GLYPH OF WARDING | Ignore Concentration - Spell A Day D&D 5E +1

Alrighty day 160! Today is Glyph of Warding. The spell economy is in shambles. Oh boy, just getting this next one out of the way. What is the ideal spell, or combination of spells, you'd set up with this?

Classes Available:
PHB: Bard, Cleric, Wizard
TCE: Artificer

As a DM and world building, with reading this as RAW.... There's no way I'd be able to recover from this.

[dextra_]

I absolutely love this spell the thing is this becomes absolutely busted when your DM is too lazy to make you look at material components

[burgscratch]

Here is something else, too: this was touched upon by another commenter in a past video, but when you use a spell scroll, YOU ARE CASTING THE SPELL. This means you can store spells from spell scrolls inside those Glyphs as well.

Spell scrolls themselves are good, in my humble opinion. If you can make them, you can basically pay gold to get more spell slots. And nothing in Glyph of Warding prevents you from storing a 9th LVL spell inside of one, but the main reason why you can't do that is because casting a Glyph of Warding at 9th LVL would, logically, consume your 9th LVL Slot.

.... Oh hey, Order of Scribes. They are very good at making spell scrolls. They make them so fast, and at such a cheap price. 12, 500 GP for a 9th LVL Spell Scroll.

Yeah sure, lets just store Wish-cast Simulacrum, Invulnerability, and Foresight into a few Glyphs and call it good, eh chief?

(Without this tech, Glyph is a easy 10/10. With this tech... Fuck it, 20/10.)

[jonasboel]

the restriction for the overcoming concentration is the level of preparation required. when you're adventuring you're typically on the offense, rather than defense, and don't get to pick and prep the location.

That being said, once you get access to demiplane, this completely breaks. for an 8th level spellslot, you can get access to *all* of your glyphs. when i play at high tiers, all clerics and wizards have at least 3 demiplanes: their bank, their kill-room, and their buff room. when they need someone dead they create a demiplane with a book with a fuck ton of line spells and just cast cone of cold and lightning bolt an arbitrary number of times, and wen they need multiple people dead, they open the buff room and exit with *every sinlge buff spell* in the game.

for a lvl 17 wizard you can even bypass the cost at the expense of time using wish.

[arcturuslight_]

I think the "certain circumstances or physical characteristics" part allows to define a specific trigger such as the target is identified by something that you yourself point at and speak a command word. This effectively allows you to have controllable lair actions. Think of worldbuilding implications, the home of any wealthy spellcaster that has access to this can be full of glyphs.
As for the player characters, just like with many other spells that trap or prep an area, usefulness will greatly depend on what your party is doing in the world. If you are usually the ones who goes about and hunts stuff down, and not the other way around, this spell is of limited use.
In high level games, Demiplane breaks this spell so much it is not to be used without conversation between DM and the players about implications and expectations.

[icecrystal]

So

You have a magical library
There's a golden laced book on a pedestal
In the book is a really powerful unique spell
The wizard starts learning the spell
A few hours in they flip to the next page and instead of more spell there's a glyph of warding on each open page
2 saves against feeblemind

[Grimmnotist]

This is the god tier prep spell for higher levels. Throwing down 30 of these in a demiplane with buff spells is god tier, but whats even funnier is that you can banish someone to a demi plane using the plane shift spell. Using a ton of concentration spells that deal damage you can have a kill box that will just about instantly annihilate anything you banish there. 10/10 no problem.

[stormallen]

One classic way of storing your glyphs is pages in a book chained to a lectern.

A thing from the Order of the Stick webcomic, earlier edition based back when Explosive Runes was the entirety of the spell, was that the words inscribed were "I prepared explosive runes." People read it out loud, and then explode.

[martinpat]

Yeah I love this spell. It is great for trap areas or fortifications, but I feel like this truly shines in the hands of the DM and let’s them come up with any sort of BS for that Wizard with prep time to fight with an entire party on even footing on their own

[luka]

I just love the idea of the party approaching the wizard in their sanctum, and they just wiggle their hands in a certain way in 4 glyphs go off giving them haste, fly, greater invisibility and mind blank all at once.

[Lastofthesigilites]

Guard: we saw an army approaching!

Wizard: how long before they get here?

Guard: 2 days time

Wizard: We'll be fine

[targetdreamer]

*luxuriant sigh*
Concentration CHEESE! LOVE this spell!
So we were cleaning out a dungeon of Giants. The hallway we set up the ambush was 20 feet across so only 2 Large size creature can stand side by side. We had that pigment where you can paint stuff into reality plus there was a side room that the casters could pop out cast and then hide back in with full cover. We painted wings that the crit fisher Barb/Fighter and me (Dwarf War Cleric with tough) could hide behind to get out of the way of thrown boulders.
We had like 5 different concentration spells active. Most of them adding weapon damage but also some healing spells. With that bottle neck and the extra concentration spells we were able to handle like 35-40 or so giants.

[sempaciencia]

So remember how gate makes so you don't control whatever comes out? Well glyph of warding explicitly says that the creature attacks the target so you could make the argument that you can summon a terrasque to fight the bbeg as long as you can lure him to a glyph of warding

[cteal]

Imagine a spell book, that everyday if I had extra spells, I would cast a "password" ward on one of these. now Image I did that every day from lvl 5 to lvl 17, and then enemy decides to steal my spell book to use against me. Oh, the fireworks, the hold spells, the summons, and a contingency spell to summon my back-up spell book to me!.

[eris]

I love having Glyphs of Banishment

The creature goes away for the full minute and the glyph is spent on use; so if the creature failed its save it WILL go navk to its home plane and stay there.

[garyboyles]

Fun use of this spell: Small 1 Inch Glyphs of Warding all along an altar 8ft by 3ft. Each glyph has various spells such as: detect poison, magic, Dispel Magic, Greater Restoration, Beacon of Hope, Mass healing Word, Bless. Think Healing Machine from Pokemon.

[alphaamino]

Ready for the ultimate cheese?

A handy haversack is an extradimensional space that can be accessed wherever you take the bag. Anything you put into the bag that has a glyph of warding on it is not moving more than 10 feet no matter how far you carry it.

A stack of 50 copper coins, each containing a glyph of warding on their surface, stored in the accessories pouch of a handy haversack and triggered to pop after 6 seconds of being flipped onto the ground, makes a fun present for the party's thief.

[crowsenpai]

Be a Pact of the Genie Warlock and reach level 10. Genie Warlocks can enter their patron vessel and at level 10 can also bring friends with them, the inside acts as a extradimensional space. Enter with your party wizard and Paladin and start making some Glyphs.
Next time the party is fighting a big dangerous creature, warlock and Paladin vanish into the vessel, and next turn both emerge with the Paladin wreathed in EVERY flavor of Smite.

[jaceg]

Imagine a trap, that goes off if you notice its a trap, if you are blind, or simply close your eyes when walking, nothing happens. And since all your lackey's are not the greatest, they will not notice. However those pesky adventurers that scan every hallway 3 times will have it coming for them.

[imafireingmylasar]

11/10. You can have it so it casts wall of stone around someone trapping them inside.

[leominster]

Surely I am not the only person who recognises the music from Rockstar's Bully! What a game.