The Quicksand Rug looks like any normal rug, approximately 5 feet square, with a colourful and intricate abstract pattern. Anyone who steps on it immediately begins to be drawn in to an extradimensional space filled with a substance much like quicksand. It takes 2 rounds for a creature, regardless of weight, to sink completely under the surface of the rug. On the first round, the sinking creature can attempt a STR check (DC 25) to get free. During this round, the victim is considered to prone, loses any DEX bonus to AC, and can not move from the rug (nor turn in place) but is otherwise able to conduct melee attacks and cast spells. During the second round, the STR check DC to break free is 30, and the creature is considered helpless.
If the victim remains on the rug for 2 consecutive rounds, they are drawn completely into the quicksand substance and begins to suffocate (see Suffocation rules, Dungeon Master's Guide 3.5, Page 304). A suffocating victim can be pulled out of the rug with a successful STR check (DC 30).
A trapped creature can be freed by touching the rug and uttering a command word; the rug can then be moved normally as any other rug, and once placed as wished, touching it and uttering the command word activates the rug again. The pattern on the rug changes whenever anyone steps onto it or sinks into it, alerting the owner to the rug's recent activity.
The rug can hold an amount of mass equal to: Contents Weight Limit: 250 lbs.; Contents Volume Limit: 30 cu. ft.
Prerequisite: Craft
Wondrous Item, Leomund's Secret Chest
Aura: Moderate Conjuration
Caster Level: 9th
Market Price: 3,500gp
Cost to Create:
AC: 3 (-5 DEX, -2 inanimate object, +0 size)
Time to Create: 3.5 days
Hit Points: 10
Hardness: 5
Break DC: 30
Weight: 15 lbs.
Based on an article in Dragon Magazine #280 February 2001 by Rich Redman, Jeff Grubb, Cory J. Herndon, Eric Haddock and Matthew Sernett