A staff is a long shaft that stores several spells. Staves usually hold spells grouped by a theme, and sometimes possess other abilities that they grant to the wielder. A staff has 10 charges when created, but can be recharged by a spellcaster with the appropriate spells.

Physical Description: A typical staff measures anywhere from 4 feet to 7 feet long and is 2 inches to 3 inches thick, weighing about 5 pounds. Most staves are wood, but an exotic few are bone, metal, or even glass. A staff often has a gem or some device at its tip or is shod in metal at one or both ends. Staves are often decorated with carvings or runes. A typical staff also functions as a walking stick, quarterstaff, or cudgel. It has AC 7, 10 hit points, hardness 5, and a break DC of 24.

Activation: Staves use the spell trigger activation method, so casting a spell from a staff is usually a standard action that doesn't provoke attacks of opportunity. If the spell being cast has a longer casting time than 1 standard action, however, it takes the full casting time to cast the spell from a staff. To activate a staff, a character must hold it forth in at least one hand (or whatever passes for a hand, for nonhumanoid creatures).

d%	Result
01–30	Something (a design, inscription, or the like) provides a clue to its function.
31–100	No special qualities.

Using Staves: Staves use the wielder’s ability score and relevant feats to set the DC for saves against their spells. Unlike with other sorts of magic items, the wielder can use his caster level when activating the power of the staff if it’s higher than the caster level of the staff. This means that staves are far more potent in the hands of a powerful spellcaster. Because they use the wielder’s ability score to set the save DC for the spells, spells from a staff are often harder to resist than those from other magic items, which use the minimum ability score required to cast the spell. Not only are aspects of the spell dependent on caster level (range, duration, and so on) potentially higher, but spells from a staff are also harder to dispel and have a better chance of overcoming spell resistance.

Recharging Staves: Staves hold a maximum of 10 charges. Each spell cast from a staff consumes one or more charges. When a staff runs out of charges, it cannot be used until it is recharged. Each morning, when a spellcaster prepares spells or regains spell slots, he can also imbue one staff with a portion of his power so long as one or more of the spells cast by the staff is on his spell list and he is capable of casting at least one of the spells. Imbuing a staff with this power restores one charge to the staff, but the caster must forgo one prepared spell or spell slot of a level equal to the highest-level spell cast by the staff. For example, a 9th-level wizard with a staff of fire could imbue the staff with one charge per day by using up one of his 4th-level spells. A staff cannot gain more than one charge per day and a caster cannot imbue more than one staff per day.

A staff can hold spells of any level, and the minimum caster level of a staff is 8th.

Lesser Medium Staves Greater Medium Staves

Lesser Major Staves Greater Major Staves

Table: Staffs

Lesser Medium Staves

d%	Lesser Medium Staff	Price (gp)	Source
01–10	Staff of blessed relief	7,200	UE
11–20	Staff of minor arcana	8,000	UE
21–30	Staff of tricks	8,800	UE
31–44	Staff of the scout	9,600	UE
45–54	Staff of eidolons	14,400	UE
55–67	Staff of accompaniment	14,800	UE
68–84	Staff of understanding	16,000	UE
85–100	Staff of charming	17,600	CRB

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Greater Medium Staves

d%	Greater Medium Staff	Price (gp)	Source
01–11	Staff of fire	18,950	CRB
12–21	Staff of courage	19,200	UE
22–29	Staff of belittling	20,000	UE
30–38	Staff of feast and famine	20,800	UE
39–49	Staff of rigor	20,800	UE
50–60	Staff of swarming insects	22,800	UE
61–68	Staff of authority	23,000	UE
69–81	Staff of radiance	23,200	UE
82–92	Staff of size alteration	26,150	UE
93–100	Staff of journeys	27,200	UE

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Lesser Major Staves

d%	Lesser Major Staff	Price (gp)	Source
01–04	Staff of acid	28,600	UE
05–08	Staff of shrieking	28,800	UE
09–11	Chaotic staff	29,600	UE
12–14	Holy staff	29,600	UE
15–17	Lawful staff	29,600	UE
18–21	Staff of healing	29,600	CRB
22–24	Unholy staff	29,600	UE
25–28	Staff of the master (necromancy)	30,000	UE
29–32	Staff of spiders	30,200	UE
33–36	Staff of electricity	31,900	UE
37–39	Heretic’s bane	32,000	UE
40–42	Musical staff	32,000	UE
43–46	Staff of souls	32,800	UE
47–50	Staff of toxins	34,200	UE
51–54	Staff of stealth	36,800	UE
55–58	Staff of the avenger	37,310	UE
59–62	Staff of aspects	37,600	UE
63–66	Staff of speaking	39,600	UE
67–70	Staff of frost	41,400	CRB
71–74	Staff of bolstering	41,600	UE
75–78	Staff of curses	43,500	UE
79–85	Staff of dark flame	47,000	UE
86–89	Staff of cackling wrath	47,200	UE
90–93	Staff of performance	48,800	UE
94–97	Animate staff	49,800	UE
98–100	Staff of revelations	51,008	UE

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Greater Magic Staves

d%	Greater Major Staff	Price (gp)	Source
01–04	Staff of illumination	51,500	UE
05–07	Staff of obstacles	51,600	UE
08–10	Staff of heaven and earth	54,000	UE
11–13	Staff of travel	54,400	UE
14–16	Staff of hoarding	55,866	UE
17–19	Staff of traps	56,925	UE
20–22	Staff of many rays	57,200	UE
23–25	Staff of mithral might	58,000	UE
26–29	Staff of defense	62,000	UE
30–32	Staff of the planes	63,960	UE
33–35	Staff of hungry shadows	69,300	UE
36–38	Dragon staff	81,000	UE
39–41	Staff of slumber	81,766	UE
42–46	Staff of abjuration	82,000	UE
47–51	Staff of conjuration	82,000	CRB
52–56	Staff of divination	82,000	UE
57–61	Staff of enchantment	82,000	CRB
62–66	Staff of evocation	82,000	UE
67–71	Staff of illusion	82,000	UE
72–76	Staff of necromancy	82,000	UE
77–81	Staff of transmutation	82,000	UE
82–83	Staff of weather	84,066	UE
84–86	Staff of earth and stone	85,800	UE
87–88	Staff of vision	86,666	UE
89–91	Staff of the woodlands	100,400	UE
92–94	Staff of life	109,400	UE
95	Staff of one hundred hands	180,200	UE
96–98	Staff of passage	206,900	UE
99	Staff of the hierophant	220,000	UE
100	Staff of power	235,000	UE

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