(Animated Spellbook) D&D 5E HEAT METAL
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Heat Metal is a great second level spell for Bards and Druids in D&D 5E.
Tabaxi Bard and Gnome Druid voiced by Hilletje Bashew
You misspelled "Detect Piercings."
This comment made me clench.
@@NrdCool that's a unique place to have a piercing.
“Oh... oh god. I think that’s a... oh, yep. Ok, official cause of death..... Prince Albert Piercing.”
@@JB-xl2jc Well, at least you still have to see the metal object in question to cast heat metal on it. So that kind of limits it to bath houses and similar.. I hope.
As someone fond of lip and button piercings (yes those ones), Yikes. I had one character who had a tongue piercing she would use to cast Darkness on.
However, you do have to see the object to target it.
Imagine a class feature that lets you target things you can't see though.
If a gelatinous cube or similar enemy has armor inside it, you can cook them from the inside out.
Azure Blackbird; Dragons, and other huge or large monsters beware, your decision to eat adventurers whole will be your undoing. Except for reds and other resistant/immune monsters.
@@infinitemind3719 you have to be able to see the item so it only works on cubes and stuff because they're transparent.
@@FrostSylph just cut a hole in the dragon duh
holy crap I never thought of that, very clever.
Tried that once, the DM quite reasonably responded by having it spit out the offending chunk of metal - a sword in our case - after a couple of rounds. Even cubes have some basic survival instincts. Fine by us anyway, we wanted the sword for a patron way more than we wanted the cube dead.
And that children is called a ‘War Crime’
Then again, so is half the stuff your average DnD adventurer gets up to. Yes, even the Lawful Good ones.
To be fair no one has managed to get the adventuring guilds to sign the Geneva conventions.
So no, it ain't a warcrime until the proper authorities can quantify it.
You call it a 'War Crime'. I call it an 'Asshole Victim'.
@@nonya1366 If they are able to capture you, they are the authorities, and most DMs are very much "do unto others", so don't be surprised if you find yourself getting an iron mask if you try to cook and book.
Yeah. We were playing a steampunk fantasy world meets Alice in wonderland and one of the main bosses was a clockwork golem. Getting a lucky roll on an intelligent check allowed me to find out that some of the main wiring for this boss was very weak and that heating it would cause it to melt and break. So I used some heat metal on its wiring and took it down by myself in 2 turns.
barkeep: "i'm telling you man they're psychos no party of adventurers has two bards"
Ever since I heard of how versatile they are in 5th edition I have wanted to see a party of all bards. A while back I found a gaming webcomic that had a party of all clerics that steamrolled a high level module so a party of the same class, but different enough builds sounds fun- and compared to 3.5 clerics, 5e bards aren't so powerful that this would be broken. But with this video I realized you could have an entire campaign revolve around a band of bards that go and have adventures, which may or may not include asasinations, while under cover as simple musicians.
A band on tour. Love it.
Bards are an incredibly versatile class. You could have an ENTIRE PARTY of Bards and they are customizable enough that the party can still fill every role.
One of my favorite party concepts is “Traveling band on tour that just wants to play their gigs, but the towns they go to always have something happening to them and they have to do adventuring things to make the shows happen.”
@@crowsenpai5625 Yes- this- I want to see a D&D musician version of Mystery inc- traveling everywhere, playing music, but there is always some adventure to be found before they can play
@@timothycarney9652 basically always shit like
(Band arrives at a town) Lead “alright, now to get ready for our gig and- why isn’t the stage set up?”
Mayor “oh, the concert was scheduled for today? Sorry, but our town is in a dire situation. An evil Necromancer has kidnapped most of the town shortly before you arrived and plans to use them for some nefarious ritual. We’ve sent a messenger to find some adventurers, but we fear they won’t arrive in time. He plans to sacrifice all of them tonight during the full moon. There’s no one left here, so there’s no point in something like a concert.”
Lead *looong drawn out sigh* “fucking third time this week, OK WHAT DIRECTION DID THEY GO!?”
Mayor “you mean you’ll-“
Lead “yeah yeah, put a lot of practice in for this gig we ain’t going to have it wasted, what direction!?”
And then they kill the Necromancer, save everyone and have a banging show with great RP...and then reach the next village
Mayor “oh, the band. Sorry, but you see”
Lead “oh no.”
Mayor “there’s been this roaming pack of werewolves recently that have been-“
Lead “ *OH GOD DAMN IT!* ”
Anyone: Bards are wimps.
Bards: That's awfully brave talk for someone within painful burning death range.
Paladin out side of melee range: BARDS SUCK
Also paladin: why does my ass smell like bacon
Druid says hi.
*Laughs in monk*
Forge Cleric: I'm not impressed. I can do that and I immune to fire.
Thats cute talk for someone within fireball range
"...What's he wearing, again?"
_whole party slightly recoils_
For the last time, it's a Kilt, it prevents you from being cooked alive by druids and bards and refreshes your buddy down there
That's my party when I ask "how much does this rock weight?" knowing my only damage spell is catapult
@@LoremasterLobsang Been there before... even had a Gem set and pickaxe to make it the right size.
@@LoremasterLobsang I scooped up 10lbs of shit and rolled a 20 for my attack with catapult in my last game. I am now known as the fecalmancer...
@@LoremasterLobsang did you know that casting catapult won't break stealth? the more you know ~*
" -And that's the story of why bands of bards make Paladins nervous"
Aka another reason to carry a ranged weapon.
@@dynamicworlds1 or pack a ring of fire resistance.
Or be an iron golem
@@rory8182 step 1: cast heat metal on iron golem
Step 2: order it to hug target
Step 3:???
Step 4: Profit!
This is why you have armor made of non metal materials. Bone, exoskeletons, bonemold, and even stone are good alternatives to metal, also good for fighting rust monsters.
My first thought after realising what this does:
Holy shit, that's some war crime material.
End of video:
Holy shit, that's some war crime material.
My response at the start was "That is horrifying!"
My response at the end was ".... Welp, there goes 99% of any enemy using metal armor against me."
ngl this spell seems pretty op
then again plate armor doesn't directly contact the skin, so by RAW it wont actually burn them alive if they're in plate.
@@jackbright2125 "A suit of plate includes[...] thick layers of padding underneath the armor" for plate armor and "Any creature in physical contact with the object" for Heat Metal. RAW, it doesn't matter that the metal part isn't touching their skin, because they're still in contact with the armor, since the padding is part of it.
@@brennanruiz1803 they would still be roasted, but it wouldent melt there skin to the armor so its slightly less war-crimey
@@brennanruiz1803 Note to self, kill giant crab, use shell to make plate armor.
My god. Every blacksmith in the world must love this spell. Do you know how long a piece of glowing hot steel stays workable? About fifteen seconds. This spell heats metal to working temperature for over a minute without using any coal or requiring anyone to work a bellows. Hell, you wouldn’t even need a forge, just a hammer and anvil.
I mean, Cleric of the Forge exists, and sounds like a dope character background. Basically a medieval handyman who works where ever to fix things for coin
That depends on the thickness of the metal, with thicker stock taking longer to cool because, well, physics. Warmer weather can also assist slightly.
For example, if you get 1 inch stock steel to 2200 degrees you can have a good minute of hammering sometimes before it loses its cherry red color.
But I do agree and think that would make an excellent character concept that I’m definitely not going to steal.
@@norsebarbarian2843 you are definitely correct, I just tend to work on thinner stocks so that hadn’t occurred to me. The amount of thermal energy that heat metal could create by heating solid chunks of metal is ridiculous.
@@GusCraft460 oh yeah, thin stock loses it damn quick, just like you said. Fifteen seconds and it’s back in the forge, lol.
I’m gonna start working on a character concept for this, the idea is just too fun to not look into. Dwarf feels like a must.
it heats the metal enough to cook a person.... doesnt mean it heats it enough to forge metal.
But I so think the rule of cool applies here.
"The spell is called Heat Metal, not Detect Piercings."
Personal addendum: It's also not called Detect Fillings. Nor Detect Hip Replacements.
That's fair. The caster should be able to see the thing they're casting the spell on to work.
If you are a very evil person and I love you for this. I never even suspected that I could pull this crap off. But.... Now I feel sorry for anybody who has dental work. If and does a very stereotypical evil laugh at me.
Let's see how you enjoy your teeth melting jerk!
@@theimperviousfirecracker7934 yep, the spell explicitely states you need to see the metal in order to cast it
"I'm still havin' nightmares about the joust" XD
I want these guys in more videos. I kinda like the idea of the Gnoll being the voice of reason to the rest of the party.
If your party is more reasonable then a gnoll, can they really call themselves adventurers in an RPG?
What joust are they talking about?
@@MaximilianBrandt Presumably just referring to a previous 'cook & book'
@@MaximilianBrandt It's a line to indicate that the group has done this tactic before.
It's a sort of "noodle incident" type scenario.
The gnoll having nightmares about it indicates that it was a horrifying incident.
One player's overuse of this spell made chitin armor come back into fashion in my campaign world.
I'm considering a light armor undercoat with a release strap for the heavy armor. Target can keep the heavy armor, but if the extremely prevalent spell shows up, pull the strap and the armor falls off.
A general undercoat would also help, because it's only *direct* contact.
@@jenoc3541 mage hand to pull the strap. Disarmored enemy.
@@luka_8 and then the heated enemy goes to hug an opponent!
The demand for henchmen with dispel magic prepared has skyrocketed!
1. Cast Glyph of Warding on a set of heavy armor
2. Store heat metal
3. trigger:donned
4. Gift to Local Lord
Glyph of warding can't be moved from where it's cast, so he'd have to come to you.
Well, as long as the armor isn't moved more than 10 feet from where the spell was cast in the meantime.
Honestly the 10 ft rule sucks and as aDM I'd do away with it
@@sir_slimestone3797 it _does_ raise questions about relative motion that always give me a headache. Like, if you cast it inside a boat, does it fail if the boat moves ten feet? Or are we to measure its position relative to the area it's in? But then where do you draw the line; could you cast it while it's in a box and then just move the box?
@@Fralexion I remember reading about the abuse of The Immovable Rod as a siege weapon. It's suggested that if you treat the magic as relative to space and time, then you could theoretically let a planet's rotation move the rod at the speed of said rotation, as opposed to the rod being immobile in relation to its planet or plane.
Recently, my D&D group came across Kingston: a mutated, undead horse...thing...that was accidentally created by the party’s Necromancer (Me!)
Before the fight, the DM pointed out that he still had horseshoes on.
Our Druid smiled...
How did you accidentally create it? Did you fail a save when you were making something or was it just something that happened? Because we all know what DM's are like XD
@@AngelShadowheart Kingston's creation was part of my character's backstory...so was made by the power of plot :D
@@bluefootwalking fair enough, I do feel that most often story trumps the rules some things wouldn't be as fun otherwise
"Okay, *why* did you spend hours learning how to play Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire' on a lute?"
"=B"
"Burning for you" by Blue Oyster Cult would also work.
Disco inferno...
Fireball
I feel into a burning ring of fire.
"Pyromania"
Your channel is really heating up.
OH NO!! Another Fireball.
Wow over 200 likes... you're on-fire!
Bet you think you are hot shit, huh.
what a sizzler of a comment
Fun fact: melted skin is like an adhesive. Have fun.
Nightmares it is then...
Your damn right, especially to anything other than 100% cotton and sometimes wool. Not only can you burn these peoples bodies, but youll probably adhere so much that even if they survive the battle by running away, theyll need a team of clerics and other surgeon equivalents to save em from subsequent damages, if youre playing a very realistic game. So yeah, itll kill em, but itll just prolong it to the point of being a horrendous war crime.
@@korvincarry3268 Well if someone was playing/running a 'very realistic' game, then I'd hope it would be noted that plate armor is padded with thick wool or cloth layers underneath, so the plate is technically not directly touching the person's skin. Same with chain mail, you'd typically have a gambeson or an arming shirt under your mail coat or shirt, and I'd imagine it wouldn't take long to grab the mail and pull it off yourself, at the expense of a few bad burns on the cheeks, but still better than cooking. But overall there are a lot of variables that could be called into question with this spell.
Thanks for making this spell about 1000 times worse
I.. Im not entirely sure i want to..
"Sweet buttery disadvantage." is now my favorite way to tell someone they have that.
Meanwhile with the Forge Clerics.*
"Cook and book? More like Heat and beat."
Warforge Clerics: want a hug?
Dwarf forge clerics... "you mean the thing I cast when smithing... Well i suppose I could cast it on that guy in full plate... Will ruin the plate though... Smell will never come out..."
“You’re armor seems to have some impurities in it.” (Casts Heat Metal and pulls out a forge hammer) “Let me get those out for you, no need to remove the armor first.”
Just FYI, as of Eberron: Rising From the Last War, Articifers can cast this spell, too.
>thisiswherethefunbegins.jpeg
This' why I am here, with my LVL 10 Artificer doggo Royce :D
aaaaand there it is, phew thought id have to respec a second there.
I love this spell, and am glad that forge clerics also get access to it.
Oof
Aero Foil legit in playing a forge clerics where most enemies are metal constructs
@@vakiova103 In that case, they can never avoid heat metal.
@@kannonball5789 He also has birds covered in metal wings.
@@kannonball5789 The spell can only target a "manufactured object". This means it can't target natural metal (because it's not manufactured), nor can it target a creature made of metal (because it's not an object). Yeah, kind of silly, I sometimes don't understand why the targeting rules are what they are, but RAW you can't cast this on creatures made of metal.
Why do I feel that D&D settings needs their own Geneva Convention?
Because you are a smart individual
Eh, such things were more unofficial I think. If you don't use this nasty weapon of war neither will we kinda things. And there were a lot of nasty weapons of war. Which includes crap and dead bodies. Yes, they would fling such things into places during a seige. The resulting diseases would weaken the defenders enough to allow easier entry. The idea of biological weapons is quite old.
@@jacobfreeman5444 I mean, such rules and norms were more about protecting nobles than human rights...unfortunately, and it got even worse if you weren't of the same religion or denomination.
Force cage whole target is next to a fire. No matter can pass through the cage, including oxygen. They suffocate long before the spell ends. Have fun!
Geneva convention... you mean bingo card lol.
"Cook and book" is an odd way to say "Brazen Bull."
I got that reference.
Indeed it is, except no cool sound while it’s happening
That is brutal
Imagine an animated bull statue combined with this, and it eats the party...
Terrifying.
@@guyperson7487 That depends greatly on party perspectives.
One of my first characters was a druid with this spell. The DM went along with my plan to use the spell on the blade of the Fighter's sword, and only the blade portion. This let the fighter add the spell's damage to his attacks. Then he got a magic sword that let him imbue his breath weapon damage (he was a copper dragonborn) into it instead of breathing it like normal. Acid breath buff + heat metal buff = napalm coated magic greatsword. It was badass.
I actually think's it's a neat add to the potential of Buff from Druid and Bard (mainly druid). I would reduce the Buff to 1d8, or 2d8 if the wielder take a disadvantage (choice of the caster) because the Elemental Weapons, a level 3 spell offer only 1d4 damage and +1 to attack. I would also probalby only allow it if the weapon is usable in this state : a spear, greataxe or maul, a Rapier, Arrows, etc. A sword might be abit much
That strategy would work well with a hafted weapon like a spear or polearm. Hmm...
I would just like to point out that if you were playing with a red hot sword and somebody else used their sort against it the blade would be pretty easily cut in half
A trade off to balance this would be to make this damage the weapon. Perhaps have the weapon take 1 permanent damage for every attack dealt using it while heated, or else have the weapon be ruined after the spell effect ends.
Hot metal is soft. Heating and cooling would also do weird things to any heat treatment or work hardening, which may or may not be something your weapons have, depending.
@@seigeengine Improper heating ruins the temper and can turn metal brittle
As a Cleric, I cast this on my shield and basically ironed a guys face.
A favorite tactic of the 17th level Forge Cleric
I mean that doesn't seem like a good idea. It'd be extremely questionable if the dm ruled you didn't take damage from your own shield, and you'd need to make an attack roll every round in order to put the enemy in contact with your shield. Unless you have a dm who's got a very weak grasp of logic and physics that strategy would be awful
A true person of the cloth
@@DibbzTheLoner DM probably allowed it cause it sounded fun.
17th level forge clerics get immunity to fire
Me, a DM: *has an NPC with a metal prosthetic arm friendly to the party*
Me: *sees this video*
Me: *also has an enemy NPC that qualifies as a druid with no respect for humanoid life*
Me: "I'll just... tuck this idea away for later." *scribbles notes*
You sadistic bitch....
I LOVE IT
The dude whose head is missing have similar one in party. Believes that humanoids fuck up the nature so much that its best to erase them all or go back into Stone Age, even though its too late for such developed societies to go that way without 99% dying off.
The dude whose head is missing interesting, but not that uncommon
Man is directly opposed to nature after all.
I guess its kinda my response to people assuming all druids are these good-natured, tree-hugging hippies. But this is coming from someone who really likes to play up the 'daym nature you scary' aspect of druids. So a morally grey/dubious druid doesn't feel like that much of a stretch for me.
You may need to ask additional questions to the DM like how attached this metal arm is to the NPC. If it slides on like modern prosthetics and is not bolted on, quickly detaching the metal arm might save the NPC. That said, asking those questions about the arm would probably make your DM very suspicious.
Is that a gnoll bard? I love him.
We need more 'yeens in our lives ^.^
Snarles Barkley
Agreed!
@@JBrunette OH MY GOD YES
He's adorable
Back in my old regular Pathfinder game, we called this spell "the spicy keychain" after we used it on a guard to get him to drop our keys.
AH THE OL SPICY KEYCHAIN
HOW COULD YOU DO THE SPICY KEYCHAIN TO YOUR OWN BROTHER?
I have never thought of that... this spell has way to many uses.
This is one of my favorite spells. It can just fuck with so many BBEGs. Makes them hate you as much as you hate them.
But, what's extra scary is when the DM brings an NPC against you that knows it. :v
As it's a second level spell though, it can be dispelled without contest, so if you have dispel magic prepared they have to choose between recasting it every turn and giving up
@@sjhsoccer hey, using a second level slot to burn their third level slots ain't half bad of a trade.
@@Zedrinbot Very true
or at least its scary for those who wear armor and use melee weapons. last i checked leather armor and longbows werent metal.
@@soup4219 dex users win yet again u_u
my party has an iron golem that we occasionally cast this spell on and have him bear hug people... (also, iron golems regain HP from fire...)
Hug to death!
My party didn't know this, and one of my players was notorious for heating metal. I kept giving them hints that they weren't doing damage, but in the end I just told them outright. They were very disappointed, lol
>Be me, humble magic user
>Work alone on family's farm
>Use spells such as Move Earth to dig irrigation channels, Heat Metal to work in the forge, etc
>Nearby city is under siege of ruthless warlord
>Endless heroes die to his sword
>Spend a week digging a giant cliff out in my farm
>Make a large water trough next to it
>Makeshift soft platform with dirt on top
>Call warlord out
>He comes to my farm to kill me
>Heat Metal
>Warlord is screaming in agony
>Runs to trough
>Falls into pit
>20d8 fire damage + 20d10 fall damage
>gg bbeg
>King rewards me; Asks what I desire
>I just want to live on my farm, in peace
Move Earth: 6th level transmutation spell
Heat Metal: 2nd level transmutation spell
Yeh, just a humble level 11 wizard here, nothing to see here, got experience from pickin the carrots I did yeah.
(You probably meant the cantrip MOLD Earth that he made a vid on)
@@KazumiKiguma pretty sure he meant mold earth...
@@KazumiKiguma Honestly I wouldn't be surprised, wizards are weird.
@@KazumiKiguma I mean, isn't the "random level 20 wizard who can't be arsed to do shit" a tried and true D&D stereotype?
@@webbowser8834 fuck, i hate that guy, only one time that trope was good and fun was when he was so senile he confused scrolls with the constitution of faraway backward thinking lands, so he'd be reading random arse hillarious laws in the middle of combat
Nobody is saying it but I love the characters and voice acting in this one, it’s amazing
Is it bad that we all call it, "Cook and Book"
No. It's one of the few cases of truth in advertising.
No. I think it's a perfect name.
I thought it was cooking book
I call it "Detect Piercings"
Nope.
I've actually thought about doing something more interesting with this. A tiefling druid with a 20 in strength and grapple feat. They wear medium armor and hug people to death by using heat metal on themselves.
Druids don't do metal
@@dleonidae then do bard i guess
@@dleonidae depending on how it was made and there personal beliefs
you want a warm hugs warforged.
"What is dentistry like in this kingdom?"
"What are the fillings made of?"
???
@@tomkelly00 fillings are sometimes metal ;)
@@Mobius1AC my dad used to work in a bakery, and the hear from the oven fucked up his teeth, so he got porceline filled with gold teeth. Soo yeah heat metal would work on SOME people.
my god...... that's both genius, and terrifying
have fun torturing people
@@GundamReviver how the fuck does an oven fuck up your teeth.
Other people: Uses Heat metal to commit war crimes
Our warforged Bard: Uses Heat metal on himself on a barely injured demo while in its mouth
Crunch
Dude that's metal....get it?
This begs a question: You take damage if you are touching the metal object the spell is cast on. But do you take damage if you ARE the metal object the spell is cast on?
@@tanall5959 well....i doubt a haunted armor takes damage from heat metal...so i guess it's the same for a warforged
@@tanall5959 it's not fully metall unit and have some wooden insides. And also there's some differences with copper and steel... so you may break apart.
keep a scroll or two on your person at all times never know when the bbeg will become the bbq
This spell can only be learned by bards and druids. Do they even make scrolls for those kinds of spells?
Alternative title: heat it n yeet it.
Bake and shake.
@@timmorris1432 You clever boy.
Shin Agami make it hot then run a block
Or, for those with surgical implants:
Raise the degrees, right in the knees.
Incinerate, then dissipate.
I played a Bard in a one-shot recently that I imagined as a sort of warrior poet/warchanter type. Figured Heat Metal was a great spell to have for a battlefield caster.
We ended up getting betrayed by an NPC with a prosthetic steel eye. The conversation between me and the DM went something like this:
DM: "... And he starts leaving, crown in hand."
Me: "I cast Heat Metal."
DM: "On what? The crown's made of bone, and he's dressed in leathers."
Me: "He's got a metal eye, doesn't he?"
DM: *strangled noise of regret*
That's hilarious, but the rules lawyer in me has to say: the spell says a metal object, not a metal creature (or creature's body part). A prosthetic is a gray area but I've mostly seen it ruled that metal body parts are untargetable by the spell (so you can't really use it to instagib basically every construct without fire immunity). I bring it up because I had this exact discussion with the DM of my warforged character.
@@daneshannonsparks there is difference between fake body parts, and body parts made of metal. Fake eye is not a real part of the body. But for example metal arm of a warforged or construct is.
I made this it's own commet but... go artificer, take a few levels in druid, go battle engineer, molten robot dog. I really hope this works, because if it does... I might have to change my alignment
@@Type_blazenil you don’t even need the Druid levels, artificers get heat metal anyway
Be a damn shame if they didn’t tbh
@@virgovertigo322 yeah, but then you can't make it breathe fire
A humble bard is travelinf the world only to return home and find his village hurned by a fiendish demon in cursed armour. Bravely he sneaks into the demons palace cave and silently strike from a corner... He then proceeds to leave the have and spend the rest of his life recasting that spell until the end level boss is killed by a level 2 bard
This is a second level spell,meaning the Bard would need to be minimum level 3.
@@TheSpencermacdougall Other than that tiny error, brilliant plan!
It's a druid spell, so now I'm imagining a wood elf casting this while leaping around and yelling "I warned you! I warned you all!"
I waaaaaaaarned yooooooou!
Jacob Freeman good one
I like to think druids are so afraid of this spell, that’s why they don’t wear metal armor.
Cook and Book?
Cook and Boook!
...
Cook and B-
JoCat: *SWORD AND SHIELD*
JUST FIREBALL!
Eldrich blyast
What's your point, person within fireball distance?
Fireball should heat the metal.
sword & board
I love this series the animations are great and the humor is always on point.
I would give every dollar in my wallet to see what transpired at this joust that gave Brock nightmares.
My guess is they had money on someone and needed to remove the biggest threat, or they were hired by someone to remove the competition.
@@madmanvarietyshow9605 Oh no, I mean I want to see what chaos ensued when they cast the spell that was significant enough to traumatize Brock.
The plot twist being that your wallet is empty
@@bradlee7875 a jouster probably got melted to his horse
@@tylercoon1791 See that's the messed up part, WE DON'T KNOW.
My druid literally just did this a couple days ago! Long story short, his wild shape was having trouble hitting so I left my wild shape and cast heat metal. No roll to hit means the enemy's AC is irrelevant. My character has always been very friendly and fun loving; the party was taken a little aback given the (as mentioned in the video) moral implications of roasting someone in their own armor.
I thought he was saying "Cookin' Book", I was like "Cooking Book, what the hell?
I heard the exact same thing I was so confused
Same here
Yeah me too. I thought it meant his only spell in his spellbook was heat metal.
It's a great chaotic evil recipe!
I'm gonna make that a homebrew druid spell book.
I once played a Dwarf war veteran with a metal prosthetic leg in a pvp session.
This, was a mistake.
In pvp, never give yourself a disadvantage.
I used this tactic a lot when I played my bard along with Hideous Laughter. Cast Hideous Laughter to make the target prone, then break concentration to cast Heat Metal while using Cutting Words to keep the target burning
The Gordon Ramsay's guide to roasting people in dnd.
Gordon Ramsay is definitely a devil of the nine hells. He demands too much order to be a demon. If someone doesn't have a campaign where they meet Devil Ramsay and his culinary warlock I will be disappointed.
I laughed so hard when the Bard hung his head and said 'Cook and book."
"Immediately throws your alignment into question"
Me, true neutral druid: what alignment?
It's still sadistic enough to make you seem pretty evil
Yeah, just because you put your alignment at neutral when you made the character wouldnt mean that performing evil actions doesnt make your character evil.
@@jaycub8547 Eh, just roasting them alive in a bronze bull of their own devising doesn't make you evil. It's roasting the obviously good person that does so.
@@feyntmistral1110 cooking someone alive is pretty evil. Unless that person is Multkthak the orphan stabber, I doubt it's not an evil act
@@jaycub8547 I mean, true neutral is kind of special that way. It takes long term dedication to one alignment to really force a shift from it, because it's the alignment for characters who don't neatly fit into the others. Alignment isn't just about how you outwardly act, but also your internal motivations, and philosophy. A true neutral character may be in a situation where they feel that a murderous rampage is in order one week, but calm down the next, at which point you probably can't even tell the difference between them, and some random good, or lawful aligned character, in that order. They generally tend to adapt to whatever situation they find themselves in; which is usually amongst good or lawful people, because most people don't appreciate frequent backstabbing by everyone around them.
This is one of my favorite spells. Multiclass into sorcerer and spend a sorcerer point to cast it secretly and you have the perfect assassin for people in metal armor.
Add phantasmal killer from Wizard and you can make people drop dead with no assertainable cause of death.
@@theposhdinosaur7276 At the cost triple classing.
@@KazumiKiguma or just be a bard sorcerer
@@KazumiKiguma bard have secrets that lets them know spells of every class
posh, cannot concentrate on both.
Awwh, I love that Gnoll. Not nearly enough of them represented in D&D, let alone the fact he has a conscience!
Gnolls need more love. In 2e they were awesome!
"let alone the fact he has a conscience"
This is why not enough of them are represented they are demon made spawn
Because in 5e they were changed to be wild demon spawn monsters instead of regular monsters that can be something beyond pure evil enemies
Ahhh thank you, i was wondering wht sort of creature he was.
@@Jargas101 I miss this.
High level shenanigans:
Step 1 build a castle with all that sweet sweet treasure you have collected (or just buy/ take over one : whatever you want)
Step 2: hand manufacture a trap room in said castle so it has one way in and they can't get out by normal means. And have the entire room coated in metal
Step 3: lure in foes, npc adventurers, the local army, whoever you want really.
Do so however works best
Step 4: lead the unexpecting "guests" to the room and trap them
Step 5: high level cast of heat metal.
(Works good as an oven if you lead animals in as well)
The text says manufactured metal. No size limits are mentioned, heck if the BBEG had a metal airship, stow away with another member who has slowfall, cast jump, freefall than slowfall to safety. While everyone else on board has nowhere to go.
Just pray that the air ship has no explosive items on board such as gunpowder.... I know the
airship made by Bones Malone had quite a few dangerous items on it...
There is a room in the White Plume Mountain dungeon that has a trap almost exactly like that.
@@legomaniac213 I hated that room
that sounds ALOT like the final killing attempt of the inquisition on the POV character in Edgar Allans Poes "Pit and Pendulum"
i hgad a hard time sleeping after reading that story.
It is still an oven if you just lead enemies in to it. Delicious medium rare wizard.
Zee Bashew: Trying to explain how the spell works, its math and uses.
Me: Tries to make out what the suffering noble is wailing in agony in the background... And laughing hysterically at the same time.
Late to the party. But I read your comment and had to go back and rewatch. The only actual phrase I could hear was, "GET IT OFF ME!!!!!!!".
Took a few tries as I was laughing too hard to hear anything. What did you hear?
@@Kfaircloth13457
This is roughly what I heard:
Huh? Why do you scream so!? Ahh!
Armor-!
Get it off-!
GET IT OFF MEEE!!
IT'S SO HOT TOOOO!!
I love how it describes an absolutely gruesome effect with this cheerful music in the background
Magic item idea:
The cookbook, which uses charges to cast heat metal!
Better idea: a magical cooking pot. Anything cooked in the pot automatically benefits from the Purify Food and Drink spell. The pot can be used to start fires (like with the Prestidigitation cantrip), and once per day you can have it create enough soup to satisfy the food and drink requirements for, say, 5 creatures.
Oh yeah, and you can also use it to cast Heat Metal. Such an innocuous item, such a cruel potential. It's like having a vorpal barber's razor, great for haircuts and "haircuts".
@@Greywander87 the uncommon adventure pot.
It has three charges and regains 1d4-1 at midday every day. If it drops to zero charges, there is a 30% chance that it will loose it's magical properties and become a normal cooking pot.
A charge can be spent to transmute over the coarse of an hour any liquid within it into a hearty edible soup that can sustain a party of 5 medium humanoids for eight hours.
@@garret1930 A suggested change to your idea: Make it require stones as part of the material requirements for creating the soup.
@@SybilantSquid Stone soup? That is a classic.
....Stealing this for my ARtificer.. will have to figure out a way to do that with his level 11 ability
Having just rolled up a Centaur Forge Cleric, who also get Heat Metal as a Domain spell, I'm kind of excited about the potential this spell has...
Hehe, cook and book.
Or you could use it to actually cook food
Or to set up traps with METAL coins , to repair armor since you don't have to excessively heat up the METAL in order to blend it together .
bear traps and heat metal. crockpot
forget bear traps. METAL LEGO BRICKS! the horrors of stepping on lego, combined with the heat of orange hot metal
Forget traps, crossbow bolts. Or harpoons.
One time, I was playing a bard. We were facing down some sort of super zombie thing (that we had discovered are pretty impervious to a lot of attacks despite little to no armor. Think draugr from skyrim). I threw my dagger at it. I hit a very high hit (like unnatural 20+) Barely any damage and I lost my dagger. Everyone thought it was a pointless attack. Next round. I asked my dm if the dagger would be stuck inside his body. The DM debated for a bit and said that because I hit so high it likely would have been flying so fast that it would be stuck right in it. Like an arrow getting lodged deep.
I smirk. "I cast heat metal on my dagger."
Even better, since it wasn't like being held or worn, but was legitimately stuck inside of it, for several rounds the DM rolled to try and pull it out.
DM did this on our beloved 20 AC paladin, he changed to leather after that day.
Poor guy, thats all i can say
When I briefly played a valor bard his gimmick was jamming swords and other pointy metal objects into monsters then using heat metal to cook them from the inside. Not sure if it was RAW but it was really fun.
Druid: "So I figure I can use it to disarm our opponents. Neat right?"
Rogue and Barbarian: "Totally..."
Druid: "What's with those smiles, and why do I suddenly feel extraordinarily remorseful about my life decisions?"
And this my fellows is why the Cast off armor was invented.
I feel like most people in armor are wearing a gambeson underneath, so metal isnt flush with your skin
@@Awes0m3n3s5 yeah, but wouldn’t that be lit on fire?
Isn’t magic armor expensive?
@@Awes0m3n3s5 the majority of armour would still have point of contact, or near contact, with flesh. Plus, steel would be exceeding 900F (460C) to be red hot.
@@OriginalWarwood It's going to be just on the gorget and the helmet, though. Everything else is going to have layers of batting.
Though as anyone who's work gambeson in Florida will tell you, textile can get plenty hot all on its own.
Recently in my Pathfinder campaign, we had just finished fighting some hobgoblins when out of nowhere, this dark cloud appears and all our metal armor and gear started burning us to near death. It was a Goblin Oracle, we lost to a goblin oracle partly because our best hitters had metal armor. This spell made us loose to a goblin! A single Goblin!
Spellcasting cares not from which race the spell is cast, only the unfortunate sod the spell is being cast on :)
Sorry to be that guy, but it's lose
Good spell to start a fire too, in say... a wooden building. That chandelier that adorns the room? hanging from a _metal_ chain, probably directly bolted to a _wooden_ beam. The very beams that make the foundation of the building? _Wood_ of course... with _metal_ nails in them.
Stone buildings are fun too! Castles usually are all about fashion and decoration with *gold* in them and, you know it, gold is _metal._ Tapestries hanging from metal poles, suits of armor resting on expensive rugs, weapons mounted on wooden frames... go nuts! everything's a fire hazard now!
Also, a remainder that red hot metal is soft too, a good whack and it will bend, so jail doors and windows can be easily bypassed if you have something to strike them with while they're glowing.
Fun thing I’ve found works really well (depending on if your DM allows it, it’s kind of dubious given how HP works but it’s a lot of fun if they do) is metal tipped arrows/bolts.
You get a friendly to heat the tip, and fire away deadly ranged attacks with DoT and an effect worse than blinding!
It's especially bad if your arrows are bad at keeping the heads attached. Enemy tries to remove it, but can only get the shaft out while they burn.
Only downside is it’s not great for a sneak kill as the target will probably start screaming, and even if they don’t there’s the smell
The cat girl sounds exactly like my friend's catfolk warlock(in terms of what she would do)
Ahh Heat Metal, I remember one of my player's using this spell quite a bit and I could barely keep my laughter in when I heard him talking about how he was going to use it on the boss of the mission they were on... So they go to where this evil paladin lives, after fighting him for a bit the bard uses heat metal and the knight's armor glows brightly from the heat... Then numerous unseen runes on the armor light up and engulf the paladin in a glow of flaming radiance, the paladin not only gets healed but now his AC was greatly increased.
So it turns out this paladin was a follower of a god of fire and metal (home-brew), and for his many years of service he was gifted special armor that absorbs heat and converts it into positive energy and strengthens the the wearer. I gave them a few hints of the knight's god and abilities earlier in the session, but I guess the bard got overzealous.
They still won the fight much to my surprise and pride... Though nearly half of them died thanks to the paladin's attack being increased, turns out someone who with increased strength AND a flaming morningstar can deal a lot damage.
What a dick Move. Countering your Players abilities with homebrew Bullshit.
@@kurojima *shrug* I came up with the paladin and his god a while before I even knew Heat Metal existed, plus like I said I gave them hints earlier in the session about the paladin
I once used heat metal on a cod-piece...
The fight was IMMEDIATELY over, as all the other fighters ran away after an intimidation check.
Kristian... who hurt you as a child?
very well done
Were Rocky Mountain Oysters on the menu that night?
I love how the first to replies to this are literally a Chaotic Evil and Lawful Good.
@@FlameDarkfire No but weenie roast was
I remember when my bard learned it I was so happy.
Also darn I miss playable Gnolls, my very first character was a gnoll Fighter
Ever played a Gnoll... in space?
Bear traps are metal, deployable and can be used as an improve weapon. Enjoy.
And you can throw them at people.
I'll just.. yoink this, thank you very much
Oooh this is a great idea
So have your big guy lodge a metal javelin in the big bad...
Cook and Book is one of my favorite tactics.
its up there among:
Dine and dash (cannibal dragonborn monk)
chill and grill (ice/fire evocation wizard)
and last but not least: ground and pound (tavern brawler grapple + paladin's smite = oof)
I did ground and pound to start a campaig as a very angry conquest paladin. We were taken prisoner by drow, stripped to the ol' prisoner rags and were mocked. I cast every smite I could on my fist and turned him to a paste. Happy conquest paladin.
Gound and pound? You mean Tackle and Tickle?
Scry and Fry.
I am saving these for later. Specifically dine and dash. Pesonally, id call it fast food drive thru
I have one. The Jerky Maker. 8 use spell per day, sets up a 5 foot square with a d10 trap. You step on it, you get a d10. Placed it between two tables, and a Hob rushed me. Instant Hob Jerky. *I'm an insectile, I'll eat almost anything meat*
Heat metal is so useful, especially against low level enemies wearing higher grade armor/ holding good weapons
Aka=how to kill most nobles, since it works on ANY metal.
How do you like your crown jewels your evil majesty? Barbequed it is.
yeah honestly I would rule that if you hit the armor with it and how long it takes to kill / remove it would make the armor useless. One round weapons that the enemies throw on the ground is another matter.
Also great vs dragons, if you bring nets with metal barbed hooks to shoot at them with a siege weapon.
Upcast for +1d8 dmg per spell level above 2nd. This spell is, funnily enough, implemented in Solasta: Crown of the Magister with the addition of the Druid and Bard classes (both DLC). A lot of enemies don't wear metal armor, but there is a unique boss enemy at the very end of the main campaign that does. A real mean SoB that is a powerhouse in both melee and with spells.
He wasn't so tough when he was tanking 5d8 dmg every turn and had permanent disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks. Great fun, would recommend.
As a person that has worn armor and fought with melee weapons (swords mace etc) My biggest problem with the spell is, even if you are using an item made of metal you are usually not in contact with the metal. Especially weapons. Plate armor? You have a gambeson, aketon, padded jack, pourpoint or arming doublet, every weapon in My collection has either a thick leather wrap grip or wooden grip. SO, in My games the bard trying to use heat metal as a cure all in every combat scene quickly gets disappointed when it's not nearly as affective as they want it to be.
I have little to no experience with armor, but the mixture of culinary adventures and a high pain tolerance made me learn firsthand why cheap, thin mittens are a trap. If something's hot enough, you don't have to touch it directly to cause first degree burns. Also wet mittens/traps actually cause worse burns.
I don't know if that's the intention, but to me the spell's damage is less "frying pan" and more "electric oven". There's no way "glowing hot metal" only causes 2d8 damage.
i mean if metal is red hot its still gonna burn through gambeson pretty easily, or whatever else you put under armor. if there's a wooden grip, i'd imagine you'd still feel the heat from under the handle, especially if its only a leather grip
With the ongoing damage and disadvantage I feel like Heat Metal would still be good if it could only target weapons and shields.
So here is my theory, Zee Bash will cast Heat Metal on JoCat's Sword and Shield making him face an impossible choice. Die or become the thing he hates most. . . a NOT-SnS guy.
It *would* put Zee at Fireball range though, wouldn't it? Albeit temporarily, as Zee can just book it. But still, fire ball.
@@minaly22 Well ZB has more than just fireball prepared so odds are he'd got invis or something ready to trix with that. And once the heat metal is active mister Wiggler head will be stunlocked by existential dread at the idea of dropping his shield.
Also, I think JoCat is at least trained in all the classes at this point.
That. Is. Evil.
There is a problem though not all SnS are made out if metal, some are made using bone.
Me as a bard playing a disturbed song while at same time casting heat metal: 🎵 Burning now I bring you Hellll🎵
Alternatively you could have them play Feur frei by rammstein lol.
I played a griddled detective bard character who got things done his own way, carried a couple pairs of manacles with me I'd slap those on an enemy and heat the manacles they have no way to remove them without the key. It was a useful torture and combat technique.
so you are the bad
I started to point out "I think you mean 'grizzled detective bard character', but by the end, maybe 'griddled' was the perfect word all along.
Cook and book torture
Heat metal can't melt the metal though, if that's what you meant
@@fullyqualifiedgendergremli9567 now but if it states "red hot" that is hot enough to reflow some of the metal to make things "break" or in case of shackles "fuse together" ouch! lol
I feel like an enterprising bard and wizard could easily use this spell on a wide enough scale to suddenly and radically shift an economy away from dwarven crafted metal armor towards hodgepodge carapace armor they just so happen to have at an egregious markup....
This is why having barbarian armor muscles is superior to plate armor
Also why great club is the superior Barbarian weapon.
Monk with a quarterstaff looks around "Hey guys, what are we talking about?"
Funny enough, I never thought of using this spell on armor. I just always figured "oh yes, for their sword", and not "oh yes, literally boil them in their own armor".
Aww you are good aligned lol
It's a DM call... actually you wear thick layers of cloth under a metal suit of armor. Since its magical fire it only affects what directly touches the metal, so doing no damage to the person wearing the armor. The barbarian with the half chain shirt draped over their exposed chest however...
In Pathfinder's default setting, there's a group of evil fake priests that go around wearing iron masks. Using heat metal to give them what's coming to them was literally one of my first thoughts upon reading about them several years ago. :p
@person person Unfortunately by RAW you need direct line of sight without any obstructions. Many DMs will be lenient enough for you to cast the spell through, say, a window or other transparent object, but I think all of us would rule that it must be cast on metal in a refined form. If we allowed you to boil someone's blood with it, who's to say you couldn't cast heat metal on a tree?
Fireball: Fast and brutal.
Heat Metal: Slow and brutal.
I don't see your problem, here.
Fireball does 8d6 damage per target, or half has much on a successful dex save, as a 3rd level spell.
Heat metal does up to 20d6 on a single target. No saves.
The key difference is the terror. Fireball gives less time for the little things.
I'm running a game right now that is meant to be pretty deadly where literally every or at least most enemies my players will run into are ether heavily armored or have a lot of metal on them, had any of them decided to go bard or druid they would have basically become unstoppable killing machines the whole way through... luckily the party consists of nether of those classes and none of them are built for multiclassing~.
Though honestly if they did I think I would love seeing them easily handling every tough armored foe by cooking them inside their own armor due to one simple spell. Would give me a reason to bring in wizards to fight them sooner :)
My first thought was "Wow I can make so much soup for my adventuring party!"
This is why I always make a point to get a Wand of Magic Missiles as soon as possible when playing a martial heavy armor character.
Heat Metal: **exists**
DMs: How about i **never** use enemies in metal armor?
That was my life as a bard with that spell, could only use it once to boil a metal pot of soup because we failed to make fire after being drenched.
Yuubi Timbergrim ya most of the enemies we face are like that . Though it's do to campaign we are in, not the dm avoiding spells.
Crossbow bolts are your friend. And metal tipped arrows. And animate objects.
use your imagination and buy a bag of ball bearings? some nails?
I honestly can't stand DM's that see this spell being chosen by a player (specifically a bard, cause the druid isn't losing anything cause they just choose a new spell next day, but the bard doesn't get to for another level and if the player ever swaps off the DM just brings back platemail) and suddenly the DM is like... oh everything is immune to fire damage, or doesn't wear or use metal... ever... they use plastic armor and wooden swords... still full damage tho! hurp durp!
I'm slightly happy that my players don't have access to this spell, I'm running them against metal creatures.
The forge cleric also gets heat metal as a domain spell, and I must say, I think that's the ideal scenario. Forge cleric's can become very tanky and doing bonus action damage as well as giving an enemy disadvantage so they have a very hard time breaking your concentration on the spell, it's just (chef's kiss).
Can they cast it on their own weapons in case the enemy doesn't wear metal. A 2nd level concentration fire enchantment
Liam White
It doesn’t work like that. They’d just end up damaging themselves and dropping their own weapons.
@@liamwhite3522 the spell you're thinking of exists, but it's called elemental weapon.
Searing Smite would also work to that extent (and is also a Forge Domain spell if I recall correctly)
Will Mills I prefer to just cast it then turn into a mouse or a small bird and hide
We used that spell in another way: Our berserker readies an action to attack an enemy once his weapon is heated and then our mage uses Heat Metal on his weapon. (That dealt massive amounts of damage)
That's awesome
But wouldn't the berserker also take damage then?
@@MrSuperTeenGohan depends what kind of weapon and the dm
i would rule if the grip isnt metall,like a wooden axe grip the dont get damaged
@@MrSuperTeenGohan i dunno how that worked, i was that one monk who rushes in first and those guys often saved me with this combo.
@@ricaroanimar6695 I'm not sure it would work with wooden-hafted weapon either. Wood has a stupid tendency to start burning when subjected to high temperatures. I'd probably rule it you get 1 round for free and then every subsequent turn the metal is hot, there's increasing chance of the weapon failing.
This spell is one of the downsides of playing a Warforged. Apparently they're always vulnerable to this spell as all warforged have some metal in their construction.
Happily, warforged are creatures not objects, and therefore cannot be targeted (directly) by Heat Metal.
i used to play a high level forge cleric who i gave the grappler feat (and also had a +15 athletics modifier because of magic items and high level shenanigans). naturally forge cleric means fire immunity, and grappler feat means i can pin people. combine that with occasionally having enlarge cast on them to grapple things like gaints along with a up casting of heat metal. 7d8 fire damage with no way for the enemy to escape without rolling a nat 20. probably my favorite and only good use of the grappler feat.
Tell me if you have heard this one before,
"I cast Create Water-"
"What?"
"-inside their lungs."
In situations like these, I ask my players if they would want that to be done to them.
EDIT: Just to be clear, I meant like would they be ok if the Evil NPCs did such techniques to them.
That one had whiskers when D&D didn't have edition numbers. Part of being a good DM is knowing when to say no, and that's a reason why.
I would allow it and then have it happen to them in a session by a bunch of assassin wizards
I haven’t heard that one. But I’ve heard of using Destroy Water on a creature to cause damage. Since people are mostly water.
Create Water requires an "open container", I don't think anyone would say lungs count as an "Open Container".
Ugh. This is a really easy one. You CAN'T create water inside someone's lungs because it's inside their bodies WHICH in turn is inside their aura.
This reminds me of something a friend told me about. I believe it was back in the 3.5 days but I'm pretty sure there was a spell that let you turn wood into metal. Said, he used entangle to wrap up his foes with wood roots, then casted the wood to metal spell, then cast heat metal. Called it his own personal pressure cooker. Also said his DM dropped his alignment a few levels when he did that.
Transmutation Wizards can turn wood to copper,so if you had a level 2 wizard/3 druid,they could possibly pull this off.
I beg to differ; there is nothing morally questionable about roasting a pig. Especially one of the aristocracy.
Lizardfolk can now cook their meals before they eat them
I typically play AD&D and it's no joke there either. It's a second level druid spell (which for druids means they get it at second level), and it can target as many man sized creatures worth of metal armor as the caster has levels, and there's no saving throw. First round after casting, no effects, the metal feels warm. Second round, 1d4 damage the metal is extremely hot. Third round, 2d4 damage, the metal is scorching, and whatever parts of the body the metal is touching is "disabled" (not sure what exactly is meant by that) for a duration based on what's being disabled, 2-8 days for hands or feet, 1-4 turns and unconsciousness for head, 1-4 days for body. In AD&D, a turn is also longer than you'd think. A turn is 10 rounds, and rounds are like they are in 5e, one full round of actions from everybody. Possibly worth noting for outside combat applications though, is that in AD&D one round is one minute, so a turn is 10 minutes. Oh yeah, the spell does also keeping dealing damage, but it's honestly not that much, the disabling is where it really shines. In total the spell does 8d4 damage
in 2e and 3e it was balanced
I never clicked so fast in my life.
My favourite spell I once stabbed a dagger into the hindquarters of a beast, and used this spell to kill it excruciatingly with fire damage.
Hot damn. Pun intenden
@@mestre12 And later in that same campaign, there were ents with iron plates riveted onto them... I think you can see where I'm going with this.
@@deadknight1402 oh dear god. On the other hand, just chainned up a troll, and, lets start that bbq.
I think I know why your user name is what it is
This spell gave me ideas. If the arrows and bolts have iron heads, use the spell to burn any arrows in the enemy or apply the spell to said ammo for additional damage.
Dm: “ooo hooo, I’m going to have fun with this. . . .” 😏
yeah, I've thought about using this, with a couple casters targeting one player character. Since it doesn't state that you can only do it with one caster on one target. So stack like 3 or 4 lower level casters and have them "heat metal" on the same target. So like 6-8 D8 per turn. And since it takes like 10 minutes to remove heavy armor ... wellllll
I think it says in the spellcasting section that a character cannot be under the effect of the same spell twice (for example, can't have 2 hastes cast on you). It could be argued the same applies for this spell on the armor, or that having multiple casts of heat metal doesn't increase it's temperature since the spell might only heat it to a certain degree. Not trying to start something, just got me thinking.
Yeah, you can’t be affected by two spells with the same proper name at the same time.
@@criyofreeze I'll have to go back and check and look for the actual rule, however the heat metal doesn't deal damage till someone uses their bonus action to deal it. So it can be "heated" for a couple turns but if they don't use the bonus action it doesn't deal the 2d8 damage. So it would just be a dog pile of bonus action uses and their main actions are still open for other spells. I'll have to look for the actual rule though and make sure it's legit.
I was like wtf cool and book? Then it got to them casting the spell and running then it made so much more sense.
I actually recently finished Curse of Strahd. In the final battle, I used heat metal on a broach he was wearing. He managed to rip it off and drop it to the ground. I then used Catapult to launch the still red-hot broach back at him, intending to pull a sort of Antman maneuver on him, lol. I did a lot of damage to him with that
Thanks to you, everyone at my table (myself included) now calls this spell "cook & book."