[3.5] Pricing a Custom Item (DM McGuffin)

[Thurbane]

Just curious, as a DM, how would you price the following item:

Give a spontaneous caster a bonus (predetermined) spell known, one each of level 1 through 9, with spells already being set in the item.

Would you price it as:

A.) 9x Knowstones (i.e. 1x 1st, 1x2nd etc.) or...

B.) As a feat (similar to the Bloodline feats in Dragon Compendium)

I know there's no RAW on this, just looking for thoughts.

Cheers - T

[Gildedragon]

Prolly as 9 knowstones: feat price assessment is tricky. but if it is a mcguff why bother pricing it?

[Thurbane]

Prolly as 9 knowstones: feat price assessment is tricky. but if it is a mcguff why bother pricing it?

Just in case players do something crazy and sell it :smalltongue:

[PallentisLunam]

If they do you could have the NPC say they've never seen anything like it (prereq of a mcguffin) so they have no idea what it would be worth.

If you do really need a price I agree with the 9 know stones assessment.

[Bronk]

It sounds to me to be more like a custom runestaff, with more spell levels than average, but with a reduced number of castings. The pricing rules for that would be right in the MIC.

I'm typing on a phone here, but here's a link to a discussion on runestaff pricing:

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?199824-Runestaff-Price-Question