NEW MAGIC ITEM Gravestaff

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Gravestaff

This item appears as an ordinary fighting staff that when used in combat strikes as a +1 weapon. In the hands of an evil cleric or any magic-user with knowledge of Necromancy spells, the staff acts as a +2 weapon and has the power to Animate Dead. By merely touching the staff to a complete corpse (or equivalent mass of human remains), the Necromancer is able to transform the lifeless body into a skeleton, zombie, or ghoul depending upon the state of decomposition. This draws a number of charges from the staff depending upon the type of undead created, 1 for skeletons, 2 for zombies, and 3 for ghouls. The staff holds a maximum of 20-25 charges as usual and automatically recharges daily at dusk. Note that all undead animated by the staff will be under the Necromancer’s control as long as the Necromancer possesses the Gravestaff, but if for any reason the staff ever reaches 0 charges, control will be broken and, sensing this weakness, all undead within 18” will then attack the Necromancer!

XP Value: 9000, GP Sale Value: 45,000

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