craft wonderous item 3.5 question

[DrkMagusX]

If i wanted to make a Collar of enlarge person that could be turned on n off how do i figure it. How about a collar of animal growth.

[John Longarrow]

Unless there is already something that does what you are looking for (and you will want to check around for one), the general formula is Spell level * Caster Level * 2000 gp * spell duration multiplier (as listed in DMG under custom item creation).

This would be for "Use activated", so when it is put on you get big, then when you take it off you become small. IIRC, its about 20,000gp.

[Bakkan]

There is already a ring of reduce person in Lords of Madness for 20,000 gp, so John Longarrow's price point is well justified.

[DrkMagusX]

I m also trying to under stand how the pricing works . It has always been a bit confusing. How do you get the Minimal caster level required to make a item.

[Skevvix]

I m also trying to under stand how the pricing works . It has always been a bit confusing. How do you get the Minimal caster level required to make a item.

Minimum Caster Level is the lowest level you can be to cast the highest level spell used. So for Enlarge Person, it is CL1, for Animal Growth ( a 5th level druid spell) it is CL9.

Edit: After looking at the DMG, the 20k seems vastly inflated. Spell level(1) * Caster Level(1) * Continuous Effect(2000) * Duration Modifier(2) = 4000g for the Enlarge Person Collar. Animal Growth is 5 * 9 * 2000 * 2 = 180k

You can reduce these costs by making it a Command Word activation which changes the 2,000 to 1,800, making it 3,600 for enlarge person and 162,000 for the animal growth. But then these might only be usable a certain amount of times per day(at DM discretion)

[DrkMagusX]

I think I m gonna do a 3 times per day as it is mainly for combat. Otherwise I will look into a total amount of 1 min a day. Thanks for the assistance.