Ok, so recently I was working on crafting a +6 intelligence item, which I thought was completely fine, and I mentioned it in passing with my DM, who immediately noted his disagreement, saying that I could only craft ability modifier items if my level was 3x the modifier, so if I wanted to craft +6, I'd need to be level 18. At the moment I'm level 13, so the best I can get up to is +4. Now I made sure that he realised that this was a houserule, not really by the books, so we're both clear on that, and despite me not liking the rule, I'm living with it. But that opened up the question for me, what level should these items become commonplace, at least for primary ability scores? I've always thought that by 12-15ish, +6 items should be quite decently available, after all, they're only 36k, which at 12 isnt even half of your wealth by level, and at 15 is barely even a blip.