| Danzibe1989 |
So in terms of creating magic items, I know what the book says but to me it isn't clear enough.
Market Price = Base Price is what the book says.
What if I craft it? Does the Cost to Create become the Base Price thus taking less time to make the item since I am making it myself?
Also, Cooperative Crafting says: You provide a +2 circumstance bonus on any Craft or Spellcraft checks related to making an item, and your assistance doubles the gp value of items that can be crafted each day.
Does that gold value reduce time spent on magic items by 50%?
| Meirril |
The base price is the market price. Period. The time to create the item is based on that value.
Cooperative Crafting effectively doubles the rate at which magic items can be produced. The gold value is how progress on producing a magic item is measured. Please note that you can travel about and use a mixture of adventuring and downtime to create an item, but you need to have all of the resources and/or assistants to be with your through the entire process (this includes losing a copy of any spells used for magic item creation at the beginning of the day). Travel/adventuring days count for 4 hours every 2 days, or effectively 8 hours for every 4 adventuring days. How much each of those days count for is based on your decisions, abilities and circumstances when you began making the item.
| OmniMage |
Market price is equal to base price. Cost to create is half that. Time to create is base price divided by 1000 gp.
Cooperative crafting halves the time needed to craft magic items because you have 2 people contributing 1000 gp each, for a total of 2000 gp per day.
For instance, a +2 magic sword. A +2 longsword has a market price of 8315 gp. 15 gp is the price of the longsword, 300 gp is the masterwork quality, and 8000 gp is the +2 rating. The masterwork longsword is made with the craft skill (or you buy it). 8000 gp divided by 1000 gp is 8, so it takes 8 days to craft the magic component. The cost to craft is 8000 gp divided by 2, so 4000 gp to craft.
OK, a magic sword might not be the best example as it has non-magical components. Lets try something else.
The price for a ring of invisibility is 20000 gp. 20000 gp divided by 1000 gp is 20, so it takes 20 days to craft. The price of supplies is 20000 gp divided by 2, so 10000 gp.
| Meirril |
When you create a magic item you can raise the DC by 5 to double your progress per day, and Cooperative Crafting doubles that again to 4,000gp per day. You can also have more than 1 assistant with Cooperative Crafting.
Also if you happen to be a Forge Master and you are making magic items out of metal you get more production bonuses to cut the enchanting time. I'm sure there are other possible bonuses to producing magic items I'm not aware of.