The staff is a major disappointment for a 3 part item that different groups of drow are backstabbing each other over..
That's true. I do hope it's a bit more impressive in the full release. I was choosing to believe that it will have at least a once per rest level 2 or higher cold damage spell and the only reason we haven't got it is because they haven't been implemented yet. But now I really look at Mourning Frost, it says it inflicts Frostbite for 1 turn and that Frostbite does 1 additional damage for each turn remaining, so even if the staff did have a cold spell, the holder wouldn't be able to use it to take advantage of the Frostbite unless they had two actions, and even then it would only do one extra damage. That's either me misunderstanding what the thing does, or it's even worse than I thought! I confess I'd looked at it and dismissed it as not particularly useful without really thinking it through.
Though, to be fair I think the drow are backstabbing each other over the Adamantine Forge rather than the quarterstaff. Though it would be interesting to know how they each came to have a bit of it. Is that explained at all? A nice little explanation in the assembled item's description would be perfect.
