HYPERBOREA / Staff of Curing Question

**Posted by francisca** 11/15/2017 2:41 pm

The description of the staff of curing says, in part:
It is loaded with curative spells, though it can be used but once per person per day:
How do you interpret that?

Does this mean that any given cleric can only use one of the 4 functions once per day? So if you have 3 Clerics in your party (yeah....riiiight), they can each use it once per day?

Or, any particular recipient of the powers of the staff may only receive one per day?

**Posted by Ar'Pharazon** 11/15/2017 3:26 pm

I read the staff as being able to be used 1x/day per user of the staff, so each of the three clerics (lol, riiiiight) in the party could use it 1x/day.

**Posted by mabon5127** 11/15/2017 4:17 pm

Ar'Pharazon wrote:
I read the staff as being able to be used 1x/day per user of the staff, so each of the three clerics (lol, riiiiight) in the party could use it 1x/day.

I would say a person can only benefit once per day.

**Posted by francisca** 11/15/2017 4:48 pm

2 OPINIONS ENTER!

ONLY ONE LEAVES!

**Posted by Ar'Pharazon** 11/15/2017 4:52 pm

RAWWWR!

**Posted by francisca** 11/15/2017 4:54 pm

mabon5127 wrote:
Ar'Pharazon wrote:
I read the staff as being able to be used 1x/day per user of the staff, so each of the three clerics (lol, riiiiight) in the party could use it 1x/day.
I would say a person can only benefit once per day.

This is the way the Staff of Healing works, and how the Staff of Curing in the 1e DMG works, so I lean this way.

**Posted by Ar'Pharazon** 11/15/2017 4:55 pm

mabon5127 wrote:
I would say a person can only benefit once per day.

I was wondering about that but the Staff of Healing reads as "it can only be used once per day on a particular creature." Based on that language, I interpret the Staff of Curing limitations to be user specific rather than recipient specific.

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**Posted by Ar'Pharazon** 11/15/2017 4:58 pm

francisca wrote:
in the 1e DMG..

HERESY! There is no game system but Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea!

**Posted by mabon5127** 11/15/2017 4:59 pm

francisca wrote:
2 OPINIONS ENTER!

ONLY ONE LEAVES!

Can't we all just get along???

**Posted by mabon5127** 11/15/2017 5:00 pm

Ar'Pharazon wrote:
francisca wrote:
in the 1e DMG..
HERESY! There is no game system but Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea!

Ahhhhh. Common ground.

**Posted by Blackadder23** 11/16/2017 12:08 am

The staff of curing reads "it can be used but once per person per day" and the staff of healing reads "it can be used only once per day on a particular creature". I'm not sure I see a major distinction there.
Anyway, personally I would rule that a creature can receive benefit from any staff of curing once per day, and any staff of healing once per day. In other words, I wouldn't permit a creature to be healed by multiple clerics wielding staves of healing even if they each had a distinct staff of their own. Once per customer per day, period.

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**Posted by Ghul** 11/16/2017 10:06 am

I can see how it can be dubiously interpreted, but the intent is that both staves can be used on a particular recipient but once per day. Each staff may be employed more than once on a particular day, but not on the same recipient.

**Posted by francisca** 11/16/2017 10:43 am

Ghul wrote:
I can see how it can be dubiously interpreted, but the intent is that both staves can be used on a particular recipient but once per day. Each staff may be employed more than once on a particular day, but not on the same recipient.

SUCH HAS SPAKE THE GHUL.

**Posted by Ghul** 11/16/2017 6:03 pm

francisca wrote:
Ghul wrote:
I can see how it can be dubiously interpreted, but the intent is that both staves can be used on a particular recipient but once per day. Each staff may be employed more than once on a particular day, but not on the same recipient.
SUCH HAS SPAKE THE GHUL.

I'm going to have to try that one on my wife the next time she disagrees with me. We'll see how that goes. :|

**Posted by Ar'Pharazon** 11/16/2017 7:29 pm

Ghul wrote:
I can see how it can be dubiously interpreted, but the intent is that both staves can be used on a particular recipient but once per day. Each staff may be employed more than once on a particular day, but not on the same recipient.

So let it be written, so let it done!