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Honestly, high charisma types are the only ones who could fall for this sales pitch. High physical stat types have probably had to work out or practice, so "powers for nothing" is suspicious. High wisdom types wouldn't "feel right" about it. High intelligence types should figure "it doesn't make any sense for someone to offer me something for nothing." High charisma types assume everyone loves them anyway, so why shouldn't a mysterious stranger give them a magic pet....

In fairness to the other character types, they may have simply been very inebriated at the time.

Is it worth spending a standard action (and preparing that spell in one of my spell slots for the day) just to avoid having to make a concentration check?

That quiver does sound like it would be a pretty awesome item to have. I was talking with my GM earlier today about how swapping between staves in combat would have to work if I wanted to sheathe and draw in the same round and still get some sort of standard action off.

I do plan on putting my favored class bonus into HP and depending on whether the build has room for it, picking up Toughness.

If I did go into the Crane Style chain, I can fight defensively and get a +4 dodge bonus to AC starting at fifth level for only a -2 to hit, which becomes a -1 to hit when I get Crane Riposte.

That's pretty close to what I had for a stat spread, but I had 12 CON and 10 WIS so I could keep CHA at 9 after racial modifiers. My GM tends to punish negative ability scores pretty severely so I try to keep them to a minimum.

As the topic title says, I'm working on building a Staff Magus. I'm using a GM-approved variant of Tiefling that has a +2 STR/INT, -2 CHA. We're playing 20-point buy.

If there's any way to make it work, I'd like to fit in Craft Magic Arms and Armor and any other crafting feats that might be useful as they fit in with the character's story well. I also really like the Crane Style feat chain, but it seems like that might be a little too feat heavy and I really don't want to lose CL, BAB, and spell progression by dipping two levels into Weapon Master Monk to pick it up more easily.