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<blockquote data-quote="Uller" data-source="post: 7096570" data-attributes="member: 413">The PCs in one of my games found an eversmoking bottle.&nbsp; I put it there as a means of solving a puzzle.&nbsp; They pulled the stopper releasing a cloud of smoke...and then I realized they don't know the command word to make it stop.&nbsp; It seems like a typo to me that you activate it by pulling the stopper but need a command word to make it stop.&nbsp; The text from the SRD: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.My players' PCs have no means of learning the command word short of taking a short rest but they have no time to do that.&nbsp; They are in a confined area and would be effectively blinded if they can't stop the thing...so simply ruled you can just put the stopper back to stop it.&nbsp; Do you think they put the command word in there on purpose or is it an oversight (like maybe originally it functioned on a command word and they only edited out half of it...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Uller, post: 7096570, member: 413"] The PCs in one of my games found an eversmoking bottle. I put it there as a means of solving a puzzle. They pulled the stopper releasing a cloud of smoke...and then I realized they don't know the command word to make it stop. It seems like a typo to me that you activate it by pulling the stopper but need a command word to make it stop. The text from the SRD: [I]Smoke leaks from the lead-stoppered mouth of this brass bottle, which weighs 1 pound. [B]When you use an action to remove the stopper[/B], 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. [B]Closing the bottle requires you to speak its Command Word as an action[/B]. 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.[/I] My players' PCs have no means of learning the command word short of taking a short rest but they have no time to do that. They are in a confined area and would be effectively blinded if they can't stop the thing...so simply ruled you can just put the stopper back to stop it. Do you think they put the command word in there on purpose or is it an oversight (like maybe originally it functioned on a command word and they only edited out half of it... [/QUOTE]

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