101 Uses for a Shoehorn in a High Fantasy Setting


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Well, at least we got to 52 before you guys ran out of creativity.

::gauntlet slap::

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The Jade wrote:

Well, at least we got to 52 before you guys ran out of creativity.

::gauntlet slap::

53. Weasel saddle for a tiny rider.

54. Tongue remover. Sharpen the end, insert under foolish human's tongue, smack it sharply.


55. Defense against ninja clog-dancers +4 ninja-clog-dancer-defender, de-clogs automatically on a 19/20

Shadow Lodge Contributor, RPG Superstar 2010 Top 8

56. Fashionable press-on nails for the Giantess who has everything.

Scarab Sages

57. A togoggan for pixies

58. less than masterwork scalemail

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Ubermench wrote:

57. A togoggan for pixies

58. less than masterwork scalemail

I think those are both on there already. 57 is #1, for instance.


Ross Byers wrote:
Ubermench wrote:

57. A togoggan for pixies

58. less than masterwork scalemail

I think those are both on there already. 57 is #1, for instance.

That's called cryptomnesia. Happens to the best of us. <:)

Scarab Sages

57. A whistling, oscillating shuriken.

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58. Shoehorn + Animate Object = NEW BESTEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!

Scarab Sages

Benchak the Nightstalker wrote:
58. Shoehorn + Animate Object = NEW BESTEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!

I thought we'd already had the speculum?

LOL

Scarab Sages

The Jade wrote:
Ross Byers wrote:
Ubermench wrote:

57. A togoggan for pixies

58. less than masterwork scalemail

I think those are both on there already. 57 is #1, for instance.
That's called cryptomnesia. Happens to the best of us. <:)

Oops.

Scarab Sages

59. Tongue depresser.
60. Fake tongue for effigy creature.
61. Fake tongue for pirate.
62. Animated tongue.
63. Shoehorn Golem.

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Snorter wrote:
Benchak the Nightstalker wrote:
58. Shoehorn + Animate Object = NEW BESTEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!

I thought we'd already had the speculum?

LOL

BA-ZING!

Scarab Sages

64. crappy random treasure found in a kobold lair.

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65. Ramp for Evil Knievil, the sprite daredevil, so he can attempt jumping over 3 sleeping, fully armored Hellknights.

66. A couple straps and you have high-heeled metal clogs for Gnomes.

67. Tool for separating a toad familiar from his wizardly master after a juggernaut runs them over.

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68. Bracers of Armor for a Sprig.

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69. The only thing that can destroy the 'One Shoe'

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70. Last ditch thrown weapon after having already shot all the arrows and thrown the bow.

71. Shiny thing to distract ogres with.

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73. Eye scoop for making Eye's Cream.

Scarab Sages

*uses shoehorn to fling rotten tomatos*

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74. Rotten tomato catapult?

Scarab Sages

Ross Byers wrote:
74. Rotten tomato catapult?

That's #41, sorry.

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Ubermench wrote:
Ross Byers wrote:
74. Rotten tomato catapult?
That's #41, sorry.

You are correct! I will just have to come up with an even more clever #74 to replace it.

*skulks off to plot*

Scarab Sages

Because I feel people could do with a refresher.

'101 Uses for a Shoehorn in a High Fantasy Setting.'
1. Pixie toboggan.
2. Sharpened steel shoehorn used as a cobbler/assassin's favorite inconspicuous weapon. When you sit to try on shoes, he slits your Achilles.
3. Makeshift campground spoon.
4. Pocket shovel for digging out of prisons (see spoon).
5. Material component for the spells Adjust Fit and Ghostwalk. (The first resizing existing clothes and the second creating spectral shoes that give a modifier to stealth)
6. As a shoehorn. Geez, why does everything have to be so complicated?
7. A mirror with which to peek at the medusa.
8. Small lever for prying open boxes, doors, etc.
9. Shoe-ninja’s main weapon.
10. A pretext to take the feet of beautiful girls.
11. A distraction. (Throw shoehorn, and when the guard looks in the direction of the noise walk silently behind him).
12. Dragonmilk butter knife.
13. Reflective surface with which to blind opponents from a distance.
14. Strapless eye patch. (ew)
15. Dragon scale replacement.
16. Leprechaun bludgeoner.
17. Tower shield for a tiny fey.
18. Halfling codpiece.
19. Put enough of them together, cheap scale mail.
20. Tongue depressor for a Golarion goblin.
21. Evacuation slide for Ear Seeker airlines. (For the /grognards)
22. When having rust monsters over for drinks, steel shoehorns make for ideal wafer-thin hors' dourves.
23. A plectrum for an ogre guitar.
24. Spell component for Bigby's Buttkick of Death.
25. Necessary for Profession (shoemaker)...or is that Craft (shoemaking)?
26. New magic item: Shoe of Horne - useful for removing cursed footwear, can cast freedom of movement 1/day.
27. Use two for emergency castanets for a bard with Perform (percussion).
28. Hobgoblin guards guarding a cave can bang their gong with it.
29. A brain scoop for Illithilds.
30. A speculum (if you have two).
31. Helmet decorations for a very strange barbarian (or samurai).
32. A torture device of the worst kind...
33. Combination Dire Oyster Shucker & Spoon.
34. As a scoop to remove coins from chests, for cautious rogues (Beware goldbugs!).
35. Sacred altar for sentient shoes.
36. Item made by sentient shoes for use instead of a tongue.
37. Old relationship extrication device, used to knock one’s future ex down or as a crowbar to push them away :D
38. A black rune-carved shoehorn that drinks your SOLE!
39. A tool for intelligent magical shoes with bard classes for use with their Perform (horn) skill.
40. Improvised lean-to for really, really Reduced characters.
41. A device to fling rotten tomatoes at people who make really bad puns. *fling, fling*
42. Plate mail barding for a small snake steed.
43. Armor eye patch for a dude with one ultra-fugly five inch across eye.
44. Insert for an athletic supporter.
45. Glued to the bottom of a stick, it's a prosthetic foot for a pirate.
46. You could clap two of them to simulate the sound of a trotting horse (when halved coconuts are nowhere to be found).
47. A replacement nose-flap, for a certain half-orc brothel owner.
48. Scrying/divination target. (Nobody expects or remembers the masterwork ivory shoehorn casually looted from a wizard's henchman and left lying around as a trophy not valuable enough to sell, until it is usually far too late.).
49. Ogre earwax cleaner/nosepicker.
50. As a focus for plane shift, allowing you to travel to the realm of Rhee'Bok, Demon Lord of Footwear.
51. Heraldic Standard of the High King of the Shoe-elves.
52. Mallet for the Whack-A-Kobold game.
53. Weasel saddle for a tiny rider.
54. Tongue remover. Sharpen the end, insert under foolish human's tongue, smack it sharply.
55. Defense against ninja clog-dancers +4 ninja-clog-dancer-defender, de-clogs automatically on a 19/20
56. Fashionable press-on nails for the Giantess who has everything.
57. A whistling, oscillating shuriken.
58. Shoehorn + Animate Object = NEW BESTEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!
59. Tongue depresser.
60. Fake tongue for effigy creature.
61. Fake tongue for pirate.
62. Animated tongue.
63. Shoehorn Golem.
64. crappy random treasure found in a kobold lair.
65. Ramp for Evil Knievil, the sprite daredevil, so he can attempt jumping over 3 sleeping, fully armored Hellknights.
66. A couple straps and you have high-heeled metal clogs for Gnomes.
67. Tool for separating a toad familiar from his wizardly master after a juggernaut runs them over.
68. Bracers of Armor for a Sprig.
69. The only thing that can destroy the 'One Shoe'
70. Last ditch thrown weapon after having already shot all the arrows and thrown the bow.
71. Shiny thing to distract ogres with.
72. Eye scoop for making Eye's Cream.

Sczarni

73. put it on a string and pull it in front of a wandering kender to get him to follow you

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74. To rebuke furry-footed burrowers, and other shoeless types


75. A tool to remove your enemy's heart and show it to him before she dies!! Mwahahaha!


76. an arm or leg splint for first level size S characters that have for some reason fought Tsuto. (or headstone, just have someone engrave an epitaph...hey that would be 77!!!)


77. A tongue plate armor.

Yap yap!


The Shade wrote:
75. A tool to remove your enemy's heart and show it to him before she dies!! Mwahahaha!

Hey, Shade! We're getting the guild back together. Come visit already, will ya?

Oh, yeah #79: Sell it for a few silver.

Sczarni

Llamafrog wrote:

77. A tongue plate armor.

Yap yap!

78. something to bite on when an ally tries to use the heal skill untrained

79 is above

80. a useless thing to put in your purse for thieves to steal

Scarab Sages

81. ice skates if mounted sideways on the bottom of your boots
82. makeup mirror for a tart
83. lute pick for a bard
84. its not really a shoehorn but a fragment of the starstone
85. an antenna to the gods.


Ubermench wrote:
84. its not really a shoehorn but a fragment of the starstone.

Well then save it for the not really a shoehorn brainstorm. (or make it of starstone with a green shoehorn adept prestige class)

NEXT!

Scarab Sages

The Jade wrote:
Ubermench wrote:
84. its not really a shoehorn but a fragment of the starstone.

Well then save it for the not really a shoehorn brainstorm. (or make it of starstone with a green shoehorn adept prestige class)

NEXT!

If you got a fragment of the starstone in your pocket you can have it be anything you want cause you're a god.

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86. Divine Focus for a cleric of Loafer, God of Shoes.


David Wickham wrote:
Heathansson wrote:
46. You could clap two of them to simulate the sound of a trotting horse, assuming you didn't have coconuts.
I don't think a bird could carry a shoehorn :P

African or European?

87. Octopus buckler, assuming she didn't take the 8 weapon fighting feat.
88. Gideons back up, for when the trumpet is full of spit.
89. Springboard for the dire flea circus clown's grand finale.

Scarab Sages

90. Filthy treasure from a giant's sack.
91. Thieves' Guild calling card for rival guild.


92. Failed Escape tool: Something you find in a pie, brought to you in jail by an inept cohort who couldn't find a file.

Sczarni

Amardolem wrote:
92. Failed Escape tool: Something you find in a pie, brought to you in jail by an inept cohort who couldn't find a file.

This is #4


Ubermench wrote:
The Jade wrote:
Ubermench wrote:
84. its not really a shoehorn but a fragment of the starstone.

Well then save it for the not really a shoehorn brainstorm. (or make it of starstone with a green shoehorn adept prestige class)

NEXT!

If you got a fragment of the starstone in your pocket you can have it be anything you want cause you're a god.

Well, there is that.

Scarab Sages

The Jade wrote:
Ubermench wrote:
The Jade wrote:
Ubermench wrote:
84. its not really a shoehorn but a fragment of the starstone.

Well then save it for the not really a shoehorn brainstorm. (or make it of starstone with a green shoehorn adept prestige class)

NEXT!

If you got a fragment of the starstone in your pocket you can have it be anything you want cause you're a god.
Well, there is that.

84.(replacement)Pocket protector for nerd spell casters.

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92. You call that a knife? This is a knife!

Scarab Sages

Ross Byers wrote:
92. You call that a knife? This is a knife!

no...that's a spoon...(see number 3)

Man that joke worked out well.


93. (?) Press-on fingernails for hill giants.

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Lipto the Shiv wrote:
93. (?) Press-on fingernails for hill giants.

That's already number 56.

How did skip from 85ish to 92?


Fake Healer wrote:
Lipto the Shiv wrote:
93. (?) Press-on fingernails for hill giants.

That's already number 56.

How did skip from 85ish to 92?

Ubermensch just offered a substitution for one of his earlier offerings.

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93. The body of a skateboard for Tiny Hawk, the winner of the X-Games: Sprites Unleashed.

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94. A Rhino-horn waxing tool.

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95. Greaves for a pixie.


Lipto the Shiv wrote:
93. (?) Press-on fingernails for hill giants.

Um.. uh.. he, uh... stole my idea! yeah! And then he uh... travelled through time to really... steal.. umm....

crud.

Okay, how about this? Assuming we are talking about a metal shoehorn here...

96. Rust Monster treats.

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