Uses for an immovable rod

[Dawnsteel]

I used immovable rods to support climbing plants, such as tomatoes.

[Mckma]

A bit over the top but:

Stealthily replace the enemy stronghold's shipment of arrows and bolts with cleverly disguised immovable rods, and set the command word to activate them to be someone shouting the word "FIRE!"  Congratulations, you've just disabled all of the enemy force's archers.

Affix blades to the ends of the immovable rods.  Now you can pin an opponent's arm in any situation

Place the immovable rod in front of a door you want to remain shut for a quick and easy barring.   Add another invisible one at ankle level for added hilarity.

Build your citadel entirely out of immovable rods.  It is now indestructible, or at least nearly so.

Attach immovable rods to your boots, and have them activated by thought. Now you can walk on water AND air.  Have similar rods placed throughout your armor, and you could even possibly walk on walls and ceilings somewhat comfortably.

You're a lich.  Make your phylactery an immovable rod, and throw it into space, or a volcano if you can make it and yourself impervious to heat, or somewhere else equally difficult to get to.  Surround it with several identical immovable rods.  Make every rod deactivated by a different code word that only you know, and, of course, make them all only destroyable in the fires of Mount Doom, or somewhere else unreasonable.  Anyone trying to kill you permanently will have a hell of a job doing it.

I'm betting they make damned good paperweights too.

Heh heh, saving the best for last I see...

[ArtfulShrapnel]

A bit over the top but:

Stealthily replace the enemy stronghold's shipment of arrows and bolts with cleverly disguised immovable rods, and set the command word to activate them to be someone shouting the word "FIRE!"  Congratulations, you've just disabled all of the enemy force's archers.

I really like that one. Expensive though... A nice touch would be to make the deactivation code something really difficult. (like, they only deactivate at your touch) After you win the battle, the hundreds of floating rods will be a symbol of your cunning and might for centuries to come.

Guards along the stronghold walls will also likely use them as a convenient coathanger or place to lean against. Lazy guards...

That's for the millionaire wizard wizard who wants to send a message.

[Tadanori Oyama]

If you've got the money and the time, a dozen Immovable Rods and Invisiblity spells make for a changeable Blind Sight training course.

[ethan_dawe]

The ultimate weapon for bandits stopping caravans

[ArtfulShrapnel]

If you've got the money and the time, a dozen Immovable Rods and Invisiblity spells make for a changeable Blind Sight training course.

Wouldn't just turning out the lights be about infinity times cheaper?

[Tadanori Oyama]

If you've got the money and the time, a dozen Immovable Rods and Invisiblity spells make for a changeable Blind Sight training course.

Wouldn't just turning out the lights be about infinity times cheaper?

In the same sense that a castle on the plains is just as good as a castle on a volcanic island, yes.

[ArtfulShrapnel]

If you've got the money and the time, a dozen Immovable Rods and Invisiblity spells make for a changeable Blind Sight training course.

Wouldn't just turning out the lights be about infinity times cheaper?

In the same sense that a castle on the plains is just as good as a castle on a volcanic island, yes.

Touche good sir... touche...

[Boyos]

If you built your castle on an Volcanic island and proped it up 30 feet into the air with imovable rods and used and invisablity spell it would look realy bad ass though.

[ArtfulShrapnel]

If you built your castle on an Volcanic island and proped it up 30 feet into the air with imovable rods and used and invisablity spell it would look realy bad ass though.

but immovable rods can only suport up to 5000lbs

Hence he said "rods", meaning more than one. Since they can support 5000 pounds each, you just need to collect enough of them.

[Mckma]

If you built your castle on an Volcanic island and proped it up 30 feet into the air with imovable rods and used and invisablity spell it would look realy bad ass though.

but immovable rods can only suport up to 5000lbs

That's why you would use multiple.  I think any GM would allow them to be used in conjunction to hold a larger weight...

[clockworkjoe]

again a useful distraction for physics majors

how many immovable rods does it take to hold up a fortress?

[ArtfulShrapnel]

again a useful distraction for physics majors

how many immovable rods does it take to hold up a fortress?

One for every 5000 pounds of weight (including occupants at mass capacity)

[Setherick]

again a useful distraction for physics majors

how many immovable rods does it take to hold up a fortress?

One for every 5000 pounds of weight (including occupants at mass capacity)

You guys don't know your physics very well. If you build a cube platform from immovable rods and then place immovable rods at 45 degree angles on the sides of the cubes, you can build a structure that would hold immeasurably more weight that the combined maximum endurance weight of the rods.

Personally, I would build a geodesic dome made from immovable rods.

[Mckma]

again a useful distraction for physics majors

how many immovable rods does it take to hold up a fortress?

One for every 5000 pounds of weight (including occupants at mass capacity)

You guys don't know your physics very well. If you build a cube platform from immovable rods and then place immovable rods at 45 degree angles on the sides of the cubes, you can build a structure that would hold immeasurably more weight that the combined maximum endurance weight of the rods.

Personally, I would build a geodesic dome made from immovable rods.

Hmm...  True...

Right now I'm doing "modern physics," so I was trying to think of something clever to do with relativity and immovable rods...