Bigby's Condescending Hand


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A variant of the interposing hand spell. When cast, a transparent hand appears and pats the target on the head. This does no damage but counts as an attack in regards to concentrating for spellcasting. If the roll fails, a soft "Shssshing' is heard and the difficulty increases by 2 for the next check.


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MannyGoblin wrote:
A variant of the interposing hand spell. When cast, a transparent hand appears and pats the target on the head. This does no damage but counts as an attack in regards to concentrating for spellcasting. If the roll fails, a soft "Shssshing' is heard and the difficulty increases by 2 for the next check.

Could this be paired with Mordenkainen's mansplaining mouth to stack the DC increase?


Bigby's Expressive Single Digit?


Bigby's Facepalm/Fistbump

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Many moons ago, one of the April fool's issues of Dragon magazine, IIRC, had spells like 'Figby's Fondling Fingers' and 'Figby's Groping Paw.'

More useful and less joke-y variants might include spells like Bigby's Hindering Hand, that functions like spiritual weapon, but instead of attacking for regular damage, just attempts to slap and distract a target, causing them to have to make concentration checks to cast spells, or giving them a -2 to various rolls due to distraction.

A stronger version might make trip, disarm or steal attempts, or strike for 1d3 nonlethal damage, each round.


Bigby's Pimp Hand: It follows you for the duration and acts against any AoO.
If you speak -SLAP-, because Bigby don't take no back talk!
If you pick up loot -SLAP-, and 40% vanishes because Bigby gets his monies!

There could be a communal version too called Bigby's B&~!~es.


maybe "Siskel & Ebert's" Big Thumbs Down ...


Bigby's Approving Hand

One ally of your choice gets a huge morale bonus on their next d20 roll because they just got a big thumbs-up.

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