Someone happened to post this picture of a 3-column, 20 row insult generator to a Facebook D&D group the day of my first session playing my first spellcaster (Bard). It was a lot of fun to use, and use it I did.
I love vicious mockery. One of my first major wins in my current campaign was insulting something to death. I've heard there's a great fantasy insult generator app available. I usually just try to make something up, but I'm not always the most witty in the heat of the moment: "Your mom was fat!"
Imagine two bards just roasting the shit out of each other outside the inn, with a huge crowd gathered (even the guards watching), casting Vicious Mockery on each other repeatedly until enough psychic damage makes one of them snap/pass out.
+1 Agree though, Vicious Mockery is the bard's Shillelagh, it's her Eldritch Blast.
I like to imagine that its not even what the bard says, its your mind filling in the blanks with your own insecurities.
Found a hilarious suggestion that for Vicious Mockery, you should just cycle through and use old Shakespeare insults. Here's a generator: http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/
How about the rap battle from 8Mile for an inspiration for Vicious Mockery? Or also Robot Chicken Star Wars' 'Your Momma' battle between Luke & Vader? Or most anything Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet said... LOTS of wonderful sources of inspiration. Love LOVE LOVE! this spell :D
Imagine two bards just roasting the shit out of each other outside the inn, with a huge crowd gathered (even the guards watching), casting Vicious Mockery on each other repeatedly until enough psychic damage makes one of them snap/pass out.
I joined a campaign a bit late with some friends. My Hobo Bard walked out of a building to find a hoard of enemies attacking the town. On his first town he ran screaming through the fight till be bumped into a kobold. On seeing said kobold he said "Oh god your so ugly it looks like a Orc teabagged your face and then stayed there." killing the kobold outright. It was the first time I had played DnD (previously played pathfinder) so it was a great starting moment.
Later that same session he insulted a head off a Hydra with "Your ass is so fat a group of Haflings have made a settlement in your buttcrack." He wasn't a refined type of guy.
Vicious Mockery is in my top 5 favourite spells. It sits there in honor next to Bigby's Hand, Grease and Glitterdust from pathfinder.
I love vicious mockery. One of my first major wins in my current campaign was insulting something to death. I've heard there's a great fantasy insult generator app available. I usually just try to make something up, but I'm not always the most witty in the heat of the moment: "Your mom was fat!"
Some players in my last campaign were level 5 and had miraculously caught a Yuan-ti Abomination by putting it to sleep. They put it in a prison cell but found it wouldn't answer their questions. Two of the PCs were bards, so they just insulted the thing back to unconsciousness.
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Some Barda go for the witty insults, some I challenge my vocabulary, and some, I go Khal Drogo style. Not so much insult, as description of their inevitable failure, demise, and ignoble, rotting, vermin-feeding, loss to total obscurity and ultimate annihilation.
I got the "kill" on a BBEG with Vicious Mockery once, and described it as a short speech, "You have failed. Your works lie in ruins. You will not be judged by history, because you will not be remembered. Your name is Nothing. Your legacy is nothing." He collapsed, too beaten to even weep for his failed dream. It was rad.
"I'll keep my weapons stowed this fight my friends. The way that guy there is holding a dagger I think the only threat posed by these farm hands is the milking of a goat."
Random bandit encounter as I played my bard with a table full. 7 of us vs 24 bandits! Luckily the DM only added a few as some bandits fell to keep the count on the table at around 10 vs 7. Not sure what variants our story teller used but it was a nice big brawl to welcome us to level 4. I'm rather certain the town got muddied up a bit.
Have any fun insults you have come up with while using Vicious Mockery? What was the insult and what were you insulting?
Hell yeah I am going to Polymorph the boss into a Rabbit. I have always wanted a being a pure evil stuffed into a ball of fluff.
Can I just say? Vicious Mockery is one of My All Time Favorite spells in 5E and I don't see it used often enough in my games.
Puns are always good, like "Hey skeleman, looking a little Bare Bones."
And when all else fails you can always just go with: "Hey ugly, nice axe!"
Recently we fought a mimic that looked of all things like a sofa so I got to utter the phrase "Egads that is a horrible dust ruffle!"
Thanks DM! 👍🏻
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Someone happened to post this picture of a 3-column, 20 row insult generator to a Facebook D&D group the day of my first session playing my first spellcaster (Bard). It was a lot of fun to use, and use it I did.
Insult Generator
I love the idea of Vicious Mockery, but I've found that in execution, most enemies end up making the WIS save :/
That said, the few times it's worked, it's been great!
I love vicious mockery. One of my first major wins in my current campaign was insulting something to death. I've heard there's a great fantasy insult generator app available. I usually just try to make something up, but I'm not always the most witty in the heat of the moment: "Your mom was fat!"
Imagine two bards just roasting the shit out of each other outside the inn, with a huge crowd gathered (even the guards watching), casting Vicious Mockery on each other repeatedly until enough psychic damage makes one of them snap/pass out.
+1 Agree though, Vicious Mockery is the bard's Shillelagh, it's her Eldritch Blast.
I like to imagine that its not even what the bard says, its your mind filling in the blanks with your own insecurities.
Found a hilarious suggestion that for Vicious Mockery, you should just cycle through and use old Shakespeare insults. Here's a generator: http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/
How about the rap battle from 8Mile for an inspiration for Vicious Mockery? Or also Robot Chicken Star Wars' 'Your Momma' battle between Luke & Vader? Or most anything Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet said... LOTS of wonderful sources of inspiration. Love LOVE LOVE! this spell :D
I cannot express how much I love this idea.
I joined a campaign a bit late with some friends. My Hobo Bard walked out of a building to find a hoard of enemies attacking the town. On his first town he ran screaming through the fight till be bumped into a kobold. On seeing said kobold he said "Oh god your so ugly it looks like a Orc teabagged your face and then stayed there." killing the kobold outright. It was the first time I had played DnD (previously played pathfinder) so it was a great starting moment.
Later that same session he insulted a head off a Hydra with "Your ass is so fat a group of Haflings have made a settlement in your buttcrack." He wasn't a refined type of guy.
Vicious Mockery is in my top 5 favourite spells. It sits there in honor next to Bigby's Hand, Grease and Glitterdust from pathfinder.
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I use insult generators like this site for example. It usually is so ridiculous it gets everyone laughing.
https://www.insult-generator.org/
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Some Barda go for the witty insults, some I challenge my vocabulary, and some, I go Khal Drogo style. Not so much insult, as description of their inevitable failure, demise, and ignoble, rotting, vermin-feeding, loss to total obscurity and ultimate annihilation.
I got the "kill" on a BBEG with Vicious Mockery once, and described it as a short speech, "You have failed. Your works lie in ruins. You will not be judged by history, because you will not be remembered. Your name is Nothing. Your legacy is nothing." He collapsed, too beaten to even weep for his failed dream. It was rad.
We do bones, motherf***ker!
"I'll keep my weapons stowed this fight my friends. The way that guy there is holding a dagger I think the only threat posed by these farm hands is the milking of a goat."
Random bandit encounter as I played my bard with a table full. 7 of us vs 24 bandits! Luckily the DM only added a few as some bandits fell to keep the count on the table at around 10 vs 7. Not sure what variants our story teller used but it was a nice big brawl to welcome us to level 4. I'm rather certain the town got muddied up a bit.
A dwarf with a canoe on his back? What could go wrong?
Bard: "Are you just naturally useless or did you have take lessons?"
Bandit rolls a 4
Bandit: "Top of my class!"
Sheep in wolf's clothing