Eversmoking Bottle 5e
Wondrous item, uncommon
Smoke leaks from the lead-stoppered mouth of this brass bottle, which weighs 1 pound. When you use an action to remove the stopper, a cloud of thick smoke pours out in a 60-foot radius from the bottle. The cloud's area is heavily obscured. Each minute the bottle remains open and within the cloud, the radius increases by 10 feet until it reaches its maximum radius of 120 feet.
The cloud persists as long as the bottle is open. Closing the bottle requires you to speak its command word as an action. Once the bottle is closed, the cloud disperses after 10 minutes. A moderate wind (11 to 20 miles per hour) can also disperse the smoke after 1 minute, and a strong wind (21 or more miles per hour) can do so after 1 round.
Commentary by Sam West, Twitter: @CrierKobold
Need a smoke bomb? Get an Eversmoking Bottle- it’s infinite smoke bombs packaged in a tiny little vial! This goes right alongside the Decanter of Endless Water as an item players will spend hours trying to get to do things it absolutely can not do, yet they’ll try anyway. It’s a blast.
A 60 ft. radius cloud as an action is triple the radius of Fog Cloud with no spell cost, nor any concentration requirements.
It also disperses slower than a Fog Cloud, with different times for dismissal depending on the strength of the wind.
Clouds created by the Eversmoking Bottle disperse 10 minutes after it is closed. This makes it a reasonable way to make multiple clouds of smoke over a few rounds so long as you’re working within the 10-minute time it takes to disperse.
By opening and closing it every other round, you can functionally create 300 60 ft. areas of smoke at once that slowly disperse one after the other.
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