Animated Spellbook: Wedding Spell (Ceremony) D&D 5E
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2023
- The wedding ceremony spell in 5E d&d. More specifically how it was used by Fauntleroy Applebee.
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The Chase - Aves
Mudflow - Leva
Wedding march - Kashido
Prelude in E Minor - T.Bless & the Professionals 
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“She completes me”
“She completes your build” floored me
dude i died wen i heard this xD
Hardcore facts
The saddest part is that he isnt even playing smartly, if he wanted high ac he could litterally have 26 with a forge cleric married recently shield of faithed warforged wearing plate armour.
@@AsherrTheRed But how long were you _married,_ before you died?
@@bashew-op4sb Let's not, bippity-bot.
Serial Wedder is a character brew I never thought I wanted to make.
"You only want to marry me for my money"
"No I only want to marry you for 7 days of +2 AC"
At least you’re honest. Haha
NECROMANCER RAMONA FLOWERS AND HER ARMY OF DEAD EXES
Thats even worse!
@@szylaj HUGE
Ok but not many parties can fit a chaotic evil.
Zee’s relentless commitment to making his characters utter monsters is one of my favorite running gags.
To quote one particular asshole in response to some orcs pulling a surprise Aesop, "Always Chaotic Evil isn't just an entry in the Monster Manual, it's a way of life!"
When they die. It will be a game of hot potato. no one will want them. Their evil and then it is these guys.
Does any one know who get stuck with them.
"A means to a ends by any means " is these guys motto
@@adamloga3788 Where is that from?
This is exactly how the guys in my main group run. They were legit calculating the XP of an innocent village during a campaign I ran - that's when I realized we needed to switch to milestone leveling.
"Zee's Relentless Commitment" is a valid spell name
A few weeks later, a jilted ex turns out to be a necromancer, brings back all his former wives, crashes the next wedding, and gets resmiten, and now the paladin has a very unusual harem.
I hate... how much I don't hate this.
That's horrifyingly hilarious. Like Tales From The Crypt.
Paladin can’t get the +2 AC on the same target. It wasn’t meant to last
Like that time in Skyrim your dead companion shows up to your wedding.
They _were_ a Humanoid creature, and then a corpse, which is an Object (notably, no longer a creature), and finally the corpse was raised as an Undead creature.
So an argument could be made that they are not the same creature that they were.
Sure, it's a bit of a stretch. But we're not talking about an entirely sane table in the first place, are we?
This takes having a high "bodycount" to a whole new level.
Stack'um high.
Epic comment.
I do like how this spell encourages player characters in relationships to get married before the final boss fight, rather than raising the red flag which is marriage planned to happen right after the world is saved.
Xander and Anya could have taken a page from this lesson....
*Cough* Critical Role *Cough*
Oh I hate that trope of "uueh I can't be with you because the world is terrible!" when the characters are clearly already in love, already spend nearly all their time together and just haven't made things official. Like seriously what's the downside of having a supportive partner while going through a literal apocalypse.
Also good for legal benefits in case one of them dies in that dangerous part of the campaign.
Personally, I do prefer characters "get together" earlier in a story. Like, ya know act 2 rather than act 3. If the romance you've been building up for the entire story is only portrayed for less than an episode, chapter, scene, etc then we missed actually getting to see them develop a dynamic.
"You know who's missing something inside them? Susie."
Pure gold.
He's gonna get all up in that snilk.
That one got me haha
@@bbullerdiek She _does_ have some significant mommy snilkers.
@@bbullerdiekIsn't it Snilf?
All hail the Snitties.
Love how she was completely willing to dive headfirst into a bunch of skeletons with a two-handed axe at the drop of a hat
for love!
Probably a low level barbarian.
Wife Material (component)
@@Merilirem Would explain why she didn't bother wearing any armor. That AC 12 from the wedding isn't going to do much more than a set of studded leather would have.
@@Bluecho4 A set of Studded Leather would have boosted that up to 14 AC instead, though. But not a very good Barbarian if she had +0 Dex and +0 Con.
Really, he was doing her a favor by bluebearding her so she could reroll for better ability scores.
"Oh, this sounds like a wholesome and fun spell."
* Slowly realizes the horrific behaviors of min-maxers. *
Never forget the classic "Whenever you get married make sure to include a Zealot Barbarian as a Third and after seven days kill and revive them for free"
For when you really just wanna screw the rules.
Hmm, come to think of it, if two zealot barbarians got married, could they just kill each other every 7 days and have their cleric friend revive and remarry them in order to keep the +2 AC?
oh, it's so much better that that. because ceremony doesn't specify that only two people have to marry, it allows for polygamy
[Wedding] You touch adult humanoids willing to be bonded together in marriage. For the next 7 days, each target gains a +2 bonus to AC while they are within 30 feet of each other. A creature can benefit from this rite again only if widowed.
So the WHOLE PARTY could marry each other if they want. And become a big happy family of powergamers.
Now, here's a semantic question. If you're in a polycule, and one of your partners dies, does that make you a widdow? if yes (please let the answer be yes) you can have one zealot barbarian in your party and at the end of the week
"Well family, it's the Sunday and you know what that means! Grokgur the Almighty, honey, will you come here and everyone else take out your daggers. Oh, sweetheart, i know, but it will only hurt for a moment. Please, the family needs you to do this. okay? okay."
[STABBING NOISES]
Revivify
Marry again.
@@oskarljung2201 bonus points if the barbarian is a snuff slut and their deaths are always something they look forward to like hanging, sexy blood drinking, or fatal star fishing.
@@oskarljung2201 This actually sounds awesome and the makings of a "Family Cult" situation. The "Gains" family have been known to support each other in ways that most would consider....unnatural.
Love Ceremony for marriage. Two characters in our 1-20 campaign had a romance going for more than half of it, and got married right before the final set of encounters. It was magical.
Literally!
See that's the kind of really cool stuff this spell was intended for, the paladin in this video is just a monster
@@Vegas242 A hilarious monster that gave me terrible ideas, but yeah.
It really was a great moment. The +2 AC actually mattered in a few key moments during the multi part boss fight.
Now that I think about it is it like S support from Fire Emblem.
@@Vegas242 To be fair, if you actually did that, DM would turn you into an abandoned antipaladin. The only legit way to push it would be to find a different cleric for each marriage, so your divine party members don't lose their powers. That said, it's not too hard to find a cleric provided you visit different towns.
"there's like.. something missing inside you, man"
i love this line so SO much.
"She completes me!"
"She completes your build!"
Is a statement I never thought id hear but it is hilarious
"Do you declare yourself a willing creature?" has to be one of your best lines yet!
The wedding ceremony scene wasn’t scripted. It was just audio recording of his actual wedding. It’s becoming a trend to fight a horde a skeletons during a honeymoon
I can think of no better honeymoon than slaughtering hordes of undead. I'm 100% dead serious
@@jeepersmcgee3466 "100% dead" is the key phrase in that sentence.😂
😬
Priest: "Who objects to this marriage?"
Necromancer: "I do! Skeletons, ATTACK!"
I mean, when's a better time to attack your hated nemesis in force than on their wedding day?
I like that the vow was “are you a willing creature?” How romantic
Best part: Ritual spell.
Took it for my Old One Tomelock. Those poor, poor starry-eyed couples... didn't know the stars had eyes for them.
Spoken in R'lyehian to seal the deal.
That last line killed me. XD
my chain pact fiend warlock of a pitfiend judge who has ritual caster doing a wedding:
the groom: "uhhh father dutchrend, who did you say you were a priest of again and why was the marriage license so lon-"
father dutchrend: by the authority of the courts of phlegethos i now pronounce you man and wife~
**infernal script bearing markings of rings burn into place on the couples fingers**
father dutchrend: his will~
the couple:"**screaming**"
I love Hilletje's voice. It's got so much character to it. What a delight to listen to.
Zee's voice is okay, too.
Remember, with Ceremony (Wedding), Two willing isn't the limit, it's _the lower bound._ And only one of the people involved has to die for all the remaining ones to be widowed.
Diety might disapprove? It's a Ritual spell. Grab it with Ritual Caster or Book of Ancient Secrets.
Oh. I guess it’d be possible to do a polyarmory (I know what I said)
Could you then gather the same remaining people and marry them together in another Ceremony, then rinse and repeat every time someone dies? Or would you need to add at least one new person every time?
Definitely not a cult officer, she passed away peacefully, in her sleep. No sir, we are all just her good friends. I know, it's such a tragedy, that we've lost 3 members over the past month, we are all beset with grief...
@@fakjbf3129 you can resurrect the dead party member (perhaps somebody who is easily revived? zealot barbarian perhaps?) and the whole party can be one polycule with +2 AC
So... basically become one of those cult leaders that marries the newest converts.
Mr. Applebee is going to be my next horror-themed antagonist. Imagine it: the players keep finding graves of women with the same surname and epitaph around the countryside…
“Do you declare yourself a willing creature” is such a line
The quick scratching out of the E into an A because they misspelled Sea is so good
This is one of your funniest videos. From "Do you declare yourself a willing creature" to "She completes your build," all the jokes are pure gold.
This is a spell that come up in a campaign i played where a player ended up marrying a npc who helped andtravelled with the party alot.
The DM ended up rulling that the Wedding Ceremony effect would be permanent, but would only be active aslong they were within 30ft of eachother... the reason for this was cause the 7 day limit was weird.
Edit cause i forgot this bit: The PC and NPC had a close development over the campaign, with both nearly dieing multiple times an dying at least once each... they ended up retiring after adventuring even thou both were partially demigods at that point and could have ended up in really powerfull positions.
For my seafaring campaign I added a bit of homebrew for ships:
Christen: After touching a sea, sky, or wildspace-faring vessel, you may officially rename it without any penalties. If the ship has a living owner, they must be willing. Documents confirming the vessel's new name appear in your hand. In addition, for the next seven days, all features of the ship with a hit point maximum gain 20 temporary hit points. In addition to the normal components of the spell, this ceremony requires an unopened bottle of Celestial Goldberry Wine worth 200gp, which the spell consumes.
I wanted to give my players a ship that they could name whatever they want. One of my players was in the navy and insisted that renaming a ship is bad luck. So I gave them this out.
That's an awesome addition
These are brilliant. Nice way to flavor a spell for it's environment.
Cool alternate use, but 250gp is ten times what every other use costs. I'd just make it 25.
@@elbruces I can see the point of the price jump. Ceremony normally benefits 1-2 people. This usage can benefit hundreds.
When you create a new command chair for a spelljammer ship (using a 5th level spell), during the next hour you can cast this version of Ceremony as a magic action without using spellslots.
You can replace the material component with any bottle of "sparkling wine" (a vial of holy water with a cork also counts).
I love how beloved wife is always in quotes on the gravestones!
Being a Bluebeard sounds like a good way to get a revenant on your arse.
You're the man of the house now, unless... My lady😂😂 God I love the animated spell book, always gets a genuine chuckle out of me
I love taking the theory crafting and making it into a (twisted) story!
What I find the most twisted about this is that he could have revived the dead wife with Raise Dead/Resurrection to renew the wedding ceremony instead of finding a new wife each time. Instead he just kept getting new wives and killing them after 7 days
@@Zulk_RS and waste the spell slot?
@@anthonynorman7545 Don't forget the gold too!
@@Zulk_RS yeah, the wedding is expensive enough!
I love the idea that a separate party is following some quest and one of them happens to see a reoccurring name pop up among the dead
The 'moral' version is have your entire party get married so everyone has +2 ac, and on the 7th day kill someone, revive them, and recast ceremony on everyone
That's a lotta negative levels for +2 to AC.
@@webbowser8834 Only if you actually do negative levels for dying!
@@webbowser8834 never did negative levels for dieing so guess it depends on dm
all revival spells require a massive gp cost. This is why the typical exploit is to make use of a zealot barbarian who is always free to revive.
@@robertmarsh5322If you're high level, the cost of revivify is pretty cheap at that point for what you get in return.
“There’s something missing inside you.” literally made me snort, good job Zee
This is the most horrific way to use a 1st level spell. Soon the whole world will know of the- this sets up perfectly the next session with the perfect BBEG!
Jokes on you! My build completing husband has become an integral part of our group and a decent little paladin/barbarian in his own right
As soon as I saw the title…I knew I was in for some messed up stuff…and I am *all for it.*
Absolutely love the animated spell book videos and whenever I try to lure in a new friend to play DND I feel like it really helps them realize how useful so many spells are, other than true strike.
I was in the middle of my wedding, but I always drop everything for Zee Bashew. Love your videos.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING, GET BACK IN THERE AND GET THAT AC BONUS! YOUR BUILD DEPENDS ON IT!
My players were about to fight the final battle of a combat tournament, and decided to all marry each other for the AC buff. The spell doesn't say how many adult humanoids you can marry at once, so I let them all hold hands in a ring for the purposes of the spell. We treated it more as a warrior's bond sort of commitment, but they certainly make a lot of 'we're married' jokes nowadays anyway
"I'm not sure it will work on water this bad-oh would you look at that!?" It's kind of amazing just how useful that spell would be in a realistic medieval or even modern 3rd world setting.
I always forget Ceremony can Bless Water
OTOH, what kind of person can afford 25gp for a small amount of drinkable water, but can't find any other way to get it for less?
@@SimonClarkstone what is OTOH mean?
But to answer your question, what if it’s an emergency? Like, you’re in a dungeon and you blew through all your reserves, but you need some holy water for something? To be fair, RAW it says a vial, but the animation shows a large bowl, so I assume it’s okay to split hairs a bit
I mean, I feel like if I got to pick a spell to have in real life, it could very well be a cantrip. Cast it however many times a day, who cares! And a lot of cantrips are utility spells, like mold earth or maybe prestidigitation. I mean, how often are you ACTUALLY going to use Meteor Swarm?
@@SylviaMoonbeam1127 On The Other Hand
I love that you went with that gag, it’s a joke that I’ve mentioned before to my gaming group.
Side note, resurrections for a zealot barbarian are basically free and then dying would technically make their spouse a widow. It also doesn’t limit the marriage to only two members, so have everyone wed the barbarian and remember to murder/revive/renew vows each week.
It sounds like something a barbarian warband does before going on campaign. Everyone in the warband is ritually wedded to their Zealot warlord. Then when the week is up, they're ritually killed and revived (assuming they don't die during the fighting). They'd probably consider it some kind of sacred tradition.
The whole "you're still a widow even if your spouse comes back to life" thing exists in the real world cuz resurrection doesn't exist... I'm sure it would be different in D&D.
@@OriginalAkivara the spells says "you have been widowed", not "you are a widow/widower"
so you ecome eligible again whether or not you still count as a widow/widower
(if it said "unless you are a widow/widower" then someone that has lost their a spouse could benefit from this spell indefinetely, as long as at least one of their spouses remains dead)
If I ever (which with this pattern is unlikely) get married, I want the one presiding over the ceremony to ask "do you declare yourself a willing creature?".
I was in the middle of the Treantmonk d4 collab, but I always drop everything for Zee Bashew. Love your videos.
These are truly my favorite videos. Set in the world, characters intermittently aware of game mechanics, and with a good dose of conflict. Just great fun.
"I'm not cosigning this" is SUCH a funny way to put that, I'm gonna have that stuck in my head for days.
Holy heck this is an absurd abuse of mechanics and a great way to make a villainous character
don't forget, you can also resurrect the dead spouse and do it again! :P
@@CycloneSPI don’t understand why not do that
@@henreymichelson Resurrections are more expensive than marriages.
@@CycloneSPI see you wish to negate “till death do us part”
@@AnEnormousNerd oh that’s just evil it would make a great villain
Best part my day whenever you upload, man.
I didn't realize how badly I needed Chad Zee in my life.
enough for a Ceremony?
noticing how much of your visual style comes from the way you change the hand positions to make your characters expressive. It's oddly rudimentary but it works out great because it looks so funny, especially when they do the fisty shape, it's like they're grabbing a really good thought with their hands.
I love the quotation marks around "Beloved Wife"
here comes the bride
There goes the bride
I get so giddy when I see these pop up. Fastest click I’ll make all day
I think this is one of your funniest yet. The look on her face as she's battling skeletons in her wedding dress!
As soon as you said "7 days" I knew where this was going, and it was still amazing.
Literal laugh out loud
Another use of the wedding ceremony comes up in Curse of Strahd (spoilers for our campaign, I REALLY hope the DM doesn't read this before we do it), where you can marry Ireena, the woman whom Strahd's pining for has created his entire Plane of Dread to torment him, in front of him.
... THAT didn't go so well for his brother.
This spell helped a friend of mine beat curse of strad.
So that's why Strahd had to kill Sergei before the wedding!
I have never felt a greater sense of disgust and admiration at the same time for anyone more than that paladin. The amount of revulsion actually makes me impressed with what a POS he is. Kudos to you for making such a gut churning character.
Small addition to Ceremony. Anyone wanting Full lycanthropy can embrace the curse and use the "Atonement" Ceremony spell to reverse the alignment shift of embracing the Curse. It requires the caster to make a 20DC Insight check. and anyone casting "Remove Curse" on you means you have to get infected and spend the at minimum 25g to get your lycanthropy back. I can't imagine there's alot of games that both have the ability to become werewolves and Alignment. But It's a cool tip.
I appreciate the Yuan-Ti design at 1:51
Perfect in light of recent r/dndmemes happenings
S N I T T I E S
Fun fact: the Wedding part of the spell doesn't say specifically that it has to be only two people. Meaning that the spell works with poly-marriages
0:45 - A yes, the classic "Three Goblins in a Trenchcoat"
Of course it turns out Suzie is ALSO a Paladin looking for that +2 to AC, it just so happens she's a Paladin of Conquest and needs that +2 AC to really help overthrow the nearby Lord. It's a marriage of convenience for them both but they make it work...for 7 days at least.
This episode is absolutely unhinged and I LOVE IT.
So there's this funny little loophole where it doesn't actually say that you LOSE the AC bonus if you're widowed, just that they can benefit AGAIN if widowed. No way in hell a DM's going to let it fly, but in theory you could cart around a wagon full of deceased significant others and have infinite AC. You can find a picture of Jeremy Crawford exasperatedly confirming this with "This is 100% correct. Enjoy your 300 AC and ton of dead wives." if you do an image search of 'jeremy crawford ceremony ac'
But doesn't AC hard cap at 30?
@@1stCallipostle Did a quick check and not seeing that on PHB 144 Armor and Shields, PHB 193, 194 Making an Attack and Attack Rolls, PHB 196 Cover, or DMG 247+ Combat. It sounds like a sensible homebrew rule though.
So what I’m hearing is infinite ac necromancer and his harem hoard
A more interesting spell would be after 7 days the bonus only last due to the marital harmony the PC is able to maintain, and the death of the spouse results in an AC debuff that can’t be removed by remarrying. This encourages a ‘Protect my wife at all costs’ type of play style which seems more thematic.
Lolol had me cracking up, bro. Your stuff is my favorite and the effort you put into these videos shows.
Interestingly, the wedding ceremony never specifies that it has to be only 2 people. 185-person marriages are allowed.
But is the AC bonus stackable?
@@Oddmanoutre only once per person
Fun fact: It doesn't actually have to be 2 adults, the spell just says "You touch adult humanoids", meaning you can marry any number of people together into a wonderful polyamorous squad with extra ac
Ceremony was an absolute must for my clerical characters. It just feels so right for the pious, role-play oriented play style
My favorite one here is the zealot barbarian combo where the person getting married is technically getting widowed, but the barbarian is just resurrected for no cost. This also means a matrimonial sacrifice once a week if the barbarian fails to get themselves killed naturally.
" Taste bounded accuracy skelemen" is now my favorite battlecry.
Have you thought about doing a vid on illusion magic? I know you did the one way back about Silent Image, but with high level illusion you can do all sorts of cool stuff. You get to create both a sound and image with a single cast of minor illusion, reshape your spells on your turn, create a copy of yourself as a reaction to getting hit while you turn invisible (basically a "teleports behind you"), and make your spells partially physical. The example they give is creating an illusory bridge across a chasm so you and your party can cross then turning it back into an illusion when you're safe. However you could also reshape it into something like a wall to block ranged attacks since your creations can't attack. Something to think about.
Bruh this is easily the most fucked up AND hilarious spin on a spell you've ever put out. Kudos, you sick bastard.
This was so amazing I watched it twice, and people think I am evil. I mean I'm at least honest evil but you, I tip my hat.
So for those wondering about how to um..... break this. The spell doesn't actually have a limit on targets so you just need to be into polygamy and have a cleric and one zealot barbarian. A Zealot Barb can be revived without material components and you just need to be "considered widowed" to renew the buff. So it goes a followed. Step 1: Bind everyone together with the Zealot Barb, Step 2: Enjoy the Power for 7 days, Step 3: Have the Zealot Barb commit Sudoku, Step 4 Cleric revives Barb for free, Step 5: Repeat Steps 1-4 for "Permanent" +2 AC for the whole party.
"I'm not cosigning" I get it man. This is the best coined phrase ever though. Fantastic.
Cute little +2 Ac bonus when you merry.
Freaks: "I can milk that."
Hell of Honeymoon though.
Flawless plan. I see no reasons a DM would view this as an abuse of the mechanics and no methods by which said DMs would put a hard stop to your foolishness.
The Bard: Dude I'm all for a good fling but what you're doing is monstrous.
This channel just got darker then ever before
For some reason this is still a better outcome than the fear and hunger marriage...
"There's, like... something missing inside you, man."
"Y'know who's missing something inside them? ;)"
Jesus, that defeated me lol
I’ve watched this probably 10 times, and it gets me every time
It's all fun and games until the necromancer resurrects all your lover and you have to deal with a horde of zombies.
So, in one of the campaigns I currently have going on, we were helping a beseiged town being attacked by hordes of undead. As the party cleric, I took aside 10 soldiers at a time, and repeated the ceremony spell, over and over, marrying them all together to give the (knda small) army a +2 to AC. I tried to make it different each time to amuse the soldiers, like doing one in a sargeant voice, another implying they're all gonna bonk later, another pretending it was true love pulling them all together - all to raise morale. The GM loved it.
That last pun? A crime. Marry me immediately (for seven days).
I love the ceremony spell its great.
God making a black widow sorta char like this does sound nutty
Hes just a grieving man looking for that spark of joy
"You know who's missin' somethin inside them?..."
Best video to date. period. hands down.
"Now my darling, do you declare yourself a willing creature"
I'm DYING hahaha
Always loved the idea of 2 players playing a Cleric and a Zealot Barbarian, taking full advantage of the Ceremony spell's wedding feature and the zealot can constantly go off and get themselves killed without much issue due to being revived for free, thus getting around the whole serial wedder scenario.
Zealot is my fav barb for this reason, you can basically just go about doing the most heroic(dumb) stuff in the hopes it works and if it doesn't, eh it's just a flesh wound.
winter sale, eh?
Ribbing aside, this is wonderful and devious and just the sort of good stuff I keep buying from your sponsors to support.
Lol the Widowers Graveyard, full of his dead spouses, is low key the best part of this video
Oh, so that's what King Henry the 8th was actually doing
2:12 cry for that pour soul....must have gone swimmingly for them 2
Also THANKS for bringing the thought of a "excited" paladin as a character concept as it's been something I been wanting to play.....somewhat like him
Hilarious, just got recommended Gabriella and the Dumb Bois again and I gladly watched it! WE NEED MORE!!
This is one of the scarier of these videos and I love it.
Easy addendum to get around the horror while maintaining the build; allow the couple to retake the ceremony once every 7 days, but they can only retake it with each other.
Or have the blessing last until one of them breaks the bond.
I heard about a couple gaming this spell at one point. They had a great deal of money to spend and argued that the spell didn't say how long you had to be widowed.
Their characters would basically commit die and be Revivified shortly after, allowing them to use Ceremony every week.
I imagine the Gods being very confused. 😂
It’s unnerving the grognard has recently became the voice of conscious and reason
That's one way to sell a role-play spell. Hilarious😂
Ah that brings back memories. Me and my ex were play curse of strahd and realized that the costs of revivify every 7 days is quite worth the +2 AC for us both. That was in the last session before the DM ghosted the entire group, deleted his entire internet presence, assembly due to a nervous breakdown