Gold value: 1800 gp
Function: Reveals invisible monsters and visual illusions in a 10 foot radius.
5 POUND BAG OF FLOUR
Gold value: $2.50
Function: Reveals invisible monsters and visual illusions in a 10 foot radius. Also, biscuits. Pancakes.
CONCLUSION
Don't breathe in the dust of appearance because it must get you high as nuts.
Well, it depends on how invisibility works: if it makes everything on your body invisible, flour turns invisible too.
ReplyDeleteYes, invisible flour footprints in that layer of flour you just covered the floor with.
ReplyDeleteOh, don't forget the use of flour to blow stuff up (more or less). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_bomb
Hah! I like the idea that you're actually supposed to snort the Dust of Appearance and it makes you see things that aren't there but used to be/could be/ or whatever.
ReplyDeleteI was picturing this:
ReplyDelete"All right citizen, empty your pockets. What's this? A bag of dust?"
"Yeah ..."
"We saw you pay that shop owner 1800 gold pieces for it!"
"Uh, yeah, it's a magic item."
"What does it do?"
"Uh ...."
Another absurdity for me was the dwarf's ability to detect sloping corridors. Just drink some water and have a pee.
ReplyDeleteOr bring a few glass marbles, if you don't feel like marking your trail.
DeleteHold it, lads! My dwarf sense tingles... yes...... This corridor....
DeleteWhat, rootbeard, what?!
It's sloping! This corridor is definitely at an angle!
I seem to remember in the old comic Yamara the dwarves would sometimes raise money by performing a 'magic trick' in which they would make a ball roll around on a plank of wood - because dwarves are the only creatures able to perceive the wood tilting.
DeleteDust of appearance is organic flour though...
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