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For questions about the process of creating items within the game fiction or mechanics. This may include various types of smithing, alchemy, magic item creation, and other durable or consumable goods, depending on the game.

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Crafting in the Wilderness

The DM must determine the DC for crafting raw materials, but a reasonable house rule simply makes the DC equal to the DC of crafting the actual item (because were it easier folks wouldn't buy raw materials …
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Brew Fleshcrafting poison limits

A creature brews any fleshgrafting poison at the GM's discretion The feat Brew Fleshcrafting Poison comes from Endless Night, the fourth chapter of the Second Darkness adventure path for Dungeons and …
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Can Glowing Ink be used for Tattoos?

Neither Adventurer's Armory nor Ultimate Equipment provides any information beyond what's included in the Open Gaming License version of glowing ink. Glowing ink appears to be usable solely for writin …
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How does a Dedicated Wright carry the process of item creation through to completion?

Relying on newer readers to already know that item creation is shorthand for magic item creation and not pedestrian crafting is a pretty bold assumption on the part of the wright's author. … Presumably, the creator of a dedicated wright (Eberron Campaign Setting 285) could task the creature with crafting a mundane object like an arrow, full plate, a longsword, a signet ring, or a spell component …
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When crafting, what combination of "Other Considerations" can I apply to reduce crafting costs?

The Dungeon Master's Guide on Behind the Curtain: Magic Item Gold Piece Values (282) actually isn't listing options available to players for their PCs to craft custom magic items at a reduced cost. In …
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When making an item, is it allowed to salvage other items to reduce the cost?

The Player's Handbook on Item Creation Feats on Raw Materials says Creating a magic item requires costly components, most of which are consumed in the process. The cost of these materials equals half …
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Rules for magic item creation while adventuring

who teleports from the dungeon to his lab or hauls his portable workshop into his mage's mansion and crafts away for 4 hours definitionally isn't out adventuring the whole day--he's spent part of it crafting
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How does time elapse during crafting?

Talk to the DM The limits of what other tasks can be undertaken while crafting mundane items is unstated, therefore dependent on the DM. … The house rules detailed above don't prohibit simultaneously crafting and adventuring, but make adventuring secondary while crafting. …
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Are there rules for creating magic items that can be activated with a swift action?

Only indirectly are rules provided for creating an item that takes a swift action to activate The section Creating Magic Items says Using metamagic feats, a caster can place spells in items at a …
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What is the use for an alchemist's lab?

The alchemist's lab specifically overrides the more general masterwork tool and the masterwork artisan's tools Most skills don't need tools. However, a craftsman usually needs different artisan's to …
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What is the dispel CL of a crafted Pearl of Power?

He can set the caster level to whatever he wants (assuming he can meet the crafting DC),4 though the pearl's caster level has no effect on its powers (other than its ability to resist dispel magic). …
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Can the skill Craft (cooking) influence magical effects?

Unless the DM agrees, the skill Craft is likely no help when casting the spell create food and water, which explicitly creates "simple fare of your choice—highly nourishing, if rather bland" and water …
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Cost to upgrade an enchanted whip to a mighty whip-dagger?

The Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 revision allows a whip's wielder—and, by extension, a whip-dagger's wielder—to deal damage with the weapon using the wielder's entire Strength bonus. Both whips are pretty …
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By how much is a wand's price raised if unicorn horn is added during its creation?

The Dungeon Master's Guide on Creating Wands says, "Fifty of each needed material component are required, one for each charge" (288), so while the 1st-level Sor/Wiz spell lesser vigor [conj] (Spell Co …
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Can items grant both enhancement and competence bonuses to skills?

First, the Epic Level Handbook isn't necessarily wrong, but it does weasel mightily: It says that the "following are typical characteristics of an epic magic item[, and, i]n general, an item with even …
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