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I am wondering where the Attack/Save math is. Is it just a flat number or is this based off of your character? I have a Bard with 16 Wis and the saving throw is 10 Wis. Just wondering how this number came to be.

 

Since you're a Bard, your spellcasting ability will be Charisma
If you look under the spellcasting section of the Bard class, your spell save DC is 8 + proficiency + Cha

I assume you accidentally gave yourself 8 Cha

So my Character stats: Str 12, Dex 16, Con 12, Int 17, Wis 16, Cha 19. Most of my other abilities have a save of 14. I was just confused why this one is 10. 

 Did you get this spell from an item/feature or did you pick it as one of your spells?

So like... Gordon Ramsay quotes as a spell?

11/10 best spell right here.

This is honest Gold

As a bard, I always make a little poem for the spell . . 

It once was known as a jumpoline

As splendid a thing as I've ever seen

Till your mum in her bonnet

She leapt upon it

Ever since it's been a Trampoline

Or . . .

A face like that of a goblin's ass

An ogre's manners only more crass

You twit, you fiend, you festering boob

Your mum's as big as a gelatinous cube

Your uninvited to my birthday party! 

*bbeg has a brain aneurysm and ******* dies*

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YOu can literally insult a bear to death, it cant understand you, it has no idea you are even communicating with it and has no idea what an insult is... But hell, what you just said really hurt the bears feelings fpor some reason xD

 My friend made a schizophrenic Goblin Bard, and his schizophrenia often causes him to see a bear that brutally insults him. I guess the tables have turned...

Swashbuckler rogues should be able to cast this as a bonus action.

Best way to kill a dragon, cast it and ask what they think of Deez (XP to Level 3).

AYEE nice reference

You know if you just made two tweaks, vicious mockery could be a useful spell. First make it a bonus action and second have the effect be that whenever the victim attacks someone besides the caster they are at disadvantage. There, now the bard has a unique cantrip that is actually useful to have. I would even say you could drop the increase damage at higher levels and instead just have it that at level five the target now gets disadvantage when attacking the caster and at level eleven the targets disadvantage at saving throws. 

"Bet you're really ugly under that helmet."

A whole round's worth of disadvantage is a pretty hefty effect, even just conditionally on attack rolls, and making it a bonus action and thus allowing attacks on top of it would just be insane, especially when the source is something spammable like a cantrip. Giving disadvantage to attacks and saving throws would just be completely overpowered. If two players had the spell it wouldn't be hard for them to lock down anyone who didn't have a very high WIS save.

This spell is the reason why I have a Shakespeare insult generator on my phone. :p  "Thou art a creeping ill-nurtured dewberry" scored the killing blow on a blue dragon at my table.

Just to double-check, the DC is based on your actual main spell save right? I got this on my Fey Wanderer Ranger as a Variant Tiefling but the DC still says 10 even if my own spell DC is currently 13 (17 Wisdom). I'm wondering if it's reasonable to set it like my other normal spells.

At first I thought it was cuz at level 1 I didn't have my Ranger spellcasting yet, but now at level 2 it has not updated on its own. 

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You certainly are a brave orc warrior. Brave for walking around in public with that outfit. Who dressed you? A gibbering mouther?

 Now that is a good insult!

Let me think of one....I got it:

"Slimy old Hag! Your attempts at breaking people into a miserable state would only make even Goblin snooze on your lousy endeavors!" How was that insulting enough?

Why are undead, like zombies and skeletons not immune to this?

ah yes

the ur mom spell

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I am wondering where the Attack/Save math is. Is it just a flat number or is this based off of your character? I have a Bard with 16 Wis and the saving throw is 10 Wis. Just wondering how this number came to be.

 

Since you're a Bard, your spellcasting ability will be Charisma
If you look under the spellcasting section of the Bard class, your spell save DC is 8 + proficiency + Cha

I assume you accidentally gave yourself 8 Cha

So my Character stats: Str 12, Dex 16, Con 12, Int 17, Wis 16, Cha 19. Most of my other abilities have a save of 14. I was just confused why this one is 10. 

 Others have explained the rule for calculating what the character you cast a spell on has to roll a save against (save DC). In your case this would be 8 +2 +3, so a DC of 13 (assuming your character is level 4 or below). If you are asking about your own saving throw modifier against wisdom based effects, it is Proficiency bonus + Wisdom modifier. Bards dont have proficiency for wisdom saves, so they only get the ability modifier, in your case +2. So the number 10 does not make any sense with the 5th edition rules, except if you your DM is using some house rules.

I think you're forgetting Tasha's hideous laughter.