• Malgas@beehaw.org
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    6 hours ago

    Don’t staves of the magi explode spectacularly when destroyed?

    That party might be done for either way.

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        5 hours ago

        But you can’t destroy artifacts/magic items and I don’t see the Trolley being attuned to the staff and able to use the Retributive Strike Action.

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          4 hours ago

          You CAN destroy magic items. And this one has special rules for being broken, none of which mention having to be attuned to trigger it.

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            3 hours ago

            And this one has special rules for being broken, none of which mention having to be attuned to trigger it.

            “Retributive Strike” is a magic property (just like ‘Power Strike’ and its Spell List). You can’t activate or benefit from magic properties on non-attuned Magic Items/Artifact.

            So if you break the Staff of Magi without using that Action, well it becomes just a broken Staff.

            Also thanks for teaching me that one can indeed can break magic items, that non-destructible nature only applies to Artifacts.

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              It can be argued that you are not benefiting from the magic property in this instance, but instead suffering from it - in which case, it is valid for it to explode when run over.

              If you try to use it as a bomb without attuning it, then it will fail.