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Re: 1001 uses for a Dull Gray Ioun Stone
« Reply #20 on: October 03, 2011, 03:49:58 AM »
assemble a sphere around a floating head type creature: a vargouille (or however those are spelled), a beholder, your friendly neighborhood demi-lich, etc., a hypnotic pattern and/or dancing lights later and you can prove that disco never dies.
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Re: 1001 uses for a Dull Gray Ioun Stone
« Reply #21 on: October 03, 2011, 07:42:07 AM »
Deploy then en masse around your psicrystal.  It now effectively has Mirror Image.

Put illusions of yourself on them.  Now you have mirror image too.

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Re: 1001 uses for a Dull Gray Ioun Stone
« Reply #22 on: October 03, 2011, 08:46:48 AM »
Dangle strings, feathers or toy mice from them and give them to your cat.

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Re: 1001 uses for a Dull Gray Ioun Stone
« Reply #23 on: October 03, 2011, 09:30:05 AM »
Give them to the nearest commoner so they can use them as a magical loom for their craft: basketweaving checks.
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Re: 1001 uses for a Dull Gray Ioun Stone
« Reply #24 on: October 03, 2011, 04:39:52 PM »
Cheap magical sling-stones. They might not have an enhancement bonus, but they should still overcome DR/magic.
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Re: 1001 uses for a Dull Gray Ioun Stone
« Reply #25 on: October 03, 2011, 05:43:48 PM »
Cheap magical sling-stones. They might not have an enhancement bonus, but they should still overcome DR/magic.

DR/magic requires an enhancement bonus.

Make it look like a useful ioun stone so it can act as a decoy for real ones.

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Re: 1001 uses for a Dull Gray Ioun Stone
« Reply #26 on: October 03, 2011, 05:58:44 PM »
Use them to detect invisible enemies but casting continual flame on a bunch and then tossing them in squares you've heard movement in at about head level. Then attack where the orbiting light is. :)

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Re: 1001 uses for a Dull Gray Ioun Stone
« Reply #27 on: October 03, 2011, 06:49:16 PM »
Glue blades to it, invent a Saw-style trap involving hugging your Animal Companion.

Use it, then write a thesis why when floating three feet from your head you don't lose it for walking in doorways.

Cast Permanent Invisibility on it, and promptly forget you own one.

Also; Cast Energy Substituted(electricity) Explosive Runes on it, Shapechange into Shambling Mound and Dispel as needed.
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Re: 1001 uses for a Dull Gray Ioun Stone
« Reply #28 on: October 03, 2011, 07:45:11 PM »
I don't think Energy Sub: Electricity works on Explosive Runes, but you can use Glyph of Warding to create portable magic traps!  Anyone that passes a square occupied by the Glyph of Warding gets hit with something nasty.  Exclude yourself from the effect, of course.

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Re: 1001 uses for a Dull Gray Ioun Stone
« Reply #29 on: October 04, 2011, 12:07:05 AM »
I don't think Energy Sub: Electricity works on Explosive Runes, but you can use Glyph of Warding to create portable magic traps!  Anyone that passes a square occupied by the Glyph of Warding gets hit with something nasty.  Exclude yourself from the effect, of course.
You know there is quite a few Glyph spells, each one would be pretty handy on a stone.
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Re: 1001 uses for a Dull Gray Ioun Stone
« Reply #30 on: October 04, 2011, 07:29:36 PM »
just make sure they don't face inward...

give them to a two-headed creature, release them right between the two to create a Schrodinger's cat effect....
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Re: 1001 uses for a Dull Gray Ioun Stone
« Reply #31 on: October 04, 2011, 08:16:21 PM »

grey ioun stones + minor illusion = emoticons.


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