Wondrous Item, uncommon
This prism has 50 charges. While you are holding it, you can use an action to speak one of three command words to cause one of the following effects:
- The first command word causes the gem to shed bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet. This effect doesn't expend a charge. It lasts until you use a bonus action to repeat the command word or until you use another function of the gem.
- The second command word expends 1 charge and causes the gem to fire a brilliant beam of light at one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or become blinded for 1 minute. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
- The third command word expends 5 charges and causes the gem to flare with blinding light in a 30- foot cone originating from it. Each creature in the cone must make a saving throw as if struck by the beam created with the second command word.
When all of the gem's charges are expended, the gem becomes a nonmagical jewel worth 50 gp.
Notes: Blinded, Control, Debuff







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Posted Sep 1, 2019Brilliant!
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Posted Aug 31, 2020This thing is actually broken in the early game
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Posted Sep 5, 2020I'm considering giving this to my level 3 party. Too early on in the game you reckon?
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Posted Dec 25, 2020According to the Dungeon Master Guide chart you'd be fine giving an Uncommon Magic Item to a group of level 3 players.
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Posted Dec 28, 2020Awesome thanks!
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Posted Mar 23, 2022Wait...so is this a gem on a pedestal or something, or is it the kind of thing one could carry around with them?
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Posted Aug 31, 2022The gem is just a rock you can pocket. The stand is someone using it as a semipermanent light source.
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Posted Feb 6, 2025I'm not sure to understand, when you cast the bright light, do your character then need to uses its bonus action at each turn to say the word so it stays lit?
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Posted Feb 20, 2025It could definitely be phrased better - it should probably say "You can use a bonus action to repeat the command word, cancelling the effect". Or something like that.