A portal takes you to a place called 'Earth'. What do you loot?

[chronoplasm]

You and your band of heroic adventurers have hacked and slashed your way through kobolds and deodands, slain ghoul-bears and worm demons, and rescued one hundred princesses. Your latest adventure has taken you through a planar portal to a world called 'Earth'. You find yourself in a sprawling earth city in a first-world nation. This city could be London, Chicago, Tokyo, any where.

What riches would you liberate from these earth people to take back to your native plane?

Assume that your powers still work in this world.
Assume that, using some sort of modified lightning spell, your party's Wizard or whatever can devise a 'ritual of recharging' to power your newly acquired treasures when you take them home with you.

 

[Theroc]

Well, a tazer would be a good option, particularly for wizard's and the like. Melee touch attack to cause 1d4 non-lethal lightning damage and stun unless the victim succeeds a fort save...

Hm... a laptop or desktop computer might be good for the wizard or cleric to store their knowledge in. Of course the Bard is going to want an electric guitar. I can't think of a technological item a barbarian would like. Fighter might enjoy a chainsaw as a weapon option (I think there are battery powered chainsaws). Flashlights, while they aren't as good as an Everburning torch, could also be used to blind people briefly by shining it in their eyes(like a lamp, only easier).

I might think of more later.

 

[Crothian]

Anything electrical is just going to run out of battery power soon. But not the alien spaceship and ray guns from Roswell currently hidden in Fort Knox!

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

I'm imagining a half-orc with the man-portable minigun seen in Terminator 2 and Predator.

 

[Umbran]

If, as you stipulate, you have the power to recharge some things...

Two words: Electric chainsaw.

The biggest issue would be training to become competent with some of the tools. For example, one can haul back firearms, and enough ammo for them to be useful, if you learn to hit the broad side of a barn.

My personal favorite would be the same as you'd normally do in an apocalyptic scenario - hit the local pharmacy. Magic pills that remove pain and disease!

 

[coyote6]

The classic answer would be the powerful artifacts that are lying around in museums that no one in this world can use, but that will work just fine back in fantasy world. Was it Dragon #100 that had the adventure that sent the PCs to London to collect a magic blade?

Computers aren't real good for a wizard, as they can't be used as a spellbook, per the regular spellbook rules. Take back pre-modern printing press though; maybe you can figure out how to make it work for spellbooks. At least speed things up (one spell a day? Ugh) and make it easier (no more hand-writing everything! Faster to make backup spellbooks -- just print off another copy!).

Guns are nice, but in D&D, they generally aren't significantly better than regular weapons. Plus, they won't be magical. High explosives might be more useful, though, since even magic weapons don't have much to rival an RPG (outside of wands & the like -- but anyone can use an RPG).

Medicine would be awesome -- except that clerics can do it better with a 3rd level spell. So bring back a limited supply of medicine? Meh.

What I'd suggest -- a bunch of "how to" books, and maybe a few engineers or craftsmen to go with 'em. Modern sewers, urban planning, indoor plumbing, hygiene guidelines (assuming Fantasy World's diseases are caused by the same causes as Earth's diseases), and stuff like that. More modern accounting and business practices. Want to get really rich? Invent the stock market.

Modern agricultural information and some associated technologies (windmills, irrigation techniques, etc.) might be handy, too -- probably want to go organic or maybe pre-modern, so you don't need all the pesticides. OTOH, spells can probably substitute for safer pesticides. Grab a few dozen Peace Corps manuals and/or "volunteers".

Heck, take back modern political systems. Bring home the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Federalist Papers, & the like, and trade in those despotic kings for a little modern representative democracy.

Oh, any bards would have to take back guitars and electric guitars. Import rock & roll!

 

[Scribble]

the monster manual... It would add significantly to your knowledge skills.

 

[Allenchan]

This:
$100 portable Wikipedia - Hack a Day

And this:
Time Travel Cheat Sheet - Time travel cheat sheet - Gizmodo

And dirty magazines for the Orc Barbarian that I travel with.

 

[Oryan77]

A Snuggie blanket, Duct Tape, a Slap Chop, and toilet paper....all more valuable than any magical item.

 

[Voadam]

And dirty magazines for the Orc Barbarian that I travel with.

Adventurers live in a world with magic healing and tons of wealth. We've got higher tech. Computers, specific books, high tech weapons, and porn are the things that would be unavailable there or would be better from here than there.

Hmm, Entenmenn's cheese filled crumb coffee cake might make it high on my list.