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« on: July 21, 2015, 11:00:52 PM »
This is 3.5e before anyone asks, but I need to make a device for some elite military (level 10) can use for missions and communication with one another.

  • It needs to take over the eye slot
  • Automatically conforms with other armor (not a big deal)
  • Needs to be mask-like in design (think Predator mask)
  • needs a tracking function (+3 to all attack rolls)
  • Needs a scouter function
  • can be upgraded
  • can provide breathing air for wearer
  • can communicate with similar objects (functions like a headset)

Is 30,000gp too little of a starting price?  If so, can you make it so it can be upgraded to that point?
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Re: New Devices
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2015, 12:48:19 AM »
Sounds pretty easy.

Price feels right in my gut, but when the details are out I can figure it out better.

The mechanical requirements are face slot item, with a +3 (type?) bonus to attack, scouter function, air breathing, and communication.  There's several pre-existing items which do this, so just mix and match.  You already have the scouter, and attack bonuses are pretty boilerplate.  There's a dozen items for communication, and I recall there is a ring which is constant communication in 1 mile with paired rings in like... Miniature's Handbook or one of the more obscure military themed splatbooks.  And the air breathing item is a necklace in the SRD.  The rest is merely flavor.
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Re: New Devices
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2015, 01:19:21 AM »
+3 appears to be equipment bonus.  So maybe magical?
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Re: New Devices
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2015, 01:36:09 AM »
You could go with either Enhancement or Insight.

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Re: New Devices
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2015, 02:31:07 AM »
umm..insight sounds about right.  What's next?
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Re: New Devices
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2015, 02:41:30 AM »
what upgrades are u looking for?   see invisible?

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Re: New Devices
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2015, 02:43:27 AM »
Ooh, yes, that would be great!  Even if 1/day
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Re: New Devices
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2015, 03:05:05 AM »
lemme look through the divination spells and see what we can come up with.

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Re: New Devices
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2015, 05:06:27 PM »
Let's see, a face slot item that is a full face mask (eye is not a body slot but face is).
The highest CL for any one effect should be the CL for the whole item.  The attack bonus minimum CL is 9, and everything else listed below has a lower minimum, so I will use CL 9 for the calculations.

 - +3 insight to attack rolls should be 11,250gp.
 - +5 bonus to Sense Motive just for "assessing an opponent" would be 1,250gp (1/2 a full skill bonus).  The rest of the Scouter is flavour text, which you can keep or alter as you see fit.
 - Communication with other "combat masks" should probably cost 2,000gp (based off of Ring of Communication).
 - Always provides breathable air is 9,000gp.
Limit the following to having only 1 active at a time  (Multiple similar abilities, for price reduction.)
 - See Invisibility 1/day is 6,480gp.
 - Detect (Law/Chaos/Good/Evil/Magic) each usable at will would each cost 16,200gp.
 - Identify 1/day is 3,340gp.

Since each ability after the 1st, most expensive one has a stacking cost of x1.5, my tally would place the final price for all of this at 92,810gp.
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Re: New Devices
« Reply #9 on: July 23, 2015, 03:10:23 AM »
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Re: New Devices
« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2015, 03:32:03 AM »
Hey, I left out the continuous True Seeing, which has a base cost of 245,000gp (yes, it's that expensive!)
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