A staff has 50 charges when created.
A typical staff is like a walking stick, quarterstaff, or cudgel. It has an AC of 7, 10 hit points, a hardness of 5, and a break DC of 24.
Staffs use the spell trigger activation method, so casting a spell from a staff is usually a standard action that doesn’t provoke attacks of opportunity. (If the spell being cast, however, has a longer casting time than 1 action, it takes that long to cast the spell from a staff.) To activate a staff, a character must hold it forth in at least one hand (or whatever passes for a hand, for nonhumanoid creatures).
| Staffs | |||
Medium |
Major |
Staff | Market Price |
01-10 |
- |
Size alteration | 6,500 gp |
11-20 |
01-05 |
Charming | 12,000 gp |
21-30 |
06-15 |
Healing | 33,000 gp |
31-40 |
16-30 |
Fire | 29,000 gp |
41-50 |
31-40 |
Swarming insects | 20,000 gp |
51-60 |
41-50 |
Frost | 70,000 gp |
61-70 |
51-60 |
Earth and stone | 85,000 gp |
71-80 |
61-70 |
Defense | 80,000 gp |
81-89 |
71-80 |
Woodlands | 90,000 gp |
90-95 |
81-90 |
Life | 130,000 gp |
96-100 |
91-96 |
Passage | 180,000 gp |
- |
97-100 |
Power | 200,000 gp |
This staff allows use of the following spells:
Caster Level: 7th; Prerequisites: Craft Staff, charm person, charm monster; Market Price: 12,000 gp.
This staff allows use of the following spells:
Caster Level: 7th; Prerequisites: Craft Staff, lesser restoration, cure serious wounds, remove blindness/deafness, remove disease; Market Price: 33,000 gp.
The staff allows use of the following spells:
Caster Level: 15th; Prerequisites: Craft Staff, shield, shield of faith, shield other, shield of law, creator must be lawful; Market Price: 80,000 gp.
This staff allows the use of the following spells:
Caster Level: 11th; Prerequisites: Craft Staff, passwall, move earth; Market Price: 85,000 gp.
This staff allows use of the following spells:
Caster Level: 8th; Prerequisites: Craft Staff, burning hands, fireball, wall of fire; Market Price: 29,000 gp.
This staff allows the use of the following spells:
Caster Level: 10th; Prerequisites: Craft Staff, ice storm, wall of ice, cone of cold; Market Price: 70,000 gp.
This staff allows use of the following spells:
Caster Level: 13th; Prerequisites: Craft Staff, heal, resurrection; Market Price: 130,000 gp.
This staff allows the use of the following spells:
Caster Level: 17th; Prerequisites: Craft Staff, dimension door, passwall, phase door, teleport without error, astral projection; Market Price: 180,000 gp.
The staff of power has the following powers:
The wielder of a staff of power gains a +2 luck bonus to AC and saving throws. The staff is also a +2 quarterstaff, and its wielder may use it to smite opponents. If 1 charge is expended (as a free action), the staff causes double damage (x3 on a critical hit) for 1 round.
A staff of power can be broken for a retributive strike. The breaking of the staff must be purposeful and declared by the wielder. All charges currently in the staff are instantly released in a 30-foot- radius globe. All within 10 feet of the broken staff take hit points of damage equal to eight times the number of charges in the staff, those between 11 feet and 20 feet away take six times the number of charges in damage, and those 21 feet to 30 feet distant take four times the number of charges in damage. Successful Reflex saving throws (DC 17) reduce the damage sustained by half.
The character breaking the staff has a 50% chance of traveling to another plane of existence, but if the character does not, the explosive release of spell energy destroys him or her.
After all charges are used up from the staff, it remains a +2 quarterstaff. (Once empty of charges, it cannot be broken in a retributive strike.)
Caster Level: 15th; Prerequisites: Craft Staff, Craft Magic Arms and Armor, magic missile, heightened ray of enfeeblement, continual flame, levitate, heightened fireball, heightened lightning bolt, cone of cold, hold monster, wall of force, globe of invulnerability; Market Price: 200,000 gp.
This staff allows use of the following spells:
Caster Level: 5th; Prerequisites: Craft Staff, enlarge, reduce; Market Price: 6,500 gp.
This staff allows use of the following spells:
Caster Level: 9th; Prerequisites: Craft Staff, summon swarm, insect plague; Market Price: 20,000 gp.
This staff allows use of the following spells:
Further, the staff may be used as a weapon, functioning as a +2 quarterstaff. The staff of the woodlands also allows its wielder to pass without trace at will, with no charge cost.
Caster Level: 9th; Prerequisites: Craft Staff, Craft Magic Arms and Armor, pass without trace, animal friendship, barkskin, speak with animals, wall of thorns, summon nature’s ally VI; Market Price: 90,000 gp.