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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Negflar2099" data-source="post: 7477834" data-attributes="member: 65944">A siege staff. That's exactly what I was thinking. I thought maybe Eberron had that idea floating around someplace. Cool. Thanks for that.As for training, well the idea for me is to introduce a way to allow war magic (that is magic that can affect an entire battle) without limiting it to only high-level spellcasters and without giving players anything they could normally bring with them in the campaign. That's why it's a large, heavy cannon-sized object. No way they're bringing that with them anywhere but a battlefield. If I also force them to take a feat that seems like too much. I don't want them to have to invest in something that's only going to come up once or twice in the campaign. It did occur to me though that maybe it should be limited someway. Maybe the base cannon is an uncommon magic item but you can't cast spells through it higher than 3rd level, while the rare version can handle spells up to 5th, the very rare up to 7th and the legendary up to 9th. Or maybe the base version is common but you can only cast cantrips through it but it goes up from there. I've also toyed with the idea of it increasing the area of affect of spells or even adding area of effect to single target spells. Imagine a war warlock being able to cast an Eldritch Blast through this thing that scours the battlefield. Maybe too much but I like it. Ultimately though I'd like to modify this to be used in a Spelljammer type game. Imagine a ship piloted by a wizard with one of these. Now imagine a squadron of them. We could finally bring some real Star Wars/Guardians of the Galaxy style space battles to Spelljammer and maybe get away from the Age of Sail stuff (not that Age of Sail isn't great too).</blockquote>

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