Blood Rod
Rare Rod – Cursed
Class Spells: Cleric, Warlock
Spell Skill used: Religion
Max Spell Level: Level 2
Recharge Scroll Time: To recharge this Rod, you must use 1 Bonus Action and spill blood on the rod, taking 1d8 bleed damage. You take no damage if you were Bleeding.
Special Effect: When you cast a spell with this Rod, you can deal 10 bleed damage to yourself and upcast that spell by 1 Level for free. If you were Bleeding, you only take half that damage.
Curse: You cannot end this rod’s attunement. At the end of a Long rest, if you lost this rod, you then take 4d10 bleed damage and the staff will remake itself from the bleed damage you took. While Cursed, you are always considered Bleeding.
Rods
Rods are necessary items required to use Magic Scrolls. First, a person must wrap a Magic Scroll in a rod. Then, anyone holding that rod can cast the spell from that Magic Scroll. Once the spell is cast, the Magic Scroll is burned and can’t be used again.
Rods are great tools that allow anyone to cast any spell, but they can be clunky in combat because you must re-wrap the rod with a new Magic Scroll every time you want to cast another spell.
Rods can vary greatly from one another. Each Rod can give a unique effect to spells cast with them, and some rods only cast spells from certain Classes. Each Rod also has a maximum Level of Spells it can cast.
A Caster can bypass the limit of a Rod using Mana. They need to spend 2 Mana per Level gab between the Rod’s spell Limit and the Magical Scroll’s Level.
Example: If you have a rod with a limit of Level 2 spells and use a magic scroll with a Level 6 spell, you would need to use 8 Mana (4 times 2) to cast that spell.
To benefit from a Rod’s effects, you must be holding it with one hand, and you no longer need one free hand to cast Normal Spells while holding a Rod.