I have a whip magus that just got the feat Tactical Reposition. It allows you to throw enemies into "inherently dangerous" squares on the battle field. Into traps and off of cliffs is the obvious choice.
Now I'm looking for a dangerous thing I can bring with me to the battle field. Casting spiked pit and throwing people in it is probably going to happen. What other horrible thing could I throw people into? My character can cast up to 3rd level spells. I'm open to mundane and alchemical stuff as well.
Carry a portable pot of molten lava.
Caltrops? Loading an unseen servant up with them to distribute around is possible. If you deliver them yourself you'd probably prefer to use shard gel or caltrop beads to get them out faster.
Euphoric cloud is far from horrible, but it can disable enemies for a while if you're careful. Aqueous Orb can perform a similar function.
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What other horrible thing could I throw people into?
Politics?
Grease, spike growth, stinking cloud, black tentacles, created pits, glyphs of warding, wall of fire, wall of thorns, summon swarm, vomit swarm, web, bear traps, caltrops, sovereign glue, black pudding, ochre jelly, yellow mold, green slime, blue diamonds, and purple horseshoes.
have a pet trex with the swallow whole trait and throw them into the trex
Unfortunately, my critter is more like a velociraptor, and doesn't have swallow whole.
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Nothing beats this .
Caltrops or Sovereign Glue are probably the cheapest things to grab. Be careful with bear traps (unless your DM doesn't check weight) until you have some extradimensional storage available.
A poisoned spiked pit filled with black tentacles, stinking cloud or cloudkill, and a swarm that is immune to poison. While fighting incorporeal nasties.
3.5's MM3 has one of those. :-D
The Ephemeral Swarm.
Ooooooh. They do 1d6 Strength damage each round. Plus distraction.
3.5's MM3 has one of those. :-D
The Ephemeral Swarm.
Ooooooh. They do 1d6 Strength damage each round. Plus distraction.
But can I keep it in a jar?
In a ghost touch jar, maybe.
You can keep Trench Mists in a jar. Trench Mists are your friends ;-D
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In my introductory 5e adventure, I put an oculus swarm in lots and lots of jars. Despite a lot of in-game warning, with jars of eyeballs jittering and shaking and knocking themselves off the shelves, covering the floor with broken glass and the air with floating eyeballs, they ended up fighting a CR 4 swarm while they were only level 2 or 3. The oculus swarm sucks out your eyes to blind you.
Yada yada yada, the tiefling warlock now has two differently colored eyes.
An ooze bottle could be a thing.
Buy a portable hole, fill it with acid, or lava, or flesh-eating fiendish swarms, or any other dangerous thing you want, fold it up to carry, then put it down so you can throw people into the death hole.
If you want something truly dead and gone forever without the possibility of returning, buy a bunch of portable holes and bags of holding: throw someone in the hole then have someone else toss the bag in after them. This gets expensive fast.
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Heterochromy is sexy.
*Opinion from a changeling*
A sphere of annihilation might be the worst.
Grease, spike growth, stinking cloud, black tentacles, created pits, glyphs of warding, wall of fire, wall of thorns, summon swarm, vomit swarm, web, bear traps, caltrops, sovereign glue, black pudding, ochre jelly, yellow mold, green slime, blue diamonds, and purple horseshoes.
Blue diamonds and purple horshoes?
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... black pudding, ochre jelly, yellow mold, green slime, blue diamonds, and purple horseshoes.Blue diamonds and purple horshoes?
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The barbarian.
A Bag of Devouring (just make sure to throw a squirrel into it or something organic after acquiring it to ensure the 'initial intrusion' caveat has been met). Granted you lose any lewt your victim is wearing and I'd rule only medium sized or smaller critters could be thrown directly into the bag, but technically it could swallow any sized creature that you managed to get any appendage past the bag's mouth. Granted its CMB is only +8 so in those cases you'd likely need a strength debuff for it to be successful. Though that still might be a crowning moment of awesome if you manage to feed it something big.
Portable Holes filled with lava, boiling oil, or acid I'd definitely rule would not work. Nothing in the description provides a time stasis effect (creatures still need to breathe if placed inside) or that the interior is immune to damage (description provides a consequence if the interior is punctured). So a hot meal placed inside the hole will cool and eventually rot or boiling oil will cool (as would magma if it didn't destroy the hole with 20d6 fire damage). The other big drawback is that in an AoE attack it would be an unattended magic item...which for a cursed bag is no big expense but a loss of 20k with a portable hole.
A Sphere of Annihilation would be the nastiest thing you could throw anything into but they're generally too dangerous to move and any DM that provides a moveable Sphere (rather than fixed) is likely looking at the endpoint of their campaign.
Your best choice however is probably talking to your primary casters/battlefield controllers and coming up with some synergies (summon swarm is a nice one at level 2 though a pit could take a target out of the fight for rounds at least).
Glitter.
Portable Holes filled with lava, boiling oil, or acid I'd definitely rule would not work.
The acid probably should still work. It's probable that there's an acid that does not interact with the walls of an extra-dimensional space, and unlike lava (which turns back into rock as it cools, and cools over time) the acid's only going to be neutralized if you add something to it to absorb all those free hydrogen ions.
Alternatively, trap a green slime in your hole. They don't need to breathe often, do they?
Have you considered throwing them out of windows?
Have you considered throwing them out of windows?
Carrying around and setting up so many windows would prove difficult
Negative energy infused lava.
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Have you considered throwing them out of windows?defenestration!
That's one of my friend's favorite things.