Immovable Rod 5e
Rod, uncommon
This flat iron rod has a button on one end. You can use an action to press the button, which causes the rod to become magically fixed in place. Until you or another creature uses an action to push the button again, the rod doesn't move, even if it is defying gravity. The rod can hold up to 8,000 pounds of weight. More weight causes the rod to deactivate and fall. A creature can use an action to make a DC 30 Strength check, moving the fixed rod up to 10 feet on a success.
Commentary by Sam West, Twitter: @CrierKobold
There are few items as iconic to D&D as the Immovable Rod. This tiny stick can do so many cool things. Defying gravity is just the beginning.
Eight thousand pounds will hold up to every large or smaller creature, with Huge creatures ranging from 2 to 16 tons (4,000-32,000 pounds).
Two of these combined make an infinite ladder or staircase by balancing on one and moving the other in front of you over and over again.
The bench press world record pushes over 700 pounds; you’d need a creature 11 times stronger than the strongest lifter in history to move this thing.
Immovable Rods don’t bequeath their properties to items on top of them. A door barred by an Immovable Rod usually breaks long before the rod does.
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