Staff and IQ

Shostak · 02-09-2020, 05:41 PM

Query: If a wizard knows one of the staff spells and has a such a staff, can they use its magical powers if their IQ is reduced below the spell's IQ level? I am leaning toward "No" with the argument that they no longer possess the ability to understand the subtleties of that particular staff level. On the other hand, the staff is a magic item, and these do not normally have an IQ requirement. Yet the staff is bound specifically to the wizard who created it and almost and extension of them, in which case one could reasonably think that IQ does matter.

What do you folks think?

02-09-2020, 05:41 PM	#1
Shostak Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: New England	Staff and IQ Query: If a wizard knows one of the staff spells and has a such a staff, can they use its magical powers if their IQ is reduced below the spell's IQ level? I am leaning toward "No" with the argument that they no longer possess the ability to understand the subtleties of that particular staff level. On the other hand, the staff is a magic item, and these do not normally have an IQ requirement. Yet the staff is bound specifically to the wizard who created it and almost and extension of them, in which case one could reasonably think that IQ does matter. What do you folks think?