Price (Item Level): 39,000 gp (17th)
Body Slot: — (held)
Caster Level: 8th
Aura: Moderate; (DC 18) divination and illusion
Activation: As spell used
Weight: 5 lb.
This is unusually small in diameter for a staff, more resembling a wooden rod. It has a metal handle or globe on one end, allowing it to pass as a walking stick.
This unusually small staff is a potent killer’s tool, enabling an assassin to cast a variety of useful and lethal spells. When a spell is cast through the staff, the wood darkens further, becoming unnaturally black. It is a spell trigger item, requiring a standard action to activate.
An assassin’s staff allows the wielder to produce the following spell effects:
Prerequisites: Craft Staff, deathsight, pall of twilight, unseen strike, vital strike.
Cost to Create: 19,500 gp, 1,560 XP, 39 days.
Source: Complete Mage, page 130.