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In Link's Awakening, the Magical Rod is used to expel blasts of magical energy in the form of fireballs. [2] It is the main item of Turtle Rock. It is primarily used as a weapon and for lighting unreachable Torches . [1] The Magical Rod is vital to defeating the Dungeon's boss, Hot Head. The Magical Rod is one of the most powerful weapons in Link's Awakening, doing twice as much damage as even the Koholint Sword.
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They hope to find a single solution that will instantly catapult them to success, without requiring any additional effort or investment. This belief is fueled by a desire for quick results and a reluctance to put in the necessary work. Unfortunately, the pursuit of magic bullets can be counterproductive.
Magic Rods
A magic rod is a sturdy magical device, with all the qualities of a Mage's Rod. If the GM allows, rods may also appear as either an Athame or a Sickle. For simplicity, all descriptions assume rods are made as Mage Rod's (also known as fancy Light Maces), but if players wish, they can be ceremonial daggers or sickles.
While each rod (or ceremonial dagger, or ceremonial sickle) varies greatly in design and appearance, they are all built solidly enough to make credible (barely) attacks with them, without any fear of damaging them. As a result, when wielding a rod, in addition to being able to use it to cast a spell, you also threaten enemies within your reach, can provide flanks for your allies, and you can make melee attacks with the rod using the stats for a mage rod (or athame, or sickle), including attacks of opportunity.
Each magic rod is also enchanted to cast a single spell, of spell level 4 or less. This property allows any class to partially access the spellcasting system, and rods are designed to feel and act very much like spells, but all users of rods must be aware, the effects that Rods produce are SIMILAR to spells, but only sometimes exactly the same. In particular, damaging spells sourced from Rods do damage as described in the Rod itself, and a careful read of the effects of each rod may reveal slight cosmetic or operational differences. These slight mechanical differences are one reason why wizards cannot learn a spell by buying a rod. Wizards can only learn new spells from scrolls, or leveling up.
That said, using a rod counts as spellcasting for most feats, class abilities, racial abilities, and other effects in the game. The GM should adjudicate any unusual situations as they deem fit, of course. (For example, suppose a character is playing a Rogue who is pretending to be a wizard. They have an arsenal glove and an array of rods and staves that they use to produce spell effects, and use sleight of hand to hide the fact that they are using rods for all their flashy magics. Will this work? Seems legit to us, but that's up to the GM!)
Casting the spell from the rod is usually a standard action that provokes attacks of opportunity, just as with casting a spell. You may make a Bailiwick check to cast the spell defensively, even if your character class is not normally a spellcaster. The DC of this check is 10 + (Spell Level x 4) . If you succeed, you cast the spell successfully from a threatened space. If you fail, you are unable to successfully cast the spell, but you still burn a charge from the rod.
Only certain spells are available to be cast from a rod. The complete list of available rods is shown in the table below. GMs are strongly cautioned against adding additional spells not on this list, as it may unbalance the game or overshadow certain character classes.
Spells cast from a rod do not use the wielder's stats or level to determine their effects. Instead, the creator level of the rod itself is used to determine all variable effects, such as the save DC, damage (or healing) dealt, etc.
You cannot mana burn spells that you cast from a rod.
Arcane spell failure chance, either from armor or a shield, has no effect on spells cast from rods, since casting a spell from a rod does not require you to use any somatic components.
Rods have 50 charges in them when they are new, and they can never hold more than 50 charges. Each time you cast a spell from the rod, it permanently uses up one of those charges (even if the spell being cast is a 0th-level cantrip or orison). Once all 50 charges are expended, the rod becomes inert until it is recharged. Rods can be recharged by purchasing a Small Manastone.
Each time you cast the spell from the rod, you must make a Use Magic Device check to cast it, unless the spell is a spell that is present on your character class' class spell list. Even if you are too low level to cast the spell normally, or you haven't learned that spell, as long as you could learn it eventually from your class spell list, you can skip this check. Everyone else needs to make the check. The DC of the check is 10 + (2x creator level of the rod) . If you succeed on the check, the spell is cast. If you fail the check by 4 or less (a normal failure), you waste the action required by the rod to cast the spell and nothing happens. If you roll a natural 1 or fail the check by 5 or more (a critical failure), you waste the action, no spell is cast, but a charge is used up on the rod.
While a rod can only contain a spell of spell level 4 or lower (and never more than one spell), the creator level of the rod can be anything from the minimum required to cast a spell of that level all the way up to creator level 35. Higher creator levels on rods cost more, needless to say, but they often improve the efficacy of the spell being cast. As a result, it is usually advantageous to buy a rod with a higher creator level than the minimum, if you can afford to do so. Caveat Emptor!
A magic rod counts as an implement, granting the wielder their Implement Bonus, if they get one, any time they must roll a to-hit roll when casting a spell or using a spell-like ability. As with other implements, magic rods can be used to perform a spell's somatic components, flicking and swishing the rod around instead of the caster's bare hands.
Note that Magic Rods, as cool and awesome as they are, are merely the 'gateway item' to the much fancier and far more cool Magic Staves world. If you are interested in these kinds of items, we encourage you to go check out Magic Staves and see how much fun you can have with enchanted sticks!
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