| Artificial 20 |
Hello. Say I have a ratfolk rogue who's looking to purchase a tailblade, cus more sources of sneak attack are nice. He's not picking enhancements for a while, but he would like to choose a good foundation to build upon.
A medium ratfolk tailblade costs 11gp, weighs 1/2lb and does 1d3 slashing damage. Since he's small he'll buy a small tailblade, which weighs half as much at 1/4lb and does 1d2 slashing damage instead, and still costs 11gp.
Next part is where he needs help.
The ratfolk doesn't mind the small damage dice, but wants to hit, so he's willing to pay for a masterwork tailblade, which costs 311gp.
He thinks about special materials too. If he's not going to enhance it, a cold iron tailblade might help against DR for example. Then he considers silver, and then mithral which counts as silver. Then he gets confused.
A tailblade is a weapon, not an armour or a shield, so it comes under the cost of "Other items: +500 gp/lb.".
He looks at a medium mithral tailblade, he sees that it would cost 252gp, and that "Weapons and armors fashioned from mithral are always masterwork items as well; the masterwork cost is included in the prices given below" and now he wonders if he would be paying 50gp less for a tailblade that's a masterwork and lighter and also counts as silver. That seems odd to him.
Then he finds an FAQ about pricing a weightless weapon for mithral saying treat it as 1/2lb. He guesses it's intentional because a 1/2lb mithral weapon will always cost 250gp more than the base and will always be masterwork too, so it must be okay to pay less, then.
Then he remembers he wants a small tailblade with a base weight of 1/4lb because he is small. That would cost 136gp, and he realises it would cost more if it had no listed weight, and a weight-based price costing less than if it weighed nothing gives the rat a headache.
Please help this ratfolk rogue pay the fair amount for his small mithral tailblade and not validate negative stereotypes about his class or race.
| The Sideromancer |
Unless you need the weight reduction, see if you can get Silversheen weapon and avoid the issue entirely.
If not, I consider the "Masterworkness" a separate item (since that's how its crafted. Since mithril items effectively have a free "masterworkness" for being the material, so 500 gold per pound, even if its less than 300
However, I would rule that you use the 250 gold for 250g since 0/2=0. Find the item weight first, then the mihtril price.
| Artificial 20 |
Thought of silversheen, but tried to avoid confusion oover whether "count as alchemical silver weapons" includes "On a successful attack with a silvered slashing or piercing weapon, the wielder takes a –1 penalty on the damage roll (with a minimum of 1 point of damage)".
Has that been resolved anywhere?