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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 216271" data-attributes="member: 508">41.  You can even use a patch of quicksand to your advantage, say by activating an immovable rod three feet below the surface and balancing a small chest on top of it.  The chest remains out of sight, and no one's likely to stumble across your secret cache.  This can be a good place to stash stolen loot, a supply of healing potions for emergency use, an "emergency fund" for when you need extra money fast, or whatnot.42.  An immovable rod can be used outdoors to determine direction.  Simply point the rod directly at the sun so that it casts a shadow directly behind it, and activate it.  When the sun's movement causes the shadow to move, you'll know which way is which.  (Assuming Earthlike conditions, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, so the shadow of a rod pointing directly at the sun eventually points toward the east.)  Of course, you can do the same thing with a stick, but a hanging immovable rod won't accidentally get jostled or moved by the wind, and is therefore more accurate.43.  Having an immovable rod hanging in the air might make it easier to coil rope nice and evenly.44.  In a pinch, an immovable rod makes a fine substitute for a tent pole.  You could even improvise a tent with a large enough piece of canvas, an immovable rod to hold it up, and a bunch of sufficiently heavy stones to keep the bottom of the "tent" from flapping around.45.  You could place a helmet or hat on an immovable rod placed at the appropriate height to fool someone into thinking that there's really a person wearing it.  This might work well against someone spying through a window, on the other side of a large rock, or around the corner of a dungeon corridor.  In the meantime, while your enemy thinks he knows where you are, you're busy sneaking around to try to flank him (or possibly fleeing for your life, depending on the relative strengths of your enemy and yourself).46.  Propping an appropriately-sized skull onto a hovering immovable rod might give an enemy pause; most people get a little unnerved when confronted with a skull apparently hovering in midair.  Is it some type of undead creature?  Some new magic item?  A defensive trap?  Only you'll know the answer with any confidence.47.  You can use an immovable rod as part of a simple pit trap.  Say you've got a 10-foot by 10-foot opening in your wooden floor, leading to a pit of whatever depth you deem appropriate.  Activate your immovable rod horizontally in the center of the opening at floor height and place a 10-foot-square piece of plywood onto it.  When somebody steps onto the plywood, it'll pivot on the rod and send the intruder plunging to the bottom of your pit.  (Best of all, when the plywood flips up as a result of being stepped on it shields the immovable rod from being grabbed by your victim!)  Outdoors, you can use the same approach and cover your plywood with a light sprinkling of grass or dirt.48.  You can "hang" an immovable rod in the air at the top of a vertical shaft and use it as a pulley to lift items up and down the shaft with an appropriate length of rope.  Instant elevator!49.  Presumably, with a couple of immovable rods hanging horizontally at various levels, you could practice jumping from one to another and keeping your balance.  Such a skill might come in handy when leaping along rooftops or from one narrow cliff ledge to another.50.  When nothing else is available, an immovable rod is a handy place to tether an animal, whether it be riding mount or guard dog.</blockquote>

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