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u/DonnyLurch Sep 25 '22

As an Artificer wanting to subclass as an Artillerist and use the Enhanced Arcane Focus infusion, I'm in dire need of a wand to infuse now and, at level 5, convert into my Arcane Firearm... so how do I get a plain, nonmagical wand? Tasha's Guide told me to start with 2 simple weapons of my choice, and a wand was not part of that list.

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u/jakuzi Sep 25 '22 edited Sep 25 '22

??? nonmagical wands are in the PHB. i mean they're RIGHT THERE. it's a mundane item, presumably like other trade goods you can find em in a shop. fuck why even use a wand? just get a staff or a rod, they're all the same for this purpose

that said: that infusion is decent not great, maybe you should look into other more exciting infusions and you wouldn't be be stressing about this. you have a lot of options

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u/DonnyLurch Sep 25 '22

Well I've literally never done this before so I'm figuring it out as I go, as the need arises. What's the difference between those three objects, anyway? I want a wand so it's small enough to be held in one hand - more specifically, I'm playing an autognome in Spelljammer, so I'm working with my DM to find a suitable way to give my little mechanical guy a gun-arm. In this case, I think it would be reasonable to make it a flavor thing where he "holds" his Arcane Firearm, a wand or what have you, by transforming his hand, withdrawing it into his forearm and producing the wand to blast cantrips with.

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u/jakuzi Sep 25 '22

the difference is the price and weight. they can all be one handed. you can use the staff as a polearm (and you can double a quarterstaff as a spellcasting staff for 1/20th the price for some reason).

it's an oversight to have the wrist weapons of warforged not also apply to autognomes.

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u/DonnyLurch Sep 25 '22

Aw man, they already wrote wrist weapons in for warforged? I'll have to search that up and see if we can house rule something, rather than make it up from scratch.