5ColouredWalker
2017-01-30, 12:01 AM
A moment occurred to me while talking about epic magic item crafting. Specifically, I said it was a trap without fast plane/wish and one should just go to a planar metropolis (For reference, +11 armor would take 3 years, 3 months and 3 weeks to make, or 1.2 million gp to buy.)
Then I actually checked the Planar Metropolis GP limits based on the Planar Handbook.
'The' Planar metropolis you think of in dnd, Sigil? Price limit of 200K, no epic items for you.
The City of Brass, the biggest hub of trade? 300K, so enough for some of the wondrous items, but no +11 armor for you.
Noticing the MIC, these then get updated to 600K, so enough as long as you don't want an epic weapon or armor.
This means, epic arms and armor are a purely commissioned exercise, which is fair, until I remembered Devils.
A level non-LE character can sell his soul for up to 60% of his WBL all at once, which can be done in items, which means that those sort of items must be lying around in the 9 hells somewhere, or they're able to create them 'on demand'. (Canonically, those items are 'lying around' having been previously acquired by devils and then given to their superiors... Meaning Asmodeus probably has a vault or two of epic items.)
Assuming level 30 is the maximum a person can get (Because that's the highest WBL available, not because that's the case, gods are level 60+.), this would mean that baator would be willing to offer up a item worth 3 million gp for your epic level 30 paladin soul.
Otherwise known as Just enough for a +17 suit of armor or +12 weapon and some pocket change, while there are rules for +20 weapons and armor.
I just thought it'd be an interesting thing to share.
Then I actually checked the Planar Metropolis GP limits based on the Planar Handbook.
'The' Planar metropolis you think of in dnd, Sigil? Price limit of 200K, no epic items for you.
The City of Brass, the biggest hub of trade? 300K, so enough for some of the wondrous items, but no +11 armor for you.
Noticing the MIC, these then get updated to 600K, so enough as long as you don't want an epic weapon or armor.
This means, epic arms and armor are a purely commissioned exercise, which is fair, until I remembered Devils.
A level non-LE character can sell his soul for up to 60% of his WBL all at once, which can be done in items, which means that those sort of items must be lying around in the 9 hells somewhere, or they're able to create them 'on demand'. (Canonically, those items are 'lying around' having been previously acquired by devils and then given to their superiors... Meaning Asmodeus probably has a vault or two of epic items.)
Assuming level 30 is the maximum a person can get (Because that's the highest WBL available, not because that's the case, gods are level 60+.), this would mean that baator would be willing to offer up a item worth 3 million gp for your epic level 30 paladin soul.
Otherwise known as Just enough for a +17 suit of armor or +12 weapon and some pocket change, while there are rules for +20 weapons and armor.
I just thought it'd be an interesting thing to share.