Talent/Spell of the Week: Staff to Snake

[Axly Suregrip]

Originally Posted by Shostak

While the spell's description strongly implies that they would also need one of the Staff spells, this is not directly stated...

I think it is clear that it requires the staff spell. ITL pg 21:

"Staff to Snake (T): Lets wizard turn his own staff..."

and

"The snake’s bite does damage equal to the occult damage (usually 1 die) of the staff"

Since only a Wizard's staff (and not a mundane quarterstaff or club) does occult damage, this clearly means it can only be a Wizard's staff.

I also want to point out that it does say "his own staff," so no you cannot do this to another wizard's staff.