While holding this staff, you can use an action to expend 1 of its 10 charges to cast charm person, command, or comprehend languages from it using your spell save DC. The staff can also be used as a magic quarterstaff.
If you are holding the staff and fail a saving throw against an enchantment spell that targets only you, you can turn your failed save into a successful one. You can't use this property of the staff again until the next dawn. If you succeed on a save against an enchantment spell that targets only you, with or without the staff's intervention, you can use your reaction to expend 1 charge from the staff and turn the spell back on its caster as if you had cast the spell.
The staff regains 1d8 + 2 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the staff becomes a nonmagical quarterstaff.
Notes: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, or Wizard, Control, Communication
This item seems perfect for a Sword Bard.
All the charisma & swagger, plus the added benefit of wielding it as a quarterstaff that can be used as your spellcasting focus...add to that the benefits of "Polearm Master" (using bonus action + reactions to attack additionally) which don't interfere with weapon Flourishes (actually, it lets you STACK Flourishes, since a Reaction is its own turn!), you have a pretty potent weapon packaged nicely together with the charming Bard-theme.
It also seems like a nice alternative to musical instruments...you could be a philosopher, circus performer, a stage magician, or maybe you speak into it like a microphone. : )
Could this be homebrew-changed to allow attunement by Artificers as well?
Literally anything can be homebrewed
I entirely forgot that I made that post. Yeah, I completely agree with you. Heck, there isn't even a way to enforce attunement restrictions on DDB; you can attune to whatever on your sheet.
You know it's sad cause I had a player using Sword Bard and they didn't enjoy it even though I allowed them to use the flourishes on reactions but I also just noticed the flourishes state you can only use them as part of the attack action on YOUR turn specifically. Meaning the already underpowered Sword Bard is even worse then I thought it was. To be honest if I wanted to play a bard with sword power I'd still just go Valor Bard, Sword is a really selfish version of Valor on a support based class. I do like this for sword bard mind you, and it might even make it a more viable subclass.
Comprehend Languages seems like a weird inclusion, but a welcome one.
It's charming when someone is able to understand you. I think.
It is a welcome one indeed! I'm currently playing a changeling as a crash landed alien and when I found this staff communication became so much easier!