13 July 2018

II-35: Still More Staves, Annotated

Page 35

 

The first five staves listed (i.e. healing, commanding, snake, striking, withering) appear to be drawn straight from the Old Testament of the Bible. This parallel is made stronger by the fact two of them are usable by Clerics only and the other three are also usable both by Clerics and Magic-Users. 

Staves of Power and Wizardry: these two are not usable by Clerics and, as mentioned above, introduce web as a spell effect into the game (though it would not be a part of the official MU spell list until Greyhawk is published a year later).

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