Trying to understand self powered items

larsdangly · 11-20-2019, 09:22 AM

I was re-reading the rules on magic item creation and having trouble understanding the reasoning or system behind how self powered capabilities really work.

The general rule is clear(ish): cost in money, ST and wizards is at least 10x that of the standard version. What 'at least' means in this context isn't clear; the example a couple of pages before suggests it means you get 1 point of self powering. So what does it cost to get 2 or 3 or 4? Who knows.

More generally, quite a few items are described as having no ST cost, presumably meaning their default version is self powered. I can't make any sense of why one item has this capability and another doesn't, and judging from the costs in the tables it seems like in these cases self-powering was very cheap compared to the general rule for self powering.

Does anyone out there feel like they understand this?

11-20-2019, 09:22 AM	#1
larsdangly Join Date: Dec 2017	Trying to understand self powered items I was re-reading the rules on magic item creation and having trouble understanding the reasoning or system behind how self powered capabilities really work. The general rule is clear(ish): cost in money, ST and wizards is at least 10x that of the standard version. What 'at least' means in this context isn't clear; the example a couple of pages before suggests it means you get 1 point of self powering. So what does it cost to get 2 or 3 or 4? Who knows. More generally, quite a few items are described as having no ST cost, presumably meaning their default version is self powered. I can't make any sense of why one item has this capability and another doesn't, and judging from the costs in the tables it seems like in these cases self-powering was very cheap compared to the general rule for self powering. Does anyone out there feel like they understand this?