Baldur's Gate : The Sword Coast Chronicles : NWN2 Persistent World

army of 20 cows prepared to be deployed, ready to go shiat gonna get real

Make them expensive (2000gp+) and make it a single use item which is consumed immediately, not a wand or some other repeated use item. That would see some more responsible utilisation of them.

Tsidkenu wrote:Make them expensive (2000gp+) and make it a single use item which is consumed immediately, not a wand or some other repeated use item. That would see some more responsible utilisation of them.

That gives pets no persistancy to live beyond one Summoning. Which is bad for rp in of itself.

4000gp for a magical item with 50 charges that summons a pet.

Creating a wand of summon creature I costs 1500gp. Wands cost vary on Mudds, but lets say round the total cost up to 4000gp. Ie. you can do the same thing already for the same cost if you want to spring traps.

Also the cost per charge may keep the use of them down to a reasonable level.

BigJ

Scripting it so the item vanishes when the pet dies it better than 1 summon. It'll see more use, and there is no reason your pet should vanish (even if it doesn't die) after 1 summon.

As for price, according to http://www.d20srd.org/srd/equipment/wealthAndMoney.htm, 10 gold is the price for a cow. Since I've always maintained that 1 nwn2 gold = 1 PnP copper, would that make it 10,000 for a cow? Unless the DMs want to go a different route with money management. Like 1 nwn2 gold being 1 PnP silver.

Imo, copper would be better for these prices:

1 Chicken = 3 Copper = 3 nwn2 gold
1 Cow = 10 g = 10,000 nwn2 gold
1 Goat = 1 g = 1,000 nwn2 gold (if we have a model)
1 Sheep = 2 g = 2,000 nwn2 gold (if we have a model)
1 Pig = 3 g = 3,000 nwn2 gold

We'd have to create our own prices, for a couple, like cats and birds (pigeons?!?)