warpgate VS foundryvtt-magic-items

warpgate - Warp Gate is a system-agnostic library module for Foundry VTT that provides a growing number of API functions to make programmatically spawning tokens and modifying those tokens easier for players and GMs alike. Usable both directly via client Macros and as a dependency for other modules to build and expand upon.

Yup. Warp gate can do this with some item macro magic. https://github.com/trioderegion/warpgate … this would involve mutations, just FYI.

Warp Gate - This is a set of functions that greatly reduce the amount of code needed to do something.

Sounds like Warpgate could be the module to use for this, see https://github.com/trioderegion/warpgate/wiki/Mutating-Goblin for a possible example of how to do what you're after.

Warp Gate

Here's a link to the warpgate code for Dancing Lights.

FoundryVTT Magic Items - This module for Foundry VTT and specific for the DnD5e system, adds the ability to create magical items with spells or feats that belong to the item itself, such as staffs or magic wands, which will be automatically inherited from the character who owns the item.

Magic Items - Allows adding additional spells and such onto magic items directly. Very useful for items that function on charge systems that can be upcast, though a little tricky to work with.

Well there's your problem right there.

Magic Items might help you. I believe you can set it to use multiple charges and scale with number of charges.

a solution could be to code your cutom "feature" into custom magic spells and use the mod "magic items" which let you add spells to magic items with customizable charge cost per spell, number of charges, charges regained at x and so on

What you want is the Magic Items Module... it works with MIDI-QOL and DAE. https://gitlab.com/riccisi/foundryvtt-magic-items

Magic Items

There's an issue for this raised on the module's gitlab page: https://gitlab.com/riccisi/foundryvtt-magic-items/-/issues/82