baradtgnome said:
How does it play out in your game? Do you play it out or just give it to them?
I think I said earlier - I have a house rule that attempting to activate a wand uses a charge, even if you're attempting to activate the wrong spell.
So if there's a Wand of Floating Disk with thirty charges, it has an aura of Evocation (Faint). This could be any Evocation spell with a caster level of 5th or less; so it could be anything up to a 3rd level spell.
"Hmm," says the wizard. "I'll point it at the tree and try to activate Lightning Bolt."
"Nothing happens." 29 charges.
"Fireball?"
"Nothing happens." 28 charges.
"Okay, I'll pick a bird or rabbit or something and try to target it with Magic Missile."
"Nothing happens." 27 charges.
Now, about this time, they're probably thinking "Better to spend the hundred gp than waste too many more charges..." But if he keeps going, he
might figure out what spell it is before draining the wand completely...
(It's in some ways reminiscent of trying to identify a wand in Nethack...)
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The blast of fire bounces! The blast of fire bounces!
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The blast of fire bounces! The blast of fire hits you!
You die...
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-Hyp.