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Old 12-07-2006, 09:33 PM   #10
Illumina Drathiran'ar
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I, however, am not. Let us take as an example the Enhanced Robe of Vecna. Yes, all you're doing is switching out the robe, but all you did was increase the price accordingly. I don't think that's good enough... Gold comes and goes in this game, and for an item of extreme power like that, I think you might need to sacrifice something else of value. For example, CF requires combining several items that would be of great value to a party lacking in certain statistics. Here, items that would boost AC, for example, should be sacrificed. I'd say you should give up the Ring of Protection +2, two Scrolls of Contingency, and the Ring of Acuity. The reasoning behind this would be that, as the Robe of Vecna is alarmingly powerful and profoundly enchanted, it would likewise require increasingly powerful magic to alter or enhance it. The Robe of Archmagi, by comparison, is rather tame... Enchanting a robe to increase Armor Class and Saving Throws like that would be a simple task for a mage of moderate power, and maybe sewing an Amulet of Magic Resistance in there somewhere- easy to create, easy to modify. Robe of Vecna, not so much at all.
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