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Rod of Security

Rod Of Security
  • Category: Rod
  • Rarity: Very Rare

While holding this rod, you can take a Magic action to activate it. The rod then instantly transports you and up to 199 other willing creatures you can see to a demiplane. You choose the form the demiplane takes. It could be a tranquil garden, a cheery tavern, an immense palace, a tropical island, a fantastic carnival, or whatever else you can imagine. Regardless of its nature, the demiplane contains enough water and food to sustain its visitors, and the demiplane's environment can't harm its occupants. Everything else that can be interacted with there can exist only there. For example, a flower picked from a garden there disappears if it is taken outside the demiplane.

For each hour spent in the demiplane, a visitor regains Hit Points as if it had spent 1 Hit Point Die. Also, creatures don't age while there, although time passes normally. Visitors can remain there for up to 200 days divided by the number of creatures present (round down).

When the time runs out or you take a Magic action to end the effect, all visitors reappear in the location they occupied when you activated the rod or an unoccupied space nearest that location. Once used, this property can't be used again until 10 days have passed.

Tactical Applications​

Extradimensional Sanctuary: Creates secure pocket dimension for rest and protection from all threats. Exceptional for survival specialists, long-term campaigns, and characters requiring ultimate safety and secure base operations.

Class Synergies:

  • Any Class: Perfect for all characters needing secure rest and protection from threats
  • Party Leaders: Essential for characters responsible for group safety and tactical planning
  • Survival Specialists: Excellent for characters focused on wilderness survival and threat avoidance
  • Spellcasters: Outstanding for characters needing secure spell preparation and magical research

Build Considerations: Requires attunement but provides ongoing sanctuary access. Most valuable for characters prioritizing survival and group safety.

Acquisition Methods​

Crafting Requirements: Requires dimensional magic, sanctuary enchantments, and planar essences. Creation cost 25,000-50,000 gp and takes 35 weeks.

Common Sources:

  • Dimensional magic specialists and sanctuary enchanters
  • Treasure hoards of legendary survivors and protection masters
  • Commission from enchanters specializing in dimensional magic
  • Found in the collections of survival researchers and sanctuary specialists
  • Sometimes discovered in dangerous environments or obtained from protection creature encounters

Alternative Acquisition: Often found in locations with strong connections to dimensional magic and survival themes.

Value & Trade​

Estimated Value: 35,000-70,000 gp, with extremely high demand among survival specialists and party leaders.

Trade Considerations: Extremely valuable among adventuring parties and anyone requiring ultimate protection and safety.

Character Integration​

Roleplay Elements: Suggests experience with survival challenges, dimensional magic, or professional roles requiring group protection and safety management.

Character Concepts:

  • Survival expert with dimensional expertise and protection experience
  • Party guardian using sanctuary magic for group safety and tactical advantage
  • Character with extensive experience in dangerous environments requiring ultimate protection
  • Safety specialist combining dimensional magic with traditional survival techniques

Adventure Hooks​

The Survival Challenge: Wilderness scenarios where sanctuary access provides crucial safety advantages and survival solutions.

The Siege Defense: Combat situations where dimensional refuge enables tactical retreat and strategic planning.

The Research Mission: Extended adventures where secure base operations determine research success and knowledge advancement.

The Protection Crisis: Emergency situations where sanctuary magic advances group survival and safety management.

Variants & Customization​

Greater Rod of Security (Legendary): Enhanced dimensional power and additional sanctuary abilities with improved protection capabilities.

Rod of Ultimate Sanctuary (Artifact): Includes comprehensive dimensional magic and ultimate protection control.

Guardian's Security Rod (Very Rare): Optimized for group protection with enhanced sanctuary bonuses and safety features.

Specialized Variants:

  • Fortress Security Rod: Enhanced for military use with improved defensive capabilities and tactical advantages
  • Research Sanctuary Rod: Optimized for scholarly pursuits with enhanced study facilities and knowledge protection
  • Survival Haven Rod: Specialized for wilderness use with enhanced environmental protection and survival resources

Lore & History​

Origins: Created by ancient protectors who needed reliable sanctuary for their survival research and group protection.

Historical Significance: These rods enabled crucial survival victories and the mastery of protection techniques throughout dangerous expeditions.

Cultural Impact: Represent the triumph of preparation over danger and the effectiveness of dimensional protection magic.

Magical Craft: Demonstrates understanding of dimensional magic and the complex processes required for sanctuary creation.

Balancing Notes​

Introduction Timing: Appropriate for levels 12-20 when survival becomes crucial and dimensional protection provides significant advantages.

Campaign Impact: Provides powerful protection capabilities balanced by attunement requirement and dimensional limitations.

Survival Focus: Most valuable in campaigns featuring dangerous environments and extended wilderness adventures.

Encounter Design​

Recommended Challenges:

  • Survival scenarios where sanctuary access enables superior protection and safety management
  • Extended encounters where dimensional refuge provides tactical advantages and strategic planning
  • Dangerous environment situations where sanctuary magic determines group survival and protection success
  • Long-term challenges where secure base operations advance objective completion and survival effectiveness

Sanctuary Adjustments: Encounters may need to account for tactical retreat capabilities and enhanced group protection.

Protection Items: Other items that enhance safety and provide sanctuary capabilities.

Dimensional Equipment:

  • Items that improve protection effectiveness and dimensional capabilities
  • Equipment for sanctuary enhancement and survival mastery
  • Tools for dimensional magic and protection development

Complementary Equipment: Items that enhance protection abilities or provide additional safety benefits.

Roleplay Opportunities​

Protection Mastery: Characters develop expertise in survival techniques and dimensional magic.

Safety Leadership: Protection capabilities create opportunities for leading survival missions and group safety management.

Sanctuary Excellence: Dimensional magic enables impressive demonstrations of protection mastery and survival superiority.