Quote Originally Posted by Man on Fire View Post
Who said NPCs follow the ame rules PCs do?

Okay, I said 3 only because I tought you people are gonna say 2 is not enough. it may be 2 tmes as well.
1) The XP cost of crafting is utterly trivial. If EVERY BIT of loot the PCs pick up from level 1 to 20 is sold, and EVERY COIN that this gives them is then crafted by one PC, then that PC will NEVER be more than one level behind, and will spend most of his time at the same level as everyone else.

Double or triple is too much added cost, the crafting feats are virtually worthless at those.

2) The game GIVES you a cost for XP points, 1 XP is worth 5 GP. If you want to replace XP costs of crafting with GP costs then use that ratio, which comes out to paying 70% of base cost (rather than 50%).