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fectin wrote:
That's the fighter problem in a nutshell: the barbarian gets to choose what axe to use. The druid instead decided that it was time to be this:

sake wrote:Sir Snarl the talking Gentleman Raptor.

Longes wrote:Why is there any name option for Damaran Shepherd other than "Wrex"?

TiaC wrote:Awesome artifact weapons, definitely.

(It's a little weird to see a DM attempting to favor everyone else over their significant other.)

RadiantPhoenix wrote:What do you call those items that let you prepare specific spells you don't know? Runestaves?

Also, non-Wild magic armor with magic powers seems good for all the not-druids.

ubernoob wrote:

RadiantPhoenix wrote:What do you call those items that let you prepare specific spells you don't know? Runestaves?

Also, non-Wild magic armor with magic powers seems good for all the not-druids.

A runestaff lets you burn a spell slot/prepared spell in order to cast one of the spells in the staff as long as that spell is on your class list. It doesn't let you cast spells off your class list. Unless you open up the fucking UMD rules and realize its only a DC 20 UMD check to emulate another class.

Of course, a runestaff is still a staff, which means it's not really a low level item. You can't have anything under a third level spell in a runestaff, which kind of bones the duskblade because he has worse than bard casting.

Kaelik wrote:

ubernoob wrote:

RadiantPhoenix wrote:What do you call those items that let you prepare specific spells you don't know? Runestaves?

Also, non-Wild magic armor with magic powers seems good for all the not-druids.

A runestaff lets you burn a spell slot/prepared spell in order to cast one of the spells in the staff as long as that spell is on your class list. It doesn't let you cast spells off your class list. Unless you open up the fucking UMD rules and realize its only a DC 20 UMD check to emulate another class.

Of course, a runestaff is still a staff, which means it's not really a low level item. You can't have anything under a third level spell in a runestaff, which kind of bones the duskblade because he has worse than bard casting.

You can have any level spell in a Runestaff. Most Runestaves contains tons of spells, including lower level ones.

And in practice, spells lower level then the highest in the staff add negligibly to the cost, so that a staff with one second level spell and 12 first level spells costs less than just the 12 first level spells.

If you want to create a runestaff of your own design, it should have two to five arcane spells associated with it, and the spells should be thematically linked in some way. The lowest-level spell in a runestaff should be at least 3rd level. Crafting a runestaff requires the Craft Staff feat, along with any spells held by the runestaff. You don't need to supply any mate­rial components or foci required by the spells in a runestaff, nor do you need to pay any XP cost required by the spells, since the wielder of the staff pays those costs. To set the price of a runestaff, multiply the level of the high­est-level spell in the runestaff by itself, then by 400 gp. For each additional spell in the runestaff, square that spell's level and multiply by 200 gp. Add the values together to find the final price of the runestaff. If a spell can be used less than three times per day, reduce the gp multiplier for that spell by 100 per use below three (or 50 per use below three, for spells after the first).

• There's a feat in Drow of the Underdark that lets you turn your Dancing Lights spell-like ability into a Silent Image that lasts 3 rounds after you stop concentrating.
• Once you have 6 or more spell slots of a level, Rings of Wizardry give you more spell slots than the druid gets from them

NineInchNall wrote:I've considered rewriting the Duskblade to have 9th level casting off a specific list (where most of the "9th level" spells are actually something like 5th or 6th level Sor/Wiz spells, plus things like foresight) but I keep running into the snag of how to handle all the PrCs and feats that add to spell lists. 'Tis annoying.

Then I just say, "fuck it," and do it anyway.

RadiantPhoenix wrote:Some stuff from googling:

• There's a feat in Drow of the Underdark that lets you turn your Dancing Lights spell-like ability into a Silent Image that lasts 3 rounds after you stop concentrating.
• Once you have 6 or more spell slots of a level, Rings of Wizardry give you more spell slots than the druid gets from them

But, magic armor that has a bunch of command-word spells on it is something the rogue and barbarian can use too, although each can only wear one at a time, and it takes a while to take armor off and put new armor on.