[Magic] Other Melee Weapons Functioning as the Wizard's Staff

[Stripe]

Originally Posted by Sunrunners_Fire

It would be an alternate version of the Staff spell/enchantment in my games.

That's also what I do since the sentence from 3e that explicitly states the item types listed are only for color and not for balance -- any item can be enchanted with any spell -- isn't in 4e. I wish that single sentence would have made the cut.

I once ran a side quest using the rules for inventing new spells (and spell variants) from Magic/Basic Set pages M14-15, B473-474. The rules lay out the process step-by-step.