One Portable Hole will solve all our problems.

[Joker]

Does the following work?

-For your castle/dungeon, can you place a portable hole at the end of your sewage system and thereby solve the problem of waste?


-Placing your entire undead army consisting of tens of thousands of undead into a portable hole. So that everytime someone says "Yeah, you and what army?" you can whip out your black little cloth and let the carnage begin. Cheesiness aside, does it work?

 

[Percivellian]

SRD text for a Portable Hole

Portable Hole: A portable hole is a circle of cloth spun from the webs of a phase spider interwoven with strands of ether and beams of starlight. When opened fully, a portable hole is 6 feet in diameter, but it can be folded up to be as small as a pocket handkerchief. When spread upon any surface, it causes an extradimensional space 10 feet deep to come into being. This hole can be picked up from inside or out by simply taking hold of the edges of the cloth and folding it up. Either way, the entrance disappears, but anything inside the hole remains.
The only air in the hole is that which enters when the hole is opened. It contains enough air to supply one Medium creature or two Small creatures for 10 minutes. The cloth does not accumulate weight even if its hole is filled. Each portable hole opens on its own particular nondimensional space. If a bag of holding is placed within a portable hole, a rift to the Astral Plane is torn in that place. Both the bag and the cloth are sucked into the void and forever lost. If a portable hole is placed within a bag of holding, it opens a gate to the Astral Plane. The hole, the bag, and any creatures within a 10-foot radius are drawn there, the portable hole and bag of holding being destroyed in the process.

 

[Lasher Dragon]

Well, the portable hole is a cylindrical space 6 feet across and 10 feet deep... hafta be one helluva small undead army LOL

In our games we have always joked about using ring-gates instead of going back to town all the freakin' time to sell our loot. Find a shopowner that is trustworthy, and give him one of the ring-gates. When you run across loot, shove it through the gate and he sends back your payment. Or you could stick your head through and place orders it would be great but we have yet to do it.

Now, if you could find a way to increase the diameter of the ring gates, and maybe increase the range..... wow.

 

[Joker]

Is this different from 3.0, because we use 3.0. Otherwise I needs to get me a Sphere of Annihilation for the sewage problem.

Gates? For a toilet perhaps.

A small tear in space opens above Demagorgon's head. A flushing sound is heard and SPLAT!!. Demagorgon, the Prince of Demon's has been defiled.

A plot hook if I ever heard one.

 

[Lasher Dragon]

Well, the gates are $40k for a pair, they are 18" in diameter, and can transport up to 100 lbs. per day up to 100 miles. A small creature can jump though them with a DC 13 escape artist check. You can put something (your head) through, and pull it back out, and it doesn't count toward the total weight.

They would work great for sewage, assuming you aren't transporting more than 100 lbs. of crap a day

It would also work as an instant shop, like I said above, assuming you didn't go more than 100 miles from the shop. You would only be able to exchange 100 lbs. per day total, and anything that can't fit through an 18" circle isn't going to make it.

Sorry, just noticed you were asking about 3.0 - don't have 3.0 rules handy, so I couldn't tell you. I found the rules in the SRD - if you can find 3.0 SRD you might be able to compare.

 

[shilsen]

Use a Bag of Devouring instead.

For the sewage system, that is, not the miniature undead army

 

[Jdvn1]

Use a Bag of Devouring instead.

For the sewage system, that is, not the miniature undead army

I wanna see the Bag of Devouring spit the sewage back out...

 

[dcollins]

Is this different from 3.0, because we use 3.0.

Same in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd edition. Text has been copy-and-pasted since at least 1979.

 

[Elephant]

Well, the portable hole is a cylindrical space 6 feet across and 10 feet deep... hafta be one helluva small undead army LOL

In our games we have always joked about using ring-gates instead of going back to town all the freakin' time to sell our loot. Find a shopowner that is trustworthy, and give him one of the ring-gates. When you run across loot, shove it through the gate and he sends back your payment. Or you could stick your head through and place orders it would be great but we have yet to do it.

Now, if you could find a way to increase the diameter of the ring gates, and maybe increase the range..... wow.

Stargate D&D!

I like the idea about partnering with a shopkeep, though. It sounds cool.

 

[Numion]

We thought some pretty strange uses for the Ring Gates .. like the Pit Stop.

Hire a bunch of clerics and wizards ready with spells in a small room, with the Ring Gate in their middle. The adventuring party, elsewhere completely, gets into a tough fight, a hurt character could insert his head into the Ring Gate.

Then the famed Pit Stop Clerics & Wizards would each within a round slap Heal, Death Ward, Spell Resistance, Invisibility and such on the character

Another non-Ring Gate idea was the True Resurrection Insurance, to prevent TPKs. Give a cleric of high level and good standing a deposit for a True Resurrection diamond and casting cost + then some. Then tell the cleric that "if you don't hear from me in 1 / 2 / 3 months, cast the True Resurrection on me." No body is required, so it would succeed if a TPK has happened and everyone died with no one to carry back the information or bodies. So BBEGs take notice: imprison, don't kill. Otherwise they'll just come back.