Strange use for Decanter of Endless Water

[ceratitis]

Anything. All your base are belong to forced enema.

ROFL

another thing to do is get the taraske (mm forgot how to spell that) to eat it and replace the usual stoper with something strong enough to hold the gazer until it disolves in his stomach... this combines the afore mentioned enema with a real bad ulcer and can be deadly too

another thing is to make a basment trap with it. player walk it, door slams shut and a magic mouth startes the gazer mode.

Z

 

[Hypersmurf]

another thing is to make a basment trap with it. player walk it, door slams shut and a magic mouth startes the gazer mode.

"The mouth cannot utter verbal components, use command words, or activate magical effects."

-Hyp.

 

[mvincent]

"The mouth cannot utter verbal components, use command words, or activate magical effects."

A small construct (permanently animated object) could say the command word instead, but then adventurers could probably just repeat the same command to stop it.

Better to place the device out of earshot, or have the decanter already activated but with the water being held back by a sturdy pressure valve. Or maybe the activated decanter is contained inside a sturdy chest (and no adventurer is going to leave a chest unopened).

 

[Kalshane]

Also, IIRC as the water comes directly from the Elemental Plane of Water, a bunch of ships using this as a propulsion method would eventually flood the planet... Ok, so it might take millennia... But those on coral and sand islands, BEWARE the curse of the "Ships that move without sails and oars"!

I have a sudden urge to create an adventure that involves stopping a mad wizard out to destroy the world. When the PCs finally confront him they discover his evil plan was to flood the world via decanters. Of course, they'd probably lynch me.

Luthor: "I wasn't going to do this for another few weeks, but seriously! Turning all of humanity into apes? That was your master plan?!?!" (shoots Grodd)

 

[werk]

Well, if you can make one of these convenient little holes to the elemental plane, and command the rate that the element can come through, I'd think they would exist for other elements/para-elements/quasi-elements too.

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

The Decanter-JetSki and the Decanter-powered horseless carriage are venerable standards in my world

Turbines. So much cheaper than using the gravity-shaping effect of genesis to create perpetual motion...

 

[Rhun]

You could give your city-watch decanters mounted on wagons to use to put out fires...or to use as crowd control.

 

[ShadowRaven]

You could give your city-watch decanters mounted on wagons to use to put out fires...or to use as crowd control.

I like this idea

 

[Nareau]

"The mouth cannot utter verbal components, use command words, or activate magical effects."

-Hyp.

I was subjected to exactly this trap by Pielorinho many years ago. Since the Magic Mouth couldn't be used to activate the device, it instead asked us a riddle. The answer to the riddle was "poor," which sounds just like the activation command "pour". You should have see our faces when we all gleefully shouted out the answer to the riddle, only to realize we'd doomed ourselves by doing so.

After deactivating the trap, our party wizard (2e) took the decanter for himself. He tied it to his quarterstaff and named it "stick". He then used it very effectively as a firehose to keep bad guys at bay.

We also used it with a Feather Fall spell at some point to escape witch-on-a-broomstick-style. Pielorinho decided that Feather Fall worked by reducing your mass dramatically, so we all held onto a rope tied to stick as the wizard hopped on and flew us away.

Good times, good times....

Spider

 

[Recurver]

The RAW states that on geyser mode it produces 300 gallons per minute. that's it. it must always produce 300 gallons per minute. since pressure in psi is simply the resistance to flow using an aperture to restrict flow would raise the psi to whatever you wanted (within the limitations of the metals used to restrict) that being said the psi produced to run the engine on a nuclear submarine is only about 3,400 psi at max. this could be achieved very easily simply by making the water go through alot of pipe first with an aperture to control the psi. one decanter could pheasably get a very large ship to go as fast as a nuclear sub. that speed is roughly 29 Mph