Reduce price on craft

[atheran]

I want to buy/make a ring of invisibility... But it costs around 20000 gp... Problem is there is too much for a level 7 character... I think I read somewhere that I can find someone to craft it for me with some restrictions so I could reduce it's price... Any ideas what I could do to drop it around half price? I just want it to work on call like normally but I don't care if it takes a swift or full round action to activate it...

[Mooncrow]

http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=1000 is a good place to start.  To get more specific help, it would be useful to know what class you and your party members are, and what resources you have access to. 

[atheran]

I am a druid and for other casters we have a cleric and a wizard... None of us has the invisibility spell or any craft feats... What I am looking is for the  ring to be created from an NPC in a big city with some way to cost me much less (up to 50% if possible) than it's original price.

[sirpercival]

What do you need it for?  You could get a custom invisibility item for cheaper... though I can't quite figure out how they priced the original ring (by my estimations it should cost 36k).

Anyway, you could get a slotted item of invisibility 3/day for 3*2*1800*.6 = 6480 gp.  Something like a 3/day invisibility cloak.

[atheran]

I could use an at-will invisibility (something like pixie's but breakable on attack). Playing an anthro-bat druid as a scout/nuker with +20 on hide/move silently... But invisibility (greater or not) at will could really really be usefull. And I'm trying to find the cheapest way without loosing caster levels to get it. Wand seemed good but I can't use arcane wands as druid and have an invisible/flying wizard around me when scouting 200+ feet ahead of the party is not doable.

PS. Some sort of telepathy at great distances (up to 200 ft) would be usefull as well to inform the party of what I see ahead.

[sirpercival]

Telepathic Bond works for telepathy, and it can be permanenced.  Lesser Telepathic Bond can't be made permanent, but is pretty long-duration and lower level.

Basic command-word invisibility is 3*2*1800 = 10800 gp.

[atheran]

But... Telepathic Bond is close range so I can't use it when scouting 100-200ft away.

According to http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=1000 a Ring of invisibility (20k cost in MiC) will drop to 12.6k with applying the only 2 restrictions I can:
1)Item is restricted to being used by those of a specific skill. (DMG)
2)Item is restricted to being used by those of a specific class or alignment.  (DMG)
but I don't know if asking an NPC crafter to apply them will reduce the cost or if it works ONLY when I craft it.

IF it works only if I craft it then I can as well add another 50% to it so that brings me down to 6.3k total.

Problem is that I can't craft an arcane magic item as a divine caster as I miss the spell... And for this specific item this means I have to dip into 4 lvls of sorcerer or 3 lvls of wizard wich is a 3-4 caster levels less for druid. Not worth it. Unless there is another way to do it that I don't know of.

[Agita]

But... Telepathic Bond is close range so I can't use it when scouting 100-200ft away.

Sure you can. Look closely:

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/telepathicBond.htm

Once the bond is formed, it works over any distance (although not from one plane to another).

The Close range means you can only establish it with people within that range, but once it's there, it'll work anywhere short of your scout being Plane Shifted by a trap (and then, you'd notice that happened).

[Maat Mons]

If your DM will let you game the pricing guidelines, get your item crafted by a Telflammar shadowlord (Unapproachable East).  They can cast invisibility as a 1st-level spell with caster level 1.  That works out to 4,000 gp for an item of continuous invisibility. 

[atheran]

I'll make the ring after all... DM said I can use a wand or our Wizard to cast the spell needed but I still get the xp penalties.

So my question now is... How much can I reduce the price from core books only? I found a way to drop it to 6300gp. Can I drop it even more?