Trespassers Rod

Trespasser's Rod

CL 3 Magic Rod • Weak Transmutation

Cost: 4,500 gp

Weight: 4 lbs.

This rod is made of solid steel, typically black, with a prying wedge on one end and a large semicircular bend on the other capped with an aggressive split-wedge. On a casual glance it is easily mistaken for a common crowbar, but a closer look shows it to be seething with magical power. Holding it reveals a nearly subsonic hum, as it trembles with wrecking might.

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

When brandished toward a locked door, chest, or other locked, stuck, or barred object up to 2x2 squares in size, within a range of 100 feet, this item allows the wielder to make a Bailiwick skill check in place of a Disable Device roll to open one of the impediments to opening the target. See the spell description for details.

Yes, it's a magic crowbar that can pry things open from a hundred feet away. To say that these rods are popular among the criminal underground is understating things.

Even better, higher level versions of this rod add a circumstance bonus to your bailiwick skill, specifically for opening things with the rod, equal to the creator level of the rod divided by seven (dropping fractions). Thus, at creator levels 7 through 13 the bonus is +1, at levels 14 through 20 it is +2, at levels 21 through 27 it is +3, at levels 28 through 34 it is +4, and at creator level 35 it is +5.

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).