🔦 Flashlight 🔳 💰 100
A pre-war handlamp with a focused reflector. It throws a beam far enough to search a room you are not standing in.
Quick Slot or Weapon Slot Item
- Clips to a belt or a chest rig, so it needs no hand. It casts no light from your Inventory.
- If equipped in a Quick Slot:
- Can be switched on or off with the Use Quick Item Action
Switch on or off — 2 ⚡ AP (free outside combat)
The beam is a narrow cone, roughly 30° wide, projected from you out to 🎯 Medium range.
- 👥 Bright out to 15m (🎯 Close), then 👥 Dim from 15m to 30m.
- The beam lights you too. Your own tile is Bright while the flashlight is on — you cannot attempt 👤 Sneak Tests in an enemy’s line of sight.
- You aim it on your turn. You may rotate the cone freely at any point during your turn at no ⚡ AP cost. Once your turn ends its facing is locked until your next turn — you cannot sweep it onto something during another creature’s turn, or in reaction to anything.
- The cone’s origin is you, so it travels with you. Only its facing is locked.
- No duration limit. It burns until switched off.
Cannot be crafted
The 🔨 industrial-workshop rule puts sealed reflector lamps and their cells out of reach of a field workstation. Found, bought, or taken.
Related
- 🏮 Lantern — lights the area around itself, including you
- 🔥 Torch — cheap, craftable, burns out
- Headlamp — the same beam built into a 🦾 Power Armor helmet, hands-free
- 📱 Pip-Boy — a weak worn glow, nothing like a beam
- 👥 Light Levels — what Bright, Dim, and Total Darkness do