Brew Potion says "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."
According to the Potion cost chart, where the hell are these prices coming from? No potion costs exactly 250 gp or any denomination of 1000 gp, so why are those numbers used to determine the time to brew them? I must be missing something here. And why does it not mention the time for a potion whose cost is between 250 and 1,000?
This might just be a nitpick, but I gotta ask anyway on the off chance that it's a sign that I am badly misunderstanding the rules here.
A 1st-level potion with caster level 5 would cost 250gp.
A 2nd-level potion with caster level 10 would cost 1,000gp.
The chart you're looking at assumes the minimum caster level for its spell level. That's really only going to be true of random potions found as treasure. If you're crafting them yourself, then you can set the caster level to anything you want, limited only by your own max caster level. Doing so would increase time and costs accordingly.
Ohhhh..... I am a fool. There's literally a chart that demonstrates that, but I ignored it because "it must be wrong." There's a reason I use a foolish Bard as my icon. : P
Thanks for the concise answer.
You can still make only one magical item each day (even potions!) even if the potion is 250gp or less.