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Originally Posted by Gumby Bush
I have concluded that the once-living requirement serves largely to keep a staff from serving as too good of a weapon (I point my sword at him and cast fireball!), while the length requirement obviously limits how much the staff can benefit distance modifiers.
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I don't know that that's a thing. Staves are good weapons GURPS honestly doesn't have a lot of not-good weapons. There are plentiful explanations for why a magic staff would have to be made of a material similar to your finger or why it couldn't be longer than a man is tall. I could see a super important need to make limitations on the Staff Spell so that you don't cast the Staff Enchantment on a Road and use it to make touch attacks one people miles away in a city you've never been to.
There's no great reason why your wizard's staff couldn't have a protective butt be decorated with a spear head or a glave blade. I would presume that you cannot use the decoration to cast through so you wouldn't gain the benefit of Wizard's touch unless you touch with the organic part of the staff.