Price (Item Level): 6,000 gp (10th)
Body Slot: —
Caster Level: 8th
Aura: Moderate; (DC 18) transmutation
Activation: Standard (manipulation)
Weight: 2 lb.
This 2-foot-wide wooden box has a brightly painted metal wheel, a little larger in diameter than the width of the box, partially encased at one end. The wheel is divided into eight “slices,” each one corresponding to one of the colors of the rainbow, plus a white slice. A brass needle sticks out the end of the box at the wheel end and acts as a pointer. In the center of the box’s top, lined up perfectly with the edge of the wheel, is a raised brass button.
Pressing the brass button of a wheel of fortune (a standard action) activates the wheel, causing it to spin all the way around seven times. The color slices to blur into a disk of white while spinning. Regardless of how tightly a user holds it and no matter how hard the wheel is spun, the item never wobbles or loses its perfect balance.
One round after activation, the wheel comes to a stop sometime during its eighth rotation with the brass pointer indicating one of the eight slices at random. Any attempt to stop the wheel or influence its outcome once its button has been pushed not only fails but also results in a jolt that deals 1d6 points of electricity damage. A wheel of fortune confers its effect on the character holding it.
When the wheel stops spinning, the effect gained depends on the slice the brass pointer indicates. The effect lasts for 24 hours. Once used, a wheel of fortune does not function again for the same character for 24 hours.
Roll on the following table to determine the wheel’s effect.
| d8 | Color | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red | –1 penalty on attacks and saves |
| 2 | Orange | +2 luck bonus on Str checks and Str-based skill checks |
| 3 | Yellow | +2 luck bonus on Dex checks and Dex-based skill checks |
| 4 | Green | +2 luck bonus on Con checks and Con-based skill checks |
| 5 | Blue | +2 luck bonus on Int checks and Int-based skill checks |
| 6 | Indigo | +2 luck bonus on Wis checks and Wis-based skill checks |
| 7 | Violet | +2 luck bonus on Cha checks and Cha-based skill checks |
| 8 | White | 10 temporary hit points |
Lore: Clerics of Olidammara claim the genesis of these items lies with their fickle and fun-loving god, and nobody seems intent on arguing the point with them. Indeed, the oldest known wheels of fortune bear the Laughing Rogue’s symbol in conspicuous locations, including on the raised brass button at its top.
Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, bull’s strength, bestow curse, bear’s endurance, cat’s grace, eagle’s splendor, false life, fox’s cunning, owl’s wisdom.
Cost to Create: 3,000 gp, 240 XP, 6 days.
Source: Complete Scoundrel, page 117. Changed the Prerequisites entry to show bull’s strength and bear’s endurance rather than bear’s strength and bull’s endurance. (One might think that listing bestow curse between them had something to do with the error…)