One of the players in my games specifically asked that her druid DIDN'T take her clothes with her when she wildshaped. Instead, whenever she comes out of her beast form, completely naked, she spends a few moments infront of a tree casting druidcraft, putting on bark-based armour with the branches like fucking Ironman. I've learnt to stop questioning this PC because she comes up with the coolest shit if you let her explore her ideas.
Even when it's not exactly "my style of humor or thinking", I've long held the standard that especially when a PC is willing to take some disadvantage upon themselves, LET THEM! I may not entirely applaud it myself, but some fair portion of the Table will appreciate it, and it can be exploited later anyway. As a GM, you just don't often find Players willing to ADD to their own difficulties... even with a "side effect" they might desire. ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 oh absolutely, if she ever runs out of wild shape mid-fight she's gonna be in a bit of a difficult situation without armour and a negative dex, but we haven't gotten there yet... Yet.
@@chirpynsleepy958 Well, keep at it... Best of luck! As a Player, myself, I enjoy flirting with disaster... it makes the rest of the RP so much more interesting, and lends a chance that "the jokes will write themselves" as we go, so even the power gamers and shy kids can get involved. You know... It occurs to me, that girls tend to seem considerably more... er... "Charismatic" the more revealing their clothing gets... or the more "nude" they become... Not to harass anyone horribly, of course, but this could serve as the basis of a GREAT mechanic for antics to ensue whenever you do manage to draw a combat out so she's bereft of wild-shape (at least) nearing the end of the "mop-up" stages of combat winding down... You know? Something like "Every male humanoid within line-of-sight now rolls Perception, and then a Wisdom based save, for the distraction"... AND fully nude, I'd count as a stock +4 to her Charisma in such circumstances (damn the natural limits) Guys are horribly easy. ;o)
Except that druidcraft usually shouldn't allow to create something as complex as clothing, yet alone armor that actually provides a bonus to AC. It is a cool effect of course and in that particular form of use more a disadvantage than an advantage compared to just have her worn clothing and armor morph into the wildshape with her and back out again. But allowing to do things of that level with wildshape could be seriously abused.
Not a cantrip exactly, but one time I "earned" (got inflicted on me) a wish from an ifrit- the usual deal of whatever I wished for would get twisted into something undesirable. Despairing of being able to think of anything our DM couldn't sabotage, I decided I had nothing to lose by wishing for something completely silly and useless. So I said "I wish that I had the power to turn anything that is rarer and more precious than gold into gold". The DM laughed out loud, then thought for a minute. He rolled some dice, then told me to roll for Charisma, which I saved. The DM then announced that my wish had so amused the ifrit that it decided to grant it. The only catch was that the chances of it working would be in direct proportion to just how valuable an item I tried to transmute. So, many months of playing later and that episode is all but forgotten as we came to the climax of the campaign. It turned out that the entire campaign was part of a plot by an evil wizard- who in turn was being used by an arch-demon- to obtain a Cosmic Seed left over from the creation of the universe that would make whoever could use it overthrow-the-gods powerful. The situation was dire- we'd spent everything we had defeating the sorcerer only to discover he was nothing more than the arch-demon's catspaw. Our mage tried as a last resort to destroy the Seed only to be told by the DM that it was beyond the power of anything in our universe to destroy. So I have an inspiration: Me: "I use my 'Change Into Gold' power on the Cosmic Seed" DM: "You can't do that, it's indestructable." Me: "But isn't the chance of success based on how much more valuable it is than gold?" DM: "Yeah, but-" Me: "And isn't this literally the most valuable item in all creation?" DM: "Uhh..." Me: "So, in a sense, isn't the Cosmic Seed's own power contributing to the chance I succeed?" DM: "Errm...." So the DM rolls some dice, then tells me I have to roll a 20 (not a natural 20). So I roll a 17 and when all my bonuses are counted in, including a good luck spell that was cast on me earlier that hadn't worn off yet, I beat the 20. The Cosmic Seed (which in appearance manifested as a glowing ball of iridescent light about two feet across) turns into a two-foot ball of gold. The arch-demon screams in rage, is sucked into the gold sphere, and vanishes. The DM announces that the arch-demon had already bound itself to the Seed, now nothing more than an ordinary lump of gold, which the arch-demon is now uselessly trapped inside. So my joke spell won the campaign and saved the universe.
My personal favorite will always be using the "You make a color, a small mark, or a Symbol appear on an object or a surface for 1 hour" effect of Prestidigitation to win at Five Card Stud by changing value and suit on the cards. Worked out pretty well in my wizard's favor; cleaned out the entire bar. My luck ran out when the entire party got TPK'd by bears. I don't think my card tricks were gonna help there.
@@jonathangitter1311 probably not in most campaigns. D&D characters are unlikely to be aware of the invisible spectrum and therefore unable to mentally articulate what they would be trying to do. in a modern or sci-fi campaign though, i don't see why not.
Honestly I'm amazed that more wizards don't open laundromats. I once played a wizard and put the majority of my skill points into crafting skills. At third level, when I got the Create Wondrous Item feat, she retired from adventuring and opened a shop where she made items enchanted with Prestidigitation. Plates, bowls, and cutlery that could heat or flavor food, tankards that kept beverages cold, clothing that cleaned itself, etc. I made a new character, and the wizard, who was now _super_ wealthy, became the party's patron.
Party needed to meet the noble. No way to get to him, because he was "busy" attending rituals and so to meet creatures from other worlds to expand his influence. So our party changed, so we all had same robes. My Druid took a bottle of wine and kept "spamming" Shape water so it had humanoid shape. Cleric gave it voice using Thaumaturgy and Fighter was acting as this beings secretary... *Maketh way for holy spirit, Han´gover!*
Back with 2e, Cantrips was a stock spell... considered "first level" but requiring nothing... It explained the idea that they were "Parlor Tricks" so about 90% of Tables regarded the maximum possible damage to be about 1D4 (if you were lucky enough to get damage at all)... BUT the standard "demonstrable list" included things like "just enough telekinesis to tie shoelaces together ; provide a glowing coal that can light pipes, cigars, candles, and the like ; and minor illusory noises like a puff of wind, or a "ping" at a distance less than thirty (30) feet... In our campaigns, they were as easy to research or develop as they were to actually cast, so... in one Campaign I was "stuck" in a setting not so different from Dark Sun, where the immediate territory (at least) was "Magic Poor" and for several levels of Mage, I was trapped into Feather-fall and Cantrips... Antics included dropping the red-hot coal into the boot of an approaching Guardsman to distract him while the Party climbed a fence to safety and got out of there... Tying the shoelaces of about half the soldiers in a courtyard to other soldiers in the courtyard... resulting in a catastrophic crash when we erupted from a tower to "feat feet" across the drawbridge in broad daylight and make for the horses in the woods beyond the road. AND sending the puff of wind down the chimney of a "Grand Wazeer's" Personal lamp to plunge the room into darkness so the Party's Rogue would have a chance at a "back-stab" (the predecessor to "sneak attack")... ;o)
Prestidigitation to one shot a redcap. "Instantly clean or soil one object..." No saving throw, his blood drenched cap is perfectly clean and dry. Had a ranger with magic initiate use druidcraft to flag traps. I could spot them, but not disarm them, so I made a purple flower grow over every trap that I saw. Also used druidcraft to save a botched stealth roll. Guard coming to investigate, produce the sound of a small animal and the odor of a skunk. The guard left quickly.
I have two for this: 1. My fire mage used Dancing Lights to make a humanoid light shape to confuse a group of goblins who were attacking him and another party member. It worked for about three rounds of combat. 2. Same mage used to use Mage Hand to unlock locks from the inside. Used to frustrate the hell out of our rogue. Lol. EDIT: Ok, so I had three for this :D 3. My Life Domain cleric once used Thalmaturgy to make her eyes look like flames, jacked up the height and brightness of all the fire in all the sconces of the room, and increase the sound of her voice to intimidate a group of bandits into thinking she was an avatar of a goddess and that the rest of the party were her underlings. Two of them ran off and we routed the rest without actual combat happening. Later that day as we were leaving that place, we encountered the two bandits who'd run off trying to intimidate some random person on the road (turned out to be a new player's PC). His introduction to the campaign was my character standing up in the back of the cart, eyes on fire, voice booming, yelling at the two bandits "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?". They noped the hell out and didn't stop running until long after we lost sight of them. lol.
Broke: Using prestidigitation to make someone look like they pissed themselves. Woke: Using prestidigitation to conjure a handful of poop in someone’s pants (note how summoning object with the cantrip must be able to FIT in your hand, not appear in your hand).
They can make the pants looked "soiled", which in general context can include a length of wetness-appearing up to 1ft in length/various dimensions on the pants in question, so long as the target is within 10ft of the caster. (If being a stickler for the singular range for a target-objects dimensions, then if they have a codpiece or similar then they can target that to make it appear as if having pissed themselves.) I like the handful of poop option, too though... lol
Casting Minor Illusion to create a 5x5 box around the caster, and then using Misty Step to teleport away. It took a round for the bandits to realize that the box was an illusion and even more puzzled as to why the box was empty.
@@0SC2 You can see through your own illusions. So you'll be able to see your intended destination. When I said Caster, I meant the caster was the player who was casting Minor Illusion over themselves.
Had my Cleric use 'create water' to flood a short hallway that was acting as a bottleneck for some undead(like 1-2 inches of water), then 'bless water' to soften them up for our Paladin. Used Bless Water again later in that same session to 1-shot a lich because they were in a flooded room. I thought it'd just be annoying for her, but no she had hidden her phylactery in the silt. So suddenly it was submerged in Holy Water and the Lich pretty much exploded.
I was playing a water genasi cleric/druid, we came across a room full of poison gas with a chest on the other side, the dm expected one of us to go down trying to get to the chest or for us to just come back later. instead i used shape water to make a bubble out of my canteen and held the bubble to my face as a rebreather mask since i could breath in water. the dm was speechless.
Light has to be one of my favorite cantrips. It has so many cool uses. You can put Light on an arrow and fire it into the air to use as a flare, and you can even color the light red or something to denote urgency. You can use it instead of a fire or lantern of course. Then there's adding it to the blade of a sword to bluff having a holy sword. Or you can use it to lure enemies away from a specific spot. Using light through a familiar makes it even more fun.
I'm sorry but your comment was specific enough it left me no choice but to tell you, I literally have a character who uses a cantrip to consistently conjure up catnip.
@@swaghauler8334 No, a Wood Elf. But in my backstory I spent so much time in Wild Shape that I trained my body to react to the stuff in my original form as well as in cat form.
The single best use of Thaumaturgy I've seen was in a dragon-cult temple with 20ft high, stone doors. The Divine sorcerer and the tiefling paladin waited until the 10 or so cultists were crossing the threshold, then each chose one of the huge double-doors to slam shut turning most of the cultists into bolognese.
Never underestimate the power of Thaumaturgy, our cleric deafened an enemy long enough to give our rogue advantage on his stealth role to get a sneak attack and one-shot them.. Then there was the time our lvl 3 party came across a Spectator that was ordered to guard an artifact we needed.. so my wizard told the cleric on his signal to make a distant rumble in the ground and grabbed the fighters helmet, put it on and used Prestidigitation to turn it bright yellow.. he grabbed a bunch of parchment and a quill, gave the cleric the nod and burst into the room announcing he was from the Board of Health and Safety and that him and his team of "assessors" needed to clear this chamber due to the "construction" going on outside motioning in the direction of the faint rumbling... with some god-tier rolls on my part (my wiz had CHAR 16 and proficiency in deception) and horrible rolls on the DM's side we managed to convince it to leave long enough for us to get what we needed, although eventually we did have to fight it but we had hoodwinked enough to buy enough time to organise a surprise attack which did enough damage that only the fighter went unconscious before we killed it.. which was partly my fault as we were all so excited about it actually working I forgot that I was still wearing the fighters helmet and the DM, while trying to hold in fits of laughter ruled that would lower his AC slightly..we still talk about it years later. OH and that one time my frail wizard was getting pounded on by a Bugbear and had run out of Shield spells.. attacked in desperation to poke him in the eyes 3 stooges style and cast light on his eyeballs.. another absolute bullshit roll to hit on my part and the Bugbear failing its DEX save saw that poor bastard blinded.
Prestidigitation can create a small, non magical object. I have a bard that was getting chased by an assassin. The bard ran through a door, turned around closed the door, before creating a small padlock to lock the door and gain enough distance to escape. Pretty clever imo
In a session a few weeks back, a bunch of cultists were trying to break into a church. Our cleric (who doesn't like fighting but wants to defend the helpless) used Toll the Dead on the church bells above them as a 'warning shot'. The DM ruled that all of the bells started to ring with the magical energy from the cantrip, effectively amplifying the cantrip to the point it incapacitated all of the cultists before we could even roll initiative.
@@HappilyHomicidalHooligan True - though it does make sense, in a way. Toll the Dead already says that the sound of a bell tolls out when you use it. The DM simply saw this as an extension of that.
One time I used chill touch and dancing lights to convince an entire village into thinking their was a ghost for an elaborate plan to escape an almost unescapable prison cell
@ For wathever reason everyone knows the newer Metal Alchemist but i only liked the original It's not nostalgia or anything, i just saw both and only liked the first version
I played a Firbolg Druid once in a campaign that I never got to finish. In it none of the players were human so the DM made them and their church the bad guys of the story. In our second encounter with them, we were following the trail that they left behind in an attempt to rescue a little girl they kidnapped. We came across a campground that was guarding a cave entrance. Just looking at the number of baddies, we were slightly outnumbered from the beginning ( A staple of them DM) and half of them had Mastiffs, which would make everything harder if we had to fight everything. Now, most of the players were fairly new and fairly lacking in magical abilities based on their choice of Classes ( The main reason I chose Druid. Someone needed to keep them alive), so most of there plans for dealing with the Lookouts involved running in and attacking first. I, not wanting to waste more spell slots than needed, pulled them back and told them to let me try something first. Using Druidcraft, I began a storm of chaos in the camp ground. I put out their campfire, I made noises and smells that drove the dogs nuts, that either made the guards put them back in the cages or caused the dogs to flee. One guard was creeped out and went into the cave claiming he had "something to do". Our moment came when one guard fell into the fire pit because of another fleeing dog. I light the fire again for some quick damage and we rushed them. We took them down in two turns, with half of them removed for one reason or another harmlessly. We quickly raided the camp, made a new dog friend, and proceeded in the cave, not a scratch on us.
The Story of How I Almost Killed My Entire Party with a Fire Bolt So I (tiefling sorcerer) and my party (half-elf paladin, dragonborn barbarian, goliath cleric, and tabaxi warlock) were in a pickle. We were fighting something like 40 Caro Den (our DM's version of undead) in a village. I, the paladin, and the warlock found a storehouse of some kind of oil. Now our warlock, being a warlock, suggested that we blow it up and hopefully take out a good chunk of Caro Den. I shouted "BRACE YOURSELVES!!!!!" and shot a Fire Bolt at it. What I didn't realize at the time is that there were like 8-10 huge barrels of the stuff. Our DM rolled damage. Something like 20-25d10 for like 180 damage. We were a Lv4 party. She didn't even give us a saving throw. I should have killed the entire party, but out glorious DM, long may she reign, god-modded the shit out of the game and said we woke up 2 weeks later, deformed as hell. Our dragonborn didn't have a lot of scales, the tabaxi looked like a rat with all his fur missing, etc. I was the least affected because of fire resistance, but I was still really messed up. But we survived. Barely. Sure was fun though.
Had a pair of twin level 5 warlocks destroy a party of level 15’s with Eldritch blast. The best part, the party never got close enough to fight, due to the warlocks build. Even the monk couldn’t manage to close the 600 foot gap before going down. Luckily their healers managed to find full cover thus keeping them from a TPK.
The answer to this question for me is when a friend and I gave PTSD to a non-sentient golem. My friend was basically overpowered at that time, so the golem's only fear was my friend's character. So, I used Phantasmal Killer on the golem. Basically it saw 2 super saiyans in front of it. That already gave it major PTSD, so it started to run. Then, with the power of minor illusion, I made the two super saiyans look like they were charging up a nuke that would instantly kill the golem. The golem basically killed itself before the non-existent attack could happen.
We were in a dungeon crawl that was occupied by an army of half-orcs. We had encountered a separate NPC party that had an elf cleric and we agreed to not fuck with each other. Later, we got cornered by a platoon and it looked like we were done for. I summoned a Tannarukk to fight against them and they basically surrounded the demon-orc and killed it in one round. However, the Tannarukk was a trap. Now that they were all grouped together, I cast Hunger of Hadar and killed the entire platoon. As we piled the bodies on a desecrated orc shrine, we heard more orcs coming. So I used Prestidigitation to leave the symbol of the elf cleric on three of the bodies closest to where the noise was coming from. I left my sprite familiar there, invisible, to see what was coming as we made a hasty escape. As the chieftan discovered the bodies, he was enraged, then I used my eldritch invocation to speak through my sprite and threatened them, declaring they would all fall to my elven superiority, then dismissed my familiar. Then anytime we came to a fork in the cave, I would leave the symbol of the elf cleric on the way we did not choose to go. We never met the NPC party or the orcs again...
I opened a closet in game. Had a huge pile of bodies in it. When the pile started moving, I cast create bonfire. I then shut the door. Killed 12 zombies. Lol
I was a Half-Elf Bard, me and my party are fairly new, we got to a tavern, and me wanting to make some money, started a puppet show. The puppets were clear cut parodies of our characters (everyone was a finger puppet except my character who was a hand puppet), so seeing as 2 of my hands were already occupied I used mage hand for the goblin puppets and later for a red dragon puppet so my Bard and it can wrestle to the death. The DM loved it, and the Rogue used it as a distraction to steal us some champagne while all eyes were on me.
As a first-level Bard, I was cornered by an orc, had dropped my crossbow, and didn't have my rapier out yet. I asked if I was in a close proximity to one of the bolts that landed on the ground when the rogue failed their shot, and used mage hand, the rules of a dart, and a good D20/damage roll to stick it in the back of the orc's neck. I don't think mage hand is supposed to be a combat spell, but the DM allowed the workaround. I could probably think of some others, but this is the first to come to mind!
If the DM was following the rules, that wouldn't have been allowed at all. Mine wouldn't even let me use Mage Hand to flick the antennae of some giant insects to distract them because that would be considered an attack. But then again, I wasn't in a life-threatening situation and had alternatives.
@@melkiorwiseman5234 Yeah, I definitely get that and I'd agree. Normally, I don't think they would have allowed it, but I was new-ish to playing so I think they were lenient.
@@sewermage_3935 you know you have 3 slots of things you can equip and draw at any given time? If you're a bard, let's say one of them is for your instrument, another for this crossbow and the last for the rapier. You can switch between them each turn for free
@@melkiorwiseman5234 Eh, there's Attacks, and attacks. One specifically allowed use is "pouring out the contents of a vial", for instance. If that vial happened to contain acid, held over the head of a somehow immobilised Troll, you'll do damage, I promise, but since you don't have to roll to hit, it's not an Attack
I was playing as a Kenku and I was an arcane trickster, I used lightning lure on a piece of wood that I would carry on me then use control flames to communicate with people around me.
This actually happened in a recent session of mine. Our bard was performing at a tavern, and I decided to make it all cool with prestidigitation. I made electric guitar riff sounds and stuff, and added fog effects and pyrotechnics...so basically I turned it into a full-on rock concert. We got tons of money from it!
While I can't claim it's particularly creative, in our last game we were trying to avoid combat with a demon and a bunch of giant crabs so the wizard used minor illusion to replicate the sounds of humans screaming outside. The demon and crabs chased after the sound and we sneaked out the other side.
Arcane Trickster in a oneshot I played with used his (invisible) Mage Hand to tickle a bandit's balls as a way of giving an ally in melee advantage. He argued that it wasn't an attack because it wasn't doing actual harm, so the DM let it fly. The next attack from our Paladin was a nat 20, which would've been an 8 if it wasn't for advantage, so he naturally blew a Divine Smite on it and killed the bandit in one hit.
10:35 Player: *Detects Enemies while Sneaking.* *normal Voice.* oh Shit. Player: Decides to create Minor illusion on Self in the Vision of a Box Enemies: Oblivious of a Random box in the middle of a Area Player: *Imitates Snake.* Infiltrated the fortress, what next sir...
I was playing a game of 5e. I was a storm sorcerer who was essentially grown in a vat. Was given a series of magic tattoos that supposedly possesed magic. I escaped and was struck by lightning which activated them. I loved this character. However I loved to use shocking grasp so when we got to a dungeon that was partially constructed of giant bells, I got creative. I had the barbarian uncover part of the top of a bell and spent a sorcery point to focus all of the energy from Shocking Grasp into my fingers. I then cut through the bell bypassing the entire dungeon. We then decided to go through it anyway cuz we though it would be fun.
I once played a dungeon with a cliff right outside the door. I went out the door with an enemy chasing me, and used minor illusion to make it sound like I fell off the cliff so the enemy would go away. Unfortunately, he made his save against the illusion. I then used minor illusion to make it sound like I gave up and climbed down. This save he failed, allowing me to ambush him from behind as he walked away.
I had a tiefling paladin that liked to lean into their demonic heritage with their theming (they wore a black and red cloak over their armour, used a pitchfork, etc), so he could scare enemies away without having to actually fight. We came across a band of goblins, so I used dancing lights (in the shape of a flame) to add firey accents to me and thaumaturgy (or might have been prestidigitation, I don't remember) to make my voice boom to scare them away. DM decided I would have advantage on the intimidation throw, and I got a nat 20
Back in 4th Edition, _suggestion_ was a short rest cantrip that simply let the caster replace a persuasion with an arcana roll. My wizard had just helped free a dragon and he starts buttering the dragon up before he asks for assistance at a later date (as repayment). I make my roll: natural 20. The dragon agreed to come to our aid if we called upon him. As it was flying off in the distance, we saw it get shot down by some very conveniently timed dragon hunters. To this, my wizard simply said, "Quick! Follow the direction he was headed in!" The party looked at him confused until he replied something like, "He's a dragon right? Well then he's got gold just lying around!" Too bad that campaign ended on a sour note. Also, folks out there, particularly those that prepare spells, don't always dismiss those utility spells. Just like with these cantrips, you might find a good use for them!
Ah, I have a good one from my Celestial Warlock. So my party-a human Warlock, a human Ranger, a goblin Barbarian, and a half-orc Barbarian-got finished taking down a demonic cult, with us having to fight a bulezau at the end. During the fight, my Warlock was hit by its barbed tail and failed the saving throw. (In actuality, the attack missed, but my dumbass DM at the time thought it'd be a good idea to fudge rolls so that the attack hit and I failed the save. The save DC was 13 and I rolled a 15. Needless to say, I have far less trust for that DM.) Because of this, my Warlock had to have his head wrapped up in cloth to cover most of his face. Sometime after the fight, one of the party members, the half-orc Barbarian, captured one of the fleeing cultists. We begin taking the cultist back to town with us and the Ranger and half-orc Barbarian try to interrogate the cultist. The cultist wasn't intimidated and wouldn't say a word. That's when my Warlock stepped in. By this time, I had a 1 level dip into Divine Soul Sorcerer. I tap the Ranger on the shoulder and mime for me to have a go at scaring the cultist. As I start doing the verbal component for Thaumaturgy, due to the effect of the bulezau's barbed tail effect, loud buzzing of flies can be heard. My Warlock's eye go blank and glow with RADIANT POWER as he pulls down the cloth mask, the ground rumbles, and his voice booms as he shouts: *DO AS WE COMMAND OR SUFFER THE WRATH OF THE DIVINE!!!* I roll a 20 on intimidation and not only did I scare the piss out of the cultist, who now had a face full of swarming flies, but I terrified _everyone else_ in the party! The cultist was definitely open to answering our questions then.
Had an assassin sorcerer/warlock who would use mold earth for tons of stuff. Used it to make pit fall traps with minor illusion tops, carved staircases into the side of mountain cliffs, and even hardened ground around allies being sweeped away in mudslides. However my favorite use of it was one I would infiltrate enemy military camps an assassinate their commanders. I would use mask of many faces to pretend to be a currier, find a good lonely commander and then sneak up behind them and cast Blight at high lvls to suck the water/life right out of them. Then just mold earth a quick grave and move onto the next. Once you assassinate a few key players just polymorph in to a small Raven and fly out before anyone know what happened. Worked like a charm!
@Sam Sam I went 2 Warlock with pack of the otherworldly patron. And then Shadow Magic Origin for the Sorcerer. I took mold earth cantrip which is what allowed me to hide bodies, make traps and carve staircases into cliff sides. Also for invocations I took Mask of Many Faces to help with the stealth/scare aspects of the character. My concept was making some ones worst nightmares comes to life. I would use detect thoughts to figure out what they feared and then Mask of many faces to become it. With the Darkness spell you can make it originate on you or a specific point so I would basically make the darkness surround us then then torment them. Worked pretty well for interrogations haha. For assassinating people I would Mask of many faces or invisibility to get in and out and then use the 4th lvl spell Blight to 1 shot people. Generally I would come up behind them and grab their face when I used it. Basically 1 shot most characters with the advantage from the surprise round. If you need you can use the Meta Magic Heightened spell to impose disadvantage on the Saving throw. Then just hid the bodies with mold earth.
In a one-shot campaign, I played a sorcerer that used chill touch on every alcoholic beverage I encountered to further ferment it with the necrotic energy, enhancing the flavour of the beverage. No difference in terms of story, but the party was entertained by this none-the-less.
Our party needed to fake an NPC's death, so the sorcerer met him on a bridge at night. He pushed the NPC off, and the guards at the end of the bridge rushed the sorcerer, but he used Minor Illusion to create a brick wall between the guards and himself. They failed the check to see through the illusion, which bought him enough time to slip away undetected into the town. Meanwhile, after safely landing on an outcropping below, the NPC was hidden away from sight and our Kenku used Thaumaturgy to enhance the volume of his voice and made the sound of a body landing on the rocks below.
I was playing a High Elf wizard named Dru. It was my second session (I think) and I was fighting a Goblin King named Klargg. (Lost Mine of Phandelver). He was next to a bonfire. I cast Grease to try and get him to fall into the fire. I forgot that grease was flammable. He saved himself, but he was still burned alive.
I once used the Prestidigitation cantrip to create a mark on the floor. You see, the province had a demon knight problem or something and the holy knights were there to clean it up and maintain order. During an espionage mission to fake-poison a champion under the guard of the holy knights, who were transporting him to his next battle, I created the demon knight's symbol upon the floor. It was real big, red, and super obvious. As my Artificer had discovered earlier, the demon knight leaves that symbol on his stuff and can actually sense and feel the location of the symbols. So I essentially created a summoning marker for the Demon Knight RIGHT next to the holy knights. Turns out the Demon Knight not only noticed but came and eliminated the holy knights himself, allowing us to poison the champion without a single witness.
A cantrip is a spell that requires no materials/rituals to use. You can learn cantrips at level 0. Different classes can use different types of cantrips, so make sure to look at what cantrips are available to you when you make a new character. Also, you have to pick your starting cantrips based on how many cantrips you are allowed to learn. You can search that up, too. I hope you have luck in figuring out how to play DnD! My best advice is to try to find a campaign, even if it is with strangers. You can make a few friends, and learn a lot about DnD!
During a tomb of anaialtion campaign, my group of four 5th level payers ran into a t-rex. The party: I am a tiefling wizard, my best friend is a black dragon born paladin, her husband is a tiefling druid, and his friend is a rogue kenku. On a boat going down river, a massive battle scarred t-rex burst out from the trees coming right for us. The druid cast heat metal on an cooking pot and threw it at the rex aiming for its open mouth. He got it in! So the druid continued to concentrate on heat metal, burning the beast from the inside. The black dragon born spit acid in its face to blind it so it couldn't see us. The kenku kept throwing its voice to sound like a wounded animal. And I used prestidigitation to make our scent appear elsewhere. All of us together killed the t-rex, but we wouldn't have gotten away if I hadn't moved our scent
I used prestidigitation to make it look like I threw up on the statue of the Kuo-ta god. It ended with me getting an inspiration point as that was what they did as an offering
So, prestidigitation states that it makes a mark on a surface, meaning that it isn't illusory, so I used it to scribble out an efreet's portal to the city of brass. This turned out to be a very poor decision, considering that it was now stuck in this plane and was very angry with me for doing this.
One time I was playing a rakshasa rogue as an arcane trickster. I had the cantrip minor illusion. Now this may have been over the top for a cantrip but as the DM's choice, he let it happen. We were in a dungeon filled with goblins and other low tiered enemies when we eventually came across the big boss being. The big boss was a tanky as all hell bugbear with several absurdly buffed goblins surrounding him (Yes this is the starter pack campaign, the DM forgot his material for our session and just went with the starter pack). It had been about 7 turns when an idea popped into my mind that absolutely derailed the boss fight. I decided I would cast minor illusion as a mirror in front of the goblin directly next to the bugbear hoping he would get scared and swing thinking that a bugbear had just teleported next to him. The DM asked me to roll for persuasion... NAT 20. The goblin FREAKS out and swings his tiny sword wildly, viciously attacking the bugbear, the DM asks me to roll to hit and roll damage telling me I can roll 2 d6. I roll to hit... ANOTHER NAT 20! Then comes two perfect 6 rolls on the d6, doubled for 24 damage and after all the damage we had already done, killed the bugbear and the goblins ran away in fear of there traitor brother. Best campaign moment of my life
I had a level 7 Water Genasi Druid. Basically, our campain were fugitives from what was basically alcatraz made of ice. WE were in a town nearby, and needed to escape before the guards came. We couldn't go on foot becuase it was so cold, so we bought a cart-and-horse. Minus the horse. What the DM expected us to do was either go find a way to make more money, or spend way to much time trying to persuade the shopkeeper who had an incredibly high atvantage. What I did was use Create Water and Shape Water. Instant ice horses. As we rode away, the shopkeeper watched us with his mouth open. Apparently, he was supposed to give us a side quest that we'd do in exchange for an old horse. Instead, we skipped ahead and the DM had to take a few minuets to look through his notes.
Our friend was joining the campaign so we spent the session around his introduction. He was a blood hunter ex soldier who's small village was being raided by an enemy empire. To spice up the fight the DM gave him an "enraged" status so for the duration of the fight against the raiding group he had +2 to all stats and an extra 2 action points per turn. In one turn he rolled NAT 20 on hits against 4 surrounding raiders whose deaths were described in brutal detail by the DM. The rest of us were half the map away looking on this slaughter so I asked if I could use thaumaturgy as a reactive action to tell "mad lad" at our new companion. The DM allowed this and even gave out blood hunter another boost :')
My fav combo is jumping off a cliff, casting Thorn Whip or Lightning Lure to bring an enemy off the cliff with you, then casting Misty Step to get back up.
I played an assimar paladin with the light cantrip. We ended up fighting a 10 foot tall minitaur. So, she popped her wings, flew up in it's face, and put the light on the bull's nose ring, blinding it temporarily, and enabling the rest of the party advantage on attacks against it. It still smacked her out of the air, and she ended up unconscious for most of the rest of the fight, but we won.
One of my characters was nicknamed "CD" for cantrip death. Was 2nd addition, and was a war wizard character. During school, he organized the entire class to mass cast the entire list of personal effecting cantrips on teacher at same time. Once he was resusatated, he canceled class till he created a ring of cantrip resistance.
Once had a GM agree that Oil Slick created real oil. From that point on, my go-to attack became to cast Oil Slick on enemies, or the ground that they were standing on if there were several, then Spark or other flame creating cantrip setting the enemies on fire. Good times!
Once, I had an epiphany while fighting a lich, and realized that if I could get close to him I could use Mold Earth to bury him in the stone courtyard, rendering semantic spells useless to him. Before I could do so, the wizard cast power word kill on him and his hp was low enough that he died.
I ran a shadow monk Aaracocra and got trapped in a temple, 60 ft hallway with a guard at the end and daylight cast on the floor so no shadows, I used minor illusion to project the hallway behind me in front of me to get close enough to cast silence so he couldn’t use most of his spells
I used Mage Hand to unlock a door from the other side as a Bard. DM had me roll to see if I could pull it off, rolled, the dice danced as only a D20 can and landed on a Nat 20. I think he was kinda pissed but also bemused.
The pastries made from the bones of children was from the "Curse of Strahd" campaign module. At least that's my reference for them. Had a Necromancer that almost got addicted to them before the party figured out what they were made from
A couple nights ago I used a firebolt to light up a dark room at the end of a hallway, that way the head of the party could see the hidden enemies in the room. Battle had already started, so they knew we were there, but now we knew they were there.
I had a teifling rogue (arcane trickster), and me and the party were fighting these big hound beasts (something the dm homebrewed I think) and void blobs. We were inclined to take out the blobs first but doing so would leave the hounds to tear us to shreds, I casted minor illusion to take the form of a big flock of ravens to swarm the hounds to distract them, it worked, they failed their intelligence checks and weren't able to tell they were not real ravens. They kept trying to attack them and kept missing, they were occupied long enough for us to kill the blogs then gang up on them.
I can't remember if eldritch blast is a can't rip but our teifling used inspiration and an eldritch blast to propel the party across a 60 foot gap of lava
I once played an Arcane Trickster who, when fighting a Lich at level 5 (it was one of those games) lit a piece of dynamite and used mage hand to place it carefully in the ribcage of said Lich. Next turn the Lich's chest cavity went boom and the DM ruled I got sneak attack damage with the dynamite
I once was in a game where the dm let us all have one cantrip from the druid or cleric spell list (I can't remember if it was one of those or both) so as a joke I chose shape water for my tabaxi ranger. later I had an idea when we needed to go underwater for a short amount of time, to use shape water around my head and give myself a "helmet" to breath from for a small amount of time and basically give myself an extra minute or two of air. I have no idea how many other people have thought of that but watching this video reminded me of that occasion.
I’ve used prestigitation to create sparks in the face of an enemy as a held action, which allowed advantage on an ally attack or disadvantage on the enemy’s next attack, depending on which I chose. Also have used minor illusion to create the appearance of more earth just after the edge of a cliff, initially so the gnolls running forward would run too far, but they stopped early. Did allow for advantage of a thorn whip attack from the Druid though, as they couldn’t see her or the attack coming.
Eldritch Knight is in the middle of a massive battle against a dragon, everyone is over half dead and EK uses minor illusion to place a gigantic crate over the dragons head
I was DMing not too long ago and had a Tiefling Druid use a combination of Thaumaturgy/Prestidigitation/Minor Illusion to sneak their way through a Yaun-ti village and rescue the prisoners that were caught there. Magic Initiate is a Feat that one should never overlook, shame when that PC died. But the player is really creative and all of their characters since have been equally entertaining to DM for.
They used Mold Earth to bury the Warforged Barbarian & myself, an Undying Warlock, behind the latrines. Neither of us needed to breathe, so we just chilled for a couple of days until the Wizard's familiar dropped a couple of coins on our spots which allowed Mold Earth to be cast a few times again, and we murdered a general when he went to take a dump in the middle of the night.
Used minor illusion to show pictures of people or creatures we've come across. In a other campaign, two spellcasters and my druid used our cantrips to make a boar. The boar had accurate noises and smell, distracting a group of goblins
In Pathfinder I made a character built around using Acid Splash. Best thing it could do was heal instead of damaging so it was common for damaged party members to have acid baths
I played as a Half-Elf Wizard. The party was imprisoned and stripped of all gear. The cell door was locked and we could only escape through a secret tunnel left by other prisoners that lead into sewer system. What I did instead is used "prestidigitation" to creat a key and opened the cell door. The DM ripped 2 pages worth of notes out of his textbook. Xd
This wasn't too useful, but whenever my sorcerer and my friend's warlock would high five each other (which they did a lot, as they were best bros) they'd usually do it using mage hand, even when standing right next to eachother. He even hit me with a "down low; too slow" once
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One of the players in my games specifically asked that her druid DIDN'T take her clothes with her when she wildshaped. Instead, whenever she comes out of her beast form, completely naked, she spends a few moments infront of a tree casting druidcraft, putting on bark-based armour with the branches like fucking Ironman. I've learnt to stop questioning this PC because she comes up with the coolest shit if you let her explore her ideas.
Even when it's not exactly "my style of humor or thinking", I've long held the standard that especially when a PC is willing to take some disadvantage upon themselves, LET THEM!
I may not entirely applaud it myself, but some fair portion of the Table will appreciate it, and it can be exploited later anyway. As a GM, you just don't often find Players willing to ADD to their own difficulties... even with a "side effect" they might desire. ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 oh absolutely, if she ever runs out of wild shape mid-fight she's gonna be in a bit of a difficult situation without armour and a negative dex, but we haven't gotten there yet... Yet.
...Goddammit, that's rad.
@@chirpynsleepy958 Well, keep at it... Best of luck!
As a Player, myself, I enjoy flirting with disaster... it makes the rest of the RP so much more interesting, and lends a chance that "the jokes will write themselves" as we go, so even the power gamers and shy kids can get involved.
You know... It occurs to me, that girls tend to seem considerably more... er... "Charismatic" the more revealing their clothing gets... or the more "nude" they become...
Not to harass anyone horribly, of course, but this could serve as the basis of a GREAT mechanic for antics to ensue whenever you do manage to draw a combat out so she's bereft of wild-shape (at least) nearing the end of the "mop-up" stages of combat winding down... You know?
Something like "Every male humanoid within line-of-sight now rolls Perception, and then a Wisdom based save, for the distraction"... AND fully nude, I'd count as a stock +4 to her Charisma in such circumstances (damn the natural limits)
Guys are horribly easy. ;o)
Except that druidcraft usually shouldn't allow to create something as complex as clothing, yet alone armor that actually provides a bonus to AC. It is a cool effect of course and in that particular form of use more a disadvantage than an advantage compared to just have her worn clothing and armor morph into the wildshape with her and back out again. But allowing to do things of that level with wildshape could be seriously abused.
Not a cantrip exactly, but one time I "earned" (got inflicted on me) a wish from an ifrit- the usual deal of whatever I wished for would get twisted into something undesirable. Despairing of being able to think of anything our DM couldn't sabotage, I decided I had nothing to lose by wishing for something completely silly and useless. So I said "I wish that I had the power to turn anything that is rarer and more precious than gold into gold". The DM laughed out loud, then thought for a minute. He rolled some dice, then told me to roll for Charisma, which I saved. The DM then announced that my wish had so amused the ifrit that it decided to grant it. The only catch was that the chances of it working would be in direct proportion to just how valuable an item I tried to transmute.
So, many months of playing later and that episode is all but forgotten as we came to the climax of the campaign. It turned out that the entire campaign was part of a plot by an evil wizard- who in turn was being used by an arch-demon- to obtain a Cosmic Seed left over from the creation of the universe that would make whoever could use it overthrow-the-gods powerful. The situation was dire- we'd spent everything we had defeating the sorcerer only to discover he was nothing more than the arch-demon's catspaw. Our mage tried as a last resort to destroy the Seed only to be told by the DM that it was beyond the power of anything in our universe to destroy. So I have an inspiration:
Me: "I use my 'Change Into Gold' power on the Cosmic Seed"
DM: "You can't do that, it's indestructable."
Me: "But isn't the chance of success based on how much more valuable it is than gold?"
DM: "Yeah, but-"
Me: "And isn't this literally the most valuable item in all creation?"
DM: "Uhh..."
Me: "So, in a sense, isn't the Cosmic Seed's own power contributing to the chance I succeed?"
DM: "Errm...."
So the DM rolls some dice, then tells me I have to roll a 20 (not a natural 20). So I roll a 17 and when all my bonuses are counted in, including a good luck spell that was cast on me earlier that hadn't worn off yet, I beat the 20.
The Cosmic Seed (which in appearance manifested as a glowing ball of iridescent light about two feet across) turns into a two-foot ball of gold. The arch-demon screams in rage, is sucked into the gold sphere, and vanishes. The DM announces that the arch-demon had already bound itself to the Seed, now nothing more than an ordinary lump of gold, which the arch-demon is now uselessly trapped inside.
So my joke spell won the campaign and saved the universe.
You........ Wow. I applaud thee.
Hell yes on all accounts
That is glorious.
Valuable as in monetary value isn't the same as simply valuable, but if your DM allowed it, why not.
I'm new to DM but, don't wishes have limitations? I mean, this was clever, but is it legit?
So druidcraft you could say is "presto -vegetation"
THIS
Omg YES! I love this!!!
I used shape water to make an ice platform and then stood on it while using shape water to push it across an underground lake
@@AllenGray47 ALSO THIS. For ral though, I love that!
you have ten seconds to fuck off.
Sorcerer falls down stairs only to be face to face with a black dragon.
"I use prestidigitation on my underwear."
I need to hear the rest of this encounter.
@@orioneverett128 There is no rest.
@@mikeoxlong1395 that's a shame.
My personal favorite will always be using the "You make a color, a small mark, or a Symbol appear on an object or a surface for 1 hour" effect of Prestidigitation to win at Five Card Stud by changing value and suit on the cards. Worked out pretty well in my wizard's favor; cleaned out the entire bar. My luck ran out when the entire party got TPK'd by bears. I don't think my card tricks were gonna help there.
Any color? Including colors outside of the visible spectrum rendering them invisible?
@@jonathangitter1311 probably not in most campaigns. D&D characters are unlikely to be aware of the invisible spectrum and therefore unable to mentally articulate what they would be trying to do. in a modern or sci-fi campaign though, i don't see why not.
@@LEGOEPIC1 fair point
@@jonathangitter1311 Colors outside the visible spectrum aren't invisible, they'd look black.
@@Aelanna after doing research I have learned it would actually be white and likely glow
Comprehend languages + minor illution = subtitles. I think I'm gonna steal that idea, for my divination wizard.
Honestly I'm amazed that more wizards don't open laundromats.
I once played a wizard and put the majority of my skill points into crafting skills. At third level, when I got the Create Wondrous Item feat, she retired from adventuring and opened a shop where she made items enchanted with Prestidigitation. Plates, bowls, and cutlery that could heat or flavor food, tankards that kept beverages cold, clothing that cleaned itself, etc. I made a new character, and the wizard, who was now _super_ wealthy, became the party's patron.
Party needed to meet the noble. No way to get to him, because he was "busy" attending rituals and so to meet creatures from other worlds to expand his influence.
So our party changed, so we all had same robes. My Druid took a bottle of wine and kept "spamming" Shape water so it had humanoid shape. Cleric gave it voice using Thaumaturgy and Fighter was acting as this beings secretary...
*Maketh way for holy spirit, Han´gover!*
See if you can make it an actual Holy Spirit. There's rules for that.
My suggestion would be spirit of regrets, hindsight and temperance
Back with 2e, Cantrips was a stock spell... considered "first level" but requiring nothing... It explained the idea that they were "Parlor Tricks" so about 90% of Tables regarded the maximum possible damage to be about 1D4 (if you were lucky enough to get damage at all)... BUT the standard "demonstrable list" included things like "just enough telekinesis to tie shoelaces together ; provide a glowing coal that can light pipes, cigars, candles, and the like ; and minor illusory noises like a puff of wind, or a "ping" at a distance less than thirty (30) feet...
In our campaigns, they were as easy to research or develop as they were to actually cast, so... in one Campaign I was "stuck" in a setting not so different from Dark Sun, where the immediate territory (at least) was "Magic Poor" and for several levels of Mage, I was trapped into Feather-fall and Cantrips...
Antics included dropping the red-hot coal into the boot of an approaching Guardsman to distract him while the Party climbed a fence to safety and got out of there...
Tying the shoelaces of about half the soldiers in a courtyard to other soldiers in the courtyard... resulting in a catastrophic crash when we erupted from a tower to "feat feet" across the drawbridge in broad daylight and make for the horses in the woods beyond the road.
AND sending the puff of wind down the chimney of a "Grand Wazeer's" Personal lamp to plunge the room into darkness so the Party's Rogue would have a chance at a "back-stab" (the predecessor to "sneak attack")... ;o)
Prestidigitation to one shot a redcap.
"Instantly clean or soil one object..."
No saving throw, his blood drenched cap is perfectly clean and dry.
Had a ranger with magic initiate use druidcraft to flag traps. I could spot them, but not disarm them, so I made a purple flower grow over every trap that I saw.
Also used druidcraft to save a botched stealth roll. Guard coming to investigate, produce the sound of a small animal and the odor of a skunk.
The guard left quickly.
I have two for this:
1. My fire mage used Dancing Lights to make a humanoid light shape to confuse a group of goblins who were attacking him and another party member. It worked for about three rounds of combat.
2. Same mage used to use Mage Hand to unlock locks from the inside. Used to frustrate the hell out of our rogue. Lol.
EDIT: Ok, so I had three for this :D
3. My Life Domain cleric once used Thalmaturgy to make her eyes look like flames, jacked up the height and brightness of all the fire in all the sconces of the room, and increase the sound of her voice to intimidate a group of bandits into thinking she was an avatar of a goddess and that the rest of the party were her underlings. Two of them ran off and we routed the rest without actual combat happening. Later that day as we were leaving that place, we encountered the two bandits who'd run off trying to intimidate some random person on the road (turned out to be a new player's PC). His introduction to the campaign was my character standing up in the back of the cart, eyes on fire, voice booming, yelling at the two bandits "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?".
They noped the hell out and didn't stop running until long after we lost sight of them. lol.
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@@killjoy4009 Lol, I didn't notice that. I typed the second one first and forgot to fix it. It's fixed now. lol.
2... How do you manipulate the hand to unlock a door you can't see or feel?
@@zetram01 You can feel things through the hand. And most door locks are simple knob mechanisms. Not a hard thing to feel.
@@Scorpious187 I don't think you can feel things through the hand.
Broke: Using prestidigitation to make someone look like they pissed themselves.
Woke: Using prestidigitation to conjure a handful of poop in someone’s pants (note how summoning object with the cantrip must be able to FIT in your hand, not appear in your hand).
They can make the pants looked "soiled", which in general context can include a length of wetness-appearing up to 1ft in length/various dimensions on the pants in question, so long as the target is within 10ft of the caster. (If being a stickler for the singular range for a target-objects dimensions, then if they have a codpiece or similar then they can target that to make it appear as if having pissed themselves.)
I like the handful of poop option, too though... lol
Casting Minor Illusion to create a 5x5 box around the caster, and then using Misty Step to teleport away.
It took a round for the bandits to realize that the box was an illusion and even more puzzled as to why the box was empty.
SNAAAAAAAAAAKE!
Misty Step only works on targets that you can see.
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You can see through your own illusions. So you'll be able to see your intended destination.
When I said Caster, I meant the caster was the player who was casting Minor Illusion over themselves.
Had my Cleric use 'create water' to flood a short hallway that was acting as a bottleneck for some undead(like 1-2 inches of water), then 'bless water' to soften them up for our Paladin. Used Bless Water again later in that same session to 1-shot a lich because they were in a flooded room. I thought it'd just be annoying for her, but no she had hidden her phylactery in the silt. So suddenly it was submerged in Holy Water and the Lich pretty much exploded.
Glorious.
Glorious.
I was playing a water genasi cleric/druid, we came across a room full of poison gas with a chest on the other side, the dm expected one of us to go down trying to get to the chest or for us to just come back later. instead i used shape water to make a bubble out of my canteen and held the bubble to my face as a rebreather mask since i could breath in water. the dm was speechless.
Light has to be one of my favorite cantrips. It has so many cool uses. You can put Light on an arrow and fire it into the air to use as a flare, and you can even color the light red or something to denote urgency. You can use it instead of a fire or lantern of course. Then there's adding it to the blade of a sword to bluff having a holy sword. Or you can use it to lure enemies away from a specific spot. Using light through a familiar makes it even more fun.
*I thought it said catnip and I--*
I'm sorry but your comment was specific enough it left me no choice but to tell you, I literally have a character who uses a cantrip to consistently conjure up catnip.
@@tatltails3923 It's obviously a catnip cantrip.
@ this has the same energy of someone misreading their message as massage and trying to connect with an npc by "using massage to ease their tension"
@@tatltails3923 So you're a Tabaxi?
@@swaghauler8334 No, a Wood Elf. But in my backstory I spent so much time in Wild Shape that I trained my body to react to the stuff in my original form as well as in cat form.
Mage hand, light, and minor illusion to summon a "god".
Are you a wizard... from Oz?
@@Scorpious187 Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
What was mage hand for?
@@isectoid9454 To move the rocks and earth around where the "god" was summoned at
@@TheTownGuard That sounds outside mage hands description, but maybe I should check again.
Either way, rule of cool.
The single best use of Thaumaturgy I've seen was in a dragon-cult temple with 20ft high, stone doors. The Divine sorcerer and the tiefling paladin waited until the 10 or so cultists were crossing the threshold, then each chose one of the huge double-doors to slam shut turning most of the cultists into bolognese.
Used magehand as an arcane trickster to "stow away" an open vial of acid in an enemy's quiver of magic arrows
Never underestimate the power of Thaumaturgy, our cleric deafened an enemy long enough to give our rogue advantage on his stealth role to get a sneak attack and one-shot them..
Then there was the time our lvl 3 party came across a Spectator that was ordered to guard an artifact we needed.. so my wizard told the cleric on his signal to make a distant rumble in the ground and grabbed the fighters helmet, put it on and used Prestidigitation to turn it bright yellow.. he grabbed a bunch of parchment and a quill, gave the cleric the nod and burst into the room announcing he was from the Board of Health and Safety and that him and his team of "assessors" needed to clear this chamber due to the "construction" going on outside motioning in the direction of the faint rumbling... with some god-tier rolls on my part (my wiz had CHAR 16 and proficiency in deception) and horrible rolls on the DM's side we managed to convince it to leave long enough for us to get what we needed, although eventually we did have to fight it but we had hoodwinked enough to buy enough time to organise a surprise attack which did enough damage that only the fighter went unconscious before we killed it.. which was partly my fault as we were all so excited about it actually working I forgot that I was still wearing the fighters helmet and the DM, while trying to hold in fits of laughter ruled that would lower his AC slightly..we still talk about it years later. OH and that one time my frail wizard was getting pounded on by a Bugbear and had run out of Shield spells.. attacked in desperation to poke him in the eyes 3 stooges style and cast light on his eyeballs.. another absolute bullshit roll to hit on my part and the Bugbear failing its DEX save saw that poor bastard blinded.
Prestidigitation can create a small, non magical object. I have a bard that was getting chased by an assassin. The bard ran through a door, turned around closed the door, before creating a small padlock to lock the door and gain enough distance to escape.
Pretty clever imo
In a session a few weeks back, a bunch of cultists were trying to break into a church. Our cleric (who doesn't like fighting but wants to defend the helpless) used Toll the Dead on the church bells above them as a 'warning shot'. The DM ruled that all of the bells started to ring with the magical energy from the cantrip, effectively amplifying the cantrip to the point it incapacitated all of the cultists before we could even roll initiative.
I've heard of Hitting them in the Ding-Ding, but THAT'S the first time I've ever heard of getting Hit BY the Ding-Dings...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
@@HappilyHomicidalHooligan True - though it does make sense, in a way. Toll the Dead already says that the sound of a bell tolls out when you use it. The DM simply saw this as an extension of that.
@@drunkenrobot7061 I've never played any AD&D past 3.5 so I've never heard of Toll the Dead before...
@@HappilyHomicidalHooligan it is in 5e as well tho
One time I used chill touch and dancing lights to convince an entire village into thinking their was a ghost for an elaborate plan to escape an almost unescapable prison cell
Ah yes, the legendary piss sword
Yellow snow kills.
@ For wathever reason everyone knows the newer Metal Alchemist but i only liked the original
It's not nostalgia or anything, i just saw both and only liked the first version
@@rompevuevitos222 same here
NANCOK i liked both
At 2:49 I don't get what is meant by "...and use the force it generated to break open a cell door." Could someone explain this part to me? Thanks!
I was a sorcerer with metamagic distant spell, I cast light on an enemy's eyes to blind them without having to get in super close
I played a Firbolg Druid once in a campaign that I never got to finish. In it none of the players were human so the DM made them and their church the bad guys of the story.
In our second encounter with them, we were following the trail that they left behind in an attempt to rescue a little girl they kidnapped.
We came across a campground that was guarding a cave entrance. Just looking at the number of baddies, we were slightly outnumbered from the beginning ( A staple of them DM) and half of them had Mastiffs, which would make everything harder if we had to fight everything.
Now, most of the players were fairly new and fairly lacking in magical abilities based on their choice of Classes ( The main reason I chose Druid. Someone needed to keep them alive), so most of there plans for dealing with the Lookouts involved running in and attacking first.
I, not wanting to waste more spell slots than needed, pulled them back and told them to let me try something first.
Using Druidcraft, I began a storm of chaos in the camp ground.
I put out their campfire, I made noises and smells that drove the dogs nuts, that either made the guards put them back in the cages or caused the dogs to flee. One guard was creeped out and went into the cave claiming he had "something to do".
Our moment came when one guard fell into the fire pit because of another fleeing dog. I light the fire again for some quick damage and we rushed them.
We took them down in two turns, with half of them removed for one reason or another harmlessly.
We quickly raided the camp, made a new dog friend, and proceeded in the cave, not a scratch on us.
I tie a rag to an oil flask, cast prestidigitation, and throw the flask for a nice Molotov. 5 straight fire damage for 2 turns.
The Story of How I Almost Killed My Entire Party with a Fire Bolt
So I (tiefling sorcerer) and my party (half-elf paladin, dragonborn barbarian, goliath cleric, and tabaxi warlock) were in a pickle. We were fighting something like 40 Caro Den (our DM's version of undead) in a village. I, the paladin, and the warlock found a storehouse of some kind of oil. Now our warlock, being a warlock, suggested that we blow it up and hopefully take out a good chunk of Caro Den. I shouted "BRACE YOURSELVES!!!!!" and shot a Fire Bolt at it. What I didn't realize at the time is that there were like 8-10 huge barrels of the stuff. Our DM rolled damage. Something like 20-25d10 for like 180 damage. We were a Lv4 party. She didn't even give us a saving throw. I should have killed the entire party, but out glorious DM, long may she reign, god-modded the shit out of the game and said we woke up 2 weeks later, deformed as hell. Our dragonborn didn't have a lot of scales, the tabaxi looked like a rat with all his fur missing, etc. I was the least affected because of fire resistance, but I was still really messed up. But we survived. Barely. Sure was fun though.
Had a pair of twin level 5 warlocks destroy a party of level 15’s with Eldritch blast. The best part, the party never got close enough to fight, due to the warlocks build. Even the monk couldn’t manage to close the 600 foot gap before going down. Luckily their healers managed to find full cover thus keeping them from a TPK.
The answer to this question for me is when a friend and I gave PTSD to a non-sentient golem. My friend was basically overpowered at that time, so the golem's only fear was my friend's character. So, I used Phantasmal Killer on the golem. Basically it saw 2 super saiyans in front of it. That already gave it major PTSD, so it started to run. Then, with the power of minor illusion, I made the two super saiyans look like they were charging up a nuke that would instantly kill the golem. The golem basically killed itself before the non-existent attack could happen.
10:35 Yoooo, that Snake voice was totally on point.
Seriously.
Forest Gnome?
We were in a dungeon crawl that was occupied by an army of half-orcs. We had encountered a separate NPC party that had an elf cleric and we agreed to not fuck with each other. Later, we got cornered by a platoon and it looked like we were done for. I summoned a Tannarukk to fight against them and they basically surrounded the demon-orc and killed it in one round. However, the Tannarukk was a trap. Now that they were all grouped together, I cast Hunger of Hadar and killed the entire platoon. As we piled the bodies on a desecrated orc shrine, we heard more orcs coming. So I used Prestidigitation to leave the symbol of the elf cleric on three of the bodies closest to where the noise was coming from. I left my sprite familiar there, invisible, to see what was coming as we made a hasty escape. As the chieftan discovered the bodies, he was enraged, then I used my eldritch invocation to speak through my sprite and threatened them, declaring they would all fall to my elven superiority, then dismissed my familiar. Then anytime we came to a fork in the cave, I would leave the symbol of the elf cleric on the way we did not choose to go. We never met the NPC party or the orcs again...
I opened a closet in game. Had a huge pile of bodies in it. When the pile started moving, I cast create bonfire. I then shut the door. Killed 12 zombies. Lol
I was a Half-Elf Bard, me and my party are fairly new, we got to a tavern, and me wanting to make some money, started a puppet show. The puppets were clear cut parodies of our characters (everyone was a finger puppet except my character who was a hand puppet), so seeing as 2 of my hands were already occupied I used mage hand for the goblin puppets and later for a red dragon puppet so my Bard and it can wrestle to the death. The DM loved it, and the Rogue used it as a distraction to steal us some champagne while all eyes were on me.
0:33 Okay that's amazing. (Subtitles)
11:38 Things like this are why I love your narration.
Used shape water to suffocate a goblin by constricting his lungs( out of combat and dm allowed)
Holy cow, you used blood bending
Once used Prestidigitation on a sheet of paper to copy a suspect symbol, then traced over it with caligraphers tools for when the spell faded
As a first-level Bard, I was cornered by an orc, had dropped my crossbow, and didn't have my rapier out yet. I asked if I was in a close proximity to one of the bolts that landed on the ground when the rogue failed their shot, and used mage hand, the rules of a dart, and a good D20/damage roll to stick it in the back of the orc's neck. I don't think mage hand is supposed to be a combat spell, but the DM allowed the workaround.
I could probably think of some others, but this is the first to come to mind!
If the DM was following the rules, that wouldn't have been allowed at all. Mine wouldn't even let me use Mage Hand to flick the antennae of some giant insects to distract them because that would be considered an attack. But then again, I wasn't in a life-threatening situation and had alternatives.
@@melkiorwiseman5234 Yeah, I definitely get that and I'd agree. Normally, I don't think they would have allowed it, but I was new-ish to playing so I think they were lenient.
why couldnt you just draw your rapier? it's a free action that can be done without fear of reprisal...
@@sewermage_3935 you know you have 3 slots of things you can equip and draw at any given time?
If you're a bard, let's say one of them is for your instrument, another for this crossbow and the last for the rapier. You can switch between them each turn for free
@@melkiorwiseman5234 Eh, there's Attacks, and attacks. One specifically allowed use is "pouring out the contents of a vial", for instance. If that vial happened to contain acid, held over the head of a somehow immobilised Troll, you'll do damage, I promise, but since you don't have to roll to hit, it's not an Attack
It's so refreshing to see one of these things narrated by an actual person
I was playing as a Kenku and I was an arcane trickster, I used lightning lure on a piece of wood that I would carry on me then use control flames to communicate with people around me.
This actually happened in a recent session of mine. Our bard was performing at a tavern, and I decided to make it all cool with prestidigitation. I made electric guitar riff sounds and stuff, and added fog effects and pyrotechnics...so basically I turned it into a full-on rock concert. We got tons of money from it!
While I can't claim it's particularly creative, in our last game we were trying to avoid combat with a demon and a bunch of giant crabs so the wizard used minor illusion to replicate the sounds of humans screaming outside. The demon and crabs chased after the sound and we sneaked out the other side.
Arcane Trickster in a oneshot I played with used his (invisible) Mage Hand to tickle a bandit's balls as a way of giving an ally in melee advantage. He argued that it wasn't an attack because it wasn't doing actual harm, so the DM let it fly. The next attack from our Paladin was a nat 20, which would've been an 8 if it wasn't for advantage, so he naturally blew a Divine Smite on it and killed the bandit in one hit.
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Player: *Detects Enemies while Sneaking.* *normal Voice.* oh Shit.
Player: Decides to create Minor illusion on Self in the Vision of a Box
Enemies: Oblivious of a Random box in the middle of a Area
Player: *Imitates Snake.* Infiltrated the fortress, what next sir...
I was playing a game of 5e. I was a storm sorcerer who was essentially grown in a vat. Was given a series of magic tattoos that supposedly possesed magic. I escaped and was struck by lightning which activated them. I loved this character.
However I loved to use shocking grasp so when we got to a dungeon that was partially constructed of giant bells, I got creative. I had the barbarian uncover part of the top of a bell and spent a sorcery point to focus all of the energy from Shocking Grasp into my fingers. I then cut through the bell bypassing the entire dungeon.
We then decided to go through it anyway cuz we though it would be fun.
I once played a dungeon with a cliff right outside the door. I went out the door with an enemy chasing me, and used minor illusion to make it sound like I fell off the cliff so the enemy would go away. Unfortunately, he made his save against the illusion. I then used minor illusion to make it sound like I gave up and climbed down. This save he failed, allowing me to ambush him from behind as he walked away.
I can use a ring of the grammarian which can let me change/add/remove one letter of a spell, rendering “light” into “flight”
I had a tiefling paladin that liked to lean into their demonic heritage with their theming (they wore a black and red cloak over their armour, used a pitchfork, etc), so he could scare enemies away without having to actually fight. We came across a band of goblins, so I used dancing lights (in the shape of a flame) to add firey accents to me and thaumaturgy (or might have been prestidigitation, I don't remember) to make my voice boom to scare them away. DM decided I would have advantage on the intimidation throw, and I got a nat 20
Back in 4th Edition, _suggestion_ was a short rest cantrip that simply let the caster replace a persuasion with an arcana roll. My wizard had just helped free a dragon and he starts buttering the dragon up before he asks for assistance at a later date (as repayment). I make my roll: natural 20. The dragon agreed to come to our aid if we called upon him. As it was flying off in the distance, we saw it get shot down by some very conveniently timed dragon hunters. To this, my wizard simply said, "Quick! Follow the direction he was headed in!" The party looked at him confused until he replied something like, "He's a dragon right? Well then he's got gold just lying around!" Too bad that campaign ended on a sour note.
Also, folks out there, particularly those that prepare spells, don't always dismiss those utility spells. Just like with these cantrips, you might find a good use for them!
Love these stories. I've been in far too many games where creative ideas were snubbed because "it doesn't say you can do that".
Ah, I have a good one from my Celestial Warlock.
So my party-a human Warlock, a human Ranger, a goblin Barbarian, and a half-orc Barbarian-got finished taking down a demonic cult, with us having to fight a bulezau at the end. During the fight, my Warlock was hit by its barbed tail and failed the saving throw. (In actuality, the attack missed, but my dumbass DM at the time thought it'd be a good idea to fudge rolls so that the attack hit and I failed the save. The save DC was 13 and I rolled a 15. Needless to say, I have far less trust for that DM.) Because of this, my Warlock had to have his head wrapped up in cloth to cover most of his face.
Sometime after the fight, one of the party members, the half-orc Barbarian, captured one of the fleeing cultists. We begin taking the cultist back to town with us and the Ranger and half-orc Barbarian try to interrogate the cultist. The cultist wasn't intimidated and wouldn't say a word. That's when my Warlock stepped in.
By this time, I had a 1 level dip into Divine Soul Sorcerer. I tap the Ranger on the shoulder and mime for me to have a go at scaring the cultist. As I start doing the verbal component for Thaumaturgy, due to the effect of the bulezau's barbed tail effect, loud buzzing of flies can be heard. My Warlock's eye go blank and glow with RADIANT POWER as he pulls down the cloth mask, the ground rumbles, and his voice booms as he shouts: *DO AS WE COMMAND OR SUFFER THE WRATH OF THE DIVINE!!!* I roll a 20 on intimidation and not only did I scare the piss out of the cultist, who now had a face full of swarming flies, but I terrified _everyone else_ in the party! The cultist was definitely open to answering our questions then.
Had an assassin sorcerer/warlock who would use mold earth for tons of stuff. Used it to make pit fall traps with minor illusion tops, carved staircases into the side of mountain cliffs, and even hardened ground around allies being sweeped away in mudslides. However my favorite use of it was one I would infiltrate enemy military camps an assassinate their commanders. I would use mask of many faces to pretend to be a currier, find a good lonely commander and then sneak up behind them and cast Blight at high lvls to suck the water/life right out of them. Then just mold earth a quick grave and move onto the next. Once you assassinate a few key players just polymorph in to a small Raven and fly out before anyone know what happened. Worked like a charm!
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@Sam Sam I went 2 Warlock with pack of the otherworldly patron. And then Shadow Magic Origin for the Sorcerer. I took mold earth cantrip which is what allowed me to hide bodies, make traps and carve staircases into cliff sides. Also for invocations I took Mask of Many Faces to help with the stealth/scare aspects of the character.
My concept was making some ones worst nightmares comes to life. I would use detect thoughts to figure out what they feared and then Mask of many faces to become it. With the Darkness spell you can make it originate on you or a specific point so I would basically make the darkness surround us then then torment them. Worked pretty well for interrogations haha.
For assassinating people I would Mask of many faces or invisibility to get in and out and then use the 4th lvl spell Blight to 1 shot people. Generally I would come up behind them and grab their face when I used it. Basically 1 shot most characters with the advantage from the surprise round. If you need you can use the Meta Magic Heightened spell to impose disadvantage on the Saving throw. Then just hid the bodies with mold earth.
I used druidcraft to make Rose Petals fall from the sky to flirt with an NPC. Worked out quite well
In a one-shot campaign, I played a sorcerer that used chill touch on every alcoholic beverage I encountered to further ferment it with the necrotic energy, enhancing the flavour of the beverage. No difference in terms of story, but the party was entertained by this none-the-less.
Our party needed to fake an NPC's death, so the sorcerer met him on a bridge at night. He pushed the NPC off, and the guards at the end of the bridge rushed the sorcerer, but he used Minor Illusion to create a brick wall between the guards and himself. They failed the check to see through the illusion, which bought him enough time to slip away undetected into the town. Meanwhile, after safely landing on an outcropping below, the NPC was hidden away from sight and our Kenku used Thaumaturgy to enhance the volume of his voice and made the sound of a body landing on the rocks below.
I was playing a High Elf wizard named Dru. It was my second session (I think) and I was fighting a Goblin King named Klargg. (Lost Mine of Phandelver). He was next to a bonfire. I cast Grease to try and get him to fall into the fire. I forgot that grease was flammable. He saved himself, but he was still burned alive.
I once used the Prestidigitation cantrip to create a mark on the floor. You see, the province had a demon knight problem or something and the holy knights were there to clean it up and maintain order. During an espionage mission to fake-poison a champion under the guard of the holy knights, who were transporting him to his next battle, I created the demon knight's symbol upon the floor. It was real big, red, and super obvious. As my Artificer had discovered earlier, the demon knight leaves that symbol on his stuff and can actually sense and feel the location of the symbols. So I essentially created a summoning marker for the Demon Knight RIGHT next to the holy knights. Turns out the Demon Knight not only noticed but came and eliminated the holy knights himself, allowing us to poison the champion without a single witness.
For a person who really wants to play D&D, but has no friends and doesn't know what everything is, what's a cantrip?
a low-tier spell you don't need any complicated preparation or energy for.
A cantrip is a spell that requires no materials/rituals to use. You can learn cantrips at level 0. Different classes can use different types of cantrips, so make sure to look at what cantrips are available to you when you make a new character. Also, you have to pick your starting cantrips based on how many cantrips you are allowed to learn. You can search that up, too. I hope you have luck in figuring out how to play DnD! My best advice is to try to find a campaign, even if it is with strangers. You can make a few friends, and learn a lot about DnD!
@@waspie3132 thank you very much! For both the information and the advice!
@@A.I.rchist You're welcome!
@@A.I.rchist try roll20 website .... find others in the sane position as you.
During a tomb of anaialtion campaign, my group of four 5th level payers ran into a t-rex. The party: I am a tiefling wizard, my best friend is a black dragon born paladin, her husband is a tiefling druid, and his friend is a rogue kenku. On a boat going down river, a massive battle scarred t-rex burst out from the trees coming right for us. The druid cast heat metal on an cooking pot and threw it at the rex aiming for its open mouth. He got it in! So the druid continued to concentrate on heat metal, burning the beast from the inside. The black dragon born spit acid in its face to blind it so it couldn't see us. The kenku kept throwing its voice to sound like a wounded animal. And I used prestidigitation to make our scent appear elsewhere. All of us together killed the t-rex, but we wouldn't have gotten away if I hadn't moved our scent
I used prestidigitation to make it look like I threw up on the statue of the Kuo-ta god. It ended with me getting an inspiration point as that was what they did as an offering
I made a flash bang by combining multiple uses of presdigitation and light to slow down a pursuing kobald.
So, prestidigitation states that it makes a mark on a surface, meaning that it isn't illusory, so I used it to scribble out an efreet's portal to the city of brass. This turned out to be a very poor decision, considering that it was now stuck in this plane and was very angry with me for doing this.
Was a artificer who uses mage hand in the form of a drone that the dm liked so much they made it permanent and that’s how I got my first companion
One time I was playing a rakshasa rogue as an arcane trickster. I had the cantrip minor illusion. Now this may have been over the top for a cantrip but as the DM's choice, he let it happen.
We were in a dungeon filled with goblins and other low tiered enemies when we eventually came across the big boss being. The big boss was a tanky as all hell bugbear with several absurdly buffed goblins surrounding him (Yes this is the starter pack campaign, the DM forgot his material for our session and just went with the starter pack). It had been about 7 turns when an idea popped into my mind that absolutely derailed the boss fight. I decided I would cast minor illusion as a mirror in front of the goblin directly next to the bugbear hoping he would get scared and swing thinking that a bugbear had just teleported next to him. The DM asked me to roll for persuasion... NAT 20. The goblin FREAKS out and swings his tiny sword wildly, viciously attacking the bugbear, the DM asks me to roll to hit and roll damage telling me I can roll 2 d6. I roll to hit... ANOTHER NAT 20! Then comes two perfect 6 rolls on the d6, doubled for 24 damage and after all the damage we had already done, killed the bugbear and the goblins ran away in fear of there traitor brother. Best campaign moment of my life
I absolutely love it when you guys end up laughing from what you're reading!
I had a level 7 Water Genasi Druid. Basically, our campain were fugitives from what was basically alcatraz made of ice. WE were in a town nearby, and needed to escape before the guards came. We couldn't go on foot becuase it was so cold, so we bought a cart-and-horse. Minus the horse. What the DM expected us to do was either go find a way to make more money, or spend way to much time trying to persuade the shopkeeper who had an incredibly high atvantage.
What I did was use Create Water and Shape Water. Instant ice horses. As we rode away, the shopkeeper watched us with his mouth open. Apparently, he was supposed to give us a side quest that we'd do in exchange for an old horse. Instead, we skipped ahead and the DM had to take a few minuets to look through his notes.
Our friend was joining the campaign so we spent the session around his introduction. He was a blood hunter ex soldier who's small village was being raided by an enemy empire. To spice up the fight the DM gave him an "enraged" status so for the duration of the fight against the raiding group he had +2 to all stats and an extra 2 action points per turn. In one turn he rolled NAT 20 on hits against 4 surrounding raiders whose deaths were described in brutal detail by the DM. The rest of us were half the map away looking on this slaughter so I asked if I could use thaumaturgy as a reactive action to tell "mad lad" at our new companion. The DM allowed this and even gave out blood hunter another boost :')
My fav combo is jumping off a cliff, casting Thorn Whip or Lightning Lure to bring an enemy off the cliff with you, then casting Misty Step to get back up.
I played an assimar paladin with the light cantrip. We ended up fighting a 10 foot tall minitaur. So, she popped her wings, flew up in it's face, and put the light on the bull's nose ring, blinding it temporarily, and enabling the rest of the party advantage on attacks against it. It still smacked her out of the air, and she ended up unconscious for most of the rest of the fight, but we won.
One of my characters was nicknamed "CD" for cantrip death. Was 2nd addition, and was a war wizard character. During school, he organized the entire class to mass cast the entire list of personal effecting cantrips on teacher at same time. Once he was resusatated, he canceled class till he created a ring of cantrip resistance.
Whenever my character uses a bow, they use the fire lighting of prestidigitation to light their arrows.
Omg cantrips are my favorite spells. You can get really creative and when you're at a certain level you can use them infinitely
In 3.5, I DM'd a game where a PC used Animate Rope, with the use rope skill and a Nat20 ranged attack roll to entwine a dragon's eyeball and pop it.
Once had a GM agree that Oil Slick created real oil. From that point on, my go-to attack became to cast Oil Slick on enemies, or the ground that they were standing on if there were several, then Spark or other flame creating cantrip setting the enemies on fire. Good times!
Prestidigitation to make a small pin to pick a lock...
It’s so much nicer when people actually read the text on these posts rather than using TTS
Once, I had an epiphany while fighting a lich, and realized that if I could get close to him I could use Mold Earth to bury him in the stone courtyard, rendering semantic spells useless to him. Before I could do so, the wizard cast power word kill on him and his hp was low enough that he died.
I ran a shadow monk Aaracocra and got trapped in a temple, 60 ft hallway with a guard at the end and daylight cast on the floor so no shadows, I used minor illusion to project the hallway behind me in front of me to get close enough to cast silence so he couldn’t use most of his spells
I used Mage Hand to unlock a door from the other side as a Bard. DM had me roll to see if I could pull it off, rolled, the dice danced as only a D20 can and landed on a Nat 20. I think he was kinda pissed but also bemused.
@STM It was the 2nd biggest "wtf" roll as my bard lol
The pastries made from the bones of children was from the "Curse of Strahd" campaign module. At least that's my reference for them. Had a Necromancer that almost got addicted to them before the party figured out what they were made from
Ahhh, the people I've traumatized with that campaign... Maybe I should run it again ;)
A couple nights ago I used a firebolt to light up a dark room at the end of a hallway, that way the head of the party could see the hidden enemies in the room. Battle had already started, so they knew we were there, but now we knew they were there.
I had a teifling rogue (arcane trickster), and me and the party were fighting these big hound beasts (something the dm homebrewed I think) and void blobs. We were inclined to take out the blobs first but doing so would leave the hounds to tear us to shreds, I casted minor illusion to take the form of a big flock of ravens to swarm the hounds to distract them, it worked, they failed their intelligence checks and weren't able to tell they were not real ravens. They kept trying to attack them and kept missing, they were occupied long enough for us to kill the blogs then gang up on them.
I can't remember if eldritch blast is a can't rip but our teifling used inspiration and an eldritch blast to propel the party across a 60 foot gap of lava
I started laughing so hard I was wheezing on the subtitles one 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I would def like to see more of these.
I love seeing clever things players do.
I once played an Arcane Trickster who, when fighting a Lich at level 5 (it was one of those games) lit a piece of dynamite and used mage hand to place it carefully in the ribcage of said Lich. Next turn the Lich's chest cavity went boom and the DM ruled I got sneak attack damage with the dynamite
I once was in a game where the dm let us all have one cantrip from the druid or cleric spell list (I can't remember if it was one of those or both) so as a joke I chose shape water for my tabaxi ranger. later I had an idea when we needed to go underwater for a short amount of time, to use shape water around my head and give myself a "helmet" to breath from for a small amount of time and basically give myself an extra minute or two of air. I have no idea how many other people have thought of that but watching this video reminded me of that occasion.
I’ve used prestigitation to create sparks in the face of an enemy as a held action, which allowed advantage on an ally attack or disadvantage on the enemy’s next attack, depending on which I chose.
Also have used minor illusion to create the appearance of more earth just after the edge of a cliff, initially so the gnolls running forward would run too far, but they stopped early. Did allow for advantage of a thorn whip attack from the Druid though, as they couldn’t see her or the attack coming.
Eldritch Knight is in the middle of a massive battle against a dragon, everyone is over half dead and EK uses minor illusion to place a gigantic crate over the dragons head
Some one in my party cast dancing light inside of a goblin and we used it as a torch
I honestly feel like the the arcane trickster should get an ability that lets them ignore the verbal components of spells so they can quietly cast
I was DMing not too long ago and had a Tiefling Druid use a combination of Thaumaturgy/Prestidigitation/Minor Illusion to sneak their way through a Yaun-ti village and rescue the prisoners that were caught there. Magic Initiate is a Feat that one should never overlook, shame when that PC died. But the player is really creative and all of their characters since have been equally entertaining to DM for.
They used Mold Earth to bury the Warforged Barbarian & myself, an Undying Warlock, behind the latrines. Neither of us needed to breathe, so we just chilled for a couple of days until the Wizard's familiar dropped a couple of coins on our spots which allowed Mold Earth to be cast a few times again, and we murdered a general when he went to take a dump in the middle of the night.
Used minor illusion to show pictures of people or creatures we've come across. In a other campaign, two spellcasters and my druid used our cantrips to make a boar. The boar had accurate noises and smell, distracting a group of goblins
my sourcer was transformed to a height of 4 inches once and i used mage hand as a flying carpet until i turned back to normal
In Pathfinder I made a character built around using Acid Splash. Best thing it could do was heal instead of damaging so it was common for damaged party members to have acid baths
I played as a Half-Elf Wizard. The party was imprisoned and stripped of all gear. The cell door was locked and we could only escape through a secret tunnel left by other prisoners that lead into sewer system. What I did instead is used "prestidigitation" to creat a key and opened the cell door. The DM ripped 2 pages worth of notes out of his textbook. Xd
This wasn't too useful, but whenever my sorcerer and my friend's warlock would high five each other (which they did a lot, as they were best bros) they'd usually do it using mage hand, even when standing right next to eachother. He even hit me with a "down low; too slow" once