Lantern

Lantern
Basic Information
Type	Lantern
Value	Beacon: 150 gp Bull's-eye: 12 gp Hooded: 7 gp
Weight	Beacon: 50 pounds Bull's-eye: 3 pounds Hooded: 2 pounds

A Lantern is a device that burns oil to provide light, and occasionally warmth, in the Spelljammer campaign setting.

Description

While lanterns can prove quite useful in wildspace, they can be terminally lethal in the phlogiston. Before entering the Flow, a spelljammer's crew must ensure that all lamps and lanterns have been extinguished. Lamps, lanterns and other devices that burn a flammable substance to provide light all consume man-air days of oxygen from a ship's air envelope.

There are three basic types of lanterns:

• A Hooded lantern is a standard lantern with shuttered or hinged sides. It is not directional and sheds light in a 30-foot radius centered on the lantern. A hooded lantern can be carried in one hand and burns a single flask of oil (1 pint) in six hours.

• A Bull's-eye lantern has a single shutter, while the other sides are highly polished to reflect the light in a single direction. It casts a single 60-foot long beam of light. A bull's eye lantern can be carried in one hand and burns a single flask of oil (1 pint) in six hours.

• A Signal beacon is similar to a bull's-eye lantern, except that it is significantly larger and must be mounted in a fixed position on board a ship, the bed of a wagon or some other suitable structure. A beacon produces a 240-foot long beam of light and burns a flask of oil (1 pint) every 2 hours.

Cold light

A "cold light" is created by spacefaring dwarves who pack a standard lantern or lamp with a clump of phosphorescent fungi or moss, such as glowmoss, rendering it safe to use in the phlogiston.

Magical lantern

A lantern of continual light is created by removing the oil reservoir of a standard lantern or lamp, and instead installing an object (usually a gemstone) that has been enchanted with a continual light spell, rendering it relatively safe to use in the phlogiston.