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holywhippet
2008-01-05, 02:43 PM
I'm running a monk in a 3.0 campaign. Currently he's level 4 and there's a good chance he'll be fighting an imp in the near feature so I wanted a silver weapon to fight with. He has weapon proficiency: unarmed (and a higher DEX score than STR) so I figured a silver gauntlet would be the way to go. My monk has some ranks in craft: weapons so I figured it might be cheaper to forge a set himself. However, I can't work out how much the base cost for silver gauntlets would be. I'm not sure if the DC would be higher than forging a regular set of gauntlets either. I'm also not sure how I factor in the cost. Given a craft skill of 3 (and taking 10 for the skill roll), I'd be able to make a regular set of gauntlets in under a day.

Since I'm working with silver though, I don't know if I simply increase the materials cost of the item but take the same amount of time or if I have to use the new value of the item and increase the production time accordingly. I'm not sure what the value of silver gauntlets are either. A silver dagger is 10 gold vs a regular dagger costing 2 gold. Regular gauntlets are 2 gold also, so would silver gauntlets also cost 10 gold?

Nerd-o-rama
2008-01-05, 03:03 PM
Adding the Silver property (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/specialMaterials.htm#silverAlchemical) to a Light Weapon adds 20 gp to the base price. Gauntlets, however, are filed under "unarmed attacks" (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/equipment/weapons.htm#weaponDescriptions) rather than Light Weapons. However, since an unarmed strike (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/equipment/weapons.htm#unarmedStrike) is itself considered a light weapon, you can probably infer that gauntlets are as well, in every respect that matters, so I'd say 22 gp.

Not sure where you're getting that a Silver Dagger is 10 gp. By my calculations, it should also be 22 gp, and the price of the Silver Dagger, Masterwork (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/magicWeapons.htm#silverDaggerMasterwork) backs me up.

holywhippet
2008-01-05, 05:23 PM
Not sure where you're getting that a Silver Dagger is 10 gp. By my calculations, it should also be 22 gp, and the price of the Silver Dagger, Masterwork (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/magicWeapons.htm#silverDaggerMasterwork) backs me up.

I'm getting it from the players handbook. Remember that I'm talking about a campaign under 3.0 rules, not 3.5 rules.

SurlySeraph
2008-01-05, 06:16 PM
Just apply Silversheen (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/wondrousItems.htm#silversheen) to your fists.

holywhippet
2008-01-05, 08:27 PM
That's outside of my budget and would only work for a short time. I might consider it for a higher level devil, but for a mere imp I wouldn't bother.