It's not a thing in 2e, is it? To craft a magic item with specific abilities, say a staff with a particular set of spells? It looks to me like you can only go by listed items/formulas and not come up with your own. The Inventor skill feat says you "invent" a "common formula"—well if it's already common, you aren't inventing it, you're re-inventing it. Or am I missing some special subclause or sidebar somewhere?
Oh man, I wish I'd known about that when I created my character! I totally had some backstory about how my druid got initiated by lightning striking a tree and he made a staff from a singed branch. Might still be able to work something from that.
