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Staves

A staff is a long shaft that stores several spells. Staves usually hold spells grouped by a theme, and sometimes possess other abilities that they grant to the wielder. A staff has 10 charges when created, but can be recharged by a spellcaster with the appropriate spells.

Physical Description: A typical staff measures anywhere from 4 feet to 7 feet long and is 2 inches to 3 inches thick, weighing about 5 pounds. Most staves are wood, but an exotic few are bone, metal, or even glass. A staff often has a gem or some device at its tip or is shod in metal at one or both ends. Staves are often decorated with carvings or runes. A typical staff also functions as a walking stick, quarterstaff, or cudgel. It has AC 7, 10 hit points, hardness 5, and a break DC of 24.

Activation: Staves 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 has a longer casting time than 1 standard action, however, it takes the full casting time 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 non-humanoid creatures).

Special Qualities: Roll d%. A 01–30 result indicates that something (a design, inscription, or the like) provides some clue to the staff's function, and 31–100 indicates that it has no special qualities.

Using Staves: Staves use the wielder's ability score and relevant feats to set the DC for saves against their spells. Unlike with other sorts of magic items, the wielder can use his caster level when activating the power of the staff if it's higher than the caster level of the staff. This means that staves are far more potent in the hands of a powerful spellcaster. Because they use the wielder's ability score to set the save DC for the spells, spells from a staff are often harder to resist than those from other magic items, which use the minimum ability score required to cast the spell. Not only are aspects of the spell dependent on caster level (range, duration, and so on) potentially higher, but spells from a staff are also harder to dispel and have a better chance of overcoming spell resistance.

Staves hold a maximum of 10 charges. Each spell cast from a staff consumes one or more charges. When a staff runs out of charges, it cannot be used until it is recharged. Each morning, when a spellcaster prepares spells or regains spell slots, he can also imbue one staff with a portion of his power, so long as one or more of the spells cast by the staff is on his spell list and he is capable of casting at least one of the spells. Imbuing a staff with this power restores one charge to the staff, but the caster must forgo one prepared spell or spell slot of a level equal to the highest-level spell cast by the staff. A staff cannot gain more than one charge per day, and a caster cannot imbue more than one staff per day.

A staff can hold spells of any level, and the minimum caster level of a staff is 8th.

Staves
d%Lesser Medium StaffPrice
01–10Staff of blessed relief7,200 gp
11–20Staff of minor arcana8,000 gp
21–30Staff of tricks8,800 gp
31–44Staff of the scout9,600 gp
45–54Staff of eidolons14,400 gp
55–67Staff of accompaniment14,800 gp
68–84Staff of understanding16,000 gp
85–100Staff of charming17,600 gp
d%Greater Medium StaffPrice
01–11Staff of fire18,950 gp
12–21Staff of courage19,200 gp
22–29Staff of belittling20,000 gp
30–38Staff of feast and famine20,800 gp
39–49Staff of rigor20,800 gp
50–60Staff of swarming insects22,800 gp
61–68Staff of authority23,000 gp
69–81Staff of radiance23,200 gp
82–92Staff of size alteration26,150 gp
93–100Staff of Journeys27,200 gp
d%Lesser Major StaffPrice
01–04Staff of acid28,600 gp
05–08Staff of shrieking28,800 gp
09–11Chaotic staff29,600 gp
12–14Holy staff29,600 gp
15–17Lawful staff29,600 gp
18–21Staff of healing29,600 gp
22–24Unholy staff29,600 gp
25–28Staff of the master30,000 gp
29–32Staff of spiders30,200 gp
33–36Staff of electricity31,900 gp
37–39Heretic's bane32,000 gp
40–42Musical staff32,000 gp
43–46Staff of souls32,800 gp
47–50Staff of toxins34,200 gp
51–54Staff of stealth36,800 gp
55–58Staff of the avenger37,310 gp
59–62Staff of aspects37,600 gp
63–66Staff of speaking39,600 gp
67–70Staff of frost41,400 gp
71–74Staff of bolstering41,600 gp
75–78Staff of curses43,500 gp
79–85Staff of dark flame47,000 gp
86–89Staff of cackling wrath47,200 gp
90–93Staff of performance48,800 gp
94–97Animate staff49,800 gp
98–100Staff of revelations51,008 gp
d%Greater Major StaffPrice
01–04Staff of illumination51,500 gp
05–07Staff of obstacles51,600 gp
08–10Staff of heaven and earth54,000 gp
11–13Staff of travel54,400 gp
14–16Staff of hoarding55,866 gp
17–19Staff of traps56,925 gp
20–22Staff of many rays57,200 gp
23–25Staff of mithral might58,000 gp
26–29Staff of defense62,000 gp
30–32Staff of the planes63,960 gp
33–35Staff of hungry shadows69,300 gp
36–38Dragon staff81,000 gp
39–41Staff of slumber81,766 gp
42–46Staff of abjuration82,000 gp
47–51Staff of conjuration82,000 gp
52–56Staff of divination82,000 gp
57–61Staff of enchantment82,000 gp
62–66Staff of evocation82,000 gp
67–71Staff of illusion82,000 gp
72–76Staff of necromancy82,000 gp
77–81Staff of transmutation82,000 gp
82–83Staff of weather84,066 gp
84–86Staff of earth and stone85,800 gp
87–88Staff of vision86,666 gp
89–91Staff of the woodlands100,400 gp
92–94Staff of life109,400 gp
95Staff of one hundred hands180,200 gp
96–98Staff of passage206,900 gp
99Staff of the hierophant220,000 gp
100Staff of power235,000 gp

Animate Staff

Price 49,800 gp; Aura moderate transmutation; CL 11th; Weight 5 lbs.

Created from a number of iron rods, copper gears, and silver screws, this staff constantly shifts and changes. The staff allows use of the following spells:

In addition, once per day, the staff can become a Medium animated object with the metal special ability. It can remain in this form for up to 10 minutes. If destroyed while in this form, it reverts to being a staff, but it loses all of its charges and this ability cannot be used again until it is fully recharged.

Construction Requirements

Cost 24,900 gp

Craft Staff, animate objects, make whole, mending

Chaotic Staff

Price 29,600 gp; Aura moderate evocation; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

Made up from a number of different materials, including wood, metal, and possibly pieces of flesh, this staff seems to shift in shape and form over time. The staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 14,800 gp

Craft Staff, align weapon, chaos hammer, detect evil, magic circle against law

Dragon Staff

Price 81,000 gp; Aura strong transmutation; CL 13th; Weight 7 lbs.

Made from a large dragon bone, wrapped in scales and topped with the fearsome image of a dragon, this staff radiates power. Each dragon staff is linked to one type of chromatic dragon: black, blue, green, red, or white. All the spells that can be cast using the staff are tied to that choice. If the wielder uses the staff to cast form of the dragon II, she must assume the type linked to the staff. Any energy types chosen by spells from the staff must match the type as well (black and green are linked to acid, blue is linked to electricity, red is linked to fire, and white is linked to cold). The staff allows use of the following spells:

In addition to these powers, the wielder of the dragon staff also receives a +2 natural armor bonus to her AC and the ability to make a bite attack as a primary natural weapon. This bite deals 1d8 points of damage if the wielder is Medium. These bonuses are a polymorph effect and are replaced by those gained from casting form of the dragon II, or other similar spells.

Construction Requirements

Cost 40,500 gp

Craft Staff, alter self, dragon's breath, fly, form of the dragon II, protection from energy

Heretic's Bane

Price 32,000 gp; Aura moderate enchantment; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This sturdy wooden staff is crowned by a holy symbol, surrounded by wicked barbs of metal. The staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 16,000 gp

Craft Staff, castigate, command, denounce, zone of truth

Holy Staff

Price 29,600 gp; Aura moderate evocation; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This staff is made from polished birch, inlaid with ivory, and topped with a pristine white gemstone. The staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 14,800 gp

Craft Staff, align weapon, detect evil, holy smite, magic circle against evil

Lawful Staff

Price 29,600 gp; Aura moderate evocation; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This staff is crafted from a perfectly smooth triangular rod of silver, and its top is crowned with a golden sphere. The staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 14,800 gp

Craft Staff, align weapon, detect chaos, magic circle against chaos, order's wrath

Musical Staff

Price 32,000 gp; Aura moderate evocation; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This staff is made from high-quality wood and festooned with brass rods and keys, looking almost like an instrument. The staff allows use of the following spells:

In addition, as a swift action, the wielder of the musical staff can cause it to transform into a string or wind instrument. Any Perform skill checks made with the musical staff gain a +5 competence bonus. The staff can still be used to cast spells while it is an instrument, and it can revert back to a staff as a free action.

Construction Requirements

Cost 16,000 gp

Craft Staff, ghost sound, piercing shriek, sculpt sound, wall of sound

Staff of Abjuration

Price 82,000 gp; Aura strong abjuration; CL 13th; Weight 5 lbs.

Usually carved from the heartwood of an ancient oak, ash, sequoia, or other large tree, this staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 41,000 gp

Craft Staff, dismissal, dispel magic, lesser globe of invulnerability, repulsion, resist energy, shield

Staff of Accompaniment

Price 14,800 gp; Aura moderate evocation and transmutation; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This staff is adorned with musical notes. When held and used with bardic performance, it accompanies the song with the sounds of wind instruments, granting a +2 competence bonus on Perform checks. The staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 7,400 gp

Craft Staff, allegro, chord of shards, saving finale

Staff of Acid

Price 28,600 gp; Aura moderate conjuration; CL 11th; Weight 5 lbs.

This staff is made of a rust-colored metal that has been corroded by acid, with a sickly green gem at its tip. The staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 14,300 gp

Craft Staff, acid arrow, acid fog, corrosive touch

Staff of Aspects

Price 37,600 gp; Aura moderate transmutation; CL 9th; Weight 5 lbs.

This stout staff is made of ash. Four faces of animals—a bear, a falcon, a stag, and a wolf—are carved at its top. The aspect staff functions as a +1/+1 quarterstaff and allows the use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 19,100 gp

Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Craft Staff, aspect of the bear, aspect of the falcon, aspect of the stag, aspect of the wolf

Staff of Authority

Price 23,000 gp; Aura moderate varies; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This stout ironbound staff functions as a +1/+1 quarterstaff. It allows the use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 11,800 gp

Craft Staff, forced quiet, interrogation, oppressive boredom

Staff of Belittling

Price 20,000 gp; Aura moderate transmutation; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

Someone who carries this blue-and-white staff need never feel small nor weak, as the staff brings everybody and everything down to size. This staff allows the use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 10,000 gp

Craft Staff, mass reduce person, reduce animal, reduce person, shrink item

Staff of Blessed Relief

Price 7,200 gp; Aura faint conjuration; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This simple wooden staff is given to young clergy when they first set out into the world to spread the charity of their faith. The staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 3,600 gp

Craft Staff, bless, create water, stabilize

Staff of Bolstering

Price 41,600 gp; Aura moderate transmutation; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

The top of this rosewood shaft narrows and then expands again, bound by a number of metal rings. It allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 20,800 gp

Craft Staff, bear's endurance, bull's strength, cat's grace, greater magic weapon

Staff of Cackling Wrath

Price 47,200 gp; Aura moderate varies; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

The thorns embedded in this gnarled length of wood make it rather tricky for the unwary to grasp. It allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 23,600 gp

Craft Staff, baleful polymorph, bestow curse, blindness/deafness, charm person, hold person, inflict moderate wounds, vampiric touch

Staff of Charming

Price 17,600 gp; Aura moderate enchantment; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

Made of twisting wood ornately shaped and carved, this staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 8,800 gp

Craft Staff, charm monster, charm person

Staff of Conjuration

Price 82,000 gp; Aura strong conjuration; CL 13th; Weight 5 lbs.

This staff is usually made of ash or walnut and bears ornate carvings of many different kinds of creatures. It allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 41,000 gp

Craft Staff, cloudkill, minor creation, stinking cloud, summon monster VI, summon swarm, unseen servant

Staff of Courage

Price 19,200 gp; Aura moderate enchantment; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This sturdy-looking hickory staff is capped with a figurine of an angel or other benevolent spirit, wings and arms outstretched as if in welcome. This staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 9,600 gp

Craft Staff, bless, prayer, remove fear, remove paralysis

Staff of Curses

Price 43,500 gp; Aura moderate transmutation; CL 9th; Weight 5 lbs.

This gnarled wooden staff is bedecked with broken charms and burnt fetishes that were once used to ward against bad luck, but now are in shambles. The staff allows use of the following spells:

In addition, the staff of curses is a +1/+1 quarterstaff, and whenever the wielder strikes a creature with the staff, he can expend one charge to cause the creature to become cursed for a number of rounds equal to the number of charges remaining in the staff. While this curse persists, the creature takes a –2 penalty on saving throws from spells cast from the staff and a –2 penalty to AC against any attacks made by the staff.

Construction Requirements

Cost 22,050 gp

Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Craft Staff, baleful polymorph, bestow curse, blindness/deafness, ill omen

Staff of Dark Flame

Price 47,000 gp; Aura moderate evocation and necromancy; CL 8th; Weight 4 lbs.

Made from bleached bones that have been fused together, the head of this staff burns with an unholy fire. This staff can be used as a +1 flaming quarterstaff (only one end of the staff bears magical enhancement), and it retains this property even if all its charges are drained. This staff can cast the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 27,133 gp

Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Craft Staff, animate dead, false life, fireball, ray of enfeeblement, scorching ray

Staff of Defense

Price 62,000 gp; Aura strong abjuration; CL 15th; Weight 5 lbs.

The staff of defense is a simple-looking polished wooden staff that throbs with power when held defensively. It allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 31,000 gp

Craft Staff, shield, shield of faith, shield of law, shield other, creator must be lawful

Staff of Divination

Price 82,000 gp; Aura strong divination; CL 13th; Weight 5 lbs.

Made from a supple length of willow carefully selected to have a crooked, forked tip, a staff of divination allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 41,000 gp

Craft Staff, detect secret doors, locate creature, locate object, prying eyes, tongues, true seeing

Staff of Earth and Stone

Price 85,800 gp; Aura moderate transmutation; CL 11th; Weight 5 lbs.

This staff is topped with a fist-sized emerald that gleams with smoldering power. It allows the use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 42,900 gp

Craft Staff, move earth, passwall

Staff of Eidolons

Price 14,400 gp

Aura moderate conjuration and transmutation; CL8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This crooked staff is made of mahogany and decorated with the bones of eidolons that jut out of the wood. It allows the use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 7,200 gp

Craft Staff, lesser evolution surge, lesser rejuvenate eidolon, unfetter

Staff of Electricity

Price 31,900 gp; Aura moderate evocation; CL 11th; Weight 5 lbs.

This staff is made of shining silver, with a tip shaped like a lightning bolt. The staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 15,950 gp

Craft Staff, chain lightning, lightning bolt, shocking grasp

Staff of Enchantment

Price 82,000 gp; Aura strong enchantment; CL 13th; Weight 5 lbs.

Often made from applewood and topped with a clear crystal, this staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 41,000 gp

Craft Staff, crushing despair, hideous laughter, mass suggestion, mind fog, sleep, suggestion

Staff of Evocation

Price 82,000 gp; Aura strong evocation; CL 13th; Weight 5 lbs.

This smooth staff carved from hickory or yew allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 41,000 gp

Craft Staff, chain lightning, fireball, ice storm, magic missile, shatter, wall of force

Staff of feast and famine

Price 20,800 gp; Aura moderate transmutation; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

Leaves sprout from this wooden staff, some green and some black. When the wielder uses the staff, he plucks one of the leaves: a green leaf to provide sustenance or a black leaf to cause hunger or thirst. The staff allows the use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 10,400 gp

Craft Staff, create water, cup of dust, feast of ashes, goodberry, purify food and drink

Staff of Fire

Price 18,950 gp; Aura moderate evocation; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

Crafted from bronzewood with brass bindings, this staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 9,475 gp

Craft Staff, burning hands, fireball, wall of fire

Staff of Frost

Price 41,400 gp; Aura moderate evocation; CL 10th; Weight 5 lbs.

Tipped on either end with a glistening diamond, this rune-covered staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 20,700 gp

Craft Staff, cone of cold, ice storm, wall of ice

Staff of Healing

Price 29,600 gp; Aura moderate conjuration; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This white ash staff is decorated with inlaid silver runes. It allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 14,800 gp

Craft Staff, cure serious wounds, lesser restoration, remove blindness/deafness, remove disease

Staff of Heaven and Earth

Price 54,000 gp; Aura moderate transmutation; CL 9th; Weight 5 lbs.

Topped by a swirling cloudy stone and wrapped with black iron filigree, this staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 27,000 gp

Craft staff, air walk, control winds, gust of wind, spike stones, stone shape

Staff of Hoarding

Price 55,866 gp; Aura moderate varies; CL 11th; Weight 5 lbs.

This gorgeous teak shaft has many gold and silver coins hammered into it. It allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 30,016 gp

Craft Staff, identify, legend lore, locate object, magic aura, secret chest

Staff of Hungry Shadows

Price 69,300 gp; Aura strong varies; CL 13th; Weight 5 lbs.

This staff is made of scorched and twisted wood and is set with a crystal sphere filled with swirling smoke. It allows the use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 34,650 gp

Craft Staff, darkness, enervation, planar binding, ray of enfeeblement, summon monster V, vampiric touch

Staff of Illumination

Price 51,500 gp; Aura strong evocation; CL 15th; Weight 5 lbs.

This staff is usually sheathed in a layer of silver and decorated with gold and amber sunbursts. A staff of illumination allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 25,750 gp

Craft Staff, dancing lights, daylight, flare, sunburst

Staff of Illusion

Price 82,000 gp; Aura strong illusion; CL 13th; Weight 5 lbs.

This staff is made from ebony or other dark wood and carved into an intricately twisted, fluted, or spiral shape. It allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 41,000 gp

Craft Staff, disguise self, major image, mirror image, mislead, persistent image, rainbow pattern

Staff of Journeys

Price 27,200 gp; Aura moderate varies; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This walking stick, which still has dark gray bark along its entire length, branches into an ornate fork at its top, decorated with wildflowers and different kinds of leaves. It allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 13,600 gp

Craft Staff, detect snares and pits, endure elements, freedom of movement, longstrider, pass without trace

Staff of Life

Price 109,400 gp; Aura moderate conjuration; CL 11th; Weight 5 lbs.

A staff of life is made of thick polished oak shod in gold and decorated with sinuous runes of silver or ivory, which depict various cycles of life and death according to different cultures. This staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 79,700 gp

Craft Staff, heal, raise dead

Staff of Many Rays

Price 57,200 gp; Aura moderate evocation and necromancy; CL 11th; Weight 5 lbs.

The elaborate swirls and delicate flecks of shining metal adorning the head of this pale wooden shaft make it seem almost as much a long mace as a staff. It allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 28,600 gp

Craft Staff, disintegrate, enervation, ray of enfeeblement, ray of exhaustion, scorching ray

Staff of Minor Arcana

Price 8,000 gp; Aura moderate abjuration and evocation; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This gleaming staff is made of polished silver and capped with a simple gemstone. It is frequently given as a gift to apprentice spellcasters upon completing their tutelage. The staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 4,000 gp

Craft Staff, magic missile, shield

Staff of Mithral Might

Price 58,000 gp; Aura moderate transmutation; CL 11th; Weight 7 lbs.

This staff is made of silver, with a shimmering sphere of mithral at either end. One end features a golden snake wrapped around the staff and cradling the larger of these two mithral spheres. The staff may be used as a weapon, functioning as a +2/+2 quarterstaff. It also grants a +2 enhancement bonus to Intelligence to whoever possesses it. These two attributes continue to function after all the charges are expended. It allows the use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 29,300 gp

Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Craft Staff, bull's strength, enlarge person, flesh to stone, fox's cunning, telekinesis

Staff of Necromancy

Price 82,000 gp; Aura strong necromancy; CL 13th; Weight 5 lbs.

This staff is made from ebony or other dark wood and carved with images of bones and skulls mingled with strange spidery runes. It allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 41,000 gp

Craft Staff, cause fear, circle of death, enervation, ghoul touch, halt undead, waves of fatigue

Staff of Obstacles

Price 51,600 gp; Aura moderate varies; CL 9th; Weight 5 lbs.

Dark and solid, this worn staff appears to be carved of rough stone, yet feels and weighs like light wood. It allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 25,800 gp

Craft Staff, arcane lock, grease, wall of fire, wall of ice, wall of stone, wind wall

Staff of one hundred hands

Price 180,200 gp; Aura strong evocation; CL 17th; Weight 5 lbs.

Sculpted into the shape of dozens of grasping, distorted hands, this staff appears to be carved entirely from one piece of clear crystal. When held, the hands that form the staff distort to resemble the gloves or hands of the person holding it. It allows the use of the following spells:

This staff also allows the wielder to use mage hand at will.

Construction Requirements

Cost 90,100 gp

Craft Staff, clenched fist, crushing hand, forceful hand, grasping hand, interposing hand, mage hand

Staff of Passage

Price 206,900 gp; Aura strong varies; CL 17th; Weight 5 lbs.

This potent item allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 115,950 gp

Craft Staff, astral projection, dimension door, greater teleport, passwall, phase door

Staff of Performance

Price 48,800 gp; Aura moderate varies; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

Soon after falling into the hands of a new owner, this piece of finely varnished cedar develops ornamental brass keys, strings, or other decorations that make it look like a stylized version of its owner's favorite type of musical instrument. It allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 24,400 gp

Craft Staff, calm emotions, enthrall, glibness, hypnotic pattern, major image, pyrotechnics, sculpt sound

Staff of Power

Price 235,000 gp; Aura strong varies; CL 15th; Weight 5 lbs.

A staff of power is a potent magic item with varied offensive and defensive abilities, carved from magically hardened wood. It is usually topped with a glistening gem or orb that burns from within with a flickering red light. The staff allows the use of the following spells:

The wielder of a staff of power gains a +2 luck bonus to AC and on saving throws. The staff is also a +2 quarterstaff, and its wielder may use it to smite opponents. If 1 charge is expended (a free action), the staff deals double damage (×3 on a critical hit) for 1 round.

A staff of power can be used for a retributive strike, requiring it to be broken by its wielder. (If this breaking of the staff is purposeful and declared by the wielder, it can be performed as a standard action that does not require the wielder to make a Strength check.) All charges currently in the staff are instantly released in a 30-foot spread. All creatures and objects within 2 squares of the broken staff take an amount of damage equal to 20 × the number of charges in the staff, those 3 or 4 squares away take an amount of damage equal to 15 × the number of charges, and those 5 or 6 squares away take an amount of damage equal to 10 × the number of charges. All those affected can make DC 17 Reflex saves to reduce the damage by half.

The character breaking the staff has a 50% chance of traveling to another plane of existence (01–50 on a d%), but if she does not, the explosive release of spell energy instantly destroys her. Only certain items, including the staff of the magi and the staff of power, are capable of being used for a retributive strike.

Construction Requirements

Cost 117,500 gp

Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Craft Staff, cone of cold, continual flame, heightened fireball, globe of invulnerability, hold monster, levitate, heightened lightning bolt, magic missile, heightened ray of enfeeblement, wall of force

Staff of Radiance

Price 23,200 gp; Aura moderate evocation; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This silver-tipped willow staff constantly emits light, as if from a light spell—the radiance is emitted from the staff's metallic end and flickers as if with flame. The staff's wielder can deactivate or activate this glowing light as a swift action. In addition, a staff of radiance allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 11,600 gp

Craft Staff, daylight, glitterdust, light, searing light

Staff of Revelations

Price 51,008 gp; Aura moderate divination; CL 9th; Weight 5 lbs.

The forked top of this walnut shaft resembles a combination of a dowsing rod and the curled horns of a beast, and a delicate gemstone hovers between its enfolding arms. The staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 30,608 gp

Craft Staff, augury, commune, divination, speak with dead

Staff of Rigor

Price 20,800 gp; Aura moderate varies; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This iron-shod wood staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 10,400 gp

Craft Staff, align weapon, bane, cause fear, command, magic weapon

Staff of Shrieking

Price 28,800 gp; Aura moderate evocation; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

Holes in this metal shaft cause it to emit an eerie moan when swung through the air. It allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 14,400 gp

Craft Staff, shatter, shout, sound burst

Staff of Size Alteration

Price 26,150 gp; Aura moderate transmutation; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This staff of dark wood is stouter and sturdier than most magical staves, with a gnarled and twisted knot of wood at the top end. It allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 13,075 gp

Craft Staff, enlarge person, mass enlarge person, mass reduce person, reduce person, shrink item

Staff of Slumber

Price 81,766 gp; Aura moderate varies; CL 9th; Weight 5 lbs.

Smoky spirals adorn the length of this staff, and have an almost hypnotic effect. The staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 40,883 gp

Craft Staff, deep slumber, dream, nightmare, symbol of sleep, ray of exhaustion, waves of fatigue

Staff of Souls

Price 32,800 gp; Aura moderate varies; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This ominous staff is made of twisting wood and topped with a small skull. It allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 16,400 gp

Craft Staff, death ward, deathwatch, detect undead, gentle repose, speak with dead

Staff of Speaking

Price 39,600 gp; Aura moderate enchantment; CL 9th; Weight 5 lbs.

When the wielder of this hollow wooden staff speaks or shouts, it reverberates with the sound of her voice, lending a booming insistence to her words. It allows the use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 19,800 gp

Craft Staff, denounce, glibness, mass suggestion, suggestion, tongues

Staff of Spiders

Price 30,200 gp; Aura moderate conjuration and transmutation; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This staff is constructed from thousands of carefully prepared spiderwebs packed around a base and layered to make a shaft just as hard as oak, if not harder. A staff of spiders functions as a +1/+1 quarterstaff. It allows the use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 15,400 gp

Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Craft Staff, spider climb, summon monster III, web

Staff of Stealth

Price 36,800 gp; Aura moderate illusion; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This twisted, dark gray staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 18,400 gp

Craft Staff, disguise self, greater invisibility, invisibility, nondetection

Staff of Swarming Insects

Price 22,800 gp; Aura moderate conjuration; CL 9th; Weight 5 lbs.

Made of twisted darkwood covered with knots and nodules resembling crawling insects (which occasionally seem to move), this staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 11,400 gp

Craft Staff, insect plague, summon swarm

Staff of the Avenger

Price 37,310 gp; Aura moderate evocation; CL 10th; Weight 5 lbs.

This shining golden staff is topped with a radiant gemstone that emits light like a torch. As a swift action, the wielder of the staff can cause it to change into a +2 lance, although it retains its other abilities. It can be made to revert to its staff form as a free action. The staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 18,810 gp

Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Craft Staff, bless weapon, discern lies, holy sword, shield other

Staff of the Hierophant

Price 220,000 gp; Aura strong varies; CL 15th; Weight 5 lbs.

The staff of the hierophant is a powerful magic item with the ability to both heal and harm, which also gives its wielder a number of protections. The staff is crafted from platinum and topped with a glowing blue diamond. The staff allows the use of the following spells:

The wielder of a staff of the hierophant gains a +2 luck bonus to AC and on saving throws. The staff is also a +2/+2 quarterstaff, and its wielder may use it to smite opponents. If 1 charge is expended (as a free action), the staff deals double damage (×3 on a critical hit) for 1 round.

A staff of the hierophant can be used to restore the life of a dead creature by calling upon the wielder's deity to take the staff as a blessing. This causes the staff to vanish, but restores life to any one dead creature as if casting true resurrection. In addition, after using this effect, the wielder who triggered it receives a +2 luck bonus on all ability checks, attack rolls, saving throws, and skill checks for 1 day.

Construction Requirements

Cost 110,000 gp

Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Craft Staff, bless, cure critical wounds, cure moderate wounds, flame strike, freedom of movement, heightened hold person, prayer, righteous might, searing light, true resurrection, true seeing

Staff of the Master

Price 30,000 gp; Aura moderate necromancy; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

Often given as gifts to apprentices upon reaching the rank of master, these staves come in eight different varieties, one for each school of magic. This particular staff is for the school of necromancy. Aside from acting as a +1/+1 quarterstaff, this staff allows use of the following spells:

In addition, this staff can be used to cast spells using any metamagic feats known by the wielder without increasing the spell's level. This consumes a number of charges equal to the number of spell levels increased by the feat. No more than one feat can be applied to a spell cast by the wielder in this way. Using the staff for this purpose does not increase the casting time of the spell.

Construction Requirements

Cost 15,300 gp

Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Craft Staff, ray of enfeeblement, spectral hand, vampiric touch

Staff of the Planes

Price 63,960 gp; Aura strong conjuration; CL 13th; Weight 5 lbs.

This obsidian staff twinkles as if reflecting the star-filled sky at night. The staff allows use of the following spells.

If the staff of the planes is fully charged, the wielder can deliberately snap the staff, causing it do shatter into thousands of pieces but opening a gate to a plane of the wielder's choice. This can only be used for planar travel, and the connection lasts for 1 minute, without requiring the wielder's concentration. If used in this way, the staff cannot be repaired or restored.

Construction Requirements

Cost 31,980 gp

Craft Staff, planar adaptation, planar binding, plane shift

Staff of the Scout

Price 9,600 gp; Aura moderate conjuration; CL 8th; Weight 4 lbs.

This staff is carefully crafted from the branches of a tree, still intertwined as they grew and crowned with living leaves. The staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 4,800 gp

Craft Staff, know direction, pass without trace, summon nature's ally I

Staff of the Woodlands

Price 100,400 gp; Aura strong varies; CL 13th; Weight 5 lbs.

Appearing to have grown naturally into its shape, this oak, ash, or yew staff allows use of the following spells:

The staff may be used as a weapon, functioning as a +2 quarterstaff. The staff of the woodlands also allows its wielder to cast pass without trace at will, with no charge cost. These two attributes continue to function after all the charges are expended.

Construction Requirements

Cost 50,500 gp

Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Craft Staff, animate plants, barkskin, charm animal, pass without trace, speak with animals, summon nature's ally VI, wall of thorns

Staff of Toxins

Price 34,200 gp; Aura moderate varies; CL 9th; Weight 5 lbs.

This length of hemlock-shrouded oak gives off the faintest whiff of rot and corruption. It allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 17,100 gp

Craft Staff, cloudkill, stinking cloud

Staff of Transmutation

Price 82,000 gp; Aura strong transmutation; CL 13th; Weight 5 lbs.

This staff is generally carved from or decorated with petrified wood or fossilized bone that has been etched with tiny but complex runes. It allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 41,000 gp

Craft Staff, alter self, baleful polymorph, blink, disintegrate, expeditious retreat, polymorph

Staff of Traps

Price 56,925 gp; Aura moderate abjuration; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

The tip of this dark wooden shaft holds a piece of hard, chalk-like stone between black, clawlike protrusions. The staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 36,525 gp

Craft Staff, alarm, explosive runes, fire trap, magic mouth, phantom trap, sepia snake sigil

Staff of Travel

Price 54,400 gp; Aura moderate conjuration; CL 9th; Weight 3 lbs.

This staff appears to be nothing more than a finely made walking stick, but closer inspection reveals that it is inlaid with a fine copper tracery that makes up an intricate and incomprehensible arcane map. The staff allows use of the following spells:

In addition to these spells, the wielder of the staff of travel receives a +10-foot enhancement bonus to his base speed.

Construction Requirements

Cost 27,200 gp

Craft Staff, dimension door, expeditious retreat, fly, teleport

Staff of Tricks

Price 8,800 gp; Aura moderate illusion; CL 8th; Weight 3 lbs.

This thin staff is made of stiff wood that has been wrapped in colorful bands of cloth and topped with a number of feathers, bells, and other decorative baubles. The staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 4,400 gp

Craft Staff, ghost sound, mage hand, prestidigitation, silent image

Staff of Understanding

Price 16,000 gp; Aura moderate divination; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This polished maple or oak staff is inlaid with ivory strips along its length, and runes of various languages also formed from inlaid ivory span the shaft. It allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 8,000 gp

Craft Staff, comprehend languages, detect thoughts, tongues

Staff of Vision

Price 86,666 gp; Aura moderate divination; CL 11th; Weight 5 lbs.

A clear crystal orb is affixed to the top of this length of brass and scaled skin, and a smaller, crimson orb is set into a spherical ornament near the base of the shaft. The staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 45,416 gp

Craft Staff, arcane eye, arcane sight, prying eyes, scrying, see invisibility, true seeing

Staff of Weather

Price 84,066 gp; Aura strong varies; CL 13th; Weight 5 lbs.

The carved surface of this solid oaken beam always depicts a scene with the opposite qualities of the current weather (rainy on dry days, dry on rainy days, and so on). It allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 42,033 gp

Craft Staff, control weather, fog cloud, gust of wind, ice storm, sleet storm, wind wall

Unholy Staff

Price 29,600 gp; Aura moderate evocation; CL 8th; Weight 5 lbs.

This twisted iron staff bears ominous stains along its length, and ends in a black skull with red gemstone eyes. The staff allows use of the following spells:

Construction Requirements

Cost 14,800 gp

Craft Staff, align weapon, detect good, magic circle against good, unholy blight