A Custom Staff and Staves In General

[Blueluck]

I thought this up while reading the spell descriptions of Prismatic Wall and Prismatic Orb earlier today.
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This is a Staff, made according the the item creation guidelines and using only material in the Pathfinder core book. It contains all the spells required to take out a Prismatic Wall or Prismatic Sphere. The 3 highest level spells require 2 charges to use, so if you cast each spell once, you've cast the 7 spells needed and used exactly 10 charges. Even if you're not taking on any Prismatic spells, Cone of Cold, Dispel Magic, and Disintegrate are useful spells, Passwall, Daylight, and Gust of Wind are probably not memorized but are excellent in the right situation, and it certainly never hurts to have a few extra Magic Missiles in your back pocket!

Staff of the Prism
Base cost: 31,850

• Disintigrate (2 Charges)
  
• Passwall (2 Charges)
  
• Cone of Cold (2 Charges)
  
• Dispel Magic
  
• Daylight
  
• Gust of Wind
  
• Magic Missile

Greater Staff of the Prism (Greater rather than regular Dispel Magic)
Base cost: 41,000

• Disintigrate (2 Charges)
  
• Passwall (2 Charges)
  
• Dispel Magic, Greater (2 Charges)
  
• Cone of Cold
  
• Daylight
  
• Gust of Wind
  
• Magic Missile

So, why did post this? I like staves! They're useful at higher levels than other magic items that cast spells, and they're solidly in theme for Wizards, Witches, and Sorcerers of all kinds. (Although I might be tempted to put some bristles on one end if I were making a staff for a witch:) I think they're an excellently balanced item because they have limited charges, yet every charge can be useful.

What's your favorite staff?
What great ideas for staves have you thought up?
What's the best way to make use of a staff in-game?
Do you let players with Craft Staff re-engineer staves as they gain levels? (for example, would you let a player who made the regular staff upgrade it to the greater version?)

[Doc Cosmic]

I'd buy it....especially if it looked like this

[Epic Meepo]

Until now, I never realized just how useful each of those particular spells could be. That's a rather swanky staff.

(Regarding your questions, I don't usually get to use staves all that much in my games. I'm usually playing on low levels where normal staves are too pricey to acquire and custom staves require a feat that no one can take yet.)

[Blueluck]

Doc Cosmic wrote:

I'd buy it....especially if it looked like this

It absolutely does, now that you mention it:)

[Lord Zeb]

Looks great! Quick ??: Is the base cost for buying it or for crafting it?

[Blueluck]

Lord Zeb wrote:

Looks great! Quick ??: Is the base cost for buying it or for crafting it?

The base is retail price, for purchasing the item. Crafting it would cost half that much.

[Epic Meepo]

Staff of Magic Missile
Price: 3,200 gp

• magic missile

(That is all.)

It's a wand of magic missile for male wizards with overcompensation issues.

[Gimbo11]

I audited your math and it comes out to 46750 to craft them item through the magic item creation rules.

Disintigrate (2 Charges)
Passwall (2 Charges)
Cone of Cold (2 Charges)
Dispel Magic
Daylight
Gust of Wind
Magic Missile

6x11*400gp/2 = 13200
5*11*300gp/2 = 8250
5*11*200gp/2 = 5500
3*11*200gp = 6600
3*11*200gp = 6600
2*11*200gp = 4400
1*11*200gp = 2200
= 46750

This is the highest level spell times its caster level times 400gp divided by 2 for 2 charges, plus the next highest spells spell level times highest caster level (for any of the spells for each spell has to have the same caster level) times 300 divided by 2 for 2 charges, Plus the next highest spell level times the highest caster level times 200gp divided by 2 for 2 charges, plus the sum of (rest of of there spell levels time highest caster level times 200gp respectively).

And this doesn't include any material costs of focuses. And there's also the cost of whatever the staff is to be made from.

This would have to be the price to craft this item, it would be under value if it were the store price.

[Marc Radle]

I love cool magic staves as well!

In fact, if you are a fan a magic staves, have you checked out Krazy Kragnar's Magic Staff Emporium?

[Valcili]

I know this is an old post, but I figured it was a good place to start a couple questions.
1- I have seen they have a "Staff of the Master "(necromancy) and in its description it states there is one for each arcane school. has anyone seen the others? I have not and was curious as to what they contain.
2- I have crafted a staff or two in my time, I'll post one here and you can tell me what you think of it.

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Ky'Vala's Staff of the Deeping Woods

Sculpted of white Ash and black ash, the staff is two pieces of wood that are twisted around each other to form one piece white as snow and black as night. At the top of the staff rests a shimmering pale blue translucent hand wrapped around it as though it is gripping it.

Once a day on command the staff will grow berries as the spell "Goodberry".

Any touch spells cast while holding the staff can be delivered by the spectral hand as the spell.

The staff provides the following spells:
Heal (2 charges)
Reincarnate (2 charges)
Nature's exile
Greensight (1 charge)
Entangle (1 charge)
Speak with animals (will)

Heal (400*7*13/2=18200)
Reincarnate (300*4*8/2=4800)
Nature's exile (200*3*8=4800)
Greensight (200*2*8=3200)
Entangle (200*1*8=1600)
Speak with animals (8*1*1800=14400)
Goodberry( 8*1*1800=2880)
Spectral hand (8*2*1800=28800)
Market 78,680
Craft 39340