In the Hylar Dwarf City

It is the middle of winter and there's no real rush to leave. However, the enemy army is still out there (and holding the fortress between you and where you came from), there are obviously other dragons (and likely other highlords based on Verminaard's final words), and who knows what they're doing while you sit around. So you may want to be prudent in how long you spend here.

You can purchase anything in the Player’s Handbook as normal. Expensive items (such as gems, jewelry, Masterwork items, minor Magical items, etc.) need to be found and then bargained for.

Items can also be sold for 50% their book value if desired. For expensive items (including magic items you can’t use and want to sell) you’ll need to find a buyer and bargain with them.

Some other things you can do are:

Making Magic Items - General Rules
Making Magic Armor
Making Magic Weapons
Making Magic Scrolls
Making Magic Potions
Making Magic Wands

Researching Spells

Magical stuff available to Buy

My Advice

Making Magic Items

All magic items require 5 pre-requisites to make them. I’ll state some general information and then I’ll go into the specifics further down. Note that it doesn’t have to be the same person supplying all 5 pre-requisites.

1) Creating a magic item requires the proper Feat.

2) Creating a magic item requires the proper materials. In nearly all cases, this is simplified by spending an appropriate amount of gold.

3) Creating a magic item requires the expenditure of experience points. Any willing character may supply these.

4) Creating a magic item requires a certain number of consecutive days from all participants.

5) Creating a magic item requires some specific pre-requisite. Usually this is a spell (which is considered to be cast during the creation process and can come from any source) but sometimes it’s something else. Note that if the pre-requisite spell has material components or experience point costs, those must be expended in addition to the expenditures of item 2 and 3 above.


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My Advice

With regards to magical preparations:

Mithral armor is a good way to increase the armor class of Jozan and Arynda without harming their other abilities that depend on light armor. Jozan could wear a mithral chain shirt without impacting his skills while Arynda can wear a mithral breastplate and still be considered as wearing light armor. You'll still want to enchant them, of course.

Cure Light Wounds wands are dirt cheap and extremely useful. Interestingly, even though Quill can make them by herself, she can’t use them. Nadira can use them but Arynda is no longer able to.
Any other low level spell that you just can't seem to cast enough of is a good candidate for a wand (and don't forget Quill can also make wands of Nadira's spells for Nadira to use).

Potions are extremely flexible because anyone can use them so it might be useful to have a few key ones distributed among the group.

Since a spellcaster’s power comes from her highest level spells, scrolls with 4th or 5th level spells on them can really enhance their effectiveness. If you can normally cast only one 5th level spell in a day, but also have a scroll with two 5th level spells on it, you’ve in a sense tripled your power for a day.

Arynda is a real killer. But she is extremely vulnerable to Hold or Charm type spells (anything with a Will save). Jozan is actually worse in this area. You need to be ready to deal with this possible problem. One option is a scroll with Dispel Magic. It’s a good generic solution but it’s not guaranteed to work. Another is to get them magical items (or cast protective spells) that increase their Will saves.