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Message: <blockquote data-quote="azmodean" data-source="post: 2025762" data-attributes="member: 26590">Staffs basically use their own rules for pricing, and those rules are never spelled out.  IIRC, the base price is the price for the highest-level spell the staff can cast (spell levelxstaff caster levelx750) divided by the number of charges it takes to cast that spell.  Each lower-level spell you add increases the price by a similar amount, except with a 25% reduction in cost (that is, spell levelxstaff caster levelx750x0.75) and also divided by the number of charges it takes to cast the highest level spell.Alternatively you could just price it as a bunch of wands with the caster levels all being the same and the lower level wands with a 25% discount, and then divide the whole price by number of charges it takes to cast the highest level spell.This is all theory, but it worked out for every staff I checked it against.You set the number of spell levels/charge and apply it to all of the spellsfor instance a fireball/magic missile/scorching ray staff1 spell level/charge:fireball takes 3 charges to activate, magic missile takes 1, and scorching ray takes two.2 spell levels/charge:fireball takes 2, magic missile takes 1, scorching ray takes 1.3 spell levels/chargeall three powers take one charge per, but you're "wasting" a lot of power on the lower level spells.</blockquote>