Session 1 29/3/4726 AR

Tamily Tanderveil, owner of the Otari fishery

 Party recruited from a local tavern investigate fish missing from the Otari fishery, and battle rats, a spider, skellies & kobold fish-thieves in caves beneath the town. The kobold trapmaster-priestess wears a piece of green dragon shell. Party retire for the night preparatory to a second expedition tomorrow.  

1. The Heroes of Otari - by Judith Grognar, a Greataxe wielding Dwarven Fighter (Gus) Keshani, a circus-raised Monk (Judith) Kyra, a Priestess of Saranrae, whose wit is as sharp as her scimitar (Matt) Crocus, a Wizard for whom magic is the ultimate power (Bill) Valeros, a sometime mercenary Fighter wondering if adventuring is a better career (Kermit)
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3. XP: 536 each including session account.
   
4. After a slow, unexciting day filled with the mundane tasks of learning haberdashery, I headed for the tavern to meet up with the guys. On the surface I think we were an unlikely bunch of friends, but we’d meet up to chat and drink ale most evenings. Occasionally we’d see the greenish flash from the lighthouse, but paid little heed to it.
5. That evening we ended up with some unexpected excitement when Bess, an employee of Tamily, the owner of the Fishery, came in to announce that someone had broken in to her basement and stolen a lot of the salted fish that was stored there ready to be sent to Korvosa for sale. She went from table to table asking for help, and when she came to us I guess we were bored enough to say we’d take a look. For me it was certainly going to be interesting than being shown the correct way to hem a robe – for the sixth time…
6. We grab what gear we think might be useful: weapons and armour for Valeros and Grognar, Scimitar and holy symbol for Kyra and Bo Staff, Shuriken and Sling for me. Crocus disdained ‘gear’ as it was beneath the dignity of a wizard to rely on anything other than his magic.
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8. We descended into the basement of the Fishery and found several broken-in barrels, discarded salt fish scattered on the floor, and a large hole in one wall. Before we could do much investigating, five giant rats scuttled from the hole to attack us. After a brief skirmish they were killed and, looking through the hole, we found ourselves at the top of a steep incline.
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10. I attached a rope to a pillar, and with casual self-assurance Valeros climbed down to steady anyone less athletic. On the ground we saw footprints of some small bipeds which Crocus suggested belonged to kobolds. After a few minor mishaps we successfully negotiated the slope and started to explore the caves. Kyra summoned the Light of Sarenrae which bobbed overhead and followed us. After a few yards the tunnel opened up into a large room filled with thick spiderwebs. I was able to spot the spider lurking on the far side of the chamber, while Valeros noted several webbed bundles of the spider’s larder. On the assumption that spiders often use poison, we decided to attack from range. So too did the spider – which managed to cover Grognar in sticky webbing. I managed to kill the spider with my trusty bo staff, and Kyra got her hands dirty de-webbing the dwarf. In the spider’s lair we found a corpse on which we found a bronze shortsword with an emerald set in its pommel and a minor healing potion.
11. Continuing on we reached a junction where one direction was barricaded off. From beyond the barricade Kyra sensed the chill of undead. She urged us to go and destroy the undead. I agreed with her as undead normally means tombs, and tombs normally mean loot. Wary of making too much noise I figured out how to quietly shift the barricade with Valeros’ help, and we went through the resulting gap. Going down some rough hewn stairs we found ourselves in a crypt: a corpse on the floor, five coffins in alcoves around the walls, and a larger, much more impressive coffin in the middle. To nobody’s great surprise skeletal figures started to emerge from the coffins, but we were able to strike them down before they could clamber out. Another figure, this one still retaining some rotting flesh, slowly moved to attack. Assailed on all sides it succumbed to our attacks. Valeros grabbed a bronze shield embossed with the head of a snarling lion while I grabbed the Everlight Crystal that had illuminated the room. A glance around the crypt told those more knowledgeable than me that it was ancient Varisian work, but the corpse on the floor was much more recent. We returned to the junction and headed the other way. A high ledge on the left side housed a pair of double doors which opened into a weird shrine. A statue of some kind of squid-thing was in a niche opposite the door, and on an altar was a silver bowl that was apparently filled with water.
12. Grognar took a swig of the water and was nearly overcome with nausea – only Kyra’s calming words allowed him to push through it. Despite the side effects the water seemed to be beneficial as it was blessed by some water deity none of us could remember. Moving on we surprise a group of kobolds who had been trying to break into a locked cage which was a storage area for many casks and crates. We kill several of them, but one tries to flee to raise the alarm only to be cut down by Valeros. Faced with the locked cage, I pulled out my set of picks (I know, legacy of a misspent youth) and managed to open the door. We find some loot within including a magical shortsword which Crocus takes as a focus for one of his spells. Following the route the kobold had been taking during his attempted escape, Valeros points out a trap in the floor beyond which we enter a long room. In it are three statues – one of them Abadar, the god of money. We’re challenged to complete the Test of Abadar to find the fake amongst nine gold coins.
13. Crocus easily figured it out, and both Valeros and I knew the trick to solve it. The statue of Abadar was duly impressed and gifted us the eight non-fake gold coins. A room off to the side hosted a large mechanism with a lever which Grognar decided was the control for some kind of device – probably a trap.
    Some peepholes in the wall showed us a large room beyond with a distinctive patterned floor. Moving the lever to the ‘active’ position caused the sounds of gears moving from somewhere beneath that floor. We moved into the room, carefully avoiding all the patterned parts of the floor, and encountered a group of kobolds led by a trap-master around whose neck was a large green-speckled fragment of eggshell. When whole the egg must have been about 2’ long… During the ensuing fight Grognar discovers what the trap can do by dint of throwing one of the kobolds into it. The kobold ends up skewered by multiple spears so we are now doubly careful to avoid the patterned floor! In the end we stand victorious! None of the kobolds was able to flee down the stairs at the back of the room to raise the alarm, but more worryingly the eggshell is identified as being that of a horned dragon… Wearied from our efforts we return to the Fishery to report to Tamily and rest before planning to come back and continue to explore the caves.

The Caverns Beneath

The Bronze Shield

The Undead (Artist's Impression)

Kobold Warrior

Kobold Trapmistress

XP/Starting Level & House Rules

HEALING - house rules are underlined.

Treat Wounds is once per day per recipient (ie an overnight rest allows further recovery)

Continual Recovery Feat allows another Treat Wounds every 10 minutes, up to 3 times per day per recipient.

Battle Medicine Feat has its own 1/day limit. It is not Treat Wounds, and does not count as Treat Wounds.

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Buying & Selling

See PF2 Archives of Nethys - Equipment

Selling

Magic Items and levelled mundane goods of up to the Settlement Level (and often higher) may typically be sold for half their Base Price.

Buying

Non-magical items, and a selection of available Common magic items up to the Settlement Level, may typically be bought for their Base Price.

Common Magic Items up to the Settlement Level may typically be commissioned for x2 their Base Price, for delivery in one day. If you are willing to wait 2 days per item level you can often get the magic item made at standard price - this typically requires a level-based Charisma skill check. Friends & allies will often make items without a check needed.

Example: Standard Healing Potion (Minor) Item level 1 Source GM Core pg. 259 Price 4 gp The potion restores 1d8 Hit Points. These are often available at standard price. If not, it can be commissioned in 1 day for 8gp, or it typically takes a Charisma skill DC 15 to get it made in 2 days for 4gp. 

Bartering Magic Items

It is sometimes possible to barter a magic item in one's possession for a particular Common magic item of equivalent or lesser value, with no money changing hands. The item requested must be available at the settlement. It normally takes a day to find a buyer and negotiate a barter. 

Make a Charisma (typically Diplomacy) skill check. If unsuccessful, the bartering character may try again next week (level 1-10 item) or next month (level 11-20 item). Repeated attempts to barter the same item impose a cumulative +5 DC on the barter skill check, even for acquiring different items.

Charisma (Diplomacy) Skill Check Result: Barter Result

Under 10: Item of up to 50% the bartered item's value

10-14: Item of up to 60% the bartered item's value

15-19: Item of up to 70% the bartered item's value

20-29: Item of up to 80% the bartered item's value

30-39: Item of up to 90% the bartered item's value

40+: Item of up to 100% the bartered item's value

A similar check may also be made to sell Uncommon or Rare items at above half price for cash.

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RITUALS - with adequate research into the ritual, the casting DC can typically be reduced to an at-level check for all participants, rather than a Very Hard (or worse) check. Alternately the primary check may remain Very Hard (or worse) but materials lost on a failed check may be reduced to 20% of the total.

NEW SPELL, NEW RITUAL & NEW ALCHEMICAL CONCOCTION RESEARCH

This is a form of Magical Crafting or Alchemical Crafting. A small tweak to an existing known spell raising it +1 Rank for a slightly increased effect, approximately +20% on one metric (eg a 'Greater' Teleport self +5 instead of self +4 or 120 miles instead of 100 miles, an 'Extended' Raise Dead 4 days instead of 3 days, or an Extended Fireball 600' instead of 500') typically costs the same as a Scroll of that level (so eg 600gp for Rank 6 to 7), whereas entirely new spells with major effects would be at least x10 the scroll cost. Likewise new & improved Alchemical concoctions would use Alchemical Crafting to create new formulas.

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Starting PCs at Higher Level

PCs may begin play with a number of Common permanent items as listed below, plus the amount of listed Currency, which may be used to buy Consumable items of a level up to the character's level-1. Alternately the character may start with the listed lump sum and use it to buy Common items of level up to the character's level-1. eg a level 18 starting PC may start with 45,000gp and use the money to purchase Common items up to level 17. PCs starting at higher level can use either the items + currency or lump sum options at player's choice.

This campaign uses a single group XP tally up to Level 18, with all level 1-17 PCs having the same level & XP total. Starting PC level caps at Level 18 with 0 XP. If the highest level PC is 18th 19th or 20th level then new PCs start at level 18 with 0 XP. A mixed level 18-20 group uses the highest PC level for XP calculations. PCs 1 level below the highest level get +50% XP. PCs 2 levels below the highest level get +100% XP.

Legendary Advancement Beyond Level 20

Level 20 characters are already some of the most powerful entities in the Multiverse, able to contend with demon lords and the greatest of dragons. Some possibilities for continued advancement at level 20 are given below. Each advancement costs 1,000 XP. New level 20 PCs begin with 0 advancements.

Gaining a new Trained skill.

Advancing a skill 1 training Rank (Trained>Expert>Master etc).

Gaining a Feat.

Gaining a new Spell of any level.

Gaining Hit Points according to the character's base class hp:

Base Class Hit Points  Legendary HP Increase

6                                    +3

8                                    +4

10                                  +5

12                                  +6

The character remains at Level 20 for XP award purposes.

Adversary Level: XP Award (4 PCs)

15 or lower: 0

16: 10 eg Rune Giant

17: 15 eg Ancient Horned Dragon

18: 20 eg Kraken

19: 30 eg Ancient Empyreal Dragon, Runelord Krune

20: 40 eg Nessari Devil, Pit Fiend, Balor, Vrolikai, Runelord Belimarius

21: 60 eg Grim Reaper, Tor Linnorm, Runelord Karzoug, minor Duke of Hell (elite Pit Fiend or Nessari Devil), minor Demon Lord (elite Balor or Vrolikai)

22: 80 eg Runelord Alaznist, Thanatotic Titan

23: 120 eg Runelord Sorshen, Solar, Diabolic Archdragon

24: 160 Demigod, eg Runelord Xanderghul, Fafnheir, Green Man, Cayden Cailean, Empyreal Lord (elite Solar)

25: 240  Major Demigod, Lesser God, Duke of Hell or Demon Lord, eg Treerazer, Tarrasque, the Arch-Lich Tar-Baphon, the Oliphaunt of Jandelay (mythic)

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26: 320   Major Lesser God, Archdevil or Demon Prince, eg Shelyn, Zon-Kuthon

27: 480   Intermediate God or Planar Ruler, eg Lamashtu, Asmodeus

28: 640   Greater God, eg Saranrae

29: 960   ?

30 1280  Rovagug(?)

Otari & PCs

 Otari PCs (from M3 4726 AR)

Grognar Venkervale (Gus), dwarf male, Greataxe wielding Dwarven Fighter-2 , bartender at the Rowdy Rockfish tavern, working for his mother Brelda Venkervale. Brelda's older (& favourite) son Lasda vanished almost without a trace a year or so ago - locals saw him walking out of town with a hooded stranger carrying a lantern. Brelda suspects he's gone for good.

Keshani (Judith), human female, a circus-raised Monk, haberdasher's assistant (see below)

Kyra (Matt), human female Cleric, a Priestess of Saranrae, whose wit is as sharp as her scimitar , assistant cleric at the Dawnflower Library. Sometimes troubled by strange dreams of past life as an epic hero, accompanied by Valeros and other mighty heroes. Kyra wandered into Otari six years ago as a teenager, with no memory of where she came from, but wearing the garb of a Qadiran novitiate of Saranrae. She was taken in by Vandy Banderdash, halfling priestess of the Dawnflower Library, and has lived there ever since.

Crocus (Bill), human male, a Wizard for whom magic is the ultimate power. From an aspirational Korvosan family, a former student of the Acadamae in Korvosa. After an academic dispute and false accusations of plagiarism, Crocus was denied Graduation and forced to leave the Academy in disgrace. Travelling west to Otari, and short of funds, he took a position as shop assistant at Wrin's Wonders, a curiosity shop where minor magic items can be bought and sold at reasonable prices. Wrin Sivinxi, the friendly Tiefling proprietor, is troubled by the eerie light from Gauntlight Keep, visible at night from her tent.

Valeros (Kermit), human male, a sometime mercenary Fighter wondering if adventuring is a better career . His memories from longer than six years ago are very hazy, though he vaguely remembers living in Sandpoint, far to the west in Magnimaran territory. Sometimes troubled by strange dreams of past life as an epic hero, accompanied by Kyra and other mighty heroes. Valeros has lived in Otari for a year or so, after several years spent as a mercenary on the Korvosan Frontier. He currently works for the heavily scarred half-orc foreman Klorte Hengus at the Otari Lumber Mill, where his strength stands him in good stead.

1. Judith PC: Keshani (nephilim Monk) is part of a loose group of refugees from Cheliax who has been taken in by her distant 'aunt' Xanthia, the owner of a local haberdashery.  The group had originally been a small travelling circus, but accusations of theft and (unspecified) antisocial behaviour levelled at them by a branch of Hell Knights had led to the circus fragmenting as each sought to proclaim their own innocence while blaming their erstwhile colleagues.  Keshani's teacher, the Impossible Yao Mei (a martial artist originally from Tian Xia), had quickly vanished as had many of the other leading acts of the circus, leaving their apprentices and the riggers to deal with any consequences. Despite being notably deft, with fine hand-eye co-ordination, Keshani is not convinced her future lies in dressmaking...

Keshani, Haberdasher's Assistant

Keshani's friend & Grognar's girlfriend is Grunda Grimhild, a young dwarf hatmaker of good family, fellow employee with Keshani of K's aunt Xanthia. Grunda's own mother Ruby 'Runemaker' Grimhilt is a skilled Runesmith and can inscribe several Common Runes up to level 4 -  Potency (weapon) (+1 to hit) 35gp, Preserving (for food hamper) (45gp), Authorized (weapon harms thieves) 50gp, Menacing 50gp, Underwater (weapon) 50gp, Returning (thrown weapon) 55gp, Striking (extra weapon damage die) 65gp, Merciful (weapon)70gp, Ghost Touch (weapon) 75gp, Reinforcing (shield) 75gp.

Brelda Venkervale, Dwarf tavern owner of the Rowdy Rockfish

Grunda Grimhilt, Haberdasher's Assistant

 

 

Rog Strix, a town Watchman & heavy drinker at the Rowdy Rockfish

Vandy Banderdash, Priestess of the Dawnflower Library

Wrin Sivinxi of Wrin's Wonders

Tamily Tanderveil. owner of the Otari Fishery

Darthus the Farmer, drinker at the Rowdy Rockfish

Bess, a fishgutter at the Otari Fishery

1. THE GIANT’S WHEEL - Otari Lumber Mill

The Otari Mill is known locally as the Giant’s Wheel, as its towering, 30-foot-diameter waterwheel is truly a sight to behold. The wheel’s immense size is needed to generate enough torque to power the mechanized treadmill loading logs into the flume and keep the saws running within the mill. Much of the lumberyard’s income comes from the town’s two larger lumber families, who pay to have their lumber processed here.  The mill is a noisy place, with the constant grinding and churning of the wheel itself competing with the whine of the saws and the clatter of the loading ramp.
The Menhemes family leaves the day-to-day administration of the mill to a heavily scarred half-orc
foreman named Klorte Hengus. In his youth, Klorte made a name for himself in the fighting pits of Korvosa, wielding paired hatchets - he picked up the moniker “the Lumberjacker.” Klorte
has put that violent past behind him and fails to see any ironic humor in the fact that he’s now employed
by honest-to-goodness lumberjacks.

4. WRIN’S WONDERS

This curio shop bears no sign, but locals know it as Wrin’s Wonders: a place to marvel at whatever strange new trinkets and offerings its equally strange owner might have come across. The structure consists of a ring of what appear to be standing stones arranged in a 60-foot-diameter circle surrounding a 15-foot-high dome of wooden beams covered with triangular pieces of canvas. Closer inspection of the standing “stones” reveals that they’re also made of wood frames and canvas, cleverly painted to resemble granite. The area between the central dome and the surrounding circle is a collection of other dome-shaped tents used to store the shop’s wares. When it’s not raining, the fabric of these domes is pulled aside so shoppers can admire what’s for sale in the light of the sun—or the moon, for that matter,
as Wrin’s Wonders is always open. Wrin Sivinxi has what she regards as a very good reason for the curio shop’s strange arrangement—she sees safety in curves and menace in angles and suffers from a touch of claustrophobia. The central dome is her domicile, and she’s painted the interior surfaces to resemble a night sky featuring all the constellations of the Cosmic Caravan, so that even on overcast nights she can fall asleep under the stars. 

Note on Wrin's Wonders: Wrin's extensive contacts allow her to acquire and sell Consumable Common items of up to 10th level at standard prices to her favoured clients, such as adventurers exploring Gauntlight Keep. These typically take 2-6 days to arrive after placing the order.

14. THE ROWDY ROCKFISH

Despite its name, The Rowdy Rockfish is the quietest and quaintest of Otari’s taverns. A sign depicting a rockfish with his fins up in a boxing pose hangs above the door of this two-story wooden structure, but within, the calm demeanor of its patrons leads some to wonder if this might be the one tavern in Avistan to never host a barroom brawl. The Rockfish’s proprietor is a matronly dwarf named Brelda
Venkervale, a stoic but shrewd businesswoman. Her elder son Lasda vanished without a trace over a year ago.  A few locals saw the red-bearded Lasda walking out of town with a hooded stranger carrying a lantern. Brelda suspects that her son is gone for good.

15. DAWNFLOWER LIBRARY

Otari’s largest temple stands at the town’s westernmost edge, atop an upraised shelf that juts out far below the clifftop. The library is constructed in the Qadiran style of Sarenite temples, with two smaller minarets flanking a golden dome. The building’s position allows it to catch the rays of the rising sun, which transforms the dome into a brilliantly glowing testament to the sun goddess—at least, on days that aren’t fogged in or overcast. A dozen acolytes of various faiths attend to Dawnflower Library. Shrines to Cayden Cailean, Erastil, and Gozreh can be found in the western portion of the building, while the primary shrine to Sarenrae takes up the eastern portion. The rest of the building contains the stacks. Dawnflower Library has a wide range of books ranging from fiction to history, satire to textbook, and even includes a sizable collection of (mostly) tasteful erotica. The current head priestess of the library is a chatty halfling woman named Vandy Banderdash, a devotee of Sarenrae. Always eager to greet newcomers regardless of their faith or vocation—with the exception of thieves, whom she can’t abide—Vandy has a strange knack for recommending literature tailored to the tastes of people she only just met.

Campaign Notes

Subsistence: As longterm residents of Otari you can generally cover your basic living expenses by working 4-5 days a week, and with the rest of your time either earn a couple extra silvers (2 sp), or do other stuff.

Magic Items may typically be sold at half price. A selection of items up to level 4 may be acquired at list price; commissioned items typically cost double list price. Items may also be crafted.

Otari & immediate surrounding region. 20 minutes from Otari to the Gauntlight Ruins

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CRAFTING

Crafting Trained Actions

Craft

Downtime Manipulate 
Source Player Core pg. 237

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You can make an item from raw materials. You need the Alchemical Crafting skill feat to create alchemical items and the Magical Crafting skill feat to create magic items.

To Craft an item, you must meet the following requirements:

• The item is your level or lower. An item that doesn't list a level is level 0. If the item is 9th level or higher, you must be a master in Crafting, and if it's 17th or higher, you must be legendary.
• The item must be common, or you must otherwise have access to it.
• You have an appropriate set of tools and, in many cases, a workshop. For example, you need access to a smithy to forge a metal shield, or an alchemist's lab to produce alchemical items.
• You must supply raw materials worth at least half the item's Price. You always expend at least that amount of raw materials when you Craft successfully. If you're in a settlement, you can usually spend currency to get the amount of raw materials you need, except in the case of rarer precious materials.

You attempt a Crafting check after you spend 2 days of work setting up, or 1 day if you have the item's formula. The GM determines the DC to Craft the item based on its level, rarity, and other circumstances.

If your attempt to create the item is successful, you expend the raw materials you supplied. You can pay the remaining portion of the item's Price in materials to complete the item immediately, or you can spend additional downtime days working on it. For each additional day you spend, reduce the value of the materials you need to expend to complete the item. This amount is determined using the Income Earned table, based on your proficiency rank in Crafting and using your own level instead of a task level.

After any of these downtime days, you can complete the item by spending the remaining portion of its Price in materials. If the downtime days you spend are interrupted, you can return to finish the item later, continuing where you left off. An example of Crafting appears in the sidebar below.

Critical Success Your attempt is successful. Each additional day spent Crafting reduces the materials needed to complete the item by an amount based on your level + 1 and your proficiency rank in Crafting.
Success Your attempt is successful. Each additional day spent Crafting reduces the materials needed to complete the item by an amount based on your level and your proficiency rank.
Failure You fail to complete the item. You can salvage the raw materials you supplied for their full value. If you want to try again, you must start over.
Critical Failure You fail to complete the item. You ruin 10% of the raw materials you supplied, but you can salvage the rest. If you want to try again, you must start over.

Income Earned

Task Level	DC	Failed	Trained	Expert	Master	Legendary
0	14	1 cp	5 cp	5 cp	5 cp	5 cp
1	15	2 cp	2 sp	2 sp	2 sp	2 sp
2	16	4 cp	3 sp	3 sp	3 sp	3 sp
3	18	8 cp	5 sp	5 sp	5 sp	5 sp
4	19	1 sp	7 sp	8 sp	8 sp	8 sp
5	20	2 sp	9 sp	1 gp	1 gp	1 gp
6	22	3 sp	1 gp, 5 sp	2 gp	2 gp	2 gp
7	23	4 sp	2 gp	2 gp, 5 sp	2 gp, 5 sp	2 gp, 5 sp
8	24	5 sp	2 gp, 5 sp	3 gp	3 gp	3 gp
9	26	6 sp	3 gp	4 gp	4 gp	4 gp
10	27	7 sp	4 gp	5 gp	6 gp	6 gp
11	28	8 sp	5 gp	6 gp	8 gp	8 gp
12	30	9 sp	6 gp	8 gp	10 gp	10 gp
13	31	1 gp	7 gp	10 gp	15 gp	15 gp
14	32	1 gp, 5 sp	8 gp	15 gp	20 gp	20 gp
15	34	2 gp	10 gp	20 gp	28 gp	28 gp
16	35	2 gp, 5 sp	13 gp	25 gp	36 gp	40 gp
17	36	3 gp	15 gp	30 gp	45 gp	55 gp
18	38	4 gp	20 gp	45 gp	70 gp	90 gp
19	39	6 gp	30 gp	60 gp	100 gp	130 gp
20	40	8 gp	40 gp	75 gp	150 gp	200 gp
20 (critical success)	—	—	50 gp	90 gp	175 gp	300 gp

Magical CraftingFeat 2

General Skill 
Source Player Core pg. 258

Prerequisites expert in Crafting (Skill)

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You can Craft magic items, though some have other requirements, as listed in GM Core. When you select this feat, you gain formulas for four common magic items of 2nd level or lower.

Crafting Example

Ezren is a 5th-level wizard and an expert in Crafting. He has a Crafting modifier of +13 and the Magical Crafting feat. With 2 weeks of downtime ahead of him, he decides to craft a striking rune, a 4th-level item, using its formula. The GM secretly chooses a DC of 19.

The item has a Price of 65 gp, so Ezren prepares 32 gp, 5 sp worth of raw materials. He has another 32 gp, 5 sp worth of raw materials on hand. After spending 1 day building and incanting spells, he rolls a 12 on his Crafting check, for a result of 25. That's a success! At this point, Ezren can spend the additional 32 gp, 5 sp worth of materials to complete the item immediately for 65 gp.

However, Ezren has 13 more days on his hands, so he decides to spend additional time to complete the item. Because he's a 5th-level character and an expert at Crafting, he reduces the amount he has to pay by 1 gp for each day spent. After spending 13 days working, he reduces the total cost to complete the item from 65 gp to 52 gp. He spends the remaining portion of its Price in materials, completes the striking rune, and goes out on his next adventure. (He could have stayed home to keep working on the striking rune, eventually reducing the item's total Price to just the half he paid up front, but adventuring is far more lucrative!)

If Ezren's Crafting check result were a 29 or higher, he'd have gotten a critical success. In that case, he'd reduce the remaining amount by 2 gp per day (the amount for a 6th-level expert), lowering the amount needed to complete the item after 13 additional days of work to 39 gp.agical Crafting Leads To...

Magical Scrounger, Signature Crafting

Traits

General:

A type of feat that any character can select, regardless of ancestry and class, as long as they meet the prerequisites. You can select a feat with this trait when your class grants a general feat.

Skill:

A general feat with the skill trait improves your skills and their actions or gives you new actions for a skill. A feat with this trait can be selected when a class grants a skill feat or general feat. Archetype feats with the skill trait can be selected in place of a skill feat if you have that archetype’s dedication feat.