Chaos Flask

[shadyizok]

Holy crap, I just found this item in the planar handbook (p76) and that thing looks awesome.

Besides the normal utility of being able to make pretty much anything for 100gp for a couple of rounds how about you make that 1000gp diamond. Selling the thing off course is out of the question but if you need it as a spellcomponent it's gonna be a buckload cheaper.
Or maybe some nice black lotus poison. Or anything else that is a non-magical one-use worth-a-ton item.

How about it, does the Chaos Flask do what I think it does?

 

[aboyd]

It's going to vary depending upon the DM. The description says "nearly any single nonmagical object" can be made, but then it goes on to list specific materials it can create:

• living creature, metal object, stone object (diminutive in size)
• wood (tiny in size)
• cloth, leather (small in size)

So you need to find a DM who agrees that a diamond falls under the "stone" option. Then you'll need to find a DM who will agree that if the material component goes poof, it doesn't undo the spell (if you use a chaos diamond to power a resurrection, you don't want to discover that it was only good enough to power a resurrection for a few rounds, and the person re-dies).

Personally, I think the way it is worded is slightly game-breaking, because I believe that the item created by the chaos flask is real when it forms, and thus really can be used for material components, and thus really would be an insanely huge cost savings. In my campaign, the item just doesn't exist.