Jowgen
2020-01-28, 10:37 AM
So the sacrifice rules from BoVD are one of the many wondrous ways to mitigate magic item crafting costs, among many other benefits you can get out of them.
What is needed to benefit from them is a lack of moral hangups, a suitable place to murder people in peace, a setup to boost your sacrifice check ideally into the tripple digits and of course a supply of people to murder.
This idea deals with the latter need.
Conjuration [Calling] spells transport actual creatures to your location, usually with some mechanic that allows you to get them to do stuff for you.
Provided a called creature meets the requirement of being living and having an Int of at least 3, I see nothing that prevents you from using those Sacrifices.
Halaster's Fetch I seems to me like the prime candidate spell to use. It's 4th level with no list shenanigans, summoning 1-2 HD magical beasts from either the upper or lower planes, no exp costs or other lengthy requirements. You even get a little boost to your sacrifice check if you choose the right critter.
Even someone with limited magic could likely get a 4th level Minor Schema for 11.200 gp to call a Celestial Porpoise or somesuch, then proceed to do a daily sacrificie.
Given a decent level of optimisation, it should be possible to secure a steady supply of 300+ Dark Craft exp every day; i.e. enough to craft a 15000 gp magic item with.
So, anyone got any thoughts or ways to improve upon this?
What is needed to benefit from them is a lack of moral hangups, a suitable place to murder people in peace, a setup to boost your sacrifice check ideally into the tripple digits and of course a supply of people to murder.
This idea deals with the latter need.
Conjuration [Calling] spells transport actual creatures to your location, usually with some mechanic that allows you to get them to do stuff for you.
Provided a called creature meets the requirement of being living and having an Int of at least 3, I see nothing that prevents you from using those Sacrifices.
Halaster's Fetch I seems to me like the prime candidate spell to use. It's 4th level with no list shenanigans, summoning 1-2 HD magical beasts from either the upper or lower planes, no exp costs or other lengthy requirements. You even get a little boost to your sacrifice check if you choose the right critter.
Even someone with limited magic could likely get a 4th level Minor Schema for 11.200 gp to call a Celestial Porpoise or somesuch, then proceed to do a daily sacrificie.
Given a decent level of optimisation, it should be possible to secure a steady supply of 300+ Dark Craft exp every day; i.e. enough to craft a 15000 gp magic item with.
So, anyone got any thoughts or ways to improve upon this?