Talk:Magic Rods

Rods are what wands used to be (you can cast 1 spell from them)

Price scaling for rods by spell level:

• 1st level spell, any CL: use 0.375 in Nudge-Price field.
• 2nd level spell, any CL: use 0.6 in Nudge-Price field.
• 3rd level spell, any CL: use 0.75 in Nudge-Price field.
• 4th level spell, any CL: use 0.9 in Nudge-Price field.

Do we want to go higher than 4th level spells on rods?  It would be easy to price that out... however, with manastones, they become very cost efficient.  A rod of Heal, for example, just feels broken to me, no matter how much it costs.

i'd say no, you cannot go higher than 4th, if you want that, buy a scroll. a scroll is consumable, and i'd assume priced much more expensive than charges on a manastone

also, as written, a Rod of Shield is +4 AC for 750 gold, 50 times.  is this what we're after?  i'd say we disallow all 'self' spells from rods, or, we make a list of all spells that are allowed on rods. I'd lean to the whitelist allowed approach, as even putting 80 spells on there gets us a HUGE number of items.  thoughts? 

Rods are light maces. They threaten, can be used for AOO's and melee attacks.