Monday, January 29, 2007

Prophania’s Dreamcatcher - Major Wondrous Item

Prophania’s Dreamcatcher: This looks like copper ring, three inches in diameter, with a net of copper wire twisted and strung across it. Semi precious stones are twisted into the wire, and there is a small hole in the center of it.

The dreamcatcher takes up the amulet slot and is a spell trigger item. A wearer can use detect thoughts at will as a 3rd level caster, cast scrying 3 times per day as a 7th level caster, and cast nightmare once per night as a 9th level caster. The wearer must have the spell they are trying to use on their list.

Moderate divination; CL 9; Craft Wondrous Item, detect thoughts, scry, nightmare; Price 18,150 gp
Treasure Value: 17th
NPC Gear: 16th

Notes: Once upon a time, you had to make a scry skill check to use the scrying spell and similar abilities. This item was originally created to make use of scrying as a skill check. Scrying was written out of the rules in 3.5, so I treated this item as a command word item. There is no explicit formula for non-charged spell trigger items in the DMG, so I priced it as if "Item requires specific class or alignment to use." I treated this as multiple similar abilities, because none of them stack.

So:

detect thoughts = 2*3*1,800 = 10,800 *.5 = 5,400
scrying = 4*7*1,800/1.666 for three uses per day= 31,500
nightmare = 5*9*1,800/5 for one use per day = 16,200 *.75 = 12,150
total = 54,450 - 35% = 38,115

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