ideas for contingency

[messy]

allo

contingency seems to have great potential for some brilliant tactics. so tell me folks: how have you, as player or dm, used contingency to great effect?

messy

 

[Dargon]

Teleport on death to you clone.
You don't want to lose you spellbook and all the other goodies

 

[Gothic_Demon]

An evil DM trick is to have the BBEG mage, in his room with the fountain, have a ring of water breathing and a Contingency, to activate when struck, raise the water level from the fountain as per the Control Water spell, filling the entire room with water!

 

[mvincent]

how have you, as player or dm, used contingency to great effect?

Not great, but I often combined it with true-strike and (important) ray spells.

Teleport on death to you clone.
You don't want to lose you spellbook and all the other goodies

Nice. Wish my BBEG had thought of that awhile ago.

 

[Storme]

I like preservation techniques.

I have False Life to trigger if I drop below 10 hit point, and another if I drop below 0.

And Teleportation if I die, onto my bed in my stronghold where my level 14 cleric simulacrum resurrects me (Note: You must be level 15 to use teleport with contingency).