Benchak the Nightstalker Contributor, RPG Superstar 2010 Top 8 |
Ross Byers RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32 |
Benchak the Nightstalker Contributor, RPG Superstar 2010 Top 8 |
Benchak the Nightstalker Contributor, RPG Superstar 2010 Top 8 |
Ross Byers RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32 |
Ross Byers RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32 |
kessukoofah |
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.
Benchak the Nightstalker Contributor, RPG Superstar 2010 Top 8 |
Ubermench |
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.
Curaigh |
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.
The Jade |
The Jade wrote:If you got a fragment of the starstone in your pocket you can have it be anything you want cause you're a god.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!
Well, there is that.
Ubermench |
Ubermench wrote:Well, there is that.The Jade wrote:If you got a fragment of the starstone in your pocket you can have it be anything you want cause you're a god.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!
84.(replacement)Pocket protector for nerd spell casters.