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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 216287" data-attributes="member: 508">81.  With sufficient practice, you could even hang a small mirror from an immovable rod (or have it attached with sovereign glue) and reflect ray attacks around corners by aiming at the mirror.  Note, however, that some attacks (like gaze attacks; see page 77 of the DMG) specifically don't work when "bounced" off a mirror.82.  Immovable rods don't always have to be used with rope to benefit climbers.  You could, for instance, climb to the top of a ladder steadied by your friends and activate an immovable rod so that it held the ladder still.  (This is useful in reaching a trap door on the ceiling in the middle of a large room.)  This allows everyone to climb up the ladder in turn, and you can pull both the ladder and the immovable rod up with you when you're done.  A length of rope and an immovable rod can't really be used in the same scenario; how are you going to get up to the top in the first place to anchor the rod?83.  Okay, since you asked:  Give the immovable rod - with a rope already tied around its middle - to the smallest person in your party.  (Halflings and gnomes are excellent choices.)  The strongest two party members each grab the rod holder by an arm and an ankle, swing her back and forth a couple of times, and then fling her for all they're worth.  At the apex of her journey (hopefully before she hits the ceiling) she activates the immovable rod and presto!--one rope ready for climbing up to the ceiling.84.  An immovable rod makes a handy place for a wizard to prop his spellbook when preparing arcane spells.85.  You can also use an immovable rod to "hang" a scroll or map up against a wall, tree, or other vertical surface (kind of like using a refrigerator magnet) so you and your companions can all study it together.86.  Tying your fishing line to an immovable rod allows you to doze off while fishing without worrying about a big catch pulling your fishing pole out of the ground where you stuck it.87.  An immovable rod is the ultimate paperweight, guaranteed to keep your papers from being blown away by even the strongest of breezes.88.  For a really secure place to stash your valuables, you'll need a pair of boots of levitation, a means of providing your own oxygen or doing without (an iridescent spindle ioun stone works well, as does a necklace of adaptation), a sack to put your valuables in (a bag of holding allows extra storage capacity), some rope, and of course an immovable rod.  Pack your goodies in the bag, tie it securely shut with the rope, and tie the other end around the middle of the immovable rod.  Put on the magical boots, find a good starting place - one whose exact location you'll be able to find again - and levitate straight up.  Keep going until you reach the upper atmosphere.  Not high enough?  Then keep going; eventually you'll leave the atmosphere behind you and wind up in the vacuum of space, with your home planet far beneath you.  Whenever you think you're high enough, activate the immovable rod and start the long levitation back down to the ground.  Whatever you do, don't forget where on the ground you started your vertical ascent, or you'll have a tough time finding your valuables again!89.  Here's a lethal trap for you:  Ensure that the door to your treasure vault opens outward.  Get a slab of marble, granite, or the stone of your choice carved into a rough cube with a "handle" on top.  Place this block immediately inside your vault and levitate it directly over the entrance.  When it's in place, slip an immovable rod under the stone "handle" and activate it.  As long as the block weighs less than 8,000 pounds, it'll remain where it is long after the levitation spell wears off.  Now all you have to do is deactivate the rod whenever anyone steps below the block.  If you don't want to stand up there yourself and trigger the trap you can assign the duty to your homunculus, unseen servant, or (if you're one of those friendly sorts who likes to animate the dead) a skeletal servant.  Of course, you could also probably rig it so that a tripwire a couple inches off the floor pushes the button on the immovable rod and squishes the intruders below.90.  While adventuring in the great outdoors, you can hang a clothesline between two immovable rods to allow your clothing to dry quickly after washing them by the stream.</blockquote>

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