(animated) D&D5E Silent image 

Getting Paid is good. Getting Paid Twice is better. Getting Paid 3 Times with a new work force is the Best.

This is a fine plan... until the ACTUAL Pelor shows up.

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.

"We got paid three times." Ah, that warms this shadowrunner's heart.

This sounds like a great idea until you realize Pelor will probably take offense...

I love how, without hesitation, you accepted the priestesses job to remove the villagers.

Start a dnd animated wildlife series about dnd monsters you find interesting or curious

This is like the best textbook example of how to role-play evil characters and evil party. Stop playing Chaotic Stupid or Antisocial Evil.

Pelor is absolutely gonna smite you for this...but it WAS very funny

The unrelenting smile of Skenk McGenk while he describes horrors beyond reckoning is amazing

When your deception check is so high that people died...

Alignment: Clever Evil.

The wisdom damage the townsfolk had been taking made their saves to disbelieve the illusions virtually impossible to make.

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.

I had no idea you were a cult leader

that moment when you just casually trail of tears a village

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 just realized Urko, the fun-loving green-bearded druid just in this for nature and friendship is dead. I'm sad.

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.

I like on how happy he constantly looks in every situation

The lizard people jamming away made this animation all the better!

Can I just say how much I absolutely love skank mcganks walk. It brings me so much happiness.

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

Ahhh, your vids snuck up on me and quickly became some of my favorites.

"We basically got paid 3 times!" Gotta' applaud you for that! Nice job! ^_^

Love the continuity of Team Fun Size evolving into Team Family Size as the height of each new member increases

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!

Wait, lizards are an acceptable form of currency? _and nobody told me?!_

Man you and Puffin Forest need to collab. Both of you have awesome content.

Can I just say that I loved the guitar playing Lizardfolk.

This is how you play a lawful evil character

Anyone else want to hear the full story of team Fun Sized and Scank McGank?

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

Since they were all taking wis damage, I'll bet it was an easy time convincing them.

I simply cannot get over the name Skank Magank. As it's just too damn hilarious.

Was just on a Zee binge and this popped up in the notifications. What a gift!

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 used the same two spells to shoot a firework into the air whilst performing, and it was really cool! The people watching cheered.

"Its haunted... or cursed... or haunted by a curse... or maybe its just a ghost that curses at you."

I guess no one will mistake you for the good guys.

One of my favorite things to see on my RU-vid feed

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.

Man playing an evil party must be great

It was this episode when I realized: Team Familysize was not good guys at all.

Hot loredrop when skenk mcgenk was raised by lozardfolk

"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!

sounds like an evil campagin

Ah, playing all sides of a situation for whatever you can get... Always a classic strategy. ;D

i laughed out loud when i saw the text above crow's head at the begining "Urko is dead"

Two weeks later you had angry Paladins chasing you, yes?

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.

Silent image, minor illusion, and prestidigitation. The cha builds pb and j

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.

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.

WOW. And here I thought my group was bad! You guys take CN to a whole new level.

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.....

I basically got banned from playing Warlocks in my D&D group for solving every problem with the at-will Silent Image Invocation.

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.

I love that you got paid three times

I love the note about the mortality of the trip

"Your standing with (Pelor, God of the Sun) has decreased..."

Remember everyone: As long as no one touches the illusion they don't get a save.

A group of angry guitar strumming Lizardmen is my favorite encounter.

I love the upbeat bounciness these videos exude. Every new video always cheers me up a bit. Ty Zee

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!

that was scarily close to saying "Balor" and that would have been cause for concern

Tbh the walk cycles at the end are adding so much to my already huge enjoyment of these videos.

Someone's been poisoning the water hole!

still love that the lizardman looks like kermit the frog

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

(Two thirds of them died)

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.

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.

haha i love the angry guitar playing lizards xD

I am just watching this cause it is interesting and his voice is soothing

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 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.)

QUEST: Tithes of food from the local hunting village have dropped off. Fix it. PLAYERS: Kidnap the entirety of the village through a ruse, and loot the town. GM: Good enough. Quest-giver pays the Players for their services? Man, I wish I had a GM as lenient as you... :-p

This seems like a pretty good example of a well done "evil" character, the situation of getting rid of the villagers wasn't done in a violent way of just killing them all, and in the end the party was able to profit in a clever way; as well as able to increase their own power with gathering a sort of militia out of the villagers.

I've loved every video this channel has put out. Can't wait for the next season!

SKANK MaGank has the best walk. Actually I wouldn't even call it a walk, it's a strut.

One of the few first level spells (that don’t scale up) that is really useful to those that are creative with how they use it

And that's how you piss off Pelor, so he sends some of his paladins after you!

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.

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.

The Lizard Man and the guitar playing frogs hilarious! Your writing - OMG Genius!

This is the best D&D fan content there is. You're sorely missed for the C-Team recaps :/

I think a Bard who uses Silent Image just for storytelling would be cool

I can't help but notice... very few of your parties are good people lol.

"Lizardperson with a blowgun" Wait a second...

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!

It surprises me that we're this far into the animated spellbook and Attunement has yet to be covered.

In a world full of magical sorcerers, you'd think townsfolk would get used to Genjutsu.

And everyone in the party took a heavy alignment penalty that day

the lord payed you? he was worried about the lack of food imports, and he was satisfied when you showed him an abandoned town?

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.

Pelor is going to wtfpwn yo' asses. He's not the nicest of gods when it comes to identity theft.

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.

remember, warlocks can cast this at will

the art style gives me some don't starve vibes