## Craft Rune Circle (Item Creation) You can create rune circles, stationary magic items that hold a variety of spells and effects. **Prerequisite:** Caster level 5th **Benefit:** You can create a rune circle whose prerequisites you meet. Creating a rune circle takes one day for each 1,000 gp in its price. To create a rune circle, you must use up raw materials costing one-half of this price. You can also mend a broken rune circle if it is one that you could make. Doing so costs half the half the raw materials and half the time it would take to craft that item in the first place. Some rune circles incur extra costs in material components, as noted in their descriptions. These costs are in addition to those derived from the item's base price. ### Rune Circles Amid the graves of his ancestors, a goliath shaman calls her tribe’s most powerful warrior back from the dead. At the gates of a besieged dwarf city, a knot of heavily armored defenders stands against impossible odds, their arms and hearts strengthened by the stone on which they stand. In a peaceful glade in the center of his village, a gnome minstrel blends magic and song into one seamless whole. Drawing on the power of the rune circles on which they stand, these heroes reach beyond their own limits and accomplish amazing tasks with the help of the earth itself. Rune circles are special places infused with magical power. They might grant spellcasters additional power and proficiency with their spells, make warriors faster or stronger, or cause any number of other powerful effects. Although dwarf, gnome, and goliath spellcasters are more likely than others to create rune circles, spellcasters of any race can do so. While they resemble wondrous magic items in many ways, important differences exist between rune circles and traditional magic items, and rune circles should be treated more as environmental elements than as magic items. ### Creating a Rune Circle A rune circle is created by fusing magic runes into the ground or into the floor of a chamber. Once it is placed, a rune circle cannot be moved. Moving the stone that a rune circle is engraved upon always ruins the rune circle. Because the creation process creates a threefold connection between the location, the magic energy expended in the creation, and the physical earth or stone in which the runes are drawn, there’s no way to create a mobile rune circle. Even vehicles large enough to contain an entire rune circle do not allow for the creation of a mobile rune circle. In game terms, creating a rune circle works just like creating a magic item. Additional factors affect the price of a rune circle, such as the size of the circle, but otherwise the creation process is the same. To create a rune circle, a character must have the Craft Rune Circle feat. To estimate the gold piece value of a rune circle, start by estimating the value of a standard magic item with the powers of the rune circle. Since a rune circle is an immovable item, divide this value by 4. This calculation provides a reasonable estimate for a rune circle with a 10-foot radius, which is the typical size for a rune circle. If the rune circle is smaller or larger than 10 feet in radius, the DM may choose to reduce or increase the cost according to the following table: |Size | Price Adjustment | |-------------|-------------------| |5-ft. square | Reduce price by 50% | |5-ft. radius | Reduce price by 25% | |10-ft. radius| — | |15-ft. radius|Increase price by 50%| |20-ft. radius|Increase price by 100%| In some cases, the estimated gold piece value might not fully represent the appropriate value for a rune circle. For instance, a rune circle that grants a bonus on Craft checks is worth more than the estimate would suggest, since the circle’s lack of portability isn’t a significant factor in its utility. Feel free to multiply the price for such a rune circle by 2 or even 4 to arrive at a more appropriate value