🔥 Torch 🔳 (stack of 3) 💰 5
A rag-wrapped length of pipe soaked in whatever burns. Cheap, bright, and gone by morning.
Weapon Slot Item
- Occupies a Weapon Slot. A torch cannot be clipped to your belt or strapped to your body — it fills a hand, and it casts no light from your Inventory.
Light — 2 ⚡ AP (free outside combat)
While carried, the torch makes your tile and everything within 5m 👥 Bright, and out to 10m 👥 Dim.
- It must be lit from an open flame — 🔥 Matches, a 🕯️ Lighter, a campfire, another lit torch, anything already burning. A 🎆 Signal Flare needs no such thing.
- One hand is holding the torch. A Two Handed weapon used while you carry a lit torch is being used one-handed, and takes the Disadvantage that tag imposes.
- You are standing in Bright light. You cannot attempt 👤 Sneak Tests in an enemy’s line of sight while carrying a lit torch.
- It can be dropped or thrown like any other item and keeps burning where it lands — and then it needs no slot at all.
- Burns until the end of the scene, then is consumed.
Crafting
Workstation: 🔧 Workbench (or field)
Recipe: 1 ⚪ Common Scrap + 1 ⛽ Fuel (or Alcohol) → 3 Torches
Perk Required: None
Related
- 🏮 Lantern — burns indefinitely and can be set down
- 🔦 Flashlight — lights a distant area instead of you
- 👥 Light Levels — what Bright, Dim, and Total Darkness do