D&D General Have You Ever Used A Magic Item In A Manner Other Than Prescribed?

[Mad_Jack]

Am I the only one who used to refer to Daern's Instant Fortress as "The Holy Hand Grenade" and regularly use it as an offensive weapon*?
Has anybody else ever used an immovable rod to hang a glyph of warding directly in front of a door?
Ever stuffed the party's halfling in a bag of holding and had the wizard's familiar fly it into an open window?


What are some of the weirder things you've done with magic items that were decidedly not the way they were originally intended to be used?


* (To the point where in one campaign it became an established party tactic against spellcasters to "Drop a house on them"...)

 

[Mad_Jack]

My wrestling bard "Immovable Rod" Manly would sometimes put an immovable rod where the sun don't shine so he couldn't be pushed around.

A party member once intentionally got themselves swallowed by a massive purple worm so that they could leave an immovable rod inside it. Unfortunately, the rod is only a foot or two long and the worm was at least ten feet across, and since a worm is basically just a giant tube open on both ends, it only minimally slowed down the worm until it passed the rod...

(I'm sure some of the folks who started out in later editions are probably utterly horrified by some of the things we used to do with magic items back in the day, lol.)


EDIT: I just had a thought - if the purple worm managed to pass the immovable rod, that would mean that, technically, the rod is movable.
/ end poop joke

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I just had a thought - if the purple worm managed to pass the immovable rod, that would mean that, technically, the rod is movable.

I’d say that joke was barely passable.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

A minor thing, but a flame tongue rapier is GREAT for doing shishkabob!

 

[MNblockhead]

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[aco175]

I’d say that joke was barely passable.

Wrecked-em, damn near killed him.

 

[Nephilim00]

Oh, behave!

 

[Mad_Jack]

Oh, behave!

We are... Badly.

And speaking of putting things where they don't belong, we once got a mage to surrender by threatening to drop our portable hole into the bag of holding he was keeping his spellbooks in...
It was a damn good thing he didn't have a Wisdom bonus - the whole thing was a bluff and the "hole" was just a folded-up silk scarf, lol...

 

[Stormonu]

you can have a lot of fun with a Bag of Devouring

All I gotta say is 3E grappling troll with that item. Grab & stuff.

 

[Richards]

In a previous 3.5 campaign, my son had a fire elemental familiar which took (mostly) human form, looking rather like a young lady made of flame, with obsidian horns sprouting from her head. He had a ring of fire resistance, which he eventually gave to her to wear - we ruled that when worn by a fire elemental, it allowed her to pick up and interact with things without setting them ablaze. Certainly not in the rules as written, but we felt it fit the theme.

Johnathan

 

[Bill Zebub]

Oh, I just thought of a good one. We were high in a massive tower (I won’t say which AP to avoid spoilers) with the alarms going off and bad guys hunting us. The only escape was an arrow slit.

We put our Daern’s Instant Fortress into the arrow slit and said the command word. DM ruled that our instant fortress was destroyed, but the tower gained a rather large exit.