Billowing Cauldron
Object
Level 18 TrapXP 2000

Detect automatic

HP 170

AC 30, Fortitude 30, Reflex 15, Will —

Immune cold, fire, necrotic, poison, psychic, radiant, forced movement, all conditions, ongoing damage

Standard Actions

ᗕ Poisonous Tendrils (poison, zone) ✦ Encounter

Requirement: The cauldron's owner must activate this power and must be adjacent to the cauldron to do so.

Effect: Close burst 3; the burst creates a zone that lasts until the end of the encounter. Any enemy that ends its turn in the zone takes 10 poison damage.

Countermeasures

✦ Identify: Arcana (trained only) DC 32. Arcane symbols carved into the cauldron suggest that it might be a trap.

✦ Identify: Perception DC 17. The character notices arcane symbols carved into the cauldron.

✦ Command: Arcana (trained only) DC 23 (standard action). Success: The character commands the tendrils to withdraw into the cauldron, negating the zone's damage until the end of the character's next turn.

✦ Command: Arcana (trained only) DC 32 (minor action). Success: The character commands the tendrils to withdraw into the cauldron, negating the zone's damage until the end of the character's next turn.

✦ Destroy: If the cauldron drops to 0 hit points, it makes the attack shown under Tip Over (below) but in a close burst 2 rather than a blast.

✦ Lid: Perception DC 23 (minor action). Success: The character spots the cauldron's lid beside it. A creature has to take a standard action to place or remove the lid. Placing the lid on the cauldron negates the zone until the lid is removed again.

✦ Tip Over: Athletics DC 32 (standard action).The character takes 15 fire and poison damage regardless of the check result. Success: The character dumps the cauldron's contents and makes the following attack.
    Attack: Close blast 5 (creatures in the blast); +21 vs. Fortitude
    Hit: Ongoing 10 fire and poison damage (save ends).
    Miss: Ongoing 5 fire and poison damage (save ends).
    Effect: The trap's effect ends.

Published in Dungeon Magazine 200.