An immovable rod is a magical iron rod that becomes fixed in space when activated. While active, it can ignore most of the effects of gravity.[1]
Description[]
An immovable rod can be activated by pressing the button on the end, at which point the rod becomes stationary and nearly impossible to move. It is not subject to normal gravity, and can support up to 8000 pounds, although it will deactivate and fall normally if more weight is placed upon it. The DC to move an immovable rod is 30, and even on a success it will only move 10 feet at a time.[1]
History[]
Campaign One: Vox Machina[]
Vox Machina had several immovable rods at various points that they used with some frequency.
The party acquired the rod at some point prior to their adventure in Kraghammer,[2] and Tiberius Stormwind used it as an anchor so he could drop a captured Fomorian from a height into K'Varn's lair.[3] However, he did not retrieve the rod. Some time later, Jordana Whisk gave Keyleth another one in Whitestone.[4]
Vex'ahlia used the new rod, again as an anchor, to get through the sand trap in the Cavern of Axiom. Pike used the rod and some rope in a similar way to help the party cross a river in the Feywild.[5][6] Scanlan used it during the fight against Umbrasyl, to attempt to pin the dragon into place by activating the rod within Umbrasyl's stomach, while Umbrasyl was in flight. The dragon was able to move, but the rod caused him injury.[7] Vex'ahlia then retrieved it.[8]
Vox Machina found another rod in Emon following their defeat of Thordak,[9] and used the pair of rods to hold back several boulders as they prepared to fight Raishan.[10] Grog used the rod to help push in one of the Prime Trammels as the party banished Vecna,[11] and then to prevent himself from falling as Entropis began to collapse.[12]
Campaign Three: Bells Hells[]
In "The Threat Between the Walls" (3x05), Laudna used her immovable rod to hold a crate in place blocking a shade creeper hole.[13]
During the Twilight Mirror Museum heist, Laudna twice used her rod to jam doors so that The Verdict would be unable to enter. The first time was in the foyer,[14] and after recovering the rod, she used it to hold closed the door between the marionette's room and the Xhorhasian artifact room.[15]
When Laudna, Ashton Greymoore, and Orym were separated from the rest of Bells Hells and found themselves on the steep face of Spectrum Gorge, they used the immovable rod to help climb the jagged, unstable rock.[16]
Imogen used an immovable rod and a rope to assist other party members climbing up to the Chynes Maw which held the spark of the primordial titan Rau'shan.[17]
The Legend of Vox Machina[]
In "Belly of the Beast" (LVM2x11), Kaylie had a sword that behaved identically to an immovable rod. She deployed it against Scanlan when she revealed their relationship to him, leaving it behind when she left. He then used it against Umbrasyl in exactly the same way as the rod in Campaign One.
Trivia[]
- The Dunamancy spell Immovable Object allows the caster to grant the object on which it is cast properties very similar to those of an immovable rod.[18]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 See D&D: Dungeon Master's Guide (2014), 5th ed., p. 175.
- ↑ See "Glass and Bone" (1x08) at 1:19:46.
- ↑ See "The Temple Showdown" (1x11) at 2:42:47.
- ↑ See "Stoke the Flames" (1x30) at 2:09:54.
- ↑ See "Uninviting Waters" (1x62) at 53:27.
- ↑ See "A Name Is Earned" (1x49) at 3:02:17.
- ↑ See "In the Belly of the Beast" (1x54) at 4:21:07.
- ↑ See "Umbrasyl" (1x55) at 30:39.
- ↑ See "What Lies Beneath the Surface" (1x81) at 1:04:51.
- ↑ See "Deadly Echoes" (1x82) at 1:23:43.
- ↑ See "Vecna, the Ascended" (1x114) at 5:26:50.
- ↑ See "The Chapter Closes" (1x115) at 16:44.
- ↑ See "The Threat Between the Walls" (3x05) at 3:48:42.
- ↑ See "Breaking and Entering..." (3x20) at 33:16.
- ↑ See "Breaking and Entering..." (3x20) at 2:15:17.
- ↑ See "Somewhere Out There" (3x59) at 0:30:03.
- ↑ See "An Ancient Flame" (3x75) at 0:13:57.
- ↑ See Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, pp. 187–188.
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