Other Uses for Adventuring Gear

I was looking at the Adventuring Gear list from OSE and decided that I'd like to try and come up with 4 different ways to use these objects than usually expected. 


Backpack:

  • Strangle someone with the straps.
  • Blind someone with it.
  • Fill it with something heavy and swing it.
  • Fill it with snakes and gift it to an enemy.


Crowbar:

  • Feed it to a Rust Monster.
  • Remove rocks in mines.
  • Hit someone with it.
  • Throw it at something.

Garlic:

  • Cold remedy
  • Reduce blood pressure
  • Stink up your breath
  • Boost flavour 

Grappling hook:

  • Hook someone to something.
  • Use it to set off traps.
  • Grab something underwater or far away.
  • Pull down a chandelier


Hammer:

  • Knock imposingly upon a door
  • Remove nails
  • Fix a bent blade
  • Break through ice


Holy Symbol:

  • Intentionally cause offence
  • Start arguments
  • Open particular doors
  • Repel the dead... maybe?


Holy Water:

  • Baptise someone
  • Cleanse evil from an object
  • Consecrate the ground
  • Quench thirst in an emergency


Iron Spikes:

  • Pin something or someone stuck 
  • Stab a vampire
  • Carve a message
  • Heat it in fire


Lantern:

  • Check the wind direction
  • Heat something up
  • Signal to someone
  • Conceal contraband


Mirror:

  • Look behind you
  • Start a fire with sunlight
  • Confuse animals
  • Scry through


Oil Flask:

  • Dip arrows in it
  • Soak a rope
  • Add fuel to a fire
  • Make something smell bad


Pole, 10':

  • Leverage
  • Sound for hollowness
  • Hold something up
  • Vault


Rations:

  • Offer as a gift
  • Get something to follow
  • Make a distraction
  • Poison them


Rope:

  • Strangle someone
  • Tie someone up
  • Use to make traps
  • Add safety to a dangerous task


Sack:

  • Use as Peasant fashion
  • Fill it with rats 
  • Catch something in a river
  • Dismiss an employee


Stakes and Mallet:

  • See Hammer and/or Iron Spikes


Thieves' tools:

  • Clean out fingernails
  • Dislodge a bogey
  • Scrape out earwax
  • Remove stuck food in teeth


Tinder box:

  • Signal sparks
  • Claim magic to idiots
  • Distract something 
  • Very briefly light an area 


Torches:

  • Toast Marshmallows
  • Make a door handle hot
  • Light another torch
  • Scare something away


Waterskin:

  • Fill it with poison
  • Don't get it mixed up with the other one
  • Quench thirst 
  • Kill the entire party by mistake

Wine:

  • Intensify flavours in a dish
  • Stain something
  • Bribe someone
  • Smash the bottle

Wolfsbane:

  • Add as an ingredient in cooking
  • Rub on inflamed area for brief pain relief
  • Can be smoked with Tobacco
  • Garnish a drink






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