Best Mundane Common Items in Dungeons and Dragons 5e

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  @90kalos1 · 6 years ago

  I once infiltrated an evil wizards tower by buying a hundred candles and posing as a candle delivery guy.

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  @Yuritau · 6 years ago

  One thing a player (paladin) of mine did was during a stop in a small farming town on the way to a dungeon, he announced that he wanted to buy as many small livestock as he could get. Goats, pigs, and sheep, specifically.<br><br><br>A couple quick decisions about how much would actually be available, and some steadily increasing prices as word spread of some moneybags not haggling over cost and he had himself over a hundred roughly evenly mixed between the three animals. He then bought all the rope he could find to string them all up on lead lines. Somewhat predictably, he laid in no feed for the animals, and lacked any proficiency in animal handling (a condition shared by the rest of the party). So during the two day trip to the dungeon, due to some lucky rolls, they only lost a couple dozen animals into the wilds. Mostly pigs and goats eating the ropes and breaking free.<br><br><br>At the entrance to the dungeon, the paladin announces that he&apos;s going to summon his steed, and together they&apos;re going to drive the whole herd into the dungeon. Then wait 30 minutes.<br><br><br>Well... fine. So the traps are pretty much all triggered, the ambush is ruined, and the bullette nursery isn&apos;t hungry anymore. Fair enough. Ran with it and had a couple of the humanoid cultists that were the objective of this adventure dead, sorta obviously from goat-related injuries. Then had the gargoyles in the back portion of the dungeon employ ambush tactics by throwing full-grown dead pigs down at the adventurers from 50 feet up.<br><br><br>&quot;You take 38 pig damage&quot; was a satisfying line to say, I will admit.

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  @johnmorgan4558 · 6 years ago

  Don’t forget the use of scroll tube flashlight to get advantage on intimidation &nbsp;by holding it directly underneath one’s chin.

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  @O4C209 · 6 years ago

  As a parent, I confirm you can hear your kids.<br><br>I had a friend (who is not a parent) visit. He noticed my front door had a loud squeak. <br><br>He joked, &quot;I&apos;ve got some oil if you want me to fix that squeak for you.&quot;<br><br>I immediately responded, completely serious, &quot;No, I need that to hear if my kids are sneaking out.&quot;<br><br>His look of shock and understanding said it all.

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  @joshuabryant974 · 4 years ago

  A note on masks: it&apos;s worth having if you&apos;re going into an area full of Beast-type monsters that are ambush predators. They generally don&apos;t like attacking when they think their prey is aware of them, so putting a mask on the <b>back</b> of your head would be really useful in situations like that. People do this in real life, notably in areas of India with high tiger populations. Or you can just do the samurai thing and wear a daemonic-shaped mask for combat.

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  @bmalloy0 · 6 years ago

  &quot;Fill your scabbard about 1/3 full...&quot;<br><br>Or... a scroll case?

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  @demonslayerelf7920 · 6 years ago

  Flour has been my number one since I started playing DnD. My DM’s have stopped putting invisible enemies in front of me because of it. My first DM loved invisibility on his enemies though, so in his game I bought a gold’s worth of flour- about 50 pounds- and gave it to the barb to hold. Every time invisible things started to hit her, she would take out the flour and wait for me to cast Shatter on the inside of the bag. She was always fine except for that one time, and we jokingly fight ‘flour spirits’ to this day.

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  @rhawkas2637 · 6 years ago

  Probably my favorite use of (mostly mundane) items was something inspired by a book in either the Sword of Truth series or the Wheel of Time series (I can&apos;t remember which). The group I was with was leading a small force to attack a larger, better equipped, and better trained force that had fortified themselves in a quarry. We didn&apos;t have much money, so we had to be clever. During the time before the planned attack (a couple days), I had my wizard go around town and buy cartloads of scrap glass. Then I found laborers and paid them to grind the glass into dust and put it in barrels for transport. Also bought a about five pairs of goggles and face masks (just cloth to wrap around the head, like a shemagh or something, nothing fancy) to equip the party with. Since I didn&apos;t have the spell I needed, I spent the rest of my gold on purchasing it and adding it to my spellbook. On the day of the attack, while we were getting ready, I instructed the archers in our attacking force to take the barrels of ground glass to the spots around the edge of the quarry that they&apos;d be attacking from and then dump it out into piles. It wasn&apos;t windy, so I used my new spell to change that. I cast Gust of Wind and blew the ground glass into the enemy forces in the quarry, walking to each pile of glass and recasting the spell as necessary. My party was horrified at their nerdy wizard&apos;s actions, the DM (who I had discussed this idea with and gotten the go ahead for) was giddy at the chance to describe the horrors the cloud of glass inflicted upon the enemy army as it got in their eyes, mouth, and lungs. Once the (glass) dust had settled, our forces mercilessly descended upon the reeling army. My wizard got a long talking-to about war crimes after that battle.<br>Stuff like that is what I love about D&amp;D, the creativity that having a good DM allows for. ^_^

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  @michaelmcnulty5616 · 6 years ago (edited)

  Our group once turned the tide of a battle with two mundane items. A few months back, our party was hunting down a family of vampires in their manor. While searching the rooms, we just so happened to find two of them by literally opening a door to a room. Without thinking, my Rogue slammed the door and jammed it with a crowbar. This forced the two vampires to go through the second door to the room which also opened into a narrow hallway. And since our group was at the mouth of this hallway, it became a literal shooting gallery. Then a third vampire appeared and grappled our Warlock. But just as the Warlock was about to have his blood drained, he threw a bag of sand in the vampire&apos;s face and--thanks to a botched CON roll--actually blinded the vampire and escaped. What made it even funnier is that, several sessions earlier, our Warlock was conned into believing this sand was actually magic sand from a place that didn&apos;t actually exist, and he&apos;d paid 200g for it.

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  @Danas3752 · 6 years ago

  Toilet paper. Cant imagine high level characters being happy cleaning themselves with leaves and rags. No wonder prestidigitation is that useful.

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  @Mr_Maiq_The_Liar · 6 years ago (edited)

  A map and compass. <br>“Can’t be lost except by magical means” eat your heart out ranger! You too worse use of a sixth level spell slot “find the path”

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  @rpeterson9182 · 6 years ago

  The problem with a whistle is enemies hear it too. Looking at you, Boromir. RIP.

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