I was playing an Arcane Trickster Rogue, which allows me to have an invisible Mage Hand. One shopkeeper tried selling us an ordinary rock by calling it a Stone of Detect Gravity. However I had the invisible Mage hand hold it like it was floating saying, "Actually, it's a Stone of Levitation, so you'd be able to sell it for more." He went with it, but was puzzled as to why it was no longer floating after giving it back.
I used minor illusion to fake the starting casting of a higher level spell to bait out a counter spell, then followed it up with a quickened cast fireball once i knew they didn’t have a reaction anymore.
Not as a player, but as DM: The party had just defeated a group of orcs (their first encounter of the campaign) and a female human wizard stepped out of the treeline. The party ranger's wolf approached her, sniffed her hand, and licked it. The party took this as a sign that she wasn't a threat, and began talking to her. The wizard gave the party numerous side quests over the next several gaming sessions, each seeming like your run-of-the-mill do-gooding, but was actually creating power vacuums in various local regions. Eventually, the party paladin found himself unable to use his paladin abilities, realized they'd been doing evil acts, and that he needed to do an Atonement. Long story short, the wizard WAS the BBEG for the campaign. She'd been using the orcs initially, but when they were defeated she decided to use the party that defeated them instead. When the party finally decided to use Speak with Animals and ask the wolf why it reacted to her the way it did, he replied "Her hand smelled like bacon." And that is how Prestidigitation made the party do the BBEG's work for her...
In my third session of DND ever, I was playing a tiefling warlock. Our level 1 party’s first mission was to apprehend some goblin pickpockets who were plaguing the marketplace & bring them in to the city watch for reward money. Being a good-aligned party, we want to avoid killing them, especially since the street is full of people who could get hurt by accident. One of the goblins is caught early, but the other is about to get away and has evaded everyone’s attempts to grab him. I remember I have the Mage Hand cantrip, and ask the DM “Quick question: the rules say Mage Hand can’t be used to attack an enemy, right?” “Right. You can’t punch or slap him with a mage hand, and you can’t pick him up either since goblins weigh more than 10 pounds.” “Alright, but… can I use it to inconvenience him instead?” “I guess… what are you going to do?” “I take the Mage Hand, and use it to give the goblin a wedgie!” The DM cracks up, and rules that the magic wedgie greatly reduces the goblin’s movement speed and he takes 1 point of damage from having his underwear suddenly pulled between his buttcheeks like dental floss. This gives our aasimar monk an opening to grab and restrain him, and we triumphantly haul the whining pair of goblins to the nearest guard post. I’m still with this group 6 months later, and it’s still just as fun and chaotic as it was back then!
Great story! Playing a Lv 1 Halfling Wizard, our party was fighting a group of goblins, and as they were charging at us, I used Mage Hand to pull a Goblin's pants down (or loincloth, I forget), causing him to trip and fall flat on his face (also used it to pull a pirate's bandana over her eyes, giving her disadvantage on her attacks)
Old school AD&D (there were no versions back then). Playing very strict by the rules, and i was playing a mage. Under those rules, you got to pick one first level spell for your spell book, read magic was the second, and the third was DM's choice. So i only ever had three spells at the beginning that i could memorize, and only cast one per day (1st level group). (you could learn additional spells from other casters or by looting spell books and/or scrolls). The DM thought it would be funny to give me spider climb, since i was VERY experienced, and knew the rules front to back. So spider climb was all i used for several adventures, being very creative with it. Just to rub it in his face that giving me what he thought was a worthless spell could be awesome, if used creatively. One use was a pit trap that had spring loaded doors. You fell through, and then the doors would close again, preventing rescue. I cast spider climb, and was able to walk onto the trap door (which had trapped our fighter down below). my body weight held the door open so that the rest of the party could drop a rope. Another use was a large room with a vaulted ceiling. None of the bad guys had long weapons (think spears or pole arms), so spider climb i did up onto the ceiling and proceeded to drop burning oil flasks on them with impunity. After several sessions the DM told me "i should have given you magic missile, it would have been safer." ^-^
I was a Fathomless arlokc. We had to find a Druid who didn't want to be found... He had wild shaped into a cat and was mixed in with a group of other cats hanging near a fish stall... I used Dancing Lights to try and get the kitty's attention and it worked... The druid was the only cat that didn't react. I dunno if it applies, but I thought it was clever
I will admit that Heal isn't a weak spell... but it isn't a combat spell either. My friend was running a short adventure for a local mini-games-convention. The final boss was a fallen angel gone mad. While he was attacking us, I realized he was crazy, and cast Heal on him. The DM stopped... said, "how does that work again?" I told him it recovered so many hit points, and removed all mental and physical conditions. He decided to roll a save against it, as the angel was not likely willing, but failed. He was cured. Then the DM explained that he had planned out an elaborate fight, with the angel going through 2 transformations, into a second and third more powerful forms... and I derailed that by healing him. This was shortly before the release of 4th ed. He still brings it up to rib me about it now and then. XD
Most of my exploits using a weak spell all revolve around mage hand. To pick one, instead of going through several floors of the BBEG's lair, used a Mage Hand to fly up and throw vials of acid at the ceilings until holes large enough for individual party members to pass through were made, following myself with Fly, then went back down and gave everyone else Fly. Skipped 3 floors and several sessions of planned content. 🙃
Friend was teaching me D&D 3.5, and was playing a kobold to show me how battles worked. Said kobold had goggles that basically acted as sunglasses to protect him from the bright lights. After he explained that kobolds had sensitive eyes when it came to light, I had my bard cast Light on the goggles.
we were fighting a giant treant, I was a barbarian. our sorcerrer casted enlarge on me, so me and all items on me grew in size. I grappled and dragged the treant to the giant bonfire at the middle of the arena, but the damage it was taking wasnt enough, and enemies around us was starting to heavily damage the rest of the party. then I remembered that I had 5 bombs in my backpack, which was also enlarged. I took off my backpack and threw it to the fire. both me and the treant got nuked, the latter dying instantly. the blast was so powerful that it vaporized all other enemies in the room which were all plants. we had to make a dex save to look away in time, our rogue failed and was blinded for an hour. I survived the blast with 4 hp
So weak, it's not even a spell. Our group was running away from a massive group of goblins. The Illusionist, who was out of spell slots, but had a high deception skill, stopped and drew a chalk line across the halfway while chanting. He scored a critical success on his deception and we got away from the goblins who were too afraid of what spell he might have cast to approach the chalk line.
This one took a while to set up. So the group, while journeying through the Underdark, came across a shopkeeper who had the misfortune of acquiring several cursed items, including the fish-summoning longsword featured in an earlier video. However, our wizard was more interested in the Robe of Uselessness - a robe that would reduce the strength and intelligence of anyone who wore it by 10 points. Later, they found that the passageway to the surface was guarded by two gugs, which are essentially Cronenburg versions of ogres that worship gods of madness. The wizard then pulled out the Robe of Uselessness and cast Beguiling Gift - a spell designed to set people up for frame jobs by convincing them to use or wear the object offered to them. One of the gugs failed his Will save, and put the robe on - which dropped his Intelligence score to zero, giving the party a much easier time of escaping the remaining, VERY pissed off gug that wanted to kill them for turning his brother braindead.
I had the party facing a group of blood hunters, all of them were of the Profan soul subclass. I was a new DM so I wasn’t sure what was balanced yet… Well, the sorcerer used a sorcery point so he could cast Prestidigitation both as an action and bonus action, cleaning the blood off of the blood hunters’ weapons. For those that don’t know, a profan soul blood hunter can use their blood coated weapons as their spell casting focus. No blood = no spell casting focus. The blood hunters had to waste their bonus actions to damage themselves every round to use their magic and have access to their rite damage. For the rest of the campaign any blood hunter that the party encountered kept their distance from the sorcerer.
Honestly that's ballsy as hell because presti has almost no range (10 feet) so honestly that's worth rewarding, buddy got in the range of their swords just to shut up their magic. I respect it lmao
Here's an Enlarge/Reduce that used RAW ruling (since effecting body parts on a creature SHOULD effect the entire creature). This was the tail end of the first campaign I was running, in which the party was helping a Dwarven prince retake his home from an adult red dragon. The dragon had kobold minions and I ran them in a light version of Tucker's kobold's. The entrance to the former dwarven city has 2 huge stone slab doors that needed a high DC strength check to open, and the party really only had 1 member with enough strength to potentially open it. What made it harder was that the kobolds were attacking them through arrow slits along the wall while they had to try to deal with opening the door.....or at least that was the plan. The party wizard simply asked me if the stone doors were part of the wall, I said :no, you see that they are separate and likely attached on hinges from the inside". He Cast Reduce on one door and completely bypassed that portion of the dungeon. They ended up getting TPK'd by the dragon later, but that's another story altogether....
I HAD A PLAYER DO THIS TOO! They were trying to break someone out of a jail cell and weren't a roguey type by any means, but then he just asked me "Is the door part of the bars?" "Uh... I mean, I guess it's a distinct object, why?" "I'd like to cast reduce on the door." He then picked it up and put it in position to cover their escape route because it'd return to dimensions in a very narrow hallway and bar the way in, stalling for extra time. He ALSO successfully removed the boulder that indiana jones'd a bunch of goblins into a water pit that was actually a secret underwater exit (they got squished) by doing the same thing, again releasing it once the prisoners had swam out to completely block the way to follow them because it sank all the way to the bottom. I fucking love that spell for how wild people get with it.
Perennial GM here, in a one-off one of my players ran, I was a Ranger...AD&D mind you...there was an Evil Temple on a cliff, so I talked gm into letting me cast a Stone to Mud on a millimeter thickness on a 45⁰ angle under most of the Temple, and gleefully watched as gravity did its thing, casting the temple into the watery depths below 😂
I had a paladin who was battling an acid elemental. It grabbed one of the other team members andvbegan dealing acid damage. Our paladin ran forward and grappled the elemental. He then cast bless water, turning it into a holy wster elemental and causing its every track to heal rather than damage.
D&D way back in the mid 90s. I was a thief and the mage and cleric were low on spells, only a few left when we were confronted by a vampire. If I remember correctly they cast glitter-dust, web and then sunbeam and the gods did bless their rolls. The result was one deep fried vampire and us trying to figure out how to get all the loot out.
Playing a Bard, I got the group a shitload of money by telling them to vote for me to win at very small odds against a very large Orc in an arena. I casted Prestidigitation on his pants to yank them down as he charged me, I had Combat Reflexes, a longsword, and he was trying to get up. Every time he did it would be an Attack of Opportunity, and Combat Reflexes gives me 3 of them in a row AND I get a +4 to hit him in melee because of him being prone.
This wasn't DnD but RoleMaster. I was playing this evil Wizard that specialized in Earth and Water magics among other lists. We were going through this desert and came across this Bone Golem. This was one of the worst things we could have encountered at the level we were at. See Bone Golems are immune to non-magical attacks and they are basically Terminators, the are untiring and will follow targets until it is dead. We only had 2 people of the 7 that could actually deal damage to it and my spells didn't do that much. When it came to my turn I looked at the DM and said, "I'm casting Earth to Mud with a spell mastery check to expand the AEO to 300 square ft". I made both checks and was able to completely bury the Bone Golem. I even threw on a Mud to Stone spell on the top area of mud as a nice little lid to keep it down a little longer. This was the same character that used Destroy Earth to drop two Black Unicorn into a 10 ft hole where one of those literally got crippled with an extremely lucky crit roll and severely hurt the other. This was also the same character that is the center of my best TTRPG story.
My Wyrdlock. Pact of the Chain Warlock & Sorcerer. Familiar is a Sprite. -Your familiar can deliver spells with a range of Touch as a reaction. -The sprite can cast invisibility on self at will as an action and has a fly speed of 40. -The Sorcerer cantrip Shocking Grasp, on hit, makes your target unable to make reactions until their next turn. Sprite goes invisible and flies to the target -> Cast Shocking Grasp -> Sprite delivers attack as a reaction with advantage because invisible -> Attack hits, target can't react -> Sprite still has an action, go invisible again and fly outside of melee range -> No opp attacks because target can't react. My DM loathed me.
We had a campaign where one of the players was always trying to duel with people at any chance he could get. He was a fighter that fancied himself a swashbuckler, but often resulted to dirty tricks when things looked like they weren't going his way. We had a very sharp witted lady join us halfway through the campaign, as a wizard who grew up with a bunch of roudy brothers... After seeing his antics she challanged him to a duel, her staff vs his sword, no magical weapons, wood vs steel.) When the faced off, the moment he went to draw his sword, it was pulled out of it's sheeth by the invisable servant, and tossed onto a rooftop aside the street. While he was looking at his sword flying away, she beat him with a crit to the skull and KO's him. They became the best of friends, and started working together thicker than thieves.
2 were by me and the other is now a semi legit strategy/meme we use. The first was a minor one but im still proud if it. We were introducing another player and he was looking fot an item from our first encounter. Me and him headed back to find the item lodged in a wind mill as everyone else was doing something elss. new guy and i were a druid and sorcerer respectively, and while we did the 4d6-low for stats, our strength was still mid at best. I then had the idea to cast presdigitation to heat up the specific area causing the hold to weaken, allowing some help with mage hand to get us the item. The other item we were fighting an invisible enemy. When it came to my turn i dug through my spell list looking for what i could, and thats when i noticed it. Ppp commonly use presdigitation to clean, but what it can also do is dirty, so i did just that on the spot i suspected it to be (it just hit our fighter), DM asked for an arcana check and i easily pasted, revealing its location. The one that i didnt cast but involved me was what id like to call the sorcerer canon. First we needed to get to the top of a hill, and all of our str characters couldnt pass the very high check, so our druid casted gust of wind and aimed it upward, which the dm ruled would push us up. Then, after we climbed the hill, killed some cultists, we just finished killing a huge electric boar and a young white dragon came in to eat our kill. For a ton of reasons we decided to kill this beast, with my characters reason being her hatred towards chromatic dragons. After our cleric did 100+ damage in a single turn at level 5 and our fighter with a dragon slaying longsword nearly finished it, it started to try to fly away. The druid nor rest of anyone had the range to hit it before it would leave, so the druid once again casted gust of wind and aimed it upward, allowing my sorcerer to launch herself a lot closer so shed be in range, allowing her to kill it with sorching rays. We now plan to do this whenever applicable (until possible level 14 since thats when my draconic sorcerer gets her wings)
My party was chasing after the enemy commander in the sewers. The enemy started charging us in full plate armor. For those of you who past chemistry, you would know that sewers develope methane overtime, which is very flammable. So the enemy was charging down a temple at us, and my character threw a single fire bolt past the enemy and ignited said methane gas. This lead to a reaction that looked much like a rocket taking off, and a very charred enemy commander.
I'll admit idk how weak or strong a spell it is, but I was playing a kinda intro/one shot as an Artificer. We had ended up in the nest of some giant bug things (I wanna say Ankhegs but I can't remember) including a few clutches of eggs. I cast Flaming Sphere to do some fire damage and keep them off of the party (it was a bunch of newer players and I was acting as the sort of gandalf character meant to help them not die). The fight progresses a turn or two and as I'm looking over my options I notice that I can in fact MOVE the sphere. So, I proceed to crush the bugs with the sphere (while still burning them) and in the process get it close enough to torch all the eggs at once. My DM and party were a bit horrified at how much joy I got out of doing that. XD
We were a pretty weak party; Warp Wood was the highest spell my druid could cast. We cast it on a tree to entangle a flesh golem, which failed grapple check after strength check after grapple check after (you get the idea) while we subjected it to a death of a thousand cuts. Our DM had sent it after us to _try_ and get us back on the campaign path. Nope. Pathetic we dismantled the flesh golem.
Glarg was a level one barbarian. Glarg's friends had captured a bugbear at the end of a level one dungeon (a cave with goblins in it) and this bugbear theoretically knew where the BBEG's castle was. Glarg has a very, VERY strict view of good and evil, and so when it came time to question the evil, Glarg, with his low intelligence but high wisdom, was able to harness my very creative mind. Glarg asked his wizard friend to use prestidigitation to make a spoon as spicy as possible. He then shoved said spoon in the bugbear's mouth. Unfortunately, the bugbear knew where the BBEG's castle was, theoretically, but the D.M. did not, and so the Bugbear found a conveniently placed sharp rock to kill himself on, but it's still one of my most creative spell uses in a game, and one of my most unhinged.
@keyofsouls880 yea maybe, but just like letting a caster use extra attack to cast multiple leveled spells, or having a sorcerer warlock multi class generate infinite spell slots, some rulings are obvious "No"s, where allowing them is a red flag for the gm.
@@rhondeau9175 You saying that is the red flag to me. No table is the same, No DM is the same, there is a million reasons for everything. My own Dm allows it because he loves to see his players doing combos with each other Even if that means he needs to make his monsters a little tougher to balance out the fights. It's never been an issue. That you think it automatically is speaks volumes about your own tables. Everything depends on the campaign, the dm and what you and the players are looking for from that game. Not even the creators of DnD play entirely rules as written. They are only a baseline to build from.
@@keyofsouls880 bro is YAPPING holy shit. Also your DM is making an objectively bad ruling by having forced movement provoke AoO. That's not campaign or game dependent, it's just doing something stupidly. I'm not saying every single rule needs to be followed as is, but that's a pretty dumb one to break intentionally. Accidentally, sure people can not know. But to know better and still do it wrong? a shame. Yes at my table we don't abuse Attack of Opportunity misunderstandings to break melee combat.
@@rhondeau9175 That's neat, I'm glad that works for you and your table. The fact you feel the need to tell others how to play their roleplaying games means I would never want to play at a table with you but that's the thing I keep trying to hammer in. Different stuff works for different people. It really makes me sad that rules lawyers still exist. How in the hell can you sit there and say my DM is making a bad ruling? we have 10 players at our table and we have been playing for a year at this point without any drama. And don't you dare deny you are one. You literally felt the need to correct a segment of a DND meme video then get into an argument with someone online and say their dm is running his campaign stupidly based on a single homebrew ruling 🤣
swear to god if there are any "Durrr I freeze his blood" level bullshit in here I'm gonna eat an entire boat FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKK also 5:50, forced movement DOES NOT allow for an attack of opportunity.
I was playing a Catfolk Bard who had learned some spells thanks to some folks he helped along the way. I used Create or Destroy Water to destroy the water in a giant sea monster's gills. I didn't expect it to work, but I was scrambling for a plan. The DM allowed it. I rolled an 18 and suffocated a Leviathan to death in Atlantis.
used controll water (making ice above me) to sneak in an underwater canal while some guards were watching. I managed to distract the flow but the guards rolled neat so I failed.
I killed two goblins with Shape Water. We were being pursued down a river by goblins in canoes. Our cleric upcast a Hold Person to third level, paralyzing both of the goblins in one canoe. On my turn, I cast Shape Water in the form of a jagged little piece of ice. The canoe ran over the ice, ripped a hole in the canvas, and the goblins could only watch helplessly as their canoe flooded. Then they drowned.
I find it funny when a player thinks their DM is mad when they do crazy things (IE, the animated statue against the prismatic flame story). If what you did actually would make your DM mad, he wouldn't let it happen, or at the very least, they would make it do something that gives you some advantage, but would still keep the encounter going. The DM is god. Everything that works in DND works because the DM says it does, and if the DM doesn't want something to work, because it would make them mad, then its not going to work.
So, Kogmar Hearthflame (My kobold Artificer) was in the town hall of this small city on this island. Another player who I’m going to call Jim decided to go (without anyone else’s opinion or input) gather a 200 orc army to destroy this small town. Kogmar had a spell wrought tattoo he’d made for himself for the catapult spell, so he looked for something to throw that could kill a lot of orcs. Meanwhile OOC me and Jim were going at it he was trying to convince the town guard to give up and join his army, FROM BEHIND THE BLASTED TOWN’S WALL! So I was arguing saying they wouldn’t be able to hear him, and he was obviously thinking he could do it. In character Kogmar found a bucket, and a barrel that was full of rat poison(this was a farming village so they had problems with mice and rats). he filled the bucket about halfway and carried it up to the wall where all the nonsense was happening, and catapulted the bucket after poking a few small holes in the bottom. Now the bucket sprayed the poison all over the orcs poisoning 19 of them, and the bucket crashed into one killing him. Kogmar watches as the poisoned orcs flailed and died beneath his benevolent gaze. OOC again Jim was PISSED the guy tried and failed to tell me I couldn’t use the spell like that, and blah blah blah. In the end I won that argument and he lost 10% of his OP army to an angry kobold with a bucket.
I am playing a Half Orc Articifer in a ongoing campaign. My group and I just killed a traveling merchant after he attacked us. Well afterwards when looting his cart we found a locked chest with a magic trapped lock. I wasent able to disarme the trap but I was able to replace the high level lightning spell with a grease antrip up scaled ti the same level of lightning spell. In the ened we all endedn up covered in grease. Especially are theif who failed to pick the lock and almost drowned in grease, but at least we did get TPK.
Cast Light on a pebble. A pebble's sufficiently small and light to easily carry around and hold aloft like a torch whenever you need light, then tuck into a pocket when you need to sneak, or are in a well-lit room. A pebble also doesn't cost any money, and doesn't need to be re-ignited every time you want to light things up again.
10:00 now I want to see a character with just utility spells, that still does well in combat by using either the environment, or assisting party members.
Once my players were riding unicorns and being chased by these cat like aberrations. I don't remember the exact spell, but the sorcerer cast something that caused the frightened condition. Now, rules as written, frightened means that the affected creature cannot come closer to the caster. And since I had established this was an active chase scene, all but the two who made their saves stopped pursuing and were effectively out of the fight. It was really clever.
Not the most creative, but the druid cast Mold Earth around me allowing only a small opening for me to look through and line up my crossbow. Because it was dark and the surrounding area matched the dirt box I was in, the bbeg never discovered my location as I sniped him every turn.
I was playing at a table with my friends, and the BBEG were escaping in a little boat, so the wizard in our group used enlarge/reduce on the boat. The DM was left speechless for a moment, but unfortunately one of the evil NPCs that was with them was a druid and turned into an animal and they still managed to escape. Even so he gained inspiration, it was amazing.
Uhh guess it would class as a war crime. Towards the end of our 1st campaign we were captured. We broke free killing a few guards, made our way upstairs, in the mansion belonging to the BBEG's top lackey. His wife was trying to sell our magical gear to a buyer. We fought them, in the process broke the item jamming our magic. Once the fight was over, we tooled up, but as everyone else made sure we were alone, I decided I wanted to make a statement. I placed my remaining flasks of alchemist fire and some home-brew bombs the DM had given us much earlier on I'm the campaign, on a table I then said to the rest of the party Hold the main door open for me, prepare to run. I then pulled my wand of fireballs using one charge to set off everything else by time we reached the town square and the lieutenant, his mansion was ablaze, by time we cleared the town centre? So was the town centre. My Tiefling may have a temper problem
During a Skull and Shackles campaign (Pathfinder 1e) we were chasing after someone we knew from the first ship we were on in the middle of a barfight. She ran up the stairs and started rolling barrels down them at us, Donkey Kong style. After getting the GM's permission to do something silly and not strictly by the spell description, I used Hydrolic Push (normally a spell intended to make a Bull Rush using the caster's spellcasting stats) to yeet myself up the stairs, bypassing the rolling barrels. Didn't manage to catch that NPC, though. But everyone got a good laugh and a quip "So, she flies now?"
Played a Dragonlance champaign, starting as a renegad Wizard. Later got telephoned by the Magical High Sorcery into an invisible maze as an entrance test. To get through it I used the Fog Cloud spell to see if it would reveal the walls position. DM was so impressed I had Advantage when rolling to try and make my way through to the center.
Playing BX, we once had a contest to see who could find ways to use Tenser's Floating Disc offensively. We put the caster on horseback and had him charge through a horde of goblins. Sliced the little guys clean in half, with some creative geometry.
DnD 1st edition. Had a DM that was prone to putting his own characters into the world as overwhelmingly powerful npc's. In our campaign he built a huge backstory of an orc army fighting with a barbarian tribe. (Barbarians were OP in 1st ed.) His npc was the barbarian leader, a hulking man with a dragon mount companion and 2 swords which held the souls of his diseased siblings etc. Etc. The barbarians completely crushed the orcs and drove them away, directly toward the walled keep our party was staying at. His npc shows up on his dragon to warn us and wish us luck before abandoning us. He ques up a MASSIVE battle with over 200 orcs, the party, abd the guard. Siege weapons, a secretive drow that sabotaged the walls the night before. The battle starts and players are taking out orcs 2 or 3 at a time alongside the town. Then comes my illusionists turn. Using the massive backstory he gave us and the npc we met I create an illusion using a low level spell slot as we were all maybe level 3 or 4. The barbarian npc and his dragon mount slowly climb from behind the wall and strike an intimidating pose above the clashing armies. After the DM built up the legend of his npc for several sessions and bragging of how powerful and how badly he beat the orcs, he decided it was VERY likely the orcs were afraid of the image. So he rolled a few checks...and well over half the arny turned and fled in stark terror. And thats why illusion magic is only as weak as the imagination.
I do love these stories but God alot of these are full of ignoring rules outright. Forced movement doesn't give you opportunity attacks. You don't want that rule to work like that because the enemies will always outnumber you.
Cast Rope trick while holding both sides of the rope so that they could float up to above the dragon we were fighting and they, being a battlesmith artificer, had their machine leap down onto it. Heavy metal falling from 30 ft did some damage
I was once doing a one shot campaign, where I witnessed some of my friends being abducted by cultists. Eventually, they come back for me, and the first attack I ever make in DND, was to use thaumaturgy booming voice directly into the ear of my enemy. Later in that same session, with a combination of tremor, unseen servant flipping levers constantly, booming voice, and eye color changing, I managed to convince the cultist that I was the god of death, causing them to flee, leaving all of the relics, and the contents of their bowels, on the floor.
I was playing a fairy Druid, and one of our early fights was against several seams of rats in a goblin controlled ruins, I cast speak with animals and spent the whole fight talking with one of the swarms convincing them we’re friends while the rest of the party fought the other swarms.
I'm kinda proud of myself for using Mold Earth to remove blocks of dirt from underneath enemies, placing it "in the gaps around their person and on the very edges of the newly formed pit so it cannot maintain position" and essentially burying enemies alive. Anything shorter than 5 feet was basically screwed and anything with its chest buried would likely suffocate anyway
I personaly love Magic Mouth. If not The best spell in DnD, its up there. Capture the villains evil speech, escape and spread it to get allies. Done. Easy. What i call ShoutMines, where you shout orders in authorative or inquisitive remarks or orders. "Everybody Halt!", or "They went into the alley!" etc, and then just toss these behind you as you are being chased, or want to confuse battles. We had a spout in the Fay in a campaign, and we decided to warn them about the BBEG. The queen of the summer court knew of the BBEG, but couldnt convince enough of the fae to rally effective opposition. So we proposed a show, to earn our passage through the Fae, and as a show we had a great musical drama, telling the story of our opposition to the BBEG, and the many planes of reality we had been dragged through from the age of 12-13 up until the of 17-18 as the characters were at present, and the BBEGs threat towards reality. So Magic Mouth then? Well, give a lv.32 bard 3 days to prepare a concert, and man you get a show. There were hundreds of Magic Mouths placed throughout the place, each singing well prepared pieces of the performance. My character had worked at making Magic Mouth of that piece since lv.20 or something. I had Prepared my Masterpiece well! Together with three trolls living under a bridge with musical aspirations who'm we could increase the skills of plenty, we rocked Faewild to war against the BBEG. Its an amazing spell. Magic Mouth on a rope, place it in a ring. Have it shout MONSTER if monsters cross over it. Alarmspell. Magic Mouth, trigger; A person lies, say "It Lies". Magic Mouth on a rock you tie to the top of the hat that shouts "ILLITHID!" or whatever if said things tries to sneak up on you, or is just visible. Enemy Detector. So many uses. From Sweden with Love - Kami
My illusionist wizard used minor illusion to create pyrotechnics for a bard and paladin to play a show to impress a dragon. Basically the help action, but they got advantage.
Fog Cloud against Invisible enemies. I figured, if I can't see them anyway, I can at least make it so they can't see me either. They have to randomly stumble around in the cloud looking for me, giving me a chance to escape.
Level 3 Paladin. Needed information from a drunk guy. Used lay on hands to remove the alcohol from his system after making a compelling argument about how alcohol is basically the same as drinking poison.
We were about to die via getting waffle stomped by a hill giant. Most melee classes hit him with plenty of arrows, and in a last ditch effort hurled their weapons at it. Once is all said and done, me a cleric, cast heat metal. Cook and book baby
It involved two low-level spells (Catapult and Heat Metal) but the artificer MacGyver'd a rocket-propelled Molotov cocktail during an aerial fight with a chimera. Said chimera didn't last long after that.
I've never had cause to use this yet, but if I ever come across a one eyed enemy, I'll cast prestidigitation to turn their eye opaque/black. No light gets in, means they can't see
a short gag i heard in a different video: DM: "the BBEG starts monologuing while descending the stairs-" PS: "i cast Grease on the stairs." -the BBEG tumbles down the stairs and dies, like professor whatshisname from Borderlands 2...
I remember when I had my Astral Elf nature cleric use Thorn Whip to save the bard of the party(a halfling) from a miniboss attack. She just used the rose in her hair(created by her sick druid sister) to whip the bard to safety.
Not a spell, but a class feature. I was a sapphire dragonborn, storm herald barbarian with a focus of the sea to match my sailor background. At one point, we were investigating an underwater ruin when we were attacked by some of the monsterous inhabitants. Now, i could already breath underwater and swim due to the sea aspect, but i had another ability that really only shined when there is water around. As an action, i could convert 5 cubic ft of water into solid ice that would melt after 1 minute. There is no limitation on amount of uses per day, just once per round. I used this feature, along with my random lightning strike per bonus action, to immobilize and terrorize these warped atrocities while my party sat out of range and sniped them with spells.
used a single light spell to distract light sensitive group that surrounded us long enough to escape. i think only 1 out of my 6 spells as a first level wizard failed to solve a serious problem that day. never did understand the 'worthless level 1 wizards' meme
Dispel magic isn’t weak but we set a forest on fire with fire based spells, I asked the DM since they were created with magic he said sure so I put out a forest fire with dispel magic. A lot of those spells do specify it’s suppose to burn the target and dissipate but hey it worked.
4:36 I'm pretty sure in 2E Create and Destroy Water actually had a segment about using it to damage water elementals. Edit: okay I was wrong, I was thinking of how Fire Elementals take a damage based on water being thrown on them, so you can technically use the spell to damage them by throwing the water on them afterwards, but you could use the same stats for damaging a water elemental with destroy water. Might be a little overpowered, but this is a fairly niche scenario.
I was the DM, javing a mage cast wall of ice to divide the battlefield. My water genasi monk used his daily create or destroy water to destroy the wall, because ice is water. A short math question about how much volume the wall of ice had later, he had decimated most of it. Goddamn first level spell beat a 4th level spell
Best i did was use minor illusion over my kobold who layed down in a hole he dug to create a bush over him so the bounty hunters chasing him wouldn't notice and it worked! We kinda took out a lot of citizens by accident from using aoe spells in a bar fight and were being hunted by way higher level enemies.
Some of by best off weak spell things. Nothing too special but fun and probably empowered by a generous GM - Use prestidigitation to freeze a spider web my legs were caught in to make the athletics DC to break free go down. - Use shatter to collapse a tunnel on top a spectator we were nowhere near prepared to fave in open combat - Use message to make a tied up kobold think he was being macially called on a quest by a red dragon, so when he "broke free" (magic missiled his bindings) he ran off, packed up his clan and they all hiked off into the mountains instead of making it their mission to harass some gnomish farmers we were helping. - Using prestitigitation to make burnt scrambled eggs taste like vanilla. Our surprised dwarf immediately threw up. Using prestitigitation once more to cover up the odour.
A bit mediocre, but meh. Playing a campaign set in the wild west where the casters get their magic from the death throws of a long forgotten ancient god. Used thaumaturgy to blow up a crate of unstable TNT.
I remember a story on either this channel or some other channel that the BBEG was walking down a set of spiral stairs, somebody cast oil slick on the stairs above them, and the BBEG fell down the stairs all the way down to his death. Does anyone know where that story would be?
A One Shot level 1 game I made a Sorcerer with the Metamagic Adept feat. I used a cantrip to kill the BBEG... From a Bag of Holding filled with water, I cast Shape Water to form a cube over his head then Quicken Spell cast it again as a bonus action to freeze it...
We were fighting an enemy with levels in bard. He was singing and using spells to buff himself while he fought. Me: I want to use the cantrip shape water. DM: To do what? Me: I can move the water up to 5 feet in any direction right? DM: Yeah......I'm not sure where you are going with this. Me: I shoot water up his nose. DM: Wait there has to be a save for this right? Me: Nope DM: ...... I'll allow it but I'm giving him a save. Dammit he failed. Congratulations you have him hacking and coughing unable to sing for a solid minute.
Most creative thing a player has done with a weak spell... I had been playing a game where one of my players had access to a spell that changed one liquid to another. Think like water to wine, beer to moose urine, etc. etc. Mostly just good for hilarious pranks. Instead one player, at one particular point in the campaign, decided to transmute a large amount of the liquid 'water' inside a very large river, into the liquid 'NaK' which is a metal, (liquid at room temperature) which reacts VIOLENTLY with water... (Seeing as the rest of the river was still water...) 1 hour of math later, to discover he had just set off an explosion larger than the first few nuclear bombs, and this act was un-officially declared as a warcrime.
Marvel Advanced Super Heroes - a player saved the day by distracting the rampaging Hulk by turning him neon pink (using the Color Change power, which the rules admit is not the most popular power)
TL:DR Successfully made the Paladin stealthy without it breaking his oath on a night raid mission with a drone and Vortex Warp Full story: The campaign is set in a modern setting Important party members are: -Dusty, the Dragonborn artificer (me) -Beat, the tabaxi paladin So, party is doing a night raid on an enemy military group base Dusty had just finished using his drone (with invisibility casted on it) and we wanted to get the drop on them because there were a lot of grunts and one guy in power armor that looked to be a REALLY heavy duty tank buster looking Only problem: Paladin couldn’t stealth And I don’t mean that from a stats perspective, no the cleric has that problem too and we have solutions No, I mean it literally goes against his oaths to try (homebrew, Beat is basically just Goku, including being just as dull) My character gets close enough to get the Paladin in, using the drone to bypass enemy walls We then spend 30 minutes determining if the guards can hear him give the verbal components for Vortex Warp (the results were that RAW, a verbal component cannot be any quieter than a normal speaking voice. What’s the range on that? Well, that’s where 25/30 minutes went. Rule lawyer eventually found an official ruling! DMs choice. Our DM picked 60 feet. My character was 65 feet away from the nearest guard) One big, beefy snow tiger gets kamui teleported into the base in front of two guards, yeets them both into the night with Wilhelm screams, and sits tight while the rest of us try to clear out the front a little quietly We don’t succeed particularly well, at which point, he dives in and chaos ensues It was a great time
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I was playing an Arcane Trickster Rogue, which allows me to have an invisible Mage Hand. One shopkeeper tried selling us an ordinary rock by calling it a Stone of Detect Gravity. However I had the invisible Mage hand hold it like it was floating saying, "Actually, it's a Stone of Levitation, so you'd be able to sell it for more." He went with it, but was puzzled as to why it was no longer floating after giving it back.
Pls tell me you knew full well what a "Stone of Detect Gravity" actually does/it's intended purpose.
I used minor illusion to fake the starting casting of a higher level spell to bait out a counter spell, then followed it up with a quickened cast fireball once i knew they didn’t have a reaction anymore.
That's genius!
Not as a player, but as DM:
The party had just defeated a group of orcs (their first encounter of the campaign) and a female human wizard stepped out of the treeline. The party ranger's wolf approached her, sniffed her hand, and licked it. The party took this as a sign that she wasn't a threat, and began talking to her.
The wizard gave the party numerous side quests over the next several gaming sessions, each seeming like your run-of-the-mill do-gooding, but was actually creating power vacuums in various local regions.
Eventually, the party paladin found himself unable to use his paladin abilities, realized they'd been doing evil acts, and that he needed to do an Atonement.
Long story short, the wizard WAS the BBEG for the campaign. She'd been using the orcs initially, but when they were defeated she decided to use the party that defeated them instead. When the party finally decided to use Speak with Animals and ask the wolf why it reacted to her the way it did, he replied "Her hand smelled like bacon."
And that is how Prestidigitation made the party do the BBEG's work for her...
In my third session of DND ever, I was playing a tiefling warlock. Our level 1 party’s first mission was to apprehend some goblin pickpockets who were plaguing the marketplace & bring them in to the city watch for reward money. Being a good-aligned party, we want to avoid killing them, especially since the street is full of people who could get hurt by accident.
One of the goblins is caught early, but the other is about to get away and has evaded everyone’s attempts to grab him. I remember I have the Mage Hand cantrip, and ask the DM
“Quick question: the rules say Mage Hand can’t be used to attack an enemy, right?”
“Right. You can’t punch or slap him with a mage hand, and you can’t pick him up either since goblins weigh more than 10 pounds.”
“Alright, but… can I use it to inconvenience him instead?”
“I guess… what are you going to do?”
“I take the Mage Hand, and use it to give the goblin a wedgie!”
The DM cracks up, and rules that the magic wedgie greatly reduces the goblin’s movement speed and he takes 1 point of damage from having his underwear suddenly pulled between his buttcheeks like dental floss.
This gives our aasimar monk an opening to grab and restrain him, and we triumphantly haul the whining pair of goblins to the nearest guard post. I’m still with this group 6 months later, and it’s still just as fun and chaotic as it was back then!
Great story!
Playing a Lv 1 Halfling Wizard, our party was fighting a group of goblins, and as they were charging at us, I used Mage Hand to pull a Goblin's pants down (or loincloth, I forget), causing him to trip and fall flat on his face (also used it to pull a pirate's bandana over her eyes, giving her disadvantage on her attacks)
Old school AD&D (there were no versions back then). Playing very strict by the rules, and i was playing a mage. Under those rules, you got to pick one first level spell for your spell book, read magic was the second, and the third was DM's choice. So i only ever had three spells at the beginning that i could memorize, and only cast one per day (1st level group). (you could learn additional spells from other casters or by looting spell books and/or scrolls).
The DM thought it would be funny to give me spider climb, since i was VERY experienced, and knew the rules front to back. So spider climb was all i used for several adventures, being very creative with it. Just to rub it in his face that giving me what he thought was a worthless spell could be awesome, if used creatively.
One use was a pit trap that had spring loaded doors. You fell through, and then the doors would close again, preventing rescue. I cast spider climb, and was able to walk onto the trap door (which had trapped our fighter down below). my body weight held the door open so that the rest of the party could drop a rope.
Another use was a large room with a vaulted ceiling. None of the bad guys had long weapons (think spears or pole arms), so spider climb i did up onto the ceiling and proceeded to drop burning oil flasks on them with impunity.
After several sessions the DM told me "i should have given you magic missile, it would have been safer." ^-^
I was a Fathomless arlokc. We had to find a Druid who didn't want to be found... He had wild shaped into a cat and was mixed in with a group of other cats hanging near a fish stall... I used Dancing Lights to try and get the kitty's attention and it worked... The druid was the only cat that didn't react. I dunno if it applies, but I thought it was clever
3:32 Now that’s what I call a ‘quake’-up call! XD
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I will admit that Heal isn't a weak spell... but it isn't a combat spell either. My friend was running a short adventure for a local mini-games-convention. The final boss was a fallen angel gone mad. While he was attacking us, I realized he was crazy, and cast Heal on him. The DM stopped... said, "how does that work again?" I told him it recovered so many hit points, and removed all mental and physical conditions. He decided to roll a save against it, as the angel was not likely willing, but failed. He was cured.
Then the DM explained that he had planned out an elaborate fight, with the angel going through 2 transformations, into a second and third more powerful forms... and I derailed that by healing him. This was shortly before the release of 4th ed. He still brings it up to rib me about it now and then. XD
Most of my exploits using a weak spell all revolve around mage hand. To pick one, instead of going through several floors of the BBEG's lair, used a Mage Hand to fly up and throw vials of acid at the ceilings until holes large enough for individual party members to pass through were made, following myself with Fly, then went back down and gave everyone else Fly. Skipped 3 floors and several sessions of planned content. 🙃
Friend was teaching me D&D 3.5, and was playing a kobold to show me how battles worked. Said kobold had goggles that basically acted as sunglasses to protect him from the bright lights. After he explained that kobolds had sensitive eyes when it came to light, I had my bard cast Light on the goggles.
we were fighting a giant treant, I was a barbarian. our sorcerrer casted enlarge on me, so me and all items on me grew in size. I grappled and dragged the treant to the giant bonfire at the middle of the arena, but the damage it was taking wasnt enough, and enemies around us was starting to heavily damage the rest of the party. then I remembered that I had 5 bombs in my backpack, which was also enlarged. I took off my backpack and threw it to the fire. both me and the treant got nuked, the latter dying instantly. the blast was so powerful that it vaporized all other enemies in the room which were all plants. we had to make a dex save to look away in time, our rogue failed and was blinded for an hour. I survived the blast with 4 hp
I used catapult to launch my alchemy jug filled with acid at the bbeg around 65 damage which is pretty good at level 5
So weak, it's not even a spell. Our group was running away from a massive group of goblins. The Illusionist, who was out of spell slots, but had a high deception skill, stopped and drew a chalk line across the halfway while chanting. He scored a critical success on his deception and we got away from the goblins who were too afraid of what spell he might have cast to approach the chalk line.
This one took a while to set up. So the group, while journeying through the Underdark, came across a shopkeeper who had the misfortune of acquiring several cursed items, including the fish-summoning longsword featured in an earlier video. However, our wizard was more interested in the Robe of Uselessness - a robe that would reduce the strength and intelligence of anyone who wore it by 10 points. Later, they found that the passageway to the surface was guarded by two gugs, which are essentially Cronenburg versions of ogres that worship gods of madness. The wizard then pulled out the Robe of Uselessness and cast Beguiling Gift - a spell designed to set people up for frame jobs by convincing them to use or wear the object offered to them. One of the gugs failed his Will save, and put the robe on - which dropped his Intelligence score to zero, giving the party a much easier time of escaping the remaining, VERY pissed off gug that wanted to kill them for turning his brother braindead.
I had the party facing a group of blood hunters, all of them were of the Profan soul subclass.
I was a new DM so I wasn’t sure what was balanced yet…
Well, the sorcerer used a sorcery point so he could cast Prestidigitation both as an action and bonus action, cleaning the blood off of the blood hunters’ weapons. For those that don’t know, a profan soul blood hunter can use their blood coated weapons as their spell casting focus. No blood = no spell casting focus. The blood hunters had to waste their bonus actions to damage themselves every round to use their magic and have access to their rite damage.
For the rest of the campaign any blood hunter that the party encountered kept their distance from the sorcerer.
Honestly that's ballsy as hell because presti has almost no range (10 feet) so honestly that's worth rewarding, buddy got in the range of their swords just to shut up their magic. I respect it lmao
Here's an Enlarge/Reduce that used RAW ruling (since effecting body parts on a creature SHOULD effect the entire creature).
This was the tail end of the first campaign I was running, in which the party was helping a Dwarven prince retake his home from an adult red dragon. The dragon had kobold minions and I ran them in a light version of Tucker's kobold's. The entrance to the former dwarven city has 2 huge stone slab doors that needed a high DC strength check to open, and the party really only had 1 member with enough strength to potentially open it. What made it harder was that the kobolds were attacking them through arrow slits along the wall while they had to try to deal with opening the door.....or at least that was the plan. The party wizard simply asked me if the stone doors were part of the wall, I said :no, you see that they are separate and likely attached on hinges from the inside". He Cast Reduce on one door and completely bypassed that portion of the dungeon. They ended up getting TPK'd by the dragon later, but that's another story altogether....
I HAD A PLAYER DO THIS TOO! They were trying to break someone out of a jail cell and weren't a roguey type by any means, but then he just asked me "Is the door part of the bars?" "Uh... I mean, I guess it's a distinct object, why?" "I'd like to cast reduce on the door."
He then picked it up and put it in position to cover their escape route because it'd return to dimensions in a very narrow hallway and bar the way in, stalling for extra time.
He ALSO successfully removed the boulder that indiana jones'd a bunch of goblins into a water pit that was actually a secret underwater exit (they got squished) by doing the same thing, again releasing it once the prisoners had swam out to completely block the way to follow them because it sank all the way to the bottom.
I fucking love that spell for how wild people get with it.
@@Starfloofle it's such a good spell
Perennial GM here, in a one-off one of my players ran, I was a Ranger...AD&D mind you...there was an Evil Temple on a cliff, so I talked gm into letting me cast a Stone to Mud on a millimeter thickness on a 45⁰ angle under most of the Temple, and gleefully watched as gravity did its thing, casting the temple into the watery depths below 😂
I had a paladin who was battling an acid elemental. It grabbed one of the other team members andvbegan dealing acid damage. Our paladin ran forward and grappled the elemental. He then cast bless water, turning it into a holy wster elemental and causing its every track to heal rather than damage.
D&D way back in the mid 90s. I was a thief and the mage and cleric were low on spells, only a few left when we were confronted by a vampire. If I remember correctly they cast glitter-dust, web and then sunbeam and the gods did bless their rolls. The result was one deep fried vampire and us trying to figure out how to get all the loot out.
Playing a Bard, I got the group a shitload of money by telling them to vote for me to win at very small odds against a very large Orc in an arena.
I casted Prestidigitation on his pants to yank them down as he charged me, I had Combat Reflexes, a longsword, and he was trying to get up. Every time he did it would be an Attack of Opportunity, and Combat Reflexes gives me 3 of them in a row AND I get a +4 to hit him in melee because of him being prone.
This wasn't DnD but RoleMaster. I was playing this evil Wizard that specialized in Earth and Water magics among other lists. We were going through this desert and came across this Bone Golem. This was one of the worst things we could have encountered at the level we were at. See Bone Golems are immune to non-magical attacks and they are basically Terminators, the are untiring and will follow targets until it is dead. We only had 2 people of the 7 that could actually deal damage to it and my spells didn't do that much. When it came to my turn I looked at the DM and said, "I'm casting Earth to Mud with a spell mastery check to expand the AEO to 300 square ft". I made both checks and was able to completely bury the Bone Golem. I even threw on a Mud to Stone spell on the top area of mud as a nice little lid to keep it down a little longer. This was the same character that used Destroy Earth to drop two Black Unicorn into a 10 ft hole where one of those literally got crippled with an extremely lucky crit roll and severely hurt the other. This was also the same character that is the center of my best TTRPG story.
My Wyrdlock. Pact of the Chain Warlock & Sorcerer. Familiar is a Sprite.
-Your familiar can deliver spells with a range of Touch as a reaction.
-The sprite can cast invisibility on self at will as an action and has a fly speed of 40.
-The Sorcerer cantrip Shocking Grasp, on hit, makes your target unable to make reactions until their next turn.
Sprite goes invisible and flies to the target -> Cast Shocking Grasp -> Sprite delivers attack as a reaction with advantage because invisible -> Attack hits, target can't react -> Sprite still has an action, go invisible again and fly outside of melee range -> No opp attacks because target can't react.
My DM loathed me.
At that point, it's time for your enemy wizards to haphazardly start throwing fireballs focused on a point that ISN'T directly on the ground.
We had a campaign where one of the players was always trying to duel with people at any chance he could get. He was a fighter that fancied himself a swashbuckler, but often resulted to dirty tricks when things looked like they weren't going his way. We had a very sharp witted lady join us halfway through the campaign, as a wizard who grew up with a bunch of roudy brothers... After seeing his antics she challanged him to a duel, her staff vs his sword, no magical weapons, wood vs steel.) When the faced off, the moment he went to draw his sword, it was pulled out of it's sheeth by the invisable servant, and tossed onto a rooftop aside the street. While he was looking at his sword flying away, she beat him with a crit to the skull and KO's him. They became the best of friends, and started working together thicker than thieves.
2 were by me and the other is now a semi legit strategy/meme we use.
The first was a minor one but im still proud if it. We were introducing another player and he was looking fot an item from our first encounter. Me and him headed back to find the item lodged in a wind mill as everyone else was doing something elss. new guy and i were a druid and sorcerer respectively, and while we did the 4d6-low for stats, our strength was still mid at best. I then had the idea to cast presdigitation to heat up the specific area causing the hold to weaken, allowing some help with mage hand to get us the item.
The other item we were fighting an invisible enemy. When it came to my turn i dug through my spell list looking for what i could, and thats when i noticed it. Ppp commonly use presdigitation to clean, but what it can also do is dirty, so i did just that on the spot i suspected it to be (it just hit our fighter), DM asked for an arcana check and i easily pasted, revealing its location.
The one that i didnt cast but involved me was what id like to call the sorcerer canon. First we needed to get to the top of a hill, and all of our str characters couldnt pass the very high check, so our druid casted gust of wind and aimed it upward, which the dm ruled would push us up.
Then, after we climbed the hill, killed some cultists, we just finished killing a huge electric boar and a young white dragon came in to eat our kill. For a ton of reasons we decided to kill this beast, with my characters reason being her hatred towards chromatic dragons. After our cleric did 100+ damage in a single turn at level 5 and our fighter with a dragon slaying longsword nearly finished it, it started to try to fly away. The druid nor rest of anyone had the range to hit it before it would leave, so the druid once again casted gust of wind and aimed it upward, allowing my sorcerer to launch herself a lot closer so shed be in range, allowing her to kill it with sorching rays. We now plan to do this whenever applicable (until possible level 14 since thats when my draconic sorcerer gets her wings)
My party was chasing after the enemy commander in the sewers. The enemy started charging us in full plate armor. For those of you who past chemistry, you would know that sewers develope methane overtime, which is very flammable. So the enemy was charging down a temple at us, and my character threw a single fire bolt past the enemy and ignited said methane gas. This lead to a reaction that looked much like a rocket taking off, and a very charred enemy commander.
I'll admit idk how weak or strong a spell it is, but I was playing a kinda intro/one shot as an Artificer. We had ended up in the nest of some giant bug things (I wanna say Ankhegs but I can't remember) including a few clutches of eggs. I cast Flaming Sphere to do some fire damage and keep them off of the party (it was a bunch of newer players and I was acting as the sort of gandalf character meant to help them not die). The fight progresses a turn or two and as I'm looking over my options I notice that I can in fact MOVE the sphere. So, I proceed to crush the bugs with the sphere (while still burning them) and in the process get it close enough to torch all the eggs at once. My DM and party were a bit horrified at how much joy I got out of doing that. XD
We were a pretty weak party; Warp Wood was the highest spell my druid could cast. We cast it on a tree to entangle a flesh golem, which failed grapple check after strength check after grapple check after (you get the idea) while we subjected it to a death of a thousand cuts. Our DM had sent it after us to _try_ and get us back on the campaign path.
Nope. Pathetic we dismantled the flesh golem.
Glarg was a level one barbarian. Glarg's friends had captured a bugbear at the end of a level one dungeon (a cave with goblins in it) and this bugbear theoretically knew where the BBEG's castle was. Glarg has a very, VERY strict view of good and evil, and so when it came time to question the evil, Glarg, with his low intelligence but high wisdom, was able to harness my very creative mind. Glarg asked his wizard friend to use prestidigitation to make a spoon as spicy as possible.
He then shoved said spoon in the bugbear's mouth.
Unfortunately, the bugbear knew where the BBEG's castle was, theoretically, but the D.M. did not, and so the Bugbear found a conveniently placed sharp rock to kill himself on, but it's still one of my most creative spell uses in a game, and one of my most unhinged.
reminder to everyone that forcefully moving enemies like thorn whip or shoving does NOT provoke attacks of opportunity
reminder that nothing is set in stone with DND and ONLY what your DM decides matters.
@keyofsouls880 yea maybe, but just like letting a caster use extra attack to cast multiple leveled spells, or having a sorcerer warlock multi class generate infinite spell slots, some rulings are obvious "No"s, where allowing them is a red flag for the gm.
@@rhondeau9175 You saying that is the red flag to me. No table is the same, No DM is the same, there is a million reasons for everything. My own Dm allows it because he loves to see his players doing combos with each other Even if that means he needs to make his monsters a little tougher to balance out the fights. It's never been an issue. That you think it automatically is speaks volumes about your own tables.
Everything depends on the campaign, the dm and what you and the players are looking for from that game. Not even the creators of DnD play entirely rules as written. They are only a baseline to build from.
@@keyofsouls880 bro is YAPPING holy shit. Also your DM is making an objectively bad ruling by having forced movement provoke AoO. That's not campaign or game dependent, it's just doing something stupidly. I'm not saying every single rule needs to be followed as is, but that's a pretty dumb one to break intentionally. Accidentally, sure people can not know. But to know better and still do it wrong? a shame.
Yes at my table we don't abuse Attack of Opportunity misunderstandings to break melee combat.
@@rhondeau9175 That's neat, I'm glad that works for you and your table. The fact you feel the need to tell others how to play their roleplaying games means I would never want to play at a table with you but that's the thing I keep trying to hammer in. Different stuff works for different people.
It really makes me sad that rules lawyers still exist. How in the hell can you sit there and say my DM is making a bad ruling? we have 10 players at our table and we have been playing for a year at this point without any drama. And don't you dare deny you are one. You literally felt the need to correct a segment of a DND meme video then get into an argument with someone online and say their dm is running his campaign stupidly based on a single homebrew ruling 🤣
swear to god if there are any "Durrr I freeze his blood" level bullshit in here I'm gonna eat an entire boat
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also 5:50, forced movement DOES NOT allow for an attack of opportunity.
I was playing a Catfolk Bard who had learned some spells thanks to some folks he helped along the way. I used Create or Destroy Water to destroy the water in a giant sea monster's gills. I didn't expect it to work, but I was scrambling for a plan. The DM allowed it. I rolled an 18 and suffocated a Leviathan to death in Atlantis.
used controll water (making ice above me) to sneak in an underwater canal while some guards were watching. I managed to distract the flow but the guards rolled neat so I failed.
I killed two goblins with Shape Water. We were being pursued down a river by goblins in canoes. Our cleric upcast a Hold Person to third level, paralyzing both of the goblins in one canoe. On my turn, I cast Shape Water in the form of a jagged little piece of ice. The canoe ran over the ice, ripped a hole in the canvas, and the goblins could only watch helplessly as their canoe flooded. Then they drowned.
I find it funny when a player thinks their DM is mad when they do crazy things (IE, the animated statue against the prismatic flame story). If what you did actually would make your DM mad, he wouldn't let it happen, or at the very least, they would make it do something that gives you some advantage, but would still keep the encounter going. The DM is god. Everything that works in DND works because the DM says it does, and if the DM doesn't want something to work, because it would make them mad, then its not going to work.
So, Kogmar Hearthflame (My kobold Artificer) was in the town hall of this small city on this island. Another player who I’m going to call Jim decided to go (without anyone else’s opinion or input) gather a 200 orc army to destroy this small town. Kogmar had a spell wrought tattoo he’d made for himself for the catapult spell, so he looked for something to throw that could kill a lot of orcs. Meanwhile OOC me and Jim were going at it he was trying to convince the town guard to give up and join his army, FROM BEHIND THE BLASTED TOWN’S WALL! So I was arguing saying they wouldn’t be able to hear him, and he was obviously thinking he could do it. In character Kogmar found a bucket, and a barrel that was full of rat poison(this was a farming village so they had problems with mice and rats). he filled the bucket about halfway and carried it up to the wall where all the nonsense was happening, and catapulted the bucket after poking a few small holes in the bottom. Now the bucket sprayed the poison all over the orcs poisoning 19 of them, and the bucket crashed into one killing him. Kogmar watches as the poisoned orcs flailed and died beneath his benevolent gaze. OOC again Jim was PISSED the guy tried and failed to tell me I couldn’t use the spell like that, and blah blah blah. In the end I won that argument and he lost 10% of his OP army to an angry kobold with a bucket.
I am playing a Half Orc Articifer in a ongoing campaign. My group and I just killed a traveling merchant after he attacked us. Well afterwards when looting his cart we found a locked chest with a magic trapped lock. I wasent able to disarme the trap but I was able to replace the high level lightning spell with a grease antrip up scaled ti the same level of lightning spell. In the ened we all endedn up covered in grease. Especially are theif who failed to pick the lock and almost drowned in grease, but at least we did get TPK.
Cast Light on a pebble. A pebble's sufficiently small and light to easily carry around and hold aloft like a torch whenever you need light, then tuck into a pocket when you need to sneak, or are in a well-lit room. A pebble also doesn't cost any money, and doesn't need to be re-ignited every time you want to light things up again.
I use Mage Hand to place the pebbles with light on them so my dark vision - challenged “team” members can see the bad guys
I prefer arrows, they go further. Remember, you are not the thing you want to illuminate.
7:05 clever use of it, but I wouldn't call Toll the Dead "weak". One of the best cantrips
The thorn whip stories both would not work. Period.
Rule of Cool is a path to many stories that some would call... illegal.
10:00 now I want to see a character with just utility spells, that still does well in combat by using either the environment, or assisting party members.
Once my players were riding unicorns and being chased by these cat like aberrations. I don't remember the exact spell, but the sorcerer cast something that caused the frightened condition. Now, rules as written, frightened means that the affected creature cannot come closer to the caster. And since I had established this was an active chase scene, all but the two who made their saves stopped pursuing and were effectively out of the fight. It was really clever.
Not the most creative, but the druid cast Mold Earth around me allowing only a small opening for me to look through and line up my crossbow. Because it was dark and the surrounding area matched the dirt box I was in, the bbeg never discovered my location as I sniped him every turn.
I was playing at a table with my friends, and the BBEG were escaping in a little boat, so the wizard in our group used enlarge/reduce on the boat. The DM was left speechless for a moment, but unfortunately one of the evil NPCs that was with them was a druid and turned into an animal and they still managed to escape. Even so he gained inspiration, it was amazing.
Mold earth to de-limb a clay golem.
New players always come up with the best uses for spells.
In my first game as a player 12 years ago, I tried to cast Create Water on an NPC’s lungs. The DM didn’t let it slide. 🥲
I use rope tirck on my partys camp when we're out in the wilds, followed by spike groth and than plant growth to give us extra security
Uhh guess it would class as a war crime. Towards the end of our 1st campaign we were captured.
We broke free killing a few guards, made our way upstairs, in the mansion belonging to the BBEG's top lackey. His wife was trying to sell our magical gear to a buyer. We fought them, in the process broke the item jamming our magic.
Once the fight was over, we tooled up, but as everyone else made sure we were alone, I decided I wanted to make a statement. I placed my remaining flasks of alchemist fire and some home-brew bombs the DM had given us much earlier on I'm the campaign, on a table I then said to the rest of the party Hold the main door open for me, prepare to run.
I then pulled my wand of fireballs using one charge to set off everything else by time we reached the town square and the lieutenant, his mansion was ablaze, by time we cleared the town centre? So was the town centre.
My Tiefling may have a temper problem
During a Skull and Shackles campaign (Pathfinder 1e) we were chasing after someone we knew from the first ship we were on in the middle of a barfight. She ran up the stairs and started rolling barrels down them at us, Donkey Kong style. After getting the GM's permission to do something silly and not strictly by the spell description, I used Hydrolic Push (normally a spell intended to make a Bull Rush using the caster's spellcasting stats) to yeet myself up the stairs, bypassing the rolling barrels. Didn't manage to catch that NPC, though. But everyone got a good laugh and a quip "So, she flies now?"
5:50 .....that sounds cool, but RAW forced movement, including thorn whip, does not provoke opportunity attacks.
Played a Dragonlance champaign, starting as a renegad Wizard. Later got telephoned by the Magical High Sorcery into an invisible maze as an entrance test. To get through it I used the Fog Cloud spell to see if it would reveal the walls position. DM was so impressed I had Advantage when rolling to try and make my way through to the center.
Playing BX, we once had a contest to see who could find ways to use Tenser's Floating Disc offensively. We put the caster on horseback and had him charge through a horde of goblins. Sliced the little guys clean in half, with some creative geometry.
The bell from Toll the Dead is only heard by the creature you target it doesnt actually make a sound.
Finally! I waited long time for this! Thank you!
5:53 forced movement doesn't provoke those though...
DnD 1st edition. Had a DM that was prone to putting his own characters into the world as overwhelmingly powerful npc's. In our campaign he built a huge backstory of an orc army fighting with a barbarian tribe. (Barbarians were OP in 1st ed.) His npc was the barbarian leader, a hulking man with a dragon mount companion and 2 swords which held the souls of his diseased siblings etc. Etc. The barbarians completely crushed the orcs and drove them away, directly toward the walled keep our party was staying at. His npc shows up on his dragon to warn us and wish us luck before abandoning us. He ques up a MASSIVE battle with over 200 orcs, the party, abd the guard. Siege weapons, a secretive drow that sabotaged the walls the night before. The battle starts and players are taking out orcs 2 or 3 at a time alongside the town. Then comes my illusionists turn. Using the massive backstory he gave us and the npc we met I create an illusion using a low level spell slot as we were all maybe level 3 or 4. The barbarian npc and his dragon mount slowly climb from behind the wall and strike an intimidating pose above the clashing armies. After the DM built up the legend of his npc for several sessions and bragging of how powerful and how badly he beat the orcs, he decided it was VERY likely the orcs were afraid of the image. So he rolled a few checks...and well over half the arny turned and fled in stark terror. And thats why illusion magic is only as weak as the imagination.
I do love these stories but God alot of these are full of ignoring rules outright.
Forced movement doesn't give you opportunity attacks. You don't want that rule to work like that because the enemies will always outnumber you.
Cast Rope trick while holding both sides of the rope so that they could float up to above the dragon we were fighting and they, being a battlesmith artificer, had their machine leap down onto it. Heavy metal falling from 30 ft did some damage
I was once doing a one shot campaign, where I witnessed some of my friends being abducted by cultists. Eventually, they come back for me, and the first attack I ever make in DND, was to use thaumaturgy booming voice directly into the ear of my enemy.
Later in that same session, with a combination of tremor, unseen servant flipping levers constantly, booming voice, and eye color changing, I managed to convince the cultist that I was the god of death, causing them to flee, leaving all of the relics, and the contents of their bowels, on the floor.
I was playing a fairy Druid, and one of our early fights was against several seams of rats in a goblin controlled ruins, I cast speak with animals and spent the whole fight talking with one of the swarms convincing them we’re friends while the rest of the party fought the other swarms.
I'm kinda proud of myself for using Mold Earth to remove blocks of dirt from underneath enemies, placing it "in the gaps around their person and on the very edges of the newly formed pit so it cannot maintain position" and essentially burying enemies alive. Anything shorter than 5 feet was basically screwed and anything with its chest buried would likely suffocate anyway
I personaly love Magic Mouth. If not The best spell in DnD, its up there.
Capture the villains evil speech, escape and spread it to get allies. Done. Easy.
What i call ShoutMines, where you shout orders in authorative or inquisitive remarks or orders. "Everybody Halt!", or "They went into the alley!" etc, and then just toss these behind you as you are being chased, or want to confuse battles.
We had a spout in the Fay in a campaign, and we decided to warn them about the BBEG. The queen of the summer court knew of the BBEG, but couldnt convince enough of the fae to rally effective opposition. So we proposed a show, to earn our passage through the Fae, and as a show we had a great musical drama, telling the story of our opposition to the BBEG, and the many planes of reality we had been dragged through from the age of 12-13 up until the of 17-18 as the characters were at present, and the BBEGs threat towards reality.
So Magic Mouth then? Well, give a lv.32 bard 3 days to prepare a concert, and man you get a show. There were hundreds of Magic Mouths placed throughout the place, each singing well prepared pieces of the performance. My character had worked at making Magic Mouth of that piece since lv.20 or something. I had Prepared my Masterpiece well! Together with three trolls living under a bridge with musical aspirations who'm we could increase the skills of plenty, we rocked Faewild to war against the BBEG.
Its an amazing spell.
Magic Mouth on a rope, place it in a ring. Have it shout MONSTER if monsters cross over it. Alarmspell.
Magic Mouth, trigger; A person lies, say "It Lies".
Magic Mouth on a rock you tie to the top of the hat that shouts "ILLITHID!" or whatever if said things tries to sneak up on you, or is just visible. Enemy Detector.
So many uses.
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My illusionist wizard used minor illusion to create pyrotechnics for a bard and paladin to play a show to impress a dragon. Basically the help action, but they got advantage.
Fog Cloud against Invisible enemies. I figured, if I can't see them anyway, I can at least make it so they can't see me either. They have to randomly stumble around in the cloud looking for me, giving me a chance to escape.
Was fighting a skulk yesterday. And used some water along with the cantrip shape water to create an ice mirror to see it.
Level 3 Paladin. Needed information from a drunk guy. Used lay on hands to remove the alcohol from his system after making a compelling argument about how alcohol is basically the same as drinking poison.
We were about to die via getting waffle stomped by a hill giant. Most melee classes hit him with plenty of arrows, and in a last ditch effort hurled their weapons at it. Once is all said and done, me a cleric, cast heat metal. Cook and book baby
In D&D 2.0, I casted part water on the BBEG. His blood fountained.
Did the first thing in our campaign, saved our butts from battleing through an entire city.
i still think that people really underestimate the tiny hut :D ultimate breather/recovery safe haven :D
It involved two low-level spells (Catapult and Heat Metal) but the artificer MacGyver'd a rocket-propelled Molotov cocktail during an aerial fight with a chimera. Said chimera didn't last long after that.
those are the fun players "This bounty hunter is my kind of scum, fearless and inventive."
My best was when I used control water to use the water in the town well to put out the burning village.
I've never had cause to use this yet, but if I ever come across a one eyed enemy, I'll cast prestidigitation to turn their eye opaque/black. No light gets in, means they can't see
a short gag i heard in a different video:
DM: "the BBEG starts monologuing while descending the stairs-"
PS: "i cast Grease on the stairs."
-the BBEG tumbles down the stairs and dies, like professor whatshisname from Borderlands 2...
I remember when I had my Astral Elf nature cleric use Thorn Whip to save the bard of the party(a halfling) from a miniboss attack. She just used the rose in her hair(created by her sick druid sister) to whip the bard to safety.
5:50 it doesn't work like that RAW
Forced movement does not provoke opportunity attack 🤓
Not a spell, but a class feature. I was a sapphire dragonborn, storm herald barbarian with a focus of the sea to match my sailor background. At one point, we were investigating an underwater ruin when we were attacked by some of the monsterous inhabitants. Now, i could already breath underwater and swim due to the sea aspect, but i had another ability that really only shined when there is water around. As an action, i could convert 5 cubic ft of water into solid ice that would melt after 1 minute. There is no limitation on amount of uses per day, just once per round. I used this feature, along with my random lightning strike per bonus action, to immobilize and terrorize these warped atrocities while my party sat out of range and sniped them with spells.
used a single light spell to distract light sensitive group that surrounded us long enough to escape.
i think only 1 out of my 6 spells as a first level wizard failed to solve a serious problem that day.
never did understand the 'worthless level 1 wizards' meme
Dispel magic isn’t weak but we set a forest on fire with fire based spells, I asked the DM since they were created with magic he said sure so I put out a forest fire with dispel magic. A lot of those spells do specify it’s suppose to burn the target and dissipate but hey it worked.
4:36 I'm pretty sure in 2E Create and Destroy Water actually had a segment about using it to damage water elementals.
Edit: okay I was wrong, I was thinking of how Fire Elementals take a damage based on water being thrown on them, so you can technically use the spell to damage them by throwing the water on them afterwards, but you could use the same stats for damaging a water elemental with destroy water. Might be a little overpowered, but this is a fairly niche scenario.
Dude, clever Kobolds can either be the best ally, or the scariest enemies...
I was the DM, javing a mage cast wall of ice to divide the battlefield. My water genasi monk used his daily create or destroy water to destroy the wall, because ice is water. A short math question about how much volume the wall of ice had later, he had decimated most of it. Goddamn first level spell beat a 4th level spell
Best i did was use minor illusion over my kobold who layed down in a hole he dug to create a bush over him so the bounty hunters chasing him wouldn't notice and it worked! We kinda took out a lot of citizens by accident from using aoe spells in a bar fight and were being hunted by way higher level enemies.
(casts YOUR COMMENT HERE Spell)
PC wizard used Chill Touch against my werewolves. They couldn't regenerate. She got extra XP.
I'm listening to most of these going "that's not how it works..." - the few that do, very well done.
One of my players used enlarge/reduce on an enemy in a small corridor ro completely immobilise them.
Some of by best off weak spell things. Nothing too special but fun and probably empowered by a generous GM
- Use prestidigitation to freeze a spider web my legs were caught in to make the athletics DC to break free go down.
- Use shatter to collapse a tunnel on top a spectator we were nowhere near prepared to fave in open combat
- Use message to make a tied up kobold think he was being macially called on a quest by a red dragon, so when he "broke free" (magic missiled his bindings) he ran off, packed up his clan and they all hiked off into the mountains instead of making it their mission to harass some gnomish farmers we were helping.
- Using prestitigitation to make burnt scrambled eggs taste like vanilla. Our surprised dwarf immediately threw up. Using prestitigitation once more to cover up the odour.
A bit mediocre, but meh.
Playing a campaign set in the wild west where the casters get their magic from the death throws of a long forgotten ancient god. Used thaumaturgy to blow up a crate of unstable TNT.
I used poison spary to kill a river of piranhas and poison a village water supply in the process
I remember a story on either this channel or some other channel that the BBEG was walking down a set of spiral stairs, somebody cast oil slick on the stairs above them, and the BBEG fell down the stairs all the way down to his death. Does anyone know where that story would be?
A One Shot level 1 game I made a Sorcerer with the Metamagic Adept feat. I used a cantrip to kill the BBEG...
From a Bag of Holding filled with water, I cast Shape Water to form a cube over his head then Quicken Spell cast it again as a bonus action to freeze it...
We were fighting an enemy with levels in bard. He was singing and using spells to buff himself while he fought. Me: I want to use the cantrip shape water. DM: To do what? Me: I can move the water up to 5 feet in any direction right? DM: Yeah......I'm not sure where you are going with this. Me: I shoot water up his nose. DM: Wait there has to be a save for this right? Me: Nope DM: ...... I'll allow it but I'm giving him a save. Dammit he failed. Congratulations you have him hacking and coughing unable to sing for a solid minute.
Most creative thing a player has done with a weak spell... I had been playing a game where one of my players had access to a spell that changed one liquid to another.
Think like water to wine, beer to moose urine, etc. etc.
Mostly just good for hilarious pranks.
Instead one player, at one particular point in the campaign, decided to transmute a large amount of the liquid 'water' inside a very large river, into the liquid 'NaK' which is a metal, (liquid at room temperature) which reacts VIOLENTLY with water... (Seeing as the rest of the river was still water...)
1 hour of math later, to discover he had just set off an explosion larger than the first few nuclear bombs, and this act was un-officially declared as a warcrime.
Marvel Advanced Super Heroes - a player saved the day by distracting the rampaging Hulk by turning him neon pink (using the Color Change power, which the rules admit is not the most popular power)
TL:DR
Successfully made the Paladin stealthy without it breaking his oath on a night raid mission with a drone and Vortex Warp
Full story:
The campaign is set in a modern setting
Important party members are:
-Dusty, the Dragonborn artificer (me)
-Beat, the tabaxi paladin
So, party is doing a night raid on an enemy military group base
Dusty had just finished using his drone (with invisibility casted on it) and we wanted to get the drop on them because there were a lot of grunts and one guy in power armor that looked to be a REALLY heavy duty tank buster looking
Only problem:
Paladin couldn’t stealth
And I don’t mean that from a stats perspective, no the cleric has that problem too and we have solutions
No, I mean it literally goes against his oaths to try (homebrew, Beat is basically just Goku, including being just as dull)
My character gets close enough to get the Paladin in, using the drone to bypass enemy walls
We then spend 30 minutes determining if the guards can hear him give the verbal components for Vortex Warp (the results were that RAW, a verbal component cannot be any quieter than a normal speaking voice. What’s the range on that? Well, that’s where 25/30 minutes went. Rule lawyer eventually found an official ruling! DMs choice. Our DM picked 60 feet. My character was 65 feet away from the nearest guard)
One big, beefy snow tiger gets kamui teleported into the base in front of two guards, yeets them both into the night with Wilhelm screams, and sits tight while the rest of us try to clear out the front a little quietly
We don’t succeed particularly well, at which point, he dives in and chaos ensues
It was a great time
I used ventriloquism to start a Dwarven clan war because i was bord
Like No. 234 😂
Please tell me they ate the Gibbering Fruitcake after Purifying it and it was delicious.
Does reading a piece of paper acting like it is a magic scroll count?