Our party has fought a few monsters including a green dragon and displacer beasts. We use from dms guild the discerning merchant's price guide for all magical items.
According to the list Dragon Scale Mail is valued at 15,000 GP while regular scale mail is 50gp. Out of the 14,950 GP different how much of that is dragon the value of the scales vs the cost of labour.
Cost of a Cloak of Displacement is valued around 3,600 GP but again I got the skin. Part of why I'm asking is because I want to try and make some things as well from the other harvested parts. I got basic prices for the item but am wondering if 70% of the difference is materials would be fair?
According to item crafting rules in DMG (or maybe it was the revised rules in XGtE), it takes raw material valued at half the item's value (plus time proportional to the cost) to craft the item.
Short answer: Since you are using the DM's Guild supplement, you'll need to partner with your DM to get the answer you are looking for.
Long answer: I say that because the pricing won't align to the official sourcebooks. Take the dragon scale mail for example. It's a very rare item, and XGtE suggests a price of 1d4+1 × 10,000gp. Same book (as well as the Eberron book) show making a very rare magic item requires the key component (which you have) plus 20,000gp and 25 weeks crafting time.
That all makes sense if the price is 20,000-50,000 as suggested. You'll break even at minimum, might make a 30k profit if you can sell it at the high end. But using the DM's Guild pricing of 15,000 means that you'll lose 5,000gp by making a set.
XGtE has downtime info for buying, selling, and crafting. The key to those rules is that the magic items don't have set prices. They are a dice roll and a modifier. Crafting them, however, does have a set price. The guideline of crafting costs equal to half the item cost is for non-magic items.
Hi,
Our party has fought a few monsters including a green dragon and displacer beasts. We use from dms guild the discerning merchant's price guide for all magical items.
According to the list Dragon Scale Mail is valued at 15,000 GP while regular scale mail is 50gp. Out of the 14,950 GP different how much of that is dragon the value of the scales vs the cost of labour.
Cost of a Cloak of Displacement is valued around 3,600 GP but again I got the skin. Part of why I'm asking is because I want to try and make some things as well from the other harvested parts. I got basic prices for the item but am wondering if 70% of the difference is materials would be fair?
According to item crafting rules in DMG (or maybe it was the revised rules in XGtE), it takes raw material valued at half the item's value (plus time proportional to the cost) to craft the item.
Short answer: Since you are using the DM's Guild supplement, you'll need to partner with your DM to get the answer you are looking for.
Long answer: I say that because the pricing won't align to the official sourcebooks. Take the dragon scale mail for example. It's a very rare item, and XGtE suggests a price of 1d4+1 × 10,000gp. Same book (as well as the Eberron book) show making a very rare magic item requires the key component (which you have) plus 20,000gp and 25 weeks crafting time.
That all makes sense if the price is 20,000-50,000 as suggested. You'll break even at minimum, might make a 30k profit if you can sell it at the high end. But using the DM's Guild pricing of 15,000 means that you'll lose 5,000gp by making a set.
XGtE has downtime info for buying, selling, and crafting. The key to those rules is that the magic items don't have set prices. They are a dice roll and a modifier. Crafting them, however, does have a set price. The guideline of crafting costs equal to half the item cost is for non-magic items.