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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patryn of Elvenshae" data-source="post: 2070245" data-attributes="member: 23094">First, staves are unique items.  There exist Staves of Healing, Staves of Fire, etc.  Therefore, any created staff follows the rules for a particular staff.  [EDIT]Creating new staves is possible.  As Saev says, talking about such things here will raise the ire of those who believe that such things belong in house rules.  Personally, I think that if you can talk about PrCs here, you can talk about the magic item formulae.Saev thoughtfully provided the formulae for determining how much a given staff costs.[/EDIT]A newly-minted staff has 50 charges.  Casting any given spell from a staff requires a certain number of charges, which is variable depending on the staff and the spell.  All spells pull from the same pool of charges.Creating a staff costs 1/2 the standard price in GP and 1/25 of the standard price in XP, much the same as any other magic item.  Some staves, because of the spells they contain, cost more (i.e., including a spell with an XP or expensive material component increases the cost of a staff).For instance:If you were to Craft such a staff, it would cost you 32,500 gp and 2,600 xp.</blockquote>