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<blockquote data-quote="Purzel" data-source="post: 806338" data-attributes="member: 11201">Re: A different proposal for a wizard's staff.Interesting improvement. That could make the Emphatic Link more useful. Hmmm, but it has almost the power of a Scry then.Question to the audience: is a staff with a sense of hearing, sight and smell better than a familiar? I think yes.Bad idea, even when you balance this with a feat. The staff should not be shared with the other spellcasters of the group. The Wizard Staff should only have its special abilities in the hands of its owner and master.I don't like the idea of the staff being &quot;alife&quot;, so i would not set any abilities for it.And for the savingthrows i'd use the rule from PHB page 136:A magic item's Fortitude, Reflex and Will save bonuses are equal to 2 + one-half its caster level.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Purzel, post: 806338, member: 11201"] [b]Re: A different proposal for a wizard's staff.[/b] Interesting improvement. That could make the Emphatic Link more useful. Hmmm, but it has almost the power of a [B]Scry[/B] then. Question to the audience: is a staff with a sense of hearing, sight and smell better than a familiar? I think yes. Bad idea, even when you balance this with a feat. The staff should not be shared with the other spellcasters of the group. The Wizard Staff should only have its special abilities in the hands of its owner and master. I don't like the idea of the staff being "alife", so i would not set any abilities for it. And for the savingthrows i'd use the rule from PHB page 136: [I]A magic item's Fortitude, Reflex and Will save bonuses are equal to 2 + one-half its caster level.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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