In my last post I looked at crafting graded wands. At its base, a staff is now a larger-capacity wand. It works the same, but is a bigger item (and usable as a weapon, a quarterstaff — I’ll look at graded weapons soon) and can have a Caster Level of …
The other day I described how graded items can be defined. That post is a bit dry, but that happens sometimes with groundwork. I’ll present an application of how spell trigger items can be implemented as graded items below. Wands are the simplest spell-trigger items to model. Per the Pathfinder Reference Document, …
The first book of my Echelon Expansions line, Draconic Bloodlines, is now available at DriveThruRPG/RPGNow, the Open Gaming Store, and at Paizo. Great-grandma was seduced by a dragon, When she became the dragon’s reeve. You might think there’s no such thing as dragons, But as for me and my dad, we believe. …
Some abilities and special items are defined in terms like “up to nine levels of spells, no more than one higher than fourth level and none higher than sixth” (house rules I’ve seen for magic staves) or “six benefits; you can triple one benefit and double another benefit, or double …