is it possible to recharge items with charges?


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I would think a wish could, though it would probably be cheaper to just buy a new one.


Yqatuba wrote:
I would think a wish could, though it would probably be cheaper to just buy a new one.

You cannot "recharge" anything but staves and items that specify that they can be recharged, per se. That being said, there's nothing that says you can't use the same stick, rod, baton, etc. as the wand's housing for the next wand you craft after it's been depleted.

That being said, it confers no numerical or financial benefit.


You explicitly can not recharge wands by design.

Recharging Charged Magic Items wrote:

The standard rules don’t allow item creation feats to recharge charged items such as wands. This is because wands are the most cost-effective form of expendable spellcasting in the game (the minimum price is 15 gp per charge, as compared to a minimum price of 25 gp per use for a scroll or 50 gp per use for a potion). Allowing wand recharging devalues scrolls and potions in the game, especially as using a wand does not provoke attacks of opportunity. A wand‘s lower price increment would also mean that partially recharging the wand is easily done with a short downtime period (10 charges per day for a 2nd-level wand, 4 per day for a 3rd-level wand, and 2 per day for a 4th-level wand), making the wand even more useful and cost-effective.

A GM who wants to allow wand recharging can require a minimum of 25 charges added to the item to help offset this advantage, as it forces you to spend a larger amount of gold at once instead of smaller amounts more frequently.

So, it would have to be a house rule of some sort.

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