Inventive ways of opening a door

[Katana_Geldar]

Recently I opened a door in a dungeon from a distance using a dagger and a rope, I wonder how many other different ways doors can be opened.

[LibraryOgre]

Large amounts of explosives.
Specially trained troll.
Battering ram.

[Harperfan7]

Adrenaline & Metallica

[Tavar]

Never tried this myself, but cast animate object on the door. Not only does it open, but it attacks as well!

[Narazil]

I just attempted grappling hook + rope in The Neverending Dungeon..


I'd forgotten there was no where to attach the grappling hook. But still.

[dragoonsgone]

Fire!
Liquid Nitrogen and a hammer.

[SurlySeraph]

Mage Hand. Animate Rope. Summoned creatures. Flexible weapon + grapple check. Throwing something heavy at it.

[Katana_Geldar]

I just attempted grappling hook + rope in The Neverending Dungeon..


I'd forgotten there was no where to attach the grappling hook. But still.

That's why a dagger works!

[TheOOB]

Use major image to make the door look open and that your party ran through, then channel the spirit of the Roadrunner and have the stupid ogre chasing you run into it.

[Beelzebub1111]

Shrink item on the lock.

[Lapak]

Take an axe (if wooden) or a pickaxe (if stone) to the doorframe, until the door falls out of it.

[drengnikrafe]

Most of the really clever ways have been stated. I really like OOB's.

That being said, I find myself a little bit fond of just Dimension Dooring to the other side.

[Katana_Geldar]

I rather like Roy's method

[Glimbur]

First, be a bard.

Second, use Fascinate on a hireling or nearby monster.

Third, use Suggestion to get them to open the door.

Weirder idea: cast Animate Object on the door. Have the psion manifest Time Hop on the door-creature. Run through before it pops back.

[oxinabox]

my faverate was an elevator door (thin is in nWoD:CtL)
we were stuck between floors on an elevator,
I punched out the bottom of the elevator putting us one floor below where we wanted to be.
I'ld had a contract on Hearth put on me, and then i invoked a contract of stone.
the thickish steel crupled like tin foild acter i rfeducted it's durability by 8.
My origi nal plan want ot climb to the top of the elevator, into the shaft.
and punch through the concrete shart and the floor.
But the party didn't believe i could do it.

In DnD we cam to a door, it wouldn't open.
we weren't feeling patient. so Me and the other fighter took out out Addy Weapons and proceeded to cut it down.
Weeks latter i asked the dm how we were supposed to open the door.
"Oh, that. I was about to descibe a button next to it. when you interupted me."

[deuxhero]

Use that silent door disk item, then animate the door.

[Harperfan7]

Knock + diplomacy, or just cast Knock.

Adamantine bludgeoning weapon (dwarven lockpick).

Disintegrate it or the wall/ceiling/floor around it.

In the spirit of your post, I don't have anything to add, there's only so many ways to open a door, and in D&D, they generally require special items, skills, or spells.

[Pharaoh's Fist]

Recently I opened a door in a dungeon from a distance using a dagger and a rope, I wonder how many other different ways doors can be opened.

Knock, and wait for someone to open it.

[FlamingKobold]

One time the party paladin used smite evil... what a malicious door it was too.

My all time favorite way involved 4 golems, a vat of acid, 8 acid resistant chains, 3 commoners and a half-fiend housecat. Don't ask.

[Claudius Maximus]

Animate Objects, followed by Detonate.

Alternatively, Open/Close.

Unless it's made of adamantine or some other resilient material, you can use an adamantine dagger to just cut the whole door out of its frame.

[Sstoopidtallkid]

Knock, and wait for someone to open it.

In an RPG?!? What are you thinking?

[OracleofWuffing]

Custom item "Speedo of Opening," which casts knock 3/day and is quite stylish.

[Roc Ness]

Shatter the lock and gust of wind it open?

Transmute rock to mud around it and push it down, frame and all?

[deuxhero]

One time the party paladin used smite evil... what a malicious door it was too.

Fun fact, smite evil only fails to work when used on non-evil creatures, as opposed to only working on evil creatures, so inanimate objects are a valid smite target.

[Eurus]

First, be a bard.

Second, use Fascinate on a hireling or nearby monster.

Third, use Suggestion to get them to open the door.

Weirder idea: cast Animate Object on the door. Have the psion manifest Time Hop on the door-creature. Run through before it pops back.

Time Hop works just fine on objects, and that's one of my favorite uses for it.

Invisibility on the door and let the ogres on the other side crash through it works pretty well too.

[Katana_Geldar]

Could you do an Indy and use a whip or a spiked chain?

[AngelisBlack]

Top 5 ways to open a door, according to my players and myself.

1. Kick it open, like an action hero.
2. Ghost Sound to simulate the sound of an explosion. Wait for people inside to rush out.
3. Shatter the hinges or the lock of a big door.
4. Lesser orb of cold on a small metal door, then a warhammer.
5. Drill hole in a wooden door, throw the pearl from the dust of dryness in, make sure door is secured with iron spikes. Minions inside said room will unlock the door before they all drown.

[toasty]

Shamus Young shows us how some players get around locked doors

That is perhaps my all-time Favorite Strip from the DM of the Rings.

I say you should SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER! Just because its a brilliant, brilliant plan, I tell you!

[gorfnab]

Fabricate spell

[Tyndmyr]

Shrink Item is a favorite.

Alternatively, there's the SPC orb that just makes a hole through everything.