When I Beat A Bully At His Own Game With A High Strength Wizard | Narrated D&D Story 

In the words of the greatest muscle wizard, "I CAST FIST!"

"Hey, GM, does this city have guards? A police force of any kind, perhaps? Because I think this guy is trying to mug me, and I'm pretty sure that's illegal in most civilizations."

Wizard: "hey, have you ever seen a fireball?" Bandit: "Huh?" Wizard: **punches bandit in groin for max damage** "There, Now you have two!"

Things I learned from this story: - Looks can be deceiving - Don’t be a Fred - Even Paladins can be bullies

"Fred likes paladins" he treated paladins as if they were a better thief class. Pathetic.

That's actually a funny concept: a wizard that wears a cloak to look magic based, but low on the body, and as soon as someone challenges him on that topic, he takes off the cloak, you can see his sixpack.

That "and since I have a +3 bonus on Strenght..." deserved to get the piano experience from JoJo. Fucking hell if it would've been amazing to have that on tape.

Wizzard saying to the paladin: "Look at Me!!!! I am the Warrior Now"

The cheap rings out there like bait, lulling him in to false sense of security with a physical contest, and then the magical jail house tats in this retelling was icing on the cake. The only way it could have been better is for the wizard to slip the ring off of his middle finger and toss it to him with something like, "As you catch the ring you instantly realize that it's nothing more than a worthless piece of costume jewelry."

"Muscle Wizard casts fist" I usually take the feat fighter initiate and pick unarmed fighting no one expects a wizard to fight back

"Fred like paladins". Oh great, let me guess? He is chaotic neutral saying it's the right thing to burn down a village because "the BBEG passed through it"

High STR Wizard with unarmed attack. Touch Spells goes BOOM.

This is revenge done right against bullies. Good for the STR Wizard

When the Barbarian Multi-classes a Wizard. *old and feeble looking wizard surrounded by goblins* "Oh darn, looks like I'm out of spellslots" *Rips off cloak to reveal substantially larger and more muscular wizard* "Looks like I've got to teach all of you how we used to do things the old-fashioned way!"

"Abra Kadabra" as tattos of a wizard. I approve.

Perfect way of handling a bully. Show them up in a harmless way and then let them humiliate themselves. Really glad that Fred actually got his comeuppance.

"A Wizard's focus is unique to them, it has to fit their style of casting. I like staves, they're classic, reliable, relate well to Force spells, and when all magic fails, it's hard to argue with six feet of hardened oak swung with intent." - Harry Dresden, 'The Dresden Files' by Jim Butcher

High Str wizards are fun, because people assume when they shut down your magic you are helpless and then they get whacked with a pretty impactful wooden stick. :D Anyhow, as a GM, I must say that anyone who plays a paladin in my game like Fred here, is gonna run around without class abilities....

I was bullied a lot in high school. I tried to tell them politely ("please stop, I don't like this etc") to stop, but one day a straw broke my camels back. Long story short I displayed that I'm stronger than I look but hate conflict and thus stopped being bullied. (I'm short btw, but it's actually really easy to lift a man off the floor with my low centre of gravity... I didn't hurt anyone [I think], but I made my point clear. Remember kids, it's the quiet one's you need to look out for.

Best revenge story ever! I have played also a necromancer with 18 intelligence and a 15 in strenght, and I "casted" sleep on many people with my quarterstaff. Edit: one of the tales from that time that I remember is that I made a fortress assault being in the Frontline with 30+ skeletons

//sees 'high strength wizard' in the title I guess the Wizards got tired of all of the memes about them dying.

_“AB-solutely brilliant”_ I see what you did there.

Me and my friends actually developed a kung-fu wizard subclass. Lots of fun, plays like Shang Tsung lol.

I love strong wizards, best meme in the world Especially that 4-panel comic with the old wizard running out of spell slots, ripping off his robes and being buff as hell underneath

This dude just pulled a Plato..... this is awesome!!! Lmao For those that don't know,the great philosopher Plato was actually a professional athlete (wrestling). The reason why he's called Plato is because of his athletic career, it's not even his real name.

Last night "how a cleric derailed a campaign in one sentence" Cleric: DM your asking me to feel bad for a guy who wants to make a construct version of a body pillow

A Wizard with High Strength is actually a good character design. Imagine going against a spellcaster; you can use Counterspell as a reaction then start beating the shit out of them.

This is the D&D version of Bumi showing off how buff he is

Take notes, WOTC. We need a Muscle Wizard subclass!

I've wanted to play a goliath wizard that had high strength, but I don't really know to execute it properly.

From a personal expirience some of the best stories happen through arm wrestling contests! Fred should be ashamed of being a paladin, even ones that follow evil gods have more honor! i’m glad he’s put in his place! YIRBEL LIVES my fingers slipped!

Okay, before the story even starts I LOVE the design of the wizard. The whole thug mage bit is AMAZING!

A wizard may be squishy, but in this wizard's case, the squish-sounds come from the faces he punches.

Wizard: I CAST SLEEP! *Runs up and decks the enemy so hard they lose consciousness*

I would of done the same thing but rolled up a Divination Wizard Halfling with the Lucky Feat. Either I roll high or I force Fred to roll low.

All I can say is "Outstanding Move." Seriously. High-STR wizard? Brilliant.

i did this kinda thing one time in one of my friends campaigns a few years back, pretended to be a wizard and the rings on one hand was actully a hidden brass knuckle. "I cast fist" and i just started wailing down on some bandit. group found out he was a monk.

Can't spell Abra Kadabra without abs.

I once had a party where i was basiclly the one showing the reins to the others since the dm and me were the only ones used to play the game and the other 4 were all newbies. The dm told me we needed a spellcaster with battlefield control and i was happy to make that because i love wizards and sorcerers. However when i saw the party's characters we also needed a frontline fighter. So i came up with kanuna. A tortle divination wizard ancestral guardian barbarian. This combo should never work but somehow it did. The ac is 19 (we had a homebrew rule where you could stack racial ac bonus and class ac bonus ontop of eachother) and at lvl 5 i had 69 hp. My stats from top to bottom were 16-16-16-14-14-12. This guy was a beast in the field, absorbing hits like a sponge and dealing damage like crazy. If they did manage to hit him i still had shield to still block it so my total ac could be 24. He is still my favourite character to play next to my all time first character. How this combo works we still dont know but whenever i get a chance to throw him into a oneshot the dm knows he has to up the difficulty because i will wreck everything XD

I want to play a high strength wizard modeled after Plato. He'd have come from some kind of academy for philosophy and have a few strongly held opinions on how the world works that they'll defend by suplexing anyone who argues. Also because I want to be able to have a wizard say "I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye."

Therapist: “Gaindalf isn’t real, he can’t hurt you.” Gaindalf:

That absolutely was brilliant. A bully who got his comeuppance and couldn't take the heat when the tables were turned. And by someone operating well within the rules. That's the best part.

Loved watching this. A Goliath wizard with a high strength is my next hopeful character. The bully got his comeuppance right proper in this story. Bullied out of his own items.

"To study the elements of the universe, one can not just expand their mind. Their body needs to be worked as well." Oh. Oh! Oh I love that quote! Might just make a high strength Wizard just to say that eventually!

Thanks for the recommendation at the beginning. Still haven't managed to play DND

"We'll call them Redbeard, Bluebeard and Graybeard." It's TF2 all over again!

I just picture a Yamamoto looking dude from Bleach walking in. Appears weak but, in typical anime bullshittery, rolls up his sleeve to reveal an arm that is ridiculously JACKED.

Enemy: Ha he ran out of spells Wizard: *cracks knuckles* Enemy: On no he ran out of spells

Unless it's 5ed and he's playing a conquest paladin or something similar, Grey Beard is a really shitty DM. Paladin would have fallen. And if they were first lvl, guards would have arrested/killed him for trying to mug people in broad daylight ( and also killed a bard it seems?)

As a fellow high strength wizard, I can confirm they are super fun. You don't even need to multi-class. My hobgoblin wizard with a halberd managed to solo a young black dragon with only haste, booming blades, and shields.

One of my favorite characters was a full Orc sorcerer. I ran around with mage armor active casting when no one was around, cutting things down with the great axe I was racially proficient in and had the strength to back it up. At level early levels, a low Base attack bonus hardly means anything. When the orc finally cast his first spell, the table was surprised haha

I handled a bully irl once by finally standing up to him, kicked him, my shoe came off. So I took my other shoe off, put my hands in both shoes and used them like weapons against him! punch/kicked him to the floor. never had an issue with him again. Remember kids! Everything is a weapon if you know how to use it!

Beautiful. Reminds me of the Fighter/Wizard I made in Pathfinder. You can do some hilarious things with Hand of the Apprentice and feats for improvised weaponry. His preferred weapon was an oversized log. 30 ft range is further than most people realize.

I don't wish to speak for others, but as a player who started under a magnificent D.M. who had Greybeard's attitude towards things, (& who is working on learning the ins & outs of the game in hopes of one day becoming one myself,) this is exactly what I think most laissez-faire D.M.'s HOPE will happen to problem players - there's no need for the D.M. to play babysitter in petty squabbles when characters proudly handle problems themselves, & that lets the D.M. focus on storytelling, world-building, plot twists, & cool custom quests which integrate the characters' unique ideals, flaws, & backstories. BRAVO et GLORIA! May many learn from your example!

I am laughing so hard! "What kinda wizard has a plus 3 in strength" LMFAO!

Just imagine the wizard in his fabulous, flowing robe then when pulls up a sleeve it reveals a heavily muscled arm worthy of a god.

I played with a dwarf fire mage that had 16 strength. He picked up a cursed axe to chop down a tree 1 hit KO’d the other caster next to him in a blind rage. My character jumped into the water to escape while he ran off and soloed two owl bears before dying. We were level 3.

This now is one of my favorites!

Before I say anything else, I just wanted to say that that was a FANTASTIC way to deal with a bully I think one of the most fun things about D&D is that when you choose your scores, there is no law saying you have to have certain stats. I mean, sure, if you wanted to play something like a rouge for example, you would most likely want high dexterity. However, think of the interesting ways you can make the rouge unique with having a skill higher than dex. Strength rouge- Intimidating as f**k and could be a good body guard Constitution rouge- Deadly killer that is harder to kill. Just picture that Intelligence rouge- You don’t even have to play arcane trickster. You can be really good at learning new information as a spy Wisdoms rouge- While it’s hard for people to perceive you, you can perceive others and be able to read people like a book Charisma rouge- Honestly I think this is just really fun! Beings so good at persuasion, deception, and intimidation can make you scary to deal with outside of combat D&D is one of the most fun ways to create unique characters, even if they “logistically” don’t make sense. It doesn’t break the rules or the game if one or your stats is higher than the one recommended to your class. It can get boring playing the same thing over and over again. Having a charismatic barbarian, a dexterous paladin, or even a strong wizard can be insanely fun and inspire creativity!

I'm dming for a party with a str ranger named Mozzie, he wrestles and punches everything. It's the most crocodile dundee meets WWE thing I've ever seen. It shouldn't work with having no dex, but it does.

Oh this was EPIC! Bravo OP- bravo!

I ran a game years back. 1st edition. We had a fighter that was like that, always demanding to be first at the treasure, intimidating others, etc. One time, our halfling theif had just unlocked a chest and as soon as he did the fighter said "move , shorty" and knocked him out of the way violently. He took a few points of damage. The fighter was checking the treasure when the theif suddenly said "I go for a backstab". At that, the fighter said that he was looking behind himself. I said "no, you're not. But everyone else can see it." He started off confident that one of the other three party members would stop him. That didn't happen. Both the fighter and theif had been pretty banged up in the prior battle so the backstab took him down to something like 6 HP. Before he could recover his sword the theif took those, saying "never insult a halfling" He got seriously indignant about players attacking players. I told him that he'd started the fight and the little guy finished it, end of story. He stormed away. Never saw him again. A great pleasure for both of us, I'm sure. For years after we joked about it, and "never insult a halfling" became one of our running gags.

Your channel is the reason why D&D should be played with close friends and not strangers.

Reminds me of the time I was playing a muscle wizard in 3.5; we all used pictures printed off the internet for our characters, and mine was Master Roshi. I had the entire party confused about what exactly I was because I was constantly stoned, created a "smoke screen" to distract guards ala History Of The World Part 1, and was constantly selling "medicinal herbs" that dulled pain and promoted healing, but they eventually decided I was a comic relief wizard when I let loose a few cantrips. I usually sat out battles, acting as support to heal wounded party members, or just distracting enemies with my antics, only directly intervening in battle when absolutely necessary to prevent a PC from being killed or badly wounded. Everyone just rolled with it, and they loved my character, especially once they started getting hints that his jolly, happy-go-lucky attitude and funny substance abuse were a coping mechanism for a past trauma, which apparently involved working at an academy for paladins. Then we met the big bad's second-in-command, who it turned out was a fallen paladin who had slaughtered most of the students at said academy and left my character, a member of the faculty, as one of the only survivors. I immediately challenged him, and the DM informed me that at my level I stood no chance of beating this guy. "I'll make a bet with you: if you can withstand a single punch from me, I'll let you kill me here and now." The party kept trying to talk me out of it, but when I persisted they let me do it, though they declined to get involved since they'd all be slaughtered fighting an end-of-story level boss. The DM shrugged and, in character, said if that's what I wanted then that's what I'd get. I shrugged off my wizard cloak, swapped out my character image for Super Master Roshi, and then said "one punch, let's see if you can handle it." Five minutes of rolling dice later, the right hand of the big bad exploded into a pink mist from a single punch. The DM demanded to see my character sheet, and I showed him, plus all the rule books, and reminded him that he'd looked at all this and approved when I created my character. I also commented "now you know why I sit out most battles and only do the bare minimum; I gotta let everyone else have fun." The DM reluctantly approved of it, made a dramatic show of throwing half the contents of his story binder in the trash can now that one of the major bad guys who would drive the plot was dead, and the campaign went on. After that, my muscle wizard was less of a stoner and less of a comic relief character, growing more quiet and contemplative, and slowly transitioned to the role of mentor to the rest of the party, still obviously suffering PTSD but satisfied at having avenged his students, and his excuse for only doing the bare minimum in battle was "I gotta give you kids room to grow; if I do everything for you, then what happens when I'm gone?" They loved it. That was a super fun campaign. It also featured the world's tallest (5'11") halfling, thanks to a newbie player misreading things, and his wife played a barbarian with intelligence so low that her character communicated mostly in incoherent screaming and hitting things.

Funny thing is you can absolutely make this work long term if you plan it out well too. For example, you could take Fighting Intiate on a Bladesinging Wizard to get the Unarmed Armed Fighting Stlye and actually have a pretty badass wizard that strikes down enemies with a combination of magic and their bare hands. Heck, if you really want to lean into that, throw a couple levels of a Monk multi-class in there.

I was thinking he'd win an arm wrestling match and Fred would desire the rings thinking they're magical making the wizard song, and at some point he wizard would give them to him. And in the midst of a battle he would try to use 'the magical strength within the rings" only to find out they do nothing thus his character be killed. Because something tells me he wouldn't bother asking specifics about the rings, and would just want them.

The funny thing is I just recently put together a wizard with high strength. Wade Might the Ab Wizard A Goliath with a human mother, because of this he has a standard human skin tone so people can often miss that he’s a goliath. I’m actually trying to find if there are any “gauntlet” weapon tapes? (or if something like that would need to be homebrewed) I basically want him to focus entirely on punching and even cast spells by punching.

Currently DMining Wrath of the Righteous in PF where we have a muscle wizard named Kulak. Kulak's from Irrisen (for those who don't know PF lore, think fantasy Russia) so player tries (and fails) to do a Russian accent. His thing was to cast bull's strength and enlarge person (plus dip monk) so he could legit punch things.

Aaaaah, beautiful. I'm not too fond of character geared towards PvP as my former group did that a lot, but that wizard sounded like a really cool character.

I am currently playing a half orc wizard with enough strength and constitution to be an effective barbarian.

Adaine's Furious Fist is the ideal spell for Strength Wizards.

L. M. A. O. Bloody brilliant! I love it! Hands down one of the funniest sessions I have had the pleasure to listen to! Good job on op doing what he did and I agree. Very clever and creative!

This so earned a subscribe. Beautiful.

had a great laugh with this, thank you sir

That was an impressive plan. The muscle wizard truly beat Fred at his own game, and he did it fair and square. No malice, no intimidation, not even gloating; it was like D&D judo. I hope Fred took this opportunity to reflect on his behavior and stop being such a bully.

I love non standard builds. I tend to play Barbarians with high int a/o charisma depending on the system. Rage gives your plenty of buff for damage you don't really NEED to throw everything into Str.

Might be the best trick I’ve seen in a while, kudos to OP!

That was awesome!!

Wooooooo!!!!! Endless applause my friend! Endless applause!!! 👏👏👏

Story of mine: I've been running my campaign for almost 2 years. Sometime a couple months ago, I moved my game to Foundry VTT because I found it much more manageable than Roll20's pay x a month for basic features. So when moving character sheets from one VTT to the other, I started reading through my party's character sheets. The wizard has more strength than the barbarian. I asked my party's wizard on why, he said, "no one ever asks me to help with intense labour, because everyone thinks I'm weak" Literally, I have a wizard who has a more chiseled six pack than the samurai barbarian.

Abraca-Dabbed on that SOB. GG's

@All Things Dnd. This give me a character idea (not optimized, just fun). It could actually even work, I just requires some lucky rolls for attributes. 3 lvl in wizzard, rest in monk, open hand. Percival was always a good student, discplined, paid attention to his teachers. Good grades and a talent for magic got him into wizzarding university. There he studied arduously. He had a roomate, Xiang Li, an exchange student from the eastern edge of Faerun. Xiang always seemed to move naturally, like a cat, we maximum efficiency. Never made a single step that was not necessary or would not help him get where he wants. Once at a party, Xiang was threathened by an Orc. Percival was ANGRY. Altough he studied books, he was far from a pushover. Quite the opposite, he played all kind of sports, lifted weights and had a general active life a young boy, and a young adult has. He rose from the chair and prepared a big firebolt in one hand, and the mother of all punches in his other hand. But there was no need. Xiang moved the bare minimum to avoid the Orc's punch. No flinching, no head bobing like Percival has seen in bar fights. Just a well calculated step sideways. In the next second the orc was hit.. with a blur. Xiang Li switched to battle speed, this was no longer play fight in a gym. Percival has seen only about 2 strikes, one to the liver and a weird slap to the base of the skull. The rest was not traceable. The orc collapsed to the ground but otherwise, not harmed in any way. Percival also sensed something.. he first THOUGHT it was arcana.. but it was not. It was clearly a magical energy, but something much more focused and efficient than the complicated "schools of magic" he was studying. It was raw, elemental. The very fabric of magic, where the source and nature of it is meaningless. He immediatly asked Xiang to teach him how to fight.

I've played a high Strength Githyanki Wizard with Half Plate and just whatever Swords I could find. One time I was asked for like a wishlist item and got a gem that made me immune to 60 fts worth of fall damage, but didn't stop me from throwing myself onto enemies to be considered falling object damage. It was fun playing with the Barbarian watching the Wizard swing a Greatsword dealing 8d6+3 damage to whatever I happened to drop on. It got better when I learned Fly and could just straight up go 60 ft in the air for free if I wasn't within 5 ft of the enemy.

Once had a barbarian who liked to dress as a wizard. Robes, pointy hat, even a (empty) spellbook sticking out of his pack. Even specialized in the quarterstaff and pretended to lean heavily on it, as if he were physically weak or lame. His logic was that most enemies will go for spellcasters first, so why not let his enemies come to him instead of having to chase them down? Many a foe ran up expecting an easy kill, only to be beaten into bloody paste. Worked beautifully as a tank.

Fred definitely haven’t heard of Gandalf before

justice! something that paladin never had.

What a beautiful story!

I play Pathfinder, and my favorite 1st level wizard feat is Knowledge Is Power. It adds Intelligence modifier to brute Strength checks. Nothing is more satisfying than lifting an ornery barbarian one-handed as a 7' spindly elf.

"I cast shoruken" as the MUSCEL WIZARD*tm* punches some dudes chin into the ceiling

Why have a high strength? One word, Tenser

I loved this story! Bravo! Bravo!

A muscle wizard, huh? Grog: I think I might be a magicuser now. Grog: I cast, beheading

The art was so thematic this time.

Its just so great. Havent laughed so hard in a while. I would like this 10 times if i could.

"I had no intention of sacrificing my enjoyment just to stop Fred." HELL... YEAH.

Thats freaking AWESOME!!! Fred so deserved it

I love these stories.

This man out here casting "these hands"

Muscle Wizard hell yeah "I cast fire on my great sword and start swinging! "

I once had a Riddle of Steel character who was a sorcerer with a Brawn of 7, with the average being 4. As a master of the Temporal realm of magic, he could incinerate someone with his mind and crush a group of warriors by ripping up the ground beneath their feet and crashing it back on top of them, but he could also snap a man's neck with his bare hands and stop a sword by flexing his abs.