Newb Question involving wands


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So, since a Wand is a spell-trigger item, I can use it as long as his "class can cast the corresponding spell". Does that mean a level 1 cleric use a wand crafted from a Paladin, as long as the Paladin spell is located somewhere on the cleric spell list? Spell in question is "Lesser Restoration". A second level spell for a cleric, but a first level spell for a Paladin.


So long as the spell is on the cleric list, a cleric can use that wand, regardless of who created it.


True Talk. Thanks :)

That means, this guy has to only pay 750 gp for such a wand, compared to 4500 gp, as long as he can find a Pally that crafts it for him.

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Mechanical Pear wrote:

True Talk. Thanks :)

That means, this guy has to only pay 750 gp for such a wand, compared to 4500 gp, as long as he can find a Pally that crafts it for him.

The key part here is "As long as he can find a Pally who crasts for him". One of the reasons you normally find wands priced at the Wizard/Cleric/Druid caster levels in the game world is that typically only full spell casters will spend feats on item crafting. Members of other classes will spend feats on more combat oriented things. Otherwise Everyone would get lower level wands of things, as you are suggesting here.

Typically allowing this should be reserved for a PC paladin, or at least a cohort or other follower, who spends the feat to craft wands. Otherwise we start muching with item pricing balance. There's another thread out here somewhere that lists the prefered class for creating an item as Wizard if the spell is on the Wizard spell list, then Cleric otherwise, then Druid, and some combination of "the rest". It would follow that Golarion typically functions like this unless something interesting has happened.

But then, the GM is always right, so as long as the group has fun, it doesn't matter.

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