Magical Staffs

A staff is a long shaft of wood that stores several spells. Unlike wands (see Wands), each staff is of a specific type. A spellcaster can't stick any combination of spells in a staff. A staff has 50 charges when created.

Physical Description: A typical staff is 4 feet to 7 feet long and 2 inches to 3 inches thick, weighing about 5 pounds. Most staffs are wood, but a rare few are bone, metal, or even glass. (These are extremely exotic.) Staffs often have a gem or some device at their tip or are shod in metal at one or both ends. Staffs are often decorated with carvings or runes. A typical staff is like a walking stick, quarterstaff, or cudgel. It has an AC of 7, 10 hit points, a hardness of 5, and a break DC of 24.

Activation: Staffs use the spell trigger activation method, so casting a spell from a staff is usually a standard action that doesn't provoke attacks of opportunity. (If the spell being cast, however, has a longer casting time than 1 action, it takes that long to cast the spell from a staff.) To activate a staff, a character must hold it forth in at least one hand (or whatever passes for a hand, for nonhumanoid creatures).

Random Generation: To generate a random staff.

General

Abjuration

Usually carved from the heartwood of an ancient oak or other large tree, this staff allows use of the following spells:

Strong abjuration; CL 13th; Craft Staff, dismissal, dispel magic, lesser globe of invulnerability, resist energy, repulsion, shield; Price 65,000 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Artisan

This staff is extremely well crafted, covered with gold leaf and images of artisans at work. The staff of the artisan allows use of the following spells:

CL 12th; Craft Staff, fabricate, mending, minor creation, major creation; Market Price: 69,800 gp.
Source: Arms and Equipment Guide

Assassin's Staff

This slender, unadorned wooden staff is shorter than usual for staffs, only 4 feet long, and it has a leather strap attached, making it easy to sling over the shoulder. It allows use of the following spells:

CL 7th; Craft Staff, greater invisibility, obscuring mist, pass without trace, poison; Market Price: 24,000 gp. This price assumes the staff is made by an assassin.
Source: Arms and Equipment Guide

Building

This wooden staff, exactly 3 feet long and notched every inch, allows use of the following spells:

Moderate conjuration; CL 11th; Craft Staff, animate objects, major creation, wall of stone; Price 38,156 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

Cacophony

Though elegantly carved, this wooden staff depicts violent and contorted images of screaming faces and figures clutching their ears. Favored by evil or wantonly chaotic bards, it allows use of the following spells:

CL 10th; Craft Staff, sculpt sound, shatter, shout, sound burst, Tasha's hideous laughter; Market Price: 60,000 gp.
Source: Arms and Equipment Guide

Charming

Made of twisting wood ornately shaped and carved, this staff allows use of the following spells:

Moderate enchantment, CL 8th; Craft Staff, charm person, charm monster; Market Price: 16,500 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Conjuration

This staff is usually made of ash or walnut and bears ornate carvings of many different kinds of creatures. It allows use of the following spells:

Strong conjuration; CL 13th; Craft Staff, cloudkill, stinking cloud, summon monster VI, summon swarm, unseen servant; Price 65,000 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Creation

This wooden staff is about 5 feet long. One end is forked and other forms a graceful hook, making it resemble certain scepters of office or symbols of authority. It allows use of the following spells:

CL 9th; Craft Staff, create food and water, major creation, minor creation; Market Price: 45,000 gp.
Source: Arms and Equipment Guide

Defense

The staff of defense is a simple-looking staff that throbs with power when held defensively. It allows use of the following spells:

Strong abjuration, CL 15th; Craft Staff, shield, shield of faith, shield other, shield of law, creator must be lawful; Market Price: 58,250 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Destruction

This 6-foot-long staff is made of cracked white marble. Despite its appearance, however, the staff is curiously light and solid. The staff shatters into a thousand pieces as soon as all the charges are used up. It allows use of the following spells:

CL 15th; Craft Staff, disintegrate, earthquake, shatter; Market Price: 98,500 gp.
Source: Arms and Equipment Guide

Divination

Made from a supple length of willow, often with a forked tip, this staff allows use of the following spells:

Strong divination; CL 13th; Craft Staff, detect secret doors, locate creature, locate object, prying eyes, tongues, true seeing, Price 73,500 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Earth and Stone

This staff is topped with a fist-sized emerald that gleams with smoldering power. It allows the use of the following spells:

Moderate transmutation, CL 11th, Craft Staff, passwall, move earth; Price: 80,500 gp
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Enchantment

Often made from applewood and topped with a clear crystal, this staff allows use of the following spells:

Strong enchantment; CL 13th; Craft Staff; crushing despair, mass suggestion, mind fog, sleep, suggestion, Tasha's hideous laughter; Price 65,000 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Ethereal Action

A staff of smooth wood adorned with three silver bands, this staff is a +1 ghost touch quarterstaff and allows the use of the following spells:

When all its charges are used up, the staff remains a +1 ghost touch quarterstaff.

Moderate transmutation; CL 9th; Craft Staff, Craft Magic Arms and Armor, blink, ethereal jaunt, plane shift; Price 57,300 gp.
Source: Complete Arcane

Evocation

Usually very smooth and carved from hickory, willow, or yew, this staff allows use of the following spells:

Strong evocation; CL 13th Craft Staff, chain lightning, fireball, ice storm, magic missile, shatter, wall of force; Price 65,000 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Eyes

A spiraling staff with silver inlay and topped with a large piece of amber, the staff of eyes allows the use of the following spells:

Moderate divination; CL 8th; Craft Staff, arcane eye, remove blindness/deafness, see invisibility; Price 34,700 gp.
Source: Complete Arcane

Fallen

This is a heavy black iron staff, fairly short, and decorated with images of demonic faces and leering skulls. Usually made by blackguards, the staff of the fallen allows use of the following spells:

CL 7th; Craft Staff, contagion, doom, shatter, summon monster IV, creator must be evil; Market Price: 24,000 gp. This price assumes the staff is made by a blackguard.
Source: Arms and Equipment Guide

Fauna

This staff, often created by druids to store spells for their animal companions, allows use of the following spells:

Moderate transmutation; CL 9th; Craft Staff, animal growth, barkskin, greater magic fang; Price 19,406 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

Fellowship

This staff is a smooth shaft of gleaming steel engraved with the word "peace" in many languages. It allows use of the following spells:

CL 11th; Craft Staff, calm emotions, heroes' feast, Rary's telepathic bond, shield other, status; Market Price: 80,000 gp.
Source: Arms and Equipment Guide

Fiendish Darkness

First seen long ago in the hands of humans and draw in the service of powerful demons and devils, these staffs are made of ebony or polished bone, often topped with a metal claw at one or both ends. When held by any good creature, a staff of fiendish darkness bestows one negative level that remains as long as the staff is carried. This negative level never results in actual level loss, but it cannot be overcome in any way (including restoration spells) while the staff is held. A staff of fiendish darkness allows the use of the following spells:

Strong varied; CL 17th; Craft Staff, animate dead, darkness, dispel magic, summon monster IX, creator must be evil; Price 98,200 gp.
Source: Complete Arcane

Fire

Crafted from bronzewood with brass bindings, this staff allows use of the following spells:

Moderate evocation, CL 8th; Craft Staff, burning hands, fireball, wall of fire; Market Price: 17,750 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Frost

Tipped on either end with a glistening diamond, this rune-covered staff allows the use of the following spells:

Moderate evocation, CL 10th; Craft Staff, ice storm, wall of ice, cone of cold; Market Price: 56,250 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Glory

Formed of glass and crowned with a golden sunburst, a staff of glory is awe-inspiring, though dreaded by creatures of darkness. It allows use of the following spells:

CL 13th; Craft Staff, daylight, holy smite, searing light, sunbeam; Market Price: 80,000 gp.
Source: Arms and Equipment Guide

Goblin Lord

This shabby-looking and gnarled staff is topped with a rat skull. It grants a +2 enhancement bonus to Charisma in the hands of a goblin or orc. A staff of the goblin lord allows use of the following spells:

CL 12th; Craft Staff, confusion, protection from law, unholy blight; Market Price: 26,625 gp.
Source: Arms and Equipment Guide

Healing

This white ash staff, with inlaid silver runes, allows use of the following spells:

Moderate conjuration, CL 8th; Craft Staff, lesser restoration, cure serious wounds, remove blindness/deafness, remove disease; Market Price: 27,750 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Hel's Death Staff

This staff harnesses necromantic power, the effects of which are much more potent against giants. This staff is crafted from a stone giant's femur, with the ball joint's rounded, polished protrusions gleaming on the top end of the staff and the bottom sharpened to a point. A fetish necklace of giant's teeth hangs from a hole carved through the top. The deep gray length of the staff is etched with mystical runes, each painted blood red.

When activated, Hel's death staff emits a stench of decay and absorbs the light around the staff's head, creating an empty black sphere of shadowy illumination that darkens about as much as a candle brightens. This has no game effect. Each of the spells below require a standard action to activate, with one exception: You can animate giants killed with the staff as a swift action. A Hel's death staff allows use of the following spells:

When cast on a giant, the DCs of these spells increase by +2. Additionally, you can animate up to three times your caster level (instead of twice your caster level) of HD of undead with a single casting of animate dead. All of the undead you animate in this way must be from the bodies of giants. Likewise, you can control up to 6 HD of undead per caster level (instead of 4 HD per caster level) as long as you possess Hel's death staff and at least one of the undead creatures you control is a giant. Finally, when you slay a giant with a finger of death spell cast from the staff you can opt to immediately (as a swift action) animate the giant's body with animate dead. This use requires the expenditure of only a single charge from the staff for casting animate dead (instead of the normal 2 charges).

Strong Necromancy, CL 13th. Craft Staff, animate dead, blindness/deafness, finger of death, ray of enfeeblement, 29,655 gp, 2,372 XP, 60 days. Weight 4 lb. Price: 59,310 gp.
Source: Dragon #345

Homeland

This staff improves a druid's connection with the surrounding terrain, and allows use of the following spells:

Moderate divination; CL 11th; Craft Staff, commune with nature, find the path, forestfold; Price 48,469 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

Hunting Spirits

This white-ash staff allows use of the following spells:

Strong conjuration; CL 17th; Craft Staff, phantom bear, phantom wolf; Price 66,938 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

Illumination

This staff is usually sheathed in silver and decorated with sunbursts. It allows use of the following spells:

Strong evocation; CL 15th; Craft Staff; dancing lights, daylight, flare, sunburst; Price 48,250 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Illusion

This staff is made from ebony or other dark wood and carved into an intricately twisted, fluted, or spiral shape. It allows use of the following spells:

Strong illusion; CL 13th; Craft Staff, disguise self, major image, mirror image, persistent image, project image, rainbow pattern; Price: 65,000 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Incarnation

This iron-shod staff, often decorated with the holy symbol of a specific deity, allows use of the following spells:

Strong conjuration; CL 17th; Craft Staff, Price 60,563 gp.
Dandello's note: Complete Divine refers to nonexistent spells for this staff. This issue was not addressed in the official errata. Suggested substitutions for the required spells are: greater aspect of the deity, aspect of the deity, lesser aspect of the deity.
Source: Complete Divine

Keoghtom's Staff of Purification

A black-iron hag's hand clutching a lapis lazuli gem tops this thick crooked willow staff. - The exploits of the Company of Seven are too numerous to recount, but one of their more infamous ventures carried Murlynd, Keoghtom, and Nolzur to the Cold Marshes in the far north of the Flanaess in search of the ancient ruins of an odd civilization of sorcery-wielding amphibians. Unfortunately for the trio, the place was not completely abandoned and they found themselves in battle with a witch-queen the locals referred to as the Weird of the Cold Heath. After an enervating battle, Murlynd fired several rounds from his amazing six-shooters at her elbow and her strange gnarled staff fell to the ground. Keoghtom claimed the object and later identified it as a "staff of affliction" which he surmised was related to the vile cult of Incabulos. His study allowed him to reverse its effects, despite objections from Noizur, who thought it could make a formidable weapon against the forces of a nascent demigod in the northern reaches who the orcs called the Old One. Keoghtom rebuffed him and created the staff of purification - which retains its original baleful appearance.
When touched to any liquid, the staff of purification immediately removes any lingering maladies, as purify food or drink except it doesn't destroy any magical qualities of the liquid. This use expends 2 charges. The following uses require the expenditure of charges.

A new staff has 50 charges.
strong; abjuration and conjuration (healing) CL 12th; Craft Staff, break enchantment, heal, restoration. 26,125 gp, 1,690 XP. Weight: 4 lb. Price: 47,250 gp.
Source: Dragon #359

Liberation

Appearing to be little more than a rustic walking-stick, this staff allows use of the following spells:

CL 9th; Craft Staff, break enchantment, freedom of movement, remove curse, remove fear, remove paralysis; Market Price: 45,000 gp.
Source: Arms and Equipment Guide

Life

Made of thick oak shod in gold, this staff allows use of the following spells:

Moderate conjuration, CL 13th; Craft Staff, heal, resurrection; Market Price: 155,750 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Madness

This staff is formed of wildly twisting and entangled rods of iron. It allows use of the following spells:

CL 17th; Craft Staff, confusion, insanity, random action, weird; Market Price: 110,000 gp.
Source: Arms and Equipment Guide

Mastery

Wrought from four twisted rods of adamantine, this double weapon is a +4 axiomatic staff of clouting and a +1 staff. In addition to its potent properties as a weapon, a staff of mastery allows the use of the following spells:

When its charges are used up, a staff of mastery remains a +4 axiomatic staff of clouting/+1 staff.

Strong enchantment; CL 17th; Craft Staff, dimensional anchor, dominate monster, hold person, order's wrath, repulsion, creator must be lawful; Price 223,000 gp.
Source: Complete Arcane

Necromancy

This staff is made from ebony or other wood and carved with the images of bones and skulls. It allows use of the following spells:

Strong necromancy; CL 13th; Craft Staff; cause fear, circle of death, enervation, ghoul touch, halt undead, waves of fatigue; Price 65,000 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Night

This staff of black wood is carved with runes of darkness, stars, and night, with one resembling an umber hulk. The wielder of the staff is immune to the confusing gaze power of umber hulks. In addition; the staff has the following powers:

If the summoned umber hulk is slain, the staff crumbles to dust.

CL 11th; Craft Staff, darkness, darkvision, dispel magic, summon nature's ally VI; Market Price: 30,000 gp.
Source: Complete Arcane

Nomads

A simple, wooden staff with a pronounced bend at the top, this item appears to be nothing more than a shepherd's crook. It allows the use of the following spells:

Strong divination; CL 12th; Craft Staff, find the path, cloak of shade, locate water, hydrate; Price 49,500 gp.
Source: Sandstorm

Oaken Battle

Intended to help a druid protect herself in the wild, this thick staff of black oak allows use of the following spells:

Moderate transmutation; CL 8th; Craft Staff, shillelagh, spikes; Price 13,500 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

Opening

This wooden staff is carved with images of doors, many of which have embossed iron bindings and miniature but nonfunctional keyholes. It allows the use of the following spells:

Moderate transmutation; CL 9th; Craft Staff, knock, open/close, passwall, shatter; Price 42,200 gp.
Source: Complete Arcane

Pain

This staff, which has thornlike spikes carved across swaths of its surface, allows use of the following spells:

Moderate necromancy; CL 11th; Craft Staff, eyebite, inflict serious wounds, wrack; Price 27,844 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

Passage

This potent item allows the use of the following spells:

Strong varied, CL 17th; Craft Staff, dimension door, passwall, phase door, greater teleport, astral projection; Market Price: 170,500 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Planar Defense

This silvery staff with green crystals on both ends allows use of the following spells:

Moderate abjuration; CL 11th; Craft Staff, banishment, dimensional anchor, dismissal, subvert planar essence; Price 44,344 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

Power

The staff of power is a very potent magic item, with offensive and defensive abilities. It is usually topped with a glistening gem, its shaft straight and smooth. It has the following powers:

The wielder of a staff of power gains a +2 luck bonus to AC and saving throws. The staff is also a +2 quarterstaff and its wielder may use it to smite opponents. If 1 charge is expended (as a free action), the staff causes double damage (x3 on a critical hit) for 1 round. A staff of power can be broken for a retributive strike. The breaking of the staff must be purposeful and declared by the wielder. All charges currently in the staff are instantly released in a 30-foot-radius globe. All within 10 feet of the broken staff take hit points of damage equal to eight times the number of charges in the staff, those between 11 feet and 20 feet away take six times the number of charges in damage, and those 21 feet to 30 feet distant take four times the number of charges in damage. Successful Reflex saving throws (DC 17) reduce the damage sustained by half. The character breaking the staff has a 50% chance of traveling to another plane of existence, but if he does not, the explosive release of spell energy destroys him. Only certain items, including the staff of the magi and the staff of power, are capable of a retributive strike. After all charges are used up from the staff, it remains a +2 quarterstaff. (Once empty of charges, it cannot be broken in a retributive strike.)

Strong varied, CL 15th; Craft Staff, Craft Magic Arms and Armor, magic missile, heightened ray of enfeeblement, continual flame, levitate, heightened fireball, heightened lightning bolt, cone of cold, hold monster, wall of force, globe of invulnerability; Market Price: 211,000 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Righteousness

Made of elegantly shaped mithral, this staff is a badge of purity and righteousness. It allows use of the following spells:

CL 7th; Craft Staff, dispel evil, divine favor, holy sword, prayer; Market Price: 34,000 gp.
Source: Arms and Equipment Guide

Sacred Fire

Almost indistinguishable from a staff of fire, this staff usually incorporates a deity's holy symbol into its design, often the leafy face of Obad-Hai. It allows use of the following spells:

CL 13th; Craft Staff, fire storm, flame strike; Market Price: 60,000 gp. This price assumes the staff is created by a druid.
Source: Arms and Equipment Guide

Size Alteration

Stout and sturdy, this staff of dark wood allows use of the following spells:

Faint conjuration; CL 8th; Craft Staff; enlarge person, mass enlarge person, reduce person, mass reduce person, shrink item; Price 29,000 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Skulls

This staff is usually made of ebony and topped with an ivory skull, but sometimes made of the thighbone of a giant and topped with a smooth-polished real skull. It allows the use of the following spells:

CL 9th; Craft Staff, animate dead, cure light wounds, inflict light wounds, mass inflict light wounds; Market Price: 39,200 gp; Cost to Create: 20,850 gp +1,468 XP.
Source: Complete Arcane

Soul-Ward

This supple staff of sumac, favored by clerics who face off against undead, allows use of the following spells:

Strong conjuration; CL 13th; Craft Staff, death ward, restorationgreater restoration; Price 82,417 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

Staff of Draconic Power

This fire-blackened staff is studded with dragon's teeth. It allows use of the following spells:

Moderate transmutation; CL 9th; Craft Staff, draconic might, dragon breath, dragonskin; Price 42,000 gp.
Source: Draconomicon

Staff of Earthen Might

This staff is carved from stone and tipped with either a gem or an intricately sculpted chunk of marble. It allows the use of the following spells:

Moderate transmutation; CL 10th; Craft Wondrous Item, soften earth and stone, stone shape, tremor, transmute mud to rock, transmute rock to mud; Price 46,406 gp.
Source: Dragon #314

Staff of the Dragonslayer

This staff is carved from the thigh bone of a dragon of at least Huge size. It allows use of the following spells:

Moderate enchantment and transmutation; CL 9th; Craft Staff, lower spell resistance, scale weakening, suppress breath weapon, vulnerability; Price 54,000 gp.
Source: Draconomicon

Storms

A gnarled staff favored by powerful druids, a staff of storms allows use of the following spells:

Strong transmutation; CL 15th; Craft Staff, control weather, storm of elemental fury, storm tower, stormrage; Price 118,125 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

Swarming Insects

Made of twisted dark wood with dark spots resembling crawling insects (which occasionally seem to move), this staff allows use of the following spells:

Moderate conjuration, CL 9th; Craft Staff, summon swarm, insect plague; Market Price: 24,750 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

The Beatific, Greater

A more powerful version of lesser staff of the beatific, this staff allows use of the following spells:

Strong abjuration; CL 15th; Craft Staff, cloak of chaos, holy aura, holy word, word of chaos; Price 78,750 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

The Beatific, Lesser

This staff, which benefits chaotic good spellcasters the most, allows use of the following spells:

Moderate abjuration; CL 9th; Craft Staff, chaos hammer, dispel evil, dispel law, holy smite; Price 28,266 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

The Diabolic, Greater

A more powerful version of lesser staff of the diabolic, this staff allows use of the following spells:

Strong abjuration; CL 15th; Craft Staff, blasphemy, dictum, shield of law, unholy aura; Price 78,750 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

The Diabolic, Lesser

This staff, which benefits lawful evil spellcasters the most, allows use of the following spells:

Moderate abjuration; CL 9th; Craft Staff, dispel chaos, dispel good, order's wrath, unholy blight; Price 28,266 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

The Gaol

Used to trap foes without killing them, a staff of the gaol allows use of the following spells:

Moderate evocation; CL 11th; Craft Staff, blade barrier, dimensional anchor, hold monster; Price 51,563 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

The Jetstream

The staff of the jetstream, made of teak with gold filigree, allows use of the following spells:

Strong conjuration; CL 17th; Craft Staff, whirlwind, greater whirlwind, wind walk; Price 89,250 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

The Pharaoh

This staff is covered in gold leaf, giving it a metallic sheen. The head forms a large hook, open in the center. It allows the use of the following spells:

Strong transmutation; CL 13th; Craft Staff, cause fear, control weather, lightning bolt, summon monster IV; Price 82,901 gp.
Source: Sandstorm

The Saintly, Greater

A more powerful version of lesser staff of the saintly, this staff allows use of the following spells:

Strong abjuration; CL 15th; Craft Staff, dictum, holy aura, holy word, shield of law; Price 78,750 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

The Saintly, lesser

This staff, which benefits lawful good spellcasters the most, allows use of the following spells:

Moderate abjuration; CL 9th; Craft Staff, dispel chaos, dispel evil, holy smite, order's wrath; Price 28,266 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

The Sands

A clear glass sphere half filled with dust tops this staff of fused and vitreous sand. It allows use of the following spells:

Strong conjuration; CL 12th; Craft Staff, sandstorm, flaywind burst, blast of sand, haboob; Price 79,890 gp.
Source: Sandstorm

The Wanton, Greater

A more powerful version of lesser staff of the wanton, this staff allows use of the following spells:

Strong abjuration; CL 15th; Craft Staff, blasphemy, cloak of chaos, unholy aura, word of chaos; Price 78,750 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

The Wanton, Lesser

This staff, which benefits chaotic evil spellcasters the most, allows use of the following spells:

Moderate abjuration; CL 9th; Craft Staff, chaos hammer, dispel good, dispel law, unholy blight; Price 28,266 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

Transmutation

This staff is generally carved from or decorated with petrified wood and allows use of the following spells:

Strong transmutation; CL 13th; Craft Staff; alter self, baleful polymorph, blink, disintegrate, expeditious retreat, polymorph; Price 65,000 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Transportation

Originally created by the wizard known as Whisper, this staff is mostly hollow, fashioned of wire in the shape of a staff, with a mottled brown uncut gemstone at each end. It allows the use of the following spells:

CL 9th; Craft Staff, blink, dimension door, teleport; Market Price: 67,500 gp.
Source: Complete Arcane

True Belief

This maple staff, designed both to reward the faithful and punish the unbelievers, allows use of the following spells:

Strong enchantment; CL 13th; Craft Staff, castigate, righteous wrath of the faithful; Price 31,688 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

Undying Staff

This staff is constructed from humanoid bones wired together into a single piece. It allows use of the following spells:

CL: 12th; Craft Staff, animate dead, create undead; Market Price: 27,375 gp.
Source: Standing Stone

Vaporous Menace

Containing spells that choke the life from enemies, this staff allows use of the following spells:

Moderate conjuration; CL 11th; Craft Staff, acid fog, miasma, murderous mist; Price: 40,094 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

Vision

Cut from bamboo and fitted with white leather straps, this slender staff seems more delicate than most. It allows the use of the following spells:

Each use of this staff is mentally tiring and requires the user to make a DC 12 Will save or take 1 point of Intelligence damage.

Strong divination; CL 12th; Craft Staff, darkvision, see invisibility, remove blindness/deafness, true seeing; Price 42,800 gp.
Source: Complete Arcane

Watery Grave

This clear, blue glass staff is etched with wave and sea monster designs. It allows the use of the following spells.

Strong conjuration and necromancy; CL 13th; Craft Staff, contagious fog, dehydrate, drown, rushing waters; Price 100,000 gp.
Source: Underdark

Winds

This staff, made of mahogany with silver filigree, allows use of the following spells:

Moderate conjuration; CL 9th; Craft Staff, binding winds, control winds, summon nature's ally V, Price 37,969 gp.
Source: Complete Divine

Withering Thirst

This horrid staff is crafted from the mummified limb of a creature that died of thirst. It allows use of the following spells:

Strong necromancy and abjuration; CL 15th; Craft Staff, dessicate, dispel water, horrid wilting, mass dessicate, wither; Price 91,880 gp.
Source: Sandstorm

Woodlands

Appearing to have grown naturally into its shape, this oak, ash, or yew staff allows use of the following spells:

Further, the staff may be used as a weapon, functioning as a +2 quarterstaff. The staff of the woodlands also allows its wielder to pass without trace at will, with no charge cost. These two attributes continue to function after all the charges are expended.

Moderate varied, CL 13th; Craft Staff, Craft Magic Arms and Armor, animate plants, pass without trace, charm animal, barkskin, speak with animals, wall of thorns, summon nature's ally VI; Market Price 101,250 gp.
Source: Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5

Faerûnian Staffs

Famous divine and arcane spellcasters have created hundreds of kinds of staffs to hold the amazing variety of spells known in Faerûn.

Diviner's Staff

The diviner's staff is most often crafted from gnarled hazel. It allows the wielder to cast the following spells:

The staff also giants its current owner a +1 competence bonus on all Knowledge skill checks.

CL 13th; Craft Staff, identify, locate object, locate creature, analyze dweomer, vision; Market Price: 137,375 gp.
Source: Magic of Faerûn

Entrapment

This sort of staff was originally created in Netheril and traditionally is short and made of brass. Most dating from that era have only a handful of charges remaining, though many more have been made since. It allows the use of the following spells:

CL 7th; Craft Staff, dimensional anchor, Otiluke's resilient sphere; Market Price: 36,750 gp.
Source: Magic of Faerûn

Lesser Staff of Silverymoon

Alustriel of Silverymoon created fewer than a dozen of these staffs. Each is made of rich weirwood chased with heavy silver inlays and crowned with a softly glowing moonstone. At least one lesser staff of Silverymoon lies in the ruins of Hellgate Keep; most of the others are in the hands of spellcasters trusted by the Lady of Silverymoon or in her own vaults. Alustriel sometimes entrusts a staff to a worthy hero with a good heart as well as a strong desire to aid the cause of the Silver Marches.

A lesser staff of Silverymoon allows use of the following spells.:

Strong evocation; CL 15th; Craft Staff, animate objects, arcane sight, chain lightning, dimension door, fly, forcecage, hold monster, lesser globe of invulnerability, passwall, wall of force; Price 70,000 gp.
Source: Lost Empires of Faerûn

Miracles

This white wooden staff is carved with symbols of good dwarven, elven, gnome, halfling, and human deities worshiped in Myth Drannor. It allows the use of the following spells:

CL 15th; Craft Staff, heal, holy aura, rosemantle; Market Price: 77,000 gp.
Source: Magic of Faerûn

Open Doors

This wooden staff is carved with images of doors, some of which have small iron bindings and miniature but nonfunctional keyholes. It allows the use of the following spells:

CL 9th; Craft Staff, knock, open/close, passwall, shatter; Market Price: 42,200 gp.
Source: Magic of Faerûn

Peace

This staff is usually made of yew wood. It grants use of the following spells:

In addition, if the wielder has chosen Eldath as his patron, he gains a +10 competence bonus on Diplomacy checks; this expends no charges.

CL 11th; Craft Staff, Heighten Spell, sanctuary, hold person, calm emotions, greater command; Market Price: 175,250 gp.
Source: Magic of Faerûn

Scrivening

Carved with symbols of quills and runes from many languages, this kind of staff was first created in Myth Drannor, and allows the use of the following spells:

CL 11th; Craft Staff, amanuensis, comprehend languages, erase, suppress glyph, read magic; Market Price: 53,600 gp.
Source: Magic of Faerûn

Thunderstaff

At least a dozen thunderstaffs are known to exist, including one in the possession of Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun. Each thunderstaff is a 6-foot length of duskwood capped at the head with a mithral casting of a blue dragon's head and at the base with a long mithral spike, which allows the staff to be used as a spear in emergencies. A thunderstaff holds several spells related to thunder, lightning, and weather control, usually one spell of each level. It is rumored that each thunderstaff has a unique suite of powers. The following set of spells is only one example of what a thunderstaff might hold.

Strong evocation; CL 17th; Craft Staff, ball lightning, chain lightning, electric loop, great thunderclap, lightning bolt, lightning ring, shapechange, shocking grasp, thunderlance; Price 83,841 gp; Weight 4 lb.
Source: Player's Guide to Faerûn

Thyrsus of the Druid

The wood elf druid Craenoth Driel of Eaerlann crafted the first known thyrsus more than six hundred years ago. The great druid was slaughtered while defending the High Forest against tanarukk forces from Hellgate Keep. His thyrsus was carried back to that foul rift as part of the war spoils of the demon lords, but its current location is unknown.

Several of Craenoth's bereaved acolytes created their own versions of this staff to honor their slain master. Dozens of variants now exist and can be found in the hands of capable druids as far north as Lurkwood and as far east as the forests of Cormanthor.

A typical thyrsus of the druid appears as a gnarled staff carved from a single piece of oak, duskwood, or weirwood, with a large pine cone mounted securely upon its top. Its shaft is wrapped in coils of leafy vines that remain green all year round.

The thyrsus of the druid allows the use of the following spells.

Strong varied; CL 15th; Craft Staff, animate plants, control plants, plant growth, speak with plants, thorn spray; Price 53,000 gp.
Source: Lost Empires of Faerûn

Underdark

Many powerful spellcasters dwell in the Underdark, and some of them spend their time crafting staffs not known on the surface world.

Portals

This staff is constructed of many different types of wood (including darkwood, purple heartswood, mahogany, and ash) and bound with ferrules of iron, mithral, steel, and adamantine. Only a cleric with the Portal domain can make full use of this staff. Sorcerers and wizards can coax some of the lesser spells from it, but they can never access its full potential. This staff allows use of the following spells.

Strong varied; CL 15th; Craft Staff, analyze portal, dimension door, etherealness, portal barricade, portal-to-portal redirect, portal view; Price 120,000 gp.
Source: Underdark

Shadow, Greater

This staff looks just like a lesser staff of shadow. It allows use of the following spells.

Strong illusion; CL 13th; Craft Staff, greater shadow conjuration, greater shadow evocation, shadow image, shadow walk; Price 113,000 gp.
Source: Underdark

Shadow, Lesser

This ebony staff has runes made of rough-textured obsidian embedded in the wood. It seems as if the staff actually absorbs light. A lesser staff of shadow allows use of the following spells.

Moderate illusion; CL 11th; Craft Staff, shadow conjuration, shadow evocation, shadow walk; Price 48,500 gp.
Source: Underdark

Spider

This wooden staff is covered with silver chasing in weblike patterns. It allows use of the following spells.

Moderate conjuration and transmutation; CL 8th; Craft Staff, spider climb, spiderskin, summon swarm; Price 33,000 gp.
Source: Underdark

Stone

This staff is a thin, 1-inch-diameter staff made of petrified wood with hardness 8 and 15 hit points. It allows use of the following spells.

Strong conjuration and transmutation; CL 13th; Craft Staff, stone metamorphosis, greater stone metamorphosis, stone shape, greater stone shape, wall of stone; Price 71,250 gp.
Source: Underdark

Underdark

This plain wood staff is highly useful for maneuvering around the Underdark. It allows use of the following spells.

Moderate divination and transmutation; CL 11th; Craft Staff, amorphous form, find the path, passwall; Price 48,500 gp.
Source: Underdark

Planar

Staffs have great utility in general - being able to hold spells of any level - but are usually created with the Material Plane in mind. The following staffs, if not created on other planes, are at least oriented toward the unusual requirements of planar travel.

Abyssal Iron

Forged from the metal of the lakes of Molten Iron on the Plain of Infinite Portals (the topmost of the Infinite layers of the Abyss), this staff looks like nothing more than a particularly long and slightly twisted iron rod, with dents and nicks along its entire length. It gives off an odor of burnt metal, like that in a foundry, and always leaves a dark stain on its wielder's hands. A staff of abyssal iron allows use of the following spells:

Strong varied; CL 13th; Craft Staff, protection from good, protection from law, magic circle against good, magic circle against law, blasphemy, word of chaos, wall of iron; Price 39,350 gp.
Source: Planar Handbook

Etherealness

Made of a smoky gray wood, this staff allows use of the following spells.

Strong varied; CL 17th; Craft Staff, ethereal jaunt, etherealness, teleport object; Price 43,300 gp.
Source: Planar Handbook

Planes

Designed as an aid to planar travelers, this staff allows use of the following spells.

Strong varied; CL 17th; Craft Staff, analyze portal, gate, summon monster VI; Price 43,100 gp.
Source: Planar Handbook

Vitalization

Created from a length of wood that has lain in an edge zone of the Positive Energy Plane, this staff allows use of the following spells.

Strong conjuration; CL 17th; Craft Staff, mass cure light wounds, mass cure moderate wounds, mass cure serious wounds, mass cure critical wounds, mass heal; Price 54,000 gp.
Source: Planar Handbook

Waves and Depths

Studded along its entire length with tiny aquamarines in gradually darker shades and always slightly damp to the touch, this staff allows use of the following spells.

Moderate transmutation; CL 7th; Craft Staff, water walk, control water; Price 11,200 gp.
Source: Planar Handbook

Winds and Sky

Topped by a columnar prism of sapphire as long as a human hand, and wrapped with silver filigree, this staff allows use of the following spells.

Moderate transmutation; CL 9th; Craft Staff, air walk, control winds; Price 27,000 gp.
Source: Planar Handbook

Staffs of Vile Darkness

Corruption

This near-artifact level staff is made of a thin, withered shaft of wood, sickly gray in color. Worms appear to squirm about its surface, bus that is just an illusion. The staff allows the use of the following spells.

CL: 17th; Craft Staff, befoul, despoil, morality undone, shriveling, wither limb; Market Price: 192,000 gp; weight: 5 lb.
Source: Book of Vile Darkness

Darkness

It is said that this staff was first created by a drow sorcerer deep in some forsaken Underdark sanctum. A smooth shaft of surprisingly lightweight black metal, this rather short staff allows the use of the following spells.

CL: 7th; Craft Staff, damning darkness, darkbolt(v), darkness, deeper darkness; Market Price: 24,000 gp; weight: 5 lb.
Source: Book of Vile Darkness

Pestilence

This wooden staff is covered in diseased sores that ooze yellow pus. It gives off a horrible odor of rotten flesh, but allows the use of the following spells.

CL: 11th; Craft Staff, contagion, insect plague, pox Market Price: 70,000 gp; Weight: 5 lb.
Source: Book of Vile Darkness

Staffs of Exalted Good

Staff of Rapture

This ash staff bears a few holy etchings but otherwise looks unremarkable. However, in the hands of a cleric, the staff sheds golden light as brightly as a torch. The staff of rapture can be used as a +1 quarterstaff, but it deals only nonlethal damage. Against evil creatures, it has a critical threat range of 17-20.
The staff allows use of the following spells:

Strong various schools; CL 12th; Craft Staff, atonement, divination, elation, sword of conscience, vision of heaven, creator must be good; Price 73,800 gp; Cost to Create: 37,050 go + 2,940 XP
Source: Book of Exalted Deeds

Sunstaff

This staff is fashioned from bleached darkwood and capped with an ornate golden sunburst set with cut diamond.
As a free action, the sunstaff can be turned into a +3 brilliant energy quarterstaff. Turning the quarterstaff back into staff form is also a free action and allows the use of the following spells:

Strong various schools; CL 16th; Craft Staff, continual flame, crown of flame, gaseous form, bless, magic circle against evil, prayer, searing light, shield other, creator must be good; Price 173,3000 gp; Cost to Create 86,800 gp + 6,920 XP
Source: Book of Exalted Deeds

Staffs of the Sea

Staff of the Waves

This coral staff is shaped like an eel. It allows use of the following spells:

Strong conjuration, evocation, and transmutation; CL 11th; Craft Staff, Control Currents Control Water Control Winds, Create Water, Wind Wall; Price 65,000 gp.
Source: Stormwrack

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