Price (Item Level): 120,000 gp (21st)
Body Slot: — (held)
Caster Level: 15th
Aura: Strong; (DC 22) evocation (cold)
Activation: Standard (command) or as spell used
Weight: 5 lb.
An icicle rod looks like nothing more than a 3-foot-long icicle. The rod remains cold to the touch at all times but never melts. While it is held, the wielder gains resistance to cold 10. It may be wielded in melee as a +1 frost short sword.
Three times per day the wielder may fire a small icicle from the rod as a standard action. This icicle has a maximum range of 1,000 feet, and attacks made with it are resolved as ranged touch attacks that do 2d4 points of cold damage on a hit. Once it hits, the icicle quickly begins to spread frost and ice over the target, doing an additional 2d4 points of cold damage each round for a total of five additional rounds after the initial hit.
An icicle rod can also produce these additional effects:
Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Craft Rod, Maximize Spell, entomb, ice storm, resist energy.
Cost to Create: 60,000 gp, 4,800 XP, 120 days.
Source: Frostburn, page 110. Changed resist elements (the version 3.0 name of the spell) in the Prerequisites entry to resist energy (the version 3.5 name).