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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9111933" data-attributes="member: 29398">As player I rarely if ever have one* on board and there's been numerous times when I've come to regret it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />* - or anything similar e.g. a polearm.I think I've DMed one portable hole in my life (that never really got used for much, and didn't last long), and have yet to see one as a player.I've never seen a collapsible 10' pole but have seen many a collapsible shovel, and those do get used.&nbsp; Their carriers, however, tend to get shunned due to a bizarre sequence in a game long ago (that I was in, for a while).&nbsp; The PC owner of a collapsible shovel died in the field; another character took the shovel and then died in the next combat, then another character took the shovel and was also the next to die.&nbsp; This was, incredibly, repeated a couple more times - something like five characters died, each at pretty much the first opportunity after picking up that innocent non-cursed bland and boring shovel - until the shovel was ceremonially destroyed and a ban was placed on them within that party.Since then, anyone in any party in any campaign who packs a collapsible shovel has been looked at sideways. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9111933, member: 29398"] As player I rarely if ever have one* on board and there's been numerous times when I've come to regret it. :) * - or anything similar e.g. a polearm. I think I've DMed one portable hole in my life (that never really got used for much, and didn't last long), and have yet to see one as a player. I've never seen a collapsible 10' pole but have seen many a collapsible shovel, and those do get used. Their carriers, however, tend to get shunned due to a bizarre sequence in a game long ago (that I was in, for a while). The PC owner of a collapsible shovel died in the field; another character took the shovel and then died in the next combat, then another character took the shovel and was also the next to die. This was, incredibly, repeated a couple more times - something like five characters died, each at pretty much the first opportunity after picking up that innocent non-cursed bland and boring shovel - until the shovel was ceremonially destroyed and a ban was placed on them within that party. Since then, anyone in any party in any campaign who packs a collapsible shovel has been looked at sideways. :) [/QUOTE]

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