Staff of healing (EvilHack)

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Name staff of healing
Appearance twisted staff
Damage vs. small 1d6
Damage vs. large 1d6
To-hit bonus +0
Weapon skill quarterstaff
Size two-handed
Base price 400 zm
(+10/positive
enchant)
Weight 40
Material wood
For the item in SporkHack, see staff of healing (SporkHack).

A staff of healing is a type of weapon that appears in EvilHack and Hack'EM. It is a two-handed spell staff that uses the quarterstaff skill. The staff of healing has a default material of wood and appears as a twisted staff when unidentified.

In Hack'EM, the staff of healing is the base item for the artifact Drowsing Rod.

Generation

Staves of healing make up 1200 (0.5%) of all weapons randomly generated on the ground, in general shops or as death drops. Used armor dealerships and antique weapons outlets can also stock staves of healing.

In EvilHack, a hero that is a Druid, Healer, Infidel, Monk, Priest, or Wizard may be given a staff of healing as a 'mundane' sacrifice gift.

In Hack'EM, upgrading a staff of necromancy successfully will produce a staff of healing.

Wood golems may drop staves of healing among the wooden items left behind as part of their special death drop in lieu of a corpse.

Description

The staff of healing deals 1d6 damage to both small and large monsters. A hero wielding a staff of healing gains a flat 50% reduction in the spellcasting failure rate of healing spells, which is applied after all other checks besides the check for metallic body armor.

In Hack'EM, upgrading a staff of healing successfully will produce a staff of necromancy.

Encyclopedia entry

All spell staves in EvilHack share the same encyclopedia entry:

Ged stooped and plucked a blade of wild grass that poked up
dry and frail out of the snow where the otak had lain dead.
This blade he held up, and as he spoke aloud to it in the
True Speech it lengthened, and thickened, and when he was done
he held a great staff, a wizard's staff, in his hand. No
banefire burned red along it when the black, flapping creatures
from the Court of the Terrenon swooped over him and he struck
their wings with it: it blazed only with the white magefire that
does not burn but drives away the dark.

[ A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. LeGuin ]
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