Real objects that sound like they should be RPG MacGuffins. (1 Viewer)

[David J Prokopetz]

As the subject line says: let's post real objects that sound like they should be MacGuffins in an RPG setting.

Here's one I ran across just today: the Demon Core.

 

[Stephen Tannhauser]

Purely to be the first person to get it out of the way: the Voynich Manuscript.

 

[Fish Priest]

The Iron Crown of Lombardy

 

[Speckled_Egg]

The Antikythera Mechanism

 

[Coyote's Own]

Kaspar, the Wooden Cat certainly sounds like UA macguffin.

 

[Pseudoephedrine]

The 11,095 volumes of the Yongle Dadian, of which fewer than 400 surviving volumes exist in the only known manuscript. A second version is missing, and a third is believed to exist in the as-yet unopened tomb of the Jiajing emperor.

 

[That Other Geek]

The Little Thetford Flesh-Hook

 

[Theodore Jay Miller]

As a target for a theme supervillain:

The $2 Million Gold and Jeweled Monopoly Board
http://craziestgadgets.com/2010/10/14/2-million-gold-and-jeweled-monopoly-board/

 

[IvanMike]

any number of physics, chemistry and biology terms. Dark matter, dark energy, quantum states, artificial transmutation, Avogadro's number, Ostwald Process, etc...

 

[Mailanka]

The Demon Core.