Rod of Utter Despair

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Rod of Utter Despair

Rod of Utter Despair

CL 7 Magic Rod • Weak Enchantment
Cost: 22,500 gp
Weight: 4 lbs.

This rod is made of wood and bone twisted and woven together in a splintering spiral, the whole roughly bound with some kind of sinew. The rod is capped with a child-sized skull, bony jaw agape in a permanent scream of agony and terror. The thing is unpleasant to handle, giving off shivers like an animal in the last stages of some slow disease.

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

When the wielder pronounces the command word, a phrase like a bleak dirge, the skull seems to swell slightly. The wielder presents the ghastly thing toward their soon-to-be victims.

An invisible cone of despair causes great sadness in all subjects caught wholly or partially within a 30-foot cone adjacent to the wielders space (a 6 x 6 x 6 space.) Each affected creature suffers damage according to the creator level of the rod as quiescent (energy, rare) damage, as they battle against the urge to just fall down and die on the spot. A Will save against the DC based on the creator level of the rod (described below) lowers the tide of dolorous woe to half damage.


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
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- -  - -
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7 22,500 gp  21 7d6+7
8 28,800 gp  22 8d6+8
9 36,000 gp  22 9d6+9
10 45,000 gp  23 10d6+10
11 55,800 gp  24 11d6+11
12 67,500 gp  25 12d6+24
13 81,900 gp  26 13d6+26
14 100,800 gp  27 14d6+28
15 127,800 gp  29 15d6+30
16 173,700 gp  30 16d6+32
17 234,000 gp  30 17d6+34
18 324,000 gp  31 18d6+54
19 432,000 gp  32 19d6+57
20 576,000 gp  33 20d6+60
Creator Level Cost Save DC Damage Dealt
21 765,000 gp  34 21d6+63
22 1,026,000 gp  35 22d6+66
23 1,359,000 gp  36 23d6+69
24 1,800,000 gp  37 24d6+96
25 2,340,000 gp  38 25d6+100
26 3,150,000 gp  39 26d6+104
27 4,140,000 gp  40 27d6+108
28 5,580,000 gp  41 28d6+112
29 7,380,000 gp  43 29d6+116
30 9,810,000 gp  44 30d6+150
31 12,960,000 gp  46 31d6+155
32 17,010,000 gp  47 32d6+160
33 22,500,000 gp  48 33d6+165
34 29,790,000 gp  49 34d6+170
35 39,690,000 gp  50 35d6+175

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 24 (10 + double CL)), Languid (tier 1) remnant, An item symbolic of the enchantment, 11,250 gp (minus cost of symbolic item).