Efreeti Bottle 5e
Wondrous Item, very rare
This painted brass bottle weighs 1 pound. When you use an action to remove the stopper, a cloud of thick smoke flows out of the bottle. At the end of your turn, the smoke disappears with a flash of harmless fire, and an efreeti appears in an unoccupied space within 30 feet of you.
The first time the bottle is opened, the GM rolls to determine what happens.
Efreeti Bottle Effect Table
| d100 | Effect |
|---|---|
| 01-10 | The efreeti attacks you. After fighting for 5 rounds, the efreeti disappears, and the bottle loses its magic. |
| 11-90 | The efreeti serves you for 1 hour, doing as you command. Then the efreeti returns to the bottle, and a new stopper contains it. The stopper can't be removed for 24 hours. The next two times the bottle is opened, the same effect occurs. If the bottle is opened a fourth time, the efreeti escapes and disappears, and the bottle loses its magic. |
| 91-00 | The efreeti can cast the Wish spell three times for you. It disappears when it grants the final wish or after 1 hour, and the bottle loses its magic. |
Commentary by Sam West, Twitter: @CrierKobold
Efreeti are some of the most dangerous monsters in Dungeons & Dragons; not only do they come with a high-damaging multi-attack and ranged spell attack, they have a robust suite of spells that make them stack up against some mid-tier player characters. An Efreeti Bottle can be the chance to gain a summonable allied Efreeti; sometimes, though, it’ll be so much more.
Efreeti can cast Conjure Elemental, allowing it summon a Fire Elemental under its command; its a pyramid scheme of summoning!
There is a 10% chance the Efreeti casts Wish three times for you; that can warp the entire rest of a campaign, so if you’re giving this magic item out and rolling fairly as a DM, prepare for the potential of the game radically changing in an instant.
The Efreeti’s Elemental Demise trait causes it to disintegrate on death; it won’t return to the bottle once disintegrated in this way, and thus can’t be resummoned if you’d have remaining uses.
Other spells you should keep in mind are on the Efreeti stat block are Major Image, Invisibility, Plane Shift, Wall of Fire, Gaseous Form, and Enlarge/Reduce.
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