While this is funny and useful, it falls short of the truly Home Alone-styled chaos you can create with these wonderful little toys.

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Ball bearings also come standard in a Burglar’s Pack, which should give you a clue as to what you can use ball bearings for.

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EquipmentAs an action, you can spill these tiny metal balls from their pouch to cover a level, square area that is 10 feet on a side.A creature moving across the covered area must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw or fall prone. A creature moving through the area at half speed doesn’t need to make the save.

The only limit to what you can use ball bearings for is your imagination and ability to argue with your DM. While not an exhaustive list, we made a hefty one here for you:

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Ball bearings are small metal spheres that come in a Burglar’s Pack. They have about a million different uses. The Stat block for the humble ball bearing assumes you have bought a bag of 1,000. These are very small little spheres, slightly larger than a BB gun pellet but smaller than a standard sling bullet or toy marble.

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As a DM I would nix a few others as well, such as the sling one, and the construct one. I would not have my shop sell more than three bags, either, since it is limited by available inventory stock, and not many costumers are interested in this item. Plus, they would be tedious to make for very little return of investment, so not many are interested in creating this item.

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You can get ball bearings in the usual way. They can be purchased through the standard equipment guide for 1 gp. While this may seem like a hefty price for a common item, they are a bit of a specialty tool made from a valuable material.

I am surprised you did not suggest having 250 balls cover a 5 by 5 area, since 1000 cover a 10 by 10 area, so that you can use if four times instead of one time, if you know exactly where the bad guy will walk. I have had a player try this, and I allowed it. Hilarity ensued as the orc fell on his face.

That stat block provides a single use for them: to spill out on the ground in a 5-foot square in order to trip anyone walking through the area.

So if you would do this, it would still only be the last ball bearing that have a light spell cast on it, making this a wasted 30 minutes.