Remote-Sensor Orb

ID: item-remote-sensor-orb
Record class: item
Type: equipment
Status: candidate
Candidate Fields

{
  "id": "item-remote-sensor-orb",
  "title": "Remote-Sensor Orb",
  "system": "Ninefold",
  "type": "equipment",
  "status": "candidate",
  "category": "Equipment",
  "group": "utility/sensors",
  "summary": "Select one listed variant when acquired; that variant row supplies the complete rule and scaling.",
  "skillUse": {
    "status": "not-required",
    "reason": "This Item is passive, self-resolving, or supplies equipment for a task whose Skill is chosen when used.",
    "actions": []
  },
  "effectMechanics": [
    "creation-summoning",
    "mental-influence",
    "semantic-communication",
    "sensory-change"
  ],
  "rules": {
    "role": "equipment",
    "itemFamily": "utility/sensors",
    "effect": "Select one listed variant when acquired; that variant row supplies the complete rule and scaling.",
    "resolution": "Resolve only the linked Effect Mechanics and parameters stated by this Item.",
    "conversion_note": "Materialized from terminal reviewed-import decisions.",
    "variantRules": [
      "Spend 2 ticks to create a distant sensor, with access determined by a contested perception-versus-privacy check.",
      "Adds contested thought sensing through the remote sensor within 30 feet.",
      "Adds telepathic communication and one daily contested suggestion through the remote sensor.",
      "Adds 120-foot truth-sight centered on the remote sensor."
    ],
    "variantTable": [
      {
        "variant": "base",
        "addition": "remote sight or hearing"
      },
      {
        "variant": "thought",
        "addition": "contested thought sensing"
      },
      {
        "variant": "telepathy",
        "addition": "communication and daily suggestion"
      },
      {
        "variant": "truth sight",
        "addition": "120-foot truth sight at sensor"
      }
    ]
  },
  "materializedBy": "scripts/materialize_reviewed_compendiums.py",
  "src_system": "D&D 2024 SRD 5.2.1",
  "src_rule": [
    "Crystal Ball",
    "Crystal Ball of Mind Reading",
    "Crystal Ball of Telepathy",
    "Crystal Ball of True Seeing"
  ],
  "src_reference_url": "https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/free-rules/magic-items",
  "sourceVariants": [
    {
      "title": "Crystal Ball",
      "url": "https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/free-rules/magic-items",
      "rule": "Spend 2 ticks to create a distant sensor, with access determined by a contested perception-versus-privacy check.",
      "system": "D&D 2024 SRD 5.2.1"
    },
    {
      "title": "Crystal Ball of Mind Reading",
      "url": "https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/free-rules/magic-items",
      "rule": "Adds contested thought sensing through the remote sensor within 30 feet.",
      "system": "D&D 2024 SRD 5.2.1"
    },
    {
      "title": "Crystal Ball of Telepathy",
      "url": "https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/free-rules/magic-items",
      "rule": "Adds telepathic communication and one daily contested suggestion through the remote sensor.",
      "system": "D&D 2024 SRD 5.2.1"
    },
    {
      "title": "Crystal Ball of True Seeing",
      "url": "https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/free-rules/magic-items",
      "rule": "Adds 120-foot truth-sight centered on the remote sensor.",
      "system": "D&D 2024 SRD 5.2.1"
    }
  ],
  "mergedVariantCount": 4,
  "tags": [
    "pre-approved"
  ]
}
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