraft DC. Which in most cases should be trivial and easily accomplished.
That's right I totally forgot about the +5 DC for missing prerequisites. Thank you for your help everyone.