Wands

Wands aid the caster as a focus for their casting. When you wield a wand, you gain advantage on spellcasting concentration checks. If the wand is made of special materials, it may also be used as a power component for spellcasting.

A wand can be wielded with only one bodily appendage that can manipulate items, typically a hand, but could also be a tentacle, a prehensile tail, or other similar body parts for other types of creatures. A wielded wand can be used to meet the somatic component of casting a spell. You can wield more than one wand or with staves, but their effects do not stack. You must choose which wand to use to cast a spell with, and apply the effects of the chosen wand.

Wand Construction

Wands can be made from special materials that can improve the casting of certain types of spells. A want is constructed from two parts: a frame and a core. Ordinary wands are made of mundane types of wood or metal with no unique cores. Special wands can be constructed with frames made not only from special types of wood or metal, but also from crystals and creature body parts (bones, claws, horns, large enough teeth) with differing effects. Special cores can be made out of the same variety of materials plus a variety of liquids and soft materials.

You can use the items listed in Table: Known Power Components under Power Components rules as base materials for your wand. Wand frames can only be made out of the items listed under "Raw Materials" and "Gems & Crystals". Cores can be made from any item in the table. Crafting your wand out of these materials grants its components' affinities, and allows you to use your wand as a power component.

Wand as a Power Component

A wand made out of power components can be used as a power component with affinities of each of its components, and is not consumed when used. Its final cost determines the limit of how much you can affect your spell when using it as a power component. Each time you use it as a power component, instead of being consumed, the wand's value is reduced by the value of the power component used. Once your wand's value reaches less than 100 gp, you can no longer use it as a power component. However, the wand's inner affinity recharges over time, at a rate of 100 gp per hour, up to its original value.

Physical Description

For a medium or small creature, a wand is typically a tiny object of 6 to 12 inches long, 1/4 inch thick, weighs no more than 1 ounce, and has DV 5. In order to be wielded, the wand can be up to three sizes smaller than the wielder's size, and up to one size larger. A wand must be wielded with two hands if it larger than the wielder's size. The material used as the wand's frame determines its break DC, hardness, and hit points. The wand's quality modifies its break DC and hit points as indicated under Table: Item Quality in House Rules: Equipment. A wand's size also modifies its DV (see Table: Size and Armor Class of Objects under Damaging Object) and hit points (half for every size smaller, double for every size larger).

To construct the wand's frame, you must use an amount of material to match its dimensions. For example, you need 1 ounce of adamantine or gold to make a tiny wand's frame. If you are using a body part for the frame, the body part must be a whole object that fits the wand's size and be solid. The horn of a unicorn can be used for a tiny wand's frame, but not an eye or a liquid like blood. For a larger wand, a unicorn's horn would not be big enough, but perhaps the fang of a colossal dragon is large enough. To use crystals or gemstones as a frame, you must use one whole piece that is the equivalent to 5 times the listed value.

To construct the wand's core, the material's dimensions do not matter as it will be alchemically distilled into its pure essence, and magically infused into the wand. All that you need is the amount listed under the "Value" column of Table: Known Power Components.

The final cost of the wand is determined by the cost of 1 ounce of the frame's material (adjust for different sizes) plus the amount of material used for the core. Since the core is magically integrated into the frame, you are only limited by the amount of material you have with you during the wand's crafting.

Wand Quality and Potency

To craft a wand of higher quality, you must have the matching proficiency in the Craft (wands) skill.

When you wield a wand, you can choose to apply its quality modifier as an enhancement bonus to your concentration checks in addition to your advantage. Potency runes can be applied to wands, and their enhancement bonus can be added to both your concentration checks and to your spell attack rolls. Property runes can also be applied to wands (see below).

Table: Wand Quality and Runes

Quality	Max Potency	Max Properties
Standard	+1	None
Expert	+2	1
Master	+3	2
Legendary	+5	3
Epic/Mythic	Unlimited	Unlimited

Wand Properties

The quality of your wand determines up to how many properties and their quality that can be added to it.

Standard Properties

Metamagic, Minor

Price 2,000 gp; Aura strong; CL 17th

Description
The crafter of a metamagic wand selects a +0 level increase metamagic feat that they possess to apply to this wand. A metamagic wand allows the user to apply its metamagic effect to spells (but not spell-like abilities ) as they are cast. This does not change the spell slot of the altered spell. The wielder can apply the wand's metamagic feat to a spell up to three times per day.

Possession of a metamagic wand does not confer the associated feat on the owner, only the ability to use the given feat a specified number of times per day. A sorcerer still must take a full-round action when using a metamagic rod, just as if using a metamagic feat he possesses (except for quicken metamagic rods, which can be used as a simple action).

Construction Requirements
Feats Craft Wand, relevant metamagic feat; Cost 1,000 gp

Returning

Price 2,000 gp; Aura moderate transmutation; CL 7th

Description
As a simple action, the owner of a returning wand can mentally command it to fly into her hand as long as it is within 60 ft. The owner must have one appendage free that can hold the wand, and must have an unobstructed line of sight between her and the wand. The wand's movement provokes attack of opportunities as a creature when flying through threatened squares on its way to its owner.

Construction Requirements
Feats Craft Wand; Spells telekinesis; Cost 1,000 gp

Seeking

Price 2,000 gp; Aura strong divination; CL 12th

Description
Spells cast with a seeking wand that require a range attack roll ignore any miss chances that would otherwise apply, such as from concealment. The wielder still has to target the spell at the right square. Spells mistakenly targeted into an empty space, for example, do not veer and hit invisible enemies, even if they are nearby.

Construction Requirements
Feats Craft Wand; Spells true seeing; Cost 1,000 gp

Expert Properties

Designating, Lesser

Price 8,000 gp; Aura moderate enchantment; CL 7th

Description
Each time a spell is cast with a wand with this property hits a creature, its magic designates the target. Allies gain a +2 morale bonus on melee attack and melee damage rolls against the designated target for 1 round. Multiple spells cast at the same target do not increase the bonuses or their duration.

Construction Requirements
Feats Craft Wand; Spells retrieve item; Cost 4,000 gp

Metamagic, Lesser

Price 8,000 gp; Aura strong; CL 17th

Description
The crafter of a metamagic wand selects a +1 level increase metamagic feat that they possess to apply to this wand. A metamagic wand allows the user to apply its metamagic effect to spells (but not spell-like abilities ) as they are cast. This does not change the spell slot of the altered spell. The wielder can apply the wand's metamagic feat to a spell up to three times per day.

Possession of a metamagic wand does not confer the associated feat on the owner, only the ability to use the given feat a specified number of times per day. A sorcerer still must take a full-round action when using a metamagic rod, just as if using a metamagic feat he possesses (except for quicken metamagic rods, which can be used as a simple action).

Construction Requirements
Feats Craft Wand, relevant metamagic feat; Cost 4,000 gp

Master Properties

Apparating

Price 18,000 gp; Aura strong conjuration; CL 10th

Description
As a simple action, you can summon an apparating wand into a free appendage that can hold it from any location as long as it is on the same plane. The wand must be in your possession for 24 straight hours before the wand is tied to you. If another creature gains possession of it for 24 hours, then they are considered as its owner and you can no longer command the wand to apparate into your possession.

Construction Requirements
Feat Craft Wand; Spells instant summons; Cost 9,000 gp

Metamagic, Moderate

Price 18,000 gp; Aura strong; CL 17th

Description
The crafter of a metamagic wand selects a +2 level increase metamagic feat that they possess to apply to this wand. A metamagic wand allows the user to apply its metamagic effect to spells (but not spell-like abilities ) as they are cast. This does not change the spell slot of the altered spell. The wielder can apply the wand's metamagic feat to a spell up to three times per day.

Possession of a metamagic wand does not confer the associated feat on the owner, only the ability to use the given feat a specified number of times per day. A sorcerer still must take a full-round action when using a metamagic rod, just as if using a metamagic feat he possesses (except for quicken metamagic rods, which can be used as a simple action).

Construction Requirements
Feats Craft Wand, relevant metamagic feat; Cost 9,000 gp

Legendary Properties

Dancing

Price 32,000 gp; Aura strong transmutation; CL 15th

Description
As a 2-act complex action, a dancing wand can be loosed to animate on its own. It floats in the air up to 10 ft. away from its owner. The wand is considered wielded or attended by the activating character for all spellcasting. While dancing, the wand's owner can cast spells originating from its square instead of the owner's position. The dancing wand accompanies the activating character everywhere, whether she moves by physical or magical means. If the activating character has an unoccupied hand, she can grasp it while in the same square with it as a free action; when so retrieved, the wand can’t dance again for 4 rounds.

Construction Requirements
Feats Craft Wand; Spells animate objects; Cost 16,000 gp

Designation, Greater

Price 32,000 gp; Aura moderate enchantment; CL 12th

Description
Each time a spell is cast with a wand with this property hits a creature, its magic designates the target. Allies gain a +4 morale bonus on melee attack and +6 melee damage rolls against the designated target for 1 round. Multiple spells cast at the same target do not increase the bonuses or their duration.

Construction Requirements
Feats Craft Wand; Spells instant enemy; Cost 16,000 gp

Metamagic, Greater

Price 32,000 gp; Aura strong; CL 17th

Description
The crafter of a metamagic wand selects a +3 or higher level increase metamagic feat that they possess to apply to this wand. A metamagic wand allows the user to apply its metamagic effect to spells (but not spell-like abilities ) as they are cast. This does not change the spell slot of the altered spell. The wielder can apply the wand's metamagic feat to a spell up to three times per day.

Possession of a metamagic wand does not confer the associated feat on the owner, only the ability to use the given feat a specified number of times per day. A sorcerer still must take a full-round action when using a metamagic rod, just as if using a metamagic feat he possesses (except for quicken metamagic rods, which can be used as a simple action).

Construction Requirements
Feats Craft Wand, relevant metamagic feat; Cost 16,000 gp

Speed

Price 50,000 gp; Aura moderate transmutation; CL 7th

Description
One per round, the wielder of a speed wand may take one extra act, but can only use it to cast a spell. (This benefit is not cumulative with similar effects, such as a haste spell.)

Construction Requirements
Feats Craft Wand; Spells haste; Cost 25,000 gp

Transformative

Price +10,000 gp; Aura moderate transmutation; CL 10th

Description
A transformative wand alters its shape at its wielder’s command, becoming any other melee weapon of the same size and quality; the weapon’s categorization as simple, martial, or exotic is irrelevant. The weapon retains all of its wand abilities, including potency bonuses and magical properties, except those prohibited by its current shape.

Construction Requirements
Feats Craft Wand; Spells major creation; Cost +5,000 gp