Recharging magic itel

[Malapterus]

I am trying to figure out how to fairly price an item that falls between "charges per day" and "continuous". How would you calculate an item that can be used every 1d4 rounds?

The item in question would be a gauntlet that can cast Heal every 1d4 rounds

[Boggartbae]

I would extrapolate it based on how often you expect it to be used. How many combats/day, and how many rounds/combat.

Another option would be to treat it as continuos, since it is infinite out of combat healing, and then take a few thousand gold off because it won't always be there when they need it (but it probably will be, tbh)

[Grod_The_Giant]

Anything over 5 charges/day gets priced as if it was at-will, from what I can tell, so I wouldn't give any discount.

[Darrin]

The item in question would be a gauntlet that can cast Heal every 1d4 rounds

So, on average, every 3rd round you can cast heal... price it as an at-will command word and then cut the price to 33%.

6 x 11 x 1800 x 1/3 = 39,204 GP.

Hmm. That feels kinda low.


Anything over 5 charges/day gets priced as if it was at-will, from what I can tell, so I wouldn't give any discount.

6 x 11 x 1800 = 118,800 GP does feel like a more appropriate price.

[Grod_The_Giant]

6 x 11 x 1800 = 11,800 GP does feel like a more appropriate price.
118,800*. Dropped a zero.

[Darrin]

118,800*. Dropped a zero.

Yes, exactly. Thank you.

[Malapterus]

Anything over 5 charges/day gets priced as if it was at-will, from what I can tell, so I wouldn't give any discount.

But then I may as well go with useable every round

[Grod_The_Giant]

But then I may as well go with useable every round
You could knock a bit off the price, I suppose. 75,000 sounds fair.