Price (Item Level): 38,250 gp (17th)
Body Slot: — (held)
Caster Level: 13th
Aura: Strong; (DC 21) necromancy
Activation: As spell used
Weight: 5 lb.
This staff is constructed entirely of bone. Whether made of a single long bone or multiple interconnected bones, it is always topped with a skeletal hand, its fingers bent into a shallow claw. When the staff is used, the hand clenches of its own accord, as though attempting to grasp the target.
Favored by necromancers and martial casters, a staff of lifeless touch grants you many of the attack forms of the undead. It is a spell trigger item, requiring a standard action to activate.
A staff of lifeless touch allows the wielder to produce the following spell effects:
Prerequisites: Craft Staff, cryptwarden’s grasp, ghoul touch, spectral hand, touch of the lich, vampiric touch.
Cost to Create: 19,125 gp, 1,530 XP, 39 days.
Source: Complete Mage, page 130.