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]

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.

Yeah, I've had a few spirited discussions over the years about which breaks first, the rock or the hard place...
The fortress, the rod of lordly might, the decanter of endless water... There's a lot of ways to do some serious rearranging of the local scenery if you get even slightly creative.

I used to know one DM who swore he'd never give any party in his game a maul of the titans or mattock of the titans, because he knew what kind of crazy crap the party would instantly be inspired to do with them.

 

[TarionzCousin]

Yeah, I've had a few spirited discussions over the years about which breaks first, the rock or the hard place...
The fortress, the rod of lordly might, the decanter of endless water... There's a lot of ways to do some serious rearranging of the local scenery if you get even slightly creative.

I used to know one DM who swore he'd never give any party in his game a maul of the titans or mattock of the titans, because he knew what kind of crazy crap the party would instantly be inspired to do with them.

My 3 int 4 wis half-ogre (?) Al Qadim fighter found (was given the Mattock of the Titans) by the DM. I never used it to attack because "It's a shovel and I already got a sword!" to drive one of the other players crazy.

But I dug a lot of brand-new tunnels in dungeons!

Good times.