A few days back, I joined in a friend's campaign, already to level 12, with a one shot character, and faced the age old dilemma of how to get my character accepted by the standing group. Among assorted other things, my character offered to provide the existing party's cook with a goose for dinner. A quick trip outside and a passing chipmunk failing a save vs baleful polymorph, dinner was on.
Wasteful, but amusing, and I suspect a lot of people have other fun stories of "wasting" a higher level spell for an in game joke, a good role play opportunity, or some other silliness. What are your stories of having fun "wasting" some of your best spells?
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Summon Monster V
1d4+1 Lantern Archons and their continual flame at will to ring a random village in streetlights and multi-colored glows and flames.
A bored gnome is a terrible thing to waste.
Unfortunately the continual flame's expire as soon as the summon does.
Ghoul hunger on a giant already about to eat someone.
well... I was supposed to be wasting the spell... so I can't really be disappointed.
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Grease. Bar none. It's basically a jar of gel/Vaseline that you can invisibly bring with you and use on virtually anything, in copious amounts, in approx. 3 to 6 seconds. Cast it on door handles, at seats at important social functions, the wheels of a cart... you can find tons of non-serious uses for this spell.
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Merciful Ice Storm, in a snowball fight.
Baleful Polymorph on my druidic apprentice's brother, who had decided to ignore my warning that only druids and animals were allowed on the vision quest. (I turned him back a few days later.)
And my bard used Charm Monster + Glibness - and a Hat of Disguise crafted specially for the occasion - to trick a PC's girlfriend into revealing his embarrassing secret.
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Gate in a solar.
" can you scractch my back, a little bit to the left, up, up some more.....that it.....ahhhhh thanks"
Secure Shelter.
One of my characters is a nobleman who refuses to "camp" and thus has learned this spell, which he insists on casting every night while traveling regardless of the circumstances.
It's a bit higher level, but I had a sorcerer in a recent game that loved spamming Mage's Magnificent Mansion on off days.
Also, he didn't even get out of bed without casting Overland Flight on himself.
It's a bit higher level, but I had a sorcerer in a recent game that loved spamming Mage's Magnificent Mansion on off days.
Also, he didn't even get out of bed without casting Overland Flight on himself.
That's not a waste that's just being prepared.
Mage's Magnificent Mansion is also high on my list as soon as I'm high enough level. I mean, adventuring in cold, damp underground tunnels, who wouldn't want to spend a night in a real bed? Basking in that kind of luxury in between your deadly encounters beats any Fireball.
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Vomit twin. Heck it was twin form, vomit twin and fire sneeze. One of me was puking out his own body mass in vomit every round which would then dance a jig before melting into a puddle of puke while the other me would continuiously sneeze giant flaming loogies that could blast people down, all just for a grossout contest :)
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While not a spell, I did use Slumber Hex on another character at a dinner party in which his 7 CHA was coming out in full force.
I use disintegrate fairly willy nilly.
"Pull my finger!" ZAAAAAAP
"What's that? The thief ran into that door? The one right there? *pointing* ZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP. There he is!"
I summoned a large air elemental once because a fly was buzzing in my ear.
Secure Shelter is a wonderfully effective spell, so I don't consider it wasteful using it every night we're in the wilds.
I summoned a huge earth elemental once while trying to barter for goods. Oddly enough, it erupting into the shop did NOT improve the merchant's disposition, but I got a hell of a deal none the less!
Sometimes you just need to remind the meatshields that they are in the presence of greatness.
That's not a waste that's just being prepared.It's a bit higher level, but I had a sorcerer in a recent game that loved spamming Mage's Magnificent Mansion on off days.
Also, he didn't even get out of bed without casting Overland Flight on himself.
On the adventuring days, yeah, but not on the off days. Most of the time, he just used it as a way of getting around walking. I believe that in game time, the campaign was only a few months long, but there were some people noticing he was gaining weight ever since he learned that spell...
Plus, that reminds me of one particular waste of a spell for fun. After a particularly challenging encounter, the party got pretty hammered. My character was the only one with a job at the time, so he ended up waking up late and with a hangover. His response to this was to use Teleport to his office and if anyone mentioned that they didn't see him come in, that he was working on crafting all night long.
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In the snow-capped mountains, wizard casts disintegrate a couple of times into the rocky ground. The cleric smooths out the hole's rough edges with stone shape, and then fills with water via create water. The wizard casts fireball to heat the water to a simmering temperature. Hot tub achievement unlocked.
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In the snow-capped mountains, wizard casts disintegrate a couple of times into the rocky ground. The cleric smooths out the hole's rough edges with stone shape, and then fills with water via create water. The wizard casts fireball to heat the water to a simmering temperature. Hot tub achievement unlocked.
No, no... Fireball has to much evaporation. Heat Metal on anything metal that is thrown into the pool will heat the water more evenly and keep it warm longer.
Meteor Swarm to kill a fly that landed on your pie. So what if the party npc cleric got caught in the blast radius. And you. And a couple market stalls. At least that fly is ahead of you this long line to meet Pharasma.
(( this was actually the GM's way of writing out said npc cleric because the party was getting a few new members anyway. We were 4th level at the time ))
Secure Shelter is a wonderfully effective spell, so I don't consider it wasteful using it every night we're in the wilds.
How about using it to block the gates to a fortress from opening by building a house in front of them just before you start stirring up trouble outside?
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We have a gnome sorcerer who always saved one casting of Color Spray for bedtime to use to put himself to sleep. He was so sad when he hit 5th level and it didn't work any more.
For that matter, Polypurpose Panacea turns out to be a very bad spell to give to an addict, if you ever want them to have an available 1st level spell.