Rod of Spellholding

This unusually small rod is only about a foot in length and a little over an inch in circumference. A series of tiny symbols that spiral up its length is revealed, on close inspection, to be a chain of linked hands.

You can hold a touch spell in a rod of spellholding, allowing you to cast other spells or to touch other creatures, without triggering the spell. (Normally, you cannot cast other spells while holding a touch spell, and any creature you touch suffers the effect.) You can use the held spell by using a standard action and making a melee touch attack; the held spell is expended if you succeed on your attack roll, and it has the normal effect. The rod cannot hold a spell indefinitely, however; the spell fades in 6 minutes if you have not already used it. The spell is also lost if the rod of spellholding ever leaves your hands.

A rod of spellholding requires a swift action to activate. This action must be taken in the same round when you cast the touch spell you wish the rod to “hold.” The rod can hold only a single spell at a time.

Prerequisites: Craft Rod.

Cost to Create: 4,500 gp, 360 XP, 9 days.

Source: Complete Mage, page 129.