Can you make (find or buy) a wand with a cantrip?


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Can you make (find or buy) a wand with a cantrip?
The listing of costs begins with first-level spells, but nothing in the description seems to explicitly forbid having a cantrip wand, unlike with scrolls where cantrip scrolls are expressly forbidden.

If a cantrip wand could exist, I presume like other wands it could only be used once per day, and like cantrips in general it would be automatically heightened to the user's spell level.

Given the auto-heighten function, I would assume it would cost the same as a 1st-level spell wand. Unless it's just not possible for such an item to be made.


Nope.

CRB page 597, Wands, last sentence of first paragraph wrote:
Cantrips, focus spells, and rituals can't be placed in wands.


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Oooh, missed that. Thanks.
Aside from the wayfinder orb thingy, are there any extant items with cantrips in them?

I see that low-level staves have a cantrip in them, but I was looking for a minor loot item to hand out that wouldn't be too overly powerful. Maybe I should stick to consumables or wands of 1st-level spells.


Wheldrake wrote:

Oooh, missed that. Thanks.

Aside from the wayfinder orb thingy, are there any extant items with cantrips in them?

I see that low-level staves have a cantrip in them, but I was looking for a minor loot item to hand out that wouldn't be too overly powerful. Maybe I should stick to consumables or wands of 1st-level spells.

There's the standard fake wizard items that give you mage hand and another for prestidigitation. I don't know of any with attack cantrips.


There are a lot of CRB items that give cantrips other than staves. There's a custom sword that gives produce flame, probably the only offensive cantrip granted by a non-staff item.

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