Crafting Cost Mitigation

[EugeneVoid]

How cheap can we craft things? (Magic Items)

I'll start:

50% crafting

[Diarmuid]

This seems like a fun game: 0% crafting

Did I win?

[AdamantlyD20]

Item Requires Skill to Use: Some items require a specific skill to get them to function. This factor should reduce the cost about 10%.

Item Requires Specific Class or Alignment to Use: Even more restrictive than requiring a skill, this limitation cuts the price by 30%. Found here (http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/magicItems/magicItemCreation.html)

Reduce materials/ improved reduce materials/ greater reduce materials: item may be crafted at 1/4 less cost/time, 1/2 less cost/ time, and finally at 3/4 less cost/ time

Extraordinary Artisan: When determining the gold piece cost in raw materials you need to craft any item, reduce the base price by 25%.

Favored in the Guild (arcane): Arcane: The guild subsidizes the creation of magic items, reducing your raw material costsby 5%.

Apprentice (craftsman): A craftsman mentor is skilled at building things. A craftsman grants his apprentice a +2 competence bonus on all Craft checksand a 10% discount when he purchases raw materials for items he makes (including items made with the Craft skill or with an item creation feat, but not spell components or services).

[weckar]

You missed racial restrictions. Also 'cursed' items cheapen the process, I believe.

[AdamantlyD20]

Idk how the reduction costs work together. But if you just add them all up its a 155% reduction in the normal crafting price. (310% Price reduction from full price?)

[weckar]

I'm pretty sure it works multiplicatively, not additively..... wouldn't make sense if it could go over 100%

[Harrow]

Most people use multiple cost reduction methods multiplicatively.

There is an exception, the Unbound Scroll prestige class. It cuts the cost of making scrolls by 10%, and an additional 5% per level of the class. This is explicitly additive with Extraordinary Artisan, so with all 5 levels of the class, that's a cost reduction of 60% when making scrolls. This could be driven higher by taking Legacy Champion, but that's a good way to get a whole truck full of DMGs thrown at you.

Oh, and that 60% cost reduction? That's before you take in to account the base 50% cut from market price you get for crafting. So with just Extraordinary Artisan and 5 levels of Unbound Scroll (which are honestly pretty good even without the cost reduction) you're looking at paying 20% market price for all of your scrolls.

Oh, and these scrolls? Unbound scroll gives you a bonus to activating them and lets you expend daily uses of your Dragonmarks to raise their caster level, DC, add metamagic to them, and, as a capstone, straight up duplicate them.

Does that count as crafting? 'Cause that's 0 gold, 0 xp, 1 daily use of a spell-like ability. It can only be used for spells up to 6th level, and none with XP or expensive material components, but if you get even a few days of downtime then you can make a whole stack of them.