So I am creating a high magic setting and I want to make the abundance of magic clear so I want to make magic tattoos available for my players to buy. These tattoos will give you a cantrip that works like normal but it’s stregnth won’t go up unless the upgraded cantrip is what you got tattooed not you.
So I’m wondering what these tattoos should cost and what intervals should the price increase ?
I suggest a price somewhere in the 20 gp to 70 gp range (I'd go with 50 gp, myself). I also suggest you just let the cantrip work as normal - including the damage scaling with the character's level - because otherwise your players are likely to see the cost/benefit of the option to get a magic tattoo as "a waste of money" because their other forms of attack will, by design, complete out-pace the cantrip unless they spend whatever number of gold ends up being the total for the whole set of upgraded damage versions (I mean.. .unless you make the total cost 50 gp and the intitial buy-in is only like 5 gp or something, then it's worth the price, but overly-fiddly to pay in installments rather than a single lump sum).
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So I am creating a high magic setting and I want to make the abundance of magic clear so I want to make magic tattoos available for my players to buy. These tattoos will give you a cantrip that works like normal but it’s stregnth won’t go up unless the upgraded cantrip is what you got tattooed not you.
So I’m wondering what these tattoos should cost and what intervals should the price increase ?
I suggest a price somewhere in the 20 gp to 70 gp range (I'd go with 50 gp, myself). I also suggest you just let the cantrip work as normal - including the damage scaling with the character's level - because otherwise your players are likely to see the cost/benefit of the option to get a magic tattoo as "a waste of money" because their other forms of attack will, by design, complete out-pace the cantrip unless they spend whatever number of gold ends up being the total for the whole set of upgraded damage versions (I mean.. .unless you make the total cost 50 gp and the intitial buy-in is only like 5 gp or something, then it's worth the price, but overly-fiddly to pay in installments rather than a single lump sum).