Trespassers Rod

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Trespasser's Rod

Trespasser's Rod

CL 3 Magic Rod • Weak Transmutation
Cost: 4,500 gp
Weight: 4 lbs.

This rod is made of solid steel, typically black, with a prying wedge on one end and a large semicircular bend on the other capped with an aggressive split-wedge. On a casual glance it is easily mistaken for a common crowbar, but a closer look shows it to be seething with magical power. Holding it reveals a nearly subsonic hum, as it trembles with wrecking might.

Wielders of this rod can utter a command word as a standard action to cast a Knock spell, using up one charge from the rod.

When brandished toward a locked door, chest, or other locked, stuck, or barred object up to 2x2 squares in size, within a range of 100 feet, this item allows the wielder to make a Bailiwick skill check in place of a Disable Device roll to open one of the impediments to opening the target. See the spell description for details.

Yes, it's a magic crowbar that can pry things open from a hundred feet away. To say that these rods are popular among the criminal underground is understating things.

Even better, higher level versions of this rod add a circumstance bonus to your bailiwick skill, specifically for opening things with the rod, equal to the creator level of the rod divided by seven (dropping fractions). Thus, at creator levels 7 through 13 the bonus is +1, at levels 14 through 20 it is +2, at levels 21 through 27 it is +3, at levels 28 through 34 it is +4, and at creator level 35 it is +5.

You can purchase this rod at a higher creator level than the minimum required to cast the spell. Doing so increases the potency of the spell as described above, but also increases the cost, as follows:

Creator Level Cost Save DC Damage Dealt
- -  - -
- -  - -
3 4,500 gp  - -
4 6,600 gp  - -
5 9,000 gp  - -
6 12,000 gp  - -
7 15,000 gp  - -
8 19,200 gp  - -
9 24,000 gp  - -
10 30,000 gp  - -
11 37,200 gp  - -
12 45,000 gp  - -
13 54,600 gp  - -
14 67,200 gp  - -
15 85,200 gp  - -
16 115,800 gp  - -
17 156,000 gp  - -
18 216,000 gp  - -
19 288,000 gp  - -
20 384,000 gp  - -
Creator Level Cost Save DC Damage Dealt
21 510,000 gp  - -
22 684,000 gp  - -
23 906,000 gp  - -
24 1,200,000 gp  - -
25 1,560,000 gp  - -
26 2,100,000 gp  - -
27 2,760,000 gp  - -
28 3,720,000 gp  - -
29 4,920,000 gp  - -
30 6,540,000 gp  - -
31 8,640,000 gp  - -
32 11,340,000 gp  - -
33 15,000,000 gp  - -
34 19,860,000 gp  - -
35 26,460,000 gp  - -

This magic item does not require an attunement period, and grants its benefits immediately upon being worn or wielded.

Creation: Creator (Feat), Bailiwick Check (DC 16 (10 + double CL)), Languid (tier 1) remnant, An item symbolic of the enchantment, 2,250 gp (minus cost of symbolic item).