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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 2168517" data-attributes="member: 2011">Nope. Not with that phrase. You have to take the most reasonable interpretation, not a silly one."But there is more than one spell in the magic missile only staff. There are 50."This is the flaw in your logic.There is only one spell in the Magic Missile Only staff.There can be 50 castings of that one spell, but there is only one spell.The casting of a spell does not equate to the number of spells, it equates to the number of castings."A staff is a long shaft of wood that stores several spells. Unlike wands, which can contain a wide variety of spells, each staff is of a certain kind and holds specific spells."It does not state that it stores several castings of spells. The second sentence here goes on to further explain what they mean by the word "spells". You do not get a wide variety of spells in Wands EXCEPT with relationship to the many different types of wands (i.e. many different types of spells), one for each spell. Staves, on the other hand, hold specific spells. You do not get a Staff of Abjuration with a Fireball spell in it. The meaning here is clear.You are taking the word "spells" out of context here. That is the flaw of your logic. Your definition does not mesh with the entire paragraph here. People generally do not shift gears on what they mean with a word from one sentence to the next unless they tell you that they are doing that. There is nothing here to indicate that the designers were doing it this time and in fact, we have evidence to the contrary.The other sentence:"Staffs: A staff has a number of different (but often related) spell effects."supports this as well. How can you have different spell effects if the staff only has one spell and the spell only has one spell effect (btw, the majority of spells have only one spell effect)? The only way to ensure different spell effects is to have more than one spell.And, all of the Staves in the book have more than one spell in them.This is crystal clear.In a context where someone says "he cast several spells", then yes it could mean he cast the same one several times. Not in a section explaining what is found in a staff.Just reading that one sentence alone by itself, it is possible to interpret it in the English language your way, even though that is not the most reasonable interpretation. When you put that in with the rest of the rules concerning staffs and specifically the context of the paragraph where that sentence is found, it is not even close to a valid or possible interpretation. It's called stretching.You have no other places in the rules that support your interpretation either.</blockquote>

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