Flavoring Spells in D&D With Meagan and Todd

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Meagan and Todd talks about flavoring spelling in Dungeons & Dragons!
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[@40yearoldninja61]

My 5 year old wanted to be Ironman in our campaign so I made him a warforged wizard. Magic missiles come from a small wrist mounted missile launcher, feather fall shoots rocket thrusters that attach to allies, and chromatic orb is a multi barrelled gun mounted on his shoulder. He loves it, and it fits his theme.

[@WeShallLoveOn]

I have a divination wizard and it's pretty surprising how many spells you can reflavor as "seeing the future" or divining in some way. So for instance Shield is just her stepping out of the way of an attack she knows is coming. Synaptic Static/mind whip are giving the targets horrible visions of the future. Haste gives her friends helpful visions of the future. Misty step "freezes time" so she can walk away and appear to teleport somewhere else. Disintegrate propels the target through time to where they turn to dust. Reflavoring spells is one of my favorite things to do.

[@gigglydude]

My favorite flavoring was my Grung circle of Spores druid that discovers he has a special new tongue that could shoot out 120 ft to wrap around an enemy & do necrotic damage (chill touch)

[@DragonKingZero]

Fire spells change colors based on damage rolled (red->orange->yellow->white -- crits are blue).

[@heykak]

Artificer is the supreme class for flavouring spells. I had a battlesmith that used a repeating heavy crossbow. his faerie fire was a special sparkle grenade I loaded into the gun. that artificer changed into an armourer once tasha's came out. I do the standard magic missile gauntlet shot (ala ironman) but absorb elements channels the magic to open glass panels on my suit (which will get more use when i reach 9th level).

[@draco949]

I love these. Keep them coming. I like how you look at each other rather than the camera. Gives a "my friends are chatting about D&D while I am in the room" feel.

[@beastmasterbrax4747]

Reflavoring is so great! I played a Dwarven Abjuration Wizard in a one shot who used a revolver as a spell focus. Prepping spells was him creating his bullets every night. It was great imagining Counter Spell as me shooting the spell out of the air. My water genasi pirate Tempest Cleric of Umberlee Spirit Guardians was spectral sharks, the party always called it my Sharknado. My Sacred Flame was a bolt of lightning instead of flame, and my Shatter spell sounded like a ships cannon. I smeared a drop of salt water on a party members forehead and said a prayer to cast Death Ward, and my healing spells made them feel and smell the sea air. Oh yeah and my Inflict Wounds was me drawing all the moisture from their bodies. I loved all the flavor Meagan brought for her spells in Silver and Steel!

[@facetankhank]

I absolutely love flavouring. It adds so much! My group are all new to the game, while I have played since 3.0. I'm slowly opening up the world to them. Our party druid (shepherd) chose for her elf form to have purple hair. Then she changed into a hyena and was worried I would relay it to the party so they would attack her, not having seen this creature before. Then I said "What if you have a purple mohawk?" And then she realised what could make something her own in our world. One of the NPC's they have encountered is a paladin. He's a BIG dude. His sheet says he wields a hammer, but that just a stat I use for his fist. He punches stuff very hard with a holy fist of fury.

[@aoiyuureisuru7656]

Batshit and sulpher was used to make gunpowder and Bowstrings used to be made of intestines! Love the real world connections the components have to these spells

[@TheAllAroundG]

I had a Thief/Sorcerer who stole a crystal dagger, and used it for physical attacks, cantrips and even higher level stuff. He threw the dagger and it was a firebolt, or it split into magic missile, it spun around really fast for shield, it duplicated and hovered around as dancing lights, that kinda thing

[@Hyodorio]

I'm loving this format with you two! Also, flavoring spells must be one of my favourite things in D&D, my shepherd druid player loved to flavor his spells as tiny spirits that delivered the magic effect

[@Aligariusful]

I think this is the great thing about 5e - it let's you play up flavoring spells like this as much or as little as possible. It allows you to tell the story how you want.

[@TheNewOcMuse]

I once played a Kenku bard whose spells were all flavored as different instrument noises. (Thunderwave sounded like the loud boom of a bass drum, each hit of a magic missile would sound like little plucks on a lyre string, etc)

[@GramGramAnimations]

I played a wizard in Dragon Heist and in one of the early sessions found a gun on an enemy. 2 campaigns later my old lady wizard gnome still uses it as her focus for spells like magic Missile, fireball, Frost Ray, and any spell I can possibly flavor it with. The gun has since been bejeweled with her jewelers tools proficiency.

[@summersw1rl]

I love Meagan so much! Please have her on more talks! <3

[@raicantgame6634]

oh man, that comment about how an artillerist can't beat out a wizard hit me right in the chest because I'm literally playing an artillerist whose backstory is that he wanted nothing more than to be a wizard, but due to unfortunate circumstances he wasn't able to and turned to artificing as a second option and is consumed with regret. So you said that and I'm like "... OW?!"

[@SimonAshworthWood]

Flavouring spells with Meagan and Todd? I prefer to use Nutmeg and Cinnamon, myself.

[@thebridgeninja]

My ranger has a robot dragonling pet we made up. To use it in combat, I cast summon beast on it. Also a wizard in our group has a spell revolver that he casts his spells through.

[@maevenbranna8951]

"a mcdonalds chicken sandwich worth"... Real

[@ticozayas6430]

I love reflavoring spells, one of my favorites was changing my eldritch blast "beams" into spectral throwing knives/daggers for my hexblade, the blades would emerge from my palms and hover in front of me waiting to be grabbed and "thrown"