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Pathfinder Second Edition

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Formulas (Legacy)

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Formulas are instructions for making items with the Craft activity. You can usually read a formula as long as you can read the language it’s written in, though you might lack the skill to Craft the item. Often, alchemists and crafting guilds use obscure Languages or create codes to protect their Formulas from rivals.

You can buy Common Formulas at the Price listed on Table 6–13, or you can hire an NPC to let you copy their formula for the same Price. A purchased formula is typically a schematic on rolled-up parchment of light Bulk. You can copy a formula into your formula book in 1 hour, either from a schematic or directly from someone else’s formula book. If you have a formula, you can Craft a copy of it using the Crafting skill. Formulas for Uncommon items and rare items are usually significantly more valuable—if you can find them at all!

If you have an item, you can try to reverse‑engineer its formula. This uses the Craft activity and takes the same amount of time as creating the item from a formula would. You must first disassemble the item. After the base Downtime, you attempt a Crafting check against the same DC it would take to Craft the item. If you succeed, you Craft the formula at its full Price, and you can keep working to reduce the Price as normal. If you fail, you’re left with raw materials and no formula. If you critically fail, you also waste 10% of the raw materials you’d normally be able to salvage.

The item’s disassembled parts are worth half its Price in raw materials and can’t be reassembled unless you successfully reverse-engineer the formula or acquire the formula another way. Reassembling the item from the formula works just like Crafting it from scratch; you use the disassembled parts as the necessary raw materials.

Table 6–13: Formulas

Item Level Formula Price
0* 5 sp
1 1 gp
2 2 gp
3 3 gp
4 5 gp
5 8 gp
6 13 gp
7 18 gp
8 25 gp
9 35 gp
10 50 gp
11 70 gp
12 100 gp
13 150 gp
14 225 gp
15 325 gp
16 500 gp
17 750 gp
18 1,200 gp
19 2,000 gp
20 3,500 gp

* Formulas for all 0-level Common items from this chapter can be purchased collectively in a Basic Crafter's Book.

Items with Multiple Types

If an item has Multiple Types of different levels, each type has its own formula, and you need the formula for the specific type of item you want to Craft. For example, if you have a formula for a type I bag of holding but not for a type II bag of holding, you must acquire a separate formula to Craft a type II bag of holding.

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