What is the significance of the curved stave "C-staff" with/out a gem on top? What does it mean when a wizard uses it?

It means japs are not very creative.

The proper ones have the gem floating as a clear display of magic. It's also one of those things that's incredibly easy to do in Animation/Video Games but was a lot harder to do in live action. You might be able to get by with fishing line, but even then it'd still look pretty cheap especially if the staff was in motion.

>>95989187 (OP)
Traditional games?

>>95989187 (OP)
Visual storytelling. Magic gems and crystals are used in a lot of fantasy settings as a tool for wizards to focus their magic through. And what's the easiest way to have it present at all times without keeping it in your pocket? Tied to a big stick so you know precisely where it is at all times. And what are commonly used sticks that are made to be sturdy enough for travel? Shepherd's crooks, which are obviously curved at the top to hook in sheep, or rigged to hold a crystal in so it doesn't fall out.

Basically, it's like that cause it gets the idea across of how important the wizard's power is, not to mention evoking the image of a royal scepter which are often ornamental staves with orbs on them to imply might and majesty.

>>95989210
Fpbp

>>95989248
>Visual storytelling.
Yeah the story of how all anime shit is just copying each other over and over.

>>95989239
If I had to justify it as a design I think this is a reasonable take. It can work as a badge of office because the gem genuinely floats when a practitioner flows magic through it. So someone with a staff like this is unlikely to be faking.

>>95989260
Oh gee, humans are unoriginal, how scandalous

>>95989260
Relentless negativity impresses nobody and contributes nothing.

t. have never watched even one anime in my life

Still way better than the retarded braindead wizard who read their spellbooks mid combat.

>>95989271
I mean that’s kinda fun because it would be an insanely sweaty and awful thing to try and do, so you can have panic-stricken wizards desperately struggling for time. I guess older editions of D&D kinda had that with multi-round casting times but nowadays everything practical is pretty much one action.

>>95989187 (OP)
I have never watched any of those animes but the shining eye kid looks cool and the staff suits her, while the pigtails elf looks retarded but at least has a cool staff.

>>95989248
The only thing I don’t like about the staves is a wand seems like a much more useful thing to try and target down, and would be much more convenient to carry.

>>95989281
To be fair, the shining eye kid's from a village where they're all mages taught to act as cool as they can instead of acting practical. Their magic teachers outright have classes on the proper way to pose and boast.

>>95989286
You're not wrong, but if worst comes to worst, a staff also serves as a way to magnify torchlight in a dungeon or at least a desperate bludgeon

>>95989281
Good taste. Roger Avary said Konosuba was the reason cinema was invented.

>>95989301
Lina Inverse walked so Megumin could run.

>>95989301
>To be fair, the shining eye kid's from a village where they're all mages taught to act as cool as they can instead of acting practical.
Mages in jrpgs are pretty much always retarded anyway, so it's nice she can at least look cool while being retarded then.

>>95989341
Comedy anime, not jrpg. Seriously, anon, chill out.

>>95989239
Akshually it's held in place by fishing line.

>>95989187 (OP)
In which traditional games have you seen such staffs? Name several examples.

>>95989478
D&D
Sword World
GURPS
Anima: Beyond Fantasy
Exalted

>>95989271
I like it as collections of prewritten rituals and spells that it flips though the pages to.

>>95989187 (OP)
Stars anon, it represents heliocrentrism. It's a cosmic symbol.

>>95989239
>The proper ones have the gem floating as a clear display of magic.

>>95989210
Seething /co/cksucker detected

A Wizard's staff has a knob on the end...

>>95989187 (OP)
It looks cool.

>>95989478

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>>95992648

This.

>>95992707

I haven't seen any games where that makes a difference.

>>95992624
>Male wizards have a knob
>Female wizards have a hole
Very interesting.