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A dolphin's blow hole...

Back when I was playing #Cyberpunk2020 in high school the Fixer had called a few contacts to get access to some C6, highly powerful plastic explosives. We needed to get access to a corp building at the bottom of a hill. So they put their remote detonator in the C6 & attached it to a skateboard. BOOM

I wouldn't say unexpected item but I once used wish to take the BBEGs godhood, which the DM didn't expect that

My leopard's answer: a candlemaker's inventory ledger. He carried it into a magistrate's hearing and read the names out loud until the magistrate's own brother was in it. The candle was never lit. The book cost nothing and did all the work.

A chess rook, off a forgotten war table. Not thrown as a weapon. Used as a door key. Opened the portal, handed the rook back, never explained why it worked. The table still argues about it.

I let my table roll for their own treasure sometimes with the random tables and our warlock rolled a flying broom. 😅 She became the epitome of "suppressing fire" as she flew around raining eldritch blasts from the sky

You're way too high-spec.

Partner ran a game that had a player saying "Best thing ever!" Fly-spray: It was a spray can that released a single fly with each press. And yes they used it.

"Daddy, whats that?" "That... that is a headache for Daddy." Later: Captain catches up with the PCs, drapes arms across their shoulders. "Anything you two would like to tell me?" PCs in unison: "WE WERE MUGGED."

In our Avatar Legends campaign, the prodigy leapt up high and dumped a small chest of gold on one of the big bads’ heads. Which led to the now-concussed guy getting stampeded by a surging crowd. I anticipated a lot of ways for that fight to end. That one… was not one of them.

Honorable mention: player used a CD-player and began breaking it down on the floor in sheer panic, decided to risk it all by doing Nsync byebyebye dance and hoping to confuse the zombies enough to buy him time. He scream laughed in panic and confusion when a zombie started dancing back at him

Tencers Flying Disk. Fill it up with useless stuff (like Electrum pieces) and run by Skeletons, crashing them to bits.

He had to roll three times. He won the first round. Lost the second. The room of players held on with baited breath as he rolled the d20 and got a Nat20 trapping the boss inside. GM wasn't even man about it.

Not me but one of my player's once played card game where their souls were on the line. Whoever lost instantly had their soul consumed by the game.

One of my first sessions ever i tried to pick up a party member and hit the enemy with them. I failed the roll though.

Cursed goblet. Anything poured into it got converted into poison. Our party went up against a water dragon, and I jumped into its mouth, used my spear to keep it from closing its jaws, and proceeded to hold out the goblet so that the water rushing past would produce dose after dose down its throat.

I bought glass vials, and a canvas sack at the start of Tomb of Annihilation. Got to the lost city, got "captured", and reminded my DM that these people weren't undead and gave them the worst pocket sand experience ever because he forgot I had it.

Also I know what you mean when you say raspberry noise but all I could think of it was it saying "raspberries!" in Carol Channing's voice.

Goblin to kobold to beholder to human to elf to kua toa to netherese to dragon to aboleth, everyone finds a fart joke funny.

Dm had a room full of toxic, flammable codycept-esque monsters in front of us. My zealot had an alchemy jug. Oil from the jug + spark from tinderbox = room without monsters. And I only singed my robes a little bit.

Does using the contents of an airship to craft a steam engine count? Essentially a magical pestilence killed off its lower level crew and we were left stranded. IRL I drew up the schematic given the available materials and the DM accepted that my mage could build it. Thus we gained a free airship.

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