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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Souljourner" data-source="post: 1227321" data-attributes="member: 1622">A friend of mine noticed something the other day.  With a high enough use magic device check, you can make a staff think you're high level, and thus the spells inside it get cast at higher level.For example, if you are a 11th level bard with 22 charisma, maxed out ranks in Use Magic Device, Skill Focus: Use Magic Device, and Magical Aptitude, you have a Use Magic Device check of +25.  Since "Emulate a class feature" is DC 20, and your level in that class is your check -20, this character would emulate caster level 1d20+5 when using the staff (minimum whatever the staff's actual caster level is).Cool, huh?For a mere 34,125gp, your bard could have a staff of Holy Word which would paralyze all nongood creatures in the area of effect with 1d20 hit dice or less for 1d10 minutes.  Roll well and you could paralyze that Balor with no save, thankyouverymuch.  Sure, he has spell resistance 28, but your caster level for this spell is 25, so it's not exactly a difficult roll <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-The Souljourner</blockquote>