Plane Sailing
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I like having an unseen servant with the standing orders to 'pick up anything I drop and carry it around ready for me'
Creative Use of Low-level Magic.
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Darklone
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Mage Hand is actually our wizards second best Detect Magic spell... he's got that item with unlimited Mage Hand uses/day and he never touches anything that he can move with Mage Hand... so if he can't it's magic!Hypersmurf said:Did you cunningly make use of a non-magical piece of string in order to circumvent the non-magical-item-only restriction of Mage Hand? Or did you forget about it?
-Hyp.
el-remmen
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We once used rope trick to sneak into a pirate ship. We did recon and knew where it docked every three days or so, so before it arrived we arraneged to all get in the space and pull up the rope at a height that was equal with the ship's hold, and once we looked out hole and saw the ship had passed through our spot, we dropped out into the ship and then the slaughter began!
Recently my players came up to a giant gate deep within an underground complex. The gate looked as if it had been teleported in, as the floor and walls did not match and seemed to melt together in a line around the gate. On either side of the gate were arrow slits. The sorcerer of the party, in an effort to prevent people from shooting them, used mage hand to drape an empty sack over the arrow slit, making it impossible to see out of it.
When the player said she was doing that every one of the old-timers at the table (20+ years of gaming each) nodded and acknowledged that it was a creative use of the spell. Since I was one of those I gave the party extra experience for cleverness.
When the player said she was doing that every one of the old-timers at the table (20+ years of gaming each) nodded and acknowledged that it was a creative use of the spell. Since I was one of those I gave the party extra experience for cleverness.
JiffyPopTart
Bree-Yark
Hypersmurf said:Did you cunningly make use of a non-magical piece of string in order to circumvent the non-magical-item-only restriction of Mage Hand? Or did you forget about it?
-Hyp.
Never noticed it had that restriction. I do appreciate the smiley, because I wouldn't want to think you were just being sarcastically rude.
DS
Plane Sailing
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In 1e my low level wizard was attacked by a ferocious monk. The monk charged towards me and made a kung-fu flying leap and I said "featherfall".
Monk said 'Oh damn' (or words to that effect) and I sic'd my wardogs on him as he floated to the ground.
Monk said 'Oh damn' (or words to that effect) and I sic'd my wardogs on him as he floated to the ground.
Prince of Happiness
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Plane Sailing said:
Holy crap, that got me to laugh out loud!
awayfarer
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Merkuri said:I don't know how creative this really was, but I once used silent image to make an image of a cave wall that the party could hide behind and ambush some wyverns we were trying to kill.
A couple sessions ago the party was riding on a moving carriage, being attacked by mounted bandits. We managed to take out half of them by casting grease on the ground in front of the bandits on one side of the carriage. When you're moving at 120 feet a round grease can do a lot of damage.
And my bf, Awayfarer, has some very creative uses for prestidigitation (his favorite spell) but I'll let him tell those.
I was DM'ing the night everyone Greased the bandits. Did not see that coming. The horses and brigands were so mangled it looked like a centaur orgy gone horribly wrong.
In any event, the single most versatile cantrip (and I might argue the most versatile spell ever) is Prestidigitation. My very first D&D character was granted a Ring of Prestidigitation and I made sure to make good use of it. My favorite moment with the spell was using it to make all the other PC's beer taste like wine. I think several of them suspected that the barkeep was trying to poison us. I was cackling like a maniac but this went unnoticed as we play online.
Buts thats not all! Prestidigitation can also be used to...
1: Remove tough stains!
2: Add tough stains! (Give the snooty bard an excuse to change his pants.)
3: Make delicious chocolates taste like sawdust!
4: Add a few notes of bagpipe music to an otherwise pleasant musical performance!
5: Forget to bring flowers to the funeral? Presto, instant flowers!
6: Give an unsuspecting party member a temporary tattoo! ("Thulkas is my Daddy" for instance)
