It’s Canon Now: Disassembling Magic Items

It’s possible to disassemble magic items into their constituent parts to ameliorate the costs associated with other magical crafting.

  1. If you have the crafting feat for a certain type of magic item (Brew Potion for potions, Craft Wand for wands), you can disassemble a magic item of the type into its constituent parts.
  2. If you disassemble a working magic item, you get back 50% of its manufacture cost in usable, ensorcell-able materials.
  3. If you disassemble a broken magic item, that volume of usable materials drops to 10%
  4. It takes one day to per 10000 of recoverable materials to disassemble magic items.
  5. Funds generated in this manner can only be used for costs associated with producing other magic items.

Example: Bardos wants to disassemble a +2 Ring of Protection to use the constituent parts for another project. He has Forge Ring as a crafting feat, so no problem. A +2 RoP costs 4000 gp to make, so after a day’s work Bardos has 2000 gp worth of magical material that he can use to offset the costs of his other magical crafting project.