Runestaff?

[weenog]

I'm looking for an item that allows its possessor to cast spells he doesn't know, from his own spell slots.  I think it was called a runestaff... is that the item?  In which book can I find it?

[Agita]

Runestaves can be found in the Magic Item Compendium, and indeed let you cast spells you don't know from your spell slots - though only x/day, if memory serves. Alternatively, there's a select few items that have this as an innate power, like the components of the Raiment of the Wanderer (or something like that) item set, also from MIC.

[Prime32]

DrMag had sorcerer items called knowstones.

[radionausea]

Also, Drake Helm in Magic of Eberron(?), though, like knowstones, the attuned dragonshards for it are ridiculously expensive - I'd stick to a custom runestaff

[Agita]

Also, Drake Helm in Magic of Eberron(?), though, like knowstones, the attuned dragonshards for it are ridiculously expensive - I'd stick to a custom runestaff

Not in Magic of Eberron, some other obscure book. Explorer's Handbook, I believe.

[Kremti]

Also, Runestaff is Arcane, and there's Divine version in...Complete Champion, I think?

-K

[weenog]

Arcane is fine, sorcerer isn't.  I'm looking to enable a warmage to frequently cast a few simple make-or-break buffs like fly.  Levels and feats are in short supply, money won't be, to start with.

[rot42]

Drake Helm is Explorer's Handbook pg 151; it specifies "spontaneous arcane spellcaster such as a sorcerer or bard".

Divine version of Runestaff = Domain staff, Complete Champion (not useful for OP, though).