D&D 5E Vicious Mockeries

[Unwise]

To see vicious mockery in action; The Last Boyscout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-BM_WpNpa8 (NSFW for language)

My Bard tends to work blue:

My bard failed a perform roll badly when attempting to enthrall an audience and got heckled, I took the heckler down with a vicious mockery "Hey come on man, I'm working here. I don't come around to your work and kick the ****s out of your mouth".

I have used these ditties at the table too, some context may not make sense (Thanks to a book called Bard)

"Though Loki has fathered a wolf and a horse,
and taken his sister Jansaxa by force,
this bandit kings conduct he reckons too coarse,
ah rup de up de hiyoooo"

"He never broke ring but the ring of an a***
and the traders in boys wore a track through his grass,
they ceased to deliver when he ceased to pay,
and the cows and the oxen stood well out his way,
ah rup de up de hiyoooo"

At our table if I can make people either laugh or gasp in shock with a mockery, I impose disadvantage on saves.

 

[trentonjoe]

Your mother was a squirrel (cast on a wolf)....now that I am thinking about it we use a lot of "your mom" jokes
Even when you were alive, you sucked (cast on a ghoul)
Do you macrame your own webs? (cast on a spider)
Die Mouth Breather! (cast on a sahuagin)
You used to be a minion (cast on goblin)


As an aside: "Monsters much leads such interesting lives," from Bugs Bunny, is a standard charm monster verbal component in my games

 

[aramis erak]

"Excuse me... I need your spleen"... said the tiefling warlock to a kobold... who promptly dropped from the vicious mockery.
"I think you confuse me for a valid target" (a fey pact warlock to a gargoyle.)
"Oh, look, a monkey!" (ibid.)
"Oh, look, your liver!" (ibid.)
"You would look much better in puce." (ibid.)

 

[tuxgeo]

Re: generic Vicious Mockeries:

I object, Sir: Generic Micious Valkyries are an abomination unto the genre, Sir!

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Honestly, Bardic Mockeries are meant to be made-up on the spot -- for how else do you weave the exigencies of the situation together with the pecularities of the foe you're facing into a sublime combination that creates poetic masterpieces based upon both, when you have all of your Mockeries figured out ahead of time?

 

[Mistwell]

I object, Sir: Generic Micious Valkyries are an abomination unto the genre, Sir!

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Honestly, Bardic Mockeries are meant to be made-up on the spot -- for how else do you weave the exigencies of the situation together with the pecularities of the foe you're facing into a sublime combination that creates poetic masterpieces based upon both, when you have all of your Mockeries figured out ahead of time?

Again, you don't need them all figured out ahead of time. But sometimes, it's your turn and you have nothing in mind, but would like an insult of some kind. It is, after all, their primary attack when not using spell slots.

 

[Fralex]

Vicious mockery is one of the best powers they could've ported from 4e to 5e (that is where it originated, right? Bard at-will?). It was always such fun to use.