D&D General How did you deal with Command: "Blaspheme!"?

[Quartz]

A memory surfaced and I thought I'd share. Many, many, moons ago I was in a 1e or 2e AD&D game and one of the players tried the Command: "Blaspheme!" The DM told him to roll for divine intervention, which duly came up but it was the PC that got crisped! No one ever tried it again at that DM's table.

How did you deal with it?

 

[TarionzCousin]

You may be shocked to hear this, but I have never had a player cast "Command: Blaspheme."

 

[Krachek]

Thou shalt not take the name of Lolth in vain

 

[jayoungr]

You may be shocked to hear this, but I have never had a player cast "Command: Blaspheme."

Me either, but I've got a great idea now ...

 

[Morrus]

Never had it happened. That said if it did I’m sure deities know that their servants are acting under magical control, so it’s not a problem.

 

[iserith]

Back in the 1e and 2e days it's was blaspheming just to play.

 

[Superbeast20]

LOL wow that's a spell I had never heard of before. I do want to play something that declares someone excommunicate. Preferably John Wick

 

[pogre]

Never had it happen, but that is pretty cool.

 

[Salthorae]

That’s a fun story.

Personally I wouldn’t of had anything happen. The caster would have been fine and the one who failed their save would have said something blasphemous and moved on with their combat.

I guess if you were in the high temple of X god in a fight it might be different. Don’t know.

What edition are we talking about to the rules are very different for that spell in different ones.

 

[Shiroiken]

The most evil one I've used as a DM is "defecate." Nothing upsets a player more than having their character crap themselves as their turn.