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To create magic items, spellcasters use special feats. They invest time, money, and their own personal energy (in the form of experience points) in an item’s creation.

Craft Epic Magic Arms and Armor: You can craft magic arms and armor of epic power. Epic Level Handbook: Craft Epic Rod: You can craft magic rods of epic power. Epic Level Handbook: Craft Epic Staff: You can craft magic staffs of epic power. Epic Level Handbook: Craft Epic Wondrous Item: You can craft wondrous items of epic power.
Nov 02, 2015 As far as point three, this is a serious concern for adventurers. In 5e, characters can only have three magic items attuned at a time (DMG pg 138). Therefore, unlike 4e, the number of magic item slots available to characters are very limited and magic items must be carefully considered.
Crafting a Magic Item Magic items are the DM’s purview, so you decide how they fall into the party’s possession. As an option, you can allow player characters to craft magic items. Within these rules, there are the following requirements.
A player crafting a magic item makes progress in increments of spending 25 gp of the Creation Cost per day, assuming they work for 8 hours each of those days. If the item produces a spell, the creator must expend one spell slot of the spell’s level each day of creation.

Note that all items have prerequisites in their descriptions. These prerequisites must be met for the item to be created. Most of the time, they take the form of spells that must be known by the item’s creator (although access through another magic item or spellcaster is allowed).

Price ranges are given by rarity in the DMG, beyond that the specific price for the purpose of materials is at the DM's discretion. An item that casts a spell should have a minimum rarity based on the spell's level: 1-2 Uncommon, 3-5 Rare, 6-7 Very Rare, 8-9 Legendary.

While item creation costs are handled in detail below, note that normally the two primary factors are the caster level of the creator and the level of the spell or spells put into the item. A creator can create an item at a lower caster level than her own, but never lower than the minimum level needed to cast the needed spell. Using metamagic feats, a caster can place spells in items at a higher level than normal.

Magic supplies for items are always half of the base price in gp and 1/25 of the base price in XP. For many items, the market price equals the base price.

Armor, shields, weapons, and items with a value independent of their magically enhanced properties add their item cost to the market price. The item cost does not influence the base price (which determines the cost of magic supplies and the experience point cost), but it does increase the final market price.

In addition, some items cast or replicate spells with costly material components or with XP components. For these items, the market price equals the base price plus an extra price for the spell component costs. Each XP in the component costs adds 5 gp to the market price. The cost to create these items is the magic supplies cost and the base XP cost (both determined by the base price) plus the costs for the components. Descriptions of these items include an entry that gives the total cost of creating the item.

The creator also needs a fairly quiet, comfortable, and well-lit place in which to work. Any place suitable for preparing spells is suitable for making items. Creating an item requires one day per 1,000 gp in the item’s base price, with a minimum of at least one day. Potions are an exception to this rule; they always take just one day to brew. The character must spend the gold and XP at the beginning of the construction process.

The caster works for 8 hours each day. He cannot rush the process by working longer each day. But the days need not be consecutive, and the caster can use the rest of his time as he sees fit.

A character can work on only one item at a time. If a character starts work on a new item, all materials used and XP spent on the under-construction item are wasted.

The secrets of creating artifacts are long lost.

Table: Summary of Magic Item Creation Costs
Magic Item	Feat	Item Cost	Spell Component Costs		Magic Supplies Cost	Base Price⁴
Magic Item	Feat	Item Cost	Material²	XP³	Magic Supplies Cost	Base Price⁴
Rods usable as weapons must include the masterwork weapon cost. This cost is only for spells activated by the item that have material or XP components. Having a spell with a costly component as a prerequisite does not automatically incur this cost if the item doesn’t actually cast the spell. If purchasing a staff, the buyer pays 5 × the XP value in gold pieces. A character creating an item pays 1/25 the base price in experience points. Some items have additional value from a masterwork item component. An item’s market price is the sum of the item cost, spell component costs, and the base price.
Armor	Craft Magic Arms And Armor	Masterwork armor	Cost × 50 (usually none)	× 50 (usually none) × 5 gp	½ the value on Table: Armor and Shields	Value on Table: Armor and Shields
Shield	Craft Magic Arms And Armor	Masterwork shield	× 50 (usually none)	× 50 (usually none) × 5 gp	½ the value on Table: Armor and Shields	Value on Table: Armor and Shields
Weapon	Craft Magic Arms And Armor	Masterwork weapon	× 50 (usually none)	× 50 (usually none) × 5 gp	½ the value on Table: Weapons	Value on Table: Weapons
Potion	Brew Potion	—	Cost (usually none)	Cost (usually none)	25 × level of spell × level of caster	50 × level of spell × level of caster
Ring	Forge Ring	—	× 50	× 50 × 5 gp	Special, see Table: Estimating Magic Item Gold Price Values	Special, see Table: Estimating Magic Item Gold Price Values
Rod	Craft Rod	—¹	× 50 (often none)	× 50 (often none)	Special, see Table: Estimating Magic Item Gold Price Values	Special, see Table: Estimating Magic Item Gold Price Values
Scroll	Scribe Scroll	—	Cost (usually none)	Cost (usually none)	12.5 × level of spell × level of caster	25 × level of spell × level of caster
Staff	Craft Staff	Masterwork quarterstaff	× 50 / (# of charges used to activate spell)	× 50 × 5 gp / (# of charges used to activate spell)	See Creating Staffs	See Creating Staffs
Wand	Craft Wand	—	× 50	× 50 × 5 gp	375 × level of spell × level of caster	750 × level of spell × level of caster
Wondrous Item	Craft Wondrous Item	—⁵	× 50 (usually none)	× 50 (usually none)× 5 gp	Special, see Table: Estimating Magic Item Gold Price Values	Special, see Table: Estimating Magic Item Gold Price Values

Table: Estimating Magic Item Gold Piece Values
Effect
A 0-level spell is half the value of a 1st-level spell for determining price. Such as a luck, insight, sacred, or profane bonus. If a continuous item has an effect based on a spell with a duration measured in rounds, multiply the cost by 4. If the duration of the spell is 1 minute/level, multiply the cost by 2, and if the duration is 10 minutes/level, multiply the cost by 1.5. If the spell has a 24-hour duration or greater, divide the cost in half. See Body Slot Affinities. An item that does not take up one of the spaces on a body costs double. If item is continuous or unlimited, not charged, determine cost as if it had 100 charges. If it has some daily limit, determine as if it had 50 charges.

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