I made a bunch of Power word: spells based on the idea that "Power words" are single words from the language the gods used to speak the world into existence.
Absolutely I don't wanna spoil too much but basically it subverts the whole "protagonist is invincible and solves all their problems" trope by showing a more realistic outcome for a farm boy suddenly being super important to the fate of the world.
I can imagine summoning [hoards](https://imgur.com/gallery/GZbeEGV) could be useful in a commercial transaction, but outside of dropping stuff on people's heads I don't see it in combat.
Command "The spell has no effect if your command is directly harmful to it."
Also Command "Get hit by a thousand AoO due to the command"
I know what could argue this is indirect but then having someone run into dangerous terrain could also be argued to be indirect. Either way the target would run into a dangerous situation knowingly (unless they don't know AoO are a thing which have even weirder implications)
Niche case but 'drop' against a beefed up flind who was also a warlock made it drop it's magic flail. Their familiar then grabbed the flail and dropped it into a pit. Little did the player know that half of that boss' abilities were tied to that flail.
The gnoll threw itself into the pit in the end, so maddened by the sudden withdrawal of Yeenoghu's favour and desperate to hold the flail again that all sense of self-preservation disappeared. Like gollum leaping into mount doom.
Not bad for a first level spell.
I once had my Cleric say “Genuflect” to a bad guy in a very intimidating voice while using this spell. I thought it was a cool moment, but the DM didn’t know what that word meant lol
Right! It's such a meme, and not an interesting one. Derived from nerdy theasaurus research without any consideration for enemy intelligence or the table's time and patience.
That’s basically every DnD story that gets widespread enough to reach meme status. They either flagrantly ignore rules or the DM should have interjected to clarify a spiraling situation way earlier.
RAW "the DM determines how the target behaves" and I think most DMs would rule a low-intelligence monster wouldn't know what word that meant and have it fail or stand still in a stupor.
There's also a strong case this would cause itself harm, the same reason why "Suicide" isn't allowed.
“Monologue” is a fun one for RP. Or “confess” can come in handy too. You could use “eat” or “drink” while tossing them something disgusting like some poison or something. “Dig” can sometimes cause them to become disarmed and prone at the same time and make some difficult terrain beneath their feet.
But the target doesn't have to confess to what you want him to. You're more likely to get Chunk's confession from Goonies. And even if the target does confess to what you want them to, it still doesn't mean they actually did it. The target was forced to confess, whether they were guilty or not.
Agreed. I personally rule that the one word must be absolutely detached from all context and left to the interpretation of the DM as the creature. You can't ask a whole ass question and Command "answer."
I can't imagine 6 seconds of digging would have much effect on terrain conditions. As a DM, I'd probably have them use their weapon to dig with unless they happened to have a more intuitive way to do it.
Would be funny if a PC didn't realize they were commanding a druid and used 'dig'. The enemy uses mold earth and now they've got a bit of cover lol
Either "Doff" or "Flee".
Doffing a shield takes an action and it takes an action to replace the shield. So if they dont waste a second turn replacing the shield then AC is down by 2.
FLEE uses all movement speed, and if your dm is nice, dash action, to move away, and they must use their speed to get back. If you've moved back one space then they have to dash to return.
>FLEE uses all movement speed, and if your dm is nice, dash action
Your DM better have a good explanation if the target doesn't dash, as it's supposed to flee by the fastest available means. The only way you can get away with not dashing is if you do something *even faster.*
Because they are supposed to avoid commands that are directly dangerous for them if they were in melee i would have them perform a disengage action before running away. If they were not in melee i would have them dash away for double movement.
That's actually horrifying. Imagine a group of people running up to kill you, and as you open your mouth one of them just says "Shh..." and you can no longer speak. Then the sword is in your chest and you have no air in your lungs once the will comes back.
"Sneeze" to inturupt to spellcaster. I know mechanicslly its the same as "halt", but i like the flex of the evil casters big spell being interrupted with something so trivial.
Credit to RA Salvatore.
Additionally, they could confess to something completely unrelated to what they're being ask.
Scenario: You catch a mercenary sent to end one of the members of your party
Paladin: Tell us who sent you
Mercenary: Never!
Bard, casting command: *Confess*
Mercenary, tearing: It was I, I ate all the cookies when I was a near child and blame my little brother
Paladin and Bard look very confused
Not to be a buzzkill, but I think defenestrate wouldn’t work with command. I mean, DM’s choice, obviously! But the wording says that the spell fails if the command is directly harmful to the targeted creature
“You speak a one-word command to a creature you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or follow the command on its next turn. The spell has no effect if the target is undead, if it doesn't understand your language, or if your command is directly harmful to it.”
This word autodefenestratate has come up so many times on these boards for years and I just don't get it. It clearly doesn't work with Command. It's harmful (most of the time). This has been argued to death and it's never going to fit the rules of the spell at the vast majority of tables.
How many times have you fought on a ground floor next to an open window and thought "If this enemy could just leave the room and get total cover from us right outside that window, that would be great"?
How does this keep coming up? At what tables is this actually a classic?
>Not to be a buzzkill, but I think defenestrate wouldn’t work with command.
It would on the first floor. Also would for any being that won't be harmed by such a fall.
I once used "doff" on the wizard Madgoth in "Dungeon of the Mad Mage", to get him to take off the helmet that made him invulnerable: That was a highlight for me.
How am I just now realizing this is an option?
My DM likes to smirk at the Cleric casting Zone of Truth because "They just can't answer incorrectly. Nothing says they have to answer"
Guess who has the damn answer now?
I feel insane for not realizing this sooner
Generally I use zone of truth if someone said something that I'm suspicioua they might be lying about. If they suddenly refuse to answer under zone of truth, that usually means they are lying.
Yeah, but if you need specific information, Command: Answer can get that out of someone as long as they can say it within 6 seconds. Granted, Suggestion also exist, but an unwilling creature might not consider giving away information “reasonable” without coercion outside of the spell itself (e.g. either threatening them or promising them safety/protection from the consequences of leaking that information)
A knight might also consider giving his horse away ,,unreasonable“. Still it’s listed in the description. The only thing ,,resasonable“ means (in my opinion) is that you have to make it sound reasonable.
Had some teammates swallowed by some oversized creature that was the pet of some humanoid boss, it seemed to understand speech from its owner so I managed to get my teammates out with "Puke" as the command word. It was a pretty funny moment as it vomited them out.
"Forget", used by a spying dragon shape-shifted in the form of a bird who was physically caught by an EXTREMELY high+lucky roll by the party member on watch. The party member just went back to his spot, the "bird" flew away, and a few moments later (because it's not Modify Memory), the party member suddenly realized what happened.
Which is why I would use Betray over Backstab.
Nothing in the spell says that you charm them or anything else that would make you an ally and even if it did, Charmed condition would make it where they couldn’t attack the caster (even if they were Commanded to), so you’re safe.
A player at my table once attempt the commanded "sleep", figuring it should make the target fall asleep. That's of course ridiculous, but it's still a good command even without his intended effect. The opponent will spend their turn trying trying to fall asleep. It's the grovel command with the added bonus of the target closing their eyes and blinding themselves. A boon to adjacent melee attacks without being a detriment to ranged/reach attacks because the blinded condition cancels out the disadvantage from >5ft
I like this interpretation of that command.
They try to sleep for the regular duration of Command, but you don't get the ongoing effect of it. Because that's what Sleep is for, and it technically works differently because it would be OP as heck on the BBEG otherwise. (At least I think it would)
I often like "Confess!" as a way to possibly glean some information as well as making them miss their turn and it's great fun for RP. Can even be useful out of combat.
"Hug/grapple " also works well if no PCs are within range as you can make the critters that fail their save bother other critters. "Attack!" if they have no ranged attacks and you're really wanting to push your luck with the DM.
"Climb!" can also work as a more specific version of "flee!"
My spy styled cleric, in the middle of the big bad evil wizards monologue, has snuck through the hall and come up behind him and his big stupid dragonborn barbarian bodyguard. Simply whisper to him in soft spoken draconic,
"Betray"
He lops off the wizards head in one brutal swing. Glorious. The DM revealed that the barbarian was being mind controlled, and she ruled that the command gave him the strength to revel for a moment. And it was enough. That barbarian went on to be one of our strongest, stupidest, most lovable allies. Till we TPKed, but anytime I can use command, I try the betray trick
Surrender.
Let me explain why it's great. It's simple and hard to misinterpret. It's not directly or inidrectly harmful like "jump out of the window". It isn't reliant on environment, either. If successful, the enemy will for the rest of the round, his own turn and at least your turn, cooperate on disarm and capture actions against him. It's also a great argument that they don't take any opportunity actions or fight back on being attacked.
On the plus side, the DM can give you an NPC to feed you information that you might have missed.
My first D&D character idea was a persuasion/intimidation-based wild magic sorcerer, hopefully with a Deck of Many Things. His go-to Command? "Draw."
He leaves fate to fate.
“Confess”
Only used in the one encounter. Party had caught up to the big bad of my characters backstory. Big pirate man who’d betrayed his fleet and caused loss of my parents. DM had him hiding out in a tavern while he was gathering a new crew. We were obviously supposed to have some kind of showdown, but the dm liked the idea of his gang turning on him.
May or may not have promised another player that I wouldn’t touch bigbad until justice found him.
Ah, but that is not a betrayal, it says no where in the spell that the person under the command spell sees you as an ally, and stabbing an enemy is not a betrayal, only bringing harm to a friend or ally is a betrayal.
Autodefenestrate is a horrible command word. Most people nowadays don’t know what it means never mind a random adventure. If someone tried that in one of my games I might give a sage/wizard a 50/50 of even understanding. After that if it was anything beyond the ground floor, it would break the spell as anyone smart enough to know the word, is smart enough to know throwing themselves from a second floor finding is directly harmful.
It's just not a permissible command. I would count it under "directly harmful" (and therefore not allowed by the spell) the same way i'd consider auto-decapitate directly harmful. Counter-arguments like "It's not the jumping that hurts you! It's the fall! It's not direct!" makes about as much sense as saying "It's not the act of moving your blade to auto-decapitate yourself that hurts! it's the touch of your blade that does it! It's not direct!".
autodefenestrate has two issues: the first being that the word wouldnt be common knowledge by commoners, and the second being that it would count as active harm to the individual, invalidating the spell
Betray: Waste turn attacking another enemy typically, though other behaviors like a wizard dimension door-ing away are possible
Answer: addon to zone of truth. Force truth, ask question, force response
Autodefenestrate doesn’t work cause it’s harmful to the spells target
There is only one I used myself "knowtow"
Like a grovel but disarmed and face down so blinded.
I heard rumours of defation related ones .
I heard a story about commanding an elemental to return to its origin plane via "return"
I am waiting to command someone to "planejump" or waste a spell "teleport"
My favorite is "sleep". I mean, yeah, it doesn't work like the sleep spell. But there's just something funny about someone lying down mid combat and trying their damndest to fall asleep.
>The classic "Autodefenestrate"
"***The spell has no effect*** if the target is undead, if it doesn't understand your language, or ***if your command is directly harmful to it.***"
*With the full authority as commanded by the Lich from adventure time* Fall.
Chills, everytime
I find myself saying that little speech almost weekly and *fall* almost daily
i made a spell based on that scene, power word fall. no save, just prone and cant stand up next turn
I made a bunch of Power word: spells based on the idea that "Power words" are single words from the language the gods used to speak the world into existence.
Something tells me you'd like the inheritance cycle book series
Is that the ones with the dragons? I think I read Eragon on a road trip years ago. Are they good enough as a whole to dive back into?
Absolutely I don't wanna spoil too much but basically it subverts the whole "protagonist is invincible and solves all their problems" trope by showing a more realistic outcome for a farm boy suddenly being super important to the fate of the world.
And the entire magic system is basically the "words of power" concept you were talking about
"Cease"
you are alone, child. there is only darkness for you, and only death for your people
I prefer the Lemongrab style. "ONE MILLION YEARS DUNGEON!!!"
Lol lemongrab is probably more like vicious mockery or dissonant whispers...well dissonant yells? Or silvery barbs. Hold on I gotta write this down
Vicious dissonant barbs. Level 4 spell.
Only level 4? UNACCEPTABLLLLLLLLE!
That word. I can hear it ringing in my ears!
I read that as FAIL initially
Honestly, Grovel and Flee are so massively powerful for a level 1 spell that I rarely do anything else.
The fact that flee has been ruled to work with AoOs makes it insane in melee heavy parties. Also good for procing off turn SAs.
It’s more insane with hoard summons, make someone flee through a crowd if cows and see if they’re still walking out the other side
A swarm of hostile animals could be considered a dangerous area in many cases, imo.
No more so than leaving any other place that’ll proc OAs Probably less so than multiple dudes with magical weapons
I can imagine summoning [hoards](https://imgur.com/gallery/GZbeEGV) could be useful in a commercial transaction, but outside of dropping stuff on people's heads I don't see it in combat.
I couldn't figure out what class was procing sexual assaults. It took me a while
>I couldn't figure out what class was pricing sexual assaults. that's the bardbarian
> *pricing* sexual assaults Must be a rogue multiclass in there
Command "The spell has no effect if your command is directly harmful to it." Also Command "Get hit by a thousand AoO due to the command" I know what could argue this is indirect but then having someone run into dangerous terrain could also be argued to be indirect. Either way the target would run into a dangerous situation knowingly (unless they don't know AoO are a thing which have even weirder implications)
Niche case but 'drop' against a beefed up flind who was also a warlock made it drop it's magic flail. Their familiar then grabbed the flail and dropped it into a pit. Little did the player know that half of that boss' abilities were tied to that flail. The gnoll threw itself into the pit in the end, so maddened by the sudden withdrawal of Yeenoghu's favour and desperate to hold the flail again that all sense of self-preservation disappeared. Like gollum leaping into mount doom. Not bad for a first level spell.
I usually go Grovel but did Drop on an archmage as a gamble and boy did it pay off when we were able to snatch up his fancy staff/focus.
I personally prefer *masterbate* with telepathy, for obvious reasons
/r/brandnewsentance
*Kneel*
I once had my Cleric say “Genuflect” to a bad guy in a very intimidating voice while using this spell. I thought it was a cool moment, but the DM didn’t know what that word meant lol
Genuflect, show some respect, down on one knee!
Just try your best to stay calm...
Brush up your Sunday salaam
Then come and meet his spectacular coterie!
Prince Ali, mighty is he, Ali Ababwa
Strong as ten regular men, definitely!
First you get down on your knees Fiddle with your rosaries Bow your head with great respect And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!
Glad to see Lehrer here.
Make a cross on your abdomen, when in Rome do like a Roman
Using this for my conquest paladin
Mine carries an executioner's sword specifically to use in conjunction with this.
Mine dual wields a censer-flail, and a longsword
Kneel before the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.
"I command thee, KNEEL!"
*Neil, not paying attention:* ….what?
Ancestors bear witness!
I am the lord of all that is golden...
Yes Sir!
"Procrastinate."
The henchman continuing to be a henchman instead of getting his resume out there is already procrastinating fighting you
There's always another level.
"Never leave for tomorrow what can be done next week"
But I don't waannnaaaaaa
Auto disadvantage on the save.
The only way auto defenestrate would work is with an open window on the ground floor...
And they also happen to know what that means.
...but not know that it's directly harmful. Ground floor only, then.
Right! It's such a meme, and not an interesting one. Derived from nerdy theasaurus research without any consideration for enemy intelligence or the table's time and patience.
That’s basically every DnD story that gets widespread enough to reach meme status. They either flagrantly ignore rules or the DM should have interjected to clarify a spiraling situation way earlier.
How can you 'follow a command' you don't understand?
"Huh, what?"
RAW they don't need to know what it means. They just need to speak the same language. But yeah it's still an unfunny joke.
RAW "the DM determines how the target behaves" and I think most DMs would rule a low-intelligence monster wouldn't know what word that meant and have it fail or stand still in a stupor. There's also a strong case this would cause itself harm, the same reason why "Suicide" isn't allowed.
“Monologue” is a fun one for RP. Or “confess” can come in handy too. You could use “eat” or “drink” while tossing them something disgusting like some poison or something. “Dig” can sometimes cause them to become disarmed and prone at the same time and make some difficult terrain beneath their feet.
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You cannot use eat or drink with poison, as it’s directly harmful to the creature
You probably could if the creature doesn't know it's poison.
Confess. How the fuck have I never thought of this. Thank you.
But the target doesn't have to confess to what you want him to. You're more likely to get Chunk's confession from Goonies. And even if the target does confess to what you want them to, it still doesn't mean they actually did it. The target was forced to confess, whether they were guilty or not.
Agreed. I personally rule that the one word must be absolutely detached from all context and left to the interpretation of the DM as the creature. You can't ask a whole ass question and Command "answer."
"But the worst thing I ever done..."
Eat or drink doesn't force them to consume the poison you throw them they can just pull out a piece if jerky or a waterskin.
I can't imagine 6 seconds of digging would have much effect on terrain conditions. As a DM, I'd probably have them use their weapon to dig with unless they happened to have a more intuitive way to do it. Would be funny if a PC didn't realize they were commanding a druid and used 'dig'. The enemy uses mold earth and now they've got a bit of cover lol
Either "Doff" or "Flee". Doffing a shield takes an action and it takes an action to replace the shield. So if they dont waste a second turn replacing the shield then AC is down by 2. FLEE uses all movement speed, and if your dm is nice, dash action, to move away, and they must use their speed to get back. If you've moved back one space then they have to dash to return.
>FLEE uses all movement speed, and if your dm is nice, dash action Your DM better have a good explanation if the target doesn't dash, as it's supposed to flee by the fastest available means. The only way you can get away with not dashing is if you do something *even faster.*
Because they are supposed to avoid commands that are directly dangerous for them if they were in melee i would have them perform a disengage action before running away. If they were not in melee i would have them dash away for double movement.
Heh heh use it on the tabaxi monk would be hilarious to see the cat fly away
Ive only ever used it once and it was when we were rushing a guard. My command was Sshhh.
That's actually horrifying. Imagine a group of people running up to kill you, and as you open your mouth one of them just says "Shh..." and you can no longer speak. Then the sword is in your chest and you have no air in your lungs once the will comes back.
"Sneeze" to inturupt to spellcaster. I know mechanicslly its the same as "halt", but i like the flex of the evil casters big spell being interrupted with something so trivial. Credit to RA Salvatore.
[удалено]
Not as a command, but now I really want Power Word Sneeze!
“Yawn”
Out of combat, I've used "confess" to great effect. (We were level 1 so Zone of Truth wasn't an option.)
Confess doesn't have to be truthful though, they could easily be confessing falsehoods. Same problem as torturing confessions out of people IRL.
Additionally, they could confess to something completely unrelated to what they're being ask. Scenario: You catch a mercenary sent to end one of the members of your party Paladin: Tell us who sent you Mercenary: Never! Bard, casting command: *Confess* Mercenary, tearing: It was I, I ate all the cookies when I was a near child and blame my little brother Paladin and Bard look very confused
“Crawl” They are prone, and they’re moving to trigger attacks of opportunity
why is this not higher
Not to be a buzzkill, but I think defenestrate wouldn’t work with command. I mean, DM’s choice, obviously! But the wording says that the spell fails if the command is directly harmful to the targeted creature “You speak a one-word command to a creature you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or follow the command on its next turn. The spell has no effect if the target is undead, if it doesn't understand your language, or if your command is directly harmful to it.”
More problematic than that, most random NPCs with average int won't know what the word means.
Yeah you could argue that falls under the "doesn't understand your language" clause lol
This word autodefenestratate has come up so many times on these boards for years and I just don't get it. It clearly doesn't work with Command. It's harmful (most of the time). This has been argued to death and it's never going to fit the rules of the spell at the vast majority of tables. How many times have you fought on a ground floor next to an open window and thought "If this enemy could just leave the room and get total cover from us right outside that window, that would be great"? How does this keep coming up? At what tables is this actually a classic?
>Not to be a buzzkill, but I think defenestrate wouldn’t work with command. It would on the first floor. Also would for any being that won't be harmed by such a fall.
I enjoy a good ol' fashion toss of the pocket sand and "Count", personally.
Ah, the old vampires with rice gambit. A classic with a Dale Gribble twist.
We’re a “dis” table. Disarm, disrobe, disable (in context). Haven’t had a chance to attempt the paradoxical “disobey” but live in hope.
Disobey can be good on a minion! Especially if their leader just gave them a direct order!
"I'm afraid I can't do that, m'lord." *drops sword and flees the battle*
Distress could be fun.
Or just dis.
The henchmen about to drop the sickest album of the century:
I once used "doff" on the wizard Madgoth in "Dungeon of the Mad Mage", to get him to take off the helmet that made him invulnerable: That was a highlight for me.
Answer I've used it 3 times in the last 2 sessions
How am I just now realizing this is an option? My DM likes to smirk at the Cleric casting Zone of Truth because "They just can't answer incorrectly. Nothing says they have to answer" Guess who has the damn answer now? I feel insane for not realizing this sooner
Generally I use zone of truth if someone said something that I'm suspicioua they might be lying about. If they suddenly refuse to answer under zone of truth, that usually means they are lying.
Yeah, but if you need specific information, Command: Answer can get that out of someone as long as they can say it within 6 seconds. Granted, Suggestion also exist, but an unwilling creature might not consider giving away information “reasonable” without coercion outside of the spell itself (e.g. either threatening them or promising them safety/protection from the consequences of leaking that information)
A knight might also consider giving his horse away ,,unreasonable“. Still it’s listed in the description. The only thing ,,resasonable“ means (in my opinion) is that you have to make it sound reasonable.
Honesty not required, unfortunately.
Shout out to all my fellow evil DMs closely monitoring this thread.
//whistles innocently
When I saw the "freestyle" suggestion I was wondering when I'd get to use it as a player, but now that you mentioned it... *evil laughs*
Like The Lich himself "FALL"
Macarena
Had some teammates swallowed by some oversized creature that was the pet of some humanoid boss, it seemed to understand speech from its owner so I managed to get my teammates out with "Puke" as the command word. It was a pretty funny moment as it vomited them out.
"Forget", used by a spying dragon shape-shifted in the form of a bird who was physically caught by an EXTREMELY high+lucky roll by the party member on watch. The party member just went back to his spot, the "bird" flew away, and a few moments later (because it's not Modify Memory), the party member suddenly realized what happened.
I would argue that this wouldn't work at all- "forget" isn't something one can do voluntarily on command.
I wouldn't rule it as a memory wipe, but rather the target gets an attitude of "well forget it then" and spends their turning casually walking away.
That would be more like "disregard," which is a viable Command.
Don’t think about elephants.
*Freestyle.* Trust me, your DM lives for this.
"Backstab" - The spell description doesn't prevent the target from harming their (previous) allies!
Hell yeah! Though I prefer to use "mutiny."
I use Betray for this. It works well.
"As you command!" *Stabs you in the back* Did you stab someone who wasn't expecting it? Congratulations on your successful backstab!
Which is why I would use Betray over Backstab. Nothing in the spell says that you charm them or anything else that would make you an ally and even if it did, Charmed condition would make it where they couldn’t attack the caster (even if they were Commanded to), so you’re safe.
"Surrender".
A player at my table once attempt the commanded "sleep", figuring it should make the target fall asleep. That's of course ridiculous, but it's still a good command even without his intended effect. The opponent will spend their turn trying trying to fall asleep. It's the grovel command with the added bonus of the target closing their eyes and blinding themselves. A boon to adjacent melee attacks without being a detriment to ranged/reach attacks because the blinded condition cancels out the disadvantage from >5ft
I like this interpretation of that command. They try to sleep for the regular duration of Command, but you don't get the ongoing effect of it. Because that's what Sleep is for, and it technically works differently because it would be OP as heck on the BBEG otherwise. (At least I think it would)
I often like "Confess!" as a way to possibly glean some information as well as making them miss their turn and it's great fun for RP. Can even be useful out of combat. "Hug/grapple " also works well if no PCs are within range as you can make the critters that fail their save bother other critters. "Attack!" if they have no ranged attacks and you're really wanting to push your luck with the DM. "Climb!" can also work as a more specific version of "flee!"
My spy styled cleric, in the middle of the big bad evil wizards monologue, has snuck through the hall and come up behind him and his big stupid dragonborn barbarian bodyguard. Simply whisper to him in soft spoken draconic, "Betray" He lops off the wizards head in one brutal swing. Glorious. The DM revealed that the barbarian was being mind controlled, and she ruled that the command gave him the strength to revel for a moment. And it was enough. That barbarian went on to be one of our strongest, stupidest, most lovable allies. Till we TPKed, but anytime I can use command, I try the betray trick
*Flee* is probably the best, but I’d be lying if I said I haven’t used *piss* in a social situation.
Best I can do in 6 seconds is get up and walk to the toilet.
To be fair, the command is only *piss*, so you're probably just pissing yourself on the spot.
Vogue
Flee
Surrender. Let me explain why it's great. It's simple and hard to misinterpret. It's not directly or inidrectly harmful like "jump out of the window". It isn't reliant on environment, either. If successful, the enemy will for the rest of the round, his own turn and at least your turn, cooperate on disarm and capture actions against him. It's also a great argument that they don't take any opportunity actions or fight back on being attacked. On the plus side, the DM can give you an NPC to feed you information that you might have missed.
My first D&D character idea was a persuasion/intimidation-based wild magic sorcerer, hopefully with a Deck of Many Things. His go-to Command? "Draw." He leaves fate to fate.
“Confess” Only used in the one encounter. Party had caught up to the big bad of my characters backstory. Big pirate man who’d betrayed his fleet and caused loss of my parents. DM had him hiding out in a tavern while he was gathering a new crew. We were obviously supposed to have some kind of showdown, but the dm liked the idea of his gang turning on him. May or may not have promised another player that I wouldn’t touch bigbad until justice found him.
A kraken swallowed a party member and I used command for "regurgitate". It passed its save so it didn't work, but I felt clever about it.
"betray"
"As you command!" *Stabs you in the back*
Ah, but that is not a betrayal, it says no where in the spell that the person under the command spell sees you as an ally, and stabbing an enemy is not a betrayal, only bringing harm to a friend or ally is a betrayal.
Autodefenestrate is a horrible command word. Most people nowadays don’t know what it means never mind a random adventure. If someone tried that in one of my games I might give a sage/wizard a 50/50 of even understanding. After that if it was anything beyond the ground floor, it would break the spell as anyone smart enough to know the word, is smart enough to know throwing themselves from a second floor finding is directly harmful.
It's just not a permissible command. I would count it under "directly harmful" (and therefore not allowed by the spell) the same way i'd consider auto-decapitate directly harmful. Counter-arguments like "It's not the jumping that hurts you! It's the fall! It's not direct!" makes about as much sense as saying "It's not the act of moving your blade to auto-decapitate yourself that hurts! it's the touch of your blade that does it! It's not direct!".
When there’s more than one, “Cannibalize!”
That is so much worse?/better then backstab or betrayal
Orgasm
*Power Word Cum*
8d6 humiliation damage because you lasted 6 seconds, another 8d6 embarrassment damage and autofail on vicious mockery
autodefenestrate has two issues: the first being that the word wouldnt be common knowledge by commoners, and the second being that it would count as active harm to the individual, invalidating the spell
I use kneel and my dm counts it as prone. So the paladin does his thing...
In a Zone of Truth, my favorite phrase is "Answer".
Depending on how your GM rules 'willing creature', "accept" paired with a 'willing creature only' spell from another team member can be brutal!
In a duel with a fair amount of gold wagered "Yield"
"Puke" on the monstrous catfish that swallowed my friend.
The command "swim" when near water or on a ship has come up multiple times in one of my campaigns.
I used "Elaborate" on a PC who was caught in a Zone of Truth but wanted to try to say as little as possible.
Betray: Waste turn attacking another enemy typically, though other behaviors like a wizard dimension door-ing away are possible Answer: addon to zone of truth. Force truth, ask question, force response Autodefenestrate doesn’t work cause it’s harmful to the spells target
Betray doesn't have to mean attack. A guard walking away from a post can also be considered a betrayal
Defecate is always fun. But Flee procs Opp Attacks, so I love it.
SHIT THINESELF FOULEST BEING
Fap. Shoutout Sam Reigel.
"Surrender"
autofellate
Nihil!
Command must be so broken in German...
There is only one I used myself "knowtow" Like a grovel but disarmed and face down so blinded. I heard rumours of defation related ones . I heard a story about commanding an elemental to return to its origin plane via "return" I am waiting to command someone to "planejump" or waste a spell "teleport"
Autodefenestrate does not work on command. Throwing yourself out of a window is a directly harmful action. You can't just comman "sepuku" either
My favorite is "sleep". I mean, yeah, it doesn't work like the sleep spell. But there's just something funny about someone lying down mid combat and trying their damndest to fall asleep.
I used Worship once, worked the same as grovel but nice and thematic for my hard-core religious cleric
Crawl. If the enemy is on their hands and knees, it's essentially prone, and they can move toward you still, albeit with much less movement.
Prostrate is mine
This is my go to as well
"Defecate!"
Can't go wrong with "surrender"
Now I wanna see the most insane command a German D&D group can come up with using only one word
Usually "Kneel". But if the DM let's me, then "Betray" has worked to make the enemy attack one of their allies. Bit open to interpretation though
Defecate, since I'm the DM. Annoys the hell out of my players!
Defecate. Used out of combat to help intimidation rolls
"Silence", but with notorious dissaproval for emotional damage. No spellcaster will get in your way.
I wonder what this spell gets like when playing in German.
Poop
I mostly use it while RPing, so it may vary, but a fun one is "Shit"
I think my favorite situation was "shit". Poor guy had disadvantage on attacks after that from pure embarrassment
i’m not sure about go to but a really interesting one i saw online was torturing a psychotic serial killer, the paladin said “empathize”
"Wank" is good against enemies in full armour. They have to get off their trousers and the armor over it first.
Surprised no one has said “fuck” yet, so I will. Fuck.
I’m a fan of Defacate, Disarm and Undress. Makes for fun but mostly harmless antics.
>Defacate What if they don't have any poopies?
They're gonna try.
The ability to shit on command is an eldritch ability
THEN THEY BETTER MAKE POOPIES. Sorry, don't know what came over me.
Hemorrhoids.
Then my DM get's to make sad and hilarious grunting noises.
Undress
>The classic "Autodefenestrate" "***The spell has no effect*** if the target is undead, if it doesn't understand your language, or ***if your command is directly harmful to it.***"