Rod of Absorption 5e
Rod, very rare (requires attunement)
While holding this rod, you can use your reaction to absorb a spell that is targeting only you and not with an area of effect. The absorbed spell's effect is canceled, and the spell's energy -- not the spell itself -- is stored in the rod. The energy has the same level as the spell when it was cast. The rod can absorb and store up to 50 levels of energy over the course of its existence. Once the rod absorbs 50 levels of energy, it can't absorb more. If you are targeted by a spell that the rod can't store, the rod has no effect on that spell.
When you become attuned to the rod, you know how many levels of energy the rod has absorbed over the course of its existence, and how many levels of spell energy it currently has stored.
If you are a spellcaster holding the rod, you can convert energy stored in it into spell slots to cast spells you have prepared or know. You can create spell slots only of a level equal to or lower than your own spell slots, up to a maximum of 5th level. You use the stored levels in place of your slots, but otherwise cast the spell as normal. For example, you can use 3 levels stored in the rod as a 3rd-level spell slot.
A newly found rod has 1d10 levels of spell energy stored in it already. A rod that can no longer absorb spell energy and has no energy remaining becomes nonmagical.
Commentary by Sam West, Twitter: @CrierKobold
The Rod of Absorption is one of D&D’s most busted magic items. It gives you free Counterspells stapled to a magical battery you can tap into to fuel your own magic- if you can get ahold of one as a spellcaster, you’re in for a great time.
The Rod can’t be used infinitely; energy spent from the rod doesn’t open up room in it to absorb additional spells. Track the total energy absorbed separately from its current stored energy you can convert into spell slots.
Converting energy to spell slots doesn’t take any actions to do; whenever you’d cast a spell, you can opt to pull from the Rod of Absorption instead of spending a spell slot as normal
Spells absorbed add to the Rod’s total, and needent be expended in the same quantities.
A spell will denote if the words “target” in its spell description if it targets you; a spell like Hold Person is an example of a spell this can nullify, while a spell like Cloud of Daggers cast on you doesn’t qualify.
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