101 creative item uses and mac-guyer'isms [Archive] - Wizards Community

101 creative item uses and mac-guyer'isms [Archive] - Wizards Community

Post/Author/DateTime Post
Alcari Ambaron
01-31-05, 03:07 PM 1. mac guyver'd
to make something useful out of a multitude of completely useless things.
origin: the early 90's TV series starring Richard Dean Anderson

I needed to blow up a dam, so I macgyvered up a bomb with some fertalizer and an old tin can
http://www.urbandictionary.com

with all the 101 lists popping up, i thought i'd add one
So basically, some creative ways to use very normal items.
i'll start out with a few, i'd realy like some witty and smart ways to use those item that normally go unused and are ignored in the big Item-table.

1) Using a piton to stop a door from opening

2) Using a bottle on the doorknob as an alarm

3) spears stabbed in the ground (point up) to block a passage

4) alchemists fire under some leaves (landmine anyone?)

5) barrel of lamp oil and a fuse. (bombs)

6) catapults launching people with Featherfall (paratroopes, sort of)

7) when there's no bridge to cross a river, take a large pole, stick in in the river(still leaning to your side). make a run to the pole, jump. climb up, swing acros and land.
Callista
01-31-05, 03:20 PM Hmm... the barrel of lamp oil would set a very nice blaze, but I don't think it would explode. To have an explosion, you need to build up a great amount of pressure; and to build up that pressure, you'd need to have more of the lamp oil burning; to have it burn, you need oxygen, which it won't get until the barrel does break open...

In short--great for arsons, not so much for bombings. A barrel of black powder, now, if your campaign supports the technology... is another story.

In fact--

8.) Using a barrel of black powder to blow open the entrance to a cave, which had been previously capable of being held by four defenders at a time... so that it now requires sixteen. (My Evil Army used this strategy--in my estimation, it shortened the length of the siege on the inhabitants of the cave by a month or more, to less than a week.)
Deacon Liadon
01-31-05, 03:37 PM I always thought of a Mcguiverism as taking a paperclip and a piece of blue-tack and making a small nuclear bomb.
Alcari Ambaron
01-31-05, 04:00 PM 9) using Daylight and few curved mirrors to build a high power laser.

10) using Teleport Circle and water to make a perpetuum-moblie powered car/airplane.

11) Explosive delayed fireball in an iron casing to make a fragmentation grenade
TLomon
02-01-05, 12:30 AM 12) Wall of Force to disable a fleeing ship.
13) Using tongues (to understand) and color spray (to talk) to communicate with an alien race.
14) TK wand, a bunch of pebbles, and a metal cylinder to make a shotgun.
MortalPlague
02-01-05, 01:44 AM 15) Quall's Feather Token: Swan Boat as a weapon (Killed the BBEG in one of my campaigns)
GrandMarquis
02-01-05, 01:46 AM "Don't tell me you can make a bomb out of chewing gum."
"Why, have you got some?"

Sorry, I got nothing, but I like that quote....

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Alcari Ambaron 01-31-05, 03:07 PM	1. mac guyver'd to make something useful out of a multitude of completely useless things. origin: the early 90's TV series starring Richard Dean Anderson I needed to blow up a dam, so I macgyvered up a bomb with some fertalizer and an old tin can http://www.urbandictionary.com with all the 101 lists popping up, i thought i'd add one So basically, some creative ways to use very normal items. i'll start out with a few, i'd realy like some witty and smart ways to use those item that normally go unused and are ignored in the big Item-table. 1) Using a piton to stop a door from opening 2) Using a bottle on the doorknob as an alarm 3) spears stabbed in the ground (point up) to block a passage 4) alchemists fire under some leaves (landmine anyone?) 5) barrel of lamp oil and a fuse. (bombs) 6) catapults launching people with Featherfall (paratroopes, sort of) 7) when there's no bridge to cross a river, take a large pole, stick in in the river(still leaning to your side). make a run to the pole, jump. climb up, swing acros and land.
Callista 01-31-05, 03:20 PM	Hmm... the barrel of lamp oil would set a very nice blaze, but I don't think it would explode. To have an explosion, you need to build up a great amount of pressure; and to build up that pressure, you'd need to have more of the lamp oil burning; to have it burn, you need oxygen, which it won't get until the barrel does break open... In short--great for arsons, not so much for bombings. A barrel of black powder, now, if your campaign supports the technology... is another story. In fact-- 8.) Using a barrel of black powder to blow open the entrance to a cave, which had been previously capable of being held by four defenders at a time... so that it now requires sixteen. (My Evil Army used this strategy--in my estimation, it shortened the length of the siege on the inhabitants of the cave by a month or more, to less than a week.)
Deacon Liadon 01-31-05, 03:37 PM	I always thought of a Mcguiverism as taking a paperclip and a piece of blue-tack and making a small nuclear bomb.
Alcari Ambaron 01-31-05, 04:00 PM	9) using Daylight and few curved mirrors to build a high power laser. 10) using Teleport Circle and water to make a perpetuum-moblie powered car/airplane. 11) Explosive delayed fireball in an iron casing to make a fragmentation grenade
TLomon 02-01-05, 12:30 AM	12) Wall of Force to disable a fleeing ship. 13) Using tongues (to understand) and color spray (to talk) to communicate with an alien race. 14) TK wand, a bunch of pebbles, and a metal cylinder to make a shotgun.
MortalPlague 02-01-05, 01:44 AM	15) Quall's Feather Token: Swan Boat as a weapon (Killed the BBEG in one of my campaigns)
GrandMarquis 02-01-05, 01:46 AM	"Don't tell me you can make a bomb out of chewing gum." "Why, have you got some?" Sorry, I got nothing, but I like that quote....