Wands

[Preppy]

Are there wands for spellcasters in this game ?

[Brian Sirith]

Not found any :)

[Seven San]

same for me, nothing

[Zaris]

Wrong genre, in DnD games so far ( BG1,2,3 Icewind Dale 1,2 NWN 1,2) are no wands as weapon types. Caster items are normally:
- robes (buffs armor)
- gloves with armor bonus
- circlets with intelligence / wisdom buff
- gloaks with charisma buff
- rings, amuletts with bonus spell slots
- unique combat staffs (can only remember one in BG2 which gives you an invisibility buff and some other things)

There can be of course some normal weapons like swords and so on with caster specific bonusses but no wand type.

[wendigo211]

There are wands in 5e[5e.d20srd.org], but they work differently than in previous editions. Instead of having say 50 charges and being destroyed once they run out, they have around 7 charges and regain 1D6+1 at dawn. If they run out of charges there's a 5% chance for them to be destroyed. Larian is probably just figuring how they want to add them. Right now, they do have a bunch of items that either give you unlimited or 1/day casts of certain spells.

[NixAhmose]

Not currently, though when they do get implemented they won't work the way you might expect them to. Magical wands and staffs have very limited magical uses to them, so a wand would basically act more like a side item that you can use 3-7 times a day.

[Daliena]

There are also wands in the DMG's magical items list that provide a +1/2/3 bonus to spell attack rolls as I recall, but yeah. Not much about that'll let you constantly cast spells, at most a few times a day. Cantrips are what you use for your casters' "basic attack".

[jonnin]

Originally posted by Zaris:

Wrong genre, in DnD games so far ( BG1,2,3 Icewind Dale 1,2 NWN 1,2) are no wands as weapon types. Caster items are normally:
- robes (buffs armor)
- gloves with armor bonus
- circlets with intelligence / wisdom buff
- gloaks with charisma buff
- rings, amuletts with bonus spell slots
- unique combat staffs (can only remember one in BG2 which gives you an invisibility buff and some other things)

There can be of course some normal weapons like swords and so on with caster specific bonusses but no wand type.

I will simply disagree that wands have been part of AD&D since its inception. I don't recall if they were in D&D vanilla. By 2nd or 3rd ed there was even a craft wand feat. They were sort of lowbie toys that cast a few charges of a spell at the lowest possible level (eg your level 80 wizard used a fireball wand and got a level 6 wizard effect).

[alanc9]

I think Zaris was talking about wands as equippable weapons, not as utility devices. Not sure why.

[wendigo211]

Originally posted by alanc9:

I think Zaris was talking about wands as equippable weapons, not as utility devices. Not sure why.

Well there is the Wand of the Warmage, while holding it you get a +1 (to 3 depending on quality of the wand) to attack rolls with spells and ignore 1/2 cover. That's kind of a weaponized wand.

[Baldr]

no wands = refund!

[AzureTheGamerKobold]

Originally posted by Dazzle:

Are there wands for spellcasters in this game ?

5e Wands are different don't expect the tried and true wand of lightning bolts or cure light wounds no.

[Baldr]

WHERE IS WANDA? AND WHO ATE MY FISH?