10 Awesome Things You Can Do With Polymorph In D&D
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- Just how far down the rabbit hole can we go with Polymorph in D&D 5e? A guide on getting weird, creative and powerful effects out of the best 4th level spell in the game.
0:00 - Intro
0:21 - Killer Whale Trap
1:06 - Barbarian Cannon
1:29 - Snail in Your Pocket
1:56 - Fooookin' Flyers!!!
2:25 - Polymorph Stack
3:20 - Power Word Kill
3:45 - Seduction
4:26 - Scouting
4:46 - Stealing
5:17 - Healing
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Holy Moly 10,000 subs! Thanks everyone for checking this lil UA-camr’s stuff! Roll lucky people
Really hope I can use some of the stuff you tell us when I start playing DnD with my brother
@@ousicousidamn you're totally right! I can't believe I missed that mistake in editing! I mess up the recording constantly, but usually notice this stuff before it goes live!! Thanks for pointing it out, it absolutely should be one hour, not one minute, I just can't say words right! I'll add it to my pinned comment
I'm making a list of shenanigans, where I include both your and my ideas to mess with the party and the DM. The chaotic gnome mage will be unstoppable
@@DnDShorts Lmao, when you brought up the rule lawyering for power word kill x polymorph you are right and wrong. As a dm can argue back that "aright you casted power word kill on the polymorphed bbeg, the form you gave it was a spider and so that form dies. But as the spell states when it dies or drops to 0 hp it reverts back to its normal form. Well the form is dead so he now reverts back to his previous form, what do you do now? move? or end your turn?" XD
Also fun fact the combo actually does not work like people always think/rule lawyer, when a creature is brought to 0 hp its not dead, only way for a creature to instadie is going to 0 then past its max hp, power word kill or variant rules. So due to this and the way polymorph is written power world kill can never instakill a polymorphed creature as they are only instakilling the form which reverts it back to how it was before hand. So a while its a fun idea to rule lawyer, not so fun when you reread raw, or the dm is the type "what you do, so can I" and uno reverse it back on the party
Find an enemy that can't breathe underwater and polymorph them into a crab and throw them into the ocean
Wait for the crab to hit the bottom then leave concentration and boom, if that enemy doesn't die from the pressure crushing them they'll simply drown and die 👍
Clever till you realize crabs have a swim speed, so better tie them to a rock
Nah, just polymorph then stone shape to encase them in rock. When they go from snail to normal sized while encased in rock I would argue they would take like 20d6 crushing damage but that is DM discretion. Either way, they are trapped in solid rock so suffocation is imminent. If you want to go the extra mile or they don't need to breath then toss out a coin, have someone else cast heat metal on it, and then encase them together. That is 20d8 fire damage plus 10d8 more per level you up cast it at. You can cast 4th level spells so we can assume at least 40d8 damage or 180 damage on average if no crushing bonuses.
@@kingwildcat6192000 FUUUUU, can crabs really swim !? Holy sheeeeeeet, I have been lied to for my whole life
Edit : ua-cam.com/video/oV6sLyMZiBE/v-deo.html
What the actual fuck XD
@@chefmanitou7244 honestly I didnt even know they did. Simply in an elemental water campaign that Im waiting for a friend to start I discovered this. Im gonna play a crazy lizardfolk chef who is a druid (shaman) and was looking for a low cr beast that could breath underwater and saw that in 5e they had a swim speed XD, thanks for the vid it was funny to watch
@@chefmanitou7244 only certain species of crab can swim. There are others that cannot.
In medieval times there were actually many occasions on which animals were put on trial.
I’ll have to check but in Ancient Greek times they punished a knife for use in sacrifice by death by drowning. I think I read in a horrible history.
Humans were so stupid back then.
"I've heard of a kangaroo court, but this is ridiculous."
You sir are a different breed. I feel like an early adapter. This is like MCDM level content. Keep it weird, man.
I read that as 'you are a different Beard."
@@angelusnielson7135 That too.
What exactly is MCDM?Is it some other channel?
@@BrunoMaricFromZagreb Matt Colville Dungeon Master; another great scholar of the game.
@@leightenheimer I'll check him out later,thanks for letting me know.
In other news,WotC is really shi'tty management,& you'd need a calculator to count the number of ways you can break this game with an exploit.
Remember folks,Don't polymorph things into turtles/tortoises. You'll make the half orc cry.
Oh i see thay you are a being of culture!
Chaos Crew!!!
@@Rafdi13 May Chaos reign *does the hand movement* Jester would be proud
reminder campaign 3 starts tonight!
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Polymorph lasts up to an hour.
Btw, I love the ideas. I'll definitely be using that Barbarian Cannon in the future.
There's an addition I'd like to make from a game I was playing in, our mage polymorphed a 'purple worm' into a rat. Which we then promptly took to the BBEG's lair for that portion of the module and then threw the rat at him effectively giving us a purple worm grenade.
Then later in that fight the guy we were escorting tried to jump into the fight the wizard polymorphed the guy into a moth, and held up a lamp to call it back to her.
Just wanted to share my 1st broken polymorph use. Fighting a dragon. The party was exhausted from previous fights. But we had to do it as the dragon was burning down the town we just saved from other baddies. Fight starts and first breath weapon drops 3 out of 5 in the party. Bard casts cure mass wounds pops people back up though just barely in the wizards case. Wizard burns his last spell slot on his turn turns to the party and says I'm sorry guys I got nothing left. Wizard is at 1 HP. Turn passes to the bard. Bard yells to the wizard "THINK ONE THOUGHT AND ONLY ONE THING EAT BIG MONSTER" Turns to the DM and says" I see your dragon standing directly IN front of my wizard with 1 HP. Well I take his 1 HP and raise it to 137HP. Poof Trex is now toe to toe with the dragon that was slaughtering us. Wizard rex on its first bite crits and takes the head off the dragon. We then all road on the rexs back in a victory lap through the town.
I wish I could witness the victory lap lol great story
"I'd like to see them try and put a chicken on trial for theft...." You Sir are clearly not familiar with Medieval legal practices ! - the players are never save >:3
I am a DM and I would try to cook them as chicken from dinner
@@xinahliaofthefeywild8985 You sucessfully sneak away as a chicken - only to meet the stern ,corpulent housewife of the Town Judge -with Advantage to Grapple checks and guess what she's preaping for Dinner! - Roll for Initiative!
@@paulhermann2956 XD I am dying. Thanks man. I am going to use that if the situation demands it :-D
I made a Transmutation Wizard not even a week ago. This is perfect. Thank you.
"Seduction"
Ah yes, the Loki approach
"You transform with whatever U holding"
*Looks at flying castle*
The seduction method, otherwise known as the Slepnir conception
Or Minotaur. Or Aigipan
Late to the party, but also consider: Loki
@@lesbiansanddragons7362 Slepnir is Loki's child, so yes.
Or The Bards Dream
Another fun thing, you can use animal messenger spell on a polymorphed target, meaning that you can send them to anyone you know in any direction, and they will start traveling there without any other saves. This will last for an entire polymorph duration, so it will be either 1 or 2 miles covered by the target, depending if they were turned into a flying beast or not. If you measure your lengths correctly, you could theoretically drop someone into a volcano two miles away with only one save involved.
You just gave this pc the most evil motives, thank you very much
my favourite concept which, for some reason, I have yet to try out is similar to your barbarian snail slingshot idea. you have to upgrade polymorph to true polymorph to make it viable but you could, theoretically, turn any large beast that is likely to attack anyone around it into a low health creature that is unlikely to be able to escape you. you then care for and love this creature... until you're in a scrape and you need some backup or a distraction. At that time you tie your furry buddy to a rock and chuck him wherever you want and BOOM instant t rex. let's just hope it isn't bitter about living in your pocket for a month
Better yet, strap him to something that explodes like a fireball. So BOOM! followed by tadaah! Sudden monster after a fireball
@@ctakitimu sudden monster is my new favorite spell
I have one more, it's like the one with Power Word Kill, but way more accessible:
1. Polymorph enemy into a snail
2. Pick it up and put it in your bag of holding
3.???
4. Profit!
No matter how your DM rules it, it'll either suffocate in snail form and be dead on the spot or it'll turn back to original form and then suffocate again.
Thats so smart
The rules for suffocation are "When a creature runs out of breath or is choking, it can survive for a number of rounds equal to its Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 round). At the start of its next turn, it drops to 0 hit points and is dying, and it can't regain hit points or be stabilized until it can breathe again.". So the creature will drop to 0 hit points and then change back before it dies completely. Once back into the original form they can attempt to escape because the bag can be opened from the inside (twitter.com/jeremyecrawford/status/1034580941383954433?lang=en). If latched closed or something then they can destroy the bag and get ejected into the astral. This is clear in the BoH description "If the bag is overloaded, pierced, or torn, it ruptures and is destroyed, and its contents are scattered in the Astral Plane.". It has limited size and has inside walls which is why overloading rips it. If you want to do this particular shenanigan then you would need a Bag of Devouring.
That said I recommend that you polymorph and then stone shape to encase them in rock. When they go from snail to normal sized while encased in rock I would argue they would take something like 20d6 crushing damage but that is DM discretion. Either way, they are trapped in solid rock so suffocation is imminent. If you want to go the extra mile or they don't need to breath then toss out a coin, have someone else cast heat metal on it, and then encase them together. That is 20d8 fire damage plus 10d8 more per level you up cast it at. You can cast 4th level spells so we can assume at least 40d8 damage or 180 damage on average if no crushing bonuses.
The problem with this is that a creature can technically force their way out of a bag of holding. So once they drop the fodder form you gave them, they'd simply pop out of the bag 99% of the time, as the check isn't particularly hard for something medium or larger.
Also, if they're too big, you might be down a bag of holding when they revert. I think it still sends them into the astral sea, so that's something. But if you have a bag of devouring, that's probably better to use instead... In fact, that is probably the best use for this type of polymorph abuse. As, at worst, you lose a bag of devouring and they get sent into the astral sea.
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But also, dont be discouraged if it slows down, as you will eventually get pulled out of the algorithm. you make fantastic content, and you will continue to grow without it
Thanks and I think you’re right! I’m hoping that ~the algorithm~ will stick around for a little longer but it’s only a matter of time before it kicks my ass to the curb, so I need to be ready
You can also use polymorph to turn somebody into something that is too heavy / too big. My players once turned one of my NPCs into a wooly mammoth to collapse a hanging bridge my NPCs were crossing and that lead to all kinds of chaos and fun.
I made an attempt at a polymorpher class for DnD, (it is basically like Ben ten) I can't take the full credit because I took some ideas from another Homebrew class, that I didn't really like
Like Druid?
I guess it could be seen that way, but I was talking about a whole another Ben Ten Homebrew class I didn't fully like.
I've always been a fan of transformations but wasn't big brain enough to come up with creative solutions. This helps with me a lot.
One issue here for ideas like seduction and scouting is that when you polymorph into an animal your mental stats change as well, so while it might be super sneaky to polymorph into a moth (Ode to Laura Bailey), your mental does turn into that of a moth. I imagine you still have your memories (consciousness??) but your capacities are limited to those of the animal's.
Many combats have a "brute" monster that is designed to tie up the party while the armillary in the back blasts them with spells. Use polymorph on the (low wisdom) brute and turn it into a snail. Have your owl familiar fly it over the caster and break concentration, dropping the brute on the caster. I did this with a gorgon and dropped it onto a wizard. That was not a happy gorgon. Took it out on the wizard.
I used the whale trick in a game I was running a few months ago. I have a killer whale miniatures from frost maiden. Of course the one time I'd use it I don't have the miniature! Lol
Slight Dungeon of the Mad Mage spoilers. Big fight on the magic academy level. There are message tubes. Polymorphed a powerful caster into a hamster and shoved him in the messaged tube
Unceremonious, but effective.
Imagine the puzzlement by the recipient:
" Sir , did you order a hamster with a Spellbook ?"
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The Mayfly has a lifespan of 30 minutes. Polymorph someone into a mayfly, catch them in a jar, and let them die of old age. Then they can't be resurrected by most means
🤣 like it , but as a DM, wouldn't allow actual character death.. That would make Polymorph a one save or die killer spell. Disproportionately powerful for it's level.
Give your gnome buddy a ride by polymorphing into a doberman.
Who needs to be a rogue to steal things and stealth around? Just use polymorph or be a Druid with wild shape! (now I want to play a Druid that steals anything and everything in broad daylight and then just flies away! )
@@BLUEBOYISLEDGE 😂 thanks I didn’t notice. It’s fixed now!
That's Untitled Goose Game.
1) Polymorph it into a snail, clobber with non-lethal damage, when it changes back it's unconscious. or 2) polymorph it into a snail, put in vial of purple worm venom, attach to arrow, shoot with longbow straight into the air, one round later it will fall 600 feet - die and all excess damage from falling and the poison will carry into the normal form.
Sorcerer's using Twinned Spell Polymorph is fantastic.
In the first few seconds of the video I just heard “HEY” in my right ear and looked to my right
Forest gnome, polymorph someone into something that only you can talk to for a secret conversation
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"Power word kill" could potentially work with disintegrate, just depends on which spell you take first; immolation is the same way. Considering that spell is taking effect then and now, there's argument to be made it does.
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The seducing an enemy animal in polymorph is known as the Loki technique.
Also this video got me to prepare polymorph on my druid. I haven't used it before, because why would I? I already have wildshape. But it's much more versatile
You could use it to trick someone into thinking they’re fighting wildshape A, then keep it up for a bit, then drop it, or just polymorph into your wildshape so you have more hp.
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I had a player use his 1/day Polymorph after burning every spell slot. Was absolutely clutch.
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Problem with the seduction strategy: you get the mental stats of the creature you turn into, but keep your own personality. The ability to do things you don’t want to do is a higher thought function- your overriding your instincts to make a decision logically. So… unless you actually really wanted to bang a wolf for some reason, you’d suddenly find it hard to think of your plan after you polymorphed into one. Depending on dm, this could work for some creatures- great apes are smarter than dogs or dinosaurs- but personally, I wouldn’t allow it with anything less than 5 or so int.
Just polymorph the furry. It will naturally role seduction on that Dire wolf.
I wish I could polymorph into a decent human being
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That's a concentration spell but it takes years
The bit about doing the UA-cam promo actually made me laugh so I subbed for it.
Really great timing with the Jungle Book jokes!
I love that my Druid/Sorcerer knows Polymorph, and is a homebrewed Circle of Dragons Druid as well! That allows me access to practically ALL dragon knowledge, and I can either Polymorph into a dragon, or wildshape into my Dragonborn type(Sapphire Dragon).
I once polymprphed a roper into a rabbit that then proceeded to start digging a hole... and once it had a suficiently deep enough burrough in the stone i then quit concentrating... that was the most horifying thing i have ever done to an enemy lol!
Was it the wife landlord or her husband?
Great ideas and they're things that can be fun for me to GM with players doing.
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Had a ‘skill monkey’ multi class character build that had a 2 level dip into circle of the moon Druid just for the pseudo polymorph beast shaping ability, to sleight of hand gold rings from jewelers, and replace them with cheaper brass rings he would make with his proficiency with a jeweler’s kit. Then transform into a lizard before breaking out of it and conning townsfolk into thinking the original ring was cursed and the shopkeep was a witch that had turned me into a newt (but I got better)! And further extort the shopkeep into not ruining their livelihood. Had the campaign gone on long enough, who knows what sort of shenanigans I would have done with true polymorph.
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Low hp Polymorph is great. Polymorph someone into a frog with 1 hp and no viable attacks. Grab the frog, shove it in a bag or satchel, and command your flying familiar to fly up 200 feet then drop. The enemy will take 20d6 damage and all leftover damage will carry over into its true form. You can even have the party prepare an action to attack your enemy once landing for safe measure. The power word kill RAW should work with polymorph, but 99% of DMs are going to errata that combo once you poly+silvery barbs+PWK the BBG. Great ideas, keep them coming!
polymorph lasts an hour what are you chatting 3:20 xD
This reminds me of the skin suit scene in final space
yeah I recorded late at night and said minute not hour! I put it in the pinned comment but sadly the mistake is there to stay
If you don't have warcaster and you use it in combat, 1 minute might even be optimistic
anyway love the videos!
When underground, polymorph the enemy into a small animal and then send them into a small place. Preferably in a stone-like environment to ensure they either cant move and cant break out when they return to their normal size
Number 11, you have COMPLETE control over a target's saving throw. Do you really need a high level apell to stick like Feeblemind? Well, turn your enemy into a low INT beast, and then cast it at them.
Polymorph plus animal friendship = new monster friend
Assuming this is 5th edition, then polymorph has a duration of an hour
I used this trick pretty reliably in a few campaigns. Its almost an instant win* unless the enemy has access to a spell like plane shift. Step one: cast rope trick creating an extra dimensional space. Step two: use mage hand to either place or throw a bag of holding/handy hoversack into the entrance of rope trick. Step 3: profit! This creates a one way portal to the astral plane which will suck up any enemy or friend within 10 feet of the portal. Sooo use with caution.
*would love to see this featured
I'll look into it but sounds cool!!
One problem, Bag of Holding says extra dimensional space created by an item, meaning RAW, rope trick will not destroy a bag of holding. Additionally, it requires spare bags of holding, but there is a solution to that. Level 2 Artificers can replicate the bag of holding with the replicate magic item infusion. So, if the DM allows it, this is an amazing trick
@@theaspie3121 That would be a problem if Mike Merls didnt already confirm that this can open an astral gate!
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@@teku3985 oh wow. I didn’t know that. Thanks.
That is also terrifying because if you cast rope trick and have a bag of holding on you, either you don’t get to make use of the spell yourself, or you leave the bag behind, assuming the spell is used for hiding or something like that. Or you forget you have a bag of holding and the whole party gets a fun trip to the astral plane
@@theaspie3121 Lol! Had this problem come up a few times. But because I had a nice dm, I was able to find a way around it. I hung my bag if holding on like a stick outside of the rope trick and used a mage hand to grab health potions from my bag. Cantrips are awesome
polymorph enemies into knats or, like, a fairfly. teeny tiny little guys. their allies may WANT to squish em back into a human but they gotta find the little bugger and something half a millimeter long flying around in the middle of combat is gonna be pretty hard to spot. depends on the DM though.
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The temp hp and bonus stats are awesome. I use it to polymorph my wizard when some physical beating are in order.
I like all the MTG art in the background
Polymorph specifies it lasts until the creature fails a concentration save, reaches 0 hp OR dies. The PWK one wouldn't work even RAW as the moment it dies, the spell ends and it reverts back
it reverts, but it doesn't un-kill it.
One to add, it's actually similar to the PWK example, in a way, but our group needed to capture an enemy that was attempting to flee. So the Bard Polymorphed the fleeing enemy, turning him into a Cow, and then I hit him with Sleep. No save, nap time!
Animal Shapes & Mass Polymorph are also amazing as 'summon stampede' options. AND with Animal Shapes (Lv 8), it lasts TWENTY FOUR HOURS on up to dozens of characters, and you can Change Forms At Will!!
Think it's worth a casting of Wish? I do!
I have a good one:
Polymorph whoever you want to kill into a sea turtle (little movement speed and aerodynamic), then fly 200 ft into the air, then drop it to the ground (or onto a magical weapon if it's immune to bludgeoning). Then boom, 20d6 damage.
Edit: 200 feet because that's where fall damage caps out. If your DM allows for more damage from more height due to turtle aerodynamics, then all the better!
3:18 - Small correction. Polymorph lasts 1 hour.
This can be handy if you turn a party member into something like a Quetzalcoatlus if the whole party needs a lift out of an area. In my experience.
Have a blacksmith commission a 1'x1' metal box. This box will have several 1" holes on one of it's faces. As well as spikes inside it. No need for them to be sharp, just pointy. This box will be roughly 1"-2" thick of solid steel. So definitely heavy to be sure.
Polymorph that BBEG into a mouse. Put them inside, drop the polymorph...Instant splatter of yuck.
1) Cast Flesh to Stone on a very big creature to petrify it, thereby increasing its weight tenfold. I like the Mammoth for this, clocking in at over 50 metric tons for a stone one.
2) Cast polymorph on the petrified mammoth (yes, you can do this, petrified is a condition and doesn't reduce the victim's hitpoints to 0) to turn it into a particularly small snail.
3) Have a friend cast enlarge/reduce on your snail to make it into a bigger snail.
4) Have a flying familiar fly the snail above something you don't like, then drop concentration on the polymorph.
5) Laugh as around two million pounds of stone mammoth falls on the thing you don't like.
The beauty of D&D
Polymorph + Bag of Holding infusion = instant badguy disposal!
Awesome
We recently had a use where we were being chased by a single powerful underwater creature - turned it into a goldfish while we escaped down a small tunnel, released it as soon as we were all through. Nice and easy, quick but smart enough resolution
Im playing a Wild Magic Sorcerer, and recently a few of our party including myself got captured and all that fun shit. My PCs a paranoid type, so had a small component pouch stitched in and hidden within her sleeves. DM made the mistake of letting us be held outside tied to poles, and under a lax guard. Suddenly the bandits didnt have 3 captives, but instead 3 fucking T-Rexes to deal with, as i surged and rolled a 78 after twin spelling polymorph on the other 2. Yeah, fun times lol
My favourite busted polymorph tactic will always be using poly on an enemy that exceeds the capacity limit of a bag of holding into something small enough, like a snail, and putting it into the bag of holding, and then just, make sure the bag is well closed and far enough away from your party and then break concentration or just wait.
I like the polymorph and power word kill idea but may I suggest a idea of my own making. polymorph and then flesh to stone you can carry several stone figures then throw them throughout the enemy’s ranks and despell the magic
One time I cast polymorph on an ally to turn her into a turtle and then I cast dragon's breath to wield her as a flamethrower turtle
3:43 you have a funny squeak when you say and lol
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Whats better than an air battle? An elemental battle. Awesome
I once polymorphed an adult blue dragon into a rat or something, wild shaped into a giant eagle, grabbed said small animal, flew thousands of feet into the air and dropped it
The polymprph steal is indeed a great idea...
Thank you for the evil ideas for wizard that's steals no multiclass
Wasn't with polymorph, but shape change. In a level 20 oneshot, our wizard (bladesinger 17/rune knight 3) shape changed into a Marilith and activated bladesong. Next turn he used a bonus action to activate Giant's Might (1d6 extra damage to weapons and unarned strikes) then made 7 attacks, 6 with his longswords (each doing 2d8 + 1d6 + str + int and 1 with his tail (2d10 + 1d6 + str + int) he then action surged and repeated the 7 attacks. I don't remember how much total damage he did but i do remember that the thing he attacked was "reduced to a pile of precise cubes and ribbons as a result of the calculated whirlwind of blades." Great times were had by all.
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Last session my heroes encountered hydra. Quick thinking of wizard made it polymorph it to carp. Fortunately for them i rolled like 3 on save and it changed. Then they catched the fish since it was pretty easy ... it was still much aggressive like hydra. Then they hurled it into locked basement behind steel bars and narrow corridor and started killing it. It made it 20 DC str for hydra to get out from tunnel to bigger room but i failed to roll it for like 3 times and they just killed it to back. We had so much fun and i decided i grant them bonus xp for such screwup with my epic encounter :D
Barbarian cannon is worth the price of admission alone
I'd like to suggest, raining sauropods. So first have a way to make someone fly. Then while they are a considerable distance, directly above the enemy, polymorph them into a brontosaurus. Need I say more
Store poly morph in a chronoturg bead and gove it to the player with the best con save, cast your hest concentration spell, then have the orher plauer cast polymorph on you to give you an amazing concentration save. Enjoy
04:19 the way of loki.
2:15 Polymorph spell rule paragraph 3, sentence 3: "If it reverts as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to its normal form." Max 6d6 bludgeoning damage if you are on the ground. So polymorph it into a frog it is a CR 0 creature with only 1 hp, which means you just need to roll a 2 to do damage to the creature's normal form. Way easier to do then needing to roll at least a 16 for the cow.
My players turned my beholder into a fish, while it was flying over a giant pit in Out of the Abyss. I was sad, it was a very dead fish after that drop.