Creatively Mundane Uses for Magic Items

[White Warlock]

Hi, figured i would start a fun little thread.

In the past 300 years, my brother and I popped out with an assortment of creatively mundane uses for magic items. I'll start this thread out with one of my more entertaining ones:

Magic Items -- Decanter of Endless Water / Bag of Holding

Parking the "Decanter of Endless Water" angled down, with the lip below the rim of a large ceramic funnel, and the funnel lip entering the "Bag of Holding," all housed in a small shed, my brother created the magical Ever-Flushing Outhouse, complete with the world's best sanitation system.

[Baalster]

From Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bag_of_Holding

It can store a combined weight of up to forty times its own weight, and a combined volume of 30 to 250 cubic feet (0.8 to 7 m³). A living creature put in a bag of holding will suffocate after about 10 minutes.

If a bag of holding is overloaded, or if a sharp object pierces it (from outside or inside), the bag will rupture and be ruined, the contents lost forever in non-space.

I can imagine the ultimate children's prank ...

Regarding the bold text: No words has ever rang so true as it would in this case.

Baalster

[dergon darkhelm]

Can't remember if it was from some source book or from my own brain (you know how 20 years tends to dull the mind)

** But I had a tiny portals to the elemental plane of fire acting as garbage cans/ incinerators in a planescape campaign.



** Not exatly magic item but ........Tiny "shocker lizards" (?? MM2?? )) being housed in a central village and wired up to provide rudimentary electrical power to the households and numerous devices in the Temple. ((electric eels could work too))


(( completely OT but a great encounter is to have shambling mounds living in a symbiotic relationship with shocker lizards so the mounds keep getting juiced by the electricity and the lizards get protected...can really bump up the toughness of the encounter ))

[Nalo Jade]

Continual light cast on a pebble and tossed into a scroll case with a cork stopper. Remove cork, instant flashlight.

[dergon darkhelm]

Continual light cast on a pebble and tossed into a scroll case with a cork stopper. Remove cork, instant flashlight.

Works even better if cast on a circlet worn on the forehead with a little leather case over the gemstone. Ten you have a headlamp with both hands free

[bartleby]

A rod of prestidigitation with a quill pen built into the other side to serve as an erasable pen. If you make a mistake writting turn it around and cast prestidigitation to erase it by cleaning if off the paper.

[Nalo Jade]

Modified featherfall ring used in logging. Timber! *the log drifts slowly to the ground being guided to land right where they want it.

Reduce spell used in "Ship in a bottle" model making factory. Shrink the model ship so you can set it inside and after the spell expires it returns to a larger size.

Unseen servants as guards in courtrooms.

Ropes of climbing used in ship rigging.

[ThinkTank]

Continual Flame items are f'kin terrible for DMs. You have to do backflips just to use darkness as a thematic device or enviromental hazard.

Few things inspire greater DM hate than the nob with the continual light headband messing with your gloomy atmosphereic area.

IN OTHER NEWS:

sewage system connected to a sphere of annihilation.

immovable rods for scafolding.

decanter of endless water & bound fire elemental = steam power.

And of course Eberron already has Lightning Trains, Elemental Airships and Hydrofoil Elemental Boats.

And rust monster wands are a giggle to use with a crowbar.