Jeweler's Monocle

This sizable monocle looks like a large, round lens attached to a nose bridge, worn over a single eye. Attached to the lens are multiple smaller lenses that can be placed over the primary lens by a mechanism controlled by a small dial on its side. However, one must do so with utmost care, as not to break the delicate clockwork that makes the mechanism work.

Item CostWeight
Jeweler's Monocle
350gp -

The large, primary lens of the monocle has no effect. However, using the mechanism to add one of three additional lenses grants a +1 bonus to Disable Device, Appraise, and Perception (for finding traps only). Additional lenses can bring these bonuses to +3. However, each lens added also incurs a -1 penalty to all attack rolls, AC, and sight-based Perception checks not related to trapfinding. Therefore, one must be careful not to use it in situations where combat is likely to occur, as it takes a move action to carefully add or remove a lens (or take off the monocle entirely).

Author's Note: Very good for merchant/rogue types. I have a character who wears one of these all the time - it was originally going to be a flavor-only thing, but we ended up making rules for it.

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