FrankManic
Artisan
I am not an honest gentleman. I am not interested in a practical guide to mechanical devices. I am a liar, a cheat, a thief, a swindler, and I may or may not have taken money to incite civil unrest that culminated in the collapse of one or more kingdoms. And I want to talk about traps.
Neat tricks:
I found out about Field's Metal on Wikipedia when I was poking around looking for easy to use solders. It is a non-toxic metal that melt's at 144 degrees. I suggest that it could readily put to a number of devious uses, like creating hidden catches and releases that can only be opened by using heat to melt the metal.
These guys sell it -> https://www.scitoyscatalog.com/Merchant ... ory_Code=H
Kind of expensive, but it makes use of rare earth elements.
Check the site out. They also talk about the useful properties of Gallium, another non-toxic, low melting point metal that can be used to paint a mirror onto any glass surface!
Neat Stuff:
Think Geek, in addition to having the best price ever, anywhere, for rivetted maille, sells a bunch of nifty gizmos that could be used for nefarious deeds in the darkness. The Annoy-o-Tron has definite potential when slipped deep into someone's pack or fixed on the bottom of a bunk.
Likewise, this thing
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/8a0f/
Just screams "Hack me into an evil motion tracking dart spitting idol". Imagine coming into a cabin and having a tiny wooden Idol open glowing red eyes and start shooting little nerf arrows at you! Game legal? I couldn't begin to guess, but I think it would be awesome, even if you just used it to scare the cat at home.
Throwies are another neat toy
http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-Throwies/
Basically nothing more than an LED light, a 3 volt battery, and a magnet, a throwy makes you a cheap, reusable light spell with some interesting potential applications. If you're trying to keep your group together on a dark night, you could use one to attach a Light spell to the back of the party leader's helmet. Or maybe you could use a red throwy surreptitiously deposited on your rival's armor to mark him as the target for the kidnapping. And if you're with plot you could add a pair of them to the big bad's helmet for that great 'Evil glowing eyes' look.
What sorts of things have you folks come up with in the whiz bang crack boom front towards enemy department?
Neat tricks:
I found out about Field's Metal on Wikipedia when I was poking around looking for easy to use solders. It is a non-toxic metal that melt's at 144 degrees. I suggest that it could readily put to a number of devious uses, like creating hidden catches and releases that can only be opened by using heat to melt the metal.
These guys sell it -> https://www.scitoyscatalog.com/Merchant ... ory_Code=H
Kind of expensive, but it makes use of rare earth elements.
Check the site out. They also talk about the useful properties of Gallium, another non-toxic, low melting point metal that can be used to paint a mirror onto any glass surface!
Neat Stuff:
Think Geek, in addition to having the best price ever, anywhere, for rivetted maille, sells a bunch of nifty gizmos that could be used for nefarious deeds in the darkness. The Annoy-o-Tron has definite potential when slipped deep into someone's pack or fixed on the bottom of a bunk.
Likewise, this thing
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/8a0f/
Just screams "Hack me into an evil motion tracking dart spitting idol". Imagine coming into a cabin and having a tiny wooden Idol open glowing red eyes and start shooting little nerf arrows at you! Game legal? I couldn't begin to guess, but I think it would be awesome, even if you just used it to scare the cat at home.
Throwies are another neat toy
http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-Throwies/
Basically nothing more than an LED light, a 3 volt battery, and a magnet, a throwy makes you a cheap, reusable light spell with some interesting potential applications. If you're trying to keep your group together on a dark night, you could use one to attach a Light spell to the back of the party leader's helmet. Or maybe you could use a red throwy surreptitiously deposited on your rival's armor to mark him as the target for the kidnapping. And if you're with plot you could add a pair of them to the big bad's helmet for that great 'Evil glowing eyes' look.
What sorts of things have you folks come up with in the whiz bang crack boom front towards enemy department?