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shape: charge
form: carried or wielded
attunement: usually
limit: a fixed number of charges, recovering on a schedule
---

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## What it is
A finite battery. X charges, spend one per use, regains some number at dawn or
under a condition. **The most common magic item shape in 5e** and the easiest to
balance, because the ceiling is arithmetic.

## Provenance — the transposition key
Charge items are almost always **made deliberately, by someone, for a purpose.**
Who built it and what they built it for is the whole transposition — a healing
staff cut by temple wrights becomes a very different object in a campaign with no
temples.

## Dial
Down: fewer charges, or recovery only on a rare condition. Up: more charges, or
it recharges by being used *for its purpose*.

## Watch for
Players hoard charges and never spend them. If it recovers at dawn, say so out
loud — unspoken recovery gets treated as a one-shot.

## In the roster
Staff of Healing (10) · Necklace of Fireballs (8/9) · Chime of Opening (9/10) ·
Rose Icon (3/3) · Wand of Wonder (7/7) · Super Lighting Javelin (1)