Who can wield a Staff of Belittling?

[Dustin Ashe]

According to the rules, a staff can only be used by a person with the spells the staff contains on her spell list or with ranks in Use Magic Device.

What about staves such as the Staff of Belittling? It has one spell (reduce animal) that can only be found on the druid or ranger spell lists. The rest of the spells can only be found on other spell lists, such as the sorcerer/wizard list.

If I don't have any ranks in UMD and don't multiclass, is it impossible to use all of this staff's spells? Are all staves with spells divided among several spell lists this way?

[seebs]

I believe that you can use only the spells you have access to.

[DonDuckie]

I never noticed that rule, about spell trigger items.

You are correct, if you don't have it on your class list or invest a point in UMD, then you can't use the item fully.

(I think that I'll just go on and continue to ignore that...)

[LazarX]

Dustin Ashe wrote:

According to the rules, a staff can only be used by a person with the spells the staff contains on her spell list or with ranks in Use Magic Device.

What about staves such as the Staff of Belittling? It has one spell (reduce animal) that can only be found on the druid or ranger spell lists. The rest of the spells can only be found on other spell lists, such as the sorcerer/wizard list.

If I don't have any ranks in UMD and don't multiclass, is it impossible to use all of this staff's spells? Are all staves with spells divided among several spell lists this way?

Now you know what Mystic Theurges do with their time.