How to make magic items more common?

Pluribus · 06-10-2014, 02:06 AM

Thanks for all the advice. It all seems to boil down to just lowering the price really. I think I'll just have to fiat some of the "trivial" spells like Umbrella, after I think really hard to make sure they can't be exploited in crazy ways.

in addition to reducing the price, I think I'll have to adjust the ramping of power cost. Many of the costs seem to be on a nearly exponential curve. such as 250 - 1000 - 5000 There wouldn't really be a way to price that on a point per power basis that wouldn't have a weird disparity between where it starts and where it ends up. Even if it just doubled every level that seems more reasonable. Plus it would allow us to go beyond +3 and maybe be somewhat competitive with what normal tech would have been.

06-10-2014, 02:06 AM	#8
Pluribus Join Date: Dec 2010	Re: How to make magic items more common? Thanks for all the advice. It all seems to boil down to just lowering the price really. I think I'll just have to fiat some of the "trivial" spells like Umbrella, after I think really hard to make sure they can't be exploited in crazy ways. in addition to reducing the price, I think I'll have to adjust the ramping of power cost. Many of the costs seem to be on a nearly exponential curve. such as 250 - 1000 - 5000 There wouldn't really be a way to price that on a point per power basis that wouldn't have a weird disparity between where it starts and where it ends up. Even if it just doubled every level that seems more reasonable. Plus it would allow us to go beyond +3 and maybe be somewhat competitive with what normal tech would have been.