Ok. So I'm DM'ing and an item of constant protection from evil came up at the DMG price of 4,000 gp.

Now I don't know about your PC's, but most of mine tend to fight evil creatures. Now this is a high level game, where extended protection from evils or circles of evil are very easy to access. But what I'm worried about is what would be a fair price for this?

Consider, the person wearing it is gains a +2 deflection bonus to AC and a +2 resistance bonus to saves*. There's a heck of a bonus right there.

This person is also now virtually immune to compulsions, etc. There are items that do this, but they are MUCH more expensive. And this is all they do.

This person would also be immune to the physical attacks of any and all summoned monsters and summoned creatures**. That's another very heft chunk of another school of magic.

Now summoned creatures and compulsions just happen to be a staple of the forces of the opposition right now. That has nothing to do with why he wanted it, he's got a cool reason for wanting it. But I'd be a liar if I said it wasn't affecting my reticence to allow it. Especially since it's such a throw away spell with all their casters if they just wanted to have it up.

But if there's one thing I'm trying to work on from Monte and PirateCat's DM'ing advice, it's finding ways to say 'Yes' more often. We're all there to have fun. And the game is more fun when the good guys are winning. At least for us...

So what do you think would be an appropriate price for an item like this?

*vs. evil creatures, which is near on everything that would be attacking my PC's.

**physical attacks constituting the largest amount of summoned allies contribution, and excluding good summoned creatures summoned that are again, very unlikely to be seen. Though not as unlikely as getting attacked by good opponents to begin with.

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