D&D Players, What's the most creative use of the Command spell you've seen? #1 

We got ambushed by a minor BBEG as we were running away from his manor that we had just "liberated" a miguffen from. I commanded him to "Monologue" after his and his men's first round almost one shotted our paladin and barbarian. The BBEG's background was of an arrogant noble, so once he started he just kept going even after the spell expired and even reprimanded his soldiers who attacked us for "interrupting him" giving us plenty of time to heal, buff, and re-position everyone.

session with a somewhat new player to DnD. DM: ok you cast command and he failed the check, you can give any command as long as it's one word. New Player: ok, suicide! DM: uhhhh no you can't do that, command works like charm so you can't force someone to take actions that directly harm them. NP: ok... hmmm is there ice on the floor since is snowing? "we were on a ravine on the side of a mountain" DM: yes there is a snow layer but it's icy since we are pretty high up. NP: and the altar is near the edge of the tower right? DM: y... "checks map" yes it is. NP: ok. command: backflip DM proceeds to have a 6 dexterity wizard try to backflip with disadvantge near the edge of a 50m high tower, fail miserably and fall to his doom. one of the best moments i had the pleasure to witness.

Be me: a Grave Cleric (forgot the race tbh but that's not important here) be the enemy: a paladin who hit me with Command and I flubbed the save, he issued the command 'Leave' knowing how the Banishment spell works, I used it on myself and willingly failed the save since Banishment sends you to a harmless demiplane for a minute but once I was away from the Paladin I just dropped a concentration and only missed one round of combat instead of 10 the DM's response: "Well played, I hate you."

Command "help" to make an enemy give the help action to a nearby ally. It was genius. He helped a ranger climb up to gain the high ground and partial cover, which basically tilted the entire fight in our favor. Another good one was "peek". Basically forcing an enemy to reveal themselves to a third party unwillingly. And while they duked it out, we got away virtually unchallenged. An improvised barricade later, and we had one dead foe, and one foe missing the majority of their spell slots and a fair few hitpoints. It basically turned an unwinnable fight into a precarious one.

"Counterspell!" on enemy wizard. Almost ended the session ten minutes after start, cause no one was sure, shoud mage Counterspell this Command or he won't be able, because spell already affected him, so he would ready Counterspell for the first spell? Finally we agreed on this one. Other players took turns, eventually grouping up, GM smirked and described, how enemy mage was ready to throw Fireball at us... And Counterspelled himself.

This was from a playthrough I watched on RU-vid. One of the players was a gnome warlock named Deborah Mustard and he made it clear he had never played DnD before. So along with a bunch of other weird and silly actions, he was sometimes pretty random and wasteful with his one-use-per-day Command Spell. That is until the party arrived at the temple where the magic item they were searching for was housed. In the final chamber before the item, a whole bunch of man-eating beetles began crawling in. Similar to ants, they were basically acting as one cohesive organism and the party was desperately thinking of ways to save themselves. That is until Deborah got an idea. Since the beetles were acting as one organism, he suspected his Command spell might effect all of them. So in a final attempt to save the party, he jumped into a nearby chasm! Just before he started to fall, he turned towards the horde of beetles and gave them the command; “Follow”. He fell down the bottomless chasm and all the beetles followed him. He had saved the rest of the party who then had a moment of silence in his honor before finishing their quest.

A friends paladin cast the command “forget” on an enemy wizard after falling the save we spent about 20 minutes debating what he should forget, the final decision was that he forgot to act on his turn

I've actually used "confess," myself! We had a DM that wanted to run the most box-standard one-shot adventure; save the kidnapped princess from the tower. We learned the Black Knight that kidnapped her was as dumb as a post, so we knew there had to be an accomplice. Once we entered the room he was in, I cast Command, and said "confess." The knight failed the save, and immediately told us the entire plan, exposing a member of our party, our wizard, to be his father and co-conspirator. The DM said that was one of his favorite uses of Command he'd ever seen lol

See if I had been commanded to "draw", I would have deliberately misinterpreted and started daring a picture in the dirt

We were facing some hags and managed to kill a few, but one survived and tried to get away on a Broom of Flying. Before she could get too far away, the bard cast Command on her, and she failed the save. The DM asked what he commands. "Come." She still got away, but let out a moan upon doing so.

Evil wizard: “Draw!” Gunslinger: “Don’t mind if I do”

I like using old elnglish words as they can have many well terms "Prostrate"- lay oneself flat on the ground face downward, especially in reverence or submission.

I like to use the command "Defenestrate" on nobility. It has two meanings: 1. a throwing of a person out of a window. 2. a usually swift dismissal or expulsion (as from a political party or office). The DM has to choose weather the noble/royal jumps out of a window or give up his political power. My party actually made a king kill himself by jumping from a tower window with a combination of illusions and our bard convincing him that we were still on the first floor before the fight started.

Rather short story but party was fighting the BBEG, wich was some sort of anchient dragon. Bard casts command on BBEG, points at the dragons hord and said something like "sort" or "organise". One nat1 from the dragon and there is a thousands of years old dragon starting to sort piles upon piles of coins by systems of age, material or name of curency.

I fought a Mind Flayer that was sitting in a chair, I pulled a Lich from Adventure Time and said "Fall." He stood up and then immediately fell down the stairs to his chair.

I use command to tell the badguys to backflip, because the hubris of most people is that they think they could do one if pushed. Ultimately proning or hurting themselves, or at worst waste a turn. My wife uses command to Confess, convincing them reveal their darkest secrets and turn their allies on them. The best being a Goblin who confessed to eating all of the candy they stole from town.

When the BBEG is directing his/her minions in combat, you just can't beat commanding 'Yodel'. :evilgrin:

Don't know if it's necessarily creative, but my last usage was "divulge"

From years of playing LARP: Polarms are long weapons They tend to be at the back so they can reach over allies Command: "Spin"

Best underwater combat: We were fighting a vampire sorcadin in an underwater temple. My artificer used Shatter to break a hole in one of the walls to flood the room. Our warforged sorlock was charmed by the boss and used wall of force to protect his new friend. I smashed the tiles under the wall of force and our druid cast control water. We washing machined a vampire to death.

Command: “glossophobia” giving the BBEG a fear of public speaking, in the middle of their monologue.

Underwater combat moment: The DM's rule was that lightning bolt, when cast underwater, acted like a fireball centered on yourself due to the conductivity of water. Makes sense. So my sorcerer didn't use it underwater, except for the one time she did. See, the whole party except her got charmed by sea nymphs, and doing damage to them was the fastest way to break the charm. So I dropped a lightning bolt on the party, zapped them back to their senses, and we were able to fight off the nymphs.

Me: Is the knight wearing his helmet with the visor down? GM: Yesss? Me: Command: Vomit!

"Bathe!" Is a pretty good use when near open bodies of water/rivers Depending on how the dm rules it, the affected will either start bathing in full armour, and inadvertently drown, or will strip of before bathig as not to cause themselves harm. The current will then carry them away as they bathe, as they're not going to actively try to swim whilst under the effect.

Oh, I've got a favourite. We were playing a Halloween one-shot and had just cornered what we assumed was the BBEG*, roughly halfway through the adventure. The party were not in the best place to deal with him right then, and were hired to get answers in any case. So, I had my cleric cast Command, telling him to ‘Monologue’. Sure, by RAW that would only give us one turn, but that would be enough for the wizard, paladin, and the rogue to get themselves prepped for a potentially fight winning nova round. Except that's not what happened. The presumed BBEG was another victim, acting according to compulsions to seem like the villain, and under so much psychological stress that once he started talking, it just all came out. We learned what the actual threat was, and turned him over to a lynch mob (led by the Oath of Vengeance paladin) of his fellow victims (sure, his will hadn't been his own, but he had still put dozens of people through centuries of torture). So, even disregarding the dark ending to that encounter, if you're up against a villain, try getting them to monologue at you. If you're DM likes the villain tropes, it can turn Command into a fight winning spell. *The actual adventure, not that we knew it at the time, was based on a creepypasta called the Endless House (or something like that). The actual Big Bad wasn't a person, but a malevolent genius loci.

Our DM was pulling nasty trick after nasty trick and enjoying it far too much. Our paladin (run by his girl friend) got so sick of it that when she cast Command at one of the DM's favorite BBEG's she demanded he roll the save in the open. Given he was starting to realize she really was getting royally irritated at him, he complied and blew the save very badly. When he asked what her command was, she replied, "*_Mast*rb*te!_* And you'd better get used to it!" The rest of us couldn't wait for that session to end.

I had a "LIFT Domain" Cleric obsessed with personal fitness in a 2-shot. We got attacked and my cleric, Tony, cast Command "CRUNCHES, BRO!!!". The enemy dropped to the floor on his back and into vigorous exercise. Tony stood over him yelling encouraging words like "You got this bro!" and "Feel that holy burn, bro... yeahhh", as the rest of the party laughed their asses off beating him to death with advantage. I can't wait to play Tony again.

It's only hypothetical, but one I'm proud of coming up with is using Command: Sit on a werewolf.

I heard a story from a friend of a player in his game who got Command and other spells of that nature banned from games, before being banned himself. He was constantly trying to use them to get people to soil themselves, reasoning they'd be less effective after having done that...but it was clearly because he found it funny. No one else did and it became a brake pedal to gameplay each time he tried it.

My poor armored villains when it comes to taking on my players' spellcasters. There are lots of things that you can't to in armor, so under the spell they have to either try to make it happen in their armor or remove their armor first. So I end up with a bunch of baddies in their undergarments doing things like "backflip", "jete (a ballet leap)", "backbend", "crabwalk", "yoga", "scorpion", etc...

In my last session, I commanded a drake to "betray" as well. To be fair, we were a party of three (lv4) fighting three drakes, one of which was corrupted and mutated, so all it did was lessen the damage to the party. What made it cool was that I didn't know anything about drakes, my Yuan-Ti just figured "Hm, those things kind of look like dragons, maybe they understand my dialect of Draconic", and... Turns out they do. Also turns out they have an INT score of 4, which happens to be the bare minimum for Command to even work. That was my luckiest panic action ever.

My favorite underwater moment was me playing a warforged fighter who got quite a few bonuses when he crit including advantage to everyone attacking the same opponent until his next turn. Dm ruled that attacks underwater are made with disadvantage due to not being able to move as well. Not sure if thats raw or not as i never checked. I rolled twice and got 2 natural 20's allowing the rest of my attacks that turn to be made normally. The warforged cares not about the difficulty of the task, for they will see it done reguardless

Command, "Dismiss" or "Retreat" on an enemy leader. Usually works well for solving groups of enemies. Command, "Befriend". Good for when you don't have the more powerful versions ready.

I immediately thought of people using german words, you could litetally force someone to just "get out and go fuck yourself" and its great. Also second.

Request for favorite underwater encounter granted: We managed to roll up an encounter to find the ship of one of our party's heroic past lives (long story) and so most of us dove down to investigate. I had my druid stay behind to cast Plant Growth on some shrubs we were awakening, but gave the rest of the party Water Breathing so they could check it out. One of our paladins was out for a session so the GM let me play his character isntead. As we approach the ship, our GM asks if anyone speaks primoridal, specifically of the water plane variety (Aquen i think?) and it turns out our dragonborn paladin actually did. Without another word, the GM starts playing "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid over discord and describes that we see some sharks circling around inside the ship through some large holes in its hull, singing said song. Normally, this paladin was a bit of a murder hobo, and 100% would've just gone in and used smite. But that's never been my style, so I rolled performance instead. Nat 20, and just as the song was coming to an end too. The paladin drifts down singing so well, the sharks and the merfolk didn't attack us on sight. We eneded up fighting them later anyway because they were definitly evil, but we made friends with a young bronze dragon when all was said and done so it all worked out. good times.

2:30 “I use my sword and I make a smiley face in the dirt.”

2:25 Bet. Hand me some charcoal and paper, oh evil one.

Command: Gimme

My favourite underwater moment. Early campaign, meeting the BBEG for the first time. He's significantly higher level than us. He's monologuing about all the things he's been doing. I run up and grapple him. He does nothing to stop me because he knows i can't actually kill him. Hell, I'd probably need a nat20 just to meet his AC. So, I push him into the courtyard fountain. He calmly goes in and stares back at me. He knows that his guards are on the way and that I don't have the time to outlast his breath. So, I use command. I tell him to scream. He fluffs the roll. And looks in horror as he screams his lungs empty. Now the DM tries to argue that I cannot make a command that immediately harms someone. I point out that hes actually got a number of rounds equal to his con modifier before he takes damage. This is no more immediate harm than making someone kneel when youre aiming to cut their head off. DM agrees that im technically correct. So, of course, the bard jumps in to the fountain and also tries to grapple the BBEG. Then before i know it, the whole party is in a fountain holding the bad guy underwater. BBEG isnt very strong, he's a wizard type. But he cant cast many spells, because he has no breath to speak, he can't use his arms as the bard and wizard are sitting on them. The DM handles it like a champ and tells us in vivid detail how we watch as a man drowns in our hands.

In jail, guard comes around to goad us. Command: "unlock"

Hilarious part is they would say draw, so my character would pull out a pen and start drawing

That one tumblr post where a sorcerer gets yeeted off a cliff by a dragon and makes the ultimate Hail Mary command: CATCH.

So much potential with this one. These don't come from experience but I just want to throw some ideas out there. Have an ally throw something dangerous / shoot an arrow at somebody, and command them to *Catch* Is the enemy holding something important that you want to destroy? If applicable, try *Crush Smash Shatter Shred or Cut* Same vein as the last one, one day I'd love to force a wizard to *Burn or Melt* their own spellbook. If you're able to cast Command without getting caught, you may be able to dissolve the relationship between people by ordering them to *Argue, Bicker or Criticize.* Commanding an enemy minion to do this while speaking to their BBEG, only to immediately get murdered is probably be the funniest potential application of this. Is somebody in the middle of a long swig of a drink? *Breathe* Having somebody drop their weapon is nice an all but try ordering them to *Throw* it, just make sure you take cover.

As a BG3 player, I can mention several use cases, but all of them are "drop" commands: 1) Make Commander Zhalk drop his Everburning Blade, make Lae'Zel equip it, and beat Zhalk with it. 2) Make Kithrak Voss drop his weapon in Act 1, getting one of the most powerful weapons in the game, in the early game. 3) Make the Apostle of Myrkul drop his Scythe, which is usually quite powerful

I hope this goes to the next video because this is a epic, amusing, dark and inspiring tale. I had a abaration Aasimar or corrupted Angel named Feathers, who is a wizard. I made a deal with a demon and accepted a demon contract. It took away my soul, a lot of strength and some dex, but gave me a lot of charisma. A LOT OF CHARISMA. I still have my character sheet and it has 36 charisma. I renamed myself Gigachad Feathers. Our group and I was In hell and hijacked a demon ship sailing on lava with about 13 tough demons on board. When it was my turn i raised my hand up and got into ALL of the demons minds, made them go insane and commanded them with one sinister word that would end our encounter in seconds..."Swim!" I commanded them all to jump in lava killing them alive in agony, thinking they could swim. My charisma was so high that it made me so powerful. I can easily control and command enemies and make them lose their minds. I also saved the group later on after and became a God by summoning my minion with stats as an actual Boss encounter because of my Charisma stats. But that is another story.

This probably shouldn’t have worked but the party was facing off against a oathbreaker paladin and I used the command repent. What followed was the fight turned into a religious debate between my paladin vs him where the party eventually managed to talk him down.

I don't know about creative, but it was certainly memorable. This was back in the 90s. We were a group of teenage friends playing in 2nd edition back when rounds were a minute instead of six seconds. The group was up against some important villain who was making a speech in front of his underlings. The speech finishes, and combat begins. The priest (who's super chaotic) goes first and uses Command: Masturbate...

I’ve never used it successfully but my most memorable attempt was when I was in a spooky mansion filled with undead. The villain was a dead religious fanatic who had killed his daughter and her child because he didn’t approve of her husband, sparking a cursed groundhog-day time loop for all involved, forcing them to relive the events over and over. We confronted him in the graveyard where his daughter was buried (everyone was either undead or a ghost except the husband who buried his wife and left) As we were fighting him near her grave, I pointed to the dirt in front of it, used command, and said “eat.” He saved but man it would have been glorious

I'm a relatively new player, and we were in a large dungeon with multiple powerful enemies. Our party is relatively large, and we had picked up a few strays to rescue from the dungeon. Cue a fight with a Purple Worm. NPC has taken some damage and isn't looking so hot, and Purple Worm eats him. My character, a Bard/Cleric, who is almost entirely a support: "Vomit" Purple worm fails the save, NPC is vomited up, prone, but alive, if not now in desperate need of a shower. I was so grateful our DM allowed that particular use of the spell.

Forced movement is a myth, you can use Command to force Attacks of Opportunity from a Paladin, but keep in mind most enemies are at liberty to take the Disengage action when obeying a Flee command. Something like "Run" would work better, but they could do something smart like run on the spot.

*Command:* _pulls out my Duel Disk_ *DUEL!*

* gets comanded to draw * * draws sword in dirt on the ground *

Loving this video! Always fun to hear other people their ideas for fun spells!

2:26 Just wait until someone uses Command: Mill

The best Command I ever saw was simply "drop". It was used on an antagonist who, at the time, was in the middle of a significant tribal ritual. The bad guy had stepped ahead of us in what was essentially going to be 'the trials of the chosen one' and ruined our hopes of succeeding the trial ourselves. Final trial is essentially just a winners lap, he's already won but must run this small wooden carving around the arena. Our bard commanded him to drop it while he was running and... it broke. The crowd tore our enemy to pieces, seeing their artifact destroyed.

Only one word came from the Wizard's lips at the end of his spell. "Beg." And the Mad King did beg. He begged for forgiveness. He begged as the Barbarian drug him to the window. And he begged the many gods for his life as he fell. Some say you can hear his spirit on the Castle grounds still begging

"Ballet." Yep, it's a verb. And hilarious.

In my game, players had to retrieve the ancient artefact from crypts. This artefact killed anyone who stroked it, so, they decided to throw this artefact at enemies and command them to stroke it, killing them this way. I decided that why not and ended oneshot with this ending.

We were playing in a homebrew setting and wound up having to fight a cyclops who was well on his way to becoming a beholder. Towards the end of the fight, the paladin cast Command and told the thing to “KNEEL.” It failed and knelt, giving the rest of the party a round to whale on it and finally kill it. To add insult to injury, our Bard cast Minor Illusion to make the budding beholder see a plaque by his knees that read “I Am A Lesser Being.”

The DM allowed me to play two characters and the second one was the antagonist of the campaign. "Valeria Thorne" A Powerful Apostate Near the end it was revealed to the rest of the party that the antagonist used to be their friend at the Mage school they all attended and before the events of them leaving the school she used Command and commanded her friends "Forget me" erasing her from their memories and she would invent this persona to band them all together to stop her😢

I used command when I was being chased by a player with a cursed weapon. He was a Goliath barbarian and I was a tiefling bard (command from magical secrets). As I was running away and climbing ladders to get out of the range I cast command. My character just screamed sh*t repeatedly in fear. It worked 😂

Was once playing a Glamour Bard. This hulking behemoth activated Rage. I used Command to tell him to chill (out). Made the fight easier than the DM was aiming for.

My favorite use of command was not done by me or anyone i know but I read it online and thought I’d was freaking awesome. So a party was fighting a ( i believe) ancient red dragon who had already downed half of the party with breathweapon attacks but decided to be creative with the paladin by throwing him of the cliff they were standing on. The dm allowed the palandin one action during the fall. As the paladin falls through the air he utters a single command : “catch”

my favorite was in session 1. I was a forge domain cleric with another player and an npc. We had just gotten out of killing a bunch of slavers and releasing the captured people without letting any townsguard know, and got back to the inn we had stayed at the previous day with the npc just getting healed from going uncounscious. I took him up to the room we had rented while he was wanting to get a pint of the strongest alcohol they had, which led to my character and the npc arguing till I just casted command "Sleep". Before he fell asleep he said that he was not happy before passing out, but then afterwards 2 pints of the alcohol was brought up, which lead to my character, A Furnource, to drink one and the other player drank the other, which they immediatly got drunk. I just returned the pints, went back up to the room, and locked us all in for the night

We were facing an adult green dragon which had swallowed one player and grappling another with a bite. Command "vomit"

PANR has tuned in.

1. Never got the chance to use command, but a fun one to use might be “surge” when dealing with a wild magic sorcerer. Dunno what would happen. 2. Favorite underwater combat/discovery? I have two from a Rifts campaign, even if it doesn’t count. Here are the abbreviated stories. a) I sank a ghost ship by parting the sea under it. b) I froze water to force a sunken spacecraft to surface slowly enough to not kill its passengers.

Jaiden casting “Depression” on the BBEG in Slimecicle’s campaign will never not be legendary

Defenestrate - Makes an enemy spend all his movement going to a window and climbing out of it. It's like a pocket banishment!

Don’t know how creative they are, but some of my favorite uses of the spell from my first campaign - Awaken, to get one of my party members to get up when we were being ambushed - Land, enemy in the air with advantage against enchantment effects crit failed and landed on the ground, conveniently a tile away from the barbarian - Divulge, same enemy as before, crit failed again, got some spicy lore about one of our party members

We once had our Barbarian attempt to throw a goblin at an enemy fighter who was standing near a balcony. The fighter was actually able to catch the goblin and somehow avoid damage to either it or the terrified goblin. Our Warlock was up next, and he cast Command saying "defenestrate." The poor goblin was promptly tossed off the balcony and killed. I later asked the Warlock players why he used one of his only 2 spell slots on a goblin. He laughed and reminded me that that goblin had gotten incredibly lucky and had been missed by 4 Eldritch Blasts (2 rounds of combat) and he had decided that it just had to die no matter what.

I commanded a guy to vounterspell his own counterspell

Under water action: In a pirate campaign, we wanted to rob a ship that was full of cultists but also out gunned our two surface ships. However our pirates had a submarine. The problem was we couldn’t surface and we needed to board to take the treasure. We also had a cube of Force and some Marvelous paints. So we used the cube to create a force field to act as a diving bell that connected us to the hull underneath the ship. Then we drew a hatch door onto the ship. Right into the treasure hold. Next session we had to quickly bail as the cultist had managed to summon a demon that one shot the Bugbear Barbarian. Cue the mad dash for the new hatch below the waterline, we managed to close the hatch to our sub and deactivated the cube of force. And then remembered we did not close the hatch to the cultists’ ship… the one that was opened below the ship… and that’s how we looted a ship that outgunned our ship, sank it, and did it all with our invoking that which all sailors of our waters fear the most… the smell of wet bugbear.

My fav underwater combat has to be with one of my fav dnd characters: Derrek Drowbane, a grey dwarf guerilla. And it was against a Skrag in a swamp. Doing hit and run to swipe people into the swamp. Our figther did well with massive penalties underwater, and our beguiler forgot spells are somatic, cast one underwater, and started drowning.

I'm an eternal DM, so I'll give you something my players enjoyed. They were launched downward into a methane sea ODST-style and had to survive the hostile deep-sea mutant creatures while passing around an oxygen tank. The encounter ended with them fighting a creature trying to recover the bones of an extinct "wishing dragon."

I once had a player sink a ship by using the comand spell to make the helmsman steer it into the rocks.

that paladin saying fight one has to be an oath of vengance and all i can think is the PICK, IT, UP from puss in boots the last wish

MrRipper commanded me to subscribe.

Wizard: "PISS YOURSELF!" DM (me): natural 20! The rest of the party: YOOOOOOOOOO

My most creative was in a PvPvE "one shot" game I was in. It was down to me another player atop a clif and another at the shore of the river that was below. I commanded them to "Dive." we did a little diliberate if they would dive on the ground ala baseball or dive off the cliff into the water. It was obvious what my intent was, and i think we landed on it. It was a 3/4 roll chance of them doing the cliff since it was aperent with other having jumped it was safe. Ended up, they did, and I just stayed atop the clify lying low until the one finished off the other. It was getting late, and we determined that by the time he would have gotten back up i couldve run off even then i had way more slots/HP so it was a bad idea so we decided whoever could survive the longest would win via survival skill. Being a cleric, I won in the end in so my character in game had won the competition and became an Overseer.

My favourite spell. Found a big bad that kept using misty step. Shouted to the Barb, "push him off the ledge" as he did, i shouted the command word "vomit" (i know, its gross, but i figured silence could be misconstrued, so i did the only thing i knew would stop him speaking.) The BBEG plummeted towards the ground in a disgusting spiral of stomach contents, failing to use the verbal element of misty step. Technically, he survived the fall. But the DM agreed that he wasn't in fighting shape after that...

jaiden’s “DEPRESSION!” was also followed immediately by a disguise self spell, turning into BBEG’s WIFE, and then point-blank acid blasting him

I've only ever had it work once in any meaningful way and it was telling one of our Goblin ambushers to "Rebel". He immediately took a shot at his leader. Missed, but it was still funny.

2:01 “The Curse of the Hunger for Crawling Things…I f*cking hate that one!” -Hansel and Gretel, Witch Hunters

My players had a run in with a reoccurring villain who took an interest in the group's rogue. Naturally, the villain is a super edgy dark assassin type, so he has really good stealth. Players got into it with some guards and militia knights after being overheard about a plot to depose or even assassinate the King, all very standard generic stuff, and the solution went like this: Guard hears players, players pick up on it. Two militia knights are in the tavern, traveling from the capital (think the traveling imperial guards in Oblivion) Guard gets a knight's attention, the two leave. Players pursue. One of them rolls a perception check to make sure no one is around, hits the nat 20. I tell the player that he catches the edgy villain in an alley off the road. Player (Bard) upcasts command on the guard and knight as they're walking away, says "Left." Both of them fail egregiously, like a nat 1 and a 4. Both of them walk into the alley with the edgy villain. Edgy villain makes swift work of them, and is moderately impressed by the players. However, he told them to take care of the bodies themselves, so they had to fill a bag of holding with a dead guard, a dead knight, and later, another dead knight. The bag was pretty crowded because an unrelated event in an earlier session had already put thirty to fifty boar carcasses in that same bag of holding.

I played an aarakocra rogue/cleric (weird mechanically, but fun for the character development). We had a minotaur paladin/barbarian whose love interest was the little sister of the BBEG, who had captured her and cursed her so that she didn't remember us. On a hunt for information through the BBEG's lair, we found her, sitting in an illusory garden, sipping tea. She was terrified of us, having been told we were murderous monsters out to get her, and was about to call for help. My character really wanted to gtfo but, seeing the pain on our poor paladin's face, they instead cast command on her, told her, "remember." And she did. Since the spell lasts for a round, the DM gave us 6 seconds of information from her that revealed to us who the BBEG had been disguised as. 6 seconds of her seeing her love again, 6 seconds of our paladin feeling so relieved to know that there was at least a chance that she could save her love. It was brutal and beautiful.

Ok, I'm Stealing the "Eat" one. And the "Rearrange" one.

3 enemies on the other side of a ravine in a cave. "Approach".

Ok, I haven’t played dnd yet, but when I do, Command word Fratricide will be hilarious

My favorite underwater combat moment: My friend, a chaotic person irl who absolutely gave no fucks as to whether their character lived or died was charmed into staying underwater. After a few rounds they break free of the charm. They proceed to dive deeper and our paladin of all people dives in to get them (going about as well as you’d expect) and I had to waste both of my fifth level spell slots on using telekinesis to get them out.

In the game I was playing our party wizard was being dragged away by some living vines from a murderous rose bush. I, the paladin, used the command "release" to ensure she wouldn't be taken away and murdered to death. Then shortly after our fighter and I finished of the flailing foliage.

"Forgive" was so wholesome! ♥️

our favourite underwater combat moment: during pathfinder 1e, as the party was going through the campaign module rise of the runelords, a side combat area was left after the first act boss. while it is entirely optional it is more deadly than the regular boss because of the environment. a giants helm is in a tidepool with little fish swim about trapped in there. the party try to get a set of pulleys and ropes to get the helm as it is worth quite a bit if it could get out of the area. the party member who went down fought the creature hiding inside the pool as it revealed itself, a giant hermit crab. since this is pathfinder 1e, there is a negative to hit and damage while swimming, and if fully submerged have total cover from land bound people. the party member was doing their best as weapons and build arent suited for the task. eventually the party is able to disengage, taking more damage than the previous fight with boss and minions. they left that boss there for later and got at least half exp for their troubles getting level up.

I would never do this in any campaign, but the thought of someone failing the saving throw against the command, "Urinate" gave me really evil ideas. Effects include - Stop in place - Second hand embarrassment - Self Morale lowering

Personal favorites are Self-Actualize, Strip (by technicallity, creatures not fully wearing armor can't benefit from it), and the classic Backflip (especially when they fail). Just to bully my fellow DMs, Rap and Sing are pretty good ones if you're a fan of giving out irl embarrassment debuffs.

7:18 this is the most cleric shit i've ever heard.

Would love to see a vid about underwater encounters, combat or otherwise! 😮

I haven't actually done this yet, but: >Fiend Warlock for Command >Charlatan for False Identity >Use Command: Sign >Profit

Brian, I strongly appreciate the Vergil joke at the skelechair

I used suggestion on a demon to "walk towards me" there just so happened to be a prismatic wall there. DM rolled to see if it knew what prismatic wall was, it didn't, then died to walking into it.