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giving gnomes swiss army knives
giving Drow sunglasses (along with William Gibson books)
giving the bard a song book of Jethro Tull, Eric Clapton, and Led Zepplin
Giving the Dwarves John Henry's Hammer
Giving the Dwarves a TANK!!!
Dropping Ash into the Dales.
giving a mage with a powerbook for spell book, and it can hack any spell in his repitoir.

The Drow with sunglasses wouldn't be affected, their magic would still run down and the sun would still burn them.

Giving the Dwarves John Henry's Hammer

That's a normal hammer, no change is made.

giving a mage with a powerbook for spell book, and it can hack any spell in his repitoir.

Mage's limitations on spellcasting are due to their own ability, not knowing the spell (they can read any spell from a scroll but an apprentice trying to cast time stop will be lucky to be brain dead after it).

Giving the Dwarves a TANK!!

Hmm, the dwarves might be able to replicate it, since steam power is known as is black-powder (which is quite similiar to gunpowder), do you mean a WC style steam tank or a modern tank such as an Abrahams? (Whose computer tech the dwarves could not replicate nor could they keep it supplied).

giving the bard a song book of Jethro Tull, Eric Clapton, and Led Zepplin

+1 to perform checks, and a few more CN villagers roam the lands .

Dropping Ash into the Dales.

Do you mean covering all of the dales in ash, thus destroying their crops?
That would make quite a difference since it would quite possibly casue a famine, especially after the damage caused by the Shades caused flooding and crops destroyed by dragons under the rage.
It might even weaken them enough for the Zent's to attempt another invasion or for some of the more militaristic groups (Battledale, featherdale) to annex some of the smaller dales that are focused on crop exports.

giving gnomes swiss army knives

They throw it away, far too useless. If you had said a Dragonlance kender on the other hand .

Also, are you on drugs again? This is a rather peculiar topic

actually death, here it's just a hammer, if brought over there it becomes a super maul of the titans, with the nasty tendancy to consume your con points and slowly turn your body to stone and steel....

I can't recall who you destroy it either....

but in the old d&d manuals (not ad&d) it was listed as one of the artifacts.

Introduce the bards to boy-bands. How's that for cultural pollution?

Put George W Bush in charge the Shade Empire

Solauren wrote:Put George W Bush in charge the Shade Empire

Unfortunately they would just assassinate the magicless fucktard and go back to being nasty shadow magic users.

Cultural Pollution eh?

Well, I know of this little thing called "Marketing" ...

"So, what is this spell you want to make?"

"Well, It will make a fireball, that will blow things up"

"Wo, wo, hang on there, Are you sure thats what the consumers want?"

"What consumers? Its a Fireball!"

"Heh, thats a good one, but seriouslly, Have you even done any focus groups yet? And Why Fire? its too cold, too standoffish, Why not happy funball? Or the Heat orb? I'd bet theres great Synergie with that!"

"All I want is to cast Fireball!!!"

"Sure thing skip, but lets think outside the box here, Shift the task force and change the whole Paradeigm of this 'fireball'"

DEATH wrote:The Drow with sunglasses wouldn't be affected, their magic would still run down and the sun would still burn them.

Drow magic works on the surface since 'Windwalker'. Drow do not burn in the sun's light.

giving a mage with a powerbook for spell book, and it can hack any spell in his repitoir.

There's already magical items that hold masses of spells and reference them quickly. I suspect this would only be as signifigant as rediscovering these technologies(And some of them were never lost).

Giving the Dwarves a TANK!!

So it's a Juggernaught construct with a smokepowder bombard(Basically, something availiable since 2nd ed, to say nothing of the tech boost since then!), or an Abrams. An Abrams would run down too fast, though. It would, however, likely be augmented with spells into a kind of golem, and left to defend the Great Rift.

Dropping Ash into the Dales.

Hail to the king baby; heaven help the local undead.

Only items with the drowcraft property, designed specifically to draw power from faerzress, decay in sunllight. And there are several useful magics to help the sunlight adverse deal with the surface world.