in my last session our boss had a werewolf-like minion. i used prestidigitation to make the minion believe i was its master and its master was me. nat 20. one eldritch blast and a slash from the claws later. now we have 11 frightened people and 1 hour to turn this guy back.
I was DMing for my 9 and 6 year old. They went to rescue a little girl kidnapped by Gnolls and were in combat with 2 Gnolls inside a darkly lit cave. My 6 year old is playing a relatively easy ranger with a pet wolf proceeds to shoot a Gnoll with an arrow and have her wolf nip at it's heels. My 9 year old playing D&D for the first time and being a Sorcerer looks at me and says "I cast minor illusion to make a 5ft high 5ft wide Christmas Ham appear on the butcher's table" next to the Gnoll who had not yet taken damage. Gnoll rolled a natural one on it's insight check. Gnoll spent the next 2 rounds trying to eat the imaginary ham and kept biting into a wooden table lol. Creative Illusion magic like this is awesome.
Where I think it get's silly is when it's like "I use minor illusion to make a box of blackness around the bad guys head." Using a cantrip to try to achieve the effects of a 2nd level spell is where I as a DM get grumpy and my head start's filling with dark thoughts like "Summon the Tarrasque wearing a Headband of Intellect and wielding the Staff of the Magi."
The party was my tiefling paladin, a dragonborn barbarian, half-elf ranger and a human bard. I had previously purchased a bundle of 30 iron spikes and a shovel, intending to dig a spike pit outside a bandit hideout and have the bard cast minor illusion over it to disguise it. That plan got scrapped but I still had the spikes. So when it came to venomfang, I came up with the idea to tie all 30 spikes around several canteens of oil and cover it with a blanket. I then had the dragonborn call out to Venomfang (in Draconic) and offer him tribute. As he pulled the cover off the spike mound, the bard (while hiding behind a tree) cast minor illusion to make it appear like a huge pile of gold and jewels.A charisma deception check and a couple of failed wisdom saves later, venomfang swooped down and went to scoop up the pile in his mouth. As he did, the dragonborn threw a vial of alchemist's fire into it's mouth, igniting the whole thing. The DM ruled it to be equivalent to 30 crossbow bolts, plus fire damage that bypass his AC because it went off in his mouth. The dragonborn did get caught by the blast and was hurled backwards into a tree but lived to tell the tale.
My DM is a little tired of how often I use Phantasmal Force (One of the best spells in the game). Flying enemy? Now they think they're wrapped in barbed chains. In a public place and someone attacks you? Phantasmal Force a sword to your hand and kill them with it. My favorite thing is to make people that the enemy would respect. Are they religious? Make their god appear from the heavens. Knight? Their commander personally tells them to stand down. Best spell
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“Basically, if you tell anyone, we’ll kill you. We’re pretty good at that sort of stuff”-Salros Viper, Whispers Bard, paid assassin
I play a forest gnome wizard who is the only female in her party. When she needs to use the bathroom in the wilderness, I say she walks 50 feet away and casts a minor illusion of a bush in full bloom over herself for privacy. Anyone who makes an investigation check on that illusion is a weirdo.
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in my last session our boss had a werewolf-like minion. i used prestidigitation to make the minion believe i was its master and its master was me. nat 20. one eldritch blast and a slash from the claws later. now we have 11 frightened people and 1 hour to turn this guy back.
I was DMing for my 9 and 6 year old. They went to rescue a little girl kidnapped by Gnolls and were in combat with 2 Gnolls inside a darkly lit cave. My 6 year old is playing a relatively easy ranger with a pet wolf proceeds to shoot a Gnoll with an arrow and have her wolf nip at it's heels. My 9 year old playing D&D for the first time and being a Sorcerer looks at me and says "I cast minor illusion to make a 5ft high 5ft wide Christmas Ham appear on the butcher's table" next to the Gnoll who had not yet taken damage. Gnoll rolled a natural one on it's insight check. Gnoll spent the next 2 rounds trying to eat the imaginary ham and kept biting into a wooden table lol. Creative Illusion magic like this is awesome.
Where I think it get's silly is when it's like "I use minor illusion to make a box of blackness around the bad guys head." Using a cantrip to try to achieve the effects of a 2nd level spell is where I as a DM get grumpy and my head start's filling with dark thoughts like "Summon the Tarrasque wearing a Headband of Intellect and wielding the Staff of the Magi."
My party killed Venomfang with minor illusion.
The party was my tiefling paladin, a dragonborn barbarian, half-elf ranger and a human bard. I had previously purchased a bundle of 30 iron spikes and a shovel, intending to dig a spike pit outside a bandit hideout and have the bard cast minor illusion over it to disguise it. That plan got scrapped but I still had the spikes. So when it came to venomfang, I came up with the idea to tie all 30 spikes around several canteens of oil and cover it with a blanket. I then had the dragonborn call out to Venomfang (in Draconic) and offer him tribute. As he pulled the cover off the spike mound, the bard (while hiding behind a tree) cast minor illusion to make it appear like a huge pile of gold and jewels.A charisma deception check and a couple of failed wisdom saves later, venomfang swooped down and went to scoop up the pile in his mouth. As he did, the dragonborn threw a vial of alchemist's fire into it's mouth, igniting the whole thing. The DM ruled it to be equivalent to 30 crossbow bolts, plus fire damage that bypass his AC because it went off in his mouth. The dragonborn did get caught by the blast and was hurled backwards into a tree but lived to tell the tale.
My DM is a little tired of how often I use Phantasmal Force (One of the best spells in the game). Flying enemy? Now they think they're wrapped in barbed chains. In a public place and someone attacks you? Phantasmal Force a sword to your hand and kill them with it. My favorite thing is to make people that the enemy would respect. Are they religious? Make their god appear from the heavens. Knight? Their commander personally tells them to stand down. Best spell
“Basically, if you tell anyone, we’ll kill you. We’re pretty good at that sort of stuff”-Salros Viper, Whispers Bard, paid assassin
I play a forest gnome wizard who is the only female in her party. When she needs to use the bathroom in the wilderness, I say she walks 50 feet away and casts a minor illusion of a bush in full bloom over herself for privacy. Anyone who makes an investigation check on that illusion is a weirdo.