Drums of War (Major)
This handheld snare drum is adorned with garish scenes of battle and triumph. When played, no matter what rhythm, it always gives the impression of a marching beat, invoking armies on the move. While playing the drums, you gain a +2 item bonus to Performance checks and a +5-foot status bonus to your Speed.
Activate Cast a Spell
Effect You expend a number of charges from this instrument to cast a spell from its list.
- •Cantrip Shield
- •1st Force Barrage, Mystic Armor, Sure Strike
- •2nd False Vitality, Noise Blast, Spiritual Armament
- •3rd Haste, Heroism
- •4th Dispelling Globe, Tortoise and the Hare
- •5th Dispelling Globe, Quicken Time, Synaptic Pulse
Craft Requirements Supply one casting of all listed ranks of all listed spells.
Traits
Instruments with the coda trait work mostly like staves and have the staff trait. There are two differences: Coda instruments are in the form of musical instruments, and they can be prepared only by bards. Because they're not physically staves, you can't attack with a coda instrument, nor can you etch it with weapon runes. The process of preparing a coda instrument involves playing significant portions of songs related to the spells within the instrument—either old standards or ones of your own creation. This leaves magical reverberations within the instrument that allow you to complete the songs by playing their coda later in the day.
This magic comes from the occult tradition, calling upon bizarre and ephemeral mysteries. Anything with this trait is magical. A creature with this trait is primarily constituted of or has a strong connection to occult magic.
This magic item holds spells of a particular theme and allows a spellcaster to cast additional spells by preparing the staff.