Item: Hell Staff
A hell staff is a tall, pointed staff forged of red-tinted steel with Diabolic inscriptions that march neatly down its sides. At its top sits an inverted ruby pyramid divided into nine sections. Found mostly in Cheliax or other lands where diabolic influences hold sway, when used as a weapon the staff is a +3 greater striking flaming unholy staff. When you prepare this staff, if you're holy, you become Drained 1 until your next daily preparations.
The staff's summon lesser servitor spell can be used only to summon animals with the fiend trait, devils, or hell hounds (at 4th rank). Its summon fiend spell can summon only devils or hell hounds.
Activate Cast a Spell
Effect You expend a number of charges from the staff to cast a spell from its list.
- Cantrip Divine Lance
- 1st Protection, Summon Lesser Servitor
- 2nd Darkvision, Summon Lesser Servitor
- 3rd Chilling Darkness, Darkvision, Summon Lesser Servitor
- 4th Divine Wrath, Summon Lesser Servitor
- 5th Darkvision, Divine Immolation, Summon Fiend
- 6th Devil Form, Summon Fiend
- 7th Divine Decree, Summon Fiend
Craft Requirements You're unholy. Supply one casting of all listed ranks of all listed spells.
Trait Effects
Magical: Something with the magical trait is imbued with magical energies not tied to a specific tradition of magic. Some items or effects are closely tied to a particular tradition of magic. In these cases, the item has the arcane, divine, occult, or primal trait instead of the magical trait. Any of these traits indicate that the item is magical.
Staff: This magic item holds spells of a particular theme and allows a spellcaster to cast additional spells by preparing the staff.
Two-Hand: This weapon can be wielded with two hands to change its weapon damage die to the indicated value. This change applies to all the weapon’s damage dice.
Unholy: Effects with the unholy trait are tied to powerful magical forces of cruelty and sin. They often have stronger effects on holy creatures. Creatures with this trait are strongly devoted to unholy causes, and often have weakness to holy. If a creature with weakness to unholy uses an unholy item or effect, it takes damage from its weakness.
Critical Specialisation Effects
Certain effects can grant you benefits when you make a Strike with certain weapons and get a critical success. This is called a critical specialisation effect. The exact effect depends on which weapon group your weapon belongs to, as listed below. You can always decide not to add the critical specialisation effect of your weapon.
Club: You knock the target away from you up to 10 feet. This is forced movement.
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