Rod of the Python

Name	Rod of the Python
Sorted Name	Rod of the Python
Family	Rod
Item Slot	none
Price	13,000 gp
Price as Gold Pieces	13000
Creation Cost	6,500 gp
Weight	5 lbs.
Aura	Aura moderate transmutation
Caster Level	10th
Version	PRPG-O
Sources	Pathfinder RPG (Open)
Construction	Craft Rod, Craft Magic Arms and Armor, baleful polymorph, creator must be good

Lore:

Description: Unlike most rods, one end of this rod curls and twists back on itself in a crook-the tip of this crook sometimes looks like the head of a snake. The rod itself is about 4 feet long and weighs 10 pounds. It strikes as a +1/+1 quarterstaff . If the user throws the rod to the ground (a standard action), it grows to become a constrictor snake by the end of the round. The python obeys all commands of the owner. (In animal form, it retains the +1 enhancement bonus on attacks and damage possessed by the rod form.) The serpent returns to rod form (a full-round action) whenever the wielder desires, or whenever it moves farther than 100 feet from the owner. If the snake form is slain, it returns to rod form and cannot be activated again for three days. A rod of the python only functions if the possessor is good.

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Source Copyright: Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook. Copyright 2009, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Author: Jason Bulmahn, based on material by Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, and Skip Williams.

The Book of Experimental Might. Copyright 2008, Malhavoc Press; Author: Monte J. Cook.

Tome of Horrors. Copyright 2002, Necromancer Games, Inc.; Authors: Scott Greene, with Clark Peterson, Erica Balsley, Kevin Baase, Casey Christofferson, Lance Hawvermale, Travis Hawvermale, Patrick Lawinger, and Bill Webb; Based on original content from TSR.

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