If an NPC villian has a craft item feat is it fair to raise the value of the items he has over the Value of the gear/Wealth limits in Tables 4-23 and 5-1 in the DMG and would such a Magic item heavy Villian have a higher CR?
Richs response
NPCs with crafting feats, here's a little trick we use in R&D: We charge the NPC 70% of the normal cost for items they made themselves. It should be closer to 50%, but we also want to account for the XP he spent, so we settled on 70% as a fair mark. So we count an NPC's magic longsword as 1620 gp toward his limit instead of 2315 gp, if he made it himself.
Interesting answer, no direct reply to CR, just allows a crafter to have some more gear for the same CR. The percentage appears a bit off as well. There again they did do R&D and perhaps the 70 percent worked out as the same CR as other NPCs that took a different feat then a craft one.
Interesting info for NPCs with craft feats
Posted - 16 Jan 2005 : 08:29:15
