All in all, the creation of self-casting items was something Zorian put squarely into the ‘probably not worth it’ category. He currently wasn’t nearly good enough with spell formula to pull it off, and even if he were, it was still a very difficult sub-field of magic item creation that resulted in very dubious gains. He did eventually intend to track down a blueprint for a blasting rod, probably the simplest of self-casting items that blasted whatever it was pointed at with a torrent of barely-constrained energy, usually fire. A fittingly named item, and one of the few self-casting items that was known to be reliable and effective in actual combat, at least at close range. Obtaining one was not a priority, however. Such an item would be used more as a last resort, side-arm sort of weapon t
