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I had a set up where PC commisoned Enchntments were done off-screen by a circle of dragons drinking gallons of paut and I still limited things to 2000 pts. That's a 20 hour Q&D ritual even if the energy is available. There's a limit to how much even dragons will do for gold. I had some bags of holding witrh D&D-like capacities but those were based on Permanent Gates to pocket dimensions.
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Okay, I'll grant "it takes a really long time" is a limiter, but it's certainly no hard cap, and there are no rules saying "100 pounds maximum on Hideaway", which was the thrust of my point.
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EDIT: Or whatever they're enchanting is destroyed, or something else that prevents continuing. For a real job like that it would be MAJOR problem. |
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Not with no breaks but. I think you and several other people, including the author of Magic, don't realize that you don't get weekends or other public holidays off, and while tolerating that for a couple of years straight out of uni is possible, for your entire professional life it won't be. |
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This is where a guild shines. As a guilder, you work on teams until a specific project is complete, take a break, then pick up a new project when you return. The guild is continuously working on enchantments so is continuously making money and spreading out the risk and rewards across the guild members. |
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As in typical in the modern day for building contractors, at least in my area. That's mostly (at least theoretically) for materials, though, so the worker isn't out of pocket.
Anyone rich enough to afford an enchanted item could likely also pay on an installment plan, should the enchanter be worried about covering weekly or monthly expenses. The price may be listed as one number, but that doesn't mean that's the way it has to be paid. That kind of social convention is up to the setting, not the game rules. (It's not like the Traveller rules, with their built-in mortgage interest rates and periods...) There's no requirement for the enchanter to be self-supporting for a year or two. |
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