Assuming crafting during character creation would be allowed, time skip wise. Can you sell off the permanent level items given by the wealth table for 50% of their worth in order to craft something that is often above your starting gold?
For example, a group would get a level six item from the end of their last adventure, but they don't need it. Therefore they sell it off immediately at the start of level seven.
Now because a character is level seven they can craft a master quality item.
I would assume this would be a legitimate option given the wealth table is to reflect a player at a given level with those items.
You specify the presumption that the time-skip is a given. If that is the case, then I imagine that the answer would be yes.
However, I believe the normal income by day job is comparable to the progress that you get on the crafting table, so if the time skip is acceptable, then if you double that time skip, they can earn enough to buy that new item outright. (or spend the first half of the time earning the money to buy the materials, and the last half working on crafting it and cutting the price down)
Keep in mind that by crafting rules you spend 50% down on crafting, and then have to either pay the remaining 50% or work the remainder down in crafting income/progress over time.
While the crafting portion of my original post was more for the what if scenario. The main point of concern is that the table listed in the book, doesn't accurately represent a player of the listed level's items. It is whether or not there should be a rule in place to sell off items from the table for 50% of their value. If Paizo plans to use a table like this in their official book without such a rule, it make tie the hands of many players when they generate characters at the table's listed levels.
If you mean someone allocated a high-level item might want to sell it to buy a lower-level item instead, there's this:
A PC can voluntarily take an item that has a lower level than any or all of the listed items, but doing so doesn’t give any more currency.
If you mean someone allocated two mid-level items might want to sell them and buy a higher-level item instead, that strikes me as a bad idea to allow, or at least a bad idea to mandate allowing.
If you don't mean either of those things then I'm not sure what you mean.
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If you mean someone allocated a high-level item might want to sell it to buy a lower-level item instead, there's this:
A PC can voluntarily take an item that has a lower level than any or all of the listed items, but doing so doesn’t give any more currency.If you mean someone allocated two mid-level items might want to sell them and buy a higher-level item instead, that strikes me as a bad idea to allow, or at least a bad idea to mandate allowing.
If you don't mean either of those things then I'm not sure what you mean.
I would just like the second option to be viable. Instead of forcing players to have items the development team assumes you would have. Many players like to save up in order to get items that cost more instead of less.
I would just like the second option to be viable. Instead of forcing players to have items the development team assumes you would have. Many players like to save up in order to get items that cost more instead of less.If you mean someone allocated a high-level item might want to sell it to buy a lower-level item instead, there's this:
A PC can voluntarily take an item that has a lower level than any or all of the listed items, but doing so doesn’t give any more currency.If you mean someone allocated two mid-level items might want to sell them and buy a higher-level item instead, that strikes me as a bad idea to allow, or at least a bad idea to mandate allowing.
If you don't mean either of those things then I'm not sure what you mean.
Well, it's viable in that the GM can allow it if they feel like it. (They don't have to cut it to 50% of the value if they don't feel like it, too.) It's just not mandated.
Ideally they'd just give us a WBL chart as an alternative to items by level, so you could use whichever suits your game better.