That is truly some creative handiwork. And if performed by a Warlock, it can be totally resourcefree. At least in 5th edition. Which it probably wasn't, considering he's talking about 'Wisdom damage'. Still, the episode was good, and explains what Silent Image can do.
Unknown name basically there was a king with many sons, those sons were kinda dicks and lazy. Each of them were eventually given their own kingdom to rule yada yada. So one of these sons was peeved that the construction of his palace came second to Zeus’s temple and the temple was grander than his too. The Prince remembered that he and his siblings used to play pretend gods recounting the old stories so he decided to IMPERSONATE Zeus. While some fell for it at first, people began to realize he was fake so they were yelling at him, calling out the BS of this “fake Zeus”. Turns out Gods while rarely paying explicit attention can pick up someone saying your name among the background noise (this happens at parties or events all the time for people). He saw what was happening and smited EVERYONE.
A lot of people may be wondering, "How do you win at D&D?" Well, D&D is not like many other games, but I will say this: if you can speak the sentence "We got paid three times!" without having to make a Bluff check, that's a sign you're headed in the right direction.
I love when groups double dip on quest rewards. In one campaign I was in, we were being paid to investigate the defenses of a city by an enemy army. Unbeknownst to our employer, we'd also been hired by the leaders of that city to figure out who the mole that was leaking information was, unbeknownst to both we were part of a third party that needed a key figure extricated out of the city, and unbeknownst to all of us, there was a fourth party of a interplanetary army of lizard men that was already in the process of scry and frying the whole city. In the end, we got our target out while framing him as the mole, delayed the new army long enough to allow an evacuation, then leaked the information about the cities defenses (manned by an occupying force of lizard men), and between looting and our payment, we'd wrung about four sessions worth of rewards out of this one event. This playing all sides thing ended up as a theme in this campaign until we'd kinda ended up as the only side left with all the resources.
Well yeah, he's a Chaotic Evil wizard raised by Lizard Folk. Of course he would side with them over the stupid humans. Especially when 3X payment was involved.
I once used this spell to trick someone into a bag of devouring by having an illusion of myself jump into the bag and “teleporting” to the other side of the room
just remembered this video... in one adventure, We were hidden in opaque dome, and got surrounded by kobolds... My character knew draconic, and we coupled a few spells and with help of very stealthy charater, made a huge dragon appear and talk the kobolds into taking the "dragons's servants" (the party) to their lord. then the "dragon" disappeared into a magical sparkles and smoke, and we got out of possible eccounter :P
i had a experience with kobolds that was idiotic to say the least... we were tasked with finding someone who stole ancient tomes from a sacred library. and as we investigated the suspect apartment we found dragon cultist robes... later on, at the would be encounter, we pretended to be one of their number *and* inside men from the police. we asked for a statement "dont worry we are with you guys, we just need to do this so our cover isn't blown" i sold my characters bestselling book "fantastic yeasts and where to find them: a guide to taverns" and we made our way to the BBEG (big bad evil guy).
I once used silent image to scare some guards into believe a fire I started at the base of a fort wall was much bigger than it was. Made the fire using some grain or something to give off some heat and noise to make the silent illusion more believable. It worked like a charm. It is one of my favorite things I have done in dnd
Ok, aside from the fact that 2/3s of the villagers died on route to your castle, this was an incredible idea. XD You satisfied everyone! The noble who wanted to know what was going on, the lizards who wanted the environment better protected, and the (surviving) villagers got a new home where they weren't being poisoned by lizardfolk!
I mean, deceiving a whole bunch of villagers to risk their lives for you and killing 2/3 of them in the process is pretty evil. I mean, that's textbook evil emperor stuff there.
@@Nechrostriker4 If you lock someone in a room and set it on fire, you have killed them. If you deceive someone into traveling through the oregon trail while naked and without supplies, you've essentially committed mass murder.
@@AnEnormousNerd what separates those examples to this campaign (apparently) is intent. I doubt the PCs intended to kill anyone en route, especially since if they stayed where they were they would be killed by the Lizardmen poisoning them all as is
@@Nechrostriker4 Woah bro, I'm pretty conservative but even I don't believe that Andrew Jackson is not responsible for the deaths occurred on the Trail of Tears.
We used a orc-assimar cleric, a dhampir, and my CHA main stat magus to convince a town that they were being plagued by a vampire. My magus pretended to be a priest. He had disguise and was basically just as much of a con man and rogue as he could be. He would sneak around at night and prick peoples' necks while they slept. He would use illusions to have the 'vampire' be seen, but disappear after rounding a corner, or fly away, or some such nonsense. Then, the adventuring party came into town, Vincent the Meager (my magus) playing the priest to this angelic, orc cleric Kroll, with silver tusks. Vincent said that Kroll was a God made flesh. A new God. When the townsfolk announced their vampire problem, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to help them. Vincent informed the townspeople that there was no cure for vampirism, and that the vampire must be vanquished (in pathfinder, curing a vampire is difficult, to say the least.) We captured the vampire that night, a Dhampir spellsword, after having an epic battle of intentional near misses and illusion magics to wake the entire village. Vincent and Kroll took him to the well and chained him down to face the sunrise, Vincent announcing that the sunrise would wash away the sins and wretched existence of this poor creature, while blessing him with holy water, which sizzled against the dhampir's flesh, drawing frightened gasps from the townsfolk. But Kroll interrupted. He stepped forward, his back to the rising dawn, and asked the captive if he had intentionally chosen the path he was on. No. So Kroll offered the man a boon. A blessing of mercy. A divine miracle. Kroll reached out a hand and... Cast glitterdust. It was a beautiful, dazzling display of light. And, as the sun rose behind the great orc, Kroll spoke thus, "Now, face the sun and your new fate, my child." And stepped aside. The sunlight washed over the man, vampire no more. The captive wept, and swore his allegiance, and his everlasting soul to Kroll. We never paid for an inn, food, or supplies in that village again. We had a base of operation and the beginnings of the Church of Kroll. TL;DR: con men convince the village one of them is the avatar of an unknown God, using 1st through 3rd level spells. 10/10 would blaspheme again.
Our bard did something very similar. Same 2 spells and created the image of a wyvern flying around. it tricked about 10 orcs into fleeing the area where we got away to safety.
@@archibaldc.1833 If you haven't seen, look up their recent comments about a race in Starjammer that has . tl;dr is "We didn't read over what was put in, and don't like it referencing real world atrocities, so it's removed from future printings."
A nice addendum to Silent Image: Quite a few characters pick up the ability to read lips via the Observant Feat. Normally reading lips is the least useful part of that feat, but it synergies interestingly with Silent Image. You could, for example, create a version of yourself to give secret instructions to an Observant person who is on the other side of a building.....
lemonsandlimes7 he was though. Skenk mcgenk replaced the his previous character Yohan Von Generico. He was a member of this party as in that video he says “my rouge” and other such indicators of it being his. Additionally in the mage hand video he talks from Mcgenks perspective, impling it is his character
I love illusions, I had a sorcerer who was all about them. He was addicted to gambling and would use them to win when the time was right.(basically, lose a bit on purpose, raise the stakes a lot, win at any cost) he used illusions to cheat, distract, scare people with random roars from random places. I had a plan to use phantasmal force...i think that's the name... to make a guy believe I had created a phantom golem from the corpses around(something to that effect, never had a chance to do it sadly) My first character that would ALWAYS try coming up with a non direct approach to any problem. also...brutaly honest with people, because it makes it easier for them to believe you when you actually lie (or so he believed XD).
Anything that is versatile makes a great spell. Take polymorph for example: about to take another 3d6 con damage because of poison and out of antidote? *POOF* I'm now a slime cube who just ate the poison.
Today's the day, I survived the Sack of Greenest to level up with my bard. He has the Actor feat, Minor Illusion and now Silent Image, and of course a buttload of charisma. Fun times abound!
One thing to keep in mind: You can't use illusions to gain cover (an illusory wall can't stop arrows), but it *can* obscure your space to effectively make you invisible from whoever's opposite the wall. Happy hunting!
@SaviorOfNirn Cover is a mechanical effect that increases your armor class. Cover is something you can gain regardless of visibility. (A wall of force gives you total cover, but you remain visible). An illusion does not give you cover, as attacks can still pass through it. It can, however, effectively make you invisible. Being invisible does not stop you from being attacked.
I really want to make a Fiend warlock of the tome who just walks around with silent image and minor illusion. He looks like a dragon and even sounds/smells like one. Meanwhile my warlock uses the darkness invocation to stay invisible
He eventually convinces himself that he is indeed a dragon, with the time he even convices reality itself that he is a dragon, and thus is is revealed that he was a dragon all along, a dragon rp a fiend warlock that rp beign a dragon.
Illusions are by far the most powerful spells in all of tablerop Rpgs. The main draw being that they don't get a save until they interact with it. I usually give my characters craft (illusions) which was an introduction from 3.5's ultimate arcane, so that I can make super detailed illusions. Even basically make my party invisible by setting up a properly crafted 2d illusionary wall.
Well Skenk McGenk IS a Chaotic Evil character (the Mage Hand video). So it's not surprising that a Drow Rogue was okay with this, and I'm thinking Gideon Roughskin is a Neutral character (maybe Lawful Neutral) who was convinced by the premise of extra pay.
In my first DnD quest, we went to go investigate some smoke that had been burning for a couple days now. So I and a couple people went to go investigate. Our party consisted of a Monk, 2 rangers, a bard, and a rogue went to go investigate. Every thing was going fine until we reached the end of the story and uncovered some bandits trying to steal and sell some suude. We began the fight and as you can tell, we didn't have any tanks so I was pretty much at the front lines the whole time. We managed to kill all the bandits in the area except one who managed to call for back up, bringing in 5 more Bandits and the Bandit leader. Things went bad, one of the rangers and I got downed and it all seemed lost until our bard got Levitate by a pixie NPC and then cast Silent Image on himself to create A halo over his head and a bright beam of light shining down upon him to create the illusion that he was a god himself and somehow managed to convince a few of the bandits except the bandit leader to surrender. To sell the image out, even more, he cast lay on hands on the ranger all while saying "I shall not allow my followers to die" and eventually brought me up as well. We ended up surviving the whole ordeal with everyone including my character thinking he really was a god.
The classic "Build Your Own Illusion" type spells are my favourite tool in any DnD system, simply because they reward players exponentially for thinking creatively. I've personally used them in combat to blind opponents, in diplomatic encounters to make an opponent feel outnumbered, I've used them as a double bluff against a strong willed opponent (put an illusion of a pit over an actual pit, knowing they'll see through the illusion and think there is no pit there, because who checks under an illusory pit for a second pit), I've used them to entertain bored gods, sneak past guards, and convince a troll that the bridge he guards was ten feet to the left of where it actually was. All of which involves far more critical thinking than "which target is the most susceptible to fireballs", and rewards that extra thought.
I've also seen a story where a couple of characters flew over a chasm (one had boots of flying, the other a broom of flying, and they were the only ones in the party with a flying speed) when they encountered a pack of werewolves and decided to run away. The warlock on the broom decided to use silent image to make the cliff extend 15ft further and the werewolves, in a constant state of dashing after the intrepid adventurers, didn't realize it was a trick until too late.
With my current character, an arcane trickster, I typically use silent image as a decoy hologram to kite enemies to a certain area during the encounter or to draw aggro. It was particularly helpful during an encounter with some monsters that had a high damage multi-attack, i was able to confuse them long enough to buy our fighter enough time to both avoid high damage and do some damage himself. Creating a fake wall to obscure the party is a great idea though, i had never thought of about it.
Getting paid three times for the same job (and looting what was left of the town) is awesome, but impersonating a God could result in a grumpy Trumpet Archon showing up.
This is one of my favorite spells. Trying to escape an enemy? Slip down an alley and then use it to make a 15ft wall appear in front of you. Trying to scam a noble? Say that there is a group of scoundrels in their path robbing people and offer to guide them around it at a reasonable rate use. Then ambush them with a hulking Goliaths visage standing directly behind them..(Helps to appear as a cleric just wear a holy symbol of some good god.)
Sooooo, you found innocent villagers suffering from poison and you used magic to further abuse and almost mind control people into servitude, as they lost everything they had in the process. Evil, very evil.
Lawful evil dragonborn monk here. But the villagers were overhunting the area. Soon, if they would continue, the village would fall to famine due to quite obvious absence of food. Same with lizardfolk. The both settlements would perish, a very bad fate. And by acting in the evil way, both settlements are saved... (2 thirds of peasants died, but hey, they would have anyway), and one third survived and serves under a reasonable rule in the castle. They also have saved lizardfolk from starving, and a local wildlife. So they actually saved a third of the village. And a whole lizardfolk settlement. And they figured out why they weren't sending anything, because the bloody gits overhunted the area and had nothing to catch. It's a win-win situation, and they actually acted in a reasonable and good manner.
Honestly, I think playing ANY party that doesn't fall into "Murderhobo" or "Chaotic Stupid/Stupid Evil" is probably pretty great. They're so rare, haha
Makes the warlock with Misty Visions invocation and the Minor Illusion Cantrip A LOT more dangerous. Thank you Now my monotone child warlock can Create distractions of damsels in distress and easy prey to lure out guards and monstrosities alike so our Assassin Rouge can one Shot them. Thank You Animated Spell Book.
I like the way your Lizardfolk look. I guess more accurately, I like your art style generally, and I like Lizardfolk in general, so it was just a winning combination for me. Love the content, look forward to more.
I had a bard/rogue who's whole schtick was infiltrating. To that end silent image and minor illusion were my bread and butter. Both were amazing at getting in and out of places you weren't meant to be. Eventually we had to get into a tiefling cult. I had mostly been using a disguise kit for premeditated stuff and saving minor illusion for on the fly work, but I decided my human needed a little something extra to really pass as a tiefling. In my mind, the lack of real horns were going to be a dead giveaway. A hood from a cultists robe wouldn't sit right, and if anyone swung anything above my head they'd hit thin air, so I got creative. I used my proficiency in disguises to make mummer's horns that I could wear on my head. I can't remember if I used actual horns fitted onto a strap or if it was some sort of paper-mache arrangement. Either way, it worked great. Put on my horns and cloak, one minor illusion cast later and BAM! I'm a walking, talking, falling-off-of-balconies bona-fide cultist of Asmodeus.
@@kingkasdin9767 You could use disguise self to this end, but it likewise would not be able to physically alter your body alone, only it's appearance. And as bard with limited known spells, having minor illusion was much more flexible than disguise self, and having proficiency with disguises meant I only needed to bother with using spells when I really needed to. My guy was a little over the top and would often go incognito when it wasn't strictly necessary, but that was part of his schtick. Using a spell everytime I needed to look different would have left me with a lot fewer spell slots to work with the rest of the time. Disguise kit is very underrated imo.
@@CSelH Misty visions can accomplish most of what other invocations can, aside from pact ones and sight based, and maybe transformative.. Invisibility at will? Just illusion of environment without you. Disguise self, same but better, plus more area, plus up to nine people in area. It is the superior invocation. With no requirement to boot
"And so they set off on a three day journey to be cheap labour at our rad base. We basically also got paid three times." I declare you the winner of D&D!
Control Flames would be good if Bards could learn it, but you could take a level in Druid (or Sorcerer or Wizard, but Druid fits better for the concept I think).
@@OdaSwifteye Sending an entire village off with a lie to become your servants through a journey that will kill 2/3rds of them is not neutral, that is evil.
i’ve dome this before...playing a bard/warlock tiefling, i snuck up behind a cult leader during a religious service and used silent image to make a giant demon head appear floating above them and then used minor image to make a boomimg voice and it claimed to be Asmodeus and told the head priest to stop what he was doing and worship Asmodeus now and the priest believed the illusion and obeyed. someone told me later, I shouldn’t have been able to do that because nobody knows what Amodeus looks like, but my character was a tiefling and has imagination as to what he thought a demon head would look like, it was basically his own face with longer horns on top, and if nobody really knows what Asmodeus looks like, then the priest doesn’t know either and so the priest couldn’t know for sure that it wasn’t Asmodeus... the DM did make me roll stealth, performance AND bluff checks and I passed all of them so it sounds fair to me.
Heh, if you can pass 3 checks, you probably do deserve to have things go your way. Cult members aren't exactly the best critical thinkers in the world to start with :)
My players once did this on a ship full of kobolds they killed the captain and the bard cast silent image to mimic the room except the party wasn't there and the boss was still alive then they went down to the rest of the crew and became the captain of a ship full of kobolds with a 34 charisma check
my party used illusions to convince an entire cult to commit ritual suicide instead of having a glorious bloody battle As the barbarian, I was less than impressed.
Maybe for some DM's, but really, this is such low level use of his image, he has more important things to do. Now, if the party mistreated the peasantry, or kept doing this stuff, then maybe.
@@oKingLexxOh this is for a Djinni Warlock build based around illusions and enemy control. One that I am finally playing in a campaign. It’s called “Out of the Abyss”.
I'm pretty happy to see someone use Silent Image as a full-cover substitute because when I had my Warlock use it to cover himself and his team running away (3 1st levels and attacked by a 4 goblins and 2 wolves? HELL NAW, book it) I had half the table not believing it.
I could see the wolves not falling for it, either able to still smell and hear that your nearby, and/or being to stupid to react quickly enough to the supposed change of terrain.
@@timwoods2852 What I used it for was to create a wide black 'screen' so we could avoid having a direct line of fire at us. Wolves would still be able to give chase, but even one round where we can separate them or get full cover against ranged attacks was really useful.
@@timwoods2852 I'd like to think that even a wolf would be surprised when an illusion of utter darkness popped up in front of them. Sure, it might not smell weird but they'd at least hesitate a second. And, hey man, any edge you can get, right?
@@lyravain6304 Ah, I see what you did now. You made more of a cloud/shroud then just a wall or somesuch. Yeah, that would definitely be disorienting for both antagonists.
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Getting Paid is good.
Getting Paid Twice is better.
Getting Paid 3 Times with a new work force is the Best.
That is truly some creative handiwork.
And if performed by a Warlock, it can be totally resourcefree. At least in 5th edition.
Which it probably wasn't, considering he's talking about 'Wisdom damage'.
Still, the episode was good, and explains what Silent Image can do.
"We got paid three times."
Ah, that warms this shadowrunner's heart.
This is a fine plan... until the ACTUAL Pelor shows up.
This is like the time someone impersonated Zeus... but if it actually worked
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*_What is the story behind this_*
Unknown name basically there was a king with many sons, those sons were kinda dicks and lazy. Each of them were eventually given their own kingdom to rule yada yada. So one of these sons was peeved that the construction of his palace came second to Zeus’s temple and the temple was grander than his too. The Prince remembered that he and his siblings used to play pretend gods recounting the old stories so he decided to IMPERSONATE Zeus. While some fell for it at first, people began to realize he was fake so they were yelling at him, calling out the BS of this “fake Zeus”. Turns out Gods while rarely paying explicit attention can pick up someone saying your name among the background noise (this happens at parties or events all the time for people). He saw what was happening and smited EVERYONE.
"Wow man, that act is really convincing!"
Skenk, wide-eyed: "... This isn't me..."
@@TheMalevolentSpoon SMITE!
This sounds like a great idea until you realize Pelor will probably take offense...
vincentmuyo Considering how well it seemed to end for them, I would expect some divine retribution.
I eagerly await a high ranking Cleric of Pelor to investigate why an entire town vanished.
They probably sent Trevor.
A lot of people may be wondering, "How do you win at D&D?" Well, D&D is not like many other games, but I will say this: if you can speak the sentence "We got paid three times!" without having to make a Bluff check, that's a sign you're headed in the right direction.
Oh, I absolutely agree. I just think the concept of being paid three times for one job is both hilarious and awesome.
This is like the best textbook example of how to role-play evil characters and evil party.
Stop playing Chaotic Stupid or Antisocial Evil.
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Yesssss
I long for this more than anything else TH-cam could give
Hell Yassss
Please do this.
I love when groups double dip on quest rewards. In one campaign I was in, we were being paid to investigate the defenses of a city by an enemy army. Unbeknownst to our employer, we'd also been hired by the leaders of that city to figure out who the mole that was leaking information was, unbeknownst to both we were part of a third party that needed a key figure extricated out of the city, and unbeknownst to all of us, there was a fourth party of a interplanetary army of lizard men that was already in the process of scry and frying the whole city.
In the end, we got our target out while framing him as the mole, delayed the new army long enough to allow an evacuation, then leaked the information about the cities defenses (manned by an occupying force of lizard men), and between looting and our payment, we'd wrung about four sessions worth of rewards out of this one event. This playing all sides thing ended up as a theme in this campaign until we'd kinda ended up as the only side left with all the resources.
The unrelenting smile of Skenk McGenk while he describes horrors beyond reckoning is amazing
I just realized Urko, the fun-loving green-bearded druid just in this for nature and friendship is dead. I'm sad.
Non necessarily. He could benched him and just rolled up a new character.
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@@sylph8005 oh, didn't notice.
The wisdom damage the townsfolk had been taking made their saves to disbelieve the illusions virtually impossible to make.
Excellent plan then hehe
Can I just say how much I absolutely love skank mcganks walk. It brings me so much happiness.
I like on how happy he constantly looks in every situation
I love how, without hesitation, you accepted the priestesses job to remove the villagers.
Well yeah, he's a Chaotic Evil wizard raised by Lizard Folk. Of course he would side with them over the stupid humans. Especially when 3X payment was involved.
Anyone else want to hear the full story of team Fun Sized and Scank McGank?
I once used this spell to trick someone into a bag of devouring by having an illusion of myself jump into the bag and “teleporting” to the other side of the room
I love this.
just remembered this video... in one adventure, We were hidden in opaque dome, and got surrounded by kobolds... My character knew draconic, and we coupled a few spells and with help of very stealthy charater, made a huge dragon appear and talk the kobolds into taking the "dragons's servants" (the party) to their lord. then the "dragon" disappeared into a magical sparkles and smoke, and we got out of possible eccounter :P
i had a experience with kobolds that was idiotic to say the least... we were tasked with finding someone who stole ancient tomes from a sacred library. and as we investigated the suspect apartment we found dragon cultist robes... later on, at the would be encounter, we pretended to be one of their number *and* inside men from the police. we asked for a statement "dont worry we are with you guys, we just need to do this so our cover isn't blown" i sold my characters bestselling book "fantastic yeasts and where to find them: a guide to taverns" and we made our way to the BBEG (big bad evil guy).
Ahhh, your vids snuck up on me and quickly became some of my favorites.
I once used silent image to scare some guards into believe a fire I started at the base of a fort wall was much bigger than it was. Made the fire using some grain or something to give off some heat and noise to make the silent illusion more believable. It worked like a charm. It is one of my favorite things I have done in dnd
Ok, aside from the fact that 2/3s of the villagers died on route to your castle, this was an incredible idea. XD
You satisfied everyone! The noble who wanted to know what was going on, the lizards who wanted the environment better protected, and the (surviving) villagers got a new home where they weren't being poisoned by lizardfolk!
I mean, deceiving a whole bunch of villagers to risk their lives for you and killing 2/3 of them in the process is pretty evil. I mean, that's textbook evil emperor stuff there.
@@AnEnormousNerd I don't think they were killed by the players, per se. Like, do you actively try to kill in the Oregon Trail?
@@Nechrostriker4 If you lock someone in a room and set it on fire, you have killed them. If you deceive someone into traveling through the oregon trail while naked and without supplies, you've essentially committed mass murder.
@@AnEnormousNerd what separates those examples to this campaign (apparently) is intent. I doubt the PCs intended to kill anyone en route, especially since if they stayed where they were they would be killed by the Lizardmen poisoning them all as is
@@Nechrostriker4 Woah bro, I'm pretty conservative but even I don't believe that Andrew Jackson is not responsible for the deaths occurred on the Trail of Tears.
Can I just say that I loved the guitar playing Lizardfolk.
The lizardfolk playing the guitars was gold
I used the same two spells to shoot a firework into the air whilst performing, and it was really cool! The people watching cheered.
We used a orc-assimar cleric, a dhampir, and my CHA main stat magus to convince a town that they were being plagued by a vampire.
My magus pretended to be a priest. He had disguise and was basically just as much of a con man and rogue as he could be. He would sneak around at night and prick peoples' necks while they slept.
He would use illusions to have the 'vampire' be seen, but disappear after rounding a corner, or fly away, or some such nonsense.
Then, the adventuring party came into town, Vincent the Meager (my magus) playing the priest to this angelic, orc cleric Kroll, with silver tusks. Vincent said that Kroll was a God made flesh. A new God.
When the townsfolk announced their vampire problem, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to help them.
Vincent informed the townspeople that there was no cure for vampirism, and that the vampire must be vanquished (in pathfinder, curing a vampire is difficult, to say the least.)
We captured the vampire that night, a Dhampir spellsword, after having an epic battle of intentional near misses and illusion magics to wake the entire village.
Vincent and Kroll took him to the well and chained him down to face the sunrise, Vincent announcing that the sunrise would wash away the sins and wretched existence of this poor creature, while blessing him with holy water, which sizzled against the dhampir's flesh, drawing frightened gasps from the townsfolk.
But Kroll interrupted. He stepped forward, his back to the rising dawn, and asked the captive if he had intentionally chosen the path he was on. No. So Kroll offered the man a boon. A blessing of mercy. A divine miracle. Kroll reached out a hand and... Cast glitterdust. It was a beautiful, dazzling display of light.
And, as the sun rose behind the great orc, Kroll spoke thus, "Now, face the sun and your new fate, my child."
And stepped aside.
The sunlight washed over the man, vampire no more. The captive wept, and swore his allegiance, and his everlasting soul to Kroll.
We never paid for an inn, food, or supplies in that village again. We had a base of operation and the beginnings of the Church of Kroll.
TL;DR: con men convince the village one of them is the avatar of an unknown God, using 1st through 3rd level spells. 10/10 would blaspheme again.
This is simply awesome
Was just on a Zee binge and this popped up in the notifications. What a gift!
Love the continuity of Team Fun Size evolving into Team Family Size as the height of each new member increases
Since they were all taking wis damage, I'll bet it was an easy time convincing them.
yeah I was thinking that myself - I mean he could have put on a hat and done almost as good lols
Pelor is absolutely gonna smite you for this...but it WAS very funny
Our bard did something very similar. Same 2 spells and created the image of a wyvern flying around. it tricked about 10 orcs into fleeing the area where we got away to safety.
that moment when you just casually trail of tears a village
Wait, lizards are an acceptable form of currency?
_and nobody told me?!_
Cannon fodder races be like
Well able bodied workers used to be trade goods, now wizards is butchering law to remove any reference to it
@@almightyk11 Unreasonable censorship is the most infuriating.
@@archibaldc.1833 If you haven't seen, look up their recent comments about a race in Starjammer that has .
tl;dr is "We didn't read over what was put in, and don't like it referencing real world atrocities, so it's removed from future printings."
I had no idea you were a cult leader
Silent image, minor illusion, and prestidigitation. The cha builds pb and j
A nice addendum to Silent Image: Quite a few characters pick up the ability to read lips via the Observant Feat. Normally reading lips is the least useful part of that feat, but it synergies interestingly with Silent Image. You could, for example, create a version of yourself to give secret instructions to an Observant person who is on the other side of a building.....
That's ingenious, combined with the fact that Warlocks get an invocation that lets them cast it at will this is VERY powerful!
Tbh the walk cycles at the end are adding so much to my already huge enjoyment of these videos.
Hot loredrop when skenk mcgenk was raised by lozardfolk
Charlotte Roy no... zee was not the character
lemonsandlimes7 he was though. Skenk mcgenk replaced the his previous character Yohan Von Generico. He was a member of this party as in that video he says “my rouge” and other such indicators of it being his. Additionally in the mage hand video he talks from Mcgenks perspective, impling it is his character
The lizard people jamming away made this animation all the better!
I love illusions, I had a sorcerer who was all about them.
He was addicted to gambling and would use them to win when the time was right.(basically, lose a bit on purpose, raise the stakes a lot, win at any cost)
he used illusions to cheat, distract, scare people with random roars from random places. I had a plan to use phantasmal force...i think that's the name... to make a guy believe I had created a phantom golem from the corpses around(something to that effect, never had a chance to do it sadly)
My first character that would ALWAYS try coming up with a non direct approach to any problem. also...brutaly honest with people, because it makes it easier for them to believe you when you actually lie (or so he believed XD).
I love the upbeat bounciness these videos exude. Every new video always cheers me up a bit. Ty Zee
This is why illusion magic is high key the best magic in the game. A little creativity and you can kill like 75 birds with 1 stone.
Anything that is versatile makes a great spell.
Take polymorph for example: about to take another 3d6 con damage because of poison and out of antidote? *POOF* I'm now a slime cube who just ate the poison.
Plot twist the 75 birds are also ilusions
When your deception check is so high that people died...
"We basically got paid 3 times!"
Gotta' applaud you for that! Nice job! ^_^
Today's the day, I survived the Sack of Greenest to level up with my bard. He has the Actor feat, Minor Illusion and now Silent Image, and of course a buttload of charisma. Fun times abound!
One thing to keep in mind: You can't use illusions to gain cover (an illusory wall can't stop arrows), but it *can* obscure your space to effectively make you invisible from whoever's opposite the wall. Happy hunting!
@SaviorOfNirn Cover is a mechanical effect that increases your armor class. Cover is something you can gain regardless of visibility. (A wall of force gives you total cover, but you remain visible).
An illusion does not give you cover, as attacks can still pass through it. It can, however, effectively make you invisible. Being invisible does not stop you from being attacked.
I really want to make a Fiend warlock of the tome who just walks around with silent image and minor illusion. He looks like a dragon and even sounds/smells like one. Meanwhile my warlock uses the darkness invocation to stay invisible
That's a fucking power move if you're able to hold your concentration
He eventually convinces himself that he is indeed a dragon, with the time he even convices reality itself that he is a dragon, and thus is is revealed that he was a dragon all along, a dragon rp a fiend warlock that rp beign a dragon.
"Its haunted... or cursed... or haunted by a curse... or maybe its just a ghost that curses at you."
..or Lizzardpeople which curse the local Hunters....
WOW. And here I thought my group was bad! You guys take CN to a whole new level.
Illusions are by far the most powerful spells in all of tablerop Rpgs. The main draw being that they don't get a save until they interact with it.
I usually give my characters craft (illusions) which was an introduction from 3.5's ultimate arcane, so that I can make super detailed illusions. Even basically make my party invisible by setting up a properly crafted 2d illusionary wall.
It was this episode when I realized: Team Familysize was not good guys at all.
Well Skenk McGenk IS a Chaotic Evil character (the Mage Hand video). So it's not surprising that a Drow Rogue was okay with this, and I'm thinking Gideon Roughskin is a Neutral character (maybe Lawful Neutral) who was convinced by the premise of extra pay.
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I'd say Chaotic Neutral.
He went into a dwarven ruin for treasures not reclaiming artifacts.
that was scarily close to saying "Balor" and that would have been cause for concern
In my first DnD quest, we went to go investigate some smoke that had been burning for a couple days now. So I and a couple people went to go investigate. Our party consisted of a Monk, 2 rangers, a bard, and a rogue went to go investigate. Every thing was going fine until we reached the end of the story and uncovered some bandits trying to steal and sell some suude. We began the fight and as you can tell, we didn't have any tanks so I was pretty much at the front lines the whole time. We managed to kill all the bandits in the area except one who managed to call for back up, bringing in 5 more Bandits and the Bandit leader. Things went bad, one of the rangers and I got downed and it all seemed lost until our bard got Levitate by a pixie NPC and then cast Silent Image on himself to create A halo over his head and a bright beam of light shining down upon him to create the illusion that he was a god himself and somehow managed to convince a few of the bandits except the bandit leader to surrender. To sell the image out, even more, he cast lay on hands on the ranger all while saying "I shall not allow my followers to die" and eventually brought me up as well. We ended up surviving the whole ordeal with everyone including my character thinking he really was a god.
this is now my expectation for how awesome it is to play table top D&D, if I ever go.
It's pretty awesome if you have the right group! Great for my first experience.
The classic "Build Your Own Illusion" type spells are my favourite tool in any DnD system, simply because they reward players exponentially for thinking creatively. I've personally used them in combat to blind opponents, in diplomatic encounters to make an opponent feel outnumbered, I've used them as a double bluff against a strong willed opponent (put an illusion of a pit over an actual pit, knowing they'll see through the illusion and think there is no pit there, because who checks under an illusory pit for a second pit), I've used them to entertain bored gods, sneak past guards, and convince a troll that the bridge he guards was ten feet to the left of where it actually was.
All of which involves far more critical thinking than "which target is the most susceptible to fireballs", and rewards that extra thought.
until some asshole half elf npc rolls an insight and TPKs you. And by npc i mean DM.
I've also seen a story where a couple of characters flew over a chasm (one had boots of flying, the other a broom of flying, and they were the only ones in the party with a flying speed) when they encountered a pack of werewolves and decided to run away. The warlock on the broom decided to use silent image to make the cliff extend 15ft further and the werewolves, in a constant state of dashing after the intrepid adventurers, didn't realize it was a trick until too late.
I like the pit example. I think I might use that one.
Alignment: Clever Evil.
I've loved every video this channel has put out. Can't wait for the next season!
Man you and Puffin Forest need to collab. Both of you have awesome content.
Agreed
I basically got banned from playing Warlocks in my D&D group for solving every problem with the at-will Silent Image Invocation.
I know that feel, bro.
That, minor illusion, friends and at-will disguise self invocation.
Did you let them replace it with a different invocation?
Ah, playing all sides of a situation for whatever you can get... Always a classic strategy. ;D
With my current character, an arcane trickster, I typically use silent image as a decoy hologram to kite enemies to a certain area during the encounter or to draw aggro. It was particularly helpful during an encounter with some monsters that had a high damage multi-attack, i was able to confuse them long enough to buy our fighter enough time to both avoid high damage and do some damage himself. Creating a fake wall to obscure the party is a great idea though, i had never thought of about it.
One of my favorite things to see on my TH-cam feed
I simply cannot get over the name Skank Magank. As it's just too damn hilarious.
Human Wizard, raised by Lizardfolk!
Last name Anigans, first name Shen.
"Your standing with (Pelor, God of the Sun) has decreased..."
"And your standing with (Loki, God of Trickery and Deceit) has increased..."
This is how you play a lawful evil character
Skenk Mac Gank is chaotic evil
I guess no one will mistake you for the good guys.
Getting paid three times for the same job (and looting what was left of the town) is awesome, but impersonating a God could result in a grumpy Trumpet Archon showing up.
Remember everyone: As long as no one touches the illusion they don't get a save.
i laughed out loud when i saw the text above crow's head at the begining "Urko is dead"
I started my first ever dnd game last month and silent image and minor illusion has been my all time favorite spell as a bard!
This is one of my favorite spells. Trying to escape an enemy? Slip down an alley and then use it to make a 15ft wall appear in front of you. Trying to scam a noble? Say that there is a group of scoundrels in their path robbing people and offer to guide them around it at a reasonable rate use. Then ambush them with a hulking Goliaths visage standing directly behind them..(Helps to appear as a cleric just wear a holy symbol of some good god.)
I love the note about the mortality of the trip
Heh, that seems like it's just asking for Pelor to seek vengeance. Clever trick and it's nice to see a non-good party example.
SKANK MaGank has the best walk. Actually I wouldn't even call it a walk, it's a strut.
Sooooo, you found innocent villagers suffering from poison and you used magic to further abuse and almost mind control people into servitude, as they lost everything they had in the process.
Evil, very evil.
Sage2000 but VERY profitable
I mean Skenk McGenk is chaotic evil so
Either chaotic neutral or any of the evil ones.
maximo caseres in the mage hand video he said Skenk McGenk was chaotic evil. Don’t know about the rest of the party but still
Lawful evil dragonborn monk here.
But the villagers were overhunting the area. Soon, if they would continue, the village would fall to famine due to quite obvious absence of food. Same with lizardfolk. The both settlements would perish, a very bad fate. And by acting in the evil way, both settlements are saved... (2 thirds of peasants died, but hey, they would have anyway), and one third survived and serves under a reasonable rule in the castle. They also have saved lizardfolk from starving, and a local wildlife. So they actually saved a third of the village. And a whole lizardfolk settlement. And they figured out why they weren't sending anything, because the bloody gits overhunted the area and had nothing to catch. It's a win-win situation, and they actually acted in a reasonable and good manner.
Man playing an evil party must be great
Honestly, I think playing ANY party that doesn't fall into "Murderhobo" or "Chaotic Stupid/Stupid Evil" is probably pretty great. They're so rare, haha
I am just watching this cause it is interesting and his voice is soothing
It surprises me that we're this far into the animated spellbook and Attunement has yet to be covered.
Makes the warlock with Misty Visions invocation and the Minor Illusion Cantrip A LOT more dangerous.
Thank you Now my monotone child warlock can Create distractions of damsels in distress and easy prey to lure out guards and monstrosities alike so our Assassin Rouge can one Shot them.
Thank You Animated Spell Book.
*Archfey laugh in the distance*
This is the best D&D fan content there is. You're sorely missed for the C-Team recaps :/
I like the way your Lizardfolk look. I guess more accurately, I like your art style generally, and I like Lizardfolk in general, so it was just a winning combination for me. Love the content, look forward to more.
(Two thirds of them died)
I had a bard/rogue who's whole schtick was infiltrating. To that end silent image and minor illusion were my bread and butter. Both were amazing at getting in and out of places you weren't meant to be.
Eventually we had to get into a tiefling cult. I had mostly been using a disguise kit for premeditated stuff and saving minor illusion for on the fly work, but I decided my human needed a little something extra to really pass as a tiefling. In my mind, the lack of real horns were going to be a dead giveaway. A hood from a cultists robe wouldn't sit right, and if anyone swung anything above my head they'd hit thin air, so I got creative.
I used my proficiency in disguises to make mummer's horns that I could wear on my head. I can't remember if I used actual horns fitted onto a strap or if it was some sort of paper-mache arrangement. Either way, it worked great. Put on my horns and cloak, one minor illusion cast later and BAM! I'm a walking, talking, falling-off-of-balconies bona-fide cultist of Asmodeus.
What about disguise self?
@@kingkasdin9767 You could use disguise self to this end, but it likewise would not be able to physically alter your body alone, only it's appearance. And as bard with limited known spells, having minor illusion was much more flexible than disguise self, and having proficiency with disguises meant I only needed to bother with using spells when I really needed to.
My guy was a little over the top and would often go incognito when it wasn't strictly necessary, but that was part of his schtick. Using a spell everytime I needed to look different would have left me with a lot fewer spell slots to work with the rest of the time. Disguise kit is very underrated imo.
Minor illusion covers a medium creature
@@CSelH Misty visions can accomplish most of what other invocations can, aside from pact ones and sight based, and maybe transformative.. Invisibility at will? Just illusion of environment without you. Disguise self, same but better, plus more area, plus up to nine people in area. It is the superior invocation. With no requirement to boot
@@CSelH I pull Mysterio all the time. Trap, hole in the floor, wall, pillar, people, fire, window, weapon, myself, crowd, harem, mob, retribution, justice, appearance, friend, enemy, id, money, distortion, prioreception, chronoreception, split, guilt, hazard, stairs, fall, lava, hell, heaven, intel, spy, information, etc.
I really like your creative approaches to problems.
"And so they set off on a three day journey to be cheap labour at our rad base. We basically also got paid three times."
I declare you the winner of D&D!
The Lizard Man and the guitar playing frogs hilarious! Your writing - OMG Genius!
A group of angry guitar strumming Lizardmen is my favorite encounter.
It's a little-known fact that Lizardfolk all get a rank of Bard as a racial.
I think a Bard who uses Silent Image just for storytelling would be cool
alldayagain yeah but aren't there cantrips that can do enough for storytelling?
Control Flames would be good if Bards could learn it, but you could take a level in Druid (or Sorcerer or Wizard, but Druid fits better for the concept I think).
Similar thing for shape water.
Yes, there is indeed English somewhere in those sentences 😁
alldayagain what?
I can't help but notice... very few of your parties are good people lol.
They prefer the term Chaotic Neutral.
@@OdaSwifteye Sending an entire village off with a lie to become your servants through a journey that will kill 2/3rds of them is not neutral, that is evil.
I mean, being a good person is really restricting.
@@williamwontiam3166 Any one good at being evil will always claim their alignment is True Neutral... you can never tell what they are up to.
Heroes, allegedly
i’ve dome this before...playing a bard/warlock tiefling, i snuck up behind a cult leader during a religious service and used silent image to make a giant demon head appear floating above them and then used minor image to make a boomimg voice and it claimed to be Asmodeus and told the head priest to stop what he was doing and worship Asmodeus now and the priest believed the illusion and obeyed.
someone told me later, I shouldn’t have been able to do that because nobody knows what Amodeus looks like, but my character was a tiefling and has imagination as to what he thought a demon head would look like, it was basically his own face with longer horns on top, and if nobody really knows what Asmodeus looks like, then the priest doesn’t know either and so the priest couldn’t know for sure that it wasn’t Asmodeus...
the DM did make me roll stealth, performance AND bluff checks and I passed all of them so it sounds fair to me.
Cool
Heh, if you can pass 3 checks, you probably do deserve to have things go your way. Cult members aren't exactly the best critical thinkers in the world to start with :)
Skank McGank is pretty much a more effective Black Mage from Nuclear Power.
It's called '8-bit Theater' you uncultured pleb. Now go play 3E with Red Mage as penance.
Wow what a nice and clean answer to this kind komplex political prob...
2/3 of them died
Nevermind
My players once did this on a ship full of kobolds they killed the captain and the bard cast silent image to mimic the room except the party wasn't there and the boss was still alive then they went down to the rest of the crew and became the captain of a ship full of kobolds with a 34 charisma check
The reason I love illusion magic.
my party used illusions to convince an entire cult to commit ritual suicide instead of having a glorious bloody battle As the barbarian, I was less than impressed.
I absolutely love your narration style and whacky stories
So much energy in this episode! I love it!
And that's how you piss off Pelor, so he sends some of his paladins after you!
"Only _we_ get to use Pelor's name to force ignorant peasants to work for us!"
"You can't _say_ that, Bill! We've talked about this!"
I was actually thinking that Pelor himself might show up to smite some fools. That said, it's almost a perfect plan.
Maybe for some DM's, but really, this is such low level use of his image, he has more important things to do.
Now, if the party mistreated the peasantry, or kept doing this stuff, then maybe.
If you're lucky, he'll throw in a cleric or two.
sounds like an evil campagin
Yep. Skank MacGank is a Neutral Evil character, as established in the Mage Hand episode.
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I thought his picture said Chaotic Evil?
@@Alizudo Yes, that was my mistake. I remembered incorrectly.
Eh, less evil and more chaotic neutral.
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Skenk McGenk is an evil PC though, so you could argue that the campaign probably had a lot more evil things than this going on.
Every single one of your videos is SUCH high quality
still love that the lizardman looks like kermit the frog
Just noticed but RIP Urko, hope you're communing well with some mold..
Taking Misty Visions invocation first chance I get
You are making the right decision. Eldritch adept. Put it on any build.
Take the first level of storm sorcerer, and you'll never need to disengage again in your life.
@@oKingLexxOh this is for a Djinni Warlock build based around illusions and enemy control. One that I am finally playing in a campaign. It’s called “Out of the Abyss”.
I'm pretty happy to see someone use Silent Image as a full-cover substitute because when I had my Warlock use it to cover himself and his team running away (3 1st levels and attacked by a 4 goblins and 2 wolves? HELL NAW, book it) I had half the table not believing it.
I could see the wolves not falling for it, either able to still smell and hear that your nearby, and/or being to stupid to react quickly enough to the supposed change of terrain.
@@timwoods2852 What I used it for was to create a wide black 'screen' so we could avoid having a direct line of fire at us. Wolves would still be able to give chase, but even one round where we can separate them or get full cover against ranged attacks was really useful.
@@lyravain6304 So, more for the Gobs, then.
@@timwoods2852 I'd like to think that even a wolf would be surprised when an illusion of utter darkness popped up in front of them. Sure, it might not smell weird but they'd at least hesitate a second. And, hey man, any edge you can get, right?
@@lyravain6304 Ah, I see what you did now. You made more of a cloud/shroud then just a wall or somesuch. Yeah, that would definitely be disorienting for both antagonists.
0:02 the text above is weirdly funny to me. So simple and straight to the point