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Otyugh: Large Aberration - - - Otyugh: Huge Aberration
1. HD: 6d8+9 (36 HP) - - - HD: 15d8+48 (115 HP)
*Gained 9HD
?: Where does the +9 and +48 come from?
2. Initiative: +0 - - - Initiative: +3
*Dex Mod (-1)+Improved Initiative Feat (+4)

3. Speed: 20ft. - - - Speed: 20ft.

4. A.C. (large): 17 ...

1) So what about the note at the bottom of Table 7-32 that states: 3. If purchasing a staff, the buyer pays 5 x the XP value in gold pieces. (?) If the XP cost is 24,750/25=990 XP, that would add 4,950gp (5x990) to the total cost of the staff making it 30,000gp (24,750+4,950+300)?

2) Even though ...

3) How did you come up with those numbers for medium and small? I can't imagine that a smaller and typically younger member of a species would be as intelligent as an adult, but I suppose I could see how wisdom and charisma would stay the same...I guess I could tweak intelligence down a notch or ...

Looking back, I think I was confused with the total cost to the creator of the staff and the total cost of the item to purchase a.k.a. market value. So trying this again using Table 7-32 in the 3.5 D.M. Guide (pg. 284) to create an Acid Fog staff with 50 charges at the minimum level...

Item Cost ...

Hmm...Let's take an Acid Fog staff at 50 charges created at the minimum caster level of 8 for example...Using pg. 287 in the 3.5 DM Guide I come up with:

Base: 375x6(level of spell)x8(caster level)=18,000gp
+75% of next most costly ability: None (?)
+1/2 of other abilities: None (?)
+Masterwork ...

Hmm...I must ask difficult questions for them to go unanswered among the D&D elite. :p Here is another...Can someone explain to me how the 3.5 DM Guide (pg. 244) deduced a staff of charming is worth 16,500gp? In other words, where the price of 16,500 came from. Thanks to all replies. :cool:

While looking at the information on monster enhancement in the 3.5 Monster Manual, it is no surprise that I ran across a few questions...They are as follows:
1) Would the save DC for a 24 HD gargantuan aboleth's slime & mucus cloud abilities be 29 (base 10+half of HD 12+constitution modifier 7 for ...

2) Gotcha. :cool:

3) I am a newer DM so I am just trying to decipher ins and outs of rules and such for future reference, if not current, so I will be aware of how to create magical items for placement in my world. I am thinking about having epic scrolls & other higher-end magic items & artifacts ...

1) Gotcha :cool:

2) 118,000/.5=236,000. Where did you get the extra 1,600 from to equal 237,600?

3) I somehow overlooked adding the effective level changes when calculating the formula. :rolleyes: So realizing that now, the maximum value for an "Acid Fog" scroll would be: spell level 18 (base ...

As a newer DM, I was messing around with feats & magical item creation and came upon the following questions...

1) In the 3.5 Player's Handbook on pg. 93 where it addresses the "Empower Spell" feat, it means that the results of a damage roll, say 1d4+1 where I rolled a 4 on the die would be: 4+1 ...