You can apply the effect of metamagic feats that you know to spells from a runestaff, but you must expend a spell whose level equals or exceeds the adjusted level of the affected spell.Ī runestaff appears essentially identical to a normal staff of the same name, though it always bears arcane runes (large and bold on some staffs, faint on others) that reveal its name and the spells it holds to anyone who uses read magic or succeeds on a DC 20 Spellcraft check. If the spell has any other prerequisite required to cast it (such as an alignment or racial restriction), you must meet the pre-requisite to cast the spell from a runestaff.If a spell has an XP component, you must pay it each time you use a runestaff to cast that spell.For example, if a runestaff held stoneskin, you’d have to supply 250 g p of diamond dust each time you cast that spell from the runestaff. If the spell has a material component or focus, you must supply it as part of the casting.If the spell has a somatic component, you don’t need to have an extra hand free simply manipulating the staff can meet the requirement (though arcane spell failure chance still applies).If the spell has a verbal component, activating the runestaff requires you to perform that verbal component (and thus the spell can’t be cast if you’re incapable of speaking).Runestaff, just as if you had cast it yourself. You must supply any components or costs normally required by the spell cast from the Activating a runestaff (that is, casting a spell from it) is almost like casting the spell yourself, including casting time and even provoking attacks of opportunity. You can’t attune yourself to more than one runestaff at a time attuning yourself to a second runestaff breaks your previous attunement.

In order to use a runestaff, you must attune yourself to it as part of your preparation or readying of arcane spells. Unless stated otherwise in the runestaff’s description, each spell can be cast from a runestaff three times per day. The spell is treated exactly as if the wielder cast the spell herself, including caster level, save DC, and any other effects related to the spell. By expending a prepared arcane spell or arcane spell slot, the wielder can cast a spell of the same level or lower from the runestaff’s list, as long as that spell also appears on the wielder’s class spell list. Typically, a runestaff has anywhere from two to ﬁve spells.

A runestaff allows its wielder to use her own arcane energy to generate magical effects.

The runestaff