Author Topic: Is there anything akin to a poor man's Ring Gates?  (Read 1836 times)

Offline Von Krieger

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Is there anything akin to a poor man's Ring Gates?
« on: November 25, 2012, 12:10:43 AM »
Having my own interdimensional home away from home on the cheap (an enveloping pit of appox 40x40x12.5 instead of 10x10x50), I'm now wondering if there is a way to mimic the function of ring gates for cheap. The main use for it would be to be able to funnel goods to a 'fence' cohort set up in the biggest city in the setting with the Mercantile Background feat.

I vaguely recall something like a bag of holding with two bags, or something like a purse-sized extradimensional space with two access points, but for the life of me I can't remember what that is.

Seeing as the hole can be pulled in after you from the other side, there is also the potential of using the fence-a-porter as an emergency exit. So it might be useful to have it be able to transport a PC, or a PC's familiar, back to the city with the hole.

I'm sure someone more versed with the item creation system and the various creation feats out there will be able to get me a much more satisfactory answer than my google-fu will.

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Re: Is there anything akin to a poor man's Ring Gates?
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2012, 12:16:59 AM »
How about paying for a permanent Teleportation Circle?  Together, both spells will cost 25880 total.
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Re: Is there anything akin to a poor man's Ring Gates?
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2012, 12:23:49 AM »
Something to look at in the future, perhaps. But as stands that would be half of my character wealth.

Or approximately the 1/4 combined wealth of my followers, though I fear that attempting to pay for it that may get me bludgeoned about the head by an irate GM.

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Re: Is there anything akin to a poor man's Ring Gates?
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2012, 01:19:17 PM »
Oh. Well... if WBL is the problem...

Cast Gate with both end points being a large metal hoop or something, then use wish to make it permanent. Phrase the wish so the gate end points move with the hoops. Since it's actually a spell you cast with an unlimited duration, it isn't a magic item and technically does not add to your wealth. It will be expensive as hell to hire someone to cast it, but it won't add to your WBL.
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Re: Is there anything akin to a poor man's Ring Gates?
« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2012, 02:21:56 PM »
Maybe research a variant of the Secret Chest spell, which allows two focuses per chest, so that two different people could retrieve it?
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Re: Is there anything akin to a poor man's Ring Gates?
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2012, 04:44:20 PM »
drop the weight transfer capacity for a reduction in cost?