A good alternative [D&D 3.5]

[SillyBee]

Is there an easily integrated alternative out in the ether for using XP as a cost for item creation?

I know that the class from Eberron, Artificer is able to get around it, but what about for a wizard or other caster?

Any heads up would be great!

Thanks,
B

[Eldariel]

Unearthed Arcana offers craft points for each character, much like Artificer's craft reserve (of course, Artificer should have more under these rules).

[Olo Demonsbane]

Liquid Pain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EDIT: Damn, it won't let you all caps anything :(

[Sstoopidtallkid]

Worth mentioning is that ECS stated that people could work together on magic item creation, with one providing XP and the other actually making it. Combining that with the 1 XP=5 GP rule of thumb, you could pay large numbers of NPCs to contribute to your crafting. Not the best solution, but it works.

[monty]

Sacrifices, from BoVD. With a sufficiently high Knowledge check, you could conceivably make anything for free.

[Lamech]

Isn't their a distill joy spell in the BoED that does the same thing as liqued pain? (Except the person has to be happy, and you can get unlimited doses.) Just hook them up to a machine of magically induced happiness and get infinite cosmic power free xp. I think something about "sexual ectasy" was mentioned as well; I'm sure you can devise some method of creating joy.

If your using liqued pain binding torturing and killing outsiders works, you can get liqued pain and possibly souls; just make sure divinations can't find you. Or take outsiders who won't be missed. Salads perhaps?

[Kaiyanwang]

Remember that DMG suggest as optional rule the use of rare reagents as XP component. The same sidebar suggest the gold value of such reagents, so you can manage it well with treasure.

[amanamana]

(...)Or take outsiders who won't be missed. Salads perhaps?

I think the vegans will miss them!:smalltongue:

[Lamech]

I'm sorry I'm bad enough at spelling real words. Imaginary ones are down right impossible for me to get.:smalltongue:

[Rhiannon87]

Remember that DMG suggest as optional rule the use of rare reagents as XP component. The same sidebar suggest the gold value of such reagents, so you can manage it well with treasure.

Would you happen to know what page this is on? I'm in the planning stages of a character who will be doing lots of crafting, and I wouldn't mind having an alternative to XP cost to present to my DM. And I just spent a fair amount of time flipping through my DMG, with no luck.