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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7308988" data-attributes="member: 1465">Well I guess discussing is just getting irritating now......all I wanted to say is that until today I've never thought about it because we've never found a magic staff or rod, but at the same time I always just thought that your arcane focus was your arcane focus, and that the shape was merely a cosmetic choice. I didn't even think that if you find a magic rod you can use that as an arcane focus, I just assumed they'd be separate objects. The whole spellcasting focus idea is crapped all over anyway, thanks to semi-flavor text like the one that allows a holy symbol (but not an arcane or druidic focus) to be simply worn. Obviously, I wouldn't have problems allowing a mundane staff to be used also as an arcane focus, considering that the Wizard is hardly ever going to take much advantage out of that combination. But since the point of the matter is how to deal with a potentially too-good stacking of two magic items, why not using this as a restriction?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 7308988, member: 1465"] Well I guess discussing is just getting irritating now... ...all I wanted to say is that until today I've never thought about it because we've never found a magic staff or rod, but at the same time I always just thought that your arcane focus was your [B]arcane focus[/B], and that the shape was merely a cosmetic choice. I didn't even think that if you find a magic rod you can use that as an arcane focus, I just assumed they'd be separate objects. The whole spellcasting focus idea is crapped all over anyway, thanks to semi-flavor text like the one that allows a holy symbol (but not an arcane or druidic focus) to be simply worn. Obviously, I wouldn't have problems allowing a [I]mundane[/I] staff to be used also as an arcane focus, considering that the Wizard is hardly ever going to take much advantage out of that combination. But since the point of the matter is how to deal with a potentially too-good stacking of two magic items, why not using this as a restriction? [/QUOTE]

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