What's the most usefull non-combat item!?

[Darklone]

Pfft. Just another holding device.

Hand of Vecna another holding device ...

I like that coconut from GURPS. Instant Oasis. Throw it into the desert and it'll unfold itself into a full score oasis... With nice dancers, if you are lucky!

 

[Henry]

In my group, no adventurer is considered complete until he or she has two items:

1.Heward's haversack
2.Boots of Striding and springing

For a halfling or gnome, a H.H.H. is a Godsend; it weighs 5 pounds, and holds 100 combined pounds of gear. AND, it is like wearing an item that gives you the equivalent of quickdraw on anything in the sack! Many is the time I have impressed my group by my halfling acting like a general store:

You need fishhooks?
Ink?
Ink Pen?
Flasks of Acid?
Oil?
Potions of curing/haste/jumping/spider climbing?
crowbar?
Chess and draughts sets?
Deck of cards for gambling?
Bedroll, blanket, and small tent?

It's all here, baby!

Basically if it was on the items for sale lists, was low weight, and cost under 50 gp, I had it. I even carried one extra holy symbol of every party member's god! (I got that idea from that wonderful scene in The Mummy with Brendan Fraser!)

The Boots of S&S, or "The BoSS" as we sometimes called them, were almost as useful. If the only thing they offered was double movement, I would STILL pay a 6,000 gp price tag. For a halfling, a 40 speed is incalculably useful. As one player put it when he first saw my character move 40 feet and shoot, "You are one fast little man."

 

[Don21584]

Ring of X-Ray vision
if it was late at night you can see clearly for 20 feet
in a forest full of trees you can see your close range enemies
in close quartered combat with misc. walls or large stones/rocks, you can see through them

 

[Artoomis]

I don't knwo if it's the most useful, buts goggle of night.

I hate it when my charcters can't see.

 

[Number47]

Robe of Useful Items. The most non-combat, multi-usage item there is. Light source (bullseye lantern, filled and lit), pole and rope are always useful here or there. There are some cases when you might want a 2-foot by 4-foot steel mirror, but wouldn't that be a pain to carry around? A few valuables, in case your money bag is missing. A 24-foot long ladder! A mule! A pit! A rowboat! A self-hinging door! A self-embedding window! War dogs! These are things that you just can't carry around, not even in a bag or holding. Sure, you might never have occasion to use one of these, but someday you'll be kicking yourself because you don't have a rowboat.

 

[Rashak Mani]

I even carried one extra holy symbol of every party member's god!

You some kind of Peddler ?! Hope the Clerics in your group werent too offended ...

We had a halfling too who carried a lot of holysymbols... but it was only for his disguising... he didnt much care for religion... he even carried some evil ones just in case !

 

[nsruf]

That's easy: the gold piece

 

[Krystoff]

That's easy: the gold piece

Well, I suppose its techincally a non-combat item but it sure does provoke a lot of combat.

 

[Rashak Mani]

A GOLD PIECE !! What a cheap bastarrd !!

Go for platinum or gems...

 

[Antikinesis]

Travel Cloak from Magic of Faerun

2000gp for endure elements cold, keeps you dry, makes rations for 3 people per day, 2 gallons of water(or tea) per day, and becomes a one person tent!

Huh huh. Orco42's pitching a tent in his cloak. Huh huh.

My vote's for that Ring of Sustenance... no need to carry food or water, only need 1/4th as much sleep... especially useful for spell casters.

-AK