I had the idea of making a shield that has two functions; one being a shield and the other being a boat. I can just see a little pudgy Gnome warrior getting hunted by a hoard wild Felars and not being able to fend them all off. So this poor Gnome decided to run over to the ocean and finds himself without a boat. Natural proclivity causes him to take off his shield, sets it on the water and prays that it floats. Maybe make it so only small races can use wooden shields as boats or make giants able to use large shields as boats. Either that or formulate a quest someplace to discover how to make shields more buoyant? If all else fails when a new hero-imm decides to make a Storm race hometown area …have the guards of the city hold surfboards that are shields and function as a boat.

Just an idea I wanted to use if I ever became an Immortal and had the chance to write an area, but that never happened.