That was even better when you realize not only did they have to have burned through its legendary resistances, but the dragon had to fail a +7 Wisdom save. THAT is the definition of a Hail Mary play.
Just goes to show, even the most intricate and well-layed DM plans can be yeeted in any and every direction at once by a player with a crazy idea and some dumb luck. It's the main reason I love the game.
@truekurayami yeah. Those DMs do exist. My old group was 3 dms and as many players. We'd just take turns DMing, and we were well versed in thinking on the fly and embracing the chaos. I still remember my most unhinged character. A paladin (with negative int) with a celestial mount that could cast spells but it was cursed. Said curses effect was it farted out all spells. So there'd be a majestic flying white lion with angel wings just ripping inglorious a** as a lightning bolt fires out behind him.
@@christopherdark4671 One story was enough to tell me the DM can be a "That Guy" and his down fall was the beautiful insanity of a Call of Cthulhu character named Henderson.
@@truekurayamibeing a good DM requires a strong constitution and willingness to wear protective tape so you don't rub a hole in your forehead by all the stupid shit your players pull. One of my favorite bard stories involves failing an attempted seducing of a minotaur using my hit melody "My Agitated Dairy Has Brought the Townsfolk to My Land." Did I end up skinning it and wearing its hide and skull as armor and using the horns as an extra weapon? Maybe. Were my actions described as "sociopathic", "why are you like this?", and "that's probably a war crime of some sort. At least second degree murder."? Who knows? Point is, minotaur skin is great, you should get some. The intimidation compensates for the smell.
One DM learned never leave the map of the dungeon uncovered and the table of players time to examine it for traps, ambush sites and escape routes. My Rogue and husband as a paladin unintentionally pissed off the DM by accurately assessing the danger levels and said hmm instead of big fire. Lets start a small fire and run the dungeon. Some damn good rolls had the DM almost banning me from tournaments and changing my alignment from chaotic Neutral to evil. Lol
if you are ever trying to purposely tpk a party you've already failed as a DM the *only* exception would be if this was something the whole party agreed to session zero. there is a big difference between 'challenging gameplay' and "I don't have fun unless you die and cry"
@@zedekiahking4169i think in the original comment he was meaning that the dm was fully accepting the possibility that the dragon could just killed the party. Not intentionally trying to kill them but knowing that it very much could
@@nissama7885 then that's incompetence if you both miscalculated and also let the players *take the fall for your miscalculation.* you *are* the dm. you aren't omniscient but you are omnipotent. you can decide the dragon laughs, spits on them, and leaves them battered but alive. this dude was *trying* to kill the party. 😂
I gave a character a Cloak of Artillery, pretty much Cloak of Many Things but instead of things, it's weapons. Anything you can think of (within a medieval setting and reason, i trust my players), and you can spend a free object interaction to summon it either into your hand or, if it's a ballista or somrthing large like that, a space within 5 feet of you. Now, this was a party of characters and players that I'd been with for almost 2 years, so I trust them not to abuse it. However, the guy who got the cloak, a bugbear paladin/fighter, he's smarter than the average bear. They're riding on top of a mountain sized undead dragon (Ancalagon, but re-animated, in Middle Earth. Don't ask how a bugbear got there). They're freaking out. They were just walking along a hill WHEN THE HILL SUDDENLY STARTS MOVING AND THE HORIZON DISSAPEARS. So naturally, they try to fight the thing. On its back. It does not like the tickling, so it tries to shake them off. Most of the party actually makes their saves, but the Bugbear doesn't. So as he's about to fall 300+ feet, he looks at me dead in the eyes, and says the following: "I summon a catapult five feet below me. I would like to make a dexterity save to get in the spoon." Me, not entirely processing what he's doing: "Okay, cushioning the fall, i like the thought process. Let's give it a DC 15, but with disadvantage because this thing is probably falling a lot faster than you are." Him: "That'll be a 22. Now can I action surge, and make an attack action to cut the rope?" Me, visibly shocked at his ingenuity: "Dude, I'm not even going to make you roll. You are more or less stationary. BUT, roll me percentile to see how accurate you are. Let's say, 75 or above, your mid-air aim is true, and you launch yourself back up onto the back. 51 to 74, you launch up, but you're going to need to roll me an acrobatics or athletics check to land safely. Anything below a 50, and you're plummeting." Him: * rolls percentile, reads the results, then sits back with a shit eating grin * I look over, and sitting on the table, for everyone to see, is a fucking 100. He pirouetted onto the back of Ancalagon out of a catapult midair. I love my party. Sorry for the long story.
@nicholasjuergens4240 easily my favourite group. Ive been with them for about 3 or 4 years now i believe, and we always meet saturdays at our local game store. It's so fun when you find the perfect group!
Command is one of those spells that can be utterly EPIC by choosing the right word. I had an enemy NPC use the word "Repent" on a player to force her to grovel for one round. It had exactly the intended effect, cementing that NPC as a hated enemy who they were willing to go any lengths to ruin.
@@Schregger Oh, they did MUCH worse than that. By the time they were done with her, she had been stripped of her clerical powers, exiled, and had zero loyal allies remaining. They were even so merciful as to PUBLICLY spare her life, showing everyone how virtuous and heroic they were. Of course, the character who she had used Command on just so happened to be a *Ranger,* and they were all practical enough to know that leaving her alive would just be giving her the chance to get picked up by another god and come back for revenge. And the wilderness is such a dangerous place...
My grandfather used to say something with very similar energy "Im gonna kick your ass until your nose bleeds" ....let that marinade for a second....kick your ass. Until your nose bleeds. Kick your ass, so long, so many times, that eventually his foot will go directly through your entire body to make your nose bloody...and he looked like he could do it to 😂😂😂
@@bastionsea2829 It really depends on the animal. It’s perceftly reasonable for a creature like a dragon to also make use their talons, considering that’s at least partially what talons are for.
I was playing in a campaign where two of the PCs had their souls linked because backstory reasons. These PCs *hate* each other. They were arguing and my cleric had had enough of it, so he cast Command "apologize." Because of the soul link it affected both of them. They both failed the save. They proceeded to hug each other, sobbing and making up. We were talking about that moment for at least a month after.
*Fighter leans in:* "I thought that spell only lasts for a few moments?" *Cleric, watching them continue to cry in eachothers arms for the last half hour:* "It does."
Wow, people are a lot more forgiving than I am if a player casts a spell, especially a charm, to force me to do something. A bard in my party once did that because I had found a cool looking dagger that he demanded I give him. After the charm stopped working, I immediatly responded with using a full round to attack and smite him, dropping him in one turn. I then stabilized him, took back the dagger and left him behind for the rest of the party to pick up later.
In a 3.5 E game that I ran many years ago, I had a juvenile black dragon (with 3 assassin class levels) who managed to separate the gnome wizard from the party with a wand of stoneshape near a cliff. The wizard's reaction? Taunt the dragon and jump off the cliff after him. As the dragon was diving down to catch him in mid air, the wizard cast rope trick and catches the dragon mid air in a noose, then feather falls to the ground. Successfully hung a dragon mid dive.
Command and suggestion can be hilarious. My party had a flying tavern, and a bad guy snuck on board while we were grounded. They were a werewolf, and my character was an edgy wizard who really liked to intimidate foes by humiliating them. The werewolf was on the edge of the entryway and my character cast command... to have the werewolf "Flip". The werewolf rolled a nat 1 on the Acrobatics check and plummeted 300 feet.
played a Bard that specialized in dealing with dragon's.. no, not THAT way. We were flying on a dragon in a sufficiently large Underdark cavern, being chased by a drow Matron Mother on another dragon, having spells slung at us. I do the one option I could think of to disorient or deal with the drow. I managed to convince the dragon to do one, singular action. And that action? "Do a barrel roll!" Dragon spun around as it flew, disorienting it's rider, causing them to leave. Which is good, because it now had negatives to resist me, and my next 'suggestion' was gonna be "Hey, something looks stuck to your back. May wanna grind your back against the cavern wall to scratch it off."@@fanusobscurus
Is it actually that rare? I always do a level of fighter with my clerics so i can armor up, on a dwarf so my movement speed doesn't decrease so i can sit in the thick of it and heal
Dude now I wanna see this in a movie. I'm just visualizing a sorcerer falling to his death, everyone left barely clinging to life, then just a close up shot of the falling sorcerer uttering the word "catch", and the dragon swoops towards him, scoops him up, and flies back to the edge of the cliff where the party, now healed enough to fight, stand glaring at it
Man, I tried for ages to get that achievement on the original 360. Never got it. I eventually got the MCC and was able to pull it off but learned that it wasn't one of the achievements ported over.
Honestly I've had so many scenes as a player and dm that I was waiting on the tpk and just so happen to roll with the luck of a god to get ourselves out of it... Including the good ol talk no jutsu... which had our dm falling to the floor with the absurdity
Command is such an underrated spell. Yeah, it is easier to pass the higher level you are due to creatures having better saves, but the things you can do with it are incredibly useful.
I mean that’s a hell of a way to do it but a sorcerer should always have an escape for this situation, even in the second level spells you have Levitate, Vortex Warp, depending on your DM warding wind and web At third level you have fly, gaseous form, thunder step, again dependent on your dm you could argue for slow, and by all technicality blinking into the ethereal plane would protect you from Fall damage as it specifies that only creatures in the etherial plane can hurt you, although I’d imagine most DMs are going to turn that down even rule heavy ones For fourth level spells which is the highest I’m going for this theoretical you have banishment which as long as you’re not from any other plane would pause your momentum and reduce your fall damage, dimension door, polymorph, stoneskin, and again depending on your DM watery sphere as it restrains you in place. I will preemptively explain why stoneskin is a great option, seeing as fall damage in 5e is calculated at 1d6 per 10 feet and you hit terminal velocity at 200, the maximum fall damage you can take is 120 and that is with all 20 d6s rolling max, in reality you’ll likely take closer to 40-80, stoneskin resistance to bludgeoning halves that damage sorcerer survives a 200 foot fall no problem
They are unlikely to have those second level spells, and probably most of those 4th level spells either, and having been fighting a dragon as a sorcerer, were probably burned out on spell slots
So my brother had got knocked prone and he was rolling his death saves as we were fighting a giant snake lady and her giant pet eel and it was not looking good. I only had 15 hit points it or 75 and my bro could.not help since he was down. So my dumb barbarien fighter had grabbed a anchor that I found that weighed only 2 pounds to the person holding it and rolled a nat 20. I lived by dealing 198 damage in one blow to both of them and I was on 3 hit points.
That sounds like something you’d see in an epic fantasy movie or anime or something- I need to see this animated in a dramatic way and a story I’m invested in.
Yeah always have Feather Fall prepped especially at lower levels where a 20ft drop can severely injure or knock out a character. Speaking of which I'm about to run a divination wizard (8hp 😬) in Death House so uh... wish me luck on that lol.
I heard a similar one where one of the characters had a single use magic item that could swap places with their target (momentum and all), the DM forgot about the item... the players didnt. And in one of their fights the monster they were up against was almost invincible to malicious spells (effectively damaging spells), with the intent it would force them to fight it physically. Instead after a similar thing to what happened in this video, they were plummeting to their deaths when they swapped places and the monster went splat. Their DM was very careful about the items they gave out on a whim after that.
Heh, I gave my player a magic baseball glove too! It's an object enchanted to summon a mage hand, and because their whole character schtick is 'vaguely baseball themed', it transformed into a ghostly mitt when they attuned to it.
You know... if the DM was even more wicked, he'd have the dragon swoop down to catch the sorcerer... in its mouth. DM: "What? you just said catch... you didn't say how. Now my dragon gets a nice little snack."
Tbf, eaten by a dragon does not necessarily mean "dead" Just rip and tear at the insides of the dragon, or use fireball so the bard can vicious mockery the dragon and say, "Now that's what I call heartburn."
I had a moment kind of like this in my last session where a utility spell was used for something unexpected. I'm playing a Divine Soul Sorcerer, and pretty much gave myself mostly utility spells with a few damage options. Obligatory haste, misty step, vortex warp, various healing spells, etc. Roll up on a boss in a train destroying a town with intent to steal the train. Other sorcerer disables the train, boss ejects all of us from the train and makes it grow giant pink light legs (queue the Mettaton song). First turn my sorcerer gets, I vortex warp the boss, legs disappear, and the train that's a good 70 feet in the air is now coming down right in front of us. I put the boss directly underneath the falling train and he gets crushed to death by his own train.
That’s Alexstraza the Dragon Queen, Aspect of life. Shes a good guy unlike red dragons in dnd. The video specifically is the intro cinematic of Dragonflight depicting a titanic stone watcher risking his life to reawaken the dragon isles, and ending up falling to his presumed death before Alex rescues him.
@@Skullhawk13 I’d be a miserable player for a DM if I ever played DND just because I’d want to be friends with the dragons 💀. If dragon evil why look cool :((( why can’t tiamat be my homie despite her war crimes. Regardless cool as hell dragon design
@@edgytoucan3444 dragons in wow are ((mostly)) your friends. You got the red dragons protecting life, Green Dragons protecting this sorta alt version of the world if no mortal life ever rose called the emerald dream, Blue dragons embody and protect magic, Bronze Dragons are sorta time cops, protecting the timeline, Black dragons recently recovered from corruption and resumed as Guardians of Earth ((As in the element)). While every flight has had at least one example of being bad ((almost always against their will from corruption)) they plot of Dragonflight was mostly restoring their full power, cuz they gave up the bulk of their power in a much earlier expansion to save the world. I’m a total wow fan, My PFP is my main, but if you like dragons you’ll love wow. Even added playable Dragons sorta. Dracthyr are like dnd Dragonborn but with wings and can fly.
I had a dm who wanted so badly to start everyone over because all we did was goof off during the campaign so she would try her damnedest to get us killed she could've just forced us to restart but she wanted a proper death to all of us it was hilarious the solutions we thought of to escape our fates one time she was so sure we were dead she started handing out sheets for us to remake our characters but i said wait a moment my pet demon and I are from hell and when i die my soul is sent back to hell and my demon cannot die and he and I are bonded so we can communicate with each other so I can tell my demon to summon me from the depths of hell and i can use a true resurrection spell to bring back the rest of the party some rest and alot of dice rolling later I've brought back everyone sure some of them were brought back as zombies who could only do what i tell them to but everyone was back in one way or another and she just said fuck it and we continued that campaign and it was like i was a new mini-dm for the party because I was in control like I said I was a succubus necromancer for anyone wondering and yes it was hombrew
My friends and I played a oneshot recently with the final battle happening on top of a moving train. The bbeg swallowed a potent magical item and we were on a countdown until the whole thing exploded. One round left, nothing but failure to stop them until this point. I'd used command unsuccessfully twice in different fights before this point, but I figured this was as good a time to try again as any. "Vomit". The bbeg threw back up the magic item with moments to spare
The sorcerer cast his command to the dragon! In an instant he saw this age old beast of fire and death’s eyes widen, it’s tail wag, and it’s stance lower as it bound after him like Clifford the big red fucking dragon. Spectacular.
Genuinely your daggerfall series is one of my favorites of yours. Even just you trying not to lose your mind and chatting with, well, chat makes it all the better. Though I'd never say no to a revisit...
We just did an Adult Red Dragon fight! Our level 10 butts were getting whooped and the dragon was barely under half. So our Artificer decided to kamikaze into the Astral Plane with Bags of Holding.
I just imagine if this was movie the sorcerer casted control beast and as the dragon gets hypnotized he yell catch and the dragon just dives off very dramatically to catch him like something out a hole of movie
That's so clever. And bold. Relying on a dragon to fail its wisdom save.
It was a red dragon tbf
He's kinda short on options I'd guess and rather high on adrenaline
Hey, when your options are "definitely die" or "probably die", might as well try lol.
I'm just going to say, as a DM I'd let the dragon fail on the grounds of "that's dope af"
Why not feather fall and just cut you're losses. 🤷 🤣
That was even better when you realize not only did they have to have burned through its legendary resistances, but the dragon had to fail a +7 Wisdom save. THAT is the definition of a Hail Mary play.
or the dm thought, hey you know what, rule of cool, that's a good find
Or they wrote the story using the power of creative writing
@@FFKonoko yes, sometimes people make things up. We're all aware.
@@FFKonokosomeone's salty. 🧂
@@hauz287I mean he’s not wrong lol.
Just goes to show, even the most intricate and well-layed DM plans can be yeeted in any and every direction at once by a player with a crazy idea and some dumb luck. It's the main reason I love the game.
As long as the DM is honest anyway. Truly piss of the DM or get one of "Those Guys" DMs and the DC for something like this doesn't matter.
@truekurayami yeah. Those DMs do exist. My old group was 3 dms and as many players. We'd just take turns DMing, and we were well versed in thinking on the fly and embracing the chaos. I still remember my most unhinged character. A paladin (with negative int) with a celestial mount that could cast spells but it was cursed. Said curses effect was it farted out all spells. So there'd be a majestic flying white lion with angel wings just ripping inglorious a** as a lightning bolt fires out behind him.
@@christopherdark4671 One story was enough to tell me the DM can be a "That Guy" and his down fall was the beautiful insanity of a Call of Cthulhu character named Henderson.
@@truekurayamibeing a good DM requires a strong constitution and willingness to wear protective tape so you don't rub a hole in your forehead by all the stupid shit your players pull. One of my favorite bard stories involves failing an attempted seducing of a minotaur using my hit melody "My Agitated Dairy Has Brought the Townsfolk to My Land." Did I end up skinning it and wearing its hide and skull as armor and using the horns as an extra weapon? Maybe. Were my actions described as "sociopathic", "why are you like this?", and "that's probably a war crime of some sort. At least second degree murder."? Who knows? Point is, minotaur skin is great, you should get some. The intimidation compensates for the smell.
One DM learned never leave the map of the dungeon uncovered and the table of players time to examine it for traps, ambush sites and escape routes. My Rogue and husband as a paladin unintentionally pissed off the DM by accurately assessing the danger levels and said hmm instead of big fire. Lets start a small fire and run the dungeon. Some damn good rolls had the DM almost banning me from tournaments and changing my alignment from chaotic Neutral to evil. Lol
That DM was 100% ready to TPK, probably put away the new character sheets in disappointment, but respect
Nah, if he really wanted a TPK he would have gone for the cleric first
@@sergiom3988To be fair, the cleric is almost unstoppable
if you are ever trying to purposely tpk a party you've already failed as a DM
the *only* exception would be if this was something the whole party agreed to session zero.
there is a big difference between 'challenging gameplay' and "I don't have fun unless you die and cry"
@@zedekiahking4169i think in the original comment he was meaning that the dm was fully accepting the possibility that the dragon could just killed the party. Not intentionally trying to kill them but knowing that it very much could
@@nissama7885 then that's incompetence if you both miscalculated and also let the players *take the fall for your miscalculation.*
you *are* the dm. you aren't omniscient but you are omnipotent. you can decide the dragon laughs, spits on them, and leaves them battered but alive.
this dude was *trying* to kill the party. 😂
I gave a character a Cloak of Artillery, pretty much Cloak of Many Things but instead of things, it's weapons. Anything you can think of (within a medieval setting and reason, i trust my players), and you can spend a free object interaction to summon it either into your hand or, if it's a ballista or somrthing large like that, a space within 5 feet of you.
Now, this was a party of characters and players that I'd been with for almost 2 years, so I trust them not to abuse it. However, the guy who got the cloak, a bugbear paladin/fighter, he's smarter than the average bear.
They're riding on top of a mountain sized undead dragon (Ancalagon, but re-animated, in Middle Earth. Don't ask how a bugbear got there). They're freaking out. They were just walking along a hill WHEN THE HILL SUDDENLY STARTS MOVING AND THE HORIZON DISSAPEARS.
So naturally, they try to fight the thing. On its back. It does not like the tickling, so it tries to shake them off. Most of the party actually makes their saves, but the Bugbear doesn't. So as he's about to fall 300+ feet, he looks at me dead in the eyes, and says the following:
"I summon a catapult five feet below me. I would like to make a dexterity save to get in the spoon."
Me, not entirely processing what he's doing: "Okay, cushioning the fall, i like the thought process. Let's give it a DC 15, but with disadvantage because this thing is probably falling a lot faster than you are."
Him: "That'll be a 22. Now can I action surge, and make an attack action to cut the rope?"
Me, visibly shocked at his ingenuity: "Dude, I'm not even going to make you roll. You are more or less stationary. BUT, roll me percentile to see how accurate you are. Let's say, 75 or above, your mid-air aim is true, and you launch yourself back up onto the back. 51 to 74, you launch up, but you're going to need to roll me an acrobatics or athletics check to land safely. Anything below a 50, and you're plummeting."
Him: * rolls percentile, reads the results, then sits back with a shit eating grin *
I look over, and sitting on the table, for everyone to see, is a fucking 100. He pirouetted onto the back of Ancalagon out of a catapult midair. I love my party. Sorry for the long story.
It's shit like this that makes me want to play D&D so bad.
@nicholasjuergens4240 easily my favourite group. Ive been with them for about 3 or 4 years now i believe, and we always meet saturdays at our local game store. It's so fun when you find the perfect group!
Interesting. Though, I don’t think that’s how a catapult would function in a free fall. Could be wrong.
@@midas9935correct, if not planted on the ground it wouldn't really work. But in the heat of the moment in game? It just works
Definition of the “Rule of Cool”
Command is one of those spells that can be utterly EPIC by choosing the right word.
I had an enemy NPC use the word "Repent" on a player to force her to grovel for one round. It had exactly the intended effect, cementing that NPC as a hated enemy who they were willing to go any lengths to ruin.
Dang, that makes me mad just reading it
Did the party fuck them up?
(Did they?)
Did they?
@@Schregger Oh, they did MUCH worse than that. By the time they were done with her, she had been stripped of her clerical powers, exiled, and had zero loyal allies remaining.
They were even so merciful as to PUBLICLY spare her life, showing everyone how virtuous and heroic they were.
Of course, the character who she had used Command on just so happened to be a *Ranger,* and they were all practical enough to know that leaving her alive would just be giving her the chance to get picked up by another god and come back for revenge. And the wilderness is such a dangerous place...
Adding "getting our ass beat inside out" to my lexicon
Lol.
Classic Australia/New Zealand slang
Here are some more:
Got slapped up
Got smoked
Booted our ass
@@SHOGUNTAHIRIgood shit
My grandfather used to say something with very similar energy "Im gonna kick your ass until your nose bleeds" ....let that marinade for a second....kick your ass. Until your nose bleeds. Kick your ass, so long, so many times, that eventually his foot will go directly through your entire body to make your nose bloody...and he looked like he could do it to 😂😂😂
Dragon: YEET!
Sorcerer: Catch!
Dragon: *wags tail* WOOF!
Also dragon, *staring at the sorcerer clutched in his claws.* Da fuq?
Don't most animals catch with their mouth?
Crunch
@@bastionsea2829 It really depends on the animal. It’s perceftly reasonable for a creature like a dragon to also make use their talons, considering that’s at least partially what talons are for.
@@junebunny0712 I would think they'd naturally grab something from the air with their mouth,as that's the furthest in front of them
@@bastionsea2829 He said "Catch" not "Fetch"!
@@TheLaluciDaniel and the difference is just the return
I was playing in a campaign where two of the PCs had their souls linked because backstory reasons. These PCs *hate* each other. They were arguing and my cleric had had enough of it, so he cast Command "apologize." Because of the soul link it affected both of them. They both failed the save. They proceeded to hug each other, sobbing and making up. We were talking about that moment for at least a month after.
*Fighter leans in:* "I thought that spell only lasts for a few moments?"
*Cleric, watching them continue to cry in eachothers arms for the last half hour:* "It does."
Wow, people are a lot more forgiving than I am if a player casts a spell, especially a charm, to force me to do something.
A bard in my party once did that because I had found a cool looking dagger that he demanded I give him.
After the charm stopped working, I immediatly responded with using a full round to attack and smite him, dropping him in one turn. I then stabilized him, took back the dagger and left him behind for the rest of the party to pick up later.
In a 3.5 E game that I ran many years ago, I had a juvenile black dragon (with 3 assassin class levels) who managed to separate the gnome wizard from the party with a wand of stoneshape near a cliff.
The wizard's reaction? Taunt the dragon and jump off the cliff after him. As the dragon was diving down to catch him in mid air, the wizard cast rope trick and catches the dragon mid air in a noose, then feather falls to the ground.
Successfully hung a dragon mid dive.
Holy hell, the balls on that wizard... 😮
@@djk1410 It was an epic moment.
This was back in the 3.5 ed days, but still one of the coolest scenes I have run.
Command and suggestion can be hilarious. My party had a flying tavern, and a bad guy snuck on board while we were grounded. They were a werewolf, and my character was an edgy wizard who really liked to intimidate foes by humiliating them. The werewolf was on the edge of the entryway and my character cast command... to have the werewolf "Flip". The werewolf rolled a nat 1 on the Acrobatics check and plummeted 300 feet.
“Oyasumi”
That is by far the best play I've ever heard of besides body slamming the actual dragon by Los Tiburon
Edit: fixed the name of the PC
That, plus that time a guy managed to Geass a Kracken to be the party's loyal protector on ACCIDENT.
played a Bard that specialized in dealing with dragon's.. no, not THAT way. We were flying on a dragon in a sufficiently large Underdark cavern, being chased by a drow Matron Mother on another dragon, having spells slung at us. I do the one option I could think of to disorient or deal with the drow. I managed to convince the dragon to do one, singular action. And that action? "Do a barrel roll!" Dragon spun around as it flew, disorienting it's rider, causing them to leave. Which is good, because it now had negatives to resist me, and my next 'suggestion' was gonna be "Hey, something looks stuck to your back. May wanna grind your back against the cavern wall to scratch it off."@@fanusobscurus
*"I roll to pin"*
*NATURAL. FUCKING. TWENTY.*
That was an epic tale, start to finish.
Los* Tiburon
But yes I'm planning an homage play in our current dragon fight in one of my groups
Los Tiburon is a legend among orcs and adventurers alike
Not his face on the statue 😂
🗿
One rare occasion where the cleric actually heals the party.
Is it actually that rare? I always do a level of fighter with my clerics so i can armor up, on a dwarf so my movement speed doesn't decrease so i can sit in the thick of it and heal
@@diraltmcallister3523
Why not just
Scale mail
+2 dexterity modifier
Shield
18 AC at lvl 1?
@@diraltmcallister3523 most clerics get heavy armour a good few get martial weapon prof
@thedrunkengreybeareddwarf8431 the healing cleric gets heavy armor prof as well
Excuse you. I have a limited amount of spell slots.... Granted, I prefer the healer from the Miniatures Guide
Dude now I wanna see this in a movie. I'm just visualizing a sorcerer falling to his death, everyone left barely clinging to life, then just a close up shot of the falling sorcerer uttering the word "catch", and the dragon swoops towards him, scoops him up, and flies back to the edge of the cliff where the party, now healed enough to fight, stand glaring at it
HTTYD3 is pretty close.
I can only imagine the sheer excitement from the dm and the party screaming
Who's the Bestest Dragon?! YOU ARE!!...Now let go of the Wizard...
Erm… 🤓 sorcerer
@@DaBlueIghuana ...eh, same Stick different color...
@@OrpheusSpyros5 I wish this wasn’t true
@@DaBlueIghuana so does The Sorcerer and Wizard. XD
@@OrpheusSpyros5as a sorcerer main, I'll take it, anything to make those wizards annoyed
Most epic save ever!
Or rather, the most epic *failed* save!
The embodiment of the "If they came to hear me beg" achievement from Halo Reach.
Last minute save from a most certain death.
Man, I tried for ages to get that achievement on the original 360. Never got it. I eventually got the MCC and was able to pull it off but learned that it wasn't one of the achievements ported over.
Every time I think I’ve come up with the best Command shenanigan, I see a story like this and I’m reminded that creativity is infinite
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Catch!
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Use Command to force an enemy to use an action that contradicts their action before.
love this story. Keep up the good work
Alright we need more epic stories like this.
I need this animated - imagine how badass it would look
Honestly I've had so many scenes as a player and dm that I was waiting on the tpk and just so happen to roll with the luck of a god to get ourselves out of it... Including the good ol talk no jutsu... which had our dm falling to the floor with the absurdity
Honestly, the dragonflight trailer clips fit this scene way too well, lol.
Catch. That has got to be one of the coldest plays I've ever heard. That's some Litch king levels of command skill. This story is too cool!
IT'S NOT WHAT YOU HEARD
IT'S WHAT YOU HEARIN!
"Party is fighting an adult red dragon-"
Understandable have a nice day
“Catch”….badass 👍🏾🤣
Love a DM that's not afraid to kill their players. Thats the type of DMing that allows for epic moments like this
That’s an incredible use of Command, resourceful player
Command is such an underrated spell. Yeah, it is easier to pass the higher level you are due to creatures having better saves, but the things you can do with it are incredibly useful.
"Fetch"
That's what I hoped he would say :D
Nom
**dragon returns with a broken off world tree in it's mouth**
That music goes so hard with that tale
Song name please?
@@BradenASDF Its the beat to DMX's "X gonna give it to ya"
Oof the use of music on this one, nicely done
Cool, now provide my adhd brain with songs title! Pleeeese!
@@werdmatthias it's a cover of DMX's X Gon' Give it to Ya. Not sure who it's by
@@simonnading oh god, thank you
CLUTCHED
I mean that’s a hell of a way to do it but a sorcerer should always have an escape for this situation, even in the second level spells you have Levitate, Vortex Warp, depending on your DM warding wind and web
At third level you have fly, gaseous form, thunder step, again dependent on your dm you could argue for slow, and by all technicality blinking into the ethereal plane would protect you from
Fall damage as it specifies that only creatures in the etherial plane can hurt you, although I’d imagine most DMs are going to turn that down even rule heavy ones
For fourth level spells which is the highest I’m going for this theoretical you have banishment which as long as you’re not from any other plane would pause your momentum and reduce your fall damage, dimension door, polymorph, stoneskin, and again depending on your DM watery sphere as it restrains you in place.
I will preemptively explain why stoneskin is a great option, seeing as fall damage in 5e is calculated at 1d6 per 10 feet and you hit terminal velocity at 200, the maximum fall damage you can take is 120 and that is with all 20 d6s rolling max, in reality you’ll likely take closer to 40-80, stoneskin resistance to bludgeoning halves that damage sorcerer survives a 200 foot fall no problem
They are unlikely to have those second level spells, and probably most of those 4th level spells either, and having been fighting a dragon as a sorcerer, were probably burned out on spell slots
So my brother had got knocked prone and he was rolling his death saves as we were fighting a giant snake lady and her giant pet eel and it was not looking good. I only had 15 hit points it or 75 and my bro could.not help since he was down. So my dumb barbarien fighter had grabbed a anchor that I found that weighed only 2 pounds to the person holding it and rolled a nat 20. I lived by dealing 198 damage in one blow to both of them and I was on 3 hit points.
That sounds like something you’d see in an epic fantasy movie or anime or something- I need to see this animated in a dramatic way and a story I’m invested in.
Love when what the DM thinks is a surefire TPK is not
That sounds like it'd be in a movie.
That actually goes really fucking hard
These kinds of battles are my favourite! They make the best memories
feather fall is like insurance, completely useless until you need it......or you can just be replaced it with command i guess.
Yeah always have Feather Fall prepped especially at lower levels where a 20ft drop can severely injure or knock out a character. Speaking of which I'm about to run a divination wizard (8hp 😬) in Death House so uh... wish me luck on that lol.
@@1mariomaniac oh the curse of being a low level wizard, have fun
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Thought it was bout to go “But our Bard saved the day by, you guessed it, seducing the dragon”😂😂😂
I heard a similar one where one of the characters had a single use magic item that could swap places with their target (momentum and all), the DM forgot about the item... the players didnt.
And in one of their fights the monster they were up against was almost invincible to malicious spells (effectively damaging spells), with the intent it would force them to fight it physically.
Instead after a similar thing to what happened in this video, they were plummeting to their deaths when they swapped places and the monster went splat.
Their DM was very careful about the items they gave out on a whim after that.
Catch is one of the best power words for a dragon until you realize you’re in its hand
A glove? Nice
A good example of the DM going “well played” instead of getting angry
Heh, I gave my player a magic baseball glove too! It's an object enchanted to summon a mage hand, and because their whole character schtick is 'vaguely baseball themed', it transformed into a ghostly mitt when they attuned to it.
DMX and DnD goes so hard together
You know... if the DM was even more wicked, he'd have the dragon swoop down to catch the sorcerer... in its mouth.
DM: "What? you just said catch... you didn't say how. Now my dragon gets a nice little snack."
Still buys the cleric time. Noble sacrifice
Tbh that's exactly what I would have done. Haha
Tbf, eaten by a dragon does not necessarily mean "dead"
Just rip and tear at the insides of the dragon, or use fireball so the bard can vicious mockery the dragon and say, "Now that's what I call heartburn."
And remember, the AC INSIDE is half that of outside.@@ozfifer7392
@@ozfifer7392there are rules for being eaten whole and I think you can still cast spells. Command: Vomit
I knew what was coming when he said "Command", but it was still a great twist.
I’d have said “fetch”
Next thing you know is the snap of dragon teeth
Song is X gon’ give it to ya by DMX if anyone curious
“We’re getting our ass beat inside out”
Oh you guys let the bard handle this one?
I had a moment kind of like this in my last session where a utility spell was used for something unexpected. I'm playing a Divine Soul Sorcerer, and pretty much gave myself mostly utility spells with a few damage options. Obligatory haste, misty step, vortex warp, various healing spells, etc.
Roll up on a boss in a train destroying a town with intent to steal the train. Other sorcerer disables the train, boss ejects all of us from the train and makes it grow giant pink light legs (queue the Mettaton song).
First turn my sorcerer gets, I vortex warp the boss, legs disappear, and the train that's a good 70 feet in the air is now coming down right in front of us. I put the boss directly underneath the falling train and he gets crushed to death by his own train.
Where is the dragon video from?
World of warcraft: Dragonflight
That’s Alexstraza the Dragon Queen, Aspect of life. Shes a good guy unlike red dragons in dnd. The video specifically is the intro cinematic of Dragonflight depicting a titanic stone watcher risking his life to reawaken the dragon isles, and ending up falling to his presumed death before Alex rescues him.
@@Skullhawk13 I’d be a miserable player for a DM if I ever played DND just because I’d want to be friends with the dragons 💀. If dragon evil why look cool :((( why can’t tiamat be my homie despite her war crimes.
Regardless cool as hell dragon design
@@edgytoucan3444 dragons in wow are ((mostly)) your friends. You got the red dragons protecting life, Green Dragons protecting this sorta alt version of the world if no mortal life ever rose called the emerald dream, Blue dragons embody and protect magic, Bronze Dragons are sorta time cops, protecting the timeline, Black dragons recently recovered from corruption and resumed as Guardians of Earth ((As in the element)). While every flight has had at least one example of being bad ((almost always against their will from corruption)) they plot of Dragonflight was mostly restoring their full power, cuz they gave up the bulk of their power in a much earlier expansion to save the world. I’m a total wow fan, My PFP is my main, but if you like dragons you’ll love wow. Even added playable Dragons sorta. Dracthyr are like dnd Dragonborn but with wings and can fly.
That has to look awesome if you picture it
Like you get thrown off and just say "catch" and your enemy saves you
Love the story. But what does the magic baseball glove do?
I think it’s more just a gag. He commanded the dragon to catch and baseball gloves are used when you play catch/for catching baseballs.
Catch.
Reflavored glove of missile snaring
Impressive catching. With magic.
Gifting him a magical baseball glove was a nice touch!! Great memorabilia for that "catch" command. 😆😂👍👍😌
I had a dm who wanted so badly to start everyone over because all we did was goof off during the campaign so she would try her damnedest to get us killed she could've just forced us to restart but she wanted a proper death to all of us it was hilarious the solutions we thought of to escape our fates one time she was so sure we were dead she started handing out sheets for us to remake our characters but i said wait a moment my pet demon and I are from hell and when i die my soul is sent back to hell and my demon cannot die and he and I are bonded so we can communicate with each other so I can tell my demon to summon me from the depths of hell and i can use a true resurrection spell to bring back the rest of the party some rest and alot of dice rolling later I've brought back everyone sure some of them were brought back as zombies who could only do what i tell them to but everyone was back in one way or another and she just said fuck it and we continued that campaign and it was like i was a new mini-dm for the party because I was in control like I said I was a succubus necromancer for anyone wondering and yes it was hombrew
Big brain play. That felt like something straight out of a movie.
*Falling*
"Hey dragon!"
*flips the dragon a middle finger*
"Catch."
I can physically hear the table cheering and shouting over this.
"Catch" what a legendary word
When you bamboozle the dragon into throwing an alley-oop 😂😂
My always cursing ass after telepethically talking with the dragon: Fuck!
... Oh shit.
I need an animation of bro grinning as he just shouts "CATCH" to the dragon as it swoops down to catch him
My friends and I played a oneshot recently with the final battle happening on top of a moving train. The bbeg swallowed a potent magical item and we were on a countdown until the whole thing exploded. One round left, nothing but failure to stop them until this point. I'd used command unsuccessfully twice in different fights before this point, but I figured this was as good a time to try again as any. "Vomit". The bbeg threw back up the magic item with moments to spare
Getting an item related to the way you defeated the enemy is 100% the DM showing begrudging respect.
Nice touch using the Dragonflight cinematic.
The sorcerer cast his command to the dragon! In an instant he saw this age old beast of fire and death’s eyes widen, it’s tail wag, and it’s stance lower as it bound after him like Clifford the big red fucking dragon.
Spectacular.
Genuinely your daggerfall series is one of my favorites of yours. Even just you trying not to lose your mind and chatting with, well, chat makes it all the better. Though I'd never say no to a revisit...
I love DMX plays throughout this.
This should be in the next DnD movie, honesty.
Winning on hair's breath is this the best!
I literally went "DAAAAAMN!!!" when he said the word "catch." Damn damn damn may all of us have at least one fight as badass as that.
That IS perfect use of Command!
We just did an Adult Red Dragon fight! Our level 10 butts were getting whooped and the dragon was barely under half. So our Artificer decided to kamikaze into the Astral Plane with Bags of Holding.
That’s the coolest dnd story I’ve heard lmao
The dragon loved playing catch so much he befriends the party!😊
The dragon got to be a pitcher AND a catcher, what a show of true skill...
I could imagine the other players freaking out when the sorcerer does this like “NO WAY LETS GO HA HE DID THAT”
You that hail Mary under presser be the life!!!
That has to be the most satisfying narrative-by-play ever, of all time.
I love command. Such a fantastic spell in the right circumstances.
Love the creative escapes 😂
Perfect use of the Dragonflight cinematic lol
DM wasn’t giving em a dramatic death. Dude gave him some extra motivation to think outside the box. Well done on both parts.
The music editing really sells the entire story
Wow sorcerer came in clutch there 😂
That sorcerer is absolutely GOATed.
I just imagine if this was movie the sorcerer casted control beast and as the dragon gets hypnotized he yell catch and the dragon just dives off very dramatically to catch him like something out a hole of movie
Dragonflight trailer fits so perfectly here
The magic baseball gloves sends me 😂
The music made this even better
This is the *OH FUCK YEAH!* moment that I live for.
I do love the use on my fav workout song for this whole thing.