The Most Blatantly UNFAIR Low Level Combo In D&D

Druids, Bards and Artificers can pull some really twisted stuff in Dungeons and Dragons 5e.

[Torthrodhel]

"Pfft, druids. With their silly tradition of not wearing metal because I dunno, it might offend a tree or something."
"Oh you think THAT's why?"

[Vares]

A method colloquially known as "cook and book"

[piratekit]

It's so unfair, we had a DM basically say "That spell doesn't exist anymore due to war crimes". Now we have to think up new and inventive war crimes.

[GachaDolos]

"Welcome to Dungeon Master Therapy how can I help you?"
My D&D group melted the Final boss of my campaign.

[WexMajor]

Oh, yeah!
As we colloquially call it at my table, the "Find Piercings" spell.

[talleywa]

"The invisible goblin shaman that was definitely there the entire time appears and casts dispel magic on the armor."

[turnipzoxi]

If you are fighting outdoors you can become a giant badger and go underground for full cover :)

[Krwzprtt]

Heat metal is amazing overall. I remember one time our DM had put us in a crypt whose corridors looped around, and the final boss was a metal construct monster. So our druid cast heat metal and we just ran. This turned what should have been an epic boss battle into a massive Benny Hill.

[megamaster]

Tip for DMs: It takes 5 minutes to take of Plate Mail *while keeping the armor intact*, if the enemy doesn’t care, the could probably start cutting and slashing and tearing at the leather holding the armor in place and get it off way faster

[matthewparsons]

Heat Metal holds the position of "It may not always work, but when it works, it just works"

[dreader]

Me - A Warforged Paladin
"Haha, I'm in danger!"

[mitchellbarton]

Druid: *wildshapes into a bird*

The DM: And the knight whips out a flintlock and rolls a nat 20

[Alucard]

"I got this op strat guys!" "You come across a group of ogres." "Are any of them wearing plate armor?" "No."

[maroonweaboo]

I actually interrogated an npc by jamming coins in his mouth and threatening to cast heat metal. My DM most definitely needed therapy after that.

[andrewcarlson]

Okay, hear me out. A Warforged Grappling build that casts Heat Metal on itself.

[arthurbrandonnielsen]

"Welcome to Dungeon Master Therapy. How can I help you today?"
"I made a campaign that added Transformers as an enemy race, and now all my players are using Heat Metal."

[pheorrungurd]

My wife just got this spell, and used it on crooked knights to get into a town. Another party member used a scroll with 'silent', rendering them a slow, agonizingly quiet death.

[the_moffman]

How to be The Hug Of Death.

Step 1: Play as Animated Armor
Step 2: Have bard as teammate
Step 3: Have the bard heat you up
Step 4: Charge at enemies and hug them

[EurekaBe]

after having my players use that technique a few times (thank you Zee Bashew for the suggestion) i surprised them when their latest victim just hit a button on his shoulder and the armor just fell off (cast-away armor). sure, he lost some of his AC... but they were not prepared

[skeepodoop]

Even better idea as a DM running a high level game;
Have an enemy with heal metal fight alongside an iron golem.
Cast heat metal to give it free healing every single round.
Then make sure the caster doesn't die.