I thought wands specifically did not count as attuned items, since they're technically "consumable" items. @_@
From the house rules thread:
For magic items and wealth, we're going to go with the 8 item limit that they talk about in the Book of Gears. You basically can only have 8 "constant effect" magic items at a time. Single use items like scrolls and potions don't count against this, and neither do "use activated" items (like magic weapons that only do damage, for example).
I meant for staves to count, actually, though maybe I didn't actually spell that out explicitly anywhere.
Since wands work almost identically to staves, I had planned to count them too. However, since everyone always uses Wands of Lesser Vigor to heal out of combat, and it wouldn't be too fun for one of you to have to keep one of those attuned, how about we say that wands
don't count as an attuned item, but staves
do?
Sorry for all the confusion, but we're working with a pretty extensive set of house rules here, and much of them I've had to make up on my own because Frank and K's stuff is pretty unfinished.
The main reason for disallowing casting from scrolls and having staves count as attuned items is to limit how many high level spells you guys can spam out from items, especially items you've gained via Wish. Since wands and potions are capped at 4th and 3rd level spells, respectively, they are less problematic than staves (and scrolls, if we hadn't already dealt with those by saying you cant cast from them). Without some kind of cap, every combat would constitute seeing who can whip out their scrolls of Timestop and Gate the fastest.
I'm sorely tempted just to take Vow of Poverty.
DO IT!