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Strange Charm 06-23-04, 12:16 PM

Clerical domain staffs can be used by clerics to cast domain spells from a specified domain. Only a cleric with the specified domain can use the corresponding domain staff. In addition to the normal versions, clerical domain staffs also come in lesser and greater varieties. Clerical Domain Staff, Lesser: - 1st level domain spell (1 charge) - 2nd level domain spell (1 charge) - 3rd level domain spell (2 charges) - 4th level domain spell (2 charges) Strong (school varies); CL 8th; Craft Staff, caster must have the appropriate domain and be able to cast the spells, up to 4th level, as domain spells; Price 19500gp Clerical Domain Staff: - 1st level domain spell (1 charge) - 2nd level domain spell (1 charge) - 3rd level domain spell (1 charge) - 4th level domain spell (2 charges) - 5th level domain spell (2 charges) - 6th level domain spell (3 charges) Strong (school varies); CL 12th; Craft Staff, caster must have the appropriate domain and be able to cast the spells, up to 6th level, as domain spells; Price 49750gp Clerical Domain Staff, Greater: - 1st level domain spell (1 charge) - 2nd level domain spell (1 charge) - 3rd level domain spell (1 charge) - 4th level domain spell (1 charge) - 5th level domain spell (2 charges) - 6th level domain spell (2 charges) - 7th level domain spell (3 charges) - 8th level domain spell (4 charges) Strong (school varies); CL 16th; Craft Staff, caster must have the appropriate domain and be able to cast the spells, up to 8th level, as domain spells; Price 96750gp Examples: Fire Domain Staff - Burning Hands (1 charge) - Produce Flame (1 charge) - Resist Energy(cold or fire only) (1 charge) - Wall of Fire (2 charges) - Fire Shield (2 charges) - Fire Seeds (3 charges) Strong varied; CL 12th; Craft Staff, caster must have the Fire domain and be able to cast burning hands, produce flame, resist energy, wall of fire, fire shield and fire seeds as Fire domain spells; Price 49750gp Notes for DMs: Placement as treasure: Lesser clerical domain staffs are medium majic items. Normal and greater clerical domain staffs are major majic items. The lesser variety is somewhat less common than the normal variety (at higher levels), and the greater variety is a bit rare. Since NPC clerics are not very likely to have the same domains as the PC cleric(s), you can expect most of these staffs to be pawned off. (A high-level rouge might get some use out of them, though.) Design observations: Caster level increases evenly, by four each step, as one goes from the lesser to normal to greater varieties. Spells with levels up to CL/4 cost 1 charge. Next two (spell levels = CL/4 + 1 and CL/4 + 2) cost 2 charges. Each higher level spell costs one more charge than the last. This results in the highest level spell (spell level = CL/2) costing CL/4 charges. (Yes, I did all this on purpose.) Why no 9th-level spells? See design observations, above; the pattern breaks. And...I basicly nerfed miracle from the Luck domain. Do you really want the PCs to have access to 12 consecutive free miracles? (One major majic item.... I know! I'll throw in four rings of three wishes! :nonono: )Also, with the element and alignment domains, they can summon a small horde (without expending any of their own spells) and trapse through a dungeon. Who uses "trapse" anymore? I do.