Storming Rod

Storming Rod

CL 5 Magic Rod • Weak Evocation

Cost: 11,250 gp

Weight: 4.0 lbs.

This rod is made of blackened iron, weathered and pitted, with an arrow on one end and metal 'fletchings' on the other in mocking parody of an arrow. The whole is crooked, like a lightning bolt. When activated, it emits blue-shite sparks and jars the hand as if struck by lightning.

Wielders of this rod can utter a command word as a standard action to cast a Storm Step spell, using up one charge from the rod.

When the rod is activated, you are able to harness the power of the storm to both damage your foes and transport yourself and allies a short distance.

Immediately upon brandishing the Rod aloft and uttering the command word, you call down a savage vertical lightning bolt to a space centered within 100 feet of your current space. This bolt affects a single square area within range to which you have line of sight, and which has clear line of effect for at least thirty feet above it. This bolt must always target at least one enemy. If there is not 30 feet of unblocked vertical space above the target, then the rod fails and the charge is wasted. The bolt of lightning deals damage as described in the table below as lightning (energy, common) to all creatures in the target square, and potentially to other targets in the thirty-foot space above, depending upon circumstances. Affected creatures are allowed a Reflex saving throw to only take half damage.

At 10th creator level, the bolt increases in size, and now affects a 2x2 square and all spaces above that square. At 20th creator level, it affects a 3x3 square and all spaces above that square. At 30th creator level, it affects a 4x4 square, and all spaces above that square.

This spell functions indoors or underground (if there are high ceilings) but not underwater.

This rod has the added function that you and up to one target creature, plus one per 20 character levels (drop fractions; max 2 at level 20) who are your allied creatures, may teleport to appear within the affected spaces. You and all allied creatures (you and one ally to creator level 20, you and two allies above creator level 20) must begin close to one another, such that you all fit into a space equal to the area of effect of the lightning bolt at the time of casting in order to be transported. Namely, sharing a square of your space below 10th level, within a 2x2 space from 10th to level 19, or a 3x3 space at level 20, or a 4x4 space at level 30.) Unwilling allied creatures are allowed a save (as defined below) to negate the teleport.

You appear the very instant after the lightning bolt crashes home, so you take no damage from this transport, although you will find yourself in close proximity to presumably unhappy enemies. When you teleport via this spell, you may choose to arrive in any open, unoccupied, unblocked space in the target area of effect. This means that you must choose your affected area carefully. If you choose to have yourself or allies appear in unblocked, unoccupied, spaces that are above other creatures, if you cannot fly or otherwise legally occupy their space then you or your allies will fall into the target area, taking normal falling damage, and may wind up inside target creatures spaces, Squeezing or becoming subject to internal flanking, depending upon the relative sizes of you and your foes. The GM adjudicates all unusual circumstances.

You can purchase this rod at a higher creator level than the minimum required to cast the spell. Doing so increases the potency of the spell as described above, but also increases the cost, as follows:

Creator Level	Cost	Save DC	Damage Dealt
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
5	11,250 gp	19	5d6
6	15,000 gp	20	6d6
7	18,750 gp	20	7d6
8	24,000 gp	21	8d6+8
9	30,000 gp	21	9d6+9
10	37,500 gp	22	10d6+10
11	46,500 gp	23	11d6+11
12	56,250 gp	24	12d6+12
13	68,250 gp	25	13d6+13
14	84,000 gp	26	14d6+14
15	106,500 gp	28	15d6+15
16	144,750 gp	29	16d6+32
17	195,000 gp	29	17d6+34
18	270,000 gp	30	18d6+36
19	360,000 gp	31	19d6+38
20	480,000 gp	32	20d6+40

Creator Level	Cost	Save DC	Damage Dealt
21	637,500 gp	33	21d6+42
22	855,000 gp	34	22d6+44
23	1,132,500 gp	35	23d6+46
24	1,500,000 gp	36	24d6+72
25	1,950,000 gp	37	25d6+75
26	2,625,000 gp	38	26d6+78
27	3,450,000 gp	39	27d6+81
28	4,650,000 gp	40	28d6+84
29	6,150,000 gp	42	29d6+87
30	8,175,000 gp	43	30d6+90
31	10,800,000 gp	45	31d6+93
32	14,175,000 gp	46	32d6+128
33	18,750,000 gp	47	33d6+132
34	24,825,000 gp	48	34d6+136
35	33,075,000 gp	49	35d6+140

This magic item does not require an attunement period, and grants its benefits immediately upon being worn or wielded.

Creation: Creator (Feat), Bailiwick Check (DC 20 (10 + double CL)), Languid (tier 1) remnant, An item symbolic of the enchantment, 5,625 gp (minus cost of symbolic item).