Crafting Magic Items

If you wish to craft magic items, you must first become trained in the craft. You must select the Craft Magic Item feat. Upon gaining the feat, you automatically learn the recipes for three common magic items. If you wish to learn more, you will either have to deconstruct a magic item, see the Deconstruct Magic Items section, or find its recipe in the world. Some crafters, enchanters, arcane masters, and more may have a copy of the recipe they are willing to trade, sell, or barter for your adventuring services. Most sellers will sell a copy of the recipe for 10% of the magic item’s value, but may require you take on a quest or provide compensation in a different way.

Once you have the recipe for the magic item you wish to construct, you must either spend the gold in a city to gather the required ingredients, or find the listed ingredients on your adventures. If you find the listed ingredients, you do not have to pay the gold cost. If you find only a few of the listed ingredients, the GM determines how much of the gold cost you must pay, typically at a pro-rated amount. Ordinarily, only cities or large towns will have all the required ingredients you need, up to the GM’s discretion.

Once you have the required materials, you must meet any prerequisites the item has and fulfill any requirements. If an item lists a requirement or prerequisite, this must be fulfilled every day you are working on the magic item. If your item requires you expending a 3rd-level slot, you must expend that spell slot every day that you are working on the item (or have someone who can expend that spell slot). Typically, if you are using another creature to fulfill requirements or prerequisites on creating a magic item, they must spend 1d4 hours for every requirement they are assisting with every day (maximum of 8 hours a day), or they must be there all day if they are fulfilling a prerequisite.

Residuum is the residue of arcane energy that is useful in several magical applications. It can look different based on how it is manufactured or manipulated, and can offer different benefits based on how it has been affected.

This is a very rare and expensive element. It can be processed from various sources, but one of the most notable is to take an ounce of this (for every level of its rarity) and cast the "Disenchant Magic Item" spell. it will take the magic out of an enchanted item and leave behind more Residuum.

Residuum can also be a material component for the "Enchant Magic item" spell.

Residuum can also also replace material components of most spells, it takes an equal cost amount to be used and it is destroyed in the casting, regardless of the regular material would be or not.

Many have sought ways to discover if a source exists for large amounts and of ways of turning other things into residuum without the initial cost used with disenchanting magic items.

It can be a variety of colors, generally Gold, Silver, or purple and generally has a slight glow with the texture of mica powder - but less sticky. Many wizards like to use Prestidigitation to better manipulate it so as to not lose too much in spillage. 10,000 gp worth being just larger than a Gold piece itself. A pound is called out as having a value around 500k gp.

There is a very expensive procedure to create a "refined Residuum" and after the purification and heating it to a dark green glass-like state it can retain some magical energies (requires spell slots to create)… this displays stronger magical properties. A table topped with an enchanting slate made of residuum can greatly speed the production of all magic items; these slates are sold for at least 200,000 gp.

Any attempts to enchant or disenchant a magical item atop such an altar decreases the time required to enchant the item by 50%.

There is another type of Residuum based on the energies of gods, so it is very rare in Dierde as they have not been physically present for a long time and even then they were not as frequent visitors as some would believe. This is a Whitestone that has very small green flecks. Anyone enchanting a piece of Whitestone, or an item infused with Whitestone dust (at least 1 oz.), reduces the time required to enchant the item by 75%. Some alchemists have discovered that dissolving Whitestone with specific acids can leave behind pure residuum, which can substitute for expensive spell components when such materials are not readily available. If a spell has a component cost that consumes the component, its caster can substitute the required component for an amount of residuum of an equal value. One pound of pure residuum is worth approximately 500 gp in most markets, though difficult to come by and so is generally only found with select trusted connections. This same residuum, if heated into a green glass- like state, can expedite localized Enchantment rituals.

Enchantment Altars using this residuum glass as a primary construction component are extremely expensive to produce and generally only found at places of higher arcane learning or homesteads of powerful archmages.

Residuum is generally a black market item, and even there it is rare. Many locations Fear too much of it in their locations or economy as it can Lead to too much of magic being misused. It can also be turned into a drug, that is highly sought after and so it is a very complicated affair all around.

Potion of Healing

Potion, Common

Cost 25 gp; or

Ingredients Mundane herbs

Prerequisites have Alchemist’s Supplies on hand, and you (or an assistant) is proficient in its use

Requirements cast the cure wounds spell

Proficiency Bonus Required +2

DC 10

Time to Craft 2 Days

Potion of Animal Friendship

Potion, Uncommon

Cost 75 gp; or

Ingredients tufts of squirrel fur

Prerequisites have Alchemist’s Supplies on hand, and you (or an assistant) is proficient in its use, you (or an assistant) are a druid

Requirements cast the animal friendship spell

Proficiency Bonus Required +3

DC 15

Time to Craft 3 Days

Potion of Gaseous Form

Potion, Rare

Cost 495 gp; or

Ingredients Rare gases from the Plane of Air, a cloud mephit

Prerequisites have Alchemist’s Supplies on hand, and you (or an assistant) is proficient in its use

Requirements cast the gaseous form spell; heightened to 5th-level

Proficiency Bonus Required +4

DC 20

Time to Craft 4 Days

Crystal Jars of Trapping

Wondrous Item, Very Rare

Cost 10,395 gp; or

Ingredients cursed gold, glass infused with the ash of prisoners, purified silver, large gemstones

Prerequisites have Engraver’s Tools or Glassblower’s Tools on hand, and you (or an assistant) is proficient in its use

Requirements cast the hold monster, magic jar and_banishment_ spell

Proficiency Bonus Required +5

DC 25

Time to Craft 5d4 Days

Crystal Jars of Trapping

Wondrous Item, Very Rare (Requires Attunement. A creature must be attuned to the jar to use its trapping ability.)

Description: This small, clear crystal jar, typically standing 6 inches tall and 3 inches wide, shimmers with barely perceptible arcane runes etched into its surface. Its stopper is a perfectly cut, deep red ruby, shaped to fit snugly into the jar's neck. The jar feels surprisingly sturdy and emits a faint, almost imperceptible hum when held.

Effect: This jar can trap one living creature. To activate its trapping capabilities, you must be attuned to the jar, hold the jar in one hand, and the ruby stopper in the other.

Trapping a Creature: To initiate the trapping process, you must speak a magic word (revealed upon attunement or discovery). Upon speaking the word:

• Willing/Incapacitated: If a creature is willing to be trapped, or is unconscious, restrained, paralyzed, or otherwise incapacitated such that it cannot resist, it is automatically shrunk and pulled into the jar. You must then seal the stopper into the jar before the end of your current turn to successfully trap it.

• Unwilling/Resisting: If an unwilling and not incapacitated creature is targeted, it must meet the following criteria:

  • It must have less than 100 hit points.

  • It must be size Large or smaller.

  • It must be within 5 feet of the jar.

  • The creature must make a Wisdom saving throw. The DC for this saving throw is 5 + the creature's Challenge Rating (CR) (use its Character Level if targeting an NPC or PC with class levels).

  • On a failed save, the creature is shrunk and pulled into the jar. You must then seal the stopper into the jar before the end of your current turn to successfully trap it.

  • On a successful save, the creature resists the magic word, avoids being trapped, and is not affected by the jar for the rest of this turn.

Enderbox

Wonderous Item, legendary/very rare

Cost 4,000

Ingredients

Prerequisites have woodworking tools on hand, and you (or an assistant) is proficient in its use

Requirements cast *Leomund's

Proficiency Bonus Required

DC

Time to Craft

Enderbox

Wonderous Item, Legendery/Very rare This box is the size of a "ring box", (1" x 1" x 1") but if grabbed by opposite sides it can be stretched out to the maximum size of 1' x 1' x 1', or any size in between. You would extend length, height, depth one at a time. The hinged lid can be opened to reveal a dark "space" which is a pocket dimension similar to a bag of holding. An enderbox always has at least 1 twin, and that box also goes to the same space. This allows for people to transport smaller items very quickly. The box weighs 5 lbs, regardless of its contents. The interior space is considerably larger than outside dimensions, about 4 feet deep with the opening maxing at 1 ft by 1 ft. It can hold up to 250 lbs. not exceeding a volume of 64 cubic feet. Retrieving an item requires an action. If it is overloaded, pierced, or torn, broken, or damaged -- it ruptures and is destroyed. If both are destroyed the contents are scattered in the Astral Plane. breathing is the same as a bag of holding. The same rules of extradimensional space apply here as well, similar to a bag of holding. The "twin" is the size of a chest is 12 cubic feet, 25 lbs. Cost: 8,000 gp each set