D&D 5E So how does 5e treat Staffs and Wands?

JoeCrow

Explorer

• Nov 29, 2014

• #11

Yep. Retributive strike's in there. The usual 30 ft explosion; 50% chance of getting plane shifted away; if not, you take 16x the number of remaining charges in force damage; everybody else either makes a DC 17 Dex save or takes force damage based on how far away from the center of the blast they are. There's a little table for that bit.

 

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Emerikol

Adventurer

• Nov 30, 2014

• #12

Looks like a decent magic item system. It's one area where it improves upon 3e for me. I never liked the 50 charge wands.

 

Talath

Explorer

• Nov 30, 2014

• #13

Wow, I might actually be interested in using wands and staves now.

 

Curmudjinn

Explorer

• Nov 30, 2014

• #14

Dragonblade said:

The 5e DMG even has 4e-style "Wands of the War Mage" that provide a caster with a bonus to hit and damage for spell attacks when used as a spell focus.

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Friggin' Elder Wand.

 

Roger

First Post

• Nov 30, 2014

• #15

The old-style finite-charge wands are basically a sack of scrolls, so you could implement them this way, or reskin it.

New wands are a lot like small staves, if you want to think of them that way.

Except a couple of staves that turn into snakes.

Also everyone's favourite the Wand of Wonder is back in town.



Cheers,
Roger

 

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The Crimson Binome

Hero

• Dec 1, 2014

• #16

Talath said:

Wow, I might actually be interested in using wands and staves now.

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You took the words out of my mouth.

 

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dd.stevenson

Super KY

• Dec 2, 2014

• #17

Who can use a wand or stave? Magic users? Fighters? Anybody?

 

Jack99

Adventurer

• Dec 2, 2014

• #18

dd.stevenson said:

Who can use a wand or stave? Magic users? Fighters? Anybody?

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Some are limited to the arcane spellcasting classes, some to the divine etc, but most can be used by anyone afaict.