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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herremann the Wise" data-source="post: 5910376" data-attributes="member: 11300">I suggested this thread on the L&L one as I think this is a really important question and so have voted other.Like most things with D&D, I prefer to have the fiction first and meld the mechanics around that fiction. The touchstones I would like wands to hit are:• A wand is highly personal to the wizard. The wizard crafts it or has a wandmaster or master artificer specifically craft it for them. A wand should say something about it's owner.• Using a wand as against an orb, tome, staff or other implement is a core decision a magic-user makes. I would suggest that a wand-user focuses on spellcasting as against rituals, sorceries, alchemy or other fields of the arcane.• I don't want wizards to have a golfbag of wands. A wizard should bond to a specific wand as against other arcane equipment or possibly even a familiar.• A wand might focus on a particular field of spells such as fire or shadows and assist the caster in being more effective in that focus area. A wand might  have one or possibly more spells impressed into it that can be cast through the wand using a spare vancian spell slot that the wizard may leave open.• Continuing with that wand theme, a wand might give access to a particular spell that cannot be cast except through that wand; it simply cannot be cast or brought into effect otherwise.• And perhaps most importantly, different wands should be different rather than all of them following the same template. Perhaps some could store magical energy (although that feels more something that a staff or orb should do) while others might assist casting in general (making the caster level higher if such a thing is part of the new ruleset). Others are highly focused around a theme while some might improve the flexibility of the wand-user while others might assist with ranged touch attack spells. [The hidden aim here is to push the caster in a particular arcane direction rather than being good at everything.]The thing I do know is that a wand as spell storage is not consistent with many of the above; so I'm firmly in the implement camp but with extra diverse stuff thrown in (that could include a smattering of spell storage).Best RegardsHerremann the Wise</blockquote>

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