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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Victim" data-source="post: 177634" data-attributes="member: 78">That's why it's not a bad idea to keep a spell storing ioun stone in a pouch.  You use it to cast spells and don't derive a continous benefit, so there's little reason besides a minor inconvenience and laziness to leave it buzzing around your head.  Pull it out when you want the spell, and keep it tucked away otherwise.But yes, the stone's great vulnerability and obviousness is one kind of balancing factor.Also, higher level spells tend to be much more powerful than lower level ones.  With a ring of spell storing, anyone can be carrying around a 9th level spell ready for use.  However, I think the spell storing ioun stone is very undercosted for its power.  But, it gives non-spellcasters lots of interesting abilities that can help them out at higher levels.  A Wizard at high levels can have so much mobility, defense, and instant death magic that a fighter with no stuff has no chance.  However, if the fighter can just get close once, and then pull an Antimagic Field out of the stone, the wizrd is about as dead as the fighter would be.  In other words, gear as a balancing factor might be one reason for the relatively low cost of the spell storing stone.</blockquote>