Spellbound Wands

Coveted by spellcasters across Faerûn, spellbound wands bear potent dweomers that enable them to store the magic of harmful spells. Skilled wielders can harness and even amplify these powers; meanwhile, those familiar with their imbued arcana are able to recharge them by sacrificing their own energy.

Acquiring a Spellbound Wand:

• Spellbound Wands are equippable items that can be created by a Carpenter.
• They can be crafted in three tiers with increasingly expensive material requirements. This tier determines the maximum innate level a wand can contain (see below).

Name	ID	DC	Craft Points	Value	Materials	Product	Properties
Lesser Spell Bound Wand	1912	10	24	? gold pieces	1 Ingot (Silver) 1 Hardwood 1 Topaz 1 Alchemistic Catalyst (Lesser)	1 Lesser Spellbound Wand (Tier 1)
Greater Spellbound Wand	1913	25	60	? gold pieces	1 Ingot (Mithral) 1 Rare Hardwood 1 Ruby 1 Alchemistic Catalyst (Standard)	1 Greater Spellbound Wand (Tier 2)
Masterly Spellbound Wand	1914	40	96	? gold pieces	1 Ingot (Adamantine) 1 Rare Hardwood 1 Star Sapphire 1 Alchemistic Catalyst (Greater)	1 Masterly Spellbound Wand (Tier 3)

Empowering a blank Spellbound Wand:

Spellbound Wands can contain harmful spells (like the Arcane Flux hostile spell list) with a maximum innate level depending on their tier (cantrips excluded):

• Tier 1 (Lesser Spellbound Wand): Innate level 1
• Tier 2 (Greater Spellbound Wand): Innate level 2
• Tier 3 (Masterly Spellbound Wand): Innate level 3

Wands are empowered by targeting them with the desired spell. The reagent cost to do so is 2500gp per innate level. The Craft Wand feat is NOT required.

• Only harmful spells can empower spellbound wands.

Further, a number of these spells are disabled for balance reasons: Balagarn's Iron Horn, Evard's Black Tentacles, Faerie Fire, Negative Energy Burst, Glyph of Warding, Wall of Fire & Ice

Once empowered, the wand attunes to the caster class used to empower it:

• It becomes "Only Usable By" this class. The UMD DC to bypass this requirement is 15 per innate level.
• It gains a character level requirement of 5 per innate level.
• The chosen class and spell cannot be changed.

Activating a Spellbound Wand:

Spellbound wands can only be activated while equipped. Unlike regular wands, the contained spell is then available via the "Special Abilities" radial menu (like the GSF infispells available to Wizards and Sorcerers). This means hasted characters can activate the wand twice per round.

• Activating this "Special Ability" decreases the wand's remaining charges by 1.
• If no charges remain, the spell fails, but the wand doesn't get destroyed.
• Arcane Spell Failure is a factor for wands empowered by Arcane Caster Classes.
• Wizards cannot activate Spellbound Items attuned to their prohibited school.

The caster level of spellbound wands is as follows:

• Characters of the same class as the wand's attuned class are able to use their related caster level for the spell.
• Otherwise (or if it is higher), the caster level is the wielder's Character Level, divided by 2.
• Exceeding a wand's UMD requirement increases this CL by +1 for every 5 ranks above its required UMD score.
• Loremaster levels increase this caster level as they normally would. Additionally, they grant the usual chance to preserve charges.
• The calculated caster level is displayed when examining the wand.

Recharging a Spellbound Wand:

• Spellbound wands can be recharged by casting any level 1 or higher spell on them. Scrolls and items do not count.
• The replenished charges equal the spell's level in the class spellbook used to recharge the wand

i.e. a Spellsword's Time Stop, which is a level 8 spell for the class, would restore 8 charges

• The maximum spell charges a wand can contain are 30.

Must meet at least one of the following criteria:

• The contained spell belongs to one of the character's class spell lists, and they have access to a spell level that's at least half, rounded up, of the spell level at which the spell on the item appears in their spell list, and the relevant primary casting ability modifier for that class matches or exceeds that spell level.
• The character has enough levels in a caster class that can learn the spell to theoretically be able to learn it. In this case, there are no casting ability requirements.
• The character is a cleric with a domain the spell is granted by.

Metamagic:

• Wizards and Sorcerers automatically Maximize or Empower their Spellbound Wand bound spells if their caster level is >= 50% of their character level and they have the relevant feat. If they have both feats, Maximize is always used.

• • Example: Sorcerer 27 / Dip 3 would have: 27, so they qualify.
  • Example: Wizard 12 / Pale Master 15 / Dip 3 would have: 12 + 7 = 19 caster level for non-Necromancy spells, so they qualify.