1001 uses for a bag of caltrops! [Archive] - Wizards Community

1001 uses for a bag of caltrops! [Archive] - Wizards Community

Post/Author/DateTime Post
Doopliss
09-14-05, 05:17 PM I'm sure you all know the drill by now :)

1) Halfling-sized 4 way shish-kabobs!

2) Mix with a gust of wind for serious damage.
Kozeljnik
09-14-05, 05:53 PM 3) spice up any large creature's food... (kind of like that King Diamond song, "More Than Pain": basically the main character, Abigail, feeds this guy a wonderful dinner, "spiced" with tons of broken glass. extreme pain and internal bleeding follows.)
Solik
09-14-05, 06:38 PM 4) Lethal damage sap.

5) Jacks.
OctoberRaven
09-14-05, 07:14 PM Fear Factor, d20 style!

Put someone in a coffin, and unload a bag of caltrops on them.

Or...

Cast Animate Object on them...

Or...if your character has enough ranks in Craft (Weaponsmithing) and with some metamagic, you can make them into a giant spiked mace that turns into a whip on command (think Ivy from Soul Caliber and her Valentine sword)
Iver Gearsham
09-14-05, 07:36 PM Faceplant suprise with a tripwire.

Wire them up into sheet like spread Shink Item spell it into cloth form and line someones armor/cloths with it.

Door jammers.
Nails.
Doopliss
09-14-05, 08:15 PM Or...if your character has enough ranks in Craft (Weaponsmithing) and with some metamagic, you can make them into a giant spiked mace that turns into a whip on command (think Ivy from Soul Caliber and her Valentine sword)

Ooh, it could work too. AND, it wouldn't be rules-lawyering if I use it for an NPC :D

Line a pit with them. A cheaper spiked pit!
kliate
09-14-05, 08:18 PM 6. Picking your teeth after a rather stringy meal of goblin meat

7. Apply poison to each one lovingly (go ninja!)

8. Scatter them across the floor! Wow!

9. Empty the bag and use it for a summon monster spell

10. Permanent shrink object on massive caltrops. Sprinkle the mini caltrops carefully against a surface (don't strike them hard!), hide, and speak the command word when enemies start walking through.
neilthrun
09-14-05, 10:21 PM for tactical deployment of your caltrops use mage hand.
Esgarblackpox
09-14-05, 10:39 PM poison em, and bury em in the ground around your campsite, and voila, instant sentry
OctoberRaven
09-14-05, 11:12 PM Weild a bunch of them together with just enough flexibility (or some chains), and you got one really painful net.

Or, you can make one of those Indiana Jones-style "walls closing in" traps, using the caltrops as spikes.

Hmm...perhaps sticking them to the back and front of a coffin. Makeshift Iron Maiden (the torture device, not the band).
Salookanana
09-14-05, 11:21 PM Weave them into your hair/beard to add to your intimidation. Seriously, who would screw with someone who has caltrops for hair decoration?!

Or you can put them in the soup of other people with mage hand. Yummy.

Or you can prego them all to blend in with the ground.
BadCatMan
09-15-05, 12:18 AM I mixed them into a bag of food and threw them in front of a Bulette. The Bulette took the bait and ate them.

Only did ~16 damage though. 1 for each caltrop, in a bag of 20, so I could only a roll a d20. Bah.
Asmodeous
09-15-05, 01:00 AM Toss them into the party fighter's under armor padding or underneath the mage's horse saddle blanket.

Put a couple into the healing potion bottles. 1d8+1 healing and take 2d4 damage. Blame the rogue for buying healing potions cheap!
Rhomphaia
09-15-05, 01:02 AM Sharp sling ammo...use poison for gretaer effect.

Or you make a really cruel whoopie cushion.
Raxmei
09-15-05, 01:13 AM Four-sided dice.
Iver Gearsham
09-15-05, 01:27 AM for tactical deployment of your caltrops use mage hand.
Unseen Servant works better as it can carry more and does not need your continuing attention.

I like the Bag of Endless Caltrops you shake off a huge pile of them then put them in a huge glass jar Shrink Item it down.
When you need to cover everything in a hurry smash it on the ceiling or wall near the area you wish covered and have your Unseen Servant spead them out to cover a larger area.
Hairfoot
09-15-05, 03:03 AM Throw them under a hundred mattresses to test for princesses.
ShadowDragon8685
09-15-05, 04:26 AM Catapault ammunition, in three ways:

1: Loose. This is basically a really fast, really cheap way to seed a medieval minefield. Watch that charging horde completely fall in on itself.

2: Tie them up in a huge net, tie a drawrope that pulls just right to yank the net apart at X distance from the catapault. Fire, and watch a rain of sharp sprinkling iron or steel rain down upon your enemies' castle.
More devestating on morale than people initially, until you realize that it's going to play merry hell with the defender's ability to move in and around their castle, and anyone who tries to go anywhere in a hurry is gonna start taking damage.

3: Weld a lot of them loosely to a thin iron ball full of alchemist's fire and gunpowder and whatever forms of vigerously caustic substances you can find. Congratulations, you have just invented submunition warfare, aka the biggest @^@ing hand grenade in the world.
JD
09-15-05, 04:27 AM They make excellent party snacks for rust monsters.
Rhomphaia
09-15-05, 04:33 AM They make excellent party snacks for rust monsters.
Much like the iron golem did when me and my party were getting stomped.
Pippa
09-15-05, 07:45 AM Thank you so very much! I've been walking around with a bag of caltrops for nine levels and I still haven't used them! This is most inspiring.
Oh and:
8. Scatter them across the floor! Wow!
Hahahahaha!
Doopliss
09-15-05, 09:58 AM Scatter on targets from above!

At later levels, get a damaging enchantment on them! By using a bag of them combined with some other mentioned attacks, you can be launching 20d6 points of damage!
CaoSlayer
09-15-05, 10:34 AM attach them into your gauntlet and handshake someone you dislikes.
Doopliss
09-15-05, 06:36 PM paint gold and scatter. Not many greedy creatures would be able to resist. As they bend down, reveal that they're actually modified jumping caltrops from complete adventurer. If you're lucky, you may even be able to put out an eye!
OctoberRaven
09-15-05, 07:35 PM Turn a flail into a spiked flail, or a shield into a spiked sheild.

Weild some to the ceiling, and make an Anti-Gravity trap that only you and people you designate can pass without triggering it.
CTHUHLU_THE_GROOVY
09-15-05, 07:49 PM A dragon could place them in it's hoard,it wouldn't even feel them.
OctoberRaven
09-15-05, 08:01 PM A dragon could place them in it's hoard,it wouldn't even feel them.

Of course, if it steps on a single caltrop the dragon should at least feel it, seeing as the dragon would be applying a lot of pressure on a small area. A bed of caltrops is fine because he's putting a lot of pressure on a larger area, so it's more spread out. Thats why people can rest on beds of nails and a single one would impale you.
malrick
09-15-05, 08:27 PM post no climbing, then line the wall of your keep. i basiclly did that once, nosey assasin in party, and i was the one with wings
braindead345
09-15-05, 10:53 PM Portable corral for your horses. Simply surround a large enough area for the horses to graze and you don't have to worry about them wondering off on their own.

Room trap. Large magnet in the center of the room (at eye-level) is activated magicly (electro-magnet?) by pressure plate. Scattered caltrops are instantly attracted to the magnet (up as wella towards the center)-as is all metal objects (weapons, armor, etc).
Loren Pechtel
09-16-05, 12:29 AM 2: Tie them up in a huge net, tie a drawrope that pulls just right to yank the net apart at X distance from the catapault. Fire, and watch a rain of sharp sprinkling iron or steel rain down upon your enemies' castle.
More devestating on morale than people initially, until you realize that it's going to play merry hell with the defender's ability to move in and around their castle, and anyone who tries to go anywhere in a hurry is gonna start taking damage.

In time the defenders will gather them up.

Now, if you have a catapault round consisting of a bunch of caltrops and several flasks of alchemists fire...
Valgaav
09-16-05, 01:05 AM Grease spell with scattered caltrops. They'll be pulling metal outta their butt for weeks
:evillaugh
Fizziii
09-16-05, 01:07 AM X) (where x equals largest previous number plus 1... I'm too lazy to look, but not to type.... must be late)

Anyways:
x) To cause damage to flying creatures..... oh wait, that only works in magic.... :rant:
Doopliss
09-16-05, 03:38 PM Bind a monster to one, release when stepped on. Most demons really hate being stepped on ;)
MasterRookie
09-16-05, 04:16 PM Of course, if it steps on a single caltrop the dragon should at least feel it, seeing as the dragon would be applying a lot of pressure on a small area. A bed of caltrops is fine because he's putting a lot of pressure on a larger area, so it's more spread out. Thats why people can rest on beds of nails and a single one would impale you.

But its scalles are so think and the caltrops are so pathetically small. It would be like a thumb tac on a fingernail.

Drop them off a guard tower

Put them on someone's chair right before they sit down

Fill someone's pillow with them

Christmas ornaments

Turn your shoes into golf shoes

Make them into knuckle dusters
Venom of the Yuan Ti
09-17-05, 05:10 AM Paint pretty colours, magnatise and start your own toy industry!
howlingwolf
09-17-05, 05:38 AM Create a higher-powered Enlarge spell and form a instant spiked fence with 'em.

More painful sling bullets.

Sew them into cushions for your hated enemy.

Earrings.
tharivol266
09-17-05, 09:38 AM fill a sock with them and use it as a sap that deals lethal piercing damage.
Always-Late
09-17-05, 11:53 PM Beat invisible caltrops for a pain in the butt. No deflection, no shield, no armor, and flat-footed!

Well, still, I can just see a high-level barbarian with DR, uncanny dodge, and blind-fight charging right through them and the horde behind him get completely confused. Heh.
Loren Pechtel
09-17-05, 11:58 PM Beat invisible caltrops for a pain in the butt. No deflection, no shield, no armor, and flat-footed!

Well, still, I can just see a high-level barbarian with DR, uncanny dodge, and blind-fight charging right through them and the horde behind him get completely confused. Heh.

How are you going to make them invisible, though?

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Doopliss 09-14-05, 05:17 PM	I'm sure you all know the drill by now :) 1) Halfling-sized 4 way shish-kabobs! 2) Mix with a gust of wind for serious damage.
Kozeljnik 09-14-05, 05:53 PM	3) spice up any large creature's food... (kind of like that King Diamond song, "More Than Pain": basically the main character, Abigail, feeds this guy a wonderful dinner, "spiced" with tons of broken glass. extreme pain and internal bleeding follows.)
Solik 09-14-05, 06:38 PM	4) Lethal damage sap. 5) Jacks.
OctoberRaven 09-14-05, 07:14 PM	Fear Factor, d20 style! Put someone in a coffin, and unload a bag of caltrops on them. Or... Cast Animate Object on them... Or...if your character has enough ranks in Craft (Weaponsmithing) and with some metamagic, you can make them into a giant spiked mace that turns into a whip on command (think Ivy from Soul Caliber and her Valentine sword)
Iver Gearsham 09-14-05, 07:36 PM	Faceplant suprise with a tripwire. Wire them up into sheet like spread Shink Item spell it into cloth form and line someones armor/cloths with it. Door jammers. Nails.
Doopliss 09-14-05, 08:15 PM	Or...if your character has enough ranks in Craft (Weaponsmithing) and with some metamagic, you can make them into a giant spiked mace that turns into a whip on command (think Ivy from Soul Caliber and her Valentine sword) Ooh, it could work too. AND, it wouldn't be rules-lawyering if I use it for an NPC :D Line a pit with them. A cheaper spiked pit!
kliate 09-14-05, 08:18 PM	6. Picking your teeth after a rather stringy meal of goblin meat 7. Apply poison to each one lovingly (go ninja!) 8. Scatter them across the floor! Wow! 9. Empty the bag and use it for a summon monster spell 10. Permanent shrink object on massive caltrops. Sprinkle the mini caltrops carefully against a surface (don't strike them hard!), hide, and speak the command word when enemies start walking through.
neilthrun 09-14-05, 10:21 PM	for tactical deployment of your caltrops use mage hand.
Esgarblackpox 09-14-05, 10:39 PM	poison em, and bury em in the ground around your campsite, and voila, instant sentry
OctoberRaven 09-14-05, 11:12 PM	Weild a bunch of them together with just enough flexibility (or some chains), and you got one really painful net. Or, you can make one of those Indiana Jones-style "walls closing in" traps, using the caltrops as spikes. Hmm...perhaps sticking them to the back and front of a coffin. Makeshift Iron Maiden (the torture device, not the band).
Salookanana 09-14-05, 11:21 PM	Weave them into your hair/beard to add to your intimidation. Seriously, who would screw with someone who has caltrops for hair decoration?! Or you can put them in the soup of other people with mage hand. Yummy. Or you can prego them all to blend in with the ground.
BadCatMan 09-15-05, 12:18 AM	I mixed them into a bag of food and threw them in front of a Bulette. The Bulette took the bait and ate them. Only did ~16 damage though. 1 for each caltrop, in a bag of 20, so I could only a roll a d20. Bah.
Asmodeous 09-15-05, 01:00 AM	Toss them into the party fighter's under armor padding or underneath the mage's horse saddle blanket. Put a couple into the healing potion bottles. 1d8+1 healing and take 2d4 damage. Blame the rogue for buying healing potions cheap!
Rhomphaia 09-15-05, 01:02 AM	Sharp sling ammo...use poison for gretaer effect. Or you make a really cruel whoopie cushion.
Raxmei 09-15-05, 01:13 AM	Four-sided dice.
Iver Gearsham 09-15-05, 01:27 AM	for tactical deployment of your caltrops use mage hand. Unseen Servant works better as it can carry more and does not need your continuing attention. I like the Bag of Endless Caltrops you shake off a huge pile of them then put them in a huge glass jar Shrink Item it down. When you need to cover everything in a hurry smash it on the ceiling or wall near the area you wish covered and have your Unseen Servant spead them out to cover a larger area.
Hairfoot 09-15-05, 03:03 AM	Throw them under a hundred mattresses to test for princesses.
ShadowDragon8685 09-15-05, 04:26 AM	Catapault ammunition, in three ways: 1: Loose. This is basically a really fast, really cheap way to seed a medieval minefield. Watch that charging horde completely fall in on itself. 2: Tie them up in a huge net, tie a drawrope that pulls just right to yank the net apart at X distance from the catapault. Fire, and watch a rain of sharp sprinkling iron or steel rain down upon your enemies' castle. More devestating on morale than people initially, until you realize that it's going to play merry hell with the defender's ability to move in and around their castle, and anyone who tries to go anywhere in a hurry is gonna start taking damage. 3: Weld a lot of them loosely to a thin iron ball full of alchemist's fire and gunpowder and whatever forms of vigerously caustic substances you can find. Congratulations, you have just invented submunition warfare, aka the biggest @^@ing hand grenade in the world.
JD 09-15-05, 04:27 AM	They make excellent party snacks for rust monsters.
Rhomphaia 09-15-05, 04:33 AM	They make excellent party snacks for rust monsters. Much like the iron golem did when me and my party were getting stomped.
Pippa 09-15-05, 07:45 AM	Thank you so very much! I've been walking around with a bag of caltrops for nine levels and I still haven't used them! This is most inspiring. Oh and: 8. Scatter them across the floor! Wow! Hahahahaha!
Doopliss 09-15-05, 09:58 AM	Scatter on targets from above! At later levels, get a damaging enchantment on them! By using a bag of them combined with some other mentioned attacks, you can be launching 20d6 points of damage!
CaoSlayer 09-15-05, 10:34 AM	attach them into your gauntlet and handshake someone you dislikes.
Doopliss 09-15-05, 06:36 PM	paint gold and scatter. Not many greedy creatures would be able to resist. As they bend down, reveal that they're actually modified jumping caltrops from complete adventurer. If you're lucky, you may even be able to put out an eye!
OctoberRaven 09-15-05, 07:35 PM	Turn a flail into a spiked flail, or a shield into a spiked sheild. Weild some to the ceiling, and make an Anti-Gravity trap that only you and people you designate can pass without triggering it.
CTHUHLU_THE_GROOVY 09-15-05, 07:49 PM	A dragon could place them in it's hoard,it wouldn't even feel them.
OctoberRaven 09-15-05, 08:01 PM	A dragon could place them in it's hoard,it wouldn't even feel them. Of course, if it steps on a single caltrop the dragon should at least feel it, seeing as the dragon would be applying a lot of pressure on a small area. A bed of caltrops is fine because he's putting a lot of pressure on a larger area, so it's more spread out. Thats why people can rest on beds of nails and a single one would impale you.
malrick 09-15-05, 08:27 PM	post no climbing, then line the wall of your keep. i basiclly did that once, nosey assasin in party, and i was the one with wings
braindead345 09-15-05, 10:53 PM	Portable corral for your horses. Simply surround a large enough area for the horses to graze and you don't have to worry about them wondering off on their own. Room trap. Large magnet in the center of the room (at eye-level) is activated magicly (electro-magnet?) by pressure plate. Scattered caltrops are instantly attracted to the magnet (up as wella towards the center)-as is all metal objects (weapons, armor, etc).
Loren Pechtel 09-16-05, 12:29 AM	2: Tie them up in a huge net, tie a drawrope that pulls just right to yank the net apart at X distance from the catapault. Fire, and watch a rain of sharp sprinkling iron or steel rain down upon your enemies' castle. More devestating on morale than people initially, until you realize that it's going to play merry hell with the defender's ability to move in and around their castle, and anyone who tries to go anywhere in a hurry is gonna start taking damage. In time the defenders will gather them up. Now, if you have a catapault round consisting of a bunch of caltrops and several flasks of alchemists fire...
Valgaav 09-16-05, 01:05 AM	Grease spell with scattered caltrops. They'll be pulling metal outta their butt for weeks :evillaugh
Fizziii 09-16-05, 01:07 AM	X) (where x equals largest previous number plus 1... I'm too lazy to look, but not to type.... must be late) Anyways: x) To cause damage to flying creatures..... oh wait, that only works in magic.... :rant:
Doopliss 09-16-05, 03:38 PM	Bind a monster to one, release when stepped on. Most demons really hate being stepped on ;)
MasterRookie 09-16-05, 04:16 PM	Of course, if it steps on a single caltrop the dragon should at least feel it, seeing as the dragon would be applying a lot of pressure on a small area. A bed of caltrops is fine because he's putting a lot of pressure on a larger area, so it's more spread out. Thats why people can rest on beds of nails and a single one would impale you. But its scalles are so think and the caltrops are so pathetically small. It would be like a thumb tac on a fingernail. Drop them off a guard tower Put them on someone's chair right before they sit down Fill someone's pillow with them Christmas ornaments Turn your shoes into golf shoes Make them into knuckle dusters
Venom of the Yuan Ti 09-17-05, 05:10 AM	Paint pretty colours, magnatise and start your own toy industry!
howlingwolf 09-17-05, 05:38 AM	Create a higher-powered Enlarge spell and form a instant spiked fence with 'em. More painful sling bullets. Sew them into cushions for your hated enemy. Earrings.
tharivol266 09-17-05, 09:38 AM	fill a sock with them and use it as a sap that deals lethal piercing damage.
Always-Late 09-17-05, 11:53 PM	Beat invisible caltrops for a pain in the butt. No deflection, no shield, no armor, and flat-footed! Well, still, I can just see a high-level barbarian with DR, uncanny dodge, and blind-fight charging right through them and the horde behind him get completely confused. Heh.
Loren Pechtel 09-17-05, 11:58 PM	Beat invisible caltrops for a pain in the butt. No deflection, no shield, no armor, and flat-footed! Well, still, I can just see a high-level barbarian with DR, uncanny dodge, and blind-fight charging right through them and the horde behind him get completely confused. Heh. How are you going to make them invisible, though?