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What are some of the consequences you've seen or used when magic items are misused?

  • What does an aloof intelligent sword say when used as a crowbar?
  • What happens when when you water a plant with a potion of cure light wounds?
  • What happens when a lizard swallows a ring of levitation?
  • What happens when a dog sees an ioun stone circling constantly around his head?
  • What happens when you burn a scroll scribed with the spell Fireball?

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  • A friend of mine used to play a paladin with an intelligent sword. The sword was heavily paladin-focused, and was always telling him to smite things.

    I asked the GM to let me sit in on a few games, playing the sword, and just whispering into the paladin player's ear, but he said no.

    It's still something I'd love to do sometime.

    Here's some other ideas:

    What happens if you test a wand of fireball underwater? Or a lightning wand?
    How many bags of holding can you fit in a bag of holding?
    A Permanent Gate spell

  • Answers (Score:2)

    by rho ( 6063 )

    # What does an aloof intelligent sword say when used as a crowbar?

    Well, I personally didn't care for talking swords. Too much sugar for a dime. I also don't much like +3 weapons, as it seems that there is a never-ending ramp upward where the DM has to provide bigger and badder weapons every week. Soon the talking sword isn't good enough: they need one that will levitate and fight for them. Then it needs to loot treasure for them. Before you know it, your PCs are lounging in the tavern, growing rich from t

    • > # What happens when a lizard swallows a
      > # ring of levitation?
      >
      > Nothing. A ring has to be worn on a human or
      > undead finger to activate. If the lizard
      > breathes fire or something, I'd think that
      > the swallowed ring would be destroyed, unless
      > it's been hardened against destruction.

      Gosh, that's no fun. I thought us D/G Masters were supposed to have more imagination...
      Uh, I'd say that as the ring nestles around food, and the food (typically some sort of living material)

    • I can't fault any of your logic.

      However, I was pretty sure that scrolls were magical. IIRC, they should be detectable by a 'Detect Magic' spell, if you have 'Use Magic Item' ability you can read a scroll.

      One explanation I heard of magic in D&D is that it is a very, very limited/imperfect use of a powerful language (like the Word in the Bible) used by the God(s) during Creation, etc. Wizards can only learn a word or so at a time (verbs), and they must be able to name the subject (self/familiar, t
      • Damn you, you're right.

        Okay, let me restate it--unless the scroll is specifically hardened against destruction, it is still simply parchment. If you wanted to, a scroll is resistant to the appropriate class of spell, so burning a fireball scroll wouldn't work. That way, non-magic users could detect a scroll's nature, even if they can't read it. (At the risk of setting fire to a scroll of Free Gold For All Fighters, of course.)

        I liked to think of magic words as unmemorizable, so a magic user can only mem

        • The explanation of magic that I so incompletely gave also included a bit for that. All of that time that a wizard spends preparing his spells is actually part of the spell casting. They do all of the figuring out of the spell effects in the language of magic and cast the majority of the spell, but they don't name a target or use up the components. Then when they are ready to cast, they say the final words/actions/arm motions and complete the sentences (if you keep the analogy) by filling in the direct ob

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