Sulphur Sack

Ultimate Equipment Guide II

Author Greg Lynch, J. C. Alvarez
Publisher Mongoose Publishing
Publish date 2005

Though its called it a sack, it is really more of a canister, a leather tube with a wooden cap on each end. The canister can be worn on a belt or stowed in a pack. Removing the top cap on the sulphur sack reveals a wide hole, while removing the bottom reveals a wooden disk, into which there are drilled a score of tiny holes. When sold, the sack is filled with finely powdered sulphur. It is the sulphur, not the sack itself, that is truly valuable to a traveller. When spread on the ground, sulphur repels crawling insects of all types, creating a virtual barrier against them. No ordinary insect will crawl through sulphur, and even monstrous insects must succeed on a DC 15 Will save to pass through a line of sulphur. If the insects are under magical compulsion, being ordered to crawl through sulphur grants the creatures a Will save against the compulsion to allow them to refuse the order. A sulphur sack, which is designed to make drawing a line with the sulphur easier, holds enough sulphur to draw a line 200 feet long and two inches wide. Despite its efficacy against dominated or monstrous insects, the primary use of sulphur is simply to keep ordinary insects away while one sleeps. Sulphur has no effect whatsoever on flying insects.

• Sulphur Sack: 30 gp; 3 lb.
• Sulphur Refill: 20 gp; 2 lb.