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"...)

 

[Voadam]

I didn't have a staff of the magi to break in a retributive strike, but when my wizard was being torn apart by a level draining vampire wizard who vastly outclassed him I used my staff of thunder and lightning on my rod of wonder . . .

 

[Mad_Jack]

I didn't have a staff of the magi to break in a retributive strike, but when my wizard was being torn apart by a vampire wizard who vastly outclassed me I used my staff of thunder and lightning on my rod of wonder . . .

Ooh, that must have been pretty, lol.

 

[RealAlHazred]

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

Yes, but doing that voided the warranty...

 

[David Howery]

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

 

[niklinna]

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

I'm not even sure what that items intended purpose is!

 

[Shiroiken]

Back in the AD&D days, magic items didn't really have a prescribed purpose, as you tried to find the most inventive way to use them, because you kept needing new ways to outwit the DM. That, and they got destroyed with a level of frequency.

I'm not even sure what that items intended purpose is!

It's originally a cursed item. It appears to be a bag of holding, but then it eats all your stuff.

 

[Bill Zebub]

I once had a Mattress of Flying that I cut the tags off of.

Oh, and once I had some Nolzur's Marvelous Cookie Dough. You know I ate that $&#^ raw.

 

[Richards]

Back in an AD&D 2E game, my lawful monk chose a dagger of venom from among the loot our party had taken from the bad guys we'd just defeated. The DM warned me using a poisoned weapon could have some alignment consequences, but I told him I was going to clean out the poison, fill it with holy water, and use it against corporeal undead.

Johnathan

 

[David Howery]

It's originally a cursed item. It appears to be a bag of holding, but then it eats all your stuff.

it is, but unlike other cursed items, it's not stuck to you; you can toss it if you like. But... it's also a handy garbage disposal. You can use it to get rid of those annoying regenerating troll bits and pieces that are always left over after a fight. And if you're not a nice person, and there's this incriminating evidence around, well....

 

[iserith]

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.