Staff of power

A staff of power was a powerful magical staff.

Description
A staff of power was usually straight with a precious gem on top.

Powers
A staff of power has a number of potent abilities, including casting magic missile, making enemies enfeebled, creating a continual flame, allowing the user to levitate and be protected by a wall of force and globe of invulnerability, holding monsters, and using offensive spells such as lightning bolt, fireball, and cone of cold.

A staff of power could also be willfully broken to release all of its charges within a 30-ft area. Upon being broken, the staff had a 50% likelihood of transporting the wielder to another plane, or else the wielder would be destroyed by spell energy.

A staff of power could also be used as +2 quarterstaff.

In the year, the name was used around Neverwinter to refer to a lesser staff which could only cast fireball, magic missile, and ray of enfeeblement. Such staves could be created with quartz and a Giant fire beetle's belly, using the fireball spell according a process described in the Imaskarran Tome of Fire.

Notable owners

 * Gromph Baenre (destroyed in 1373 DR )
 * Fraz-Urb'luu
 * Khelben Arunsun (Blackstaff, variant)
 * Maaril owned a special staff of power, the dragonstaff of Ahghairon.
 * Thalantyr
 * Zrie Prakis owned a darkwood staff of power that was broken in battle destroying an evil wizard Cassana in 1357 DR.

Appearances

 * Novels:
 * Azure Bonds &bull; Resurrection
 * Card Games:
 * AD&D Trading Cards