On metalforge, a level 110 rod of word of recall always gives the message "The rod of word of recall (lvl 110) whines for a while, but nothing happens."
Draug (on Discord) suggested that the rod may not generate with enough mana to cast the contained spell. Shouldn't rods have at least enough mana to cast a given spell once?
Metalforge code base is too old to have this bug corrected.
More details:
http://mailman.metalforge.org/pipermail/crossfire/2019-April/013606.html