The Best Magic Item Uses in 5e

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[@alcatrazdraco8392]

Legend says critcrab is still plotting his revenge

[@aidenk.364]

Did not expect new critcrab lore today

[@jinn-tonik]

He’s piloting his revenge, too. Poetic, isn’t it?

[@lyudmilapavlichenko7551]

I had crabs once.

[@NixityNullt]

​@@lyudmilapavlichenko7551They locked me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with crabs.

[@RayPoreon]

Horseshoes of a zephyr allows you to have ocean-based cavalry. You can literally be pirate mongolian horse archers. Water walk also works but since it's impermanent it works best for short mounted attacks and raids, or for a surprise bording.

[@Natt_Skapa]

Centaur

[@Gamer_Dylan_6]

This is all well and good until the rouge wave hits.

[@trexdrew]

Tbh this unlocks a lot of things that DM’s can use against you that most don’t want to or don’t want to track. As was already mentioned rogue waves but there’s so much shit on the sea that can just end you even while you’re in decently sized ships. It opens yourself up to a lot of different challenges.

[@jameswhitley4101]

Naval usage for the horseshoes is a good idea, but they'll still be severely range restricted. Your horses need to rest, and as others pointed out, four inches above the water isn't enough to protect you from hazards, nor provide a good place for your horse to rest (can they even rest while wearing the horseshoes?). Furthermore, will you be able to carry all the supplies you need, much less a place to comfortably use then? It'd be like flying a stereotypical space fighter into deep space-- even if technically possible, you really want a larger ship that you can, like, live on, and would have sufficient life support and supplies. I'm also not sure how effective levitating horse archers will be against boats, but it might be an effective strategy. Nonetheless, they would be incredibly effective for Marine Calvary operations. Whether they're effective or not for inter-ship combat, they would devastatingly be useful in Normandy type situations, where you can send them in to attack coastal defenses whilst approaching with your main infantry barges-- or even defending against marine invasions. Imagine your enemies are trying to land on the beach, but you can send in agile horse-archers to harass their vessels as they approach. Also imagine how revolutionary they would be in freshwater contexts-- when you're fighting on or around a river or lake.

[@quantumforest7905]

Gotta combine the Horseshoes of a Zephyr with the Saddle of the Cavalier. I had that combo on my paladin's Find Steed mount in Rise of Tiamat. There was apparently supposed to be a situation where you need to get a McGuffin out of a body of water, but when you do a hidden creature tries to drag you underwater to drown you. But since my mount had the horseshoes on, it couldn't be submerged, and due to the saddle, my paladin couldn't be dismounted. So it just... didn't work. It was sitting there trying to drag me and my horse down, and I was just like, "Yeah, so...I gotta go. See you later, I guess." And we just trotted off with the loot.

[@GlassedGamer]

Put the Horseshoes of a Zephyr on a centaur rogue and see how effective sneaking is without making any noise as you walk.

[@FanOfMostEverything]

In my very first 3.5 campaign, we were up against an insect swarm of some description and not a single one of us had any kind of AoE options. So we set a blanket on fire and tossed the thing at them, which worked better than it had any right to.

[@Nox-eg3rq]

Simplicity is always the best option, why complete the problem

[@kingskelett6265]

@@Nox-eg3rq I know that you (probably) meant 'cwhy omplicate the problem', but 'why complete the problem' is just kinda funny ^^

[@carllomas4899]

​@@kingskelett6265cwhy omplicate

[@Lukasaske]

Thiws thread iws just on mistkae aftera nother

[@canislupus9208]

@@Lukasaske that was alot more than one

[@deltavictor8369]

All I'll say is that I was in a campaign once with multiple engineers, and 1) it was announced at session zero that there were only two Immovable Rods in the entire multiverse, and more could not be created without destroying one of the existing ones, and 2) it finally made sense why Sovereign Glue is a Legendary rarity item.

[@robertwyatt7188]

Our party, when we played in the Isle of Dread, used an alchemy jug, a metal shield, and Heat Metal to deep fry mayonnaise. This would be our only food source for several seafaring journeys. We also used a ring of waterwalking on the tail of our horse, then tied a rope to it and had a horsedrawn canoe. I had a sword named Orrectus that would point towards platinum, so when we fought basilisks I lay down a trap of bird meat stuffed with platinum coins. When we fought the basilisks I closed my eyes and my shortsword would point towards the basilisks. That campaign had some other fantastic magic item uses. I also remember we used polymorph, snails, and a broom of flying to drop sperm whales on castle walls.

[@lilz_relixx5913]

that basilisk thing is genius and im not your dm but im so proud of you

[@Nox-eg3rq]

Sperm whales? You're talking about the chunks of meat right..right...😂

[@robertwyatt7188]

@@lilz_relixx5913 Aw thanks! He's done some really clever stuff in my games too, we have lots of stories.

[@robertwyatt7188]

@@Nox-eg3rq They're a low CR gargantuan creature, so take any living creature that can't fight back (like a bug or a snail) and fly above whatever you want to crush, then polymorph it into a sperm whale. Whales just happen to be long, heavy, and perfect for destroying castle walls. While it kills the whale, the snail is left with its HP pre-polymorph, so I like to imagine this really confused snail standing atop a bunch of rubble.

[@Neutral_Tired]

@@robertwyatt7188 excess damage carries over when polymorph ends so, sadly, the snails probably died.

[@TheSpazhero]

In the pathfinder campaign “mummies mask” there was a magical faucet that could produce infinite warm clean water. We pretty much became water barons, and sold water by the barrel to towns we passed for cheap prices, totally tanking the water economy

[@Darasilverdragon]

Mansa Moisture

[@ThatOneREDScout]

For the Jug of Alchemy, I had my Artificer in his backstory use his infused one to stay alive in the middle of a barren desert by swapping between the mayo and the water every other day. It wasn't a fun experience living off of Mayo and Water, but he got through the desert.

[@joda7697]

That's pretty awesome not gonna lie.

[@dawsonhealy4327]

An item that let use summon a suspended 20ft cube of water, which we summoned on top of enemies and had the party's Triton and Lizardfolk jump in for an underwater WWE match nearly every combat.

[@abcrasshadow9341]

You had portable Blitzball!?!

[@vidmanandrew09]

But did they have steel chairs?

[@Damianweibler]

Oh I am stealing that one for the bad guys to use against the party. Thanks

[@devonthurgood9381]

If youre a rogue with a Ring of spell storing you can have your wizard cast “find familiar” into it to get a free familiar

[@Flobbled]

A paladin could give everyone "Find Steed"

[@someguy5003]

You could also sneak behind an evil spell caster and touch them every time they try to cast and just steal a spell.

[@Nathan_Talisien]

​@@someguy5003The caster has to intentionally cast the spell into the ring; it doesn't just suck up spells automatically because it's touching the caster. It could be interesting if it did, but it would also be waaaay too easily abused, lol.

[@sir.lane1378]

@@Nathan_TalisienI was just wondering if it could suck up the wish spell.

[@Nathan_Talisien]

@@sir.lane1378 The Ring of Spell Storing only holds a combined total of up to 5 spell levels, so Wish is well beyond what it can hold. You'd need a magic item of Legendary or Artifact rarity to potentially hold a 9th level spell like Wish.

[@FelisInsanisCatfood]

A fun story about the Pipes of the Sewers: In my current campaign, at the time of the story, we had 3 party members: Andrew, the human fighter (my character), Eobard, the (probably) human sorcerer and Sprocr, the goblin alchemist. Andrew found the Pipes of the Sewers somewhere in the sewers of the first town, and, since he had proficiency with flutes and pipes, he attuned to them, because "why the hell not?". Quite a few sessions later, Sprocr learned how to make pscychoactive drugs with only a few ingredients. In the same session, we had to infiltrate the overtaken town of Tilverton in the name of the King, so we could steal a few documents, granting us a generous sum of gold. But none of us were especially great at stealth, so we decided to make some distractions to draw some of the enemy guard away from our objective. By distractions I mean throwing a few bombs here and there, killing a few guards at key positions in town, and just generally causing some mayhem. Now, here come the pipes in play. Andrew decided to play them, just to see what happens, expecting to summon a few swarms the guards can deal with relatively easily. I rolled a nat20. The DM asked one of the other players, who was in another campaign where they were clearing the sewers of Tilverton: "How extensive are the sewers here?" To which he replied: "I still don't know, but my other party has been stuck in there for 13 sessions and the DM said we're only a third of the way to the halfway point." And so goes the tale of how an amnesiac fighterman and a crazy gnome alchemist covered the entirety of Tilverton with billions of angry, meth fueled rats.

[@Krwzprtt]

Regarding the alchemy jug: one of my players used it when they were fighting imps and they had turned invisible. He used the command word to generate mayo and swung the jug hard to spray mayo around him to cover the imps with mayo so they would be visible.

[@badwolf3618]

Omg i love this so much!

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Yeah, it was "mayo" (wink)

[@christophercrafte]

a fun idea, but now they are either wearing or carrying the mayo, so it is also invisible. BUT THE SMELL ISNT.

[@thatwaffleguy4958]

​@@christophercrafte I love how D&D has gotten me into saying the most random of things. Example from your statement: "Scents aren't visible, but they can be smelled."

[@christophercrafte]

@@thatwaffleguy4958 I play a character with blind sight, so I think you'll find that scents ARE visible.

[@whisperinwind87]

when I played an artificer for a holiday one-shot I combined an alchemy jug, a handy spice pouch, an item infused with the spell prestidigitation, a small furnace, and a handcart together to make a portable food stall that served hot cocoa, apple cinder, and sugar cookies...

[@philiphockenbury6563]

An enemy NPC used a pipe of smoke monsters to make a fake dragon to juke out a reaction attack. It was really cool.

[@robertwyatt7188]

Great for PC use too. Major Image is one of my favorite 3rd level spells because you can mimic heat, so I often like to create a flaming high level demon with an aura of heat. Scares away a lot of trashmobs.

[@GlossyT]

In my campaign, my fellow party members got hold of a bag of beans. For those who don’t know, one of the thing you can get is a giant Pyramid with a Mummy lord inside. We decided, to bank on the fact that we would get it and use it as a massive distraction for the armies chasing us. We threw 2 beans, meaning we had to roll it twice, and got the mummy both times. So now 2 mummy lords were fighting an army as we made our getaway, and they managed to cripple them substantially.

[@rylandrc]

I could easily see a GM turning this on its head and having the mummy lords convert the armies into mummies, and now you have a plague of undead to fight commanded by two intelligent mummy antagonists.

[@tulliusexmisc2191]

@@rylandrc A more imaginative GM would have both mummy lords be very grateful, and show their appreciation with gifts of mummified puppies, swarms of locusts, troupes of mummy cheerleaders and so on, at the most awkward moments.

[@rylandrc]

@@tulliusexmisc2191 lol

[@landonmclain6103]

In curse of strahd, I was drained of most spells while running from werewolves. I used catapult on a silver coin to slow them down.

[@abiggs4828]

Clever! Catapult is such an underrated spell because it turns mundane items into lethal projectiles at the very least. Once you start getting creative with materials, the game changes significantly. Vials of acid or alchemists fire are always fun. My go to is to catapult vials of carrion crawler poison with my divination wizard, and use portent to pretty much guarantee paralysis. Hex to affect their Con is a good play/combo as well. Animate Objects can be used in similar ways of course, but that’s a higher spell slot

[@giraffedragon6110]

My favorite variant of this is casting animate object on a handful of silver coins. but Now i want to use catapult too.

[@nigeltucker4202]

I always liked casting catapult on vials of alchemist fire. Of if you were poor and prep time, home make Molotov oil flask cocktails. Surprise, now you're also on fire!

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

Literally the first thing seeing the Artificer alchemy side and it's spell list was noticing catapult and being like 'that's just a recipe for FUN right there.' Brew your ammunition and then use Catapult for precise deployment.

[@edwardbirdsall6580]

Glass vial of green slime@@abiggs4828

[@Dragon_Song1]

I was in a desert with along side a party of 3 in dnd, when we found an alchemy jug, but because my character was from a jungle he knew what honey was. And honey was so rare in the desert he sold the honey for an absurd amount of money. Fun stuff.

[@nonya9120]

It may be cliche but Decanter of endless water. Drinking water, fire hose and emergency propulsion. What an item. Riding a kayak over an endless coral sea

[@hellhound74]

So there's a funny use if the DM allows it, knock out a creature you would otherwise struggle to kill, restrain it, then shove the decanter into its mouth Unless the creature is undead or doesn't need to breathe they will drown from literally endless water being poured down there throat Alternatively you could use it as a form of torture in an interrogation as endless water means endless waterboarding and countless other horrifying methods that involve water Or you could flood the castle

[@redholm]

Don't forget. Flooding the entire world if left on for to long :P It can produce 432K Gallons of water per day on the Geyser function. 30 Gallons per 6 sec

[@hellhound74]

@@redholm this makes me want to start a cult that is just trying to flood the material plane with decanters of endless water

[@redholm]

@@hellhound74 XD I mean. You can do that.

[@hellhound74]

@@redholm the party goes to fight the cult and just walks into a basement of dudes holding water glasses that just point them at you and send the fucking ocean at you

[@an8strengthkobold360]

Bag of holdings have a ton of none obvious uses (asside from the banishing/bomb uses). Like putting a creature in it then thorowing the bag/slipping it through small opening to sneak into places, get over walls, slip though prison bars, etc.

[@christophercrafte]

my friend is running a dark souls-based campaign. in it, one of the main quests is to ring two giant bells. my character has super good hearing, hes a lycan and I took blind fighting so when the first bell range I had to make a con-save from the noise hurting my super sensitive ears, the second bell came along and I told everyone "wait like 30 seconds to ring this one." I hopped into my bag of holding. and heard no sound. its also fun to note I stacked werewolf and vampire, and since the Dhampir race doesn't need air I can live in the bag.

[@robertwyatt7188]

We often have several people in our parties with mage hand and each hand can lift 10 pounds. The bag weighs 15, to two casters can get a fly speed. I frequently have my wizard hiding in one while they cast spells through a familiar or a Manifest Mind (Order of the Scribes 6th level feature)

[@SZRLM]

Anyone that tries that banishing arrow bs I remind that the bag of holding weighs 15lbs

[@robertwyatt7188]

@@SZRLM We lobbed it like a shotput to get rid of a white dragon lmao. We later encountered that dragon in the astral plane in a different campaign with a different party, where we banished it back to its home plane (the material plane) to get rid of it, so the original party had to pick up the slack.

[@lordanordstreamarchive4027]

I thought there was a downside to going into a bag of holding as a creature

[@finleycremeens2829]

Whenever I see the horseshoe magic items, I can only think about all the centaurs and any hooved tieflings that might be out there

[@kaimcdragonfist4803]

In my currently-running Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign, my character has the Gray Bag of Tricks, appropriate since he's the ranger. I feel kinda bad but I've used the animals inside as distractions in more than one difficult encounter. It also gave us Top Percentage Weasel, who for some reason survived like six turns against some big scary creature and helped quite a bit on the damage front.

[@chrisflanagan7564]

we have two tan bags. I thought we got a tan and a grey, but after much arguing we ended up with two tan bags... anyway, before a big fight we had some prep time. I pulled out 6 animals, giant elk and dire wolf, and the "little free flankers" were very handy.

[@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos]

​@@chrisflanagan7564I once saw a cat successfully grapple a flesh golem for two entire turns, which is two more turns than it ought to have done.

[@chrisflanagan7564]

@@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos yes! it's amazing when it works. ok, so the golem can waste it's turn trying to deal with the car or... we all get flanking.

[@joaomrtins]

Totally in range of real weasels behaviour. MF go around preying bigger animals as it was nothing.

[@joaomrtins]

Just as I wrote this comment I clicked on Extra History's video on the Basilisk... If you have your myth trivia fresh in your head you should recall weasels are the counter for basilisks (I didn't).

[@TheParadoxG]

I don;t know if this idea ever broke containment, but a portable hole has two very very powerful uses. 1) The arrowhead of annihilation. That's an oldy, not my idea. But you make an arrowhead that stuffs a portable hole into a bag of holding on impact. 2) The Magical Girl Transformation Chamber. Glue (not sovereignly) a bunch of papers to the inside walls of the hole's chamber. Put a glyph of warding with a buff spell on each, make the activation for them a series of if/then situations. Spell 1 goes off when you say "by the power of peace and love I will turn you into a bloody pulp" and the next spell has a trigger of the first spell going off and so on. Note that the glyph of warding spell lets you stack concentration spells (so you can have things like fly and haste and tenser's transformation and tasha's otherworldly guise all at the same time), and the restriction on moving the glyphs is canceled by having them in a stationary demi-plane.

[@douglasphillips5870]

Staff of flowers is great for druids because you always have plants for your spells. Also, for wood elves, you conjure a rose bush round one, and disappear round two

[@bowen13]

Thanks to an incredibly statistically unlikely series of events and rolls, one of my paladin characters managed to turn a black dragon lawful good by casting the command spell "befriend" while it was wearing a psychically controlled magic collar. The DM rolled 3 nat 1s in a row, cursed, then said the spell interacting with the dragon's nature and the mind control collar caused a random forced alignment change, and the DM rolled lawful good before chucking his D20 across the room. Baphumet had to show up the next session to "take the dragon to safety" because otherwise my Tiefling paladin was going to have a new black dragon mount.

[@thatwaffleguy4958]

Tiefling Paladin to the black dragon: "You're my friend now." Baphumet: "No the f*ck they're not!"

[@chandlercole8832]

If you have at least two immovable rods and good arm strength (I guess a CON save or something?), you can use them as a ladder of infinite length by clicking the button of the on in your right hand, pull yourself up/down and reach up/down with the other one in your left hand, click that one, releace the right one, and repeat.

[@Leoevans631]

Or you make them into shoes so you can press the button with your toes and have in infinite staircase

[@shineshadow]

Just use one rod and do the move they do in the Salmon ladder in Ninja Warrior. Getting the Timing right for the clicks ist going to Take some time but it will be worth it

[@MurdersMachine]

Why would it be a CON save instead of a STR check? You literally even said "good arm STRENGTH".

[@robertwyatt7188]

Oh we've done that so many times in my games, it's a great little trick. We allow using it with one by activating it, hauling yourself upward, deactivating the rod, raising it over your head, and activating it again. It requires a lot of shoulder strength but or a climbing rogue can use it for getting onto rooftops or up cliffs.

[@chandlercole8832]

@@MurdersMachine because doing a single one-armed pull-up is probably a lower level strength check. Doing 20+ in a row is a test of endurance, so I'd make it a con save.

[@attercops]

I'll be the judge of these items Update: It was a good list. My favorite was the volcano wok, however a war would break out over what recipe is cooked first. 4/5 would start WW1 again

[@thajocoth]

Magic items are fun. I like to toss in some homemade flavor items that aren't all that useful for combat and stuff, but add to the flavor of the world's magic. Here are some I've made & given to parties: * Magic Seashell - Ask it a question and hold it up to your ear. The player rolls a die. If the result is even, the seashell responds "No". If it's odd, it responds "Yes". * Water Wand - It's smaller than most wands, making it perfect for a small creature's hand. It holds up to 10 charges. Spend X charges to squirt water X*5 feet away. If submerged, it absorbs water regaining 1d4 charges per round. It can also be used as an arcane focus. This was created to be the in-universe equivalent of a child's watergun. * Boot of Speed - This boot adds +5 to your speed, but it only speeds up the movement of one leg, so you need to roll Dex saves to not fall prone. It's not cursed, just poorly crafted. *Teleporting Belt - If wearing this belt, you can spend a Bonus Action to teleport the belt up to 10 feet away, along with your pants (or skirt, or kilt, or whatever). * The Invisible Ring - This ring turns Invisible while worn. (It does not effect the visibility of the wearer or anything else besides itself.) * I mixed in some spell scrolls together that were super old and barely readable, but still held their magic. Two of them were Message & Sending with clues for where to find some great loot. The others were spells that I created for these scrolls. Because of how the words are worn away, each one looks like it could be a scroll of either Sending or Message (and there was an image of them all that I gave the party). These were those other spells mixed in: - Massage (Abjuration) - Causes all muscle tension in the target to be immediately relieved. - Fanning (Evocation) - Creates a series of cool breezes that each last for 1 second. The spell's duration is 1 minute. - Rending (Transmutation) - The target gains advantage on their next strength check or attack roll to tear something within the next hour. - Mess (Transmutation) - Causes non-living items within 20' of the target to be flung into the open space around them, creating difficult terrain. - Sunning (Evocation) - A spotlight of sunlight passes through solid objects to reach the target for 1 hour - Sausage (Conjuration) - Summons enough cooked sausages for 3d4 meals. - Soaring (Transmutation) - You gain a Fly speed of 60 with Hover for 1 hour. - Sanding (Evocation) - The nearest wooden item to the target is immediately sanded expertly to a perfectly smooth finish.

[@_stonhinge]

I'm just imagining soaking an uncharged Water Wand in holy water for undead fighting shenanigans.

[@thajocoth]

@@_stonhinge I didn't use a whole lot of undead in that particular campaign, but if the party did that, I'd totally allow that to add some range to their usage of holy water. That's great creative thinking!

[@Flobbled]

These ideas are awesome and some of them made me chuckle

[@bearnaff9387]

Oh god, I want all of these. I want 4 invisible rings on my dominant hand in order to gain advantage on "persuasion" checks (i.e. punching). I will totally wear the belt, especially if I can attune to it and have it manipulate the worn item to fold it for me. Instant bed-readiness! If I can get it enhanced to teleport back to me, that baby is getting attached to a sheathed sword and put in my pack. Water Wand is a good utility item even without being a holy watergun. And the boot of speed is perfect for hobbling someone so they can't run without crippling or shackling them. Also, I am yoinking those scrolls to use as prestidigitation effects with reduced durations or outputs.

[@AlastorFan5900]

@@bearnaff9387 get the rings modified to be sharp on the punching end. if you can modify the belt to send it back: 1. convince someone to wear it, and make their (sudden) pantslessness as persuasion 2. use the belt as a grip wrap for a large axe, makes more sense than a random belt on a sword (if your dm allows it to teleport other things too) 3. install a chastity cage, use on bard.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

6:00 Because a terrasque can only tie the strength save, and ties roll in favor of the party, a guy had The Terrasque held captive beneath a magic town with a bunch of immovable rods.

[@Frapsity]

Then some f***ing monkey comes along and ruins it with karaoke.

[@sirpantsalot123]

I got a ring of spell storing as a rogue in my last campaign! Let me tell you, being able to cast whatever the heck my druid decided to put in it was freaking pristine.

[@Eagletrotter]

I once played in a campaign with two worlds, wherein our D&D sessions were cannonically a VR landscape. My character had an INT of 6, which I decided meant he was glitched and forgot everything about who he was in the real world while in the game. When he got ahold of a Headband of Intellect, boy was that session a doozy.

[@joshuawillis3745]

Our party had to escape the premises of a tower pretty quick and everyone chose a different method. One used Levitate, one used a parachute, one took the stairs, and I opted for leaping from the roof and climbing into my own Bag of Holding on the way down. Luckily the party found me in the city streets below before I suffocated. I also met a cool dude in the astral plane while I was in there and we met up later in the material plane for a quest.

[@oldmanbread1826]

An artificer in my game made a bag of holding and an alchemy jug. Every day he kept putting mayo into the bag, saying one day he will have enough mayo to flood the bbeg by flipping the bag inside out

[@sammyboy8149]

I did this too, and fun fact, mayonnaise is oil based, and therefore flammable. Made the final fight a bunch more fun.

[@darienb1127]

​@@sammyboy8149Napalm that smells like rotten eggs!

[@demonicgrub1025]

So, my most creative mundane item use was for a bedroll. My dm put me and my party in an orphanage where the doors were weighted to close behind you, and the layout of the orphanage would change every time they did. I just started jamming bedrolls into door frames, and keeping the layout from changing. It became such an in joke in the campaign that I enchanted my bedroll to be a returning bedroll, so I could get it back every time I jammed it in a door as a joke.

[@samuelgolden6505]

Not an intentional use, but I had an enemy that would regenerate out of a specific Item after a certain time and the party put the item into a bag of holding without identifying it. so when the enemy regenerated he popped halfway out of the bag of holding on a player's belt and started a very interesting fight.

[@DracoTheBlack]

When I first started playing back in 3rd I looked through the books and saw the Thunderstone. My immediate thought was, "What if I put one on the ground and carefully place a stone or pressure plate over top of it?" followed by, "What if I put a whole lot of them in the ground with a stone or pressure plate over top of them?"

[@Iteration456-8_codename_goblin]

My favorite application of magic items is in one dungeon as a special puzzle mechanic The most recent example is in a “remote control stone crab” it doesn’t attack and can only pull/carry 10 lbs It can squeeze through cracks in the walls and through rock piles My personal favorite part of the dungeon was when my players got attached to the crab but had to send it through a wall to have it hold down a button to let them through, emotional goodbye speeches ensued only to realize that the door they walked through looped back to where the button was on the other side of the wall

[@KamiThulak]

I once played a Rouge and used Heward's Handy Spice Pouch to convince a noble that he was terribly sick and needed our group to get him a cure. #lawfullgood

[@varsinious477]

The *Orb of Time* is one of my favorites for some reason. You hold it, say a comand word and it tells you the time, dats all it do. It has made an appearance in every campaign i have run and recently started showing up in my friends campaigns when I play. Big grand name for effectively a pocket watch thats only used if your dealing with time sensitive events at night or underground.

[@jolanberden4438]

My current players that I DM for actually use an Apparatus of the Crab as their main mode of transportation. It's not even a water campaign, but having what is essentially an amphibious magic tank has proven to be an excellent tool for traveling the land. Offers protection and still offers a good travel pace because of its speed

[@thatwaffleguy4958]

Put them in a desert, and you'll have a D&D equivalent of Akira Toriyama's new manga series Sand Land.

[@wolfskinchanger]

Another use of the Ring of Spell-Storing: since it holds its stored spells indefinitely, you can use it to get around spell-slot limits. Just before taking a long rest, use a spell slot if you have any remaining to place a spell into the Ring that you expect to need in the future ('Shield' and 'Cure Wounds' are solid candidates); the long rest will give you back the spell slot(s) that would otherwise have gone unused, and if you use the stored spell first when the need for it arises, you've saved a spell slot that might still be useful for other things... even if it's just putting the spell back into the ring at the end of the day.

[@sparticus1475]

Favorite kill in a One-Shot. Me and friends did a silly little one-shot where they fought a juiced-up Tarrasque with randomly rolled magic items. One of them got the bag of beans. During one part of the fight where it seemed like the party were about to wipe, the person with the beans, giving up sort of, managed to throw one into the Tarrasque's mouth. What happened is a magically appearing bottomless gout of oil began to spew up and out of the Tarrasque's throat. The players then ignited the oil and blew up the Tarrasque's insides, near ending the fight.

[@leviadragon99]

Friend of mine in a recent DnD game ended up getting a Headband of Intellect for his Himbo-brained Monk, because... well because the character wanted a fashion piece I guess. Little did the table know that the player wanted it to give the character a pretty existential arc, where the sudden influx of intelligence fundamentally changed them as a person and caused a schism between their monkly spiritual balance and the new smart boy energy.

[@darincheney7568]

I used dust of dryness to create a depth charge in an underwater one-shot. The DM had to make up damage for it on the fly, but the basic reasoning was that a 15 foot cube of water was instantly appearing in a space surrounded by water. Because water doesn't compress, explosive expansion ensued.

[@Midwinter_Snow]

Our bloodhunter once used an immovable rod and a VERY good acrobatics roll to basically like.. trapize up into the air by swinging and clicking it to make himself gain height every swing. Took him a bit of time but he climbed high with it.

[@masonwoodson1238]

In 3.5, the item "Quaal's Feather Token: Tree" states that a tree springs into being. Unlike the 5e rendition, it didn't specify that it had to be on the ground or planted. On top of this, any falling items fell 60 feet automatically. Since the token was relatively cheap (around 100 gp), our party would buy around 10 at a time, then give them to the wizard. During fights, the wizard would fly 60 feet into the air and summon The Tree, which would instantly drop on anyone standing under it.

[@MoonFlower4022]

I had a Wand of Bright Smiles in one of my games. I would use it to troll enemies, test if an area is shielded from spell use, and also to play a prank on a noble as a favor to a secret society. It was such a minor little item that anyone else would have sold or thrown away, but I knew it had uses lol.

[@LeafseasonMagbag]

I once killed a major antagonist very abruptly by dropping the canoe from a Robe of Useful items on his head from a three story building. Creative uses are great! We had gotten into trouble way above our level using creative bullshit and explosives, and our GM straight up told us that guy was overpowered and we shouldn’t fight him. He was pancaked by a boat then I beat him to death with my bo staff.

[@alexanderoneill3018]

I had a very cool half-orc barbarian Grishkar, that died at level 3, was reincarated as a rock gnome from the party completing a quest, renamed Gnomkar, and then got a headband of intellect. Super fun character, very fun to roleplay from a 9 int to a 19!

[@waynemarshall1476]

My goblin monk/rogue got a hold of two immovable rods. She would use them to basically make a ladder to anywhere. She was a kensei monk and could use a long bow as a monk weapon. As she had a cloak of invisibility, she would make a platform by setting the immovable rods next to each other and hang a net between them, making a hamock inthe sky. Anddraping the invisibility cloak over it, she had a spying platform, and could launch sneak attacks at range.

[@MilkmanGoomba]

Its not an item but the spell fabricate has some pretty neat uses. If you have proficiency with any tool used to craft (pretty much) you can fabricate more intricate things. I spent a few weeks in game using my skill in carpentry tools fabricating a wall around a town my party really liked and got them set up with a bunch of wagons as well.

[@ianyoder2537]

The moment I heard about the instant fortress I wondered about putting it inside of a giant monster and using the command phrase. Would it do more damage? If it's not an instant kill would it immobilize the monster. Would the command word not work because it can't hear you inside the monster? The other idea I had was disguising the tower as an actual building, selling it to some one. use the command phrase to steal their house and preform real estate fraud.

[@trexdrew]

Instant fortress specifies “place it on the ground” weirdly. I assume to stop exact situations like this tbh. Of course your DM’s can rule otherwise but as per RAW no you can’t stuff it up something’s mouth or butt to make it explode.

[@thatwaffleguy4958]

​@@trexdrew I mean, you could still have it end up inside the rear end while on the ground if you convince a dragon to sit down on it.

[@trexdrew]

@@thatwaffleguy4958 calm down bard, we’re getting a little too kinky now 😂

[@Dragon2850]

My favorite general use magic item is the boots of springing and striding, the main use isnt the fun part but they also have a permanent jump spell active so a character with a str score of 16 can reliably jump like 40 feet across or 10ft high without a check and if you stack it with other jump boosters like monk and satyr Ive gotten a character who can jump over a hundred feet across and 60ft high where the main restriction is his total movement speed

[@BiblicFurby]

A druid player chose the Headband of Intellect as her starting magic item in my last RotFM game. She was new and didnt realize that druids dont benefit from Int. She was obsessed with Owlbears though and eventually the rolled the Random Encounter to meet one. She freaked out happily and put the band on the Owlbear and named him Winnie. They grew very close and Winnie became a 3rd level wizard by the end. Post game was that 200yrs later shes a snow witch and he's an immortal lich Owlbear.

[@bearnaff9387]

At least it's relatively easy to figure out what the Owlbearlich's phylactery is if you know the story.

[@Typhoonator]

I have a magic item known as a shard of reality, they are only created when someone makes a paradox happen magically, like using a wish spell to do something stupid. It is my in-universe reason why reality hasn't collapsed in on itself despite high level magic users and djinn having existed for so long

[@dylanmitchell9260]

I once used the rod of lordly might to launch byself into the air by turning it into a 50-foot ladder, allowing my paladin to grapple the fleeing Zariel

[@backcountry164]

Fun fact. Familiars can attune to items. An owl with a ring of spell storing can get up to all sorts of shenanigans.

[@Cavemanjason]

I will cast find familiar and give my familiar a ring of spell storing. After he has attuned to it, I will cast find familiar on him, thereby giving my familiar a familiar of their own.

[@RavnArmanson]

dust off sneezing in one of those laser tripwire rooms like in heist movies. as a dm

[@missing_data]

In our campaign, to rebalance martial class and give them more options, we gave martial class battle manoeuvers that they can use up to thier proffeciency bonus per short rest and made a bunch of new ons. One of those battle manoeuvers consist of throwing sand, dust or anything similar in the enemy's eyes to blind them until their next turn. My fighter had that one and so, when we got an opportunity to ask a powerful sorceress what kind of magic item we wanted, my fighter asked for a endless salt pouch. Which I had! it then became a running gag to throw salt to the Warlock's face whenever he was greedy which was quite funny.

[@2lazy4tag41]

I accidentally created an awakened bush, then the dm gave us magic items through a person who would make them on request with the effects decided by dm. I requested one of those helicopter hats for the bush, it was a headband of intellect

[@dapebbletoad7618]

If you get your hands on a bag of tricks (or several) as a character with minions, you could have your minions use their own action economy to control the summoned animal. In essence, even your summons will have summons.

[@darienb1127]

Bag of Tricks + Speak with Animals = instant scouts.

[@konradwright7725]

Ring of Spell Storing is underrated: Having a Martial who doesn't ever concentrate on spells concentrate on one for you (with proficiency in Con Saves) is as good as double concentration. Which isn't allow for good reason! :D Or it's a 1/day Haste for the fighter, whatever works.

[@christophercrafte]

ring of spell storing can have 5 charges of shield almost constantly. its so good for classes with already high ac.

[@chrisflanagan7564]

"wait how does everyone in this party have a familiar, and a paladin steed?" One ring of spell storing getting passed around during down time.

[@OREZTEHBACKSTRIKER]

I made a dungeon with doors hidden behind false bricks, monk dragged his chime of opening along the dungeon walls forcing the doors to break the bricks open. Inspiration point moment

[@Raptor-yt1ms]

3:54 fun fact about those once I played a satyr so I couldn’t wear magic boots.wich is like a hood 30% of magic items What my friend did to make me feel better was he took those horseshoes off his and horse gave them to me. Later in the campaign I was tossed of a boat by some really dumb sailors. I got back up ON THE WATER then a sailor looked over and thought I was Jesus

[@mrbluesguy2853]

I used sovereign glue, “explosives” and a net to create a really nasty trap for the bbeg. Basically made the effect of the net permanent if they got caught in the blast. Worked to magnificent effect 😁

[@shadophaxx2401]

In one of my first campaigns, i defeated a powerful demon by forcing it to swallow an instant fortress. That fortress is still a part of our campaign world, its now a tavern called "the belly of the beast"

[@jettblade]

The Alchemy Jug can be used as a reliable way to get the most damage out of a level 1 spell. So you get 5 vials of acid with the Alchemy Jug, put them into a net or tie them together with twine making them a single object weighting 5 lb, then cast Catapult using the vials of acid, and inflict 10d6 Acid + 3d8 Bludgeoning. You could also use a bag of ball bearing or caltrops in order to get their effects, though you won't do extra damage.

[@MikeReevesMcMillan]

Or 10 vials of oil in a net, carry it with your Mage Hand next to an enemy, firebolt it. 50 HP of fire damage plus whatever the firebolt does.

[@nathanross7448]

One of my very first sessions of dnd, we were going shopping for the quest, and as I browsed through dnd beyond's list of items, and randomly asked my dm if I could have a grappling hook. I then ended up using it to cheese his quest by scaling the castle walls, climbing the roof, and blasting my way into the royal chamber with thunderwave

[@largeleader1321]

We got an Apparatus of the Crab in a gothic horror setting once. The thing gave our pixie warlock an armor class of 20, and she could fire Eldritch Blast from the scariest cover available for the rest of the run.

[@thatwaffleguy4958]

It might just be me, but wouldn't a pixie-sized apparatus of the crab just be... A little remote control metal crab sub?

[@largeleader1321]

@@thatwaffleguy4958 It was a full sized apparatus. She was the only one without decent armor, though, and being tiny didn't stop her using the thing as mobile armor.

[@thatwaffleguy4958]

@@largeleader1321 That's not gonna stop me from making a miniature apparatus and selling as "pixie-sized".

[@largeleader1321]

@@thatwaffleguy4958 Alright you have me picturing the generic 50's disaster movie, with people fleeing a burning city, but instead of an invading alien army it's a metal crab the size of a lunchbox firing lasers.

[@thatwaffleguy4958]

@@largeleader1321 Beautiful, isn't it?

[@ajlphoto]

During OOTA I was able to get extremely lucky and managed to convince Themberchaud to eat a pygmywort mushroom (causing him to shrink to half his size), and then restrained him for several turns with a simple net while our lvl 5 party and some NPCs attacked him. What should have been a party wipe turned into a victory due to some simple foraging and a 1gp net!

[@angeldrewsomething]

My first party used a deck of illusions as our main way to make money. We would put on elaborate shows in taverns of pretend battles with whatever illusion we summoned, with musical accompaniment by the bard and using the paladin's censer with incense like a fog machine for extra ambience. That was the only thing we used the deck for.

[@skittlesilly]

as a non 5e player (ive kinda permanently switched to pathfinder) one of the few things i like about 5e compared to other similar systems is the fun use of magic items, pathfinder really doesnt have an alchemy jug that can create mayonaise. Bear in mind in pathfinder you cant absolutely mess up a game master's day with a single magic item but there's less fun stories about magic items (at least pathfinder has a bag of holding that turns everything inside into weasels, that's pretty cool)

[@stadnikds]

My DM got fucking enraged after he dropped us into a desert with tons of survival checks and other stuff, and I used my druid Create Water cantrip like everywhere and everytime

[@kevingriffith6011]

Pathfinder has all sorts of weird items too, but most of them are just fancy paperweights. Like the Mithril Waffle Iron. The only thing that is useful for is informing the world that mithril is, in fact, non-stick.

[@MySerpentine]

LOL bag of weaseling

[@thewerdna]

Mayonnaise is pretty calory dense and has the protiens from the eggs. So worst case scenario its an emergency food source

[@shellknight1323]

I walked into a Castle war meeting and forcing both sides to surrender because I was holding two jars *"the Jar of Sleep and the Jar of Extinction"* ... Each with a 300mile radius. I simply say *"if you don't stop fighting I'll open both."*

[@RandomInternetStranger]

One party I DM'ed for was basically the go-to magic item test group. I would set up a one-shot whenever more than one person wanted to play and I had time to DM, which ended up with these ridiculous hooligans creating the following scenarios: One player with a Familiar would load everyone into a Bag of Holding and then throw said bag over basically any obstacle, then have the Familiar get them each out of the bag on the other side. This one was done in our full-fledged campaign and ended up de-railing a solid 40% of the obstacles I had before they decided it wasn't fun anymore. It isn't a magic item, but one of my problem players would habitually use the "soil or clean clothing" feature of Prestidigitation to soil anyone he didn't like's underwear, and then eventually upgraded to holding clean underwear hostage by only stopping the Soil when he was paid a considerable sum. He also used Minor Illusion to create numerous mounds of various gross substances over the course of the campaign. He ended up creating a hilarious scenario where his character was caught wankin' it to a Minor Illusion of a naked person. I made him roll to determine exactly who it was and he rolled a 1 because I guess karma and I ruled that it was the person who walked in on him. It was fun getting payback :) This also isn't a magic item use, but one of my players convinced a boss that they had switched to their side and used Haste on them (the requirement for Haste is that you're willing), then immediately dropped concentration. The effect of dropping concentration on Haste is that you lose your turn, which made it a really bad day for them, seeing as they had no minions in the room. That same problem player I mentioned before decided to torture someone once, using that one regeneration item that allows you to grow back limbs. It was NOT a fun time for anyone involved.

[@nicholasvandonkersgoed3758]

One of my favorite 3.5 items is the Folding Boat. Designed to be a portable mode of river transport, it works far better as a trapfinding method and battering ram.

[@eyespliced]

When I used to play in the 5e adventurers league, my wizard got his hands on a cube of force from a whiteplume mountain multi group event (an epic? I think that's what it was called? ) and honestly if properly applied, the cube can just break modules and be used to bypass all sorts of obstacles. The kicker is, NO ONE, and I mean, NO ONE else wanted the damn thing. It is one of the best utility items in the game in my opinion.

[@cambabamba4159]

Portable Hole has SO many fun uses. Slide it halfway under a locked door, climb in, and then climb out the other side to just completely bypass the door. If have an ability that lets you go a long time without breathing, you can make a little house in a portable hole. FANTASTIC for body disposal. Etc, etc.

[@JackPumpkin-td8tb]

In a campaign I ran a few years back; I had a player feed a monster a bean from the bag of beans. They rolled a 92 on a D100, that meant a pyramid appeared inside the creature. It had natural healing so unless hit with radiant damage so one day it will put itself back together… one day.

[@lman5833]

If you’re an acrobat the immovable rod lets you swing in mid air forever, clicking and unclicking to create a midair rung. Get 2 and you have an infinite ladder. Get 3-4 and you can support a flat bottomed object, like a house, in mid air. Floating house, or a food supply that bears can never even hope to reach

[@mckayleepugmire9947]

My dad claims he once convinced his GM to let his archer character buy loads of small flour packets, which he strapped to arrows which he then shot and followed up with a flame bolt or something because dust cloud+spark=free low level fireball. Apparently the GM balanced this by declaring him the most wanted man by anyone in power interested in how he pulled it off

[@tkp3751]

Luke Gygax confirmed that a lot of the strange mundane items that are still in DnD were there for specific adventuring purposes. Everyone knows the 10ft pole was for traps, but flour was there to act as an anti-invisibility bomb by covering such creatures in it.

[@Frapsity]

I feel like the pole would just start the pole-length-cold-war. DM makes trap damage 15ft AoE, party gets a 20ft pole, etc.

[@FellTina]

The persona hole is something my party holds on to along with the rouges bag of holding, see it says in text that if these two items are placed in one another it make a one way trip to the Astral Sea from there a spell like banishment can bring anyone else stuck there back. Now it doesn't kill anything but it's a way to kick the problems away for a rainy day.

[@Skyggespil]

We were in the TotallyNotUnderdark (TM) of a homebrew campaign - basically old-advanced-civilization ruins corrupted by dark magic and overrun by ratfolk and other monsters. While fleeing from a giant horde of ratfolk, we encountered some allies who ushered us in a narrow doorway which they could close on the other side. Unfortunately our Gloomstalker was very much in front and our Warlock was in the very back because he had been very unlucky trying to climb debris and the rest of us had been moving up to clear the way - and suddenly more ratfolk had appeared from drainage pipes on the way, cutting him off. >Rogue: I have ball bearings - I can throw them to make as many of them trip as possible, giving WARLOCK a fighting chance >Bloodhunter: Throw them to me, I have a plan! >Bloodhunter proceeds to pour a bag of 1000 ball bearings into his Horn of Blasting and blowing it pointing at the horde of ratfolk We always played like Horn of Blasting works basically like a shotgun with sound, so having 1000 pieces of shrapnel completely won the day - and a comment from our DM saying it was awesome, but that next time we used that trick, the horn would explode because it felt a bit like an "I win" button

[@wolfmoe7398]

I had a player that got grabbed by a TRex that immediately started running away, he wiggled out and used the rod at its feet to trip it. Probably the best use of the rod that I’d seen for a moment. TRex hit the ground and lost a turn, completely changed the trajectory of the encounter because they were screwed until that happened.

[@isaacgraff8288]

Funny you mention the Headband of Intellect. My wife is playing an awakened cat turned wizard with a headband of intellect as a collar and a tiny Wizard's Hat. This cat is also a Scribes wizard and is 1 level away from flying spellbook roomba cat wizard. On a slightly more serious note, one of the best items for dealing with enemy casters, is a bag. The vast majority of spells require you to see your target, or where you're going. Tie a bag over their head and some fun shenanigans happens. There was also a weird situation with a pickled zucchini and Divine Favor against a barbed devil.

[@bellybuttonlint1234]

My favorite part of the crab apparatus is it fits 2 medium, however use 4 small critters and this doubles the device's action economy since more beings are inside to pull levers n such. Low level Gnomes, halflings, kobold, goblins, or a group of orphan children are suddenly the equal to a CR 10ish critter.

[@trisscar05]

-Most of the party has access to Gaseous Form due to helping someone out previously. We also have a bag of holding (which was ruled out by our DM but maybe not someone else's). Of the two or three party members that don't have the Form spell, one has Pass Without Trace. To be fair, we could just sneak through places with Pass on its own, but between the PCs and the one sometimes more NPCs in the party, we have 7 or more people still rolling stealth checks in that case. So It's more economical to have less people doing so at a +10 than more. So we concocted a scheme where the people who can Gaseous would do so, then flow into jars with open lids. Since our DM ruled that we still need to breathe even while we're misty. BUT, that means that the other party members can carry us in those jars, and that lets the gaseous members ignore the 10ft movespeed inherent to the spell. This would probably also be good for sneaking in party members who can't be seen in a certain town, or when you have a slow wizard paired with a tabaxi speed monk. Or just use the bag of holding and find some way for people to breathe in there, such as Bottled Breath or Breathing Bubble. -One of the characters in previously mentioned campaign has issues with Common as a language, and the other languages they know have certain restrictions to how they can be used. So the character will borrow a Psi Crystal (basic telepathy) to express themselves fully when they need to, while still actively trying to learn Common through use otherwise. -Any Feather Token with a large enough item inside it can crush people. The most common ones are the boat focused tokens, but those need bodies of water. But it doesn't specify what kind of "body of water", how big it has to be, or how long it needs to be or have been there. If you don't have Create Water or some other spell method, use a Decanter of Endless Water and tell it "geyser". -Major Image requires any creature wanting to try to disbelieve it, to spend an action investigating the image. Make a giant roaring dragon, and force that entire group of guards or raiders or soldiers or whatever to spend their entire main action disbelieving your dragon, eliminating their turn UNLESS they attempt to go around it instead. Apply this to any magic item that does illusions barring Hat of Disguise. -Peasant Railgun. You're welcome, and my sympathies to your dm. -Band of Loyalty. Use whatever method you prefer to make it seem like a good idea to put it on to your target. Make them unsaveable. -Bag of Bounty. Make a traveling food cart and feed 45 people a day, with a Charisma build so that you can charge for royalty level meals. Retire. -Stuck in a mudpit, sandpit, or other dirty place that is causing movement issues? Carry a Cleansing Stone, which may very well allow you to vanish the muck or sand as soon as it touches you. -Decanter of Endless Water again. It can produce salt water, and has no charge limit or restriction on how often it is used. Salt the fields, make a saltwater steam boiler, turn a nearby lake, pond, or even swamp into the Dead Sea.

[@SuperNerd9695]

An idea I had, but haven't had the opportunity to do, Requires a book of Flesh Golem, an alchemist's jug, and a portal to the Feywild. Make the golem, find a suclded cave, and give the golem the following instructions; Every 24 hours, and 1 millisecond, Start another timer with the same duration, Then take the jug, empty it as much as you can into a set of barrels, Then go dormant until the new timer ends. Then you go into the Fey, wait one day, return, and then go back, repeat as many times as you want. Due to the Feywild's time manipulation, (and I did the math) every 7 days jumping between the fey activating the Feywild's time shenanigans, ~403 days will pass for every week worth of jumping. So you can get 403 quarts of oil, or 100.75 gallons, or 806 flasks, or 4030-8060 fire damage per 403 material plane days, 7 you days doing this. I'm unsure if this works, but if it does, do with this information as you will.

[@mr.headcrab31]

A very long time ago, friend ran a campaign where the PCs and cannon fodder NPCs were put into a underground doom maze for the enjoyment of a rich nobleman, think Squid Game, but with random items as "gifts" for the players. So claustrophobic Battle Royale. Everyone was happy with their knives and crowbars, one player was going gaga over a revolver he picked up. I ended up with 50 gallons of potable water in a barrel. Everyone thought that this would nerf my high Str character, but Int was tied for my best stat, and the water ended up being more useful than the rest of the group's gear combined. From memory, we used it to: hold the end of a rope while the PCs crossed a gap, hold down a pressure plate and break a deathtrap, extinguish a wall torch and allow us to harvest the oil that fueled it, delay pursuers by making stone steps slippery, and comically smushing an adversary who tried to attack us from the bottom of a stairwell. Game ended when the DM moved out of state for college, but the "Swiss Army Water" still lives rent free in my head

[@cargua3503]

One of my players (the fighter) had the other party members use a Staff of Flowers, a Staff of Birdcalls, and some other stuff to help the fighter propose to their character's gf. It was very wholesome.

[@Brian-mc9sl]

The Headband of Intellect on a monk with a bladesinger wizard dip is actually pretty wild. Since you need a free hand to do martial arts anyway, bladesinging can really boost your monk-iness - raising your AC, movement and giving advantage on acrobatics checks, all while netting you the Shield spell and tons of utility

[@ZK95004]

So fun fact I have discovered a use for the alchemy jug in combat using, specifically the mayonnaise option. Here was the setting: Party found an ancient underground kingdom with some evil giants caught in a stasis field that we had to survive a set number of rounds against. I'm the party cook and have an alchemy jug. Problem is I want to grease the floor under the giant's foot to make him slip but the jug only makes on quart of oil. HOWEVER it makes 2 GALLONS of Mayo and a large ingredient of mayo is oil. So instead of an oil slick we made an mayo slick and the giant rolled mid and had to treat its initial movement as difficult terrain. Just goes to show, knowing ingredients is a helpful tool

[@gwest3644]

In the very first campaign I DMed, my players got ahold of a Tree Feather Token (basically a little feather that can instantly grow a huge oak tree). They got some treasure to lure the dragon they were fighting out of his lair, tied the token to an arrow, and fired the arrow directly underneath the dragon so the tree would basically impale it. I needed a moment.

[@charlesduffy9755]

I used the Dust of Dryness to create water bombs. Intended for them to be used like a 3rd level tidal wave but DM made them way more powerful for whatever reason. Marble of Liquid Storage to store acid. Intended to break into places by melting locks or as a big "fuck you" if thrown at someone. Used a couple Instant Fortresses and some other stuff to essentially "Rods from God" and army. Probably a few other things I'm forgetting.

[@AuntieHauntieGames]

Quibble: Warships and other things weigh in at hundreds of tons, and the moment the ship collides with an Immovable Rod, all that weight is applied as force to the rod. So contrary to popular use, no the Immovable Rod cannot punch holes through massive objects and the like. If something weighing 8000 lbs or more collides with it, the rod immediately stops working the absolute moment it would otherwise hold the object back. You could probably use it to lock the ship's steering wheel in place though.

[@nytecrow6452]

If you get a big Bag of Devouring as a Grappler Barb or similar build you can grab someone and shove them into the bag and most DMs will agree that since it has a DC 15 Str Check to pull themselves out, it could be at disadvantage due to being pushed inside. If they do go inside, they are eaten and their body is instantly destroyed.

[@whatahoot1185]

Mayonnaise can seal against air so if slathered over a parasite in your skin, the creature will eventually have to surface for air. Mayonnaise could be used as a temporary lubricant for cartwheels or adventures trying to make a tight squeeze. Mayonnaise could be applied to a squeaky door to ensure a stealthy entry. Mayonnaise could be strategically used to easily slip a ring off the finder of a noble. Truly the most versatile option.

[@randomnonsense7175]

If you get enough unbreakable arrows you can start lining everything you own in sheets of them, but more importantly you can use them to hold closing temple doors, dump a bunch of them into the mouth of a sleeping monster where they’ll become a big issue in 2-5 days, or learn telekinesis as a bard and pretend you’re Yondu

[@necroticsynthesis4958]

My Rogue uses an Alchemy Jug to create bottles of lamp oil just about every night. A lot of things have been burnt, including an entire pirate fortress that we then proceeded to use a Water Elemental Gem and summoned the elemental to smother the oil fire. Before that we just used the gem as like a lava lamp lol

[@spykeking1989]

I once put an immovable rod up the back of an enemy's full plate mall and clicked the button. Completely removed them from combat because they couldn't reach the button to deactivate it. I would also use a couple of them to scale walls. Good times.