The art of Artifice

Artifice items are a type of magic item that are in a sense, halfway between a consumable item, like a potion, and a true magic item. The reason for this distinction is that while they can be used more than once these artificed items cannot regenerate their magical charge on their own. Instead they require magical charge to be channeled into crystals capable of containing magic such as an Eberon dragonshard.

Creation of Artifice One of the main benifits to artifice is that like the creation of a healing potion it requires no magical formula for its creation and proficency with a tool, tinker tools in this case, is enough to get started. Now, the bare bones of what an artifice item is, is an item that a spellcaster has bestowed their knowledge or capacity upon. A spellcaster may create an artificed item capable of casting any spell they know or have prepared of fifth level or lower. A common artifice item can only contain a first level spell

An uncommon artifice item can contain up to a third level spell

A rare artifice item can contain up to a fifth level spell A standard artifice item contains a single spell it is capable of casting and has a crystal that can hold enough magical charge to cast that spell at its lowest level. There are alterations to this standard design one can make during the items creation but for a standard artifice item it takes three quarters the time and funds to create compared to a true magic item of a comparable rarity.