Iron Flask - Reuseable

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

So, I was reading the text for the Iron Flask in D&D the other night, and (surprise, surprise), Larian has not implemented it correctly.

While Iron Flasks do hold monsters, you do not use them up or "consume" them to release the monster, you just unstop the stopper and the monster pops out.

Furthermore, and perhaps more importantly, the Iron Flask can be re-used to trap a new monster.

So, if you're going to use magic items from D&D, then make them work the way they are supposed to. Let us trap a new monster after releasing the one in the flask.

Also, the creature released should be friendly to us and obey our commands.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/4666-iron-flask

Iron Flask
Wondrous Item, legendary

This iron bottle has a brass stopper. You can use an action to speak the flask's command word, targeting a creature that you can see within 60 feet of you. If the target is native to a plane of existence other than the one you're on, the target must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw or be trapped in the flask. If the target has been trapped by the flask before, it has advantage on the saving throw. Once trapped, a creature remains in the flask until released. The flask can hold only one creature at a time. A creature trapped in the flask doesn't need to breathe, eat, or drink and doesn't age.

You can use an action to remove the flask's stopper and release the creature the flask contains. The creature is friendly to you and your companions for 1 hour and obeys your commands for that duration. If you give no commands or give it a command that is likely to result in its death, it defends itself but otherwise takes no actions. At the end of the duration, the creature acts in accordance with its normal disposition and alignment.

[SnarkOne]

+1 For Poke-balls in D&D

[Aldain]

...I honestly didn't know DnD had a Pokeball knockoff.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Aldain:

...I honestly didn't know DnD had a Pokeball knockoff.

I had never heard of this item until I saw it in BG3.

[rak22]

It's been around for a while (at least in pnp), since at least 3rd edition. Back then, if you freed a trapped creature with out speaking the proper "command word", it didn't have to obey you and would usually attack.

[Freak4Leeks]

i was actually trying to mod this in, not because i knew that it was reusable but because i found it hilarious to throw a ton of them the druid grove then go invisible and watch everyone be absolutely thrashed by spectators

[dolby]

It's their way of trying to balance things.
Players have lots of similar ways of geting more monsters.

In BG 2 you had many similar items that were reusable but you were limited to 5 monsters it was kinda low number... But ok you could at least have clones as well.

There are no such limits in bg 3 as of yet, so you can run around with 20 monsters of any kind maybe even more in full game so i kinda like that...

Even though you can outnumber the monsters in encounters cos most are small in size and there is no scaling.

Aslong as there is lots of items along the games path it's fine in my book cos those are fun i do agree it would be nice to have them be friendly and map transferable untill they die.

i would prefered a scaling version of this combat system though.

You could do that for both summons - pets and it would make for a great solution for 6 party cap mode. That could be introduced at the same time, fix both and make the game more epic grand at the same time... But it's to late for that now all this should be planed in pre-production anyway.

[Kryldost]

Kinda game breaking to be able to catch anything though, as cool as it would be.