Magical Items Inspired by Cartoons

[dvvega]

A major artifact inspired by cartoons would be the ability to never die. In most cartoons (ignoring Anime) the characters would get hit with falling pianos, safes, etc and crawl out from under them alive, just a little flat.

The Coyote is a great example. So an item that allowed that to happen would be cool.

 

[Orm]

I wonder if the Portable Hole was inspired by catoons?

Is it from the Beatles movie Yellow Submarine?

One item I think is really cool and absolutely necessary for 0 level wizards -as Rincewind- is luggage from Pratchetts Discworld novels. Not exactly a comic but there are a few comic adaptions.

 

[Hypersmurf]

A major artifact inspired by cartoons would be the ability to never die. In most cartoons (ignoring Anime) the characters would get hit with falling pianos, safes, etc and crawl out from under them alive, just a little flat.

The Coyote is a great example. So an item that allowed that to happen would be cool.

Heh. There was a 1E conversion of Daffy Duck in a Dragon magazine once. He had that ability.

Man, I know one item I'd want - Sport Billy's Auto-Sack!

-Hyp.

 

[Dingleberry]

IMC, the players encountered a group of dwarven adventurers from "South Fork" based off the South Park kids: Stan the fighter, Kyle the cleric, Cartman the sorcerer (with kitty familiar), and Kenny the monk. I gave Kenny a cursed ring of true resurrection: if killed, the wearer reappears the next morning as if true resurrection had been cast; the wearer is immediately killed by any random effect in combat (weapon fumble, missed ranged attack); ring can be removed only by means of a limited wish, wish, or miracle).

If I remember right, during the bar fight, one of the characters failed a Tumble check and fell onto the end of a bench. Kenny was standing on the other end, and was launched across the room and impaled on - and set on fire by - a torch sconce.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Is it from the Beatles movie Yellow Submarine?

The "portable hole" in cartoons shows up waaay before Yellow Submarine... it's an old staple of classic cartoons from the 20's...

But, I'm sure that those cartoons are the origin of the portable hole.

Great ideas, guys!!

A Bag of Anvils would also be nice... just pluck them out and throw them on the bad guys...

In the game I'm playing in right now, a large fleet of ships took off to an island that holds some very valuable things... in an attempt to stop them, we teleported boulders into the sky to drop on them... the original inspiration for the idea was all based on Road Runner cartoons...

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Space Ghost's wrist blasters were awesome. Heat ray, freeze ray, spank ray (okay, I made that last one up)...

Actually, his wrist blasters did have a Spank Ray... seriously.

In several episodes of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, he threatens a blast from his Spank Ray... very intimidating.

 

[der_kluge]

Um...

Spear and magic helmet?

 

[nakia]

Um...

Spear and magic helmet?

Hurricanes! Tidal Waves! Earthquakes! SMOG!!!!!

You beat me to it . . .

(and caused me to laugh heartily at my desk this morning).

How about something (a book maybe) that would allow a character to ignore Laws of Physics once per day or something? I am thinking of those Bugs Bunny cartoons where the platform gets chopped down, yet Bugs remains suspended in mid-air. He always quipped: "I know this defies the law of gravity, but then again, I never studied law."

 

[Fiery James]

Here is my conversion of Dora the Explorer. It was here backpack that gave me the idea to convert her.

You know, the funny thing is that I've also statted up Dora the Explorer. Scott Holden-Jones (of Everquest RPG fame, plus FDP, natch!) and I discussed it one night, and I worked out a few more things on my own, mostly using d20 Modern rules. She had a special ability to cast knock via somatic component, magical map, backpack, monkey familiar, etc.

Funny stuff!

- James

 

[tonym]

...cursed ring of true resurrection...

AWESOME!

Tony M