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<blockquote data-quote="Driddle" data-source="post: 3778992" data-attributes="member: 3447">[edit: TOME IS NO LONGER MENTIONED AS A PRIMARY WIZARD CASTING IMPLEMENT. THE CHANGE WAS MADE AFTER THIS THREAD BEGAN.]When you think of a wizard casting spells using an key item such as a staff, wand or orb (or book), what affects are usually associated with each?* In my mind, a wizard uses a wand for almost any spell that requires pointing at a specific target -- energy zaps, transformations, etc.* Orbs are obviously divination devices, as well as for communication and maybe mind-to-mind coercion/enchantment effects.* A staff, with some some sort of bauble (not necessarily an &quot;orb&quot;) at the top, is dandy for area effects, big sweeping gestures and the like. * And I can imagine the need for a tome for very elaborate key names and words of bonding for summoning spells.But after those personal interpretations, the specifics of other spells gets sort of vague. Is an electric bolt something that would be pointed out of a wand, for example, or called from the sky via a staff? If I were a mage, would I cast an illusion on my adventuring party by poring over a book or focusing the spell through my staff? It all seems so very arbitrary and interpretive. What are your thoughts on spells and casting types associated with each of the three (or four) implements?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Driddle, post: 3778992, member: 3447"] [COLOR=DarkSlateBlue][SIZE=1][edit: TOME IS NO LONGER MENTIONED AS A PRIMARY WIZARD CASTING IMPLEMENT. THE CHANGE WAS MADE AFTER THIS THREAD BEGAN.][/SIZE][/COLOR] When you think of a wizard casting spells using an key item such as a staff, wand or orb (or book), what affects are usually associated with each? * In my mind, a wizard uses a [I]wand[/I] for almost any spell that requires pointing at a specific target -- energy zaps, transformations, etc. * [I]Orbs[/I] are obviously divination devices, as well as for communication and maybe mind-to-mind coercion/enchantment effects. * A [I]staff,[/I] with some some sort of bauble (not necessarily an "orb") at the top, is dandy for area effects, big sweeping gestures and the like. * And I can imagine the need for a [I]tome[/I] for very elaborate key names and words of bonding for summoning spells. But after those personal interpretations, the specifics of other spells gets sort of vague. Is an electric bolt something that would be pointed out of a wand, for example, or called from the sky via a staff? If I were a mage, would I cast an illusion on my adventuring party by poring over a book or focusing the spell through my staff? It all seems so very arbitrary and interpretive. What are your thoughts on spells and casting types associated with each of the three (or four) implements? [/QUOTE]

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