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Item recharging
Topic Started: May 28 2012, 09:28 AM (102 Views)
Ludwig
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Was reading a few good rules discussions on these. The 1st Ed AD&D supplement Unearthed Arcana advises that normally you need to be 12th level to recharge wands but also has individual example items break this rule:

Wand of Ice Storms: "The wand can be recharged by a magic-user of 9th or higher level."

Wand of Lightning Bolts: "The device can be recharged by a
magic-user of 8th or higher level."

By the above guideline, Ludwig would likely be able to recharge the Wand Of Fireballs with ease, but I don't really like the idea of it being that simple.

As the rules are not very helpful, some forums suggested that a good rule of thumb is that you be able to cast ALL the spells the item uses (so staves are more complicated to recharge) and that the item needs to be 'prepared' to receive the charge in a ritual that costs an appropriate fraction of the item cost and takes 1 day. For example, for a wand that can hold 100 charges, to recharge it with a single charge would take a 1 day ritual and and amount equal to the item cost/100. This provides good resource drain for wizards in downtime and means you can't simply top up wands with multiple charges in 1 day spent resting. Note that a day spent recharging an item would preclude time for spell study too, so no spells would be regained that day and spell slot(s) for the charge would be used up.

What do you think?
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Alex
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Sounds fair to me. Means it's use can't be insta-charged in a short amount of rest-time.
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Leonard
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Sounds very reasonable
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DM Dusk
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This does sound like a good solution to me as well- I'd be interested in links to those forum discussions too, as to have a look myself.
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Ludwig
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I just googled AD&D first edition wand recharge.
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Pylon
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>go to google
>enter "AD&D first edition wand recharge"
>hit i'm feeling lucky
>shit bricks
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