Brand on a Staff?

[Bill_in_IN]

Originally Posted by Axly Suregrip

Hi Bill,
Yes, I liked your point that it does consume the staff, if it goes out. I only looked closer at this after you brought it up. Exactly the kind of thing I was asking about. Thanks.

Yes, Light spell is better than Brand when looking for light alone. No risk to losing the staff (although, putting out a Brand won't happen often). But the Brand has the upside of being able to light things: molotails, petards, grenades, pipes, campfire kindling, etc.

True. Everything has advantages and disadvantages.

Per ITL, many GMs allow not-so-normal staves. So, if a Wizard has a silver sword as his staff and wants to make it a brand, I hope that it has a handle that doesn't get too hot or gets consumed. LOL! No matter how you slice it, making a wizard's staff into a brand can work but probably isn't practical.

[hcobb]

If you brand an ordinary club does it do damage as a lit torch or as a blazing club? (Branding crossbow bolts seems like a better use of Molly's off hours to me.)

[Axly Suregrip]

Originally Posted by Bill_in_IN

True. Everything has advantages and disadvantages.

Per ITL, many GMs allow not-so-normal staves. So, if a Wizard has a silver sword as his staff and wants to make it a brand, I hope that it has a handle that doesn't get too hot or gets consumed. LOL! No matter how you slice it, making a wizard's staff into a brand can work but probably isn't practical.

You cannot make a silver sword into a brand. Or for that matter a maul sized club may not be a brand. ITL says about brands "This magical torch requires as raw material a stick of well-aged wood about 2 feet long." A 2' piece of wood is too small to be a two handed club (maul). A brand is a torch and thus not a club. (Brand = torch, see ITL 70 and 110) (torch damage see ITL 124).

BTW, anyone else notice Torches weigh 1.0 lbs on page 110, but weigh 0.5 lbs on page 67?

"Can work?" Definitely depending on what it is you want to achieve.

[Axly Suregrip]

Originally Posted by hcobb

If you brand an ordinary club does it do damage as a lit torch or as a blazing club? (Branding crossbow bolts seems like a better use of Molly's off hours to me.)

To me it looks like branding is for a smaller piece of wood than a one handed club. Thus it stating it is a torch. GM's call if you want to allow 1-handed club damage.

[Bill_in_IN]

Originally Posted by Axly Suregrip

To me it looks like branding is for a smaller piece of wood than a one handed club. Thus it stating it is a torch. GM's call if you want to allow 1-handed club damage.

I Concur. GM call. I can tell that I need to read the brand info in ITL.