Staff of matter (EvilHack)
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| Name | staff of matter |
| Appearance | etched 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 | 30 |
| Material | adamantine |
- For the item in SporkHack, see staff of matter (SporkHack).
A staff of matter is a type of weapon that appears in EvilHack and Hack'EM. It is a two-handed spell staff that uses the quarterstaff skill, and appears as an etched staff when unidentified.
The staff of matter has a different object material depending on the variant: in EvilHack, it has a default material of adamantine, and in Hack'EM it has a default material of mithril as in previous versions of EvilHack.
In Hack'EM, the staff of matter is the base item for the artifact Circe's Witchstaff.
Generation
Staves of matter make up 1⁄200 (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 matter.
In EvilHack, a hero that is a Druid, Healer, Infidel, Monk, Priest, or Wizard may be given a staff of matter as a 'mundane' sacrifice gift.
In Hack'EM, upgrading a staff of escape successfully will produce a staff of matter.
Description
The staff of matter deals 1d6 damage to both small and large monsters. It is notably lighter in weight than the other spell staves at 30 aum. A hero wielding a staff of matter gains a flat 50% reduction in the spellcasting failure rate of matter spells, which is applied after all other checks besides the check for metallic body armor.
In Hack'EM, upgrading a staff of matter successfully will produce a staff of escape.
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.
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