D&D 5E Clever uses for Polymorph spell

[gyor]

Just thought a list of clever uses for the polymorphic spell would be cool.

Example imagine a vast army, with Griffins flying over head. You cast a spell on one of the Griffens and turn it into a blue whale which then falls, alone with it's rider on top of the army underneath, the whale's bulk killing a bunch of enemy troops upon impact.

Turn one ally into a giant eagle or giant bat then fly on their back.

 

[Nebulous]

Just thought a list of clever uses for the polymorphic spell would be cool.

Example imagine a vast army, with Griffins flying over head. You cast a spell on one of the Griffens and turn it into a blue whale which then falls, alone with it's rider on top of the army underneath, the whale's bulk killing a bunch of enemy troops upon impact.

Turn one ally into a giant eagle or giant bat then fly on their back.

Two things to consider - the range is 60 feet, so you have to kind of close to the griffon. More importantly, you can only polymorph something into a Beast of the same CR or lower. A griffon is CR 2. There's no blue whale in the monster manual, but there's killer whale, even smaller than a blue whale, and it's a CR 3, so you can't even polymorph a griffon into a killer whale, much less a blue whale which would be an even higher CR.

 

[Icarus Dreams]

Another thing you have to consider is that your blue whale is likely to LITERALLY EXPLODE from the impact. It's a weird trick of physics. You could throw an ant out of an airplane and it would land unharmed. It's just not big enough. Throw an elephant off of a skyscraper, it'll explode. If you take a blue whale, a creature that can only exist at its size because it is in the ocean, any height you could drop from without your gryphon being riddled with arrows before the drop point would lead to a complete structural failure--a meat explosion. That would not be survivable for anything polymorphed into the whale, imo. If you care about these riders and their gryphons, which, given you have to be within 60 feet to properly cast polymorph so the rider is probably the caster, you likely do.

 

[Ed Laprade]

Another thing you have to consider is that your blue whale is likely to LITERALLY EXPLODE from the impact. It's a weird trick of physics. You could throw an ant out of an airplane and it would land unarmed. It's just not big enough. Throw an elephant off of a skyscraper, it'll explode. If you take a blue whale, a creature that can only exist at its size because it is in the ocean, any height you could drop from without your gryphon being riddled with arrows before the drop point would lead to a complete structural failure--a meat explosion. That would not be survivable for anything polymorphed into the whale, imo. If you care about these riders and their gryphons, which, given you have to be within 60 feet to properly cast polymorph so the ride is probably the caster, you likely do.

Ah, but is the ant ever really unarmed? (I'll let myself out...)

 

[gyor]

Another thing you have to consider is that your blue whale is likely to LITERALLY EXPLODE from the impact. It's a weird trick of physics. You could throw an ant out of an airplane and it would land unharmed. It's just not big enough. Throw an elephant off of a skyscraper, it'll explode. If you take a blue whale, a creature that can only exist at its size because it is in the ocean, any height you could drop from without your gryphon being riddled with arrows before the drop point would lead to a complete structural failure--a meat explosion. That would not be survivable for anything polymorphed into the whale, imo. If you care about these riders and their gryphons, which, given you have to be within 60 feet to properly cast polymorph so the rider is probably the caster, you likely do.

Ideally the target Griffin or other flying creature is an enemy, not an ally so it exploding up impact and taking other enemies with it is rather the goal.

And the flying creature doesn't have to be a griffen, maybe it's a Chasme you turn into a Killer Whale.

 

[dropbear8mybaby]

Turn an enemy into a bunny rabbit. Pick it up by the ears. Have an ally ready an action to shoot the bunny. Toss said bunny off a cliff. Shoot bunny. Enjoy splatter.

 

[Drakensguardian]

Lose a game of dice with some bandits? Turn one of them (secretly) into an ant. Bet against the bandit saying they don't have the guts to eat said ant. He eats his friend. You laugh with delight. Hell, you might lose a few coins but accidental cannibalism is great!

 

[gyor]

Lose a game of dice with some bandits? Turn one of them (secretly) into an ant. Bet against the bandit saying they don't have the guts to eat said ant. He eats his friend. You laugh with delight. Hell, you might lose a few coins but accidental cannibalism is great!

When that ant dissolves in that bandits stomach acid and returns to their regular size, they will burst out of the other bandits stomach in a spray of gore.

 

[gyor]

Turn ally into a triceratops have have them move a huge boulder out of the way.

Turn an ally into a poisonous snake and milk them for venom.

Turn an ally into a Tressym, they can flight and see invisible creatures and stuff.

Turn an enemy into a fish.

 

[Nebulous]

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