Making a magic weapon, have I got this right?

[deathwolf669]

Hey guys I am building a few magical items and want to make sure I have the cost right.

My example is a light crossbow with Quick loading on it.

The crossbow is 35gp, it needs to be masterwork so that's +300gp.

Now I know it needs to be a +1 bonus before you can add extras, and +1 for the Quick loading. So that would be a total of 8,000gp.

That is a total of 8,335gp isn't it?

What page of the DMG has all the costs, I am struggling to find it.

[Dread_Head]

That is the correct price for that crossbow and the rules for magic weapons are on pages 221-223 with the weapon special abilities in the section immediately after them.

[deathwolf669]

Thank you Dread_Head, I must have jumped over table 7.9 several times.

[Dread_Head]

No problem, simple rule of thumb is that weapon enhancement are priced equal to the bonus squared times 2000 while for armour its the bonus squared times 1000.

[KillianHawkeye]

Well you succeeded in adding the +1 for the enhancement bonus to the +1 from Quick Loading and correctly priced the item as a +2. Getting that wrong is one of the more common mistakes for magic item newbies as far as I've seen.