Nik Gervae wrote:
Basically it lets you have an additional cantrip on top of your regular 5 prepared ones, without using charges as noted.
With charges what's happening is that you get to break up and divvy one of your spell slots like you want, which gets more and more flexible as you level up and can put more charges (via a higher-level spell slot) into the staff. So you can put a 4th-level spell into the staff and cast any of 1st-4th level spells up to the total charges. When you Craft your staff into something that has more, higher-level spells, you can divvy all that up too, and eventually put two spells into the staff for even more charges, a limited form of the spell-blending thesis. For example, you could put two 4-level slots into the spell and cast a spell up to 8th-level using the resulting charges.
This flexibility is limited by what spells the staff has, of course, and you have to use the Crafting rules (unless your GM lets you fudge it). If you don't like any of the published staves, this thesis is probably not for you.
Thanks!! so much better now