SRD:Item Creation (Feat Type)

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Item Creation Feats

Magic Item Creation

An item creation feat lets a spellcaster create a magic item of a certain type. Regardless of the type of items they involve, the various item creation feats all have certain features in common.

XP Cost

Experience that the spellcaster would normally keep is expended when making a magic item. The XP cost equals 1/25 of the cost of the item in gold pieces. A character cannot spend so much XP on an item that he or she loses a level. However, upon gaining enough XP to attain a new level, he or she can immediately expend XP on creating an item rather than keeping the XP to advance a level.

Raw Materials Cost

The cost of creating a magic item equals one-half the sale cost of the item.

Using an item creation feat also requires access to a laboratory or magical workshop, special tools, and so on. A character generally has access to what he or she needs unless unusual circumstances apply.

Time

The time to create a magic item depends on the feat and the cost of the item. The minimum time is one day.

Item Cost

Brew Potion, Craft Wand, and Scribe Scroll create items that directly reproduce spell effects, and the power of these items depends on their caster level—that is, a spell from such an item has the power it would have if cast by a spellcaster of that level. The price of these items (and thus the XP cost and the cost of the raw materials) also depends on the caster level. The caster level must be high enough that the spellcaster creating the item can cast the spell at that level. To find the final price in each case, multiply the caster level by the spell level, then multiply the result by a constant, as shown below:

Scrolls

Base price=spell level × caster level × 25 gp.

Potions

Base price=spell level × caster level × 50 gp.

Wands

Base price=spell level × caster level × 750 gp.

A 0-level spell is considered to have a spell level of 1/2 for the purpose of this calculation.

Extra Costs

Any potion, scroll, or wand that stores a spell with a costly material component or an XP cost also carries a commensurate cost. For potions and scrolls, the creator must expend the material component or pay the XP cost when creating the item.

For a wand, the creator must expend fifty copies of the material component or pay fifty times the XP cost.

Some magic items similarly incur extra costs in material components or XP, as noted in their descriptions.

Psionic Item Creation

Manifesters can use their personal power to create lasting psionic items. Doing so, however, is draining. A manifester must put a little of himself or herself into every psionic item he or she creates.

A psionic Item Creation feat lets a manifester create a psionic item of a certain type. Regardless of the type of items they involve, the various Item Creation feats all have certain features in common.

XP Cost

Power and energy that the manifester would normally keep is expended when making a psionic item. The experience point cost of using a psionic Item Creation feat equals 1/25 the cost of the item in gold pieces. A character cannot spend so much XP on an item that he or she loses a level. However, upon gaining enough XP to attain a new level, he or she can immediately expend XP on creating an item rather than keeping the XP to advance a level.

Raw Materials Cost

Creating a psionic item requires costly components, most of which are consumed in the process. The cost of these materials equals 1/2 the cost of the item.

Using a psionic Item Creation feat also requires access to a laboratory or psionic workshop, special tools, and other equipment. A character generally has access to what he or she needs unless unusual circumstances apply (such as if he’s traveling far from home).

Time

The time to create a psionic item depends on the feat and the cost of the item. The minimum time is one day.

Item Cost

Craft Dorje, Imprint Stone, and Scribe Tattoo create items that directly reproduce the effects of powers, and the strength of these items depends on their manifester level—that is, a power from such an item has the strength it would have if manifested by a manifester of that level. Often, that is the minimum manifester level necessary to manifest the power. (Randomly discovered items usually follow this rule.) However, when making such an item, the item’s strength can be set higher than the minimum. Any time a character creates an item using a power augmented by spending additional power points, the character’s effective manifester level for the purpose of calculating the item’s cost increases by 1 for each 1 additional power point spent. (Augmentation is a feature of many powers that allows the power to be amplified in various ways if additional power points are spent.) All other level-dependent parameters of the power forged into the item are set according to the effective manifester level.

The price of psionic items (and thus the XP cost and the cost of the raw materials) depends on the level of the power and a character’s manifester level. The character’s manifester level must be high enough that the item creator can manifest the power at the chosen level. To find the final price in each case, multiply the character’s manifester level by the power level, then multiply the result by a constant, as shown below.

Power Stones

Base price=power level × manifester level × 25 gp

Psionic Tattoos

Base price=power level × manifester level × 50 gp

Dorjes

Base price=power level × manifester level × 750 gp

Extra Costs

Any dorje, power stone, or psionic tattoo that stores a power with an XP cost also carries a commensurate cost.

For psionic tattoos and power stones, the creator must pay the XP cost when creating the item. For a dorje, the creator must pay fifty times the XP cost.

Some psionic items similarly incur extra costs in XP, as noted in their descriptions.

List of Item Creation Feats

Brew Potion Craft Cognizance Crystal Craft Dorje Craft Magic Arms and Armor Craft Construct Craft Epic Magic Arms and Armor Craft Psicrown

Craft Psionic Arms and Armor Craft Psionic Construct Craft Rod Craft Epic Rod Craft Staff Craft Epic Staff Craft Universal Item Craft Wand

Craft Wondrous Item Craft Epic Wondrous Item Forge Ring Forge Epic Ring Imprint Stone Scribe Scroll Scribe Epic Scroll Scribe Tattoo

 

SRD Item Creation Feats

Feat	Summary	Prerequisites
Brew Potion	You can create potions.	Caster level 3rd.
Craft Cognizance Crystal	You can create psionic cognizance crystals that store power points.	Manifester level 3rd.
Craft Construct	You've always wanted to build your own monster.	Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Craft Wondrous Item.
Craft Dorje	You can create slender crystal wands called dorjes that manifest powers when charges are expended.	Manifester level 5th.
Craft Magic Arms and Armor	You can create magical weapons, shields, and armor.	Caster level 5th.
Craft Psicrown	You can create psicrowns, which have multiple psionic effects.	Manifester level 12th.
Craft Psionic Arms and Armor	You can create psionic weapons, armor, and shields.	Manifester level 5th.
Craft Psionic Construct	You can create golems and other psionic automatons that obey your orders.	Craft Psionic Arms and Armor, Craft Universal Item.
Craft Rod		Caster level 9th.
Craft Staff		Caster level 12th.
Craft Universal Item	You can create universal psionic items.	Manifester level 3rd.
Craft Wand	Become able to create wands.	Caster level 5th.
Craft Wondrous Item	You can create wondrous items.	Caster level 3rd.
Forge Ring		Caster level 12th.
Imprint Stone	You can create power stones to store psionic powers.	Manifester level 1st.
Scribe Scroll	Scribe one-time magical effects that other spellcasters may use.	Caster level 1st.
Scribe Tattoo	You can create psionic tattoos, which store powers within their designs.	Manifester level 3rd.

 

Epic SRD Item Creation Feats

Feat	Summary	Prerequisites
Craft Epic Magic Arms and Armor	Ignore normal limits for crafting magic arms and armor.	Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Knowledge (arcana) 28 ranks, Spellcraft 28 ranks.
Craft Epic Rod		Craft Rod, Knowledge (arcana) 32 ranks, Spellcraft 32 ranks.
Craft Epic Staff		Craft Staff, Knowledge (arcana) 35 ranks, Spellcraft 35 ranks.
Craft Epic Wondrous Item		Craft Wondrous Item, Knowledge (arcana) 26 ranks, Spellcraft 26 ranks.
Forge Epic Ring		Forge Ring, Knowledge (arcana) 35 ranks, Spellcraft 35 ranks.
Scribe Epic Scroll	Scribe scrolls that exceed the normal limits.	Scribe Scroll, Knowledge (arcana) 24 ranks, Spellcraft 24 ranks.

 

Homebrew Item Creation Feats

Homebrew feats using this type appear below. These are not part of the SRD, and are presented for ease of reference only. Click "Show" below to view them.

Feat	Summary	Prerequisites
Augmented Alchemy-CE	Improve on your base alchemical and poison-making skills.	Int 13, Craft Alchemy 4 or Craft Poison 4
Bond of the Ant	You have begun to immulate even more traits of the ants that spill over you, as they form their intricate colonies on almost every inch of your body.	Aspect of the Vermin class feature, Aspect of the Ant.
Brew Archpotion	You can infuse more than one spell into a potion, for longer durations, but at a greater cost.	Brew Potion, Knowledge (arcana) 16 ranks, Spellcraft 16 ranks.
Brew Potion, Variant	You can craft potions and alchemical wondrous items.	Caster level 3rd or Craft (Alchemy) 6 Ranks
Brew Restorative Potion	Brew potions that restore hit points and cure ailments.	Caster level 3rd or Heal 6 ranks.
Brew Twisted Potion	You make potions out of people's corpses. You sick, twisted bastard.	Brew Potion, must be evil.
Cold Iron Forger	You've practiced crafting with cold iron and know its secrets.	Craft (weapons) or (metalsmithing) 4 ranks.
Copy Machine	When you make something many times in a row, you get exceedingly good at it.	Craft (any) 4 ranks
Craft Arcane Device	You are able to create powerful arcane devices.	Caster level 9th or Use Magic Item 12 ranks
Craft Construct	Gain the ability to craft constructs and golem manuals.	Craft 4 ranks, Use Magic Device 4 ranks
Craft Consumables	You are able to create all kind of consumables items.	Caster level 1st or Use Magic Item 4 ranks
Craft Item of Prowess	You can create skill items, granting ranks, bonuses, and other adjustments to others.	Character level 4
Craft Magical Image	With your knowledge of Spellcraft and the ability to make images. You have learned how to craft an image able to cast spell-like abilities acting like the pre-chosen spell.	Effective Caster Level 5, Craft (Image) ranks 5, Spellcraft ranks 8
Craft Mundane Item	You are an expert working with mundane items.	Craft (any) 4 ranks
Craft Quicktrap	You can create traps very quickly and efficiently.	Craft (Trapmaking) 4 Ranks
Craft Truespeech Item	Allows you to craft truespeech items.	Truespeech class feature
Craft Turret	You can enhance siege weapons, and create quick-use turrets.	Craft Construct, Craft Technology 8 ranks or Knowledge Engineering 8 ranks
Craft Wearable Item	Craft magic items that occupy body slots.	Caster level 3rd
Craft Wondrous Artifice	You are able to create items of great powers.	Caster level 3rd or Use Magic Device 6 ranks
Crafter's Assistant	As long as your teacher is there you can duplicate their work.	Craft (any) 4 ranks
Crafting Intern	You can take item creation feats earlier, and lower the cost on certain things.	None
Create Geoglyph	Learn to create land-bound spells that affect very large areas.	Caster Level 12th
Device Gadgeteer	You gain the ability to craft and maintain special magic items.	Int 17+
Efficient Crafting	You can work on multiple items at a time, or make a single item twice as fast.	Craft (Any) 7 Ranks
Essentia Infusion	You can create magic items that gain in effectiveness if essentia is invested into them.	Essentia Pool 1, Any Item Creation Feat.
Graft Flesh	You take bits from one creature and add it to others.	Character level 3rd, must be instructed by another creature with this feat
Gunsmith	You've practiced crafting guns.	Craft (gunsmith) 4 ranks.
Imbue Spellgraft	A feat that lets you imbue others with Spellgrafts.	Caster level 5th, Craft Wondrous Item AND one of: Silent Spell and Still Spell OR Sudden Silent and Sudden Still
Improved Craft Turret	Your turrets can be set up quicker and can briefly supercharge themselves.	Craft Construct, Craft Turret, Craft Technology 13 ranks or Knowledge Engineering 13 ranks
Incarnum Enchanting	You can enchant items by infusing Soulmelds into them.	Meldshaper Level 3rd
Leatherworker	You've practiced crafting with leather, hides and furs.	Craft (leatherworker) 4 ranks.
Mundane Crafter	Even mundane figures can craft magical gear, provided the right tools. Spellcasters can't have all the fun.	Craft 4 ranks, Use Magic Device 4 ranks
Poppet Master	You have taken your knowledge of tranferring harm from dolls to people, and reversed the technique.	Voodoo Curse ability, Spellcraft 8 Ranks
Replicate Item	You can replicate items even if you would not be able to craft item.	None
Rune Arm Legacy	You have done extensive study on the relics known as Rune Arms and Rune Orbs.	Craft Wondrous Item, Knowledge (Arcana) 6 ranks, Craft (Alchemy) 6 ranks, Spellcraft 6 ranks, Caster Level 5th
Swordsmith	You've practiced crafting swords.	Craft (weapons) 4 ranks.

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