Rod of Forgiveness

Rod of Forgiveness

CL 3 Magic Rod • Weak Conjuration

Cost: 4,500 gp

Weight: 4 lbs.

This rod looks like a golden cylinder, heavily sculpted and inlaid with religious and peaceful motifs. It is capped with a pair of hands clasped in pious prayer.

Wielders of this rod can utter a command word as a standard action to cast a Lesser Restoration spell effect, using up one charge from the rod. If the wielder chooses, they may expend 5 charges from the item and cast the effect as a swift action.

When the command word is spoken, this rod activates to emulate a Divine Lesser Restoration effect on a creature you touch with the rod. However, since the rod only 'borrows' this might, the beings involved levy additional requirements upon the wielder of the rod. Rather than acting automatically to lend its effects, the wielder of the rod must first roll a Bailiwick skill check against a Hard DC for the Challenge Rating (CR) of the effect laid upon the victim. This can be the CR of the creature or area which inflicted the effect, the CR of the campaign, or the CR of the victim, whichever is highest, or a CR assigned by the GM at their discretion. If the victim has various effects of different CR's, the wielder of the rod may choose which effect they work on each time they activate the rod.

This can be a difficult check, but purchasing a more powerful rod will add a scaling bonus to this check, as follows: higher level versions of the Rod of Forgiveness add a circumstance bonus to your bailiwick skill check, specifically for curing these sorts of effects, equal to 3 + the creator level of the rod divided by 7 (dropping fractions). Thus, at creator levels 1 through 6, the bonus is +3, at levels 7 through 13 the bonus is +4, at levels 14 through 20 it is +5, at levels 21 through 27 it is +6, at levels 28 through 34 it is +7, and at creator level 35 it is +8. If this check is failed, even by one, the charge is expended and there is no effect, although you can certainly try again with a new standard action.

Users of this rod are not required to make a Use Magic Device check, even if they do not have access to this spell via their character class. This check is replaced by the bailiwick skill check described above (though it is required by any user of the rod, not just those who would normally be forced to make the Use Magic Device check).

If the bailiwick skill check succeeds, then the rod can be used to provide one of the following effects per activation:

• Immediately end any one weak status condition on the target (except Ability Dilution, Essence Suppression, Tainted, Infected, Bruised, Singed, or Impaired).
• Restore all points of Ability Dilution to a single ability score, -or- restore 1d4 points of Ability Damage to a single ability score, -or- restore 1 point of Ability Drain to a single ability score.
• Improve an Exhausted condition to Fatigued.

If a targeted creature has spell resistance, the wielder of the rod must first make a Bailiwick skill check against the target's Maneuver Defense. If they equal or exceed this number, the spell is resolved against the target as normal. If the check fails, the spell is cast from the rod (using up a charge) but has no effect on the target creature.

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
-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-
3	4,500 gp	-	-
4	6,600 gp	-	-
5	9,000 gp	-	-
6	12,000 gp	-	-
7	15,000 gp	-	-
8	19,200 gp	-	-
9	24,000 gp	-	-
10	30,000 gp	-	-
11	37,200 gp	-	-
12	45,000 gp	-	-
13	54,600 gp	-	-
14	67,200 gp	-	-
15	85,200 gp	-	-
16	115,800 gp	-	-
17	156,000 gp	-	-
18	216,000 gp	-	-
19	288,000 gp	-	-
20	384,000 gp	-	-

Creator Level	Cost	Save DC	Damage Dealt
21	510,000 gp	-	-
22	684,000 gp	-	-
23	906,000 gp	-	-
24	1,200,000 gp	-	-
25	1,560,000 gp	-	-
26	2,100,000 gp	-	-
27	2,760,000 gp	-	-
28	3,720,000 gp	-	-
29	4,920,000 gp	-	-
30	6,540,000 gp	-	-
31	8,640,000 gp	-	-
32	11,340,000 gp	-	-
33	15,000,000 gp	-	-
34	19,860,000 gp	-	-
35	26,460,000 gp	-	-

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 16 (10 + double CL)), Languid (tier 1) remnant, An item symbolic of the enchantment, 2,250 gp (minus cost of symbolic item).