did u use the weird itens at "the book of marvelous magic"?

rossik · Dec 13, 2006

now, thats an odd book

many itens seems to be joke-itens, like "alternate world gate", where the pcs find, for emeple, alaser pistol, and when they take it, a robot from gamma world appears and take the iten back.same for blackjack/agent/top secret , lute/bard/ad&d, violin case/gangster/gangbuster.......

magic food stains? no problem, use soap of washing, or tub of washing!

carnivorous ballons, barrel of monkeys, cameo of appearance,ruby slippers (you ta them together to travel out of plane - familar to you??)

sure, thy are funny, but did any of you have used any of these?

Huw · Dec 13, 2006

I used this a lot, but then I also used giant space hamsters.

Anyway, I used the balloons, I had the winemaking biscuit as a treasure, and I also used several of the sensible ones. I just can't remember the names of the sensible ones off-hand.

Psion · Dec 13, 2006

I remember this book vaguely. Some stuff was wierd, like Gangbusters magic items.

Still amusing, though. Might be worth picking up a pdf of it.

Edit: I looked at the pdf page:
http://enworld.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=1206&

But there were no comments on how good the scan was (a common concern). Anyone have it?

Crothian · Dec 13, 2006

Nope, but we never had it and I still don't

Rhun · Dec 13, 2006

I've got it sitting on a shelf at home. Used a few of the items out of it, but I can't really recall which off the top of my head.

VirgilCaine · Dec 13, 2006

rossik said:
ruby slippers (you ta them together to travel out of plane - familar to you??)

No, because they are really silver slippers.

frankthedm · Dec 13, 2006

Whoops! I mixed up this book with the BoMM...

It was good for a laugh in the basic D&D days, back when making modern conveniences with magic was expected to produce hilarious tragedy. Given how reliable wotc seem to want magic to be nowadays, one could drop the drawbacks and put a few of those things into Ebberon.

A Leonardo Da Vinci style tank with a magic missile and fireball wands as turrents was a joke back in the 80’s.

In Ebberon, this joke fits right in with the setting. Especially with that new Fire 3 wands at once! item.