This analysis assumes you have 10 charges per day. Pretend it's a staff but use the command word activated costs. All abilities in a staff are assumed to use one charge. If they use two, you half the cost of the ability. Price the whole thing like a staff and it should come out about right. Since 5 charges / day is equal to unlimited / day and this item only has 1/5 the number of charges of a staff (but resets every day) that would seem like a wash to me. Or you might double the cost afterward since it is an auto recharging staff.
Don't forget that the highest cost item (level x caster level x 1800) is full price and all other abilities are 75% of full and then you divide by number of charges used. After that, make a single item out of the most powerful ability and make sure it still costs the right amount: 1) Circle of Death (4 charges) (6 x 15 x 1800) / 4 = 40500 2) Cloudkill (3 charges) (5 x 15 x 1800 x .75) / 3 = 33750 3) Stinking Cloud (1 charge) (3 x 15 x 1800 x .75) = 60750 = 135000 gp Circle of Death (2/day) (6 x 15 x 1800 x 2/5) = 64800 Cloud Kill (3/day) = (5 x 15 x 1800 x 3/5) = 81000 Thus since it costs more than each the bare item would cost, it may be balanced. I didn't use the 375 mention in staffs because this item recharges each day, just like a command word item might. Anyone know a better method? Joe --- "Steven \"Conan\" Trustrum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The nature of the item is that it has several uses, each of which > uses up a > different number of charges. So, with one ability you may only get 2 > uses > per day, while just using another ability would get you all 10 uses. > > > > Steven "Conan" Trustrum > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Homepage: http://www.trustrum.com > "The only real people are the people that never existed" -- Oscar > Wilde > > _______________________________________________ > Ogf-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l > > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
