Crystal Ball 5e
Wondrous Item, varying rarity (requires attunement)
The typical crystal ball, a very rare item, is about 6 inches in diameter. While touching it, you can cast the Scrying spell (save DC 17) with it.
The following crystal ball variants are legendary items and have additional properties.
Crystal Ball of Mind Reading. You can use an action to cast the Detect Thoughts spell (save DC 17) while you are scrying with the crystal ball, targeting creatures you can see within 30 feet of the spell’s sensor. You don’t need to concentrate on this Detect Thoughts to maintain it during its duration, but it ends if Scrying ends.
Crystal Ball of Telepathy. While scrying with the crystal ball, you can communicate telepathically with creatures you can see within 30 feet of the spell’s sensor. You can also use an action to cast the Suggestion spell (save DC 17) through the sensor on one of those creatures. You don’t need to concentrate on this Suggestion to maintain it during its duration, but it ends if Scrying ends. Once used, the Suggestion power of the crystal ball can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Crystal Ball of True Seeing. While scrying with the crystal ball, you have truesight with a radius of 120 feet centered on the spell’s sensor.
Commentary by Sam West, Twitter: @CrierKobold
Crystal Balls are the object of seers and diviners. Sauromon the White shows off the potential power that comes with a divining relic to spy on your foes with his palaintir; you, too, can take one of these orbs and see more than normal senses provide!
There are four versions of the Crystal Ball; the very rare base version and all its legendary counterparts offer you Scrying at will with a set save DC of 17.
The legendary balls provide you with the means to both cast Scrying and another spell that works as if you were in the space of the sensor.
These extra spells don’t require concentration if they normally would, instead ending when Scrying ends.
Only the Crystal Ball of Telepathy has a recharging mechanic for its Suggestion; you can cast Detect Thoughts as often as you’d like while Scrying.
Truesight allows you to see in normal and magical darkness, see invisible things, discern illusions for what they are and automatically pass saving throws against them, perceive shapechangers for what they are, detect a creature transformed by magic, and see into the Ethereal Plane.
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